98: Chapter 98 Breaking News
Returning to the villa, Chen Yao and Chen Fei had already left.
Lin Yi had bought them a large flat; it wasn't quite right for them to keep staying at his place.
However, through their conversations, the sisters knew that Ye Shuangshuang had been living in the villa recently.
Chen Yao felt a bit sour in her heart.
She didn't know what the relationship between Lin Yi and Ye Shuangshuang was.
Could they be boyfriend and girlfriend?
If they were, why did Ye Shuangshuang sleep in the guest room last night?
But if they weren't, why did Ye Shuangshuang keep living at Lin Yi's house?
Chen Yao couldn't figure it out.
What she could be sure of, however, was that Ye Shuangshuang definitely liked Lin Yi a lot.
Chen Yao could tell how Ye Shuangshuang felt about Lin Yi just by the way she looked at him.
A woman understands a woman best.
She just didn't know what Lin Yi was thinking.
For an outstanding guy like Lin Yi, there must be many people around him who liked him.
Chen Yao asked herself, she didn't have any particularly outstanding advantages.
Even her looks, which she was usually proud of, didn't seem particularly prominent in front of her sister Chen Fei and Ye Shuangshuang.
The three of them had three different styles.
Chen Fei was cute, Ye Shuangshuang was soft and beautiful, while she herself leaned towards the professional, mature 'big sister' style.
She wondered which type Lin Yi would like...
Thinking of this, Chen Yao's heart suddenly felt uncertain.
Because she realized that she had already fallen in love with Lin Yi.
She couldn't accept it if Lin Yi ever faded out of her world; she didn't know how she would face it then.
She just wanted to see Lin Yi every day.
To stay with Lin Yi every day.
...
Lin Yi looked around and saw that Chen Yao and Chen Fei had already left.
He asked tentatively,
"Shuangshuang, tonight it's just the two of us..."
"You won't still sleep in the guest room, will you..."
"I'm a little scared to sleep alone at night..."
Ye Shuangshuang blushed and let out a coquettish huff.
"Oh, you..."
"Stop lying, I don't believe for a second that you're scared."
"You are the most dangerous thing in this house."
Lin Yi chuckled, took off his clothes, and prepared to take a shower first.
Ye Shuangshuang saw the gauze wrapped around Lin Yi's body.
"Lin Yi, are you hurt again?"
Seeing the concern in Ye Shuangshuang's eyes, Lin Yi immediately started acting pitiful.
"Yeah, I got scalded by boiling water today."
"It hurts so much."
"It hurts so much I can't even lift my arms."
"I don't even have the strength to shower..."
"How about... you help me shower today?"
Hearing that Lin Yi still had the mind to joke, Ye Shuangshuang knew he wasn't seriously injured and immediately felt relieved.
"Rogue... if you don't have the strength to shower, then don't..."
"Anyway, you're sleeping alone tonight, I won't be able to smell how stinky you are."
Lin Yi gave a wicked grin and, without a word, stepped forward and picked Ye Shuangshuang up in a princess carry.
"That won't do. I love being clean so much, I won't be able to sleep without a shower."
"Just work a little hard for me..."
"Just take pity on me..."
Smelling the strong masculine scent on Lin Yi, Ye Shuangshuang's legs instantly felt a bit weak.
She let Lin Yi carry her into the bathroom.
"Rogue..."
"Who else is this restless even when they're injured..."
...
...
This shower lasted for over two hours.
The two of them went from the bathroom to the bedroom, then back into the bathroom.
They kept at it until the middle of the night before falling asleep in each other's arms, exhausted.
They even forgot to eat dinner.
...
Early the next morning, Lin Yi heard the doorbell ringing downstairs.
He got up to look, but Ye Shuangshuang was already gone.
Lin Yi checked the time and guessed she had gone out for her morning run again.
"So disciplined... going out for a run even after being that tired last night..."
Lin Yi couldn't help but admire Ye Shuangshuang's willpower.
It was so firm.
Lin Yi yawned, got dressed, and went downstairs to open the door.
Opening the door, he saw it was actually Chen Yao and Chen Fei carrying breakfast.
That morning, seeing Lin Yi enjoy the porridge so much, Chen Yao guessed that Lin Yi must like Pumpkin Porridge.
So early this morning, Chen Yao got up to cook the porridge.
Her sister Chen Fei saw her and pestered her to come along.
Chen Yao couldn't talk her out of it, so she brought Chen Fei along.
"Yaoyao, you're so thoughtful. I didn't have time for dinner last night, I'm starving to death right now!"
Lin Yi took the small clay pot from Chen Yao's hands and invited Chen Yao and Chen Fei to sit down in the dining room.
Just then, Ye Shuangshuang happened to return as well.
"Just in time, I bought steamed buns, let's eat together!"
The four of them sat together and ate breakfast harmoniously, just like yesterday.
Seeing that there was no tension or jealousy among them, Lin Yi felt relieved.
He took small sips of the Pumpkin Porridge in front of him.
Suddenly, Lin Yi's phone rang.
Lin Yi picked it up and saw it was a call from He Linwei.
There were no classes this morning, and Lin Yi didn't know what He Linwei wanted with him at this time.
"Old Lin, this is bad!"
He Linwei's anxious and panicked voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Quickly log onto the school forum and take a look. I don't know which bastard posted a lot of things about you on there!"
"And they're maliciously edited and pieced together!"
"A lot of students are forwarding it; basically the whole school knows about it now!"
Lin Yi frowned, hung up the phone, and opened the school forum.
"What could possibly be going on with me..."
"Could it be someone secretly filmed me in the bathroom?"
"I'm a grown man, what do I have to be afraid of..."
Entering the campus forum, Lin Yi saw a post with extremely high popularity.
The title was very eye-catching.
"Scumbag Lin Yi, playing with girls' feelings! One of the victims is actually the school beauty Su Ming!"
"Damn, which bastard is slandering me like this!"
Lin Yi cursed under his breath and hurriedly clicked into the post.
The poster was an anonymous account.
It cursed Lin Yi as a scumbag, leaving a trail of broken hearts everywhere and being involved with several girls.
And it claimed he was putting on a persona of an innocent rich second generation.
There were many photos attached.
There was one of Lin Yi being held by Li Tong as they walked on the school road.
There was one of Lin Yi arguing with Guan Zhixue at the classroom door.
There was also a photo of Jiang Xiaowan kissing his cheek after he won a competition.
And one of him getting into a car while holding hands with Ye Shuangshuang.
Most crucially, it also included a photo from yesterday afternoon after he was injured, where he was shirtless with his arm draped over Su Ming's shoulder going to the infirmary.
And the camera angle of this photo was very ambiguous.
To someone who didn't know better, they looked exactly like a couple in a passionate relationship; the guy had taken off his shirt because of the heat, revealing his fit body.
Walking through the campus with his arm around the girl.
There was even an audio recording at the end of the article.
Lin Yi clicked to listen, and it was indeed his conversation with Su Ming in the infirmary yesterday.
In the recording, Su Ming could be heard saying,
"Anyway, we've already slept together..."
Then Lin Yi said,
"Help me blow on it..."
"Mhm, that's much more comfortable..."
Hearing this recording, Lin Yi was so angry he almost smashed his phone.
"Damn it, who is trying to screw me over like this!"
He and Su Ming were completely innocent.
But other students who heard this recording might not think so.
Everyone was an adult; it was normal to think the wrong way.
And this kind of thing was impossible to explain; people simply wouldn't believe it.
They would only think you were making excuses after the fact.
Because they had already formed a preconceived notion that things were as they imagined.
This was truly like mud falling into your pants—if it wasn't crap, it looked like it.
...
On the other side, Li Runze's secretary also saw this post on the Nanling University campus forum.
"Oh my... this... is too explosive!"
"I have to tell President Li quickly!"