If it were Chi Qingshui who initiated the conversation first,
she would already feel unsure and worry that Lin Yu might overthink things.
But now that Lin Yu spoke up first,
Chi Qingshui could naturally follow up with a question,
making the whole exchange feel much more effortless.
Lin Yu said with a serious expression:
"Actually, there’s been a change in the situation."
Chi Qingshui secretly felt relieved.
Good.
She had spent the entire night racking her brains to come up with this flawless plan.
Now, Lin Yu would finally see the truth, wouldn’t he?
Lv Rou was absolutely not the online girlfriend he was looking for!
"Oh? What kind of change?" Chi Qingshui asked, keeping her tone neutral.
Lin Yu took out his phone, about to unlock it, but then put it away again:
"No, I can’t show our chat logs to anyone else."
"If she found out, she’d definitely be upset."
"Sorry, I’ll just summarize it verbally, okay?"
[Ding!]
[Masterful move—meticulously protecting your partner’s privacy earns their deep appreciation!]
[Reward: 50 Spirit Stones.]
Chi Qingshui unconsciously leaned in a little closer and said,
"Of course, you’re really big on privacy, huh?"
Lin Yu suppressed his smugness and continued:
"This morning, I chatted with her for a bit. She said she was going shopping this afternoon."
"She’ll probably be out for a while—she mentioned several places she wanted to visit."
"She even sent me a photo just now, buying groceries at the market!"
As Chi Qingshui listened, her mood grew even lighter.
Essentially, all the key information had been conveyed.
The initiative was now back in her hands—the hands of "Dreaming in the Rain."
Chi Qingshui deliberately furrowed her brows and asked in a tone of utter confusion:
"So she’s out shopping? Then your earlier guess about Lv Rou…"
"Was completely wrong, wasn’t it?"
"Tsk, I knew men’s intuition couldn’t be trusted."
"Actual judgment should always rely on evidence—how can you just go by feelings?"
She expected to see frustration on Lin Yu’s face after saying this.
Instead…
She saw him… smiling?!
What was that smile supposed to mean?
Hadn’t she crafted the perfect "alibi"?
If Lin Yu was completely wrong, how could he still be smiling?
A faint sense of unease began creeping into Chi Qingshui’s heart.
The very "intuition" she didn’t believe in was now whispering to her:
Things weren’t that simple!
"Why are you smiling at me like that? Was my analysis wrong?" Chi Qingshui asked suspiciously.
Lin Yu reached for the backpack beside him and explained:
"No, your analysis was spot-on."
"But I have this feeling… she’s deliberately misleading me."
"Trying to make me think she wasn’t at the screening today."
"Qingshui, don’t you think that’s possible?"
Chi Qingshui’s heart tightened: "!!!"
He nailed it!
Was Lin Yu some kind of monster?
How could he guess so accurately?!
Stay calm, stay calm…
No need to panic yet—it was just a guess. He had no actual proof.
Chi Qingshui: "Lin Yu, you’ve got quite the imagination. What makes you say that?"
Lin Yu: "Intuition."
Chi Qingshui: "There you go again. I knew you wouldn’t have any real evidence."
Lin Yu: "Nope."
Chi Qingshui: "Without evidence—"
Lin Yu: "But I’ll have some soon."
Chi Qingshui: "???"
What did he mean by "soon"?
Had she slipped up somewhere and left a clue?
Impossible!
The photo materials she prepared were all taken during her trip back to her hometown in Jizhou.
And every single one had been carefully selected and scrutinized.
None of them had ever appeared in her chats with Lin Yu before!
She hadn’t even sent them to her own younger sister.
There was no way any trace of a flaw could have been left behind!
Then, Chi Qingshui noticed Lin Yu pulling out…
An umbrella?
"Why are you carrying an umbrella? It’s not going to rain today."
"Look at the sunshine outside—don’t tell me you’re so meticulous you need it for shade?" Chi Qingshui said, baffled.
Lin Yu shook the telescopic umbrella and unfastened the clasp around it.
With a meaningful tone, he said:
"When heaven sends rain and a mother remarries, no one can stop it."
"I’ve had this condition since I was a kid—my palms turn cold right before it rains."
"The weather forecast says no rain, but I don’t trust it."
"My guess is…"
"Before the car reaches Wanda Plaza, it’ll start pouring."
[Weather Whisper]!
A newly unlocked system ability.
This was an infallible, supreme technique!
Not only would there soon be a sudden gust of wind and heavy rain,
but the downpour would last well into the night.
"If it rains, it rains. It’s not like we’re watching the movie outside anyway…" Chi Qingshui muttered offhandedly.
Then, in an instant—
She realized something.
Chi Qingshui: !!!
Could it be…?
Noticing the subtle shift in Chi Qingshui’s expression,
Lin Yu knew she must have figured something out.
So, he swiftly drove the point home:
"Qingshui, the photo she just sent me shows the same sunny weather as here."
"And, well… I might as well tell you—we met through ‘People Nearby.’ She mentioned she lives somewhere in Pingchuan."
"If it really starts raining later, but she keeps sending sunny photos or suddenly stops sending any…"
"Wouldn’t that mean…"
"Those photos were pre-prepared! To trick me into thinking she wasn’t at the cinema!"
Chi Qingshui: !!!
Was he serious?
Was it really going to rain later?
Lin Yu…
Had abilities like this?!
This was unbelievable!
If it actually rained, she was done for.
Just as Lin Yu said,
all the photos Chi Qingshui had prepared were taken on sunny days.
A few indoor mall shots might have even captured the sunlight outside?
Or maybe they hadn’t?
Panic set in.
Lin Yu was playing his cards face-up, and she suddenly felt utterly outmatched.
Not only did he hold all the aces, but his reasoning was airtight—no gaps to exploit.
At this point, even questioning him would come off as sheer defensiveness.
And she prided herself on being a logical thinker!
"Qingshui, help me analyze this—does what I’m saying make sense?"
Lin Yu waved the umbrella and pressed her again.
Chi Qingshui: "…"
She was out of moves.
No choice but to—
"It makes some sense, but let’s hope your imagination aligns with reality."
"I just don’t believe you can actually predict the weather. That’s too much."
The moment the words left her mouth,
the taxi’s radio crackled with an announcement:
"Dear listeners, we interrupt with an urgent weather alert."
"Due to the combined effects of a subtropical high and low-level southeasterly airflow, our city is expected to experience short but intense rainfall within the next three hours…"
Lin Yu: Tsk tsk tsk.
Chi Qingshui: !!!
…
(Bonus chapter delivered! More updates tomorrow—stay tuned for the next round of spy romance warfare. Keep the support coming!)
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
