Chapter 23
She was anxious, she was anxious again!
Gu Ran shrugged his shoulders, showing that he wouldn't stoop to the level of a little girl.
The two of them walked out of the school gates together. Gu Xiangcheng, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately got out of the car. Ignoring Gu Ran, he smiled directly at Ye Zhenzhen, who was walking in front, "Zhenzhen, are you tired from classes this morning?"
The young girl had already regained her calm expression. Looking at Gu Xiangcheng, she revealed an obedient smile and slightly shook her head.
"I'm not tired, Uncle. Sorry to keep you waiting for so long. We had to move desks and change seats after school today, so it took a little more time."
Seeing the young girl's sensible appearance, Gu Xiangcheng felt a burst of relief and quickly smiled, waving his hand and saying, "It's no trouble, no trouble at all. Hurry and get in the car."
As he spoke, he looked at Gu Ran. The latter, looking carefree, had already pulled open the rear car door and gotten in.
He didn't even have a backpack. Compared to Ye Zhenzhen, who honestly carried her backpack, he didn't even look like a student.
His lips twitched, and he instinctively wanted to criticize a few words, but he suddenly remembered that this was not at work, so he quickly stopped.
He was afraid that saying a few words to this kid would make him act up again.
Shaking his head helplessly, he completely gave up on Gu Ran's studies and didn't plan to care anymore. It didn't matter what he learned, as long as he was happy.
"Zhenzhen, hurry up and get in the car."
"Okay, Uncle."
Ye Zhenzhen nodded. Looking at Gu Ran, who had taken the lead to sit in the back seat, she pursed her lips and then followed.
Although what had happened just now made her feel a little embarrassed facing Gu Ran, asking her to sit in the front seat would be even more of a public execution.
His son had gone to the back, so what would it look like if she ran to the front?
She tucked her hair behind her ear and then elegantly got into the car and sat down.
Taking advantage of the time before Lao Gu got into the car, Gu Ran raised an eyebrow, leaned closer to her, tilted his head, and asked curiously.
"Sister Zhenzhen, can you tell me how you went from being a held-back student to being the first in the grade?"
Ye Zhenzhen: "???"
Her cold eyes were filled with confusion. Turning her head to look at Gu Ran in puzzlement, she really couldn't understand what she had done to make him stubbornly believe that she had been held back.
Seeing that she was looking at him without speaking, Gu Ran stretched out his elbow and gently nudged her. "Don't be so stingy, tell me, let your younger brother learn from you."
Hearing this, she took a deep breath, tried hard to calm her mood, and then replied indifferently, "I wasn't held back. I just started school a year late when I was a child."
"Really, just like that?"
Hearing this answer, Gu Ran was somewhat in disbelief.
"Yes, just like that."
Ye Zhenzhen replied flatly, trying to make her expression look calm.
"Really?"
"Really."
"I don't believe it."
Ye Zhenzhen: "..."
Gu Ran's soft reply suddenly made the young girl freeze, not knowing what to reply.
Seeing the visible speechlessness on the young girl's face, Gu Ran chuckled softly and then continued to ask, "What was your score on the last exam?"
As his voice fell, a trace of strangeness flashed in Ye Zhenzhen's cold eyes, as if wondering why he was asking for trouble.
According to what Pei Susu had said, this guy had nothing to do with being good at studying. What was his mentality in asking about her grades?
Wasn't it said that people who didn't like studying didn't like to talk about scores?
"You... want to know?"
She asked tentatively, somewhat in disbelief.
"Yes, tell me in detail about your scores in each subject."
Gu Ran nodded, preparing to understand her grades and see if she met the requirements for a tutor in mathematics and comprehensive science.
"Um... Math 141, Chinese 139, English 140, Comprehensive Science 278..."
Gu Ran: "???"
He silently calculated it in his mind and found that the total score was approaching 700. His face suddenly twitched.
Even if the questions for the last exam were set by the school itself and the difficulty was on the lower side, being able to score nearly 700 points could no longer be described as simply being good at studying. This was abnormal!
From childhood to adulthood, he had never seen anyone who could score so high!
"Um... the questions for the last exam were a bit simple, otherwise I wouldn't have scored so high."
Seeing Gu Ran's expression as if he had seen a ghost, Ye Zhenzhen rarely blushed.
Talking about scores in front of someone who wasn't good at studying made her feel like she was showing off. Even though Gu Ran had asked, it still made her embarrassed.
"You're being modest, you're being modest..."
Gu Ran waved his hand. There was no defeated look in his eyes; instead, they became even more fiery, as if he were looking at some treasure.
This was a great treasure!
A master who could score 700 points was right in front of him, and she was going to live in his house. The opportunity had been thrown in his face. If he couldn't seize it, he might as well find a piece of tofu and smash himself to death.
No, he had to be better to this girl in the future, let her feel the warmth of home, and at least make her stay until the college entrance examination was over.
Stared at by his fiery gaze, Ye Zhenzhen's flat face became even rosier.
She didn't understand why this guy was looking at her like this, but she didn't ask either. She just felt her face burning hot.
She reached out and gently fanned herself, tucking her hair behind her ear again. This was an unconscious little habit she had whenever she was embarrassed or nervous.
The two didn't speak again. Each with their own thoughts, they sat quietly in the back seat, but the atmosphere between them became increasingly strange.
Gu Ran's face was full of excitement, and he occasionally glanced at the person beside him.
Meanwhile, Ye Zhenzhen had a blush on her cheeks, her eyes dodging, and her face full of shyness.
...
The car twisted and turned, finally stopping at Ye Zhenzhen's house.
They didn't go out to eat for lunch today. Instead, Ye Shulian had prepared the food at home and was waiting for them.
The newly reorganized family planned to move together after having lunch.
As soon as they entered the door, they smelled the aroma of food permeating the air, making their mouths water.
Ye Shulian had already prepared a large table of sumptuous lunch, with various delicious dishes filling the plates. The steaming food emitted an inviting aroma, whetting people's appetites.
As soon as Gu Ran entered the house, his eyes lit up. Just from this cooking skill, he knew he wouldn't go hungry in the future.
Eating the food cooked by Lao Gu every night when he went home, he had started to hope that Lao Gu would go to the unit for night shifts. It was simply a torment!
"You're back. Hurry up and wash your hands to eat."
Seeing them enter the house, Ye Shulian said with a smile.
Gu Ran was the first to reply with a smile, putting on an impatient look on his face. "Okay, Aunt Ye. To tell you the truth, just looking at this big table you made, I'm starving."
Ye Shulian indeed bought this. Anyone who spent time and effort cooking a table full of dishes hoped to receive affirmative praise.
"You child, how can it be so exaggerated? Hurry up and wash your hands to eat."
Although she said this, the smile on her face couldn't be hidden at all.
Watching from the side, Ye Zhenzhen curled her lips and cursed inwardly, "Flatterer..."
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.
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."
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!
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
