Chapter 275: The Fermentation of the Post
After brushing her teeth and washing her face, Xiaomuqing happily walked out of the bathroom. Before going to sleep, she casually hung out the clothes that had finished washing in the washing machine.
Meanwhile, Ye Ziming took advantage of this time to quietly slip into Xiaomuqing’s room, not wanting to alert the enemy by striking a portion of his territory.
After a thorough search, he noticed a BYT box in the drawer, something he usually wouldn’t pay attention to.
PS: Meng Yue had prepared a few boxes of different types of BYTs for Xiaomuqing in advance, just in case.
What caught his attention were the subtle signs that these boxes had been opened.
Curiosity piqued, he opened the boxes and found small snacks like pineapple cakes inside.
At this moment, he felt like he had solved the case. He thought to himself, no wonder that silly loli seemed so unusual tonight. She was indeed asking for trouble.
At the same time, in Ye Ziming’s room, Xiaomuqing was lying on the bed, kicking her little legs and playing with her phone, looking very happy.
“Boss, someone sent you a message.”
Halfway through playing, Xiaomuqing suddenly noticed her good brother entering the room. She turned over, put down her phone, and put on a very obedient look.
She wasn’t flustered at all, because she was absolutely sure that her good brother wouldn’t know about what she had done tonight.
He would play a game and then go to sleep. He wouldn’t have the free time to browse the school forum, she thought, and gave herself another like.
However, while she was secretly happy, Ye Ziming walked up to her with a few small boxes and pinched her cheeks.
“Hmm!?”
Xiaomuqing was suddenly stunned, and then her eyes widened as she looked at her good brother in front of her, her eyes full of confusion and incomprehension.
Ye Ziming’s palm was large, and when he grabbed her like this, Xiaomuqing was forced to pucker her lips, unable to speak.
“What is this.”
Gently pinching Xiaomuqing’s small face, Ye Ziming held up a few boxes unhurriedly, his expression full of ‘warmth’.
At this moment, Xiaomuqing panicked because she knew very well that it was her last bit of snacks.
It was a pity that she had hidden them for so many days and hadn’t been willing to eat them until now, but they were still discovered. Boohoo.
“Wuwuwu, boss~”
From confusion to shock and panic, and finally to a pitiable state, Xiaomuqing performed a Sichuan Opera face-changing for Ye Ziming.
As she spoke, she looked at her good brother pleadingly and winked at him, hoping… he would go easy on her later.
“Hmm?”
Seeing Xiaomuqing acting cute and acting spoiled towards him, Ye Ziming quickly put away his unkind gaze and showed a very gentle smile.
His smile looked very gentle, with a hint of pampering. At the same time, he let go of Xiaomuqing’s face and gently patted her head.
Seeing this, Xiaomuqing suddenly felt a little touched. She wondered if her good brother was going to let her off the hook.
However, she guessed wrong. Ye Ziming’s gentleness towards her and spanking her little butt were two things that did not conflict with each other, and could even happen at the same time.
After spending a little time to symbolically punish Xiaomuqing and confiscating the snacks, it was time to turn off the lights and go to sleep.
However, before turning off the lights, Ye Ziming suddenly thought of a question and turned to ask Xiaomuqing:
“Do you like being spanked?”
“How… how is that possible!”
Feeling a little guilty and nervous, Xiaomuqing shrunk into the quilt, covering her face with the blanket and only revealing her wide-open eyes.
Seeing this, Ye Ziming frowned subtly, then narrowed his eyes slightly, his gaze very subtle as he continued:
“Then why do you keep causing trouble every now and then, knowing that I’ll spank you?”
Staring into Xiaomuqing’s eyes with a meaningful smile, this was the question that puzzled him.
“Uh…”
After hearing this, Xiaomuqing’s legs suddenly went stiff. She couldn’t help but recall the feeling of being spanked just now. Her little face turned red, and she looked away, not speaking.
Regarding this question, she couldn’t give an answer, so she could only use her ultimate skill – muddle through.
Seeing that Xiaomuqing didn’t speak, Ye Ziming didn’t push the issue. He just chuckled softly and gently flicked her forehead.
Then, he turned off the lights and lay down to sleep.
In the darkness, Xiaomuqing quietly glanced at her good brother beside her. She thought about it for a while before closing her eyes to sleep.
Xiaomuqing: Impossible! Absolutely impossible! I don’t like being spanked. That must be my good brother’s misconception!
One night passed quickly. Xiaomuqing completely forgot about the school forum, deliberately ‘forgetting’ it.
The reason for this might be that she guessed it would lead to another beating, so she feigned ignorance…
In the blink of an eye, Thursday arrived. As usual, the two ate breakfast and then went to school, followed by classes.
“Ahem, Lin Muqing, come here for a moment.”
During the break, Zhang Xiaoling walked up to Xiaomuqing, beckoned her mysteriously, and then pointed outside.
Seeing the subtle expression on Zhang Xiaoling’s face, Xiaomuqing felt that she had something to say to her, so she stood up without hesitation and followed.
As she stood up, she frowned because she felt hostility from Lin Wenbin.
“What are you looking at me for? I won’t give you an autograph.”
Turning her head to look at her goofy nephew, Xiaomuqing teased him with a smile usually reserved for a fool, raising her eyebrows slightly.
After speaking, she turned and left her seat, deliberately not looking at her nephew’s reaction.
“Tch!”
Looking at Xiaomuqing’s back, Lin Wenbin let out a disdainful sound, then began to mutter quietly that ‘Xiaoling is his’.
Little did he know that his good deskmate, Meng Wenhao, was rolling his eyes at him.
Having been friends for so many years, Meng Wenhao really wanted to tell this fool to show some respect, or something big would happen in the future.
After all, as someone who had ‘been there’, he knew how terrifying the three members of the Lin family and Ye Ziming were.
“Sigh~”
Meng Wenhao sighed.
Outside the classroom, Zhang Xiaoling secretly took out her phone, opened the school forum, and then showed it to Xiaomuqing, asking:
“Have you seen this post?”
On her phone was the hottest post on the school forum recently, which had even overshadowed the post titled ‘First School Belle Appears’.
It was the one Xiaomuqing had secretly posted last night.
“Wow, is this post so popular?”
Seeing Zhang Xiaoling’s phone, Xiaomuqing’s first reaction was surprise, followed by extreme disbelief.
She knew that teenage romance was strictly forbidden at school, so such a post should have been deleted by this morning.
But now it not only wasn’t deleted, it was ranked first in popularity. This was truly magical.
“Emmm, you didn’t post this, did you?”
Seeing Xiaomuqing’s surprise but lack of interest in the content of the post, Zhang Xiaoling hesitated and then frowned, asking tentatively.
“Huh? Why do you think that?”
Hearing this, Xiaomuqing was stunned for a moment, her eyebrows slightly raised in surprise.
She thought to herself, she had used a secondary account.
“Intuition, I guess.”
Zhang Xiaoling pursed her lips, looking into Xiaomuqing’s eyes with a complicated and subtle expression.
The post detailed things very thoroughly, and coupled with those ‘perfectly timed’ pictures, Zhang Xiaoling had almost believed it last night.
Fortunately, she knew Xiaomuqing’s secret and quickly realized that it was a prank targeting Ye Ziming.
Then, she thought about it and realized that there was only one person in the school who knew Ye Ziming well enough and dared to ‘blacken’ him like this.
That person was Lin Muqing.
“Hehe, you know it, just don’t tell anyone else, okay?”
After being recognized, Xiaomuqing wasn’t nervous and even smiled happily.
*Shrugs.jpg*
“Uh… Mm.”
Nodding stiffly, Zhang Xiaoling agreed to Xiaomuqing’s request.
Although she knew it was a joke and could be easily resolved with a simple clarification, seeing Xiaomuqing smile so smugly, she couldn’t help but think, “This is too doting.”
Also, Zhang Xiaoling didn’t think Ye Ziming was dumber than her. On the contrary, she knew he was a smart person.
After chatting for a few more sentences, they returned to the classroom together just before the class bell rang.
Just like last night, Xiaomuqing pretended nothing had happened, continued with her tasks, and her chat interactions with her good brother proceeded as usual.
Meanwhile, in the office, the second-year grade level director sat at his desk, complaining into his phone.
“Hey! This is unbelievable. I asked the homeroom teachers from all three grades, and none of them have seen this student.”
Before this, he had heard that Ye Ziming was dating someone, but he couldn’t do anything about it, so he decided to find the girl.
PS: The Ye family had ‘donated’ a lot of resources to Nan Cheng Middle School.
He couldn’t find her at the time, so he assumed she was from another school and didn’t pursue it further.
But last night, he suddenly heard someone say that the girl had appeared at the school and even joined the cheerleading squad.
This had shocked the entire academic affairs office.
“Director, I have a small guess.”
Just as the director was at a loss and planning to stake out and catch the person this afternoon, Xiaomuqing’s homeroom teacher, Teacher Qiu, poked her head in.
She didn’t recognize the girl, but she had heard of cross-dressing idols and seen some pictures online.
A handsome young man who looked quite masculine could transform into a delicate young girl after some makeup and dressing up.
So, she guessed that this might be a cross-dressing idol, and because he attended school as a boy, he hadn’t been recognized.
“That magical?”
Hearing Teacher Qiu’s speculation, the director couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows in surprise and disbelief.
At his age, he hadn’t seen so many flashy things.
“I didn’t believe it at first, but after seeing these things…”
Seeing his reaction, Teacher Qiu took out her phone and searched for pictures of cross-dressing idols online, using some special websites, in front of him.
And on this day, the director deeply felt what a generation gap meant. He no longer understood the young people of today.
Director: “You’re not a cross-dressing idol too, are you?” (Tactical lean back + subtle gaze)
Teacher Qiu: “Uh, this.” (Awkward expression)
…
The morning passed quickly, and then it was time for afternoon classes.
During this period, Xiaomuqing didn’t think about the forum anymore, nor did she consider how big the incident could become.
Little did she know that while she was happily interacting with her good brother and discussing which hot pot restaurant in South City was good, Ye Ziming had already been rumored to be bisexual outside.
That is to say, he attracted both genders.
Then, something interesting happened. A group of gossips started playing ‘stock market’.
There were two stocks in total: the ‘School Belle Stock’ and the ‘Lin Muqing Stock’. Many people favored both sides, and some even ‘argued’ about it.
Netizen 1: “Yesterday afternoon, next to the dance studio, Ye Ziming did a head pat on the school belle. Their interaction was extremely intimate.”
Netizen 2: “Tch! Do you think his interactions with Lin Muqing are not intimate?”
Netizen 3: “I’ve seen them hug…”
Netizen 4: “I even saw them kiss…”
Netizen 5: “I saw them go to a hotel, the South City Couples Inn…”
The rumors kept getting more and more outrageous. Although this topic wasn’t new and had been discussed some time ago.
However, back then, the school belle had never appeared at school, so everyone thought she wasn’t a student of Nan Cheng Middle School and didn’t talk about it enthusiastically.
But now, with both ‘protagonists’ in the same school, coupled with Xiaomuqing’s post as a catalyst.
This matter became very ‘exciting’.
“Boss, I’m going for rehearsal.”
After school, Xiaomuqing packed her things. Seeing Zhang Xiaoling stand up and walk towards her, she turned to her good brother and said goodbye.
“Mm.”
Ye Ziming nodded indifferently. After speaking, he also needed to prepare for basketball practice.
As he stood up and prepared to take his backpack to leave the classroom, he suddenly noticed Zhang Xiaoling looking at him with a strange expression.
Zhang Xiaoling: It seems he still doesn’t know what ‘good deed’ Lin Muqing has done.
Thinking this, Zhang Xiaoling quickly withdrew her gaze and then turned to go to the most secluded restroom in the school with Lin Muqing.
As with yesterday, Xiaomuqing first completed her ‘transformation’ in the restroom before they went to the dance studio together.
On the way, Zhang Xiaoling didn’t talk about the discussions she had seen on the forum. Instead, she said to Xiaomuqing with a complicated expression:
“If you have time… you can check the forum. A lot has happened up there.”
“Oh, okay.”
Xiaomuqing didn’t take it to heart. She nodded and planned to talk about it later when she got home.
Just as they reached the entrance of the dance studio and were about to go in, the grade level director suddenly appeared in front of them.
“Hello, Director.”
Seeing the director, Xiaomuqing was a little surprised. However, her thoughts were relatively simple, so she didn’t think much of it and greeted him politely.
In contrast, Zhang Xiaoling, who was beside her, was much more cautious. She felt the director’s appearance was not a coincidence.
“Mm.”
With a very friendly smile, the director nodded at them, acknowledging their greeting.
Then, he shifted his gaze to Xiaomuqing and asked her a few questions.
For example, ‘Are you tired from rehearsal?’ The questions were casual and simple, and Xiaomuqing answered them all, quite earnestly.
Seeing this, Zhang Xiaoling gradually relaxed. After all, the director was usually such a casual person, as long as you didn’t break any rules.
Just as Xiaomuqing was completely unguarded and answering whatever was asked, the director suddenly said:
“You are in the same class, right?”
“Uh…”
“No… we are not in the same class.”
Hearing this question, Xiaomuqing suddenly realized something. Before subconsciously nodding in agreement, she stopped herself in time.
Perhaps due to nervousness, Zhang Xiaoling thought she would nod in agreement when she saw Xiaomuqing about to answer.
But what she didn’t expect was that her hasty denial actually revealed a slight flaw.
And this flaw was seen by the director.
After all, the older the ginger, the spicier it is.
“Oh, okay then.”
He smiled and nodded, as if it were just a casual question, and didn’t pursue the truth of the answer. Soon, he turned and left.
After he left, Zhang Xiaoling patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief.
“Phew, I thought he was going to ask who you are.”
“It’s okay. Even if he had asked my name, I would have a way to deal with it.”
Looking at Zhang Xiaoling beside her, Xiaomuqing said confidently.
She had discussed the issue of her identity with her good brother a few days ago, so she had prepared a story in advance. She wasn’t afraid of anyone.
“Really?”
Zhang Xiaoling looked up at Xiaomuqing in surprise.
“Of course. Someone as smart as me would definitely be prepared in advance.”
“Emmm.”
“Hey! What does that silent expression mean!?”
“Nothing. I just think the word ‘smart’ is a bit… incongruous when used to describe you.”
“Damn it!”
Bickering, they entered the dance studio and prepared to start their rehearsal for the day.
Regarding her own intelligence, Xiaomuqing, during a break in rehearsal, launched into a ‘fierce’ discussion with Zhang Xiaoling.
Then, Zhang Xiaoling said to her: “How about this? Ye Ziming will definitely come to pick you up later. Let’s ask him.”
“Okay!”
Hearing that she would have her good brother judge, Xiaomuqing felt confident. After all, he was on her side and would surely support her.
If he didn’t support her, then she would… uh…
Thinking this, Xiaomuqing suddenly realized that she couldn’t do anything to her good brother, which was a bit awkward.
A short while later, the brief rest and water break ended, followed by the second half of the rehearsal.
In the evening, after the rehearsal finally ended, Xiaomuqing pulled Zhang Xiaoling along and walked out of the dance studio to find Ye Ziming, who had been waiting for them.
When Ye Ziming heard their story, he raised his eyebrows in surprise and then turned to look at Xiaomuqing.
He slowly raised a hand, a faint smile on his face, and dotingly patted Xiaomuqing’s head before saying with a smile:
“Fool, of course you are smart.”
“Haha! I told you so, you lose… uh.”
After hearing her good brother’s words, Xiaomuqing triumphantly turned to look at Zhang Xiaoling, her face full of the joy of a victor.
Then, she froze. Because she suddenly realized that her good brother’s words contained the word ‘fool’.
“Mm-hmm, I admit you are smart.”
Nodding earnestly, Zhang Xiaoling, while trying hard to suppress a laugh, gave her affirmation.
At the same time, she whispered: “A smart fool.”
“Ahhh! Damn it!”
In an instant, Xiaomuqing’s little face turned red, followed by a series of gritted teeth and stomping feet, wanting to scratch someone.
Facing the puffed-up little cat, Ye Ziming, with a doting smile, let her ‘vent’ on him.
He didn’t fight back or retort, which described him as an excellent boyfriend.
