"You've had too much to drink," Bi Xie originally wanted to say "Your face is red," but he felt that the sentence was a bit ambiguous, so he changed his words.

Ji Jing smiled, keeping his chin resting on his hand, and stared intently at her. "I'm not drunk. I have a high alcohol tolerance."

Bi Xie rolled his eyes inwardly. A high alcohol tolerance? And that face was as red as a maple leaf?

You can't reason with a drunkard; he'll always insist he's not drunk.

Before the conversation at the dinner table had even ended, someone brought up the topic of Bi Xie again.

Everyone glanced at Ji Jing, whose eyes were only on Bi Xie, then at Bi Xie, who looked helpless, and raised their glasses meaningfully. "An Xie, come, come, this glass is for you! If I have offended you in the past, please don't take it to heart!"

"An Xie, from today onwards I'm your die-hard fan. If anyone dares to insult you online, I'll fight back against them one by one!"

Bi Xie chuckled to himself, thinking that with so many people criticizing her online, if she were to retaliate against each and every one of them, wouldn't she lose her hand?

Amidst a chorus of flattering toasts, someone suddenly asked with a smile, "An Xie, are you... dating Ji Jing now? We often see you two together."

The person next to him laughed in agreement: "Yes, I saw it too."

"Tell us about it. We won't leak anything. We're all from the same production team, what's there to be afraid of?"

Another person said, "Even if you really are dating, it's fine. Didn't you and Actor Xiao break up? Free love isn't illegal. What era are we living in? Who only has one relationship? It's just that for us celebrities in the entertainment industry, we do have to be more careful when dating. There are always some entertainment reporters who make baseless accusations and write all sorts of messy articles..."

The girls sitting at this table are all the female leads in episodes of "Tian Sheng Hu Ge". They may not be top-tier or second-tier celebrities, but they have a certain degree of fame in the entertainment industry. Some of them have also played the female lead in web dramas and have their own fan clubs.

Bi Xie rubbed his Jingming acupoint and said, "Ji Jing and I are innocent."

Everyone looked on with suspicion.

"Huh? Didn't you break up with Actor Xiao?"

Bi Xie's lips twitched. Was there any necessary connection between her breaking up with Xiao Jing and starting a relationship with Ji Jing?

He said he didn't believe the rumors online, but deep down he definitely believed what was said online—that Xiao Yingdi's girlfriend had fallen for someone else, cheated on him with a younger man during their relationship, and was two-timing him, etc.

Bi Xie knew that no matter how she explained, she would be powerless in the face of the overwhelming "rumors," but she had nowhere to vent her anger, so she couldn't help but tilt her head and glare at Ji Jing.

The latter looked completely innocent, his handsome face flushed, staring at her without blinking, like a well-behaved child.

If Bi Xie had known that her glare would become a trending topic the next day with the phrase "tenderly affectionate," he would definitely have refused to have that late-night snack. He didn't even get a full meal; instead, he was the center of attention and was pestered until late at night before being let go.

Bi Xie, Xia Mian, and Ji Jing were all forced to drink. When they came out, many people in the private room were too drunk to walk. The men simply stopped walking and fell asleep on the spot. The women drank less and were mostly sober. They were going to call a friend to pick them up, but when they went out, they saw the crew's bus parked outside and happily got on the bus.

"You called?" Bi Xie looked at Ji Jing in surprise. She remembered that she hadn't seen the crew's car arrive before she came.

Ji Jing treated the entire crew to a late-night snack, but not everyone from the crew came.

Director Zhang, Xiao Jingyi, Zhang Jingchu, and many others did not come. The crew's vehicles cannot be moved at will. When Ji Jing brought the entire crew, his agent helped him call a car. Why is the crew's bus here now?

Ji Jing seemed equally puzzled and shook his head. "It wasn't me."

After a pause, he added, "Perhaps it was Chen Tong who called it."

Chen Tong, Ji Jing's agent, went back early after arranging things here.

Bi Xie didn't pay any attention and led Xia Mian toward the crew's car. When he turned around, he saw Ji Jing still standing there awkwardly. He frowned and said, "Let's go. What are you standing there for?"

He still claims he's not drunk, but he looks completely dazed and confused.

Ji Jing's lips moved, his handsome face seemed to flush even more, and he stammered, "An'an, let Xia Mian get into the crew's car, I'll take you back to the hotel."

Bi Xie decisively refused: "You've been drinking, you can't drive."

Ji Jing said urgently, "I only drank a little bit, it'll be fine, trust me."

Bi Xie sighed helplessly, took Xia Mian's hand and walked back. Before Ji Jing's smile could reach its peak, he heard Bi Xie say indifferently, "I dare not sit here. I'm afraid of three lives lost in one car."

The smile on Ji Jing's lips instantly vanished.

Bi Xie ignored him, assuming he was just very drunk. He grabbed Xia Mian with his left hand and Ji Jing with his right, pulling and dragging him into the crew's car.

As soon as he got in the car, Bi Xie sensed that the atmosphere was a bit strange.

It's too quiet.

Are they all asleep? That's so fast!

Bi Xie looked up in confusion. There were indeed quite a few people in the car, but none of them were asleep. Instead, they were all staring at her intently. Bi Xie was all too familiar with those gazes. She had just experienced that kind of sizing up at the dinner party. However… these gazes were vaguely more intense, surging, and excited than those at the dinner party.

Not again?

We're all in the entertainment industry, everyone has their share of scandals. Stop gossiping about me, thank you. [Manual doge emoji]

Bi Xie was speechless. He looked at the empty seats on the bus and thought to himself that it was unfortunate that they were not sitting together. He found a seat next to Xia Mian that was occupied by a girl, and pulled Ji Jing to continue walking inside. Fortunately, there was no one sitting on the aisle side of the two rows in front and behind.

After pressing Ji Jing into the seat in front of him, Bi Xie finally breathed a sigh of relief and sat down in his own seat with a strange expression.

She wasn't sure if it was just her imagination, but she felt that the other people on the bus seemed to gasp.

Damn it, was she riding in a hearse?

Weren't you all so talkative at the dinner table? Why did you all become so quiet once you got in the car?

The film crew's bus slowly started moving. Bi Xie habitually turned his head to look out the window, wanting to see the night view, but he saw a man sitting by the window. The breath he had just breathed a sigh of relief instantly rose in horror.

Wow! Terrifying! Even more terrifying than The Ring!

The person sitting next to her is...

"Xiao... Jing... Yi," Bi Xie's heart nearly jumped out of her chest in fright. After a moment of stunned silence, she clutched her arrhythmic chest and asked, "What are you doing here?" After a few rapid breaths, she realized, "You... did you have the crew's bus driven here?"

Xiao Jing didn't refute, but smelling the girl's alcohol fumes, two flames of anger seemed to ignite in his cold eyes.

He pressed his fists against his thighs, veins bulging on the back of his hands, suppressing his surging anger, but his tone still betrayed some of it, "What? Don't you want to see me?"