He is Lovestruck in the Revenge by Gu Nanxi

Chapter 45 - 45 044 Xie Shang you must be obedient

Chapter 45: 044: Xie Shang, you must be obedient. Chapter 45: 044: Xie Shang, you must be obedient. If he asked, she would definitely tell him, yes, she was a bad person too.

She picked up the jar of alcohol and poured herself a full cup, her first drink of the evening.

As her fingers touched the cup, Xie Shang grabbed her wrist. It was then that he was like the man from the Jhiang family gambling table, aggression and oppressive force churning in his eyes at that moment, “Tell me.”

She moved neither her hands nor her expression.

Even a drunk Xie Shang was not easy to deal with.

Wen Changling calmly reciprocated the grip on Xie Shang’s hand, gently pushing him away while her gaze remained clear and sober, kindly reminding him, “Xie Shang, you’re breaking the rules.”

She could refuse to answer; that was one of the game’s rules.

She finished the rest of the drink without changing her expression.

*****

He Dongzhou arrived at the research lab at nine in the morning, to find Xie Shang already there, wearing a white lab coat. The experimental bench was strewn with vessels and jars filled with various spices, and the room was kept at a very low temperature, where Xie Shang was—catching up on sleep.

The moment the door was pushed open, Xie Shang opened his eyes.

He Dongzhou asked him, “Why do you look like that?”

The complexion of Xie Shang’s face was abnormally pale, “Drank too much last night.”

A hangover, which was odd.

He Dongzhou was curious, “Who were you drinking with?”

The aftereffects of last night’s alcohol were strong, and his stomach was still burning. Speaking without much energy and rather indifferently, Xie Shang replied, “Someone you don’t know.”

“A neighbor?”

Xie Shang didn’t answer.

Dongzhou’s social circle highly overlapped with Xie Shang’s. The people he didn’t know, yet could cause Xie Shang to have a hangover, could only be that

were you in a really good mood, or a really bad one?”

preferred tea

tolerance was quite average—with hard liquor, he could only manage four or five small cups. He didn’t flush when he drank, and he didn’t cause trouble when drunk. He disliked getting drunk because he hated losing control and wanted to remain lucid

know,” was

felt Xie Shang had been acting

“Yeah.”

Changling who had been taking the lead. After sobering up, Xie Shang could not clearly remember his mood from that time. What remained most vivid in his memory was when his consciousness became fleeting, Wen Changling looked over him, her voice sounding like an enchantment

Shang,” she said as she bent down, her

He responded.

“Can you walk?”

He lay his head on the empty jar he had drunk from, his eyes gazing off into

he was still easy to care for

up, “Give me your

extended his hand to her, the bones beautifully sculpted, illuminated by the moonlight into a slightly translucent pearly white. His mind was foggy, and his actions followed his

had done before, Wen Changling took hold of his wrist through his clothing and guided him back to the pawnshop. His coat, draped over her arm, kept dragging on the ground, so she said, “Xie Shang, hold on

into a ball, this time holding

to

consciousness, he stubbornly asked

was under no

said, “Must be

was sober, and as he pondered whether those three words were a command or

bit more. Perhaps because his brain was numbed by alcohol, he was like a puppet on

the fallen leaves off the

I’ll leave you

let go and turned around to

*****

Must be obedient.

Shang opened his eyes in the morning, those three words were looping in his mind. Was that her standard, or was it just a command at the time? If it were a standard, that would be most unfortunate, for his grandfather, Mr. Xie Jingxian, had once criticized him for being unruly and disobedient. He was like

a new fragrance?” He Dongzhou had just noticed a black perfume bottle on the table, a very

put the perfume bottle into the refrigerator in the research lab, “It’s a failed

failed concoction, yet not thrown

stepped