I met my whole family through Baidu Tieba.

To eat, or not to eat?

this is a problem.

Shen Kang has always been good at solving problems.

"Put it on the tab first, we'll eat there tonight."

Shen Kang pushed He Qiuzhu's hand back, feeling that he had taken into account both the inappropriateness of the situation and ensured that He Qiuzhu's sincere kindness was not wasted—perfect.

He Qiuzhu withdrew her hand with some regret, but when she heard Shen Kang say they would eat again tonight, her eyes lit up. "What time tonight, Shen Kang?"

"Have you had dinner yet? Plain food is fine."

"Okay. Then don't forget."

"I'll never forget it; I'm a person who always keeps my word."...

After talking for a while, He Qiuzhu went back to her dormitory. Shen Kang also called out to Lu Tinglan, who was standing next to him, "Let's go."

The two then walked away side by side.

Before they had taken more than a few steps, Lu Tinglan couldn't help but ask, "Boss Shen, are you sure you two were siblings just now?"

She really couldn't hold back any longer.

Shen Kang glanced at her and smiled: "What if that's not the case?"

Lu Tinglan complained, "Normal siblings don't act like this!"

Shen Kang countered, "Then what are normal siblings like?"

Lu Tinglan said, "In a normal sibling relationship, the younger sister remembers what her older brother likes to eat, buys it casually while shopping at the supermarket, puts it in the fridge without saying a word. When the older brother comes home late from work and sees the late-night snack his sister left for him on the table, he eats it, silently washes the dishes, and the next day they still bicker with each other. When the younger sister is heartbroken, the older brother doesn't know how to comfort her, so he goes downstairs, buys a big bag of snacks, puts it on her bedroom door, knocks twice, and leaves. When the younger sister opens the door and sees the bag of snacks, which is full of her favorite foods, she smiles before she's even wiped away her tears."

Lu Tinglan walked and talked.

"When my younger sister left home for the first time to go to university, her brother said, 'Finally, some peace and quiet,' but then secretly slipped his salary card into a hidden compartment in her suitcase. Only after she arrived at school did he message her, 'There's money in the card, don't be stingy.' My sister didn't reply with anything mushy, just a simple 'Okay.' Then, during the first month of school, she would send him a picture of herself eating every day, meaning, 'I'm eating well, don't worry.' They rarely said 'I care about you,' because it didn't need to be said—all their care was hidden in those insignificant little things, you know it, we know it, it's unspoken..."

As they walked and talked, they reached the entrance of the second canteen.

Lu Tinglan finally finished speaking, concluding with, "That's what siblings are like!"

After listening for a long time, Shen Kang finally spoke.

"You have an older brother?"

Lu Tinglan nodded and gave a soft "hmm".

Shen Kang suddenly realized: "So you've been immersed in an abnormal sibling relationship all this time. Well, congratulations, today you've finally seen a normal sibling relationship."

"..."

Lu Tinglan was speechless. She just wanted to say, "Boss Shen, do you have some kind of cognitive impairment? Is your definition of sibling relationships different from normal people? What's normal about you two?!"

But Shen Kang didn't give her a chance to speak, and said directly, "We're at the cafeteria. You haven't had breakfast yet, have you? You can treat me."

"it is good."

Lu Tinglan nodded subconsciously, turned and walked towards the second canteen next door.

She had only taken two steps when she suddenly realized something and turned to look at Shen Kang beside her.

"No, Mr. Shen, what did you just say? I'm treating you?"

Shen Kang nodded calmly, "Yes. You just agreed."

"...Why?" Lu Tinglan couldn't help but ask.

Shen Kang smiled and said, "Isn't the idea I gave you enough for you to treat me to breakfast? Although I do good deeds without expecting anything in return, if you don't reciprocate, it will be detrimental to your interpersonal relationships after you enter society. I'm just helping you build the right interpersonal skills in advance."

Lu Tinglan thought for a moment, then casually lifted the thick curtain at the cafeteria entrance—it was winter, and the cafeteria had put up thick, warm, and windproof curtains—and couldn't help but say, "You're clearly taking advantage of me, but why do I always feel like what Boss Shen says makes a lot of sense?"

Shen Kang replied matter-of-factly, "That's because I don't say things that don't make sense."

"What kind of nonsense is this?" Lu Tinglan couldn't help but complain in her heart.

After the two entered the cafeteria, the breakfast window was just a few steps away.

Lu Tinglan actually swiped her card and bought breakfast for Shen Kang—two steamed buns, two tea eggs, and a soy milk.

Although it wasn't a lot of money in total, Shen Kang felt quite satisfied holding the steamed bun in his hand—he had successfully saved some money again, and the Anjia Group and the Beiming Group had received another injection of funds on their road to success. With various kinds of funds being injected every day, investors were optimistic, and it would be difficult for these two groups not to succeed.

Since the two didn't have anything important to do later, they simply found a spot and sat down to eat facing each other.

Shen Kang finally got down to business.

"How are you feeling now?"

"It felt so-so. Anyone would feel bad if they were forced to have a meal first thing in the morning," Lu Tinglan said expressionlessly, then took a big bite of the bun in her hand.

Shen Kang pretended not to hear and said, "I meant, how are you feeling on the Beiming Community?"

After swallowing the bun in her mouth, Lu Tinglan put it down and sighed softly, "I thought I could hold on, but when the day actually came, I realized how much pressure I was under."

She has so much to say to someone, but no one is suitable to confide in. After all, what she is doing now is to be done in secret, and she cannot let anyone know her true purpose.

Now that Shen Kang, another insider in the matter, had finally arrived, she felt as if she had found an outlet for her emotions, and she began to speak in a low voice, talking nonstop.

"At first, I was quite happy to see more posts discussing me in the community. But gradually, the pressure increased."

"I don't know if you've seen those posts, but the one that upset me the most was by someone called 'General Manager Wang of AAA Building Materials Wholesale'."

As Lu Tinglan spoke, she put down her breakfast, freeing up her hands to take out her phone, go online, find a reply to the post, and then hand the phone to Shen Kang.

"He was shocked, then immediately asked who was '陌上微凉' (Mo Shang Wei Liang). So sarcastic, so blatantly sarcastic!"

Lu Tinglan was very indignant.

If you say she's ugly or no one pursues her, she won't get angry because she knows she's pretty and has suitors; if you say she's bad at studying, she won't get angry because she knows she's a good student; but if you mock her for not being famous, she'll really get angry.

Because she really has no fame.

"This person's cursing is really filthy, without using a single 'filthy' word, but it's the one that hurts me the most," Lu Tinglan continued to confide.

Shen Kang took a sip of soy milk and glanced at it.

"That person is me."

"..."

Lu Tinglan silently put away the phone she had been showing.

Then, unable to resist asking, "Boss Shen, why do you call him General Manager Wang?"

Shen Kang replied matter-of-factly, "Who uses their real name online?"

Lu Tinglan stopped dwelling on the topic and changed the subject: "Anyway, the pressure is a bit high. There are all sorts of things being said in those increasingly numerous posts. At first, it was the post you arranged that was sounding the charge, but once the horn was sounded, more and more people joined in."

Since she had already taken out her phone and opened the webpage, Lu Tinglan simply continued browsing the Beiming Community, found a post, and handed it to Shen Kang.

While eating his steamed bun, Shen Kang picked up his phone and immediately saw the title of the post: "I've had a feeling that Mo Shang Wei Liang was acting strange for a long time."

"I just want to say one thing—I felt something was wrong with her two months ago."

"When she posted her first post, I felt something was off. It wasn't that it was bad, but I just couldn't quite put my finger on it. Later, I realized it was just one problem—the traces were too obvious... I didn't say anything at the time because people would think I was being sarcastic... I felt there was an indescribable 'tightness' about her. Every post she made was full of effort, a kind of effort that you could see through the screen. It was the kind of effort you only have when you're desperately trying to prove 'I'm doing well'... Looking back now, the P incident wasn't accidental, but inevitable. After all, fake things will eventually show their flaws... I'm not criticizing her. I'm just saying that I felt something was off a long time ago, but no one believed me before."

Shen Kang read it with great interest.

Although he spent half the day on his phone yesterday, he was looking at it from the overall perspective of a website administrator, so it was impossible for him to focus solely on the matter of "陌上微凉" (a website name).

Therefore, he hadn't actually read that post.

I couldn't help but think to myself, wow, no matter what era, people are always so enthusiastic about being wise after the event.

Of course, if you browse the Beiming Community and only look at the posts without reading the replies, then you've wasted your time.

The Beiming Community cannot function without replies, just as you can't eat spaghetti without adding No. 46 concrete.

So Shen Kang naturally read the reply as well.

"You're just a Monday morning quarterback. Now that something's happened, you're jumping out to speak up. What were you doing before?"

"Actually, I feel the same way. When I saw her 'early morning study' post, I thought it was too deliberate. Seven o'clock! Who has time to pose for photos before studying? I certainly couldn't do it."

"It's not hindsight; many people felt this way at the time but didn't dare say it. Because she hadn't done anything substantially wrong, you can't just criticize someone because they're 'too perfect,' right? But now it turns out those intuitions were correct."...

Feeling uncomfortable, Lu Tinglan simply moved from the opposite side to sit next to Shen Kang.

After Shen Kang finished reading, she took the phone back and immediately found a new post, handing the phone to Shen Kang.

"And this one too."

Shen Kang took the phone, thinking to himself, "You're really quite skilled at this. It seems you often watch it under the covers at night."