Fun

“Wow, if only I’d searched there more carefully!”

“No！！！！！！！！”

The moment Ye Shuang appeared, quite a few students nearby let out anguished screams. Some even dropped to their knees and clutched their heads, looking as though they had missed the winning lottery number by a single digit.

“You were really close to finding me. What a shame.” Ye Shuang was grinning as he spoke. Seeing all the students gathering around him, he felt that hiding in there had been fairly comfortable after all. There had been plenty of space, and he hadn’t even needed to twist himself into an uncomfortable position.

He also noticed that Ducky was covered in mud, so he hurried over and handed her the handkerchief in his pocket. “Here, wipe yourself off. How did you get mud all over your face?”

“Earth Style…”

“That definitely doesn’t count as authentic!” An Shiyaya looked so disheveled that Ye Shuang couldn’t help laughing. At least he had had a hollow space underground to hide in. An Shiyaya, on the other hand, had literally buried herself in the dirt. In a sense, anyone with that level of endurance was bound to succeed at whatever they did in the future.

“Big Brother, we almost found you just now,” Keke said from the side. If the students hadn’t cried out when Ducky was discovered, she and Yu You would have found Ye Shuang long ago.

“Sometimes luck is part of strength. Looks like you two were just a little short on luck.” Ye Shuang smiled faintly.

At that moment, the broadcast announced the results of the school’s first hide-and-seek competition. Naturally, Ye Shuang had been the last one standing, earning him the victory, a prize of one hundred thousand yuan, and one wish.

“Come on, Dr. Ye, say a few words to everyone.” Luo Xi walked up to Ye Shuang with a microphone and began interviewing him.

“Congratulations on winning the hide-and-seek competition. So many students came to this flower bed just now. What were you feeling at the time?”

“I was a little nervous, but fortunately, I managed to win by sheer luck,” Ye Shuang replied.

“The Chairman said you have an opportunity to make one wish. What would you like?” As Luo Xi spoke, she glanced at the card in her hand. “He also said that he would grant absolutely any wish—even if you wanted his granddaughter. What a humorous man…”

Ye Shuang: “…”

Was that supposed to be a joke?

“Anything at all?” Ye Shuang asked.

“Yes. The Chairman said he would do his best to fulfill it.”

“I see…” Ye Shuang thought for a moment, then looked around at all the students and teachers before smiling. “Then give everyone a day off.”

“A day off? But this is the reward for the student faction’s victory.”

“It’s fine. Let’s all enjoy ourselves together. The teachers at our school work pretty hard too.”

“Well…” Luo Xi called the Chairman to confirm. After receiving an affirmative answer, she smiled and announced, “Students, you’ll have tomorrow off!”

“Woohoo！！！！！！！！！”

The cheering erupted so loudly that the entire school building seemed to tremble. Ye Shuang was surrounded by students, and in the end, they actually lifted him bodily into the air.

“W-Wait—”

“Woohoo—!”

But nothing could stop the students’ excitement.

…

That afternoon, after school.

“Big Brother, why didn’t you wish for a whole month off?” Tang Keke asked Ye Shuang on the way home.

Ye Shuang was driving Keke and Yu You home. Hearing Tang Keke’s question while keeping his hands on the steering wheel, he could only respond helplessly, “Getting one day off is already pretty generous. Don’t you want to go to school anymore? You already have winter and summer vacations—do you want a spring vacation too?”

“Hehe, not really.”

“It was so close.” Bai Yuyou looked a little disappointed. She had been only a few centimeters away from Ye Shuang. If only she had firmly lifted that flowerpot at the time.

Seeing the girl’s drooping ahoge, Ye Shuang smiled and reached out to pat her on the head. “It’s okay. Even if you didn’t win, I can still call you ‘baby.’”

But Bai Yuyou looked at Ye Shuang. “I don’t mean calling me a baby.”

“Hm?”

Ye Shuang froze for a moment. Then, while waiting at a red light, he glanced at his phone and realized that Yu You had meant “have a baby,” not “call me baby.”

“I misread it…” Only then did Ye Shuang understand.

“But you’re still in school, aren’t you? Wait until you graduate.” Ye Shuang smiled.

“Oh.”

Tang Keke, sitting in the back seat, had no idea what Ye Shuang and Yu You were talking about. She looked extremely curious. “What kind of bag?”

“Nothing.”

After returning home, Ye Shuang dropped Keke and Yu You off. He had to go find Fugui, since Tang Hao’s matter had not been completely resolved. He still needed to make a trip to Tang Hao’s company.

“I might be back pretty late tonight. You two can eat by yourselves,” Ye Shuang said.

“Okay. Big Brother, are you going to see Sister Chen Qin?”

“No.”

“Oh~”

After watching the two girls enter the elevator, Ye Shuang drove straight to Fugui’s place.

“Little Shuangshuang, you’re here?” Fugui greeted him with a beaming smile. “I thought you weren’t coming over today.”

“There was a little event at school today. How are things on your end?”

“I checked the footage from the cameras. Everything important had been erased, so we didn’t find anything useful. Whoever installed those cameras was extremely cautious.” Fugui’s expression gradually turned serious. “Little Shuangshuang, this matter isn’t simple. Tang Hao may even have been nothing more than a discarded pawn.”

“Mm…” Ye Shuang wasn’t surprised. He simply asked, “What about Madam? Did you get anything out of Tang Hao?”

“I actually wanted to tell you about that today. Tang Hao really does know Madam. At first, he refused to admit it, but after I made him take part in a few rounds of Fecal Swim Forward, he finally confessed.” Fugui clapped his hands.

“So that’s how it is…” With that, everything was becoming clear.

“But Little Shuangshuang, how did you know about Madam?”

“I… I learned it by traveling through time.”

“Oh, stop joking around at a time like this.”

“Heh. But she’s connected to the incident involving Yu You’s kidnapping. I followed the clues and found some leads.” Ye Shuang continued, “That woman is also connected to Zhou Min from before. In short, she’s a very troublesome person.”

“What’s her reason for doing all this?” Fugui seemed unable to understand her motive.

“Uncle Chen told me that it seems to be because she finds it fun,” Ye Shuang said.

“Fun?” Fugui looked disgusted. “That’s such a twisted hobby…”

“I think there’s a deeper reason, but for now…” Ye Shuang thought for a moment. “We can only wait for Grandpa An Shi.”

“Oh?”