Got Lost

When Ye Shuang got home that evening, he also noticed the changes online. He hadn’t expected the tide to turn so quickly. That morning, people had still been digging into his personal information, yet by the afternoon they had started attacking Tao Yiyi’s family background instead. All he could say was that the reversal had come far too fast.

As Ye Shuang browsed the comments, he noticed that there were photos not only of him, but also of An Shiyu and Bai Yuyou. The pictures weren’t especially clear, but they still captured each person’s distinctive features and beauty.

What he couldn’t understand was why some people had mistaken An Shiyu for his wife.

Still, Ye Shuang had no intention of creating an account just to clarify the matter. He had never planned to pay attention to it in the first place. All he needed to do was have the legal department sue Tao Yiyi for defamation and reputational damage. There was no need for him to do anything else.

…

“Wow, it completely turned around! I knew that Tao Yiyi was being way too arrogant.” At the dinner table, Tang Keke had been avidly following the drama online. After seeing the change in public opinion, she gleefully went to Tao Yiyi’s comment section to attack her, only to discover that Tao Yiyi had disabled comments altogether.

“She really can’t take losing. Is she going to delete her account and run away?” Tang Keke felt that letting her off so easily was a little too convenient.

“Don’t worry. She won’t be able to run,” Ye Shuang said with a smile when he saw Tang Keke muttering to herself.

With a record like this, no major company would probably want Tao Yiyi in the future. Becoming an internet celebrity wasn’t realistic either. And if the defamation was serious enough, she could even face up to three years in prison. In the end, she had simply seen too many examples of people successfully spreading false accusations online and started thinking, “Hey, maybe I can do it too.”

Once she was arrested, she wouldn’t be able to muddle through it by saying, “I figured it was fine,” or “I was just joking.”

“Why are our photos online too?” An Shiyu suddenly said. “Oh? They actually mistook me for his wife. These netizens are really strange.”

“Exactly. Little Yu doesn’t look like the type to be someone’s wife at all…” Tang Keke hadn’t finished speaking when she suddenly felt a sharp pain on the top of her foot. “Ow! Who stepped on me?!”

Tang Keke bent down, but she couldn’t find the foot that had stepped on her.

Still, she had a suspect in mind. She immediately turned to An Shiyu. “Was that you?”

“When did I step on you?” An Shiyu asked. “Everything has to be supported by evidence. Otherwise, I might suspect that you’re slandering me.”

“It was definitely you! I only said that you don’t look like the type to be someone’s wife…”

Before Tang Keke could finish, her foot hurt again.

“Yikes?!”

“I told you it wasn’t me.” An Shiyu’s upper body hadn’t moved at all. She spread her hands with an innocent expression.

“Could it be a mosquito?” Bai Yuyou asked from the side.

“No way…” Tang Keke muttered. Next time, she was going to hide a camera under her skirt and see whether An Shiyu could still deny it.

After dinner, Ye Shuang returned to his room.

He rested in his chair for a while before getting up and beginning to search every corner of the room for cameras. Ye Shuang was now highly suspicious that the two fishes had installed some kind of surveillance equipment. They had a history of doing things like that, after all.

However, despite searching for quite some time, he found nothing resembling a camera. His room was different from other places—it was filled with familiar belongings, and he could tell immediately if anything had been added or removed. Yet after searching for a long while, he still couldn’t detect anything unusual.

“That’s strange. Could it really just be my imagination?” Ye Shuang thought for a moment, then simply moved everything out of the way. The result was still the same: he found nothing.

“Hmm…” Ye Shuang glanced at his phone. On the screen was a tutorial video titled:

“Ten Clever Ways to Find Hidden Cameras—No Camera Can Escape!”

Following the methods shown in the video, Ye Shuang searched the room carefully for quite some time. There weren’t many things in the room to begin with, but even after an hour of searching, he still found nothing.

“Hmm. Looks like I misunderstood them,” Ye Shuang said. After all, the two fishes had only recently moved in. They probably weren’t capable of doing something like this.

He had been worried that the things he and Yu You had done might have been seen by them. Chen Qin’s video had been delivered by the two fishes, after all. If Bai Yuyou were involved as well, Ye Shuang couldn’t help feeling that it would be rather… awkward.

It would be like having someone watch him while he did those things.

“Looks like I really was overthinking it.” After checking the entire window area and finding no camera, Ye Shuang gave up.

He decided to take a shower and relax.

…

…

“What is Uncle looking for?” Elsewhere, Anshi Yi was munching on melon seeds while watching the feed on the monitor. She had been watching for quite a while, and she still had no idea what Ye Shuang was looking for as he paced back and forth.

“Could he be looking for a camera?” An Shiyu asked.

“Hey, it does look a little like that. But why did he suddenly start looking for one?” Anshi Yi wondered. “Who would be bored enough to install a camera in his room?”

“No idea. I don’t think anyone would have that much free time.” An Shiyu spread her hands.

The two fishes seemed completely unaware that they themselves had installed cameras.

“But your camera won’t be discovered, will it?” An Shiyu asked. After all, that particular device had been installed by Anshi Yi.

“They’ll never find it. I removed a black tile from the bathroom wall and drilled a hole in it. The camera is exactly the same color as the tile. Even if someone stared right at it, they wouldn’t notice it—especially since it’s so high up.” Anshi Yi sounded extremely confident.

“That’s a truly disgusting hiding spot. If it gets discovered, you should just give it to Uncle.”

“Rawr?”

The two fishes whispered and muttered to each other. But after watching for a while, they lost interest. Bai Yuyou wasn’t coming over tonight, and Chen Qin wasn’t there either.

“I’ll go over myself.” Seeing that Ye Shuang had started taking a shower, Anshi Yi said quietly.

“Will he yell at you?” An Shiyu asked after thinking about it.

“Then let him yell. Whether the rice turns out cooked or not, you still have to put it in the rice cooker first.” Anshi Yi said, “We have to trigger some kind of plot, don’t we? Are we really going to stay cooped up here forever? If we don’t make the first move, how are we supposed to make a name for ourselves?”

“True.”

Meanwhile, Ye Shuang was sitting in the bathtub, watching something on his phone through a waterproof bag. Just then, he heard the bathroom door being turned open.

“Yu You…” Ye Shuang initially assumed it was Bai Yuyou. But the moment he spoke, he realized it was Anshi Yi.

It took him a few seconds to react. “You…”

“I think I’m lost.” Anshi Yi looked around at the bathroom.

“Could you stop spouting such obvious nonsense with a straight face?” Ye Shuang pulled a towel over himself. “What are you doing in here?!”

“Taking a shower.” As she spoke, Anshi Yi began taking off her short-sleeved shirt.

“Wait a second?!”