Welcome to Trapped in the Same Day for a Thousand Years, exclusively produced by Feilu Novel Network. Written by Sang Ze, narrated by Wang Xiaomo and Lao He. Ah, forget it.
Li Ruobing suddenly gave up. She had no need to keep guessing. She turned to Wu Chen.
"Tell me. Who is she?"
"I can't tell you yet," Wu Chen said.
"I'll bite you!"
Furious, Li Ruobing punched Wu Chen in the shoulder.
No, Wu Chen couldn't do this. He had stirred up her curiosity, then refused to say who it was.
Li Ruobing felt she might lose sleep for days after returning to East Sea. She was genuinely curious about this woman now.
"You seem to have forgotten that this wasn't what we were talking about at first."
Wu Chen caught the hand Li Ruobing raised to pinch him, kissed the back of it, and smiled.
"Ah."
Li Ruobing thought for a moment. "The role-playing?"
"That's right. Does it have something to do with this?"
"I'll give you two options."
Wu Chen smiled. "First, I can tell you who she is right now. We forget about the role-playing, I handle this myself, and you go back to East Sea to deal with your work."
"Second, you stay in Magic City for a few days and treat it as a vacation. You play a role at my side—an assistant or a tagalong, say—and we go find this woman together."
"You'd only be pretending to be my assistant. I want her to become my actual assistant."
Li Ruobing froze. Put simply, if she stayed out of it, Wu Chen would tell her the woman's name. If she held off on finding out, she could take part in the whole thing.
Of course, there was a price: she would have to play