Chapter Twenty: The Girl Who Traveled Through Time

The white-haired, red-eyed girl stared at him curiously, her gaze lingering on his face. Bai Weiran instantly snapped out of his daze.

Holy crap, there are no masks now.

Yu Mengmeng was staring intently at his true face!

He immediately sat up, wanting to cover his face with his hands, but halfway there he realized that this action was too obvious, so he quickly put his hands down, and Yu Mengmeng watched his actions with a curious look.

"You, cough...who are you?" Bai Weiran deliberately lowered his voice a few degrees, pretending to be shocked and confused.

Yu Mengmeng looked at him with a puzzled expression.

"...Hello, I'm Yu Mengmeng." The girl pursed her lips, no longer making a fuss. She opened her eyes wide and smiled calmly and elegantly, looking very polite, like a well-behaved student who gets a little red flower every day at school.

“I don’t know how I got here,” she said, taking out her phone.

"I'm looking for the owner of this phone. Do you know where the owner is?"

Bai Weiran looked at it and his face turned pale, covered in cold sweat.

Oh no, it really was left in her room, but how did she time travel here?

In short, we can't let her keep it; we have to find a way to trick her into giving it to us.

“…I don’t know the owner of this phone,” he said, frowning.

"It's illegal for you to break into a private residence in the middle of the night, classmate. Please leave. It's not a good look for a man and a woman alone together."

Yu Mengmeng immediately pouted and puffed out her cheeks, looking pitiful.

"But I don't know where I am. Where am I supposed to go if you tell me to go out? This phone can't make calls. Why don't you call the police to come and pick me up? The police officer can take me home."

Calling the police would be even worse!

Upon investigation, it turned out he was hiding an unidentified girl in his home; it would be strange if he hadn't been arrested and interrogated as the prime suspect.

But he remained calm.

“Sure, no problem,” he said.

But he didn't have a phone in his hand! He could only pretend to be touching his phone as he walked towards the living room.

"Wait here for me, I'm going to make a phone call."

Yu Mengmeng obediently responded, but her gaze followed his hand as he subconsciously reached into his back pocket until Bai Weiran disappeared behind the door.

She held her phone, thinking, "So this is what a masked man looks like—"

No wonder she saw through it in a second. You spend at least four or five hours a day with someone, and Bai Weiran hadn't even changed her clothes. She just lowered her voice a few decibels and assumed she didn't recognize her.

Does the masked man think she's a complete idiot?

Now let's see who's fooling whom!

Well, at least I've fulfilled my wish of visiting his house, right?

Yu Mengmeng leisurely strolled around the bedroom, touching and looking at everything, behaving like a robber, just like the protagonist of an RPG game, breaking into a resident's house and ransacking it, just to find five coins at the bottom of the cabinet to buy equipment.

The bedroom is small and decorated in a minimalist style, but it is filled with a lot of books. One bookshelf is not enough, and the built-in wardrobe is also filled with stacks of books. In addition to a lot of game design and psychology books, Yu Mengmeng immediately noticed the book "Zhuangzi" on the top shelf.

She picked it up, looked at it, snorted, put it on the ground, stomped on it twice with her snow-white little feet, and then put it back as if nothing had happened.

You expect me to memorize this? You expect me to recite the entire text from memory and write it down from a dictation?!

A crystal trophy sits next to the overturned pile of books.

She took it out to look at it.

"Bai Weiran, the outstanding employee of Shile Company?"

Oh wow.

She put it back exactly as it was.

Just then, the door opened, and she immediately sat back on the edge of the bed, turning her head with an innocent look on her face. Unaware of what was happening, Bai Weiran, who had just pretended to finish a phone call, walked over with a serious expression.

"There seems to be some chaos at the police station. They're not answering the phone. Oh, right, I happen to know a little about phones. How about I take a look and see if I can unlock it and call the original owner? The original owner is someone you know, right? I'll call him and have him come pick you up!"

Bai Weiran reached out his hand to Yu Mengmeng with the most earnest expression.

To lower the other party's guard, he even imitated the waiter and squatted down. Psychologically speaking, doing so can reduce the other party's sense of vigilance.

Yu Mengmeng held her phone in the back of her hand and gave a shy smile unexpectedly.

"Thank you, big brother, but I can't give you this phone. It belongs to someone very important to me."

Bai Weiran grimaced, speechless.

He tried to snatch it by force, but Yu Mengmeng held the phone between two small mounds on her chest.

Instead of forcibly taking her, did you really take her to the police station?

He could only awkwardly smile and withdraw his hand.

"I understand... Wait a moment, it's so late, it's hard to call a taxi. I'll call one to take us there."

He can delay a little longer.

"It's okay, I can wait. I won't feel at ease until I hand the phone to him in person." The girl looked devout, completely different from her antics a few hours earlier. She was well-behaved and followed Bai Weiran into the living room. Bai Weiran poured her some water, and she held the glass, chattering away, asking Bai Weiran endless questions out of curiosity.

How old are you?

"What's your name?"

Where do you live?

How many siblings do you have?

What kind of work do you do now?

How many properties do you own? How much savings do you have? Do you have a partner? How many partners have you dated before?

Do you like pets?

Holy crap! They asked more detailed questions than he would ask his extended family members during Chinese New Year visits.

Bai Weiran had a headache. He had to guard against the leakage of his private information while trying to get his phone back. But Yu Mengmeng was too clever and wouldn't let go of the phone, holding it tightly in her little hand.

Without his phone, he couldn't activate the connection point to send Yu Mengmeng back.

Not to mention that he has no superpowers in the real world. If he tries to snatch a phone from a rented apartment and fails, and Yu Mengmeng screams for help, and the people around actually call the police, things will get complicated.

Yu Mengmeng suddenly stopped asking questions and abruptly changed the subject.

"I'm so hungry, brother, could you order some crab for me?"

"...?" You ate a ton of crayfish in golden broth last night, and now you're trying to freeload again, huh?

"But I'm so hungry!" Yu Mengmeng said, looking down and touching her tummy with a pitiful expression.

"Brother, to tell you the truth, the doctor said I have a disease where I will die if I don't eat crabs. I have to eat ten crabs every day, otherwise my mental illness will flare up and I will feel terrible!"

That's outrageous, absolutely outrageous! They'd actually say something like that just to eat crabs.

"...I've never heard of this disease."

"This is a rare disease; there are fewer than a hundred people in the world who have it. Brother, please, please order me some crabs! Would I risk my life for a good meal? I'm not kidding, brother, please take me to eat crabs!"

"Ah!! My chest is starting to hurt, I can't breathe, big brother, please, I beg you!!! Even just one, even just one." Yu Mengmeng lay on the table, looking weak, her little mouth still uttering a string of nonsense.

Bai Weiran: "…………"

You think I'm watching your performance?!

If I take her out for crab, could I take the opportunity to get her phone?

But where can we order crabs in the middle of the night?

Or, just snatch the phone! After taking it, reveal your identity and throw it back at her. Then keep a close eye on the phone and she can never come back. What can she do then?

Should I feed her crab?

Forcibly stealing a phone?

As someone who values ​​efficiency, the obvious choice is—

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Chapter Twenty-One: It Turns Out I Was the Clown

A young girl wearing a fisherman's hat excitedly flipped through the menu in a corner of a late-night hot pot restaurant.

"...Ah! This crab looks so delicious!!"

Bai Weiran drank the plum juice and felt his stomach churning.

The plum juice isn't sweet enough today!

I should have chosen soy milk!

Ultimately, the bottom line of law and morality prevailed over sophisticated self-interest that prioritized efficiency.

But since it was so late at night, most restaurants were closed, so he could only take Yu Mengmeng to X-Dilao, a 24-hour restaurant in a nearby shopping mall.

It's a headache; without mobile payment, he has to carry his card when he goes out.

In Yu Mengmeng's world, there was no such great invention as hot pot. When she first saw Xidi Lao, she couldn't take it all in. She had never experienced such royal-level comfort service before. She stared intently at the dishes being served. The waiter was stunned for a moment when he saw that Yu Mengmeng had white hair and red eyes and was as beautiful and delicate as a doll.

Bai Weiran had no appetite in the middle of the night, but he still quickly and skillfully ordered food for Mengmeng.

"Shrimp paste, blackfish fillets, half a portion of shrimp roe, half a portion of seasonal crab legs, half a portion of snowflake beef..."

After placing the order, Yu Mengmeng picked up her bowl and was about to drink the soup when Bai Weiran grabbed her and held her down.

"No, this broth is not for drinking; it's only for simmering ingredients."

"What does 'hot pot ingredients' mean?" the girl asked curiously.

"It's basically cooking the food in it...you'll see in a bit."

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