Chapter 1582: It's Not My Place to Like Her

“Dad and Mom are busy socializing. They can’t take care of me, and I barely escaped from the crowd of debutantes just to come find you!”

The woman was young, but her makeup was heavy. There was a hint of childishness in her eyebrows, yet due to her deliberate affectation, her whole face seemed somewhat aged. Her figure couldn’t quite carry the excessively sexy dress she wore.

She wasn’t short, but she insisted on tilting her head to speak, feigning an innocent and cute demeanor, deliberately leaning her body towards the man.

Ji Yanzhi subtly avoided her, “If you can’t stay, I can arrange a car to take you back.”

“I can stay!”

The woman immediately changed her tune, opening her mouth as if racking her brains to come up with something to say: “By the way, Brother Yanzhi, have you seen the gift? I picked it out!”

“You picked it?”

She felt guilty, “I helped my sister pick it out. She doesn’t have much taste, you know. My sister doesn’t really understand high-end things, she relies on me to help her. The things I pick, Xiao Baoer will definitely like them. I was just teasing her a moment ago!”

Ji Yanzhi’s eyes darkened, “Shi Yun.”

She didn’t dare to smile anymore, “What’s wrong?”

“Even though Shi Shi isn’t your biological sister, you share a blood relation, so there’s no need to belittle her in front of me every time. You’re here to deliver a gift for your sister, and her gift is separate from yours, isn’t it? It’s not up to you to decide, and it’s not for me to like either. I’m just Xiao Baoer’s uncle, not her father.”

Shi Yun pouted, her charming face couldn’t hide her embarrassment. She instinctively wanted to retort, but she held back her words.

She spat out, “I got it.”

Ji Yanzhi didn’t expect her to truly get it, otherwise, she wouldn’t keep testing him.

“I have other things to attend to, make yourself at home.”

He turned to support Lu Zhenzhen, but as soon as he lifted his hand and saw Lu Zhenzhen’s half-smiling expression, he dropped it.

She was still a bit drunk, but watching the scene had sobered her up a bit.

She folded her arms, leisurely watching from the side, and when he looked over, she didn’t show any embarrassment at being caught, even raising an eyebrow at him.

Ji Yanzhi’s lips curled into a slight smile, finding it amusing. He said softly, “Let’s go. I’ll have them send some food for you later, so you don’t have to come out again. Get some good rest, and I’ll tell you before we leave.”

Lu Zhenzhen bent her eyes in a smile, nodding in agreement, “Mm.”

She didn’t let Ji Yanzhi support her, and they walked side by side.

Shi Yun rushed over in a few steps, blocking their path, staring fiercely at Lu Zhenzhen, and asked angrily, “Brother Yanzhi, who is she?”

Ji Yanzhi replied in a deep voice, “What are you doing?”

Shi Yun bit her lip, “I-I’m asking for my sister. Even if she can’t come because she has a performance today, you can’t…”

“She is not a dubious person.”

Ji Yanzhi was always chivalrous. He stopped Shi Yun’s words in time, preventing her from saying anything that might offend Lu Zhenzhen.

With just that one sentence, there were no further explanations.

Shi Yun herself wasn’t in a position to ask. She didn’t dare to stop them, watching them walk away with wide eyes. She wanted to chase after them, but she held back the impulse by clenching her fists tightly.

The Ji Family had reserved an entire floor of rooms. Guests might not relax here, but for those who got drunk or needed a place to change clothes, the Ji Family had it covered.

Ji Yanzhi inserted the room card into the slot by the door, and the lights in the room came on. The curtains automatically opened, and the night view outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, illuminated by lights, reflected on the window glass like a mirage.