It was all thanks to Madam!! He had misjudged her before!
Without Madam, this family would fall apart sooner or later!
Chapter 11
After Ji Xiangyi and Ji Xiangchen finished dinner.
The three of them sat in the living room to drink tea and chat. Of course, drinking tea meant exactly that: drinking tea.
As for chatting?
Ji Xiangchen was a man of few words, and Ji Xiangyi was naturally aloof. Even saying a single sentence was doing someone a favor.
Only Fang Ning was chattering away, hoping to get a little more money when she divorced in the future!
And so, the following scene unfolded in the villa's enormous living room.
The television was on. Ji Xiangchen had his head down, playing on his phone, while Ji Xiangyi sat ramrod straight, sipping her tea unhurriedly, her eyes fixed on the television.
Fang Ning nibbled on dried little fish as she watched television, tirelessly trying to get the two of them talking. "Would either of you like some snacks? They say snacks and television are an even better match."
Ji Xiangyi took a sip of tea and shook her head slightly. She didn't like these snacks.
Ji Xiangchen didn't want any either, because his weight-loss plan had already failed once today. He absolutely couldn't let it fail again.
"I'm not having any."
Seeing their attitudes, Fang Ning couldn't help grumbling inwardly:
[They aren't just supposedly aloof. They really are aloof. I suspect it's not the food they have a problem with, but me.]
Even their icy attitudes were so in sync. They really were twins.
Hearing Fang Ning's thought, Ji Xiangyi pressed her lips together, starting to wonder whether she had been too aloof and made Fang Ning doubt herself.
Ji Xiangchen was taken aback too. He hadn't expected a single refusal to make Fang Ning think that way.
He was relatively aloof by nature. Whether with family or anyone else, he didn't want to show too much warmth, but he didn't want to be aloof toward Fang Ning, who had helped him tell someone off.
Neither of them wanted to be too aloof toward Fang Ning.
So, a moment later, both turned their gazes to Fang Ning and spoke at the same time. "It's not that I don't want any. I'll have some."
Hearing Ji Xiangchen's words, Ji Xiangyi knitted her brows. Displeasure flashed across her face, and she shot Ji Xiangchen a sharp look.
He spent his days coasting along in the entertainment industry. What right did he have to say the same thing as her?
Ji Xiangchen had been annoyed with Ji Xiangyi for a long time too. He fiercely returned the glare she shot him, then continued speaking to Fang Ning. "It's not that I don't want any. I misspoke just now."
Ji Xiangyi said, "Me too. I misspoke just now. I should have said I wanted some, not that I didn't."
After saying that, she even held out her hand to Fang Ning.
Looking at the two hands held out at the same time.
Fang Ning: "..."
Isn't there something a little off about you two!
Fang Ning gave each of them a packet of dried little fish.
The next moment, Ji Xiangyi and Ji Xiangchen focused on tackling the dried fish Fang Ning had given them.
A silence in which one could hear a pin drop fell over the room again.
Fang Ning: "..."
Did these two talk themselves to death in their past lives? Is that why they're so cold in this one?
Fang Ning sighed helplessly. For the sake of the money, she could only work hard to play the role of a good sister-in-law, so she switched into talking mode:
"Oh, right, Xiangyi, are you coming back tomorrow? I'm going to the set to film tomorrow, so we might not be able to eat together."
[Sigh, Ji Xiangyi might be a little cold, but she's a beauty! Who wouldn't want to sit side by side with a beauty and share a meal? What a shame, what a shame.]
Ji Xiangyi's slender fingers paused slightly around her teacup. Her tone barely shifted. "You're going to the set tomorrow?"
Fang Ning nodded and sighed. "Yes, yes. It really is a shame that I won't be able to eat with you."
Ji Xiangyi lowered her eyes, her expression somewhat conflicted, but it disappeared a second later. She said calmly, "How about this? I'll take you to the set tomorrow. When it's time, I'll have the driver bring you back, and we can eat together."
Fang Ning: "..."
Wait, female lead, isn't this wrong? Why is this pickup-and-drop-off script happening between you and me? It's clearly supposed to be your script with the male lead!
Ji Xiangchen looked up at Ji Xiangyi. "You don't need to trouble yourself. I happen to be on the same production as her, so I'll drive her to and from work. You just focus on your work."
Fang Ning: "..."
Wait, female lead's younger brother, didn't you just tell me not to get close to you! What on earth is going on?
As for what the system had said, Fang Ning felt she needed to think it over seriously and reflect on exactly where things had gone wrong to send the plot in this direction.
Ji Xiangyi and Ji Xiangchen failed to reach a conclusion about who would pick Fang Ning up. It was already very late, and each left Fang Ning with the same words: "I'll come pick you up and take you to the set tomorrow."
Then they each picked up their car keys, went out one after the other, and entered the garage.
Walking behind her, Ji Xiangchen looked at Ji Xiangyi's figure and stopped.
As her twin, Ji Xiangchen considered himself the person who understood Ji Xiangyi best.
Ji Xiangyi had been a block of ice from the womb. No one could warm her up, and no amount of warmth could melt her, whether in her life or her feelings.
But what was going on today? She had actually melted of her own accord for Fang Ning.
Ji Xiangchen remembered a time when Ji Xiangnian had asked her to come home for a family meal.
She hadn't even spared him a glance.
He had always felt that the sky might fall and the earth might explode, but Ji Xiangyi's heart would remain forever cold, impossible to warm.
Yet confusion and shock flashed through Ji Xiangchen's eyes.
Ji Xiangyi was far too unusual today, far too out of sorts. She had actually come running home just to have a meal with Fang Ning.
While they were eating, that face of hers, whose expression was below freezing every day, had actually smiled.
A block of ice melting on its own-what kind of hellish joke was this?
Whether Ji Xiangchen looked at Ji Xiangyi from one angle or another, he felt there was something very wrong with her.
Most horrifying of all, she had even volunteered to take Fang Ning to the set.