You are my wife, don't doubt it!

"I'm leaving." Yu Luying prepared to stand up.

"Sit down and listen to what I have to say--" Xiao Yao said in an unquestionable tone: "But, love is free. If you don't like me, I will definitely not... that or anything like that. I say this just to let you know that you are very important to me, so I hope we can be friends forever.

"Because at that time, when I was most helpless, you helped me and accompanied me. And we actually get along very well, and I also want to help you-"

"You've said this many times. There's no need to repeat it."

“So, I cannot tolerate anyone blaspheming you like this and getting away with it.

“I want him to pay.

"I'm getting really close to the truth, and I want to catch him. Not for me, but for you."

……

"Yes, Xiao Yao is outside the law." Yu Luying raised her head and told a cold joke. A smile appeared on her face and her voice softened.

A smile also appeared on Xiao Yao's face.

"Okay, I get it." He heard the girl say softly.

"Then, um... I need you to tell me..." Xiao Yao felt that the atmosphere was now ready to get down to business: "What did the underwear you lost look like?"

"..." Xiao Yao could hear Yu Luying taking a deep breath, and could feel the stinging pain from the tips of his fingernails in the palm of his hand.

"Don't get me wrong..." Xiao Yao became nervous again.

"I know, this is information that can help solve the case, right?" After a few seconds, Yu Luying seemed to react: "I don't remember."

"I know it's a bit embarrassing to ask you this question, if you don't want to say it..."

"I really don't remember," the girl stood up, "Do you remember what underwear you wear every day?"

"Okay." Xiao Yao made up his mind and took out the most important evidence from his trouser pocket: "So, is this yours?"

"I never wear this kind of...socks." Yu Luying looked carefully at what Xiao Yao took out and sniffed her nose in confusion: "Whose are these?"

What the hell, socks?

Xiao Yao was confused. He looked carefully and realized that he was holding a ball of gray and wrinkled textile in his hand.

That was not the pink panties found in the afternoon, but a...sock?

The original color cannot be seen, and there is a √ mark on the sock.

"No, no! Not this one, I got the wrong one!"

Xiao Yao panicked. For a moment, he seemed to see a revolving lantern of life, with recent events passing before his eyes one by one.

From the scene at the playground that day when he dragged Shen Jie into the pool, to the scene when Shen Jie stuffed her socks into his trouser pocket in front of Zhou Qi, all the way to this afternoon when he used the cover of the desk to stuff his underwear into his pocket.

Then, under Yu Luying's increasingly unfriendly gaze, he awkwardly took out the correct evidence from his other trouser pocket, handed it over with his palm, not daring to look into the other person's eyes.

Seeing what Xiao Yao handed over, Yu Luying was stunned for a moment, then took a half step back, very reluctantly stretched out two fingers to pinch the piece of pink fabric, sniffed it lightly at a distance of half a meter, and then immediately threw it on the ground with disgust.

But when she looked up and saw Xiao Yao who was at a loss, she frowned and picked it up.

She shook off the dirt on it, turned her back and spread it on her thighs to fold it neatly, opened her schoolbag, hesitated for a moment, and finally tore off two pages of white paper from her exercise book, wrapped it up, and stuffed it into the zipper pocket on the side of the schoolbag.

Then she turned around, looked at Xiao Yao and said, "You came to me seriously, with my socks in one pocket... and another girl's socks in the other pocket. Are you here to turn yourself in, confess, and beg for forgiveness?"

"Um, I'll explain the socks thing to you later." Since these are indeed Yu Luying's underwear, let's get down to business and ignore the sarcasm: "As for your underwear, I found it in my schoolbag this afternoon..."

Xiao Yao told Yu Luying everything about his investigation over the past two days and the mysterious appearance of the underwear today. Finally, he emphasized that this was really not directed or acted by himself, and expressed his concerns about the situation.

Yu Luying touched her chin and looked at Xiao Yao, thinking for about a minute and a half.

"Okay, I officially believe that this matter has nothing to do with you." Yu Luying announced her verdict.

"Really?" Xiao Yao was overjoyed.

"...If we send it to the police station for testing, there should be some clues, right?" Yu Luying continued to touch her chin, her face slightly raised 30 degrees: "By the way, you just said that you are very close to the truth? Then who do you suspect?"

Although he didn't know why Yu Luying changed her stance so easily, Xiao Yao still felt very happy. He skipped a lot of prepared self-defense and went straight to the conclusion: "There is no doubt that someone is hiding behind this matter, targeting you and me. Perhaps from your initial suspicion of me to my investigation to prove my innocence, it was all within the plan of this mastermind behind the scenes. I have considered various possibilities for this person's identity, but none of them make sense..."

“When you don’t know, just say you don’t know.” Yu Luying rubbed her temples.

"If this happened last month, I could say I didn't know, but now, between you and me..."

Xiao Yao pinched his thigh with his hand in his trouser pocket. Yu Luying was not mentally prepared and shuddered noticeably, with her face flushed.

Xiao Yao went on to say, "With such a strange phenomenon happening before, I can't just let it go without saying I didn't know. You can go and test the physical evidence, but I doubt that you will find anything - is this mysterious enemy who is always targeting you and me really human? This is what I am particularly worried about. Now the enemy is in the dark and I am in the light, so I am anxious to let you know the situation, so that if he does something again, you can be mentally prepared."

Yu Luying pondered: "Isn't it a human...human? Is it really like what mom said?"

"What did your mother say?"

"It's nothing. I understand. I will pay more attention. Thank you, Xiao Yao." Yu Luying suddenly forced a smile and bent down to pick up her schoolbag.

"Boom!"

The two people's heads collided with each other.

"Xiao Yao, I just can't give you a good face, right?" Yu Luying complained, and then the two of them laughed together.

"It finally feels like I'm back to the old days. How good we were back then." Xiao Yao sighed.

"Okay, don't try to fool me." Yu Luying seemed to remember something: "Since we are still friends... then can I ask you why you are wearing girls' socks?"

"That belonged to Shen Jie, but it wasn't stolen. Don't get me wrong." Xiao Yao thought hard, trying to find an explanation that would satisfy both loyalty and filial piety.

"Shen Jie? The girl who was at your house that day? Did she give it to you? I could tell that this person knows how to have fun, but I didn't expect her to be so good at it." Yu Luying sighed, not hiding her contempt at all.

"No, she didn't give it to me." Xiao Yao couldn't let Yu Luying freely testify to the biological mother of his future daughter: "To be precise, she left the socks at my place."

Seeing the relaxed smile disappear from Yu Luying's face, Xiao Yao knew that he had said the wrong thing again.

"I see." Yu Luying put the schoolbag on her shoulders again: "Congratulations, treat others well."

"It's not what you think." Xiao Yao explained quickly.

"I didn't think anything," Yu Luying said with a smile, "You and her haven't known each other for long, right? If you really did something out of line, there's no reason for me not to know about our current situation, right?"

"Yes, yes, yes." Xiao Yao said quickly.

"But you are indeed seeing her, aren't you?"

"Well, how should I put it?" Xiao Yao tasted the sweetness of telling the truth and felt a little addicted: "It may not be good to say this, but I still like you more in my heart, but now I know that she is the one destined for me, so..."

Yu Luying could no longer maintain her smile: "I will discuss what you said with my uncle, and I will call you when I have news. Goodbye, classmate Xiao."

After saying that, without waiting for Xiao Yao to react, she stretched out her long legs, got on her bike and rode away.

"Student Xiao is...what the hell is going on again!" Xiao Yao sighed.

Chapter 33 Love Rival

On Friday, Xiao Yao was surrounded by Zhang Jialong, "Daiyu" and others.

"BURBERRY, Columbia..." Zhang Jialong's hand turned over Xiao Yao's collar unceremoniously: "Hairtail, come and have a look, is this fake?"

"How can it be true?" Hairtail approached with disdain.

Xiao Yao regretted that he had changed into the new clothes Shen Jie bought for him on a whim today.

"It feels like it's real." Fashion expert Daiyu said, "Xiao Yao, we are still young, we can't go down the path of breaking the law."

"How could my brother Yao commit a crime?!" Ouyang Qianqian interrupted Daiyu's earnest words: "Of course he hooked up with a rich girl, it's a fair sale between us."

"You're even more outrageous..." Xiao Yao was a little nervous: "By the way, are these all very expensive?"

"It's going to cost a few thousand yuan... even with a discount," Zhang Jialong estimated, "this store is worth a thousand jin, right?"

"Shen Jie weighs at most 100 kilograms!" Xiao Yao protested.

"That's fine, Lao Xiao, you've made it." Zhang Jialong's expression seemed like he was truly envious: "Men, you have to live off others!"

"Your Shen, that's Shen, right? Miss Shen," Daiyu said mysteriously, "Are there any other best friends who are in need of a boyfriend? You see, I'm not that bad, right?"

"Ah? Let me ask, let me ask." Xiao Yao gave a dry laugh and perfunctorily answered. Of course, he wouldn't ask.

"Alas, you are so lucky now. I don't know why others like you," Zhang Jialong sat on Xiao Yao's desk. "When Zhou Qi told us about this at first, we didn't believe it. I didn't expect that he was really so good."

Daiyu continued, "In fact, I always think Brother Xiao is very talented, unlike us vulgar people. In the past, we joked without measure and offended each other. Brother Xiao, you should be more tolerant. We are brothers from now on."

As he spoke, he patted Xiao Yao's back hard.

Hey, hey, hey, isn't this too much?

"Speaking of Zhou Qi..." Xiao Yao said.

Teacher Yao pushed the door open and interrupted them: "Didn't you hear the bell? What are you guys doing?"

--split line--

At noon, Xiao Yao went to the rooftop and called Shen Jie.

"Are you sick?" Shen Jie was speechless on the other end of the phone: "You kept my socks in your pocket for a week?"

"No, that's not the case," Xiao Yao explained, "I washed my pants when I got home that day, but forgot to take them out of my pockets, and I took them out and wore them again yesterday... You see, this way, there's no hope for Yu Luying and I."

"There was no chance in the first place," Shen Jie said, "Why, do you mean to ask me to take responsibility for what you said?"

"Well," Xiao Yao rolled over on the railing of the rooftop and said coquettishly, "You have to be responsible for me."

"..."

"Hey, is the phone disconnected?"

"No." Shen Jie said.

Afterwards, Xiao Yao told Shen Jie about how Zhang Jialong, Daiyu and others approached him this morning.

"This dress is too expensive. I don't even dare to wear it."

"Who told you to wear it today?" Shen Jie said, "Don't get it dirty again."

"Oh, yes, yes, yes." Xiao Yao straightened up and wiped the railing. Fortunately, there was not much dust.

"I forgot to buy you a pair of glasses. Don't wear your...big black-framed glasses tomorrow." Shen Jie suddenly remembered something.

"Ah? What if I hit the telephone pole?"

--split line--

St. Francis's After-school School starts later than usual, so on Saturday morning, Yu Luying got up a little later than usual.

While her mother was still sleeping soundly, Yu Luying prepared breakfast for her, picked up her schoolbag, and rode her bicycle to school.

The warm breeze ruffled her hair and the smell of the morning made her feel comfortable.

It’s just… there’s an indescribable strange smell in the wind today.

What on earth is that smell? Yu Luying sniffed her cuffs and collar in confusion.

In the classroom, Xiao Yao's seat was still empty as it was every Saturday.

Xiao Yao actually changed his target, which made me feel relieved. When facing him, I felt a lot less pressure.

However, that unreasonable feeling of loss also came with it, mixed in with it, making it difficult for her to understand herself.

If Xiao Yao can really find his other shore, we should be happy for him.

However, Yu Luying has always believed that online dating is unreliable.

Xiao Yao mentioned that they met while playing Bloodline II - how could a girl who played online games in middle school and casually gave her underwear to boys be a decent person?

She is beautiful and her family is rich. She looks like a person who has seen the world and enjoys having fun...

Doesn’t Yu Luying know how popular Xiao Yao is with women?

As she thought this, she pursed her lips.

It's impossible to defraud money from such a penniless boy by associating with him. The only way is to help the poor - and it's obvious that Shen Jie is not someone who is short of money.

It's even more ridiculous to cheat on someone for sex. Shen Jie must have a lot of men who are more handsome than Xiao Yao.

After much thought, the only explanation is that "the young lady wanted to experience life and try something new."

If Xiao Yao foolishly devotes himself to the role, he will probably have a bad experience when the other person gets tired of him and dumps him.

I have hurt him before, and I really don't want him to be hurt again.

The smell of hair oil in her nose became stronger and stronger, and then Yu Luying felt that the roots of a tuft of her hair were being pulled painfully, as if it was clamped by a small clip.