Chapter 57
Everyone enjoyed this meal immensely, especially Gu Xiangcheng and Ye Shulian, who couldn't stop smiling.
Lao Gu was not good at expressing his fatherly love with words, but he poured himself glass after glass of wine, drinking in very high spirits.
Ye Shulian was also extremely happy to hear about Gu Ran's academic progress.
Although he wasn't her biological son, she genuinely liked Gu Ran and hoped he would do well, which meant the family would do well too.
The only person who couldn't be called happy was probably Ye Zhenzhen.
Her calf had been trapped all evening and she couldn't pull it back at all, making her both embarrassed and angry. From time to time, she would reach out and poke Gu Ran in the lower back.
After dinner, Ye Shulian noticed her flushed face and couldn't help but step forward in confusion to feel her forehead.
"Why is your face so red? Are you sick?"
Ye Zhenzhen's eyes darted away evasively, and she stuttered, "N-no."
Saying this, she quickly dodged Ye Shulian's hand, craned her neck, and fanned herself with her hand. "Maybe... it's just too hot in this room."
"It's not hot, is it?"
Before Ye Shulian could reply, Gu Ran answered first, his tone rather strange.
Hearing this, Ye Zhenzhen raised her slender eyebrows and immediately glared at him.
But the next second, she suffered a critical hit of maternal love.
Ye Shulian swatted her, sounding quite dissatisfied. "Act like an older sister! Why are you so fierce to your younger brother?"
Ye Zhenzhen: "..."
She really couldn't stay in this house for another second!!
...
After clearing the dishes, Ye Zhenzhen returned to her room, sitting properly at her desk, ready to study.
But just as she got into the zone, she noticed a noise from the balcony and couldn't help but roll her beautiful eyes.
Without even turning her head, she knew it was that guy who loved taking the back door again.
"Oh, studying, huh? Looks like I came at a bad time."
Gu Ran walked up, saw the test papers on the desk, and said with a light smile.
Ye Zhenzhen put down her pen, twirled a strand of hair with her index finger, and smiled just as lightly. "No, you came at the perfect time."
Gu Ran: "???"
What was with this inexplicably terrifying sense of deja vu?
Before he had time to think much about it, the girl sitting at the desk pulled out two sets of test papers and placed them right in front of him.
"Here, finish these two tonight. Your grades have improved quickly, which is worth encouraging, but you need to guard against arrogance and rashness. Don't be careless. Keeping up with your studies is the true path."
Gu Ran: "..."
"Wait, it's a holiday today, and I still have to study?"
"Little New Year is still a New Year. Don't underestimate it."
He reached out, picked up the two papers, looked at them, then raised his eyebrows and asked in a tempting tone, "Ye Zhenzhen, do you want to play on the computer?"
Play on the computer?
The girl was somewhat tempted, but she turned her head to look at the test papers on the desk, finding it hard to choose for a moment.
Seeing this, Gu Ran quickly coaxed and persuaded her, "Go on, go on. It's a holiday today. We finally got half a day off. Let's take a break, have a little fun, and give our tired brains a vacation too."
Ye Zhenzhen hesitated, and Gu Ran continued to deliver critical hits.
"Don't you want to check on the vegetables you planted earlier?"
That single sentence successfully piqued Ye Zhenzhen's interest. She gently capped her pen and nodded, "Alright then, I'll play for a bit."
"Exactly, you should have done this earlier."
Gu Ran agreed wholeheartedly and immediately prepared to follow the girl as she left, but she suddenly showed a surprised expression.
"Why are you following me?"
Gu Ran: "???"
Wasn't he supposed to follow?
"I'm going to play on the computer for a while. You stay here and keep doing the test papers. I'll check them when I get back."
Gu Ran: "..."
Good heavens, you're even more of a slave driver than a sweatshop boss!
No! You're even worse!
"Is this really necessary..."
He twitched the corners of his mouth, trying to slip through the cracks and follow her back to his room.
As a result, at the balcony door, Ye Zhenzhen stopped him, kicked him lightly with her small foot, and scolded, "Hurry back and study. I'll check on it later."
After saying that, she ruthlessly closed the balcony door, swayed her body, and walked into Gu Ran's room.
The habit of taking the back door had also rubbed off on her, and she found that the back door was indeed very convenient.
Otherwise, detouring through the living room meant she would always be seen.
Even though she wasn't doing anything bad, she would still feel embarrassed.
Entering the boy's room, her eyebrows couldn't help but furrow again.
Was this guy... a pig?
He made it such a mess again...
The slightly obsessive-compulsive girl helplessly rolled up her sleeves, tied up her hair, and began to tidy up the room for her younger brother.
Seeing the clothes she had neatly folded for him last time now casually piled up in the closet, she couldn't help but touch her forehead and sigh softly.
After a thorough cleaning, the hardworking and capable older sister finally managed to tidy up for her lazy younger brother.
Sitting cheerfully at the desk, she opened QQ and at the same time pulled out a piece of paper, preparing to add Pei Susu as a friend, only to find that her newly created account already had one friend.
GR?
Looking at this nickname, she frowned slightly and guessed based on the letters.
Gu Ran?
Seeing a nickname completely different from the Clear Breeze and Bright Moon style she had chosen for herself, she crinkled her nose and couldn't help but ponder.
After a brief moment of thought, she went and changed her own nickname.
YZZ!
Seeing this nickname, she suddenly found it much more pleasing to the eye. She turned her head, glanced at Gu Ran's nickname, and scrunched her nose.
What kind of status did he have to use the same style of nickname as her?!
Reaching out her small hand to hold the mouse and typing on the keyboard, she changed the remark name for Gu Ran.
Stinky Brother!
Seeing the new remark name she had come up with, Ye Zhenzhen's brow relaxed, and her mood couldn't help but become much more cheerful.
After sending a friend request to Pei Susu, she opened her Qzone and entered the Farm.
She saw a series of message notifications in the log.
"Stinky Brother!" came to your farm and picked two red dates...
"Stinky Brother!" came to your farm and picked three cabbages...
Ye Zhenzhen: "???"
What right did he have to come and harvest them?
She had worked so hard to plant them. This was theft!
Ye Zhenzhen furrowed her pretty brows and set her sights on Gu Ran's farm.
Since he stole her vegetables, she would steal them back!
But when she entered Stinky Brother's farm, the corner of her mouth couldn't help but twitch.
This guy was not only lazy in the real world but also lazy in the game. He didn't even plant a single vegetable!
...
While the girl was playing on the computer, Gu Ran was hugging the little bear that had been left in this room to absorb the scent, sitting at the desk doing test papers with a look of utter despair.
Suddenly, he sneezed several times in a row. He rubbed his nose, secretly feeling suspicious.
Was someone talking bad about him behind his back?!
Which bastard was it? Did they dare to come out and confront him face to face!
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.”
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
