“Tch. He’s a grown-ass man, and he says he’s going to take a bath too?”

“Listen to yourself. Since when do men not bathe?”

The Meng sisters were both on their phones at the moment.

Hearing her younger sister Meng Wanyu complain, the older sister looked up and glanced at her.

“So, your Teacher Lu went to take a bath?”

Meng Wanyu let out a sigh and put down her phone.

She didn’t say anything, but that expression on her face was basically an admission.

Her sister laughed.

This little sister of hers was way too easy to read.

“That’s not how you chase a man,” Sister Meng said in a teasing tone. “If it’s a man you’ve already got wrapped around your finger, then even if he’s in the bath, he’ll still wipe his hands and reply to your messages.”

“Then tell me, how am I supposed to chase him?!”

“You’re pushing too hard. Why not try relaxing a little?”

Hearing that, Meng Wanyu froze for a moment.

Relax?

But how, exactly, was she supposed to relax?

Come to think of it, she also felt like she might’ve been putting too much pressure on Teacher Lu.

Whenever he saw her, there was caution in his eyes.

That definitely wouldn’t work.

“You don’t even know how to relax?”

Sister Meng brushed aside her younger sister’s long hair and casually patted her on the shoulder.

“For the next few days, just don’t go looking for him all the time. Better yet, leave him hanging for three to five days. Let him savor how good you are.”

“Ah? Three to five days?!”

Meng Wanyu shook her head at once.

That was way too long!

Whether Lu Chengzhou would start missing her was hard to say, but she’d definitely die of insomnia and frustration first.

Seeing her like this, Sister Meng couldn’t help flicking her on the forehead.

“Idiot! We have to go back to Jingzhou soon anyway. You won’t even have time to keep pestering him.”

“Why so suddenly?”

“Something went missing at home. They want us to go back and help look for it.”

“That’s just an excuse…”

Meng Wanyu pouted.

Back in Jingzhou, the Meng family had a huge estate and a ridiculous number of businesses.

People came and went every day. Wasn’t it normal for something to go missing now and then?

Besides, even if someone had to search for it, shouldn’t that be the detective agency’s job?

Neither of the sisters was good at that sort of thing.

Just as she was thinking that, her dad in Jingzhou called her.

“A-Yu, you and your sister need to come back to Jingzhou as soon as possible. Got it?”

“Dad, we’re not even good at finding things. What can we do if we go back?” Meng Wanyu muttered.

“If I tell you to come back, then come back! Stop talking back to me.”

When her dad turned serious, he was pretty scary.

“I told you to come back ages ago, and you kept putting it off. Today you delay till tomorrow, tomorrow till the day after. Your sister even told me you went and completed school enrollment procedures over in Yi City? You’ve got a perfectly good elite high school waiting for you, so what are you doing running off to some little place to join the fun?”

Meng Wanyu got scolded into silence.

Still, she shot her sister an annoyed look.

Why did she report everything to Dad?!

The matter was urgent, so the two of them prepared to leave the very next day.

Sister Meng packed their luggage, while Meng Wanyu used buying ice cream as an excuse and secretly went downstairs.

Not being old enough to drive was really a pain.

She had no choice but to trouble the driver again.

“Take me to this address.”

The place she gave was Lu Chengzhou’s residence.

Before leaving, she still wanted to see what he was doing one more time.

Soon, they arrived downstairs.

After getting out of the car, she habitually looked up at the floor where he lived.

She stood downstairs for quite a while, but in the end, she decided not to go up.

Just as she was about to leave, she saw the lights on at the Lu family’s balcony.

Right after that, a familiar, sneaky figure entered her line of sight.

“Hm?!”

Meng Wanyu’s eyes widened at once. Wasn’t that Su Qiaoman?

Why was Su Qiaoman in Lu Chengzhou’s house?!

“No way, I have to go take a look.”

Her anger flared up instantly.

She stopped caring about anything else and went straight to the door.

…

Knock knock knock~

The sound of knocking made Su Qiaoman pause.

She had been just about to use the same old trick again and go cozy up to Lu Chengzhou a little.

She hadn’t expected someone to come by this late.

After hesitating for a moment, she still walked to the door and opened it.

The moment she saw Meng Wanyu, her heart skipped a beat.

Honestly, she was already scared of getting snapped at by Miss Meng.

Seeing Meng Wanyu now gave her a guilty feeling.

Still, she quickly adjusted herself and returned to that same delicate, pitiful look as always.

“Sister Meng, you’re here?”

“I can’t be?”

Meng Wanyu looked at her with a smile that didn’t reach her eyes.

The moment she stepped inside, she noticed that one of the bedroom doors was locked.

With her clever little brain, she quickly realized that the locked room was Lu Chengzhou’s bedroom.

Looks like her Teacher Lu really did know where to draw the line.

At least he hadn’t let a woman like this casually enter his bedroom!

“You can, of course you can. Please, have a seat.”

Su Qiaoman actually put on the air of a hostess quite naturally, asking Meng Wanyu to sit and even making her a cup of tea.

Meng Wanyu sized her up coldly.

“So what, did you come to Teacher Lu’s house to work as a maid?”

“…”

A maid?!

What kind of nonsense maid was that?

Su Qiaoman was upset inside, but she still kept a smile on her face.

“Not a maid, no. After all, I’m not asking A-Zhou for a salary.”

“Oh~”

Meng Wanyu’s smile turned radiant.

“So you’re the unpaid kind.”

The flawless disguise Su Qiaoman had maintained all this time was ripped apart on the spot by that “unpaid kind” jab.

She clenched her fists and ground her teeth.

But even after stewing for quite a while, she still didn’t say anything nasty.

Talking recklessly to Miss Meng was basically asking to die.

She’d already suffered enough. She couldn’t keep refusing to learn her lesson.

Endure. She had to endure.

Right!

She could still use a little trick and damage Meng Wanyu’s image!

But that thought only flashed through Su Qiaoman’s mind before passing.

Back then, when she tried to pin the loan shark mess on Meng Wanyu, Meng Wanyu had almost destroyed her for it.

That kind of little trick was absolutely out of the question.

Just as she was desperately thinking of a response, Lu Chengzhou’s bedroom door opened.

Lu Chengzhou had come out to pour himself some water.

The moment he saw that Su Qiaoman still hadn’t left, he helplessly scratched his hair.

Then he saw Meng Wanyu sitting on the sofa, and his heart jumped.

“Ahem, ahem.”

Keeping two young, beautiful girls in the house this late at night was absurd in the most ridiculous way.

The problem was, why was Meng Wanyu looking at him so strangely?

It was almost like…

there was a hint of mockery in her gaze.

Being stared at like that by her, Lu Chengzhou really did feel a little guilty.

And at that exact moment, Su Qiaoman handed him a cup of hot tea.

Watching that scene, Meng Wanyu’s smile deepened even more.

She twirled the long hair by her ear and looked at the two of them with an ambiguous smile.

“Teacher Lu, you’re living pretty well, huh? You’ve even got such a pretty little maid serving you tea and water.”