Boss Lu: A reborn life is destined to be without regrets!
Chapter 378 - 283. Defensive Play VS Deduction

Chapter 378: 283. Defensive Play VS Deduction

Preparation for a contingency?

But it was a spur-of-the-moment idea, I mustered all my courage to take the microphone from Yang Qianhua, how could I prepare for that?

How could you even have a contingency plan for this?

Upon hearing this, Guan Yongyi blinked subconsciously, tilted her chin up, and rubbed her cheek against his chest, showing an expression of curiosity.

"What did you prepare?"

"Anyway, if she sees the video, she’s definitely going to come asking me about it."

Just as Guan Yongyi was about to continue questioning him, her phone suddenly displayed two messages.

[Weibo link]

[Guan Guan! Did you go to Yang Qianhua’s concert? How was it, fun?]

Despite being separated by her phone, Zhou Sinin seemed to have no emotional fluctuations, and her tone was no different from usual.

"What to reply, what to reply, what to reply! Say something, quick!"

Guan Yongyi almost threw her phone away when she saw the message.

It’s over!

She really saw it!

And she even came asking me about it!

Being best friends who can’t bear to be apart, I never shared with her that I went to see my idol’s concert.

What should I say if she asks?

I’ve never felt so guilty.

"Baby, don’t rush to reply to her, I have a question for you," Lu Jincheng said with a smiling face.

"Hmm?"

"If Zhou Sinin and I were the only two people going to the concert, what would you call that?"

"That’s... a date."

Guan Yongyi bit her lip and replied immediately.

Of course, it’s a date; isn’t that why I’m feeling guilty?

"What if there were four people?"

"... Eh?"

The short-haired girl was suddenly taken aback.

"It depends on the situation with four people."

"What about six people?"

"..."

Guan Yongyi pursed her lips and fell silent.

Through Lu Jincheng’s deliberate guidance, she finally realized something.

Going to a concert with just two people is definitely a real date; there’s no overreacting to jealousy.

This is hard to explain.

If it turned into four people, it’s still two men and two women, which might spark a bit of romance.

That’s barely acceptable.

But with six people...

What does that amount to?

That’s a team-building event!

Indeed.

Lu Jincheng was completely calm, confident, and hugged her to one side before getting up and swiping through his phone.

He opened a screenshot sent by He Ying and showed it to Guan Yongyi.

"What’s this?"

"Holy... crap..."

The short-haired girl’s pupils dilated in surprise upon seeing the screen.

"Are you the devil?"

Turns out, the screen displayed six screenshots of online purchased ticket stubs.

Two for the Landlord’s cat, two for He Ying and Luo Lang, and two for Lu Jincheng and Guan Yongyi.

Seeing this screenshot, Guan Yongyi immediately understood what the man meant by contingency preparation.

He was incredibly thoughtful.

Lu Jincheng probably had everything prepared from the moment he decided to invite her to the concert, foreseeing that Zhou Sinin would find out everything.

Plan for victory after preparing for defeat, cautious and strategic.

The self-cultivation of a high-end hunter.

"Weren’t you curious about how I got the VIP double tickets?" the man said with a smile on his lips, speaking leisurely.

"Our own indie musicians under the Cloud Music label just happened to have a collaboration with this concert, and your senior sisters got two tickets through connections."

"And the remaining four tickets were bought at a high price from scalpers."

"Thinking about it this way, doesn’t it make sense?"

"... Yeah."

Guan Yongyi’s bright eyes shifted, her cherry lips pursed, and she stared straight at Lu Jincheng, unable to utter a word for a long time.

"You really are a crafty scoundrel."

She had to admit a fact.

The deepest path she had ever walked was Lu Jincheng’s schemes.

He was too cunning!

Using the landlord’s ’Kat Duo’ as a tailwind, going to a concert for team building had become a perfect excuse.

That’s right.

Golden Stone Media already had signed singers, and the landlord’s cats, as fans and fellow industry professionals, attending the concert were perfectly reasonable.

So when the boss and his group just happened to be in Hang City, only a two-hour car ride from Shanghai City, taking everyone for a team build was only logical.

Isn’t that the answer?

"Seriously, I’m kind of glad she got together with you first."

As Guan Yongyi marveled at the endless tactics of men, she held her phone, planning to reply to her bestie’s message.

"What do you mean?"

Lu Jincheng leaned closer and pulled her back into his embrace.

"If I had become your girlfriend first, I feel... oh no, not feel, I would definitely have been totally bamboozled by you."

The short-haired girl gave Lu Jincheng a nonchalant smile, her eyes brimming with coquettish resentment.

"How can there be deception between lovers?"

"Shut up, will you!"

Guan Yongyi snorted coldly, having no interest in hearing the man’s sweet nothings at this moment.

...

[Yeah!]

[Oh right, baby I’ve been so busy these last few days I actually forgot to tell you...]

Jiang City Finance University, finance department dormitory.

Zhou Sinin furrowed her brows as she looked at the response from Guan Yongyi on the computer screen.

The justification was sound and the logic was airtight.

Team building, after all, with two senior sisters from Golden Stone Media in related businesses, taking everyone to the concert seemed wonderfully lively.

But something still felt off to her.

This feeling of unease, of course, wasn’t just from her innate intuition.

It was also from the several images and videos she had saved in her browser.

Yes.

After exhaustive searching, Zhou Sinin scoured almost all the images and video messages on the Chinese internet that day, and finally found a clue.

She found the guess she was most reluctant to believe.

The clue she least wanted to see.

Before Guan Yongyi went onstage that day, there was indeed a man next to her.

The man was tall, wearing a hooded sweatshirt, and most of the time, only a silhouette could be seen.

Because he was deliberately positioning himself, except for the wide-angle shots on stage, Lu Jincheng’s face was almost never captured.

But sitting in front of the computer, analyzing, was Zhou Sinin.

His official girlfriend, who had been immersed in the financial markets since childhood, was known for her cool decisiveness—Zhou Sinin.

Sometimes she might be a little lovesick, sure.

But when she was clear-headed, she was incredibly shrewd.

Even without seeing the man’s face, Zhou Sinin scrolled through the footage, pausing to take screenshots.

She found three images from different angles, and through the proportions of the three-view images, she determined the rough height ratio of the man.

About 183 cm.

Team building, huh? That’s fine, no problem.

She mentally tallied the number of people, excluding the landlord’s cat, and then there were He Ying and Luo Lang.

She had met Luo Lang before, 170 cm.

Cold data never lied.

After eliminating Luo Lang, only Lu Jincheng could be left by Guan Yongyi’s side.

Where were the others?

[I’m so jealous of you!!! Traveling for work and getting to see Dream Concert, I’ll celebrate with you when you get back~]

Zhou Sinin crossed her arms, lifted her upper body, and pulled the chair forward, continuing to watch the video.

She sat with a cold face, expressionless.