Chapter 302
The GR Company conference room was bustling with excitement. Gu Ran held his phone and sent a beta-version cash red envelope in the internal group chat.
The red envelope icon had barely popped up on the screen before it was snatched empty in an instant.
The cleaner, Auntie Wang, holding a mop, let out a goose-like honk of laughter, repeatedly praising the boss's generosity.
"Oh my, following Boss Gu means we get to eat well!"
Auntie Wang beamed, showing off her phone screen.
"With my over-fifty-year-old hand speed, I actually grabbed the 'Luckiest' title."
Lao Wang from the technical department wandered over holding an enamel mug printed with "Serve the People," chuckling at the numbers on the screen.
"Auntie Wang, it's a real pity you aren't playing esports with that hand speed."
Lao Wang took a sip of tea.
"Us single guys who type code for a living actually couldn't beat you."
On the other side, Su Wan was staring intently at the wildly multiplying social data in the backend, stomping her feet in excitement.
"This is the nuclear weapon of the financial world!"
Su Wan clenched her fists tightly, her eyes seemingly glowing green.
"As long as the payment interface is fully rolled out, Penguin's moat will be nothing but a decoration!"
She stood in front of the whiteboard, waving a marker.
This wolf-like corporate worker shouted about taking down Penguin, frantically pumping up the employees below with motivational speeches.
Li Sinan leaned against the doorframe sipping coffee, unable to help but shake her head and chuckle at Su Wan's fanatical appearance.
Gu Ran nestled comfortably in a swivel chair in the corner, tilting his head to whisper into Ye Zhenzhen's ear beside him.
"Look at this, sister. The blessings of capitalism can really drive a good person crazy. Even I, the boss, feel ashamed of my inferiority when I see this."
Ye Zhenzhen gave a proud little snort, gently pushing away his approaching head.
"Stop acting innocent after taking advantage. Director Su was just crippled by the empty promises you fed her."
Gu Ran smiled playfully and squeezed the girl's fair, tender fingertips.
"How can this be called fooling her? I call this using sincerity to stimulate an employee's inner potential. When we make big money in the future, I'll buy you all the pork ribs you can eat."
Ye Zhenzhen tried hard to suppress the corners of her mouth. "Who could stomach that many ribs? Keep them for yourself to digest."
The young man played with the girl's fingertips, a meaningful smile playing on his lips.
"As expected, sister knows how to care for me. You know your younger brother expends too much energy normally and needs focused nourishment."
Hearing these improper words, Ye Zhenzhen blushed furiously, pursing her lips, momentarily at a loss for words to retort.
Annoyed, she puffed out her cheeks and turned her head away, refusing to look at a certain someone.
The culprit, however, continued to play with the girl's fingertips with a smile on his lips.
...
A few days later, in the emergency department of Qinglin City First People's Hospital.
The school had arranged an observational internship. Ye Zhenzhen, wearing a white coat, was assigned to the busiest triage desk.
Gu Ran originally wanted to skip class to be her full-time bodyguard but was strictly refused by the girl.
"Your sister here is someone who will achieve great things and must shine independently. Don't come near me and affect my great cause of studying medicine."
As a result, only half a day after these bold words were spoken, she suffered the harsh beatings of reality.
Because she was there for observation, her mentor assigned her to the triage desk to familiarize herself with the process and handle some simple questions first.
She didn't expect someone to come and make trouble on her very first day.
A burly family member blocked the triage desk, throwing a massive tantrum.
"You black-hearted hospital are just charging whatever you want!"
The man strained his voice, relying entirely on shouting to get his point across.
"Why does getting an IV drip cost several hundred bucks? If you don't give me an explanation today, no one is leaving!"
The man's thick arm slammed heavily on the counter, scattering medical records all over the floor. His arrogance was extreme.
Ye Zhenzhen was forced to retreat into a corner, trying hard to maintain the professional demeanor of a medical student as she attempted to explain the billing details.
"Sir, please calm down first. These few hundred dollars include antibiotics and bed fees. Every item is clearly stipulated..."
The man didn't listen to the explanation at all, waving his fists as if about to smash things.
Right at this moment, the piercing sound of high heels clicking against the floor rang out.
The class beauty of the Economics and Management Department, who had previously been left speechless by Ye Zhenzhen's retorts in the library, strutted over like a cat.
She was accompanying an elder family member to see the doctor today and happened to stumble upon this farce.
"Oh my, isn't this the high and mighty department beauty of our medical school?"
The class beauty covered her mouth, giggling wildly, her shrill voice particularly grating in the corridor.
"What's the matter? Did our Boss Gu get tired of playing with you and kick you out, so you ran here to suffer and do hard labor?"
Seeing someone taking his side, the troublemaking family member grew even more arrogant, pointing at Ye Zhenzhen's nose and stepping forward.
From the crowd lining up for medicine, a boy wearing a mask suddenly squeezed out.
Gu Ran's roommate, Zhang Qi, who was lining up to register due to a severe cold, was so angry at the sight that he slammed his medical record book hard onto a chair.
"Who the hell do you think you are, daring to bully my Sister-in-law Gu here!"
Zhang Qi ripped off his mask and pointed at the other party's nose.
"Believe it or not, I'll call people over to flip your crappy car!"
The class beauty rolled her eyes grandly, her eyes, coated in heavy mascara, filled with disdain.
"Call them then! My dad's company just invested a million in advertising fees into MicroChat yesterday!"
She smugly played with her newly done manicure, looking haughtily at Zhang Qi.
"Even Gu Ran has to politely offer my dad a cigarette when they meet. What kind of big shot are you pretending to be here, you poor student?"
The watching patients and doctors looked at each other, whispering amongst themselves.
Everyone felt that this pretty little doctor had run into a tough opponent today and was definitely going to swallow a massive, bitter pill.
Just then, a leisurely set of footsteps echoed from the end of the corridor.
Gu Ran, holding half an uneaten popsicle, strolled in, casually parting the crowd.
He extremely naturally pulled Ye Zhenzhen behind him to protect her, conveniently smoothing out the wrinkled collar of the girl's white coat before turning to look at the troublemaking family member who was still clamoring.
The young man cleared his throat and began to recite fluently.
"Article 293 of the Criminal Law: Those who cause trouble and create serious chaos in a public place shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years."
He took a bite of his popsicle and continued his legal education indistinctly.
"Plus your attempted extortion just now, the crimes will be punished cumulatively. Let me calculate... that'll get you sent in to pedal a sewing machine for at least three years."
The strictly logical rhetoric, combined with his careless attitude, directly bluffed the troublemaker so much that his legs went weak.
The man glanced at the phone recording interface Gu Ran pulled out. His face paled, and forcing out a harsh parting word, he slipped away.
"You... you just wait!"
Looking at the man's hastily fleeing back, the hospital lobby was dead silent. Everyone was left speechless by this uniquely refreshing legal education-style rescue.
Seeing this, the class beauty didn't hold back at all. Instead, she stepped forward in her high heels.
"Gu Ran, don't use the tricks you use on legal illiterates to scare me!"
The class beauty crossed her arms over her chest.
"My dad's one million in advertising fees wasn't paid for nothing!"
With a crunch, Gu Ran bit into the last piece of his popsicle and casually tossed the wooden stick into a nearby trash can.
"One million? Oh my, why are you trying to act like such a big shot in front of me?"
He took out a tissue and slowly wiped his hands, smiling brightly.
"This little bit of money is just enough for me to send a year-end test red envelope to the company cleaner, Auntie Wang. Do you really think it's a get-out-of-jail-free card?"
The class beauty's face turned green. Pointing right at Gu Ran's nose, she was about to hurl a torrent of abuse.
Gu Ran suddenly asked out of nowhere.
"Your family's company is called... Zhisheng, right?"
The class beauty froze for a moment, thinking Gu Ran was scared. She put her hands on her hips, tilted her nose to the sky, and said,
"That's right. What, are you scared now..."
Before she could even finish her sentence, Gu Ran dialed Li Sinan's number right in front of everyone.
"Cut off all of Zhisheng Enterprise's ad placements and official account traffic redirection on WeiLiao."
His tone was crisp and decisive, without a single wasted word.
"Pay them the penalty for breach of contract from the company account. Then, permanently blacklist this company and its legal representative."
The call ended. The color drained completely from the class beauty's face, her lips trembling so much she couldn't squeeze out a single word for a long time.
Less than half an hour later, a black sedan slammed on its brakes and stopped at the hospital entrance.
The class beauty's father, dripping with sweat, rushed into the lobby, raised his hand, and gave his daughter a resounding slap across the face.
"You useless spendthrift!"
The middle-aged man stomped his feet in absolute fury.
"All of our company's online channels have been blocked! How on earth did you offend that big shot!"
The middle-aged man scanned the room and saw Gu Ran standing in the center.
He scrambled over to Gu Ran, wailing and bowing repeatedly to offer his deepest apologies.
He expressed his willingness to add another five million in advertising fees, begging him to be merciful.
Gu Ran took Ye Zhenzhen's hand, not even sparing the man a direct glance.
"Sorry, but to avoid having to kneel and hand you a cigarette in the future, I think we should just forget about any cooperation between us."
With that, he shielded the young girl and turned to leave, leaving the once-arrogant class beauty slumped on the floor tiles, wailing loudly.
...
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!
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.
