Chapter 242
The weekend, below the teaching building of Pei Susu's school.
The autumn sunlight filtered through the leaves of the plane trees, casting mottled shadows on the ground.
It was the peak time after classes. A large wave of fashionable art students carrying drawing boards poured out of the teaching building.
But in the crowd, one figure stood out exceptionally.
It was Ye Jinliang.
Today, he wasn't wearing his usual baggy sweatpants and plaid shirt.
Instead, he had changed into a highly textured "City Boy" style outfit.
He wore well-tailored dark olive cargo pants, paired with a heavy-weight white T-shirt layered under a Japanese-style navy blue shirt.
His sleeves were casually rolled up, revealing a rugged sports watch.
The most crucial part was his hairstyle.
His original bird's nest hair, which looked like it had been struck by lightning, was gone.
In its place was a fresh, clean-cut American-style textured crop.
His sideburns were neatly trimmed, clearly the result of careful grooming.
He stood under the tree, holding two cups of Pei Susu's favorite Yi Dian Dian bubble tea.
Although he was shaded from the sun, his palms were sweating profusely.
Watching the crowd coming out one after another, knowing he was about to see the person he wanted to see, he grew increasingly nervous.
He occasionally looked down at the retro skate shoes Gu Ran had specifically told him to buy, his heart pounding.
"That dog Gu Ran, he said this is called... City Boy style. He couldn't be fooling me, right?"
Ye Jinliang was panicking hard.
"Susu won't think I look stupid, will she..."
Just as he was feeling apprehensive, a few girls passing by began whispering to each other.
"Hey, that guy has good taste in clothes. He looks really clean."
"Although he's a bit chubby, he looks very reliable. That kind of adorkable trendy guy vibe is actually kind of cute."
Ye Jinliang had sharp ears. Hearing these comments, his previously tense back instantly straightened, and he stood a bit taller.
From this moment on, he declared Gu Ran as his literal father!
At this moment, a commotion came from the entrance of the teaching building.
Pei Susu walked out arm-in-arm with her roommate.
Today she was wearing a small black camisole paired with high-waisted wide-leg pants.
Cool and hot, she was the center of attention the moment she appeared.
"Susu, look at that chubby guy over there, is he waiting for someone?"
Her roommate had sharp eyes and pointed at Ye Jinliang under the tree.
"He's dressed quite trendy, looks a bit like... that one rapper."
Pei Susu looked in the direction she was pointing.
With just one glance, she froze.
Was that... Ye Jinliang?!
What kind of international joke was this!
Under the sunlight, Ye Jinliang stood perfectly straight, raising his head from time to time to search the crowd.
The moment their eyes met in the air...
The "trendy guy's" face instantly broke into his signature goofy smile.
A mouthful of big white teeth and that familiar silliness instantly shattered his outward disguise.
Only then did Pei Susu breathe a slight sigh of relief.
"Sister Susu!"
Ye Jinliang waved his hand and trotted over eagerly.
Watching him run towards her, a strange feeling inexplicably rose in Pei Susu's heart.
It was as if... a piece of uncut jade she had secretly hoarded...
Had suddenly been polished and placed in a display cabinet.
The evaluating gazes from the surrounding girls made her alarm bells ring.
An instinct known as "food guarding" instantly took the high ground in her brain.
Ye Jinliang ran up to her, handed over the milk tea, and scratched his head a bit embarrassedly:
"Um... I cleaned up a bit, like you said. Does it look weird?"
Pei Susu didn't take the milk tea.
She took a step forward, completely ignoring her dumbfounded roommate beside her.
She reached out with her slender fingers and carefully adjusted the slightly turned-up collar of Ye Jinliang's shirt.
"You clean up alright, at least you look human now."
Her words were still sharp, but the corners of her eyes and brows revealed an unconcealable smile.
She patted Ye Jinliang on the shoulder and swept a warning glance at the surrounding girls who were watching the scene.
"Dress to this standard from now on, don't embarrass me."
Ye Jinliang's brain crashed from this sudden intimate gesture; he only knew to smile goofily and nod.
"Okay! I'll listen to you! I'll listen to whatever you say!"
The roommate beside them had an auntie-like smile on her face and nudged Pei Susu with her elbow.
"Not bad, Susu, you've trained him well. You've definitely got this potential stock in the palm of your hand."
Pei Susu snorted, took the milk tea, inserted the straw, and took a fierce sip.
So sweet.
...
Evening, Nanning District Library.
As the National Day holiday approached, everyone's minds were elsewhere, and there were far fewer people in the library than usual.
The afterglow of the setting sun spilled across the desks through the floor-to-ceiling windows, stretching their shadows long.
The youth was spinning his pen in boredom, a copy of Macroeconomics spread open in front of him, but his gaze kept drifting to the side.
Ye Zhenzhen was reviewing Systematic Anatomy.
The bloody diagrams of human muscles and internal organs in the book looked exceptionally... appetizing in the warm yellow light!
Gu Ran leaned over, resting his chin on the girl's shoulder.
He pointed at a diagram of a skinned human specimen in the book and lowered his voice.
"Dr. Ye, is this the pectoralis major? I have one that moves, do you want to feel it?"
Ye Zhenzhen was memorizing nerve pathways, and this interruption completely broke her train of thought.
She lifted her head from the pile of books, pushed up the blue-light-blocking glasses on the bridge of her nose, her eyes filled with helplessness and amusement.
"Gu 'Dog' Ran, move aside, I'm studying."
"Aren't I helping you study? Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth, right?"
The youth smirked mischievously, his finger sliding down the page and stopping at the location of the heart.
"Tell me, if I make you mad in the future, will you dismantle me according to this diagram?"
Ye Zhenzhen looked at his punchable expression and couldn't help but pick up the red pen in her hand, lightly tapping the back of his hand.
"That depends on my mood."
She put on a faux-serious face, but her eyes were full of playful mischief.
"If I'm in a bad mood, I'll make the first cut right here..."
The tip of the pen slid from the back of Gu Ran's hand to the artery on his wrist, giving it a gentle tap.
"...and let you experience the true meaning of being chilled to the bone."
Gu Ran exaggeratedly pulled his hand back, clutching his chest and gasping in mock horror.
"A woman's heart is the most venomous! I can't afford to mess with you."
"As long as you know."
The girl gave a soft humph, but the corners of her lips couldn't help but curve upward.
The library's closing music started playing; it was a saxophone version of Going Home.
The two packed up their things and walked out.
The youth naturally took the backpack filled with brick-like books and slung it over one shoulder.
With his other hand, he took Ye Zhenzhen's hand, their fingers intertwining tightly.
The evening breeze blew through the tree-lined avenues of the campus, swirling up a few fallen leaves.
"Besides gathering with Ye Jinliang and the others during the National Day holiday, do you have any other plans?" Gu Ran asked.
"Spend time with my mom, and then... review my studies."
Ye Zhenzhen sighed, her tone revealing the despair unique to medical students.
"A medical student's holiday just means changing the location where you memorize books."
"You need to strike a balance between work and rest."
Gu Ran gave her palm a light squeeze, his tone mysterious.
"Once we're done with this busy period, I'll take you somewhere nice."
"Where to now? Is Boss Gu going on another undercover inspection?"
"It's a secret."
Gu Ran smiled mysteriously, casting his gaze into the distance.
Their silhouettes were stretched long under the streetlights, gradually merging into one.
...
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
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.”
villain is the number one simp for the book's leading female protagonist, Shen Wan'er. As expected, he later becomes a tool for the main character to show off and slap faces, ultimately meeting a tragic end with his family ruined and his life in shambles. Fortunately, he awakens the [Universal Pure Love System], which allows him to earn points by performing acts of pure love. To change his fate, Gu Yan makes a decisive choice to seek warmth and companionship with the book's biggest villain—Cold Qingqiu. ........... My name is Leng Qingqiu. To find the murderer who killed my parents years ago, I deliberately blinded myself so that everyone would lower their guard around me. Just as I was secretly accumulating power and capital according to my initial plan, a man walked into my world. "Lengleng, Qingqing, Qiuqiu, which nickname do you prefer?" I don't like any of them. You'd better leave quickly! "Why aren't you saying anything? How about I call you my baby wife?" Leng Qingqiu thinks to herself, this man is truly annoying! (Stubborn pure love warrior + single female lead + true pure love + 1v1)
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
