Going home for Chinese New Year, I squeezed onto a bus with three energetic young women.

"Aww—"

Screams like those of a pig being slaughtered echoed from the studio.

It was impossible to count exactly how many hands were gripping the soft flesh around his waist, and they were even twisting it in the opposite direction by a full half-turn with perfect coordination.

Even with his 1.87-meter-tall body enhanced by the system, Bai Li still couldn't withstand it.

"Stop, stop, stop!" Bai Li gasped in pain and quickly raised his hands in surrender.

"Let go! It's not what you think!"

Chen Tingting tossed her red hair, her tattooed arms still in a powerful stance, and raised her voice:

"It's not what I think! That young lady has already prepared everything, she's just waiting for you to tell her which hotel room you want! And you still have the nerve to complain?"

Zhang Qian gritted her teeth, her eyes blazing with fury beneath her blue hair:

"So you secretly added that noob female gamer behind my back, and you're even going to have online critiques with her?"

Although Li Jiaxin and Lin Xiaoshuang didn't say anything, their grip didn't lessen at all.

Even Jiang Ruyue, standing to the side, had a clear and aloof expression on her face that screamed, "You scumbag, you're dead."

Bai Li quickly held her phone screen up high.

"She's making that up! That's a meme from a game!"

Bai Li pointed to the words on the screen and explained urgently:

"I changed my in-game signature to 'Bumblebee spying on car wash security cameras'."

"Use your brains! A Transformer peeping at a car wash? That's not exactly watching porn!"

Upon hearing this, the small hands around her waist finally loosened their grip.

The four young women, still somewhat skeptical, took a half-step back.

Lin Xiaoshuang rubbed her nose, her baby face full of strange expressions:

"Really? Then why did she post something so ambiguous?"

Li Jiaxin put her hands in her pockets and pouted:

"Tsk tsk, this is a trick, they're just fishing for bait."

Bai Li rubbed her bruised side and said irritably:

"Whether she fished or not, just let her send it to us herself, won't that solve the problem?"

He held his phone, head down, typing, getting straight to the point.

Hello, my name is Bai Li.

I'm sorry, I shouldn't have made sarcastic remarks about you that night while playing games.

Message sent.

A message pops up at the top of the chat interface: "The other party is typing..."

The rich young lady completely ignored his apology.

A few seconds later.

The other party sent a message along with an emoji.

What happened? Your girlfriend got beaten up while you were with her?

Below is a GIF of a kitten covering its mouth and giggling.

Bai Li's eyelids twitched violently as he looked at these words.

Xie Lingmo's mind really works fast.

They were able to guess the situation on my side just by the way I spoke.

Now it seems that this rich young lady was clearly stirring up trouble for her own amusement.

Before Bai Li could figure out how to reply...

"Give it to me!"

A hand with a floral tattoo on its sleeve suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

Chen Tingting snatched the phone away swiftly and decisively.

She pressed the voice button, her high red ponytail swaying as she tilted her head back, her silver tongue stud peeking out from beneath the waves.

"Speak up, what's the point of going to all this trouble to add our boss? Don't play the scheming girl!"

Let go. Send.

All in one go.

Yunshi.

Luxury residential area on the hillside.

In the spacious pink princess room, sunlight streamed through the floor-to-ceiling windows onto the plush carpet.

Xie Lingmo was lying face down on the soft bed.

She was wearing a loose T-shirt and only a pair of very short hot pants on her lower body.

Her short pink hair was casually scattered on the pillow, and her two fair feet dangled in mid-air, swinging rhythmically.

The phone screen lit up, and a voice message came through.

Xie Lingmo clicked to play.

Chen Tingting's irritable and aggressive voice echoed in the quiet bedroom.

Upon hearing this question, Xie Lingmo stopped swinging her feet.

She rolled over and lay flat on the bed, her delicate brows furrowed together.

"This female voice isn't the one I played games with that night."

She muttered to herself, her gaze fixed on the screen.

Xie Lingmo quickly grasped the key phrase—"our...eldest brother..."

"Oh?" Xie Lingmo sat up, picked up a plush brown bear from the side and hugged it to her chest. A strange expression appeared on her delicate but slightly pale face.

"Turns out he's a scumbag, Old Deng."

Her hands flew across the screen.

[So you don't just have one girlfriend, and they're all pretty girls.]

[You've been shot, you know? They weren't after you as a person, they were after your money.]

Why don't you come find me in Yunshi and hang out with me?

[You like trendy young women? Perfect, I'm the head of the trendy young women in Yun City.]

[Come play with me, and I'll introduce you to hundreds of girls.]

Click send.

Xie Lingmo tossed her phone aside, grabbed the teddy bear's ears and yanked them haphazardly, waiting to see what would happen to the person opposite her.

Ping County, web series studio.

Chen Tingting stared at the several messages that popped up on her phone screen.

When she saw the words on it, her anger surged to the top of her head.

"That little vixen!"

Chen Tingting was so angry that she jumped up and down on the spot, waved her phone around, and raised her voice eight octaves:

"Sisters, look!"

"This woman not only looks down on us, but she also says we're only following Big Brother for his money!"

"She even wants to introduce hundreds of potential partners to my brother! She's trying to steal my boyfriend!"

These words were spoken.

The atmosphere in the studio became very strange.

Li Jiaxin reached out and scratched her purple bangs, a hint of embarrassment flashing across her cool and sassy face.

She coughed lightly and blurted out the truth.

"Um... Sister Tingting. Wasn't that what we did at the beginning?"

Chen Tingting froze, nearly dropping her phone: "Huh?"

Li Jiaxin spread her hands and began to calculate:

"Think about it. When we first met Big Brother, we spilled his bottled water, spilled his instant noodles, and even spilled his fancy takeout."

Standing to the side, Lin Xiaoshuang, with her yellow hair in a little tuft, shook it twice and adorably counted on her fingers in agreement.

"Uh...it seems so."

Lin Xiaoshuang shrank back and stole a glance at Bai Li:

"But later on, we were genuinely playing with our older brother. We even started saving up for the bride price."

Jiang Ruyue stood to the side, her cool, first-love face full of confusion, and suddenly interjected.

"So, is Brother Sao Gen really the old man you guys came from?"

Bai Li sat in the chair, listening to the conversation of these women, his forehead veins throbbing.

So, in the eyes of these girls, he was initially treated like a sucker, an "old man" to be taken advantage of.

However, he wasn't really angry.

Back then, I was also hoping for investment returns, and I treated them as regular tools for making money.

Everyone got what they needed, and the two sides ended up going their separate ways, which unexpectedly fostered genuine feelings between them.

He looked at these girls, these young women from the lower class who lacked love; once they fell in love, they were more devoted than anyone else.

"Alright, alright."

Bai Li sighed and stretched out his hand:

"Give me your phone, I'll talk to her."

Chen Tingting blushed and shoved the phone back into Bai Li's hand.

Bai Li leaned back in the folding chair, her slender fingers typing rapidly on the screen.

【No.】

What I like are young, energetic girls who give me positive feedback; as long as I'm even slightly nice to them, they'll be completely devoted to me.

[Not the kind of biohazard mother that treats me like an idiot, dumps gold coins on me, and is also poisonous.]

Besides, we only played a game once by chance. Why should I go to Yunshi to play with you?

[I refuse to believe it. You're a rich heiress from a well-off family, and you don't even have a single person around who genuinely wants to play with you.]

There are absolutely no people in the world who are that pitiful.