Chapter 209: Digging Your Own Grave
Right now, the delivery box in Lin Muqing’s hand contained a high-quality and somewhat expensive pen set. This was the proper, useful, and nice birthday gift she had prepared for her good buddy.
But at the moment, she was actually looking for the other birthday gift. The funny and inappropriate one, inspired by prank videos she saw online.
“Brother, did you guys see a really big delivery box around here?”
After looking around a bit, Lin Muqing felt confused. She was sure she had left the box on this couch. Suspicious, she noticed the strange look on her three brothers’ faces and turned to ask them.
“Nope.”
Lin Yiming answered with a straight face, even though he was a little nervous. He quickly glanced at Lin Qiwen, who was hiding the box behind his back. With Lin Zixuan’s help, they successfully blocked the box so their little sister wouldn’t see what was inside.
“Emmm… okay then.”
Even though she still felt something was off, Lin Muqing’s gut told her her brothers definitely had something to do with the missing box. But since they wouldn’t say anything, she had no choice but to let it go and went to find her good buddy instead. She decided to give him the normal birthday gift first.
As for the prank gift? If it’s lost, so be it. It had his name on the label anyway, so she wasn’t worried at all.
“Big bro, here’s your birthday present. Happy Birthday!”
Just as Ye Ziming walked out of the kitchen, Lin Muqing opened the delivery box and handed him the pen set. She had even paid a bit extra to have the store wrap it nicely, so it looked really fancy.
“Nice.”
Ye Ziming accepted the gift with a smile and gave her a pat on the head. He was clearly in a great mood. After chatting for a bit, Lin Muqing turned and went to help her mom in the kitchen.
Ye Ziming, on the other hand, went upstairs to put the gift away, then came back to the living room and sat down, planning to play on his phone while waiting for dinner.
But before he could even start, the three brother-in-laws suddenly appeared next to him, all with the same unfriendly expression.
“Here’s your package!”
Lin Qiwen tossed the delivery box at Ye Ziming and immediately started questioning him.
At first, Ye Ziming was very confused. He had no idea why these three guys were acting so serious. But once he opened the box and saw what was inside, he instantly broke into a cold sweat.
Finally, he understood why they had stared at him that way.
Buying such strange items… and with his name on the label too. Looks like someone would have to “thank” Lin Muqing properly tonight…
“Dinner’s ready!”
At that moment, Lin Muqing walked out of the kitchen. Dinner was done, and her mom was bringing out the food. Since it was Ye Ziming’s birthday, the meal was extra special. And of course, there was also a birthday cake afterward.
After helping set the table, Lin Muqing called everyone to sit down. She had no idea that a “storm” was about to come. She was just happily getting ready to eat.
While they were eating, Ye Ziming casually brought something up, like he had just remembered:
“Hey, that delivery box, was that a birthday present from you too?”
Hearing this, Lin Muqing froze for a second, then turned her head with a weird expression and asked.
“You opened it?”
She was thinking, if he opened the prank box in the living room, then she would just deny everything. No way she was going down like that.
“Nope. I took it back to my room.”
Ye Ziming smoothly lied with a straight face. Not a single change in expression, like it was nothing important.
“Oh! Then yes, that one’s from me too! That was my speciallyyy prepared birthday gift~”
Now that she believed he hadn’t opened it yet, Lin Muqing felt totally relaxed and boldly admitted that she bought it.
She even made a funny face, clearly excited to see how her good buddy would react when he finally opened it.
But what she didn’t know was… out of the 11 people at the dinner table, six of them were now frozen in shock.
The six shocked people were: the three Lin brothers, Li Muning, and her two children.
“Hmm, I also have a gift I want to give you later.”
Ye Ziming looked very calm, because he already knew it was Lin Muqing who had done all this. Honestly, no one else would be this cheeky.
“A gift? For me?”
Lin Muqing was a little surprised.
“Yeah.”
He nodded casually. Ye Ziming thought to himself: this morning, when the little kitten secretly hid the cookies, he didn’t do anything… so tonight is the time to “do something.”
On the other side, after finding out that all those weird items were bought by Lin Muqing, the Ye family chose to stay quiet. After all, it wasn’t really their place to say anything. But the Lin family trio couldn’t handle it. Just seeing those things had made their faces turn red and hearts race, and now finding out it was their little sister who bought them?! Way too much!
With all kinds of complicated feelings, dinner passed quickly. After that, it was time to give gifts and eat cake. It was kept pretty simple, Ye Ziming didn’t like loud parties, so his birthday was never a big deal.
Also, he had done something sneaky, people knew when his birthday month was, but not the exact day. This helped him avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble.
“Mom, we want to talk to you about something.”
That night, after the Ye family had gone home and Lin Muqing took Ye Ziming upstairs, Lin Qiwen walked over to Meng Yue and spoke mysteriously.
At the same time, one of his brothers was calling Ling Cong over, while the other was setting up the living room for a “family meeting.”
They had two things to talk about:
The results of the paternity test. They hadn’t figured out how to explain it earlier and didn’t find the right moment to talk about it during the day.
The shocking fact that their little sister had ordered a large number of adult novelty items online.
Soon, Meng Yue and Ling Cong came to sit on the living room sofa, ready to hear what their sons had to say at this “family meeting.”
“I already know about that.”
When they brought up the DNA test, Meng Yue replied calmly. After all, she had learned about it that very morning.
She briefly explained what happened, mentioning the jade pendant that Lin Muqing had been wearing since she was a child, and also how important Ye Ziming had been in solving the mystery.
“WHAT?! That sneaky guy beat us to it?!”
The three brothers were shocked. Then, in their hearts, they all yelled the same thing at the same time. From that moment on, Ye Ziming was officially their enemy #1.
What they didn’t know was, even if Ye Ziming hadn’t learned about it through Lin Qiwen, he would’ve still investigated it because of the jade pendant.
And so, the “Anti-Ziming Alliance” was born.
After a while, once they finished talking about the DNA stuff, they moved on to Lin Muqing’s issue.
“Really? You all saw it with your own eyes?”
“We saw it with our own eyes!”
“She actually bought that kind of stuff?”
“Yes, really.”
“...Whoa.”
Meng Yue was shocked.
In her mind, her precious daughter had always been innocent and pure. Even if Lin Muqing knew about those things, she definitely wouldn't buy them... right?
Now she felt she needed to have a serious talk with her daughter, about minors and adult products.