Chapter 73
At midnight, after eating dumplings, Ye Shulian called the two siblings over.
"Zhenzhen, this is yours."
Seeing the red envelope her mother handed over, Ye Zhenzhen hurried forward to take it, hugging her arm and saying a bunch of auspicious New Year wishes.
Having spent so much time with Gu Ran, the usually aloof girl had unknowingly become quite eloquent. Unlike before, when she could only stammer, she could now speak with the charm of a blooming lotus!
Ye Shulian smiled and patted her hand, then took out another red envelope and handed it to Gu Ran.
"Here, Little Ran, this is yours."
"Ah, thank you, Auntie Ye. Wishing Auntie Ye good fortune!"
Gu Ran stepped forward to take it, immediately acting like a goofball and making the mother and daughter burst into laughter.
But soon, Ye Zhenzhen couldn't laugh anymore.
"Mom, why is his so much thicker than mine!"
Pointing at Gu Ran's red envelope, the young girl's face was full of resentment.
Hearing this, Ye Shulian slapped her hand away and gave her an exasperated look, saying, "Gu Ran is the younger brother. As the older sister, why are you making such a fuss!"
Ye Zhenzhen: "???"
Seeing Gu Ran's smug expression, she rolled her beautiful eyes at him, then turned her head away, not wanting to look at this show-off anymore.
Speechless. Favoring the younger and neglecting the older—was this the beginning of family discord?
"Exactly, don't you know that respecting the elderly and caring for the young is a traditional Chinese virtue!"
Gu Ran nodded along, chiming in to support the mother.
Hearing this, the girl shot him a sideways glance and said, "Have you ever respected the elderly?!"
Hearing this, Gu Ran immediately acted outraged. With a look of righteous indignation, he anxiously retorted, "How do I not respect the elderly? Don't speak nonsense, or I'll sue you for slander!"
"Then how come I've never seen you respect me?"
The girl shot back faintly, to which the boy immediately asked, "Are you elderly?"
"I..."
Ye Zhenzhen choked on her words, her delicate fists instantly clenching.
Glaring at him, the girl prepared to use his own words to win back the argument.
"Then are you young?!"
Gu Ran pursed his lips and obediently nodded, replying, "Mhm, I'm young!"
Ye Zhenzhen: "..."
Her fists clenched once more, and the veins on her forehead couldn't help but bulge.
Serious question: where is the nearest dog slaughterhouse? Because there's a dog right here!
...
After handing out the New Year's money, Ye Shulian told them to go back to sleep.
Ye Zhenzhen took the lead, shooting up and leaving this heartbreaking place directly.
Gu Ran smilingly said goodnight to Ye Shulian, then followed the girl's footsteps out of the room.
"Goodnight."
Seeing Ye Zhenzhen push open her door, Gu Ran didn't try to follow her in. Instead, he smiled and wished her a good night.
"Idiot!"
Seeing Gu Ran about to leave, the girl quickly called out to stop him, then shot him an embarrassed and annoyed glare.
Gu Ran: "???"
Did she stop him just to reward him with an eye roll?
Well, thank you very much!
"You... come here."
Ye Zhenzhen bit her lip, poked her head out to glance at the living room, and then waved him over.
Gu Ran inexplicably felt a sense of deja vu, like a shady hair salon girl inviting him in to play. His hairs instantly stood on end.
What was this woman trying to do?
Lure the dog in to slaughter it?!
"I'm not going over there."
Gu Ran shook his head, his refusal extremely resolute.
"You... come here!"
The girl glared at him again, her teeth itching with anger.
This guy just had to go against her, didn't he?!
Did he get itchy all over if he didn't make her mad for a day?
"I won't..."
"Come here!"
"Won't..."
Clenching her fists, Ye Zhenzhen took two deep breaths to calm her mood, then negotiated in a gentle tone, "Come in, I won't hit you, and I'll even give you a red envelope."
But Gu Ran still shook his head, indicating that he absolutely would not step one foot through her door.
"Gu 'Dog' Ran!"
"What's wrong, Sister? Did I make you angry again?"
Ye Zhenzhen: "..."
The moment she heard this tone, the expression on the girl's face froze, and she stiffly turned her head.
Sure enough, Ye Shulian was standing nearby with an unkind expression, squinting at her.
"Mom, do you... think I'm bullying him?"
Ye Zhenzhen gave a dry laugh, pouting her small mouth and asking with grievance.
"What else? Why are you yelling at your brother so loudly? I heard it all the way from my room!"
"I..."
Ye Zhenzhen was like a mute eating bitter herbs—unable to express her suffering. She could only turn her head and glare resentfully at the boy in front of her.
"Ah, Sister, please don't be fierce with me, I'm scared..."
Ye Zhenzhen: "..."
Fine, fine, fine, so this is how we're playing!
After receiving another scolding from her mother, the girl returned to her room with a dark face.
Looking at the prepared red envelope in her hand, a certain person's face immediately popped into her mind, making her grind her teeth in anger.
Angrily throwing the red envelope aside, she jumped onto her large bed and unleashed a flurry of punches on an innocent panda doll, venting the anger in her heart.
Whoosh!
The balcony door was pushed open, and Gu Ran poked his head in.
Seeing the girl kneeling on the bed, viciously slamming the doll's head against her own fists, he immediately shrank his neck and let out an awkward laugh.
"Sorry, I think I walked into the wrong room."
As soon as the words fell, he acted as if he had gone blind, groping around and turning to leave.
"Stop right there!"
A sharp rebuke rang out, and Gu Ran's footsteps instantly halted.
By the time he recovered his wits, a waft of osmanthus fragrance had already approached from behind.
"Ye Zhenzhen, are you trying to murder your own hus..."
Afraid he would run away again, the girl directly jumped onto his back and wrapped her arms around his neck in a chokehold.
Hearing his words, Ye Zhenzhen raised an eyebrow, full of threat.
"Murder your own what?!"
"Cough cough, own... own younger brother."
Realizing his slip of the tongue and that he had almost blurted out his inner thoughts, Gu Ran hurriedly tried to salvage the situation.
But Ye Zhenzhen clearly didn't intend to let him off so easily. Choking his neck, she extended a small foot and kicked his rear, driving him toward the bed as if riding a horse.
Rolling off the bed like a triumphant general returning from war, the girl reached out her small foot and kicked his butt again.
"Hmph, idiot! Come over here and give your sister your New Year's greetings"
Digging out the red envelope she had prepared earlier, she reached out and waved it in front of Gu Ran.
"Happy New Year, Sister!"
Gu Ran, realizing he was at a disadvantage, immediately and obediently offered his New Year's greetings. His proper attitude left the girl, who wanted to pick a fight, with no excuse.
Rolling her beautiful eyes, she handed over the bulging red envelope and proudly raised her chin.
"Don't make your sister angry in the future, got it?"
"Got it, got it..."
This thickness was twice as much as what Gu Xiangcheng and Ye Shulian had given. Who would have thought that this usually quiet girl was actually a rich girl!
Seeing Gu Ran's absent-minded look, Ye Zhenzhen frowned slightly. Standing on the bed, she looked down at him and kicked his leg.
"Got it?!"
"Got it, got it..."
The girl's eyes gradually narrowed, and her voice turned a few degrees colder.
"What exactly did you get?"
"Got it, got... uh, I got that I will absolutely never make my sister angry again in the future!"
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 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."
with countless casualties. As a top-tier gamer, Liu Xuan volunteered to join the fight, intending to dominate with his skills, but instead he obtained the hidden class: [Pacifist]. Unable to attack. Unable to use active skills. Fortunately, with each level gained, he acquired a new passive skill. And so, armed with a body full of passives, Liu Xuan slaughtered his way through the battlefield of ten thousand races! [You attacked Liu Xuan] [You gained the debuffs: 'Poison', 'Fear', 'Burning', 'Bleeding', 'Freeze', 'Silence', etc.] [Your attack speed has been reduced by 99%] [Your armor and magic resistance have been reduced by 99%] Warriors of the Ten Thousand Races: How the hell am I supposed to fight this?!
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