In the Lap of Luxury by Unsweetened Chestnuts

"I looked into it, and it turns out that someone paid to stir up the rumors about you and Wayne."

"Do you know who it is?"

"Not yet, but sooner or later, I'll find out who dared to do something so despicable."

Zoey spoke with conviction, then added in a playful tone, "But speaking of which, the netizens are quite sharp-eyed. At least they didn't go off track and focused on the main things.

"By the way, Gracie, how about inviting Xander for a get-together tonight?"

Grace thought the suggestion was good. "Sure! I'll send him a message."

Grace opened her chat with Xander. They hadn't spoken since last night, and Grace's eyes flickered with worry.

During this time, she and Xander had been chatting regularly, and they had hardly stopped. The longest gap between their messages before had just been a few hours. But today was strange.

had been a whole night, and Xander hadn't replied to

fingers rapidly tapped on the screen as

One minute, five minutes, ten minutes, then half an hour

hadn't received a reply

normal when someone who

your message

something was off, and a sense of unease grew

give him

Grace dialed Xander's

with the operator's voice on the other end. "I'm sorry, the number

saw Grace's reaction and quickly reassured her, "Don't worry, maybe he has something to

thought what Zoey had

I'll try calling

helplessly. "You're different when you're in love. Don't worry! Xander won't run away. As long as he sees your message, he'll definitely reply." "Let's hope

sounded disappointed, so Zoey suggested, "Since Xander can't make it tonight, how about inviting Emily? The three of us can