My father is the main character, but the female leads want to kill me.

……

Because of his injuries, Lin Ran had to consider his physical condition even if he wanted to rush over immediately. He walked quickly toward his home, and suddenly he turned around and glanced at the crowd behind him on the street, where he saw Qiu Qingzi's two subordinates.

"Follow me for what?"

Lin Ran felt something was off, but didn't think much of it and continued on her way.

They soon arrived at a secluded residential area. After Lin Ran found her house, she was about to open the door when the door was opened from the inside first.

"Hey, Wanxi, what are you doing here?"

Lin Ran's face was full of surprise. He was a little surprised that Ye Wanxi, his daughter-in-law, had actually come out of her room. Was the alchemy exchange meeting not over yet?

"uncle!"

When Ye Wanxi saw Lin Ran, she instinctively covered her mouth and gasped. She quickly realized what was happening and grabbed Lin Ran's arm, pulling him inside. She said anxiously, "Uncle, come with me quickly! Sister Qianyi won't be like this if she knows you're back!"

Seeing Ye Wanxi's anxious appearance, Lin Ran became even more worried about Wen Qianyi.

Ye Wanxi led Lin Ran to the master bedroom, suddenly pushed open the wooden door, pushed Lin Ran into the room, and then stepped outside. She playfully gave Lin Ran a thumbs-up before quietly closing the door.

"touch~"

After the wooden door closed, Lin Ran looked towards the bedroom. He walked over cautiously and witnessed a scene that made him quite distressed.

The bedroom was a mess, with many empty bottles lying on the floor, and a pungent smell of alcohol filled Lin Ran's nostrils.

He slowly squatted down, picked up a wine bottle with some wine still inside, and couldn't help but tilt his head back and take a sip, the mellow taste spreading on his tongue.

"Isn't this the wine I brewed?" Lin Ran thought in surprise.

But the alcohol was secondary. What truly worried Lin Ran was Wen Qianyi, who was completely drunk, disheveled, and leaning against his bedside.

He had known Qianyi for so long and rarely saw her drink alcohol; he even tried to stop her from drinking. But now, Qianyi was drowning her sorrows in alcohol and got herself completely drunk.

Lin Ran walked to Wen Qianyi's side, sat down by the bed, and stared at her rosy, pretty face and delicate eyelashes. He couldn't help but reach out and tuck the messy strands of hair behind her ear, his face full of doting affection: "Silly girl, don't you know that drinking to drown your sorrows only makes them worse?"

Seemingly because her cheeks felt itchy from the strands of hair that had been brushed aside, Wen Qianyi subconsciously scratched her cheeks with her left hand. Lin Ran noticed that she was holding a soul jade tablet in her fair little hand.

He was stunned, his eyes wide with astonishment. He tried to remove the jade pendant, but it was held tightly as if it were some kind of precious treasure, and he couldn't budge it no matter how hard he tried.

Perhaps it was Lin Ran's behavior that woke Wen Qianyi. Her eyelashes trembled like butterflies taking flight, and her misty eyes collided with Lin Ran's.

Looking at the "blurry" Lin Ran in front of her, Wen Qianyi couldn't help but pout and said coquettishly, "Senior, I want a hug!"

"it is good!"

Without any hesitation, Lin Ran gave Wen Qianyi a warm hug. He gently patted her back and said very tenderly, "Why did you drink so much?"

"Miss you!"

Wen Qianyi rummaged around with her right hand, grabbed a wine bottle, and pretended to tilt her head back to pour it over herself. But there was no wine in it, which disappointed Wen Qianyi. She pouted and shouted, "No wine!"

"You've already drunk so much, don't drink anymore!" Lin Ran said helplessly.

Look at all these empty bottles on the ground. He's probably ruined all the wine he brewed in the basement. But what can he do when it's his woman?

"I do not care!"

Wen Qianyi, throwing a tantrum, pounded Lin Ran's chest with her small fists and said coquettishly, "I want wine, I want wine..."

"hiss!"

Lin Ran felt the tearing pain of his wound again. He gasped for breath, thinking of grabbing the mischievous little hand, but as soon as he reached out... he couldn't help but let it fall back down...

Let's consider this his punishment for hurting Qianyi...

Wen Qianyi quickly stopped venting her anger, curled up in Lin Ran's arms like a kitten, closed her eyes again, and soon began to breathe softly, seemingly falling into a deep sleep.

Lin Ran looked down at Wen Qianyi in her arms, gently stroking her hair. Looking at her sleeping face, the pain in her chest suddenly seemed insignificant.

After all, if this little bit of hardship could win you a girl who cares about you deeply, I believe any man in the world would choose to endure that hardship without hesitation.

Looking down at Wen Qianyi, Lin Ran also fell asleep without realizing it. He was exhausted from the journey back, and now that his mind was at peace, his eyelids were heavy with weariness as he closed the curtains.

……

Wen Qianyi had a good dream, a wonderful dream.

In her dream, she could freely act coquettishly towards her senior, ask for hugs, and even sleep in Lin Ran's arms. However, she actually asked her senior for wine, which felt a bit embarrassing. She couldn't let her senior know that she was drowning her sorrows in alcohol.

Just as she was thinking about how to keep her senior from knowing that she was drinking, she suddenly woke up!

Wen Qianyi opened her sleepy eyes and subconsciously looked around. The bedroom was dimly lit, and the floor was still littered with empty bottles. The only difference was that she was no longer leaning against the bed, but against someone...

"people?"

Wen Qianyi was startled. She involuntarily took a step back, rubbed her eyes, and looked at the blurry figure. As her eyes gradually focused on the other person's face, a face she missed the most entered her field of vision.

She almost cried out in surprise, but she held back just before the sound was about to come out; she couldn't bear to disturb Lin Ran.

Like a kitten, she cautiously crawled back, looking closely at Lin Ran, even nuzzling her head against Lin Ran's chest, gently wrinkling her nose as a strong smell of alcohol filled her nostrils...

"Oh no, the senior saw me drinking, and even saw me drowning my sorrows in alcohol. I was just dreaming about it..." Wen Qianyi hugged her knees to her chest, clutching her beautiful hair, her eyes filled with regret.

No one wants to appear like a drunkard in front of their loved one, and Qianyi was no exception. But now, her gentle and obedient lady-like image has been shattered...

"Woooooo~"

Wen Qianyi whimpered softly, but her little nose twitched, and she quickly caught a strange smell. As an alchemist, she often needed to use her sense of smell to identify medicinal herbs, and she suddenly realized that there was something unusual about the smell.

She couldn't help but lean closer to Lin Ran's chest and smell it again; this time the scent was even clearer and stronger…

"It tastes like blood!"

Wen Qianyi's mind went blank for a moment. The next moment, she hurriedly pulled open Lin Ran's clothes and immediately saw the bandages wrapped all over her chest, which had formed a large pool of dark red blood...

Terrified, Wen Qianyi covered her mouth, her eyes wide open. Trembling, she took out a pair of scissors and carefully cut open the already stained bandages on Lin Ran's chest. The fine, dense scars, like those from someone being slowly tortured with a knife, pierced her eyes...

Seeing these scars, and remembering how she had punched Lin Ran in the chest before, tears welled up in her eyes, and soft sobs echoed quietly in the room…

……

75. Pre-dragon ruins

The bitter, pungent smell violently assaulted Lin Ran's nostrils, waking him instantly from his deep sleep. When he woke up, he found himself lying on the bed, his bandages and clothes completely cut off.

His whole body was covered in a sticky, greenish-black ointment applied to his wounds, and the pungent smell came from the ointment.

Lin Ran didn't dare to move. He turned his head and looked at the empty bottles on the floor of the room, which had been cleaned up. There were many bottles and jars on the round table. If a bowling ball hit one of them, it would probably get a grand slam.

"Qianyi, Qianyi!"

Lin Ran shouted at the top of his lungs, but when no one answered, he decided to just lie there and give up for now.

He guessed that Qianyi must have belatedly noticed his wounds and applied medicine to them, but now he was in an awkward situation, covered in ointment and lying there stiffly, truly a "troublemaker"!

After some time, there was a noise coming from the doorway. It sounded like Qianyi talking to someone else. Then, Qianyi came in carrying a tray.

As soon as Wen Qianyi entered the room, she saw Lin Ran's resentful gaze from the bed. She placed the tray on the table, put her hands on her hips, and looked at Lin Ran angrily, saying, "Senior, you're covered in injuries, why didn't you mention it when you came back!"

"Well... I was just anxious to see you!"

Lin Ran instinctively wanted to raise her hand, but when she realized that her hands were covered in plasters, she suppressed the instinct.

Regarding the injury, on the one hand, Lin Ran didn't have many pills on hand, and on the other hand, Lin Ran was confident in his current physical body. He found that by cultivating and mobilizing the blood and qi in his body, his injuries healed faster than by taking pills, so he decided to use cultivation to replace healing.

Just as Fan Hua said at the beginning, Lin Ran's injuries would have killed most people in no time, but Lin Ran survived, thanks in no small part to that strange egg.

"So eager to see me... Who told you to rush back..."

Wen Qianyi snorted, a blush rising to her cheeks, her eyes filled with excitement. She picked up the medicine that had just been brought in, went to Lin Ran's bedside, blew on the steaming soup, and said, "Senior, it's time to drink your medicine!"

Lin Ran opened his mouth, and a mouthful of extremely bitter medicinal soup entered his mouth. The aftertaste was also very sour, and his facial expression almost twisted together.

Seeing Lin Ran like this, Wen Qianyi couldn't help but laugh and said, "Senior, I've already added quite a few things to neutralize the taste of these medicinal soups. I've taken a sip myself and I'm not in as much pain as you are!"

Lin Ran shook her head helplessly and said, "I'm too old for bitterness and sourness!"

"Senior, you're very young!"

Wen Qianyi scooped another spoonful of the medicinal soup for Lin Ran and said, "Drinking this will help you get better faster!"

"I feel like you're coaxing a child!" Lin Ran said.

"Just let me be a mother this once!" Wen Qianyi said with a smile.

"I'm much older than you. If you were my mother, wouldn't that make you look older too!" Lin Ran almost choked on her own saliva when she heard Wen Qianyi say that.

"Senior, you're so annoying!" Wen Qianyi said coquettishly.

However, Lin Ran finished the entire medicinal soup during the conversation. After drinking it, she felt a warm current flowing through her body, and her health was much better than before.

Wen Qianyi placed the empty bowl back on the table and said to Lin Ran, "Senior, please rest well during this time. I will refine some pills to help you recover as soon as possible!"

"Thank you for your hard work, Qianyi!"

Lin Ran looked at Wen Qianyi sincerely and said, "You've done so much for me, I don't know how to thank you enough!"

"Don't say things like that again, okay?" Wen Qianyi said, staring at Lin Ran with a resentful look.

"it is good!"

Looking at Wen Qianyi's somewhat haggard face, Lin Ran felt a pang of heartache and nodded in agreement.

……

Since returning to Linghua Academy that time, Lin Ran has been living like an emperor. Wen Qianyi serves her wholeheartedly in everything she does, even when it comes to dressing her.

Lin Ran felt embarrassed and protested repeatedly, saying that he was only injured, not crippled, but Wen Qianyi was persistent and insisted on taking care of him this way.

Every time Lin Ran met Wen Qianyi's eyes, she would always give in and go along with Wen Qianyi's lead.

During this time, Qiu Qingzi also came to visit. That woman has a terrible conscience. Lin Ran initially thought that Qiu Qingzi cared about her so much because she really considered him a friend, but then she suddenly asked, "When can you take over the work?"

In an instant, the filter that Lin Ran had in mind about Qiu Qingzi was shattered. This woman was always thinking about slacking off and actually let a patient like him take over the work. How despicable!

Under Wen Qianyi's meticulous care, Lin Ran's injuries have fully recovered. However, her spiritual power has not yet fully recovered to its peak, but she currently has about 70-80% of her original strength.

Although he wanted to stay in bed, Lin Ran couldn't stay idle. He returned to his post at Linghua Academy and took over all the work of preparing the academy for the Continental Academy Competition.

This was personally chosen by Wen Bixuan. The fact that his sister-in-law valued him so much made him feel quite apprehensive.

Although Linghua Academy has changed a lot since he joined and has indeed shown an upward trend, it will still be very difficult to achieve a good ranking in the Continental Academy Competition and restore the glory of Linghua Academy.

Lin Ran also obtained the relevant information about this year's All-Continent Academy Competition. Upon closer inspection, she discovered that the venue was not in Jiezhou, but in the Southern Region's Qianzhou.