Lu Yuxuan didn’t have a dedicated study room, so he keeps a small desk in his bedroom where he usually reads and writes homework.

After dinner with Li Linlin, he put the dishes in the dishwasher and led Li Linlin to his room.

Although Lu Yuxuan was mature for his age, he’s still a child after all. His room was plastered with many posters of anime characters and there’s also a set of comic books on the bookshelf. He moved a chair for Li Linlin, and then took out his exercise book from his schoolbag.

Li Linlin sat in front of the table and looked at his knick-knacks. “What are these? They look so cute.”

Lu Yuxuan glanced back and saw that Li Linlin was talking about a set of building block figures he had just bought. “They’re toys from Miller, the latest star series!”

Miller was a well-known toy company. Although Li Linlin had never bought any of their toys, the name was still familiar to her.

“Oh, this is so cute. Are these joints movable?”

“Yes.” Lu Yuxuan put down the exercise book and walked over to pick up a block figure, fiddling with it a few times. “Look!”

“Wow, cool!” Li Linlin gently touched the little figure sitting on the table surface. “How much do they cost?”

“Each series has different prices but it usually costs about a thousand yuan to collect a set. I’m saving up pocket money to buy it. There are quite a few pieces of this set that I haven’t bought yet.” Lu Yuxuan put the building block figure back into place. “But the most expensive are the phase out ones. I heard that the most classic series can cost tens of thousands of yuan each.”

“Oh……” Li Linlin responded, no longer paying attention to the toys. She turned to ask Lu Yuxuan, “Where’s your exercise book?”

“Here.” Lu Yuxuan quickly handed it over. Li Linlin looked at the books on the table and realized that what Lu Yuxuan was reading was content for middle school students. “You’ve started self-learning middle school knowledge?”

“Hmm.” Lu Yuxuan nodded. “I’ve already finished learning the content for primary school so I bought a set of middle school exercise books online.”

“……” Li Linlin pursed her lips and nodded. As expected of a primary school student who wanted to take the exam for their Imperial University. He had the same demeanor as she did back then. She flipped through Lu Yuxuan’s exercise book and told him, “Then I’ll teach you the things you don’t understand.”

“Okay.” Lu Yuxuan usually marked all the things he didn’t get when he’s doing questions so it was easy to find. Li Linlin was originally worried that she had forgotten her middle school knowledge, but after reading the questions on the exercise book, she found that the answers automatically came to her mind.

This was a relief to Li Linlin.

The two were working on lessons when Wu Hui came back dragging two suitcases, one large and one small. After returning home, she found that there was no one in the house. She immediately dialed Li Linlin’s number. “Li Linlin, where are you!? Did you go eat with President Chen again!?”

After other female celebrities managed their figures, it was obvious that they had slim down. Li Linlin was the only exception. Wu Hui was so careful about her meal every day but she still hadn’t lost any weight at all.

It’s all because President Chen gives her preferential treatment every day!

For every ounce of meat on Li Linlin’s body, President Chen wasn’t guiltless!

Li Linlin held the phone a bit further away and waited until Wu Hui’s voice on the other end stopped before putting it back her ear, “What eat? You only know how to eat, eat, eat.”

Wu Hui: “???”

Who was it that only knows how to eat, eat, eat? 🙂

“So where are you? Where did you run off to at this time of the night?” Wu Hui turned into Li Linlin’s grandmother again and asked about her whereabouts.

Li Linlin said, “I’m tutoring Lu Yuxuan.”

“……Who’s Lu Yuxuan?” They were obviously together every day, why did names she had never heard of keep popping out of Li Linlin’s mouth?

Li Linlin answered, “Lu Ruizhou’s younger brother.”

Wu Hui: “?”

She only came back a few hours late and Li Linlin had already progressed to this point with the other party?

A few minutes later, Lu Yuxuan and Li Linlin heard the doorbell ring. Lu Yuxuan was obviously a little surprised. At this time, his brother and the others hadn’t gotten off work yet and they had few acquaintances there. Who would come to see them?

“It must be Wu Hui’er, my roommate and manager.” Li Linlin stood up and said to Lu Yuxuan, “Go on and finish that question, I’ll get the door.”

“Okay.” Lu Yuxuan sat down obediently and continued writing.

Li Linlin went to open the door, not forgetting to cautiously look at the doorbell camera first. As expected, Wu Hui’s big face was reflected on the screen.

She opened the door for Wu Hui and stood at the doorway. Wu Hui glanced at Li Linlin and scanned the house. Li Linlin spoke, “Stop looking, everyone has gone to work, only Lu Yuxuan is at home.”

Just as she said this, Lu Yuxuan, who couldn’t help but want to take a look, came out his room curiously. After seeing Wu Hui, he called out sweetly, “Hello, Sister.”

“……Hello.” Wu Hui looked at the little boy, feeling a little embarrassed for a moment. “Then, why did you come to someone else’s place?”

This question was of course addressed to Li Linlin. Li Linlin said, “We happened to meet each other when coming back. Lu Yuxuan’s returning from buying groceries so he invited me to come over for dinner.”

Wu Hui was stunned after hearing this. “He can buy groceries by himself at such a young age?”

“Yes, I can. I’m better at picking vegetables than my brothers!” Lu Yuxuan’s expression was very proud. “That’s right, Sister, have you eaten yet? If not, I can make you a bowl of noodles!”

He and Li Linlin had eaten both dishes tonight so there’s nothing much he could serve Wu Hui. He could only offer her a bowl of noodles.

Wu Hui said quickly, “No need, no need, I’ll just go back to my own place.”

“Oh, then do you want to sit down for a while, Sister? My lesson will be done soon.”

They were studying inside and Wu Hui was embarrassed to sit there alone so she said, “I’m going back to cook noodles first. Linlin, come back after you’re finished.”

“Oh, okay.”

After sending Wu Hui away, Li Linlin and Lu Yuxuan returned to the room and went over the rest of the questions. When she got home, she found that Wu Hui didn’t cook noodles at all, but ordered a lot of barbecue and drank two bottles of beer!

“Wu Hui’er, you’re eating alone again!” Li Linlin walked up and wanted to grab a handful of barbecue and hurry back to her room before Wu Hui could react. Unexpectedly, Wu Hui reacted quickly, grabbing her wrist and looking at her with a smile. “When it comes to eating alone, who can compare to you? In just a month or two, count how many times you’ve gone out to have a meal with President Chen?”

“Not much ah.” Li Linlin firmly grasped the barbecue in her hand and struggled hard twice. Wu Hui seemed to be fighting against her as well, determined not to let her go, so she held on for dear life. She refused to let go no matter what.

Li Linlin stared at Wu Hui for a while, then suddenly lowered her head and took a couple of big bites of the barbecue right from that position.

Wu Hui: “……?”

There’s still such an operation.

“Hmph!” Li Linlin, with her mouth full, snorted at Wu Hui, then put down the barbecue in her hand and scampered to her room.

She also didn’t forget to lock the door behind her.

Wu Hui: “……”

She was careless. 🙂

———

Next door, Lu Ruizhou and others worked until midnight before returning home. Lu Yuxuan had already gone to bed so the three of them moved quietly. Lu Yuxuan usually lives on campus and only stayed at home on weekends and during winter and summer vacations.

When Lu Yuxuan woke up, the people who came home in the middle of the night were still asleep. According to Lu Yuxuan’s experience, they would all sleep until noon before getting up. He found some biscuits and milk for himself and took them back to his room.

Yesterday, Li Linlin finished explaining all the exercises questions to him, so this morning he stayed in his room and played games for a while. When it was almost noon, there was movement outside. Lu Yuxuan put down his phone and went out to take a look.

Lu Ruizhou was preparing lunch in the kitchen. When he saw Lu Yuxuan coming out, he asked, “Did anyone come here yesterday? I see you have put two rice bowls in the dishwasher.”

Lu Yuxuan honestly explained, “Sister Linlin from next door came to eat dinner.”

Lu Ruizhou’s movements paused and the two people lying on the sofa in the living room also sat upright and looked at Lu Yuxuan.

Lu Yuxuan felt overwhelmed by their looks. “What’s wrong?”

Lu Ruizhou returned to his senses and asked Lu Yuxuan, “You invited her over for dinner?”

“Yeah, I happened to run into her yesterday when I came back from buying groceries so I invited her over.” Lu Yuxuan added, “Sister Linlin is amazing, she can tutor me, unlike you guys.”

The guys: “……”

Lu Ruizhou pursed his lips and asked him again, “What did you two eat last night?”

Lu Yuxuan proudly said, “I made sliced ​​pork with green pepper, scrambled egg with tomatoes and seaweed soup!”

“……” Lu Ruizhou was silent for a moment, then looked at Yuxuan to ask, “Is that just what you served her?”

“Oh, and your treasured pickled vegetable!”

“……” Lu Ruizhou held his forehead in hopelessness.

Henry straight up laugh and Nick also had a complicated look on his face. Lu Yuxuan looked at them, a little confused. “What’s wrong? I did well yesterday and Sister Linlin even complimented my cooking!”

“……”

“I’m serious. She ate two bowls of rice last night!”

“……” Lu Ruizhou exhaled and then proceeded to prepare lunch. “Alright, I got it.”

After a moment of silence, Lu Yuxuan suddenly spoke up and said, “I see. Do you think the dinner I made is too shabby?! Humph, you tasteless adults don’t even know the warmth of home-cooked meals!”

Lu Ruizhou: “……”

It didn’t matter whether we know warmth or not, what mattered is how you know such words?

“Fortunately, Sister Linlin is different from you guys.” After Lu Yuxuan said that, he stepped on his slippers and ran back to his room.

The living room was quiet for a while before Henry spread his hands and said, “But we’re just tasteless adults.”

———

On the set, Li Linlin was already filming the last few scenes of 《Fatal Heartbeat》. According to Wang Xin’s original script, Li Linlin’s role began to increase in the mid to late stages. However, now that the male and female leads were dissatisfied with the script, putting pressure on the crew through their companies and public opinion, several scenes of them have been added in at the last moment.

The Weekly Theater schedule had been all arranged and they could only broadcast the drama for a set number of days. Now that the male and female leads had added scenes, they could only delete some from other places. Two scenes of Li Linlin were erased. Wu Hui was so angry that she scolded Lin Zhen and Zheng Yang during the meal. However, Li Linlin seemed not to notice and even appeared to be a little happy?

Wu Hui couldn’t figure it out. “Li Linlin, your parts are deleted, why are you still happy?”

Li Linlin replied to her while playing on her mobile phone. “Oh, shouldn’t I be happy that I’m acting in fewer scenes but will still get the same remuneration?”

Wu Hui: “……”

Sometimes Li Linlin’s thoughts were really unexpected.

After learning that Li Linlin’s scenes had been cut, the screenwriter brought by Shang Ci specifically approached her and asked her if Shengteng’s top management needed to know about the matter so her scenes would be added back.

——Although he still didn’t know to this day what exactly was the relationship between the top management of Shengteng and Li Linlin, who runs an independent studio.

Li Linlin refused without even thinking. “No need, no need, don’t add more work for Teacher Wang Xin. Look how much thinner her ponytail has become lately!”

Xiao Fang: “……”

He wished Shang Ci could also care about his hair volume.

After Xiao Fang left, Li Linlin continued to sit on the set playing games. She even casually shared a link in WeChat.

【Linlin: Help me chop, buddies.】

Five minutes later.

【Brother Yiran: ?】

Li Linlin who saw his message: “……”

OMG! She obviously shared it in the game group, how did she send it to Brother Yiran?!

【Linlin: Ahhhhh, sorry, wrong send!】

【Linlin: I was going to send it to the game group! QAQ】

【Brother Yiran: It’s okay, how to chop?】

【Linlin: Don’t worry about it. You have to register first which is very troublesome! QAQ】

Chen Yiran was earning hundreds of millions of yuan in business every minute, she wouldn’t dare waste two minutes of his time to help her in a game!

On the other side, Chen Yiran studied what was on his phone and turned the screen to Assistant Wu. “Do you know this game?”

Assistant Wu glanced at it and told him, “Sorry, President Chen, I don’t have much time to play games. Do you want to acquire this game? I’ll prepare the information immediately!”

“……That’s not it.” Chen Yiran said, “Help me register a game account.”

“Ah, okay.” Assistant Wu was extremely curious. President Chen actually plays mobile games?

What’s more was that when he checked out the game while registering an account, he found that it was a reverse harem game—— In short, it was a game where the player act as the female protagonist and falls in love with one hundred and eight 2D characters while running an inn.

Assistant Wu, who was hit hard: “……”

Was this…… what President Chen likes?

After registering an account, Assistant Wu pretended not to know anything and gave Chen Yiran the account password and regional server. Chen Yiran re-clicked the link Li Linlin sent him. After selecting the information, he could indeed help her ‘chop’.

This so-called chop was to help the character in the game chop firewood. The game was set in ancient times and the inn the players runs still uses the most primitive stove and firewood. They have to chop the firewood themselves. After Chen Yiran helped her, the time spent chopping wood was shortened.

【Brother Yiran: It’s done.】

【Linlin: ???】

【Linlin: Brother Yiran, you made an account?】

Li Linlin originally saw no movements from his side and thought he had gone back to work. Unexpectedly, when he sent another message, he had already help her with the chopping task?

【Brother Yiran: Assistant Wu helped me with it. If you need someone to chop wood in the future, you can send a request to me.】

【Linlin: ……Ah, won’t this bother you too much?】

【Brother Yiran: It’s alright, it’s pretty quick to do. Besides, I already have an account.】

【Linlin: That’s great! Thanks, Brother Yiran, mua!】

Chen Yiran was stunned and asked Assistant Wu on the side, “What does MUA stand for?”

He read the three letters separately. Assistant Wu only reacted after a while and said, “It’s not an abbreviation but onomatopoeia. It means kiss.”

Chen Yiran furrowed his brows slightly, and when he went back to read Li Linlin’s message, he found that she had withdrawn the one she just sent and sent a new one.

【Linlin: Thanks, Brother Yiran. [Demure.jpg]】

Chen Yiran laughed and replied, 【My pleasure.】

When Li Linlin saw these two words on the screen, she felt as if she could hear Chen Yiran say this in her ear, and her cheeks immediately became slightly hot.

“Linlin, it’s your turn!” A crew member shouted from the other side.

Li Linlin locked her phone and stood up in a panic. “O-oh, coming!”

Today was mainly Li Linlin’s scenes with Shang Ci. He had been very popular recently and his traffic was probably higher than that of the leading actor, Zheng Yang. Lin Zhen also specifically requested to add a scene between herself and Shang Ci, plausibly saying that their characters had a love line in the original work but had been cut by Wang Xin in a nondescript way. Shang Ci read the script and thought it was fine, so he agreed. Anyway, it wouldn’t be bad for him to show himself more.

Li Linlin thought that the female lead’s CP’s would attract a lot of attention next. Unexpectedly, a CP indeed became popular, but it was her and Shang Ci’s.