Green Tea? She's Clearly a Hidden Gem!

"Jiang-classmate, you keep refreshing my understanding of you every time."

Su Muzhi sized up Jiang Zhiyao, who was clinging to Jiang Linyuan's embrace, the corner of her mouth lifting slightly.

"That just means you don't know him well enough."

Before Jiang Linyuan could even open his mouth to say anything, Jiang Zhiyao turned her head to look at Su Muzhi, baring her teeth.

Food-guarding mode, activated!

"Your friend?"

She leaned close to Jiang Linyuan and asked in a small voice.

"Sort of."

Jiang Linyuan reluctantly nodded, looking at Su Muzhi:

"Telling you to buy water, it's either windy or rainy, why are you so slow?"

"Hmm?"

Su Muzhi raised an eyebrow slightly, a smile still hanging on her face:

"When I do things, that's just how it is."

'Just how it is' your ass.

If you didn't deliberately come this late, I'll eat twenty little cakes in one go.

Jiang Linyuan guessed this scumbag woman probably finished buying the water long ago, just didn't know where she was hiding, secretly observing him.

Jiang Zhiyao looked at her own useless older brother's expression of disdain, then at the smiling face of the girl opposite, thoughtful, leaning in to ask:

"How's your relationship?"

Her warm breath hit Jiang Linyuan's ear, ticklish.

"Normal friends."

Jiang Linyuan replied.

Mhm, so just a random extra then.

Hearing Jiang Linyuan answer so frankly, Jiang Zhiyao's attitude towards Su Muzhi shifted from the initial hostility of "what kind of monster dares to have designs on my brother" to the boredom of "what kind of stray dog is this."

Witnessing the change in Jiang Zhiyao's expression, Su Muzhi's smile faded slightly.

This scumbag man is definitely bad-mouthing me again, but what's with this girl? She trusts this guy way too much.

Let's test the waters.

"Oh my, I didn't expect Jiang-classmate to already have a girlfriend, so envious."

Su Muzhi's gaze shifted, her tone sickly sweet, making Jiang Linyuan feel goosebumps rising all over.

"Whether he has a girlfriend or not, what's it to you?"

Jiang Zhiyao hated this kind of pretentious little green tea tone the most. Instead of answering, she countered with a direct attack:

"Are you interested in him?"

No active defense of territory, so not a girlfriend then.

But still harboring hostility towards me, seems like she's very good friends with Jiang Linyuan.

Childhood sweethearts? Or sister?

Su Muzhi lowered her gaze and smiled:

"Someone as interesting as Jiang-classmate, of course I'm very interested."

Jiang Zhiyao's eyes sharpened, just about to say directly:

"A green tea like you is worthy of chasing my brother?"

But afraid of messing up her brother's interpersonal relationships, she instead turned to look at Jiang Linyuan and asked:

"What do you think?"

"Is someone of her caliber worthy of chasing me?"

Jiang Linyuan said disdainfully.

Mhm, that's my brother for you.

Jiang Zhiyao nodded in satisfaction, lifting her little head to look at Su Muzhi:

"Did you understand?"

Looking at Jiang Zhiyao, Su Muzhi felt she looked more and more like Jiang Linyuan, the two sharing that same scumbag aura.

"Is this classmate Jiang-classmate's younger sister?"

She asked again.

"Whether I'm his sister or not, what's it to you?"

Jiang Zhiyao immediately replied.

Second time.

Su Muzhi focused her gaze, revealing a smile:

"No, I just think you two have such a good relationship."

Jiang Zhiyao looked puzzled:

"You see we have such a good relationship, and you still deliberately come to disturb us? Is your emotional intelligence that low?"

Confirmed, these two are either siblings.

Su Muzhi's mouth twitched involuntarily.

Hahaha, that's my sister for you!

Jiang Linyuan, looking at Su Muzhi's face where the smile no longer appeared, felt great joy. He made a shooing gesture towards Su Muzhi:

"Shoo! Shoo! Shoo!"

Su Muzhi was silent for a moment, then revealed a pitiful smile:

"Forget it, I brought this on myself."

She looked at the two bottles of water in her hand, shook her head, turned, and left. Her pitiful appearance made Jiang Zhiyao feel a bit uneasy.

"She came to bring you water, right? I was a bit too harsh just now, wasn't I?"

"Not harsh at all, little sis. You don't understand women, and you especially don't understand Su Muzhi."

Jiang Linyuan shook his head.

"That was crocodile tears."

Hearing Jiang Linyuan's words, Jiang Zhiyao lightly kicked him, saying discontentedly:

"Stop with the glib talk, go comfort her."

"If she thinks what I said was too harsh, tell me, I'll apologize to her next time."

Jiang Linyuan was about to retort, but then thought if he stayed here any longer, his little sister would definitely keep pressing him about the WeChat thing.

"Okay, I'll listen to my sister."

Watching Jiang Linyuan's disappearing back, Jiang Zhiyao sighed.

This older brother, is there no normal girl among those he interacts with?

...

"Your family truly has excellent family values."

Seeing Jiang Linyuan walking towards her, Su Muzhi sarcastically remarked with neither warmth nor coldness.

"That depends on the person."

Jiang Linyuan said cheerfully. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

"Then it must be my fault."

Su Muzhi said with passive-aggressive sarcasm.

"Enough already. My sister is just straightforward, a bit aggressive. If you felt uncomfortable anywhere, I'll apologize to you. You can make any demands you want."

Jiang Linyuan said.

"She did something wrong, and you're apologizing?"

Su Muzhi looked at Jiang Linyuan with surprise.

"Otherwise?"

Jiang Linyuan countered.

Su Muzhi was silent for a while, then said:

"You siblings really have a good relationship."

"To outsiders, we're definitely united, but if it's just the two of us, heh, that's hard to say."

Jiang Linyuan shook his head, unwilling to discuss it further, looking at Su Muzhi:

"Anyway, you helped a lot with Liu Tingting's matter too. Set a time, I'll treat you to a meal."

Su Muzhi was stunned for a moment, then covered her mouth and laughed:

"What? Making me your next target?"

"I had that thought initially, but now, forget it."

Jiang Linyuan said indifferently.

Although Su Muzhi is an A-rank card, this girl's difficulty level is too high.

If Shen Wanyu is an iceberg that can be slowly worn down, then Su Muzhi is the deep sea. You can only see the surface, with much more hidden deep in the ocean depths.

The deeper you go, the greater the pressure, and also, the harder it is to escape.

Being friends is fine, but anything involving romantic feelings is a no-go.

Hearing Jiang Linyuan speak so frankly, Su Muzhi asked with a giggle:

"What about Shen Wanyu then? Weren't you chasing her all along? Never thought of giving up?"

"Her..."

Jiang Linyuan lowered his head and smiled:

"Let fate decide."

These two have history.

Almost instantly, countless guesses flashed through Su Muzhi's mind, but she didn't ask. Instead, she raised a completely unrelated question:

"When you confessed to Liu Tingting, did you ever consider the possibility she might agree?"

"If she agreed, what would you do? Really date her?"

Jiang Linyuan said:

"Otherwise?"

Su Muzhi said meaningfully:

"But you don't like her, do you?"

"Haha, does that matter? If she agreed, it means she would have to give up something too. That's fair."

Jiang Linyuan said.

Looking at his calm face, Su Muzhi realized that Jiang Linyuan, this man, is incredibly twisted in some aspects.

Just like herself.

"By the way, the water you bought?"

Jiang Linyuan asked again.

"For you."

Su Muzhi handed it over.

"I want the one in your hand."

"Eek, I've drunk from this one."

"That's precisely why I feel safe taking it."

"Ew, you're such a pervert."

Su Muzhi disdainfully handed over the other bottle of water in her hand.

Jiang Linyuan took the water and drank it.

An intense sour-sweet flavor shot straight to the top of his head!

Fell into a trap! What the heck did this person put in it!

"Tasty?"

Su Muzhi asked with a smile.

Jiang Linyuan's expression unchanged, forced out a smile:

"Extremely tasty."

Damn it, did she predict my prediction?

Su Muzhi laughed even more happily:

"Not in vain that I used myself as bait in this scheme. Seeing Jiang-classmate so happy satisfies me."

"So polite of you, thank you."

Jiang Linyuan said through gritted teeth.

This cringe woman!