Gu Yanche listened to Lin Zheng and imagined her puffing out her round, chubby cheeks, planting her little hands on her hips, and scolding him.
A few strands of her unruly hair were sticking straight up from the top of her head.
She was so adorably clueless.
How could she be so good at imagining things?
He said, “I’m attracted to women. I don’t like men.”
“I get along normally with all my colleagues.”
“You saved me, and I agreed to be your boyfriend. I won’t be a boyfriend who cheats.”
Gu Yanche’s tone was serious.
“Lin Zheng, don’t you trust me?”
She had never checked up on him before, but now she had become suspicious of everything.
“Did someone tell you something bad about me?”
Lin Zheng had no justification whatsoever, yet she was still brazen.
“No one told me anything! I just suspect you!”
“Who told you to be so handsome, with such big pecs and so many abs?”
“Gu Yanche, you should reflect on yourself. Why can’t you make me trust you?”
“If you gave me enough of a sense of security, would I behave like this?”
Lin Zheng pretended to cry.
“What girlfriend has it as hard as I do, reduced to living in the dirt?”
“My life is so miserable. My boyfriend is out there attracting women and living the good life every day, while I can only silently shed tears in this tiny room, waiting from morning until night and from night until dawn.”
“My tears have all dried up, my eyes have cried themselves blind, and no one even knows—”
“Lin Zheng, there is no one else!”
Lin Zheng, who had been interrupted: “Huh?”
Gu Yanche was also thinking about what Cao Rui had said.
Lin Zheng really does love me.
As a man, he should give his girlfriend enough of a sense of security.
Gu Yanche said, “I’ll give you a sense of security.”
Lin Zheng stammered, “Y-you-you, speak properly!”
Gu Yanche: “It’s my fault for not giving you enough of a sense of security. I’ll change.”
Lin Zheng: “!”
What the hell? Is there something wrong with Gu Yanche?
Lin Zheng put on a fierce expression.
“Good that you know! Remember what I said. Whether it’s some wild woman or some wild man, neither of them is allowed to take advantage of you!”
“You can only be mine!”
Gu Yanche: “Mm.”
“Damn it!”
After hanging up, Lin Zheng was nearly furious to death.
She pointed at the phone in her hand.
“System, do you think Gu Yanche took the wrong medicine? I treat him like this, and he still does everything I say?”
“Did he hit his head and damage his brain?”
“Or was there something wrong with his brain to begin with?”
The system, nibbling pearls one by one, answered:
System: [Host, the male lead must be furious inside! But he’s afraid you’ll kick him out of the house! If that happens, nobody will want him anymore! He’ll be all alone!]
Lin Zheng rested her chin on her hand.
“Is that really it? Are you sure?”
System: Of course I’m not sure.
But as the strongest system among systems, the word no could never appear in its dictionary!
The system confidently declared:
System: [Absolutely! Definitely! Without a doubt! Only the female lead can save the male lead. With Host treating him like this, he must be furious!]
System: [He’s definitely enduring it right now. Host, keep going! One day, the male lead will finally explode after remaining silent for so long!]
Lin Zheng thought that made sense.
She was acting like a lunatic, a control freak, and a psychopath right now.
Even the most patient person wouldn’t be able to tolerate her!
Let alone Gu Yanche!
He must be absolutely furious by now!
He had been talking back to her sarcastically over the phone!
Lin Zheng crossed her legs and happily sipped her milk tea.
“Sounds reasonable!”
Gu Yanche thought about Lin Zheng’s words and reflected inwardly.
As her boyfriend, the fact that he had made her suspicious all day meant that he had failed her.
He would do what he said.
He would make her trust him.
Fortunately, Lin Zheng had no idea what Gu Yanche was thinking.
If she did, she would probably vomit blood and die!
From eight in the morning until noon, Lin Zheng made three phone calls.
She was very punctual, calling exactly on the hour.
The news that Gu Yanche had a girlfriend spread rapidly throughout Da’an Technology.
Soon, everyone knew.
Even the old security guard at the entrance had heard about it.
“Is Gu Yanche’s girlfriend pretty?”
“From the way she seems so insecure, she probably isn’t anything special.”
“I think so too. After all, her boyfriend is so handsome. If she’s ugly, the contrast would be huge, which is probably why she’s insecure!”
“If you’re talking about pretty, our Jia-jia is the one! Jia-jia is the beauty of our company!”
Feng Jia hurriedly said, “Don’t say that. There may not be many women in our company, but they’re all high-quality. Every one of them is beautiful!”
She praised herself while conveniently complimenting the other women too.
At Da’an Technology, she was the company beauty, while Gu Yanche was the company heartthrob.
She was the one who should be together with Gu Yanche.
As for Gu Yanche’s girlfriend, sooner or later, she would have to make room for her.
Cao Rui overheard the female colleagues talking and immediately went to tell Gu Yanche.
“Brother Gu, they said you’re the company heartthrob and Feng Jia is the company beauty.”
“They also said your girlfriend is way too controlling.”
Cao Rui kept talking.
“I think they’re just jealous. Your girlfriend obviously loves you deeply!”
When a woman really loved a man, she would become possessive.
Just like his wife was with him.
Cao Rui and his wife had been childhood sweethearts, so he knew all about true love!
Unfortunately, most people didn’t understand it.
Gu Yanche stopped what he was doing.
“She’s a dead flower. I’m not a dead plant.”
“Don’t drag me into it too.”
Cao Rui burst out laughing.
“Brother Gu, you’re right! What’s with all this ‘dead flower’ nonsense? It sounds so unlucky!”
Gu Yanche’s phone rang.
Cao Rui looked envious.
“It’s Sister-in-Law, right? Sister-in-Law really loves you, Brother Gu!”
He considerately walked away, leaving the couple alone to talk.
Lin Zheng bombarded him with another phone call.
“Remember?”
Gu Yanche: “Mm.”
He stared at the phone screen and gently touched the name Lin Zheng.
Sure enough, she really loves me.
That day, he received a bonus.
He kept a few hundred yuan for himself and transferred the rest to Lin Zheng.
After finishing her call, Lin Zheng discovered that Gu Yanche had transferred 20,000 yuan to her Alipay account.
The note simply said: Bonus.
Lin Zheng looked at her savings.
She had more than 60,000 yuan.
Not a single cent of that money had been earned by her.
It had all come from Gu Yanche after she rescued him.
At the beginning, she had only paid one month’s rent and kept a few hundred yuan for living expenses. After that, she had been completely broke.
Gu Yanche worked two jobs, and only then had her wallet gradually begun to fill up.
“This male lead is basically a human ATM!”
“If I could deceive him for the rest of my life, I could build up quite a fortune!”
System: [Of course! The male lead has the protagonist halo! His IQ is over 160, and he’s incredibly good at making money!]
In such a short time, he had already become the R&D supervisor at Da’an Technology!
That wasn’t something an ordinary person could accomplish.
And with his face, he was extremely popular among the female employees at Da’an Technology.
If he hadn’t said he had a girlfriend, those women would have been fighting to get with him already.
Now, they were all waiting for Lin Zheng and Gu Yanche to break up.
After listening to the system’s analysis, Lin Zheng sighed deeply.
“Couldn’t the world distribute intelligence resources a little more evenly?”
“If some of those geniuses could give me a bit of their IQ, I wouldn’t have had to work myself to death for so many years!”
The system spoke arrogantly:
System: [Don’t be sad, Host! Once you complete your missions, you’ll be a rich woman! No matter how smart those people are, won’t they all become the pretty boys you support with your money?]
To improve their knowledge, the system and Lin Zheng would read novels whenever they had free time, focusing especially on studying the mindset of troublemaking villainess characters.
The system felt that it was now practically unmatched!
Lin Zheng strongly agreed.
“You’re right! I have money. I’ll just crush them with cash!”
In the afternoon, Lin Zheng bombarded Gu Yanche with several more phone calls.
Gu Yanche continued to endure it without losing his temper.
Lin Zheng became angry instead.
“This guy is a Ninja Turtle or something!”
“I don’t believe it! You can endure it for one day, but can you endure it for two? Thirty days? Sixty days? Ninety days?”
She had plenty of time to slowly wear him down.
The system encouraged her:
System: [Believe in yourself, Host!]
The system even played a song called Believe in Yourself. It was incredibly rousing!
After listening to it, Lin Zheng felt full of energy and ready to cause trouble again!
She had plenty of energy—and plenty of ways to torment him!