Chapter 36
Noticing Gu Ran's lecherous gaze, Ye Zhenzhen frowned. She lightly adjusted her glasses, crossed her arms, and stood in front of the balcony door, quietly scrutinizing him.
Gu Ran: "???"
Open the door!
What was she doing just standing there looking at him?
Didn't she know he was wearing pajamas?
"Open the door, fellow villager, I'm from the Eighth Route Army!"
He knocked on the door again, a puzzled expression on his face.
Hearing this, Ye Zhenzhen shook her head, a hint of teasing flashing through her cold eyes. "No, no, no, I think you look more like a puppet soldier! Also, your mind is a bit unhealthy right now. Stay on the balcony and sober up before coming in."
Gu Ran: "!!!"
Shivering on the balcony, Gu Ran was startled. He didn't understand how this girl could see the unhealthy thoughts in his head.
He raised a hand to touch his face. Was he being that obvious?
He rubbed his face and revealed a flattering smile, "Fellow villager, you're mistaken. I really am the Eighth Route Army. I'm going to freeze to death, hurry up and open the door."
Seeing him shivering from the cold, Ye Zhenzhen was also afraid he might catch a cold, so she quickly opened the door and let him in.
As soon as he entered the room, feeling the warmth inside and smelling the elegant scent of osmanthus, Gu Ran felt like he had come back to life.
Turning his head, however, he was met with a beautiful face with furrowed brows.
"Why are you barefoot in the dead of winter? Aren't you afraid of catching a cold in your stomach!"
Her tone was a bit stern, as if she had substituted herself into the role of an elder sister acting as a mother.
"Um... I washed my socks, and they aren't dry yet."
It was a casual excuse, but he didn't expect the young girl to take it seriously.
"You only have one pair of socks?!"
She turned her head and glanced at the balcony outside their room. There were only their clothes and those white cotton socks. Where did he wash them?
"Uh... I remembered wrong. I just soaked them and haven't had time to wash them yet."
Gu Ran hurriedly changed his story, successfully receiving a suspicious look from the girl.
She had a feeling this guy was up to no good!
But she didn't dig deeper. She wasn't really his mother, so how could she control whether he washed his clothes or not?
Sitting at the desk and starting to study, whenever the boy's mind wandered from time to time, he would be greeted by the girl's little foot, just like usual.
But after kicking him twice, Ye Zhenzhen suddenly realized something.
The feeling on her foot today... was a bit off!
She discreetly glanced down and noticed that Gu Ran was barefoot.
This guy...
The quick-witted girl seemed to have found a blind spot, her cold eyes full of suspicion.
But thinking this way made her seem too narcissistic, so she fell into a moment of internal conflict.
Turning her head to look at Gu Ran, whose mind was wandering again, she became even more certain of her guess.
What kind of talk was this?! Purely framing a good person...
It was almost January. The programming for Temple Run was halfway done and had entered the debugging phase.
For a Tentacle Monster, writing code wasn't the most time-consuming part; fixing code was the most disgusting part.
Because if you didn't check carefully, you wouldn't know where the problem was at all.
Running the program over and over again without finding the problem could absolutely make someone want to throw up from editing!
For example, right now, there was an issue, but after searching all night last night, he still hadn't found where the BUG was.
Looking at the dazed Gu Ran, Ye Zhenzhen's cheeks slightly reddened. She gently bit her lip, secretly cursing him as a pervert in her heart.
But after thinking it over, she still slowly raised her foot and reached out toward the boy's calf.
It definitely wasn't because her feet were cold and she wanted to find a fleshy hand warmer, but rather, as a generous older sister, she naturally wouldn't hold a grudge against her foolish younger brother.
He raised his head and looked at Ye Zhenzhen in some surprise, but the latter blushed and pushed his head away.
"Wh-why are you looking at me? Look at the questions!"
Forced to lower his head, Gu Ran looked at the notes in front of him, feeling that the numbers on them had changed their appearance...
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The next day, noon.
It was less than half an hour before the holiday, but people's minds had already scattered. Few people still had their minds on studying.
Even though there was only a half-day off in the afternoon, it still couldn't stop the students' enthusiasm.
After all, with half a day off today and another half day on Sunday tomorrow, it could basically be counted as a full day. For high school seniors who had less than two hundred days until the college entrance examination, what could be more exciting than having a day off?
There was: having two days off!
Influenced by his surroundings, Gu Ran also had no mood to study at the moment. He was somewhat frantically scribbling and drawing on the paper.
The program crashed every time he ran it, but he had searched for two consecutive nights without finding the problem, which was really quite frustrating.
After all, time was precious right now. Wasting time on a small BUG would severely delay the launch plan for Temple Run.
The bell rang, and a lively sound of celebration instantly erupted in the classroom. Everyone's face was filled with a bright smile.
But Gu Ran was not among them. The joys and sorrows of human beings are not connected; right now, he only felt that they were a bit noisy.
Helplessly scratching his hair, he sighed and began to pack his schoolbag.
Walking out of the classroom with Ye Jinliang, he unexpectedly found a beautiful figure appearing at the end of the corridor.
Li Sinan?
What was she doing at school on a Saturday? Wasn't she going home for the holiday?
Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly chased after her.
"Teacher Li, wait for me!"
Hearing the voice, Li Sinan, who had just walked out of the office holding a stack of test papers, turned her head. A brilliant smile immediately appeared on her charming face.
"Oh, it's student Gu. What is it?"
Gu Ran walked up to her with a well-behaved smile on his face, "I saw Teacher Li's figure from afar, so I thought I'd come and say hello. Happy New Year, Teacher Li!"
"Thank you, Happy New Year to you too, student Gu."
Seeing her holding a pile of papers, Gu Ran asked curiously, "Isn't today a day off? Why did Teacher Li come to school?"
Li Sinan pouted her lips slightly and smiled gently, "Well, I came back to grab these papers to grade at home."
Hearing this, Gu Ran nodded repeatedly in praise, "Teacher Li is truly dedicated. I will definitely vote for you in next year's Best Teacher selection!"
"Haha, it's mostly because I really have nothing to do at home. Besides, by the time of the selection next year, you'll all have graduated, so how will you vote for me?"
Hearing his words, Li Sinan smiled very brightly. Although she had only been a full-time teacher for a year, getting such high praise from a student made her genuinely happy, even if she didn't know if it was true or not.
After all, having just come out of the ivory tower of university, she still maintained a lofty enthusiasm for her work.
Nothing to do at home?
Hearing this sentence, Gu Ran's eyes visibly lit up. He rubbed his hands together and smiled shyly, "Teacher Li, I have a presumptuous request. I don't know if I should say it..."
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
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d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
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!
