Chapter 83
Using an excuse to teach her younger brother another lesson, Ye Zhenzhen felt deeply satisfied. She tossed the little bear back onto the computer desk, clapped her small hands, and walked out of the room with a carefree air.
After freshening up, the siblings walked out of their home in sportswear, ready to start today's morning... ahem, morning run.
Having been dragged out by Gu Ran to train for over a month, she was now used to morning exercises. Even though she wouldn't run for long, stretching her body was always a good thing.
A little exercise would keep her full of energy for the whole day, greatly improving her study efficiency.
At the same time, it could also boost her metabolism and maintain her slim, slender figure. There were simply too many benefits; how could a smart girl not fall in love with this activity?
She hadn't done her morning exercise for the past two days, which led to a drop in her study efficiency. It made her feel terrible, so today she insisted on going out no matter what.
Dragging a reluctant Gu Ran along, the two walked to the square inside their residential community.
The young man yawned, blowing out a puff of white mist. "Ow, Ye Zhenzhen, didn't you see the smog is still so thick? Are you out here to run or to inhale secondhand smoke?"
Hearing him muttering and complaining the whole way, the girl rolled her eyes at him in annoyance. She kicked him lightly on the calf and said, "Cut the crap. Do calisthenics with me first."
Gu Ran: "???"
Are you out of your mind?!
Asking him to do morning calisthenics with her this early in the morning!
Did she want him to provide the background music too? "Seven Colors of Sunlight, begin now"?
Feeling somewhat speechless, he wanted to turn around and run, but Ye Zhenzhen grabbed him by the throat of destiny.
"Where are you running off to? Come back!"
Being choked by her slender arm and smelling the scent of osmanthus at the tip of his nose, Gu Ran felt dizzy for a moment and was dragged in a daze to the center of the square.
When he came back to his senses, he was momentarily stunned. Looking around the empty square, his scalp tingled.
Especially since where they were standing was right in the middle of the square, without a single obstacle. The surrounding buildings could clearly see their every move.
Doing calisthenics here, what was the difference between this and taking a dump in public!
He looked at the girl beside him in astonishment, blinking in confusion.
Genuine question: is there really no one in this neighborhood whose opinion you care about?!
"Should we... change to another spot?"
He spoke tentatively, keeping his tone as gentle as possible, hoping the girl—who was currently dealing with her monthly visitor and had a volatile temper—would accept his suggestion.
After all, a person can die, but they absolutely must not die of social embarrassment!
The residents of this community were all Lao Gu's colleagues or staff from other departments. There were many people they knew.
He really didn't want to become the topic of their dinner conversations.
"Why should we change spots?"
Hearing this, the girl frowned slightly and asked in confusion.
"Look around, do you want to give them a live broadcast?"
Following the direction he pointed, Ye Zhenzhen furrowed her brows. She realized that their current location was exactly the most open area in the entire community. Basically, every household could see them directly from their windows.
"I... I would be afraid of them looking?!"
As the saying goes, the more a person lacks something, the more they try to prove it.
Ever since last night, the girl had been constantly maintaining her dignity as the older sister, afraid that her rebellious younger brother would try to overpower her.
After all, he really dared to ride his sister!
"Fine, fine, fine, I'll listen to you. You're right about everything."
Hearing this, Gu Ran decided to just give up and gamble on the chance that others wouldn't see him, or wouldn't see clearly enough to recognize him.
"What kind of tone is that?"
Hearing the perfunctoriness in his tone, Ye Zhenzhen's elegant brows shot up, and she rewarded him with another kick.
Then, putting her small hands behind her back, she continued to look for a suitable spot for calisthenics, acting like a leader on an inspection tour.
Following behind her, Gu Ran twitched his lips.
Toward Ye Zhenzhen's forced air of authority, he didn't feel the slightest bit of pressure; rather, it felt like watching a comedy.
With her height of just over 1.6 meters, her exquisite face, and her slender yet full figure, no matter how he looked at it, it just seemed like a young girl acting spoiled.
Following behind the great older sister, they arrived at the river embankment on the side of the community, where there were very few people.
"Alright, here it is. I feel like the air is much better than before."
Ye Zhenzhen tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, forcing herself to find a comforting excuse.
Gu Ran: "..."
Was it really necessary? They hadn't even left the community, and the air was already stratified?
Forcibly comforting yourself, huh?
Without saying much, he followed the girl with a look of utter despair, doing a full set of morning calisthenics, unlocking memories that had been dormant for who knows how many years.
Because he had already advanced to his senior year of high school and didn't need to do exercises during the big break, he did the routine in a muddle-headed way, completely just blindly copying the girl.
...
Upon returning home, Gu Ran immediately collapsed onto the sofa like a dead dog, completely exhausted.
He didn't know why, but doing calisthenics with Ye Zhenzhen was actually more tiring than going for a run. It really wore him out.
After washing up and eating breakfast, he lay on his bed. Before he could make a move, the girl walked in through the balcony door carrying some books.
Seeing the girl enter the room, he couldn't quite understand—who exactly started this trend of walking through the balcony door?
Why did this girl walk through it so naturally and skillfully? If someone didn't know better, they would think this was the main entrance...
"What do you want?"
Lying on the bed, looking up at the pretty face above him, he narrowed his eyes and asked, despite already knowing the answer.
"What do I want? What do you think? To study!"
"Let me sleep a little longer. I woke up too early."
Gu Ran blinked, turned his body over, and was about to close his eyes when his ear was suddenly grabbed.
"What sleep? Get up and study!"
But Gu Ran remained completely motionless, like an old dog. He knew the girl wouldn't bear to actually pinch him hard, so he simply gave up and played dead.
Looking at him acting like a burnt salted fish, Ye Zhenzhen frowned. Setting the books aside, she climbed onto the bed.
She looked down at him from above, then pursed her lips, extended her small foot, and stepped right onto his bouncy, elastic butt.
"Gu 'Dog' Ran, hurry up and study. Are you planning to continue ranking at the bottom after school starts?"
"Ye Zhenzhen, don't be too arrogant!"
Trampled underfoot, Gu Ran retorted stubbornly.
"Call me older sister!"
Ye Zhenzhen glared at him in embarrassment and annoyance, realizing that stepping on his butt was useless; the guy in front of her had absolutely no reaction.
She lifted her foot and slowly stepped onto his back.
Gu Ran: "!!!"
Disobeying brings such good perks?!
Please, do this more often in the future!
He could handle it!
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?!
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 school belle recognized by the whole school, a genius girl from the kendo club. She also has a hidden identity, the youngest legendary demon hunter. Chen Shuo just transmigrated and found himself turned into a weak, helpless little vampire. He was caught by Su Xiyen and taken home at the very beginning. Since then, Chen Shuo's life creed only had two items. "First, classmate Su Xiyen is always right." "Second, if classmate Su Xiyen is wrong, please refer back to item one." Many years later, Chen Shuo, who had turned back into a human, led a pair of twins to appear in front of all the vampires to share the secret of how he turned back into a human. "It's simple, I tricked a female demon hunter into becoming my wife!"
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
