Chapter 277
Meanwhile, in the girls' dormitory.
Ye Zhenzhen opened her small pink suitcase and distributed the snacks she brought back to the roommates gathered around her.
Zhao Xiaoxiao nibbled on a dessert while leaning in to examine the young woman as if looking at a rare animal.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, Zhenzhen, did you eat some kind of magical elixir on your trip home?"
At the same time, Chen Jing pinched the girl's smooth, tender cheeks and teased with a grin.
"This skin, fair with a rosy flush, just like a peach. And these eyes, so full of spring romance!"
"Fess up, you've definitely been thoroughly nourished by love, haven't you?"
"Yeah, yeah! Tell us quickly, is this the doing of your handsome and rich 'younger brother'?"
Ye Zhenzhen blushed bright red, looking exactly like a cooked shrimp.
She playfully reached out to tickle them in retaliation.
"What nonsense are you talking about! You can't expect ivory from a dog's mouth! That's just from eating my family's home-cooked meals!"
"Ohoho, still acting tough, your face is red all the way to the base of your neck!"
Two fists are no match for four hands, and the young woman was quickly defeated.
She collapsed onto the bed, begging for mercy.
"Hahahaha, stop... it tickles! Hahaha..."
Amidst the roughhousing, her phone slipped out of her pocket due to their movements.
The previously silent phone suddenly lit up.
She instinctively looked over; it was a WeChat message from Gu Ran.
[Silly Bear: After dinner tonight, I'll take you to the company to hang out.]
Amidst the "oohs" and "aahs" of the other two, she got up with a flushed face.
Looking at the words on the screen, the corners of her mouth curled up uncontrollably.
Traces of sweetness overflowed from her usually cool and aloof eyes.
Her fingers tapped briskly on the keyboard, replying with a single word.
[Okay.]
Seeing her staring at her phone and giggling like a fool, the two onlookers exchanged winks and teased her again.
"Oh my, look at that cheap smile. I won't need to eat sugar for the next week!"
"Plant a younger brother in the spring, harvest a husband in the autumn, right!"
Embarrassed and annoyed, Ye Zhenzhen grabbed a throw pillow and hurled it at them.
"Go eat your snacks!"
Inside the girls' dormitory, the friends continued to playfully bicker.
Their cheerful laughter drifted through the window, blending into the gentle breeze of the university campus.
...
Evening in Qinglin City carried the chill of early autumn.
The two of them went to a private kitchen restaurant they frequently visited near the school for dinner.
Gu Ran picked up a piece of steamed sea bass, meticulously removed the bones from the edges, and placed it in Ye Zhenzhen's bowl.
"Here, eat more fish, it's good for your brain. I had to go to great lengths to pick this clean, so be grateful, young lady."
Ye Zhenzhen rolled her eyes at him.
How many bones does sea bass even have?
But she quickly caught the main point.
"You're the one who needs brain food!"
She bared her teeth in retort, but her hands were honest as she stuffed all the fish into her mouth.
Her cheeks bulged, looking like a food-guarding hamster.
As she chewed, her gaze unconsciously drifted to Gu Ran's phone on the table.
Ever since they sat down, the screen had been lighting up constantly like a disco strobe.
It was full of missed calls and message notifications, vibrating and buzzing against the tabletop.
She finally couldn't help it and slightly furrowed her pretty brows.
"Your phone is about to explode. Why don't you answer it? What if something major happened?"
Gu Ran noticed her subtle movements, unhurriedly pulled a tissue, and wiped his hands.
"Are you full? If you are, I'll take you for a tour around the company."
"Don't change the subject. Did something really happen?"
She asked softly, unable to hide the worry in her clear, cool eyes.
Gu Ran reached out his large hand and unceremoniously ruffled the tuft of hair fluttering on top of her head.
Under her murderous glare, he chuckled.
"It's really nothing major. Didn't I say I was taking you out to have fun? Let's go!"
As they spoke, the two had already paid the bill and gotten into the car.
Seeing that the young man's eyes truly lacked the anxiousness she had worried about, Ye Zhenzhen finally breathed a slight sigh of relief.
She then pouted her pink lips and reached up to pat down her messed-up hair.
"Don't touch my hair next time! What if I stop growing taller because of it!"
Gu Ran, who was looking down to buckle his seatbelt, paused. He raised his eyelids.
His gaze swept up and down the person in front of him.
His eyes finally landed on a certain spot, and his tone was quite serious.
"Logically speaking, a change in environment does promote growth, not to mention you don't really need to grow any taller."
"Setting height aside, you... seem to only be growing in age, not in flesh."
Seeing the conversation take a weird turn, she frowned.
Why did that sound so strange?
Ye Zhenzhen froze for a second, following his gaze to look down at herself.
"Boom," her cheeks flushed completely red.
"Gu 'Dog' Ran! You pervert! I'm going to bite you to death!"
Burning with shame and anger, she swung her small fists, delivering a frantic barrage of punches to Gu Ran's shoulder.
"Hey, hey, hey! I'm driving! Pay attention to traffic safety!"
The car started up accompanied by the young man's hearty, carefree laughter, their playful banter scattering into the early autumn air.
...
Half an hour later, the black Audi parked steadily outside the GR company headquarters.
The moment they pushed open the glass doors, Ye Zhenzhen was stunned in place by the sight before her.
The somewhat shabby startup "ragtag crew" she remembered had now unexpectedly expanded into a modern office space occupying an entire floor of the commercial building!
Hundreds of workstations were filled with employees staring intently at their screens, frantically typing on their keyboards.
The massive whiteboards on the walls were covered with intricate data curves.
The entire space was filled with the urgent ringing of telephones and the clatter of keyboards.
Everyone was operating frantically in a highly tense, wartime-like state.
"Hello, boss!"
"Boss!"
As they walked through, employees constantly stood up to greet him, their eyes revealing tension and anticipation.
The young woman followed closely behind Gu Ran.
Looking at the "stinky younger brother" ahead of her, who was usually flippant and full of nonsense, her heart inexplicably skipped a beat seeing the authority he displayed in this moment.
"President Gu!"
Li Sinan walked briskly toward them, clutching a thick stack of data reports.
This formerly stylish and beautiful English teacher now had bloodshot eyes from staying up late, and she reported the situation with a solemn expression.
"Penguin WeChat V2.0 launched ahead of schedule this afternoon! They threw in one billion in cash subsidies straight away to attract new users!"
"Even more fatally, Penguin has mobilized their entire traffic matrix. Currently, all mainstream domestic app stores have completely removed the installation package for our WeChat!"
The young man didn't pause his steps in the slightest. He turned his head and said to Li Sinan.
"Teacher Li, get ready. We're holding a meeting in five minutes."
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."
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.”
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)
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.
