"Boyfriend?"

"What boyfriend?" Xia Mu Zhu blinked curiously.

"Uh... Sister, are you single right now?" Lin Yu asked, a bit surprised.

"Yes, I'm single," Xia Mu Zhu nodded as if it were the most natural thing.

"I see. I thought a girl as wonderful as you would have lots of suitors," Lin Yu responded with a smile, though alarm bells rang in his mind.

No boyfriend?

Could I have mistaken the person?

This fleeting thought crossed Lin Yu's mind, but he quickly dismissed it.

It couldn't be.

Xia Mu Zhu in front of him had to be the second female lead. Otherwise, the bizarre feeling of familiarity he had the first time he saw her wouldn't make sense!

Moreover...

Lin Yu glanced covertly at the appealing curvature near Xia Mu Zhu's chest and mentally clicked his tongue.

"Since crossing over, I've never seen anything quite so... impressive, fitting perfectly with the second female lead in the adult comics; it can't be wrong!"

Every main female character in adult comics is paired with a male counterpart, though not necessarily a boyfriend.

Just like Tang Manman and her timid male friend, they grew up together with mutual fondness, just shy of confessing to each other.

Could it be the second female lead, Xia Mu Zhu, also has such a secretly smitten admirer pending confession?

Lin Yu pondered for a while but couldn't conjure any news about Xia Mu Zhu's potential male counterpart.

Furrowing then relaxing his brows, Lin Yu decided not to dwell on it. After all, Xia Mu Zhu was right here. Her matched male couldn't just vanish.

I'm sure to meet him eventually!

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And when that time comes, I might remember something more.

The two changed direction, walking towards Xia Mu Zhu's home.

Upon entering the unguarded neighborhood, they opened the broken security gate, and Lin Yu followed Xia Mu Zhu into the elevator up to the sixth floor. They paused outside room 603, and Xia Mu Zhu pressed her finger against the fingerprint scanner.

"Beep beep."

Two soft electronic beeps indicated entry, and the door opened seamlessly.

"Take a seat; I'll make the fish for you," Xia Mu Zhu offered as they entered the room. She carried several bags towards the kitchen.

While she was away, Lin Yu quickly surveyed the surroundings to gather more information.

Firstly, the apartment was spacious—he estimated the living room, kitchen, and dining area, not counting the rooms, to be no less than 100 square meters, indicating that Xia Mu Zhu's living conditions were far from modest.

Secondly, there was a toy box filled with toys and game controllers in the southwest corner of the living room, and a few Ultraman slippers by the entrance.

These indicated that Xia Mu Zhu was not living alone; she likely shared the place with a younger child, probably a boy, based on the items present.

Combining this with the angry demands Xia Mu Zhu made during their first encounter.

This person could be her brother, still in junior high.

After observing the general setting inside the apartment, Lin Yu turned his gaze to the fingerprint-secured entrance door.

The security of this fingerprint-protected door was high, almost impossible for strangers to breach.

With this realization, Lin Yu frowned slightly.

Upon entering this room, he felt a faint sense of déjà vu, as if adult comics had briefly sketched Xia Mu Zhu's home.

But this didn't prove her second storyline was to unfold here.

After all, according to the original adult comic plot, the protagonist frequently coerced the second female lead into misdeeds in her home.

It was normal for me to have some recollection of this house.

Wait!

Suddenly, Lin Yu caught a crucial point.

In the original adult comic story, when the protagonist visited Xia Mu Zhu's home for those indecent acts...

Under such circumstances, how could Xia Mu Zhu's matched male counterpart not appear?

This was an adult comic!

Without the universally liked (forcefully scratched out)...

Without the universally despised erotic plots, what kind of adult comic would it be?

With this thought, Lin Yu furrowed his brows in deep thought, hoping this lead could jog his memory about who the second female lead Xia Mu Zhu's counterpart actually was.

As his recollections of the adult comics became clearer, Lin Yu finally saw Xia Mu Zhu's male counterpart.

He was hiding behind a barely open door, his eyes wide, reflecting the vigorous motions on the bed, filled with shock, pain, envy, wrath, and a myriad of complex emotions.

Lin Yu concentrated his attention, finally seeing the tragic face through the door crevice.

?

The face was youthful, the body small—a question mark formed above Lin Yu's head.

Whose kid is this, sneaking a watch?

Is this something you should be seeing?

While internally criticizing, a sudden flash of insight connected all the scattered information in Lin Yu's mind.

He turned shockingly to look at Xia Mu Zhu, busy in the kitchen.

Could her male counterpart possibly be her brother?