Aren't we a law-based society?

After leaving Gu Sipei's lounge, Lu Jiaoyue wore a very grave expression.

She felt that this attempt to get to know him had been a complete failure, falling far short of her expectations.

According to Lu Jiaoyue's original plan, she should at least have learned Gu Sipei's favorite color, favorite foods, and a few of his hobbies today.

Unfortunately, she had barely gotten started-no... she hadn't even finished getting started before he showed her out. What a total failure!

Lu Jiaoyue grew dejected, feeling that she really was too stupid.

Her sister had worked so hard to create an opportunity for her. How could she let her down like this?

But there would be more opportunities! Now that she was sure Gu Sipei was the person her sister wanted her to get to know, she would have to make a real effort to interact with him!

Luckily, they had already added each other on WeChat, so getting in touch wouldn't be a problem.

Lu Jiaoyue decided to chat with Gu Sipei often and fish for information, until one day she could even find out what color his underwear was!

Special Agent Lu Jiaoyue rekindled her fighting spirit just like that. She took out her phone, ready to start studying Gu Sipei's WeChat Moments and gathering intelligence on the enemy.

But the moment she lit up her screen, she saw more than a dozen missed calls, all from Lu Yubai.

Lu Jiaoyue's phone had been on silent earlier, so she hadn't heard it ring at all. Now that she saw the calls, she hurried to call him back.

Barely a second after she dialed, the call was answered.

Lu Jiaoyue asked, "Yubai? Did something happen?"

"Sis! You finally answered! Where on earth did you go? I looked all over and couldn't find you anywhere. You scared me half to death!"

On the other end, Lu Yubai had been beside himself with worry. Only when he heard Lu Jiaoyue's normal voice over the phone did he breathe a sigh of relief.

If his father found out that he had taken Lu Jiaoyue out and then lost her, he would definitely skin him alive.

Seeing how nervous Lu Yubai was, Lu Jiaoyue quickly reassured him. "I'm fine, Yubai. I just wasn't feeling well earlier, so I went to a lounge on the sixth floor to lie down for a bit."

"As long as you're okay, as long as you're okay. Wait there, Sis. I'll come find you right away!"

With that, Lu Yubai hung up. Less than two minutes later, Lu Jiaoyue saw the elevator doors open and a young man rush out in a frenzy.

Lu Yubai dashed up to Lu Jiaoyue, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and asked breathlessly, "Sis, what's wrong? Why didn't you tell me sooner?"

"I was just a little dizzy. I'm fine now."

"All right, then. Things are almost wrapped up downstairs. Once the guests leave, help me open my presents, Sis!"

Lu Yubai took Lu Jiaoyue's hand, ready to leave, but out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly noticed that the lounge behind her was numbered 8. A shudder of alarm ran through him.

"Wait! Sis... did you come out of this lounge?"

Lu Jiaoyue looked back at the number, then at Lu Yubai, and nodded. "Yes."

"Then... did you run into anyone else inside?"

"Yes, someone called Gu Sipei."

Lu Yubai's expression changed instantly. He circled Lu Jiaoyue twice, sounding even more nervous than before. "Sis, you... you're really okay, right? He didn't hurt you, did he? You look all right... surely you don't have internal injuries?"

Seeing Lu Yubai look as though disaster were upon them, Lu Jiaoyue was puzzled. "I'm really fine. Yubai, what's gotten into you?"

Lu Yubai pulled her farther away and lowered his voice to explain. "Gu Sipei is really scary. Dad warned me ages ago to steer clear of him whenever I see him. I heard some of his business rivals disappeared without a trace before. They were probably..."

He suddenly fell silent and drew a finger across his throat, his eyes growing even warier.

Lu Jiaoyue blinked and questioned him. "Isn't that a bit exaggerated? Aren't we a law-based society?"

In Lu Jiaoyue's impression, Gu Sipei was a fairly reasonable person, and he seemed emotionally stable. Although he was a little cold, he didn't seem that terrifying.

"Uh... that's just what I heard." Lu Yubai scratched his head. "Anyway... anyway, he's not someone you want to mess with. Sis, make sure you don't get too close to him in the future."

That's impossible, Lu Jiaoyue thought. But she knew Lu Yubai was concerned about her, so she agreed aloud anyway.

Lu Yubai's attention had always shifted quickly, and as they walked back, they moved on to other topics.

"Sis, listen. I just saw that someone gave me a stack of Scratch-Off Tickets as a present. Talk about low effort! Who would do something so lame..."

"And the weird thing is, all the other presents have names on them, but these Scratch-Off Tickets don't. I don't even know who gave them to me. Could someone be playing a prank on me?"

When Lu Yubai said the Scratch-Off Tickets had no name attached, Lu Jiaoyue immediately thought of Lu Xiaoxiao.

Hmm... my sister didn't come in under her real identity. If she gave them to him, it makes perfect sense that she wouldn't put her name on them.

Having guessed who the gift-giver was, Lu Jiaoyue instinctively began speaking up for her. "I wouldn't go that far. I think it's pretty fun. Why don't you scratch them and see if you've won anything?"

"I remember you just had half your allowance docked. If you win, won't that make up for the loss?"

Lu Yubai took a couple of seconds to process that, then his eyes lit up. "You're right! Sis, you're a genius!"

He immediately rushed over, dug the stack of Scratch-Off Tickets out of the pile of presents, and started scratching them right there.

A little while later, he jumped for joy and cheered, "Sis! I actually won! This one's a winner! Fifty thousand yuan!"

That amount wasn't much to the Lu Family, but to Lu Yubai, whose spending had long been tightly controlled, it still counted as an unexpected windfall.

Although he didn't know who had given them to him, Lu Yubai already felt much more warmly toward the gift-giver.

Wasn't this basically handing him money? How could he not love that?

It had to be someone he knew anyway, so he would find out sooner or later. He could thank them properly once he did.

Lu Yubai was so immersed in his joy that he no longer had any interest in opening the rest of his presents.

At the same time, Lu Xiaoxiao, who had already returned to the Lu Family home, sneezed several times without warning.

"Achoo-achoo-who's thinking about me?"

She rubbed her nose, her brows knitting involuntarily. "Don't tell me it's that bastard Ji Yunhuai..."

He just won't stop haunting me!

Inside Lounge 8, as soon as the girl left, Gu Sipei immediately asked the staff for today's surveillance footage.

He was eager to find out whether Lu Jiaoyue had been lying.

But the staff informed him that the sixth-floor surveillance system had happened to be undergoing maintenance today and hadn't recorded any footage.

Gu Sipei frowned and had no choice but to give up.

Could it really be such a coincidence?

He knew Phantom belonged to the Ji Family. It wasn't somewhere just anyone could tamper with things.

And as far as he knew, the Lu Family and the Ji Family had never had any prior ties. If the women of the Lu Family were trying to set him up, the Ji Family had no reason to help cover their tracks.

At that thought, Gu Sipei's last trace of suspicion vanished.

Perhaps he had been overthinking it. Today had probably just been a coincidence after all.