Damn it, I'm surrounded by childhood sweethearts

The next day.

Without deliberately setting an alarm, Xu Qingfan still woke up at around seven, probably due to his biological clock.

Before sleeping, he had asked Xia Xiaoxiao and Wu Lingyu, and both girls said they were going shopping the next morning, so after washing up, Xu Qingfan left the house alone.

After exiting the neighborhood, Xu Qingfan glanced at the dim sum shop shrouded in mist early in the morning but ultimately did not go in to eat. It wasn't his usual type, and the taste always felt off.

In Li City, every neighborhood has at least one dim sum shop downstairs.

If you ask Li City residents where to find the most authentic and delicious dim sum, eight out of ten will give the same answer — the dim sum downstairs from their own home is the most authentic.

"To Bijui Garden," Xu Qingfan instructed the driver after getting in the car, then lowered his head to browse his phone alone.

Though there are no short videos for now, it's still quite interesting to look at the lively happenings in the Little Red Book's local section.

For example, what he was looking at now was the story of a mistress from a certain bar fighting the wife on the street, #TheMostBeautifulWifeOnTheInternet. Thanks to the current strict review measures, the pictures posted by the original poster were even more thrilling than the explicit ones shared by the group friends.

Xu Qingfan repeatedly criticized the two pictures of the wife lying naked on the floor. He initially wanted to save them to his phone as a reminder to be a good man, but ultimately decided against it.

He, Xu, is already a good man; no need for remembrance!

The comment section was unanimously condemning the mistress and the scumbag. The only reason being that the wife was beautiful and had a great figure.

[Netizen A: Chen Shimei, your wife has such a hot body and you still cheated!]

[Netizen B: I'm a lawyer. If you need legal assistance, you can message me, free of charge! [Heart] [Heart]].]

[Netizen C: I don't want to expose you, but are you really offering free service? I think you're just craving their body!]

Xu Qingfan read the silly netizens' comments with relish, but before he could finish the confrontation between the two, the car had already stopped at the Bijui Garden community.

After instructing the driver not to wait for him, Xu Qingfan took the beef stir-fry he had prepared the night before, got out of the car, and went upstairs.

Xu Qingfan had long had the keys to Zhang Chunxue's house. Thinking back now, he couldn't remember why Auntie gave him the keys in the first place, and since she never asked for them back, the keys stayed with him.

When Xu Qingfan reached the third floor and was about to take out his keys to open the door, the woman living next door happened to open the door at the same time, and the two faced each other instantly.

The woman looked at Xu Qingfan twice, confirmed it was him, nodded without a word, and then went back inside, closing the door.

Xu Qingfan was about to say hello, but seeing how swift she was, he put down his half-raised hand and proceeded to open the door.

There were four retired female soldiers living in the next apartment; they were Zhang Chunxue's bodyguards.

The reason Auntie needed bodyguards is quite funny when you think about it.

Xu Qingfan remembers it was an incident from two years ago. A professional young man deliberately caused a rear-end collision to meet Zhang Chunxue, hoping to use the excuse of negotiating compensation to strike up a conversation.

But Auntie didn't bother with him at all, called the driver, and within minutes a second car arrived. After leaving the driver to handle the accident on the scene, she drove off.

The young man wasn't discouraged; instead, he became more determined to win both the person and wealth.

So, less than half a month later, he orchestrated a second encounter on Zhang Chunxue's business trip route.

Then, a week after that, he staged a third encounter.

Apart from the first time being a bit deliberate, the next two encounters were seamlessly executed according to the young man's self-confidence. By this stage, anyone else would be sighing about fate and exchanging contact details, wouldn't they?

Especially considering that the young man was quite confident in his appearance.

Unfortunately, he was dealing with Zhang Chunxue this time.

In terms of looks, how could a middle-aged handsome man compare to Xu Qingfan, a pure 185 cm tall young man?

Moreover, Zhang Chunxue did not believe in any romantic notions. When the young man approached to get close, Auntie directly called Zhang Chaoqun's people to arrest him.

Attempting fraud on Chen Shimei's little sister was destined to be bad luck.

The young man thought he caught a big fish, not realizing he had fallen into the police net.

Soon, under the Great Memory Recovery Skill, all of the young man's tricks were exposed.

Over the years, he had swindled tens of millions from many women through scams, and because he always used different identities, he had managed to stay at large until then.

Although Zhang Chunxue didn't suffer any actual losses, it was always worrisome to have a thief eyeing you.

After the incident, Zhang Chunxue, who used to dislike being disturbed in her private life, had to, at her family's suggestion, hire four bodyguards.

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When Xu Qingfan pushed the door open, the living room was cold and quiet. The clock showed that it was 8:10, and both Zhang Chunxue and Zhang Yiyi were still asleep in their bedrooms.

He quietly closed the door, changed his shoes, and went straight to the kitchen to get busy.

Zhang Chunxue didn't often cook at home, and apart from drinks and fruits, all Xu Qingfan found in the fridge was an unopened pack of dried noodles.

"Dried noodles it is," Xu Qingfan shook his head and took out the noodles.

He had a roommate from the North back in university, who once said during a late-night dorm chat about disliked foods that he'd rather starve than eat dried noodles.

Xu Qingfan felt it was okay though. As a kid, whenever guests came, if there wasn't enough rice cooked, they would cook dried noodles. During those times, he would be eager to eat the noodles.