"You really are clever, sis."
Yu Jinche smiled, his smile as harmless as ever, though his eyes had grown a little darker.
"Then there's something else you must know, too."
He walked over and sat directly opposite Xie Mi, meeting her gaze at eye level.
"The secret about Xu Shuangrong."
Xie Mi's gaze paused briefly. She discreetly concealed the flicker of surprise in her eyes. "What secret?"
"I've been spending a lot of time with her lately, and I noticed something very interesting."
Yu Jinche watched her, his lashes casting shadows beneath his eyes. "She always seems to inadvertently show me a nasty side of herself, the complete opposite of the image she presents on-screen."
Xie Mi raised an eyebrow slightly.
Xu Shuangrong knew the original plot, so she also knew why Yu Jinche became interested in her. She had therefore recreated scenes from the original story, hoping to make Yu Jinche serve her purposes just as he had in the novel.
That wasn't hard to figure out.
What was interesting, however, was that Yu Jinche had actually noticed.
"People say entertainers have one face onstage and another behind the scenes. There's nothing strange about Xu Shuangrong having another side. What's strange is, if she can put on such a flawless act, why does she only let it slip around me?"
Yu Jinche blinked. "Don't you find that strange, sis?"
"That's between you and Xu Shuangrong. Why are you telling me?" Xie Mi had no intention of taking the bait.
As the saying went, obsessive psychos were exciting in novels, but if you met one in real life, you should run as far away as possible.
She had no desire to get mixed up in whatever was going on between Yu Jinche and Xu Shuangrong.
But Yu Jinche clearly had