half thorns, half joy

Cai Lin hung up the call from the media, bit her lip and looked at Lin Qiaoer.

"Isn't this very simple." Lin Qiaoer patted Cai Lin on the shoulder, "It's just a few words, I think it will make things difficult for you."

Cai Lin squeezed the phone tightly, looked at Lin Qiaoer in confusion and puzzlement, "Qiaoer, why did you do this."

Lin Qiaoer smiled and replied, "What's the matter, didn't you always support me and Xiao Zihan to be together, isn't that bad?"

"I have always supported you, but you asked me to tell such lies to the media..." Cai Lin couldn't bear to say bad things, "I think it's not good."

"It's nothing bad. Xiao Zihan's mother also agreed to this matter, so you just wait for my good news." Lin Qiaoer finished the task, picked up her bag and prepared to leave.

Cai Lin followed Lin Qiaoer to the door and stopped Lin Qiaoer.

"Qiaoer!"

Lin Qiaoer turned her head and looked at Cai Lin, "Huh?"

Cai Lin took a deep breath, and asked in a tangled voice, "You...you consider me a friend, don't you?"

Lin Qiaoer was slightly stunned, then nodded, "Of course, haven't we been friends all along? If we weren't friends, would I come to you for help?"

"...That's good." Cai Lin got a response, suppressed all the doubts in her heart, and watched Lin Qiaoer get into the car.

Not long after Lin Qiaoer drove away, Cai Lin was still standing at the door in a daze when the phone rang in her hand.

She took a look and saw that it was her brother Cai Jinyu calling.

Cai Lin picked it up and let out a muffled feed.

"Linlin, what's going on with the report, why did you get involved?" Cai Jinyu asked vehemently.

Cai Lin remained silent.

"Speak up!" Cai Jinyu said in an urgent tone, "I called just now and asked, and they said there was no rumor, you said it yourself, didn't you?"

"……Yes."

"Ah? Why? The four of us had dinner together yesterday. Can't you see what's going on? It's already messy enough, what's wrong with you adding it in?"

Cai Jinyu chattered a lot, Cai Lin listened quietly, feeling aggrieved, she didn't know how to explain to her brother's questioning.

After listening to Cai Jinyu's training, Cai Lin gritted her teeth and said, "Brother...I didn't mean to...I..."

Cai Jinyu heard that Cai Lin's voice was wrong, and immediately asked, "Where are you now, I'll come and find you."

Cai Lin replied: "...at home."

Cai Jinyu: "Okay, don't go anywhere, I'll be back now, I'm really tired, Xiao Zihan's person hasn't been found yet, and you've made such a hole here again."

Cai Lin: "..."

Half an hour later, Cai Jinyu's car stopped in front of Cai Lin.

After Cai Lin hung up the phone, she stood obediently without moving a step, and waited until Cai Jinyu came over.

Cai Jinyu walked up to Cai Lin after getting off the car, and asked Cai Lin condescendingly, "What happened, you should be clear that we can't just speak in front of the media, why would you say such unwarranted things to the media?"

"I..." Cai Lin's heart was flustered, she was a little scared and sad, "I really didn't mean to..."

Cai Jinyu raised her forehead angrily, "It's not intentional or not. Don't you know how much trouble your affirmative words will bring to Zihan? Maybe in the end, even you will get into trouble. Don’t you know how many can make it up?”

Cai Lin has always been spoiled in front of Cai Jinyu, Cai Jinyu seldom reprimanded Cai Lin like this, Cai Lin's eyes turned red immediately because of grievance.

"Linlin, you're not a child anymore, even if you don't like Tang Xuan, you shouldn't be messing around like this, hey..." Cai Jinyu sighed heavily.

"No, it's not because of Tang Xuan..." Cai Lin lowered her head and wrung her fingers.

Cai Jinyu was keenly aware that something was wrong, and a thought flashed through her mind, "It's not because of Tang Xuan, is it because of Lin Qiaoer? Lin Qiaoer told you to say that?"

Cai Lin lowered her head and did not respond.

Obviously, it was because of Lin Qiaoer.

"Lin Qiaoer asked you to tell the media that, so you just said it?" Cai Jinyu looked at Cai Lin in disbelief, "Even if you have a good relationship with her, there is no need to fabricate such false information for her to harm Xiao Zihan."

"I didn't want to either... I really didn't mean to..." Cai Lin wiped away the tears she shed, turned her head and walked into the house.

"Linlin!" Cai Jinyu quickly caught up with Cai Lin and grabbed Cai Lin's arm, "What happened between you and Lin Qiaoer, is there something I don't know about you two?"

Cai Lin stopped in her tracks immediately.

Cai Jinyu looked at Cai Lin suspiciously, "When we had dinner together yesterday, I felt something was wrong. What did she tell you? Why are you so close to her all of a sudden?"

"...It's nothing." Cai Lin pinched the phone nervously, she didn't dare to tell Cai Jinyu the truth.

"Linlin, now that Lin Qiaoer has started to force Zihan with infamous methods, you should stop keeping secrets for her. Let me tell you, she is not a good person."

Cai Lin was driven into a hurry and shook her head again and again, "No, I didn't keep a secret for her, she did it for me..."

"What is she doing for you? She is keeping a secret for you?" Cai Jinyu narrowed her eyes.

Cai Lin didn't speak again.

Cai Jinyu dragged Cai Lin into the house, walked all the way to Cai Lin's bedroom, closed the door, let Cai Lin sit on the bed, and pulled a chair to sit opposite Cai Lin.

"Linlin, I'm your brother, no matter what happens, I will stand by your side, you know?"

Cai Lin timidly raised her eyes to look at Cai Jinyu, with doubts in her eyes.

Cai Jinyu softened her voice and continued: "Believe me, brother, if you can tell Lin Qiaoer, can't you tell me? Could it be that Lin Qiaoer is closer to you than me?"

"Brother... I'm afraid you'll look down on me..." Cai Lin was so frightened that she almost tore the skin off her fingernails.

"Are you stupid? No matter what you do, you are my sister. How can I look down on you? I just want to protect you from being used by Lin Qiaoer."

Cai Lin could see the sincerity on Cai Jinyu's face, and when she thought of Lin Qiaoer's insinuating threats, she couldn't hold back any longer.

Cai Lin: "Lin Qiaoer came in front. She asked me to tell the media like that. I didn't want to. She said she would help me keep a secret and asked me to do something for her."

"What secret?" Cai Jinyu understood the point.

"...that's..." Cai Lin's nervous breathing became rapid, "After you and brother Zihan went abroad, I went to the club to play, got drunk, and a man I didn't know..."

Cai Jinyu has experienced much more in the relationship between men and women than Cai Lin. Although Cai Lin didn't finish speaking, he already understood.

Cai Jinyu has always loved her younger sister like a child, but she never thought that such a thing would happen to her. In order not to scare her with an exaggerated reaction, Cai Jinyu suppressed her boiling anger, and asked in a deep voice, "You didn't suffer any injuries, did you?"

"...No." Seeing her brother's calm expression, Cai Lin continued weakly, "That person is Qiao'er's friend, so he shouldn't be a bad person. It's just... I feel sorry for him for doing such a thing."

He was referring to Cai Lin's boyfriend who was far away in another country.

Cai Jinyu's brows became tighter and tighter, he looked at the bewildered younger sister in front of him, and couldn't help comforting him: "This...it's not a big deal, as long as you're fine, no matter what, you're still an adult, it's no big deal. "

"...Hmm." Cai Lin breathed a sigh of relief.

These days, she has been worried that her brother will despise her or blame her after knowing this. Now she hears her brother say that, and she is much more relaxed.

Cai Jinyu was silent for a while, followed her train of thought, and asked Cai Lin, "So, since we came back yesterday, your reaction has been very strange, is it all because of this incident?"

"Yeah." Cai Lin nodded in embarrassment.

"Then Lin Qiaoer asked you to tell the media that because of this incident?"

"...Well." Cai Lin twitched her lips in self-mockery, "Qiaoer... She told me yesterday not to tell you, but her attitude when she came here today made me feel very uncomfortable. That's why I... ..."

That's why I told Cai Jinyu the truth.

Cai Jinyu couldn't help asking, "She threatened you with this?"

Cai Lin shook her head, "It's not that exaggerated, but... it feels a bit like that, I hope I'm thinking too much..."

"You didn't think too much, she must be threatening you." Cai Jinyu pondered the ins and outs of this matter, "I doubt now whether she is responsible..."

Cai Jinyu stopped talking halfway.

Cai Lin looked at Cai Jinyu puzzled, "What did she do?"

"...It's nothing." Cai Jinyu stretched out her hand and stroked Cai Lin's hair, "Linlin, let what happened, it's nothing, don't blame yourself."

Cai Lin was moved by Cai Jinyu's attitude, "...Thank you brother."

"Okay, leave this matter alone and leave it to me." Cai Jinyu got up, "What are you supposed to do, if Lin Qiaoer contacts you again and asks you to do something, you must tell me right away, you know? "

"Understood." On such a big matter, Cai Lin still listened to her brother.

"Don't think about anything, go eat something and wash your face, look at the dirty face from crying." Cai Jinyu pinched Cai Lin's cheek affectionately, watching Cai Lin enter the bathroom, then go out and get into the car.

He closed the car door, took out his cigarette case and lit a cigarette.

What he didn't tell Cai Lin just now was that he suspected that Lin Qiaoer should have something to do with Cai Lin getting drunk in the club and having sex with a strange man.

Cai Jinyu knew this younger sister well, she was not a mess, and it was even more impossible for her to have casual relationships with others.

Besides, that man is Lin Qiaoer's friend. If Lin Qiaoer is really good to Cai Lin and treats Cai Lin as a friend, how can she let Cai Lin get drunk and be taken away by a man she doesn't know?
This matter, the more I think about it, the more suspicious it becomes.

However, Cai Lin is a thin-skinned person. After this incident, all the focus was on being sorry to her boyfriend and how to explain this to her boyfriend, and she didn't think about it carefully.

"Damn it." Cai Jinyu extinguished the cigarette butt with a finger, and a cold light burst out of his eyes.

It was him who underestimated Lin Qiaoer's scheming and bottom line.

He actually let Lin Qiaoer attack his dearest sister.

Cai Jinyu, who originally just wanted to help Xiao Zihan as much as possible, suddenly became full of anger. He must get Lin Qiaoer away, and show some color to Lin Qiaoer who is pushing his nose and face.

Cai Jinyu was thinking bitterly, when the phone ding-ding sounded a text message, Cai Jinyu picked up the phone and looked, it was Xiao Zihan who replied to the text message.

"I'm in the company, and the Lin family can't sit still."

After reading the text message, Cai Jinyu replied with two words "wait for me", and immediately drove to the Xiao Group.