"Ye Chen, Zhang Xinlan is all right now, isn't she?" Chu Yanran suddenly asked.

"Yes, she's no longer in any serious trouble!" Ye Chen replied.

"She really is too foolish, how could she use a kitchen knife to chop at herself!" Chu Yanran sighed, obviously knowing a great deal about the incident.

"It's not her being foolish; it's all because I did something to wrong her, forcing her to turn the knife on herself!" Ye Chen gazed at the sea, his words tinged with guilt.

"You're a bit bad, but you really can make women fall for you!" Chu Yanran said.

"I'm not bad, but it's a fact that someone has a crush on me," Ye Chen smiled brilliantly at Chu Yanran.

"You!" Chu Yanran was frustrated, this guy was extremely arrogant, simply because he knew she liked him.

"..."

"Chu Yanran, if I were with you, would I no longer need to make money?" Ye Chen asked.

"Why?" Chu Yanran lifted her head in puzzlement.

"You are Empress Chu, you're so wealthy, why would I need to make money?" Ye Chen stated matter-of-factly. "With all your money, I won't do anything; I'll just stay at home and count your money every day!"

"You just be responsible for making money, and I'll be responsible for being handsome and charming!" Ye Chen said with a smug look on his face.

"Yeah, and if one day you feel generous, you could gift me a luxury car... and all those beauties like Tong Xingtong and Ye Wushuang to me, after all, why let the 'water flow into others' fields', right?"

"Hmm, let me think about what else needs to be added."

Ye Chen fantasized about his wonderful future life, immersing himself in his own world, unable to extricate himself.

"Ouch, why are you pinching me?" Ye Chen yelled.

"I've seen shameless, but never someone as shameless as you!"

"..."

That evening, as Su Binglan got her period, she sent Ye Chen out to the living room.

Ye Chen was not disheartened by being driven from the bedroom by Su Binglan; instead, he started cultivating right away.

"With worldly affairs entangling me lately, my martial arts practices have somewhat stalled!"

"With the grandmaster cave about to appear, I need to forge myself and quietly wait for the moment to come to seize the opportunity!"

Ye Chen settled on the living room couch and began to focus deeply on his cultivation.

Ye Chen's martial arts realm continued to advance; he was now in the late stages of Grandmaster, but it possessed the combat power of a Peak Grandmaster!

Moreover, at the peak meeting, Ye Chen slaughtered four extraordinarily strong Grandmasters, looked eye-to-eye with Qingyun warriors, and together with the three kings of chaos, he intimidated the masses, naturally cultivating an invincible aura.

The premonition of the Grandmaster cave's emergence grew stronger and Ye Chen felt an inexplicable emotion in his heart; it seemed a tremendous opportunity awaited him in this vast land!

If he could find that opportunity, then he would be equipped to tower over his peers and might even leap to become a monarch-like figure revered by all.

Ye Chen felt a strong intuition that his incredible opportunity, his destiny-changing fortune, lay within that Grandmaster's cave!

"Bang!"

Just then, a dull thud rang out, interrupting Ye Chen's cultivation.

"Is it Wen Rou?" Ye Chen opened his eyes and saw the beautiful Wen Rou. "Damn, she's really cracking walnuts. Could it be that she's sleepwalking?"

Su Binglan had just told him that Wen Rou had a strange illness where she sleepwalked and cracked walnuts in the living room... Seeing Wen Rou cracking walnuts excited Ye Chen a bit.

"Bang!"

The living room light was off, and in the dimness, Wen Rou squatted on the floor, wielding a small hammer, tapping walnuts on the marble.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Wen Rou picked the walnut kernels into a fruit plate; she loved eating walnuts, their pure and fragrant taste helped her calm down.

Wen Rou was somewhat sleepless today, and whenever she couldn't sleep, she would crack some walnut kernels to eat; the simple and clean fragrance of the walnuts helped her relax and drift off to sleep.

Wen Rou was discernibly proud, with few friends around her, but her capability was high. In just three years at Wanshi Medicine, she became Su Binglan's right-hand woman, transforming from an ordinary civilian girl into an acknowledged figure in the royal circles of the capital.

"Hmm?"

Wen Rou's heart stirred, and out of the corner of her eye, she saw a figure.

"Ye Chen, what is he doing here?" Wen Rou felt puzzled.

It was already past nine in the evening, and there he was, not in his room sleeping but wandering into the living room.

Thinking this, Wen Rou got up from the floor, picked up her walnut and hammer, and walked toward Ye Chen.

"Wen Rou is definitely sleepwalking!" Ye Chen's eyes brightened and his spirit perked up when he saw Wen Rou walking toward him.

"..."

Gently approaching, Wen Rou had intended to ask Ye Chen to help her crack the walnut, but upon hearing his mutter, she didn't say a word and sat down right next to him on the sofa.

"Wen Rou, you always act so strong and aloof; I never expected you to have sleepwalking episodes!" Ye Chen whispered, leaning closer to Wen Rou.

"Sleepwalking?" A shock ran through Wen Rou upon hearing Ye Chen's whisper. She certainly didn't have that problem!

However, seeing the smug look on Ye Chen's face, Wen Rou felt like she'd guessed something.

Fine, since she couldn't sleep anyway, she might as well play along with him!

"That face, so delicate, charming, elegant, perfect!"

Ye Chen admired her tenderly as he watched.

"Bang!"

Wen Rou, eyes blank, kept smashing the walnut as if truly sleepwalking.

"That figure, enchanting, sizzling, gracefully voluptuous, perfect!"

Ye Chen couldn't help but utter another praise as he watched Wen Rou's figure.

"Bang!"

Wen Rou, sleepwalking and smashing walnuts, felt a little proud inside from his unreserved compliments.

"A strong woman, a woman of charm, you're great all around, Wen Rou, but this sleepwalking issue, it's very likely hereditary!" Ye Chen said.

"Bang!"

Wen Rou increased the force of her hammer blows by threefold. Where did he hear that she sleepwalked?

"Could it be, this guy secretly likes me?"

Ye Chen placed a walnut kernel in the fruit bowl, his thoughts wandering due to Ye Chen's behaviors and remarks.

"By the way, are you asleep right now?" Ye Chen suddenly waved his hand in front of Wen Rou's eyes.

"..."

Wen Rou continued hammering the walnut, ignoring Ye Chen's provocation.

"Wen Rou, there's something I wouldn't dare to say normally, but now that you're sleepwalking, I'll dare to say it." Ye Chen was having a blast. "What I want to say is... Wen Rou, you are a big idiot, haha!"

"Bang!"

Wen Rou resisted the urge to kill Ye Chen with the hammer, pulverizing the walnut in front of her instead.

"Ye Chen, he's really awful. How could Su Binglan ever fall for someone like him!"

Wen Rou really wanted to smash the hammer on Ye Chen's face, then slap him hard, draw blood from his face, spit on his face—only that could quench her rage.

However, just as Wen Rou was about to explode, she suddenly held back that agitation. She wanted to see what tricks Ye Chen could play.

But Ye Chen did not speak, instead stretching out his hand.

"You're asking for it!"

Seeing Ye Chen's hand lunge toward her, Wen Rou could no longer bear it and raised her hammer to strike at Ye Chen.

"Aren't you sleepwalking?" Ye Chen grabbed Wen Rou's hammer-wielding hand, a mysterious smile forming on his lips.

Wen Rou's eyes were listless, and even though she remained silent, Ye Chen, not being a naive young man, naturally knew Wen Rou was pretending to sleepwalk, not actually sleepwalking.

He spoke recklessly, acted boldly, just trying to provoke Wen Rou, eager to see her angry expression.

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