Chapter Two: The Whole World Betrays His Secrets

When he lifted his wine, Gu Yanchen stood and deliberately stepped within three meters of him. The watch did nothing. Gu Yanchen gave his cousin one searching glance. Someone was choosing when the system fired. By the middle of dinner, Xu Zhi's history, shop address, and exact debt were trending. Coordinated gossip accounts called her the "debt-ridden Cinderella" and claimed she had engineered the romance. Her shop phone was overwhelmed, its website buried beneath malicious reviews. She went to the terrace to answer Tang Man. Cold wind snapped at her skirt. "Don't read it," Gu Yanchen said from three meters away. "It's my shop. I have to." "The debt won't be enforced." She looked up. "What does that mean?"