They are not human! (From chapter 61)

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Wen Qing looked at Li Ran in confusion, not understanding the logic between "not tired" and "goodbye Bai Tong."

"What do you mean?"

Li Ran cleared her throat and took a sip of water. "I mean, you're not tired or sleepy right now, and there's nothing to do, so it's quite boring."

Wen Qing nodded, waiting for her next words.

"When people are bored..." Li Ran paused, lowered her voice, and said sneakily, "Don't they just want to play with men?"

Wen Qing: "???"

Li Ran chuckled and winked at him.

Wen Qing stared at her for a while, recalling her strange words earlier and what she had said to Ye Ye. After hesitating, he asked directly, "Do you know that Ye Ye likes me?"

Li Ran nodded. Seeing Wen Qing looking at her intently, her smile stiffened and she quickly shook her head. "I don't know what you're talking about. I don't understand anything about liking or not liking."

She straightened her back, adopting a serious expression as if responding to an interrogation.

Wen Qing was silent for a moment, then said, "I'm not testing you."

"Tell me the truth, did you know all along?"

Li Ran scrutinized Wen Qing's expression, seeing he was serious, and nodded. "It's obvious."

"Brother Ye treats you differently from others, and he's always very excited about things concerning you."

Wen Qing was slightly stunned, having never noticed this.

Li Ran continued, "When you told him to rest well, he didn't leave his room. When we had late-night snacks without telling him, he complained to me for half a month... There are many such instances."

"But Brother Ye is quite shy about this, so we all pretend not to know."

"You all?" Wen Qing lifted his eyelids and couldn't help but ask, "Who are you referring to?"

Li Ran counted on her fingers. "Me, my sister, Dr. Chen, Xiao Wang, Xiao Zhang, Chef Yang..."

Apart from the few people Wen Qing knew, he heard the names of dozens of strangers.

These were the dozens of people Li Ran knew, and they might have told more people...

After a long silence, Wen Qing asked slowly, "So, almost everyone in Jixiang Restaurant knows?"

"More or less," Li Ran replied, putting down her water glass. "Anyone here who knows Brother Ye should know."

"Brother Ye's behavior is too obvious; anyone with eyes should have noticed."

Wen Qing looked at Li Ran numbly, thinking that it seemed he was the one without eyes.

He hadn't noticed at all.

"Actually," Wen Qing paused, omitting some truths, and told Li Ran, "Ye Ye confessed to me just now."

Li Ran blinked, then calmly responded with an "Oh."

Compared to the confession, other things were much more exciting.

She hesitated and said, "I saw the contents of Brother Ye's notebook in his room."

"It's all your name, only your name," Li Ran couldn't help but laugh, "It's like a high school student in love."

Wen Qing's fingers paused, remembering seeing Ye Ye engrossed in writing on the surveillance footage.