I rejected your confession, but you took my best friend home?

There's no need to persist with things that don't get a response in Chapter 4.

Seeing Yin Mengran's bewildered expression, Zhou Heng placed the bag in the living room and said:

"You can stay here until you have somewhere else to go, then you can leave."

Upon hearing Zhou Heng's words, Yin Mengran immediately snapped out of her daze and hurriedly went over to say:

"No, no, no... I'll leave right away, I..."

Before she could finish speaking, Zhou Heng suddenly looked up at her. His gaze wasn't fierce, nor was it frightening.

But it gave her an undeniable feeling, so she instinctively shut her mouth immediately.

Zhou Heng looked at Yin Mengran and said in a deep voice:

"Either you stay here, or I'll call the police and have them look after you. The choice is yours."

Yin Mengran sobbed a few times, blinked her tear-filled eyes, looked at him with a slightly reproachful gaze, and asked softly:

"Do you talk to Tongtong like this too?"

"Uh?"

Zhou Heng opened his mouth, his gaze fixed, and for a long time he couldn't utter a single word, staring blankly at Yin Mengran.

Her expression seemed to say to herself: No wonder you failed to confess your feelings!

Zhou Heng knew he was bad at speaking; his biggest weakness was his lack of emotional intelligence.

If it's like this with boys, let alone with girls.

Zhou Heng silently lowered his head, speechless, looking like a lost puppy, completely devoid of his previous imposing manner.

"Pfft-"

Zhou Heng looked up and saw that Yin Mengran was covering her mouth and laughing, her eyes crinkling at the corners, even though there were still tears on them.

Zhou Heng clicked his tongue awkwardly and said, "Just stay here, I'm begging you, okay?"

This was the most sincere thing he could say. He tried to put on a kind expression, but no matter what he did, it just didn't look right, and he almost made his face cramp up.

Seeing this, Yin Mengran burst out laughing again, unable to tell whether the tears were from crying or laughing.

Zhou Heng thought Yin Mengran was mocking him mercilessly, so he turned his head away, his face full of frustration.

Yin Mengran realized she had laughed too hard, her laughter gradually weakened and she stopped, then said:

"Okay... I promise you, thank you, but... why did you help me...?"

"There's no real reason. If I had to give a reason, it's just that I don't want my reputation in class to get any worse."

"Ok?"

Yin Mengran blinked in surprise, paused for a moment, and then said:

"But I haven't heard any bad rumors about you in class. The only news about you is about you confessing your feelings to Tongtong."

"That would be a bad reputation for me."

"Oh—aren't you afraid Tongtong will be upset if you say that?"

"Whatever, it has nothing to do with me anymore."

Zhou Heng shrugged, looking completely unconcerned, with no discernible change in expression on his face.

Yin Mengran was somewhat surprised and tentatively asked, "You...don't like her anymore?"

Zhou Heng shook his head and said, "There's no need to persist if you can't get a response."

"I see...that's fine too."

After deciding to stay, Yin Mengran hung up her wet clothes to dry.

She sat on the sofa, unsure of what to do, looking around for a long time.

She never expected that she would actually agree to stay, at her classmate's house...

However, this time, her impression of Zhou Heng had changed somewhat; she hadn't known he was this kind of person before.

She looked over at Zhou Heng and saw that he was still studying. She felt a little admiration for him. For someone who lives alone like him to be so self-disciplined, whether it was exercising or studying, showed that he had a strong sense of self-control.

"Tsk——"

A moment later, Zhou Heng started scratching his head and making impatient noises, as if he was stumped by a problem.

Yin Mengran stood up, slowly walked over, and stood beside him.

Seeing that Zhou Heng was indeed struggling with a problem, but the steps he was struggling with were somewhat incomprehensible to her, especially the parts that she thought were very simple...

However, remembering what had just happened, she didn't dare say anything offensive, so she reached out, pointed to the questions on the test paper, and began to explain them to Zhou Heng.

Zhou Heng listened attentively, nodding occasionally, and finally, with Yin Mengran's help, he solved the problem.

He finished the test quickly, checked the time, and it was already past 2 a.m.

He was starting to regret going online with Tang Zhi; now he had very little time left to sleep, and after a few hours of sleep he would have to go to school.

Zhou Heng finished packing his things, looked at Yin Mengran sitting on the sofa, and said:

"Go sleep in the bedroom, I'll sleep on the sofa."

Although he lacks emotional intelligence, at least he knows he shouldn't let a girl sleep on the sofa outside.

Yin Mengran repeatedly refused, saying she was already very grateful to Zhou Heng for allowing her to stay.

She couldn't possibly let Zhou Heng sleep on the sofa while she slept in the bedroom.

"No, no, no, I can sleep on the sofa, it's fine..."

"No, this sofa isn't comfortable to sleep on. Go to the bedroom."

Zhou Heng was quite adamant; he knew the sofa was unsuitable for sleeping—it was easy to fall off and uncomfortable.

"Then I definitely can't let you sleep there... You're bigger than me... Wouldn't it be even more uncomfortable for you to sleep there..."

"Alright, this is my house, so just listen to me."

"Precisely because it's your home and you're the host, you can't let me, a guest, sleep in the bedroom..."

The two of them kept declining each other's offers, moving from the living room to the bedroom.

Zhou Heng turned on the bedroom light, and only then could Yin Mengran see what the bedroom looked like.

Clean and tidy, it doesn't look like a bedroom for a single guy at all.

The bed is also very large, more than enough for two people to sleep in.

Seeing Zhou Heng's insistence, and unwilling to back down herself, Yin Mengran proposed:

"Then... shall we all sleep in the bedroom? I'll sleep on the floor..."

"Why should you sleep on the floor? I should."

"you..."

The two argued again for about five minutes.

Yin Mengran discovered that Zhou Heng was such a stubborn person that she simply couldn't reason with him.

As it grew later, both of them knew they shouldn't argue about this for so long.

In the end, they adopted a suggestion that they both reluctantly agreed to...

The large bed was divided into left and right sides by a blanket in the middle.

A blush crept onto Yin Mengran's face; she had actually agreed to such a suggestion.

I'm actually going to have to sleep in the same bed as a boy in my class...

She sat on the left side of the bed, hugging her legs with both hands, feeling somewhat uneasy.

She hadn't realized the problem before, but now that Zhou Heng had gone to change into his pajamas, she did.

She's a girl after all! Zhou Heng is a boy, how could she sleep here so comfortably? Her sense of security is terrible!

What if Zhou Heng did something to her? Thinking of the strength in his hands, she knew she was powerless to resist.

After a while, Zhou Heng walked in, wearing a thin ice silk nightgown.

Wearing other clothes, Zhou Heng's physique was completely hidden, but when he wore this pajama, the muscle definition beneath the fabric was particularly pronounced.

Yin Mengran glanced at it once, then quickly looked away, her ears secretly turning red...