My Virtual Girlfriend-Chapter 357: Morning Exercise and Misunderstanding

Take off my clothes?

So direct?

Chen Yan looked at Zhao Ying, completely baffled.

He did want to gain some intimacy, but he wasn’t prepared for this sort of sacrifice!

Master, have you misunderstood me...?

Thinking this, Chen Yan awkwardly dodged while looking at Zhao Ying as if she was a pervert.

But Zhao Ying didn’t seem to care at all; she kept pulling at his clothes and said, "Don’t worry. I’m just checking your physical condition."

"Relax, I’ll be gentle!"

In the end, Chen Yan was embarrassingly examined by Zhao Ying.

Thankfully, it was only the upper body...

After the examination, Zhao Ying was completely astonished.

She touched Chen Yan’s muscles and asked in surprise, "Chen Yan, your constitution... how did it get stronger?"

"Your muscles seem more developed, and the life force contained in your body also seems stronger!"

Chen Yan swatted her wandering hands away and said, "Maybe I’m just naturally gifted."

Chen Yan’s words even made Zhao Ying start to doubt herself.

She sat on the ground, drawing circles and muttering,

"He only trained for a few days, and that too with basic methods."

"What am I then...?"

"Didn’t master say I was the martial arts prodigy?"

Zhao Ying drew circles while looking resentfully at Chen Yan.

It was as if Chen Yan had stolen her label of "martial arts prodigy"...

Eventually, after being comforted by Chen Yan, she regained her composure and they scheduled to train together every morning from then on.

Originally, she wanted to go to Chen Yan’s house every morning, as before, to wake him up.

But Chen Yan worried that Lu Man might hang around his house, leading to an awkward situation, so he tactfully declined her offer. He suggested that they meet every day at 7:30 AM at the Twin Towers Hotel’s gym.

After all, the Twin Towers Hotel was Chen Yan’s, and that time was usually less crowded.

Once they closed the gym door, the space would be entirely theirs.

After training, they could even go to the presidential suite upstairs to shower, change clothes, and then head to work.

Since it was just across the street, even if they trained until nearly 9 AM, it wouldn’t delay their work.

This schedule was much more reasonable than Zhao Ying’s previous routine of waking people up before dawn to run to the company for training while bringing their own clothes.

Zhao Ying might be a bit slow, but she wasn’t stupid.

So... she was persuaded...

After setting the plan for the next day, Zhao Ying left the office.

Once the office door closed, Chen Yan breathed a deep sigh of relief, feeling that his plan had gone very smoothly.

On how to earn Zhao Ying’s favor, Chen Yan had thought of many strategies last night.

But no matter what, he felt the simplest method was... to agree to Zhao Ying’s initial suggestion: learn martial arts.

After all, to quickly increase Zhao Ying’s favor, there were only two ways. One was to talk about and learn martial arts, and the other was to satisfy her curiosity for gossip.

But with too many secrets, if Chen Yan chose the second, and it piqued Zhao Ying’s curiosity to dig deeper, he feared his secrets wouldn’t stay hidden from her keen intuition.

So, he was left with only one choice: learn martial arts.

Just before, Zhao Ying had come to Chen Yan late at night wanting him to learn martial arts from her.

At that time, Chen Yan had refused.

Which caused the favor to decrease.

Now, seizing this opportunity, he planned to bring the favor back up!

Moreover, Chen Yan had thought about it—martial arts could strengthen the body, and even if he didn’t learn well, it could still enhance his constitution.

So... whether for daily life or for making "Stamina Pills," it was a win-win!

Now, after finally carrying out the plan, he needed to check if things were indeed as he analyzed.

Thinking this, Chen Yan took out his smartphone and checked Zhao Ying’s favor points.

Sure enough, several favor points notifications regarding Zhao Ying popped up.

[Returning Prodigal: Favor +6]

[Full of Achievement: Favor +4]

[Chen Yan is Unnaturally Gifted: Favor +5]

[Chen Yan Has a Not Bad Body: Favor +2]

Just by agreeing to martial arts and showing off his body a bit, Zhao Ying had added a total of 17 favor points!

It pushed her just-passing favor into nearly 80 points!

Just 10 more points to meet Chen Yan’s requirement!

Except...

There was one odd favor notification among them...

"My body is not bad?"

"What the hell!"

"Brother Ying would notice this?"

Chen Yan felt this notification didn’t quite match Brother Ying’s style...

...

The next day was uneventful.

Chen Yan was still busy. The bigger the company, the more the work; even though he had delegated authority, the number of documents requiring his confirmation, signature, and attention was still significant.

Especially since the Sunrise project involving the film industry had started moving forward as scheduled, Chen Yan had even more to deal with.

However, this busyness was rewarding.

Half a month later, when the Sunrise project conference was held, Chen Yan would be able to openly invest money into Lu Man’s company and then double it effortlessly!

Just like that, another day passed, and Chen Yan walked home from work.

On arriving home, the house was as spotless as the day before, but the people from yesterday weren’t there.

Smelling the lingering faint scent of Lu Man in the air, Chen Yan suddenly realized he might be getting used to having Lu Man around...

...

At the same time, when Chen Yan was thinking about Lu Man, He Mengxue had boarded a plane to Tiandu to follow up on negotiations with Headline Technology.

Even though Chen Yan’s company was just a small venture capital firm, likely not to collaborate, Headline still took it very seriously and had sent a designated person and car to pick her up early.

However, when the negotiations truly began, Headline’s attitude changed completely.

Though they didn’t state it directly, from their level of seriousness and the pace of the negotiations, He Mengxue could tell they were not interested in her company. It was all just politeness.

Even the representative who came to negotiate wasn’t a deputy general manager, just a manager from the strategy investment division, which annoyed He Mengxue quite a bit.

Being coddled by He Ruifeng all her life, when had she ever been treated like this!

But she knew she was dealing with the internet’s rising stars, potentially developing into giants. She needed to learn to keep her emotions in check, adapt, and keep up...

At those moments, she especially thought of Chen Yan.

This time, her thoughts of Chen Yan were without any personal feelings.

She wondered, if Chen Yan were in this situation, how would he handle it?

Could he continue to be miraculous...?

...

Chen Yan had no idea, miles away in Tiandu, a woman was still foolishly thinking about him.

After he returned home and tidied up, he went to bed.

After all, he had to get up early the next day to exercise with Zhao Ying.

He had decided. He would keep up their exercise routine at least until the end of the month, to prevent Zhao Ying’s favor from decreasing after it had increased.

And once the happiness points were deposited next month, Chen Yan would find an excuse, like... he had tried training for a while and felt he wasn’t cut out for it, to give up training.

This seemed reasonable and faultless!

The next morning, Chen Yan was woken up by the alarm, washed, and jogged to the Twin Towers Hotel.

Zhao Ying was already there.

Chen Yan greeted her and then led her to the gym.

They trained in the gym for more than an hour.

During the training, Zhao Ying showed her real skills, which left Chen Yan dumbfounded, in awe, thinking he was witnessing a superhuman.

However, when Zhao Ying started to demand Chen Yan meet her standards, that’s when he realized how hard learning martial arts could be.

He thought about backing out, but it was already too late. And thinking it was just two more days, he could only grit his teeth and endure...

After training, Chen Yan and Zhao Ying went to the presidential suite to shower. freewёbnoνel.com

After the shower, Zhao Ying even patted his shoulder and seriously praised, "Chen Yan, you indeed have talent!"

Chen Yan: ...

Chen Yan managed an awkward smile, appearing almost as if he was crying.

After leaving the hotel, they headed back to the Fenghua Building to work.

Their state was just like countless ordinary early mornings before.

However... what they didn’t see was a girl with glasses, who just happened to pass by as they left the hotel, and looked at them in surprise, her glasses falling to the ground...

...

Meanwhile, at Qin Island, Wutong Building.

In the chairman’s office.

He Ruifeng was chatting with several tycoons.

They appeared to have a good relationship, and He Ruifeng’s usually stern face was always smiling, even taking the initiative to brew tea for them.

"Lao Wang, come, try this fine tea I just got."

"It’s authentic Da Hong Pao Tea."

The tycoon known as Lao Wang chuckled as he accepted the tea, and while sipping, said, "Lao He, it’s the new year. Shouldn’t we call everyone together, have a meal, and catch up?"

He added, "Recently, that fund we set up together has supported many youngsters, and it’s a good time to talk it over."

Hearing Lao Wang’s suggestion, He Ruifeng pondered for a moment and nodded, "Can do. I’ll call everyone tomorrow, have them come together."

Hearing He Ruifeng’s agreement, another person spoke up, "Also, can we add a new partner?"