Chapter 1

Splash!

In the bathroom, hot water gushed from the showerhead, cleansing Ning Chuan's body and washing away the scars that adorned him like badges of honor.

"Huh? Ru Yan, what a coincidence! Are you taking a bath too? Come, let's shower together! Help me scrub my back!"

Suddenly, a woman's voice echoed from outside the door.

In the next moment, the bathroom door creaked open.

A woman, wrapped in a towel, appeared before Ning Chuan with a playful smile on her face.

Their eyes met, but the woman's smile froze. She widened her eyes and opened her mouth, about to scream, "Ah!"

Ning Chuan instinctively used his left hand to grab a towel and shield himself, while his right hand turned the showerhead towards the woman.

Sssshhh...

A powerful stream of scalding hot water forcefully sprayed Mu Wanqing's face, filling her wide-open mouth.

Ah, um, um, um...

Mu Wanqing made a choking sounds as the hot water filled her mouth, swallowing quite a bit of it.

"Ah, um, um, um... Ah, pui! Bastard! Pervert! Who do you think you are?"

Spitting out the hot water from her mouth, Mu Wanqing stepped back, turning her head, screaming angrily.

Uh...

Only then did Ning Chuan retract the showerhead, furrowing his brows as he examined Mu Wanqing.

With a beautiful face, ample bosom, slender waist, long legs, and fair skin that the towel draped over couldn't hide her captivating figure, she could be considered an extraordinary beauty.

However, no matter how stunning she was, it didn't excuse her behavior as a pervert.

He had just returned to his grandfather's courtyard, happily singing in the shower, only to be interrupted by a female pervert barging in?

What was going on?

"You, you bastard! Pervert! Who the hell are you? Invading my house, being a pervert, and spraying me in the face! I won't let you off!"

Mu Wanqing angrily pointed a finger at Ning Chuan.

Bang!

In the next second, the bathroom door slammed shut, nearly crushing Mu Wanqing's outstretched delicate jade finger.

"Bastard! Get the hell out!"

Mu Wanqing grew even angrier, raised her foot, and kicked the door.

However, just as she kicked the door, the bathroom door was suddenly pulled open.

Mu Wanqing kicked nothing but air and nearly landed in a split on the ground.

She was only wrapped in a towel!

If she had landed in a split on the ground, it would have been a huge embarrassment... not to mention, unhygienic!

Fortunately, Mu Wanqing was quite agile and managed to retract her leg in the nick of time, avoiding embarrassment.

"Bastard! Just you wait!"

With her face flushed, Mu Wanqing, still wrapped in a towel and clenching her legs, stormed into the adjacent room in anger.

A minute later, Mu Wanqing emerged from the bathroom wearing a police uniform, replacing the towel.

Ning Chuan calmly put on his clothes and walked out of the bathroom.

"You, you pervert! Thief! Trespasser! Don't you know I'm a professional thief catcher?"

Mu Wanqing lifted her leg high and lashed out with a whip kick towards Ning Chuan's head, angrily shouting.

Whoosh!

Mu Wanqing's leg whistled as it struck near Ning Chuan's face.

"You and I are thieves?" Ning Chuan casually lifted his hand.

Bang!

Mu Wanqing's leg hit Ning Chuan's arm and instantly felt like she had struck a cement

pillar. The pain made her grit her teeth and instinctively retract.

Ning Chuan grabbed Mu Wanqing's ankle with one hand, while his other hand moved like a snake, traveling up her long leg.

"Ah!"

Mu Wanqing screamed in shock, feeling as if she had been bitten by a snake. Her whole body shuddered. Standing on one foot, she desperately tried to scissor her legs around Ning Chuan's neck!

Ning Chuan extended both hands, forming a loop, a turn, and a lift.

Mu Wanqing suddenly felt herself spinning in the air, and when she came to her senses, Ning Chuan was holding her by the ankles, upside down, just like holding a fish!

"Are you here to fight me? Dance? Or flirt?"

Ning Chuan smiled and spoke.

In fact, he had already figured it out. This courtyard was left to him by his grandfather. It had been eight years since he last returned, so it was possible that the vacant rooms in the courtyard had already been rented out.

This fiery policewoman is probably a tenant in the courtyard.

"You bastard! Let go!"

Mu Wanqing was held upside down, filled with anger and struggling, frantically scratching with both hands.

"Hey, hey! Don't scratch randomly! It won't be good if you grab something important!"

Ning Chuan quickly lifted Mu Wanqing higher in the upside-down position, holding her against his shoulder, and slapped her buttocks with his hand.

Smack!

Smack... smack... smack...

A crisp sound echoed, as if representing the source of the sound, which was bouncy.

Mu Wanqing was stunned, completely baffled.

This bastard! He actually dared to hit her there!!

"You bastard! You're asking for death!"

Mu Wanqing was both ashamed and angry, tightly embracing Ning Chuan's waist in the upside-down position, ready to bite, resorting to an all-or-nothing approach...

"Huh? Chuan, Wanqing? Are you two performing acrobatics? Or... being intimate?"

Suddenly, a cry of astonishment came from the entrance of the courtyard.

Subsequently, a woman in a flowing dress quickly walked toward them.

The woman was extremely beautiful, the traditional long hair and long dress type, a classical beauty with a gentle and elegant temperament.

"Sister Ruyan!"

Ning Chuan immediately threw Mu Wanqing to the side on the sofa and hurriedly approached, giving her a big hug.

The woman's name was Ning Ruyan, the adopted daughter of the Ning family. She was three years older than Ning Chuan and closer to him than a real sister.

"Chuan, you've finally returned. You've grown into a big man now! Sister Ruyan is getting older too!"

Embraced tightly by Ning Chuan, Ning Ruyan didn't struggle either. She simply held Ning Chuan tightly, looked up at him in a trance, and spoke.

"Nonsense, I will forever be eighteen, Sister Ruyan." Ning Chuan laughed and let go.

Reunited as siblings, Mu Wanqing, who had been about to rush into the room to get her gun, was stunned. "Wait, Sister Ruyan, is he... your brother?"

"Wanqiu, Chuan, it seems you two met in a less than pleasant way. Let me introduce you properly."

"This is Ning Chuan, my younger brother, who just returned from abroad."

"This is Mu Wanqing, a tenant in the courtyard."

Ning Ruyan quickly introduced the two.

Misunderstandings were resolved, but Mu Wanqing's anger hadn't subsided. She glared fiercely at Ning Chuan and said to Ning Ruyan, "Sister Ruyan, I'll go take a bath first."

"Just now, you wanted me to scrub your back. Do you still want that?"

Ning Chuan looked at Mu Wanqing's furious expression and intentionally imitated her tone from earlier.

Mu Wanqing turned her head, fiercely flipped Ning Chuan off with her middle finger, and stormed into the bathroom, slamming the door shut with a bang.

"Sister Ruyan, what's going on? How come there are rented rooms in the courtyard? Is the family short of money?"

After Mu Wanqing entered the bathroom, Ning Chuan looked at Ning Ruyan with confusion.

"Oh, didn't you say you were going back abroad last month? And since you don't have a girlfriend, I thought I'd help you find a few potential candidates."

"But with regular girls, if you don't spend enough time together, I wouldn't know what they're really like. Are their habits good? What's their personality like? Are they easy to get along with?

Do they look good without makeup? Can they do household chores? Is their figure all-natural?"

"I thought about it and realized there were several vacant rooms in the courtyard. So I decided to find some young, beautiful girls without boyfriends, rent out these rooms to them, and then I can gradually assess them to select the best one to be your girlfriend. Isn't that perfect?"

Ning Ruyan spoke while taking out her phone, opening a room rental app, and showing it to Ning Chuan.

Ning Chuan took a look, and sure enough, the rental information for their courtyard was posted on the app:

"Rooms for rent, exclusively for females!"

"Requirements: unmarried, without a boyfriend, ages must be over 16 to 28!"

"Tenants receive one blind date opportunity!"

"Nine out of ten appearance rating, half off rent, free utilities!"