We agreed not to date, so why are you crying now that I've become the richest man?

Pushing open the balcony door and walking back inside, Sun Haoyu was still howling in front of the computer screen, his bare back covered in sweat.

"Old Ye, who are you talking to on the phone for so long? Hurry up and log on!"

"Those five hordes of enemies have already pushed all the way to our high ground tower!"

Lu Wenbo took off his headset, rubbed his sore ears, turned his head and glanced at Ye Chen with a mischievous grin on his face.

"Haoyu, haven't you noticed yet? Old Ye was laughing like a flower while answering the phone on the balcony just now. It's probably one of his female confidantes checking up on him."

Hearing this, Ye Chen pulled out a chair and sat down, casually picked up a bottle of mineral water from the table, unscrewed it, took a sip, and then threw the empty bottle into the trash can with a laugh.

"Stop talking nonsense. My family just called to ask if I have enough living expenses."

"Alright, you two hurry up and finish this game. I'm going to log into QQ to check the class group notifications."

Seeing this, Sun Haoyu didn't press the matter further. He turned back and continued frantically clicking the mouse, as if he wanted to make sparks fly from the keyboard.

Ye Chen had just placed his phone flat on the edge of the table when the screen suddenly lit up, accompanied by two crisp coughing sounds, and the penguin icon started jumping in the status bar.

He reached out and unlocked the screen, then tapped into the QQ message list. The profile picture that popped up at the top was a gray and white cat perched on a windowsill watching the rain.

That was Gu Yuxuan, the most beautiful girl in the Foreign Languages ​​Department.

Upon opening the chat box, two lines of text, conveying a cool yet caring tone, came into view.

"Your right shoulder was completely soaked last night. Do you have a cold or headache today?"

"If you dare to lie to me and say you're fine, and then can't get up to take me sightseeing in Shanghai this weekend, I won't let you off the hook."

Looking at these two lines of text, Ye Chen's lips curled up slightly. He naturally recalled the girl's reddened ears as she carefully wiped the rain off his shoulder with a tissue under the narrow rain shelter of the grocery store last night.

She's clearly a cold and aloof school beauty who's icy to outsiders, but she always puts on a fake fierce and cute act in front of me. This contrast is just too much for me to handle!

Ye Chen leaned back in his chair, his slender fingers flying across the touchscreen keyboard as he replied to the proud and arrogant campus beauty.

"The water that Gu, the school beauty, personally wiped for me with tissues has a built-in defense boost. Forget about catching a cold, I can run ten laps around the track now without even getting out of breath."

"As for my weekend tour guide job, I've already planned the routes, and I'm available anytime I need."

At this moment, several hundred meters away from the boys' dormitory 417, in the girls' dormitory of the Foreign Languages ​​Department, Gu Yuxuan was sitting cross-legged on the edge of the bed.

She had just finished showering, her long, black hair still damp, draped over her fair shoulders. Holding her phone, she saw Ye Chen's instant reply, her long eyelashes trembled, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but turn up in a smile.

"You're such a chatterbox. Who gave you a defense boost? I was just worried you'd get sick and skip out on your weekend bill."

Gu Yuxuan paused on the keyboard for a moment, deleted the words "Then drink more hot water" that she had just typed, and sent a different, more threatening message.

"Anyway, I'll be waiting for you outside the school at nine o'clock on Saturday morning. If you dare to be late or stand me up, I'll block the door of your computer science department's boys' dormitory!"

Seeing the words "block the door" pop up on the screen, Ye Chen raised an eyebrow, able to vividly imagine the girl's expression as she bit her lip while typing.

Why would the universally acknowledged ice queen of the foreign languages ​​department block the entrance to the boys' dormitory?

If that really happened, I'd be trending on the Jiaotong University campus forum the next day, torn to pieces by the eyes of all the students on campus!

Ye Chen chuckled and tapped a reply on the screen.

"How could I dare trouble the school beauty Gu to block the gate? I will definitely be standing at attention outside the school at 8:50 am on Saturday morning."

"Alright, your profile picture is still online. Go dry your hair and go to bed early, or the tourists will get tonsillitis before the tour guide gets sick."

In the girls' dormitory, Gu Yuxuan looked at the last sentence on the screen, which carried a hint of domineering instructions. She subconsciously touched the ends of her still-damp hair, and her cheeks felt a little hot.

How does this guy know that I just washed my hair and didn't dry it, even though we're several buildings apart?

"Okay, stop nagging. Goodnight."

Gu Yuxuan replied quickly, as if afraid that Ye Chen on the other end would see through her thoughts, and immediately exited the chat interface, stuffing the hot phone under her pillow.

In room 417, Ye Chen looked at the cat avatar that quickly went dark, shook his head, and was just about to turn off his phone screen to check the background data on his computer.

Beep, beep!

My iPhone vibrated twice more, and another chat window with a stylish selfie avatar popped up at the top of my QQ contact list.

The name in the notes only has two characters: Xu Jiao.

Ye Chen swiped his finger across the screen and opened Xu Jiao's chat window.

The first photo that popped up was one that had just been taken. The lighting was a bit dim, and it was obviously taken in bed with the curtains drawn.

The photo doesn't show her face; the camera pans down her slender waist, revealing a pair of long, straight legs crossed on a light pink sheet. The hem of her black silk nightgown is pulled up quite a bit, making her appear dazzlingly white in the dim light.

Immediately afterwards, messages from Xu Jiao popped up one after another, each word exuding a familiar, seductive charm:

"Brother, what are you doing in the dorm right now?"

"I just finished showering and am lying in bed, looking at the empty bed, when suddenly I really miss the big bed at Nanyang Boshi Xinju, and even more so the warmth of my brother holding me the night before last..."

Less than two seconds later, Xu Jiao sent another message with a smirking emoji:

"By the way, brother, let me tell you some funny gossip. Gu Yuxuan, the most beautiful girl in our dorm who's usually aloof and cold to everyone, was actually sitting on her bed just now, secretly laughing at her phone, and her face was even red!"

"She doesn't even glance at the long line of rich guys who usually chase after her. I wonder which unlucky guy has become the school beauty's crush. He's probably being kept in the dark and is being treated like a simp."

"Hehe, who cares about her? No matter how aloof she is, she's not as lucky as me to meet a man as amazing as my brother~"

Looking at the long string of text Xu Jiao sent on the screen, Ye Chen paused slightly in his hand holding the phone, and a meaningful smile involuntarily appeared on his lips.

Xu Jiao never dreamed that the "unlucky guy who was kept in the dark and acted like a simp" she was talking about...

Right now, I'm lying in her QQ list, looking at the photos of her beautiful legs that she sent me.