No man in history had ever made living off a woman sound that tough.

So when Xu Ye came out with that shameless line, the cashier and the sales assistant bagging up their purchases both lost it.

Chen Qingqing had never been so exasperated in her life. She scanned and paid in a hurry, then reached over and hauled the walking embarrassment beside her out of the store.

They wandered the mall all morning, and by the time the four of them sat down to lunch a thin drizzle had started outside, with a cold wind coming in gusts behind it.

That sudden rain also wrecked Zhao Ming's plans for the day.

He had been intending to take Zhang Ruowei out somewhere in the afternoon, but with the rain coming down there was nowhere convenient to go.

Stuck for ideas, Zhao Ming called Xu Ye and asked what he and Chen Qingqing did when it rained.

"It's raining," Xu Ye said. "Obviously you stay at the hotel and sleep. Where else is there?"

"If I told Zhang Ruowei right now that we should go to a hotel and sleep, I have a feeling she'd 'kill' me."

"Ha."

Xu Ye had nothing else planned for the afternoon either, so he came up with something fast. "How about this. We go to the hotel this afternoon, play some cards, maybe some mahjong."

"Works for me."

As far as Zhao Ming was concerned, anything at all was fine as long as it meant being in the same room as Zhang Ruowei.

Xu Ye laughed. "Then go pick up Zhang Ruowei and Jiang Yu first. Zhiwei and Xinyi are with me. I'll send you the location and we'll meet downstairs at the hotel."

"Right."

Once he'd hung up, Zhao Ming drove to the conservatory, and from the foot of the dormitory building he messaged Zhang Ruowei and Jiang Yu to come down, then turned around and headed for the hotel Xu Ye always used.

By the time Zhao Ming got there, the four of them were already waiting.

"Did you get the room?" Zhao…