Chapter 442 - 228: A Delicious Breakfast

Once the ownership transfer was complete, a housekeeping company partnered with the property management began an expedited cleaning of the house.

When it came to buying things like bedding sets, Gu Pan insisted on using her own money.

Qi Sheng didn’t stop her, wanting Gu Pan to feel a sense of involvement in their new home.

This was the first time in her life that Gu Pan had spent over a million.

And that was just for a few mattresses and some bedding sets.

The 12 million she had just received had barely warmed her hands before it was already down to 10.5 million.

The feeling of spending money like water was truly exhilarating.

Gu Pan already couldn’t bear to leave this lifestyle behind.

But once she calmed down, one thing started to bother Gu Pan.

How was she going to answer Dong Bai?

Being completely upfront would be a bit cruel.

After thinking it over, Gu Pan decided to keep Dong Bai in the dark for now.

At the very least, she had to wait until Qi Sheng had "devoured" Dong Bai.

Then, under the glorious guise of backstabbing a sister, she would join Dong Bai in feeding themselves to the tiger.

’Yes, that’s the plan!’

Gu Pan made sure she and Qi Sheng had their stories straight before returning to school with her mind at ease.

She didn’t have to worry about her clothes or other belongings either.

Gu Feng and his team would deliver them once the house was clean.

In less than 24 hours, Gu Pan’s life had been turned upside down.

She now not only possessed a Capital City residency permit but also owned a top-tier luxury mansion worth 40 million.

As for a car, Gu Pan chose a special edition Mercedes-AMG GT63 4-Door.

With options, the license plate, and other fees, the final on-road price came to 3.5 million.

Gu Pan had wanted to choose a more low-key model, but Qi Sheng insisted she choose from models with a base price of over two million.

But this was the kind of blessed dilemma countless girls would kill to have.

...

On her way back, Gu Pan specifically had Gu Feng park the car some distance away from the school.

She walked onto the Beijing Film Academy campus with another girl about her age.

This girl was none other than one of the two personal bodyguards Qi Sheng had assigned to her.

His other girlfriends were one thing; they weren’t usually prone to accidents.

But being a female celebrity was a profession that naturally attracted the lecherous gazes of all sorts of men.

How could Qi Sheng rest easy letting Gu Pan brave that cesspool of an industry without making arrangements beforehand?

Seeing Gu Pan return to campus with a girl after disappearing for a night, the simps who had been worried their goddess had gone down the wrong path immediately flocked to the campus forums to start a flame war.

"[Photo] See? Our goddess went out with her bestie last night! A bunch of sons of bitches spreading rumors!"

"Our goddess is the greatest! Would our campus belle Gu Pan, who rejected major companies in the Chinese Entertainment industry, fall for some punk driving a G63?"

"LMAO, you simps are hopeless. Based on my years of experience, our goddess has definitely been defiled!"

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

...

Back in her dorm room, Gu Pan saw Dong Bai engrossed in sketching a design and suddenly felt a pang of guilt.

"Panpan, you’re back?"

Seeing Gu Pan return with another girl, Dong Bai subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

"Yeah. This is Yu Si, a friend of mine."

"She just arrived in the Capital City and doesn’t have a place to stay yet, so she’ll be staying in our dorm for a few days."

Gu Pan introduced Yu Si, the woman assigned to be her personal bodyguard, to a curious-looking Dong Bai.

"Hello, Sister Sisi."

Dong Bai greeted her sweetly, not suspecting a thing about their relationship.

"Hello, Xiaobai."

Yu Si smiled back at Dong Bai.

’She knew this beautiful girl would also be one of her boss’s women in the future.’

The two of them enthusiastically prepared an empty bunk.

Of course, they had already spoken with the roommate whose bunk it was.

Seeing Dong Bai busy with her work, Gu Pan didn’t disturb her.

She took out the acting textbook she had flipped through many times before, which had always seemed as incomprehensible as a divine scripture.

"Huh?"

Gu Pan made a surprising discovery.

Content that she had once found dry and difficult to understand now seemed as simple as one plus one.

This was the joy of a star student, and Gu Pan couldn’t help but immerse herself in it.

She was completely absorbed until Dong Bai came over and tapped her on the shoulder.

"Panpan, is the textbook really that good?"

Dong Bai wasn’t an acting major, but she knew how dry those textbooks could be.

The Gu Pan of the past had always preferred studying scripts to reading textbooks like this.

"It’s fascinating! I feel like I’ve had an epiphany. It’s like I’ve turned into a top student."

Experiencing the joy of being a star student for the first time, Gu Pan wanted to keep reading, not yet having had her fill.

"Stop reading. Go get ready for bed. Have you forgotten about your scheduled beauty sleep?"

Dong Bai felt that Gu Pan had been acting strange ever since she got back, but she couldn’t quite put her finger on what it was.

Previously, Gu Pan had the air of a cool, glamorous beauty.

But she was still an innocent young woman at heart, with a hint of naivete in her eyes.

But upon her return, that naivete had vanished without a trace.

In its place was a seductive allure.

’It felt wrong to describe her best friend that way. But that was genuinely the feeling Dong Bai got.’

If Yu Si hadn’t been with her, she would have suspected Gu Pan was secretly seeing a boyfriend.

"Oh, right! Beauty sleep is more important!"

Not daring to slack off, Gu Pan quickly put down the textbook.

She had heard from Qi Sheng just how enormous his "girlfriend group" was.

To say it was a "cloud of beauties" was no exaggeration.

To secure her position, Gu Pan had to take good care of her pretty face.

...

「The next day」

Gu Pan brought breakfast she’d bought from the school cafeteria and hailed a car to Yihe Aman.

The bodyguards on duty at the courtyard gate naturally didn’t dare stop the new "madam."

Once inside the suite, Gu Pan was so angry she almost threw the soy milk and steamed buns she was carrying.

She was the woman in his bed yesterday, but today, she’d been replaced by two newcomers.

Fortunately, neither of these two women was nearly as beautiful as she was.

’That’s good news, at least.’ Gu Pan breathed a sigh of relief inwardly.

"Hey, lazy pig! Get up!"

Gu Pan huffed, slapping Qi Sheng on his bare torso.

Gu Pan quickly learned the consequences of waking a man up early in the morning.

Her clothes were swiftly stripped away.

Then came a sharp, piercing pain.

She felt as if she were adrift on ocean waves, rising and falling with the tide.

In a daze, she fluttered her eyes open to see the handsome, magnified face of the man before her.

"This breakfast is delicious. I like it a lot."

Qi Sheng’s voice was slightly hoarse, tinged with the laziness of someone who had just woken up.

"You villain! I told you to eat the buns, not to eat me!"

Feeling stretched to her absolute limit, Gu Pan wanted to cry but had no tears.

"Alright, as you wish."

Qi Sheng decisively "tasted the buns," his rhythm quickening once more.

"Not *those* buns!"

"Be a good girl. Just bear with it. I’ll be done soon."

It wasn’t as if Gu Pan hadn’t experienced Qi Sheng’s stamina before.

How could she possibly be fooled by him?

The problem was, she couldn’t escape.

Qi Sheng was like a tireless farmer, fiercely plowing a newly tilled, tender, and fertile field.

She couldn’t quite remember, but it was about an hour and a half later.

When they finished, Qi Sheng went to take a shower.

She and her two new "sisters" sat side-by-side and started to chat.

Liu Shiwen was the first to heap on the praise. "Panpan, you’re so gorgeous! No wonder our man likes you so much, giving you a mansion and a luxury car right after you got together."

Tang Qian chimed in, "Aside from Sister Qu Man, Panpan might be the second most beautiful woman in our family."

"The second most beautiful?"

Gu Pan was unconvinced. "Among the other sisters, is there really someone that beautiful?"

"Hold on, I’ll add you to the group chat now. Our man is so careless, he didn’t even think to add you."

Liu Shiwen added Gu Pan on WeChat and pulled her into the "sisters" group chat.

Liu Shiwen: "Hey sisters, this is Gu Pan, the campus belle from the Beijing Film Academy! @Gu Pan"

The already lively chat instantly exploded, with messages flooding the screen.

Xu Ying: "Another new girl! Our man is seriously something else, he even bagged the campus belle of the Beijing Film Academy."

Tan Hua: "@Xu Ying, don’t be so crude. Welcome, welcome! Panpan, you’re so pretty."

Du Xinxin: "Sister Panpan, you should come visit us in Chengdu when you have the chance! There are a ton of sisters here!"

Qu Man: "Welcome, Panpan."

...

Gu Pan counted out of curiosity and arrived at a shocking number.

She actually had 20 "sisters"!

Even though Gu Pan had been mentally prepared, the number still stunned her.

It took her a long time to snap out of it.

Gu Pan: "Thank you, everyone. I’m so happy to be part of this big family. I’m joining a film set next month, so I’ll be quite busy, but I’ll definitely get together with all of you when I have the chance."

After sending the message, Gu Pan was finally in the mood to browse through the WeChat Moments of her new sisters in the group.

Since they were all beauties, none of them were shy about posting photos.

Their feeds were filled with gorgeous pictures of themselves.

And among those photos, a certain familiar figure made frequent appearances.

Gu Pan scrolled quickly and soon came across Qu Man’s profile.

"This... Are you sure this isn’t photoshopped?"

Gu Pan had always considered herself the most beautiful woman in the world.

At least, she had never met a woman who was more beautiful than she was.

But now she had, and right within Qi Sheng’s girlfriend group.

No wonder when she had asked Qi Sheng if she was the prettiest one... his expression had been a little strange.

Thinking back on it now, that guy was definitely laughing at her.

ARRRGH, how mortifying!

"Panpan, you’re already incredibly beautiful," Liu Shiwen said, thinking Gu Pan’s confidence had taken a hit. She quickly tried to comfort her.

"As for a goddess like Sister Qu Man, you’d be hard-pressed to find another one like her in the entire country."

’Sister Qu Man really is beautiful, and her aura is amazing. I bet if she were an actress, she’d be a huge star.’

Gu Pan felt the "perfect wife" persona was a more fitting description of the image Qu Man held in everyone’s hearts.

’She had the looks, an incredible figure, and was highly capable.’

Tasting defeat for the first time, Gu Pan finally let go of her arrogance.

There’s always a bigger fish.

Maybe in the future, a woman even more beautiful than Qu Man would appear in their sisterhood.

She didn’t even know how long she could hold onto her new title as the "second most beautiful."

Although Liu Shiwen and the others weren’t as beautiful or well-built as she was, Gu Pan didn’t look down on them in the slightest. Instead, she humbly asked for their guidance.

Any "big family" like this was bound to have some unwritten rules.

As a newcomer, she naturally had to abide by the group’s unspoken rules.

For example, the position of "official girlfriend" was completely off-limits.

Even Qu Man had never shown any ambition to compete for that spot.

The same went for the sisters who came later, like Qingqing and Chuchu, Princess Jiang, and Zhuang Xiaomeng.

They all tacitly accepted Tan Hua’s status.

After hearing all this, Gu Pan felt an immense amount of pressure.

It turned out her beauty wasn’t the all-powerful trump card she thought it was.

The sisters, Qingqing and Chuchu, were a source of major pressure.

They were twins!

With Qi Sheng’s personality, it would be weirder if he *didn’t* like them.

Zhuang Xiaomeng also had a distinct advantage.

She had the "doctor" profession bonus and was apparently quite favored.

And then there was Princess Jiang.

Her family’s backing was her greatest asset.

None of the other sisters could even begin to compare.

Thinking about it this way, bringing in a powerful ally like Dong Bai was absolutely crucial.

How could she possibly compete against those cliques of sisters all on her own?