Chapter 117: Who Is "My Someone"

Hearing this, Lin Luyao couldn’t help but feel a pang of regret in her heart: how could such a handsome and clever young man be so hopeless when it came to love?

She didn’t press further and simply advised, “Try sending her another private message. She probably didn’t reply earlier because she was busy.”

Leaving those words behind, she quickly made an excuse to return to her dorm for some rest and slipped away. But only she knew that after deceiving that well-behaved boy, she fled in a panic without a clear plan.

[Lin Luyao: Tell me, what exactly did you do to that poor boy?]

[Lin Luyao: When I got back, I ran into Wang Xiao. He looked so wronged, like a little puppy abandoned by you.]

Once back in her dorm, Lin Luyao couldn’t resist opening the chat with Jiang Xiaohan and sent two messages in quick succession.

Perhaps because she had been called “kid” so many times at the company, Lin Luyao unconsciously started referring to Wang Xiao as a “little boy,” someone younger than herself.

Surprisingly, it was a feeling she had never experienced before.

[Jiang Xiaohan: He actually came looking for you?]

[Jiang Xiaohan: That kid’s pretty smart!]

Before long, Jiang Xiaohan replied. She was still at a client’s event, hiding in the back row, secretly scrolling on her phone to kill time.

[Lin Luyao: No way, you really set him up on purpose?]

[Jiang Xiaohan: That’s not setting him up! This is the Jiang family’s little trick to avoid getting scammed. He just failed the lesson~]

Even reading the words, Lin Luyao could vividly imagine the expression on Jiang Xiaohan’s face.

She guessed Jiang Xiaohan was probably covering her mouth, stifling her laughter.

[Lin Luyao: Tsk tsk tsk, just love bullying kids.]

Faced with her friend’s teasing, Jiang Xiaohan was unfazed, playfully denying it.

[Jiang Xiaohan: How is this bullying?]

[Jiang Xiaohan: Could it be that you’re feeling~ heart~ ache~?]

[Lin Luyao: He’s nobody to me. Why would I care?]

Rolling her eyes at Jiang Xiaohan’s teasing, Lin Luyao replied but was too tired to argue. She said, “Stayed up too late last night, I’m exhausted. I’m going to sleep now. Night!”

After saying that, she tossed her phone aside, changed clothes, and threw herself onto the bed.

But once under the covers, she tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep. Her mind kept replaying Jiang Xiaohan’s last message:

“So, who’s your ‘someone’ then?”

Who was her ‘someone’?

Thinking of this, the image that popped into her mind was none other than Qin Shishen’s.

No way—the effect of being around a member of the opposite sex was this powerful?

Lin Luyao blamed it all on their close encounter the day before and thought:

No, no, I have to keep my distance from him from now on…

Not just him, but every other man!

Otherwise, I might have to admit that I’m falling in love.

With that thought, Lin Luyao buried her head in the blanket and wrapped herself up like a silkworm cocoon.

Whenever her emotions ran high, she would cocoon herself like this. In her own words, wrapping herself in the quilt gave her a comforting sense of security. Feeling safe, she wouldn’t let her thoughts spiral out of control.

But now that she thought about it, she had been frequently teased for this habit when she was a child. Besides her own brother, there was someone else who took the opportunity to joke with her when she wrapped herself up like a cocoon.

Who was that person?

Before Lin Luyao could figure it out, she drifted off to sleep in her cozy, fragrant bed.