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Ro sneakily uses the money she got from illegal parties to invest. She doubles and triples the capital and stops when she has ten times more capital than when she started in case someone notices this abnormal activity.

She changes the items that Qin has ordered online; she replaces Qin's cheap paint of hundreds of yuan a bucket to hundreds of thousands of yuan a bucket; she replaces everything he ordered online with similar appearances but much better items.

She cannot stay with him forever and she wants to improve his life as much as possible.

even when he is tired.

He painted the wall in classical blue to match the furniture.

He also added some new furniture, decorations and plants. The previous curtain's color has faded and he installs a new 2-layer thin curtain. Sunlight and wind blow up the curtain and take away the new decorations' smell. Qin's home is replenished with new life.

Yet, the apartment after decoration is not suitable for living in for a period.

Qin brings his computer, phone, a few books, and a key to the apartment in the rural area of the city.

It has water, electricity, and a bed ready to be used. Qin cleans the apartment and moves in. The only problem is that it doesn't have wifi and its signal is bad. He cannot play video games with Ro. They text and voice chat on his phone.

Decades ago, the land here was cheap and his parents bought a chunk of land. They circled the land with fences and planted it with grass. A classical house with red bricks stands in the center. Many of the neighbors here have a house like that. Houses thinly scatter; green plants come in a bunch; tall ginkgo trees; Cirrus are on the fences... Few people live here. Qin hasn't seen anyone after a thirty minutes' walk.

He took a few good photos.

Ro likes it here because it is quiet and scerene.

Qin prefers his previous home because that is his home.

He opens the windows and lets the fresh air come in.

'When shifu gets a driver's license, I can get shifu a car.' It is too far to walk from here to the nearby bus stop. Restaurants don't deliver food here.

'Nah, I can walk and lose weight at the same time.'

'We will see.' Ro speaks perfunctorily.

'You are always like that. I don't think it is good for you.' Qin is being serious. Ro always gives him stuff aggressively.

'Oh.' She sounds indifferent.

'If you like it here, I can buy you a house nearby...' Qin's voice softens.

'We can be neighbors and I can cook you braised chicken rice every day.'

'No I don't eat. Go away.' Ro sounds colder.

'I will be mad if you keep saying that.'

'I am already not happy. Hmmph!' Ro hangs up the call. I cannot eat. I cannot eat anything.

Qin looks pinned.

'Sorry...It was my fault that I got you mad.' Qin calls her again.

Ro doesn't want to talk.

'I can learn to cook food if you tell me what you want to eat. Just order me anytime.'

'You didn't tell me your address, your age and your schedule...'

'I only have one friend. You are as important as my family.'

'This is my fault. Why are you blaming yourself? You are a real baka.' Ro feels guilty when she sees him flustered.

'Yes yes yes, Ro is the smartest. I am a baka.' Qin smiles like a father to his daughter.

'I am not a kid. Let me tell you the truth. I am already hundreds of years old!'

'Yes yes yes!'

Qin keeps nodding. Ro wonders: did he just believe what I said? She worries that he might be tricked by frauds in the future...

There are many frauds in society. They defraud everything beyond common people's imagination, from cheating for national investment to cheating love.

Ro thought that Bunny was going to make a living by herself on Amazon by selling skin-care products, but Bunny cooperated with a few web celebrities to sell shoddy. They recycled old skin-care package and add some random thing or water into the bottles.

Ro considers Qin her friend and she reported their store.

These web celebrities made a group chat for selling shoddy products and Ro posted their chat history online. Soon it became a thing. They received law suits from famous brands.

Bunny was careful that she didn't leave much evidence. She closed the store and her fans dropped, but she then posted a video in which she was crying and apologizing. The comments under that video are two sided.

Ro didn't do anything further.

She didn't cut Bunny's call to Qin.

'Yue...I am sorry.' Bunny's voice is not as pleasant as Ro's. Her voice is overdone.

Why didn't Qin realize that in the past?

Qin is waiting for her next word. He wonders what she is going to say.

Bunny realizes that Qin is not as gentle as before and she is a little restless. He didn't say "Yes" which he would say before.

'Yue, I am sorry. I didn't dare to apologize to you for a long time. Yue...I am really sorry that I hurt you to this stage...' Bunny sobs. Ro thinks she has some real feelings.

Among all her financial supporters, Qin was the sincerest one.

'I am good now. I never blame you.' Qin speaks subtlely.

His voice is really pleasing to hear. Bunny cries more as she hasn't heard his voice for such a long time. She is impressed again by his voice.

'I really really like you. I know we cannot go back anymore. Sorry, Yue. I am really sorry...Whenever I think of these, I am upset. Sorry, I know I am bothering you...'

'It is okay.' Qin is a little fidgety when he hears her crying.

He doesn't know why but he cannot keep his focus on the call.

'You liked to hear me sing in the past...' Bunny recalls their past as she is crying.

'...' Qin recalls how horrible her singing was and doesn't know what to say.

'Do you still like cup noodles? There are some new flavors on the market. Shall we go try them soon?' She finishes her sheer nonsense and moves to cup noodles suddenly.

'No I don't like cup noodles. I didn't like them in the past either.' Qin stops her.

They have been talking for ten minutes. He is almost at the bus stop. He hasn't replied to Ro's text. She will be mad if he doesn't reply on time.

'Do you have anything else to tell me?'

'…Aw…' Bunny sobs and she sounds feeble. 'Can you lend me 10k yuan?'

'No.' Qin is not sure how he feels now.

Although he is no longer active in the anime circle, he still knows those hot news.

He knows that Bunny was selling shoddy skin-care products.

The more she acts innocent, the less he trusts her.

He has learned how her personality is.

Any apology has nothing to do with him now.

They are strangers to each other already.

'I will pay you back soon. Yue, I won't lie to you...'

'Sorry, I am poor.' Qin's tone has no ups or downs just like usual, but Bunny can hear his satire.

In fact, Qin's voice is a little sarcastic. His voice can be considered as graceful if he wants to, but now he sounds like he is asking for trouble.

When he pays attention to his tone, he sounds normal. Whenever he doesn't, he will have the sarcastic mode on.

This is one of the reasons why he had no friends online even if he had tutored other voice actors.

'Gong Ziyue! Do you lend, or not?!' Bunny suddenly raises her voice and Qin is shocked and puts his phone further away.

'I don't owe you anything now.'

Qin feels sour in his eyes.

Even though I know what kind of person she is, I am still sad...

'You act like as if I owe you something! Whenever I think of your face, I want to vomit!'

'Fat otaku!' Bunny is ashamed into anger and spits poison at Qin.

'What's wrong with fat otaku!? Fat otaku lives off you?!' Qin shouts back at her. Ro says these words when they chat all the time but this time Qin couldn't help crying.

I have let it go. Why couldn't I control myself? I am even crying! If Ro knows this, she will be laughing at me already.

'My life sucks right now. I get sick constantly. I really miss you. No one treats me as nice as you did.'

'Whenever I think of your failure in life, my fat otaku's face is smiling.'

'Fuck off!' Bunny curses him and hangs up the call.

Qin blacklists her number and deletes her in his phone. He will not receive anymore calls or texts from her.

He has already cut any other connection with her.

He is never going to get in touch with her any more.

He transfers 5k yuan to her as his last gift for her.

Qin knows that her family is not rich and she is the only financial support of her family. This will be his last time giving her money. He will not help her in any format in the future.

Qin's back rests against the stop sign at the bus stop. He is sitting on the ground. He feels relieved as if a heavy rock has been moved away from his heart after he wipes off his tears and snots.

'Sorry, I had real life stuff going on.'

Ro knows that he just accepted his ex-girlfriend's phone-call and was cursed, but she has to act like she didn't know this.

'What took you so long? Were you walking to the bus stop? Did you fall into a ditch on your way there?'

'Nah, a pyramid scheme tried to cheat me.' Qin excuses with his nonchalant voice.

Every time Ro hears him trying to hide something from her, she wants to laugh so bad.

He is dumb and tsundere. ( ? )

'Don't trust any pyramid scheme! You will be cheated to wash other people's feet and they won't feed you.' Ro pretends to sound earnest.

'Don't worry.' He hears her voice and gets better.

She is just a kid but she acts like an adult to comfort me. She is so tsundere.

She can't be over sixteen because she has such a cute voice.

This identification is done by him the experienced voice actor.

Also, she seems to be good-tempered, but she is actually capricious. She must be a teenager.

He secretly writes a nickname for her in his friend list, "3 Years old Ginger".

Yet, Ro knows everything.

For a person like Qin, she grades him two and a half years old.