Cheng Hao

What man's dignity... To hell with it.

Li Wei's damn sense of responsibility from her previous life, combined with the original host's feelings for her younger brother, had led her to make the decision without much struggle.

Besides, they had both been orphans for two lifetimes. Now that she finally had a biological younger brother, what else could she do? Watch him die?

And besides, didn't she have a cheat ability? She could exploit the time difference and make a deal with that sucker, promising to "do it" after Li Cheng recovered.

By then, with her strength skyrocketing through the system, who knew who would have the upper hand?

Of course, she wasn't planning to scam him. She would definitely repay him double—in both money and favors!

Time to sell!

The result...

Li Wei: ???

She opened her phone's contacts and scrolled for ages, only to discover that Cheng Hao wasn't even listed among her classmates.

That made sense. Although the original host had been pursued by that guy for three years, she had steadfastly rejected him the entire time. Naturally, she wouldn't have kept his contact information.

With no other choice, Li Wei opened the blue bubble app called SpiritLink, found the class group, and prepared to send Cheng Hao a friend request.

The result...

"I was kicked out of the group?!"

Li Wei was stunned. Had the original host's relationships really been this terrible? Wasn't she the publicly acknowledged campus belle?

With no other option, she returned to her contacts, her finger stopping over a name: "Lu Feifei."

Lu Feifei had been the original host's deskmate. Their relationship had been neither good nor bad.

But at the moment, Li Wei couldn't think of anyone else she could ask.

Lu Feifei had excellent grades. During the final school test before the entrance exams, her Vitality Value had reached 63. Later, Li Wei had heard that she had been admitted to a martial university in the Imperial Capital.

Although it wasn't one of Hua Nation's three great martial universities—the Imperial Capital Qingyun Martial University—being admitted to any university in the Imperial Capital was already an incredible achievement within the small circle of No. 5 High School.

Moreover, this girl had a wide circle of friends and especially liked hanging out with the boys in class. There was an eighty percent chance she had Cheng Hao's contact information.

"Ugh, I really don't want to deal with these old classmates..." Li Wei muttered inwardly, but still pressed the call button.

Beep—beep—

Beep—beep—

The ringtone went on for a long time. The call was almost about to disconnect automatically when it was finally answered.

"Hello, who's this?"

A sweet, almost cloying, slightly coquettish female voice came through the receiver.

...Wait, she hadn't even saved Li Wei's number?

Li Wei was speechless, but still suppressed her irritation and got straight to the point. "I'm Li Wei... Lu Feifei, could you give me Cheng Hao's phone number?"

"Li Wei?" The person on the other end seemed to pause before reacting a second later. "Oh my, it's Weiwei! I'm so sorry, so sorry! I just changed phones, and I haven't had time to transfer a lot of numbers yet!"

"Uh, no problem..." Li Wei couldn't be bothered to argue with her and repeated her question. "Feifei, do you have Cheng Hao's number?"

"You're looking for Cheng Hao? Why? Weren't you always the most annoyed by him?" Lu Feifei's tone sounded quite "concerned."

"I have something to discuss with him. Sorry for the trouble." Li Wei felt a blockage in her chest, and her patience was running out.

"You'd better think it through. Don't let him pester you again. Rich young masters like that can be terrifying when they go crazy."

"Lu Feifei, I really have something urgent to discuss with him. Do you have his number or not?"

Lu Feifei seemed to hear the impatience in Li Wei's voice. She stopped pretending as well, her voice turning chilly and carrying an indescribable undertone.

"Something urgent? Oh my, what happened to our great campus belle Li? He stopped pursuing you, and now you're throwing yourself at him? Heh, where were you before? Who were you putting on such airs for back then? Tsk, tsk, I'm actually quite curious. Cheng Hao is now a top student at Dongming Martial University. I wonder if he'll even bother with a bottom-ranked student from Anhe Martial University like you?"

After saying that, she hung up. Only the busy tone remained in the receiver.

"Damn it!" Li Wei nearly crushed her phone. It took her a long while to suppress her anger.

Had she transmigrated into a high-martial male-oriented novel, or a palace-drama-style domestic intrigue story for women?

What the hell was this palace infighting?

What a lunatic!

She had just begun scrolling through her contacts to find someone else to ask when her phone suddenly chimed. A text message had come in.

Li Wei opened it and saw that it was from Lu Feifei—a solitary string of numbers.

"What does she mean by this?"

Li Wei couldn't figure it out, and couldn't be bothered to think about it. She took a deep breath and dialed the number directly.

The call was answered almost instantly.

Then there was a long silence on the other end, so long that Li Wei thought the signal had been lost.

"Wei... Hello? Wh-who is this?" A somewhat nervous male voice came through.

Li Wei closed her eyes and took several more breaths before managing to make her voice sound less stiff. "Cheng Hao, this is Li Wei."

Another stretch of silence...

This time, it lasted even longer—nearly a full minute.

"Oh." Cheng Hao's voice sounded somewhat dry. "What is it?"

Li Wei thought his voice sounded a little shaky, but she didn't dwell on it.

She glanced at Li Cheng, who was sitting beside her with his eyes half closed in a daze. His skin was gradually turning pale, his cheeks growing gaunt, and black blood vessels had spread from his neck almost to the corners of his eyes.

Li Wei steeled her heart and clenched her teeth before saying into the phone, "Cheng Hao, I need money. A lot, a lot of money! I can... sleep with you. One year, two years, however long you want, until you're tired of me..."

"Huh?"

Clack!

Something fell to the floor on the other end, followed by the sound of a chair being knocked over.

After quite a while, Cheng Hao finally let out an incredulous, shrill roar.

"Li Wei! Are you fucking crazy?!"

"I'm not crazy. I'm perfectly lucid!" Li Wei enunciated every word. "Just tell me, are you making this deal or not? If not, I'll find someone else!"

There was another silence.

Just as Li Wei was about to lose patience, Cheng Hao suddenly spoke.

"...For your little brother?"

"Yeah!" There was nothing to hide, and Li Wei answered crisply.

"Li Wei..." Cheng Hao's voice turned hoarse. "You... do you really have to go this far? To make things like this... If I actually paid the money and then took you... what kind of person would that make me?"

"Oh? So you mean you're willing to do it for free?" Once everything had been laid out, Li Wei was no longer as nervous. She even had the mood to make a joke.

"Heh..." Cheng Hao gave a cold laugh. "Dream on! Li Wei, I pursued you for three years. When did you ever look at me properly?"

"When I was in my second year of high school, I swore that in this lifetime, I absolutely had to sleep with you! Hmph, you'd better wash yourself and wait for me! With a Vitality Value of 67 and a body in peak condition, I'll make sure you can't get out of bed for a month!"

I've got a Vitality Value of 75. Wouldn't I crush you if I used any force?

Li Wei curled her lips. She had been a man for nearly thirty years in her previous life. Who didn't know how to make filthy jokes and issue empty threats?

If she hadn't changed bodies and still cared somewhat about her image, she would have given this brat a proper verbal beating.

"Fine, fine. As long as you can cure my younger brother, let alone one month—even a year is fine! You can unlock whatever positions you want!"

That reply showed that she had basically let herself go completely...

The other end was clearly provoked by her. His breathing instantly grew heavy. "Huff... huff... Li Wei, you—you're serious?"

"A promise is a promise!" Her voice was firm.

Cheng Hao was delighted, and his tone became much more carefree. "Fine! Tell me, how much do you want?"

"Thirty million!"

"Pfft—! Cough, cough, cough... How much?"

"Thirty million."

"Are you diamond-studded or something?"

"No. Why did you react exactly like Li Cheng?"

"Good heavens, you discussed selling yourself with your little brother?"

"Cut the crap. Do you have it or not?"

"..."

"..."

The awkward silence lasted for half a minute...

Cheng Hao gave two dry laughs. "Thirty million... that's a bit much. I can't make that decision. Wait for me. I... I'll go ask my dad."

"Ask your dad? How are you going to put it? Tell him you want to spend thirty million to sleep with a woman?" Hearing him say that, Li Wei instead felt somewhat deflated.

Having been a man for nearly thirty years in her previous life, she could more or less imagine the consequences of Cheng Hao doing that.

But that sentence provoked him instead.

Cheng Hao's voice suddenly rose. "Li Wei! You wait for me! Don't find anyone else! Did you hear me? I said I'm definitely going to sleep with you! You wait!"

The call was brutally hung up.

Li Wei held the phone, still somewhat dazed.

She instinctively turned to look at Li Cheng, only to meet the little fellow's extraordinarily clear eyes.

Li Cheng asked calmly, "Li Wei, are you really planning to sell yourself?"

Li Wei stretched out an Erkang hand, her left hand covering her heart.

"Li Cheng, something's wrong with you... At a time like this, shouldn't you be heartbroken beyond words and cry, saying, 'Sister, I don't want you to sacrifice your happiness for me!'?"

Li Cheng looked disdainful. "If I said that, would you stop selling yourself?"

Li Wei choked. "Of course not. I'd still have to sell myself."

The corner of Li Cheng's mouth twitched. He seemed to want to sneer, but had no strength. After taking a breath, he spoke with some difficulty. "Then what use would crying be?"

Li Wei was speechless. "Aren't you afraid I'll be abused?"

Li Cheng continued to sneer. "Abused? I think you're planning to trick some idiot, aren't you?"

Li Wei: "Holy crap, you could tell even that?"

Li Cheng's voice grew even lower, almost inaudible. "I don't know what trump card you're hiding, but I just feel... you'll be able to retreat unscathed."

"You brat... can you read minds?" Li Wei was genuinely startled. This younger brother of hers was no simple character.

Li Cheng no longer paid her any attention. Instead, he laboriously turned over, leaving Li Wei with the back of his head.