Chapter 116
"Why did you speak like that?"
Seeing Qin Chaoyang walk away, the usually aloof young woman was once again full of smiles.
She turned her head in high spirits and looked at Gu Ran beside her.
The latter curled his lip and tilted his chin toward the departing Qin Chaoyang.
"How did I speak? Did you hear how that guy who uses his eyes to breathe was speaking earlier?!"
Hearing the jealousy in his words, the girl smiled radiantly and reached out to tug at the hem of his shirt.
"Alright, alright, what are you getting mad for? Let's go, let's head home."
"Hey, Ye Zhenzhen, why are you smiling so happily?"
He was just about to nod, but seeing the girl beside him smiling as beautifully as a flower, he couldn't help but twitch his lips.
"Nonsense, I am not."
The girl lied through her teeth, turning her head and walking toward home, her face glowing with a radiant smile.
"Ye Zhenzhen, are you feeling guilty? Why are you walking so fast?"
Gu Ran caught up from behind, but the girl turned back with a blushing face and spat out a remark.
"Pfft, show some respect. You're the one feeling guilty! Why would I be guilty? What do I have to be guilty about..."
As she spoke, she suddenly stopped. Explaining so much made it seem like she was obsessing over it.
She then shot him a glare from afar, turned around with her hands behind her back, and continued walking with light steps.
Seeing her charming back, Gu Ran also let out a soft chuckle.
The moon's shadow moved with the wind, like a mysterious painting.
On this quiet night, the boy silently followed the girl's silhouette.
Every step landed precisely on her shadow, telling a tale of childishness before maturity.
The moonlight spilled over them, illuminating the girl's silhouette and tracing a slender, graceful figure from behind.
Gu Ran's gaze remained fixed on her back, his eyes revealing a visible tenderness.
Suddenly, the girl walking in front turned around.
She wanted to check if the boy was still behind her, only to see him earnestly stepping on her shadow.
"Gu 'Dog' Ran, aren't you childish!"
"Absurd! How am I childish!"
A certain Mr. Gu stubbornly raised his head.
Seeing this, the corners of Ye Zhenzhen's lips curled up. She immediately ran behind him and stubbornly stepped on his shadow in return.
Naturally, Gu Ran wouldn't let her have her way. He ran forward quickly while turning back to make funny faces.
"Ye Zhenzhen, you're the real childish one!"
"How bold... call me big sister!"
The girl chased his shadow without even lifting her head.
Seeing him run faster and faster, she couldn't help but say, "Gu 'Dog' Ran, don't run..."
"I won't..."
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Over the next few days, Gu Ran was out and about, continuing his on-site inspections for the future company's location.
At night, he worked overtime to tally up the personnel positions he needed to recruit; after all, the revenue would be hitting his account soon.
Based on the App Store's settlement date, it would be around the time the college entrance examination results were released.
The melancholy older sister couldn't find a trace of him every day; he was as elusive as a dragon showing its tail but not its head.
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The evening of June 24th.
"Little dog..."
Ye Zhenzhen hugged her knees, curling her small body up in the chair in front of her desk.
Turning her head to look at the empty chair beside her, she couldn't help but pout.
Before the college entrance exam, he came over more frequently day by day, like clocking in for work, never missing a single session.
But now that the exams were over, he was nowhere to be seen.
Glancing at the floor-to-ceiling balcony doors, there wasn't even a ghost in sight. She gently pursed her lips and reached out her foot to kick the empty chair beside her.
Turning back to look at her desk, she momentarily lost her sense of purpose.
In the past, she only knew how to study, spending all her time on it.
But now that the exams were over, she suddenly had an abundance of free time, yet she didn't know what to do with it.
She casually picked up a book, trying to force herself to read, but for some reason, she just couldn't calm her mind...
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Time flew by, and by eight o'clock, there was still no sign of a certain someone outside the window.
She muttered toward the next door, grumbling under her breath about who knows what, but mostly likely nothing good.
She reached down to take off her cotton socks, preparing to wash up and go to sleep, but just as she stood up, a slight noise came from the balcony door.
She immediately turned her head, her watery eyes filled with a look of pleasant surprise.
Gu Ran rubbed his nose, pushed the door open, and entered his older sister's bedroom, only to be greeted by a sight that made his nose itch.
This...
So scantily clad?!
The young woman was wearing a long T-shirt that covered all the way down to her thighs.
On her lower half, she wore denim shorts, leaving her legs and feet completely exposed to the air.
Especially those little feet hidden in her slippers, her pink and tender toes were displayed brightly right in front of him, making it impossible for him to look away.
"Wh-why did you come over?"
Noticing his impure gaze, the girl's face flushed slightly. She curled her toes, feeling a bit flustered.
However, the tone of her voice didn't lose a single bit of its sourness.
Hearing this sour tone, Gu Ran forced himself to look away.
Seeing the girl's slightly red cheeks, he rubbed his nose in slight embarrassment.
"What kind of talk is that, sister? What do you mean 'why did I come over'? Can't I come over to see my sister, who is like a sibling to me, my closest friend and dearest family member!"
"Pfft, pfft, pfft! Wh-who has feelings for you!"
One sentence broke through the aloof girl's defenses. She turned her back to him, not wanting to face her shameless younger brother.
This guy...
So shameless!
Her long black hair tumbled down, and he followed his gaze downward.
It was a pair of perfectly straight legs, without even a bend at the knees. In an instant, disappointing tears flowed from the corner of Gu Ran's mouth.
To put it in a crude way, he could play with those for a year!
Looking further down, her pink ankles...
Hearing a gulping sound from behind, it was the sound of swallowing saliva.
Ye Zhenzhen felt like she had thorns in her back, sensing that she was being violated by an inappropriate gaze.
She quickly turned around and glared at the younger brother who didn't know how to respect his older sister.
"What are you looking at?"
"Looking at my sister who is like a sibling..."
"Stop, stop, stop!"
Seeing that he was about to start saying things that would make her blush with anger again, Ye Zhenzhen quickly reached out her hand to block his next words.
"Tell me, what are you here for?"
Hugging her shoulders to block her prominent defenses, she had a feeling that her younger brother's eyes were extremely dishonest tonight.
Seeing the girl's actions, Gu Ran twitched his lips, feeling insulted.
His character was being despised, this was simply lawless!
Defending against a gentleman?
He had never heard of such logic!
Gu Ran shot her an annoyed glare and took the opportunity to lie down on the soft, large bed.
"I'm tired, came to replenish some sister energy."
As he spoke, he took a deep breath of the room full of osmanthus fragrance.
So refreshing...
It was getting even purer.
Ye Zhenzhen: "!!!"
For a moment, Gu Ran had crossed too many boundaries, leaving Ye Zhenzhen a bit dazed.
After recovering for a few seconds, she pinpointed the most presumptuous thing this guy had done.
Did he... just roll his eyes at her?!
Little dog!
Daring to disrespect his older sister?!
The next second, the girl ground her silver teeth and lunged directly at him, ready to settle all new and old scores at once.
"Replenishing sister energy, huh? Come here, I'll give you a good replenishment!!!"
Along with the resentment from Gu Ran ignoring her and being nowhere to be seen all day for the past few days, she vented it all out.
Howls echoed within the older sister's bedroom.
"Ye Zhenzhen, are you a dog!"
"You can't bite the face, what if I get disfigured..."
"Ah! Ye Zhenzhen, you have to take responsibility for me!!!"
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s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
u Chenyuan transmigrated into a female-oriented novel about a real and fake heiress, becoming the CEO elder brother of both. Unfortunately, the entire Lu family—including himself, the CEO—were mere cannon fodder in the story. Determined to save himself, Lu Chenyuan took action. The spoiled, attention-seeking fake heiress? Thrown into the harsh realities of the working class to learn humility. The love-struck real heiress? Pushed toward academic excellence, so lofty goals would blind her to trivial romances. As for the betrayed, vengeful arranged marriage wife… the plot hadn’t even begun yet. There was still time—if he couldn’t handle her, he could at least avoid her. "CEO Lu, are you avoiding me?" Mo Qingli fixed her gaze on Lu Chenyuan. For the first time, the shrewd and calculating Lu Chenyuan felt a flicker of unease.
