Liu Manman tightly clenched her jaws as she stared expectantly at Ye Fei, thinking, "I can't believe I have to become his girlfriend. But if I don't do it, Fire Dragon will really kill me…"

With the exception of Murong, Liu Manman didn't think the cops were going to protect her based off of a single threat over the phone. She also didn't have that much money and couldn't employ a bodyguard like Ye Fei to protect her. Moreover, Liu Manman knew how terrifying Fire Dragon was. A few average cops or bodyguards couldn't beat him.

Her last hope was Ye Fei.

Ye Fei smirked, "Sorry, I don't like you that much. If you think you can rely on your extraordinary appearance to make any man go crazy for you, think again. I don't feel anything for you and I definitely don't want to be your boyfriend."

The room was silent, except for the sound of breathing.

The women all stared at Ye Fei with varying degrees of incredulity. Did he really just refuse to be Liu Manman's boyfriend?

Liu Manman was a transcendent beauty with good stature, excellent temperament, and she was quite intelligent.

Many rich men desperately pursued Liu Manman without even the slightest hope of so much as sharing a meal with her, but Ye Fei refused her when she practically begged him to be her boyfriend?

It was hard to understand the reasoning behind this.

"Ye Fei... I think you shouldn't refuse her."

Lin Qingwan pouted irately. She thought Ye Fei wasn't nearly good enough for Liu Manman. How could he dare to refuse? This was an unbearable insult for any woman!

"I just told the truth. I really don't like her and I don't want to be her boyfriend. However, if you think you can continue to live in this apartment, that's fine with me," Ye Fei said helplessly.

"All right, then we will continue to live here," she hastily said. "After we tidy up the utility room, you can live there."

"Fine," Ye Fei shrugged.

Then, Lin Qingwan accompanied Liu Manman to her room to talk through their issues and dissolve the tension between them.

Chu Mo and Mu Cheng went to clean up the utility room for Ye Fei.

Mu Cheng was a nurse, so taking care of people was her expertise. She quickly organized the clutter and put an inflatable mattress inside.

Ye Fei stuck his head through the door and found that it was actually not that bad in there. It looked like it used to be a small study. There was a huge wooden bookshelf along one of the walls, piled heavily with dusty books.

"These books were left behind by a tenant who seemed to be a university professor. He left in a hurry and didn't take some of his things, so we put them here," Chu Mo said.

Ye Fei quickly glanced over the books and then turned to help Chu Mo and Mu Cheng finish up with the room.

The room was quite small and was soon cleared of its last few aboriginal motes of dust. Ye Fei opened the window, letting soft suns.h.i.+ne wash over the interior. He lay on his mattress and closed his eyes, satisfied with this temporary accommodation, and soon dozed off. Mu Cheng came by later to call him to dinner, but he was too tired, so he did not go out.

When Ye Fei woke up again, it was pitch black outside. He got up and looked at the clock on the table and found that it was one o'clock in the morning.

The apartment was silent. The women were probably all asleep.

Ye Fei quietly crept to the kitchen and found some wrapped-up leftovers with a small note telling him to heat them up in the microwave oven.　

On the microwave oven was another dainty little note instructing Ye Fei on how to use it.

"How cute," he thought. "I wonder who wrote this. Maybe Mu Cheng, her job is taking care of people. Or Chu Mo, even if she is a little... neurotic. But she is a teacher, so she must be pretty responsible."

After eating the delicious food the women left out for him and taking a swig out of a bottle of milk he found in the fridge, Ye Fei was ready to go back to sleep.

Suddenly, he heard someone crying.

It was the middle of the night and Ye Fei was surrounded by darkness. He could feel a cold draft and had no idea where the sound was coming from.

He s.h.i.+vered a little involuntarily.

He was not timid. He wasn't afraid of ghosts either. After a deep breath, he walked toward the direction of the sound.

With every step, the crying became louder. It sounded like it was coming from the balcony.

He carefully opened the balcony door.

Ye Fei almost screamed. There was a woman in a long, white gown and black hair sitting on the balcony.

However, he immediately saw that the woman was actually Liu Manman.

She was holding a bottle of wine. Clearly, she was in a low mood and got out of bed for a midnight drink.　

In the dim moonlight, Liu Manman appeared beautiful and graceful. The alcohol in her blood gave her face a charming reddish hue that overshadowed her moist, bloodshot eyes.

Ye Fei look at her like she was a plague victim and turned back.

Seeing that he was going to leave, Liu Manman thought that he was a completely different man from last night.　

"This man... Does he have a split personality? Which one is the real him?"

Liu Manman looked deeply at Ye Fei's back and said, "Would you accompany me for a nightcap?"