The two accounts weren’t friends with each other, so for this “non-friend” status, Long Qi couldn’t see the comments, but she could see the view count. From the moment she received it, this status’s view count was soaring at a rate of dozens of numbers per second.

Jin Yiken was using a roundabout method to expose her.

However, before Long Qi had fully savored these four words, the screen was occupied by an incoming call from Long Xinyi. She gasped and swiped to answer the phone.

Long Xinyi’s first sentence was, “Holy shit! I knew you had something going on with Jin Yiken! You actually got him! Awesome!”

Long Xinyi’s second sentence was, “By the way, are you living alone now or living with him?”

“Pay back the money.”

Long Xinyi acted as if he hadn’t heard, and started running his mouth again. Long Qi pressed her forehead listening, her head hurting more and more. Just as she was about to hang up, he noticed and shouted through the phone, “Don’t hang up! I need a favor from you!”

Long Xinyi’s matters were definitely never good matters. And he deliberately chose to call at this peak moment when Jin Yiken had exposed her. It might very well be an indirect way of asking Jin Yiken to help him with something. Long Qi said directly, “No way.”

“It’s extremely urgent, really, it’s quite urgent. It’s like this, that girl I met last time…”

“I said no way.”

“That girl I met last time, the one we ate steak with, remember? It’s about her,” Long Xinyi completely ignored her answer, dumping the whole story on her. “She recently had a falling out with her family. She’s run away from home and now has nowhere to stay. Don’t you rent an apartment? Just do me a favor and temporarily take her in for a while, okay? What do you think about this?”

“Long Xinyi, I’ve also had a falling out with you. How do you still have the nerve to come ask me for favors?”

“What falling out? Our relationship is great. I also helped you collect your red envelope yesterday. I’ll have that girl bring it to you later.”

“No way. My rent just expired.”

“Don’t you have Jin Yiken? Even just one piece of his clothing would be enough for you to rent for another month, right? Just hint at it a bit. For him to throw money at you is a matter of minutes. I also checked the specs of that computer he gave me last time. Holy crap, it’s worth tens of thousands.”

“Long Xinyi,” she picked up a piece of the fried egg Jin Yiken made with her chopsticks, telling him clearly and plainly, “I have blood ties with you. Auntie raised me, provided me food and shelter, so I can forgive all those broken matters of yours that can be forgiven. You can treat me like a fool, that’s fine. But don’t treat Jin Yiken like a fool, and don’t use me as a front to ask him for money. He’s sharp. If you want to treat him as a money bag, he can turn around and toy you to death. Understand?”

Long Xinyi didn’t make a sound for half a beat. After a long while, he said in a feigned weak manner, “I didn’t mean that. You misunderstood. I’m just asking you to take in that girl for a bit. That’s all.”

“Not taking her in. I don’t like that girl. Having her in my place makes me unhappy.”

“Her personality and temper are both very good, really, super quiet!”

Long Qi was silent for a moment, frowning, “Long Xinyi, don’t tell me you did something to her?”

“No!” He understood instantly and shouted out loud, “Really not! She had a conflict with her family! Really just had a conflict!”

Long Xinyi was particularly clingy. Before she agreed, he refused to hang up no matter what. Before long, there was the sound of the door opening at the entrance. The nearest pharmacy to here was outside the residential complex. Jin Yiken had spent less than ten minutes buying medicine and coming back. Long Qi heard the sound of him entering, heard the sound of him placing her house key next to the cabinet, and then saw him in person.

Seeing she was on the phone, he didn’t speak to her, carrying the medicine bag to the kitchen to pour water.

At this moment, Long Xinyi was still begging her.

Not long after, Jin Yiken came out of the kitchen, holding a glass of water and walking to her table, lowering his head to unpack the medicine box. On one side was Long Xinyi’s nagging voice, on the other side were his fingers’ unhurried movements. She bit into the fried egg bite by bite, absent-mindedly shifting her attention to his clothes.

If Long Xinyi hadn’t mentioned it, she would have almost forgotten about this matter. Jin Yiken belonged to that category of guys who really knew how to dress. Even if he didn’t have that face, just looking at his clothing, one would think he was a handsome guy. Now that Long Xinyi brought it up, she also thought of this aspect. Too lazy to continue listening to the noise on the phone, after hanging up she called him, “Jin Yiken.”

“Mm.”

“Let’s go out shopping. I want to pick out a few outfits for you. You pay.”

“Okay,” he was very straightforward in attitude, but his tone was leisurely as he responded, “You take the medicine first.”

Long Qi looked at him for a while, then said, “Wishing you a happy new year too.”

He said, “Okay.”

Long Qi’s reason for picking out clothes for Jin Yiken was quite calculating.

She wanted to incorporate her preferences into his style, but she disdained things like couple outfits, so she matched men’s styles according to the colors and styles of her own clothes. For example, she had a short maroon skirt, so she matched him with a sweater in the same color family. She had a pair of graffiti-style boots, so she got him a wallet with the same elements. Jin Yiken could continue being handsome, but from the style, it had to look like he was following her overtly and covertly. People should be able to tell at a glance that this man was managed by her.

This was one aspect of her desire for control over her “boyfriend.”

Bai Aiting must have done the same thing.

But Bai Aiting definitely didn’t do it as well as she did. Since Jin Yiken had now exposed her, there was no point in being reserved anymore. Whatever needed to happen would happen. When it was time to be ruthless, be ruthless. Cut off all threads with one stroke.

Jin Yiken seemed to know what she was scheming in her heart. He didn’t say anything else, just one requirement: the clothes had to be hung in her wardrobe.

“Why?” At that moment, Long Qi had just finished paying with his card and casually went along with this.

“Convenient,” he said.

“Oh, convenient for what?” Long Qi had her hands in her pockets, using her elbow to bump his elbow. “Jin Yiken, let me make it clear to you first. That matter before was depending on your mood. Now that matter depends on my mood. Whether you stay overnight or not isn’t for you to decide. Understand?”

He smiled.

This kind of smile had another meaning. With his hand in his pants pocket and the other hand carrying a shopping bag, he glanced at her while walking, as if looking through her present self to see her from last night. Long Qi extended her foot to kick sideways toward him but didn’t hit him. She pointed at him with her finger, using her eyes to signal him not to let his imagination run wild. The two didn’t say a word between them and never stopped walking, but he always had that cheap look. Long Qi always wanted to hit him.

During this time, Long Xinyi kept calling her phone. She didn’t answer.

After shopping ended, Jin Yiken took Long Qi to an old place, the lighthouse along the coast. That place seemed to hold special memories for him. From this aspect, Jin Yiken indeed had some more sentimental qualities than her. Long Qi scrolled through her phone when bored. He sat watching the sea. The two stayed there until evening, not talking much.

At that time, his homepage view count had already approached the total number of students in the entire school. Long Qi’s account had blocking functions set up. No one could leave comments on her homepage, but the visitor count surged. It was obvious everyone was waiting for her to update her status, but she deliberately didn’t update, suffocating those waiting to see the gossip to death.

She took a photo.

At that time, Jin Yiken faced the camera sideways. Long Qi propped her cheek with her hand. The sea breeze happened to blow. Her long hair covered half his face. After Long Qi took it, she suddenly felt this behavior was very similar to Bai Aiting. Just as she was about to delete the photo, Jin Yiken glanced at it and said, “Send it to me.”

As soon as the words fell, Long Xinyi’s call came again. The screen simultaneously lit up with a “low battery” warning. In other words, this bastard’s call frequency had literally drained her phone’s power. As the phone automatically shut down, Long Qi propped her cheek looking at Jin Yiken, saying softly, “Oops.”

He asked, “What does your brother want from you?”

“Broken matters.”

After Long Qi answered, his phone also happened to vibrate, the frequency about the same as Long Xinyi’s search for her. She said, “Later, just drop me off at the residential complex entrance and go back. After disappearing for a day and night following the reunion dinner, if the Bai Family doesn’t blow up, your family will probably blow up too.”

Jin Yiken didn’t respond to this sentence, only saying, “I’ll take you to your doorstep.”

Just as Long Qi didn’t answer Long Xinyi’s calls, he later also didn’t answer his calls.

When the two arrived at the residential complex entrance, it was already near midnight. Long Qi got out of the taxi. Jin Yiken slowly walked up carrying shopping bags. A cold wind whooshed past. He stood motionless looking at messages on his phone. Long Qi hunched her shoulders and walked to his side with her hands. At this time, a distant “Qi Qi!” came from the side. She initially thought she heard wrong, but then another “Hey! Qi Qi!” came. This time she heard it clearly and reflexively looked toward the sound source. Jin Yiken also heard it and looked up in the direction she was looking.

When the two looked over together, at the bus stop at the residential complex entrance, Long Xinyi was waving his arms in large movements toward this direction. Beside him followed a girl with a weak physique. A suitcase stood upright beside the girl’s feet. She peeked in this direction following Long Xinyi, carefully observing Long Qi at first, then moving her gaze to Jin Yiken’s body. Her round eyes blinked once.