Boyfriend's passive-aggressive behavior, she turns the tables and makes him her backup option.

Si Nian, holding her phone, asked Lin Tinghan, "Are you at Yun Jin Mansion?"

"Um."

"I'm not there, I'm at my friend's house."

Lin Tinghan frowned. "Which friend?"

"Shuyi's home."

"Isn't your car parked in the garage?"

Si Nian didn't expect Lin Tinghan to come to Yun Jin Mansion and even make a point of checking if her car was in the garage.

She lifted the arm that was tightly wrapped around her waist and slipped out of Xie Jingyao's embrace. He instinctively reached out to grab her.

Having failed to catch it, Xie Jingyao slowly opened his eyes and clicked his tongue, "With whom...?"

Before he could finish speaking, Si Nian hurriedly got off the bed and headed to the bathroom.

Lin Tinghan frowned slightly. "Is there anyone else with you?"

He vaguely heard a sound next to Si Nian, but he couldn't make it out clearly.

Si Nian lowered her voice and said, "Shu Yi just woke up. What did you go to Yun Jin Mansion to see me about? Is something wrong?"

Lin Tinghan paused for a moment, then said, "Didn't we agree to a fake divorce first? I was thinking of taking you to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get a marriage certificate, otherwise my family probably won't believe it."

When Si Nian saw the mottled red marks on her neck and collarbone in the mirror, she couldn't help but feel annoyed. She shouldn't have let Xie Jingyao leave those marks behind yesterday.

She couldn't possibly go to meet Lin Tinghan with a neck covered in hickeys.

Furthermore, Zhao Yulan spoke to her, and the Lin family would arrange everything for her divorce from Lin Tinghan.

When the time comes, the divorce certificate will be automatically delivered to her.

All she needed to do was keep Lin Tinghan calm before his follow-up examination.

The main reason Si Nian was willing to wait for the divorce certificate from the Lin family was that if the Lin family had orchestrated their divorce, it would be even more difficult for Lin Tinghan to remarry her in the future.

If the Lin family doesn't give the green light, there's absolutely no chance of him remarrying.

This greatly reduced Si Nian's troubles.

So Si Nian made an excuse, "Let's go to the Civil Affairs Bureau in a few days. I have something to do these days."

"What's up? Competition rehearsal?"

"Yeah, I'm off to the competition soon. I'll be back after the competition."

Hearing Si Nian's excuses, Lin Tinghan pinched his brow and said with a hint of helplessness, "Niannian, I said it's a fake divorce. Once Hengheng's matter is settled, I will definitely remarry you as soon as possible. You don't need to drag me along like this."

"I'm really not holding you back, the orchestra has been very busy these past few days."

"Alright, when you have some free time."

Lin Tinghan hung up the phone but did not leave immediately. Instead, he called Song Shuyi.

After the call connected, Song Shuyi's sleepy and impatient voice came through, "Can't you let people sleep in the morning? Get to the point."

Lin Tinghan didn't take Song Shuyi's impolite words to heart.

Instead, she said gently, "Is Niannian catching a bit of a cold? Could you please take care of her?"

Song Shuyi clicked her tongue, intending to retort that he was being hypocritical, but she swallowed the words back.

She hummed in agreement. "Anything else? If not, I'll hang up."

"Give the phone to Niannian, I want to give her a few words of advice."

Song Shuyi paused for a moment, then said, "She's using the toilet in the bathroom, and I don't want to go in."

"Oh, then remind her to take her medicine."

"Okay, I'm hanging up." Song Shuyi hung up the phone.

She thought for a moment, then sent a message to Si Nian: "Lin Tinghan suddenly called me, testing whether you'd stay with me."

What did you say?

He asked me to hand him the phone, but I said you were in the bathroom. What's going on? Why is he suddenly checking up on you?

He came to Yun Jin Mansion to see me, but I didn't want to see him, so I told him I was sleeping at his place.

Oops, I posted something on WeChat Moments last night with my location set to Qindao. I'm deleting it now.

Song Shuyi hurriedly deleted her latest post on WeChat Moments, not knowing if Lin Tinghan had seen it.

Subsequently, she directly restricted access to Lin Tinghan's WeChat Moments, completely blocking her from seeing him.

On the other side, Lin Tinghan watched as Song Shuyi's Moments on his screen turned into a horizontal bar.

The suspicion in his eyes gradually solidified.

Last night he saw Song Shuyi's post on WeChat Moments, where she went to a neighboring city for fun.

Song Shuyi was not home, so Si Nian naturally did not stay overnight at her house.

But he still tentatively made a phone call, and Song Shuyi reacted quickly, subconsciously covering for Si Nian.

This is very abnormal.

He sensed something intriguing about the situation.

Si Nian reassured Song Shuyi, saying it was alright, so what if she saw it? At worst, she would just tell the truth: she didn't want to see Lin Tinghan at Yunjin Mansion.

After sending the voice message, Si Nian turned around and saw Xie Jingyao already standing at the bathroom door.

The other person's face was tense, and their brows showed an unpleasant expression of not having woken up properly.

Si Nian walked over to him and said, "Did I wake you up? Want to go back to sleep?"

"Who called you just now?"

"Lin Tinghan".

"He asked you to go get your divorce certificate, why did you make excuses not to go?"

Si Nian said helplessly, "You just heard Lin Tinghan's voice, and you still asked me."

He not only heard Lin Tinghan's voice, but he also heard her make excuses to refuse when he asked her to go get the marriage certificate.

The displeasure in Xie Jingyao's eyes intensified.

Seeing this, Si Nian pointed to her neck.

"Look what you've done! How am I supposed to face him like this?"

Seeing the traces he deliberately left, Xie Jingyao snorted coldly: "So what? The divorce agreement is already signed, why would he care if his ex-wife sleeps with other men?"