Chapter 5

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Protagonist:

Lin Xiyu

Guben's heartstrings were plucked once more by a feather; he hadn't expected this girl to trust him so much.

"Do you actually want to film it or not?"

Seeing him keep staring at her without a word, Lin Xiyu's ears turned slightly red and her expression looked a bit unnatural.

"There's no rush for this; we need to get our parents' consent first."

Guben had clearly thought it through more thoroughly: "You go home and change your clothes first; I'll talk to them and contact you by phone."

"Okay."

Lin Xiyu also felt her clothes were too eye-catching and urgently wanted to change.

She took out paper and brush from her schoolbag and wrote down a string of phone numbers: "This is the phone at the public telephone booth near my home; once it gets through, have my maternal aunt call me......."

"Your home doesn't have a phone?"

Guben was slightly surprised to hear about the public telephone booth.

"No."

Lin Xiyu didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

None of her neighbors on either side had installed a phone, and when relatives or friends called, they had her maternal aunt help call someone.

"Where does your family live?"

Li Yan smiled with squinting eyes and interjected: "Is it also a siheyuan?"

"Donghua Street No. 9."

Lin Xiyu nodded: "Yes, all the houses on our street are siheyuans."

"That's quite a coincidence."

Li Yan's eyes showed surprise and delight: "Can we go to your home for an interview and film on location?"

"Go to my home?"

Lin Xiyu hadn't expected her to make this request and was visibly stunned for a moment.

"Let her go back and ask her family first."

Guben answered for her: "Such a big matter, she can't decide on her own."

"Mm-hmm, that's right."

Lin Xiyu looked at him gratefully, smiling as she agreed: "I need to ask the landlord Huang Daye, and my maternal grandmother, to see if they're willing."

"Fine."

Li Yan readily agreed, and borrowing her paper and brush, also wrote a string of numbers: "Tell me once you've asked; this is my pager number, once it's confirmed, page me."

"Okay, Sister Yan, I'm leaving first."

Lin Xiyu clipped the note into her book, smiled and waved her hand, and said goodbye to her.

"Let's go."

Li Yan smiled and reminded her: "There are many vehicles on the road, ride slowly."

"Got it."

Lin Xiyu agreed very obediently, mounted her bicycle, threw her words behind her head, and rode away like a gust of wind.

"Hey hey."

Li Yan smiled helplessly, watching her silhouette disappear into the crowd, then reluctantly withdrew her gaze.

"Sister Yan."

Guben hadn't left; facing the camera, he showed a very sunny and handsome, flawless smile: "Can I watch the video of the rescue this morning?"

"Sure."

Who could refuse such a good-looking handsome guy?

Li Yan's small heart couldn't help but ripple a few times, and she readily agreed.

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"This is the video of the rescue by the moat this morning; the director said it's very good, no editing needed, and it can be used in the documentary......."

"And the little incident at the school gate with the proctoring teacher is also quite interesting."

"We plan to track her exam scores and college application choices in real time until she's admitted, using the college entrance exam as a gimmick to attract young viewers......."

Li Yan pointed at the video, getting more and more excited as she spoke.

Guben's clear pupils flashed a glint of cold light, and he suddenly asked: "You didn't get her consent and used the video for the documentary without permission—does that count as infringement?"

Li Yan: "........"

How is it that suddenly the handsome guy's smile seems a bit scary?!

When Guben, by his own efforts, secured a ten-thousand-yuan reward for Lin Xiyu's heroic deed, something troublesome also happened within Donghua Street No. 9 Courtyard.

Lin Xiyu's maternal aunt and Zhang Dafen from next door got into a fight.