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: ...

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."

ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!

close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"

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.”