Misunderstanding

"It’s really you, Little Brother Gu! I was worried I might have mistaken you!"

When Le Erya saw Gu Sheng looking at her as if he were a mouse that had seen a cat, she became even more interested in him.

Originally, this had only been a chance encounter. She might have said hello and left, but now…

She was sleepy yet didn’t want to go to sleep. Having finally found something interesting, how could she easily let go of such a refreshing "toy"?

"Yeah! Yeah! What a coincidence!"

Gu Sheng cursed his bad luck inwardly. Of all the people he wanted to see least right now, Le Erya was among them. He mainly felt guilty.

Last night, when he had been showing off, he had bullied her quite badly. Now that he had run into her, why did he have the ominous feeling that his misdeeds were about to be exposed?

"That’s right! What a coincidence. You came to see a movie too."

Le Erya narrowed her eyes slightly and looked at Gu Sheng with a beaming smile. With this little brother, she had found the feeling of being a big sister.

"Mm-hmm~~"

Gu Sheng nodded repeatedly. The decisive killer he was in the dungeon worlds appeared extremely restrained and nervous in front of Le Erya. It wasn’t that he was afraid of her. Rather, he was used to keeping a low profile in the real world—not because he wanted to pretend to be weak before crushing his enemies, but because he felt there was no need to attract attention in the real world.

The real world was, after all, something like his home base. It wasn’t a plot world where he had the advantage of foresight and could do whatever he wanted. He was very "unfamiliar" with this world. What if he got too reckless and ran into Duan Lang?

Although Gu Sheng didn’t go looking for trouble, he wasn’t afraid of it either. The Zheng Family was a good example. If someone truly foolish enough provoked him, he wouldn’t be polite to them, just as he had said before.

He was a lazy person who didn’t like fighting much. But once he started, he wouldn’t stop. Either he didn’t do it, or he did it thoroughly. He would never leave behind any loose ends.

"Yaya, are you off today?"

Gu Sheng could only deliberately act young to humor the witch Le Erya in front of him. Though she looked sweet and adorable, with a hint of dazed cuteness,

Gu Sheng, who had already experienced her unpredictable moods, knew that she was a witch. Once she set her sights on you, she wouldn’t hold back, and she would tease you mercilessly.

"Nope!"

A sly glint appeared in Le Erya’s eyes. She pulled Gu Sheng’s head closer and whispered into his ear, "I came to investigate a case. A murder case—a massacre in which an entire family was wiped out!"

After saying that, she smiled at Gu Sheng, wanting to wait until he showed fear before frightening him further. However, after waiting for quite a while, she still didn’t see the reaction she wanted.

"And then? You came to the cinema to investigate a case? Who are you kidding? Yaya, what do you think would happen if I reported you? Police badge number 1… abandoning your post?"

Gu Sheng had suffered at her hands several times already, so he wasn’t going to fall for her tricks again. Instead, he turned the tables on her, pointing out that this young lady was neglecting her duties during work hours.

In reality, he already understood. Le Erya had probably come to the school to investigate Zheng Shaotian’s case. She and Lin Qinghe had been there yesterday, so it was normal for them to have been involved in the case.

"Oh, really? You little brat actually dare threaten your Yaya? You don’t want to live anymore, do you?"

Le Erya’s little face flushed. Being caught sneaking out made her feel somewhat embarrassed. She grabbed Gu Sheng by the shoulder and threatened him beside his ear, "If you dare go around telling people nonsense, watch out. I’ll make trouble for you!"

"Wait! It’s Saturday, and we’re at a cinema!"

Le Erya suddenly realized something. She looked at Gu Sheng with an amused expression. "I know! You came with your girlfriend, right? Why are you being so secretive? Introduce her to Yaya!"

Le Erya’s words left Gu Sheng somewhat flustered. What did she mean, girlfriend? He and Huang Anqi were completely innocent. They hadn’t even gotten to that point!

"Brother Sheng, who is this big sister?"

At that moment, a timid voice suddenly sounded beside his ear. Gu Sheng cried out inwardly that things were bad. Sure enough, Huang Anqi appeared, holding two movie tickets.

"This is…"

Gu Sheng’s smile was somewhat forced. What was that jealous expression on Huang Anqi’s face? And what was Le Erya planning?

"So you’re the little girlfriend Little Brother Gu mentioned before! I really couldn’t tell you were a high school student!"

Le Erya walked over and circled Huang Anqi twice. She looked at Huang Anqi’s extremely voluptuous figure with envy. What did middle school students nowadays eat—hormones? How could they be so well-endowed?

"Yes!"

Huang Anqi’s clear voice rang beside Gu Sheng’s ear. She had actually agreed! What exactly was this girl planning? Was she trying to get him killed?

"Little sister, how old are you this year?"

Le Erya warmly put an arm around Huang Anqi’s delicate shoulder and chatted with her like an old acquaintance.

"Sixteen, by the full count!"

Huang Anqi shifted, but couldn’t get away. She gave Gu Sheng a look that he couldn’t understand at all.

"Xiao Ya! Are you done yet?"

Just as Gu Sheng was loudly lamenting that things were bad, another call came from nearby.

Gu Sheng turned around and saw two beautiful women in casual clothes walking over together. Lin Qinghe, with her valiant bearing, was dressed very nicely today, and her outfit brought out her temperament perfectly.

Beside her was a mature woman wearing glasses. She was dressed in a white top and trousers, and her glasses gave her an elegant air. Yet, up close, her face looked very young. Combined with a more mature figure than Huang Anqi’s, her various qualities blended into a captivating charm.

"He-jie, look! Guess who I caught? Hee-hee~~"

Le Erya immediately hopped back to Gu Sheng’s side, grabbed him by the shoulder, and showed him off to Lin Qinghe as if she were displaying her spoils of war.

"You’re Gu Sheng!"

Lin Qinghe recognized Gu Sheng at a glance. The Tang Lie case had always been one of her main concerns, and she hadn’t forgotten Gu Sheng, whom she had once suspected of being connected to it.

"Hello, He-jie!"

Gu Sheng greeted her with a smile, but his smile was stiff and somewhat fake.

"So this is your girlfriend!"

As expected, her gaze immediately shifted to Huang Anqi. She examined her carefully, as if trying to see straight through her. Her sharp gaze made Huang Anqi feel somewhat uncomfortable.

"No, no~~"

Gu Sheng shook his head repeatedly and pulled Huang Anqi behind him. "Anqi is Xin’er’s best friend. We arranged to come watch a movie this time. It’s just that she thought Yaya was trying to hit on me earlier, so… It was just a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding!"

Gu Sheng forced a smile at Le Erya. Then he traced a few circles in Huang Anqi’s palm, signaling her to message Chu Xin and ask her to come to the cinema.

"Little Brother Gu, lying isn’t a good habit, especially not right under our noses."

Le Erya darted to Huang Anqi’s side, raised her right hand, and pointed at the two movie tickets. "There are only two tickets, Little Brother Gu. You weren’t planning to leave little Anqi by herself outside the cinema, were you?"

Le Erya loved giving people nicknames. Huang Anqi had now been saddled with the name "Little Qiqi," a truly awful nickname.