Chapter 197
The cheers from the Economics and Management Department's formation had yet to fade.
Carrying a few specially reserved portions of iced mung bean soup and a large bag of snacks, Gu Ran walked straight to the other side of the sports field.
Behind him, Qin Zhaoyang clutched a crumpled flyer, his face ashen.
Watching Gu Ran leave surrounded by an adoring crowd, his cheeks burned with a stinging pain.
But Gu Ran had absolutely no time to pay attention to him.
His current goal was very clear.
To go to the neighboring formation for a "precision delivery."
To comfort his very own Dr. Ye, who was currently suffering.
The atmosphere in the Medical School's formation was a bit gloomy.
The girls were slumped on the grass, completely abandoning their image.
Watching Lin Yu run off, Ye Zhenzhen felt a bit helpless.
They were all classmates; why did it have to be like a palace drama?
She took off her military training cap, revealing a pretty face flushed red from the sun.
A few damp strands of hair clung to her cheeks and slender neck.
As she fanned herself, a crystal-clear drop of sweat slowly slid down her collarbone.
She looked breathtakingly beautiful, yet possessed a fragile quality that made one want to bully her a little.
"Here."
A slender hand appeared in front of her, offering a cup of iced mung bean soup that was still radiating cold air.
Ye Zhenzhen froze for a moment, looking up to meet a pair of smiling eyes.
"Gu... Gu Ran?"
The girl's eyes instantly lit up, and she hurriedly stood up.
Realizing that countless pairs of eyes were staring at her, she quickly reined in her excitement and accepted the drink with feigned reserve.
"Why did you come over here?"
Looking at the reserved girl, Gu Ran chuckled and pulled a tissue from his pocket.
He helped wipe the beads of sweat from her forehead.
Gu Ran wasn't sure what had happened here. He had just happened to overhear her blurt out something about counting money until her hands went soft before he even got close.
"I came to see if my dear sister really counted money until her hands cramped."
Gu Ran stood beside her, his gaze sweeping over her slender wrists.
Some indescribable images suddenly popped into his mind.
Actually, besides counting money, there were other things that could make one's hands cramp...
But he didn't dare say that out loud, afraid she would blow her top.
Their sweet interaction instantly silenced the surrounding girls, who had been pointing fingers at her because of Lin Yu's rumors.
Everyone's eyes were fixed directly on Gu Ran.
Under the sunlight, the young man's slightly damp jacket faintly revealed his smooth muscle lines. His handsome features made him look like the male lead of an idol drama.
"Oh my god, his looks... absolutely stunning!"
"Looking at their interaction, they don't seem like just classmates. This is totally a public display of affection, right?"
"I want a handsome guy to wipe my sweat too! I'd even be willing to get scolded a bit for it!"
"Stop dreaming. A handsome guy with a beautiful girl—this is a feast for the eyes. I'm shipping them so hard!"
Hearing the whispers around her, Ye Zhenzhen's possessiveness instantly skyrocketed.
She quietly took a small step closer to Gu Ran, as if declaring her sovereignty.
Gu Ran pretended not to notice her little move and handed the remaining bags to the two girls beside Ye Zhenzhen.
He smiled harmlessly.
"Hello, I'm Gu Ran," he said in a clear voice.
"I'll have to trouble you two beauties to take good care of my sister here. These snacks and cold drinks are just a little token of my appreciation."
Zhao Xiaoxiao and Chen Jing held the sudden gifts of iced mung bean soup, completely dumbfounded.
Was this... the legendary "when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven"?
Bah, it was just benefiting from a bestie's good fortune!
"No... no trouble at all!"
"Not at all!"
Zhao Xiaoxiao took a sip of the mung bean soup and felt completely revived.
"You're too polite! If anyone dares to bully Zhenzhen in the future, they'll have to answer to us!"
After saying that, she shot a pointed glance at Lin Yu, who was sitting all by herself not far away.
Lin Yu was holding her phone, pretending to read messages. Hearing the commotion over there, she dug her nails in so hard she almost scratched through the screen.
"Sister?"
Zhao Xiaoxiao then caught the key word. Her eyes darted ambiguously between the two of them as she smirked.
"Handsome, you call her 'sister' pretty smoothly. Seems like you two play quite... wildly in private?"
"Cough, cough!"
Ye Zhenzhen nearly spat out the mouthful of mung bean soup she had just drunk.
How was this girl just like that wretched Pei Susu, with a head full of dirty thoughts!
The girl's face, already flushed from the sun, turned even redder.
In order to salvage her dignity as the "older sister,"
and to intimidate the surrounding wolf-like romantic rivals, she straightened her back.
She cleared her throat and naturally looped her arm through Gu Ran's.
If her complexion had been normal, it would have been quite convincing.
"Let me introduce him to everyone."
Ye Zhenzhen raised her chin, though her trembling eyelashes betrayed her shyness.
"This is my younger brother, and also... my boyfriend."
She placed extra emphasis on the words "younger brother."
Gu Ran raised an eyebrow, not exposing the girl's bravado.
He tilted his head slightly, leaned close to Ye Zhenzhen's ear, and chuckled softly in a voice only the two of them could hear.
"Alright, outside you're the older sister. Later when we get back to the car... we'll discuss our seniority again."
Ye Zhenzhen: "!!!"
She instantly pulled her hand back and glared at him, her eyes shimmering.
A scenario flashed through her mind that made her legs go weak.
For some reason.
She was actually... looking forward to it a little.
Watching this scene full of flying pink bubbles, Zhao Xiaoxiao and Chen Jing exclaimed that they were "happily eating up this PDA"!
Feeling indebted after accepting his treats,
Zhao Xiaoxiao decided to tell Gu Ran about how Ye Zhenzhen had been wronged.
"Handsome Gu, you don't know this, but just now that Lin Yu actually spread a rumor that Zhenzhen is being kept by an old sugar daddy. What she said was incredibly nasty!"
The smile on the young man's face faded a bit, and his gaze landed precisely on the figure in the corner.
Lin Yu seemed to sense his gaze and subconsciously looked up, only to meet a pair of icy eyes.
It made her heart tremble, and a sudden, inexplicable chill ran through her.
"Got it."
Gu Ran withdrew his gaze, and when he looked back at Ye Zhenzhen, his eyes were full of tenderness.
He raised his hand and dotingly rubbed the girl's head.
He knew the jokes about a girls' dorm with four people having eight different group chats, but he hadn't expected the infighting to start so soon. School had only been in session for a few days!
But what kind of waves could a little brat make? At most, just spreading some rumors.
However, since she recklessly bullied his dear sister, he wouldn't mind letting this little brat taste a harsh lesson from the real world.
And let her feel what it's like to stand in the eye of the storm!
Listening from the side, Ye Zhenzhen actually wanted to say that she didn't care about those kinds of remarks.
After all, what Lin Yu said wasn't true anyway.
And even if it were true, so what?
Being kept by her younger brother.
Just thinking about it... was thrilling!
At that thought, Ye Zhenzhen broke into a carefree smile.
In that instant of radiance, even the sunlight seemed to lose its color.
...
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
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.
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
