After lunch, Shen Yuli returned to his place.
Compared to the dormitory environment, he preferred his own private space, so he had bought an apartment near the school, about a hundred square meters.
When he received the message from his little sweetheart, he was just opening his computer, preparing to process some data.
Looking at the message that came through on MI.
Headache?
Shen Yuli was about to reply when WeChat dinged.
Strawberry Little Sweetheart: [Brother!]
It was still her, but for some reason, it inexplicably gave off a sense of urgency in tone.
Shen Yuli casually switched back to WeChat.
L: [What’s wrong?]
L: [Didn’t you just say you had a headache?]
When Su Yunting realized that He Jiaojiao was messaging her online romance partner, her nervous heart nearly jumped out of her chest.
Her actions were faster than her brain.
Without thinking, the message was already sent.
Her heart pounded, afraid that something terrifying would pop up on the screen.
Thank goodness, thank goodness.
Su Yunting let out a deep breath, her tense back relaxing.
It seemed He Jiaojiao probably hadn’t said anything.
Not only had she not said anything, she had even taken the matter of her forehead injury and sent it to those online romance partners as her own.
Using her photos for online romance was one thing, but now even things that happened to her were being copied over.
She was practically becoming He Jiaojiao’s material library.
Take and use at will.
Except, using her for everything.
Was He Jiaojiao really not doing online romance on her behalf?
But this time, Su Yunting really had to thank her.
Thanks to the lie she told, it had invisibly made her identity more solid.
But!
This matter also made Su Yunting realize a problem.
Two people, two accounts—what messages He Jiaojiao sent were completely outside her control.
If she said something that made Shen Yuli realize the two little sweethearts weren’t the same person, then wouldn’t she be completely done for?
Su Yunting lowered her eyes, pressing her lips together.
This wouldn’t do, absolutely wouldn’t do!
She had to think of a way to make Shen Yuli stop using MI to chat.
Thinking of something, Su Yunting picked up her phone and started typing.
Strawberry Little Sweetheart: [Yeah, it still hurts a bit~]
L: [Did you apply medicine?]
Strawberry Little Sweetheart: [I did, I’ll show you.]
Then she found an angle, took a photo, and sent it over.
Further solidifying her identity.
Meanwhile, at another spot in the dormitory, He Jiaojiao.
After waiting for a long time without getting a reply from Shen Yuli, she gritted her teeth, frowning.
What was going on?
She had clearly seen “the other party is typing” at the top.
Ever since she sent that photo last time, the other party’s attitude toward her had improved quite a bit.
More replies too.
And this time she had even sent a message about an injury like a headache.
Logically, he should have asked what was wrong.
Instead of being silent for so long.
It was all Su Yunting’s fault for not letting her take photos—otherwise, why would Shen Yuli ignore her?
Thinking of this, He Jiaojiao turned her head and glared viciously at Su Yunting.
Su Yunting noticed He Jiaojiao’s gaze but ignored her.
At a moment like this where every second counted, who had the leisure to pay attention to her?
However, Su Yunting blinked.
Why wasn’t Shen Yuli replying?
Huh, where did he go?
He Jiaojiao, off to the side, also withdrew her gaze and started tapping away on her phone again.
She refused to believe that without photos, she had no other way to make L pay attention to her.
MI Little Sweetheart: [Brother, I’m fine, actually it doesn’t hurt that much.]
MI Little Sweetheart: [It’s just that buying medicine cost a lot of money.]
MI Sweetheart: [I’ve been so short on money for meals lately.]
He Jiaojiao waited for a long time.
Messages from her other online boyfriends came in one after another.
But L’s chat box remained perfectly quiet.
L was just too difficult to deal with. After all this time, she still hadn’t won him over—not to mention getting him to transfer money, he hadn’t even offered a single word of care or concern.
He Jiaojiao was getting a bit irritated.
Seeing that Shen Yuli’s chat box had been silent for so long, she went to reply to her other online boyfriends.
In the house on the other side.
Shen Yuli happened to receive a call from his advisor.
They chatted about some matters for a while, and the advisor told him to send over the data he needed as soon as possible.
After hanging up, Shen Yuli put down his phone and focused all his attention on the computer data.
Fortunately, he had already handled most of it before, leaving only some finishing work.
After organizing it and sending it to his teacher, half an hour had passed.
Seeing the phone on the desk, he suddenly remembered that Sweetheart had been messaging him earlier.
Shen Yuli picked up his phone.
Between WeChat and MI, he first opened WeChat.
What greeted his eyes was a photo of a girl.
Still only half her face was showing.
The injury on her forehead, after being ice-packed, wasn’t as red anymore, and traces of applied medicine were visible.
Apart from this photo, there were no further messages.
He seemed to recall that there were messages on MI as well.
He switched over to MI.
After reading the messages above.
Was she… asking him for money?
On MI.
L: [Did you spend a lot of money on medicine?]
There was no reply from the other side.
He Jiaojiao, having received no response, had gone to chat with her other online boyfriends.
She had many online chat partners on MI, and Shen Yuli’s message was buried among the replies, so she didn’t see it.
Shen Yuli leaned back, resting against the chair, and waited for a while.
He stared at the MI chat box for a moment, then switched the app back to WeChat.
He sent it again.
Su Yunting had been staring at her phone ever since she sent the photo.
She hadn’t received a reply from the other side.
Had she been exposed?
She turned her head to glance at He Jiaojiao, who wasn’t far away.
Seeing no particular reaction from her.
She looked away—she probably hadn’t been exposed.
Otherwise, He Jiaojiao couldn’t possibly be this calm.
Since she hadn’t been exposed, then maybe Shen Yuli had just gone off to be busy.
Su Yunting felt relieved. Thinking of something, she opened Doubao.
Su Yunting had never been in a relationship, let alone an online one. She had zero experience in this regard, so she needed to learn quickly and get some guidance.
She asked Doubao: How do you chat with a guy in an online relationship?
Doubao: Let me teach you some little tricks for online dating chats—easily close the distance and make them more and more hooked the more you chat.
1: Give the other person a special nickname, so that when he sees it, he’ll think of you.
A special nickname?
“Brother” should count, right? That one’s up to standard.
You have to learn to fish. We girls need to be reserved and can’t be too forward, so you have to learn to attract—treat the other person like a fish on a hook.
Su Yunting: ??
Treat him like a fish?
That’s too hard. She didn’t have that kind of skill.
Your heart must be hard, your mouth must be sweet. Anyway, saying nice things costs nothing, but don’t feel sorry for a man—feeling sorry for a man brings bad luck for a lifetime, and spending money on a man brings bad luck for eight lifetimes~
Su Yunting: …
She didn’t have money to spend on Shen Yuli anyway, but being sweet-tongued was still doable.
There were many more suggestions after that. Su Yunting read through them one by one, studying very seriously.
She was reading with rapt attention when a notification sound pulled her back.
L: [Is buying medicine expensive?]
Su Yunting’s eyes were filled with confusion, her brain unable to react for a moment.
Why would he ask that? All the money back then was transferred to her by him.
Could it be that He Jiaojiao said something on MI?
Su Yunting swallowed and cautiously tested the waters.
Trying her best to make her tone seem coquettish.
Strawberry Sweetheart: [How much was spent, doesn’t brother already know~]
Strawberry Sweetheart: [Kitty peeking jpg.]
Seeing the reply, Shen Yuli lowered his eyes in thought.
She’s too embarrassed to ask for money directly, so she’s hinting at it indirectly on MI?
L: [Transfer 200000]
Su Yunting stared at the twenty thousand—no, two hundred thousand—transfer that had reappeared, and her previously relaxed body instantly straightened up!
What did this mean?!
What on earth did He Jiaojiao say on MI?!
Why did another two hundred thousand transfer appear out of nowhere?
The more she said, the more mistakes she’d make. Su Yunting directly sent a question mark.
Strawberry Sweetheart: [?]
Since she didn’t know what was going on on the other end, she could only respond by staying still and seeing how the other party interpreted it.
Send a question mark and see how the other side understood it.
When Shen Yuli saw this question mark, he didn’t understand what she meant.
The transfer still sat there quietly, unaccepted.
L: [Not accepting?]
Strawberry Sweetheart: [Why should I accept it, brother?]
Su Yunting still didn’t answer, directly throwing the question back.
This move made Shen Yuli laugh.
He switched to MI and took a screenshot of the message Little Sweetheart had sent.
L: [Image jpg.]
L: [Did I misunderstand the meaning?]
Seeing the chat screenshot.
Su Yunting: Alarm bells blared!!
She knew it.
It must have been something He Jiaojiao said that made Shen Yuli transfer money again.
L: [Think it over before you speak. This isn’t the first time you’ve sent a message like this.]
Su Yunting: ??
Inner prairie dog screaming!
What to do, what to do.
He Jiaojiao had sent messages like this more than once.
Shen Yuli wasn’t an idiot—the meaning of asking for money couldn’t be more obvious.
If she refused again, she’d definitely be suspected.
Hinting on MI for the other party to send money, and now refusing to accept the transfer no matter what.
The contrast was too great—no matter how you looked at it, there was a problem.
Once she figured it out, Su Yunting decisively chose to accept the payment.
Strawberry Sweetheart: [Thank you, brother ^?^?~]
Strawberry Sweetheart: [Kiss jpg.]
Whether she’d be exposed and done for now, or go to prison later—which was sooner, which was later—she could still tell the difference.
The sewing machine could wait. She’d get through this hurdle first.
Strawberry Sweetheart: [You didn’t misunderstand, hehe~]
Strawberry Sweetheart: [It’s just that brother sent too much, so I was embarrassed to accept it, shy jpg.]
This explanation was very reasonable.
Shen Yuli looked at the message. When Little Sweetheart hadn’t accepted the transfer earlier, that was exactly what he’d guessed.
Strawberry Sweetheart: [Besides, I was also afraid that if I accepted so much money from you all at once, you’d think I was a scammer.]
Su Yunting was like a little kitten again, cautiously extending a tiny paw to test the waters.
L: [So are you?]