Chapter 58

The photo only showed a back view, and since it was night, the face couldn't be seen at all; Lu Zhaoye sent the photo he had received to Song Lin, asking Song Lin to look up the information for that license plate.

Song Lin was a bit surprised, but he went to check it anyway.

Not long after, Song Lin sent the license plate information to Lu Zhaoye.

Lu Zhaoye looked at it and burst out laughing; after all that fuss, he had caught them—a brother and sister meeting.

Song Lin embarrassedly scratched his head, then heard Lu Zhaoye order: "Release the photo and say that Young Master Zhou had a late-night rendezvous with a woman?"

"Mr. Lu, I'm afraid of offending the Zhou family; then you..." Song Lin tried to persuade him.

Lu Zhaoye cut him off, relaxedly leaning back on the sofa, rubbing his nose bridge, and said: "Do as I say."

"Alright, I'll arrange it now." Song Lin sighed, turned and left.

He contacted an entertainment gossip big V online; this big V happened to be staying up late, was money‑grubbing, and didn't care whether the people in the photo were someone he could provoke; after taking the money, he posted at nine in the morning in Hua Guo, just when everyone was slacking off at work.

The post's title was short and shocking.

【Top‑tier aristocratic Zhou Family's young master spent the whole night in a midnight rendezvous with a woman.】

【Fortunate to have caught this gossip last night, the Zhou Family has three young masters and two misses; although the Huan Yu Group is currently managed by the Zhou Family's other young masters and misses, this person doesn't intervene and only takes stock dividends, but the FR Holdings he founded alone still crushes the vast majority of family enterprises in Sijiucheng, and besides, he is the Zhou Family's youngest and most beloved.】

【Unlike the aristocratic young master in the public's imagination, rumors say he is pure‑hearted, unyielding, and has only ever had one girlfriend; who knows how many misses in Sijiucheng are eyeing the position of the wife of the Fifth Young Master of the Zhou Family; now that this young master had a midnight rendezvous with a woman, it's unclear whether some sister has made a move to instantly become a phoenix, or whether some aristocratic families are about to form a marriage alliance.】

This big V usually likes to post entertainment gossip; he has many fans, and as soon as the post went up, netizens killing time flooded it with comments, and within half an hour it topped the hot search.

【No matter which sister it is, please teach me your skills!】

【My boyfriend works at FR Holdings (a low‑level staff member); during the annual meeting he can bring family, so I went along and saw this young master! He's handsomely astonishing, not exaggerated at all—if I exaggerated a bit I'd give birth to ten sons!】

This comment was pushed to the top hot comment; reading through layer after layer, every single one was asking for the photo.

【Why is there no photo?! I searched for ages and only found a side profile of him taken when he attended the Huan Yu Group's charity event—no frontal face at all, I'm so curious!】

【I couldn't even bring my phone in! At first I didn't know why, but later I learned that everyone present besides FR Holdings staff and their families were big shots; whispering, I also saw the little son of a big shot who often appears in the news but whose name can't be mentioned, and he's extremely close to this young master!】

Everyone instantly understood, simultaneously lamenting that the world of the powerful is out of reach and regretting that they couldn't see a photo of the so‑astonishingly handsome young master himself.

Because of yesterday's rain, Sijiucheng, which had been about to enter summer, turned cold again.

Zhou Yinhe probably felt guilty, so he slipped out early in the morning; Wen Ling didn't realize she had been taken advantage of by him all night, and when she woke up and didn't see him, she simply thought he had an urgent matter.

She was curled up on the sofa drinking the cold‑dispelling tea that Aunt Zhou had brewed for her, and she happened to see this big V's post when it went up.

She glanced at the photo expressionlessly, then read the comments one by one, seeing netizens start to guess which miss or celebrity big shot it was, and even fans of Ruan MiaoMiao were popping up in the comment section.

【Our MiaoMiao is also a miss, and she even goes to the same university as this person; I think the woman's back view and figure in the photo look a lot like MiaoMiao!】

Unlike the other comments, this one was directly scolded by passersby into being deleted.

【Stop trying to profit from this, what nonsense—this young master graduated from MIT, he only spent half a semester at Peking University, right?】

Wen Ling finished reading the comments, then opened the photo and glanced at it a few times.

The woman in the photo was completely unfamiliar to her; although blurry, she could still sense the woman's temperament and figure.

She suddenly wanted to laugh; Ruan MiaoMiao's standard white‑lotus figure, and yet her fans dare to claim it as hers.

A call notification popped up on the phone; Wen Ling's finger twitched and she directly tapped the red key.

She had wanted to keep looking, but the post's main page suddenly turned 404; searching for that big V turned up nothing, and several keywords became blocked.

It was probably the Zhou Family or Zhou Yinhe himself who did it.

But the netizens are clever; they replaced the blocked words with substitutes, many people had saved the photos, and the internet fell into temporary chaos.

Zhou Yinhe called again; Wen Ling was engrossed in watching, and even felt that Zhou Yinhe was interrupting her gossip‑watching.

In contrast, Zhou Yinhe's tone was panicked, he urged anxiously: "Lingling, did you see that hot search? Don't be angry, it's fake."

"Mm, that woman really is pretty good‑looking." Wen Ling blinked, her gaze fixed straight ahead into the void, but her tone was light.

"Lingling," Zhou Yinhe asked carefully, "Are you jealous?"

"How could I be? We're not together; we're just satisfying each other's needs, so you seeing someone else has nothing to do with me. Still, I don't like this; I feel it's dirty." Wen Ling curved her lips and said softly, "Please don't come looking for me."

When Zhou Yinhe heard her denial, his face actually sank, but the more he listened, the more the corners of his mouth kept rising.

"Lingling, that's my sister, my real sister—don't be jealous." He explained gently: "Besides you, I've never been with anyone else, and I only want you."

Wen Ling stared for a moment, then bit her lip and denied: "I said it—I'm not jealous."

"Okay, okay, you're not jealous—I'm just afraid you'll leave me, so I gave you the explanation, alright?" Zhou Yinhe chuckled lightly: "Someone's scheming against me in this matter; I've roughly guessed who it is, and once I've dealt with it I'll come find you."

Wen Ling gave a muffled "uh", then hung up first.

She lowered her gaze, staring at her phone; after a long while she suddenly lifted her hand and rubbed the spot she had deliberately ignored but that was actually feeling suffocated and painful in her chest.

After Zhou Yinhe hung up the phone, his elder sister sat opposite him, feeling contemptuous of his cautious attitude when making the call.

Zhou Qiyue rolled her eyes and asked, "Do you know who it was?"

"Mm." Zhou Yinhe tapped his fingertip on the tabletop, speaking coldly: "This Lu Zhaoye, with such childish tactics, thinks he can ruin me and Wen Ling just like that? Dream on."

"They just wanted to disgust you a little." Zhou Qiyue said lightly: "Fight fire with fire."

"I know." Zhou Yinhe lifted his gaze to look at Zhou Qiyue, speaking offhandedly: "Do you still have something to do? You don't come back often—spend more time with Mom and Dad."

Zhou Qiyue caught the hidden meaning in her brother's words, gritted her teeth and said, "I'm leaving now!"