An Unexpected Online Romance with the Campus Hottie

In Yan Yu's second year of college, his younger sister Yan Man, who was in her final year of high school, secretly started an online relationship and got cheated out of 500 yuan.

The moment the scammer got the money, he blocked her and deleted his account. There was no way to find him.

Yan Yu: "Yan Xiaoman, it's bad enough that you're dating before you're old enough, but you even got scammed!"

Yan Man was even more upset than he was. "Bro, if Mom and Dad find out, they'll break my legs!"

"You should've thought of that before you started dating online!" Yan Yu sneered. She should've been studying, not chasing online romance.

But Yan Yu and Yan Man tried every way they could think of to get the money back.

Yan Man said that before they started dating, the other person had sent her a contact and told her to reach out there if they ever lost touch.

Yan Yu could hardly believe it. "You really trust what he says that much? How do you know that contact is real?"

Yan Man pretended not to hear. "Bro, we're family. Help me out!"

In the end, Yan Yu added the contact.

But the account was strange: everything was blank, from the profile picture to the personal details. He thought to himself that even scammers knew how to make themselves look high-class.

From the moment they connected, Yan Yu began putting on an act, trying every trick he could think of to get the money back.

Two months later, not only had he recovered the 500 yuan Yan Xiaoman had lost, the other person had also sent him plenty of expensive gifts and transferred him some money.

Yan Yu cautiously asked, "...Why did you send me money?"

The other person replied, "Aren't we dating?"

Yan Yu: "!"

Wait, this scammer was trying to scam me into falling for him too!

Yan Yu was on high alert and didn't fall for it. He only accepted the 500 yuan he had been scammed out of, then immediately blocked and deleted the person. Peace at last.

A week later, Yan Xiaoman came home from school and suddenly told him that she hadn't actually been scammed. The other person's parents had caught him dating online and forced him to end the relationship, so he had no choice but to block her. But a month later, they'd added each other again.

Yan Yu listened in silence for a long time, then asked the question on his mind. "So... whose contact did you give me?"

"His older brother, Bai Shangjue's."

Bai Shangjue was the campus heartthrob at D University. He'd enrolled the same year as Yan Yu, but he was in the university's top program, while Yan Yu had barely made it in, and their departments were on opposite ends of campus.

Even so, Yan Yu had heard plenty of stories about Bai Shangjue.

Realizing the person he'd added was Bai Shangjue, Yan Yu felt doomed.

He walked carefully around campus, thinking that Bai Shangjue didn't even know who he was, and besides, they were so far apart that they'd never run into each other.

But the very next day, someone stopped him on his way to class.

"...W-what a coincidence."

"It's not a coincidence. I'm here to find you."

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