You turned that poor, innocent chicken leg into your scapegoat.

President Lin was no longer calm.

He immediately reached for his phone, then hesitated.

In his mind, he thought: Follow them and see where they go.

If they really were on a date—

A date during working hours—then he would have to give them a very, very serious lesson.

Especially that little one who kept bouncing around.

Xi Yang had not expected the master perfumer Yi Yang mentioned to be such a reclusive hermit.

Two hours by car was not enough; they still had to take a boat, then drive another half hour before they could get here.

Now they had arrived on a deserted island.

The wind on the island was fierce, blowing a chill right through her.

Xi Yang hugged herself, her big eyes darting around this godforsaken place. “Yi Yang, are you sure that perfumer lives here?”

Yi Yang scratched the back of his head and said uncertainly, “That master is pretty close with my brother. I only came here once with him. I think it was here.”

“But there isn’t even a latrine here.”

“...”

“Xi Yang, why don’t I go look ahead? You wait by that tree.”

“Okay, be careful!”

Xi Yang squatted by the tree and rubbed her hands together, feeling the wind growing stronger.

It was only October—why was it so cold?

She tugged at her coat.

Suddenly, a large overcoat wrapped around her, and in an instant Xi Yang no longer felt cold.

She looked up, and what met her eyes was a flawless handsome face, one she knew extremely well. Shock filled her features. “Why are you here?”

Yi Chen took her hand and enclosed her icy little hands in his larger ones. “Still cold?”

Xi Yang felt that the voice of the person before her sounded especially pleasant at this moment.

Her chilled hands were wrapped in his warm palms, and for some reason the photo of them eating together in the restaurant flashed through her mind. She abruptly pulled her hand away.

Yi Chen had not expected that reaction and froze for a moment.

Xi Yang glanced at him and said, a little incoherently, “You’re moody, hot and cold, unpredictable, weird, and sometimes not bad at all... so I’m not used to it. But I’m just afraid of getting used to you like this, so don’t be so good to me. We...”

“What nonsense are you thinking?” Yi Chen could not help but tap her on the head. “Get all this garbage out of that pig brain of yours, or I’ll give you a beating.”

Xi Yang looked up at him, and the atmosphere fell into silence.

Yet she found herself enjoying this kind of quiet, this warmth and peace in her heart.

“Still cold?” Yi Chen took her hands again.

Xi Yang asked blankly, “Why did you come here? This place is so remote and so cold. How did you even find it?”

Yi Chen would naturally not say that he had been afraid they were sneaking off on a date and had followed them all the way here. Instead, he chose kinder words. “I just couldn’t leave you alone. Why are you always so disobedient? I already arranged for you to stay by his side, so why won’t you let me give up? Why do you never let me relax for even a moment?”

He stared at her intensely. “Do you know? Seeing you like this, unable to take care of yourself, hurts me. It feels like a thorn piercing straight into my heart, making it ache, making me miserable, making it hard to breathe. Do you understand?”

Seeing her dazed expression, Yi Chen lowered his thin lips toward hers.

Xi Yang was stunned by everything he had said. She could only feel his masculine scent surrounding her, and in her eyes there was only that handsome face drawing nearer and nearer.

Then she suddenly sensed something and looked down.

A blue ring of light flashed from Yi Chen’s chest.

My tracker?

Why is it in his chest?

Wasn’t it flushed down the toilet?

Just as his lips were about to touch hers, Xi Yang suddenly threw her arms around him. “So you’re still here. So you didn’t leave me. I finally found you.”

As she spoke, she reached out with one hand to feel his chest.

Although he did not quite understand the words or actions of the person in his arms, just her主动 embrace was enough to sweep away the gloom in Yi Chen’s heart.

After holding her for a while, Yi Chen wanted to let go and carry her back to the car. After all, it was cold here.

But Xi Yang had clamped onto his waist with one clawlike hand, refusing to let go, while the other kept fumbling at his chest.

Yi Chen was equal parts helpless and dark-faced.

Honestly, even while hugging him, she did not forget to feel his chest muscles.

Xi Yang only felt that this man’s entire body was filled with the fragrance of her beloved Cape Town planet, and she had to hold him properly, hold him tightly.

Still, Yi Chen worried she might get chilled, so he pried her little hand away from his waist. “Xi Yang, let’s get in the car and hug there, all right?”

“Okay, okay!” Xi Yang stared at his chest with a lovestruck look and nodded eagerly, then stretched out her hand. “Then carry me to the car.”

Her behavior had seemed a little hard to understand earlier, but now he was thoroughly astonished.

Still, it seemed that after losing her memory, Xi Yang had become a little strange.

In any case, he was enjoying this.

“Brother, Xi Yang!”

Just as he was about to pick her up, Yi Yang ran over from this direction, and beside him came a man around fifty years old, with shoulder-length hair, black glasses, and a long beard, walking toward them.

The moment Yi Chen saw the middle-aged man, he understood why the two of them had run here.

“Brother,” Yi Yang asked as he came up, “why are you here?”

Yi Chen ignored him and simply took a few steps forward, extending his hand. “Dr. Chen, long time no see.”

Dr. Chen smiled and shook his hand. “I never expected President Lin to come as well. The wind is strong here; come with me.”

Yi Yang ran over. “Brother, why did you come?”

Yi Chen answered briefly, “Because I wanted to.”

“...”

Xi Yang wanted to run over and hug Yi Chen, but with these two men around, she was still a little shy.

Dr. Chen warmly entertained the three of them and immediately brought out the organic vegetables he had grown himself. Of course, there was also meat in the refrigerator.

While eating, Xi Yang kept staring at the signal device hidden in Yi Chen’s chest.

Whenever Yi Chen picked food for her, she ate it right away.

Dr. Chen looked delighted. “Miss, is the food I made really that tasty?”

Xi Yang stared at one spot and nodded. “Tasty, tasty, super tasty.”

“Then eat a little more,” Dr. Chen said with a benevolent smile. “By the way, if you head back today, it will probably already be dark. I happen to have two rooms here: one for you brothers, and one for the young lady.”

Xi Yang shook her head immediately. “No, no, no, I’m sleeping with Lin Yichen.”

“...”

Yi Yang tugged at Xi Yang beside him and said in a low voice, “Xi Yang, you can’t be this hopeless. Don’t forget, my brother abandoned you.”

Xi Yang: “...”

Ignoring them both, Xi Yang dropped her chopsticks, ran to Yi Chen, and wrapped both arms around him. “I don’t care. I want to sleep with him. I just like sleeping with him.”

“...”

Yi Yang leaned in too and threw an arm around his brother. “Then I’ll sleep with my brother too.”

Yi Chen: “...”

One look from Yi Chen, and Yi Yang instinctively let go, looking wronged. “Brother, you really value romance over your younger brother.”

Yi Chen ignored him, his gaze fixed on Xi Yang. “Xi Yang, are you sure you want to sleep with me?”

Xi Yang nodded at once. “Absolutely, definitely, and for sure.”

That pleased Yi Chen immensely. He picked up a chicken leg and shoved it into her mouth. “Xi Yang, I finally understand why you refused the necklace and the bank card.”

Xi Yang blinked, not understanding. “Why?”

Yi Chen pinched her nose. “Because you know how to cast a long line to catch a big fish.”

Xi Yang reflexively asked, “Who’s the big fish?”

“...”

Yi Chen said patiently, “Who else but me?”

Xi Yang let go of him, bit down on the giant chicken leg, and fell silent. She glanced at the other two beside her, but in truth her mind was busy trying to understand what he had meant.

A few seconds later—

Oh, so that was what he meant.

A necklace and a bank card, how could they be worth as much as this person?

After all, inflation exists, but he used to be currency himself.

While gnawing on the chicken leg, Xi Yang muttered, “I’m not taking your things because I don’t want them in the first place. Besides, I’m not interested in casting a long line to catch a big fish, and I’m even less interested in catching you, that big fish!”

Yi Chen’s anger flared at once, and in a cold voice he said, “You never intended to catch this big fish of mine, and yet you still said you wanted to sleep with me?”

Xi Yang looked at him blankly. His words seemed half-understood and half-not. She moved with extreme slowness and shoved the chicken leg into her mouth, looking thoroughly stunned.

Then suddenly her expression twisted into obvious pain.

Though Yi Chen was somewhat irritated, he still asked, “What’s wrong?”

Xi Yang said with great difficulty, “I... got... choked... by... the... chicken leg... bone...”

“...”

Yi Yang immediately stood up to help Xi Yang, but Yi Chen shot him a look sharp enough to kill.

“I... I’ll... go to the bathroom and spit it out myself.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Xi Yang got up and hurried to the bathroom.

Dr. Chen on the side was trying very hard not to laugh.

Yi Chen glanced toward the bathroom and still could not help getting up to check on her.

He knocked. “Ye Xi Yang, come out. Should I take you to the hospital to get the bone removed?”

“...”

“No, no need. I, I’ve spat it out.”

From inside, she heard his fierce voice. “Ye Xi Yang, you used an innocent chicken leg as your scapegoat. Do you deserve that delicious chicken leg?”

“...”

He saw through it?

Well, that little trick could only fool Yi Yang.

Xi Yang stayed in the bathroom for a while with a miserable expression.

Sleeping with him was only because of the tracker anyway. How had he jumped to the idea of casting a long line to catch a big fish?

That CEO’s thoughts were truly abnormal and wildly imaginative, so much so that he was making me abnormal too.

But wasn’t he on a date with Joanna?

Why did what he said just now make it sound like he still had not forgotten me?

No, no, it should be that he had not forgotten Ye Xi Yang.

Then she thought that the person President Lin could not forget was Ye Xi Yang, and it had nothing to do with her, so she simply formatted out whatever President Lin had said, rebooted herself, and once again became a carefree Xi Yang.

Though in her heart, there was a faint, stuffy feeling.

In the end, the two brothers shared one room, and Xi Yang slept alone.

Because of the tracker, Xi Yang tossed and turned in sleepless confusion.

She sat up.

Why was the tracker inside his body?

It had clearly been flushed away!

Xi Yang knocked her head. What exactly had gone wrong?

How had the tracker ended up inside him?

...

Forget it. My tracker.

Xi Yang tried using her special power.

It worked.

She opened the door and tiptoed into the room where the two brothers were sleeping.

If they ask me how I got in, I’ll say I was sleepwalking. I have no idea.

I’ll deny it to the death, and they can’t do anything about it. Ha ha.