Chapter 215: Completely Confused
After playing the “Mom” card, the highest authority in the house, the three were quickly persuaded by Lin Muqing to return home.
Later, the two of them went shopping again, found a nice restaurant for dinner, and ended the evening by taking a sightseeing tram to enjoy the breeze by a famous lake. The view was indeed beautiful, but since it was already autumn, the wind was a bit chilly, so they didn’t stay too long.
“Phew, I’m so tired.”
Finally back home, the one thing Lin Muqing wanted the most was to get into her room, flop onto her bed, and be a lazy fish.
It had been a fun day, for sure, but also exhausting. Her legs felt like they needed to be sent in for repairs. Before heading to her room, she chatted for a bit with her parents in the living room, then went upstairs with her good buddy. Just now, she found out that both families were planning to host a dinner party, scheduled for tomorrow evening.
“Big bro, looks like our eight-day holiday is almost over.”
Back in the room, while getting her clothes ready for a shower, Lin Muqing suddenly realized that today was already the seventh day of their break. Counting with her fingers, she figured out they’d be heading back to Chengnan City for school the day after tomorrow. Time really flew.
“Yeah, you still have one more day to enjoy.”
Ye Ziming looked up at Lin Muqing for a second, then went back to looking at his phone and said that casually.
These eight short days had been filled with a lot of events. And once they went back to school, more things were likely to happen.
First, there was Meng Wenwu, who planned to transfer to Chengnan High School. Then there was Lin Wenbin. His Lin family was actually from the same origin as the Lin family in City A.
And that Lin family in City A? They were one of the city’s major families. Since Chengnan City was right next to City A, anyone curious enough could easily find out that Lin Muqing had returned to the Lin family.
As for Lin Muqing’s secret, how much longer could she keep it? Ye Ziming didn’t know.
He thought instead of focusing so much on keeping her secret hidden, maybe he should start thinking about how to help her present her new identity once the secret eventually got out.
“Big bro, it’s your turn.”
About half an hour later, Lin Muqing came out of the bathroom in her white pajamas and reminded her good buddy to go take a shower. After having so much fun today, she had completely forgotten something very important. Those things she had said in front of Fang Wenxin.
“Mm.”
Ye Ziming nodded, casually placed his phone on the desk, grabbed his clothes, and headed into the bathroom.
Sitting by the desk, Lin Muqing took some time to dry her hair. Just as she was about to put down the hairdryer and lie down to scroll on her phone, her eyes landed on her buddy’s phone sitting on the table.
“Hmm… that spicy pic I saw on his phone last time, could it still be there?”
She muttered to herself with a mischievous smile, then slowly moved over and snatched up his phone.
Smart as always, Lin Muqing had already added her fingerprint to his phone the day he got the new one.
So now all she had to do was tap it to unlock the screen and start searching the photo gallery.
Thanks to her previous “experience,” she skipped straight to the hidden albums and quickly found the most special one. Then—
“Wh-what is this?”
When she first saw the spicy pic (in the thumbnail), Lin Muqing was thrilled. She even subconsciously licked her lips and thought, Dang, the quality of this pic is amazing.
But when she opened it and realized the spicy pic… was actually of herself—
Her cute, silly grin froze instantly.
Her face turned bright red in a flash. Holding the phone with both hands, Lin Muqing was so shocked she couldn’t even form complete words.
She had just admired her own spicy pic.
Just thinking about what she had done made her want to smash her head into a block of tofu out of sheer embarrassment.
Driven by curiosity, Lin Muqing flipped through the photo album briefly, only to be shocked. Every photo in it was of her.
Looking closer, she realized the background was the dressing room inside Ye Mengze's studio.
And all of these photos were taken while she was in the middle of changing clothes. In some, she wasn’t wearing anything. In others, she was only wearing her underwear. It was... very inappropriate.
“Big bro! Where did you get these!?”
After flipping through the photos, Lin Muqing turned around and saw her close buddy walking out of the bathroom. She immediately started questioning him.
Ye Ziming, who had just heard what she said, looked a little confused at first, but he quickly realized she must have gone through his phone.
“What’s wrong?” he asked calmly, with a bit of confusion in his eyes, even looking kind of innocent. He pretended to act normal.
“What’s wrong? You actually—!”
His calm reaction completely caught Lin Muqing off guard. She stared at him with wide eyes, and for a moment, she was at a loss for words.
“You… saved my photos?”
Seeing her struggle to finish the sentence, Ye Ziming gave a subtle smile and completed it for her.
“That’s right! How could you do that!?”
Suddenly snapping back to her senses, Lin Muqing felt like what he said made sense, so even though her face was bright red, she followed his lead and kept going with the conversation.
But what she didn’t expect was that right after she said that, her buddy calmly took his phone back from her hands and started doing something with it right in front of her.
Lin Muqing was already barefoot and sitting cross-legged on the bed. Ye Ziming stood next to the bed, holding his phone, clearly up to something.
A moment later, Ye Ziming looked at Lin Muqing again and said:
“Check your phone. Open WeChat.”
“Huh?”
Lin Muqing was confused, but she still followed his instructions. She picked up her phone and opened WeChat.
Then she saw that her buddy had just sent her a bunch of photos. When she opened them, they were all of him.
Some were taken at the gym, some at the swimming pool. All showing off his upper body. Clearly, his physique was impressive.
“Why are you sending me these?” Lin Muqing asked, even more confused.
“From now on, you have my photos too. Now we’re even.”
He said it very casually. After that, Ye Ziming put away his phone and turned to the other side of the room to dry his hair.
Left alone on the bed, Lin Muqing fell into deep thought. She felt like something was wrong, very wrong, but she couldn’t figure out exactly what.
“How is this even? It’s not the same at all!”
After being stunned for a while, Lin Muqing tried to get serious again. She wanted to explain to her buddy why his logic didn’t make sense.
But Ye Ziming had already expected this. As soon as he heard her voice, he turned his head slightly and calmly said.
“You’re a tough girl. I’m a tough guy. What’s the difference?”
After saying that, Ye Ziming gave a smug smile, like he had just pulled off a clever trick. Or maybe it was a mischievous grin. Either way, the effect was the same.
“Uh…”
Lin Muqing was speechless again.
Yes, she was a "tough girl," but having those kinds of photos saved on her buddy’s phone… just thinking about it made her feel embarrassed.
She was only wearing underwear…
Emmm… what should she do now?
Lin Muqing was very troubled.