"Where did you get this?" Tao Yuxuan couldn't help but ask.

Jadeite hearts are such precious items that they cannot be bought casually.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that it's a case of high price but no market.

"It was obtained through a transaction, of course." Ning Yu pursed her lips, a hint of impatience already appearing in her eyes.

"Alright, stop asking." Shi Xi took the jade gourd back from Tao Yuxuan's hand and smiled slightly at Ning Yu. "Thank you, I like it very much."

Upon hearing Shi Xi's words, Ning Yu slightly averted her gaze, "If you like it, that's good."

Shi Xi handed the first piece of cake to Ning Yu, saying, "Eat cake."

Shi Xi cut the first piece of cake, and then cut the rest more casually.

Tao Yuxuan cut the cake beside her and muttered, "What's there to be so arrogant about? It's just a jade heart, isn't it? It's still just money from the Shi family, humph!"

Leng Qiankun took the cake, seemingly lost in thought, and asked, "What do you plan to do with it?"

"Of course, I want to make her look bad!" Tao Yuxuan handed over the cake-cutting task to someone else, her eyes gleaming with calculation, and whispered to Leng Qiankun.

After putting on the jade gourd, Shi Xi pulled Ning Yu aside and said, "I've also prepared a gift for you!"

Ning Yu looked up, a hint of surprise in her usually calm eyes. "Hmm?"

Unlike Ning Yu, Shi Xi put the gift in a gift bag.

"Open it and take a look!" Shi Xi handed over a beautifully wrapped gift bag.

Ning Yu paused slightly, then took out an antique-looking box from the gift bag.

Open.

The jade bracelet, gleaming with a soft glow, lay quietly in the box; wherever the light touched, it seemed as if ripples of water flowed around it.

"I didn't expect we were so in sync, both of us gave jade!" Shi Xi's eyes crinkled into a smile. "Let's try them on!"

Ning Yu picked up the jade bracelet and put it on her wrist.

The woman by the wine shop is like the moon, her fair wrists like frost and snow.

Ning Yu already had fair skin, and wearing the shimmering jade bracelet made her skin appear even whiter and her wrists even more slender.

"Thank you." Ning Yu's lips curled slightly.

"What are you doing here?" Sheng Yan asked, somewhat puzzled to see Shi Xi and Ning Yu together.

He heard that the two were like oil and water and would fight every time they met.

How is it different from the rumors?

"What are you doing here?" Shi Xi asked back in the same way.

"Here are gifts for you!" Sheng Yan glared back defiantly, handing over two identical gift bags as a gesture of goodwill.

Shi Xi didn't take it, and said expressionlessly, "You didn't send the same thing, did you?"

Sheng Yan: "No."

Shi Xi took them with suspicion, and she and Ning Yu each received one.

"Thanks."

"I've delivered the gift, I'm leaving now." Having completed the task his mother had given him, Sheng Yan didn't want to linger any longer.

"Wait a minute," Shi Xi called out to Sheng Yan.

Sheng Yan: "What's wrong?"

“You…” Shi Xi looked at Ning Yu beside her, her heart conflicted.

Male lead's friend, shouldn't you stay a little longer?

Otherwise, who will stand up for Ning Yu later?

But if the female lead slaps someone in the face, it's a slap in her own face!

Shi Xi was torn between her feelings.

Sheng Yan noticed her predicament and assumed that she didn't want him to leave (which wasn't wrong), so he said, "I'll go chat with Brother Shi for a while."

Shi Xi breathed a sigh of relief, "Go ahead, go ahead."

Ning Yu simply said thank you and didn't pay any attention to Sheng Yan the whole time.

"Wait a minute, let's see what was delivered first." Shi Xi felt something was off.

How did Sheng Yan manage to tell the two gift bags apart when they were exactly the same?

Does he have X-ray vision?

Ning Yu took out a box from her gift bag and opened it.

Shi Xi also took it out at the same time and opened the box.

Exactly the same bracelet.

It's just a different color.