Chapter 148
On the other end of the phone, Pei Susu's tone was ominous, sounding like a pyramid scheme master.
"Intellectual upperclassmen, hot underclassmen, and those scheming girls looking for a long-term meal ticket... Ye Zhenzhen, a stubborn tsundere like you is basically serving yourself up on a silver platter in college!"
"When the time comes, they'll be calling him 'Brother Gu Ran' left and right, throwing in some green tea manipulative tactics, and you won't even have a place to cry!"
This bucket of cold water chilled the girl, who had just been bubbling with pink romantic fantasies, right to the bone.
An image instantly formed in her mind.
On a college campus, Gu Ran is walking down the street in a white shirt, surrounded by a flock of chirping, flirtatious girls.
"Underclassman, my water pipe burst, could you come help me clear it~"
"Brother Gu Ran, could you help me fix my computer~"
"Underclassman, are you free tonight? My cat can do backflips, do you want to come over and see~"
And she herself could only stand in the distance, clutching a scalpel, watching helplessly as he was seduced away by others...
"No way!"
Ye Zhenzhen suddenly sat up straight, her eyes clearing up with resolve.
Gu Ran was her pig... wait, no, he was her cabbage, why should she let some other pig root around and ruin him?
"Scared now, aren't you?"
Pei Susu heard her nervousness and snorted smugly.
"So, take advantage of this month or so before school starts and lock down your official status! Stop wasting time with all that vague, wishy-washy flirting and just attack head-on! Hear me?"
After hanging up, Ye Zhenzhen gripped her Little Smart phone and sat blankly on her bed for a long time, lost in thought.
Meanwhile, in the living room, Gu Ran looked at the girl's tightly shut bedroom door, left with no choice but to sigh while holding a plate of braised pork that looked like lumps of coal.
...
The sky outside the window gradually darkened, and the lights in the room were off.
A sense of crisis grew wildly like weeds in the girl's heart.
Although Pei Susu's words were exaggerated, they weren't entirely unreasonable.
In her eyes, Gu Ran truly was outstanding, so much so that sometimes she felt she wasn't good enough for him.
A long time passed.
The girl took a deep breath, jumped off the bed, and opened her wardrobe.
For the next half hour, she put on a solo fashion show.
"This one is too childish..."
"This one is too revealing, no way..."
"Would this one look like I'm trying too hard?"
Finally, she chose a simple white T-shirt paired with light blue jeans, showing off a pair of long, straight, beautiful legs.
However, she also hid a little trick up her sleeve.
By lifting the hem of her pants slightly, one could catch a faint glimpse of smooth black silk at her slender ankles.
This was what she had just sneaked from Ye Shulian's wardrobe.
The girl remembered Gu Ran mentioning it once; this style of wearing them was called something like "silk under pants"?
She reached out a small hand and stealthily touched it.
She had to admit, the texture felt really nice. That bastard... would probably like it, right.
Next, following Pei Susu's teachings, she let her hair down and used a curling iron to give it a slight wave. It looked casual and lazy, but in reality, it was completely calculated.
After checking herself in the mirror over and over to confirm that this "pinnacle of pure and alluring" look hadn't gone off the rails, she gathered her courage, gently opened the door, and tip-toed quietly out of the house.
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In the room next door.
Gu Ran was sitting in front of his computer, the penguin icon in the bottom right corner of the screen flashing frantically.
It was Ye Jinliang, whom he had left forgotten in the corner for a long time.
Ever since the day they checked their scores, he had been busy "eloping" to Wuzhen with Ye Zhenzhen, completely tossing him to the back of his mind.
A rare trace of something called "conscience" welled up in Gu Ran's heart, but as he clicked on the avatar, that sliver of conscience vanished into thin air.
[Golden Spear Never Falls]: Gu Ran! You're a f*cking dog!!! ***
[Golden Spear Never Falls]: How come I'm hearing that you applied to Qinglin University???
[Golden Spear Never Falls]: Bro, didn't we agree to go to the capital to check out the girls?
[Golden Spear Never Falls]: You little sh*t! Answer me!!!
[Golden Spear Never Falls]: *****************************
Twitching the corner of his mouth and automatically filtering out the highly mother-insulting words, Gu Ran sighed and clattered out a line of text on his keyboard.
[Did Pei Susu apply to the capital?]
The reply from the other side came quickly.
[Golden Spear Never Falls]: How did you know?
[I f*cking guessed it. You thick-eyebrowed, big-eyed guy, I felt something was off ever since that time we went ice skating.]
[Do you like her? Do you need me to play matchmaker for you?]
[The pot calling the kettle black, do you dare say you applying to the capital isn't because of Pei Susu?!]
The other side went silent for a few seconds. Just as he was about to stubbornly type out a denial, Gu Ran went in for the kill.
[If you f*cking try to deny it, I'll call her right now!]
Seeing this, Ye Jinliang caved very quickly.
[Golden Spear Never Falls]: Don't! Don't call, I'm at your mercy!
Acting tough, huh?
Gu Ran curled his lip, just about to continue mocking him, when he heard a strange noise behind him.
"Click."
The door was pushed open, and he turned his head to look.
With just one glance, his eyes froze.
Why did it feel like this girl was a bit different from this morning?
It looked like she was wearing lipstick...
"Gu 'Dog' Ran, what are you doing?"
The girl had her hands behind her back, her body leaning slightly forward, and her eyes darting around. Just thinking about what she was about to do brought an unnatural blush to her cheeks.
"Consoling a lonely old man."
Gu Ran pointed at the screen.
"See, I'm giving him psychological counseling right now."
"What's up?"
Gu Ran raised an eyebrow, his gaze sweeping over her legs without leaving a trace, but then his eyes fixed on the girl's ankles and below.
With just one glance, he spotted the blind spot!
Is this f*cking holy light?!
No wonder it's so blinding.
Testing a cadre with this?
What cadre could withstand this kind of test?
Being stared at by him like this, Ye Zhenzhen felt as if her legs were on fire and almost broke character to run away.
But remembering Pei Susu's warning, she forcefully held her ground.
"Cough... um..."
She bit her lip, took out two freshly bought movie tickets, and waved them in front of Gu Ran's eyes.
"Um... that damn girl Pei Susu insisted on giving me two movie tickets."
The girl's voice was a bit tight, her speaking speed extremely fast, as if she were reciting a scalding hot script.
"She said she bought too many before, and they'll expire and go to waste if we don't go. You know me, I hate wasting things the most, and... and I haven't watched a movie in a long time either."
Gu Ran raised his eyebrows, his gaze falling on the ticket stubs in her hand.
"Pei Susu gave them to you?"
"Yes! It was her!"
Ye Zhenzhen nodded heavily, her eyes as determined as if she were taking an oath to join the Party.
"She originally wanted to go watch it with that guy... the sports committee member, but it turns out he has to go to training camp, so she just tossed them to me."
Lying at home happily reading a novel, Pei Susu suddenly sneezed. She rubbed her nose and cursed.
"Which bastard is talking smack about me behind my back again?"
Hearing this, Gu Ran leaned back in his chair, looking at the unnaturally flushed girl in front of him with a half-smile.
These movie tickets were brand new, probably still warm.
Pei Susu went to the movie theater right now to print the tickets just to give them to her?
Not bad, Ye Zhenzhen, you can even lie through your teeth now.
However, he didn't intend to expose her, deciding instead to just play along with her words.
"So, you're here to invite me to a movie?"
"Who... who invited you!"
Ye Zhenzhen reacted like a cat whose tail had just been stepped on, too flustered to even look him in the eye.
"I... I just thought it would be too boring to go alone! Plus, it would be a pity to waste two tickets! I am only reluctantly taking you along based on the principle of conserving resources! Are you going or not? If not, I'll tear them up!"
After rambling through her long-winded explanation, the girl made a show of trying to tear the tickets, but her movements were so drawn out it was like watching a slow-motion replay.
"I'm going! Of course I'll go!"
Gu Ran immediately stood up, playing along as he stopped the girl's hands. "How could we waste them? Diligence and thrift are traditional Chinese virtues!"
As he spoke, his gaze swept over the girl's petite feet once again.
The movie theater would be pitch black. Secretly helping her warm her feet shouldn't be crossing the line, right...
Meanwhile, just as the two of them were packing up and getting ready to head out, messages from Ye Jinliang were popping up frantically on Gu Ran's computer desktop.
[Golden Spear Never Falls]: Stop messing around, I admit I was wrong, okay? Whatever you do, absolutely do not call Pei Susu!
[Golden Spear Never Falls]: Brother Gu, be the bigger person and forgive my petty mistakes. Just let me go like a fart in the wind.
[Golden Spear Never Falls]: Gu Ran! Fucking answer me! Don't tell me you actually went to call her!!!
[Golden Spear Never Falls]: Papa Gu, your eldest son was wrong, please don't call her!!!
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d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
for mindless slaughter, this isn't for you.] My name is Ye Shu, and I'm a transmigrator. It seems I'm supposed to be the protagonist, but that feels pretty unlikely. This world has been invaded by a system. The antagonists on the other side have suddenly become pure, flawless saints. The female leads have been force-fed the so-called "original plot," making them think they've been reborn. Now, everyone thinks I'm scum. Including the old lady in my ring. And here I am, in the Monster Beast Mountain Range, braising pork. To put my situation in perspective— It's as if, the moment Xiao Yan stepped into the Monster Beast Mountain Range, the Soul Emperor already knew he would become the Flame Emperor, and Yao Lao had been turned to the enemy's side. I have nothing right now. Oh wait, that's not true. I do have a white-haired loli child-bride who's the Heavenly Dao, and her only skill is acting cute. So, tell me guys... what are my chances of making it to the end?
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.
