"What are you talking about? How could I possibly be awake after you woke me up? Goodbye." Without saying another word, Song Leilei decisively hung up the phone.

Then the phone rang again.

Song Leilei pursed her lips, took a deep breath through her nose, and said irritably after answering the call, "If you're not going to sleep, go play games and stop calling me."

"I'm downstairs at your hotel."

Song Leilei: "..." Is he crazy or joking? Coming all the way from another city to see her in the middle of the night? Impossible, impossible, he must be joking.

After thinking for a moment, she patted the soft pillow and drifted back to sleep.

Twenty minutes later, the phone rang again.

Song Leilei reached out and touched it, then put it on speakerphone.

Song Leilei said lazily, "Hey, what are you doing?"

"Didn't you hear me tell you to come down?"

"Um."

"Then get down, now."

"Don't lie to me. At this hour, you shouldn't be sleeping. Why are you here? We don't even live in the same city. Stop messing around and let me go, brother." After saying that, Song Leilei closed her eyes, opened her mouth, and was about to fall asleep again.

Xu Jingzhi's impatient voice continued from the phone: "Who's lying to you? I'll send you the plane ticket, you'll see for yourself in one look, then hurry up and come down!"

Song Leilei's phone vibrated. She lazily swiped the screen, tapped on the picture in the chat, zoomed in, and instantly woke up.

In the hotel lobby, Xu Jingzhi sat on a leather sofa with his legs crossed.

He didn't call to urge them again.

Based on his understanding of Song Leilei, he knew she would definitely come down to pick him up once she saw the plane ticket. He felt that their sibling-like bond over the years was genuine, and she certainly wouldn't abandon him.

Song Leilei put on a long coat, and as soon as she saw Xu Jingzhi in the hotel lobby, she rushed up and punched him.

The punch was aimed at his back, but Xu Jingzhi seemed to have eyes in the back of his head, turning around and instantly catching the soft little fist.

Song Leilei recalled what her agent had said: to always keep her distance from men in order to prepare for future fame and not to create meaningless gossip.

It's inconvenient in public places.

So she put on her mask and dragged Xu Jingzhi back to her room.

After returning to her room, Song Leilei completely disregarded Xu Jingzhi, jumping into bed, pulling up the covers, and continuing to sleep, ignoring why he had appeared there.

He can talk if he wants, but if he doesn't, he shouldn't disturb her sleep.

"Song Leilei, how can you still sleep?" Xu Jingzhi sat down on the edge of her bed, pointed at himself and said, "I am a grown man, and you have no sense of security at all in your room. With your attitude, you still dare to have a boyfriend. You are really bold."

"I don't see you as a man," Song Leilei said in a soft, sweet voice.

She couldn't even open her eyes, and fell asleep instantly as soon as she turned her head to the side.

Xu Jingzhi: "......"

"I haven't finished yet." He rubbed his temple, exasperated. "Never mind, I'll talk to you tomorrow morning. You're just too petty."

She even said she didn't see him as a man.

They are not related by blood. Even if they were, they still have to treat their brother like a man!

She has no idea how dangerous this world is!

She hasn't read any social news?

Xu Jingzhi looked around and called the front desk, only to find that all the rooms were full.

Helpless, he saw that there was half an empty space on the bed, so he simply lay down on it.

Anyway, she didn't treat him like a man.

Anyway, we slept together before when we were kids.

Xu Jingzhi turned to her side with her back to her, closed her eyes but couldn't fall asleep.

Half an hour later, his mind became clearer and clearer. He even came up with a suspenseful TV series with Song Leilei as the female lead, who would encounter a series of bad things because she was dating a male celebrity.

The images flashed by frame by frame, and the more he thought about it, the more suffocated he felt.

He opened his eyes and thought: What kind of mess is this! The parties involved aren't even flustered, while I bought a plane ticket in the middle of the night and rushed over exhausted. Haha, I'm just shameless!

Early in the morning, Song Leilei turned around and slapped the person next to her across the face with one arm.

The sound was as loud as a slap.

Xu Jingzhi was instantly jolted awake, grabbed her slender arm and tossed her back, then touched his face. The slap had really hurt.

When the sun was high in the sky, Song Leilei finally woke up, sat up and glanced at Xu Jingzhi, who was lying next to her playing on his phone.

"Why are you still here? You came here last night, were you being chased by debt collectors?" Song Leilei took her imagination to the extreme.

Putting down his phone, Xu Jingzhi suddenly became serious, his gaze scrutinizing her. "Why didn't you tell me about your relationship with Xia Xinyuan?"

"That's my business. Who I want to talk to or not is none of your concern." Song Leilei's lips twitched, and her eyes swept over him. "You bought a plane ticket just for this little thing to challenge me? Are you deliberately trying to disgust me?"

"Do you know anything about Xia Xinyuan? Do you understand him?" Xu Jingzhi adopted an older tone. "You know almost nothing about him, yet you casually get together with a complete stranger based on what you've seen on the internet over the years."

"According to you, even someone my age needs to investigate a person before dating?" Song Leilei scoffed. "Brother Xinyuan is an upright and kind person who loves children and often donates money to charities. I don't need to think so much when I'm with someone like that."

Xu Jingzhi really wanted to beat Song Leilei up after hearing this; it was the kind of feeling of disappointment and frustration.

Her words were incredibly naive.

"Do you know how good men are at pretending? You don't. Let alone male celebrities in the entertainment industry. Their job requires them to play the role of a good person in public. What you see may not be the real them."

"Then tell me what's real and what's fake!" Song Leilei shouted. "You're my Xinyuan's little black-faced devil!!"

Is he a hater of Xia Xinyuan?

He clearly had a lot of real information about Xia Xinyuan, all collected by his friends.

Xia Xinyuan is a scumbag, no doubt about it.

Is she wasting her brain?

Xu Jingzhi raised his eyes in anger, sighed heavily, and said, "As your childhood friend and your brother, before anything bad happens, I still hope you break up with Xia Xinyuan as soon as possible. Don't make a mistake that you'll regret forever."

Song Leilei: "Tch."

They couldn't persuade him, but Xu Jingzhi ended up feeling very angry.

Being someone's older brother these days is really tough; he doesn't want to be one anymore!

Xu Jingzhi: "Then our brother-sister relationship ends here. Don't call me brother anymore!"

"I don't care, I just don't like calling you 'brother.' I don't understand why you always want to be my brother, what's your mentality?" Song Leilei sat on the bed, leaned forward, brought her face close to his, wrinkled her nose, and scolded angrily, "Sick!"

Xu Jingzhi bit her lower lip and shook her head helplessly. "Fine, I am sick. I must be sick to have traveled all this way to persuade you to break up with that scumbag."

He pointed to his chest, "It's all my fault, worrying for nothing. From now on, I won't care about your affairs anymore. Don't come looking for me again no matter what happens. I'm afraid I'll feel disgusted if I hear about it."

Song Leilei nodded angrily: "Fine, if you want to sever ties with me, then I will today. I will also pay you back the money I owe you little by little every month."

She took out her wallet from her suitcase, pulled out her ID card and bank cards, leaving only the cash inside untouched.

I threw my ID card and bank card on the bed.

She looked up and threw the entire wallet at Xu Jingzhi, saying, "These are all for you!"

Xu Jingzhi didn't even glance at the wallet at his feet, and angrily said, "How much money do you have? What can this possibly do?"

“Yes, that’s not enough.” Song Leilei nodded again and picked up her phone to transfer money to him.

The money was transferred very quickly.

“This is all the money I have, although it’s not enough. I’ll pay you back slowly later. Now…” She stepped over the scattered things on the ground, went to Xu Jingzhi’s side, and pushed him, “Get out.”