Song Leilei used to be more reserved when talking to Gao Wei, but now there's no need for that. She bluntly said, "I won't starve to death even without those variety shows. I'd rather not go on those inexplicable variety shows."
"Then how will you make a living? That's right, you can pay the penalty for breach of contract, so you must have hooked up with a sugar daddy. With a sugar daddy, your future success is just around the corner." Gao Wei said this, but his eyes gleamed with shrewdness.
Su Jin knew that Song Leilei was angry, but she was not good with words and spoke gently, so Su Jin once again became Leilei's mouth substitute.
"I think Sister Gao Wei is envious of Lei Lei having a sugar daddy, while you don't. Otherwise, you wouldn't have been all alone for so many years. Actually, there's nothing wrong with being alone, but if you're jealous of others and always treat them maliciously, then your loneliness is different from others'."
Su Jin didn't give Gao Wei a chance to refute her, and pulled Song Leilei away.
“You guys.” Gao Wei nodded to himself, then realized something, took out the contract, and touched the number of liquidated damages on it with his finger. “It’s just a lot of talk. If you want to leave, you still have to pay me 50 million in liquidated damages.”
With this money, Gao Wei could retire early.
Many minor artists have tried to terminate their contracts with her in the past, but it was all just talk. No one could afford the exorbitant breach of contract fees, so they could only waste their youth and wait for the contract to expire before retiring from the industry.
They all signed fifteen-year contracts. Fifteen years is a waste of Gao Wei's time. By the time he finishes fifteen, he will have lost his prime years and it will be impossible for him to make waves in his acting career.
Gao Wei had anticipated this all along. If someone wanted to terminate the contract, she could still make a profit. If they couldn't pay the penalty, the money would just go to waste in her hands. In fact, what she mainly earned was the penalty money.
She always mentioned Bai Qingchi, but Bai Qingchi only managed to break through the encirclement thanks to her sugar daddy Zhao Xichen; she didn't contribute anything.
It was midday, and the two of them hadn't had their farewell meal yet; their stomachs were empty.
Su Jin picked up her phone and made a call, inviting someone out for dinner.
Song Leilei didn't know who Su Jin was calling, so she asked after Su Jin put down her phone, "Who did you call?"
“Xu Jingzhi,” Su Jin said, “I haven’t thanked him for what happened last time, so I’ll treat him to a meal this time.”
Su Jin still vividly remembered the incident where Xu Jingzhi was stabbed.
Too many things have happened lately, and all she's done is send a banner, but she hasn't had a chance to invite me to dinner yet.
Leilei is here today too, so the three of us can have a meal together. It won't be awkward, and I can also express my gratitude to her.
Su Jin had no idea that Song Leilei was feeling very embarrassed and didn't even care about her hunger anymore. She took a half step back and said, "If you're going to invite him, I'll go back first. May our friendship last forever, sister."
Seeing that she was about to slip away as soon as she lifted her foot, Su Jin immediately grabbed her arm.
Su Jin didn't understand. Was Xu Jingzhi really that scary? They were always together, so when did they become so distant?
what happened?
“You came back just to have a meal. At this hour, you tell me you want to go home.”
Su Jin and Song Leilei sat on a bench by the street.
Song Leilei sighed, "You don't know, things between us are no longer the same as before. Now, when I see him, my heart races."
What did he do to you?
"Xu Jingzhi, well, well, oh dear..." Song Leilei lowered her head shyly, "How am I supposed to tell you this?"
This was the first time Su Jin had seen Song Leilei so shy. She patted her back and said, "Hey, I feel like you like Xu Jingzhi, that's why you're afraid to see him."
"No, that's not true at all," Song Leilei denied immediately.
"It's because of the breach of contract fee that he got 50 million from Uncle Xu and gave it to me. But nominally, this money was for getting married, so I don't know what it means now."
Song Leilei was in a state of turmoil, her fingers twisting together. "We even went on a date yesterday."
"You two are on a date... Congratulations, Leilei." Su Jin looked like she'd just been knocked over, clenching her fist in front of her lips to hide her uncontrollable maternal smile.
"It's not what you think. We just had a date as an excuse, but we don't actually like each other."
"What you're saying confuses me." Su Jin felt that Song Leilei herself wasn't clear-headed either. "Then let me ask you directly, are you childhood friends or lovers, or is he your suitor?"
"have no idea."
"So what does he mean?"
"She's planning to marry me, so she just needs to get used to it first."
Su Jin: "......"
"I understand. I'll call a few more people over today and see what he's really thinking and what his attitude is." Su Jin said, "You stay put too. He's just Xu Jingzhi, he's not going to eat you up."
So when Xu Jingzhi arrived for the appointment and saw a large group of men surrounding Song Leilei, his blood rushed to his head.
He had a strong sense of crisis.
However, he told himself that based on Song Leilei's experience of only having one relationship, no matter how many men there were, they might not be able to attract her.
He was her childhood friend, a man with no major flaws, and she had never felt any spark of love for him even after so many years by her side. It would be even more impossible for her to feel that way about anyone else!
Despite trying to convince himself, Xu Jingzhi couldn't manage a smile; he went over with a cold face.
Everyone turned to look at the man who arrived last.
He was very good-looking and had an outstanding temperament, but he always had a cold and aloof expression.
It is this sense of aloofness that makes men look even more handsome and compelling.
Even Song Leilei was taken aback. Xu Jingzhi was used to being casual in front of her, but today he looked like he had dressed up carefully.
She couldn't help but sigh in her heart: clothes make the man.
She used to think Xu Jingzhi was just okay looking.
Although many female classmates and schoolmates would slip love letters meant for Xu Jingzhi into her hands and ask her to pass them on.
She even opened the love letter and read the confession inside, but the Xu Jingzhi described in the love letter was completely different from the Xu Jingzhi in her eyes.
In their love letters, the girls always compared Xu Jingzhi to the bright moon in the sky, and used words like aloof and cold to describe him.
Whenever she saw these, she would wonder if they had sent the love letters to the wrong person. No matter how she looked at it, this kind of man had nothing to do with Xu Jingzhi.
At this moment, Song Leilei finally understood that Xu Jingzhi, who had quieted down and stopped talking, was the one who matched the man in the love letter.
It turns out that having a mouth has severely diminished Xu Jingzhi's appearance.
Therefore, distance makes the heart grow fonder.
So, the reason she blindly fell for Xia Xinyuan back then was because Xia Xinyuan kept his distance from her. Only after getting closer did she realize that Xia Xinyuan was a scumbag. Thinking about it this way, it all makes perfect sense.
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