Chapter 139
2:00 PM, Wuzhen.
The cicadas' chirping was kept outside by the double-glazed windows, and the air conditioning in the room was turned up high.
When Ye Zhenzhen woke up, her throat was moist, probably saved by that glass of honey water.
She didn't linger in bed. Her mind automatically replayed Gu Ran's face—one that begged for a beating yet was full of deep affection—and the corners of her mouth were harder to suppress than an AK's recoil.
After quickly washing up, she squatted in front of her suitcase, hesitated for three seconds, and decisively changed into the white cotton and linen dress that Gu Ran had casually praised.
Pushing open the French windows, a heatwave mixed with moisture hit her face.
The balconies of the two rooms were connected, with a row of green plants in between to guard against gentlemen but not villains or women.
Gu Ran: Huh? Villain?? Me???
The girl, like a stealthy cat, tiptoed across the defense line and slipped into room 202 next door.
The curtains were tightly drawn, and the light in the room was dim.
Gu Ran was lying on his side on the bed, his breathing long and even.
Asleep, he lost some of his usual unruliness and gained a bit of the obedience of a boy next door.
Ye Zhenzhen held her breath, tiptoed, and squatted by the bed, resting her chin on her hands, becoming a "waiting-for-husband stone."
Her moist, almond-shaped eyes stared at him meticulously, her gaze traveling from his high nose bridge all the way down, finally stopping on those good-looking thin lips.
Pei Susu said that men with thin lips in novels are all fickle?
But the girl frowned her pretty eyebrows, feeling that this statement was completely wrong.
This dog of a guy was obviously deeply affectionate.
"Thump, thump."
After staring at those thin lips for a few seconds, Ye Zhenzhen felt as if they were coated with a witch's poison, making her heartbeat involuntarily accelerate.
Something called "lust makes one foolish" grew wild and uncontrollably in her mind.
Anyway, this guy was asleep, so he wouldn't notice if she gave him a kiss, right?
Probably... not, right.........
Ye Zhenzhen bit her lower lip and made a decision that went against her ancestors.
She slowly leaned over and gave that face a quick peck.
Soft, hot, the touch was absolutely amazing.
Got it!
Like a little mouse stealing lamp oil, she wanted to retract her hand and flee the scene of the crime as if electrocuted.
However, in the next second, a large hand reached out without warning and accurately grabbed her wrist!
"Ah—!"
The world spun.
A strong force struck, and the girl lost her balance, falling directly onto the edge of the bed.
Gu Ran opened his eyes, the bottom of his eyes clear, without the slightest look of someone who had just woken up.
"Dr. Ye," his voice carried the hoarseness of just waking up, like an electric current scraping the eardrums, so crisp it made one's legs weak, "Groping a patient while they sleep, does this count as workplace harassment?"
Boom—!
Ye Zhenzhen's fair, pretty face instantly became thoroughly cooked, even the roots of her ears were burning, and her mind went blank.
"I... I didn't! I was just seeing if there were mosquitoes, right, I was helping you swat mosquitoes!"
"Mosquitoes?"
Gu Ran's thumb rubbed the inside of her wrist, a half-smile on his face: "The mosquitoes in Wuzhen are quite big, huh, and they even apply lip balm?"
Ye Zhenzhen: "!!!"
Discovered?
It's over, it's over, she felt like she was dying again...
The girl was so ashamed and angry that she wanted to die, struggling desperately: "You... let go quickly! I'm going back!"
"I won't let go."
Gu Ran retracted his arm and directly pulled her whole body into his arms.
Through the thin fabric, the boy's chest was hot, his heartbeat strong, carrying the unique hormonal scent of a young man.
Before she could exclaim, Gu Ran buried his face deeply into her soft lower abdomen and took a deep breath.
Top-tier inhalation!
It was all her scent.
Like osmanthus after the rain, more effective than any calming incense.
"Don't move, let me recharge for a while."
Gu Ran's voice was muffled, carrying a hint of acting spoiled, "I stayed up too late last night, my head hurts."
The struggle in his arms instantly stopped.
Ye Zhenzhen's hand, frozen in mid-air, slowly fell, awkwardly rubbing the top of his head, her tone ridiculously soft:
"Oh... then recharge for five minutes, overtime will be charged."
"Okay, I'll mortgage myself to you, is that enough to pay the bill?"
...
At 6:00 PM, the lights in Xizha began to come on.
Just after finishing a meal of braised mutton, Ye Zhenzhen still had sauce on the corners of her mouth. Gu Ran naturally reached out to wipe it off, his movements so skilled that they drew the attention of passersby.
"I want to eat that!"
The girl pointed to the shop in front, her eyes sparkling, as if hiding stars.
"Eating again right after the mutton? Are you a pig?"
Gu Ran curled his lip. Although his mouth showed disdain, his body honestly lined up to pay: "Boss, two Dingsheng cakes."
Taking the pastry, Ye Zhenzhen took a bite, and her almond eyes immediately curved into crescents in satisfaction.
Looking at her silly appearance, the string in Gu Ran's heart completely loosened.
This is life.
"Gu Ran, look at that couple over there, they're so loving, their temperament is really good."
Ye Zhenzhen, like a little hamster eating, casually pointed to a short distance away and exclaimed.
Gu Ran casually glanced over.
Just one look, and his soul scattered!
The man's face, Gu Ran would recognize even if it turned to ash!
Isn't this Lao Gu?!
And the one next to him... Aunt Ye?!
Ye Zhenzhen, if your eyes are useless, donate them!!!
Sure enough, even wearing glasses for myopia, looking at a distance is still blurry.
Gu Ran's scalp went numb, a chill rushed straight to the top of his head, and the Dingsheng cake in his hand almost went straight to heaven on the spot.
Weren't they supposed to go on a honeymoon in Hainan?
How did they end up honeymooning in Wuzhen???
"What's wrong?" Ye Zhenzhen noticed something was wrong and carefully followed Gu Ran's gaze.
In the next second, she also petrified on the spot, the Dingsheng cake stuck in her throat.
Uncle Gu and her mom?!
Why are they here?
Is she seeing things?
"Let's go, quickly!"
Gu Ran grabbed the back of Ye Zhenzhen's head, pressed her face against his chest, and quickly turned around under the cover of a pillar.
"Mmm... Gu Ran, be gentler..."
Ye Zhenzhen shrank into his arms like a frightened quail, trembling.
But then, thinking about it, she swallowed the Dingsheng cake in her mouth to calm her nerves.
...
Not far away.
Ye Shulian held Gu Xiangcheng's arm and turned her head in confusion: "Lao Gu, that back view in the white dress just now... looked a bit like our Zhenzhen?"
She pushed up her sunglasses: "The boy next to her also looks like Gu Ran."
Gu Xiangcheng followed her gaze. The crowd was bustling; where was there any figure?
"You must have seen wrong, right?"
Gu Xiangcheng laughed, full of confidence, setting up a flag high: "Zhenzhen is definitely reading in the library right now!
You know how disciplined that child is. As for that brat Gu Ran, he's probably pulling an all-nighter playing games in some internet cafe."
"Besides, we made a spur-of-the-moment decision to come to Hangzhou to visit my comrade, and dropped by Wuzhen on the way. How could there be such a coincidence? Unless the sun rises from the west!"
"Let's go, the silk shop ahead is nice, I'll buy you a couple of pieces."
Ye Shulian thought about it, and it made sense.
"Maybe I just miss the kids too much."
The sound of footsteps faded away.
Behind the pillar.
Listening to his biological father's confident boomerang speech, Gu Ran's back was soaked with cold sweat.
That was close, almost a series finale.
He looked down. Ye Zhenzhen's little face in his arms was pale, obviously also frightened, but her small mouth kept moving.
"Gu Ran..."
Ye Zhenzhen grabbed his collar, her voice trembling, but her eyes were frighteningly bright: "...So exciting."
Gu Ran: "???"
Why the hell do you look so excited?
Even this can unlock a new kink?!
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
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.
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
