“No,” Old Peter replied.

Lu Sui hadn’t gone directly to Ning Zheng’s birthday party that afternoon—he’d first returned to the Lu residence wanting to see Wu Mangmang’s letter. All this time, Wu Mangmang had basically maintained a rhythm of one letter per day.

Upon hearing this, Lu Sui’s brow immediately furrowed. As he went upstairs, he said to Old Peter, “Arrange a flight for me tomorrow morning.”

In the second-floor corridor, after giving instructions to Old Peter, Lu Sui began calling Peng Ze. “Clear my schedule for the next five days.”

Hearing the sound of a door opening, then closing, Wu Mangmang finally emerged from her own bedroom. She walked on tiptoe, afraid of being heard by Lu Sui.

Old Peter was still standing at the end of the corridor. Wu Mangmang smiled and made an OK gesture to him, expressing her heartfelt gratitude.

Wu Mangmang pressed her ear to the door, and after judging the timing was about right, she opened the door and entered Lu Sui’s bedroom.

Lu Sui had already gone into the bathroom. Wu Mangmang quickly stripped off her clothes, then began hesitating.

Should she lie directly on the bed in a drunken beauty pose?

Or should she put on one of Lu Sui’s shirts and go to the bathroom for a wet seduction scene?

She wanted to perform both acts—such a dilemma.

But ultimately, her longing had reached flood stage, and missing even one second was torture. Wu Mangmang picked out one of Lu Sui’s shirts, then casually draped one of Lu Sui’s ties around her neck before gently pushing open the bathroom door.

Through the frosted glass door of the shower, Wu Mangmang silently admired Lu Sui’s silhouette for three seconds before being forcefully pulled into the shower by a strong hand.

The showerhead sprayed water all over Wu Mangmang’s face, and then she was licked all over.

The intensity made Wu Mangmang feel that even cold water could be brought to a boil by Lu Sui.

Half-dreaming and half-awake, Wu Mangmang thought dizzily that bathroom shame play could never be attempted again—she completely couldn’t stand steady, and the tiles were both hard and slippery. Poor her knees and little waist.

“Has your project team’s work been completed?” Lu Sui was holding medicinal wine, massaging Wu Mangmang’s knees.

“No,” Wu Mangmang yawned, forcing her eyelids open slightly to answer. “I just got two days off, rotating rest. Even immortals couldn’t endure two months of work without a single day off.”

“Two days? Then how did you get back?” Lu Sui’s voice suddenly dropped three degrees.

However, Wu Mangmang was sleep-deprived and her brain wasn’t working well, so she said slowly with her eyes closed, “I got up at four in the morning to travel, took the six o’clock early bus to the county…”

Actually, Wu Mangmang quite admired herself. With only two days off total, everyone else chose to sleep in, but she got up in the middle of the night just to come back and see Lu Sui for a few hours.

Lu Sui had been to Huangtu Village and knew how remote that village was. The steep winding mountain roads plus vans with virtually no safety guarantees were practically death traps.

On those mountain roads, every few miles there were road signs that read: “High accident area.”

“Going out in the middle of the night, didn’t you worry about your safety at all?”

Wu Mangmang’s leg contracted as she cried out, “Ow, ow, ow.”

Lu Sui rubbed Wu Mangmang’s knee forcefully a few more times before letting go.

Wu Mangmang knew what Lu Sui was angry about. She fawningly crawled up and hugged Lu Sui’s neck from behind, saying, “I know what you’re worried about. When I came back this time, I dressed like Cuihua making pickled vegetables, and look at my face—it’s already been tanned beyond recognition, so there’s no need to worry about robbery or assault at all.”

Wu Mangmang remembered Old Peter’s expression when he saw her ghostly appearance and couldn’t help laughing. “You don’t know how funny Peter’s expression was when he saw me.”

Wu Mangmang moved to face Lu Sui and imitated Old Peter’s twisted expression of shock trying to maintain composure. “His eyes nearly popped out.”

Wu Mangmang held her stomach laughing on the bed until she could barely breathe.

Seeing Wu Mangmang so vivacious on the bed, even the air around her seemed to have light. Lu Sui couldn’t help but roll over and press her down, kissing her repeatedly. “Your work should be finished in another half month, right? I’ll come pick you up then—don’t you dare run back by yourself.”

“Uh…” Wu Mangmang cutely bit her fingernail, looking at Lu Sui who was ready to pounce and bite her to death.

The two stared at each other for a long time before Lu Sui gave a cold laugh and rolled to the side.

Wu Mangmang guiltily moved over, half-lying on Lu Sui’s chest. “The excavation of this ancient tomb complex involves more work than we expected. We also stopped work for several days due to heavy rain, making the later work more difficult, so I probably won’t be back until early October.”

“Are you sure you can return in early October? Next time you won’t tell me you can’t come back until New Year, will you?” Lu Sui mocked.

Although Wu Mangmang didn’t think so, she didn’t dare make absolute promises either. From Lu Sui’s expression, she could tell he was seriously angry. At times like this, only devoted service could help her escape punishment.

At six in the morning, when Lu Sui dug Wu Mangmang out of bed, she was still drowsy. It wasn’t until she got on the plane and had a good nap that she fully woke up.

“Awake?” Lu Sui brought Wu Mangmang’s milk to her lips. “We have another hour of flight time. You can sleep a bit more.”

How could such wonderful dating time be spent just sleeping?

Wu Mangmang immediately shook her head.

After disembarking, they transferred to Lu Sui’s private car. Because the journey was so long and there was nothing else to do, and Lu Sui wasn’t the type to chat about trivial matters—plus he had many phone calls throughout the trip and was very busy with official business—Wu Mangmang had no choice but to take out her laptop to play.

The car had onboard Wi-Fi. Wu Mangmang looked at the game icon on her desktop and on a whim logged into her account.

Although she hadn’t played for over a month, the interface was as familiar and welcoming as ever—after all, she’d been playing for many years.

However, when she logged in this time, Wu Mangmang almost didn’t recognize herself.

How had she acquired so many gorgeous outfits?

This game was a money-burning machine. The money Wu Mangmang had spent on her previous account could have bought a two-bedroom apartment, but this current account had been rather shabby. First, because she was strapped for cash, and second, because she no longer had that initial passion—it was just a bit of comfort during free time.

So Wu Mangmang had never bought any of the various fashion outfits the game released. These outfits weren’t cheap at all—one cloak cost 499 RMB, and if you wanted to dye it your favorite color to avoid matching with others, you’d need to spend about 3000 RMB, because dyeing didn’t have a 100% success rate.

Wu Mangmang opened her inventory to look, then browsed the forums. She could basically confirm that her new account now had all the outfits, including those limited holiday outfits that had to be auctioned for.

Wu Mangmang glanced sideways at Lu Sui, then carefully examined her new account’s progress. Before she left, she hadn’t had a single piece of PVP’s highest-level gear set, which required doing daily quests and participating in the arena to earn points for purchase.

Even doing dailies every single day of the week and achieving the highest arena scores, the points earned could only exchange for one piece, while a complete equipment set consisted of six pieces.

Yet Wu Mangmang now saw four components on her new account, clearly indicating someone had been helping her with quests every day.

Wu Mangmang tossed the laptop aside. As soon as Lu Sui finished his phone call, she threw herself at him. “Lu Sui, have you been helping me with game quests?”

In her letters to Lu Sui, when Wu Mangmang was searching for things to say, she had indeed mentioned her game and given Lu Sui her account and password.

This really wasn’t her fault—she knew Lu Sui complained about her letters having too little content, so each time she was like a child struggling with composition, wishing she could write about how many bowls of rice she ate that day just to fill up the word count.

When Wu Mangmang mentioned the game, she hadn’t expected Lu Sui to help her at all—it would have been good enough if he didn’t delete her account.

“Did you personally do the quests? You didn’t let anyone else touch my account, did you? I have cleanliness obsessions about this—if someone else touches my account, I feel like I’ve been groped while naked.” Wu Mangmang hugged Lu Sui’s neck coquettishly.

Lu Sui coughed lightly. “I helped you with quests to make up for my previous mistakes, but that doesn’t mean I support you playing games.”

Wu Mangmang nodded vigorously to show she understood, but still looked incredulous. “How did you have time to help me with quests?”

In Wu Mangmang’s mind, using Lu Sui’s time for her game quests was truly a waste of precious resources.

“Consider it recreational entertainment,” Lu Sui said lightly.

When missing someone, you can’t help but walk the paths they’ve walked, see the scenery they’ve seen—naturally including logging into their account to see the games they play.

Wu Mangmang lightly pecked Lu Sui’s lips. Her large eyes sparkled like stars had fallen into them, bright and brilliant. “Thank you.”

Wu Mangmang didn’t know if Lu Sui understood how important this attitude was to her.

For Wu Mangmang, this was a form of acceptance. She knew being addicted to games wasn’t right, but it wasn’t illegal either—it was just her way of passing time, essentially no different from women’s hobbies like shopping.

Before, when she played games and saw Lu Sui, she would immediately switch out no matter what she was doing—a sign of extreme guilt, because she didn’t want to see contempt in Lu Sui’s eyes for her wasting time and squandering her years.

Women are actually this kind of creature.

Even if she’s eating shit, she hopes you can endure it and share experiences with her—they think this is true love.

In return, they’re even willing to love you with their most precious lives, and afterward they can’t bear to let you suffer hardship anymore.

They’ll shoulder the shit alone.

When Lu Sui had been unwilling to eat Wu Mangmang’s leftover food, Wu Mangmang’s thought was: he dislikes me, he doesn’t love the house and its crow at all, so he doesn’t really like me.

And when Lu Sui deleted her years of hard work account, that’s why Wu Mangmang had such a big explosion.

But now this feeling of being able to share what she loved with the person she loved felt as beautiful as heaven.

Wu Mangmang knelt on her seat, raised her right hand and said to Lu Sui, “I swear I definitely won’t become addicted to games. I’ll just play casually every day—it’s no different from browsing Weibo or shopping.”

Lu Sui nodded and made a sound of agreement.

“Do you think this game is fun?” Wu Mangmang asked Lu Sui.

“Not nearly as much as you,” Lu Sui replied.

Wu Mangmang pouted—she knew Lu Sui wouldn’t answer her properly. She simply sat back down and picked up her laptop to continue looking at the game.

Lu Sui glanced sideways at Wu Mangmang, thinking that child psychology analysis was really spot-on. With people like Wu Mangmang, preaching was definitely not a good approach—the best method was to say nothing and wait for her to reflect and repent on her own.

Although the new PVP equipment set wasn’t complete, its power was not to be underestimated.

Wu Mangmang hadn’t touched the game in a long time and planned to play a round in the arena—her healing skills were still quite good.

Just as she walked to the entrance of the main city’s arena, Wu Mangmang was stunned by the three statues at the entrance.

In the game, each month’s top three arena teams were displayed as statues at the arena entrance for everyone to look up and admire.

Wu Mangmang had never expected to show off there herself, but the pretty little loli in the champion statue group standing in the center looked exactly like her no matter how she looked.

The name floating above the little loli also seemed familiar.

Lu Mangmang.

Wu Mangmang quickly pulled up her character panel to check her name—she really was called Lu Mangmang.

But her account’s name had clearly been “Mangmang123456” before, because there were too many “Mangmang”s in the game, so she could only add numbers to register successfully.

Of course, the game allowed players to change their names after entering, but this also required spending real money.

Obviously, Wu Mangmang’s name had been changed by a certain big spender.

Wu Mangmang looked up at Lu Sui, who responded, “What?”

Wu Mangmang quickly said, “This new name sounds quite nice.”