"Yiyi, when did you get up, I just called you so many times!"
On the other hand, Lin Wanning, holding a mooncake box and heading upstairs, ran into the waiting Zhang Yiyi at the stair corner.
"Let's talk inside." Zhang Yiyi peeked out her head surreptitiously, checked that no one was following Lin Wanning upstairs, then grabbed her hand and they left together.
"Yiyi, where are we going?"
"Brother Qing Fan is still waiting downstairs."
Although Lin Wanning was puzzled, she still dumbly followed along.
Zhang Yiyi led her to the front of her own bedroom door, pointed at the lock, and said, "Let's open the door first and then talk."
Lin Wanning tilted her head in confusion, but still put her hand on the door to open it, only to find that it was locked from the inside.
"Yiyi, why did you lock the door from the inside?"
As they had been walking, the mooncake box kept making a "bang bang" sound, so Zhang Yiyi had already guessed that there were keys inside.
She took the mooncake box from Lin Wanning's hands, opened it, and sure enough, it contained spare keys for various rooms.
"It's this bunch." Lin Wanning thoughtfully picked up one bunch that was shaped like the key she had just used to open Brother Qing Fan's room.
Zhang Yiyi nodded, took it from her, chose one by feeling, and when she inserted it into the lock and turned it hard, the door opened.
"Wow~ Yiyi, you're so lucky!" Lin Wanning exclaimed, blinking in surprise, especially since she had just tried for almost five minutes.
Zhang Yiyi didn't say much, pulled her into the room, and immediately locked the door again.
"I slept in Brother's room last night."
The very first sentence shocked Lin Wanning to her core.
"Yiyi, what are you talking about?"
Lin Wanning started to doubt if what she heard was even in Chinese.
"Wasn't Brother Qing Fan's room locked from the inside?" she asked.
Without rushing to explain, Zhang Yiyi pulled Lin Wanning to sit down on the edge of the bed, then said, "Last night when I left Wanning's room, I ran into Ruan Wen sneaking around by Brother's room door."
"Does Ruan Wen also have a key to Brother Qing Fan's room?"
Lin Wanning was even more confused now; how did Xiao Ruawen come into the picture?
"Also?" Zhang Yiyi gave a puzzled look.
"Yeah right, Xiao Xiao has the key to Brother Qing Fan's room; otherwise, we couldn't have gotten in this morning!" Lin Wanning nodded in acknowledgment, then pressed on:
"Yiyi, quickly tell me, does Ruan Wen also have a key to Brother Qing Fan's room, did Ruan Wen also climb into Brother Qing Fan's bed?"
Lin Wanning was somewhat projecting her own assumptions.
"Wanning, don't panic; just listen to me first!" Zhang Yiyi grabbed her shoulders and shook them.
Once Lin Wanning calmed down, Zhang Yiyi continued, "Here is what happened..."
She recounted Xiao Ruawen's version of events and Xu Qingfan's later actions of chasing the cat, but whether to believe it or not was still a question.
Lin Wanning nodded then quickly shook her head, asking further, "So, did Ruan Wen actually climb into Brother Qing Fan's bed or not?"
Zhang Yiyi also shook her head and said, "Probably not, I grabbed Brother's hand and sniffed it, I didn't smell Ruan Wen's scent on it."
"Hehe~ that's good!" After hearing this, Lin Wanning grinned broadly.
Although just moments ago they were saying, if really necessary, having more sisters is not out of the question.
However, if it can be avoided, it's best to avoid it!
Zhang Yiyi rubbed her head, also laughing along.
"I thought Brother would carry me back to the room last night, so I fell asleep unguarded, only to wake up and still be in Brother's room!"
"Then how come I didn't see Yiyi when I just tried to open the door, and the room was also locked?" Lin Wanning looked up at her in confusion.
"Yu locked the door for me, she found out about me and Brother!"
Lin Wanning's eyes widened in shock, and just as she was about to exclaim, Zhang Yiyi quickly covered her mouth.
"I was hiding under the bed, Yu saw me when she fell down, but she didn't say anything, later she also helped divert Xiao Xiao and Ruan Wen away!"
"I wasn't sure at first, but when I heard you say that my room was also locked from the inside, I guessed that Yu was covering for me."
Zhang Yiyi quickly finished explaining the situation, then finally removed her hand from covering the girl's mouth.
"This this this... Ah?"
Apart from frantically blinking, Lin Wanning didn't know how else to express the shock in her heart.
"Um." Zhang Yiyi looked into her eyes seriously and nodded.
She continued, "Also, Yu took Xiao Xiao and Ruan Wen away but specifically left you behind; she... she might know about us, right?"
"Ah this... yeah." Lin Wanning felt like her brain capacity was overwhelmed, just nodding blankly.
Zhang Yiyi was just making a point and didn't expect Lin Wanning to offer any ideas, so she continued analyzing, "Let's assume for now that Yu doesn't know about our thing."
Zhang Yiyi smiled and pinched her face, "Before we go on with assumptions, Wanning, first tell me everything that happened this morning."
"This morning I just got up, it was Yu who woke me up, it was around nine or ten o'clock, then I went to wake you up, Yiyi, and found out the door was locked from the inside, and Brother Qing Fan's room was also locked."
Zhang Yiyi nodded slightly, silently noting the useful information.
"Oh right, Yu also said, she said Brother Qing Fan and Yiyi went to help aunt buy groceries early in the morning, like really early, around six o'clock, so when you came back, you went back to sleep, and told us not to wake you up!"