After Black Moonlight revealed her true feelings, everyone panicked.

Xia Youyou was woken up and quickly moved her head away from Lu Sijian's shoulder, which finally made Shen Baolin feel less of an eyesore.

Xia Youyou: "Lu Sijian reminded me so much that day, and I'm not stupid, so I decided to stay far away from Zhu Jinming right then and there."

For Lu Sijian's sake, she was willing to tolerate Shen Baolin's rudeness.

"You're talking nonsense! You didn't believe it at the time. You even left in the same car with Zhu Jinming that night!" Shen Baolin said, somewhat agitated.

Xia Youyou: "I didn't disbelieve it. When I got back, I checked about the bracelet and found that it had indeed been secretly slipped into my bag. I returned it on the spot. Zhu Jinming said that since I refused his gift, I couldn't refuse him taking it home. There were a bunch of his friends watching at the dinner table. What could I do?"

"Liar! You were clearly being affectionate with Zhu Jinming that day. I saw with my own eyes that Zhu Jinming had his arm around your waist as you got into the car."

Seeing Xia Youyou remain silent, Shen Baolin raised an eyebrow. "What, didn't you do it willingly?"

Lu Sijian: "Can I say that I saw it too, but I think her body language is enough to show that she was unwilling?"

“If she wanted to, she wouldn’t have just held her own shoulders the whole time and not touched Zhu Jinming’s coat at all.”

Xia Youyou's nose suddenly felt sore. She hadn't expected that even from so far away, she would notice such a small detail.

She had actually refused at the time, but Zhu Jinming wouldn't listen to her, so she had no choice but to endure it.

“Later, Zhu Jinming asked me out, but I refused. Then he deliberately blocked me, and once he even blocked me in front of Manman. I was afraid that Manman would find out, so I had to go out with him again. Then he said that I was being unreasonable, that I ate two meals from him and didn’t know how to treat him back, so I wanted to pay for him today.”

"Absurd!" Uncle Ling couldn't stand it anymore. "They want the girl back after only two meals. They have no manners at all. The world is going to the dogs!"

Sheng Yunchao: "The first meal was just a gathering of friends. Inviting the girl over to save face, can that be considered treating someone?"

Shen Baolin felt a headache coming on. She thought she must have been so angry that she was acting like a villain.

Xia Youyou turned to look at Shen Baolin: "You say I don't believe her? She's Lu Sijian, you know. If I don't believe her, am I crazy?"

Shen Baolin: "What do you mean?"

Lu Sijian was also completely bewildered.

Why should I believe what I say? Aren't we mortal enemies?

Even if they later joined forces, it would only be a relationship of mutual exploitation.

"Why do you trust her so much?" Sheng Yunchao asked with great interest.

Xia Youyou: "Because she's a heroine who saved lives. During the hostage situation back then, she was willing to sacrifice herself to take the criminals down with her. How could she lie to me about something like that?"

Sheng Yunchao glanced at Lu Sijian in the rearview mirror and saw that she was even more confused, so he couldn't help but chuckle.

"You're absolutely right. She's a hero who risked her life to save three people."

Uncle Ling silently turned around and gave Lu Sijian a thumbs up: "Miss Lu, you're amazing!"

Lu Sijian hadn't expected it to be for this reason.

Everyone says Xia Youyou is a scheming, seemingly innocent girl, but now it seems she's actually quite naive.

She will soon discover that the hostage situation is a stain on my life, not a badge of honor.

I just hope that in the future she won't feel cheated and turn against me relentlessly.

Anyway, we two villainous female supporting characters finally managed to hook up.

Shen Baolin crossed her arms and thought to herself, "You know, if it weren't for you, none of us would have suffered that undeserved disaster."

Sheng Yunchao lowered his eyes, about to speak, when Lu Sijian changed the subject.

"Sheng Yunchao, what a coincidence, you're at that restaurant today too?"

Sheng Yunchao looked at her in the rearview mirror and smiled with the most beautiful and gentle smile. "Yes, what a coincidence. I just ran into you, senior. It seems we are really destined to meet."

Uncle Ling: "..."

It redefines chance encounters and destiny!

Shen Baolin looked at the two of them suspiciously, her expression thoughtful.

-

The car was parked on the side of the road. Shen Baolin got out of the car, then suddenly turned around and held onto the car door, saying, "Ah Jian, can you come over here for a moment? I have something to tell you."

Lu Sijian got out of the car and walked over, but Shen Baolin grabbed her hand and made her stand aside.

"Jian, have you and Sheng Yunchao been getting too close lately?" She glanced warily at the car parked next to her and asked in a low voice with a serious expression.

Lu Sijian: "..."

[Is that all she wanted to say? I was so excited for nothing.]

Shen Baolin said anxiously, "You know Sheng Yunchao has ulterior motives! He's only getting close to you to get revenge on my cousin! You and my cousin are about to get engaged, so don't fall for his tricks!"

Lu Sijian: "Baolin, you're overthinking it. After all, we were classmates."

Instead of wasting your energy trying to persuade me, you should go and talk to your cousin who's about to take a mistress away.

Shen Baolin was stunned. How could her brother be keeping a mistress? What a joke!

Seeing that she was in a daze, Lu Sijian left directly.

She hadn't taken two steps when she saw Sheng Yunchao standing by the car waiting.

"Senior, get in the car." He opened the car door, smiling with utmost tenderness.

So Lou Xiao was secretly keeping a mistress? That's really interesting; he'll definitely join in the fun.

He also happened to know that Lou Xiao's flight was tomorrow afternoon.

-

Early that morning, Mu Liangyue got up to clean and make breakfast.

Of course, one has to be diligent when staying at someone else's house. Although her cousin's family is not as well-off as the Lu family, she is already very grateful to have a place to stay before she can find her parents.

She was quick and efficient, and soon finished cleaning up and started preparing breakfast.

The morning light shone through the gauze window onto her face, making her skin appear exceptionally fair.

Hearing the noise behind her, she turned around, somewhat surprised: "Brother, why are you up so early?"

My cousin's family runs a small restaurant and also sells barbecue at night. Business is pretty good, and they can support the whole family.

It's just too hard. We're busy until the early hours of the morning every night, so we have to sleep until nine or ten o'clock in the morning.

It's only a little past seven o'clock now, why don't you sleep a little longer?

"Liangyue, I'm sorry, I can't take you in anymore. You should move out today."

Mu Liangyue was stunned: "Why?"

My cousin looked exhausted. Before he could even speak, his wife rushed out and said, "Let me tell you the truth, lately people have been coming to the shop to cause trouble every day. They're putting up banners, banging drums and gongs, and last night they almost got into a fight! They say it's because you seduced someone's fiancé, and his fiancée wants to teach you a lesson, you understand? Our shop is almost going to go out of business because of this!"

Mu Liangyue felt her blood rush backward in an instant, her heart pounding in her ears, "How could this be?!"

"How could we not? They said anyone who dares to take you in is going against them. We have no other choice. Please, please spare our whole family..."

Mu Liangyue's eyes reddened. She took off her apron and said softly, "I'm sorry, I'll leave right away."