"I'm giving you a chance to work with me. If you stand on my side and help me solve that problem, I can give you fame and fortune, anything you want, and make you the fastest rising star in the entertainment industry."

Xiao Jingyi spoke in a low voice as he walked toward Bi Xie, a slight smile playing on his lips, but his eyes clearly held no mirth. “Don’t rush to reject me. You can take your time to consider whether you’re helping a sub-personality that’s a luxury to even appear to oppose me, or helping me eliminate a personality that shouldn’t exist in the first place.”

Upon hearing this, Bi Xie raised an eyebrow, stared intently at the man's handsome face for a while, and then suddenly chuckled.

The laughter made Xiao Jingyi frown again.

The girl's smile was faint. She beckoned to him with her finger and said, "Come closer, and I'll tell you my decision."

Xiao Jing didn't move, his tightly furrowed brows revealing his complex emotions.

“It’s okay. I know you’re torn between killing me to end it all or slowly using me to observe your sub-personality a few more times. There are too many uncertainties. You don’t know what my death will bring you. Will your sub-personality collapse and disappear, or… will it fight you more fiercely for your body?”

Bi Xie calmly put down Ah Li's backpack, took out a kitchen knife, squatted down, cut the watermelon into pieces, and looked up at him with a normal expression, "Take your time to worry, I'm not in a hurry."

"But...would you like a slice of watermelon to cool off?"

"It's not expensive, 5,000 yuan a piece. My watermelons have been blessed in a temple."

Xiao Jingyi's brows furrowed even deeper. How could his alternate personality know this kind of woman!

She acts like a dead pig that's not afraid of boiling water; isn't she afraid he'll just kill her?

But he had to admit that the woman had a point.

If he rashly kills this woman before figuring out her relationship with his alternate personality, it might provoke the alternate personality within him to act desperately and cause further complications.

But they just let her go so easily...

A hint of incomprehension flashed across the man's obsidian-like eyes. In all these years, this was the first time he had ever seen someone so calmly observing the situation in front of him.

Bi Xie quickly ate a third of the watermelon and was about to cut the other two-thirds when a high-end custom-made leather shoe grazed her nose. The half watermelon that she hadn't had time to cut and the remaining two-thirds of the watermelon flew out of her hand.

Pfft.

The watermelon crashed into the pebbles on the path, scattering its bright red flesh and black seeds all over the ground.

Bi Xie looked over in disbelief: "..."

He kicked her watermelon away.

What right does he have to touch her watermelon!

"Pay up!" Bi Xie jumped up from the ground, his eyes blazing with anger, gritting his teeth, "Xiao Jingyi, what did my watermelon do to offend you? Don't you know that wasting food is shameful!"

"Your watermelons didn't bother me, but you did. I'm not happy that they're in your stomach," the man said, his narrow eyes narrowing, his words unusually tinged with sullenness.

His custom-made leather shoes made a soft sound as he stepped on the fallen leaves. He stared quietly at the girl's angry expression. After a while, a surge of pleasure rose in his heart, outweighing his resentment. Xiao Jing chuckled softly. He seemed to have finally found a way to punish this girl.

It would be too easy for him to just die. Those who offend him should suffer in the infernal hell he created for eternity.

Like that person.

Xiao Jingyi's lips curled into a cold smile, his expression chilling in the moonlight that had risen sometime earlier. "An Xie, before you make a decision, I will destroy you little by little. I hope... you can hold on a little longer and play with me a little longer."

Bi Xie stared wide-eyed for a long while, utterly dumbfounded. He never expected that a renowned movie star would do something so childish as to kick someone's watermelon.

Xiao Jingyi not only has a split personality, but he's also mentally ill!

“Xiao Jingyi,” Bi Xie took a deep breath, trying to make his voice as polite as possible, and smiled. “Didn’t I just say? Come closer, and I’ll tell you my decision.”

"What? You're afraid to come near me?" Bi Xie smiled. "Afraid I'll kiss you?"

Upon hearing the words "kiss you," Xiao Jingyi's expression changed instantly, and he said in a deep voice, "This is close enough, you can say it now."

Bi Xie glanced at the man two meters away and lazily rolled his eyes. "No, get closer."

"You're not really frigid, are you? You seemed pretty open when you were filming, your hand was always on that girl's waist. Don't tell me that Ji Gui filmed all those intimate scenes for you and you reaped the benefits and won the Best Actor award. That would be too despicable..."

Before Bi Xie could finish speaking, a dark figure suddenly pounced over, covered her mouth as she uttered her wild words, and pinned her against the trunk of a ginkgo tree.

Bi Xie's bright eyes sparkled, and although her mouth was covered, it was easy to see that she was smiling.

Especially when staring at the man's handsome face, which was so gloomy it seemed to drip with water, her smile became even brighter, and her eyes narrowed into crescents.

Xiao Jingyi found his heart clenching with anger at her. He moved his wrist to the girl's slender neck, his face cold as he was about to exert force, when suddenly a soft, tender arm appeared on his lower back. He didn't know where it pressed, but his body went numb as the girl's hands were clasped together, hooking around the back of his neck and bending him down.

He whispered in her ear, "You've been tricked."

Xiao Jing's pupils contracted sharply, and he instinctively tried to push the girl away.

Bi Xie, however, was prepared. His lips brushed against Bi Xie's well-defined profile, tracing a distance of one centimeter from the corner of Bi Xie's mouth.

The bright moon quietly retreats behind the dark clouds, and the ginkgo forest rustles in the wind.

The dim lighting created a hazy and ambiguous atmosphere.

From behind, the two appear to be kissing.