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.
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【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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!
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
