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.

guessed correctly. It wasn’t difficult to guess; He Dongzhou’s social circle highly overlapped with Xie Shang’s. The people he didn’t know, yet could

really good mood, or a really bad one?” He Dongzhou

Shang preferred tea over

disliked getting drunk because he hated losing control and wanted to remain lucid at all times. Only when he was in a very good or very bad mood would he indulge in

know,” was Xie

Shang had been acting unusually lately,

“Yeah.”

After sobering up, Xie Shang could not clearly remember his mood from that time. What remained most vivid

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

and untroublesome, he was still

stood up, “Give me your

by the moonlight into a slightly translucent pearly white. His mind was foggy, and his

wrist through his clothing and guided him back to the pawnshop. His coat,

a ball, this time

had led him to the front door

consciousness, he stubbornly asked once more, “What are

game was over, and Wen Changling was under no obligation to answer

“Must be

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

lowered it a bit more. Perhaps because his brain was numbed by

off the top of his

I’ll leave you

go and turned around to go

*****

Must be obedient.

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 wild plant that

the table, a very faint scent lingering on the test paper, slightly

Shang stood up and put the perfume bottle into the refrigerator

yet not thrown

just then; he stepped outside to