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Can’t sleep. Can’t sleep.
I seriously can’t sleep at all.
Far too excited to stay in bed, Chen Hao got up, opened the window, and lit himself a cigarette. After finishing it, he walked out of his room and headed toward the balcony, humming a cheerful tune.
At that moment, Ye Jia was still standing with her back to Chen Hao in front of the laundry sink, washing his clothes.
Chen Hao noticed that even his underwear had already been washed and hung up to dry. He nodded approvingly and said, “Not bad. You got my underwear cleaner than I ever do.”
Ye Jia couldn’t be bothered to respond. She simply continued scrubbing his jeans.
Looking at Ye Jia in front of him, Chen Hao suddenly found her more and more pleasing to the eye.
How could he not?
After all, he had harvested a full 1,700 Emotional Points from Ye Jia today.
Without those Emotional Points, he wouldn’t have been able to use the Grand Roulette Draw just now. And without that draw, there was no way he would be driving a Ferrari F80 tomorrow.
“Move. I need to hang these up.”
Ye Jia was holding the freshly washed jeans and a clothes hanger, but Chen Hao was blocking her path.
There was no helping it. The balcony of their rented apartment was simply too small. Unless Chen Hao turned sideways, Ye Jia couldn’t get past him.
“What are you grinning like an idiot for?”
Chen Hao’s gaze fell on Ye Jia’s soft, rosy lips. He was in such a wonderful mood that his brain suddenly short-circuited, and before he knew it, he leaned forward and kissed her.
The sudden warmth against her lips made Ye Jia’s eyes fly wide open.
The instant she came back to her senses, she hurriedly shoved Chen Hao away and cried, “Chen Hao! You actually dared to kiss me! You pervert!”
Seeing Ye Jia’s reddened eyes and the way she looked ready to burst into tears at any moment, Chen Hao instantly sobered up.
“Sorry, sorry. My brain short-circuited just now.”
Chen Hao scratched his head and gave an awkward, sheepish laugh.
All right.
His excitement had certainly been extinguished now.
Ye Jia glared at Chen Hao with reddened eyes and said, “You think saying sorry is enough? That was my first kiss!”
If this had happened before, Chen Hao definitely wouldn’t have believed Ye Jia when she claimed it was her first kiss.
But now, he did.
After all, the Emotion Entry had told him that Ye Jia was still a virgin…
Chen Hao hurriedly tried to placate her, “Ye Jia, don’t get so worked up. If you think you got the short end of the stick, how about I let you kiss me back?”
[Ding! The host has gained 200 Emotional Points from Ye Jia. Current Emotional Points: 900!]
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“You pervert! Shameless bastard! You already took advantage of me, and now you still want to bully me!”
“Waaah…”
Feeling utterly wronged, Ye Jia suddenly burst into tears.
Chen Hao immediately panicked. “Stop crying. Come on, don’t cry.”
Seeing Ye Jia sobbing so pitifully, tears streaming down her face, Chen Hao was at a complete loss for what to do.
After all, he had been the one whose brain short-circuited and forcibly kissed her just now.
He was clearly in the wrong.
“Waaah…”
The more Ye Jia cried, the more aggrieved she became. “Chen Hao, you bastard! Ever since I came home from work, you’ve done nothing but bully me. Waaah…”
She cried so hard that tears and snot covered her face, completely ruining her image.
Chen Hao rubbed his forehead. Her crying was giving him a headache. He finally said, “How about this, Ye Jia? It was my fault for kissing you just now. To make it up to you, you only need to work as my housekeeper for three days. After that, we’ll consider the 3,800 yuan you owe me completely settled. Deal?”
“Deal!” This chapter was taken from g.com without permission.
Ye Jia, who had been crying her heart out just a second ago, slammed on the brakes. Her tears stopped instantly, and a faint trace of smugness appeared on her face.
Chen Hao stared at her in disbelief and clicked his tongue. “Damn, you changed your expression way too fast. Now I’m starting to wonder whether that really was your first kiss.”
Wait a minute.
Who said being a virgin meant she had never kissed anyone before?
Damn.
He had been too naive.
Ye Jia glared fiercely at Chen Hao and said, “That really was my first kiss. If I’m lying, I’m a dog. You stole my first kiss just like that. I seriously got ripped off.”
Chen Hao immediately retorted, “Ripped off, my ass. All I did was kiss you, and now you get to work twelve fewer days as my housekeeper. What a bargain. Besides, there was no tongue, so it doesn’t even count as a real kiss. If you look at it that way, your first kiss is technically still intact, okay? I’m the one who actually lost out here, okay?”
After bickering for a few more moments, Chen Hao returned to his room.
Sitting on the bed, he stared at his 900 Emotional Points and anxiously scratched his head.
He was only 100 points short.
Just another 100 Emotional Points, and he could use the Grand Roulette Draw again.
But how else could he earn Emotional Points?
Should he go into Ye Jia’s room and force himself on that woman?
If he really forced himself on Ye Jia, she would probably provide him with several hundred Emotional Points, right?
No, no.
That idea was practically begging to get him thrown in prison…
Right!
He could go on Xiaohongshu and Weibo and start arguing with random women online.
Wouldn’t his Emotional Points skyrocket?
However, the instant this idea appeared in his mind, the system informed him that it wouldn’t work.
According to the system, that counted as cheating.
He could only harvest Emotional Points from women he personally knew. Moreover, it wasn’t enough for him to know them one-sidedly. They had to know each other.
On top of that, only women recognized by the system could provide valid Emotional Points.
Chen Hao asked what kind of women could qualify as targets for harvesting Emotional Points.
In response, the system gave him an extremely vague and broad answer.
Women who were extraordinary…
Fine.
Chen Hao now seriously suspected that he had just discovered a bug, only for the system to immediately patch it.
System, you’re seriously a damn dog.
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At 6:00 the next morning, Ye Jia walked out of her room in her pajamas.
Yawning as she entered the living room, she suddenly noticed someone sitting on the sofa.
Once she realized it was Chen Hao, Ye Jia patted her chest in relief and complained, “Chen Hao, why did you close the curtains for no reason? You scared me. I thought a thief had broken in. Anyway, today’s Saturday. Don’t you have the day off? Why are you up so early?”
Chen Hao replied gloomily, “I didn’t get up early. I never slept in the first place.”
His mind was completely occupied by that Ferrari F80.
There was simply no way he could fall asleep.
He had been awake the entire night.
A gloating smile appeared on Ye Jia’s face as she pulled open the living room curtains. “Looks like Pinru dumping you really hurt you badly.”
Chen Hao rolled his eyes at her. “You’re thinking too much. It’s not like I can’t live without her.”
“Keep pretending you’re fine.”
Ye Jia rolled her eyes right back at him.
Ye Jia asked, “What do you want?”
“Cook me some noodles. I’m still used to having noodles in the morning.”
Ye Jia looked at him strangely and said, “I’ve cooked noodles for you several times before, and didn’t you say they were so damn salty that even a dog wouldn’t eat them?”
After a brief pause, Ye Jia continued, “Besides, even though I’m your housekeeper now, I don’t have to cook for you. Chen Hao, you were the one who said that yourself last night. So even if my noodles weren’t salty, I still wouldn’t cook them for you.”
“Fine.”
Since those words had come out of his own mouth, Chen Hao naturally had to honor them.
After thinking for a moment, Chen Hao looked at Ye Jia, who was rinsing her mouth, and said, “Then go out and buy me breakfast later.”
After finishing washing up, Ye Jia asked, “What do you want?”
“Ten crab roe buns and a cup of soy milk.”
That’s right.
He had more than 6.6 million yuan sitting in his bank account now. Why the hell would he still eat plain noodles in broth?
Those crab roe buns he had always wanted but could never bear to buy?
It was finally time to feast.
Although the apartment he rented was in a relatively remote area, there was a nearby bun shop with incredibly good business.
Every morning, people would drive from far away just to eat the crab roe buns steamed by that shop.
Chen Hao had lived here for more than two years, yet he had never eaten one of their crab roe buns.
It wasn’t because he didn’t want to.
He simply couldn’t afford them.
Each crab roe bun cost 108 yuan.
How the hell was he supposed to afford that?
Every time he passed that shop and saw wealthy customers devouring crab roe buns one after another, he would stare so hungrily that he nearly drooled.
He still remembered one occasion when Lin Pinru had desperately wanted to eat crab roe buns from that shop. She had pestered him relentlessly, insisting that he buy some for her.
Unable to endure her nagging any longer, Chen Hao had finally resigned himself to taking a painful hit to his wallet.
However, his luck had been unusually good that day.
He happened to see three crab roe buns fall from the hands of a rich man and land on the ground.
Rich people really were different.
Those buns cost 108 yuan each, yet the man didn’t even bother picking them up after dropping them…
As soon as the rich man had walked far enough away, Chen Hao immediately rushed over to pick up the crab roe buns.
At exactly the same moment, a huge black dog charged toward those fragrant crab roe buns as well.
Fortunately, Chen Hao was just a little faster.
He beat the big black dog by a split second and snatched up all three crab roe buns first.
Even now, merely remembering what happened afterward made him furious.
That damn black dog had actually chased him for 500 meters!
Fuck, what kind of grudge did it have against him?
Whose fault was it for being too slow?
That dog had absolutely no sense of decency.
The past was simply too painful to remember.
But now that he had money, things were different.
Those crab roe buns cost 108 yuan each?
Then he was going to eat ten!