Pursuing Her Best Friend after Confession Failed-Chapter 141 - 102 Lin Yuwei: Did the Boss Get a New Girlfriend Again?_2

Li Yuan was speechless. Lin Yuwei was treating him as if he were a heartless capitalist.

Was he that kind of person? It was already six in the evening. According to the rules he had set, it was indeed time to clock off.

Just as he was about to say, "Stop working and hurry home," a different sentence came out instead. "Well, you all can go have dinner. Just remember to head back early."

Lin Yuwei stole a glance at Bai Weixi, who stood beside Li Yuan. This tall girl in a white dress was as elegant as a celebrity. Her exceptional aura dazzled even another woman like herself. When she first walked over, she thought she saw her holding Li Yuan’s hand. What’s their relationship? Does this mean the beautiful Secretary Xia from this morning isn’t the boss’s girlfriend? Could it be that the boss has two girlfriends? A fire of gossip suddenly ignited in Lin Yuwei’s heart.

"Alright, Director Li. You carry on."

After Lin Yuwei and the other two left, four pairs of eyes stared at Li Yuan, all filled with confusion.

Wang Yuchen clicked her tongue incessantly, sizing Li Yuan up from head to toe. "Director Li? Li Yuan, when did you become Director Li? And with three employees?"

Xu Zhi also looked bewildered, patting Li Yuan on the shoulder. "Yuan, impressive! What else have you been hiding from us?"

Wang Shuai suddenly recalled something Li Yuan had said before college about starting a business. He had always assumed that writing web novels was the "business" Li Yuan was talking about. Now, it seemed that wasn’t the case at all; there was another secret. "Yuan, give us the scoop. Besides being a Great Writer who earns millions a month, what other identities are you hiding? Just tell us everything at once so we don’t keep getting shocked like a bunch of country bumpkins."

Bai Weixi said nothing, her mind replaying the recent scene. The moment he saw those three people, he subconsciously let go of her hand...

Seeing Wang Shuai and the others staring at him, Li Yuan just laughed. "I’m preparing to start a business. I’ll tell you the details later. Let’s go eat for now."

Wang Yuchen pouted and snorted. "If you don’t want to tell us, then don’t. What’s there to hide? Treating us like outsiders."

Li Yuan teased, "What, you don’t want to be an outsider? You want to be an insider? I’m afraid Xu Dazhi would ambush me for that."

Xu Zhi rubbed his head awkwardly, not saying a word.

At a loss for words, Wang Yuchen’s eyes darted around before she suddenly grabbed Bai Weixi and stared at Li Yuan. "Then what about Bai? She’s your girlfriend, your *insider*. You have to be honest with her, right?"

Bai Weixi blushed and shot Wang Yuchen a look. Outsider, insider... such crude terms.

Li Yuan looked at Bai Weixi and asked with a grin, "Bai, do you want to know?"

Bai Weixi shook her head, her gaze fixed earnestly on Li Yuan as she spoke softly, "I’ll wait for the day you tell me willingly, not because I asked."

Li Yuan’s eyebrows shot up. This ’green tea’ girl is really getting into her role as a girlfriend.

Li Yuan changed the subject. "Let’s go, time to eat. Weren’t you guys craving a seafood feast?"

Bai Weixi kept her eyes on Li Yuan, a vague sense of disappointment creeping into her heart. As they walked, she no longer took his hand, instead falling into step silently with Wang Yuchen.

Li Yuan didn’t mind. Taking advantage of the free moment, he opened QQ on his phone.

There were still many unread messages, mostly from his university classmates and a few from high school friends. Clearly, word that he’d become a popular author had gotten around.

He scrolled casually. His university classmate Wang Jierong alone, the girl he suspected of being a ’green tea’, had sent him seven or eight messages. They came with suggestive photos, filled with teasing hints.

So she was one of those girls selling ’fan benefits’ online.

Li Yuan was rendered speechless. If he were a true, indiscriminate scumbag, he could probably have this girl with just a crook of his finger.

He hadn’t intended to reply, but then he thought, Well, if I’m going to be a playboy, the fish pond has to have some fish in it, right? He sent back a message: "Nice photos. You have a knack for it. You could learn photography as a side gig."

Li Yuan kept scrolling and saw a message from Zhong Tingyue. Its content made his heart skip a beat.

"Big Writer Li, that story you told me last night, and the song you sang... was any of it real?"

Li Yuan fell silent, unsure how to reply. His connection with Zhong Tingyue was built on so many unexpected factors. If not for their chance encounter on the first day of the semester, it might have been a long time before their paths crossed. If he hadn’t gone out for dinner with his roommates that night, he wouldn’t have run into her, and there wouldn’t have been that spark between them.

If he hadn’t bumped into her yet again last night, and his "lie" hadn’t been exposed, he never would have spun that melodramatic tale. Zhong Tingyue wouldn’t have had a drink, wouldn’t have gone to the athletic field with him alone, wouldn’t have listened to him sing "Nanshan South," and wouldn’t have danced for him in the moonlight... leading to that kiss, as light as a dragonfly skimming the water’s surface.

In short, their story was woven from countless coincidences...

And her solo dance under the moonlight last night had truly made his heart race. It was like encountering a campus Goddess, a red rose full of thorns, irresistibly drawing him in.

After thinking for a moment, Li Yuan replied seriously:

"What is real and what is fake? Who can really tell the difference? Sometimes, even I wonder which of my worlds is real and which is just a dream."

Li Yuan was truly troubled by such thoughts. Rebirth itself was an inconceivable thing.