The Complete Guide to the Use and Care (41-end)

Chapter Fifty-seven

Ling Miao seemed to have slipped into a state of zen, ignoring everything happening around him. Feng Ji chewed on a cookie, eyes fixed on Ling Miao as if he were a treasure.

Ling Miao blinked and ripples surfaced within his his initially calm gaze, the faint smile on his lips either mocking or frustrated. He took a small sip of the coffee in front of him, smiled, and said: “Yan-jie asked me earlier why I didn’t want to be alone with Su Yuyang. Now, you’re asking me my feelings towards Su Yuyang. Feng Ji, this makes me suspect that both of you are spies Su Yuyang sent.”

Feng Ji had clasped the cookie between two fingers. At Ling Miao’s words the cookie fell to the plate and broke in two. Feng Ji rubbed his nose, his eyes flashing as if in confirmation of Ling Miao’s guesswork.

Ling Miao picked up a cookie and stuffed it in his mouth, saying approvingly: “Tastes good. You baked these?”

Hey, you changed the subject too fast, didn’t you? I can’t follow!

Feng Ji silently complained but his face remained calm. Feng Ji was worried Yan Li’s motive would be exposed, so he chose to keep silent instead. But this silence made Ling Miao even more sure that his suspicions were accurate.

Ling Miao picked up another cookie but didn’t put it in his mouth, instead tapping the plate with it. He didn’t tap very hard, and the sound the biscuit made on contact with the porcelain wasn’t loud, but it was crisp. Feng Ji snatched the cookie from Ling Miao’s hand and tossed it in his mouth, chewed several times, and swallowed.

“It’s nothing, really. Just curious. If you don’t want to say, it’s fine,” Feng Ji said candidly.

Ling Miao’s eyes narrowed, confusion radiating from his narrow eyes. Feng Ji spread his hands, like he’d made a mistake but wasn’t bothering to make amends: “If you don’t believe me, I can’t do anything about that. If you really won’t let it go, then go ask Su Yuyang. I think that if you go and ask, he’ll be happy to answer you.”

Ling Miao smelled a plot in Feng Ji’s words. Feng Ji’s expression hadn’t changed, but there was laughter in his eyes, and Ling Miao concluded that Feng Ji was digging a trap for him to fall into! Since he now knew it was a trap, he certainly wouldn’t jump. He gathered his thoughts and said indifferently: “If he didn’t send you, then he didn’t send you. If I ask Su Yuyang, he might even think I have a victim complex or the like.”

Feng Ji didn’t dare go on chatting with Ling Miao and found an excuse to leave. At the same time, another question presented itself to him: I asked the same question as Yan Li, on a different occasion, and Ling Miao noticed something was up. When did Ling Miao become this streetsmart?

Ling Miao didn’t know of Feng Ji’s worries, and he didn’t think too much about his own affairs either. Right now, he was more worried about Ji Linxi.

Yan Li and Ji Linxi weren’t that close. No matter how he looked at it, there was something deeply wrong with Yan Li asking Ji Linxi to talk alone. As for what the issue was, Ling Miao did have an answer.

Yan Li is interested in Ji Linxi!

Ling Miao had guessed correctly this time. Yan Li did sort of like Ji Linxi.

As Ling Miao kept thinking about it, he let his thoughts run away and started imagining Yan Li and Ji Linxi’s romantic relationship. Just as everything was progressing beautifully, Ling Miao heard a set of disorderly, hurried footsteps.

He glanced over to the source of the sound, Ji Linxi appeared before Ling Miao, looking calm but actually panicking. Ling Miao jeered: “Ji Linxi, is there a tiger chasing you? Why’re you running so fast?”