Chapter 97
Stepping onto the balcony, Ye Zhenzhen carefully inspected the freshly washed socks. Her delicate eyebrows immediately shot up, and she turned around to kick the boy following behind her.
"How did you wash these socks? Don't you know you're supposed to stretch them out after washing?!"
Hearing this, Gu Ran acted like a complete rascal, simply shaking his head and replying, "Nope, didn't know."
"Well, do you know now?"
After hanging up all the clothes, the aloof girl turned around, grabbed his ear, leaned in close, and scolded him.
"Still don't know. If you're so capable, don't make me wash them."
Gu Ran flicked the water droplets off his hands, turned his head, and looked straight at the girl who was just inches away, their faces practically touching.
"What? You annoyed with me? Bite me if you're so annoyed!"
Ye Zhenzhen: "..."
Was he provoking her?
The girl raised her eyebrows, the boy's face reflected in her eyes. With a sudden impulse, she leaned forward and bit him right on the face!
"Holy crap, Ye Zhenzhen, were you a dog in your past life?!"
"Damn, damn, damn, don't bite the face!!!"
Gu Ran's roars echoed from the small balcony outside the siblings' room.
Even with the excellent soundproofing of the house, Lao Gu and Ye Shulian in the master bedroom heard the commotion.
A somewhat exhausted Lao Gu panted heavily, leaning against the headboard. He reached up to adjust his glasses and asked, "Did you hear something?"
A flushed Ye Shulian snuggled up to him, resting her face against his chest. With a lingering, affectionate gaze, she said, "Oh, the kids are just playing around. Why do you worry so much?"
As she spoke, her hand slipped back under the covers.
Seeing this, Lao Gu quickly coughed twice and said, "Uh, maybe I should go take a look."
"What's there to look at? The kids just have a good relationship, why do you care so much? Come here, there's something else that needs your attention..."
Ye Shulian's voice grew increasingly gentle, like a pool of clear water.
Her fair arms wrapped around his neck. A few drops of sweat trickled down Lao Gu's forehead, and he looked a bit panicked. "N-no... again?"
...
Early the next morning, Gu Ran rubbed his face and walked resentfully into the girl's bedroom.
Because it was more than half an hour earlier than usual, Ye Zhenzhen was still fast asleep.
He stood by her bed, glaring fiercely at the girl curled up under the blankets.
"Ye Zhenzhen, get up right now and look at what you've done!"
Shaking the sleeping girl awake in frustration, Gu Ran had the urge to take a bite out of her peach-blossom-like face.
It was so freaking infuriating!
This girl must have dog teeth!
The teeth marks from her bite last night still hadn't faded!
"Ugh... what is it?"
Shaken awake by her shoulders, Ye Zhenzhen groggily opened her eyes and mumbled.
"Look for yourself!"
Gu Ran suddenly shoved his large face right in front of her, giving the girl a fright.
"What are you doing?!"
Pushing away the face that was about to stick to hers, Ye Zhenzhen's eyes widened in surprise.
"I'm showing you the dog bite marks on my face!"
Gu Ran puffed out his cheeks to make the teeth marks more obvious.
Seeing his action, the girl first shrank back, then looked at him with a terrified expression. "Why are you always so close to me?!"
Leaning back against the headboard, she finally gathered her wits and looked seriously at the boy in front of her.
On his handsome face, two rows of small teeth marks were clearly visible—her handiwork from last night.
"Ahem, why... why haven't they faded yet..."
Ye Zhenzhen felt a bit embarrassed. Not daring to meet Gu Ran's eyes, she lowered her head and spoke in a soft, timid voice.
"You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask? Don't you know you bit down like your life depended on it?"
Hearing her pitiful tone, Gu Ran instantly felt a headache coming on. Pointing at his face, he condemned her with righteous indignation.
"I... I didn't feel like I used that much force..."
"You didn't use that much force?! Not only have the marks not faded, they're turning blue! If this is 'not much force,' would you eat me alive if you actually tried?"
Ye Zhenzhen: "???"
The girl pursed her lips and turned her head slightly, not wanting to talk to him anymore.
This guy... is so annoying!
Seeing Ye Zhenzhen facing the wall, Gu Ran thought he had successfully triggered her guilt, so he continued to fire on all cylinders.
"Just looking at the way you bit me, opening your bloody maw like you wanted to bite my head off!"
"Other girls have cute little cherry mouths, but you? You're a total bloody..."
As Gu Ran babbled on endlessly, the girl sitting at the head of the bed slowly furrowed her brows.
Suddenly throwing off the blanket, she aimed a kick right at him.
"Shut up! You're the one with the... bloody maw!"
Seeing the little foot flying towards him, Gu Ran reacted quickly and caught it. He raised an eyebrow and said, "What are you doing, Big Mouth Monster!"
Ye Zhenzhen: "!!!"
"Gu 'Dog' Ran, do you want to die?!"
Feeling the intense humiliation of the term "Big Mouth Monster," Ye Zhenzhen instinctively bit her lip, leaped up, and sank her teeth into the boy's shoulder.
Early in the morning, the boy's roars once again echoed from Gu Ran's room.
In the kitchen preparing breakfast, Ye Shulian heard the noise and couldn't help but smile and shake her head.
These two kids... really have a great relationship!
...
Lao Gu had been getting busier lately, and today was another day on duty for him, so the siblings had to walk to school.
Walking down the street, a smile couldn't help but tug at the corners of Ye Zhenzhen's usually indifferent face, her cool eyes filled with amusement.
Carrying two backpacks, Gu Ran held a hand over his face and shoulder. He rolled his eyes at her in annoyance and grumbled, "What are you laughing at!"
"Hmph, none of your business!"
Hearing this, the girl tilted her head up and walked ahead with her hands clasped behind her back in a somewhat proud manner.
Behind her, Gu Ran curled his lip and didn't say anything more.
Noticing the silence behind her, the aloof older sister turned around, smiled, and blinked. "I just want to laugh whenever I look at you. When my mom asked why you were covering your face this morning, why didn't you tattle on me?"
Gu Ran: "..."
"Why do I get the feeling that you're actually disappointed I didn't tattle? Did I fail to satisfy some weird little fetish of yours?"
"Pfft!"
Ye Zhenzhen's cheeks flushed slightly, and she kicked out at him again.
Gu Ran curled his lip and rolled his eyes in exasperation.
He silently reminded himself that a magnanimous younger brother shouldn't stoop to the level of a petty older sister.
They walked the rest of the way in silence.
Ye Zhenzhen turned to look at Gu Ran, her brows furrowing slightly. She reached out with two pale, slender fingers and poked his face.
"Why the long face? Give us a smile."
Gu Ran shot her a sideways glance and continued grumpily, "If you got bitten by a dog every day, could you smile?"
Ye Zhenzhen: "..."
Clenching her small fists slightly, the girl took a few deep breaths, forcing down her anger.
"Then tell me, how can you not be mad?"
As she spoke, she reached up to tuck a strand of hair behind her ear.
She did feel a bit guilty for biting him like this, so she had no choice but to try and comfort her Grumpy-pants younger brother.
Hearing this, Gu Ran raised an eyebrow, his eyes instantly lighting up. He quickly said, "Just let me bite you back!"
Seeing the boy's excited expression, Ye Zhenzhen immediately covered her face.
The thought of this guy biting her, his lips inevitably touching her face, filled her with absolute refusal.
"No way!"
"Tch, stingy."
"I am not!"
"Then let me bite you."
"I'm not giving it to you!"
"And you still say you aren't..."
The brother and sister continued to bicker as they walked through the main gate of the school together.
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.”
d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
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 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.
