Chapter 143
Second floor, Room 201.
"Click."
As the sound of the door locking echoed, Ye Zhenzhen felt as if all her bones had been removed. She collapsed directly onto the bed, burying her face in the pillow to play dead.
"I can't... Gu Ran, I can't do this anymore..."
The young girl's voice was muffled, carrying a hint of trembling like a survivor of a disaster. "This is way too thrilling. My heart really can't handle this kind of high-pressure operation. It's a hundred times more terrifying than checking the college entrance exam scores!"
Gu Ran leaned against the door, laughing so hard his shoulders shook, still unable to forget the part where Lao Gu asked for red wine just now.
He walked over to the bed and reached out to poke the tip of the girl's exposed ear. It felt astonishingly hot to the touch.
"Ye Zhenzhen, look on the bright side," Gu Ran said in a teasing tone. "At least the round bed room we booked in advance didn't go to waste. Consider it a sign of filial piety from us kids, letting the older couple relive their burning years of passion."
"Ahhh! Shut up!"
Ye Zhenzhen grabbed a pillow and threw it at him. She sat up, her hair a messy bird's nest, the blush on her face still unfaded, and her almond eyes wide open. "Gu 'Dog' Ran, you pervert! Is that filial piety? That's... that's..."
She stammered for a long time but couldn't come up with a proper word, finally just pouting indignantly. "You pervert."
"Alright, get some rest early. We should be safe tonight."
Gu Ran caught the pillow and casually smoothed her bangs, his eyes softening a bit. "Lao Gu and the others are staying on the top floor. As long as we don't take the elevator, we basically won't run into them."
"Mhm..."
The two of them acted affectionate in the room for a while longer. Seeing that Gu Ran was shamelessly trying to overstay his welcome, even brazenly claiming that her locking the door was an invitation?
Hah?
This dog's skin was really getting thicker and thicker!
Had he forgotten about climbing over the balcony now???
Ye Zhenzhen blushed and swung the pillow again, forcefully kicking him out of the room.
After driving Gu Ran back next door, the young girl sat on the bed in a daze for a while, the blush on her cheeks taking a long time to fade.
The thought of Uncle Gu and her mother in the couple's king-size bedroom upstairs gave her an indescribably weird feeling.
And the more she thought about it, the redder her pretty face became.
Until finally, thinking of a certain crucial scenario, she felt like she was going to break down. She quickly covered her face with her hands, rolled over onto her stomach, and rapidly kicked her fair little legs.
"Oh, this is so embarrassing! They aren't going to have another little brother, are they..."
...
Occasionally, the creaking of a sculling boat drifted in from outside the window.
Half an hour later.
The young girl stepped out of the bathroom, finally calming her wildly racing heart.
Then, like a thief, she sneakily dug out a pink-covered notebook from the most hidden compartment of her suitcase.
This was given to her before the college entrance exams by Pei Susu, that useless strategist, who claimed it was a "Love Bible".
Although she had stubbornly said she didn't want it at the time, her body honestly tucked it away.
Ye Zhenzhen lay on her stomach on the bed, turned on the desk lamp, and opened the notebook.
On the first page, written in elegant handwriting, was a title: [48 Things Couples (crossed out) Older Sister and Younger Brother Must Do].
She picked up a pen, bit the end of it, and looked as focused as if she were solving the final question of a Math Olympiad.
"Have a candlelit dinner together..."
There was already a checkmark next to it; that was the night the power went out right after the exams.
"Take a walk together at dusk..."
This evening at the head of the dyeing workshop bridge, they walked side by side on the small path, the setting sun stretching their shadows long.
Check!
"Go to a bar together..."
Even though she got drunk after just a few drinks and threw a drunken fit, it still counted as going, right?
Thinking of the shameful scenes after getting drunk that night, Ye Zhenzhen's cheeks flushed hot again, and she quickly made a checkmark.
"Watch the sunrise together..."
On the sculling boat, the dewy morning, and a warm embrace.
A heavy checkmark!!
"Take photos of each other..."
Those photos in Gu Ran's camera, she couldn't bear to delete a single one.
Check!
Her gaze moved all the way down, finally stopping on a line at the bottom of the page.
"Cohabitate in an unfamiliar city..."
Ye Zhenzhen's fingers paused.
Cohabitate?
Did this count?
Although they were in two rooms, the balconies were connected, and their hearts... were connected too.
This should... count, right?
The young girl bit her lower lip, a blush more brilliant than the sunset spreading across her face.
Her small hand holding the pen trembled slightly, but ultimately, she solemnly drew a checkmark next to that line!
After doing all this, she closed the notebook and held it in her hands like a treasure for a long time.
An auntie-like smile appeared on her face. She admired it with satisfaction for a long time before reluctantly locking it back in her suitcase.
Then, she picked up her phone and tapped on the profile picture with the contact name [Silly Bear].
[Doctor Ye]: Are you asleep?
[Silly Bear]: Not yet, thinking about how to send a bottle of red wine up to Lao Gu to add to the fun.
[Doctor Ye]: ... Get lost!
Ye Zhenzhen looked at the screen and couldn't help but laugh out of anger.
After laughing, she took a deep breath, quickly typed a line of text, and hit send.
[Doctor Ye]: Gu Ran, let's check out at 5 AM tomorrow morning and go home, okay?
In the room next door, seeing this message, Gu Ran was slightly taken aback.
[Silly Bear]: What's wrong? We've only been playing for a few days, and there are still so many places we haven't been to.
[Doctor Ye]: I'm done playing. Being frightened by those two every day, I feel like I'm going to break.
Gu Ran: "???"
I don't even want to call you out, but were you really frightened?
You hypocritical girl!
Ye Zhenzhen lay on her pillow, looking at the crescent moon outside the window, her fingers typing rapidly again.
[Doctor Ye]: This place is too small, it's easy to get a heart attack. And...
She paused, silently thinking to herself that she had experienced enough of this trip called an "elopement escape".
The rest, she wanted to save and do slowly in the future.
[Doctor Ye]: And I miss home, pretty please?
Gu Ran looked at the sudden coquettish tone on the screen and froze for a few seconds, feeling somewhat flattered.
Normally, this girl was as stubborn as a tsundere; getting her to act cute was no easy feat.
He could even imagine the young girl next door blushing while pretending to be calm as she typed these words.
[Silly Bear]: Yes ma'am, Doctor Ye! Retreating tomorrow morning.
Putting down his phone, Gu Ran walked to the balcony and stretched.
The night breeze was slightly cool.
He looked up suspiciously towards the top floor.
Lao Gu is getting on in years, he couldn't be trying to roll a new character now, could he?
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."
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
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.
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.
