Chapter Seventeen: QQZJ? Gentle Youth with a Green Collar!

Returning to his room, Xu Ye put on his headphones and stared at the QQ chat window, which was still connected.

“I just received a delivery, but I didn’t order anything…”

A clear, crisp voice came through the headset: “Then who could have ordered it?”

Xu Ye already had an answer in his heart—after all, there was only one person in the world named Wu Yanzu—but he still deliberately replied, “My housekeeper?”

Immediately, QQZJ responded with an intrigued “Hmm?”

“No, that’s not it,” Xu Ye quickly said.

“Then who is it?”

“Yeah, who could it possibly be?” QQZJ pressed, her tone sharp: “So, who is it? Do you know some poor soul hasn’t had dinner yet?!”

Xu Ye’s thoughts became tangled as he gazed blankly at the nickname on the screen. “I’m not sure. I can only say it’s a possibility…”

Again, QQZJ gave a soft “Hmm?”

“Could it be you?”

QQZJ replied with a faint smile in her voice: “Wow, you guessed it that fast? I thought next you’d be guessing aliens from Trisolaris, Ultraman, or Doraemon.”

Xu Ye fell silent, still staring at the name on the chat window.

Suddenly, he entertained a ridiculous thought.

Could it be you?

Really you?!

QQZJ… Qingqing Ziqin?!

Of course, QQZJ could not possibly know what Xu Ye was thinking. Seeing that he remained silent for a long time, she feared he had misunderstood something and hurriedly explained into the microphone, “I was just bored and scrolling through our chat history when I happened to see the address you gave me before. I thought I’d test it out to see if you were lying.”

Xu Ye smiled, his eyes growing unexpectedly moist. “I wasn’t overthinking it. I just suddenly remembered something.”

After a pause, he lowered his head and struggled hard to contain the surge of emotion flooding his heart.

“But if you’re ordering, why so expensive?”

“This is ‘Food is Heaven’… at least four thousand yuan, if not more.”

He couldn’t let her know—after all, she hadn’t met the current version of himself yet.

And the secrecy was well maintained; he had never revealed any personal information about her. Even her voice and gender had only been disclosed today.

If he were to call her by name now, how could he explain it?

He couldn’t just say he had been reborn.

Or that he was overthinking things, and the other person wasn’t who he imagined.

No, it was impossible—he was absolutely certain it was her.

The girl he had seen before his rebirth.

Su Ziqin.

“Really? That expensive? Then pay me back!”

“That’s not how this works. You invited me, so no paying back!”

“Then stop complaining and eat! You talk too much!”

Xu Ye let out a soft “Hmm,” but tears escaped, streaming down his face uncontrollably.

So it was you… it had always been you…

Yet he truly could not recall why it was QQZJ.

Damn it—what was it that he had forgotten?

“Are you eating now?”

“Yes, very delicious!”

“Well, since you can’t play games while eating, why not watch a movie with me for a bit?” QQZJ suggested.

“Alright.”

Xu Ye deftly opened the “Gleam” app—a platform for watching movies together online.

“What movie do you want to watch?”

“Flipped.”

Xu Ye’s heartbeat suddenly quickened.

Flipped?

Was this a hint?

Meanwhile, Xu Ruowei and her mother had stormed back home in anger.

Their residence was a sprawling apartment of over 400 square meters, featuring four bedrooms, two living rooms, a private cinema, and a massive sunroom worth over nine million yuan alone. Add renovation, furniture, and appliances, and the total cost exceeded fifteen million.

Under normal circumstances, with their family’s financial status four years ago barely reaching lower-middle class, they could never have afforded such an expensive home.

But by leeching off the Xu family’s wealth, they had managed to pay the full amount without loans.

“Sis, don’t be mad. Tomorrow I’m going to settle accounts with that little bastard Xu Ye. How dare he bully you? He must be courting death!”

The speaker was Xu Zhikun, Xu Ruowei’s younger brother—a spoiled child who had grown up fearless in their rural town, relying on the large number of male relatives.

In middle school, he ran with a group of troublemakers and became the local bully.

Later, when Xu Ye arrived as a problem, he simply moved to Jiangzhou, stopped attending classes, and lived off the Xu family.

The catch was his extravagant lifestyle: owning a supercar and dating a third-tier celebrity. And now this “problem” Xu Ye was trying to rebel?

That was intolerable—it was like defying the heavens.

“That’s right. Ruowei, don’t worry. If anyone dares to make my little sister unhappy, they’re asking for it!”

The eldest brother, Xu Zhihao, served as deputy manager of the business department at Xu Group and secretly ran a shell company on the side.

He had stolen many of Xu family’s confidential achievements through their mother.

Moreover, he brazenly exploited his position to embezzle, resell, and transfer a vast amount of Xu Group’s business.

Their ability to buy such a lavish apartment outright, along with everyone having cars and wearing fine suits and jewelry, was largely thanks to him.

Yet this parasitic family, sucking the Xu family dry, felt no respect for their benefactors.

Instead, they believed this was their due reward.

After all, they had given Xu Ye the chance to pursue Xu Ruowei—an immense favor.

Was this small return not deserved?

“What nonsense are you making? That Xu family has already kicked Ruowei out, and you still want to use force?”

“Are you not afraid that by being cruel, she’ll give up on Ruowei completely?!”

Wu Jinyong sensed a strong crisis and immediately scolded them, then earnestly urged her daughter, “Ruowei, the Xu family is a rare bunch of big troublemakers. Don’t mess up our golden goose.”

“Your mother has a point.”

Xu Dahai added, “That little bastard Xu Ye is devoted to you—that’s the rarest thing.”

“Try controlling another rich heir from a different family, would you be able to?”

“Not to mention those worth hundreds of billions, even ordinary second-generation rich kids couldn’t pull it off!”

“And the Xu family has only him. If you control Xu Ye, it’s like the whole Xu family is in our hands!”

“Suffering a bit now is nothing. Just endure, and it will pass.”

“In the future, when you have money, you can do whatever you want, play however you want.”