Mu Jing, who had truly been forced to enjoy the service of someone opening the car door for her, followed Xu Ge to the third floor inside a certain building.
Mu Jing watched Xu Ge take out a key and could not help asking, “Is this the house you rented?”
Only after opening the door did Xu Ge look at her as if she were an idiot. His tone was light and extremely mocking.
“I robbed it.”
That sentence stabbed straight into her heart without mercy. Mu Jing closed her eyes and took a deep breath before finally suppressing the anger that had been ignited.
What she had actually wanted to ask was why Xu Ge had rented this place. It seemed useless and a waste of money.
“You have money to rent a place?”
“Yes. Your dad gave me a card with thirty million on it. He said it was repayment for the life-saving favor from before.”
Mu Jing had just sat down on the sofa when she immediately bounced back up.
“My dad? Why didn’t I know about that?”
“Then you should ask your dad.”
“…Forget it. If he gave it behind my back, he must have had his own reasons.”
Perhaps her old father cared about face and did not want to say it in front of his daughter.
Mu Jing sat back down again and reminded herself of her original purpose.
“When are you going to start the treatment? I feel like you’ve been deliberately dragging things out.”
A thunk came from the kitchen, sounding like a cleaver being driven deeply into a cutting board.
Mu Jing froze instantly and began frantically calling for her Worthy Younger Brother in her mind.
“Brother, brother, brother—did Xu Ge get angry? Check if he’s coming out holding a kitchen knife like he’s about to chop someone!”
【No. He’s carrying a fruit platter and two bottles of coconut juice. Ah! Are you saying he poisoned them?】
Mu Jing: …
Forget it. When had the System ever been reliable?
Xu Ge placed the fruit platter and coconut juice on the table. Seeing Mu Jing staring at him, he frowned slightly and said coldly, “Dragging things out?”
Clearly, he had heard her words perfectly.
Mu Jing revealed an innocent smile. “No. I was just afraid you’d forget.”
“I won’t forget.” Xu Ge paused, then turned on the television. “It’ll take a long time. What do you want to watch?”
“Hmm… anything is fine. I don’t have anything specific I want to watch.”
Mu Jing watched as Xu Ge randomly selected the most popular movie, then sat down on the sofa and extended his hand toward her.
She placed her hand in his, but it felt a bit awkward. After a moment, she pulled away and wrapped her arm around Xu Ge’s arm instead. Placing it again like that felt much more comfortable.
Xu Ge’s hand was warm and strong. His healing ability flowed gently like a trickling stream through Mu Jing’s arm, entering her heart along her blood vessels.
The feeling was very strange. Her heart felt numb and tingly, like soft fur brushing lightly against it.
…
The movie continued playing, but the actors’ moving lips produced no sound.
Xu Ge, who had just muted the film, leaned back against the sofa. After sitting silently for a moment, he tried pulling his fingers away.
Their fingers were intertwined, and the already sleeping Mu Jing clearly had no intention of letting go.
How exactly had their hands ended up like this?
Xu Ge felt a bit helpless. After finally pulling his hand free, he carried Mu Jing into the bedroom.
Taking advantage of someone’s vulnerability was not something Xu Ge would do. Aside from helping her remove her shoes, the only thing he did was shake out the blanket and cover her with it.
The house had just been bought. The bed had just been moved in.
Yet the first person lying there sleeping was not him.
What injustice.
Xu Ge returned to the living room. After exiting the movie, he connected the console and started a game.
Mu Jing slept for as long as he played.
After the initial unfamiliarity faded, the extremely talented Male Protagonist quickly displayed extraordinary gaming ability as well.
Mu Jing was awakened by the System’s excited shouting.
【Hit him hit him hit him! Yes yes yes! Big brother, big brother, cut him down! Cut him down! Oh oh oh! That’s it—charge up in one go! Waaaah!】
What was screaming inside her head?
Still half-asleep, Mu Jing raised her hand and touched the pillow, thinking it might be an alarm she had set.
But soon, her earlier memories returned.
She had apparently fallen asleep during the treatment.
She really could not be blamed. That sensation had been far too comfortable.
So now she was sleeping in Xu Ge’s bedroom?
She turned her head and looked around. The bedroom decoration was indeed unfamiliar.
And it was nothing like a romance drama where the female lead woke up to see the Male Protagonist’s chest—or the Male Protagonist leaning against the bedside asleep from exhaustion.
What was Xu Ge doing?
Xu Ge was playing video games…
Even her Worthy Younger Brother had defected and joined him.
Was this the difference between a male-oriented Male Protagonist and a female-oriented Male Protagonist?
Mu Jing sighed inwardly. She got out of bed, stretched, then walked behind the living room sofa and looked at the game on the television.
“What game is this?”
“Kill That Panda-Man.”
“Huh?”
Xu Ge did not need to explain. Mu Jing had already seen the humanoid creature on the screen wearing a panda head mask and looking extremely suspicious.
Xu Ge moved the controller, and the two hands on the screen harvested the panda-man’s life. At the same time, the System notification appeared:
You have killed 1,234 panda-men. You have obtained the title ‘Panda-Man Slayer’.
Mu Jing: …
“You want to play?” Xu Ge waved another controller briefly. “Come sit.”
“I’m not playing.” Mu Jing had no interest in combat games. No matter how the System wailed in her mind, she did not waver.
Ignoring her Worthy Younger Brother’s voice, Mu Jing lowered her gaze toward the back of Xu Ge’s neck.
He was sitting in front of her wearing a white round-neck T-shirt. His black hair was thick, and near the area behind his ear there was a small black mole.
Mu Jing reached out and touched it.
“Xu Ge, did you know there’s a mole here?”
Xu Ge put down the controller and stared at Mu Jing for quite a while before turning back to continue playing the game.
“I didn’t.”
“Some people say a mole marks the place where someone kissed you in your previous life.”
“I wasn’t kissed in my previous life.”
“Then why do you—”
Mu Jing’s mouth twitched slightly. “Well, in your case, it must have been the life before that life.”
“What about you?”
“Me? I’ve never been reborn… Are you asking about before I transmigrated to this world?”
Mu Jing walked around the sofa and sat down. Although she did not want to admit it, there had truly been no man she found appealing in her previous life.
“They were all pretty strange.”
“Strange?”
“Some would deliberately say very profound things during conversations to show off their knowledge. Some would constantly compare themselves with others—like ‘look at how that guy treats you, I treat you better,’ that kind of thing. And some people, if you were just a little polite to them, they would think you had fallen in love with them.”
Mu Jing had seen quite a lot of bizarre men in her previous life. Their ways of thinking were different from normal people.
But after she finished speaking, Xu Ge did not reply.
Meanwhile, the game character on the television died from continuous damage.
Xu Ge rubbed the tip of his nose and asked thoughtfully, “That last type of person you mentioned… what exactly are they like?”
Brother Value: -30.
The two looked at each other. Mu Jing smiled as she spoke.
“For example, he drops a pen on the ground. I happen to pass by and pick it up for him. Just a simple favor.”
“But in his mind he imagines everything—why I happened to pass by there, why I picked up his pen, why I wore a blue dress that he likes today, why I picked up his pen instead of someone else’s, and why I paused for three seconds when putting the pen on his desk.”
“He concludes that I must like him.”