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Chapter 9 - Chapter 9: The Mighty General

Uncle Fu left Chu Mengyao's villa with the excuse of returning to the company to pick up Teacher Chu.

Before leaving, he handed Lin Yi a bag, saying it contained First High School uniforms and textbooks.

"Miss, if you need anything, please call me anytime. I'll bring dinner at 7 PM as usual."

With that, Uncle Fu hurried off.

Chu Mengyao stared at the man in front of her, unsure what to say. She couldn't just leave him homeless, could she? Her father was famous as a philanthropist—if word got out that he mistreated his servants, how would she explain that?

After fuming for a while, Chu Mengyao finally remembered the root cause of this mess and pulled out her phone to call Chen Yushu:

"Hello, Shu? Dad says this worker is going to live at my villa. What am I supposed to do?"

"Yaoyao! About Arrow? That's perfect! Tomorrow at school we can say you two are living together, and no one will bother you anymore!"

Chen Yushu was lounging comfortably on her sofa watching TV when she casually answered Chu Mengyao's call.

"CHEN YUSHU!!!"

Chu Mengyao exploded, shouting into the phone: "You're horrible! You told me to let him stay, and now you're being so cold about it? Get over here right now—immediately!"

"Yeah, sure, I'll just take a bath, sleep, and come see you when we go to school tomorrow."

Chen Yushu replied lazily.

"If you're not here in one minute, we're done being friends!"

Chu Mengyao said firmly.

"Ugh, I was just about to take a bath and got undressed already. Now I have to get dressed again."

Chen Yushu complained while getting up from the sofa and checking herself out in the mirror.

Hmm, is my stomach getting bigger? I should really watch what I eat.

"Fifty seconds left!"

Chu Mengyao announced, watching the call timer on her phone.

"Fine, fine... but I have to lock up!" Chen Yushu said, hurriedly putting on clothes.

"Forty seconds!"

Chu Mengyao continued counting.

"I'm coming, I'm coming!"

Chen Yushu slipped on her shoes and ran outside.

Chen Yushu's villa was only a few dozen meters from Chu Mengyao's, with just a small path between the two houses that faced each other diagonally.

Seeing Chen Yushu's figure in the distance, Chu Mengyao finally relaxed and hung up.

"Yaoyao, what's the big deal? I was about to take a bath and you drag me over here."

Chen Yushu complained.

"Ahem!"

Chu Mengyao cleared her throat and pointed at Lin Yi: "Shu, there's someone else here. Watch your language."

"Oh, it's fine."

Chen Yushu said carelessly: "It's just Arrow, right? He's practically family now!"

"If you think he's family, then he can live at your place! Problem solved!"

Seeing Chen Yushu's schadenfreude attitude, Chu Mengyao got annoyed.

"Well..."

Chen Yushu stuck out her tongue and grinned innocently: "Yaoyao, you know me. When I get home, I like to... undress. It'd be inconvenient if he came over..."

"So it's convenient at my place?"

Chu Mengyao silently cursed Chen Yushu's selfishness.

"Oh, that's easy!"

Chen Yushu shook her little head: "Just let him live at your place while you live at mine!"

"That... that could work!"

Chu Mengyao thought Chen Yushu had finally made a constructive suggestion.

But then she hesitated. Let a worker live in her villa? Why should she do that? What if things went missing?

"No way! I can't let him live in my villa alone!"

Chu Mengyao said through gritted teeth.

Chen Yushu was stumped too. She'd initially suggested keeping Lin Yi around just for fun, but now there was a real problem. Have Lin Yi live at Chen Yushu's villa? She definitely wouldn't agree to that.

After thinking it over, Chen Yushu finally came up with a compromise:

"How about I live here with you? He can stay on the first floor, we'll take the second floor. Just don't let him come upstairs!"

Hearing Chen Yushu's suggestion, Chu Mengyao thought this was the only option and reluctantly nodded:

"Fine, let's do that!"

Chen Yushu often stayed over at Chu Mengyao's place anyway, so she walked in naturally.

Meanwhile, Lin Yi picked up his luggage and slowly followed behind.

It was obvious Chu Mengyao was hostile toward him, but remembering the serious advice from the old man when he left home and Uncle Chu's trusting gaze, Lin Yi didn't mind too much.

After all, Chu Mengyao was just a girl—of course she wouldn't want to live with a guy.

"Hey, what's your name?"

Chu Mengyao sat on the sofa, stretching her long legs across it as she asked Lin Yi.

"I'm Lin..."

Lin Yi started to answer while moving to sit on the sofa. He'd been standing in the entrance for ages and was tired, but just as his butt was about to touch the cushion, a sudden shout startled him.

"Stop! Don't sit down!"

Chu Mengyao pointed at Lin Yi with wide eyes.

"What's wrong?"

Lin Yi froze with his butt hovering in mid-air, looking confused.

"Your pants are dirty. Don't mess up my sofa! Shu often lies here naked!"

Chu Mengyao frowned.

Chen Yushu rolled her eyes, thinking: Yaoyao, why are you saying that? You just told me to watch my language in front of others, and now you're the one talking about this stuff.

Lin Yi didn't get angry. He figured his clothes really weren't clean—he'd been sitting on trains for hours and walking around dusty roads all day. Getting the sofa dirty was one thing, but giving this cute girl a skin disease would be terrible.

"Alright, go ahead."

Seeing Lin Yi stand up, Chu Mengyao felt relieved.

"I'm Lin Yi."

Lin Yi answered.

"Fine, Lin Yi. You'll sleep in that guest room tonight. But remember—the second floor is mine and Shu's room. Don't you dare go up there. If you do, I'll tell Dad to fire you immediately."

Even as she said this, Chu Mengyao didn't sound very confident. She couldn't shake the feeling that her father had been somehow bewitched by this Lin Yi!

So she added: "If you go upstairs, I'll have the Mighty General bite you to death!"

"Understood."

Lin Yi nodded indifferently, but hearing the latter part, he asked curiously: "Mighty General? What's that?"

Hearing Lin Yi's question, Chu Mengyao smugly called toward the second floor: "Mighty General, come down!"

"Woof woof!"

The sound of barking echoed as a fierce-looking Rottweiler bounded down from the second floor, standing alertly beside Chu Mengyao and glaring at Lin Yi.

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