Chapter 96: The Great Liar Who Toyed with Hearts

Qiao Xianyi charged over at once and started banging on the door.

She moved so fast that even Bai Lu did not react in time.

“Liu Nana, open the door! This bedroom isn’t yours alone. You have no right to lock it!”

It took Bai Lu a full second before she slowly walked over. “Doesn’t your hand hurt from knocking so hard? Here, use this.”

As she spoke, she handed Qiao Xianyi a back scratcher.

No one knew where she had conjured it from.

Young Miss Qiao had never in her life known the meaning of politeness. She took it and began to tap.

At once, a ridiculous video flashed through the minds of the men present, of the madam pounding on the door in some over-the-top drama.

Lin Ye panicked and wanted to turn off the camera, afraid that if Liu Nana woke up in a rage and opened the door, something worse would break out.

If this were streamed live, it would cause an earthquake.

Zu Xin'en hurriedly held him back. Seeing the bewildered little look on Lin Ye’s face, she kicked the foolish younger brother in frustration.

Too stupid for words.

Li Huan had already gone over to persuade them. “Qiaoqiao, stop knocking. Sister Nana is already asleep, and it wouldn’t be good to wake her. Let’s make do for tonight and have Xīnluo sleep in mine and Jiaer’s room.”

Di Jiaer said, “Yeah, it’s no big deal. Huan-ge and I can just sleep on the sofa in the living room. All right, all right, we still have tasks tomorrow, and it’s late. You two should hurry up and sleep.”

“No, no, I’ll sleep on the sofa in the living room,” Shen Xinluo said quickly, waving her hands, full of guilt and uncertainty. “Don’t wake Sister Nana.”

At that moment, the tightly shut bedroom door was pushed open from the inside.

Liu Nana was still wearing that sexy backless beach dress. Her hair was a little messy, and her makeup had completely run.

Along the corners of her eyes were two dark streaks, looking for all the world like tears that had been left behind after crying.

Qiao Xianyi, still holding the back scratcher, froze. “You...”

Liu Nana did not seem to realize what she looked like now. Her voice was a little muffled, still carrying the stuffiness of someone who had cried: “Sorry. I always lock my room door out of habit and forgot I had a roommate.”

Shen Xinluo hurried over, her tone apologetic. “Sister Nana, I’m sorry for waking you. Xiao Lu and Qiaoqiao were only worried about me; they didn’t want me sleeping on the sofa in the living room.”

Liu Nana gave a faint smile, her weakness showing after a good cry. “It’s fine. I was the one who forgot. I should be the one apologizing to you.”

Bai Lu cast a chilly glance at the black tear streaks on Liu Nana’s face, then noticed the subtle expression on Shen Xinluo’s face from the corner of her eye.

Hearing the two of them exchange their hypocritical, polite apologies, she immediately understood everything in her heart.

Fine. Very nice indeed.

She loved stirring up trouble like this.

“Wow!” Bai Lu said in a coy, affected tone, deliberately feigning innocence as she pointed at Liu Nana’s face. “Sister Nana, have you been crying? Your eyeliner has smudged.”

Liu Nana seemed to suddenly remember something and hurriedly wiped at her cheeks in alarm.

Bai Lu told her seriously, “Sister Nana, you need to be careful. Sleeping with makeup on is really bad for your skin. Before bed, you must remove it properly! Especially since we face cameras every day and wear makeup every day; the burden on our skin is already very heavy. If you don’t take care of it, it can get terrible.”

Liu Nana nodded. “Thank you for your concern, Xiao Lu. I was just too tired today and fell asleep as soon as I got back. Usually I do take good care of my skin.”

Qiao Xianyi gave a suspicious “mm” and asked directly, “Liu Nana, before the diving this afternoon, you deliberately took off your makeup. Shen Xinluo even praised your bare skin for looking especially good. So when did you put makeup on again?”

Bai Lu swallowed back the words that had almost come out.

Was this the particular sharpness of a girl’s intuition?

Qiao Xianyi’s reaction this time was so quick it hardly seemed like Qiao Xianyi at all.

She had actually gone straight for the key point and hit Liu Nana right where it hurt.

Hearing Qiao Xianyi’s questioning, the others finally realized it too.

Right. She had already taken off her makeup for diving, and now she looked like someone who had cried with makeup still on.

Who would deliberately put on makeup before crying?

It was obviously meant to give off the impression: I’ve been bullied, I’m hiding alone in my room crying in secret, and afterward I still have to act as if nothing happened.

It was very calculating.

And very vicious.

This was clearly meant to steer public opinion online, to get netizens to attack and curse Bai Lu and Qiao Xianyi.

Liu Nana barely hesitated before saying, “On the way back to the water house, my assistant told me that the local fan club had contacted him and wanted to send a few representatives over, for autographs and things like that. So I agreed. Since I was meeting fans, of course I had to wear makeup.”

Bai Lu looped her arm through Qiao Xianyi’s and said with a bright smile, “Sister Nana really is popular, with fans all over the world. How wonderful. I’m so envious!”

Zu Xin’en waved them off. “Hurry up and rest. We still have to get up early tomorrow.”

Li Huan also said, “We leave at eight tomorrow. Don’t be late, everyone.”

The group returned to their rooms.

As usual, Bai Lu wished the viewers behind the camera good night and turned off the camera.

Just as she took out her phone, ready to call her father according to family rules, she heard Qiao Xianyi muttering and cursing beside her without pause.

“What a load of nonsense about meeting fans. If you ask me, Liu Nana definitely did that on purpose. It wouldn’t surprise me if she and Shen Xinluo planned this together. One deliberately locks the door, the other deliberately goes knocking, and then the audience sees Liu Nana looking like she’s been crying...”

After cursing for a while, Qiao Xianyi turned her head and asked unhappily, “Bai Lu, what was the point of pulling me just now? Wouldn’t it have been better if I’d exposed Liu Nana right away?”

Bai Lu was almost amused to death by Qiao Xianyi.

She had only just felt that the young miss’s IQ had come up to standard, and then, in the next breath, the young miss took the initiative to expose her own intelligence again.

“You idiot?” Bai Lu said helplessly. “Those who can see through it don’t need you to expose anything. The ones determined to play blind will keep pretending not to see, even if you put the evidence right in front of them.”

Qiao Xianyi shook her head very honestly. “I don’t get it.”

Bai Lu could not be bothered to explain further. “Then don’t make things hard on your own brain. Are you going to shower or not? If not, I’m going first.”

At that moment, Qiao Xianyi’s phone rang. She waved a hand. “Go shower first.”

Then she answered the call and called out, “Dad.”

Bai Lu felt wronged.

Just look, just look at this. They were both daughters, so why was there such a difference?

Her dad knew how to call and check on his daughter on his own.

What about hers?

When his daughter called him, he switched his phone off!

Even Grandpa and Grandma!

They had their phones off too!

Bai Lu instantly felt that she had fallen out of favor.

Waaah, what liars. Saying Xiao Lu was the cutest, saying Grandpa and Grandma loved Xiao Lu the most.

She had only been gone one day, and they had already forgotten her.

Liars. All of them were heartless liars toying with her feelings!