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...
...
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..."
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.
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!
y came from. The chests contained supplies, currency, class-change scrolls, skills, talents… and even godhood! The laws of the world were completely rewritten. This became a world where everyone gambled with their fate! Some people, despite having nothing, opened a divine artifact and rose to the top, eventually ruling the world. Others went bankrupt, opened nothing but worthless junk, and leaped from skyscrapers in despair. Lin Ye arrived in this world from another reality, utterly bewildered. “What is going on? Why is everyone a gambling addict?!” “Opening chests? No way. I refuse to gamble. I’ll start with myself!” Until— On his first chest, he obtained a Mythic Talent: Void Incarnation! He could become completely intangible, pass through all things, and reduce everything to nothingness! … On his fiftieth chest, he obtained a Mythic Weapon: Blade of Karma! With a single slash, karma shattered, twisting the universe and overturning the myriad phenomena of creation! … On his ninety-ninth chest, he obtained a Mythic Divine Treasure: Primordial Purple Energy! It could split open the heavens and earth, create all things, and evolve countless worlds with a single thought! Lin Ye: “Now that I think about it… shouldn’t someone have told me that every chest is guaranteed to contain something Mythic?!”
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."
