Chapter 214
The scene in the cafeteria caused a new wave of excitement on the Qingda University campus forum.
Some quick-fingered user on the frontlines of gossip had perfectly captured the moment Gu Ran fed Ye Zhenzhen a piece of sweet and sour pork.
The title of the post looked like it was written by a professional clickbait master:
BREAKING! Military Training Goddess and Mysterious Boyfriend Show PDA! Aloof Persona Collapses or Is It True Love?
As soon as the post went live, the comments section blew up.
"Holy crap! That side profile is killing me! Who is this guy? Butler! I need all his info in three minutes!"
"Did the person above just get internet? Isn't that the big shot who drives the Audi A6 with the '66666' license plate!"
"Who said he was an 'old man' sugar daddy before? Come out and take your beating! This is clearly a young, handsome CEO!"
"Case closed, guys! What sugar baby rumors? This is obviously the beautiful romance between a top-tier rich, handsome guy and our pure campus belle!"
"I'm officially shipping them. I've swallowed the key, please lock them together forever!"
"Let me educate the clueless onlookers: For that rumor post a couple of days ago, this big shot called the cops to protect his girl, got the culprit arrested, and had the school expel the rumor-monger! Maximum boyfriend material!"
"Damn! Real or fake?"
"Pics or it didn't happen! DM me one dollar and I'll send you the whole truth!"
"So hardcore? I love it, that's a real man! The original poster better be careful."
The screen was flooded with comments like "I'm shipping it," "So sweet," and "Fairy-tale romance."
With various insiders spilling the tea, the truth about the Lin Yu incident was pieced together pretty accurately.
Gu Ran's image among the Qingda freshmen completed an epic leap.
He went from a mysterious rich kid to a handsome, wealthy, fiercely protective, self-made man with boundless potential.
And Ye Zhenzhen transformed from a gold digger into the little princess everyone envied.
...
Dorm 302.
Zhao Xiaoxiao was rolling around on her bed, holding her phone excitedly.
"Ahhh! Zhenzhen! Look! You and Gu Ran are trending again!"
She shoved her phone in front of Ye Zhenzhen, who had just walked into the room.
"You two are now Qingda's officially certified fairy-tale couple!"
Ye Zhenzhen looked at the most upvoted photo on the phone.
In the picture, Gu Ran was looking down at her, his eyes so tender they could melt hearts.
Her cheeks involuntarily grew hot.
"What fairy-tale couple? Don't talk nonsense."
Though she said that, an unconcealable smile rippled at the corners of her eyes and brows.
"Don't be shy!"
Zhao Xiaoxiao pinched her cheek.
"Look at these comments, everyone is praising you as a match made in heaven! Someone even started a fan group for your ship called 'Gu Ye Zhi Qiu', and it already has hundreds of members!"
"Gu Ye Zhi Qiu?"
Ye Zhenzhen murmured the name, feeling a sweet sensation in her heart.
"Yeah, look, someone even drew chibi fanart of you guys!"
Zhao Xiaoxiao swiped on the screen, speaking with excitement.
Chen Jing leaned over, pushed up her glasses, and said with a smile.
"If Lin Yu saw this, she'd probably die of anger."
"She deserves it! But I doubt she'll ever get to see it anyway!"
Zhao Xiaoxiao snorted.
"Anyone who dares to bully our Zhenzhen needs to be taught a harsh lesson!"
Looking at her two roommates standing up for her, Ye Zhenzhen felt warm inside.
When they weren't paying attention, she quietly picked up her phone and saved the chibi avatar.
With a light tap of her finger, her MicroChat profile picture was successfully changed.
...
Meanwhile, in Dorm 404.
As soon as Gu Ran entered the room, he saw Zhang Qi and Li Ming huddled around a computer.
Their expressions were as sleazy as could be.
"What are you looking at?"
Gu Ran asked as he dried his hair.
"Brother Gu! You've gone viral!"
Zhang Qi pointed at the computer screen and said excitedly.
"You and my sister-in-law are now the faces of our school! Look at this post, it has over a thousand comments!"
Gu Ran leaned in to take a look; it was indeed the photo of him feeding her in the cafeteria.
His eyes scrolled down, and he paused when he saw the cartoon picture.
It was a chibi cartoon boy wearing a sky-blue shirt and white wide-leg pants.
The facial features looked about seventy or eighty percent like him.
Driven by some inexplicable impulse, he took out his phone and opened Ye Zhenzhen's Moments.
Sure enough, her profile picture had changed.
A chibi girl wearing a lotus-pink top and a short black skirt was standing on her tiptoes, kissing the boy on the cheek.
Was this a matching couple's avatar?
Gu Ran's heart felt as if it had been gently bumped by something, melting into complete softness.
This little girl was getting better and better at this.
He smiled and gave his screen a light tap.
He changed his own profile picture to that chibi boy.
"Oh right, Brother Gu."
Zhang Qi suddenly remembered something.
"That guy Qin Zhaoyang hasn't returned to the dorm all day. He's not replying to messages or answering calls. You don't think he took things too hard and went to jump into Weiming Lake, do you?"
"Him?"
Gu Ran scoffed.
"He doesn't have the guts."
Based on his understanding of Qin Zhaoyang.
After getting completely thrashed by his dad this time, he was probably too ashamed to show his face and was just hiding.
"Let's not talk about him for now."
Gu Ran pulled out his chair, sat down, turned on his computer, and said seriously.
"Starting tomorrow, our Computer Repair Center can officially open for business. Are the flyers printed?"
"Printed! Five thousand copies!"
Li Ming dragged a large cardboard box out from under his bed.
"Don't worry, Brother Gu. I guarantee they'll be slipped under the door of every single dorm room!"
"Good."
Gu Ran nodded.
"Remember our slogan."
"Door-to-door service, professional and efficient! Thirty bucks a pop, fair to all! No charge if we can't fix it, girls' dorms get priority!"
Zhang Qi and Li Ming shouted in unison, as if they were completely pumped up.
Gu Ran smiled in satisfaction.
These young men he had brainwashed actually had quite impressive execution skills.
He clicked open an encrypted folder containing the next version iteration plan for MicroChat.
Shake was just the ignition point.
The real trump card was yet to come.
Moments, Official Accounts, Mini Programs...
These features, which wouldn't be implemented until the future, were quietly resting on his computer right now.
They were waiting for the perfect opportunity to descend upon this world.
He turned his head and glanced out the window.
The night was dark, but a new era.
Had already quietly raised its curtain.
...
agon king storylines. At the start, I obtained the "Ultimate Lackey System" - the more I act as a lackey, the stronger I become. What else could I do? I chose to become the personal henchman of the ultimate villain, Su Muwan. I provoke all sorts of chosen ones, snatch away their opportunities, and commit every evil deed imaginable. You ask who's behind me? Hmph! You're not worthy of knowing my lady's name! ...... ....... I am Su Muwan, the eldest daughter of the Su family. Since childhood, I've possessed extraordinary talent in martial arts, which led to my arrogant and domineering personality in my past life. I was even foolish enough to repeatedly challenge those favored by heaven, ultimately resulting in a tragic death. In this life, I must behave and absolutely cannot walk the same path again!! However... SLAP!! "So you're the Dragon King, huh?!" When I saw my little lackey swagger over and viciously slap the Dragon King who was hiding his identity, I felt my heart sink. Su Muwan's suspended heart finally died as she watched Qin Luo, her utterly loyal lackey, standing before her. She fainted on the spot from shock. Heaven is determined to destroy me!! (Pure love 1v1, light-hearted, no angst, single female lead, villain, reincarnation, lackey)
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!
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.
