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This might have been a room booked by the Maple Leaf Brothers, or maybe not. Qi Chao's thoughts drifted far away. If the brothers really had fallen for a honey trap, they would probably feel utterly humiliated, right?

Still, his suspicions were pretty baseless.

Logically speaking, those two brothers were rich and handsome. Any normal girl would like them, so how could she bear to set them up with a honey trap?

Yet reality was just that unexpected.

Qi Chao had barely yawned when a group of uniformed officers with Vice Squad armbands rushed out of the elevator. Their target was Room 306 beside him. After breaking down the door, two familiar voices came from inside.

Ah, this.

Qi Chao froze.

At that moment, Qi Feng and Qi Ye inside the room were the ones truly on the verge of collapse.

It was the first day their restrictions had been lifted. Finally able to get some fresh air, the brothers were like huskies that had been locked up by their owner for days—once released, they bolted outside. They had originally planned to go singing with their girlfriend, but she had suggested that the three of them spend the night at a hotel.

Qi Feng and Qi Ye had not wanted to agree. They had been cooped up at home for days and had no interest in that kind of empty nonsense for the time being, but they still could not resist their adorable girlfriend's pleading. In the end, the brothers agreed.

To avoid being caught by their father, the Maple Leaf Brothers had booked a hotel in the neighboring district at their girlfriend's suggestion. Who would have thought that shortly after they entered, while the brothers were showering, nude photos of them would be taken?

Then two unfamiliar men came in, demanding money with every other word. Their girlfriend's expression changed as well, threatening that if they did not pay, she would send those nude shower photos to everyone they knew.

Qi Feng and Qi Ye were both dumbfounded. Where was their gentle, refined girlfriend? The brothers had little experience in the world. Though they looked like a pair of delinquents, they were really just two naive sweethearts. It was their first time encountering something like this, and they sat on the bed bare-chested and dazed for a long while, unable to recover.

Then the Vice Squad broke through the door.

Having been taken away for the second time, the Maple Leaf Brothers did not know whether they should feel fortunate or miserable.

After finishing the statements, the officers understood that the two minors had fallen victim to a honey trap. With sympathetic expressions, they told them to notify their family to come pick them up.

Qi Feng and Qi Ye sat in the interview room without saying a word. It was too embarrassing. How could it be this embarrassing?

The Vice Squad had caught them twice in total. It turned out their girlfriend had wanted to set them up the first time too, but the Vice Squad officers had ruined her plan. This time, she had used the same trick, and the Vice Squad had ruined it again.

Although they had not suffered any actual losses, the two youths' proud self-esteem and their face, more precious than life itself, had been smashed to pieces on the ground.

"Who's coming to pick you up?" the officer handling their statements asked. Technically, the case did not involve any sexual transaction, and as innocent victims, they could have left directly. But the two boys were minors, so a family member had to come forward before they could leave the station.

Qi Feng and Qi Ye said nothing. Their mother had traded them for money in pursuit of wealth and left. Their father was a workaholic. The last time they had gone to the station, it had been the butler who picked them up, but the butler had always looked down on them, and they did not want him to look down on them again.

On the surface, the brothers were arrogant and unruly, but in truth, they were extremely cautious. The most outrageous thing they had ever done was date the same girlfriend, and it had ended like this.

"Have you notified your family to come pick you up?" the officer asked again.

Red-haired Qi Feng pursed his lips and remained silent. Qi Ye, who had always been sparing with words, nodded and prepared to contact the butler.

Just then, someone knocked on the interview room door. A young officer greeted them, "All done? The guardian of these two kids has come to pick them up."

Qi Feng and Qi Ye exchanged a glance, both confused. They followed the young officer out and, to their surprise, saw their elder brother, who was a hundred times more outstanding than them, in the lounge.

The man lounged on the sofa and greeted them. A lazy smile lingered in his dark brown eyes. When he saw the two of them come out, he showed no particular reaction, as though his younger brothers had not been hauled into a police station but had merely gone to the supermarket. He stood and smiled. "Let's go."

Qi Feng and Qi Ye did not know what to say, so they silently followed him out.

They were dying of curiosity. Why did their elder brother know about this? Why had he come here? Would he look down on them? Questions swirled through their minds, but neither of them could bring themselves to say or ask anything. They simply followed behind Qi Chao in silence.

By the time they came back to their senses, Qi Feng and Qi Ye realized they had followed their elder brother onto an unfamiliar street.

They watched their elder brother enter a shop that sold who-knew-what, say a string of incomprehensible things to the owner, and buy several items before entering another shop and repeating the same steps.

Before long, the two bargain-bin younger brothers were loaded down with bags, trailing tiredly and painfully behind the energetic Qi Chao.

"Big Brother, what exactly are you buying?" Qi Feng hurriedly asked when he found an opening.

Qi Chao was picking out soothing fluid. Without even lifting his head, he said, "Your future nephews."

Qi Feng/Qi Ye: ...??

With that inexplicable answer, the brothers were forced to accompany Qi Chao shopping for an entire afternoon. By the time they got onto the aircraft, they were so moved they nearly cried.

Qi Chao looked at their expressions and did not know whether to laugh or cry. He handed each of them a lollipop.

He had bought them after the brothers were taken away, originally intending to comfort them over being caught in a honey trap. Later, he had forgotten. It should not be too late to give them now, right?

The brothers had not expected their elder brother to give them candy. They accepted it with strange expressions. They had not intended to eat it, but when they saw Qi Chao unwrap a lollipop himself, they exchanged a look and tore open their wrappers as well.

Inside the aircraft, the three men sat together with lollipops in their mouths. It was quite an amusing sight.

"Big Brother, how did you know we got taken to the station?" Qi Feng asked around his candy. The matter was too embarrassing, and his neck had turned red by the time he asked.