263: Do you think I'm the third brother?

"Didn't you say the driver would be delivering the gymnastic bicycle in a bit? What would it look like if they saw us like this!"

Struggling to no avail, Chen Xinyi had no choice but to use the delivery driver as a shield.

"It's fine, he'll call me first when he arrives."

Ye Su remained unmoved and continued to mess around with Chen Xinyi.

"I was wrong!" Forced by Ye Su's overbearing might, Chen Xinyi had no choice but to surrender.

Sure enough, if you want to hear a woman admit she's wrong, besides at a Phoenix Legend concert, this is the only other place—with Chen Xinyi.

Seeing that Chen Xinyi's attitude was sincere, Ye Su still didn't intend to let her off, kneading her wantonly for a few more minutes before finally stopping.

Chen Xinyi looked puffed up with anger, but she actually enjoyed this way of interacting between the two of them.

Women, after all, like to act like little girls in front of boyfriends younger than themselves, just to make themselves seem a bit more youthful.

Bzzz— About 10 minutes later, Ye Su's phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Is this Huolala? Have you arrived at the underground garage?"

"Alright, I'm going down now."

After hanging up the phone and saying a word to Chen Xinyi, Ye Su put on his shoes, went to the underground garage, and helped the Huolala driver push the gymnastic bicycle upstairs.

After the truck driver left, Chen Xinyi curiously sized up the gymnastic bicycle:

"Not bad, you bought it second-hand. Looks like you know you only have a three-minute attention span. When you get bored in a couple of days and sell it, you won't lose much money."

Ye Su looked at Chen Xinyi with disdain: "When have I ever had a three-minute attention span?"

"Blehh—"

Since she couldn't win an argument and couldn't win a physical fight, Chen Xinyi could only stick her tongue out at Ye Su, provocatively throwing a small tantrum.

Ye Su's mind was entirely on the gymnastic bicycle, so he didn't continue messing around with Chen Xinyi. He muttered to himself, summoning the system.

"Brother System, spend 99 yuan to activate the [Hidden Attribute] of the gymnastic bicycle."

[There are other people present; activation of the gymnastic bicycle's [Hidden Attribute] failed. Please try again later.]

"Fine..."

Previously, Ye Su had taken the four Mysterious Surprise Items to his rental place and activated them secretly.

Now that he had brought something here for the first time, he realized it was the same as triggering the [Pluck things from thin air] skill.

To activate the Hidden Attribute of a Mysterious Surprise Item, there could not be other people present.

With no other choice, Ye Su had to put the matter of activating the Hidden Attribute aside for now. After plugging it in, he began to study the functions of this gymnastic bicycle.

"This is my first time seeing a gymnastic bicycle outside of a gym."

Driven by curiosity, Chen Xinyi also leaned in, fiddling with the gymnastic bicycle alongside Ye Su:

"Don't people usually buy things like treadmills when they buy this kind of equipment? Why did you buy a gymnastic bicycle?"

Ye Su was becoming increasingly adept at making up excuses, almost spitting them out on the fly:

"It's just that, living in an apartment, I was worried a treadmill would be too loud and the neighbors might come knocking, so I chose a gymnastic bicycle."

"Oh." Chen Xinyi also felt Ye Su's concerns were reasonable: "If you want to ride a gymnastic bicycle, you could just go to the gym. No need to go through all this trouble and buy one yourself."

"Forget it, you never know what the person who used the gym equipment before you did."

"That's true..." Chen Xinyi nodded in deep agreement.

In the past, she had once impulsively bought a gym membership, thinking that after work every day, she would discipline herself to go to the gym to exercise.

For the first two weeks, she did indeed go, partly because she felt bad about the money—after working like a beast of burden at her job, she went to the gym to work like a donkey.

Of course, besides working out, Chen Xinyi also wanted to copy those influencers by taking selfies or videos at the gym to post online, hoping to gain some followers.

Until one time, Chen Xinyi discovered that someone had been lying directly on the equipment she often used, shirtless and covered in sweat.

After that person left, the clearly visible sweat marks on the equipment left Chen Xinyi in a long, stunned silence.

Coupled with the fact that during those two weeks at the gym, male trainers or members would occasionally come up to hit on her, which Chen Xinyi found incredibly annoying.

With both factors combined, Chen Xinyi eventually chose to transfer her membership that very day, killing off any thought of planning to check into the gym every day.

Hearing Ye Su say that now, Chen Xinyi was reminded of those unpleasant memories.

"But even if you didn't buy a treadmill, you could have bought something else." Chen Xinyi walked around the gymnastic bicycle again: "It looks like this, you can't even hang clothes on it."

"What do you mean hang clothes?" Ye Su immediately retorted: "I bought this for real exercise, okay."

"Right, right, right." Chen Xinyi started being sarcastic: "Everyone I know says that before they buy these things."

What Chen Xinyi said was actually a fact; Shen Xinyue was a prime example.

"We'll see. Not only will I ride it every day, but I'll drag you along to ride it too."

"Cut it out. You bought it, you use it. Don't think about dragging me into this."

After fiddling with it for a while, Chen Xinyi felt bored and returned to the sofa to continue looking at her phone.

Ye Su continued to study the gymnastic bicycle while waiting for the right moment to activate the Mysterious Surprise Item.

[Detected that the current environment allows for the activation of [Mysterious Surprise Item - gymnastic bicycle]. Do you wish to spend 99 yuan to activate the item's [Hidden Attribute]?]

Finally, after Chen Xinyi got up and returned to the bedroom, Ye Su waited for the opportunity to activate the Hidden Attribute.

Opportunity knocks but once.

As the system prompt sounded, Ye Su responded without hesitation: "Confirm activation!"

[Payment successful!]

[[gymnastic bicycle — Hidden Attribute] is activating, please wait, Host...]

[Activation successful!]

[Congratulations to the Host for obtaining the Mysterious Surprise Item: Strong Gymnastic Bicycle!]

[Strong Gymnastic Bicycle skill: Beneficial to the Body!]

[Skill description: Exercising with the [Strong Gymnastic Bicycle] every day has a chance to grant one point of [Physique] attribute reward.]

[Note 1: There is no upper limit for the [Physique] attribute reward the Host receives from using the [Strong Gymnastic Bicycle], while the reward limit for others is 10 points.]

[Note 2: Each person can only trigger the [Beneficial to the Body] skill once per day.]

[Note 3: When exercising, any resistance level has a chance to trigger [Beneficial to the Body]. Correspondingly, the higher the resistance level, the greater the probability of triggering the skill (Host, please act according to your ability and use the correct resistance level).]

[The Host's current [Physique] is 69 points, rated as — Strong and Robust!]

"What kind of 'Strong' gymnastic bicycle is this? Do you take me for an Indian..."

Because of the name, Ye Su couldn't help himself and associated it with some rather unpleasant images.

Because the images were too bizarre, Ye Su hurriedly shook his head, forcibly cutting off his train of thought, before continuing to look at the activated Hidden Attribute.

"As long as I exercise, there's a chance to gain one point of Physique attribute reward!"

Looking at the activated Hidden Attribute, Ye Su's eyes lit up.

A few days ago, he was still thinking about working hard to get his [Physique] attribute to 100 points to see if it would feel like flying.

Now, after reading the skill description of the [Strong Gymnastic Bicycle], Ye Su finally saw the dawn of hope, to the point that he automatically ignored the name of the gymnastic bicycle:

"With 69 points in Physique, I can already last over an hour. If I upgrade to 100 points, wouldn't I just take off!"