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: "???"
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
iemie, male, Race: Moon. Hobby: Collecting anomalies. At first, he thought he possessed two systems: the Crimson Rainbow Moon and the Clear Cold Frost Moon. One day, he discovered that he himself could also become a system for others, holding the chessboard of fate. The Eighth Epoch, also known as the Eternal Moon Epoch. Humans, witches, elves, bloodline descendants, specters, demons, and spirits together compose a new history. Walking the path on behalf of the moon, before he knew it, Chen Miemie's footsteps were followed by all manner of strange and wondrous anomalies. As time passed, many titles circulated about him—The King in Yellow, Lord of Anomalies, Heart of the Eternal Moon, and more. "Me? I'm just a traveler who enjoys collecting interesting creatures," Chen Miemie said.
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
