Chapter 37

When the cute girl asked, Zhang Qiu knew he had a chance. He immediately nodded and said, "Of course it's true! I'm not boasting, but even a five-star chef might not make food as good as mine."

"Pfft! The food from five-star hotels is the worst. I've long been sick of it!" the cute girl said disdainfully.

"Uh." Zhang Qiu was speechless for a moment. This girl was either boasting or came from a very wealthy family! However, looking at her appearance and demeanor, Zhang Qiu preferred to believe the latter.

But if she came from a very wealthy family, why would she live in a house that didn't look very good? Could she be attending a nearby university? She looked about his age, so she must be a freshman.

"If you've been sick of other people's food, you should let me move in. With my cooking skills, I guarantee you'll have a great appetite." Zhang Qiu was a bit speechless but quickly started to talk big again.

"Why don't you cook something for me to try? If it really makes me have a great appetite, I might let you stay." The cute girl thought for a moment and said.

How could Zhang Qiu cook anything now? At best, he could only wash some rice and press the rice cooker's switch.

He naturally wouldn't agree to this request. Fortunately, he was prepared to talk his way out of it, so he wasn't nervous. His eyes darted around, and he quickly came up with a new excuse.

"No way. You have to agree to let me stay first, then I'll cook for you. Otherwise, if you eat the food and change your mind, won't I have wasted my time?" Zhang Qiu said.

"That makes sense." The cute girl said, "But what if you don't cook after I let you stay?"

"If I don't cook, you can kick me out then! The house is yours, I can't stay if you don't want me to, right?" Zhang Qiu said.

The cute girl, not getting the food she wanted, suddenly had many ideas. After thinking for a moment, she finally realized something was off and immediately glared at Zhang Qiu. "No way! You're a guy, and there's no way two girls can let you move in. Humph! You must have ulterior motives! Trying to talk your way into my house, no way!"

Zhang Qiu wiped his forehead and sweat. This girl really... changes her attitude so quickly, not following any logic at all!

Unfortunately, his cooking skills weren't up to par yet. Otherwise, he could have conquered this foodie girl's stomach.

There used to be a saying: "If you can capture a man's stomach, you can capture his heart."

But with the rise of women's status and the reversal of the gender dynamics, the saying can apply to men as well.

To capture a girl's heart, you can try to capture her stomach, especially if she's a foodie.

The best way to capture someone's stomach is to cook yourself. If you can't cook, you can at least find and buy food.

So, rich and handsome guys have their ways to capture stomachs, and so do ordinary guys.

Now, without his skills up to par, Zhang Qiu couldn't carry out his plan to capture the stomach. He felt a bit helpless when the girl changed her attitude.

But he didn't give up. When the girl accused him of having ulterior motives, he pretended to be angry and said, "You can eat anything you want, but you can't say anything you want! How can you accuse me like that! I just want to rent a room, I have no bad intentions! You must apologize to me!"

As he spoke, Zhang Qiu took advantage of the girl not closing the door, pretending to argue and blocking the door with half his body to prevent her from closing it.

Seeing Zhang Qiu approach, the girl was startled and quickly turned to push the door with her shoulder to close it.

Zhang Qiu naturally pushed the door with all his strength to prevent her from closing it.

However, she was just a girl. Even using all her strength, Zhang Qiu could easily handle it.

He braced his legs and gently pushed with his other hand, blocking the girl.

At this moment, Zhang Qiu could free up his other hand to take out the Charm Peach Treasure.

He stared at the Charm Peach Treasure until the charm red light appeared in his eyes.

At this moment, Zhang Qiu noticed that the red light above the cute girl's head was much thicker than an average person's arm, even thicker than He Qing's arm, almost as thick as a thigh.

Could the girl the Beauty Searcher indicated as a quasi-provincial level be this cute girl? No wonder the mission reward was so rich.

He could still see the red aura above the girl's head turning into smoke and gathering towards the Charm Peach Treasure.

Although it wasn't much, Zhang Qiu was still very pleased. As long as it could be absorbed, even a tiny bit, it would form a charm and allure entanglement when added to himself.

As long as there was entanglement, no matter how much, it represented some degree of goodwill.

Under normal circumstances, only when two people already had some goodwill towards each other would they entangle.

But the Charm Peach Treasure could use its power to magically entangle two originally unrelated charm and allure auras.

Human hearts can lead to charm and allure entanglement, and charm and allure entanglement can also affect human hearts, though this influence has a time limit.

Soon, the tiny bit of the cute girl's allure aura was added to Zhang Qiu's charm aura. Originally, Zhang Qiu's charm aura was only as thick as a thumb, which couldn't attract the cute girl's allure aura, which was thicker than an arm, to entangle and make her like him.

But now, the two auras were entangled, though the entanglement was very small, like a thin thread, but it was like a red thread, connecting the two.

Although it wouldn't make the cute girl like Zhang Qiu, it made her trust him inexplicably.

"Okay! It's my fault, I shouldn't have accused you of having ulterior motives."

The cute girl suddenly stopped pushing the door and apologized, not even knowing why.

Just after apologizing, a feeling told her that this boy in front of her wasn't like the annoying boys who usually tried to bother her. He was trustworthy, shouldn't be suspected or treated with hostility, and should be given a chance.

Zhang Qiu saw the cute girl soften and knew his move was effective. He took a deep breath and pressed his advantage, "Why don't you invite me in for a chat? I've been standing at the door talking to you for so long."

"Okay." The cute girl opened the door and threw a pair of cat-patterned women's slippers to Zhang Qiu.

"These slippers are for guests. If you don't mind, you can use them." The cute girl said.

Zhang Qiu, of course, wouldn't mind. He immediately changed into the slippers and walked to the sofa, sitting down without any hesitation.

"What a soft sofa! It even has a faint, pleasant fragrance!" The house the girl lived in, the sofa she sat on, naturally left some of her scent, and Zhang Qiu felt very comfortable.

The cute girl closed the door and sat on the sofa as well. She didn't deliberately stay away from Zhang Qiu, nor did she deliberately get close to him.

At this moment, Zhang Qiu noticed that the red aura entangled with the cute girl's was almost gone.

The red aura had a time limit, and if he did something the girl didn't like, it would dissipate even faster.

This was proven when he first used it on He Qing.

So, Zhang Qiu decided to strike while the iron was hot and asked, "What do you think? Will you agree to rent the house to me?"

"I have a roommate who is working today. I'll ask her opinion when she comes back in the evening!" the cute girl said.

"You have a roommate? Whose house is this? Who rented it?" Zhang Qiu asked.

"This house is one I bought to live in while attending university. I've already decided to attend Suzhen University, so my family bought this house for me. I don't usually live here, just come on weekends to rest." the cute girl said.

"So you're still a high school student? What a coincidence, I'm a high school student too!" Zhang Qiu smiled, "You usually live in the school, right?"

"Uh-huh!" the cute girl nodded.

"Which school do you go to? Maybe we're even schoolmates! I go to No. 1 High School." Zhang Qiu smiled.

"No. 1 High School? That's great! I go to No. 2 High School." the cute girl smiled.

"Can you show me the room I'll be staying in?" Zhang Qiu asked.

"Uh-huh, okay." the cute girl nodded and started to show Zhang Qiu around the house.

This house, though unremarkable from the outside, was luxuriously decorated inside and had a spacious layout. It had four bedrooms, two living rooms, and a kitchen.

The girl lived in the master bedroom, a secondary bedroom with a balcony was rented to a working girl. Another small room with a window was converted into a study, and a large room without a balcony or window was the one to be rented to Zhang Qiu.

The room was quite spacious, had an air conditioner, and internet, but it had no external window, only a small vent above the door, making the air circulation poor and the living conditions not very good.

However, the price was relatively cheap, only 500 yuan per month. The real benefit was living with two beautiful girls, even if nothing substantial would happen, the situation was still appealing and left a lot to the imagination.

What pleased Zhang Qiu even more was that, due to early development and old-fashioned thinking, the bathroom configuration was very stingy.

A four-bedroom, two-living room house had only one shared bathroom. This should have been a disadvantage, but it became an advantage in Zhang Qiu's mind. He could use the girls' bathroom, which made him feel happy.

If the girls' rooms had their own bathrooms, would there be such a good thing?

After seeing the house, Zhang Qiu, seeing the entangled red aura about to dissipate, stopped his actions and stopped chatting with the girl.

Using the excuse of waiting for the girl's roommate, he quietly sat on the sofa, turned on the TV, and started watching.

Sure enough, the speed at which the entangled red aura dissipated slowed to the minimum. With the continuous supply of allure aura from the Charm Peach Treasure, the entangled red aura above his head was temporarily stabilized.

Zhang Qiu knew very well that once the red aura above his head dissipated, his fate would be to be kicked out of the house by the cute girl.