Li Ye naturally had no intention of writing any kind of explanatory report. He had left early that day precisely because he had already handed the whole stage over to Ji Zhongzhi.
I already gave you the opportunity. You could say whatever you wanted, yet you still managed to make such a mess of it—and now you expect me to give you another helping hand?
So Li Ye simply ignored Zhao Chu's suggestion to promote Ji Zhongzhi, that bit player, into one of the two male leads.
Zhao Chu brought it up with Li Ye twice in a row, only to run into a soft rebuff each time.
He was not an idiot. How could he fail to sense Li Ye's irritation?
Yet two days later, when everyone was eating together in the cafeteria, Zhao Chu sat down beside Li Ye again.
He chatted with Li Ye for a few sentences first, then casually asked, "Li Ye, how did you notice that thief that day? I heard Accountant Wang's bag was even slashed open."
Li Ye continued eating on his own and answered casually, "I didn't notice him. Ji Zhongzhi saw him."
Zhao Chu's eyes flickered as he continued asking, "Oh? Then what did you do? Did you go right up and subdue them?"
Li Ye looked up at Zhao Chu, then said blandly, "No. There were too many people on the bus, and they had restricted knives. If we'd fought them there and accidentally injured other passengers, that would've been truly fucking stupid."
Zhao Chu nearly choked on his food.
What Ji Zhongzhi had told him was that if Ji Zhongzhi had not insisted at the time, Li Ye would never have meddled in the matter. He would have let the pickpockets steal and merely looked on