Pei Zhe frowned as he looked at the photo for a while, as if he had thought of something, but then he felt a little relieved.

To protect privacy, there are of course no cameras in the private hot springs.

He had no doubt that Sang Qianshan knew that these things were all the work of his team. Anyway, these kinds of tricks are common for teams in the industry when they want to put down their rivals. Resources are limited; if you give them to someone, others will have less.

He was just worried that if Sang Qianshan found out, and this person happened to be on a variety show, what if he brought it up on the show?

After all, even if he said that he was overly nervous because he had been harassed by a stalker recently, he could still imagine what the trending topics would be about when an ordinary person was near a hot spring and his phone was snatched by a bodyguard and he was suspected of being beaten.

And then there will be the criticism from the entire internet.

The only redeeming quality is that there are no cameras here, so verbal statements are meaningless. If the team deliberately tries to imply that he and Sang Qianshan are close and that's why he said those things, it's not impossible to fabricate a story.

Thinking of this, Pei Zhe recalled the resources that the Lou family had secretly provided to him during this period.

They felt even more strongly that this matter couldn't be allowed to go wrong.

With that in mind, he decided to take advantage of the other party's absence from the villa to try and find out more about his intentions...

...

Cen Yu was still lingering at Lou Baichuan's place, unwilling to leave and trying to avoid the reality of going back, when he discovered that Yu Xinyu had called him.

He looked at it for a few seconds.

"Aren't you going to answer?" Lou Baichuan asked calmly.

He could tell, of course, that Cen Yu was deliberately lingering in his room, touching this and that and refusing to leave, as if there were some man-eating monster in the villa.

He initially thought the two had a fight, but after testing the waters, he discovered that Cen Yu still had a 100-layer filter for Yu Xinyu in her heart. He then guessed that it wasn't a fight between the two, but rather that Cen Yu simply didn't want to go back.

"What do you mean, 'accept'!" Cen Yu was about to say "accept" when she remembered that she still had to play the villain in front of Lou Baichuan, so she quickly changed her mind.

"Can't you see I'm busy working? You're so inconsiderate." With that, he stuffed his phone into his pocket.

Just waiting for the call to disconnect automatically.

A moment later, the call ended, but it rang again the next second.

"?" Cen Yu was puzzled. So persistent!

He continued not to answer, and then it was Yu Xinyu's turn to call.

He made seven phone calls in a row… Cen Yu frowned. Just when Lou Baichuan thought the other party would get impatient with Cen Yu's excessive clinginess and terrifying persistence, he saw Cen Yu shake her head and smile bitterly at him—

"...It's just too charming, there's no way around it."

Cen Yu uttered a cheesy line, "You've only been away from me for a short while, and you're already missing me."

After ignoring Lou Baichuan's subtle gaze, he immediately answered the phone.

He had initially thought that once he answered the phone, Yu Xinyu would likely erupt in hysteria or question why he hadn't answered. Instead, he was met with Yu Xinyu's sobs.

"...Honey...don't you want to talk to me anymore?"

The other person's voice was intermittent, as if it were coming from some enclosed space.

He seemed to be crying so hard that his voice was slightly breathless as he pitifully asked Cen Yu, "Did you go back alone? Why didn't you talk to me?"

Cen Yu immediately felt that he had committed a heinous crime!

He cleared his throat. "I'm busy working here with Brother Chuan."

“…Then let me see you,” Yu Xinyu said on the other end of the phone.

He hung up the phone immediately after saying that, and a voice and video call came in the next second.

Cen Yu felt a bit overwhelmed, but she still gritted her teeth and answered the video call.

Then, through the shaky camera lens, Cen Yu discovered that Yu Xinyu seemed to still be in the private hot spring in the bedroom. No wonder the voice on the phone sounded like she was in some cramped space.

"Have you finished taking a bath?" Cen Yu noticed that Yu Xinyu was wearing a bathrobe.

My hair was a little damp, and I felt a bit tired, probably because I was exhausted from soaking in the hot spring.

Because he was very close to the camera, Cen Yu could only see his head. In response to Cen Yu's question, Yu Xinyu simply nodded.

There were still traces of tears at the corners of his eyes, as if he had really cried for a long time because of the imagined abandonment and ignoring of him by Cen Yu. "...Honey, are you really working?"

He asked, somewhat incredulously.

Upon hearing this, Cen Yu immediately moved her phone a little further away, just enough to allow Lou Baichuan to appear slightly in the frame, and then brought the phone closer to herself.

"I'll go back later."

He originally wanted to continue delaying, but seeing how heartbroken Yu Xinyu was, he did feel that what he was doing was not quite right.

So I changed my decision slightly.

After coaxing Yu Xinyu a few more times, Cen Yu hung up the voice and video call, then looked at Lou Baichuan behind him, who remained expressionless.

"Just a regular roommate?" Lou Baichuan asked.

“…” Cen Yu chuckled.

Lou Baichuan nodded, walked over, and patted Cen Yu on the shoulder.

"The company supports freedom of sexual orientation and love."

...

Back at their villa, Cen Yu found Yu Xinyu already lying in bed, seemingly looking at his phone.

After seeing me return, she put down her phone and stretched out her arms, as if to hug me.

Seeing this, Cen Yu pretended not to understand and casually handed him a bottle of mineral water.

"You're thirsty after soaking in the hot spring, right? Then you can have some water."

After saying that, he stopped looking at Yu Xinyu and prepared to soak in the private hot spring for a while.

Yu Xinyu stared at his movements. He unscrewed the bottle of mineral water in his hand, drinking it while watching Cen Yu's back.

A moment later, he heard Cen Yu ask through the sliding door—

"Why are all the clothes in the laundry basket wet?!"

Yu Xinyu put down the mineral water bottle in his hand, placed it aside, got off the bed wearing a bathrobe, and leaned against the sliding door to speak to Cen Yu on the opposite side.

"Oh, I accidentally spilled all the hot spring water, and it just landed in the old clothes basket."

"I happened to bring several extra outfits, you can wear mine."