132: Chapter 132 Family, look who I've run into!

Shen Qingxue raised her head and looked at him.

"Thought what?"

Lu Li opened his mouth, then closed it again.

He couldn't possibly say that he thought she wanted to stir up some pink romantic bubbles with him—that would be so tacky.

"...It's nothing."

Lu Li turned his head away, pretending to look at the night scenery outside the window.

Shen Qingxue stared at his profile for two seconds, suddenly struck by a flash of insight as she understood something.

Her earlobes instantly turned red, spreading all the way down to her neck.

"You... what are you thinking about all day long!"

Shen Qingxue's voice was filled with both shyness and annoyance as she grabbed a pillow and smashed it toward Lu Li.

Lu Li reached out to catch the pillow with an innocent expression.

"I didn't say anything at all! You guessed it yourself, it has nothing to do with me!"

"You're still talking!"

Shen Qingxue picked up another pillow and threw it at him.

Lu Li didn't catch it this time, letting the pillow hit him before bending down to pick it up, hugging it to his chest with a wronged look.

"I really didn't say anything... It's just that your imagination is too rich..."

Shen Qingxue glared at him, her chest heaving violently a few times before she turned her head away and refused to look at him.

"Get out."

"Huh?"

"I said, get out!"

Shen Qingxue's voice was muffled, carrying a hint of a tremor born of anger and embarrassment.

Lu Li tactfully stood up, put the pillow back on the bed, and turned to walk toward the door.

When he reached the door, he paused and glanced back.

Shen Qingxue still kept her head turned away from him, her earlobes red enough to bleed.

"Alright, good night, sweet dreams."

Lu Li quickly closed the door gently before another pillow could fly into his face.

Returning to his room, Lu Li collapsed onto the bed, stared at the ceiling, and let out a long breath.

Then he groped for his phone, preparing to scroll through some short videos to distract himself.

As a result, the moment he opened Douyin, the very first recommended video on the homepage was...

"Folks! Come quick and look who I ran into in the middle of the night?!"

Why does the accompanying picture look so familiar?

Taking a closer look, holy shit! It turned out to be his back.

Lu Li was dumbfounded, abruptly sitting up from the bed.

The comment section had already exploded by this time; in less than half an hour, the likes had exceeded ten thousand, and the comments had already surpassed a thousand—truly terrifying!

[Isn't this Lu Li?! What is he going out to buy in the middle of the night?]

[Look closely upstairs, he is carrying a shopping bag in his hand, he must have gone to the convenience store to buy things.]

[The flip-flops on his feet are the exact same model as the ones on the show, it's undoubtedly him!]

[I'm a bit curious about what Lu Li bought???]

[I work right in the convenience store, I can testify that what he bought was... and I suspect...]

While all the netizens were giving various opinions, as soon as this comment from the video author appeared, the entire comment section completely exploded.

[Holy shit! What the heck?!]

[A grown man coming out in the middle of the night to buy... sanitary pads?!]

[Is there even any need to ask? According to the author's deduction, it must be for a girl!]

[Who is it for? This area is full of residential quarters, and it's the middle of the night... which means that girl is living at his place right now!]

[Living at his place... in the middle of the night...]

[Did you guys forget something? Shen Qingxue appeared on camera with Lu Li before!!!]

[Oh my god!!! Are they cohabitating?!]

[Where is the Civil Affairs Bureau? Quick! Immediately! Right now! Tie them up and take them to the Civil Affairs Bureau!]

[Haha! Don't rush, everyone, I've already moved the Civil Affairs Bureau here, now get your marriage certificate right on the spot~]

Lu Li scrolled through the comments one by one, finding them more and more absurd the more he read.

Crap, he was really in trouble now.

The deduction skills of this generation of netizens were truly terrifying.

The problem was that they actually guessed quite a lot of it right, and they came to the conclusion based on just a few fragments.

This margin of error... was practically more zero-tolerance than a level-eight machinist's zero-tolerance!

Lu Li didn't even have the heart to keep reading at this point.

Don't ask why? To ask is to lack the courage, fearing that even the color of his underwear would end up in the comment section.

All he could say was that it was all the netizens' fault!

The next morning, Lu Li was woken up by his phone vibrating.

Feeling around for it, he saw a message sent by Shen Qingxue.

"Breakfast is ready, it's on the table. I'm going back to my room first."

Lu Li was stunned for a moment, then crawled out of bed and walked out of the bedroom.

On the dining table sat a bowl of porridge, a fried egg, a small dish of side dishes, and a glass of warm water.

Next to it was a sticky note with two words written on it.

"Eat it."

The handwriting was delicate and neat, every single stroke proper.

Lu Li stared at that sticky note for two seconds, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curve slightly upward.

Oh my, there's even positive feedback now.

Not bad, not bad.

Lu Li quickly sat down, picked up the porridge, and took a sip.

While eating and scrolling through his phone, he discovered that the trending topic about him on Douyin not only hadn't cooled down, but was instead intensifying.

Last night's video had already surged to third place on the trending search list, and the comment section had completely fallen.

[Brothers, it's hammered home! Lu Li went to buy sanitary pads in the middle of the night, there must be a girl at home!]

[The goddess appeared on camera with Lu Li again... the more you think about it, the more terrifying it gets, folks.]

[The key point is the sanitary pads, folks! This means they are cohabitating! Cohabitating!]

[I don't believe it, I don't believe it, I don't believe it. How could my goddess be together with that slack-off monster?]

[Folks, my heart is shattered all over the floor. The goddess is no longer that goddess, I don't love her anymore, wuwuwu.]

[Wake up upstairs, nobody cares.]

Lu Li finished reading with a blank expression, then turned his phone face down on the table.

Very good.

Now people all over the country knew he went to buy sanitary pads in the middle of the night.

Social death, but not entirely social death.

After finishing his meal, Lu Li washed the dishes, then walked over to the door of Shen Qingxue's room and gently knocked.

"It's me."

"Come in."

Shen Qingxue's voice sounded much better than last night.

Lu Li pushed the door open and went in.

Shen Qingxue leaned against the head of the bed holding her phone, her complexion having recovered a bit, not as frighteningly pale as last night.

She raised her head to glance at Lu Li, then lowered her head to continue looking at her phone.

"Saw the trending search?"

"Saw it."

Lu Li pulled over a chair and sat down, his tone casual.

"Now people all over the country know I bought sanitary pads for you in the middle of the night."

Shen Qingxue's fingers paused for a moment, her earlobes turning slightly red, but quickly returning to normal.

After a few seconds of silence, she suddenly spoke.

"That video... I read the comment section."

"Yeah."

"They all said... we are cohabitating."

Shen Qingxue's voice was very soft, as if stating a fact, yet also as if probing something.

Lu Li was stunned for a moment, then scratched his head.

"Let them talk if they want to. Their mouths are on them, we can't control them anyway."

"You don't mind?"

Shen Qingxue raised her head and looked at him, her cold and clear eyes carrying a trace of unnoticeable earnestness.

Lu Li thought about it and then shook his head.

"I don't mind, it's not true anyway."

He paused and added another sentence.

"Besides, we are business partners, living together is also for the convenience of work, and it's not something shameful."

Shen Qingxue stared at him for two seconds, then looked away.

"Mm."

Her voice was faint, but Lu Li always felt that something was missing from that "Mm".

He couldn't quite put his finger on what was missing, just that it felt a bit different from usual.

"Oh, right."

Lu Li changed the subject and took his phone out of his pocket.

"I've already finished the full version of the love song, and recorded a rough demo. If your body permits today, do you want to listen to it?"

Shen Qingxue nodded.

"Okay."