Yan Ming stared wide-eyed, looking back and forth several times before confirming that there was only this one line on the entire paper.

So?

This was Yu Tian’s love letter?

Even after sitting back down at the dining table, Yan Ming still couldn’t believe it.

At first he thought Yu Tian was reckless, but now thinking it over carefully, he felt she was quite cunning.

She had boldly expressed her liking, but hadn’t clarified what kind of liking it was, hadn’t even shown clear intentions, much less made a big show of demanding to date Yan Ming. So even though Yan Ming knew exactly what she wanted to do, actively rejecting her would make him appear not only ungentlemanly but also guilty of wishful thinking.

The entire love letter was just these three sentences, seeming like a confession yet also like a joking tone.

Simply too perfectly calculated.

Although Yu Tian often showed innocent expressions, she indeed wasn’t as simple as she appeared.

Yan Ming felt he had encountered a master.

Yu Tian was very satisfied with tonight’s dinner. The internet-famous restaurant lived up to its reputation—the long-awaited food was very delicious, and she had also taken advantage of the waiting time to discuss a third of the questions in her notebook with Yan Ming.

Because she was in a good mood, even when she received a call from Qi Sihao saying he had to work the night shift tomorrow, was busy with other things now, couldn’t go home tonight, and asked Yu Tian to help buy a set of pajamas to keep in the hospital duty room as backup, Yu Tian agreed.

However, her originally pleasant mood was interrupted when Yu Tian walked out of the restaurant’s small clearing and was about to head to her table.

At the corner, she ran into Zheng Tingfu.

His face looked awful, and he was tugging at something with his domineering girlfriend, Zhao Xinxin. Neither of them was watching where they were going, and when turning the corner, they nearly bumped into Yu Tian.

Zheng Tingfu looked up, and seeing Yu Tian, was stunned. “Xiao Yu…”

Yu Tian didn’t even greet him, only said coldly with a stern face, “Excuse me.”

She took advantage of Zheng Tingfu instinctively stepping aside to quickly pass through the corner, and she hadn’t even gone far when the arguing voices of Zheng Tingfu and his girlfriend reached her.

“Do you still have lingering feelings for her? Recently, you won’t meet with me every day, always making excuses about being busy with work. What do you mean?”

“That’s not true. I had no idea she’d be here. Coming to this restaurant was your idea…”

Yu Tian quickened her pace, not wanting to hear any more of this chaos.

She returned to her seat, wanting to continue striking while the iron was hot and chat with Yan Ming about her plan to do ophthalmology-themed content for her social media account.

But unexpectedly, in the short time she was away, Yan Ming had already paid the bill first.

The atmosphere also suddenly became somewhat strange.

Although Yan Ming’s attitude remained polite, Yu Tian felt his emotions had become somewhat tense, as if he was bracing for something.

Yu Tian asked a few more questions, but Yan Ming’s state didn’t seem as relaxed as before.

Perhaps something was wrong?

She had dragged him into asking enough questions tonight.

After working all day, having to answer professional questions even during dinner—putting herself in his shoes, Yu Tian felt it was indeed enough.

“Big Brother Yan Ming, thank you for today! I feel tonight was very meaningful!”

Yu Tian looked at Yan Ming with little stars seeming to shine in her eyes. She was genuinely grateful.

Yan Ming was like a god-like existence—there seemed to be no professional problem that could stump him.

Yan Ming had driven here while Yu Tian hadn’t. As a courtesy, Yan Ming offered to drive Yu Tian home, so the two walked to the parking lot together.

Along the way, Yu Tian didn’t idle either. While frantically flattering Yan Ming, she looked for opportunities to bring up her social media ophthalmology special topic.

“Big Brother Yan Ming, if you’re willing, you could follow me. My account is ‘Xiao Yu Loves Candy.’ It’s not some messy profit-focused product promotion—I want to create educational content that helps patients and become a bridge promoting mutual understanding between doctors and patients…”

But Yan Ming was somewhat absent-minded.

Regarding Yu Tian’s invitation for him to follow her account, he answered quite distantly—

“I’m quite busy and probably don’t have much time to look at social media accounts.”

Yu Tian was a bit disappointed, but could understand. Not just doctors, but workers in other industries too—after getting off work, even if they had time to scroll on their phones and follow social media accounts, they wouldn’t want to see more content from their work field. After being immersed in it all day at work, they only wanted to scroll through happy, entertaining content during their free time.

This was originally a normal topic, but several times Yu Tian noticed Yan Ming’s gaze as if facing a great enemy.

But when she asked if something was wrong, Yan Ming flatly denied it.

However… for some reason, Yan Ming began talking about his mother.

“My mother is quite gentle, a very refined person. Her divorce from my father was only due to incompatible personalities.”

Yan Ming’s tone was very reserved. “The divorce separation was also very peaceful—there was no verbal or physical fighting. Even after breaking up, they’re still like family and friends.”

“I think this is a more mature way of handling things, because doing things should still be reasonable, including emotions. Many things should still be handled rationally, not unreasonably.”

He said restrainedly, “I think you understand what I mean by saying this?”

Although puzzling, Yu Tian quickly understood.

After all, she and Yan Ming might become family in the future, so he wanted to introduce his family situation and indicate that his mother wouldn’t interfere with or negatively impact his father’s remarriage after her divorce.

She nodded repeatedly, saying sincerely, “I understand, I understand.”

Hearing her response, Yan Ming seemed like an undercover agent who had finally managed to convey some information, looking as if he’d breathed a sigh of relief.

The two walked along the lively street at night. This road was one of Rong City’s most bustling commercial districts, with small shops on both sides. There were quite a few clothing stores, though not big brands, they had good materials and weren’t expensive.

As Yu Tian walked, her attention was caught by a crowded small shop on her right—

“Pajama clearance sale!”

The advertising slogan made Yu Tian’s eyes light up. She was just worrying about where to get pajamas for Qi Sihao, and here it was delivered to her door!

She looked at Yan Ming somewhat embarrassedly. “Big Brother Yan Ming, could you wait for me for a moment? I need to buy something.”

Yan Ming didn’t say much, only politely nodding.

The pajama clearance sale was a clearance sale.

Probably because of the good quality and low prices, the clearance area was packed with a bunch of aunties picking and choosing.

Yu Tian finally squeezed in and saw the tag—

One set for 100, two sets for 150.

The clearance pajamas were indeed good quality, pure cotton with comfortable fabric. The only problem was the monotonous colors and ugly designs. There were two styles divided by gender—men’s in blue, women’s in pink.

Yu Tian originally only planned to get one set for Qi Sihao, but seeing two sets for 150, she felt not buying two would be a loss.

She quickly grabbed two sets according to her and Qi Sihao’s sizes, then happily prepared to pay.

But just as Yu Tian squeezed out of the aunties’ encirclement, she somewhat regretted her actions.

Yan Ming was standing to the side, tall with long legs, but completely out of place with the surrounding bargain store atmosphere. He seemed like he wanted to find Yu Tian but couldn’t figure out how, barely maintaining a precious balance among the rushing aunties to avoid being bumped into by anyone.

Yu Tian suddenly felt a bit guilty.

Someone like Yan Ming always felt like he should live in the clouds—bringing him into a bargain store seemed like a sin.

Yu Tian felt somewhat embarrassed, stammering, “I’ll… I’ll pay real quick and we can leave…”

Yan Ming glanced at the pajamas in Yu Tian’s hands, his expression becoming somewhat strange.

“Did you buy these for yourself?”

Yu Tian nodded, looking at Yan Ming. “Yes, this pink set is mine.”

So this blue set…

Yan Ming looked at the couple’s pajamas in Yu Tian’s hands, feeling somewhat dizzy.

He found it somewhat incredible, but connecting it to Yu Tian’s non-mainstream confession note, he felt it wasn’t impossible.

Could this blue one be bought for him?

Yan Ming pressed his lips together, saying restrainedly, “I think this blue one doesn’t look very good. I don’t think you need to buy it.”

Yu Tian indeed showed surprise. “I think the blue is fine. When staying overnight at the hospital on duty, blue is quite suitable—it feels like it matches the hospital…”

Indeed.

It seemed it was bought for him.

Yan Ming felt his head getting dizzier.

This was the first time he’d encountered such a thing.

Yu Tian indeed didn’t play by conventional rules.

Not saying anything, just taking direct action.

Already buying a couple’s pajamas.

Yu Tian hadn’t expected that casually buying pajamas would generate so many complications.

Yan Ming somehow seemed to have strong objections to this set of men’s pajamas, very earnestly trying to prevent the purchase.

“I think the material is rather ordinary.”

“Although blue is quite suitable for hospitals, it’s too common and might be easily mixed up.”

“And the size is wrong—180 is too small, it needs to be at least 185.”

Finally, he even began taking direct action.

Yu Tian watched helplessly as Yan Ming took the men’s pajamas from her hands, then walked to the non-discounted area and picked up a set of 185 light gray men’s pajamas.

“Buy this one.”

“But the blue one and this pink one together get a discount…”

He glanced at Yu Tian. “Buy the gray one. I’ll pay.”

After Yan Ming finished speaking, he didn’t give Yu Tian a chance and directly went to pay for the gray pajamas.

The entire sequence was smooth and fluid, leaving Yu Tian both dumbfounded and puzzled.

“Do you know who I’m buying these pajamas for?” He just paid like that?

Facing Yu Tian’s question, Yan Ming only glanced at her coldly and said concisely in a very confident tone, “I know.”

His expression looked somewhat knowingly restrained. “You don’t need to say it out loud. I know who you’re buying them for.”

He knew they were for Qi Sihao and was still so eager to pay?

But Yu Tian quickly had an enlightening realization.

Someone as smart and emotionally intelligent as Yan Ming must have deduced that these pajamas were for Qi Sihao, and since Qi Sihao was rotating in ophthalmology, he was essentially a soldier under Yan Ming’s command. So Yan Ming, paying himself, was doing a favor for his subordinate!

How brilliant!

Truly worthy of Yan Ming! So good at uniting subordinates and caring for team members! Not only were his professional skills excellent, but his character was also top-notch. Even for junior doctors who had just rotated into his department, he could care for them so thoughtfully, even buying pajamas for them!

At this thought, Yu Tian couldn’t help but look at Yan Ming with worship again.

Her idol not only dominated everyone in studies and professional ability, but also had the best character. Even for junior doctors who had just rotated into his department, he could care for them so meticulously, even buying pajamas for them!

At this moment, Yu Tian’s previous doubts were completely swept away.

Not buying blue but gray must be because gray was more expensive with better material. Not buying size 180 but 185, must also be considering that pajamas are more comfortable when worn a size larger.

Since Yan Ming wanted to step up and buy something better for Qi Sihao, she should be sensible and go with the flow!

Yu Tian had perfectly completed the task of buying pajamas for Qi Sihao, so she said no more and followed Yan Ming to the parking lot.

Her home wasn’t far away. Before long, Yan Ming’s car had brought her to the outside of her residential complex.

“Big Brother Yan Ming, thank you for tonight, answering so many of my questions and even spending money. Let me treat you to dinner again in a few days!”

Yu Tian routinely expressed her thanks, then looked at Yan Ming.

In the night, Yan Ming’s profile was unrealistically white. The flowing, colorful lights of this street flashed across his cheeks, adding an ineffable mysteriousness.

Though his features were gentle, somehow when combined together, they became a heart-stopping visual assault, carrying a not-at-all-gentle lonely coldness.

Yan Ming’s response was as cold and isolated as his temperament.

He turned his head slightly, tersely uttering two words, “No need.”

Yu Tian stared at Yan Ming’s face, waiting for his next words.

Qi Sihao’s gray pajamas had been paid for by Yan Ming, and after payment, were separately packaged and placed by Yan Ming in the back seat.

Had he forgotten?

Yu Tian tactfully reminded, “Qi Sihao and I are neighbors—he lives right across from me.”

Yan Ming was stunned, somewhat puzzled, then said, “Oh.”

Yu Tian carefully said, “So I can take his pajamas directly to him.”

After Yu Tian finished speaking, she tentatively looked at Yan Ming. “Or do you want to give them to him personally?”

After all, the pajamas were paid for by Yan Ming—they represented his thoughtfulness toward Qi Sihao. Giving them to Qi Sihao personally would indeed make Qi Sihao more grateful and touched.

However…

“Qi Sihao is busy with something tonight and isn’t home. If you give him the pajamas tomorrow, he’d have to wash and dry them before wearing them, but he has night duty tomorrow. If you give them to him tomorrow, it’ll be too late to wash them. If you don’t mind, you could give them to me first. I’ll wash them tonight, and after they’re dry tomorrow, I’ll deliver them to the hospital.”

Yu Tian explained, “But I’ll tell Qi Sihao that you bought them for him.”

After speaking, afraid she might forget later and also to show her position to Yan Ming, Yu Tian immediately took out her phone and sent Qi Sihao a WeChat message.

[A Little Fish]: Qi Sihao, tonight’s pajamas were bought for you by Big Brother Yan Ming. Hope you’ll work hard for him like an ox and horse in his department in the future.

After sending, Yu Tian directly showed her phone screen to Yan Ming. “I sent it.”

Yan Ming’s expression seemed somewhat dazed as he stared at Yu Tian.

What was wrong now?

Did Yan Ming still want to personally wash the pajamas for Qi Sihao?

But Yan Ming’s focus didn’t seem to be on washing pajamas. He stared at Yu Tian, saying word by word, “The pajamas are for Qi Sihao?”

Otherwise?

Now it was Yu Tian’s turn to be somewhat stunned. “Didn’t you know from the beginning that these were bought for Qi Sihao?”

She was somewhat bewildered and was about to continue questioning when Yan Ming harshly interrupted her.

He looked somewhat pale, but his expression remained calm, though his tone carried some teeth-grinding. “Mm, I know, they’re bought for Qi Sihao.”

Yu Tian looked at Yan Ming expectantly. “So… do you want to personally wash the pajamas for him?”

“You wash them yourself.”

After Yan Ming finished speaking, he pulled out the pajamas from the back seat and threw them to Yu Tian.

Yu Tian had just gotten out of the car when she suddenly had this thing in her arms. Before she could react, Yan Ming’s car sped away before her eyes.

Wasn’t Yan Ming the one who was very eager to personally give them to Qi Sihao just now?

How did he suddenly seem angry?

Was it just because Qi Sihao wasn’t home, so he couldn’t give them personally?

But he knew Qi Sihao had night duty tomorrow…

Yu Tian helped Qi Sihao wash the pajamas, dried them, and the next day brought them along with the food container for Yan Ming to the First Affiliated Hospital.

Yan Ming was still seeing outpatients, but Qi Sihao quickly came to meet Yu Tian at the hospital entrance.

Yu Tian stuffed the pajamas to Qi Sihao. “Here are your pajamas. Although Yan Ming paid for them, don’t forget it was I who thought to buy them for you. You should properly repay me!”

But Qi Sihao’s face showed no gratitude at all. He stared at Yu Tian with a complex expression. “Yesterday, you asked me for photos, saying you wanted to show your friend and brag about how handsome I am. What did your friend say?”

Yu Tian casually brushed him off. “Said you’re very handsome! Thought you’re the type of guy who’s handsome at first sight—couldn’t move after seeing you once!”

But faced with such direct flattery, Qi Sihao sneered.

“Yu Tian, I know what you did.”

He said ominously, “You photoshopped my head, didn’t you?”

“…”

Yu Tian instinctively protested, “I didn’t! Qi Sihao, do you know what you’re saying? Your baseless suspicions have tainted our friendship!”

Qi Sihao said angrily, “Still talking about friendship? Go look at the school forum yourself—your PS photo has been discussed for dozens of pages!”

“…”

Yu Tian had an ominous premonition.

She opened the school forum and quickly saw a hot post floating on the homepage—”Exposing Medical University Campus Belle Yu Tian’s Embarrassing Pursuit Stories”

Yu Tian clicked into the post with a stiff face, and indeed saw the composite photo she’d hastily photoshopped last night with “Yan Ming.”

When she was photoshopping last night, it was just to make up numbers, and she hadn’t put much effort into it. But now this photo seemed to be boldly placed under a spotlight, with every detail suddenly scrutinized.

Yu Tian stared at this “couple photo,” only now beginning to feel her scalp tingle, followed by embarrassment and absurdity.

The photo’s Photoshop traces were too obvious. She hadn’t even carefully cut out Yan Ming’s head, just like pasting a sticker, moving his head onto Qi Sihao’s neck. And what was most fatal wasn’t even this.

What was most fatal was…

“Even if you were going to replace my head, couldn’t you have some after-sales service spirit! Look, I’m holding a frog in my hand! Why didn’t you photoshop that out!”

Qi Sihao was very angry. “Now the forum has dug out the original photo of this picture, and I’ve become famous too! But I never thought my fame wouldn’t be because of my handsome face, but because of the frog in my hand!”

In the photo, Qi Sihao had one hand on Yu Tian’s shoulder while his other hand was holding a frog.

Yu Tian had been rushing to create a “couple photo” last night. In the photo, Qi Sihao’s other hand was hanging at his side, so Yu Tian hadn’t noticed he was holding a frog in his other hand!

It was only at this moment that Yu Tian finally remembered when this photo was taken—

They were in anatomy class at the time, dissecting frog legs to separate the sciatic nerve and observe sciatic nerve reflexes.

To prevent some medical students from failing on their first dissection attempt, there was a tank of backup frogs at the back of the anatomy classroom. Qi Sihao had probably casually grabbed a good-looking frog as backup…

But this photo…

She had only provided it to the restaurant!

Yu Tian steadied herself and scrolled down through the post’s comments, finally discovering why this photo had been exposed.

It turned out that the restaurant’s couple’s set meal activity posted participating couples’ photos on the restaurant’s official website every session.

But dozens of couple photos were updated daily, each photo taking up little space. Somehow, Yu Tian and Yan Ming’s “couple photo” was dug up and precisely posted on Rong Medical University’s campus forum.

The poster who exposed Yu Tian knew her and was continuously steering the discussion in the post.

The person first revealed that the head-swapped person in Yu Tian’s “couple photo” was the legendary figure Yan Ming from the medical university, then posted an introduction to a publicly listed company, highlighting that the chairman’s surname was Yan. In the industrial and commercial information system, in this listed company’s shareholder information column, Yan Ming was prominently listed as a minor shareholder.

Probably afraid everyone’s associations weren’t sufficient, they thoughtfully marked the value of Yan Ming’s shares and kindly informed everyone that Yan Ming was the only son of this listed company’s chairman and controlling shareholder, even detailedly explaining how many downstream enterprises this listed company had invested in.

The downstream enterprises’ industry fields ranged from traditional heavy industry and modern service industry to emerging nanotechnology, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence. Even the currently popular esports game “Conquest Challenge” was controlled by Yan Ming’s family’s listed company. This game has even held esports livestream competitions this year, rapidly and vigorously capturing market share.

Yu Tian wasn’t interested in capital market layouts, and these gossips went in one ear and out the other, but staring at the string of numbers revealing Yan Ming’s net worth in the post, she was still somewhat dumbfounded.

The string of zeros after this number was far too vivid.

She had heard from her mother before that Yan Wenhua’s family circumstances should be decent, but this was extraordinarily decent…

So Yan Ming was this wealthy…

Perhaps because this “couple photo” was too crudely photoshopped and too bizarre, and Yu Tian, as someone who often appeared in hot posts due to street photography and chance encounters on the campus forum, had her popularity, plus the original photo with Qi Sihao was also dug up, combined with deliberate guidance, the post suddenly became a bloodbath.

“So you, this scheming woman, wanted to hook Yan Ming, and for Yan Ming’s sake, you didn’t hesitate to abandon your faithful boyfriend, even replacing my head with Yan Ming’s to fantasize about being with Yan Ming. You took the PS photo everywhere to show off, even put it online, which is how you got ‘exposed’…”

After Qi Sihao finished reading the post, he gave such a concise summary.

Yu Tian frowned, still finding the direction of the comments below the post incredible.

“Anonymous submission: I’m interning at the First Affiliated Hospital and indeed saw Yu Tian come looking for Dr. Yan several times, even bringing food. She was pursuing him, but Dr. Yan wasn’t very enthusiastic toward her—didn’t seem very interested.”

“I’m also at the First Affiliated Hospital. Qi Sihao is also rotating there. Yu Tian has brought food to Qi Sihao, too. Feels like Qi Sihao is her backup, just don’t know if Qi Sihao himself knows about this…”

“I confessed to Yu Tian when we were in school, and got rejected without even getting a reason. But now I’m relieved—it seems like though she’s pretty, she’s no different from other gold-diggers, planning to use her looks for a chance to marry into wealth.”

There were also some speaking up for Yu Tian—

“That’s not right. Yu Tian has always ranked first academically. I don’t think she could be that type of girl…”

But these were quickly drowned out by other comments steering the narrative—

“Come on, some women who want to marry into wealth also work on their credentials. Their resume and achievements are also bargaining chips. You think wealthy families are so easy to enter now? Rich people don’t want their descendants to have poor genes either. She is indeed good at studying, but since she’s so good at academics, why didn’t she continue advanced studies at medical school or go work at a hospital?”

“Right, I heard she’s not even practicing medicine, started some social media account, doing livestreams and such. Could she be trying to become an internet celebrity?”

“She did start doing social media, it seems like she even signed contracts. Probably planning to officially enter the internet celebrity world…”

Yu Tian hadn’t made a big announcement about her hand injury to gain sympathy, but she hadn’t expected that her forced decision to abandon her dreams and change careers would now become “evidence” for others’ verbal attacks, even having the non-existent hat of “signing contracts to enter the internet celebrity circle” pinned on her.

Throughout the entire post, whenever someone spoke up for her, they would quickly be berated by the anonymous poster who claimed they were Yu Tian’s alternate accounts, trying to whitewash her. In the end, no one dared say anything more to Yu Tian. After all, most fellow students didn’t know Yu Tian and didn’t need to get into trouble for such a stranger.

Yu Tian wasn’t stupid. She quickly understood this was deliberate manipulation to smear her, and knew the anonymous person was most likely Zheng Tingfu’s girlfriend, Zhao Xinxin.

Probably after the encounter at the restaurant, she had coincidentally seen Yu Tian’s carelessly made PS “couple photo” on the restaurant’s official website and decided to make a big deal out of it.

Qi Sihao had originally been joking, but as he scrolled down, his expression became increasingly serious.

“This is pure slander! Wait, I’ll go up there to clarify for you. What nonsense!”

Yu Tian was quite moved but also advised, “It’s fine, no need. I’ll call the restaurant later to have them delete that photo from their website.”

Yu Tian sighed, also quite puzzled. “They promised me the photo wouldn’t be used externally. Really.”

But Qi Sihao was displeased. “You might be fine, but I’m not! My reputation suddenly got ruined—I became your lapdog backup! How can I be happy about this? This is an insult to my judgment!”

“…”

Qi Sihao did indeed seriously clarify using his real name, but unfortunately, his clarification post was quickly buried under other manipulative comments.

After all, Yu Tian PS-ing a “couple photo” with Yan Ming was indeed true. Even without the situation of treating Qi Sihao as backup, just the PS photo alone was attacked and mocked as vanity and shamelessness.

Yu Tian could clarify that her relationship with Yan Ming simply stemmed from their parents’ blind date situation.

But this would overly expose her family’s privacy, and Zhao Xinxin had used internet trolls. Yu Tian didn’t want to drag her mother into this.

After thinking it over, she decided not to respond. After a few days of scolding, the heat would pass.

But Qi Sihao couldn’t swallow this humiliation. “If you don’t want to clarify these things, that’s fine. Why don’t you get Yan Ming to clarify for you? You don’t even need to involve parents—just say he knew about your PS, he allowed it, thought the PS ‘couple photo’ was quite fun, and that you’re just friends joking around. Wouldn’t that work? Then both Yan Ming and I, who got PS-ed, don’t mind—what are bystanders jumping around for!”

That made sense, but…

Yu Tian was somewhat resistant. “Let’s not let him know…” She said awkwardly, “I’m not close enough with him for him to be willing to help me dispel rumors, and my PS was too cringeworthy. I privately don’t want him to know…”

After all, Yan Ming didn’t know about her PS-ing…

Because she felt guilty, Yu Tian didn’t wait for Yan Ming today but gave the food container to Qi Sihao to deliver to Yan Ming.

But Yu Tian didn’t know that, although she didn’t want Yan Ming to know, he was forced to find out anyway.

At noon, Qi Sihao brought Yu Tian’s food container and enthusiastically grabbed his hand. “Senior Yan Ming, thank you so much for the pajamas! I heard you picked them for me! Thank you so much!”

Yan Ming kept a straight face and calmly accepted Qi Sihao’s thanks under Jiang Yuming’s searchlight-like gaze, taking the food container from his hands.

Sure enough, as soon as Qi Sihao left, Jiang Yuming came over. “Why are you even buying people pajamas?”

Yan Ming ignored him. Jiang Yuming didn’t persist but looked enviously at Yan Ming’s food container. “Sigh, when will I have a junior willing to cook for me?”

Jiang Yuming was a man of action. While speaking, he opened his phone. “Let me check the campus forum’s social board to see if there are any juniors I can get to know…”

But before Yan Ming could open Yu Tian’s food container, he heard Jiang Yuming’s slightly surprised voice. “Hey! Yan Ming! You and Yu Tian seem to be on a hot post on the campus forum!”

After speaking, he began reading through the post, but as he read down, he couldn’t help making increasingly loud exclamations.

Yan Ming was annoyed by the noise and couldn’t eat properly, so he had to grab his phone. “What random stuff are you looking at?”

Whether during school or after graduation, Yan Ming had never been interested in the campus forum full of gossip and idle chatter. Even for posts related to him, he originally had no intention of looking.

But Jiang Yuming’s phone screen was displaying a visually shocking “couple photo.” Even Yan Ming, just glancing at it, was somewhat stunned.

It was a bizarre “couple photo,” obviously composite, because the PS technique was so poor with very obvious traces. Yan Ming’s head had been crudely transplanted onto someone else’s body, and the original photo’s body owner had one hand intimately on Yu Tian’s shoulder and another hand hanging at his side, holding…

Holding a frog.

Yan Ming expressionlessly scrolled down through the post.

Finally knowing whose body he’d been given.

He stared at this photo. Though his face remained calm, his heart wasn’t so peaceful.

Was Yu Tian this extreme?

Had her liking for him reached this level?

Because there was no couple photo, she’d rather vainly PS one?

After PS-ing the couple photo, did she indulge in self-intoxication, thinking they could become a couple in the future?

She even showed off everywhere, posting it on the restaurant’s website, and finally it ended up on the campus forum…

Yan Ming couldn’t describe his shock internally. For a moment, he even forgot to be angry, just finding Yu Tian truly incomprehensible.

He should be very angry, but Yan Ming found he didn’t seem to have such strong feelings of rage.

After all, liking someone was uncontrollable. Blaming Yu Tian for this seemed useless.

During school, the campus forum never lacked posts confessing to him or discussing him, and some even developed into messy rumors, but Yan Ming had never intervened.

He originally thought he would treat this the same way.

But even though he wasn’t very angry, after holding it in for half a day, Yan Ming found he still couldn’t get over it.

When Yu Tian received Yan Ming’s call, she was editing material for her social media account’s educational content.

Unlike Qi Sihao, Yan Ming didn’t beat around the bush. His accusation was direct—

“Yu Tian, what’s with the photo on the forum?”

“…”

Yu Tian didn’t know what was wrong. Facing Qi Sihao, who was also involved, she had been eloquent and argued logically, but facing Yan Ming, she felt all her words seemed to fail, and her speech became stammering, like an elementary student caught daydreaming by the homeroom teacher.

“It was that restaurant that time…”

Yu Tian wanted to explain the reason for unilaterally PS-ing the couple photo for the discount couple’s meal, but Yan Ming directly interrupted her with a knowing but rather stiff tone. “You don’t need to explain these things. I know the reason.”

So Yan Ming knew about her PS-ing for the discount…

Embarrassing.

Humiliating.

Yan Ming’s tone was cold. “Let’s not talk about reasons now—no point. I’m just asking what you plan to do to resolve this?”

Yu Tian could only bite the bullet and explain. “I only showed that ‘couple photo’ to the restaurant staff, and she promised me it wouldn’t be used externally. I just called to discuss it and learned that the server who promised me suddenly fainted from low blood sugar and was sent to the hospital, so her work wasn’t properly handed over. The new colleague taking over her work didn’t know that my photo wasn’t authorized for their promotional use. They thought our image in the photo was quite good, so they used it when promoting on the restaurant’s website…”

Yan Ming felt this would give him a headache.

Sure enough, she had PS-ed the photo and still showed it off to the restaurant server, actually sending the fake couple photo to the server! That’s why they got the idea to put it on the restaurant website for promotion!

Yan Ming almost laughed from anger. “You could have just shown them, why did you send it?”

Sending it and then telling them not to use it externally—what was the point?! It was like “I’m telling you a secret, you absolutely must not tell anyone else”—of course, they’d get the whole world to help keep the secret.

Facing Yan Ming’s questioning, Yu Tian was speechless.

Right or wrong, it was her fault for PS-ing the photo.

She had indeed contacted the restaurant immediately. After the staff apologized, they quickly removed the photo from their website, but…

“I also reported the post on the campus forum, but the processing might not be so quick…”

Yu Tian’s face was red and her scalp tingling, feeling that her money-obsessed self who had PS-ed for wool-pulling was very shameful.

Yan Ming, on the other end indeed fell silent. After a moment, Yu Tian heard his voice again.

“Why didn’t you PS away the frog in the hand?”

Yan Ming calmly and rationally stated his dissatisfaction. “Setting aside the head-swapping, why didn’t you PS away something so obvious in the hand? Normal people absolutely wouldn’t grab a frog with one hand while hugging someone with the other. This feels very unsanitary and, as doctors or medical students, isn’t very professional or rigorous.”

That was true, but when dissecting frogs, wearing gloves would make them too slippery to hold, and during anatomy class, everyone was busy and flustered—who cared about hygiene?

Yu Tian felt very wronged. She didn’t know why Qi Sihao would be holding a big frog in one hand while putting his other arm around her shoulder and still smiling so happily.

Yan Ming’s voice paused. “I was also there at the time. If you wanted it so much, wanted to treasure it so much, why couldn’t you just ask me directly for a photo? If you wanted a couple photo that badly, I wouldn’t have refused.”

Treasure?

Yu Tian was stunned, somewhat confused, but still didn’t dare say much.

Her voice was muffled as she explained, “I was just worried that making such an unreasonable request would get me rejected.” She said carefully, “So if I had asked like that, would you have agreed?”

Yan Ming’s answer was concise. “Yes.”

After speaking, he cleared his throat and added, “Just a photo, doesn’t represent anything else. Although I know you wanted such a photo with other intentions, I’m not so petty. As for what you do with the photo, as long as it doesn’t affect the outside world and others, I can’t control you.”

Her intention for wanting the couple photo was indeed just for the discount…

Although saying it out loud would make the act of wanting a photo seem tainted with commercialism and lack sincerity, she hadn’t expected Yan Ming to be so considerate and understanding.

Yu Tian had originally felt very embarrassed. She had too much psychological burden back then. She should have been honest with Yan Ming from the start and taken a real photo together. That would have avoided the current mess of being mocked on the campus forum.

Yan Ming’s voice remained cold. “You need to take responsibility for resolving this matter.”

That was natural.

Yu Tian had originally completely not wanted Yan Ming to know about the campus forum post, but since he now knew, then perhaps…

“Since that’s the case, how about when you get off work, I come to the hospital to find you, and we take a real couple photo? This way, when the photo is posted, it’ll prove we’re quite familiar, and the rumors will collapse on their own.”

Yu Tian thought Yan Ming had called her not only to demand an explanation but also to discuss how to handle it with her.

She fully expected to get Yan Ming’s approval, but only heard his concise answer.

“Photos were fine before, but now, photos after problems arose to help you clean up the mess are not acceptable.”

“…”

Yu Tian was somewhat stunned and tentatively asked, “So are you planning to personally go on the forum to help me clarify?”

“Not planning to. I have no obligation to clarify to the public. People can say what they want.”

“But didn’t you tell me to take responsibility for resolving this?”

Yu Tian was somewhat confused. Without real photos and no plans to personally clarify, how could she resolve the rumors?

This time Yan Ming didn’t answer directly. “Think for yourself. You’re responsible for your own actions. I have other things to do. Hanging up now.”

Yu Tian stared blankly at the already disconnected phone, unable to figure out Yan Ming’s meaning.

Her expression couldn’t help but droop.

Although Yan Ming hadn’t scolded her, but…

She’d rather he scolded her and then agreed to take a photo together.

Now, besides personally going on the campus forum to explain the whole story and then apologize, there seemed to be no other solution.

Just thinking about appearing on the campus forum in person made Yu Tian feel panicked and afraid.

But…

She was indeed in the wrong.

What needed to be faced had to be faced.

But the instigator behind the post was probably about to die of happiness.

Yu Tian gritted her teeth. Thinking of how Zhao Xinxin knew how her hand was injured, knew she was forced to change careers because of her hand, yet still hid behind an anonymous account and, relying on no one knowing her real identity online, used the career change to maliciously attack her, Yu Tian couldn’t help feeling angry despite trying to stay rational.

But dwelling on it now was useless. In the end, Yu Tian obediently listened to Yan Ming and began drafting an apology statement.

But after opening a document and struggling with two sentences, she suddenly received a WeChat from Qi Sihao.

[Qi Sihao Is Nice]: I don’t understand. I’m the owner of that body, so why in this three-person movie, after all the fuss, am I the only one without a name?

After sending this, he added a pitiful emoji.

Yu Tian didn’t understand what he was talking about, but couldn’t help telling Qi Sihao somewhat miserably that she was about to go confess her crimes in the post.

[A Little Fish]: I’m worried about being scolded to death.

[Qi Sihao Is Nice]:? Why would you be scolded? Didn’t your Big Brother Yan Ming already turn the tide in the post?

Yan Ming?

Yan Ming posted in the thread?

Yu Tian was stunned.

The moment Yan Ming called, although anxious and nervous, Yu Tian had also had expectations—hoping Yan Ming could really treat her like a sister, tolerating her foolish mistakes, and though angry, reluctantly helping her find solutions.

Yu Tian knew this thinking was very dangerous and irresponsible, because Yan Ming wasn’t even anyone to her.

Even if her mother and his father got together in the future, Yan Ming would just be her legal stepbrother, without the intimate bond of growing up together.

So when Yan Ming refused, besides slight disappointment, Yu Tian also felt it was natural.

But…

With very indescribable emotions, she opened the campus forum post. In a short time, the post’s popularity had increased again, and she couldn’t scroll to the end.

Yu Tian’s fingers began trembling slightly. Her heart harbored tiny fears, making her want to dodge and escape, but she was also mysteriously pushed by some force, carrying heart-pounding expectations.

Every second became very slow.

In what was a very short but felt very long minute, she finally found Yan Ming’s comment in the post.

[Yan Ming V]: Person has been educated, PS crash course has also been enrolled in.

The campus forum didn’t require real-name verification—anonymous posting was allowed—but verified users had their real names as IDs, followed by a V.

Yu Tian looked at the V after Yan Ming’s name and instinctively bit her lip.

Her heartbeat suddenly became very fast, and her face became very hot.