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The moment Qin Baobao saw the photos, her heart stopped beating. Gossip news had often run "exposés" before, with editors insisting that so-and-so was Qin Ze's girlfriend, or that so-and-so was Qin Baobao's boyfriend. They made it sound convincing and well-supported, to the point that Qin Baobao herself wondered whether she had somehow dated countless boyfriends without realizing it.

Sometimes Su Yu and Wang Zijing accidentally appeared in the shots. Since they were with Qin Ze, people suspected they were his girlfriends. Qin Baobao never cared, because those long-distance candid photos had no credibility whatsoever. They had not even held hands—how could the editor have the nerve to claim they were dating?

Sometimes, she would go along with the crowd and curse: "Editor, your mom blew up."

This time, they had not held hands either. They had kissed directly, and there were even pictures of them entering a hotel hand in hand. This was irrefutable evidence, a bloody fact.

Qin Baobao had imagined countless times that her little brother might get lonely and go find himself a girlfriend. While guarding against Qin Ze taking in a god-daughter, she also refused to let him date anyone. Deep down, though, she had a bottom line: if he really wanted to have some fun with Da Bao Jian, as long as she did not find out, she could at most turn a blind eye.

But getting a girlfriend was absolutely out of the question.

Yet she knew this could not go on forever. People had to grow up eventually; they could not escape the fate of marriage and children. If things remained deadlocked like this, how long could it last?

Before returning from America, Qin Baobao had refused to plan for the future because, in her eyes, the future was shrouded in mist