They surrounded me right after the breakup.

One after another, the strings in Lin Yaoyao's mind snapped.

Her chest bumped directly into Xiao Xiao's head, sending her staggering back a step before she plopped down on the sofa.

"You went to knock on my boyfriend's door in my pajamas in the middle of the night! Xiao Xiao, you've got some nerve!"

Xiao Xiao looked up at the two ample mounds so close to her, and shrank her neck back half an inch.

"It's a temporary loan, not theft!"

"Did you ask before you borrowed it?" With each question, Lin Yaoyao leaned forward a little more.

"You unzipped the zipper in the compartment of my suitcase, didn't you?"

"When did you get the spare room key?"

"You sneaked in while we were drunk, rummaged around for ages, and finally picked out that black tank top. Do I need to praise your good taste?"

Xiao Xiao was clearly outmatched in terms of presence, her back completely sinking into the sofa cushions.

Lin Yaoyao took a deep breath, her chest heaving.

"Shameless!"

"You insulted me?"

"I'm talking about you! Seducing men in the middle of the night, Miss Xiao, when did you learn this trick?"

Xiao Xiao jumped up from the sofa, but her head-tilted posture was anything but weak, and the veins on her neck were bulging.

"Didn't you used to do this too?"

"While Shen Qingning was away, I moved into the apartment next to Jiang Han's and started cuddling him on the balcony every day to make phone calls and provoke the people across the street."

"You pretended to be boyfriend and girlfriend and even went to bed with them. Can you honestly say you didn't do it on purpose?"

"Why didn't you admit you were shameless back then!"

Xiao Xiao's fierce firepower directly dragged Shen Qingning into the fray.

Unfortunately, the other party didn't fall for it and remained calm and quiet, standing to the side.

"Stop arguing, both of you stop arguing!" Liu Meng stepped between the two.

She first looked at Xiao Xiao's flushed cheeks, then at Lin Yaoyao's excited expression.

He reached out and separated the two of them by a body length.

"Yaoyao, I can vouch for you. Xiaoxiao didn't do anything out of line last night."

How did you know?

Liu Meng sighed; she hadn't wanted to admit that she had also entered Jiang Han's room.

But in order to quell the argument between her best friends, she had no choice but to tell the truth.

"Because I went in too."

Lin Yaoyao: "?"

Liu Meng said calmly, "I heard Xiao Xiao knocking on the door, so I went over."

"When I went in, she was standing in the entryway, wearing a bathrobe over her pajamas."

"Sister Meng, will you testify for her?"

Liu Meng paused for a moment: "I'm not testifying for her, I'm telling you the truth."

The entire lobby fell into a deathly silence.

The young receptionist huddled behind the counter, pretending to organize bills, her fingers mechanically typing on the keyboard.

Even the cleaning lady deliberately lingers a little longer when she pushes her cleaning cart past the entrance.

Jiang Han had already gone outside to smoke alone.

Finally, Lin Yaoyao glared at Xiao Xiao.

Then she grabbed the suitcase handle, threw down a sentence saying "I'll give you my pajamas" and left.

Lin Yaoyao walked towards the parking lot, her high heels clicking on the lobby floor tiles.

The Maybach's engine started, and the gilded sign of the spa resort grew smaller and smaller in the rearview mirror.

The bamboo groves on both sides of the mountain road were shrouded in a thin, bluish-gray mist in the morning light, and the road surface was slightly damp from the dew of the previous night.

After a moment of silence in the carriage, Shen Qingning spoke.

"Xiao Xiao really didn't do anything last night."

Lin Yaoyao turned her head from the passenger seat to look at her.

Shen Qingning spoke calmly: "I can sense it from my body's reaction."

"Xiao Xiao probably only stood in the room for a short while before Liu Meng called her away, and nothing happened."

"Pfft!" Lin Yaoyao couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"So Xiao Xiao spent the whole night organizing the hot spring party and then knocking on the door in the middle of the night."

"But Sister Meng caught me red-handed, and the hotel receptionist exposed me in front of everyone. All my efforts were for nothing!"

"She also lost her prestige among her own employees," Qiu Siyao added.

Jiang Han leaned against the car window, watching the three women discuss his private life from the previous night right in front of him.

The precision of the details and the calmness of the analysis were like a business debriefing meeting.

He raised a hand and pinched the bridge of his nose: "Is it appropriate for you guys to discuss this kind of thing in front of your men?"

"suitable!"

Lin Yaoyao turned around, her expression unusually serious.

She clasped her hands together, rested her chin on the back of her hands, and looked at Jiang Han.

"Honey, we're not blaming you! We just really think we misjudged Xiao Xiao."

"Mistakenly?" Shen Qingning asked softly.

Lin Yaoyao turned her body completely around, the seatbelt tightening around her chest.

"I thought she was just a carefree troublemaker who would be happy no matter which side was fighting."

"But think carefully about what happened last night."

Lin Yaoyao counted on her fingers: "She planned to organize a hot spring getaway, call Wang Defa over to get us all drunk, and then knock on her husband's door in the middle of the night. She calculated every step clearly."

"She's not just making a fuss," Qiu Siyao interjected, tapping her fingers lightly on her knee.

"She was really interested."

"What kind of thoughts are you having?" Shen Qingning asked.

"The desire to come in," Lin Yaoyao said bluntly.

She paused, then added, "But she's afraid."

"What are you afraid of?"

"I'm afraid that once I'm in, I won't be able to get out!"

Silence fell over the carriage.

As the Maybach rounded the last bend of the mountain road, the outline of Jingzhou city emerged from the thin mist.

Qiu Siyao suddenly spoke up: "So all the trouble she caused last night wasn't actually because she wanted to sleep with Jiang Han."

"Yes." Lin Yaoyao nodded. "If she really wanted to sleep with him, she would have done it already!"

"She just wanted to prove that she could do it too."

Jianghan is numb.

"What nonsense are you all spouting? What do you mean, 'If Xiao Xiao really wanted to sleep with you, she would have done it already'?"

"Am I such a casual man?"

Qiu Siyao chuckled softly, "Not really, my husband does have his own standards for women."

"What standards?"

"It has to be pretty, beautiful."

"..."

The car entered the city and stopped at a red light.

A group of middle school students in school uniforms walked across the zebra crossing, and one of the boys secretly looked back at the Maybach.

"What do we do now?" Qiu Siyao asked.

"What? What should we do?"

"Xiao Xiao! She's in this state, how can we pretend we don't know anything?"

Lin Yaoyao crossed her arms: "Let her think it through herself!"

"It took me a long time to figure out what I wanted. If she really has thought it through, she will naturally come to us."

"What if she doesn't think it through?"

"If you can't figure it out, just keep being stubborn." Lin Yaoyao pouted.