I met my whole family through Baidu Tieba.

Chapter 194 I am innocent, and my innocence will remain untainted!

After a group of people left, the number of people in the lobby rest area decreased significantly.

The rain outside was still pattering down.

"Mr. Shen, it seems your 'face-saving fruit' ability has evolved again." Ma Liang lay on the sofa, watching the rain outside, and chatted with Shen Kang out of boredom. "This time, you don't even need to ask; the other party can provide a solution."

"really."

Shen Kang said something, then looked at Ye Jintong without making a sound.

As if sensing something, Ye Jintong immediately bristled like an alert cat, "What are you doing? Let me tell you, I didn't bring much money with me this time. I treated you guys to a meal yesterday and I'm broke!"

She had previously had her Face Fruit ability tested by Shen Kang, and she was truly "once bitten, twice shy".

Shen Kang, however, remained persistent: "Out of money? So you're planning to go to the ancient town today without spending a single penny?"

Ye Jintong was afraid that Shen Kang would covet her wallet, so she honestly confessed, "It's less than fifty yuan. It's not that I don't plan to spend any money at all. I can still afford to buy water and my own food. I don't plan to buy anything else. When you come out to have fun, the most important thing is to take pictures! Whether I buy things or not doesn't really matter."

Upon hearing this, Shen Kang thought to himself that Ye Jintong really seemed to be out of money, so he let her go.

Then he looked at He Qiuzhu next to him.

In just a short while, she seemed a little sleepy, her eyes half-closed, and she looked like she was leaning towards him.

You know what, the sound of rain on a rainy day can actually be a bit hypnotic.

Shen Kang thought to himself, then stopped looking at her and turned to look at the rain outside, lost in thought.

He Qiuzhu's head never leaned in next to him.

After a while, the rain still hadn't stopped, and it got even heavier.

"It seems like it's really not going to stop anytime soon," Ma Liang said, sitting opposite him.

He wasn't the only one with this idea.

Some people who were originally waiting for the rain to stop, like them, finally gave up and left after seeing this.

Seeing this, Ye Jintong sighed, looking dejected: "Then forget it."

"Let's go then."

After discussing it, Ye Jintong didn't want to go back to her room and lie there like a corpse. She wanted to go to the small conference room in the hotel and see if she could participate. She also wanted to join in and play the murder game.

Ma Liang shared the same idea, so the two of them went.

As for Shen Kang, he wasn't interested in that at all; he felt it was better to go back to his room and lie there like a corpse—in this kind of weather, lying in his room was the most comfortable thing to do.

He Qiuzhu also looked very sleepy, so she naturally went back to her room to lie down.

It was quite strange that when Shen Kang walked to his room, opened the door, went in, and then closed it again, he found He Qiuzhu silently following him into his room, and he hadn't even noticed her.

Of course, since she was already inside, there was no reason to kick her out; it would be impolite. So, without saying anything, I simply went over, opened the curtains, turned on the TV, took off my shoes, got into bed, and leaned against the headboard to watch TV.

He Qiuzhu sat on the edge of the bed to his right, silently watching TV.

But as Shen Kang watched, he suddenly realized that He Qiuzhu had disappeared from one side of the bed. Looking closer, he saw that Kagura had appeared on the bed to his right, leaning against the headboard, watching TV side by side with him—literally watching TV, staring intently with her eyes unblinking.

Does this count as sharing a bed?

Shen Kang's thoughts were a jumbled mess as he looked at her profile: her skin was truly beautiful, smooth and incredibly fair, radiating an aura of wealth cultivated through expensive skincare; her nose was also very straight and elegant, and the eyelashes on her large eyes were long and thick; her small lips were tightly pressed together, a vibrant red—

Shen Kang noticed that her face was gradually turning red, but she kept her lips tightly pursed and didn't say anything.

Shen Kang stopped looking at her and turned his head to look at the television in front of him.

It's really strange. His eyesight is perfectly good, and he's watching TV, but he just can't make out what program is on.

Shen Kang thought that the TV might be broken.

Then he heard He Qiuzhu's voice from beside him: "It's a bit cold."

Those were very familiar words. Along with those words, a hand was slipped into his.

Shen Kang held her hand and felt that it was indeed a bit cold, so he pulled the blanket over her and let her put her lower body inside, covering her with it.

The two sat side by side, watching TV for a while, before He Qiuzhu said, "It's still a bit cold."

Shen Kang thought for a moment, hesitated for a second, and finally reached out his right hand, put his arm around her shoulder, and pulled her into his embrace.

A soft, cuddly body nestled against him, warm to the touch. A faint, pleasant fragrance wafted into his nostrils.

The younger sister was cold, and the older brother had no other choice but to use his own body heat to provide some warmth to his sister so that she wouldn't freeze to death in the extremely cold and harsh conditions of the five-star hotel room. There's nothing wrong with that, right?

There was nothing wrong with it, Shen Kang thought to himself, and felt at ease.

He Qiuzhu finally stopped complaining about being cold and leaned against him, being held in his arms without saying a word. Her eyes sparkled as she stared at the television in front of her, a hint of pleasure in her gaze.

The room was quiet, with only the sound from the television and the incessant patter of rain outside the window, like a hypnotic drumbeat.

Shen Kang held He Qiuzhu in his arms, listening to these sounds, and felt very calm.

Time passed by unnoticed.

He didn't know how much time had passed, but half of his body had gone numb.

Looking down slowly, I saw that He Qiuzhu had fallen asleep sometime earlier, her eyes closed. However, perhaps her sleeping posture was awkward, pressing on her throat, causing a small pink tongue to stick out diagonally, drooping out of her mouth. It looked a bit like a cute picture of a neutered cat with its tongue dangling out of its mouth that Shen Kang had collected in his later years.

To be honest, he was a little charmed by it.

He wanted to help her put her tongue back in her mouth, but as soon as he moved his hand, he felt that pinching her tongue was a bit perverted. After hesitating for a long time, he gave up. He just secretly took out He Qiuzhu's phone and took several pictures of her like this. Then he used her phone to log into his QQ account and uploaded the photos to his private QQ album.

This is also because his own phone does not have a camera function.

After finishing all that, Shen Kang continued to hold her like that, watching the television in front of him, listening to the rain outside the window, gradually feeling a sense of having stolen half a day of leisure from his busy life.

Shen Kang didn't know when he fell asleep.

When he woke up, he heard a doorbell ring.

He Qiuzhu opened her eyes groggily at this moment.

Shen Kang released her, got off the bed, and dragged his half-numb body to the door with an odd posture, his body higher on one side and lower on the other. He turned sideways and opened the door with his left hand.

Ye Jintong and Ma Liang, standing outside the door, were both taken aback by his strange posture. Then they saw He Qiuzhu rubbing her eyes and climbing off the bed.

"Holy crap!"

Ye Jintong yelled, "So you guys didn't go play games, you went back to your room to play this kind of game! I thought you were in a pure love relationship, I didn't expect you to be doing this kind of thing so early in the morning! ————

He Qiuzhu looked at her with a puzzled expression, tilting her head.

Shen Kang was completely speechless. "What nonsense are you talking about? What pure love? What kind of thing is this? Didn't I already tell you? We're just siblings. She's my god-sister!"

Ye Jintong clicked her tongue: "Boss, I thought you were too innocent. When you mentioned 'adopted sister' before, I thought you were just shy and trying to create a sibling relationship. Now I realize I was too naive. You're really talking about 'adopted sister'!"

Shen Kang's head was filled with even more black lines, and he emphasized again that their relationship was purely platonic, like that of siblings.

Ye Jintong looked at him with an expression that seemed to say, "Do you think I'm stupid?" "What kind of siblings sleep together in the same bed?"

Shen Kang retorted, "Didn't you ever share a bed with your brother when you were little?"

Ye Jintong answered frankly, "Sorry, because of the one-child policy, I don't have an older brother!"

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Shen Kang then looked at Ma Liang.

Ma Liang hesitated for a moment, then said, "Mr. Shen, although I do have a younger sister, and we slept in the same bed when we were little, isn't it a bit absurd for us to still be sleeping in the same bed after we turned 10?"

"Ugh!"

Seeing that these two ordinary people simply couldn't understand his pure brother-sister relationship with He Qiuzhu, Shen Kang was disappointed and helpless. He could only say, "Never mind, the innocent will clear themselves!"

Ye Jintong and his group came to find Shen Kang and his group to have lunch.

After Shen Kang declared "the innocent will clear themselves" and was unfazed by the rumors, the matter was temporarily put to rest, leaving time to prove their innocence. Afterwards, the group went downstairs for lunch.

By the afternoon, the rain was still falling, showing no signs of stopping, which made Ye Jintong keep complaining.

Shen Kang and He Qiuzhu went back to their room and continued watching TV.

Finally, around 5 p.m., the rain stopped, but it was already late.

At six o'clock sharp, everyone took the bus back to their respective schools.

It was almost eight o'clock when the car finally arrived at the school.

After escorting He Qiuzhu back to her dormitory, Shen Kang also returned to his own dormitory. Upon entering the large dormitory, he found the door to the small dormitory room closed. Pushing open the door, he was shocked to discover that he had transmigrated and arrived in the Heavenly Palace.

The small dormitory room was shrouded in mist, making it difficult to see clearly; it really did resemble a celestial palace.

"Cough cough!—"

Shen Kang coughed several times and kept waving his hands to fan the air, but he couldn't dispel much of the smoke filling the dormitory.

"What's wrong?"

Shen Kang coughed twice more, then looked at Jin Chao and asked.

As for Feng Moquan's appearance, he saw it as soon as he entered: Feng Moquan was sitting at his desk, with an opened pack of cigarettes in front of him on the left and a plastic ashtray on the right. The ashtray was full of cigarette butts, at least dozens of them.

Feng Moquan himself, with a cigarette between his fingers, was silently smoking, his face full of melancholy, even more so than Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung combined.

Clearly, the heavenly scene that now fills the dormitory is the work of Feng Moquan.

Therefore, Shen Kang did not ask Feng Moquan, but walked directly to Jin Chao's side and asked him this question.

"I'm not quite sure either."

Jin Chao said this, then glanced at the silent Feng Moquan, stood up, leaned close to Shen Kang's ear, and whispered, "I reckon it's related to Zhong Lin. Since yesterday afternoon, I haven't seen Lao Feng texting Zhong Lin. The situation seems quite serious. From yesterday afternoon until now, he's barely touched his phone."

Feng Moquan texted Zhong Lin constantly in the dormitory every day.

From yesterday afternoon until tonight, Feng Mo hasn't sent any text messages to Zhong Lin, which is indeed quite serious. Add to that the current situation—

Feng Moquan's relationship with Zhong Lin is likely in serious trouble.

Shen Kang nodded silently, agreeing with Jin Chao's assessment, then looked around the dormitory. "Where's Wang Pan? He's not here again today?"

"It seems like their student council has something going on today."

"And what about you? With your dorm looking like this, can you still stand it?"

"Sigh, I have no choice but to put up with it. I need to use the computer, so I'll just have to bear with it."

"You've started writing your novel?"

Jin Chao remained calm: "No, I'll write it tomorrow."

Shen Kang gave him a thumbs up.

Jin Chao had been quite aggressive in promoting it beforehand, making sure everyone in his dorm knew he had a novel called "A Taoist Master on Campus".

The idea was there, but I haven't started writing it yet. I don't know if I'll ever see Jin Chao start writing his novel before I graduate from university.

As the two were talking, Feng Moquan suddenly spoke up: "Old Shen, do you remember the story you told me before National Day?"

Shen Kang was taken aback. "What story?"

He couldn't even remember what Feng Moquan had said.

When Jin Chao heard Feng Moquan finally speak, he became more interested in what other stories were going to happen and perked up his ears to listen.

Feng Moquan glanced at him, shook his hand, and stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray. Then he stood up, came over and pulled Shen Kang, "Come on, Lao Shen, let's go out for a bit. I have something to talk to you about."

Shen Kang then followed him out.

Jin Chao remained silent, following behind the two of them, hoping to sneak over and eavesdrop on something, but Feng Moquan was clearly not blind.

He pulled Shen Kang to the living room, and Jin Chao followed him out. He then pulled Shen Kang to the stairwell, and seeing Jin Chao follow him out again, he pulled Shen Kang downstairs.

Seeing that he was quite determined and wouldn't listen to him, Jin Chao had no choice but to stop following him. If he continued to follow, Feng Moquan might just drag them all around the campus.

It's not impossible.

For a guy who hasn't said a word all day and has turned his dorm room into a palace, this possibility is extremely high.

After pulling Shen Kang down to the entrance of the building, and seeing that Jin Chao didn't follow, Feng Moquan finally spoke.