Not a Fox Lady

Xia Yu continued to ponder. If he were to make contact, what method and form should he use – temptation or coercion? He knew too little about the girl called Liang Liang for an effective analysis.

Picking up his phone, he messaged Zhong Yunxin, but she did not reply for a long time. Glancing at the screen, it showed 22:05. Xia Yu grumbled inwardly: Both on the surface and inside, she's a delinquent but goes to bed earlier than a good student. He put down his phone and went to sleep.

The next morning during breakfast, Zhong Yunxin answered Xia Yu's question, "Her name is Hu Lianglu. There's another girl in school called Lulu, so she lets me call her Liang Liang."

Xia Yu touched his chin; he had momentarily misheard it as Huli Lulu, which was probably because he had been reading too many comics recently. "What do you think? Do you want to have some fun?" Zhong Yunxin put her hand on Xia Yu's shoulder.

Yue Xue, who was sitting by their side, raised her head sensitively. Was her brother about to find another lover after Liu Manman and Xu Youxiang?

Xia Yu initially wanted to ask more questions, but seeing Zhong Yunxin's expression, he was afraid she really wanted to push Hu Lianglu onto him, so he remained silent. Without makeup, Hu Lianglu was a pretty and youthful girl, but with makeup, she was simply not human.

"Shall I set you up?" Zhong Yunxin continued, "Don't tell me you are devoted to that woman An Siyao."

Xia Yu didn't want to say that her makeup was too ghastly since Zhong Yunxin appreciated that kind of makeup. But if he mentioned other reasons, Zhong Yunxin would suggest trying it out. So he asked, "Does she like sweet or spicy food?"

Zhong Yunxin hesitated for a moment, "Sweet and spicy are both fine, I guess?"

"I'm not interested in a woman who's ambiguous and unprincipled," Xia Yu said.

Zhong Yunxin was stunned for a moment. Just as Xia Yu thought he might have refused too tactfully, Zhong Yunxin reacted. She patted Xia Yu's back forcefully and said, "I understand! In our daily life, we must strictly adhere to our character!"

With that, she picked up the chili sauce next to her and poured a large amount onto her bread. Seeing Zhong Yunxin eating the bread while trying to withstand the spiciness, Xia Yu suspected that she might not be much harder to deceive than An Siyao.

It seemed that as long as he said something that sounded cool, he could control Zhong Yunxin's thoughts. However, it was a pity that she had no self-control, so controlling her thoughts was useless – her body still wouldn't cooperate.

After finishing breakfast, Xia Yu secretly called An Siyao. Under her pressure, Xia Yu sent Zhong Yunxin back to school. When he returned, he asked Yu Ningmeng to look into Hu Lianglu.

Yu Ningmeng soon sent a reply: Are you tired of playing with the college student boss of the milk tea shop and want to try a down-and-out rich girl?

Xia Yu sent a string of question marks, then continued to explain: Haven't I already explained the milk tea shop issue? Plus, you've met Duan Yi. During this period, the company's team had been initially set up and started its first project.

Xia Yu didn't let them start developing games right away. Instead, he chose a small software for them to familiarize themselves with first.

During this process, Duan Yi and Yu Ningmeng also met once since Xia Yu didn't know much about many programs, and he completely relied on Yu Ningmeng.

Yu Ningmeng didn't respond to Xia Yu's rhetorical question; she was just teasing him.

She pulled the topic back to its origin: This girl is from the Hu family, Tianhu Group, previously engaged in building materials, which had not been doing well in the past ten years. Her parents had been running around all these years, trying to get orders for the company.

At this point, she couldn't help but tease him again: "I happen to have an order here. Why don't you use it as leverage to make those two people bring Hu Lianglu over to your house for dinner?"

"What would happen if I agreed?" Xia Yu asked curiously.

"How burnt do you want to be at the crematorium?" Yu Ningmeng immediately replied.

Xia Yu knew there was no such good deal.

"What does she want to do?" Yu Ningmeng asked again.

Zhong Yunxin and Hu Lianglu were in the same class. They went out riding GT motorcycles yesterday and were caught by the police on the spot, Xia Yu said.

"I will talk to her parents to let them go back and scold her?"

"Let me see the specific situation first," Xia Yu didn't reject the idea, but he didn't commit either.

To get Hu Lianglu away from Zhong Yunxin would only be a temporary solution, but let Hu Lianglu keep an eye on Zhong Yunxin could fix the problem for good.

He couldn't expose himself as a good brother to Zhong Yunxin, but An Siyao could.

Using An Siyao's body, he planned to meet Hu Lianglu and see if he could grasp any of her weaknesses.

If she were an obedient or snobbish person, it would be easy to blackmail her with orders for her parents, but being a bad girl, Hu Lianglu wouldn't fall for that.

Putting this matter aside for now, Xia Yu picked up his phone and casually browsed through a video sharing platform.

In the original video section, he found a clip that an online friend made about the previous badminton match.

He clicked on the video, and the silly host used a silly tone to talk about what happened in the previous three posts.

After watching for a while, Xia Yu lost interest, and continued browsing through the video section. He was just about to exit when a headline caught his eye.

"The adaptation of beautiful novelist Wen Ziying's famous work 'White Swan' into a TV series is coming soon."

Wen Ziying's book is being adapted into a TV series?

It was a promotional video. Xia Yu clicked on it and went straight to the comment section.

The internet users didn't disappoint him. The top comment summarized the video, discussing the scriptwriter, director, and investment company, saying that the TV series might be worth looking forward to.

The second comment compiled a brief personal profile of Wen Ziying.

Most of the profile was something Xia Yu already knew, but there were small parts he wasn't aware of.

For example, Wen Ziying's mother, Bian Guping, was a somewhat famous essayist and poet.

Out of curiosity about Wen Ziying, Xia Yu searched for Bian Guping's name, but only found information about her essays and poems, as well as some award records. There were no other traces of her.

The media in this world was too upright. If it were Xia Yu's previous world, those media would have dug deep into Wen Ziying's family background and any news that could be sensationalized.

After browsing through the information he had found, Xia Yu discovered that Bian Guping had only been in the literary world for five years, with an active period of just two years. No wonder there was so little news about her.

He also found a problem.

In the author's list on the website, she was not classified as deceased, which meant that Bian Guping was still alive.

However, he had been to Wen Ziyin's place around twenty times, but he had never seen Bian Guping. Wen Ziyin lived alone.

Curious about Wen Ziyin's situation, Xia Yu directly entered her body.