"Hm? Oh, that..." Apparently not expecting Lu Xiaoxiao to suddenly ask about this, Ji Yunhuai paused for two seconds, his gaze instinctively falling on her phone. "The phone case I gave you has a tracking chip built into it. I originally just wanted to see how far away you were so I could arrange for the food to be served, but then I noticed you heading farther and farther off course. After that, you stopped replying to my messages."
After a pause, he added, "And I know the club Gu Sipei frequents. When your last location showed you were there, of course I realized something was wrong."
"So that's what happened..." Lu Xiaoxiao picked up her phone and examined its case closely. All she could see was an adorable cartoon design. It looked perfectly ordinary, and most people would never have guessed that it also had a tracking function.
Ji Yunhuai had indeed given her quite a few little gifts here and there recently, and this phone case was one of them.
Lu Xiaoxiao hadn't thought much of it, assuming it was just an ordinary attempt to win her affection. If today's incident hadn't happened, she probably would never have discovered there was more to it.
Still, although the tracking function had allowed Ji Yunhuai to arrive in time to get her out of trouble today, thinking it over afterward left Lu Xiaoxiao feeling a little uncomfortable.
"Why didn't you tell me beforehand that you'd put a tracker in it?" She couldn't help frowning, her tone turning serious. "Even if it was to keep me safe, you shouldn't have hidden it from me! I don't like being kept in the dark."
And to think she had been planning to investigate the Original Host's background behind Ji Yunhuai's back. If this