Chen Jincheng naturally saw the disbelief all over Xiaoju’s face. He sighed and said, "I’m telling the truth. Sometimes, nobody believes the truth, just like you right now."

’I’d have to be a ghost to believe that!’ Xiaoju was no fool, but he was treating her like one.

Chen Jincheng knew his clumsy excuse was a bit insulting to her intelligence.

But he quickly added, "I’ve already customized an ancient-style path for you. After you sign the contract, you’ll start by shooting daily life videos. In a little while, an official government directive promoting traditional culture will be released. Tiao Yin will respond to the call and launch an ancient-style themed challenge."

"Tiao Yin will form an ’ancient-style’ circle then. My plan is to make you the number one ancient-style goddess. From now on, within my Second-Life Star, you’ll be the top star on this ancient-style path."

"I guess you have a conscience after all," Xiaoju muttered.

’His words at least show he’s not just playing around. He has given me some thought, even if it’s not much.’

However, what surprised her most was his ability to know this kind of information in advance. It was completely unbelievable.

After all, before an official directive is released, it should be almost impossible for outsiders to know about it without extremely strong sources.

But not only did he know, he had already made plans.

’This guy is on another level.’

...

[You have passed...!]

Chen Jincheng looked at the game prompt again, then glanced at Xiaoju with satisfaction.

But Xiaoju couldn’t help but probe, "Cheng, do you have feelings for me? Even a little bit!"

Chen Jincheng actually hated these kinds of questions the most.

They caused unnecessary trouble and pointless emotional drain.

Still, he smiled brightly and told her, "Actually, I’m very attracted to you. You’re definitely the one I love most... well, at least for now."

"..." Xiaoju was thrilled to hear the first half of his sentence.

’Is he finally admitting his feelings?’

But the last part he added made her instantly roll her eyes.

’Couldn’t he have just left out that last part?’

’Even if he was just stringing me along, it would have made me ecstatic. I would have enjoyed it.’

’I’m actually pretty easy to fool.’

"So you love me most ’until checkout’? The things people say about you online really aren’t wrong," Xiaoju said with a sigh of resignation.

She knew she’d made a huge mistake. How could she be so foolish as to ask a scumbag if he had feelings for her?

Just then, Chen Jincheng noticed another message on his phone. He opened it and saw it was from Li Suwan: "Where did you go?"

Apparently, she had woken up from her rest.

Chen Jincheng smiled and replied, "Taking care of a little business."

Putting his phone down, he said to Xiaoju seriously, "The company needs me for something. They sent an email to my tablet. You get some rest first. I’m going back to handle it."

"Really?" Xiaoju was skeptical.

She had a strange feeling something was off—perhaps a woman’s sixth sense. After all, what could the company possibly need this late at night?

A possibility suddenly occurred to her, and her gaze grew suspicious. "You didn’t make plans with someone else tonight besides me, did you?"

If that were the case, this scumbag was going too far.

’I’m not asking for him to fall for me, but couldn’t he at least focus on one person for a single night?’

Hearing this, Chen Jincheng immediately looked as if his character had been insulted. "Xiaoju, you’re slandering my good name. I just got to Ganjiang University today; I don’t know anyone here."

"You don’t suspect I made plans with my junior, Mu Xi, or Teacher Li, do you? You saw that I just added them on WeChat. You don’t think I’m so charming I could hook up with them in such a short time, do you?"

But Xiaoju said seriously, "There’s no way with that Teacher Li. She’s obviously a married woman and wouldn’t give you a chance. But that junior is a different story. College girls these days can be very open."

Chen Jincheng stared at her, stunned.

’Great. She eliminated the correct answer all on her own.’

’That makes things easy.’

He opened his chat history with the junior and showed it to Xiaoju. "Look. Have we exchanged a single word since I added her on WeChat?"

Then he opened her social media feed. "See? She just posted a moment. She’s in her dorm with her roommates. At this hour, the dorm supervisor should have already locked the doors."

Finished, he feigned anger and said, "Xiaoju, I hope you understand I’m not that kind of person. Do you want me to show you my chat history with Teacher Li, too?"

Xiaoju pouted her alluring lips again. "I don’t want to see it. You couldn’t have her even if you wanted to. You’re just using her to change the subject so I won’t think about that flight attendant."

Hearing this, Chen Jincheng decisively opened his chat with Fang Qianyao and showed it to her. "She’s a flight attendant. She already left Ganjiang City this afternoon. Besides, do you think I’m interested in just any woman? Do you think every woman is as beautiful as you, with a body as good as yours?"

When Xiaoju heard that last sentence, she was instantly placated, her lips curling into a pleased pout. She immediately said coquettishly, "Alright, alright, I was wrong."

"It’s good that you know you were wrong. I’m off to handle that company business then," Chen Jincheng said. He casually scooped up the box of condoms, and as he turned to leave, the corners of his mouth were already curving into a smirk.

’This girl has a brain, but not much of one. She’s still easy to fool.’

...

Time passed.

「The next day.」

Chen Jincheng and Xiaoju left the hotel room. He checked his Constitution Points: 348.

He only needed to burn another 48 points for his constitution to be on par with a special forces soldier—the kind with no weaknesses.

Afterward, the two went to the hotel restaurant for some breakfast.

He also took out his phone to browse the day’s news, but a trending headline made him look at Xiaoju in astonishment. "You’ve gone viral."

The girl had indeed gone viral, not because of the video he shot for her, but because of a secretly recorded video someone else had leaked.

"This lady was done with this job a long time ago! A fat pig like you still thinks about sleeping with me every day? Who do you think you are, Chen Jincheng?"

Xiaoju’s furious cursing echoed from the video.

Xiaoju was dumbfounded.

Weren’t those the words she’d screamed at Manager Lu at Sunshine Real Estate when she was in a bad mood?

How was it secretly recorded?

The key thing was, the person had uploaded it online, and it had hit the trending charts.

She had never imagined she would end up on the trending charts for something like this.

Even the video Chen Jincheng had filmed for her, which already had over two million likes, wasn’t this popular.

Indeed, the heat around this leaked video was intense because, compared to the video Chen Jincheng shot, this one was much juicier gossip.

Everyone who saw the video had an epiphany. It turned out this girl had a premeditated plan. She probably went to Ganjiang City specifically for Chen Jincheng. Based on her curse-filled rant, she might have even been going there to throw herself at him.

And as it turned out, right after she arrived at the airport, she just so happened to run into Chen Jincheng, who was holding a bouquet of flowers and preparing to hit on a girl, and she immediately caught his eye.

Was this a twisted version of "running to each other"?

Naturally, besides Xiaoju going viral, so did the obese Manager Lu. He was just the unlucky one, as netizens piled on him with all sorts of mockery.

Even Sunshine Real Estate Company was affected.

Sunshine Real Estate Company wasn’t small, so this was a considerable scandal. In the end, their official website announced that Manager Lu had been fired as a result.

"Now all the netizens know you came looking to throw yourself at me," Chen Jincheng teased Xiaoju.

She huffed, "Who threw themselves at you? They’re all just guessing randomly. We clearly just met by chance."

"Didn’t we?" Chen Jincheng smiled.

’I didn’t realize this girl was so stubborn.’

Just then, Xiaoju noticed she had been tagged in her WeChat group with Sister Lan and Nana.

"Xiaoju, Chen Jincheng actually filmed a video for you! Did you sleep with him?" - Nana.

"Xiaoju, I really thought you were naive. I can’t believe you were making moves in secret." - Sister Lan.

Seeing their messages, Xiaoju immediately replied: "Can you two not be so dirty-minded? I told you I would never be interested in a scumbag like Chen Jincheng. I got my own room, okay? There’s absolutely no way I’d give him a chance to take advantage of me."

"???" - Nana.

"???" - Sister Lan.

After the two finished breakfast, they left the hotel and hailed a cab to Ganjiang University.

After getting out of the car at Ganjiang University, they were spotted by a few students who started filming them with their phones.

Luckily, at this time, most students were in class, so it didn’t cause a large crowd to gather.

Chen Jincheng led Xiaoju onto the campus, but he noticed a homeless man charging toward the school gate. This made him pick up the pace with Xiaoju. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

’There are still homeless people in this day and age.’

Seeing Chen Jincheng speed up, the homeless man also started to run faster, his eyes filled with chilling killing intent. If he could just catch up to Chen Jincheng, he could stab him with a dagger, and his, Hu Zhicong’s, revenge would be complete.

DEE-DOO!~ DEE-DOO!~

A patrol scooter from the local police station passed by, its siren wailing.

Hu Zhicong instantly stopped like a mouse seeing a cat, hastily turning to hide behind a trash can.

When the patrol scooter had passed and he stood up again, Chen Jincheng was nowhere to be seen.

"Damn it, this isn’t working!" Hu Zhicong’s eyes darted around. He realized he needed to sneak into Ganjiang University and find an opportunity to strike inside. Outside, his target would either get in a car and leave, or there were just too many uncertainties.

Meanwhile, Chen Jincheng had already led Xiaoju into Ganjiang University.

"Cheng, why are there homeless people in a place like Ganjiang City?" Xiaoju asked, surprised. The man charging at them earlier had given her a fright.

Chen Jincheng joked, "Maybe he wants to be the next Brother Sharp!"

"Brother Sharp?" Xiaoju was confused.

Chen Jincheng felt awkward. It seemed Brother Sharp didn’t exist in this world. The internet was missing a piece of its culture.

’The Brother Sharp from the other world was a legend,’ he thought. ’He was so famous as a homeless man that the whole internet knew him. Lots of rich women even claimed he was their long-lost husband.’

When they reached the main building of the dance department, He Fang was already waiting for Chen Jincheng. "Xiaochen, you’re here. I actually have something to discuss with you. Your video only requires two people, but if this Divination Dance is performed on stage, could we possibly arrange for more people to be in it? To give other students a chance?"

"That should be fine," Chen Jincheng nodded. After all, in his past life, when Jin Cheng performed the Divination Dance on stage, he also had many backup dancers.

He Fang was delighted with this answer and led Chen Jincheng back to the dance studio.

Before Li Suwan and the other person arrived, he sat down at a table to wait. He then looked at the Life Simulation Game. Since he had time, he might as well accept and complete a task.

However, no golden exclamation point tasks, which guaranteed a reward, had refreshed. The probability of getting a reward from ordinary tasks was too low. Since activating the Life Simulation Game, he had completed numerous ordinary tasks but had only received a reward once.

But his luck seemed to be quite good today. After completing two more ordinary tasks, he actually hit that extremely low probability. A notification suddenly chimed:

[Congratulations on completing the planning activity task for Life Square. You have received a special reward: Little Sweet Heat Card!]

"???" Seeing the description of this reward, Chen Jincheng stood up instinctively.

’What the hell, did I step in dog shit and get lucky today?’