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!
...
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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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.
lities. One day, Qi Yuan was buying groceries when he unfortunately came face-to-face with a monster. Just when he thought he was going to die on the spot, he suddenly heard the monster's thoughts... "This aura, he's definitely not an ordinary master!" "So terrifying, so terrifying." "A fight with my back against the wall, I can't take it anymore." Qi Yuan: Ah, no one told me that my awakened ability isn't telepathy, but rather the stronger my enemies imagine me to be, the stronger I truly become. PS: Zhou Hai in the first chapter is not the protagonist.
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."
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.
