Qing Ye bit his shoulder, and he ruthlessly left marks all over her body in return. Their first reunion after a long separation turned into an intense encounter, creating quite a commotion. Thankfully, the apartment building had good soundproofing, though they still managed to move from the bed to the floor.

Finally, Qing Ye was thrown onto the bed by Xing Wu and knocked out. Sweat dampened her hair, which fell beautifully around her body. Her face was flushed, her eyes filled with tender light.

He carried her straight to the bathroom and turned on the shower, leaning close to whisper in her ear: “Want me to help you wash?”

Without slippers, Qing Ye could only stand barefoot on his feet, her body softly leaning against him. Xing Wu’s lips curved into a slight smile as he grabbed the showerhead. She noticed the bite mark on his right shoulder and, suddenly feeling compulsive, stood on tiptoes to make a matching one on his left shoulder.

Xing Wu hissed in pain and sprayed water on her head: “Are you a dog?”

Qing Ye lifted her water-covered face to glare at him: “Why did you have protection ready?”

Seeing Xing Wu’s suppressed smile, she suddenly realized: “When you sent me out to buy water, you were buying that? You brought me back just to sleep with me?”

She wiped her wet face all over his. Xing Wu lowered his eyes and wiped away the water from his lips, the casual movement radiating deadly charm. He playfully smacked her bottom: “You didn’t want to sleep with me?”

When Qing Ye tried to step back, he gripped her waist and held her against his chest: “Don’t you know subconscious thoughts are the most honest?” His eyes held teasing laughter: “Little electric motor…”

That look was full of blatant mockery. Qing Ye exploded immediately, shouting: “Xing Wu, you’re asking for death!”

She grabbed the showerhead and aimed it at his face. Xing Wu didn’t dodge, smiling like a bright sunflower, letting her spray him before taking back the showerhead, saying with intensity: “Had enough? My turn now, right?”

Qing Ye’s expression changed drastically. She immediately closed her eyes and covered her face with both hands. However, instead of the expected spray on her face, the water fell gently on her body. She peeked through her fingers at him. He raised his eyebrows slightly, eyes full of mirth, saying: “Silly girl.”

Qing Ye lowered her hands and wrapped her arms around his neck, suddenly asking seriously: “Really, what did my father say to you?”

“Honestly don’t remember, didn’t take it to heart.”

Qing Ye asked skeptically: “Did my father say something particularly nasty? You’re not angry?”

Xing Wu replied calmly: “Why would I be angry? He came all that way to give me money – would I be human if I got angry?”

“…”

He curved his lips into a slanted smile: “Honestly if I have a daughter in the future and she stays at a friend’s house with some guy, would I give him money? I’d go straight there with a knife.”

“…” Qing Ye was speechless at his logic.

She then asked: “So why did you still sleep with me?”

Mr. Xing completely forgot what he’d just said, smiling roguishly as he rinsed the white soap from her body.

He gave her one of his T-shirts to wear and tossed her onto the sofa. Leaning down with his hands on either side of her, he asked softly: “Hungry?”

Qing Ye’s wet eyelashes fluttered. A charming smile spread across his face as he kissed her lips before heading to the kitchen, bare-chested.

Qing Ye tucked her legs under his oversized T-shirt, watching him busy himself in the kitchen, a satisfied smile playing on her lips.

Xing Wu looked back at her while boiling water, grinning: “Dear devotee, please control your admiring gaze.”

Qing Ye walked barefoot behind him, hugging his narrow waist and pressing her face against his sexy, concave back. Xing Wu’s smile grew wider.

Suddenly, Qing Ye said somewhat pitifully: “You came to Q University without telling me, and even went out to dinner with girls!”

“Well, after classes started, you didn’t ask me where I got in either, and went out to dinner with guys?”

Xing Wu turned to see her frustrated expression, looking ready to cry, and finally confessed: “When your father came to see me, the financing wasn’t settled yet, and I was waiting for the second recruitment results, anxious every day. I could only placate him and didn’t dare tell you. After the second recruitment results came out, I was busy with financing matters for nearly two months, and couldn’t catch a break all summer.

Finally arranged to come to Beijing on the last day of registration, then was busy looking for housing, and then going to school. I couldn’t drag you around to look at apartments in the hot weather. I planned to settle in first, then stake out a spot to see if you had any new boyfriends this past year. If there were any, I’d beat them up first and make them leave.”

Qing Ye immediately punched him: “Get lost.”

Xing Wu laughed: “But that’s true, how could you find someone else when you were still thinking about my little motor?”

He brought it up again, and Qing Ye exploded completely: “If you mention that again I’ll…”

“You’ll what? What will you do?”

He gave her a wicked look, and Qing Ye went up and bit his neck. Xing Wu didn’t move, letting her bite, and said provocatively: “Go ahead, keep biting me. Who hasn’t tasted Tang Monk’s flesh, right?”

He touched his neck and turned back to pull her off his back: “You bit down! If I didn’t know Qu Xing’s sister had a roommate called Qing Ye, would I have gone there? Do you think I’m that free? With those few hours, wouldn’t it be better to code more and make money for my wife to spend?”

Qing Ye was rendered speechless by his words. She suddenly remembered that day when she told Qu Bing and the others to go to the restaurant first, not to wait for her, but they waited in the hot weather until she arrived before leaving. Qu Bing certainly wouldn’t have felt comfortable making them wait; if Xing Wu hadn’t insisted, they probably would have gone to the restaurant first.

She suddenly felt guilty. She hadn’t helped him at all since he came to Beijing, and even thought he was deliberately ignoring her.

Qing Ye softly leaned against him again, asking: “Then why did you have Du Qiyan transfer the money to me? And not directly tell me where the money came from?”

“With your temper, I was afraid you’d fight with your father.”

“We already fought.”

Xing Wu turned his head in surprise: “You fought?”

“Yes, yesterday. Remember I said I was late because of something? I went to fight with my father.”

Xing Wu put the pot lid on and turned back to pull her in front of him: “What did you fight about?”

Qing Ye drew little hearts on his chest, smiling: “About him being stingy. Next time he should give a hundred million directly, what’s two hundred thousand? I can’t even buy the car I want.”

Xing Wu suddenly burst out laughing: “This isn’t right, it feels like we’re ganging up to con your father?”

“That’s exactly it.” She smiled, her eyes curving.

The water boiled, and Xing Wu told her to wait. Soon, he brought over two bowls of noodles. When Qing Ye saw the noodles Xing Wu made, her eyes sparkled. She had missed his noodles all year, so she immediately picked up her chopsticks and started eating.

Xing Wu said to her: “There’s nothing in the fridge, we’ll have to make do.”

Qing Ye pulled her feet up and knelt on the chair: “This place is empty, there’s nothing here, you have a lot to buy.”

Xing Wu smiled: “That’s right, are you free on Saturday? Let’s go to the home furnishing center.”

Qing Ye tossed her hair arrogantly: “Not free.” Her eyes turned mischievous: “But I’m free on Sunday.”

Xing Wu reached out and pinched her cheek.

Qing Ye looked at the two empty rooms and asked him: “But are you planning to move your online team to Beijing? The cost is so high.”

Xing Wu said thoughtfully: “I considered it for two months, there’s no other way. After all, we don’t rely on offline teams for performance, later most businesses will depend on the internet. You know the situation back home, if I want to develop, I still need to find people here or learn while networking with peers.

Besides, during these four university years, my energy will all be here, can’t look after things far away. Qing Gu just got funding, it’s crucial now, I must keep the team close. Fortunately, there are only a few core people, costs can be controlled, and other things can only be left to Quan Ya.”

Qing Ye puffed her cheeks: “I feel like you’re going to be incredibly busy.”

Xing Wu immediately smiled: “Well, Beijing girls aren’t easy to marry.”

Then he suddenly looked up and asked: “What kind of car do you like?”

“Huh?”

“Didn’t you just say two hundred thousand couldn’t buy the car you like?”

“I… was just saying.”

“Oh.”

“Oh?”

Xing Wu smiled: “Nothing.”

Qing Ye lifted her bowl and drank all the soup, then stuck out her mouth towards Xing Wu. He wiped her mouth, then took the two empty bowls to the sink.

Qing Ye walked barefoot to the storage compartment nearby and saw several keycards inside, one with a small pendant. Xing Wu looked back at her and said: “The one with the pendant is yours, keep it safe.”

Qing Ye held up that keycard, dangling it: “Why is there one for me?”

Xing Wu turned back while washing dishes, giving her a meaningful look: “What do you think?”

Qing Ye immediately felt her eyes shifting guiltily. She clutched the keycard and turned around, pretending not to understand as she walked to the fridge and opened it to look inside.

Xing Wu put away the washed bowls, wiped his hands, and turned to look at her. She wore his white T-shirt, her legs alluring and white, her delicate ankles and bare feet, and the soft curves under the T-shirt, making one’s blood rush just from a glance.

This year’s Qing Ye had some changes in Xing Wu’s eyes. He had noticed earlier – her body was more full and abundant. If the previous Qing Ye was fresh and pure, exuding a girlish taboo, now she had unconsciously added a touch of feminine allure, an irresistible temptation for any man.

Such an appetizing, long-missed woman – how could Xing Wu stop at once? He walked straight to her, closed the refrigerator door, and pressed her against it, lifting her leg to take her again.

Qing Ye’s voice broke as she called out: “Xing Wu…”

That surging feeling instantly drowned her, unable to say another complete sentence.

He tirelessly moved her from the wall to the table, then onto the sofa. Qing Ye was pitifully bullied by someone until her consciousness was completely chaotic.

Afterward, she lay on Xing Wu and fell asleep from exhaustion.

When she awoke startled, it was already past ten, and the person beside her was long gone. She was dumbfounded, and called out “Xing Wu,” but no one answered.

She frantically got dressed while feeling tonight’s events were somewhat unreal. On their second meeting since Xing Wu came to Beijing, they had spent such a crazy night. She didn’t even know how she fell asleep, and when she woke up he was gone – what was going on?

As Qing Ye ran from the apartment back to the dormitory, she finally received Xing Wu’s call. As soon as the call connected, Xing Wu asked: “Awake? I’ll come pick you up back to school, any later and you won’t make it back to the dorm.”

Qing Ye, panting, said: “No need, I’m already on my way. Where did you go?”

“Went to Fun English.”

“???”

Qing Ye was so angry she hung up immediately. What kind of inhuman behavior was this? After their intense encounter, he just went off to join a club activity like nothing happened? Making her think she had been sleepwalking when she woke up!

Thinking about how she had hazily been made to call him “love you” and “husband” several times earlier, Qing Ye now felt like she’d been doused with cold water. A mouthful of old blood stuck in her chest, feeling like she’d been drugged – the noodles must have been poisoned.