GRMFBS CH144

Ghost King Minghe sat beneath the Wenyu Tree, resting her chin on her hand, watching the “Lin Yuan” puppet chase a cat all over the mountain.

Wan Yan the cat leaped high and crouched low, his smooth, snow-white fur rubbed into a chaotic mess.

To keep Wan Yan Ghost King a bit more peaceful, Ghost King Tie Lao very generously paid the Artisan a large sum of money. The Artisan possessed great professional ethics and equipped the “Lin Yuan” puppet with top-tier specifications.

Because she had heard about Wan Yan Ghost King’s psychotic behavior, the Artisan considered that a puppet that was too fragile might not withstand Wan Yan Ghost King’s play, and a puppet that was too slow might not keep up with his game speed. Therefore, she specifically enhanced the puppet’s strength, power, and speed.

And Wan Yan wasn’t exactly known for his speed.

“Why is the little kitty running away?”

Wan Yan, caught by the “Lin Yuan” puppet, had his belly rubbed once again.

“It’s so dangerous outside. The little kitty is so small and soft, there’s no way he can escape.”

Wan Yan: …

Help!

He struggled with great difficulty and slapped the “Lin Yuan” puppet’s personality switch button.

“Whoosh—smack!”

Wan Yan was thrown onto the Wenyu Tree.

The “Lin Yuan” puppet: “Stay far away from This Seat!”

Wan Yan: …

Do you think I don’t want to?! Who was the pervert chasing me like crazy just now?!!

The “Lin Yuan” puppet was frantically cleaning the cat hair off its clothes: “You deeply scheming little kitty! This Seat would never like a cunning little kitty like you!”

Wan Yan: So angry!

With a meow-aow, Wan Yan pounced on the “Lin Yuan” puppet.

Zhan Yan enjoyed eating this gossip very much.

He had searched the Artisan’s gossip threads and knew that both of the “Lin Yuan” puppet’s personalities were simulated through online data.

The cat-loving personality was imported from Professor Miao’s account. Zhan Yan had confirmed it; it was very accurate. The pet cats at the affiliated veterinary hospital had complained more than once about Professor Miao’s perverse level of cat snuggling.

And this was even the result of Professor Miao exercising restraint toward outside cats. He didn’t even dare to imagine how much he snuggled his British Shorthair and Ragdoll at home.

The Artisan’s personality simulation system was very mature. Since that was the case… then the other personality serving as a reference for Ghost King Lin Yuan’s personality should also be quite accurate.

Ghost King Lin Yuan actually had this kind of personality? He hadn’t noticed it when communicating with him previously.

But Professor Miao was also very serious and proper during class; one could never tell how perverse his private cat snuggling was.

Perhaps Ghost King Lin Yuan was also seemingly proper on the surface, but privately very “Long Aotian”-esque?

Although the gossip was delicious, seeing Wan Yan looking like he was about to be petted crazy, yet still reluctant to break the puppet, he probably wouldn’t have the energy to think about dotting the eyes of the black iron fish pendant for a short while.

Zhan Yan yawned halfway through a sigh.

He hadn’t slept much last night and was starting to lose his grip. Zhan Yan closed the Gossip System, planning to search again tomorrow.

The lights in the dorm were turned off. Zhan Yan lay with his eyes closed for quite a while. Perhaps because he was too mentally stimulated, he couldn’t fall asleep, his mind wandering randomly. Thinking of Wan Yan made him think of cats, thinking of cats made him think of teasing them with catnip today, and thinking of teasing cats made him think of Gu Jiancheng.

When teasing the cats today, he had said: “They’re saying they like catnip.”

“He said, ‘You’re not allowed to give my food to anyone else.'”

Zhan Yan recalled that tone and pondered over it again. Could Gu Jiancheng be jealous because he bought catnip to make up for him cooking cat food for the stray cats?

Tsk tsk tsk. Zhan Yan quietly rolled over, propped himself up on his elbow, and leaned his head out to look at Gu Jiancheng across the way.

Gu Jiancheng had his eyes closed, his breathing deep and slow, a wisp of loose hair resting on his forehead, looking like he was already asleep.

Zhan Yan stretched out a finger, gestured a couple of times above his head, and gave it a gentle poke.

That’s for poking my forehead in the middle of the night!

Having secretly completed his bad deed, Zhan Yan lay back down and slept contentedly.

Gu Jiancheng, who was pretending to sleep, opened his eyes and stared at the pitch-black ceiling.

Now he couldn’t sleep.

…

Early the next morning, Zhan Yan woke up feeling refreshed and pulled Gu Jiancheng along for morning exercise.

The two ran into Professor Miao on the sports field again.

Zhan Yan was very puzzled: “Did Wangwang scratch the door at 4:00 AM again?”

Did Wangwang go back on his word?

Professor Miao looked very peaceful: “No. He scratched the door at 5:30 AM today.”

Zhan Yan: …How to put it? The little kitty did keep his word, right?

Professor Miao decided to just accept it; from now on, he would sleep early and wake up early.

Today he would continue looking for a breakthrough point and eating gossip.

Before Zhan Yan had time to search, a message popped up in the family group chat first.

His mom forwarded a link into the group. Zhan Yan clicked on it and saw that a TV drama his dad had filmed was airing.

Ning Xi, worried about Tianshi’s physical condition, had arranged a very important yet leisurely task for her: guarding a temporary warehouse full of important materials.

Ji Yueming, bored with nothing to do, began watching Zhan Yunkai’s TV drama.

Zhan Yan had read the gossip threads about his dad filming this drama.

This was a drama his dad casually filmed previously just to find an excuse to leave the house, with a total screen time of less than two minutes. His mom actually found the segment where his dad appeared for those two minutes and posted comments and bullet chats respectively, expressing that Zhan Yunkai acted really well and that she came specifically for him.

The latter half of the sentence wasn’t a lie.

Zhan Yan also posted a comment praising his dad. After the new comment was posted, the comment section naturally refreshed, and Zhan Yan saw a new reply under his mom’s comment.

Jiu Your Head: [You call this acting good? Do you even understand acting?]

Because of that drama last year, Zhan Yunkai had gained some popularity, and there were a few scattered genuine fans under this episode. The genuine fans were all face fans; none praised his acting, they were all praising how handsome his styling was in the new drama.

This “Jiu Your Head” went down and attacked every single comment praising Zhan Yunkai, even saying, “What’s so good about this? Looking weak and flimsy, not mighty at all.”

Who is this guy?

Zhan Yan became annoyed and started searching with the Gossip System.

[The Nine-Headed Demon King Xiang Liu secretly registered a smurf account “Jiu Your Head” to anti-fan Zhan Yunkai.]

Zhan Yan: …What is going on with you, Great Demon?

Zhan Yan started searching through the gossip threads and discovered this matter was even related to him.

Previously, because he briefly mentioned variety improvement and demon race aptitude in the cultivator group chat, Granny Zhuo Shu and the parrot demon Wu Ying were both very interested and started a related research project.

Somehow this matter reached Xiang Liu’s ears. The Demon King was very interested and wanted to join.

Xiang Liu was a fierce god, shaped like a nine-headed snake. Although he joined the Wan Yao Alliance, his conduct and style were still on the more wicked side.

To describe it in an easier-to-understand way: the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau belonged to Lawful Good, the Wan Yao Alliance belonged to Chaotic Good, and Xiang Liu was originally Neutral Evil, but after joining the Wan Yao Alliance, he became Lawful Neutral.

It was said that Xiang Liu was beaten into submission by several great demons back then. Although Xiang Liu was ferocious, he kept his promises. So after he submitted, the other great demons agreed to let him join the Wan Yao Alliance.

But the fierce reputation he had accumulated over the years was truly too terrifying for birds. Wu Ying was incredibly scared and didn’t want to deal with him. She was just a tiny parrot demon; Xiang Liu could swallow her whole if he got unhappy.

Therefore, Wu Ying thought of seeking protection from other Demon Kings.

There were three avian Demon Kings in the Wan Yao Alliance: the Phoenix was rectifying his tribe, the Qing Yun Demon King was on a rotating shift repairing the world barrier, and the other one was the Chongming Demon King.

Terrified, Wu Ying dove headfirst into Qixia Mountain to seek protection.

After hearing about this, Xiang Liu was very unhappy, but he couldn’t beat the Chongming Bird—divine birds like Chongming and Phoenix, born as auspicious signs that warded off evil and malevolence, perfectly countered him. Among the great demons who beat him half to death back then, Chongming was one of them.

Xiang Liu was ferocious by nature; he couldn’t hold in his anger and had to vent it, but he also didn’t want to get beaten up. His nine heads discussed it for several days and came up with the idea of creating a smurf account to anti-fan the Chongming Demon King’s ordinary human identity.

…This idea was actually strangely cute.

Zhan Yan instantly lost the motivation to argue with “Jiu Your Head.”

But upon refreshing the comment section again, Zhan Yan discovered that in the short time he spent eating gossip, his mom had already started fighting with Xiang Liu in the comment section, and Xiang Liu was scolding his mom for having problems with her eyes.

Zhan Yan: Rolls up his sleeves and charges in!

@Brother and Sister, come help quickly!

Underworld.

Zhan Jinli was currently discussing the potential impact of the doomsday world on the Underworld with Ghost King Tie Lao.

Ghost King Tie Lao felt incredibly happy recently. Because of the gravitational tide, Ghost King Lin Yuan had appeared and helped him handle a massive amount of work.

Sure enough, Senior Lin Yuan was still the most reliable!

It would be even happier if Senior Lin Yuan could stay permanently.

Ghost King Tie Lao: “Please rest assured, I have already handled Wan Yan…”

Zhan Jinli suddenly raised a hand: “Wait a moment.”

Ghost King Tie Lao obediently stopped, curiously watching Zhan Jinli pull out his phone and rapidly begin operating it.

“Is this the systematic office work you mentioned to me before?”

No, I’m helping my mom win an argument.

Zhan Jinli vaguely said: “Hmm, the human world uses this systematic office work.”

Ghost King Tie Lao greatly praised it: “This mobile phone of theirs is small, can be carried around, and is convenient for working anytime, anywhere. Truly full of wisdom.”

Zhan Jinli couldn’t help but be shocked by his corporate slave manifesto, and for a moment couldn’t resist reflecting on himself.

“I’ll handle the things we just discussed, you go rest.”

Ghost King Tie Lao was extremely happy and went off to handle other work.

Zhan Jinli: …

Is this the inertia of a corporate slave?

Forget it, he’ll lower his head and continue helping his mom argue.

They had four people, but Xiang Liu had nine heads.

Zhan Suiru called Xiao Ran to help, and Zhan Jinli called five little ghosts to help. They now had ten. Ten against nine, the tables have turned!

Zhan Yan was extremely happy, thinking the people who appeared later were other fans of his dad.

After finishing the argument, Zhan Jinli continued to handle work, busying himself until nightfall, preparing to switch back to his ordinary identity to go home.

Ghost King Tie Lao popped up: “I have already handled Senior Wan Yan. Senior Wan Yan won’t have the time to figure out how to escape Mount Chaofu for a short while, you don’t have to hide from him anymore.”

Zhan Jinli was very surprised: “Truly handled?”

Ghost King Tie Lao was very confident: “Truly.”

Zhan Jinli didn’t ask how he handled him, as Ghost King Tie Lao was always reliable, but his daily departures now weren’t to hide from Wan Yan.

In the past, he could easily find an excuse not to go home, but now they had an extra cat at home. Zhan Jinli rushed back and forth on the Underworld path every day just to go home and feed Xingxing, and this little ingrate even dared to disdain the cat food he made!

Tie Lao looked at him with immense sympathy, repeatedly assuring him that Wan Yan couldn’t leave Mount Chaofu for the time being.

Was he rushing around every day because he was afraid of Wan Yan? He was doing it for another cat!

Sure enough, cats are all troublesome!