Chapter 305
The early autumn sun gradually set, and the young girl lay sprawled across the large, soft bed, completely abandoning her image.
She curled up lazily inside a teddy bear taller than herself, seeking warmth.
Her petite figure was perfectly hidden by the fluffy stuffed bear, revealing only a pair of small, fair feet at the edge of the bed.
The girl mumbled incoherently in a bizarre dream, who knows what terrifying scenes she was witnessing in her sleep.
Her pale cheeks flushed with an unnatural redness, and even her plump toes curled up tightly in tension.
Outside in the living room, Ye Shulian walked out of the kitchen wearing an apron, carrying a steaming bowl of pork rib and lotus root soup.
The rich aroma of meat instantly filled the entire dining room. Gu Ran pushed open his bedroom door and saw this scene.
He hurried forward with his long legs, reaching out to take the scalding hot soup bowl.
Ye Shulian quickly turned sideways, deftly dodging the young man's hands.
"You child, step aside. This soup is fresh out of the pot and extremely hot, don't burn your hands."
"I don't need your help here. Hurry up and call that girl Zhenzhen out to eat."
"She's been sleeping all afternoon. Sleeping so much during the day, is she going to sleep at night or not?"
Ye Shulian kept muttering as she carried the soup bowl steadily toward the dining table.
The heavy porcelain bowl was placed on the solid wood table, making a crisp, pleasant clinking sound.
Gu Ran agreed briskly and turned to walk toward Ye Zhenzhen's bedroom door.
Ye Shulian straightened her aching back and turned to shoot a sideways glance at her husband sitting on the sofa.
Gu Xiangcheng was holding his well-worn purple clay teapot, drinking hot tea with a look of pure enjoyment.
"Some people, really, the older they get, the more useless they become."
"As the saying goes, if you can't see the work that needs to be done, it's no use. Your situational awareness can't even compare to a kid's now."
She snorted softly in absolute disdain and turned back to the kitchen to bring out the other dishes.
On the sofa, Gu Xiangcheng looked up in astonishment, thinking to himself that his wife was clearly making pointed remarks at him.
An inexplicable intuition alerted him to the danger. He quickly put down his purple clay teapot and gave a light, cover-up cough.
Gu Xiangcheng stood up from the sofa and trotted toward the kitchen.
"Shulian, what did you cook today that smells so good? Let me help you carry it."
He went up to her with a face full of smiles, smoothly taking the stir-fried seasonal vegetables from Ye Shulian's hands as she returned from the kitchen.
Gu Xiangcheng caught a glimpse of Gu Ran's retreating back from the corner of his eye and smiled ingratiatingly at his wife.
Ye Shulian wiped her hands casually on her apron, her delicate eyebrows slightly raised.
"Look at you. Hurry to the bathroom and wash your hands. I'll go get the bowls and chopsticks."
"You don't need to do such a small thing, I'll get them."
"Wife, you worked hard cooking today. Hurry and sit down to rest."
Seeing Gu Xiangcheng's eager-to-please behavior, Ye Shulian couldn't help but cover her mouth and chuckle.
"Fine, you go then. I really am tired."
She turned to look in the direction Gu Ran had left, a hint of confusion appearing on her face.
"That boy, didn't I tell him to wake Zhenzhen up? Where did he go, there hasn't been a sound for ages."
Meanwhile, inside Ye Zhenzhen's room, the glass door connecting the balconies of the two rooms made a faint sliding sound.
A tall, slender figure, using the cover of the night, quietly slipped into the room filled with a girl's sweet fragrance. The balcony door was once again shut tightly.
Guided by the faint neon lights of the city outside the window, Gu Ran groped his way gradually toward the small figure on the bed.
In her sleep, Ye Zhenzhen only felt her breathing becoming increasingly difficult.
A strong pressure weighed on her lips. She instinctively opened her mouth and bit down hard on the source blocking her breath.
A sharp pain came from Gu Ran's lips, hurting him so much that he gasped.
"Hiss, how does this girl still bite people when she's asleep? Is she a puppy... She bites pretty hard too."
He licked his slightly broken lip corner and looked at the defenseless, peaceful sleeping face in front of him.
Unable to hold back the tickle in his throat, he chuckled softly in the dark.
He reached out two well-defined fingers and mischievously pinched the girl's perky nose.
In her dream, Ye Zhenzhen was experiencing a thrilling escape, chased frantically by a massive brown bear.
She only felt her breathing becoming more rapid, her legs incredibly heavy.
Just as she was struggling to run forward, the ground beneath her feet suddenly vanished!
The once solid land instantly turned into a bottomless ocean.
The girl struggled to swim upward in the freezing seawater, the oxygen in her lungs being squeezed out bit by bit.
Just a moment before she could no longer bear the suffocation.
The small figure on the bed opened her watery eyes, sat straight up, and panted heavily.
Ye Zhenzhen looked around with a bewildered gaze, the fear of reality and the dream still somewhat blurred together.
When she clearly saw the familiar layout of her surroundings, she patted her violently heaving chest with lingering fear.
That was close!
She almost suffocated to death in that absurd dream.
God knows how terrifying it is to dream of falling into the sea for a landlubber who doesn't even dare to step into a swimming pool.
Her mind was full of the relief of surviving a disaster, completely unaware of the dark shadow gradually approaching behind her.
Until a faint, chilling breath blew perfectly onto the sensitive area behind her ear.
Ye Zhenzhen tensed her slender body, and dense goosebumps crawled all over her from her spine.
Before she could turn her head, another cold breath blew over.
Ye Zhenzhen turned pale with fright, drew a deep breath, and opened her mouth, ready to scream at the top of her lungs.
A warm, broad hand promptly covered her mouth, tightly blocking the girl's impending shriek.
"It's me, don't yell."
Hearing this punchable yet familiar voice, the heart Ye Zhenzhen had in her throat finally settled back into her chest.
Soon, her sleep-addled brain quickly reacted, and the girl furrowed her brows slightly.
Why was this guy in her room so late at night? When exactly did he sneak in from the balcony?
Looking at the blurry silhouette of the young man in front of her, she couldn't help but think.
She had slept so restlessly just now, being chased by a big bear, then falling into the sea and unable to breathe...
Plus, this guy had just deliberately blown cold air behind her back to scare her.
It seemed the suffocation in her dream just now was all this bad guy's doing!
What a jerk!!
After figuring all this out, Ye Zhenzhen took advantage of the cover of night.
While Gu Ran was completely off guard, she opened her mouth and took a big bite.
She bit down solidly on the large hand covering her mouth.
The attacked Gu Ran was in so much pain he wanted to pry her mouth open, but he really couldn't bear to use force.
He could only lower his voice and let out a stifled cry of pain in the darkness.
"Damn, Ye Zhenzhen, you're biting to kill!"
The girl proudly raised her head.
Hmph~ I'll bite you to death, you bad seed~
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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.
world slacker. But a genius female disciple just had to get clingy, insisting that he take her as a disciple. Not only that, she was always making advances on him, thoroughly disrupting his peaceful slacker life...
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!
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."
