"Um, so..."
Lin Wanzhou said a bit awkwardly, "I saw the message you sent me earlier."
"Oh."
"I... what I wanted to say is, the person who replied to your message earlier wasn't me." Lin Wanzhou repeated the line Xu Yun had coached him to say.
The person on the other end of the line was silent for a few seconds before asking, "Why would she reply for you? Is she your girlfriend?"
"No, no, I don't have a girlfriend."
Lin Wanzhou denied it immediately. Seeing Xu Yun give him a pointed look, he added, "It was just a woman who likes me. She took my phone without permission and replied to you. She probably assumed you like me too, so she didn't want you to come looking for me."
"Oh, so Brother Lin has girls who like him after all."
The girl's tone over the phone was clearly much better than before.
It was even a little playful!
Hearing this, Xu Yun thought, 'This is promising!' He quickly whispered instructions to Lin Wanzhou on how to reply.
