Et Cetera

"Why are you smirking?" Li Honglie asked while hugging a pillow.

I was at Li Honglie's house, asked her to do some background check on a few people yesterday, not on Long Jinglou by the way.

"Check this out." I threw the same old USB into her hands.

"Why don't you just open your account instead of taking screenshots?" She asked after turning on the computer.

"IP address."

"Then why is the sadistic psychopath telling me about this?"

"I thought you would be interested in your crush." I took it away from her hands, "I guess not."

Li Honglie quickly snatched it out of my hand and plug the USB in her computer without saying anything.

It only took a few minutes for her to look through all of the files, "How did you know about his habits?" Li Honglie was curious like someone who has never been outside of their bubble before.

"We've been friends for years, I have visited his house a few times, his caretaker told me all about him on my first time there."

"Why?" Li Honglie asked. It was the right reaction, anyone would be alert if a stranger visited the place you live; however, the people who worked there acted differently.

"I was the first person that was personally invited by him." I replied.

According to the memory of the previous Xie Feihao, Long Jinglou didn't have anyone trustworthy enough to be called a friend, in fact, any. Xie Feihao was the only one that's trustworthy enough since he didn't treat Long Jinglou like a person who leaches on for fame and money, Xie Feihao was the only one that treated Long Jinglou like a regular human being.

Long Jinglou was pissed when Xie Feihao tried to set him up, but seriously, picking your friend you've known for years over a girl you've just met, he doesn't know what common sense means.

Wait, what am I expecting from a spoiled brat that gets everything he wants and only hear whatever he wants?

"You should probably get out of here before he comes." Li Honglie broke the silence, handed the USB back.

I was about to ask who, but someone knocked Li Honglie's door, "Young madam, mister Zhang Liu is here to see you."

Li Honglie stared at me with a grin, like expecting a panic or something. I shrugged, she bites her bottom lip, "Tell him to come up, I'm too tired." She raised her voice to let the person on the other side of the door hear.

I wasn't flustered, I was curious what's she going to do since she worries a lot about her reputation and the rumors. So I stayed and watched, but she pushed me inside her closet and shut the door from the outside.

[Didn't this girl just called me a pervert yesterday? Now she's locking me in her closet without supervision.]

Not too long later, a heard a door creak, followed by a few footsteps.

"What do you want? This isn't the first time you've been here." That was Li Honglie's voice, sounded a bit annoyed.

"What did you mean I don't have the confidence?"

"Are you still irritated by the comment I made earlier today?"

I flipped the light switch and explored the closet while listening to their conversation, it was about twice the size of my room in my previous world, filled with fancy and expensive dresses and jewelry. Any girl would be jealous when looking at this, but in my defense, I was a tomboy, the only thing I'm worried about is: are they comfortable?

Then something caught my attention: the light was reflected by something high above a shelf, it was glaring. It wasn't a piece of jewelry or anything expensive, it shaped like a small rectangular mirror. I thought it was quite strange for a tiny mirror to be in a large closet filled with a handful of mirrors that's about the three times of my size.

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Li Honglie knew Xie Feihao was listening, after all, she's the one who locked him up in her closet. So would Xie Feihao be pissed if she said something bad about him? Would he kick the door down and start shouting at the top of his lungs? Li Honglie wanted to tease him, just like how Xie Feihao teased Zhang Liu.

Li Honglie opened her mouth, "Haven't you heard the rumors about-" It was interrupted by a loud crash coming from the closet.

Li Honglie quickly rushed, "What did you do?" she opened the gray closet door just to see Xie Feihao lying and facing up on the ivory carpet while holding a picture frame, few dresses were covering him while jewelry and clothing were everywhere on the floor, one side of the shelf that originally holds the picture frame was tilted, a nail on the wall was bent that was once connected with the shelf.

"Are you keeping a secret relationship with another boy from your parents?" Zhang Liu asked, with a smirk that's covered by his mouth.

Li Honglie gave Zhang Liu a weird look, how can he not know that the boy that's lying on the carpet was the same person that they were talking about. She soon realized that Zhang Liu didn't recognize Xie Feihao is because he didn't wear his glasses, his hair during school was organized like he put too much hair gel, and he's not wearing his school uniform, anyone who didn't meet Xie Feihao without his glasses would confuse him for a stranger.

Li Honglie just thought of a sneaky idea, "This is Jing." She introduced Xie Feihao, "He's also known as Y and he's a klutz."

"Well, what's your relationship with him?" Zhang Liu seems childish enough to tell everyone about it and spread rumors.

"He's not rich like us and doesn't have many skills, but he's psychopathically brutal and a genius mastermind." Li Honglie teased.

"Tsk." Xie Feihao clicked his tongue after standing up from the mess.

"You said you want to work with me right? You should meet your team."

Zhang Liu suddenly gets serious, "How do I know he's at least an 'okay' teammate?"

"Give me the USB." Li Honglie pretends to be the leader, ordered Xie Feihao around.

Xie Feihao immediately gives it to her, playing his role. Li Honglie shows the screenshots to Zhang Liu after telling Xie Feihao to clean up the mess.

"Able to gather up information and gain Long Jinglou's trust? Not bad." Zhang Liu nods, "The only problem I have is that he looks like a girl."

"How is that a problem?" Xie Feihao asked, "And I bet you can't even do what I did."

"Do you even know who I am?" Zhang Liu was furious, how dare he acts like this towards a son of a business family?

"Zhang Liu, the younger brother of Zhang Yie, everyone knew they had a competition against each other. Despises Li Feifei for her dependent behavior, wanted to work with Li Honglie to get rid of her so she doesn't get on your nerve, et cetera et cetera." Xie Feihao mumbled in annoyance.

"That's basic info-"

"You've been in many dating relationships but you never really paid attention to any of them, people including your brother thinks you're a playboy, and I'm starting to think you're gay."

Zhang Liu was flustered, no one has ever told him that before, "Wh-"

He was interrupted again, "He did some background checks on you, in fact, did a check on everyone Li Feifei knows." Li Honglie interrupted, "I think it's a stupid idea to overdo on something this small, but he insisted and tried to make everything more... 'interesting.'" She quote-unquoted.

"Well, what do you expect from me?" Xie Feihao asked leaning against the chair, "I love a good drama."