Chapter 60.1: Ji Lin, do you realize that you spent half a million for me just now?

Fortunately, it was also a coincidence that shortly after Ji Lin got in the car, he received a client call, so on the way, Bai Duanduan listened to him talking to the client about professional matters with a Bluetooth headset. She finally collected her heart that was about to jump out of her chest.

This time, there was naturally no significant progress in obtaining evidence.

However, in order to live up to the money that Ji Lin paid for the bill, Bai Duanduan became more attentive. Not long after she went back, she developed a new plan and decided to work harder.

“Let me accompany you and Tang Li shopping?” After reading Bai Duan’s new plan with a frown, Ji Lin looked at her and said, “Why do women always have to drag men along when they go shopping? This plan is a waste of time. I think starting with Tang Li might be a detour. We should look for other breakthrough points.”

“I think it’s feasible, but it does require your cooperation.” Bai Duan, however, was not superstitious, “Tang Li’s personality is very easy to grasp, and her behavior patterns can actually be predicted. She is, after all, a young girl with a bit of vanity and loves to show off. Compared to Tian Mu, she has no scheming or hidden agenda, and is definitely easier to approach.”

“As for why you must accompany me and her to go shopping alone, who made you suddenly appear the other night and became my ‘boyfriend’?”

At the mention of this, Ji Lin was a bit uncomfortable. He pursed his lips, looked away, but still corrected her very accurately, “You called me ‘husband’ that day.”

“I introduced you as a boyfriend, but you know, many couples call each other husband and wife. After all, we still have to use fake names in front of Tang Li. I didn’t think of a name to give you when I introduced you that day, so I called you ‘husband’, but actually, you are my boyfriend.”

With this correction from Ji Lin, Bai Duanduan was reminded, “But if we meet Tang Li again, you’ll have to come up with a fake name for yourself, otherwise what should I call you? If you don’t have a fake name, I’ll just have to call you ‘husband’.”

Ji Lin pursed his lips and calmly replied, “Oh, I can’t think of a fake name right now, and since we’re ‘undercover’, the less information we give to the other side, the better. So if you want to keep calling me that, I don’t mind. After all, it’s necessary for the job.”

Ji Lin’s understanding response made Bai Dandam nod in agreement. She was already very skilled in playing the necessary roles for gathering evidence after so many years of work, so she had no objections. Even if she gave herself a fake name like “Xiao Rui”, she still wouldn’t be able to react quickly enough if Tang Li called her by her real name. If Ji Lin came up with another fake name, she might even make a mistake and reveal their cover. It would be simpler to just use “husband”.

“Okay, it’s settled then. Tang Li made an appointment with me to go shopping at Xintiandi at 2 p.m. today, so you can come along.”

Ji Lin frowned and asked, “What do I need to do then?”

“Not necessary,”. Bai Duanduan blinked, “You just need to patiently accompany me throughout the whole process and show complete obedience to me. The purpose of having you accompany me on this shopping trip is to make Tang Li jealous. Although Tian Mu is not working, he’s busy with work for Mercury Network at home and doesn’t have time to accompany Tang Li. She’s actually quite unhappy about it. My plan is to make her even more dissatisfied with Tian Mu first. As for you, you just need to show up as the control group. I’ve written a little script for you to familiarize yourself with, and you can improvise a bit when the time comes.”

After speaking, Bai Duanduan thought for a moment and added thoughtfully, “I’ll try to keep the shopping time as short as possible.”

In fact, not even Ji Lin, but Bai Duanduan herself, occasionally lacked patience when dragged along by Duan Yun to go shopping. She didn’t want to waste too much of Ji Lin’s time on this. After all, he charged by the second.

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Just that Bai Duanduan didn’t even consider that when they actually started shopping, Ji Lin was even more patient than herself.

Tang Li was already waiting at the designated location. She had chosen a high-end commercial district this time, where in addition to top luxury brands, there were also many personal designer brands. At this stage of internet celebrity, it was difficult to distinguish oneself by only wearing high-end luxury brands, and it was not approachable enough to the general public.

“So actually, I have to come and shop at these personal designer brands and some niche stores regularly. These types of unique brand stores are concentrated in this commercial district, but you have to dig them out carefully.”

As soon as shopping was mentioned, Tang Li’s eyes lit up with excitement, sweeping away the feeling of loneliness she had felt when she had first met and saw Xiao Rui’s “husband” accompanying her while she was alone.

However, as soon as they reached the makeup counter on the first floor, she couldn’t move any further.

“Oh my, this SUQQU foundation is so good, and it’s on sale today!” Tang Li turned to Bai Duanduan, “Xiao Rui, do you want to buy it? This foundation is especially suitable for Asians, it doesn’t come off easily, and it has a very lightweight texture!”

She was undercover, pretending to be shopping, and Bai Duanduan instinctively refused, “No thanks, I still have some at home.”

But almost at the same time as her refusal, Ji Lin’s voice rang out, “Yes, I’ll take it. What shade do you use?”

Huh?

Tang Li looked enviously at Bai Duanduan, “Xiao Rui, your boyfriend is so good to you.” She replied positively for Bai Duanduan, “Xiao Rui’s skin is already fair, so she can use the lightest shade, 101. It will definitely look very natural on her.”

Meanwhile, Bai Duanduan took the opportunity to frantically signal to Ji Lin to stop, but unfortunately Ji Lin only glanced at her once and completely ignored her rich facial expressions. He straightforwardly said, “Okay, please give me one in shade 101.”

Although the purpose of this trip for Ji Lin was indeed to stimulate Tang Li, to show off his affection crazily in front of her and provoke her inner dissatisfaction towards Tian Mu, for which Bai Dandan even wrote a script and made a plan, but…

But this scene was not even in the script!

In the script, Ji Lin was supposed to timely express that he would pay for whatever she wanted to buy, while Bai Duanduan would politely decline with an excuse of having a lot of things at home. This would demonstrate Ji Lin’s loving attitude but also save him from wasting money, and it would also stimulate Tang Li…

But what was Ji Lin doing now? Didn’t he read the notes on his own script?

This money was spent, and in the end, it will be reimbursed by himself? Bai Dandan had such white skin and usually wore light makeup, so she didn’t need foundation at all. A CPB sunscreen would be more than enough!

Unfortunately, despite all of Bai Duanduan’s inner monologue, Ji Lin was completely oblivious and calmly paid for the product. He continued to follow behind Bai Duanduan and Tang Li.

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After a while, Tang Li walked over to the lipstick section again. She looked at Chanel and YSL’s lipsticks and asked Xiao Rui, “Which one do you think is better? What about these shades?”

Bai Duanduan’s heart was still bleeding for the SUQQU powder foundation. She forced a smile and said, “They all look good, and you will look great with any of them.”

Tang Li kept browsing and finally chose YSL’s lip gloss in a shade that had a cherry lip effect. Bai Duanduan followed her and was about to leave the lipstick area with her when unexpectedly, Ji Lin spoke up again —

“Do you have any Tom Ford lipsticks?”

Damn it! Bai Duanduan’s heart was ringing like an alarm bell. Why did he add another scene by himself!

Unfortunately, Ji Lin did not respond to Bai Duanduan’s warning gaze. He calmly looked at him and said, “Don’t you like Tom Ford’s lipsticks? You usually wear them, so of course I’ll buy you some since we’re here.”

Yes, yes, yes, she does like Tom Ford’s lipstick, but she already bought one last time! Bai Duanduan lamented in her heart, Ji Lin, please be calm! I don’t need to spend money right now! It’s the end of the month and my funds are really tight!