It seems he has protected them a little too well.

Things having reached this point, Lin Feng had lost all desire to continue sleeping.

He turned on his side and instinctively reached toward the bedside table, only to suddenly remember that his phone was still with the production crew.

Now that he had left the show, being without a phone felt somewhat frustrating. After hesitating for a long moment, he finally got up and pulled open the bedroom door.

"Young Master, is there something you need?"

Outside the door, a servant was tidying up the dining table in the second-floor living room. Seeing Lin Feng come out, she asked respectfully.

Lin Feng scratched his head and said bluntly, "Is there a spare phone or something? I forgot to bring mine."

"Please wait a moment, Young Master. I will go prepare one for you right now." The servant acknowledged his request, picked up her tray, and left.

Not long after, a brand-new smartphone appeared before Lin Feng—the very latest model on the market.

Without a SIM card, he couldn't access WeChat, so he had to log into his long-abandoned QQ account using email verification.

Ever since he started working, Lin Feng had rarely used QQ, and the contacts on his list were all from the past.

As soon as he opened it, several red dots popped up—a uniform array of promotional marketing account ads and spam emails in his inbox.

After tapping "do not disturb" on each one, Lin Feng noticed that "Zhou Meng" had sent him dozens of messages.

"Xiao Feng, why isn't your WeChat going through?!"

"Reply to my message quickly, your sister is in trouble!"

"It's a dire emergency! Xiao Feng, please reply to a message already!!!"

"......"

Messages like these filled the chat window.

Lin Feng lay half-reclined on the bed, his fingertips swiping across the screen.

He had met Zhou Meng once before; she was the best friend of Xu Panzi, the second daughter of the Xu family, and the two of them had gone abroad together to study years ago.

For Zhou Meng to be this anxious, something must have gone wrong with Xu Panzi.

All these messages had been sent over the last few days. Regarding the subsequent affairs of the Xu family, Lin Feng raised an eyebrow with a hint of passing interest.

However, he did not reply to Zhou Meng's messages.

He didn't like meddling in other people's business. After giving them a casual glance, he exited the chat to scroll through short videos. With such a wonderful, luxurious environment to enjoy, there was no need to invite trouble for himself, was there?

Shifting into a more comfortable position, he had barely settled down when a call notification popped up on his phone screen.

It was an incoming QQ call from Zhou Meng.

Lin Feng couldn't be bothered to answer. Just as he was about to swipe up to dismiss the call, his finger slipped and he accidentally hit the hang-up button.

This action directly notified Zhou Meng that he was currently active on QQ.

Immediately following that, Zhou Meng's messages popped up continuously.

"Xiao Feng, why aren't you answering the phone?!"

"Your sister is in trouble!"

"Hurry up and reply to my messages!!!"

Driven to the limit of his patience by the barrage of messages, Lin Feng opened QQ, intending to block and delete her in one smooth motion to restore his peace and quiet. However, Zhou Meng's next message caught him somewhat off guard.

"Your sister got scammed by some people, and now she's locked up on a film set. Our semester is almost over, and her visa is about to expire."

Whether she was scammed or not, Lin Feng didn't care in the least.

However, the mention of a "film set" successfully captured his attention.

Opening Zhou Meng's chat window, Lin Feng replied with two rather curious words: "Film set?"

"You finally replied! Let's talk on the phone; typing is too hard to explain."

Zhou Meng's message came through, immediately followed by another phone call.

This time, driven by curiosity, Lin Feng pressed the answer button.

"Xiao Feng, Azis has been scammed by those people! You have to think of something right now!!"

On the other end of the line, Zhou Meng's tearful voice rang out.

Lin Feng raised his eyes slightly and asked indifferently, "What happened?"

Zhou Meng wiped away her tears and said intermittently, "Earlier, someone at school put up an advertisement saying you could make money just by acting. Azis had already run out of money, and you guys never sent her any more, so she took an acting gig. But as a result......"

"As a result, that film set was one of those multi-person ones......."

"After Azis went over and finished her first scene......."

Her voice paused a few times, and she said with extreme grievance, "Those people didn't pay Azis after they finished, and now they've detained her there, saying she has to shoot three more parts before they'll pay her."

"But her visa is about to expire, and those people even said that even if it expires, they have ways to keep her here. In short, they just won't let her go......."

Hearing this, Lin Feng was slightly taken aback.

Although the explanation wasn't entirely clear, as an adult, he naturally understood what it meant.

After the fallout with the Xu family, he had roughly guessed that Xu Panzi would soon be forced to return to China due to lack of money, but he never expected that Xu Panzi would actually go take an acting gig.

Domestic film sets were already lacking in transparency, let alone overseas ones.

Was that something you could just take on casually?!

At this moment, he didn't feel any sympathy or anxiety; he just found it rather amusing.

The three daughters of the Xu family were truly completely useless. He had only left them for a few months, yet they were each acting like overgrown children with neither brains nor sense.......

It seemed he had protected them far too well.

Seeing that Lin Feng remained silent, Zhou Meng grew somewhat anxious and yelled into the phone, "Xiao Feng, hurry up and think of something!"

"Think of something?"

Lin Feng was somewhat amused and chuckled, "What could I possibly do? Wasn't this her own choice to go act?"

"No, Azis was tricked.......'

Seemingly not expecting Lin Feng to respond this way, Zhou Meng clearly lacked confidence.

"Tricked?" Lin Feng sneered. "Let me ask you, before she shot that first scene, wasn't she aware of the process?"

"This......"

Zhou Meng's words were cut off halfway. Indeed, who could have predicted that they wouldn't pay after the shoot and would demand three consecutive shoots before paying?

Hearing her hesitation, Lin Feng instantly understood how things had unfolded. He continued to mock, "If she hadn't been dreaming of getting rich quick, who could have scammed her? Besides, out of so many people, why weren't others fooled while she was?"

"You.......'

With a single sentence, Lin Feng practically fried Zhou Meng's CPU. She froze for a long time, completely failing to process it.

"She knew the process yet insisted on rushing into it. What's the use of begging me now? You must have forgotten that I left the family with nothing when I walked out!"

After these few remarks, Zhou Meng was utterly dumbfounded!

She never imagined that Lin Feng could be so ruthless.

"Xiao Feng, how can you say that? Azis is your sister, after all......."

"None of my damn business. I'm hanging up now, don't call back."

Lin Feng dropped those words, and on the other end of the line, Zhou Meng panicked instantly!

"Wait, wait, wait! Xiao Feng, at least wire some money over! Azis still hasn't paid back the money she borrowed from me last month....... Beep, beep, beep......"

The call was disconnected right there. Zhou Meng stared at her phone in disbelief. She turned around to look at Xu Panzi, who was still lying weakly on the bed, and said with a surge of inexplicable anger:

"Xu Panzi, didn't you say your brother would provide money? Now he won't care about you either. You'd better get out of here right now and stop staying at my place......."