Xu Zifan turned off the virtual screen, refusing to look at Yue Lingling's distraught state. There's nothing wrong with liking someone, but someone like Yue Lingling is disgusting. Let her suffer if she wants to.
He and Yu Sisi parked the car and went upstairs. He asked with concern, "Are you alright? Are you still scared?"
Yu Sisi shook her head and said with a smile, "I'm not afraid anymore. You've helped me again. I feel like you're my benefactor. I'm so lucky."
Xu Zifan shook his head and chuckled, "What benefactor? It was just a coincidence. You should keep some pepper spray in your bag from now on, just to be safe."
"Yeah, this is the first time I've encountered something like this either. I'll place an order to buy some later." Yu Sisi looked at him with bright eyes and said, "I'm really inspired right now. I'll go back and draw first. You should get some rest too. I'll treat you to dinner tomorrow."
"Okay, goodnight." Xu Zifan nodded to her and opened his own door.
"Good night." Yu Sisi couldn't wait to get home. Without even changing her clothes, she rushed to her study and quickly started drawing design sketches. She was completely immersed in her creation, completely focused.
When she was at her most helpless, Xu Zifan appeared in front of her like a hero and solved all her problems. In that instant, her thoughts flowed like a spring, and she had never been so inspired. She persisted until she got home, and she couldn't wait to turn the inspiration in her mind into design drawings!
Light and heavy lines appeared on the drawing paper, quickly sketching several human figures. Then, one fashionable and elegant outfit after another was drawn by her. They were all high-end gowns, with simple designs, yet they exuded a deep attraction. Just looking at the clothes could evoke the word "male god," like the prince charming of countless young girls.
That was Yu Sisi's truest feeling about Xu Zifan at that time.
After finishing all the drawings, Yu Sisi spread them out on her desk, a satisfied smile on her face. She stretched, glanced at the wall clock, and realized it was already past midnight. She quickly tidied up the drawings, took a shower, and went to bed.
She slept soundly through the night, and the negative emotions brought on by the drunkard had vanished without a trace, having no effect on her whatsoever.
The next morning, she got up early to make breakfast. With Xu Zifan as her good teacher, she could now cook many basic dishes and was even starting to enjoy cooking. She invited Xu Zifan to have breakfast with her, and then Xu Zifan taught her a new dish and a nourishing soup.
Xu Zifan took a picture of the cooked meal as usual and posted it on his WeChat Moments with the caption: [A new dish I tried today, it was delicious.]
Yue Lingling waited outside the apartment complex all night, feeling extremely upset. Seeing this photo made her even more upset. Yu Sisi didn't come out. They really are living together now. So, this dish was made by Xu Zifan for Yu Sisi? No wonder he suddenly developed a liking for cooking recently and hasn't contacted her. It turns out he has a new girlfriend.
Yu Sisi and Xu Zifan went in the night before and haven't come out since noon. Yue Lingling couldn't help but wonder what they were doing inside, and the more she thought about it, the more tormented she became. She couldn't go in to look for them, and she was furious to the point of almost going crazy. She couldn't bear this feeling of everything slipping out of her control, couldn't bear the feeling of Xu Zifan drifting further and further away from her; it was too painful.
After Xu Zifan and Yu Sisi finished lunch, Yu Sisi packed the food and prepared to go to the hospital to visit her grandmother.
Shao Hua suddenly spoke up to remind Xu Zifan, "[Host, Yue Lingling is still at the door. Could she be following Yu Sisi?]"
Xu Zifan frowned, opened the virtual screen, and saw that Yue Lingling was not far outside the residential area. He asked Shao Hua to block her phone number and call the police.
"Hello, there is a woman stalking outside the Yuhu residential area. She has been watching since last night and hasn't left yet. I suspect she has ulterior motives. Please dispatch officers as soon as possible."
He made up an excuse to keep Yu Sisi for a while. Ten minutes later, the local police arrived, arrested Yue Lingling, and reviewed the surveillance footage. They found that Yue Lingling had indeed been outside for more than ten hours and kept looking up at the building from time to time, but she didn't have a fixed spot. It seemed like she had some ulterior motives, so of course she had to be taken back for investigation.
Yue Lingling panicked, "I have a friend living inside, I have no ill intentions."
"What have you been doing out there for so long? Who are your friends?"
Yue Lingling shut up. She couldn't let Xu Zifan know that she had been outside the community for more than ten hours, otherwise what would Xu Zifan think of her?
When the police saw that she couldn't explain herself, they became even more suspicious and took her away.
Xu Zifan only ended his conversation with Yu Sisi after seeing Yue Lingling leave, and told her to go to the hospital.
He used to think Yue Lingling was just selfish, but now he realizes she's not only selfish, but also has psychological issues. He suspects that the original owner's knowledge of Yue Lingling's marriage wasn't something she genuinely wanted to do. Perhaps it was because the original owner was constantly traveling and never returning home that she casually married someone to reassure him and give her another chance to get close to him. This kind of love is too twisted.
Yue Lingling was detained by the police. She insisted that she had gone to the wrong neighborhood and did not have her friend's phone number, so she waited outside all night. The police could not do anything about her, but still detained her as a suspicious person for 24 hours. She was released after the investigation yielded no results.
Yue Lingling left the police station in a disheveled state, just as Zhao Xin, who happened to be passing by in a friend's car, saw her. Zhao Xin immediately called out, "Stop! Stop right there! Look at that woman, that's Yue Lingling, the one who seduced Xu Zifan. How did she get out of the police station? Was she arrested?"
Her friend looked at her and said, "Most likely. Look at her, she looks quite haggard. This kind of slut who loves being a mistress, could she have been seduce a married man and ended up here?"
Zhao Xin watched Yue Lingling take a taxi away
"Okay," he exclaimed excitedly, "Let's go ask!"
Her friend shared her hatred and couldn't wait to see Yue Lingling suffer, so he quickly parked his car and went to accompany her.
The two pretended to be Yue Lingling's friends and went to great lengths to gather information. Zhao Xin was utterly stunned to learn that Yue Lingling had spent the entire night outside the Yuhu residential complex. Wasn't Yuhu the place where Xu Zifan's new home was located? What was Yue Lingling doing outside? Was she crazy?
The police also wanted to investigate Yue Lingling, a suspicious person, more. They asked Zhao Xin a lot of questions, and Zhao Xin directly told the police that Xu Zifan and Yue Lingling were childhood sweethearts. The police found it even more suspicious. Since it was true that Yue Lingling had friends in the community, why didn't she contact her friends to verify it, but instead lied and said that she had gone to the wrong place?
The police went to Yuhu Residential Area again and found Xu Zifan to ask him to assist in the investigation. Xu Zifan pretended to only just find out about Yue Lingling's affairs and said in surprise, "Last night a friend had a birthday party, and more than a dozen of us had a gathering. After dinner, they were going to go to karaoke. I came back first, and I didn't know Yue Lingling was here. She didn't tell me."
"We understand that you are very close to Yue Lingling. Has she shown any unusual behavior recently?"
Xu Zifan said apologetically, "I don't know much about this. Although we used to be neighbors, we live far apart now and are both very busy with work, so we rarely keep in touch." Then, he had a sudden thought and said, "Perhaps her friends know her better. If you think there are any problems, you can ask her friends for information."
Xu Zifan gave the police the contact information of more than a dozen people at the gathering. The police were very responsible. Yue Lingling's behavior was very suspicious. Now that they had a lead, they continued to investigate. That afternoon, they went to question Li Dong and Wei Yan.
The friends were all shocked. Yue Lingling stayed outside Xu Zifan's apartment complex all night and until noon the next day? How could that be?
They all expressed disbelief, saying that Yue Lingling had drunk too much and taken a taxi home. Besides, Yue Lingling and Xu Zifan were childhood best friends; if Xu Zifan had known Yue Lingling was there, he would have let her in. If Yue Lingling wanted to see Xu Zifan, she would have gone directly to him. They were more inclined to believe that Yue Lingling was drunk and didn't know what she was doing.
Of course, the police denied this. When they saw Yue Lingling, she was completely sober and could lie, which had nothing to do with being drunk.
Only Wei Yan guessed the gist of it. He thought Yue Lingling must have been upset after seeing Xu Zifan and Yu Sisi leave, so she went to find Xu Zifan, but then chickened out and stayed outside all night. He hadn't expected the stalking to be so intense, nor that Yue Lingling would be so relentlessly focused on Yu Sisi.
The police learned from them that Yue Lingling caused Xu Zifan's two breakups, and that Zhao Xin, who claimed to be Yue Lingling's friend, was actually Xu Zifan's second girlfriend. However, this was not very useful information, and the police still couldn't find anything and had to give up.
All of their friends were a bit confused. They invited Xu Zifan to get together, but none of them contacted Yue Lingling.
Li Dong asked, looking completely bewildered, "Zifan, what are you and Lingling up to?"
Xu Zifan took a sip of his drink. "I didn't know either. I only found out when the police came to my door today."
Wei Yan tried to cover for Yue Lingling, saying, "Did Zhao Xin do something? Didn't the police mention Zhao Xin today? Did she say something to Lingling?"
Li Dongdao said, "You know Zhao Xin, so ask her, or ask the people around her. It's one thing for Zhao Xin to post on her WeChat Moments that day to criticize Zifan and Lingling, but if she really did something behind the scenes, then we can't just let it go."
Everyone wanted to know the truth, so Wei Yan asked a friend for Zhao Xin's new WeChat account and added her. As soon as he added her, Zhao Xin sent him a voice message: "[Wei Yan, why did you add me again? You're so close to Xu Zifan and Yue Lingling, don't you know they're having an affair? Aren't you setting me up?]"
Wei Yan frowned and replied, "[Zhao Xin, don't talk nonsense. Zifan and Lingling have known each other for so many years, their relationship is spotless. Don't ruin their reputation.]"
Zhao Xin scoffed, "[Are you kidding me? Yue Lingling was squatting outside Xu Zifan's apartment complex and was arrested by the police as a suspicious person. She definitely likes Xu Zifan, no doubt about it. It's terrifying to think about. When I went on a date with Xu Zifan, was she following me? What a lunatic, so shameless!"]
Everyone was in the same private room, and they could hear Zhao Xin's words clearly. The room was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
The two girls exchanged a glance, and one of them hesitated before saying, "Could it be that we haven't realized it all along, but Lingling actually has a crush on Zifan?"
Another girl hesitated and said, "Zifan, think about it carefully. Did Lingling have anything to do with your two previous breakups?"
Xu Zifan frowned slightly and thought for a while, "If that's the case, then it seems... there really is one."