Chapter 62

Yin Mu actually didn't ask that many questions and only got a small amount of information. Now that Zhong Mengyuan asked her to speak, she could only repeat her conversation with Chen Qinglin.

Zhong Mengyuan shook his head after hearing this: "Listen for yourself, is what you said useful at all?"

Yin Mu lowered his head in shame: "I just asked a few questions, and Zhou Jingyu called me, so I didn't want to ask any more questions."

"Okay, okay, you're right." Zhong Mengyuan replied perfunctorily, "When I get a chance, I'll ask him in person."

"But this is weird no matter how you look at it." Yin Mu frowned, "How can we be more enthusiastic about their affairs than the two of them themselves?"

"Don't overthink it." Zhong Mengyuan didn't care. "I only care about whether we can get home safely."

When she said this, Yin Mu's heart became heavy, and he sighed deeply: "Yeah."

The two of them were lying down and chatting before going to bed, and Yin Mu mentioned that Chen Qinglin said that his contract had expired and he was recently negotiating the termination of the contract with the company.

Zhong Mengyuan stretched out his voice: "Oh - no wonder he doesn't look so good, is he in trouble?"

"Maybe." Yin Mu couldn't help sighing again, "He doesn't really want to talk about this."

"Hmm." Zhong Mengyuan seemed to be thinking, "Why is Chen Qinglin always so mysterious? It seems like he's hiding a lot from us."

"We shouldn't pry into personal privacy unscrupulously."

"Hmm..." Zhong Mengyuan thought for a moment and said, "Let's invite him to dinner tomorrow at noon!"

Yin Mu didn't understand why she was so excited all of a sudden, so he blinked and said, "Okay."

The next day, Zhong Mengyuan asked Chen Qinglin to have lunch with her as a return invitation. Chen Qinglin naturally would not refuse and agreed.

Qingyan Town is in the rainy season, and it has been drizzling since the morning. Although the impact is not great, it makes the hair and clothes damp, which is always a bit annoying.

The three people didn't run too far. Following the recommendation of the B&B owner, they went to a grilled fish restaurant no more than 100 meters away from the B&B. The store was very small, with only four or five tables in total. Fortunately, the environment in the store was clean and tidy, so it did not discourage diners.

When Yin Mu and his friends arrived at the restaurant, they avoided mealtime. There was only one table near the door occupied by people, who looked like a family of five, talking and laughing.

Zhong Mengyuan whispered, "Let's stay away from them. They're so noisy."

Yin Mu smiled slightly: "This store is so small, where can I hide anymore? How about changing stores?"

Zhong Mengyuan flatly refused, pulled out a chair and sat down first: "Forget it, let's just make do with it. I don't want to wander around in the rain anymore. The road is too slippery. I'm lucky I didn't fall just now."

Yin Mu smiled without saying anything and sat down beside her, while Chen Qinglin sat opposite them.

Zhong Mengyuan took out two tissues, wiped the remaining water stains on the table, and asked: "Chen Qinglin, you won't be disgusted by this humble little shop, right?"

Chen Qinglin remained calm: "It's fine, very clean."

"I'm glad you don't mind. In fact, according to my experience, the smaller the shop, the better the food." Zhong Mengyuan took the menu from the waiter, handed it to Chen Qinglin, and said, "Order whatever you want. We'll treat you today."

"Really? Then I won't hold back."

"Who asked you to be so polite?" Zhong Mengyuan said with a smile, "Please eat as much as you can. We can still afford this."

Chen Qinglin smiled and said nothing.

During the meal, Zhong Mengyuan started talking about all of them, indirectly asking about Zhou Jingyu's situation. Chen Qinglin didn't deliberately avoid the question, and his words were exactly the same as what he had said to Yin Mu before, but he also asked: "You two seem to be very concerned about Zhou Jingyu's situation. Why don't you go and ask her in person?"

"We have a better relationship with Zheng Wei, but not so good with Zhou Jingyu." Zhong Mengyuan frankly made an excuse, "It just so happens that you two are in contact, so I just stopped by."

Chen Qinglin didn't raise any questions, but responded calmly, then asked, "Have you decided when you'll go home?"

"Let's wait for two more days. There's nothing to do when we go back anyway." Zhong Mengyuan said, looking at Yin Mu, "Right, Yin Mu."

"Um……"

Zhong Mengyuan added, "Ah, if you have something urgent, you don't have to stay here with us. It's very convenient for us to take the high-speed rail back."

"Of course, it all depends on your wishes. I will probably stay here for two or three days."

"Thank you in advance," Zhong Mengyuan said. "By the way, the music festival isn't over yet. If you're interested, you can go and have some fun. Maybe you'll even run into Jiang Nanyu."

Chen Qinglin disagreed: "I think his chance encounter with me is probably not as pleasant as his chance encounter with you guys."

Yin Mu and Zhong Mengyuan both laughed.

After lunch, the rain stopped and the sun peeked out from behind the clouds. The sky was clear and blue, giving people a refreshing feeling.

Yin Mu liked this kind of weather very much and didn't want to stay in the house, so the three of them went to the lake again, drank tea in a teahouse by the lake, and spent the whole afternoon outside.

That night, everything was as usual. Yin Mu was tired from playing and fell asleep early for once. The result of sleeping too early was that she woke up just as early. As soon as the sky turned pale, she opened her eyes, and her mind was clear and she had no desire to sleep at all.

Zhong Mengyuan was sleeping soundly beside him. Yin Mu didn't want to wake her up, so he turned over gently, reached out to take the phone on the bedside and wanted to watch some videos. He would go back to sleep when he felt sleepy.

As soon as he unlocked his phone, a push message from Weibo popped up. Yin Mu never cared about those messy push messages, and was about to swipe it away, but when he saw the content clearly, his finger stopped.

"Let's take a look at the guests on 'Summer Sonata'. The most low-key one turns out to be the most explosive."

After all, it might be related to him. Yin Mu couldn't hold back his damn curiosity, swallowed his saliva, and clicked in.

This is a long article under the name of exposing secrets. It briefly summarizes the guests' work and family, as well as some inappropriate words and deeds they have said. Yin Mu has seen too many stories of celebrities' scandals, so when he read these, he felt like, "That's it?" It's not worth mentioning at all.

She glanced through it quickly and didn't find anything worth looking at. She gradually lost her patience and was about to leave when she saw the last name, Chen Qinglin, and patiently read a few more lines.

It would have been fine if she hadn't looked. But once she did, her expression turned serious. Compared to the previous few people, Chen Qinglin's information was far greater, even making one suspect that everything before was a sham, and that they'd only made dumplings for Chen Qinglin's jealousy. However, the introduction was too long, and it was hard to say how many people would stick with it like her.

Perhaps it was just a fluke mentality? Yin Mu guessed so, and after reading the rest of the content, her emotions were very complicated. She thought about it over and over again, but she couldn't calm down. She couldn't help it and pushed the sleeping Zhong Mengyuan: "Mengyuan, wake up."

After pushing several times, Zhong Mengyuan finally woke up. He looked at her with sleepy eyes and asked vaguely, "What are you doing? What time is it?"

Yin Mu glanced at the time: "It's not even five o'clock."

"Oh." Zhong Mengyuan responded, and his eyelids closed again as if they could not hold on any longer.

Yin Mu quickly shook her again: "Go to sleep later, read this first."

"What are you looking at?" Zhong Mengyuan was dizzy from her shaking. He forced his eyes open and asked, "What time is it?"

"Before five o'clock."

"It's not even five o'clock yet." Zhong Mengyuan repeated it unconsciously at first, then realized it belatedly. He widened his eyes in disbelief, and then he was filled with anger. "What time did you say?! Yin Mu, are you crazy? Disturbing my sleep so early in the morning!"

"That's not important!" Yin Mu took advantage of Zhong Mengyuan's brief lucidity and stuffed the phone into her hand without saying anything. "Hurry up and look at this. Start from here."

Zhong Mengyuan felt dizzy from looking at it, and asked impatiently "what is that?", but she still pressed her eyebrows and patiently started to look from the place Yin Mu pointed to her.

As she watched, her expression changed and her lips were tightly pursed.

Yin Mu guessed she had finished reading it and asked anxiously, "What do you think?"

"It's hard to say." Zhong Mengyuan put down the phone and said, "Your story is quite convincing and doesn't seem like a fabrication."

"You think so?"

"Being blacklisted for refusing the unspoken advances of a male executive is ridiculous, but it's certainly possible." Zhong Mengyuan's face wrinkled as he continued, "Also, I took a quick look at the previous content and found that compared to Chen Qinglin, it was nothing but a drop in the bucket. What's the difference between exposing it or not? It's a waste of public sentiment."

"Yeah! I feel the same way as you."

Zhong Mengyuan pondered for a moment and speculated, "Could it be that Chen Qinglin has a competitor who, seeing that Chen Qinglin might be about to make a comeback in the dating variety show, is deliberately spreading rumors to discredit him?"

"I don't think so." Yin Mu complained, "Isn't our dating show obscure enough? It's been aired for a few episodes and there hasn't been any big splash. How insecure must someone be to think that Chen Qinglin can make a comeback with this."

"...That's right." Zhong Mengyuan had to admit that she was right and sighed in frustration, "What other reasons could there be? I can't think of any."

Yin Mu shook his head: "I can't figure it out either."

The two people looked at each other in silence.

At this moment, Yin Mu suddenly thought of something and clapped his hands: "Ah!"

Zhong Mengyuan was startled by her and asked in a bad mood, "What are you doing? You're so jumpy."

"I remembered someone."

Zhong Mengyuan asked casually, "Who?"

"Lin Fan."

"Lin Fan?" Zhong Mengyuan blinked blankly and asked, "Who is it?"

"Um... Chen Qinglin's college classmate and colleague."

"Oh? You think he did it?"

"No, I don't know either." Yin Mu denied and said cautiously, "He is the only person I can think of who is related to Chen Qinglin."

"How do you say it?"

Yin Mu tried hard to recall the conversation between Chen Qinglin and Lin Fan, but unfortunately it had been a long time and she didn't have a clear impression of it. She could only say what she still remembered.

Zhong Mengyuan stroked her chin, thoughtfully. "So, this revelation might be true? I'm really curious about what happens next." She grabbed her phone and checked Weibo. "Look, the buzz has clearly increased, with a huge increase in reposts and comments."

"I hope I don't cause him any trouble." Yin Mu was worried and puzzled. "He was about to terminate the contract, so who had to go through so much trouble? What was he trying to achieve?"

"He's going to terminate the contract anyway, so it doesn't matter." Zhong Mengyuan comforted her, "Okay, just look at it more positively. Maybe Chen Qinglin himself doesn't care. In that case, isn't it the emperor who is anxious, but the eunuch is."