Chapter 300
The shops on the entire floor featured red bricks and black tiles, with red lanterns hanging at their entrances.
The lighting on the floor was dimmed, creating an immersive atmosphere.
Ye Zhenzhen excitedly pulled Gu Ran onto a small bridge.
"Gu Ran, look! There's actually water in the middle of this mall, and even a boat. It would be great if we could eat on it."
The young girl looked at the small boat surrounded by white dry ice mist, her eyes full of uncontrollable regret.
Seeing the girl's expression, Gu Ran couldn't help but find it amusing.
"They're probably afraid people would throw trash into the water. After all, the scenery is so nice, it would be a waste if it got polluted."
Hearing this, Ye Zhenzhen nodded. She turned around and gently sat on the bridge's railing.
With one hand resting lightly on a pillar carved with a small rabbit, she gently stroked the rabbit's ears.
The young man instantly understood and cooperatively picked up his phone to capture the scene.
Ye Zhenzhen was satisfied with his quick catch-on and smiled very sweetly.
The two strolled around for a while, taking photos next to various unique buildings.
After a long time, just as they were getting carried away with taking photos, the broadcast clearly called out their number.
"Customer number 36, please prepare to dine."
The two looked at each other, seeing the same word in each other's eyes.
Crap!
Gu Ran grabbed the girl's hand and sprinted wildly toward Weixianju.
They made it just before the final call ended.
Led by the staff, they walked to their seats, panting heavily.
...
At the dining table, Gu Ran wore disposable gloves and willingly transformed into a shrimp-peeling machine.
He carefully peeled the crayfish, neatly arranging the plumpest shrimp meat on Ye Zhenzhen's plate.
"Our Doctor Ye's temperament and figure make her the absolute treasure of the medical school."
As he peeled the shrimp, he frantically spouted flattery, trying to cover up the fact that he had been messing around earlier.
Ye Zhenzhen, who had almost forgotten about the incident, picked up a piece of shrimp meat and put it in her mouth. The fresh sweetness immediately hit her taste buds.
The girl narrowed her eyes in satisfaction, like a well-fed cat.
"Save it, just keep peeling the shrimp."
Gu Ran handed over another peeled shrimp, his face full of smiles.
"Then tell me, sister, how can we turn the page on this?"
The girl's body honestly enjoyed the feeding.
"It depends on your performance. No sending ugly photos of me next time! If there's a next time, you won't even get to sleep in the guest room. You can just go straight back to squeezing into the dorms."
Gu Ran sucked his teeth, saying insincerely,
"No problem, there absolutely won't be a next time."
Just you wait, little girl, always using this to threaten him!
A gentleman's revenge will happen tonight!
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In the afternoon, Gu Ran sent Ye Zhenzhen back to school and went to the company alone.
Inside the conference room of GR Company.
The blinds were pulled halfway down. The air in the semi-enclosed space was stuffy and oppressively suffocating.
Light and shadows intertwined on the large conference table. The executives from Mobile and Telecom sat opposite him, cold sweat breaking out on their foreheads.
Ever since the users of the data-free card partnered by WeChat and Unicom broke the 30 million mark.
These two traditional communication giants could finally no longer sit still.
They took the initiative to visit with heavy gifts, trying to recover their frantically plummeting market share.
Gu Ran leaned lazily against his boss chair, spinning the pen in his hand.
He put on the airs of a superior, not even having someone pour a cup of plain water for the opposite side.
"You two bosses, let's not beat around the bush."
Gu Ran stopped spinning the pen and looked directly at them.
"You know very well the current scale of WeChat. There are many people who want to cooperate with us; it doesn't have to be you."
The Mobile executive wiped his sweat, apologizing with a smile to try and ease the atmosphere.
"President Gu, what are you saying? If we cooperate, it's a win-win situation of strong alliances."
Gu Ran chuckled lightly and casually placed a document on the table.
"Win-win is fine, but the rules must be mine."
"I want you to provide the highest level of server bandwidth resources, and the rates must be slashed to the bone for me."
The Telecom executive looked troubled, trying to bargain.
"President Gu, these conditions are simply too harsh... We won't be able to explain this to the board of directors when we go back."
Gu Ran rubbed the edge of the pen with his thumb, his tone unwavering.
"If you can't explain it, then don't explain it. Take care, I won't see you out."
This extreme pressure of playing hard to get firmly kept the initiative in his own hands.
The two executives looked at each other, smiled bitterly, and could only grit their teeth and compromise.
They signed the data-free agreement, forced to fully accept all of Gu Ran's dictatorial clauses.
This bloodless negotiation directly cut off the server cost crisis brought about by the explosive growth of WeChat's daily active users.
Su Wan, watching this unequal treaty from the side, admired Gu Ran's methods to the utmost.
Just as the negotiation ended, the receptionist girl walked in holding a giant red pennant.
She said it was a thank-you gift sent by Lao Li, a top influencer on the official accounts platform.
Because Lao Li had made a fortune taking commercial orders, the pennant prominently featured eight large characters.
[Second Parents, Kindness as Heavy as a Mountain]
The golden font sparkled on the red silk.
Gu Ran smugly directed the employees to hang the pennant in the most prominent center spot of the office.
"A little to the left... yes, yes, yes, just hang it there! Let everyone who comes to talk about cooperation catch some of the good vibes."
Su Wan stood aside, looking at this slightly exaggerated pennant, while recalling the terrifying revenue data in the backend.
She felt incredibly convinced in her heart.
She walked up to Gu Ran with a document, her eyes showing unreserved drive.
"President Gu, I guarantee that the payment interface project will be fully launched before the end of next month."
Gu Ran nodded in satisfaction. He knew that this top general had completely pledged her loyalty.
"With Director Su's words, I am relieved. Once the payment system is online, our business empire will truly be a closed loop."
...
Early morning on the weekend.
Gu Xiangcheng and Ye Shulian carried bags big and small of specialty products from County A, arriving in Qinglin City without any warning.
This surprise inspection caught Gu Ran and Ye Zhenzhen completely off guard.
To stall for time, Gu Ran quickly drove to the station to pick them up, first taking the two elders to visit GR Company.
Looking at the entire floor of the modernized office area and the busy employees, Gu Xiangcheng was so excited that his eyes turned slightly red.
But he still maintained the posture of an elder.
He patted his son's shoulder, muttering.
"Good boy... cough, not bad!"
Gu Ran smiled and took the local specialties from his father's hands, leading the two elders around the company.
"Dad, this is just the beginning. In the future, our company will even ring the bell at Nasdaq."
Meanwhile, in the river-view apartment on the other side, Ye Zhenzhen was running around the rooms like a headless fly.
Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows was a dazzling view of the city river, but inside, the girl was sweating profusely with anxiety, her heart rate spiking to the limit.
With quick hands and sharp eyes, she stuffed all of Gu Ran's men's slippers and razors into the deepest part of the cabinet.
Then she brought out several thick medical textbooks and placed them on the desk, faking the illusion of studying late into the night.
To cover up the traces of cohabitation, she even lay on the floor checking every blind spot that might expose the truth.
Only after believing there were no omissions did she pantingly send Gu Ran an all clear text message.
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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?!
pression Bureau] Transported to a fantasy world overrun by demons and monsters, Gu Qingfeng becomes a jailer in the Demon Suppression Prison of the Great Yan Dynasty's Demon Suppression Bureau. From this point on, bizarre cases frequently occur in the Demon Suppression Prison, once known as hell on earth and infamous for its gloomy, terrifying atmosphere! Why do the demons and monsters in the prison wail miserably every night? Why has the corpse demon, capable of transforming into various beauties, donned black stockings and switched careers to become a foot massage therapist? Why has the eye demon, expert in soul-snatching and illusions, turned into a VR headset? Why is the fox spirit performing otaku dances? Are all these occurrences a twisted expression of demonic nature, or a descent into moral depravity? After peeling away layer upon layer of mystery, all clues ultimately point to a jailer named Gu Qingfeng. Gu Qingfeng: "Hehehe... My dear demons and monsters, whose card shall we flip today?"
ose... to cooperate with the protagonist! Shen Yuan: I have a system! Protagonist: What? System: Holy crap, you're just spilling it out like that? Shen Yuan: Let's team up, we'll split the system rewards! Protagonist: Fifty-fifty split? Shen Yuan: No way! Protagonist: What!? I'm the one getting beaten up, and I don't get half? Shen Yuan: Forty-sixty split, I get forty, you get sixty! Protagonist: Deal! Big brother, come on, hit me! As long as it doesn't kill me, beat me like you mean it! Shen Yuan: Don't worry... I will definitely protect all of you! No one but me can lay a finger on you! Guard our Heaven's Chosen Ones! I'm the only one allowed to bully them!
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!
