Chapter 1597: Discovery

Lin Xiao believes that the greatest happiness in life is being able to see the person she likes by her side every time she opens her eyes.

So she looked at Wang Yan, who was smoking and enjoying the scenery on the balcony with his feet up, feeling happy from the inside out. Feeling the discomfort in her body, she was also satisfied from the inside out.

But after calming down and thinking carefully, she became unhappy again.

Because she was destined not to have this greatest happiness; Wang Yan didn't belong exclusively to her. Although she had personally understood that Wang Yan was destined not to belong to her alone, she would still feel uncomfortable.

Wang Yan finished smoking, walked back, and sat on the edge of the bed, looking at Lin Xiao, who had her eyes closed tightly and was deliberately suppressing her breathing, reaching out to gently poke her nose.

"Found you, stop pretending to sleep."

Lin Xiao opened her eyes and glared at Wang Yan, snorted, and turned away, tightly wrapping herself in the quilt.

"Why are you angry early in the morning?" Wang Yan asked with concern, while reaching out to fiddle with the quilt. "Come, come, come, let me check for you."

Lin Xiao, whose body was still uncomfortable, naturally couldn't agree, screaming sharply and not letting Wang Yan succeed, feeling that Wang Yan didn't use much strength, she knew Wang Yan was teasing her.

She said angrily: "You are truly bad; I was tricked by you unknowingly."

"Hey, this won't do." Wang Yan patted her gently. "You haven't even put on your pants yet, and you're going to turn your face and deny people?"

"It was originally! It was all because you said a bunch of nonsense yesterday, and I was confused and fell into your trap, hit your trick."

"Clearly it's a matter of mutual liking, but you have to blame me; if you do this, I'll be serious." Saying that, Wang Yan was about to lift the quilt.

Seeing that Wang Yan didn't seem to be pretending, Lin Xiao surrendered very wisely: "Oh, alright, alright, do you have to torture me to death? I'm just unhappy when I think you're a heart-breaking radish, a dead scumbag!"

"Why make things difficult for yourself?"

Wang Yan leaned against the head of the bed, holding her in his arms. "You have to think about more happy things, think about the good of being together, instead of thinking about the bad of not being together."

"Do you think that's possible?"

"You have to adapt; you'll be fine once you get used to it."

"Shameless! Don't want face!"

Wang Yan nodded with a smile, gently stroking her face: "Thank you for your recognition."

Lin Xiao was speechless, knowing it was impossible to hurt Wang Yan, so she asked angrily: "What time is it?"

"Ten-thirty."

"Ah?" Lin Xiao shuddered and wanted to get up, but naturally, it made her body even more uncomfortable, and she fell back down, immediately greeting Wang Yan with little fists, blaming him, blaming him.

She said angrily, "Hand me the phone; I have to ask for leave quickly."

After getting the phone, Lin Xiao turned off airplane mode to let the phone connect to the internet, and the message notifications on the phone kept ringing. Immediately after, Lin Xiao suddenly screamed.

"Nan Xiang sent me a message saying congratulations!" She sat up in disbelief, ignoring the quilt falling to reveal her scenery, just glaring at Wang Yan.

Wang Yan nodded with a smile, explaining: "Nan Xiang invited me to dinner yesterday afternoon, but I had already made an appointment with you earlier, so I refused."

"Did you tell her you were eating with me?"

"No."

"Then how did she know?"

"She has contact with Lin Quan, and the two will communicate with each other. Tang Wanru will also tell Nan Xiang if she has anything. I didn't go to find Lin Quan and Nan Xiang, and Tang Wanru told Nan Xiang you didn't go back to spend the night, plus what I said before that you might like me, this matter is not hard to guess, right?"

"Ah?" Lin Xiao felt the sky was about to collapse. "What to do? Wang Yan? What to do? What should I do?"

"What to do?"

"Nan Xiang knows I slept with you; how should she look at me? If she tells Tang Wanru, and then Gu Li finds out, what should I do then? Oh my, you quickly call Nan Xiang and tell her not to talk nonsense!"

Lin Xiao was truly panicked; she went from being able to despise Nan Xiang before to becoming someone like Nan Xiang. And she liked the same man as Nan Xiang, and the key was that she was the later one?

"Do you think Nan Xiang is that free?" Wang Yan held her in his arms, gently

"As for this Gu Li you're talking about, that's something to be expected, and it's no big deal, right? You need to have your own life; you can't just revolve around Gu Li all the time, can you?"

"I get it!" Lin Xiao puffed out her cheeks. "You just want to drive a wedge between Gu Li and me, and you want Gu Li to be deserted by all her friends and family."

"Give me a break. What do our affairs have to do with Gu Li? I'm sleeping with you, not her. If you really can't leave Gu Li, why don't you go persuade her later, and the three of us can just do it together, wouldn't that settle it?"

"Get lost, get lost, get lost! What kind of sin did I commit to have even met you?"

Lin Xiao wore a look of utter despair...

"Meeting me is the great virtue you accumulated in your past life. You've managed to sleep with someone as outstanding as me, so you should just be content..."

"Oh, you're so annoying!" Lin Xiao gritted her teeth and hit Wang Yan.

She felt that her sense of shame and modesty had all been shattered by Wang Yan...

After replying to a flurry of messages and having lunch with Wang Yan, Lin Xiao, whose body still felt quite uncomfortable, gave Wang Yan two more punches, asked for leave, and hesitantly returned to the apartment.

Returning to the apartment and not seeing Gu Li or Tang Wanru made Lin Xiao breathe a sigh of relief. After she replied to their messages in the morning, the two of them had been asking all sorts of questions, so she had used a cold as an excuse to cope and hadn't replied since.

Although it was foreseeable that she would be hounded by Gu Li and Tang Wanru with questions, it was always better to delay it if she could.

So, she tidied up and returned to her room to rest. She wasn't actually tired; it was just that her physical discomfort made her unwilling to move, but in reality, she felt very satisfied and mentally delighted at this moment. It was a case of having exerted herself a bit too much...

By evening, Gu Li and Tang Wanru had returned.

"Lin Xiao, Lin Xiao, I brought you food! Get up and eat; it won't taste good if it gets cold." Tang Wanru said boisterously.

After a while, Lin Xiao walked out, her hair disheveled, yawning.

Gu Li was drinking a bottle of mineral water. Seeing Lin Xiao in this state, she asked, "Are you really sick with a cold? Did you take medicine?"

"I took it, it's nothing." Lin Xiao went over to unwrap the food.

Seeing Lin Xiao's appearance, Tang Wanru leaned in close to stare at her.

Lin Xiao pushed her away irritably: "Tang Wanru! Are you sick? I have a cold, aren't you afraid of catching it?"

"Catch it from you? Impossible!" Tang Wanru flexed her arm, patting her bicep. "The last time I had a cold was three years ago. The viruses in your body would be beaten to death the moment they entered mine."

"You're just so amazing, alright?" Lin Xiao gave her a perfunctory eye-roll.

Tang Wanru laughed triumphantly, then leaned in close again: "Lin Xiao, why do I feel like you don't have a cold?"

As she spoke, she even reached out to touch Lin Xiao's forehead.

"Tell me, did you yesterday..."

Lin Xiao interrupted Tang Wanru: "Didn't I say it already? I went home last night, what's the big deal about that?"

Gu Li stood to the side with her arms crossed: "Then why couldn't we reach you yesterday? Messages weren't returned, and every time we called, it was busy? It looks like you turned on airplane mode."

"Yeah, I just felt miserable from the cold, so I went home and went to sleep early. I didn't want a bunch of things bothering me, so I turned on airplane mode. What's the problem with that? No, are you two interrogating a criminal? It's just going home, why are you two asking all these questions?"

When you can't explain something clearly, the best method is to turn the tables, avoid the important points, and change the subject. Lin Xiao did it very well.

Tang Wanru frowned: "Gu Li, did you feel it?"

Gu Li was confused: "Feel what?"

"Don't you think the things Lin Xiao is saying right now sound particularly familiar?" Tang Wanru mimicked Conan holding his chin. "Ah, I remember now. Nan Xiang said the exact same thing before. She had a fight with Xicheng, went to get a hotel room with Wang Yan that night, and when we asked her the next day, that's exactly what she said."

Sometimes, one really wants to kill someone.

Lin Xiao glared at Tang Wanru irritably: "What, what, what are you saying? If you do this again, I'm going to get angry."

Tang Wanru pouted: "It's true, isn't it? Otherwise, why would it be such a coincidence? I'm just making a reasonable guess, right, Gu Li?"

"Wanru makes a lot of sense." Gu Li nodded. "Lin Xiao, you don't know how to lie, do you? Look at that look of having no confidence."

"I'm just weak from the cold! Everything I said is the truth. Hey, forget it, you guys are going to think I have something else going on anyway. It's useless for me to explain anymore. Believe whatever you want to believe, the innocent will clear themselves!"

They were all sisters who had spent a long time together, so they were very familiar with each other. Gu Li and Tang Wanru clearly sensed Lin Xiao's embarrassment and anger, but they also knew Lin Xiao was truly angry, so they wisely stopped pestering her.

Lin Xiao let out a long breath, but inwardly she was cursing Wang Yan to death. What a nemesis...

After exchanging a few half-hearted words with Gu Li and Tang Wanru and hastily finishing dinner, Lin Xiao used her discomfort as an excuse to return to her room.

The moment Lin Xiao's door closed, Tang Wanru swooshed over to sit beside Gu Li.

"Suspicious! Very suspicious!"

Gu Li pushed her away with disdain: "I'm not blind, I can see it. What do you think?"

"Didn't we talk about this before? Anyway, I feel like Lin Xiao might like Wang Yan a bit, and this time Lin Xiao's behavior is similar to Nan Xiang's before, so I can't help but think about it, right?"

Gu Li pondered for a while: "Forget it, no matter what, Lin Xiao has her own freedom. Let's not talk about her behind her back."

"What if Lin Xiao really is with Wang Yan?"

"If she is, then she is. I said before, my affairs don't affect her." Gu Li paused and said to Tang Wanru, "And it doesn't affect you having contact with Nan Xiang either."

"Uh..."

Tang Wanru felt awkward for a moment, then smiled cheekily, returning to her carefree self. "Lin Xiao told you, right? Gu Li, I didn't betray you, I just chat with Nan Xiang occasionally, I..."

Gu Li waved her hand: "Alright, did I say I blame you? The Nan Xiang matter was indeed my lack of consideration. It's all that damn Wang Yan, letting him blind me, making me only want to make him pay the price, which is why Nan Xiang got dragged into it. Actually, ever since then, I've always felt quite sorry, but I figure Nan Xiang couldn't possibly forgive me, so I'll just let it be."

"I don't think it's anything, Nan Xiang was at fault too. After all, so many things started because of her. If she hadn't had a conflict with Wang Yan, how could there have been what followed? The root of it all was with her from the start. Gu Li, you don't need to blame yourself too much."

"Is that really what you think?"

"Of course, I'm still standing on your side." Tang Wanru leaned against Gu Li again, acting like a little bird.

Gu Li played along with Tang Wanru on the surface, but inwardly she felt nothing. After all, if she were really on her side, Tang Wanru wouldn't be contacting Nan Xiang in private.

But at the same time, Gu Li also kept Lin Xiao's abnormal situation in mind...

Of course, Gu Li couldn't help but keep it in mind, because from that day on, Lin Xiao would stay out overnight every few days. When asked, she'd say she went home, and she was too lazy to find other excuses.

But this was clearly abnormal, as Lin Xiao hadn't been like this in the past. In fact, Lin Xiao hadn't been very willing to go home, always feeling that her parents were nagging.

Gu Li was very close to Lin Xiao; they had a real bond, and Gu Li was the one who understood Lin Xiao best.

The abnormality was obvious. One day after Lin Xiao stayed out overnight, Gu Li couldn't hold back and called Lin Xiao's mother to ask if Lin Xiao had gone home, and received a negative answer. Then, to avoid worrying Lin Xiao's mother and to avoid exposing that she had made the call, she immediately told Lin Xiao's mother that she had found Lin Xiao.

When the next day came and she asked Lin Xiao again, Lin Xiao said she had gone home...

After waiting a few more days, Gu Li noticed Lin Xiao's eyes dodging when she looked at her, so she knew that her calling Lin Xiao's mother had been exposed.

But she didn't intend to hide it either.

Taking advantage of Tang Wanru's absence, Gu Li frowned and asked: "So, are you really with Wang Yan?"

"No... no..." Lin Xiao denied it, stammering.

"If it weren't true, you definitely wouldn't be talking to me like this. Lin Xiao, I know you too well." Gu Li shook her head repeatedly, her face slightly twisted, her mind full of question marks. "Lin Xiao, I really don't understand, what's so good about that mental patient Wang Yan? You know full well that bastard is playing both sides, yet you still want to get close to him?"

Lin Xiao was silent for a moment, and stopped pretending.

"I can't explain it, but anyway, it's good, and I'm very happy when I'm with him."

"Then what about Jian Xi? What does Jian Xi count as?"

"That's long in the past, and Jian Xi was the one who broke up with me first."

Gu Li looked like she was dying: "I really don't know what to say to you, Lin Xiao, how can you be so..."

She didn't continue, but Lin Xiao said it herself: "Cheap! Right? I think so too! But I'm willing! Gu Li, I really am sorry to you, but I feel truly happy right now."

Gu Li let out a long breath: "Then what about him playing both sides? He might not even know if there are other women, he's so promiscuous, aren't you afraid of catching a disease?"

"He's not stupid. He has so much money that hasn't been cashed out yet, and he's so young, he hasn't enjoyed life yet, so he must be more careful than anyone." Lin Xiao rested her chin on her hand. "That's the only bad thing. But he knows a bit of medicine; you know I have period pain, right? A while ago, the Chinese medicine I drank was a prescription he wrote for me, brewed at the pharmacy. A few days ago, I didn't feel any pain at all."

"Really?"

"Why would I lie to you? Anyway, he must know what he's doing. Besides, I haven't heard of any rich people having these problems, aren't they playing even wilder than Wang Yan?" Lin Xiao didn't care at all, and turned to say, "Gu Li, you don't blame me, do you..."

"How could I? I said before, if you really like Wang Yan, I wouldn't say anything. It's just that Wang Yan is a scumbag, I'm afraid you..."

"Live in the moment, we'll talk about the future later."

Lin Xiao waved her hand, and Gu Li was left speechless...

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