"Is there gold on the floor for you to pick up, hmm?" The man's teasing voice came from overhead.
Startled, Ning Xia immediately looked up.
As her eyes met those deep, laughing ones, a surge of sourness rushed to her nose, and the discomfort she had suppressed rose to the surface. She sniffed hard, yet her voice was still hoarse, "Why are you here?"
She had asked him before if he would come, and he said he wouldn't, because she wanted to spend a peaceful birthday with Jiang Mingxia. If he were there, Shi Jiayin would inevitably cause trouble.
"You were being wronged, of course, I had to come to your rescue like a hero."
Knowing that he was deliberately speaking this way to cheer her up, she did feel much less miserable because of him.
Ning Xia tried her best to curve her lips into a smile, "So, will this hero take me away?"
"Why leave? You're here for the birthday banquet, at least wait until it's over, then leave with dignity."