"Forget it, I don't feel like arguing with you, I won't stoop to your level." Qin Ruojing said again, and went to pick up the things on the floor.

Watching Qin Ruojing bend down to pick up her stuff, Chu Ge rubbed his nose, feeling a bit embarrassed. After all, Qin Ruojing misunderstood his intentions, and he never bothered to explain.

"Jerk!"

Just as Chu Ge was about to help, he heard Qin Ruojing say those two words, and couldn't help but sweat a little. This wasn't his fault, so how did he become a pervert? He felt he needed to say something.

"Well... calling you crazy is really not wrong at all. What did I ever do to provoke you? You were the one throwing stuff at me, okay?"

Seeing Chu Ge looking all innocent, Qin Ruojing couldn't help but feel even more embarrassed and angry, saying, "Don't you think your request was rather perverted?"

"Come on, how am I being perverted? You hired me to act, that's true, but I don't owe you anything, right? Last night you slept on the bed, I slept on the floor, so today we'll swap sleeping places. Seems pretty reasonable, doesn't it?"

Upon hearing Chu Ge's explanation, Qin Ruojing was momentarily stunned, her eyebrows knit together slightly, and she subconsciously asked, "Is that what you meant?"

Even though Chu Ge initially intended to tease Qin Ruojing by not explaining it clearly, he obviously couldn't admit it now, so he replied naturally, "Of course, what else did you think? Don't tell me you..."

"What! Alright, I agree. Tonight, you sleep on the bed, and I'll sleep on the floor."

Seeing Chu Ge's mischievous grin appearing again, Qin Ruojing decisively nodded in agreement, feeling both embarrassed and annoyed as she got up and went to the bathroom.

After both had finished washing up, Qin Ruojing laid out the bedding on the floor and turned off the lights. In the darkness, she glanced at Chu Ge lying on the bed and was slightly taken aback, then suddenly remembered his back had been scalded with boiling oil.

Intending to ask him how he was, Qin Ruojing felt it might not be appropriate, hesitating for a long time, she eventually chose silence and lay down with a complex feeling.

Soon after, Chu Ge fell asleep, but unlike Chu Ge's ease, Qin Ruojing couldn't sleep at all.

She had slept nearly the whole day and now moving from the soft bed to the hard floor made her uncomfortable; she tossed and turned all night, unable to feel even the slightest bit of sleepiness.

Seeing there was no way to sleep, Qin Ruojing simply sat up on the floor and looked over at Chu Ge on the bed.

Chu Ge was in a deep slumber, his side profile looked peaceful, and Qin Ruojing's mood finally relaxed a bit.

"Since he can sleep so quickly, his back is probably okay now, right?"

But at the moment she was thinking this, Chu Ge's mouth suddenly moved, and he mumbled some words in his sleep again.

Completely unprepared mentally, Qin Ruojing was startled when the voice sounded, and when the room returned to silence again, she thought about it and felt that Chu Ge's dream talk seemed to be the same name from last night.

Hearing this voice two days in a row but still not understanding it, Qin Ruojing couldn't help but feel a strong urge to find out the name.

However, she waited and waited, and until dawn, Chu Ge never uttered another word.

At 3:30 a.m., Qin Ruojing couldn't resist and finally fell asleep, waking up at around ten in the morning.

At the same time, Chu Ge was driving a Hummer, bringing Qin Ruoying on the way to a club.

Today, Qin Ruoying was wearing a white shirt with cartoon patterns, denim shorts, and a pair of pink and white sneakers, with a pair of dark sunglasses on her eyes. The cool wind blew into the car window, making her smooth long hair dance lightly.

Sitting in the passenger seat, Qin Ruoying chatted and laughed with Chu Ge for a while before suddenly saying out of the blue, "Brother-in-law, be honest, were you sent by my sister to keep an eye on me?"

Chu Ge turned to Qin Ruoying with a helpless smile and said, "Yeah, she asked me to check out the people around you and if they're a bunch of losers, to advise you to stay away from them."

Though Qin Ruoying was trying to catch Chu Ge off guard, his reaction showed no surprise at all, even though she got the answer she wanted, Qin Ruoying still felt a bit bored.

"Brother-in-law, don't you ever get scared? Don't you think my question was sudden?"

"Sudden, yeah, but I doubt you'll ever be able to scare me in this lifetime."

"Why?" Qin Ruoying blinked in confusion.

"Because you're so pretty and cute, even if you pretend to be a ghost there's nothing scary about you. How could I ever be afraid of you?"

Hearing Chu Ge's explanation, Qin Ruoying's bit of annoyance instantly vanished, and she chuckled, "Brother-in-law, I love talking to you, I've never met anyone as good at talking as you."

Chu Ge smiled slightly, neither affirming nor denying anything.

"By the way, brother-in-law, you almost made me forget with your interference. What are you thinking? Are you really going to do what my sister says?"

"What kind of friends you make and what path you choose to walk is your freedom. When I meet your friends later, as long as they're not so bad that I can't tolerate it, I won't say much."

Qin Ruoying pouted slightly, complaining a bit, "So according to you, if you don't like them, you'll still interfere, won't you?"

"At most, I'll make a suggestion. Whether you listen or not is still your freedom, so it's not interference."

"Don't worry, they won't disappoint you! I promise!"

The two chatted for a bit more, and then the Hummer pulled up to a place called the "Shape-It-Up" club, stopping in front of it.

As soon as they got out of the car, Qin Ruoying affectionately wrapped her arm around Chu Ge's, and for once, she shyly said in a low voice, "Brother-in-law, today they have a couples' half-price deal here. Could you cooperate a bit? This way, we can save some money for my sister."

Chu Ge thought to himself, exasperated, that he was already a fake brother-in-law and now he had to pretend to be a couple with his sister-in-law?

Although it seemed a bit inappropriate, when he saw the pleading look in Qin Ruoying's eyes, Chu Ge hesitated for a moment but was too embarrassed to refuse. He nodded, allowing Qin Ruoying to hold his arm as they walked into the club.

The first floor of the club was a fitness center. The spacious hall was filled with treadmills, stationary bikes, resistance machines, rowing machines, and other fitness equipment, while many men and women were sweating it out exercising.

When Chu Ge and Qin Ruoying entered, they immediately attracted a lot of attention.

Chu Ge was already used to being the center of such attention, given how beautiful the Qin sisters were.

Most of these gazes were directed at Qin Ruoying, while only a few were on Chu Ge, and those weren't very friendly.

"Who's that guy? How come he's with Qin Ruoying?"

"I don't know, he's a new face. They look quite close, don't they?"

"You only need to meet him to know, right?"

"Keep your voice down, they're coming over."

A few young men lifting weights whispered among themselves when they saw Qin Ruoying and Chu Ge getting closer. They all put on enthusiastic yet slightly contrived smiles.

"Yingying, it's rare that you're not late today, and you're even a few minutes earlier than planned."

A big guy with a buzz cut, nearly 1.9 meters tall, bare-chested with bulging muscles, came forward. He first glanced at Chu Ge somewhat disdainfully, then smiled at Qin Ruoying.

As he spoke, his left hand was busy, holding a 30 kg dumbbell, repeatedly flexing and straightening his arm. His biceps bulged like a chiselled stone.

As they walked up to the group, Qin Ruoying said with a smile, "Meng Kuo, we know you're strong, no need to show off your muscles here. Let me introduce my friend. You can call him Chu Ge, just like I do."

Meng Kuo nodded, intentionally spinning the dumbbell around his wrist like a pen. He gave Chu Ge a feigned smile and asked, "Bro, what year were you born in? Maybe I'm older, so I won't call you 'big brother,' okay?"

This made Qin Ruoying chuckle, "Meng Kuo, you'll have to call him 'Ge' whether you want to or not. His name is actually Chu Ge, like 'Ge' in 'song.'"

"Oh, haha, alright, Chu Ge, nice to meet you. I'm Meng Kuo."

Feigning friendliness, Meng Kuo reached out his right hand to Chu Ge. However, just as Chu Ge extended his hand too, a playful glint appeared in Meng Kuo's eyes, and he 'accidentally' let the dumbbell drop from his left hand.

Meng Kuo thought smugly, "Call you big brother? Who the hell are you? Even if this doesn't hit you, it'll scare the hell out of you! Showing off with Yingying in front of us!"

The suddenly dropping dumbbell startled Qin Ruoying, making her pupils shrink as she instinctively let out a gasp.

This scene also made the young men behind Meng Kuo grin with schadenfreude.

But just as Qin Ruoying gasped, before the smiles could fully bloom on the faces of Meng Kuo and the others, Chu Ge, while still shaking hands with Meng Kuo, reached out with his left hand and, with a graceful swipe, caught the dumbbell steadily!

Chu Ge's movement appeared effortless, as if he already knew the dumbbell would fall, and the 30 kg free-falling dumbbell didn't seem to affect him at all.

Chu Ge maintained a calm smile, casually tossing the dumbbell back to Meng Kuo, "Here, it's yours."

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