Chapter 257
The little figure beside him had been soft at first.
But now she was a bit stiff...
Gu Ran noticed her tension and quietly shifted his body, bending one long leg slightly.
His arm rested seemingly casually on the soft headboard behind Ye Zhenzhen's head, subtly trapping her in a narrow space.
With this posture, if a certain someone were to shrink back even a little, she would bump right into his arms.
But after waiting for quite a while, this frightened little rabbit stubbornly stayed huddled in place, not moving an inch.
The hunter had no choice but to throw out more bait.
"The feng shui of this room doesn't seem very good," Gu Ran suddenly spoke up.
"You... you stop talking," the aloof girl replied with a trembling voice.
"According to horror movie tropes," Gu Ran ignored her protest, leaned in close to her ear, and spoke faintly in that low, breathy tone typical of telling ghost stories.
"The quieter it is at a time like this, the more likely something is to crawl out from under the kotatsu or around the corner of the stairs."
"Gu Ran! Are you done yet... I'll bite you."
Although Ye Zhenzhen was talking tough, her body was already involuntarily shrinking toward him.
On the screen, the protagonist was holding their breath, walking step by step toward the creepy attic.
Seeing her eyes squeezed shut, too scared to look, a wicked smirk curled on Gu Ran's lips.
He turned slightly and gently blew a breath of air onto the sensitive back of the girl's neck.
That chill shot up her spine instantly.
"Sister, look, is it on the ceiling?"
Ye Zhenzhen instinctively opened her eyes to check. As a result, due to the momentum of her gaze, she happened to run right into a high-intensity jump scare close-up that just popped onto the screen.
The twisted Kayako was crawling down the stairs horrifyingly, in a posture absolutely impossible for a human being to make.
"Ah!!!"
A scream echoed throughout the private booth.
The pale face on the screen took up almost her entire field of vision, its hollow eyes seemingly staring fixedly at her right through the screen.
The bizarre croaking sound blasted from the speakers.
How could Ye Zhenzhen still care about the dignity of an "older sister"? She screamed, turned around, and dove headfirst into Gu Ran's arms.
Her hands tightly wrapped around the young man's neck with astonishing force.
The huge momentum carried the two of them falling back onto the round bed with a muffled thud.
Gu Ran caught her steadily, taking the opportunity to encircle her entire body in his arms, resting his chin on the top of her head.
The girl in his arms was trembling violently, her breathing completely erratic.
Tearful, broken murmurs kept coming from his chest.
"It's all carbohydrates... it's all special effects makeup... I suggest direct cremation... boohoo, Gu 'Dog' Ran, you bastard..."
Gu Ran felt the rise and fall of the delicate body in his arms, his palm gently stroking her back to calm her breathing.
"Oh, don't be afraid, Daddy's here."
Ye Zhenzhen: "???"
...
At the same time, in the next room, Ye Jinliang also let out a miserable scream.
"Holy crap! Don't pinch my thigh!"
Immediately following was Pei Susu's even more excited voice.
"This is so thrilling! Fatty, don't hide! Look quickly! That kid got under the covers!!!"
Ye Zhenzhen: "???" X2
What on earth is going on next door? I suggest the police come and check it out!
Gu Ran looked down at the girl curled up into a ball in his arms.
Then he slowly leaned in to her temple and gently planted a kiss.
"Zhenzhen."
"Wh-what..."
The girl's voice had a heavy nasal tone, so soft and sweet it made one's heart tremble.
"Since you're so scared, how about... we do something else to distract you?"
Gu Ran's voice gradually deepened, like a devil seducing an angel.
S-something else?
The girl's delicate body trembled.
She lifted her head, her wet eyes meeting the young man's pitch-black eyes.
It was unknown how long had passed.
The horrific background noise from the speakers continued incessantly, and the images on the screen were still flickering.
But the atmosphere between the two was becoming increasingly dry and heated.
Ye Zhenzhen looked at Gu Ran, who was so close at hand, and her breathing involuntarily became chaotic.
She opened her mouth, just wanting to say something, but found her throat felt as if it were blocked by something.
Gu Ran reached out a finger, gently caressing her chin.
"For example, studying human anatomy?"
"???"
Just at the moment he was preparing to lower his head and kiss her.
"I... I'm not watching anymore."
Ye Zhenzhen bit her lip, lowered her head, and whispered, "Let's change the movie, change to a comedy..."
"That won't do."
Gu Ran's fingers gently pinched her waist, causing the girl to shiver.
"The tickets are bought, and the supporting facilities are all ready."
As he spoke, his gaze fell on the girl's slightly parted red lips, his eyes growing ever deeper.
"The movie has only just begun. The more exciting parts are yet to come."
On the screen, the horrific sound effects spiked once again.
And on the round bed, the distance between the two was shrinking inch by inch amidst this background noise.
Ye Zhenzhen looked at Gu Ran's eyes, which were astonishingly bright in the darkness. Her heartbeat completely drowned out the ghostly wails and wolf howls from the speakers.
She had a premonition that the next two hours might be even harder for her to handle than encountering a real ghost.
Just at the instant their lips were about to touch, the room's door was suddenly hit heavily from the outside.
"Thump!"
Ye Zhenzhen was so startled she sharply shrank her neck back.
Gu Ran frowned slightly, looking unpleasantly toward the tightly shut door.
Outside the door, Ye Jinliang's loud voice once again penetrated the soundproof wall.
"Old Gu! Old Gu, are you there? This movie is too scary. How about we change rooms and watch it together, the four of us? More people means more yang energy!"
Gu Ran took a deep breath, a vein throbbing on his forehead.
This damn fatty, did he forget to bring his brain when he left the house?
When we used to watch movies before, I never saw you act so innocent!
Ye Zhenzhen took the opportunity to crawl out of Gu Ran's arms, quickly shrinking to the other end of the round bed.
She tightly gripped the unopened pack of thick tissues in her hands, blushing and panting, her gaze darting around.
"...Ye Jinliang is calling you."
Gu Ran sat up and casually straightened his collar, which had been pulled awry.
He ignored the shouting outside the door. Instead, he turned his head and stared faintly at Ye Zhenzhen by the dim light of the projector.
"I don't know if his yang energy is heavy or not."
As his voice fell, he slowly got up, inching step by step toward the girl huddled in the corner of the bed, and spoke through gritted teeth.
"But my internal fire is pretty heavy right now."
Ye Zhenzhen: "!!!"
She knew it!
The whole horror movie thing was just a cover!
This was his true objective!!
Ye Zhenzhen looked at Gu Ran, who was closing in step by step, and then looked at Kayako grinning hideously at the camera on the screen.
She suddenly felt that compared to the young man in front of her, the female ghost on the screen actually seemed a bit gentler.
"Y-you don't come over here!"
Ye Zhenzhen grabbed a wet wipe and threw it at him.
Gu Ran casually caught it and took the opportunity to sit on the edge of the bed.
Amidst the girl's exclamation, he grabbed her ankle.
"Sister, let's continue."
...
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."
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
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 + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
