"Let me tell you, you have no idea how ridiculous my day was!" Lu Xiaoxiao sighed and began pouring out her woes to Ji Yunhuai. "My lovesick eldest brother insists on marrying a woman with a pretty questionable character, supposedly because she suddenly got pregnant with his child. But the more I think about it, the fishier it seems."
"Oh? How so?"
"It's hard to explain, but I keep feeling that the baby might not be my brother's... It all started when I went to his company to drop off some documents once. I fell asleep in the lounge for a while and accidentally overheard his girlfriend on the phone with another man. She was obviously two-timing him. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to record it, so now I don't have any proof to call her out!"
The more Lu Xiaoxiao talked, the angrier she became. She even paused to drink some water and calm down before continuing:
"And the circumstances behind the pregnancy are weird, too. According to my brother, they only did... that once, and he was drunk at the time! But knowing my brother, he isn't the sort to lose all self-control just because he's drunk, is he? I even suspect someone slipped something into his drink that day..."
At that, Lu Xiaoxiao suddenly paused, realizing that her offhand guess wasn't actually all that far-fetched.
Exactly! Why hadn't I thought of that at dinner? Wasn't drugging people one of the most common tropes in these novel worlds?
Once that occurred to her, Lu Xiaoxiao urgently called out to 037 in her mind, asking whether she could redeem information about Chen Xiwan.
...But the answer she received was no.
"Host, you no longer have enough points."
"What? Don't you mess with me!" Lu Xiaoxiao was outraged. "I've barely spent