That night, the four of them stayed at the karaoke bar until after 2 a.m. before leaving, having had their fill of fun.

Afterwards, Di Xu treated everyone to a late-night snack at the food street in L City.

Grilled oysters, crispy fried milk—all sorts of delicious food piled up on the table.

The four of them ate and chatted to their hearts' content. After the late-night snack, not only did Tao Jia and Di Xu go from strangers to good buddies, but Tong Xiaohuai and Di Xu also went from being polite senior and junior classmates to good friends who could tease each other.

Yanbo felt both pleased and somewhat helpless and jealous about this change.

From a rational perspective, he hoped that Tong Xiaohuai could have more friends, but Di Xu was her idol, and no matter how generous he was, he couldn't help but feel a little resentful.

Fortunately, Di Xu was well aware of how much his boss cared about Tong Xiaohuai, and the reason his boss specifically called him over was to have him accompany Tao Jia.

So most of the time, he was introducing Tao Jia to the culture and history of L City, and also introduced many fun places and delicious foods.

Both he and Tong Xiaohuai were natives of L City. The difference was that he came from a truly ordinary family, a well-off family. He never had much of a financial burden growing up, and his family respected his wishes. So, for many years, he lived a carefree and willful life.

He knew more about what to do and eat in L City than he could find answers online.

"Brother Di, why don't you be our guide tomorrow?"

Tao Jia was tempted by his words and wished she could stay in L City for another month or two, explore all the fun corners of the city, and eat all the delicious food.

Di Xu wasn't afraid to agree to anything casually. Spending the whole night together was enough for him to understand Miss Tao Jiajia's background.

Therefore, in the eyes of a free spirit like him, he rarely comes into contact with such troublesome people unless required for work.

Yan Bo received his questioning look and nodded slightly.

Only after receiving the boss's approval did Di Xu take on the job.

The conversation then turned to the schedule for Sunday daytime.

The large table of food was almost completely devoured, and the day's itinerary was roughly arranged.

It was already four in the morning when they parted ways.

Since everyone had been drinking, Yan Bo and Tao Jia hailed a taxi, Di Xu also called a taxi, and Tong Xiaohuai had a driver with her. After saying goodbye, they each got into their respective cars.

Tong Xiaohuai's day was like a rollercoaster ride, with her emotions going up and down. Coupled with drinking a lot of alcohol, she was exhausted by this point.

On the way back, I leaned back in my seat and fell asleep.

"Miss, we're home." Brother Yang, who had parked the car in front of the Tong family's house, turned around and called her softly.

Tong Xiaohuai got off the car in a daze. Uncle Yuan, who was always dutiful, had already run out. Seeing her confused state, he quickly came up to help her.

"Why are you so tired?" Uncle Yuan said in a low voice with concern.

Finally, he glanced at Brother Yang who had followed him and scolded him in a low voice.

"You too, why didn't you try to persuade him? Drinking so much is bad for his health!"

Yang Ge sounded quite aggrieved, "The young lady was with Young Master Yan..."

With Young Master Yan here, how could he, as the driver, have the right to speak?

Uncle Yuan didn't scold him anymore, but just asked him to go to the kitchen to make some hangover tea, while he himself helped Tong Xiaohuai into the bedroom.

Tong Xiaohuai was just very sleepy, not drunk. After entering the bedroom, she sat on the edge of the bed and rubbed her eyes a few times under Uncle Yuan's concerned gaze.

"Uncle Yuan, I'm fine. I'm sorry for disturbing your sleep. You should go to sleep now."

Although Uncle Yuan was the housekeeper, Tong Xiaohuai always treated him like an elder.

She felt really bad for waking people up in the middle of the night.

"I asked Yangzi to make me a cup of hangover tea. You drink it before I go to sleep."

Uncle Yuan was a stubborn man. Tong Xiaohuai wanted to say that she wasn't drunk, but she couldn't bear to refuse Uncle Yuan's kindness, so she had no choice but to obediently drink the hangover tea.

Uncle Yuan and Brother Yang left, and Tong Xiaohuai went into the bathroom and took a quick shower. When she came out, she saw the phone lying on the bed flashing.

She climbed into bed and picked up the phone. The missed call list showed Yan Bo's name, and the time was five minutes ago.

Tong Xiaohuai climbed into bed, pulled the blanket up to her shoulders, and felt warm all over before picking up the phone and dialing back.

The phone rang for a long time before it was finally answered just as Tong Xiaohuai was about to hang up.

"Xiao Huai, did I disturb your sleep?"

"No, I just finished showering. What about you? Have you been home for a while?"

Tong Xiaohuai burrowed under the covers a few times, found a comfortable position, and let out a long yawn.

"Tired?" Yanbo asked with concern, perhaps hearing her yawn.

"It's alright, go ahead and tell me..."

They had gotten into the habit of talking on the phone before going to bed. However, most of the time, Tong Xiaohuai was so sleepy that she would fall asleep while talking.

Yan Bo, however, seemed completely unconcerned about this.

He was even quite proud of his ability to lull her to sleep over the phone.

"If you're too tired tomorrow, don't go. Di Xu and I will just accompany her around."

Tong Xiaohuai chuckled. "Is this how you treat your guests, Young Master Yan!"

Yan Bo doesn't care what others think of him. Tao Jia is a good friend, that's true, but she's never as important as his girlfriend.

"Look how tired you are, it breaks my heart to see you like this."

Tong Xiaohuai chuckled softly again, feeling a warm glow in her heart.

"It's okay, we don't meet until 10 a.m. tomorrow, so I can still get four hours of sleep."

Yan Bo couldn't resist her, and his tone involuntarily became soft and gentle.

After exchanging a few more words, Tong Xiaohuai fell asleep without realizing it.

Mingming could still hear Yanbo's gentle words. But when she opened her eyes, it was already broad daylight.

Tong Xiaohuai sat up abruptly, scratched his messy hair, and checked the time.

Ah! It's nine o'clock!

Tong Xiaohuai quickly washed up, changed her clothes, slung her backpack over her shoulder, walked out of the bedroom, and then jogged straight toward the door.

"Xiao Huai, aren't you going to eat breakfast?" Tong's mother's caring voice came from behind.

"Mom, I made plans with Yanbo to go out with his friend. We're going to be late. I'll just grab something to eat on the way."

Shouting, the person had already changed their shoes and slipped out the door.

Before Aunt Tong could give any instructions, Uncle Yuan had already packed a lot of snacks and buns and chased after her, knocking on the car window to hand the snacks inside.

"Thank you, Uncle Yuan. I won't be going home for dinner all day."

Because she had planned to spend time with Tao Jia long ago, Tong Xiaohuai had cleared her schedule several days in advance and made sure to have two days free.

After all, she could tell from Yan Bo's words that Tao Jia was a very important friend of Yan Bo's.

Out of affection for Tao Jia, I absolutely cannot neglect her.