Chapter 127
Inside the milk tea shop, the air froze for a second.
A second later, reason snapped.
The string of sanity in Ye Zhenzhen's mind completely burned out. A mix of shame and anger instantly turned her into a bristling little wildcat. Throwing caution to the wind, she lunged forward, opening her mouth to bite down hard on Gu Ran's arm!
"Holy crap, you're actually doing it!"
Gu Ran's pupils shrank as he backhanded with precision, gripping the girl's slender wrist.
But he had underestimated the explosive combat power of someone on the verge of social death.
Using her momentum, Ye Zhenzhen charged forward. To absorb the force, Gu Ran stepped back, but his heel caught hard against the leg of a chair.
"Bang!"
He lost his center of gravity.
In a split second, the young man's first reaction wasn't to save himself, but to twist his body violently, pressing the person in his arms tightly against his chest and offering his own back to the cold floor.
Crash—splash!
Two cups of milk tea burst open on impact, sending ice cubes and tapioca pearls rolling all over the floor.
The world went quiet.
Everyone stared at the scene, dumbfounded:
The boy was sprawled awkwardly on the ground, while the quiet, pretty girl was currently straddling him... in a highly inappropriate position.
Ye Zhenzhen's brain instantly crashed.
Beneath her was the boy's solid chest, and in her ears was his overly powerful heartbeat.
The probing, teasing gazes around them hit her back like spotlights, burning hotly.
It was over.
Just let the world be destroyed, hurry up.
Send a missile and blow up the entire milk tea shop!
Just as she was as stiff as a board, the "flesh cushion" beneath her let out a muffled groan.
Then, a weak yet somewhat punchable voice sounded:
"Ye Zhenzhen... are you trying to... murder your own brother?"
He even deliberately stressed the words "own brother."
In an instant, the onlookers' eyes changed.
It went from "watching a young couple's drama" to "condemning a violent older sister."
Ye Zhenzhen almost choked on her breath.
Own brother? Brother my foot!
This jerk, even while lying on the ground he didn't forget to throw her under the bus!
Dying of embarrassment, she scrambled to get up, but the soles of her shoes were covered in slippery milk tea. Just as she propped herself halfway up—
Slip.
"Ah!"
Losing her balance once again, she crashed heavily right back down!
This time, Gu Ran firmly supported her lower back. His palm pressed against the fabric of her clothes, so hot it made her shiver.
"Be careful, my young lady."
The boy's breath brushed against her earlobe, carrying a barely noticeable hoarseness.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Are you two alright?"
The shop owner finally reacted, running over with a pained expression as he looked at the mess on the floor. "This..."
Just as Ye Zhenzhen wanted to find a hole to crawl into, the hand on her waist let go.
Gu Ran smoothly rolled to his feet, pulling her away from the "disaster zone" in the process.
The next second, he put away his casual, lazy smile. Pulling his phone from his pocket, he gave the owner a slight bow, his tone so sincere it was like he was a completely different person:
"Boss, I apologize. My sister was just messing around with me and didn't know her limits."
"The cleaning fee for the floor, plus any damage to the tables and chairs—tally it up, I'll pay for it all."
"Beep—"
Scanning the code and paying, all in one smooth motion.
Even before the waiter brought a mop, he had already bent down, using his long, slender fingers to pick up the large chunks of crushed ice from the floor and toss them into the trash can.
His movements were practiced and methodical, without a trace of the scoundrel-like demeanor from just moments ago.
Ye Zhenzhen stood blankly to the side, watching his back as he kept his head down to clean up the mess.
At this moment, he exuded an unfamiliar, reassuring sense of maturity.
This guy... could actually be this reassuring?
In that instant, the surging shame and anger in her heart quietly ebbed away, replaced by an indescribable, aching swell.
"What are you spacing out for? Let's go."
Having handled everything, Gu Ran straightened up and naturally reached out a hand toward her.
Ye Zhenzhen's eyelashes fluttered. Avoiding his hand, she lowered her head and quickly dashed out of the milk tea shop.
...
The walk from the shop to the bus stop was eerily quiet.
That suffocating element of ambiguity fermented in the air, making her feel even more at a loss than during the commotion earlier.
The screeching brakes of a bus pulling into the station broke the silence.
Ye Zhenzhen suddenly stopped in her tracks. With her back to him, she took a deep breath, as if she had made some sort of resolution.
She turned around, keeping her completely flushed little face stern, and glared at him fiercely:
"Gu Ran!"
"Hmm?" The boy stood with his hands in his pockets, his expression calm, showing neither joy nor anger.
"You are not allowed to mention a single word about what happened in the shop today!"
Ye Zhenzhen stiffened her neck, trying hard to make herself look more intimidating. "Also! From now on, when we're outside, you're not allowed to touch me! No holding hands, no grabbing my waist! Do you hear me?!"
She had to lay down the law!
If things kept going like this, the situation was going to completely spiral out of control!
She didn't want to wait for her mother to come back and point at her nose, scolding her for taking everything she could get and swallowing the entire Gu family whole.
Gu Ran didn't reply immediately.
He quietly looked at the girl, his ink-black eyes devoid of any emotion.
Just when Ye Zhenzhen thought he was going to argue back, the boy suddenly took a step forward.
The distance between them instantly closed, so close that she could see her own flustered reflection in the depths of his eyes.
Gu Ran leaned in slightly, getting close to her ear, and asked with a low chuckle, using a breathy voice that only the two of them could hear:
"So at home... it's fine?"
Ye Zhenzhen: "???"
with countless casualties. As a top-tier gamer, Liu Xuan volunteered to join the fight, intending to dominate with his skills, but instead he obtained the hidden class: [Pacifist]. Unable to attack. Unable to use active skills. Fortunately, with each level gained, he acquired a new passive skill. And so, armed with a body full of passives, Liu Xuan slaughtered his way through the battlefield of ten thousand races! [You attacked Liu Xuan] [You gained the debuffs: 'Poison', 'Fear', 'Burning', 'Bleeding', 'Freeze', 'Silence', etc.] [Your attack speed has been reduced by 99%] [Your armor and magic resistance have been reduced by 99%] Warriors of the Ten Thousand Races: How the hell am I supposed to fight this?!
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.
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."
villain is the number one simp for the book's leading female protagonist, Shen Wan'er. As expected, he later becomes a tool for the main character to show off and slap faces, ultimately meeting a tragic end with his family ruined and his life in shambles. Fortunately, he awakens the [Universal Pure Love System], which allows him to earn points by performing acts of pure love. To change his fate, Gu Yan makes a decisive choice to seek warmth and companionship with the book's biggest villain—Cold Qingqiu. ........... My name is Leng Qingqiu. To find the murderer who killed my parents years ago, I deliberately blinded myself so that everyone would lower their guard around me. Just as I was secretly accumulating power and capital according to my initial plan, a man walked into my world. "Lengleng, Qingqing, Qiuqiu, which nickname do you prefer?" I don't like any of them. You'd better leave quickly! "Why aren't you saying anything? How about I call you my baby wife?" Leng Qingqiu thinks to herself, this man is truly annoying! (Stubborn pure love warrior + single female lead + true pure love + 1v1)
