Chapter 38
"Why are you so late? What were you doing?"
Ye Zhenzhen, who had been waiting at the classroom door for a long time, asked instinctively as she watched Gu Ran hurrying over.
Gu Ran, holding an empty backpack, immediately replied, "I just ran into Ms. Li and talked to her for a bit."
As he spoke, he consciously took the girl's backpack and slung it over his own shoulders quite naturally.
Ms. Li?
After handing over her backpack, Ye Zhenzhen frowned slightly. The image of a figure wearing a tight little suit and black pantyhose popped into her mind.
Was it the newly tenured English teacher, Li Sinan?
The one who greeted him the other day with a super sweet voice?
First High School only recruited a few new teachers every year, and they formed a sharp contrast with the older teachers. So even though she didn't care about these things, she had still heard the name.
Rumor has it she's the prettiest in the English department?
She blinked her eyes, turned her head to look at Gu Ran, and said softly, "Student Gu, you have to study hard today too~"
Gu Ran: "???"
Suddenly hearing the girl beside him pinching her voice to imitate what Li Sinan had said to him that day, he felt a numbness spread through his body, uncontrollably breaking out in goosebumps.
"What are you doing?"
Looking at her strangely, Gu Ran frowned slightly, not understanding what she was playing at.
Being stared at by his strange gaze, Ye Zhenzhen instantly felt embarrassed, not even knowing why she was acting so weirdly sarcastic herself.
Raising her hand to elegantly tuck a strand of hair behind her ear, she tilted her head slightly, avoiding Gu Ran's gaze.
A trace of unnaturalness flashed through her cold eyes. She paused, then returned to normal, saying calmly, "I was just confirming if it was that Ms. Li."
Gu Ran: "..."
"Well, your imitation was very lifelike..."
Ye Zhenzhen unnaturally touched her hair again, a faint blush appearing on her cheeks. "It was... alright, I guess."
Gu Ran was about to say something else when the phone in his pocket rang. Taking it out, he saw it was a message from Lao Gu telling him to take Ye Zhenzhen out for lunch, as they had gone back home to pay respects to their ancestors.
Paying respects to ancestors on New Year's Day?
More like you dragging your new wife back to your hometown to show off!
Turning his head, he saw Ye Zhenzhen staring at the phone in his hand. He raised an eyebrow, waved it in front of her, and said, "This is a mobile phone. You can use it to call people and send text messages."
Ye Zhenzhen: "..."
Although she only had a cheap Xiaolingtong phone, she wasn't so ignorant as to not know what this was!
So, what was he explaining?
Did he think she didn't even recognize a mobile phone?!
Out of habit, she lifted her foot and lightly kicked him, then rolled her beautiful eyes, giving him a disdainful look.
"Get lost, so unserious! Also, why did you bring a phone to school? Isn't it forbidden to bring phones on campus?"
"Uh..."
Gu Ran blinked. This was the first time he had ever heard of such a rule.
But he had violated plenty of school rules; did he care about this one?
Hadn't she heard the saying? Envy not the mandarin ducks nor the immortals, envy only Brother Ran's every day!
To him, holidays didn't matter. If he wanted, the teachers could be on maternity leave every day!
...
The two of them grabbed a casual bite outside and then walked home.
Upon returning home, Gu Ran took off his shoes and subconsciously followed the girl back to her bedroom.
Turning her head and seeing the tail behind her, Ye Zhenzhen helplessly rubbed her forehead. "Why are you here again?"
"Uh... If I said my feet just naturally walked this way, would you believe me?"
Ye Zhenzhen: "..."
A girl's bedroom, and your feet just naturally walked this way?
Listen to that, is that something a human would say?
She was utterly helpless against this guy whose skin was as thick as a city wall.
In front of him, the aloof girl's reserve would always uncontrollably break down, because you never knew what unexpected thing he would do next.
"Hurry back, I need to change my clothes!"
Her cold eyes glared at him as she reached out her foot again and lightly kicked his calf.
After a few days of tutoring, this action had become a basic interaction between the two.
If she didn't kick him a couple of times a day, she felt uncomfortable all over.
Gu Ran felt the same; if he wasn't touched by those pure white cotton socks a couple of times, his whole day felt dull.
"Oh, oh."
Nodding obediently, Gu Ran walked straight towards the balcony, only to be yanked back by the embarrassed and annoyed girl.
"Use the main door!"
Watching Gu Ran walk out through the bedroom's main door, she finally sat on the bed, feeling a bit mentally exhausted.
What exactly was wrong with this guy, always loving to take the back door?
If he got used to doing this, people who didn't know better would think there was something shameful going on between them!
Glaring at the door again in embarrassment, she quickly got up, walked to the balcony, and took down the cartoon undergarments hanging there.
She nervously glanced at the adjacent balcony door. After not seeing Gu Ran's figure, she guiltily clutched the undergarments, tiptoed back inside, folded them, and hid them in her wardrobe.
Only after doing all this did she breathe a sigh of relief.
She had already been mortified when her solid-colored underwear hanging on the balcony was seen before, but seeing Gu Ran's old-man boxers hanging next to them had somewhat neutralized it.
But if her cartoon character underwear were seen now, she would literally die of embarrassment!
After changing into casual loungewear, she first tidied up the room a bit and then sat down at her desk.
However, she didn't start doing exercises. Instead, she was a bit curious about why the guy next door hadn't come over yet.
According to past routines, this guy would always show up right on the dot after exactly ten minutes. Had he changed his personality today?
After waiting a little longer and finding that Gu Ran still hadn't come over, she couldn't help but push the door open and walk to the door of the next room.
Listening closely, she faintly heard the clattering sound of a keyboard being typed on.
She immediately frowned slightly and unconsciously crossed her arms.
Was this guy... playing games?
Was he not studying anymore?!
She reached out and knocked on the door. It opened shortly after, revealing Gu Ran's smiling face.
"What's wrong?"
Ye Zhenzhen crossed her arms, trying her best to make her cold and elegant face look stern.
This guy had obviously been studying quite hard recently and had made a lot of progress. Why did he get lazy as soon as the holidays started?
No, she had to pull him back on track. He needed to study hard so he could stand out in the future.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm..."
Gu Ran blinked. For some reason, he suddenly felt like a husband coming home late, being interrogated by his little wife about where he had been.
"Playing games?"
Ye Zhenzhen frowned slightly and then began to chatter endlessly about the benefits of studying and the harms of being addicted to games.
Her nagging demeanor looked exactly like a little old lady.
Like Sun Wukong hearing the tightening-crown spell, Gu Ran quickly surrendered. He grabbed the girl's arm and tried to pull her into the room.
Suddenly interrupted mid-spell, Ye Zhenzhen grabbed the doorframe with one hand and asked somewhat resistantly, "Wh... what are you doing?"
"I'm letting you see with your own eyes whether I'm playing games or not!" Gu Ran said righteously.
"I... I'm not going."
Ye Zhenzhen shook her head repeatedly, her face written all over with refusal.
Right now, it was just the two of them at home. What was he pulling her into his room for?!
She was his older sister!
Even though it was by a step-parent marriage...
Moreover, going into a boy's room alone, why did it feel so shameful?
Right now, she just couldn't wrap her head around it: how did this guy Gu Ran manage to stroll into her room as naturally as if he were walking into his own house?
"Let's go, just so you stop falsely accusing me."
As soon as the words left his mouth, he pulled the girl into the room without giving her a chance to protest, slamming the door shut behind them with a loud bang.
Ye Zhenzhen: !!!
Is this guy trying to murder his older sister???
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.
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.
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!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
