Locking away my heart and love! Going back to 2000 to be a top student again.

"I remember you said her father worked in real estate first, right?" He frowned and thought for a moment. "I have met their boss. Should I have Huang Chao go and say hello?"

"What kind of invitation? Are you going to expose this?" Xu Su flatly refused: "No way, if we do that, the school will find out about this! How will Gu Yunjia go to school then!"

"Exposing it probably won't do any good. This is disgraceful, but it's not illegal. It's a moral issue of mutual consent. If her 'uncle' is competent and has some status in their company, this little scandal won't have much of an impact."

Zhou Mochen smiled at her: "When I said 'say hello,' I meant to make him unemployed."

“If you’re really angry, I’ll not only make him unemployed in middle age, I’ll make sure he can’t find a job at all.” He watched as Xu Su put down her chopsticks, then reached into the fruit plate, picked a strawberry, and handed it to her, coaxing, “Would that make you feel better?”

Xu Su took the strawberry, took a bite, and found it quite sweet.

She hesitated for a long time, then shook her head: "Forget it, Gu Yunjia won't let me help her. If I really cause that person to lose their job, her mother won't have money for medical treatment, and I don't know what will happen to her."

"Okay, then I won't bother with it." Zhou Mochen wasn't particularly interested in other people's affairs anyway, so he nodded indifferently. "Have you finished eating?"

Xu Su nodded; she ate a lot, her mouth was numb from the spiciness.

After Zhou Mochen paid the bill, he pulled Xu Su out. Hearing her complaint, he turned his head to look at her slightly swollen lips and said with a mischievous smile, "Was it from my kiss, or is it spicy?"

Thinking back to how this person had pressed her against the car door and kissed her just now at school, Xu Su's eyelashes trembled slightly. "You're shameless."

Zhou Mochen nodded in agreement: "Yeah, I had no intention of taking this from you a long time ago."

Xu Su was utterly speechless...

It was already past nine o'clock when Xu Su got home. After washing up, she hesitated for a while before knocking on Zhou Mochen's door.

For the past six months, she's been monopolizing the master bedroom, while Zhou Mochen, the true owner, has been sleeping in the guest room next to her...

After knocking for a while without anyone answering, Xu Su tentatively turned the doorknob and found it unlocked.

The sound of water coming from the bathroom...

Xu Su looked around, then threw off the covers and got into bed.

When Zhou Mochen came out, he was shirtless and wearing only underwear. He walked to the bed while drying his hair. When he saw the girl in his bed, he thought he was dreaming for a moment. He was stunned for a while before touching her face. The delicate and warm touch brought him back to his senses.

He threw back the covers, got into bed, picked Xu Su up, pulled her into his arms, and sniffed her: "Did you come to the wrong room? Or..."

"You, you put your pants on properly." Xu Su covered her face in embarrassment, regretting that she had run in!

Zhou Mochen paused, then actually got out of bed, pulled out a pair of pajama pants, put them on, and haphazardly dried his hair before returning shirtless.

Pulling Xu Su back into his arms, Zhou Mochen stroked her hair and gently asked, "Tell your brother, what do you want to do here?"

Xu Su wrapped her arms around his waist and buried her face in the crook of his neck. Her initial hesitation subsided, and she softly said, "I want you to hold me while I sleep."

His hand, which had been stroking her long hair, paused for a moment before slowly moving to the back of her neck. He pulled Xu Su's face from his embrace, and after a moment of eye contact, Zhou Mochen's gaze darkened: "Do you know what you're saying?"

Xu Su's gaze remained unyielding: "I know, I want to sleep with you."

Zhou Mochen's expression became extremely complicated. In the end, he restrained himself and pressed his lips to Xu Su's forehead, patting her head: "Okay, brother will hold you while you sleep."

"..." Xu Su waited for a long time, but there was no further action. She looked up and glared at him: "That's it?"

Zhou Mochen chuckled: "What else do you want?"

Xu Su's face flushed red from his laughter. She angrily flipped over and straddled him, looking down at him condescendingly: "What do you think I don't know? Come on, let's do it!"

"...Stop messing around." Zhou Mochen grabbed her waist and pulled her into his arms, his voice trembling through gritted teeth: "You say you won't touch me, but I haven't even touched you yet, and you're already trying to provoke me with the 'sugar daddy' tactic. If I actually touch you, wouldn't that confirm that claim?"

The two were pressed tightly together, and their reactions were impossible to hide. Xu Su truly admired his self-control.

"I won't mention being kept anymore, Zhou Mochen, don't worry about that." She was a little puzzled: "Didn't you always try to get me into bed before? Why are you holding back now?"

The question was extremely direct, and a tremor escaped Zhou Mochen's throat, as if he were sighing at her audacity.

Once the agitation had subsided somewhat, he stroked Xu Su's face and explained in a hoarse voice, "If you had come last night, I wouldn't have been so polite, but not today. I suddenly realized today that you're still a high school student. Even if you're an adult, it's not appropriate for you to do this."

Xu Su was stunned; she never expected Zhou Mochen to say such a thing.

You're still a high school student. Even if you were an adult, it wouldn't be appropriate for you to do this...

She thought of that car that kept bobbing up and down in the alley near the school that afternoon.

"Yes, it's the one I met this afternoon." Zhou Mochen kissed the top of Xu Su's head, his voice extremely gentle: "I don't care about others, you are the apple of my eye, I can't let others think of you like that too."

Xu Su: "..."

An untimely thought came to her mind: 'Gentleness is the ultimate weapon.'

She had seen all sorts of Zhou Mochens, but this man in front of her, whose very bones exuded gentleness towards her, was truly the first she had ever met.

Zhou Mochen is becoming more and more gentle...

After a moment of silence, Xu Su said, "Whether we do it or not, nobody will know. We live together, so even if we don't do anything, people will still speculate."

“Yes, the fact that we live together is enough to make people speculate, so we need to prove that we’re not in a sugar daddy/sugar baby relationship, whether they know it or not.” Zhou Mochen never cared about how others viewed their relationship before; he only needed to know his own feelings.

It wasn't until I saw that scene at the school gate today that I felt annoyed and wondered if my Su Su would be criticized at school.

Zhou Mochen absolutely cannot accept that some people might think his relationship with Xu Su is like the transaction that happened in that alley.

He tightened his arms around the girl in his embrace, and said solemnly, "They won't misunderstand. Everyone can see how much I like you."

Xu Su was speechless: "...I thought you were going to tell me to move back to the dorm."

He tightened his grip on her waist. "Don't even think about it. If I let you go back to school, wouldn't we see each other for months at a time?"

"Okay, okay, we won't go back to school." Xu Su quickly reassured her, "I didn't say I was going back to live on campus. This semester is almost over, and the college entrance exam is in a few months. There's no need to make a fuss."

"That's a good boy." Zhou Mochen said with a smile, "Come on, tell your brother, why did you decide to throw yourself into my arms tonight?"