It's hot, so hot.

It was that sweltering heat she hated again. Lin Zhenzhen irritably tore off the clothes binding her, finally feeling a little cooler.

Then she heard someone calling her name in her ear, a buzzing sound that kept her from sleeping peacefully.

"So noisy!" She swung her hand sharply, "Slap!"

The annoying flies were finally driven away, and she contentedly changed her position and drifted off to sleep.

The morning sunlight streamed through the gauze curtains onto the headboard, and Lin Zhenzhen slowly opened her eyes.

Blue sky, white clouds, and a handsome man in her arms.

Hmm, Lin Zhenzhen stretched comfortably with her toes, buried her head in the pillow, and continued to laze in bed.

One second, two seconds, three seconds.

She suddenly opened her eyes and stared at the man, their eyes meeting.

Someone tell her what's going on!

She spread her legs and wrapped them around Zhou Gan's waist in a very indecent way.

Her right hand encircled his neck, while her injured left hand protected her chest, yet she couldn't block the slanting sunlight.

The other person's clothes were disheveled, and a clearly visible five-finger mark remained on their fair right cheek.

It's obvious that she forced herself on me last night.

Lin Zhenzhen's mind went blank for two seconds. The scene was so embarrassing that she got goosebumps. She simply closed her eyes tightly again, tilted her head, and continued to pretend to be asleep.

Zhou Gan didn't move, but she could feel the other person's gaze fixed on her face. Gradually, her face involuntarily burned.

Just when she was about to give up, Zhou Gan moved his body, and she took the opportunity to withdraw her hands and feet, pretending to mumble in her sleep, and turned over.

Zhou Gan got up and went to the bathroom to wash up, while Lin Zhenzhen continued to pretend to be dead.

Although this was the first time in two lifetimes that Lin Zhenzhen had shared a bed with a man, she understood basic physiological knowledge and knew that the two of them had simply slept under the covers last night.

Even so, she still felt very uncomfortable.

Especially when Zhou Gan seriously told her, "You were snoring yesterday."

"Pfft, cough cough cough, you must be hallucinating!"

Lin Zhenzhen, wearing an oversized t-shirt that she had temporarily found in his closet, was washing her face with her head down when she was so startled that she swallowed a few mouthfuls of toothpaste foam.

“Impossible, you were snoring in my arms, I barely slept last night.” Zhou Gan handed her the mouthwash cup.

Lin Zhenzhen wished she could disappear into the ground, but thankfully Zhou Gan didn't continue. He turned and went to another bathroom, where the sound of a shower soon followed.

A moment later, the doorbell rang.

Zhou Gan said through the door, "My takeout has arrived. You can eat first."

"Oh." Lin Zhenzhen, wearing slippers, opened the door a crack and reached her hand out.

He Feng looked at the snow-white arm that was sticking out from the door and called out uncertainly.

"Zhou Gan?"

Lin Zhenzhen widened the crack in the door a little and poked her head out.

"Holy crap, a woman?!"

No, no, no, how could there be a woman in Zhou Gan's house?

He took two steps back, looked up at the door number, and realized he hadn't knocked on the wrong door.

"Not takeout?" Zhou Gan asked as he walked out, drying his hair with a towel.

"Why are you here?" His tone was full of impatience.

“You two…” He Feng’s fingers circled over the two of them, finally stopping at Lin Zhenzhen.

"You're Lin Zhen?" He suddenly realized, clapping his hands. "So that's how it is. You two got together while participating in the show?"

"Don't speak so rudely." Zhou Gan coldly threw the wet towel at him.

"I misspoke, we fell in love on the show!" He Feng quickly corrected himself, though he didn't really believe it.

Lin Zhen might be able to fool a simpleton like Zhou Gan, but she couldn't fool him.

The stories about Lin Zhen have long been circulating within the industry.

Thinking this way, his gaze toward Lin Zhen gradually turned contemptuous.

Zhou Gan asked, "What do you need me for?"

"Oh, it's about work." He Feng deliberately spoke loudly so Lin Zhenzhen could hear him. "Let's talk in your study!"

He pulled Zhou Gan into the room, slammed the door shut, and even eavesdropped for a while to make sure she hadn't followed him.

Zhou Gan frowned: "What exactly do you want to do?"

Unexpectedly, He Feng immediately exploded, put on a stern face, and seriously reprimanded his friend.

"How many times has this happened? Is she constantly bothering you? What do she have against you?"

Zhou Gan, seething with anger, asked, "What are you saying?"

"Zhou Gan!" He raised his voice, then remembered that the person was still outside the door, so he lowered his voice and whispered, "I know you're very naive, you've only been in one relationship, it's normal that you don't understand women."

“I’ve always supported you in interacting with men more, but Lin Zhen is different! Do you know what kind of person she is? Are you familiar with her outside of the show? Do you know what she’s been through since childhood?”

Zhou Gan looked at him with the same eyes that looked at someone with an idiot.

"I know all of that."

"You know nothing!"

He Feng was heartbroken that one of his own plump, healthy cabbages had been bewitched by a wild fairy by the roadside.

He opened the door, determined to negotiate with the other party himself.

He stormed up to Lin Zhenzhen, who was stuffing the last bun in her bowl into her mouth.

With her legs crossed, she casually lifted her eyelids and glanced at him.

He Feng's movements stopped, and for some reason, his momentum diminished by more than half.

"Actor He?" Her voice was cool yet tinged with a hint of amusement. "I've heard so much about you."

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