“Luo Ming, have you set a time with Professor Wu yet?” Lin Shuwen asked while munching on an apple.
“Not yet. I was waiting to see which day you’re free!”
“If you’re waiting on me, then it’ll have to be Sunday. I have an archery competition tomorrow, and the day after I need to go to the company to record a song.”
“Then let’s talk to Professor Wu on Sunday!”
“No problem with the company?”
“Woody told me before that it doesn’t really matter whether I’m at the company or not—big or small, he handles everything anyway.”
“That’s not true! I—cough, cough—you’re actually pretty responsible. You look at all kinds of reports and data every day.”
“I just look at them. From Woody’s perspective, it’s completely just for show.”
Lin Shuwen felt a little unconvinced hearing that. How could that be called just for show?
“Sister Wen, it’s getting late. Shouldn’t we find a place for President Luo to stay?” Chen Sichu walked over and asked after finishing tidying up the kitchen.
“Luo Ming, did you book a hotel?”
“I did,” Luo Ming answered with a straight face.
“Oh, that’s good then. Chuchu, Miaomiao, you two head back first! I’ll take Luo Ming to the hotel in a bit.”
“Okay, Sister Wen.” With that, Chen Sichu turned around to pack up her things.
Chen Junmiao clearly wanted to say something, but in the end couldn’t get it out.
After the Chen sisters left, Lin Shuwen said to Luo Ming in a annoyed tone, “Luo Ming, you definitely didn’t book a hotel, did you!”
“How do you know I didn’t?”
“When you came to the stadium, you were still carrying your laptop and wearing a travel backpack. If you’d booked a hotel in advance, you would’ve at least dropped your stuff off first! Then you came straight back to my place. When would you have had time to book a hotel?”
“Fine, I didn’t book a hotel.” Luo Ming admitted with a smile and a nod.
“Looks like you’d already made up your mind to leech off me at my place.”
“If you’re not willing, I can go find a hotel.”
“Forget it. You came all this way, and kicking you out wouldn’t feel right. You can sleep in the guest room tonight!”
“The guest room, huh? I actually prefer the master bedroom.”
Lin Shuwen raised an eyebrow. “What? You want me to go to the guest room instead?”
“The master bed is so big. I don’t mind sleeping together.”
Hearing Luo Ming’s words, Lin Shuwen’s face instantly turned red. But shy as she was, she didn’t back down and agreed right away: “Alright! Then I’m going to take a shower. See you in bed in a bit.”
“Cough, cough! I was joking.”
“Don’t joke around! Tonight we’ll get it done. Tomorrow I’ll officially announce my retirement from the industry, the day after we’ll get our marriage certificate, and after that, one week you’re on top of me, one week I’m on top of you. First baby I’ll carry, second baby you’ll carry—”
Luo Ming was startled by Lin Shuwen’s outrageous words and waved his hands repeatedly: “No, no, no, I was wrong, I was wrong!”
“Are you still going to the master bedroom?”
“No, no.”
“Wimp!” With that, Lin Shuwen strutted into the bathroom like a victorious rooster, chest out and head high.
Click~ The bathroom door locked.
At the doorway, Lin Shuwen suddenly felt weak in the legs and slid straight down to the floor.
She reached up and touched her face.
One word: “Hot.”
Heaven knows how much courage she’d mustered to say all that just now.
She’d long since figured it out—Luo Ming was just a master of big talk. He only dared to run his mouth.
To deal with someone like that, all she had to do was become the king of big talk herself.
But clearly, being the king of big talk wasn’t easy!
Lin Shuwen took two minutes to recover, then got up from the floor and looked in the mirror.
In the mirror, her face was as red as a boiled crab.
Smack, smack~ Lin Shuwen raised her hands and patted her own face, forcing herself to calm down.
Meanwhile, outside the bathroom, Luo Ming’s expression was also a bit conflicted.
Luo Ming knew Lin Shuwen was using his own tricks against him.
But thinking back on what Lin Shuwen had just said, there was still a stir in Luo Ming’s heart.
If it had been a week ago, Luo Ming felt he wouldn’t have hesitated at all.
How could a man with nothing dare to stand in the way of a fair lady?
Not to mention Lin Shuwen wasn’t an ordinary woman—she was a celebrity, a rising little queen of the music world with skyrocketing popularity lately.
He might be a transmigrator, but back then he had nothing.
Now the situation was a little different. He’d made money with 2048, and “Beyond the Light Years” and “Snail” were loved by many people.
This showed that the culture from his past life could take root in this world too.
“If ‘Plants vs. Zombies’ can also become as popular as it was in my past life, then maybe I’ll be qualified to walk alongside her,” Luo Ming murmured to himself.
Half an hour later, Lin Shuwen, wrapped in a bath towel, carefully pushed open the bathroom door and poked her head out through the gap to look at the living room.
The main lights in the living room were off, with only a row of night lights on.
Luo Ming wasn’t on the sofa either.
Only then did Lin Shuwen breathe a sigh of relief and step out of the bathroom.
That night, the two tacitly avoided disturbing each other, but both of them had insomnia.
The master bedroom and the guest room were separated by just one wall. Luo Ming and Lin Shuwen both tossed and turned in bed for a long time before finally falling asleep.
The next day, Luo Ming was woken up by footsteps outside the door.
He got dressed, hesitated for a moment, and instead of pushing the door open right away, he took out his phone and sent Lin Shuwen a message: “Can I come out?”
“Yes!” Lin Shuwen replied instantly.
Only then did Luo Ming open the door and come out.
Hearing the door to the guest room open, the Chen sisters simultaneously looked in that direction.
Seeing Luo Ming come out of the room, even the scatterbrained Chen Sichu realized something was off.
Chen Sichu looked at Lin Shuwen, then at Luo Ming, and stammered, “P-President Luo? You… you didn’t go to the hotel yesterday?”
“I did, but the Holiday Inn nearby had no rooms available.”
Chen Junmiao rolled her eyes internally. “That excuse is like trying to fool an idiot. Who would believe that!”
“Oh, so that’s how it is! Hotels in Shanghai really have been tight lately.”
Hearing her younger sister’s words, Chen Junmiao’s hand slipped and squeezed out a huge glob of primer.
So her sister really was an idiot?
“Sister Wen, this isn’t really appropriate, is it?” Chen Junmiao gritted her teeth and reminded her.
“Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing. There won’t be any problems.”
“Sister Wen, Sister Shan knows the password to your place. What if she suddenly shows up—”
Ding ding ding~
Just as Chen Junmiao finished speaking, the sound of someone entering the password came from outside the door.
“Sis, are you a jinx or what?” Chen Sichu said with a terrified look on her face.
Lin Shuwen panicked a little too.
Luckily, Luo Ming reacted fast enough. He dashed back into the guest room in one stride and shut the door behind him.
Click~ The sound of the door opening and the sound of the guest room door closing happened almost simultaneously.
Sister Shan didn’t see Luo Ming.
Lin Shuwen and the Chen sisters breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
“What are you all standing around in a daze for? Do you need to give me a ceremonial welcome or something?” Sister Shan asked with a frown.
“N-Nothing, we just didn’t expect you to show up so suddenly, Sister Shan. Weren’t you supposed to go to the capital today to visit Zhou Ping?” Lin Shuwen changed the subject.
