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!"
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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?!
