Chapter 54

After playing ball, we made an appointment to have lunch together at noon.

Shi Ye finished showering and changed in the dressing room. Zhou Hongsheng sat next to him and pushed up his glasses. "By the way, Shi Shen, I've checked the backend of the website you asked me to check. Indeed, someone has been regularly spreading rumors about my sister-in-law there since six years ago."

"Did you find the IP address?"

"I checked, and it's just as you thought. The IPs are all over the place, and they're probably professional blackmail companies." Zhou Hongsheng touched his chin. "Who has such a deep grudge against my sister-in-law that they'd go to such great lengths to smear her? Those IPs' active postings basically stopped after my sister-in-law graduated, but they've still been replying in the past two years. Whenever someone mentions my sister-in-law, those IPs will jump out to smear her."

Shi Ye remembered the various malicious and slanderous replies under the online complaint post when he and Jiang Zhinian had just gotten married, and suddenly realized something.

Someone was specifically staring at Jiang Zhinian.

"Can you trace the IP address?"

Zhou Hongsheng's glasses suddenly reflected light, and he raised his middle finger to push up his glasses, saying coldly, "Give me some time."

Shi Ye smiled and put on his shirt.

Zhou Hongsheng was flattered: "Shi Shen, you laughed. You never laughed when I joked with you about this before."

Did you laugh...

Jiang Tao finished his shower, dried his hair, and walked out. He whistled as he passed by Shi Ye.

"Tsk, Shi Shen, don't blame me for not telling you. With your figure, go back and take a picture of yourself in the mirror wearing just an unbuttoned shirt and post it online. Seriously, girls love to see that."

Wang Bo followed him out and said with a smile, "Don't teach him these messed up things. His wife is still sitting outside."

"Hey, this is nothing. I'm just giving some benefits to the sisters and attracting some traffic to become more popular."

Wang Bo wiped the water off his hair and said speechlessly, "Does Shi Ye still need fame? He became so popular last time when he wore fox ears. He deleted and reposted a bunch of videos, and kept several interns in our office busy for several days. If you let him do these nonsense again, he will get a bunch of wife fans again."

"These days, traffic equals money. What's wrong with being famous? When he becomes famous and a top star, I'll be his personal bodyguard."

Zhou Hongsheng became interested and raised his hand, saying, "Then I'll be your personal assistant."

Wang Bo rubbed his chin and thought for a moment: "Then I can only be a mastermind agent who plans everything."

Jiang Tao snorted, "You're the gold medal manager, but you have no sense at all. Shi Ye asked you to delete his video, and you actually sent a lawyer's letter. If you had told me, I would have bought him a hit and helped him debut."

Zhou Hongsheng smiled and said, "Shi Shen is low-key and doesn't like to be a top star."

"That's right. When he was in high school, some talent scout came to our school to look for him. They wanted to send him to Korea to be a trainee. Luckily, he didn't go."

Shi Ye ignored their teasing, buttoned his clothes one by one, and walked out the door with his things.

"Hey, wait, let's..."

…

Jiang Zhinian sat silently one meter away from Yuan Miaomiao.

Growing up in an insecure environment gave her a special sensitivity, making her intuitively feel that Yuan Miaomiao's words today were deliberately said to her.

The purpose is the same as Feng Peipei's secret about Shi Ye, which is to attract herself to find Shi Ye and ask him clearly.

But... they don't understand themselves.

Jiang Zhinian is a person who is not very curious about other people's secrets.

If Shi Ye is willing to tell her, then she is willing to listen. If Shi Ye is unwilling to say, then he must have his reasons.

Why do I have to intrude into other people's discomfort and get to the bottom of things? Will this do any good to their relationship?

Everyone is an independent individual and should have their own secrets that they don’t want to tell.

She didn't think that knowing this secret meant that the other person cared about her.

Therefore, Yuan Miaomiao's provocation would only make her go away silently.

When Shi Ye came out, he saw Jiang Zhinian with a tense face.

He walked over and sat next to her, naturally picking up her thermos and taking a sip of lemonade.

"What do you want to eat for lunch?"

Jiang Zhinian glanced at Yuan Miaomiao, then suddenly hugged Shi Ye's arm, leaned against him affectionately and said, "It's all right."

If she had been deliberately provoked in the past, she would have simply stayed away quietly and then... forget it.

But for some reason today, she suddenly wanted to deliberately... provoke the other party.

Shi Ye noticed Jiang Zhinian's hand and raised his eyebrows slightly.

Jiang Zhinian is always shy in front of people he doesn't know well, and rarely shows this kind of special intimacy to himself to show his affection.

He looked at Yuan Miaomiao thoughtfully.

Just at this time, Wang Bo and the others came out. Wang Bo walked to Yuan Miaomiao and put his arms around her neck, just like a boy in school hugging the girl he liked.

"Let's go, what should we eat? How about hot pot? It's hot. It's been freezing lately."

"The smell of hot pot is too strong and may easily cause morning sickness." Shi Ye directly rejected this suggestion.

Jiang Zhinian tugged at Shi Ye's sleeve tightly: "It's okay, I've been feeling much better recently, hot pot should be fine."

Shi Ye looked down at him and said in a deep voice, "Are you sure?"

"Yeah, sure." Jiang Zhinian pursed her lips and nodded, deliberately softening her voice and saying, "Besides, I want tomato hot pot."

Jiang Tao immediately had a look of annoyance on his face: "Oh my, single people can't stand seeing others show affection."

…

After entering the store, Shi Ye asked for a private room where the air was slightly better.

While waiting for the food, Shi Ye went out to answer a phone call, and Jiang Tao took the opportunity to sit next to Jiang Zhinian.

"Hey, sister, let me ask you something. You and Shi Ye are together, who is pursuing whom?"

Wang Bo said bluntly: "Hey, are you a gossipmonger? You make trouble when Shi Ye is not around."

"Hey, let me ask you what's going on. We're just showing some concern for our brother's love life, right, sister?"

Jiang Zhinian thought about it and said hesitantly, "It's not like anyone is chasing anyone, it's just... we just naturally get together."

"Tsk, what do you mean by being together naturally? Someone has to confess first before they can be together. Look at Wang Bo and his friends. Wang Bo pursued Miaomiao relentlessly, and then on a romantic night, Wang Bo placed 99 candles to confess his love to Miaomiao. That's how the two of them got together."

Mentioning what happened back then, Wang Bo felt a little embarrassed: "Don't involve me, it happened so many years ago."

"Don't worry, I know all about your love history. I'm not interested anymore. I just want to know how Shi Ye pursued Miss Jiang."

"He cooks for me...does this count?"