Chapter 93
"What are you praying for?"
A cold voice sounded from behind. Ye Zhenzhen glanced at the fortune slip in Gu Ran's hand, her pretty brows furrowing slightly.
This seems... to be a prayer for a career, right?
What was wrong with him?
Didn't he know why they came here?!
So infuriating...
All her earnest advice from before was completely wasted, wasn't it? This guy hadn't realized the importance of studying at all!
The aloof girl frowned. An unnameable fire rose in her heart, and she couldn't help but reach out and pinch Gu Ran right there in the main hall.
"N-nothing, just getting a reading for my studies..."
"Boundless f... ahem, Boundless Heavenly Sage, monks do not tell lies."
As his voice fell, the Daoist priest opposite them bowed and offered a mild admonishment.
Ye Zhenzhen: "???"
Gu Ran: "???"
Good lord, you're a Daoist priest who changed careers from being a Buddhist monk, aren't you.
"Look at me, you little punk!"
Seeing Gu Ran dazed, the girl beside him immediately raised her slender eyebrows, couldn't help but swear, and reached out to grab him by the ear.
"Tell me, did you not ask for an academic fortune?"
"I did, I did..."
Before Gu Ran could finish, Ye Zhenzhen gave another sharp, delicate shout, then kicked him and said, "Tell the truth!"
"Uh... I haven't, haven't asked for it yet."
Feeling the force on his earlobe, Gu Ran instantly changed his tune and answered stammeringly.
"Gu 'Dog' Ran!"
Hearing this, the girl revealed an 'I knew it' expression, then reached out her foot and kicked his calf.
"Let's go, ask for another one."
Holding onto his ear, the girl dragged the boy to ask for a new academic fortune.
Looking at Gu Ran, who was forced to obediently ask for a fortune, the aloof older sister figure shook her head helplessly, feeling like she was breaking her heart over her good-for-nothing younger brother.
...
In the main hall, Gu Ran knelt before the deity statue once more, respectfully praying to the gods for a new academic fortune slip.
After the professional Daoist priest interpreted it for him, it was still a top-tier fortune.
Seeing this, the aloof girl finally nodded in satisfaction, grabbing her troublesome younger brother and leaving the hall.
As soon as they exited the main hall, Gu Ran turned his head to glance at her, then asked the girl beside him, "Did you get a top-tier fortune too?"
"A top-top-tier fortune!"
Ye Zhenzhen raised her fair little chin, proudly putting her small hands behind her back.
Hearing this, Gu Ran curled his lip, "Does everyone who shakes the container get a top-tier fortune?"
Ye Zhenzhen: "???"
Kicking him again, the aloof sister rolled her eyes at him, flipped her ponytail, and walked out.
After picking the two siblings up in the car, Lao Gu started driving toward home, not mentioning a word about their fortune-seeking.
The car was silent. Ye Zhenzhen pulled a workbook out of her backpack and sat up by herself.
The boy beside her raised an eyebrow, his face full of shock.
Did she really have to try so hard?
Sure enough, time is like that thing in that place; if you squeeze it, there will always be some.
...
Speechless all the way, the group of three arrived home.
After entering the house, Ye Zhenzhen was the first to return to her room. Glancing at the girl's back, Gu Ran did not follow and chose to return to his own room.
Having just asked for a fortune, of course he had to go back and verify the results.
Temple Run had already been listed, but the download numbers hadn't gone up. He didn't know why a free game would still have so few downloads.
Could it be that only paid ones were considered good?
Frowning, he stared at the sparse number of downloads as Gu Ran continued to look at the developer backend...
The girl's bedroom.
Ye Zhenzhen sat at her desk. Although there was a test paper laid out in front of her, she was constantly distracted and found that she couldn't focus on it at all.
Looking back at the balcony door from time to time, her pretty brows furrowed uncontrollably.
This guy... came back and just played dead?
After another few minutes, her disobedient younger brother still didn't come. She frowned and threw down her pen.
Standing up and walking to the balcony, she headed to her stinky younger brother's room next door.
As soon as she entered, she saw Gu Ran leaning over his computer, fully concentrated on tinkering with something unknown.
"Gu 'Dog' Ran, you're not studying again!"
At the delicate scolding, the boy at the computer desk immediately shivered, turning his head in astonishment to see Ye Zhenzhen with a frosty expression on her pretty face.
The aloof girl stepped forward, grabbed his ear, and said, "Let's go, come back with me to study."
Gu Ran: "..."
Who did this girl learn this ear-pulling from lately?
Did she really think he was a henpecked husband?!
Fine, he really was...
Arriving at the girl's bedroom, smelling the scent of osmanthus flowers, the two siblings studied for the entire night.
Before Gu Ran left, he held a pair of pure white cotton socks in his hand.
"Don't do anything weird, just wash them properly."
Seeing the slightly excited expression on Gu Ran's face, the girl cautioned him with some unease.
Gu Ran: "???"
Did he really look that much like a pervert?
"Who would do anything weird? Ye Zhenzhen, don't overthink things!"
The shameless boy struck first, giving her a disdainful look before trotting out of the room, leaving only the flushed and angry girl inside.
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The next day.
Ye Zhenzhen woke up early and went to the small balcony shared by the two siblings to check on her socks.
She didn't know why, but she always felt Gu Ran would do something weird. However, she didn't know what she was thinking last night; seeing Gu Ran's lazy appearance, she just wanted to punish him for secretly asking for a career fortune.
Of course, the punishment was washing socks, definitely not a reward.
She picked up the pure white cotton socks hanging on the balcony, her eyes widening involuntarily, her face full of shock.
This guy...
What a piece of work!
Unable to quite believe her eyes, she took the socks down from the drying rack and examined them closely in her hands.
Her mouth twitched, and she couldn't help but clench her delicate fists, wishing she could march right over to the boy's room and slap that guy in the face with a sock.
Storming angrily next door, she saw the boy lying on his stomach on the bed, hugging her old teddy bear in his arms, and a blush couldn't help but rise on her normally calm cheeks.
Pervert...
A somewhat cold little hand slipped into the back of Gu Ran's neck, waking him up with a start.
The latter immediately opened his eyes, sat up slowly, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and asked groggily, "What are you doing?"
"What am I doing? You tell me what I'm doing. Is this how you washed them?"
Ye Zhenzhen's aloof eyes were filled with embarrassment and anger.
Could a girl's socks be washed like this?
For a moment, she didn't even want these socks anymore.
"Socks... aren't they supposed to be washed like this?"
"Your socks are this..."
Before the girl could finish, she suddenly realized something. Frowning, she asked hesitantly, "Where are your usual socks?"
She just remembered that she had only ever seen this guy's underwear on the balcony, but as for socks and the like, she had never seen them at all.
"Ah... I wear them once and throw them away."
Hearing this, Gu Ran answered with a completely frank expression.
A pair of socks cost one buck, and he was honestly too lazy to wash them, so he just wore a pair and threw them away. But underwear was a bit expensive, so he couldn't quite afford to treat it as disposable just yet.
Once the game successfully launched and he made a fortune, his underwear would probably become disposable too.
Ye Zhenzhen: "???"
What did she just hear?
Her face full of shock, the thrifty and diligent girl could not accept her lazy younger brother's habit.
Reaching out her fair and slender hand, she grabbed the boy by the ear once again and scolded delicately, "You spendthrift!"
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."
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
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.
villain is the number one simp for the book's leading female protagonist, Shen Wan'er. As expected, he later becomes a tool for the main character to show off and slap faces, ultimately meeting a tragic end with his family ruined and his life in shambles. Fortunately, he awakens the [Universal Pure Love System], which allows him to earn points by performing acts of pure love. To change his fate, Gu Yan makes a decisive choice to seek warmth and companionship with the book's biggest villain—Cold Qingqiu. ........... My name is Leng Qingqiu. To find the murderer who killed my parents years ago, I deliberately blinded myself so that everyone would lower their guard around me. Just as I was secretly accumulating power and capital according to my initial plan, a man walked into my world. "Lengleng, Qingqing, Qiuqiu, which nickname do you prefer?" I don't like any of them. You'd better leave quickly! "Why aren't you saying anything? How about I call you my baby wife?" Leng Qingqiu thinks to herself, this man is truly annoying! (Stubborn pure love warrior + single female lead + true pure love + 1v1)
