My vampire princess wants to repay a debt of gratitude.

"Big sister, I have to go back now, I have things to do at home."

Lin Mo felt that Cai Xirou was getting more and more outrageous. Didn't he have any pride? Fine, he accepted a huge sum of 5 yuan from her, so he might as well throw away his pride.

"Okay, I have to go back to broadcasting now."

Cai Xirou checked the time, then got up to leave the coffee shop. "By the way, do you want me to drive you home?"

Lin Mo broke out in a cold sweat. Cai Xirou was really thick-skinned; she didn't seem like someone who had just been extorted for a huge sum of 5 yuan.

On the contrary, Cai Xirou felt that she had accomplished a great thing that benefited the country and the people, successfully breaking up the two, and that the Li family line was on the horizon!

"No need, I came by bike."

Lin Mo declined Cai Xirou's offer and watched her leave.

After riding his bike home, Lin Mo immediately shared his joy with his younger sister, Lin Xuan, and transferred 5000 yuan to her so she could spend it as she pleased.

Lin Xuan was overjoyed. She had never received such a large sum of pocket money before. She hugged Lin Mo, kissing and tickling him like a snowball.

Subsequently, Lin Mo transferred 25000 yuan to Li Qi via WeChat and left a message.

"Brother, let's keep our distance for now."

Chapter 22 She's already dead.

Li Qi was suddenly noticing a new money transfer on WeChat, along with a message from Lin Mo.

Suddenly transferring so much money to me and saying not to contact me recently, does that mean Brother Gou went to commit robbery? Is he afraid of implicating me, so he specifically told me not to!

That must be it, Brother Dog. Although you've gone astray, your affection for me is truly touching.

Li Qi imagined a gangster movie, starring his dad's favorite actor, Ekin Cheng. He had secretly watched it a few times with his dad when he was a child, and his mom had yelled at him a few times for it.

Don't let children watch these old movies with lots of fighting and violence.

My parents were very much in love back then, but somehow they ended up going their separate ways.

Therefore, Li Qi always believed that brotherhood was more precious than a thousand pieces of gold!

Even though the two had a "duel" over Ye Zimo, their feelings for each other were not truly damaged.

Thinking that Dog Brother might spend the rest of his life in jail, Li Qi was filled with emotion.

Don't worry, Brother Dog, I'll take good care of Zimo for you.

After the mental drama subsided, Li Qi came to his senses and dialed Lin Mo's number.

"What's going on? Brother Dog, no, Daddy Dog, where did you get the money?"

"Your stepmother gave it to me."

Lin Mo picked at his ear and said honestly.

"What stepmother? I don't have one, explain yourself."

Li Qi was dumbfounded.

“Cai Xirou, the parents you invited last time somehow got my phone number, lured me out, gave me some money, and told me to leave you.”

Lin Mo had the phone on speakerphone, and his younger sister Lin Xuan and the cat Snowball were openly eavesdropping beside him.

"Huh? Holy crap! Is she crazy? How can our friendship be measured in money! How much did she give you?"

Li Qi said excitedly.

"I've given you half of the 5 yuan. Don't ever appear in my WeChat Moments again."

Lin Mo said seriously.

"That's too little. Our friendship deserves at least 10."

Li Qi said angrily, then suddenly remembered that there was also a fat tiger, who might be able to extort a large sum of money from Cai Xirou.

"Don't be surprised, Lao Wei also contributed to this money. I think I can treat Lao Wei to a meal or something. If he hadn't spread rumors that we were having an affair, Cai Xirou wouldn't have given me this breakup fee."

Lin Mo chuckled and teased, and only then did Lin Xuan and Xueqiu understand the origin of this ill-gotten gain.

Oh? Is that what happened? No wonder I said she's been acting strangely lately, trying all sorts of ways to lure me onto the edge of crime and into becoming a morally bankrupt person.

So her bizarre behavior was because she thought I was gay? Was she testing me?

I am!

I didn't react at all, does that mean I'm really gay? I'm so scared, do I really have some inappropriate fantasies about Dog Bro? No, I'm going to throw up!

No way, I like Ye Zimo, or at the very least, Teacher Xiaotian!

Go back and find Risa Tachibana, Yui Hatano, and Laura Takizawa to cleanse your eyes!

Li Qi hurriedly hung up Lin Mo's call, hid in his room, locked the door, and began reading the teachers' treasured editions.

Lin Mo continued to celebrate his first pot of gold with his sister. He planned to buy a new Wacom all-in-one PC, but he couldn't afford a brand new one, so he looked for a used one, as long as its performance was better than the one he was currently using.

Lin Mo was browsing Wacom details on Xianyu (a Chinese online marketplace) on his phone when his QQ suddenly started flashing.

Xiaomi is an editor at a comic platform.

It took half a month to sign the contract, and the status of the work was changed to a contracted work. However, the payment for the comic manuscript is relatively slow, and I expect to receive the first payment the month after next.

Xiaomi: "Mo-chan, according to the contract, you need to update at least two chapters per week, with each chapter being at least 12 pages. Remember to send them to me for review."

Lin Mo: "Mhm, (*?▽?*) Got it."

Lin Mo chatted with his editor, Xiaomi, using emojis for a while before logging off, feeling hopeful and believing that life was getting better and better.

……

Cai Xirou returned to her apartment, where her foreign roommate, her best friend, swayed over and waved her phone in front of Cai Xirou's eyes: "Guess what I saw?"

"what?"

Cai Xirou looked completely bewildered, but suddenly became attracted to the girl in the short video on her phone.

Wow, it's so beautiful.

Cai Xirou was praised for her beauty since she was a child, so she became arrogant and rarely praised others.

Upon seeing Ye Zimo, it was as if the Queen had seen Snow White; besides marveling at her beauty, all that remained was jealousy and worry.

Which company's new employee is this?

This video clearly doesn't have any filters or beautification effects, and it's shot from a distance, only showing the girl's slender figure and somewhat blurry face, yet it already gives people a strange sense of beauty. If it were a close-up, wouldn't it outshine even the post-00s actresses?

Moreover, the tennis was played very beautifully; even non-professionals would find it pleasing to the eye.

The other tennis player, although a bit shorter, was also very cute and looked very young, like a middle school student.

"The seeds the company is interested in?"

Cai Xirou suddenly felt old, with a sense that youth is fleeting.

"Hey, look who this person is in there! And check out the comments."

Lisa, Cai Xirou's best friend, was worried about Cai Xirou's intelligence. Her Chinese wasn't very good to begin with, and she once said a string of English that Cai Xirou couldn't understand.

"Look at this boy. Isn't he your boyfriend's son."

Cai Xirou ignored the English she was speaking and carefully looked at the comments on the video before realizing that it was a men's and women's doubles tennis match. The reason for the tennis match was that Lin Mo and Li Qi were vying for the right to date Ye Zimo, the rising goddess of Mingyue High School!

"so?"

Lisa looked at Cai Xirou.

Cai Xirou had a look on her face like she'd just eaten shit, so I've been tricked!

Recalling the scene of her testing Li Qi with her best friends, and the way she acted like a mother-in-law meeting her daughter-in-law when she asked Lin Mo out at night, it was a complete comedy. It turns out that she was the clown!

50000 RMB!

I was so blinded by greed that I actually believed that Mediterranean guy's words and thought Li Qi was gay!

At this moment, Cai Xirou felt like she was already dead.

The social mortality rate is off the charts.

Whether in front of her future son or in front of Lin Mo, she was already a dead person.

She silently took out her phone, blocked Lin Mo, and then deleted all the photos of herself and Li Qi's father from her WeChat Moments.

With such a dark past, she didn't think she could still get along well with Li Qi.

I feel like every time I see Li Qi, he will mock me, and he will use my weaknesses against me for the rest of my life. Rather than that, I might as well break up with Li Qi's father.

That's right, only by breaking up and completely forgetting this father and son can she salvage her dignity.

Cai Xirou was only glad that she hadn't told Qi's father about Li Qi's situation.

Let's just quietly leave his life; that might be the best choice.

Cai Xirou opened Qi's father's WeChat, wrote nothing, and immediately blocked him.

Dignity is more important than being a man!

Famous internet celebrity and live streamer Cai Xirou cried all night in her live stream. None of her fans knew what had happened and could only keep comforting her.

Qi's father was inexplicably dumped by his new girlfriend. He could only attribute this to his busy business and lack of time to spend with Cai Xirou, and he never thought about his son at all.

Her best friends didn't know how to comfort Cai Xirou, they just hoped she wouldn't do anything rash, after all, she still had a long life ahead of her.

……

Chapter 23 The Hidden Cartoonist

Lin Mo plans to make use of his spare time as well, because updating twice a week, with each update being no less than 12 pages, is still too much for him.

Generally, comic artists work in studios with clear divisions of labor, such as scriptwriting, lead artist, drafting, line drawing, coloring, and post-production. Lin Mo, however, does everything himself. Before signing a contract, he used to update twice a month, but now that the workload has increased, he has to squeeze out his own time.

The platform editor paid him 300 yuan per page, which meant he would earn 28800 yuan a month. After deducting 3225.6 yuan in taxes, he would still have 25574.4 yuan left, which was more than his first pot of gold. He was thrilled.

The thought of royalties made Lin Mo feel completely overwhelmed.

Although drawing comics is something that makes Lin Mo happy, the recognition of his comics and the monetary rewards he receives multiply his happiness, extending beyond just the spiritual level!

For Lin Mo, it meant "I've finally understood."