Chapter 1251: Magnanimous Li Rui
Li Rui enjoyed watching her jump in anxiety.
Xia Yingluo simply couldn’t hold it anymore. She pinched Li Rui’s handsome cheeks and said fiercely, “Continue acting.” Then she turned and said to Jin Ling’er, “Why are you afraid of him? He’s just an evil devil! Don’t call him young master, call him brother.”
“What?” Brother?
Jin Ling’er was a little stunned.
“I’m Xia Yingluo’s brother, Xia Yingluo is my sister.” Li Rui smacked Xia Yingluo’s naughty hands away and laughed mischievously. “We’re blood siblings with the same parents. Don’t misunderstand us. Jin Ling’er, right? You’re really beautiful, are you interested in drinking with me?”
“Don’t hit on my friend!” Xia Yingluo couldn’t stand him and reached out to pinch his cheeks again. “Or I’ll fight it out with you!”
Li Rui was still smiling and glancing at Jin Ling’er with a pair of flirtatious eyes. The training camp indeed had many beauties. They were both beautiful and fresh, causing him to be truly astonished.
At the side, Jin Ling’er was stunned. What, he was her blood brother with the same parents?! Second Young Master Li’s father was the world’s renowned big shot Li Lei, and his mother was the reincarnated Queen Xia Ling who was even the Queen Ye Xingling now. That also meant that Xia Yingluo was the daughter of such powerful people?!
Jin Ling’er felt her brain go numb and she grabbed Xia Yingluo. “I’m not dreaming, am I? Yingluo, give me a pinch.”
Xia Yingluo really reached out to pinch her cheeks. “What dreaming? Your best friend is the legendary super ‘Ms. Perfect’, hahaha. Next time you can follow me and rule as a despot, live and eat well, and have whatever you wish for!”
“Really—?” Jin Ling’er blinked and tilted her head slightly to look at Li Rui. Li Rui nodded and smiled. She finally accepted reality and gave a loud cheer. “Wow! That’s amazing! Yingluo, it turns out you’re so amazing! That’s great!”
While shouting, she slung her arms around Xia Yingluo. “I’ll follow you and live well and eat well together! Hahaha!”
Actually, she was happier about another matter—Yingluo was too beautiful and yet had a stiff temper, so she easily offended people. But if she had a good family background, nobody would dare to bully her in the future! However, at this thought, she was a little doubtful. “Yingluo, since you’re the Li family’s lady, why is your surname Xia? Why did you run to Imperial’s training camp and hide your identity? I remember the information on your family details said you were from a poor village, what on earth happened?”
She was asking too many questions, so Xia Yingluo first answered one. “I followed my mother’s surname.”
“Isn’t your mother’s surname Ye? Ye Xingling.”
“It was already rumored that she’s the reincarnation of Xia Ling, and she has already left the Ye family and returned to the Xia family. This news was released last year, have you forgotten about it?”
Now that she mentioned it, Jin Ling’er remembered how back when they were learning about the history of the entertainment circle, the rumors of Ye Xingling acknowledging her roots and ancestors and returning to the Xia family had caused a huge stir. Although she continued to use the name “Ye Xingling”, that was only to differentiate between her past-life Xia Ling and was just a celebrity name. Her real name on her registration record had already been changed to Xia Ling.
Then, it was only natural for Xia Ling’s daughter to be surnamed Xia.
Jin Ling’er stuck her tongue out and laughed. “I just didn’t think of it. Who knew that the legend I learned about during history class would walk into my life like that? Yingluo, looking at you counts as having witnessed a piece of history, it’s worth it.”
Xia Yingluo then answered her remaining questions. “The Li family requires every child to leave the house and experience a trial. I came out on the trial while hiding my identity. Now that my identity has been exposed, it counts as having failed my trial. I…”
She suddenly stopped.
Jin Ling’er asked, “Why? What consequences are there to failing the trial?”
Seeing her worried expression, Xia Yingluo forced a smile. “There’s no consequence. Don’t worry, my parents dote on me.” She originally wanted to tell Jin Ling’er she was going to retire, but now that the time had come, she couldn’t bear to say it out loud. Over the year, although life had been messy and gloomy, she had gained such a beautiful friendship. She had thought farewell would be easy, but now, it was extremely difficult.
Li Rui was listening to them talk on the side and interrupted at this point. “You two have been standing here for so long, aren’t you tired? Let’s go, I’ll bring you two shopping. At night, we’ll drink wine. We just won a huge battle, so we must celebrate a little.”
Xia Yingluo raised her head to look at Li Rui, who was smiling meaningfully.
Jin Ling’er didn’t sense that anything was wrong. She cheered. “Okay, pretty clothes!”
While cheering, she skipped ahead and led the way.
Xia Yingluo was a few steps behind. She walked alongside Li Rui. “Brother…”
Li Rui’s long legs strolled leisurely. “Since you have yet to think through matters, you don’t have to make a decision now. Since you also lie around eating well and waiting for death like me, and you don’t have to go out and work, what’s wrong with staying anywhere you want to?”
He was right, but…
“This is Imperial Entertainment.” Xia Yingluo sighed. “Father won’t be happy.”
Li Rui mocked her. “Why didn’t you think that Father would be unhappy when you first chose to enter Imperial’s training camp?”
Xia Yingluo was speechless. She had been so enchanted and obsessed with Zhao Yixuan, how could she have cared about that? Thinking back now, she was really blind back then, how could she have fallen for such a bastard? “And Wei Lingnan.” She changed the topic. “Father thinks the headquarters is safer.”
“If he doesn’t give up on you for eternity, are you planning to stay in the headquarters for eternity too?” Li Rui wrinkled his nose and snorted. “That doesn’t seem like you.” It wasn’t that he wasn’t worried about his sister, but to him, what was the difference between being alive and being dead if she was living unhappily just to avoid danger? Wei Lingnan only wanted to chase her, not to kill her. Li Rui didn’t think this was much of a severe problem.
Xia Yingluo said lowly, “I’ll think about it.”
Li Rui patted her head then walked ahead while humming.
They came to a high-end shopping mall near the training camp. Li Rui bought piece after piece of clothing for the two girls as if it didn’t cost money. He hadn’t seen his sister for a long time and simply wanted to compensate for the whole year, so he picked the most expensive items for her and didn’t even blink while swiping his cards.
Xia Yingluo was extremely happy. Her second brother’s fashion sense was good and he was also very generous. She was elated to be out shopping with him.
But Jin Ling’er was a little hesitant. Ultimately, no matter how rich he was, he was still Xia Yingluo’s brother and didn’t have a single relation with her. Seeing how a single piece of clothing here cost enough to pay for one semester of her school fees, she couldn’t help but say, “I’ll just not buy it…”
“What are you afraid of? My second brother is willing to pay, it’ll be a waste not to buy.” Xia Yingluo reasoned with Jin Ling’er. “The money won’t be saved even if you don’t use it. Who knows which little hooey he will spend it on?”