Xu Ye's line about letting Zhao Ming pay had really been a test for Tang Yunshen.

But when he saw Tang Yunshen just sitting there, unmoved, he let it go.

He thought…

Say it had been Shen Xinyi instead of Jiang Yu, and Qin Zhiwei instead of Tang Yunshen. Even without a cent in his pocket, Qin Zhiwei would have beaten Shen Xinyi to the bill.

That was just the kind of guy Qin Zhiwei was.

He'd rather eat nothing but plain steamed buns for a week than let Shen Xinyi pay on a date. He'd always fight her for the check.

When the dinner ended, the six of them came up with an excuse to leave together. They waved goodbye to Jiang Yu, and once they were in the elevator, Zhao Ming pulled a pack of gum out of his pocket and handed everyone a piece. "That guy. Something about him doesn't seem right."

"How so?"

"He was so friendly at the start, but when he talked, he had this air of superiority, like it came naturally. When you said you went to some crummy undergrad school, that smile on his face was actually kind of mocking. And at the end, when it was time to pay, he didn't say a damn word. Even if they're not officially together yet, that's not how you act."

"Exactly," Zhang Ruowei chimed in.

Xu Ye grinned. "And he's really guarded, too. I don't know if you noticed, but when he unlocked his phone, he used a number code, and it had to be eight or nine digits. People like us, even if we don't use our fingerprint, we usually use a pattern. Hardly anyone uses a number code, because it's a pain. Then there's the other thing. Normally, if I ask whether you're from the south or the north, you'd just tell me exactly where you're from. He didn't. And last, when I said my cousin goes to his school, his first reaction was to freeze. That's not normal."

Nobody had noticed at the time, but once Xu Ye laid it out,…