How am I supposed to follow them?!
Lin Shengyan drawled, "We've been playing all morning. We're tired, too. Let's head back, change, and get something to eat."
Second Brother is actually coming through today!
Lin Shengyan felt rather pleased with himself.
Lin Tingyue came up to Lin Shengyan. Just as he thought she was going to praise him aloud after praising him in her thoughts, she blinked innocently. "Second Brother, it looks like you're the only one who needs to change."
Lin Shengyan: "..."
While Lin Tingyue was mocking him, Lin Xiawan came over to join in. "Mm, looks that way. My clothes are already dry."
Lin Shengyan: "..."
Fine, fine, fine.
He couldn't keep either of these little sisters anymore.
Lin Yuhuan gave a light cough. Was his eldest brother about to speak up for him?
His eldest brother really was the best.
Lin Shengyan looked expectantly at Lin Yuhuan.
There stood his eldest brother in flip-flops,
wearing a floral shirt and baggy shorts, the very picture of a beachside domineering CEO.
A beachside domineering CEO was still a domineering CEO!
Big Brother, hurry up and show your authority.
Lin Yuhuan looked composed as he said, "Shengyan, why aren't your clothes dry yet?"
Lin Shengyan: "?"
He was going to fight his eldest brother.
Oh my, a beachside top star is chasing down a beachside domineering CEO. Who will emerge victorious?
Lin Tingyue's commentary filled the entire journey from the beach to the restaurant.
Bai Yaxin kept laughing. It was quite entertaining.
By then, Lin Shengyan's clothes were more or less dry, but chasing Lin Yuhuan had left him ravenous, so he decided to eat first.
After they ordered pizza and orange juice for six, sharp-eyed Lin Tingyue spotted Liang Yan and Hua Qin standing nearby, with a man seated beside them.
That should be Liang Yan's boyfriend.
There was a glass of orange juice beside his hand. He must have drugged it.
Lin Tingyue hurried toward them. Before she could get close, she saw Liang Yan pick up that glass of orange juice and throw it in Hao Ziming's face.
Huh?
Great splash! Beautifully done!
Lin Tingyue almost applauded Liang Yan!
Hao Ziming said softly, "Yanyan, I know you've been suffering lately. It's left a terrible shadow over your heart. You can throw whatever you want at me. It's okay."
Hua Qin laughed in anger.
"Hao Ziming, you really can swallow anything." Hua Qin slapped him across the face. "Yanyan has already decided to break up with a scumbag like you."
"Break up?" Hao Ziming looked both shocked and panicked. "Yanyan, what exactly did I do wrong for you to break up with me?"
You're about to deliver your girlfriend to a pervert's bed, and you still don't know what you did wrong?
The onlookers: "?"
Their gazes toward Hao Ziming instantly filled with contempt.
Yet Hao Ziming kept acting. "Yanyan, I put you first in everything. I truly love you..."
"Enough!"
It was the first time the gentle Liang Yan had lost her temper, and it stunned Hao Ziming. He even forgot to control his expression, looking nothing like his usual self.
Liang Yan believed that if he hadn't still needed her to get close to that pervert, he would probably have flown into a rage and hit her.
She really had been blind these past three years!
"Only you know exactly what deal you made with that pervert."
"Yanyan, I..."
Hua Qin slapped away Hao Ziming's hand as he reached toward Liang Yan. She sneered. "If you like that pervert so much, why don't you get together with him yourself?"
"Yanyan, let's go."
Liang Yan still didn't seem satisfied. Before leaving, she slapped Hao Ziming again.
Aaaaaah, girl, you should've slapped him first, then thrown the orange juice!!!
Liang Yan and Hua Qin couldn't help smiling. Got it, if there was a next time.
Hopefully, there wouldn't be a next time.
The two close friends left hand in hand. Hao Ziming stayed where he was, fists clenched and eyes sinister.
But how did she find out the truth?
The Lin family members were just about to come up with an explanation when they heard her next thought.
Ah, once you've done something bad, there's always a chance it'll come to light someday.
Whoa, Lin Shengyan thought. Lin Tingyue was pretty good at filling in the gaps herself.
Lin Xiawan went over and tugged Lin Tingyue's hand. "Tingyue, come have some pizza."
"Okay, Sister Xiawan."
As the Lin family happily ate their pizza, they never expected that the business with Hao Ziming wasn't over yet.
The Lin family was staying in a ground-floor suite. Early the next morning, while everyone was still half asleep, an angry roar nearly sent Lin Tingyue tumbling out of bed.
She sat up and rubbed her eyes. Being forcibly booted up left her with more resentment than a ghost!
A moment later, another shout came from outside.
"You dared to scam me? I'll beat you to death, you damned pervert!"
Lin Tingyue's eyes lit up. Was there gossip to feast on?
She opened her door and headed out, running into the others along the way.
Everyone marched out of the suite with heads high and fighting spirits blazing-all off to feast on gossip.
By the time the Lin family arrived, quite a few people had already gathered in the hallway.
The early arrivals were filling in the newcomers, their faces dancing with excitement. Spectators never minded the trouble getting bigger!
"Oh my, a young couple booked a room together. You'd think it was a sweet date, but it turned out..."
"It turned out his pretty partner was a man dressed as a woman, with something huge under that skirt. The poor young man's face went white from the shock."
"Of course! If I were him, I'd have been scared to death, too."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. Looking at that pile of stuff on the floor, not a single part was real."
The Lin family nodded along as they joined the gossip feast.
Why does this plot seem a little familiar?
Lin Tingyue looked inside the room. One man was threatening to beat the pervert to death, while the other covered his face in utter misery. If the guesthouse security guards and the police who had responded to the call hadn't been holding both of them down, they probably would have started fighting again.
The man covering his face switched hands, and Lin Tingyue took the opportunity to get a clear look at him. She sucked in a breath.
Isn't that Hao Ziming?
He actually hasn't left yet?
Lin Tingyue opened her notes app. No gossip enthusiast could allow any detail to slip by.
So that's what happened.
What happened? What happened?
Inspired by Hua Qin's words, Hao Ziming booked a room and bought a bunch of wigs, fake breasts, and skirts, planning to take the field himself and scam that pervert. The pervert was taller than Hao Ziming, and Hao Ziming worried he wouldn't be able to handle him, so he followed the same recipe and prepared a glass of spiked orange juice.
But man's plans are no match for heaven's. The drug wore off in the morning. The pervert woke up wanting to keep getting intimate with Hao Ziming, and then he discovered...
Aaaaaaaaah, my eyes are burning!
They could imagine that scene, too. Who could possibly stand it?!
Even the police officers inside nearly pressed their hands to their foreheads as they listened. They had seen plenty of cases, but this was their first time encountering one this melodramatic.
"Only twenty, and instead of focusing on your studies, you're out here messing around?"
After checking their IDs, the police were taking the pair out of the guesthouse toward the patrol car when a woman suddenly appeared and breathlessly blocked their path.
An officer asked, "Are you Niu Kang's college counselor?"
Good grief, he's even a college student. What sin did his counselor commit to deserve this?!
Although she didn't know what was going on with that voice, Hao Jia also wanted to ask what sin she had committed.
Was this the fate of a workhorse? Hao Jia smiled bitterly.
She had been a counselor for several years, but all those years put together were nowhere near as eventful as this one.
First, she had ended up at the police station because her student had stalked someone. Now, he had only just gotten out of detention, and he had been arrested again.
Hao Jia asked with vacant eyes, "Officer, what happened this time?"
This same officer had handled Niu Kang's previous case, and he still remembered the counselor standing before him.
He said, "A cross-dressing scam, potentially involving a substantial sum of money. You'd better notify his parents."
Hao Jia really wanted to abandon all decorum and claw at her hair, but she was a college counselor. She had to remain elegant.
While she was worried sick, Hao Jia suddenly spotted someone else. She asked, "Was this the person who scammed him?"
"Yes."
Hao Jia exploded. "Of all the things you could do, you scam a student???"
The man had kept his head down, hiding from Hao Jia, but she happened to grab a lock of the wig stuck against his scalp. Hao Ziming could only raise his head with a pained expression.
Hao Jia froze.
A few seconds later, she let out a piercing shriek.
Hao Jia broke down. "Hao Ziming, what the hell have you been doing out here???"
Hao Ziming said weakly, "Sis, let me explain..."
"I thought you were just an ignorant good-for-nothing. Now I know you're beyond saving. I'll kill you!!!"
So this is: my little brother cross-dressed to scam my student?
The onlookers sucked in a cold breath.
The police hadn't even left that side yet when the sound of a slap rang out from the other.
Chapter 44
The slap had come from the room opposite Hao Ziming's.
The onlookers rushed over at lightning speed.
The half-asleep man on the bed was slapped fully awake. Once he saw who it was, his eyes widened, and he rolled straight off the bed.
As he rolled off, he revealed the woman on the other
side of the bed.
The woman seemed to have been woken by the noise. Before she even opened her eyes, she casually mumbled, "Daddy, stop it."
Lin Tingyue, watching: "?"
Oh my god, a father and daughter?
Thank goodness, they're not biologically related. How should I put it? I guess this counts as a kink? But his kink is making his lover call him Daddy... isn't that perverted?!
Kang Mingyu, on the floor, was already utterly panicked. He covered his private parts with the blanket. "Honey, let me explain."