Chapter 240

If there were a chance to pry open Xia Yubing's skull and take a look, Ning Zhe would probably find it piled with "color" waste; she was quite the closet pervert.

It was likely that she had been suppressed by family rules for years and had been holding it in too tightly. Once the long-taut spring was released, it became unstoppable, leaving even Ning Zhe unable to handle it.

Xia Yubing's energy was extremely vigorous, her stamina was astonishing, and her fighting spirit and patience were even more impressive. Her individual combat power was stronger than Zhang Hanying and Zhang Yunwen combined. Her needs were terrifyingly high, and she tossed and turned intermittently until the second half of the night before finally falling into a sweet sleep while hugging Ning Zhe, who looked like a broken ragdoll that had been played to exhaustion.

Sleeping until nearly noon, Ning Zhe opened his eyes in a daze, feeling a bit of chest tightness.

He tried to push away the long leg draped over his stomach, but couldn't. Instead, the arm pillowed under his neck pulled him even tighter; he had actually fallen asleep pillowed on Xia Yubing's arm.

"Mmm..." Xia Yubing hugged Ning Zhe's head, squinted her eyes, leaned over to rub against his face, and murmured: "Is it dawn?"

"It's already noon." Ning Zhe pushed her shoulder: "Time to get up."

"No, my legs hurt, my waist is sore, my body is numb... I don't want to get up." Xia Yubing muttered softly like she was acting spoiled, refusing to let him go.

"You have the nerve to say that. I told you to hold back earlier, but you still don't know how to show any restraint." Recalling the humiliation he suffered last night, Ning Zhe felt somewhat helpless: "Now you know your waist is sore?"

Xia Yubing lowered her head and pecked lightly on his ear, unable to help but hum softly: "I'm happy even if it's sore..."

In this regard, she was like a child who had never seen the world; once she tasted something good, she couldn't stop, and she wouldn't be satisfied until her stomach was stuffed round.

However, indulging like this occasionally wasn't bad; it could somewhat alleviate the mental pressure weighing on her head, and her whole person felt much lighter.

The life of a Gridder was truly too bleak, to the point that every shred of half-real, half-fake warmth was precious.

The two of them lingered for a while longer before getting up to wash. Xia Yubing mumbled that she was hungry and wanted to eat Italian food. When Ning Zhe asked her why not French, she said French food makes you hungrier the more you eat it.

Xia Yubing had a great appetite since she was a child, but she also happened to have a body type that gained weight easily. Her meat-to-fat ratio was higher than a piglet's. If she ate a little too indulgently, her face would get round; if she ate a little more, her waist would get round. Because of this, she had been given many nicknames by classmates at school since she was young; "Fatty" was considered a relatively mild one.

"... That day, I was teased and called a 'fat hag' by the boys in class again. I went home crying to complain to my aunt, but my aunt not only didn't comfort me, she said it was all my own fault for not exercising, which is why I grew so fat, and that no man would want me when I grew up."

As Xia Yubing spoke, she used chopsticks to pick up a succulent little radish and stuffed it into her mouth, making a crisp *crunch* sound. Italian food had one advantage over French food: it could be eaten with chopsticks.

"Later, I asked my aunt if I could eat whatever I wanted as long as I kept exercising, and that I wouldn't have to worry about getting fat no matter how much I ate. She very perfunctorily said yes, yes, you're only fat because you're lazy. I wanted to prove I wasn't lazy and also hoped I could eat delicious food to my heart's content, so I started working out, and I've kept at it until now."

Eating a lot, exercising even more, plus her naturally large frame, was what allowed her to grow into the tall and sturdy person she was now. Her barefoot height alone was nearly two meters.

"Later, I realized my aunt was actually fooling me. Even if you exercise a lot, you can't really eat whatever you want. Because I grew too strong, my nickname among classmates changed from 'Fatty' to 'Mother Gorilla,' but I don't feel like it matters anymore."

Xia Yubing looked at the appetizer on the plate, her two eyebrows visibly furrowing: "Oh my, why isn't the main course here yet? I'm starving, starving, starving..."

Their relationship had drawn much closer after yesterday's face-to-face in-depth exchange. Xia Yubing was willing to treat her childhood shadows as a joke to tell, and he was willing to sit in his chair and listen quietly.

There might not necessarily be love between them, but being able to be as close as friends and treat each other with mutual respect was already a very good state for a marriage and relationship.

Love is a luxury in sexual relationships; love does not exist between the vast majority of couples on Earth. Watching Xia Yubing, who was so hungry she was biting her chopsticks while lying on the table, Ning Zhe smiled slightly and took his phone out of his pocket to check it.

A lot of things happened yesterday. After his grandparents passed away, his heart had been a mess, and he couldn't find the energy to do anything. After returning home, he was pressed and squeezed by Xia Yubing all night, so he never had the time or the heart to look at his phone.

Now that his mood was slightly better, he remembered to unlock his phone to take a look. As soon as he did, he saw a long string of missed calls and unread messages.

A small portion of them were from Chen Yaming and her father. They only learned of the two elders' passing this morning and insisted on helping arrange the funeral, and they wanted to make it a grand affair.

The other larger portion were all calls from Feng Yushu. From yesterday daytime until late at night, the intermittent calls had never stopped, as if there was some urgent matter.

What matter?

Ning Zhe edited a message and sent it over. Almost immediately, he received a reply from Feng Yushu:

【Bai Fugui is dead】

"Ah?" Ning Zhe sat up straight, opened his eyes wide, and couldn't quite believe what he was seeing.

"What's wrong?" Xia Yubing looked at him with some confusion.

"Something happened. I'm going to make a call." Ning Zhe left his seat, went to the restaurant's balcony, put on his headphones, and connected the call from Feng Yushu.

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As soon as the call connected, Feng Yushu's voice rang out in the headphones: "You finally answered the phone. I couldn't reach you all day yesterday..."

"What exactly happened? How did Bai Fugui die?" Ning Zhe asked straight to the point.

Bai Fugui's person was shrouded in too many mysteries and too many unknowns. Ning Zhe had once suspected he was Fen Wu, and after coming out of the Chengyu Valley Prison, he felt he might be Tu Yu. Regardless of which identity it was, Bai Fugui was undoubtedly a difficult character to deal with.

"It's like this..." Feng Yushu's voice trembled slightly, and she lowered her voice to say:

"The day before yesterday afternoon, I asked Bai Zhi to come out of the house to accompany me to the mall to buy things, but I didn't expect her to be at school at the time. Bai Zhi didn't want to take a taxi, so I planned to drive to the school to pick her up. At the time, Bai Fugui happened to be in Yun-du discussing business, so he told me not to drive. He happened to be passing by Yun-du University and could pick up Bai Zhi on his way..."

"After picking up Bai Zhi, on the way to meet me at the mall, their car got into an accident."

As she spoke, Feng Yushu's voice was already choked with sobs: "They were T-boned on the road by a cement mixer truck. Bai Fugui died on the spot. Bai Zhi was sitting in the back row and luckily survived, but her spine is fractured, and she may be paralyzed from the waist down for life..."

Feng Yushu said this while sobbing, unable to speak clearly.

Ning Zhe looked down at the dragon blood tree potted plant on the balcony; the dark green leaves were deep in color.

"He discovered that I had discovered him." Ning Zhe whispered to himself.

(End of chapter)