The story of Rose starts with being a brother

Chapter 419 New Layout of Apartments
June 26th, Saturday afternoon, 3601.

"boom!"

Tang Youyou, who was drinking milk and eating Oreos, turned her head to look at Hu Yifei, who pushed open the door and angrily put the laundry basket on the ground... and Zhang Wei, who was beaming behind her.

"Yifei, you were fine just now, what happened?" Tang Youyou asked curiously.

“She’s upset because I won five yuan from her,” Zhang Wei said, holding up five fingers and answering for her with a gleeful smile.

Upon hearing this, Tang Youyou exclaimed in shock, "You even dare to win Yifei's money? Don't you want to live anymore?"

Hu Yifei, who was standing next to the two, pulled out a kitchen knife and used it as a mirror.

Zhang Wei subconsciously took a step to the other side, then proudly said, "I guessed right how many pieces of clothing Yifei washed today."

"It was just a coincidence, nothing special!" Hu Yifei said, putting down the kitchen knife.

After thinking for a moment, Tang Youyou analyzed to Yifei, "He may have secretly looked at your laundry basket."

"Huh? You're such a pervert!"

Hu Yifei was shocked, and Zhang Wei quickly explained, "No, I just noticed that you haven't washed your clothes for a week, and you've been wearing the same clothes for the past two days, which led me to this conclusion."

He paused for a moment, then said proudly, "This is the wisdom of a lawyer; Yifei didn't guess me right."

"How could I have guessed that you washed seven socks in five days?" Hu Yifei said irritably.

Attorney Zhang shrugged and said matter-of-factly, "Because I only have seven!"

"..."

Hu Yifei rolled her eyes and said, "Then why did you wash eight pieces of clothing?"

"Because there are still five items that belong to Wen Sheng!"

"..."

Hu Yifei slapped her forehead and said helplessly, "I actually forgot that this guy also works part-time as Wen Sheng's nanny."

“Hey! That’s not right. How can you call this a nanny?” Zhang Wei immediately denied her statement. “Being willing to accept defeat and helping each other are traditional virtues. This is clearly the result of my all-round development in morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor.”

"You call yourself morally upright, intellectually gifted, physically fit, aesthetically pleasing, and practically talented?" Hu Yifei looked him up and down with disdain. "You mean morally corrupt and intellectually weak?!"

"Jealousy!" Zhang Wei snorted. "That's blatant jealousy!"

"You've been eating too much fake baby formula, haven't you?! Me, jealous of you? You only won five dollars, is it really necessary to be so smug?"

"This isn't showing off; it's an affirmation of how I earned my reward through my intelligence!"

"Smart? What does that word have to do with you? Just because you guessed how many pieces of clothing I washed?"

“This isn’t guessing, it’s reasoning!” Zhang Wei corrected Hu Yifei. “I’m a lawyer. How can I make money in such a high-IQ profession by guessing? This is reasoning!”

"Oh? So, have you ever made money through deduction?"

"Well, how should I put it?" Zhang Wei said cheekily, pulling out the five yuan note and singing in a high-pitched voice, "I earned five yuan today~"

"..."

Hu Yifei took a deep breath, then smiled through gritted teeth and said, "Fine, fine, master of deduction, then can you deduce where Yu Mo went and when he'll be back?"

"..."

Upon hearing this, Attorney Zhang immediately fell silent.

Seeing the amused looks on Hu Yifei and Tang Youyou's faces, he thought for a long time before stammering, "Well, we can only deduce things if we have clues. Yu Mo has been missing for more than half a month, and all her things are gone. How can we deduce things without clues?"

Hmm... Less than 24 hours after the shocking kiss that happened more than half a month ago, Qin Yumo disappeared the next day after sobering up.

He left behind only a farewell letter, saying he wanted to go out and clear his head.

Everyone agreed that Qin Yumo ran away because she was afraid to face Wen Sheng. It wasn't just Qin Yumo who was afraid to face Wen Sheng; after being forcibly kissed that night, Wen Sheng turned around and went back to his ex-wife's place. He only came back the next day after everyone told him that Yumo had disappeared.

However, there were different opinions in the apartment regarding the meaning of that kiss.

The first possibility is that Yu Mo was genuinely in love with Wen Sheng when she suddenly kissed him.

The second possibility is that Yu Mo was in a daze at the time and mistook Wen Sheng for Richard, which is why she kissed him. Based on her previous radio interview, Yu Mo was likely still reluctant to part with Richard, but also hated his deception, so she slapped Zhang Wei and then kissed Wen Sheng.

Uh... the proponents of the first viewpoint are Tang Youyou and Lu Ziqiao.

The second viewpoint is supported by Guan Gu Shenqi and... Zeng Xiaoxian, who only found out about it the next day and didn't dare to tell Nuolan.

Regardless of the reason, the consensus is that because of Wen Sheng's past relationship with his ex-wife, Yu Mo was worried that the kiss would make her seem like a third party, so she chose to run away.

After all, she had just learned that she was the other woman from the Richard incident, so she would definitely be very sensitive about it.

This is the result of everyone's collective wisdom.

But no one knows when Yu Mo will return, because they can't get in touch with her.

So when Zhang Wei heard Hu Yifei ask this question, he immediately refused to answer.

"whispering sound!"

Hu Yifei smiled dismissively, then said, "Then let me ask you a different question. Could you deduce whether Wen Sheng and Yu Mo used their tongues when they kissed, and who used their tongues first?"

"..."

Zhang Wei's face froze, and Tang Youyou awkwardly nudged Hu Yifei's waist and whispered, "Yifei, isn't this kind of question a bit perverted?"

"Perverted?" Hu Yifei was taken aback. "I feel really excited!"

She paused for a moment, then chuckled and said, "If Yu Mo can do it so boldly, why can't I ask it so boldly?"

"This involves my client's privacy, so I'm sorry I cannot answer your question!"

At this point, Zhang Wei waved his hand and firmly refused the question.

"This is boring." Hu Yifei shook her head. "You call this deduction? You'd struggle even to play mahjong!"

"Who told you to ask these questions?" Zhang Wei said helplessly. "How can you just ask and say such private things!"

"This won't work, that won't work, and you still call yourself smart?"

"That's because the questions you're asking have nothing to do with intelligence!"

After a brief pause, Zhang Wei retorted, then confidently added, "When I was a child, I took an intelligence test at an orphanage. The teacher said that if you subtracted forty from my IQ, I could barely be defined as—intelligent!"

Hearing this, Hu Yifei couldn't help but sized up the wise-looking man in front of her again, then sneered and nodded, saying:
"Alright, it seems I need to test your IQ so you can rediscover yourself. Let's play a game. If you answer my intelligence question correctly, I'll admit you're not mentally challenged, and I'll even give you an extra fifty dollars!"

"Fifty?"

Zhang Wei didn't feel anything at first when he heard what was said, but when he heard about the fifty yuan bonus, he almost couldn't contain his excitement and jumped up.

After suppressing his excitement, Zhang Wei added, "Then you're not allowed to ask those perverted questions that involved privacy!"

"Of course, I'm only testing your intelligence," Hu Yifei said, arms crossed. "But if you lose, you'll have to admit that your orphanage's intelligence testing device is no better than my microwave!"

"A word is settled!"

"You have 30 seconds. Please listen to the first question!"

……

Lonely Corner Bar.

"boom!"

The cue ball hit the black 8, and a beautiful flip shot put the black 8 into the left center hole. "Change of players, Guan Gu, you take over."

Zeng Xiaoxian sighed in frustration and left the stage, while Guan Gu waited in the audience, ready to pounce.

However, Lu Ziqiao, the winner of the match, put down his cue and said, "There was no suspense in the game between the three of us!"

"What suspense do you need for a game of billiards?" Zeng Xiaoxian chuckled, taking a sip of water. "Should I call O'Sullivan over for you?"

“Then there’s even less suspense,” Guan Gu Shenqi chimed in.

Lu Ziqiao shook his head, then asked, "By the way, where's Wen Sheng? I haven't seen him today. We can call him over!"

"Oh, then your hopes are dashed. Wen-san left this morning," said Guan Gu Shenqi, who was setting up the ball.

"What did he do?"

Guan Gu Shenqi thought for a moment, then hesitated and said, "I think I heard him say that he went to babysit someone's child?"

"Taking care of children?!"

Zeng Xiaoxian exclaimed in surprise, "Wen Sheng has a child? I've never heard Nuolan mention it!"

"Could it be Yu Mo's?" Lu Ziqiao asked with a strange expression.

"Hey, don't talk nonsense!" Guan Gu Shenqi waved his hand to deny their guesses, and then explained, "It's that straw hat girl, Zhuge Dali. Didn't Wen Sang bring her here to play last week?"

"Her!" Zeng Xiaoxian nodded, "She's the monster who became the traitor and wiped out all of us on her very first time playing Three Kingdoms Kill!"

Realizing he had misunderstood, Lü Ziqiao shook his head. After Guan Gu Shenqi set up the ball, he bent down and took a shot.

"Speaking of which, Wen Sheng is quite impressive, being able to play with such a child prodigy."

"This might be what they call 'the gorilla of intelligent people heading west'!"

"..."

Zeng Xiaoxian and Lu Ziqiao exchanged a glance, and after a long while, Zeng Xiaoxian hesitated before saying, "Big brother, it's more like mutual respect, isn't it!"

Guan Gu Shenqi scored a fancy shot, and as he picked up some chalk to coat his cue stick, he nodded and said, "Sogga."

"Hey, do you guys think Qin Yumo will come back?" Lu Ziqiao asked again at this moment.

"I doubt it. Yu Mo has already moved all her things."

“You can move back even if you leave. Didn’t you come back after you ran away, Teacher Zeng?”

Guan Gu's words instantly reminded Zeng Xiaoxian of his escape from 3601, and he said awkwardly, "Watch your words. I didn't escape, I returned to nature, okay?"

"You could call Yu Mo's relaxation a return to normalcy!" Lu Ziqiao chuckled. "Isn't it just escaping from here and going on a trip for a while?"

Guan Gu nodded, agreeing with that.

However, he quickly remembered something else and asked Zeng Xiaoxian, "By the way, Teacher Zeng, did you tell Nuolan about Yu Mo kissing Wen Sang back then?"

"..."

Upon hearing this, Zeng Xiaoxian's face twitched.

He had previously thought that Wen Sheng, as his fan, was a good man like him, which would save him a lot of trouble and prevent him from being caught in a dilemma between loyalty and righteousness.

But now he realizes one thing: a good man attracts women to come to him!
He only found out about Qin Yumo's forced kiss on Wen Sheng the next day. More than the shock of finding out about it, he was worried about what to do if Nuolan asked about it.
Fortunately, Nuolan only asked Qin Yumo if she had felt any better after being comforted. Zeng Xiaoxian didn't dare to say more and could only laugh awkwardly and say that he was much better.

Therefore, when faced with this situation, Zeng Xiaoxian had no choice but to insist that Qin Yumo had not fallen in love with Wen Sheng, but had simply mistaken Wen Sheng for Richard.

Otherwise, he was afraid that he might accidentally let something slip to Nuolan.

"Of course not. Am I the kind of person who would betray my brothers?"

After a pause, Zeng Xiaoxian said earnestly, "I'm telling you, don't overthink it. Yu Mo and Wen Sheng were just an accident back then. They are innocent. Why would I do something like sowing discord?"

"Innocence?" Lu Ziqiao sneered. "Teacher Zeng, no wonder you were forced to run away by Laura back then. You couldn't even detect the emotional changes in a girl like that."

However, Guan Gu Shenqi keenly noticed another point and stopped hitting the ball, saying, "Teacher Zeng, do you mean that if Wen Sang and Yu Mo are not innocent, you will sow discord between them?"

"..."

Zeng Xiaoxian's expression froze. When he saw that they were both looking at him with strange eyes that implied some kind of message, he quickly explained, "What nonsense are you talking about? I, I am a loyal subject!"

Then he looked at Lü Ziqiao and said, "Don't talk nonsense. Playing matchmaker can easily lead to the destruction of other people's families!"

"Nonsense?" Lu Ziqiao put down his cue, turned to Zeng Xiaoxian, and smiled. "Want to bet on something?"

……

Evening, 3601.

Tang Youyou, who was reading the play script, heard the noise at the door and assumed that Hu Yifei had returned, so she asked without looking up, "Yifei, have you finished setting up the laundry room?"

"Laundry room? What laundry room?"

When Wen Sheng's voice rang out, Tang Youyou turned her head and said, "Oh, Teacher Wen, Yifei just won..."

The words caught in Tang Youyou's throat as she looked at Wen Sheng... and the little girl beside him with surprise.

"Little Dali? What are you doing here?" Tang Youyou stood up in surprise.

Wen Sheng led Zhuge Dali in and explained, "Dali's mother is going on a business trip this weekend, and since Dali is coming to visit me, I thought it would be a good opportunity for her to stay at my place for a couple of days. Yu Mo's room is empty, isn't it?"

"Hello, Sister Youyou." Zhuge Dali greeted her with a smile.

"Welcome to visit, Dali!" Tang Youyou squatted down and asked with a smile, "Did you go fishing with Teacher Wen again?"

"No, the uncle took me to play at the recording studio."

When Zhuge Dali got to this point, she looked up at Wen Sheng. Only today did she realize that this uncle had other abilities.

Wen Sheng then took some food out of the refrigerator and pointed to Qin Yumo's empty room: "Dali, you'll stay here tonight. See if you need anything else, and we'll get it after dinner."

"Okay." Zhuge Dali nodded and put the backpack into the room.

While washing vegetables, Wen Sheng asked Tang Youyou, "Youyou, what did you just say about a laundry room?"

"Yifei won the laundry room," Tang Youyou said with a smile, picking up some snacks from the coffee table. "Teacher Wen, you don't know, this afternoon Zhang Wei and Yifei had an intelligence test, and Zhang Wei lost the room to Yifei."

"..."

Wen Sheng was stunned for a moment, then remembered that there was indeed this plot in the original drama. He didn't expect that after so long, Wei Ge still couldn't keep his room.

……

Meanwhile, the atmosphere in suite 3602 was somewhat somber.

"I originally wanted to bring glory to 3602, but now I've really brought it all down!" Zhang Wei sighed and recounted what had happened during the day.

Zeng Xiaoxian and Lu Ziqiao were both speechless and amused after hearing this.

"Alright, don't take it too seriously. Hu Yifei was just saying it casually. Why would she want your room?"

Zeng Xiaoxian tried to comfort Zhang Wei, but just as he finished speaking, the door to the suite was pushed open.

"You guys move the beds out of here and put the washing machine in," Hu Yifei said, leading several laundry room renovation workers in.

At this moment, the three realized that Hu Yifei was serious.

(End of this chapter)