378: Got to catch him red-handed again

"That's my ancestral culinary skill, you know. Can I just show it off whenever I want?"

"Everything about you is 'ancestral'." Yan Ran rolled her eyes in disgust. "If this keeps up, I'll start to suspect your ancestors were scammers."

Chen Xinyi chimed in at this moment, "Then what were you doing all afternoon since you were free?"

"What else could I be doing?" Ye Su felt inexplicably guilty and hurriedly laughed it off. "Isn't it just the same as usual?"

"The same as usual, huh?" Yan Ran rubbed Ye Su's arm meaningfully. "Then what do you usually do?"

Hearing that the two of them were suddenly so interested in what he had been doing all afternoon, a sense of foreboding gradually rose in Ye Su's heart.

Under normal circumstances, Ye Su would have just openly admitted that he had gone for afternoon tea with Li Mengyao.

But now, the system told him that Li Mengyao's intimacy level with him had already reached 90 points.

This made Ye Su feel somewhat guilty, like a thief, and he subconsciously wanted to hide their relationship first:

"What else? Just had nothing to do, so I grabbed afternoon tea with a friend." Ye Su tried to turn the tables and steer the conversation away:

"Who told you two to just focus on making money outside and leave me home alone? You forced me to find another friend to take me in for a while."

In the past, this tactic would have definitely worked on Chen Xinyi, but now, there was no way to fool them.

"Finding another friend to take you in, huh?" As Chen Xinyi spoke, one of her hands intentionally or unintentionally touched Ye Su's waist.

At the same time, with perfect coordination, Yan Ran moved the hand that had been rubbing Ye Su's arm to the other side of his waist.

If a fourth person were in the living room right now, filming this scene and posting it online, who knows how many men would be green with envy.

Being sandwiched by a mature woman and a young lady, with one hand from each of them teasing his waist—it was quite a sultry scene.

But as the person involved, feeling the warmth from the two hands on his waist, Ye Su felt his hair stand on end.

I'm done for!

I think I'm dead!

The next second, Yan Ran leaned into Ye Su's ear and whispered a sentence that instantly made him feel as if he had fallen into an ice cellar:

"Is this friend who took you in a man or a woman?"

"Heh heh..." Ye Su forced a smile. "It's a woman."

"Oh—" Chen Xinyi leaned against Ye Su, smiling as she chimed in. "A woman, huh? Is it a female friend, or a girlfriend?"

Ye Su puffed out his chest and answered firmly, "Of course it's just a female friend!"

"A female friend, is it?"

Before he knew it, Yan Ran had taken out her phone with her free hand, played a video, and placed it in front of Ye Su for all three of them to watch:

"What kind of female friend invites you to the Rosewood Hotel for afternoon tea and practically hangs off you?"

Ye Su looked closely and discovered that what was playing on Yan Ran's phone was none other than the video of him arm-wrestling Lin Youde that afternoon.

Furthermore, the person filming had captured the perfect angle, managing to see past the hotel manager to record Li Mengyao clenching her fists, cheering him on nervously, and nearly pressing her entire body against him while he was arm-wrestling!

That wasn't even the end of it.

Before the video finished playing, Yan Ran tapped the [Next] button and started playing a video from another angle.

Yan Ran looked at Ye Su with a smile, asking playfully, "Care to explain which female friend this is?"

Chen Xinyi's index finger and thumb were already pinching the soft flesh on Ye Su's waist:

"Tell Sister Ran and me again, how many more 'female friends' like this do you have out there?"

"Uh... this, this... um..."

Although the two of them were smiling and speaking in soft, gentle tones while seductively blowing into his ears,

Ye Su could not enjoy such a blessing; instead, cold sweat began to bead on his forehead.

He had a premonition that if his next answer didn't satisfy them, his life would be in danger.

There was no time to rage at the people who filmed the video and posted it online. Ye Su's brain was racing—his mental CPU was practically smoking—but he still didn't know how to start.

"If I'm not mistaken, the woman in the video is the eldest daughter of [Poyun], Li Mengyao, right?"

"You know Mengyao?"

Ye Su was both surprised and found it natural that Yan Ran could recognize Li Mengyao.

Just as he had guessed during the day, Yan Ran's social circle indeed overlapped with that of Li Mengyao and her father, and they even knew each other.

"We're all from Yangcheng; it's not strange that I know her and Li Shanhai, is it?" Yan Ran tsked.

"But I didn't expect that the Li family's young lady, who is famous for not being interested in men and having sent countless suitors packing, would have such a different attitude toward you. I even used to wonder if she had issues with her sexual orientation."

Yan Ran gently pinched Ye Su's ear. "Turns out she just hadn't met a man she liked."

Chen Xinyi was like a supportive sidekick, constantly agreeing with Yan Ran, treating her as her backing in opposing Ye Su:

"I couldn't tell, but our man here has such great Charm that he can even make an iron tree bloom."

"What 'iron tree blooming'? You two are getting more and more ridiculous!"

"Why are you getting anxious?" Yan Ran asked with great interest. "Well, tell us, what's the situation between you two? If you don't explain it well, I'm taking Chen Xinyi away tonight."

Seeing their stance, Ye Su knew it would be difficult to fool them tonight.

"We really are just friends. It's just that she asked me for a favor before, which made the situation a little bit complicated..."

In the end, Ye Su had no choice but to use the power of honesty and confess to them that Li Mengyao had asked him to pretend to be her boyfriend to deal with Li Shanhai and his wife.

"Oh, so she's the one you mentioned last time."

After hearing Ye Su's confession, Chen Xinyi suddenly realized, remembering that over a month ago, Ye Su had indeed mentioned this matter to her.

But Chen Xinyi hadn't expected that the other party would be a wealthy and beautiful woman with a prominent family background, whose figure and appearance were not at all inferior to hers.

"Asking you to pretend to be her boyfriend—this Li family young lady really knows how to play."

Yan Ran finally understood how happy netizens feel when they get some juicy gossip:

"So she even took you home?"

Ye Su confessed truthfully, "I've been there a few times."

"Li Shanhai and his wife only have this one daughter. Even if they are anxious about her getting married, their standards for a son-in-law wouldn't drop much. They really didn't have any objections to you, a 'son-in-law-to-be' who just popped out of nowhere?"

"Heh heh." Ye Su laughed proudly. "Just kidding, don't you see how handsome and talented your husband is? How could I not win over her parents?"

Bang—

"And you're actually proud of yourself."

Yan Ran elbowed Ye Su, knocking the cheeky smile right off his face.

"That's not right..." Chen Xinyi stared at the video, a hint of suspicion in her eyes.

"You said she only asked you to pretend to be her boyfriend, but looking at her attitude toward you, it doesn't seem like she's pretending at all, does it?"