Chapter 197: Backing Him Up

"What is there for me to be unsure of? I am going to call my brother right now and have him come down to pick me up!" Wen Yi said loudly.

With that, she took the phone out of her bag and dialed Wen Jingxing directly.

To her surprise, the phone rang for a long time without anyone answering.

Wen Yi lost a bit of face, but stubbornly tried calling one more time. This time it also rang for a long time, but fortunately, someone finally answered at the end.

"Hello."

A man's deep voice came through the phone.

Wen Yi thought to herself that her brother still loved her after all; see, he had answered her call after all.

"Brother, why did it take you so long to answer my call?" A hint of spoiled coquettishness laced her tone.

Yet on the other end of the line, the man's tone remained extremely cold. "I was in a meeting just now. If there's nothing else, I'm hanging up; I have things to take care of."

"Wait a second, Brother, I have something to tell you."

Wen Yi hurriedly spoke up to stop him.

"The receptionist at your company is just too awful! I wanted to go find you, but she actually blocked me from entering and even claimed it was on your orders. Isn't that framing you, Brother!"

"No, it was indeed my order."

Wen Yi's expression froze instantly, but she quickly laughed it off to find a way out for herself. "Really? Then it seems Brother is really very busy lately."

"However, no matter how busy you are, Brother, there is one thing I must tell you. There is a wicked woman downstairs at your company bullying me right now—hurry up and have the security guards chase her away!"

Wen Jingxing did not believe a single word Wen Yi said. "Someone bullying you? It would already be a miracle if you weren't bullying others."

Crude words, but true.

Wen Yi was once again rendered speechless.

"Brother! How can you talk about your little sister like this? Song Wanning is truly not suited for you. Even if you are recording a show together right now and need to maintain a bit of the show's effect, you don't need to protect her at every turn, do you?"

Wen Jingxing had no idea that the person she was talking about was Song Wanning, because Song Wanning had not told him she was coming in order to give him a little surprise.

Wen Jingxing uttered a single sentence, "I'm coming down right now," and immediately hung up the phone.

Wen Yi looked extremely smug. "Did you see that? My brother still dotes on me; he'll be down in a second to chase you wicked woman away!"

Although Jian An'an had not spoken, she wore a look of smug triumph that completely betrayed her inner thoughts.

She was simply overjoyed to see Song Wanning put in her place.

Last night, she had dreamt a very, very long dream. In the dream, Song Wanning was an utterly foolish person who was completely at her mercy, and everyone else's impression of her was exceptionally glowing. Unlike now—where she had transformed from an initial image of a cute-faced girl with a mature figure into someone reviled across the entire internet.

Not only that, but she had also smoothly gotten close to the Wen family. In her dream, everything she did went incomparably smoothly, and she even ended up becoming Wen Jingxing's fiancée. It was only right here that the dream abruptly came to an end.

Jian An'an had woken up practically laughing out loud.

That feeling had been far too real—so real that it felt as though she had experienced it firsthand.

Yet upon returning to reality, that sense of total perfection had suddenly vanished.

Inevitably, Jian An'an felt a sense of disappointment.

Seeing now that Song Wanning seemed to have fallen out of favor with Wen Jingxing, if there hadn't been other people present, she would have burst out laughing long ago.

Anyway, she had already torn off all pretense with Song Wanning, and finally no longer needed to put on a hypocritical act in front of her. If she kept pretending any longer, she figured she would probably vomit up yesterday's dinner.

Recently, Jian An'an had been busy running back and forth between Jian Jianyai and Deng Jinfeng—mother and son—leaving her no time whatsoever to check up on variety show-related matters, let alone know that Wen Jingxing was treating Song Wanning better and better.

Another thing was that Zhou Xiancheng had probably spent all his money and was now calling Jian An'an every single day demanding cash.

Annoyed to no end by his nagging, Jian An'an had simply blocked him.

The world had finally grown quiet.

Zhou Xiancheng's life or death was the last thing she cared about; even if the man exposed the evidence, she would bite the bullet and insist that he was framing her.

Besides, she had plenty of fans, and even if she broke ties with him, where would she even get the money to pay him back?

The money she had now was destined for much greater uses.

She needed to hire online trolls every single day to leave malicious comments about Song Wanning; where would she have any idle cash?

Song Wanning didn't just stand there either; she found a spot to sit down, keeping some distance from Wen Yi and the others, right by the floor-to-ceiling window.

Wen Yi and Jian An'an pressed close together, both crossing their arms and glaring at Song Wanning, waiting for her to make a fool of herself.

Wen Jingxing indeed came down very quickly. The moment he stepped into the reception room, his gaze landed squarely on Song Wanning.

"A-Ning!"

He immediately walked over, sat down beside Song Wanning, and continued with deep concern, "Why did you suddenly come over? Have you eaten lunch? Did Wen Yi give you a hard time?"

Song Wanning shook her head and put on a smile. "No, they just said Jingxing won't want me anymore, because I'm not worthy of Jingxing."

Wen Jingxing froze all over. "Don't listen to their nonsense. What they say doesn't count."

Wen Yi immediately sprang to her feet. "Brother, Song Wanning really is a wicked woman! I didn't even say those things, and yet she's already sitting there twisting the truth and adding fuel to the fire!"

Song Wanning instantly put on a terrified expression. "I'm sorry, I... I accidentally let slip what you said."

Wen Jingxing immediately grabbed Song Wanning's hand, not even sparing Wen Yi a glance. "If there's anything you want to say, just say it directly. There's no need to hide anything. With me here, I've got your back."

Yet Song Wanning said no more, merely shaking her head persistently.

Wen Jingxing grabbed Song Wanning's hand and pulled her up. "Let's go. Come to my office. Once I finish my work, we'll go home."

"Then what about us, Brother?" Wen Yi hurriedly called out.

"I'm a bit busy and don't have time to accompany you. If you're bored, go go shopping."

Wen Jingxing directly and politely refused.

"You don't have time to accompany me, but you have time to accompany her?!"

Wen Yi widened her eyes in disbelief. Since when had her brother gotten this good to Song Wanning? Could it be that this vixen Song Wanning had drugged her brother?

No way. For her brother's safety, she had to report this matter to their mother immediately.

Knowing she certainly couldn't manage her brother on her own, Wen Yi needed to rush off and fetch reinforcements.

Jian An'an watched Song Wanning walk away, then looked at Wen Yi, who had also stood up intending to leave, and instantly felt dazed.

What happened to the big show they were promised? Didn't Wen Yi usually boast about how formidable she was? How could she be leaving after speaking to Wen Jingxing for less than a few sentences?

It seemed those things Wen Yi had said were just lies as well.

Jian An'an's gaze darkened. Seeing Wen Yi look over, she quickly concealed her expression and smiled. "Wen Yi, where are you heading?"

"I'm going home. You should go back too."

"Didn't you say we were going shopping?"

Wen Yi frowned, showing signs of impatience. "Not going anymore, not in the mood."

With that, she dumped Jian An'an and left.

Jian An'an secretly clenched her fists, yet forced a smile as she bid Wen Yi farewell.

Shortly after, a visibly furious Jian An'an walked out of the Wen Corporation building.

The moment she stepped outside, Jian An'an published a new post on Weibo, tagging her location at the Wen Corporation with a stealthily snapped photo of a cup of coffee taken in the reception room.

The accompanying caption read: Today, hanging out at the Wen Corporation group with my little sis @Wen Yi to chat with Wen Jingxing.

She even added a very cheerful emoji to the post.