"I got it myself, okay! But Lu Tingxiao did help me a lot later."
"Got it. I'm hanging up now! Remember to check my emails!" Considering that she was still sick, Jiang Muye suppressed his anger. He was no longer in the mood to ask Lu Tingxiao about how he saved the damsel in distress. He hung up the phone in a stern tone.
Damn it! If Lu Tingxiao hadn't used despicable means to hold him back, he should have been the one to stay with her and help her through this difficult time!
How shameless!
"Jiang Muye called?" Lu Tingxiao asked casually.
"Yeah, he asked me if I needed help! He also said he sent me an email, but I don't know what it was, but he kept reminding me to check it. It was so mysterious, I guess it was some kind of birthday prank. He did the same thing last year, he sent me a particularly scary prank video, and I was so angry that I beat him up three times before I calmed down..."
Ning Xi grumbled and complained, but she didn't rush to check her emails. She continued to look through her text messages and missed call records to see if there was anyone else she needed to reply to.
Most of the missed calls were from unfamiliar numbers, definitely from the media or something like that. When I turned to the back, I saw a name that called on her birthday.
Seeing those two words, Ning Xi's expression turned from indifferent to warm and gentle, "I thought he forgot my birthday!"
"Who?" Lu Tingxiao subconsciously tensed up.
"My brother, Tang Nuo."
Lu Tingxiao nodded and breathed a sigh of relief without making a sound.
I thought it was my ex-boyfriend again, and he was so nervous that he was almost scared to death.
Ning Xi immediately called back, "Hello, Xiao Nuo~"
"Sister, you finally called me back! How are you now? Are you okay? Did those people give you any trouble? I saw the news in the newspaper..."
"Don't worry, I'm fine!"
"But I saw that woman was going to sue you!"
"Your sister is not a pushover either. It's not certain who will sue whom in the end!"
"Are you really okay?"
"It's really nothing! If you keep worrying so much, I'm going to suspect that you're not seventeen but seventy!" Ning Xi paused, "But do you really trust me so much? Maybe I was really so cruel that I stabbed Ning Xueluo on purpose just to get promoted?"
The young man on the other end of the phone said in a clear voice: "If my own sister doesn't believe it, how can I believe someone who has nothing to do with me?"
Ning Xi felt a warm current spreading through her heart after hearing these words, "You little brat, you're really good at talking!"
"I feel relieved knowing that you are okay. By the way, I haven't said happy birthday to you yet. It's been a while..."
"It's okay. It's the same even if I say it now. Thank you, my dear, handsome and caring brother~"
"Stop being cheesy. I'm not going to talk to you anymore. School is about to start and I have to finish my summer homework!"
"Go, go! Come on, young man!"
After the phone call, Ning Xi's mood suddenly brightened up.
Seeing that she was in a good mood, Lu Tingxiao's mood also brightened up a lot, "You two have a good relationship as siblings?"
"Yes! Although we are not related by blood, we have always had a good relationship. When I was a child, didn't my grandma favor boys over girls? At that time, only Xiao Nuo could eat the delicious food at home. I couldn't even sit at the table for meals, but Xiao Nuo would always hide some for me. And every time my grandma couldn't stand me and made trouble for me, he would come out to defend me. He was so well behaved!"
Ning Xi was a little disappointed as she spoke, "Isn't it amazing? People who are related by blood seem like enemies, but people who have no relationship with us seem like family. I should have understood this long ago. In that circle, interests always come before family ties..."
Lu Tingxiao gently patted the cute whorl of hair on the girl's head, which drooped sadly. "You will get better."
Every time he heard her talk about her childhood, he couldn't help but love her more and more, and make up for all she had lost double.