The Showdown

Early that morning, Chu Yu reluctantly got out of bed.

In January, Tokyo was buried in a blizzard!

The house was warm enough, but the thought of going outside after getting up and freezing his ass off made Chu Yu want to stay under the covers a little longer.

Still, no matter how much he didn't want to, he had to get up. After washing up, he opened the living room's floor-to-ceiling curtains. The courtyard outside had already built up a thick blanket of snow!

Su Ruo got up around the same time. Once she'd finished getting ready, she looked gorgeous every day now. After getting her share of the profits, she'd turned back into a member of the middle class and gone on an unabashed shopping spree for the latest fashions. And sure enough, she'd given Chu Yu a fresh new look to enjoy every day these past few days!

"Zhao Qinyin's been gone for ten days now, hasn't she? How come she still hasn't come back?" Chu Yu asked casually as he ate breakfast.

"She's still back home," Su Ruo said with a teasing smile.

"What, miss her?"

"No. I'm just worried something might happen to her over there. You know how famous she is now. She might be almost as popular as I was back then. What if she runs into some creepy fan or something?"

Chu Yu was remarkably adaptable. At first, Su Ruo's probing remarks had thrown him into a panic, but as the saying went, use the same trick often enough, and people developed a resistance to it!

"So you're tired of being stuck with just me all day? I think I'm pretty nice to be around. Are you really that sick of me?" Su Ruo rested her chin on her hand, her gaze