Song Shuangzhi accepted the friend request.
【Add a remark!】
Song Shuangzhi changed it to: 【Chief Judge Tan.】
【No!】
【Your character setting is the clingy supporting female role! Someone who can’t separate public and private matters. How could you possibly address your darling husband by his official title?】
The system bounced around wildly in her mind.
Song Shuangzhi replied calmly, “Then how about, as punishment, I give the second male lead’s life back to you…”
【What would I want that useless thing for?】
【No way. Use a pet name!】
Song Shuangzhi had originally wanted to save him as 【Husband】, but the system insisted that it wasn’t special enough…
【How do you address Tan Siyin?】
“Yinyin.”
【How do you address me?】
“Tongbao.”
【Then the way you address him can only be one of two options.】
“Yan…” Song Shuangzhi felt nauseated. “Bao?”
“Then I might as well…”
Her finger brushed against the keyboard and typed in “YY.”
【Ah! Yanyan~! Such a sweet and delicate pet name! It perfectly fits your clingy supporting female role persona. Approved!】
Song Shuangzhi: ……
Yanyan: 【Typing…】
【Typing…】 （Three minutes…）
Song Shuangzhi said, “Is he drafting closing arguments for me?”
Forget it. She was just a machine completing missions anyway. She directly sent him two words:【Check in.】
Tan Siyan deleted the text in the message box for the third time.
“Why does he seem a little happy?” Qin Chao asked Lu Xinghe beside him.
“No idea. Didn’t he say he had somewhere to be? He doesn’t seem to be in any hurry anymore.”
Ignoring the three friends seated around the tea table, Tan Siyan replied to Song Shuangzhi:【I’m not on duty.】
The system immediately began throwing a tantrum in Song Shuangzhi’s mind.
【You actually uncovered the male lead cheating the moment you checked in!!!】
Following the system’s provided check-in script word for word, Song Shuangzhi copied and pasted:
【Use your hand to gesture 1234. （I used this exact trick to discover that my husband was cheating and had also come out of the closet! In the check-in video he sent me, there was even a younger male mistress!）】
The system stared lifelessly at the message she had sent…
Song Shuangzhi, this foolish AI!
A few seconds later, he actually sent back a video.
A pair of long, powerful hands with distinct knuckles came into view. The background showed a Southern Song style wooden tea set, and there seemed to be three friends present as well.
【Check-in mission completed!】
With a cheerful grin, Song Shuangzhi tossed her phone aside, completely missing the messages on the screen:
Yanyan: 【?】
【They’re my three friends. Would you like to meet them?】
She also ignored the announcement ringing in her mind:
【Clingy Supporting Female Role Upgrade Mission triggered: One life-threatening call every three minutes!】
Tea room.
Ke Jin laughed. “Doesn’t Judge Tan hate looking at his phone the most? What, are you in love?”
Qin Chao snorted. “He spent the whole day dragging our little courtyard flower over to my clinic for dental work. Love, my ass.”
Lu Xinghe picked up the phone resting on the tea table.
“I should get going. If I go home too late, my wife will cry.”
Ke Jin smacked him with a laugh. “Why are you showing off your affection?”
Qin Chao nodded in agreement. “Exactly! President Ke here is the real wife devotee.”
Slamming the table, Lu Xinghe stood up dramatically.
“Hah! Back when they were wiping out all the wife devotees, I survived only because I was kneeling down to tie my wife’s shoelaces!”
The three men burst into laughter.
Tan Siyan’s distracted gaze barely left his phone. It was as though he intended to burn a hole through the screen.
“Hey, if you’ve got things to do, just go already,” Qin Chao said, nudging him. “We’re about to start a bet.”
Tan Siyan had indeed intended to leave.
But then he overheard the terms of the wager.
【Everyone places their phones on the tea table. Whoever’s wife calls first to urge them home or check in wins!】
Tan Siyan sat back down.
“You’re not leaving?”
“I’m participating too.”
“This is a game for people with wives!”
Tan Siyan replied flatly, “You all have fiancées and girlfriends. I’m the only one who actually has a wife.”
Qin Chao laughed. “Bullshit. Looks like President Tan wants to play the God of Wealth today!”
Four phones were placed on the tea table.
Qin Chao grinned. “Since Judge Tan is throwing himself into the fire to become our God of Wealth, we should give him a chance.”
Lu Xinghe said, “Fine! Let’s multiply the stakes by ten.”
Ke Jin added, “With his status, even multiplying it by ten only amounts to a thousand yuan.”
Tan Siyan replied, “This is my personal time. It’s a private matter.”
All three of his friends laughed simultaneously.
“Fine then. The wager is one million!”
Taking a sip of tea, Tan Siyan said, “I’m in.”
Qin Chao chuckled. “Cash only. The secretaries have to transfer the money immediately. No delays. One million from each person…”
Buzz~
Ke Jin jumped up. “It’s my wife! My wife! I’m going home to kneel on the washboard!”
He picked up his phone.
Not a single message.
Lu Xinghe smiled serenely. “It’s my fiancée. We’re getting married next month. Chief Judge Tan won’t be able to attend, so consider this one million my wedding gift.”
He checked his phone.
【Luckin Coffee’s Chief Welfare Officer reminds you…】
Qin Chao grabbed his own phone. “Don’t tell me I’m about to win your three million?!”
“Mhm.” Tan Siyan’s calm voice sounded softly as he held up his phone.
“What is it, Wife?”
The entire tea room fell silent.
Following the system’s instructions, even Song Shuangzhi, who had been making her serial life-threatening calls, was completely dumbfounded!!!
“He… he… he called me Wife!?”
The system exploded into fireworks in her mind, scattering into fragments!
【I told you he was secretly passionate!】
【Cold and abstinent on the outside, but secretly hugging your pajamas and sniffing them while feeling jealous of your four stupid cats!】
【Call him Husband!】
“What’s wrong?” His voice remained steady and natural, as though they had already been married for years.
“I…” Song Shuangzhi could hardly believe it.
“The owner of this phone is terrifying. He’s a judge who could throw you in prison starting from the Qin Dynasty. I suggest you return the phone to him immediately!”
His refined, composed voice carried a magnetic quality.
“Wife, it’s me.”
Song Shuangzhi let out an “Awooo~!”
Then she immediately hung up.
Tea room!
The other three men sat there as motionless as wooden chickens.
Pointing at them one by one, Tan Siyan said, “One million, two million, three million.”
As young masters from Beicheng’s prestigious political and business families, none of them would go back on a wager they had made themselves.
“You really have a wife?” Qin Chao still couldn’t believe it. “Then why didn’t you treat us to a meal?”
Tan Siyan had always been overwhelmingly busy. He had never had time to hold a wedding ceremony. Even obtaining their marriage certificate had been squeezed in hurriedly between two court hearings.
He suddenly understood why she had stepped on him and kicked him.
He truly hadn’t fulfilled his responsibilities as a husband.
“Continue the bet!” declared Lu Xinghe, the self-proclaimed number one wife devotee in the world.
“Now, whichever man’s wife calls again first wins another two million!”
Buzz~
Under the shocked gazes of the other three men, Tan Siyan picked up his phone once more.
A sweet, soft voice drifted through the silent tea room like fragrance.
“Where are you?”
“At the tea room.”
“Oh.”
Click!
Song Shuangzhi was merely a mission-completing machine, mechanically fulfilling the requirement of making one life-threatening call every three minutes. She never actually said anything meaningful to him.
Tan Siyan earned another six million.
Ke Jin refused to believe it. “Raise the stakes again! Three million!”
Buzz~
Tan Siyan’s phone rang once more.
The soft, fluffy voice sounded sweet and gentle.
“What are you doing?”
“Chatting with friends.”
“Oh.”
Click!
Tan Siyan earned another nine million.
…
One call every three minutes.
Twenty calls in an hour. A true serial life-threatening call barrage!
Clutching her overheated phone, Song Shuangzhi sighed in relief.
“Phew~ Mission complete!”
Tan Siyan had always thought phones were noisy and bothersome.
Yet now, he found himself anticipating the next ring.
Qin Chao and the others fled as though carrying an entire highway on their backs.
“We’re done betting! You definitely cheated!”
By now, Tan Siyan had already figured out the exact pattern of her calls arriving every three minutes.
The next time she called, he planned to speak first.
【I’m having tea with friends. Would you like to come?】
【By the way, where is my wedding ring?】
【I want to wear it.】
Unfortunately, the phone never rang again.
Four minutes passed. Picking up his phone, he initiated a voice call to her.
“Doo…”
It rang only once…
His phone had run out of battery.
After enduring the barrage of life-threatening calls, it had automatically shut down…