Chapter 84
Once the New Year passed, time flew by.
Unlike Lao Gu and Ye Shulian, who visited relatives every day, Gu Ran was kept at home daily by his harmonious and kind sister, constantly being tutored.
However, it wasn't hard work, because Ye Zhenzhen would wear silver-rimmed glasses, tight jeans, and a white shirt to tutor him.
Perhaps... the only fly in the ointment was the lack of pantyhose under the pants.
Maybe the atmosphere in the small county town was still a bit conservative, as there weren't many shops selling stockings.
He decided that when he went off to college, he would definitely buy that girl a pair of Balenciaga and Valentino stockings. She could wear them while tutoring him. Only with such a punishment would he be satisfied... ahem, only then would he profoundly realize his mistakes.
Just after the New Year, school had already started. Before many students could adjust their mindsets, the Lantern Festival arrived.
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
Gu Ran lay on his desk, pretending to sleep, staring boredly at the blackboard and yawning continuously.
A few days ago, when the banks opened, he took the time to wire the deposit. The highly motivated part-time college students had already started drawing the preliminary drafts.
But perhaps due to these students' lack of experience and insufficient skills, the several drafts he received in a row were quite different from the chibi art style he had envisioned.
Left with no choice, he had to take matters into his own hands and draw one from memory, sending it to them as a reference.
By the time he finalized the details with them, it was past midnight. It felt like he hadn't slept long before he was dragged out of bed by the early-rising girl.
Dragging his exhausted body through a few laps of running, he thought he could feast his eyes on the youthful and beautiful Li Sinan at school, only to see her bundled up in a thick cotton-padded jacket.
She wrapped herself up tightly. Even when it got hot in the classroom, she merely unzipped her coat, completely reluctant to take it off, as if it were rented.
He frowned, recalling that after the New Year, some parents had come to the school to complain about a teacher having improper conduct and seducing students. It was probably around this time.
It seemed Xiao Li had already been warned by the dean.
Thinking of this, he sighed helplessly, feeling a bit regretful about losing a beautiful sight, and even more speechless at certain parents who were so good at shifting the blame.
It was obviously their own children who didn't want to learn, so why shift the blame onto others?
Blaming the teacher now, blaming games later—the fault was never their own.
Rubbing his face, with no eye candy to look at, he painfully lowered his head and continued doing the boring math problems.
The day passed by in a flash.
Because they had just returned from a long holiday, they were only given one evening self-study period off for the Lantern Festival.
But for the boys and girls who had made a habit of skipping class, this break really didn't feel like much.
At most... there would just be more people walking on the road when heading home tonight.
The school bell rang. Gu Ran glanced out the window; the sky had already darkened, and the warm yellow streetlights illuminated the snowy road, giving off a cozy feeling of going home.
Grabbing his empty backpack, he yawned as he walked out of the classroom, heading straight for the girl's classroom door.
Inside the classroom.
The teacher was still standing at the podium analyzing example problems, while Pei Susu rested her chin on her hand, listening out of sheer boredom.
Noticing Gu Ran at the door, her eyes suddenly lit up. She quickly waved secretly, her small mouth mouthing words that were obviously Brother Gu Ran.
Seeing this, Gu Ran first inconspicuously glanced at Ye Zhenzhen, who was listening attentively. Seeing that she wasn't looking this way, he dared to raise his hand and smile in response to the little loli.
Catching his gaze, Pei Susu curled her lips, silently cursing him for being henpecked in her heart, before giving him an equally enthusiastic and warm smile in return.
She was really good at making her best friend angry.
Like right now, she had grasped Ye Zhenzhen's weak spot. Acting all coquettish and sweet with Gu Ran would definitely make that wretched girl put on her iceberg face!
With that thought, she quietly reached out and nudged Ye Zhenzhen. Only under her gaze did she look at Gu Ran with a blooming smile.
Without an audience, wouldn't her flirting be in vain?
Pei Susu! Am I not teaching as well as the person in the hallway?!
The next second, the somewhat balding math teacher glared at Gu Ran at the door. He didn't say anything to him, but immediately yelled at the little loli in the class.
I might not be able to discipline the bureau chief's son, but I can certainly discipline you!
Hearing this, Pei Susu immediately sat up straight, looking so apologetic that he couldn't continue scolding.
With one sentence, the pretentious girl was brought back to reality. He coughed twice and flipped through his lesson plans, but he had lost the desire to continue teaching.
Closing his book, he gave the girl below another helpless glare. Then he picked up his books, announced class dismissed, and walked out of the classroom without looking back, not even sparing Gu Ran a glance.
My Brother Gu Ran is here, did you come to pick me up from school?
Even though she had just been scolded, Pei Susu felt no shame at all.
As soon as the teacher left, she immediately put on her sweet voice and spoke coquettishly to the girl beside her.
Hearing this, Ye Zhenzhen shot her a glare, didn't reply, and quickly packed her bag to leave the classroom.
You came before the dismissal bell even finished ringing. Has the teacher in your class left?
She first gave him a light kick, then asked in an exasperated tone.
Perhaps her main anger stemmed from him greeting that little green tea girl.
It's fine, I left through the back door, the teacher didn't see.
Ye Zhenzhen: ...
Gu Ran completely failed to realize what the girl was actually asking. In his eyes, he had just greeted a friend earlier.
Rolling her beautiful eyes at him, Ye Zhenzhen softly spat, Idiot!
She threw her backpack into his arms, then put her small hands behind her back and took the lead walking forward.
But as soon as she left, before Gu Ran could catch up, his path was blocked by Pei Susu, who darted out in front of him.
Brother is in such a hurry to leave, did I do something wrong?
If I did something wrong, Brother can just tell me, don't hide from me like this.
Otherwise, from now on, I naturally wouldn't dare get close to Brother, and Brother can just pretend I'm gone.
As her voice fell, she even covered her face, putting on a heartbroken look, making Gu Ran's eyebrows twitch.
Good heavens, it would be a waste of talent if this sister didn't become a stage actress in the future!
Just as he was about to speak, the girl walking ahead caught a whiff of the green tea vibe here, and an icy indifference immediately rose on her delicate face.
Gu 'Dog' Ran, what are you dawdling for, let's go!
Her tone was a bit cold, and upon hearing it, Pei Susu chuckled again.
Seeing this, Gu Ran didn't dare to dawdle... to dally any longer. He quickly turned and caught up, but unexpectedly, there was an extra tail following behind.
Walking on the snowy road under the streetlights, the siblings walked side by side, looking incredibly heartwarming.
But dragging a third wheel behind them ruined the tranquility of the moment.
Brother, why is Sister ignoring you? Did Brother do something wrong again?
Brother, Sister's face is always so cold, she looks so fierce. Unlike me, I only smile at Brother...
Gu Ran: ...
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
and couldn't return to the real world. Finally, I gave up and decided to go with the flow, only to discover that writing a diary could make me stronger. Since no one could read it, Su Luo wrote freely, daring to pen anything and everything. Female Lead #1: "Not bad. This diary helped me steal all the protagonist's opportunities. I just want to get stronger." Female Lead #2: "I don’t care about reaching the peak of the cultivation world. Right now, I just want to enjoy the chaos." Female Lead #3: "What? Everyone around me is a spy? I’m the Joker Demon Lord?" ... It’s so strange. Why is the plot completely off track, yet the ending remains the same? Are you all just messing with me?!
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."
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.
