40: Chapter 40 Why are you hugging me when I'm just going to sleep?

Jiang Che was very tactful, but he didn't expect the Stinky Girl to be so blunt, so he criticized, "Who told you that? That's not polite. She... is okay."

Jiang Ning looked at the phone in Jiang Che's hand, "Do you have a photo?"

This girl was such a gossip; could it be because she was Su Su's assistant? Seeing her staring at him eagerly, Jiang Che finally opened the Moments of that account and started scrolling. Very quickly, he found a group photo, which was a promotional photo of Chen Xuan with several artists from the company.

"This one." Jiang Che pointed it out to Jiang Ning.

After just one glance at Chen Xuan herself, Jiang Ning gave a soft "Oh," and then added, "Never mind then."

"What do you mean?"

"Huh? Oh, nothing."

After saying that, Jiang Ning turned away and stopped peeking.

This girl was very strange.

Just as Jiang Che was about to put down his phone, Chen Xuan sent another message: "The way you compliment people... is very exaggerated."

Jiang Che saw it and smiled, "Miss Chen is quite direct when complimenting others."

Meanwhile, inside the hotel, Su Su looked at Jiang Che's reply on her phone and curled her lips. "Just like how you said Su Su is vain."

Jiang Che saw this message and felt a bit helpless, "Su Su didn't even hold a grudge, yet you're holding it for her?"

"How do you know she didn't hold a grudge?"

"Are you saying as her assistant that your female artist is a petty woman?"

"What if she is?"

"What if?" Jiang Che paused, then replied, "If she is, then she's just a petty, vain woman."

After sending it, Jiang Che added another line: "Just kidding, don't tell Su Su."

"Su Su, do you want a midnight snack?" In the hotel room, Chen Xuan entered and asked.

As soon as she looked up, she saw Su Su holding her work phone, with a somewhat... strange expression.

"Who upset you? Why is your mouth pouting enough to hang an oil pot? Are there anti-fans scolding you again?"

Su Su deleted the chat record she had just had while shaking her head, "No, I was just spacing out and thinking about something."

Chen Xuan looked at what she was holding; in her left hand was a dessert, and in her right hand was an apple. She then extended her hands. "Which one do you want?"

Su Su's gaze lingered on the dessert, but after a moment, she said, "The apple, please. Eating dessert makes you gain weight easily."

"Alright. We're going to Zhaoyuan Company tomorrow morning, so get some rest early. I'm going back to sleep too." After handing the apple over, Chen Xuan said.

"Mm." Su Su replied. Then, just as Chen Xuan reached the door, she couldn't help but call her back.

"Hm?" Chen Xuan stopped and turned around, looking at her curiously.

"Am I a bit vain, and also petty?"

Faced with this sudden and inexplicable question, Chen Xuan was a bit dazed, then realized, "Did anti-fans say that?"

Su Su hesitated for two seconds, then shook her head.

Chen Xuan didn't think too much about it, "Don't pay attention to those people; it affects your mood to look at them. Take a shower and get some rest early."

Watching Chen Xuan leave, Su Su looked down at her phone again, slowly tightening her grip on it, and muttered to herself, "It seems... it didn't really affect me much."

Thinking of Jiang Che's last line, 'Don't tell Su Su,' she found it quite amusing. He was bad-mouthing her behind her back and telling her not to tell herself? If one day Jiang Che discovered that she was not Chen Xuan but Su Su herself, she wondered what his reaction would be.

In the room, Jiang Che put down his phone. Turning his head, he saw the Stinky Girl had fallen asleep at some point.

Didn't she say she was picky about beds? How did she fall asleep so fast?

Jiang Che looked up. The girl was sleeping very properly, but the blanket was a bit small for two people. So, he leaned over and pulled the blanket further over Jiang Ning. Fearing she might toss and turn, he picked up the jacket he had placed aside and put it by her feet.

After finishing all this, Jiang Che turned off his phone, placed it on the bedside table, and then laid back down.

Because there was another person beside him, Jiang Che always felt a bit strange. After all, although they were siblings, they weren't in reality. Moreover, Jiang Ning was already a grown woman; to be precise, a very beautiful grown woman.

After closing his eyes, Jiang Che's mind was filled with many fuzzy thoughts, so much so that he didn't even know when he finally fell asleep.

The next morning, when a somewhat unfamiliar alarm clock went off, it took several seconds for Jiang Che's brain to clear up, realizing it was the Stinky Girl's alarm.

"Wake up..." Feeling a bit of tightness in his chest, Jiang Che called out.

A groggy "Mm" sound came, but not from beside him; it was on his chest.

Jiang Che felt something was wrong. Sure enough, when he opened his eyes and lifted his head slightly, what was resting on his chest if not a familiar profile?

"Stinky Girl!" Jiang Che shouted.

This girl, who was sleeping so properly last night, had woken up wrapped around him like an octopus?

After he called twice in a row, Jiang Ning groggily replied and then lifted her head.

Soon, their gazes met.

Jiang Ning had clearly just woken up, and her brain hadn't fully rebooted. She stared straight at Jiang Che for several seconds without reacting.

"Did you sleep until you got stupid?" Jiang Che reminded her.

Jiang Ning looked around, and this time, she fully woke up.

She was sleeping while lying in Jiang Che's arms, and... one hand was still hugging his waist!

Jiang Ning's face instantly turned bright red. Seeing Jiang Che about to speak again, in her panic, she turned the tables and, blushing with shame, snapped: "You... if we're sleeping, just sleep, why are you hugging me?"

This short sentence stunned Jiang Che, whose brain was already slow from just waking up. Two seconds later, he realized, isn't that my line?

"Stinky Girl, I'm the victim here, okay? It was clearly you who hugged me, get off quickly."

Being told that, Jiang Ning quickly sat up and let go of him.

Entering his room last night was something she had premeditated, but... sleeping while hugging him like just now was purely an accident and a coincidence.

It was precisely because of this that the girl's face was incredibly red.

She looked around and realized that both of their blankets had been kicked down to their legs.

"The blanket fell off, I was cold, that's why I leaned over..." Jiang Ning said with shifty eyes and a guilty conscience.

"I knew it, you don't sleep quietly."

Jiang Che sat up and, looking at the shy and cowardly girl beside him, couldn't help but say.

Despite being cowardly, Jiang Ning was still a bit unconvinced, "What makes you guess it was me who kicked the blanket? What if it was you?"

Jiang Che looked at their legs with black lines on his forehead, "Your side of the blanket fell to the floor, while mine is still on my legs. Does that even need guessing? Stinky Girl, didn't you used to say you were a lady? What kind of lady runs a marathon in her dreams while sleeping?"

With one sentence, Jiang Ning was immediately mortified. "Hate you! I am a lady."