Ji Tang shooed Gu Qianran back to Bai Ziyuan. Ji Tang needed to hurry and make up for indirectly delaying Bai Ziyuan's grand seduction plan. Although Gu Qianran could sense a strange mood hanging in the air, Gu Qianran could not figure out what was off.
Before Gu Qianran could think it through, the system popped up again. The perfect completion of the last task had apparently given the system the illusion that Gu Qianran had become easy to talk to, and it started brazenly issuing a new batch of ridiculous tasks.
Those tasks were either brain-dead, reeking of fake white-lotus virtue, or both.
Tsk, the stench was strong. Gu Qianran rolled her eyes inwardly. "You think I will do that. Hurry up, I have a task for you. Get lost, get lost, stop being an eyesore."
"The host has no authority to command the system. This task is a key plot advancement node and must be completed."
"Heh. And if I do not. Come erase your grandpa then. Come on. Can you. You cannot." Joking. Asking Gu Qianran to act like a simpering white lotus was worse than asking Gu Qianran to die on the spot.
The system truly regretted that it had thought Gu Qianran was easy to fool at the start and had revealed lots of information. Look now, the system was the one being fooled.
Gu Qianran's lips curved, blossoming like a rose, enticing yet dangerous. The moment Bai Ziyuan looked up and saw Gu Qianran smiling at her like that, Bai Ziyuan's heart skipped a beat.
Bai Ziyuan hurriedly covered her little heart and nestled back in. Ah ah ah, how can Ranran be so beautiful. That smile killed me.
If Ranran smiles at me like that, Ranran must have feelings for me. Hee hee. Bai Ziyuan buried her face in Gu Qianran's neck and snickered, and in a moment accidentally let out a silly little laugh.
Gu Qianran thought Bai Ziyuan was sleepy, patted Bai Ziyuan's head, and made room for Bai Ziyuan to rest. At the same time, the brain behind that alluring smile was thinking words that did not match the image at all.
"No way. Grandpa's motto is, if you can cause trouble without dying, then make it lethal. You do not accept that. You accept that. If you accept it then crawl for grandpa."
The system slunk off with its tail between its legs. The system truly could not understand why this person refused to follow the plot properly and insisted on hunting for bugs. In the previous life was Gu Qianran a CEO or a programmer. How did the system short out and pick Gu Qianran as the host.
No matter how the system grumbled, Gu Qianran's attention was now on Bai Ziyuan. Only now did Gu Qianran realize how red the little one's face was.
Gu Qianran asked with concern, "Little cutie, did you catch a cold. Why is your face so red."
Hearing that, Bai Ziyuan turned even redder and puffed her cheeks at Gu Qianran. It was all this person's fault. If Gu Qianran did not send out stray electricity, Bai Ziyuan would not be shy.
Thinking this way made Bai Ziyuan's dagger eyes lose their power, and instead a hint of coquettish reproach slipped in. Watching it, Gu Qianran's throat tightened for no reason.
"It is all your fault." Bai Ziyuan lay in the covers, feeling wronged. Gu Qianran chuckled. Although Gu Qianran had no idea how Gu Qianran had offended this little ancestor again, Gu Qianran still soothed her gently.
"All right, all right, blame me. Now poke your head out, do not smother yourself."
In the end Gu Qianran brought out the universal trump card, milk tea, to appease the unreasonable little one. The little one then pushed further, openly demanding that Gu Qianran continue to sleep with her.
"Hmph, you are the one who made me catch a cold. Your body is warm. I want to hold you to sleep." Bai Ziyuan was all bluster with little logic.
Gu Qianran accepted with pleasure. Gu Qianran felt that the more Gu Qianran held Bai Ziyuan, the better it felt. Tomorrow was Friday, which meant facing the storms at home and two days without seeing the little one. Better to hold her a little longer tonight.
The two lay back to back, the curves at the corners of their mouths perfectly alike.
They both slept soundly.
At the Li house, Li Junyao did not live on campus, so on Friday night Li Junyao returned home. Li Junyao went to Li Junze's room, and Li Junze handed over a sheet of paper.
"One thousand five. Cash for goods."
Li Junyao ground his teeth, transferred the fifteen hundred, and picked up the paper to read. It contained detailed information on Bai Ziyuan, including which dorm room Bai Ziyuan lived in, who Bai Ziyuan lived with, what time Bai Ziyuan usually left school, and other trivial details.
Li Junyao gave an evil-charmed smile. With Li Junze's intel, Li Junyao could manufacture plenty of chance encounters with the women who interested him. His mood improved, and he teased Li Junze, "Aren't you on good terms with that Gu Qianran. You just flipped her files for me."
Li Junze's expression went dark and unreadable. "Good. You think too much. As an illegitimate son, only money treats me well."
Li Junyao smiled smugly. "You had better remember your identity." Li Junyao tucked the paper into his pocket and left.
Staring at the closed door, Li Junze exhaled and pulled out his lit phone. "Big Boss Gu, you really counted everything."
On the other end, Gu Qianran breathed out in relief. "As long as he bought it. If he keeps popping up from who knows where, Bai Ziyuan and I will be exhausted always responding. Better to strike first, give him precise times, then crush his fantasies in a prepared confrontation, once and for all. And this time we also draw him closer to you so he will trust you."
Besides, Gu Qianran had a bigger plan. The sooner they cleared out that scumbag male lead the better, otherwise he would keep bouncing around. Protected by heavenly law, he could not be punished directly.
"Your investments should be going smoothly now, right. Best if the two of us make ten million before we graduate college." Gu Qianran reviewed projects with good prospects from the plot and invested one by one.
"Ten million. Start from zero and make ten million. For what." Li Junze was stunned. In his last life, as poor as he was, he could not even imagine what ten million meant.
"To throw stones on the water."
Li Junze thought, I do not understand the entertainment of the rich.
After Gu Qianran explained, Li Junze felt that the best decision of his life was following Gu Qianran. The plan was too thorough. A max-level avatar slaughtering the newbie village. Gu Qianran had mapped the scumbag male lead's personality completely, leaving him no escape.
In his heart, Li Junze lit a candle for Li Junyao.
"But then the Li Corporation will go bankrupt."
Gu Qianran smiled with genuine joy. "What does the Li Corporation going bankrupt have to do with me, Gu Qianran. Being a CEO is exhausting. I experienced that in my last life. This life I am switching to another way of making money."
"I will be a happy landlord auntie." In her last life Gu Qianran saw news about a landlord under thirty who owned dozens of buildings and earned over a hundred million a year, literally making money lying down. Gu Qianran secretly envied her for a long time.
Li Junze thought, I did not expect your dream to be so down to earth.
Gu Qianran moved as soon as she spoke. Since Gu Qianran was still a minor, bugging the system in the States to print money would not do for now. Options on the table included stumbling upon a huge sum, winning the lottery, toppling the Li Corporation and taking the money, or inheriting an estate.
Gu Qianran quietly reined in the dangerous ideas and started calling to the system in her mind. Rarely, the system ignored her.
Gu Qianran raised a brow and changed tactics, silently thinking, I accept this task.
[Which task does the host accept.] The system appeared at once, voice practically trembling with excitement.
"Answer a few questions and then I will accept." Gu Qianran smiled like a fox. The system thought a moment, then humbly agreed.
"If you transmit the plot to me now, can I perform targeted searches for details."
The system froze, thought it over, and seeing no obvious trap, answered honestly, [Host, yes. You can use time nodes to search for details about anyone in the book. Host, host. What is wrong.] Why did you suddenly smile so dangerously.
Gu Qianran showed a friendly smile. "I have a bold idea."
The system had a bad feeling. Sure enough, after the plot transfer, the system saw Gu Qianran searching for the Double Color Ball winning numbers.
The system thought, must you break a bug every single day. I am your monitor, not your golden finger.
Gu Qianran ignored the system and searched with delight. Look, a small slice of that ten million was settled just like that.
Whatever the system was, in Gu Qianran's hands it had to work as a golden finger.
Then Gu Qianran blasted the golden finger away again. Listening to the system's aggrieved voice, Gu Qianran felt no waves in her heart and even wanted to laugh.
A host who bug-abused a god and even did an encore, Gu Qianran might be the first.
Perhaps sensing Gu Qianran's mockery, the system actually returned, emitting a faint electrical hiss. Curious what it would say, Gu Qianran waited. After a long pause, a metallic voice popped out a single word. [Damn.]
Gu Qianran thought, what.
"I thought because you are a system you would surely have higher discourse, and yet you utter such crude speech."
Then a different, unfamiliar metallic voice spoke. [You are not on the system whitelist. Please apply for whitelisting first.]
Fine. In the end, the system had shut itself down.