Chapter 42
Hearing Gu Ran's words, Ye Zhenzhen stood at the door, slightly dazed.
She stared at him intently for a moment, then nodded gently, gave a soft "Mm," and turned to walk back to her room.
Taking out her cell phone, she dialed Pei Susu again and changed their meeting place to her current home.
More than ten minutes later, hearing the doorbell ring, Ye Zhenzhen ran to open the door. Gu Ran also grabbed a test paper, preparing to run over and study with the girls.
However, he was shut out by his stingy sister.
"We are going to have some girls' talk. What are you doing here?"
"Uh... I can be a loyal listener. I absolutely won't interrupt you two!"
Gu Ran promised, feeling a bit wronged, but was ruthlessly rejected by Ye Zhenzhen.
Pei Susu blinked her almond eyes, sensing some ambiguity in his words. She covered her mouth and smiled, persuading, "Come on, come on, studying with a handsome guy sets the right mood. Besides, what is there for me to talk about with you?"
Unafraid of stirring up trouble, she immediately received a rap on the head from Ye Zhenzhen. The young girl then glared at the impure-minded Gu Ran before dragging her gossipy, drama-loving best friend back into the room.
Looking at the tightly shut door, Gu Ran curled his lips. As the future master of a mobile gaming empire, how could he have the time to get involved in the chatter of little girls?
Well, if he couldn't even put a word in... maybe he could reconsider it.
He turned back to his room and continued typing on his keyboard. With every keystroke, rivers and mountains were severed, and the sun and moon were eclipsed.
Meanwhile, Ye Zhenzhen was being interrogated.
Pei Susu's face was full of gossip as she excitedly pulled her and asked, "So you are living together with Gu Ran now!!!"
Ye Zhenzhen: "???"
What kind of terrible phrasing was that?
Blushing and spitting out a scolding, Ye Zhenzhen tucked her hair behind her ear and said, "Pei Susu, please watch your words. We are not 'living together,' it's a blended family. We are considered a family now."
But the latter was the kind of person who could make any sentence sound dirty just by repeating it.
"Oh~ A family?"
Pei Susu smiled ambiguously and repeated it softly.
"Yes, a... a family..."
Even hearing the implication in her words, Ye Zhenzhen could only bite the bullet and reply.
"Since you're already a family, and you two aren't blood-related, why not become even closer? You can get to know each other inside and out, making the relationship even more intimate."
Ye Zhenzhen: "???"
Is that how you use "knowing each other inside out"?
"Stop, stop talking nonsense! I am his older sister!"
Ye Zhenzhen glared at her in embarrassment and anger, then blushed and emphasized her identity, but it was shattered the very next second.
"Step-sister!"
Realizing she couldn't out-argue her, Ye Zhenzhen furrowed her delicate brows and scolded, "Why do you have so much to say? Aren't you here to study? If you're not going to study, go home!"
"Tch, stingy!"
"Pack your things and go home!"
"Ah, no, I'd rather die..."
"Then shut up!"
...
Gu Ran, who was typing on his keyboard in his room, heard the chattering whispers next door. He pinched the bridge of his sore nose, finding it hard to continue working.
Thinking of the bubble tea shop Ye Zhenzhen had mentioned earlier, he put on his jacket, left the house, and headed straight for the small bubble tea shop near the school.
He ordered three cups of pearl milk tea, no pearls, just the milk tea.
As for why he didn't order anything else, it was because, at this time, the small county town only sold pearl milk tea.
However, there were many flavors: blue, green, red, purple...
Ah, no, it was blueberry, vanilla, strawberry, grape...
But seeing the colorful milk teas, he didn't dare to order them, feeling that the artificial food coloring was off the charts.
So he simply took the original-flavored milk teas and went home.
He originally wanted to carry the milk tea straight through the balcony door, but then remembered there was a guest, so he obediently knocked on the front door.
"Ye Zhenzhen, open the door!"
Hearing the voice outside, Ye Zhenzhen, who was chatting with Pei Susu, subconsciously replied without turning her head, "Show some respect, call me Sister!"
As soon as the words fell, everything went quiet.
Pei Susu's eyes carried an ambiguous vibe as she blinked at her.
It was as if she was saying, You guys play pretty wild, huh?
Ye Zhenzhen felt embarrassed and annoyed by her gaze. She immediately turned her head away, walked over, and opened the bedroom door.
"Wha... what is it?"
Her cold eyes held an unnatural look, and even her tone had become stiff.
"Bringing you guys milk tea. A friend comes to the house and you don't even buy anything to eat, so stingy!"
Gu Ran didn't notice her unnaturalness and just curled his lips as he spoke.
Ye Zhenzhen: "???"
Was he unaware of which dog tricked her into spending all her allowance this week on an overpriced candied hawthorn stick?!
Did he really think everyone was like him, a young master with over a hundred yuan in allowance a week?
She gave him a somewhat resentful glance. Before she could say anything, Pei Susu popped out from behind her.
Reaching out her small hands to take the milk tea from Gu Ran, her almond eyes narrowed as she said in a cutesy voice, "Thank you for the milk tea, classmate Gu Ran!"
"You're welcome, you're welcome. I can't be as stingy as a certain someone."
Hearing Gu Ran's words, Pei Susu nodded in agreement while inserting her straw.
"Exactly, exactly!"
Ye Zhenzhen: "..."
Looking at the two chiming in with each other beside her, she momentarily felt like a third wheel.
You two are so perfectly matched in your awfulness. How about she leaves, and you two go inside and chat?!
Glaring at the two of them with embarrassment and annoyance, she also reached out to take a milk tea, then stood silently at the door, staring at Gu Ran.
Feeling a bit unnatural under her gaze, Gu Ran coughed lightly. Holding the last cup of milk tea, he asked, "Aren't you going to invite me in to drink my milk tea?"
Ye Zhenzhen didn't say anything. Instead, Pei Susu, who was happily sipping her milk tea with narrowed eyes, took over the conversation.
"No way~ We're talking about little girls' topics. Do you want to come in and be our sister?"
Gu Ran: "..."
Drinking his milk tea and still not inviting him in. Are they not even going to hide the fact that they're burning bridges after crossing them?
He blinked, looking at Ye Zhenzhen suspiciously, and asked in confusion, "You're not talking bad about me again, are you?"
Hearing this, the young girl immediately got anxious and hurriedly defended herself, "Nonsense, who... who was talking bad about you!"
Gu Ran was about to say more, but he was pushed out by her.
"Go, go back and make your game. Why are you always prying into girls' business?"
The moment the door closed, he even saw Pei Susu with her eyes slightly narrowed, drinking his milk tea, and playfully waving goodbye to him.
Serious question: is there no justice in this world?
They wouldn't let him in before they had milk tea, and they still wouldn't let him in after they had it. Didn't he buy this milk tea for nothing?
What bad intentions could he possibly have? Didn't he just want to hang out with young, pretty girls?
He already promised not to interrupt, so why didn't they believe him?
Sighing helplessly, he carried his own milk tea back to his room and continued working hard towards becoming the future father of mobile gaming.
Women would only affect the speed at which he drew his sword; right now, he only wanted to make money!
Once he started driving a Porsche, he would find cute girls every day to chat about topics he could "interrupt" in!
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
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."
villain is the number one simp for the book's leading female protagonist, Shen Wan'er. As expected, he later becomes a tool for the main character to show off and slap faces, ultimately meeting a tragic end with his family ruined and his life in shambles. Fortunately, he awakens the [Universal Pure Love System], which allows him to earn points by performing acts of pure love. To change his fate, Gu Yan makes a decisive choice to seek warmth and companionship with the book's biggest villain—Cold Qingqiu. ........... My name is Leng Qingqiu. To find the murderer who killed my parents years ago, I deliberately blinded myself so that everyone would lower their guard around me. Just as I was secretly accumulating power and capital according to my initial plan, a man walked into my world. "Lengleng, Qingqing, Qiuqiu, which nickname do you prefer?" I don't like any of them. You'd better leave quickly! "Why aren't you saying anything? How about I call you my baby wife?" Leng Qingqiu thinks to herself, this man is truly annoying! (Stubborn pure love warrior + single female lead + true pure love + 1v1)
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.
