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"one million?"

Qin Song was dumbfounded.

Pei Xingzhi frowned and asked, "Was it Lin Jiahe who voted alone?"

Ye Ci nodded: "It was invested in his personal name and has nothing to do with Lin's Trading Company."

"...Why?" Pei Xingzhi asked after a few seconds of silence, clearly puzzled.

"...Why?" Ye Ci was stunned by his question. After a moment of silence, she suddenly laughed. "Why else? Of course, it's because they see the commercial value of our game."

"..." Pei Xingzhi's brows furrowed more and more, as if he didn't think so.

Logically, receiving investment should be a good thing, especially since their studio is currently in dire need of funding. But for some reason, Pei Xingzhi felt no joy at all when he heard that Lin Jiahe planned to invest one million in his own name. On the contrary, he felt a sense of unease.

This feeling was similar to when he found out that Lin Jiahe had secretly transferred 100,000 yuan to Qin Song—anxious and uneasy feeling.

He gently raised his eyes to look at Lin Jiahe across the square table, a layer of vigilance gradually rising in his eyes, mixed with a faint hostility.

"What's wrong, Brother Pei?" Ye Ci asked curiously, noticing Pei Xingzhi's strange expression. "Aren't you happy that someone is investing in our studio?"

"..." Pei Xingzhi, with a stern face, took out the two boxes of crayfish from the plastic bag and placed them on the table, coldly saying:

"Not happy."

"...Huh?" Ye Ci was full of question marks.

"Why are you unhappy?" Qin Song was also puzzled.

Pei Xingzhi gave her a reproachful look, then gently flicked the tip of her nose: "I don't know."

"Huh?" Qin Song's forehead instantly had even more question marks than Ye Ci's.

Pei Lingxuan took everything out of the takeout bag and placed it on the table, then called for the others to sit down quickly.

Everyone was an old friend, so there was no awkwardness at all while eating together. Before Pei Lingxuan even made any announcements, half of the people had already sat down on their own.

This gathering was rather hasty; we didn't go out to a restaurant or do any extra activities. Everyone just bought some food separately and that's how we "got together."

But this didn't affect the mood of any of them.

There was laughter and conversation at the dinner table; everyone was happy and relaxed.

Except for Pei Lingxuan.

But Pei Lingxuan wasn't unhappy; she just occasionally acted a bit strangely.

For example, from the moment she sat down, she liked to turn her head to look at Qin Song from time to time.

Her eyes sometimes held scrutiny, sometimes confusion, and sometimes disappointment, as if Qin Song had done something complicated and unspeakable to her.

In reality, Qin Song had been focused on eating ever since he sat down, and hadn't said more than a few words.

"Eh……"

After yet another inexplicable stare, Pei Lingxuan rested her chin on her hand and suddenly let out a deep sigh.

"..."

Qin Song finally couldn't take it anymore and turned his head to meet Pei Lingxuan's gaze, which she hadn't had time to look away from.

"Is there something you need?" she asked bluntly.

"Uh..." Pei Lingxuan paused for a moment, then forced a smile and said, "Sister-in-law, can I have something to do?"

"..." Qin Song looked at her with a complicated expression, "Of course you can."

Pei Lingxuan put down her chopsticks and, like a lackey, carefully took Qin Song's arm: "Sister-in-law, if I have something to say, can I ask you directly?"

Qin Song took a bite of the duck head in his hand: "Sure."

Pei Lingxuan: "Then let me ask you, will you tell the truth and not hide anything?"

Qin Song: "...Yes."

"Hehe..." Pei Lingxuan chuckled and blinked wildly, "Then should I ask?"

Qin Song: "...ask."

Pei Lingxuan then leaned down and casually whispered in Qin Song's ear, asking tactfully, "Sister-in-law, does my brother know about your private meeting with Lu Yibai?"

"!!!" Qin Song's eyes widened suddenly.

Seeing her reaction, Pei Lingxuan felt a wave of sorrow wash over her.

Oh no, something bad might be going to happen...

"You...you saw it all?" Qin Song turned to stare at Pei Lingxuan, his eyes showing only astonishment, not guilt or panic.

Pei Lingxuan was slightly taken aback, then nodded and said, "Yes, I saw it all."

“…Alright.” Qin Song responded indifferently, even having the leisure to ask her, “So what you want to ask is what I did with him that day, right?”

Pei Lingxuan blinked: "...Yeah."

Qin Song took out his phone and said succinctly, "Go on WeChat, I'll send you a message."

“…Oh.” Pei Lingxuan did as instructed.

So the two of them started a WeChat conversation face-to-face.

Pei Xingzhi gave them a strange look for a few moments, and finally couldn't help but ask, "Are you two socially awkward? Why are you texting each other when you're sitting together?"

"Brother, you don't understand!" Pei Lingxuan was just getting to the point when she heard this, so she just made up an excuse, "My sister-in-law and I were having a private conversation, and we couldn't let you hear us."

"What whispers?" Ye Ci asked curiously, "Can't even we hear them?"

"No!" Qin Song and Pei Lingxuan said in unison.

After saying that, Pei Lingxuan added, "This is a young lady's private matter, you grown men shouldn't pry into it!"

"Aunt Pei~" Ye Ci deliberately teased, leaning against Pei's mother like a little bird, and said in a high-pitched voice, "Look at the two of them, they say you're a grown man too~"

"Get out of the way." Pei's mother suppressed a laugh and shooed Ye Ci away from her. "Xiao Xuan was talking about you guys, not me."

"Hmph..." Ye Ci gave an affected "humph," then leaned towards Lin Jiahe again.

Lin Jiahe dodged him like he was a dog, and said with disgust, "Go away, don't disgust me."

Having nowhere else to turn, Ye Ci cast a pleading look at Pei Xingzhi: "Brother Pei..."

"Get lost." Pei Xingzhi stared at him coldly, his seemingly easy-to-kiss mouth uttering such cold and ruthless words.

"..." Ye Ci was heartbroken and picked up the Sprite in front of him and drank it all in one gulp.

"Wow, sister-in-law, you're amazing!"

After learning the whole story of Qin Song and Lu Yibai's meeting, Pei Lingxuan couldn't help but give Qin Song a thumbs up.

"Hey..." Qin Song waved his hand at her and said in a low voice, "Keep it down, keep it down."

Pei Lingxuan: "OK!"

"Remember to keep this a secret for me. It's far too early to reveal it now," Qin Song earnestly instructed her.

She kept her mouth tightly shut, and made a zipping motion with her index finger and thumb pressed together on her lips.

"My mouth is known throughout Yuncheng for its tightness!"

Qin Song glanced at her sideways: "...I hope so."

"Hey Lin Jiahe, since everyone's here, why don't you talk to Brother Pei about your investment plans?"

Ye Ci had drunk too much Sprite and was a little out of it. Even after Pei Xingzhi had just said he was unhappy about Lin Jiahe's investment, he still brought it up in public, stepping on Pei Xingzhi's landmine.