15 The Conniving B*tch is Here

Picking up his phone, he saw a message from Chen Rou'er.

Ye Xingchen let out a cold laugh inwardly. It was only the third day of the snow disaster, and Chen Rou'er couldn't sit still.

"Ye Xingchen, how are you now?"

Ye Xingchen raised an eyebrow. Chen Rou'er probably wanted to feign concern for him again. The real motive was quite clear to everyone.

Wasn't it about the supplies he had stocked?

"I'm so bored at home..."

"Feeling both cold and hungry, and there's nothing delicious to eat. What are you doing? I noticed you didn't reply to me."

Of course, Chen Rou'er wasn't really messaging Ye Xingchen out of boredom. She remembered the photo Ye Xingchen had sent her yesterday.

As the temperature dropped, Chu Yao unexpectedly sought refuge in her rented house. Chen Rou'er watched Chu Yao, who came empty-handed, unsure whether to refuse or let her stay. She then thought about the supplies Ye Xingchen had mentioned a few days ago...

The way Ye Xingchen put it, he surely had a lot of food stocked.

With more mouths to feed, Chen Rou'er certainly didn't want Chu Yao to deplete her stored provisions. Naturally, she thought of Ye Xingchen, who had been drinking wine and eating steak just the other day.

"I don't have much to do. The snow outside is so heavy that I can't go out to do anything."

Ye Xingchen picked up a towel to wipe off the thin layer of sweat on his forehead and put the dumbbell aside.

"I'm running out of food here. I remember you told me to buy more food a few days ago. You must have bought a lot, right?"

With his phone in hand, Ye Xingchen entered the bathroom. He filled the bathtub with water, adjusted the temperature, and typed on his phone screen while doing so.

"I didn't buy that much, but I have enough for myself to eat."

Chen Rou'er's eyes brightened as she read Ye Xingchen's reply. She still thought of Ye Xingchen as the same silly puppy from before.

"You bought so much, can you share some with me? I'll treat you to dinner later."

Ye Xingchen lay down in the bathtub after filling it with water, allowing the exhaustion from his workout to dissipate. He looked at the phone screen and understood what was going on.

As expected, this woman still thought he was the naive guy who would comply with her every wish.

Chen Rou'er's living conditions were decent. The rented apartment had been paid for by Ye Xingchen. At that time, Ye Xingchen had spent a fair amount on buying various snacks and beverages that were popular among girls. If Chen Rou'er had heeded his words and gone to buy supplies, it wouldn't have been possible for her to run out of food in just three days.

"I'd love to share with you, but the snow is too heavy. It's blocking the doors, and the cars can't get out. I can't come to your place... Sigh, I'm really frustrated too. The things I bought are all perishable items. They might go to waste if kept for too long."

Ye Xingchen picked out a table using his consciousness from the dimensional space, placed various dishes from different cuisines on it, took a photo, and sent it to Chen Rou'er. Of course, he didn't capture the other things he had arranged behind the scenes.

After taking the photo, Ye Xingchen withdrew his consciousness, and his wet body returned to the bathtub. The items he had placed on the table were repositioned in the dimensional space.

On the other side, Chen Rou'er was tucked under her blanket, looking at the photo Ye Xingchen had sent. She furrowed her brow in anger.

"You! What do you mean by this? Are you intentionally provoking me? Just because I didn't agree to be your girlfriend?!"

Beside her, Chen Rou'er's best friend, Chu Yao, also poked her head out from under the blanket. Due to the frigid weather, despite Chen Rou'er's apartment being in much better condition than her own rundown rented house, even with the air conditioning set to 40 degrees, the temperature inside the room was still chilling.

Chu Yao had ended up sharing the bed with Chen Rou'er due to the freezing temperatures.

Seeing the message that Ye Xingchen had sent, Chu Yao's eyes lit up greedily!

Like Chen Rou'er, Chu Yao was also a beautiful woman with a delicate appearance—though not quite as stunning as the campus belle, Chen Rou'er. However, Chu Yao's figure was better than Chen Rou'er's. Likewise, Chu Yao had her fair share of admirers.

Under normal circumstances, the items in the photo weren't particularly rare.

But Chu Yao, who had been dumped by a wealthy young man she was seeing because he found out she was seeing someone else, had been surviving on instant noodles for several weeks before the apocalypse struck. On the third day of the apocalypse, having grown too hungry, she bundled up all her wearable clothes, took all her valuable items, and sought refuge with Chen Rou'er.

However, she hadn't anticipated that Chen Rou'er's food stockpile was rather limited.

To attract wealthier suitors, Chen Rou'er had thrown away almost all of the junk food in her house to maintain a better figure. Although her recent messages to Ye Xingchen weren't entirely false, she really didn't have much food left. The few valuable items she had left, she didn't want to share with Chu Yao.

Seeing Ye Xingchen's attitude, Chen Rou'er became somewhat annoyed. It seemed this obedient and easily deceived lapdog had changed in her presence!

Rubbing her eyes, Chu Yao, who was snuggled up beside Chen Rou'er, spoke bitterly, "Why is Ye Xingchen being so unreasonable? He has so much good food at home, yet he hasn't even thought of you."

"We're here, cold and hungry, while he doesn't show the slightest concern. He used to keep saying he liked you. I can see that he's not sincere, just pretending to care about you."

Chen Rou'er was already feeling disgruntled, and with Chu Yao poking at her sore spot, she became even more furious.

This wasn't the first time Ye Xingchen had sent her a photo.

Of course, she was well aware that Ye Xingchen was deliberately provoking her.

She chose to believe that Ye Xingchen still liked her. All of his recent actions were just because she had rejected him numerous times and he had found out she was simultaneously dating another wealthy heir, which ignited his anger... Everything he was doing now was likely an attempt to make her lower her stance and compromise by actively seeking him out.

"Heh, don't pat yourself on the back too much. Do you really think you're playing a significant role? It's nothing more than a meal. You don't really believe that he can force you to be his girlfriend just by doing this, do you?"

"Ye Xingchen, you're truly naive!"

Naturally, Chen Rou'er held a certain level of disdain for Ye Xingchen. As the campus belle of Jinghai University, she had no shortage of wealthy suitors pursuing her.

However, it must be said that someone who had relentlessly pursued her for years, showing unwavering commitment and devotion like Ye Xingchen, was quite rare.

Chu Yao couldn't help but feel a bit uncomfortable. Though she looked down on Ye Xingchen, among the people who pursued her, none of them were like him... someone who was willing to spend so much money despite never having laid a hand on her.

Chu Yao pursed her lips. "I think, either you should tell him that you're willing to have dinner together and allow him to bring food to your place. Look, you've been avoiding letting him in your house, and now he doesn't even want to come over. Occasionally, you should give him a little encouragement."

Chen Rou'er furrowed her brows.

She was somewhat reluctant.

In her heart, Ye Xingchen was nothing more than a relatively wealthy lapdog to her, not even worthy of being a backup plan.

Although Ye Xingchen was good-looking and came from a decent family, he was still far from the billionaire she had in mind.

Under normal circumstances, Chen Rou'er wouldn't have even considered Chu Yao's suggestion. But now...