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"I'll help you if you marry me," Mengzui echoed her own proposition.

Chu Qing heard her loud and clear this time. He hadn't misheard her the first time, and his response came tumbling out: "Are you out of your mind?"

In Chu Qing's mind, Mengzui had to be ill, seriously ill at that, to suggest something so preposterous.

"You're the one who's sick," retorted Chu Qing