Chapter 572 - Stop Hitting Him (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Because of the way Su Qingsang was behaving, Liu Tongjia suspected that something unusual was happening.

“Su Qingsang, y—” Before she could finish the word “you”, she noticed a half-dressed Zhang Yichen open the door and put his arms around Su Qingsang.

Su Qingsang froze. She was being held in the arms of her husband’s uncle, right in front of her mother-in-law.

Nothing could be more embarrassing than that. She struggled in vain, trying to free herself from Zhang Yichen’s grip.

But Zhang Yichen was stronger than her, so she didn’t have a chance to get away.

Liu Tongjia was almost blue in the face as she watched this happening.

“Wha-what are you two doing? You—”

“Aunt, it’s not what you think it is!”

Su Qingsang felt so embarrassed that she even wanted to die. She had no idea why things became turned out like that.

Earlier, Huo Jinyao had said that he was tired and had fallen asleep holding on to Su Qingsang.

Weirdly, Su Qingsang hadn’t felt tired at all. On the contrary, she felt rather energetic. Therefore, after Huo Jinyao fell asleep, she picked up her medical books and continued reading. But a while later, her phone started ringing. It was a call from Shi Mengwan. She didn’t want to wake Huo Jinyao up, so without thinking too much, she left the room and walked to the end of the hallway to take the call.

There was a study room at the end of the hallway. No one was in there at that moment. It was the perfect place for her to talk to Shi Mengwan on the phone.

She had a feeling that Shi Mengwan hadn’t been in a good mood lately.

She was right. Shi Mengwan was really upset.

She was in France attending the design competition.

She had passed the preliminary round and entered the quarterfinals. She had a great chance of getting into the finals.

She might not win any prize in the end but being able to participate in the competition was already quite an encouragement to her.

As a young designer, she was thrilled to know that she could go so far.

However, not everything was as perfect. While her career was going well, her relationship with Zhan Haoze was turning out to be a failure.

She had known that Zhan Haoze had a fiancée—whose name was Chen Feifei—but somehow, she had accidentally ended up in bed with Zhan Haoze.

She had put up a fight to resist him. She did not want to be the other woman. But in the end, she lost to her longing and her desire to make Zhan Haoze remember her. By accident, she slept him.

She hadn’t decided what to do about her relationship with him yet. So, she took her trip to France as an opportunity to calm down and think it through. Unexpectedly, when she was in France, she read the local news from Lin City and learned that Zhan Haoze and Chen Feifei had gotten engaged.

At that very moment, she wanted to give up on the design competition and fly back home immediately.

She wanted to question Zhan Haoze in person and ask him why he did that to her.

She wanted to ask him who she was to him if Chen Feifei was always the one that he thought of marrying in the end.

If he was only playing around with her, why did he refuse to let her go?

But she couldn’t ask him those questions because she had no way of contacting him.

He rejected her calls at first and eventually turned off his phone. At this point, Shi Mengwan was holding on to her phone with her head hanging low. She couldn’t describe her own emotions, but for sure, they were not good.

She struggled to understand the terrible feelings she had inside. She couldn’t possibly tell her family about what happened.

She tossed and turned the whole night and finally decided to talk to Su Qingsang.

Su Qingsang detected Shi Mengwan’s unusual tone as soon as she answered the call.

However, Shi Mengwan heard Su Qingsang’s voice, she found it hard to bring herself to tell her what happened.

She couldn’t bear to tell Su Qingsang that she had become the other woman in someone else’s relationship—and that she had done that willingly—even though Su Qingsang was her best friend.

‘Do I really have the right to demand answers from Zhan Haoze?’ she asked herself.

In the end, instead of talking to Su Qingsang about that problem, she told her some of the happy things that happened to her in France.

Su Qingsang had detected from her tone that something wasn’t right. She asked Shi Mengwan if there was anything wrong repeatedly. But her best friend simply told her that it was because of the exhausting competition and did not say a word about Zhan Haoze.

Su Qingsang couldn’t get anything out of her, so she gave up in the end.

After ending her call, she headed back to Huo Jinyao’s room. Then, on her way, she received a call from Su Yuxin.

She hadn’t made it back to Lin City to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival with her family. Su Yuxin called her and told her that both he and Li Qianxue missed her very much.

She was on the way back to her room when the call came in. She stopped walking to answer the call.

At that time, she had forgotten that Zhang Yichen, who was drugged, was lying in the room behind the door she stood in front of.

Earlier, Huo Jinyao had left the room hastily in anger and did not remember to lock the door.

Su Qingsang wasn’t talking that loudly on the phone. But Zhang Yichen was a serviceman who had a very sharp hearing. He heard her voice.

To be honest, anyone he heard would have sounded like Su Qingsang to him at that moment because he was drugged.

Huo Jinyao had struck him on the back of his neck and put him in an unconscious state earlier, but it didn’t take him a long time to wake up again.

The well-trained soldier woke up quickly from unconsciousness, but he was still not yet sober.

Under the effects of the drug and alcohol as well as the blow Huo Jinyao had given him, he was still submerged deeply in his delusion.

He woke up and heard Su Qingsang’s voice. He got out of bed and moved to the door to hear her more clearly.

He opened the door to find her talking on the phone.

He put his arms around her waist as soon as she ended the call.

Su Qingsang gave a start when the man suddenly held her from behind. She was standing right beside his door, so at first, she thought it was a prank by Huo Jinyao.

“Jinyao, what are you do—”

But before she could finish speaking, “Huo Jinyao” held her waist and dragged her back into his room from the hallway.

Once inside the adjacent room, Su Qingsang realized that the man behind her was not Huo Jinyao after all.

Who was he? She started struggling, but Zhang Yichen had pressed her heavily against the wall.

He was murmuring something that Su Qingsang couldn’t hear clearly.

Actually, he was calling her name. She didn’t hear that clearly, she only heard him uttering a guttural sound from his throat.

She didn’t need to identify the man by his voice, because she recognized the room they were in. It was Zhang Yichen’s room.

He was still drunk. That was the first thought that popped in Su Qingsang’s head. After realizing that, she forced herself to calm down.

“Uncle, you’re drunk. Let me go,” she said.

Zhang Yichen held her tight. His delusion was becoming more and more realistic.

As he released her to let her turn around, Su Qingsang saw his eyes and gasped. His eyes scared her because they were as red as blood.

“Uncle?”

She could smell the alcohol on his breath. That unpleasant scent made her turn her face away from him.

She didn’t think much about Zhang Yichen’s behavior. She just thought that he was acting just like a drunkard.

Zhang Yichen fixed his eyes on her face. His mind went blank. He felt a little confused.

His sanity fought with his desire. The aroma coming from the woman’s body in his arms was so real that he almost believed she was not a delusion.

He wouldn’t want to offend her even if she was only a delusion in his mind either.

He was fighting with himself. At last, all he could do was hold the woman he thought was a delusion tightly.

It didn’t help.

The scent of her continued to boost his desire, making it harder and harder for him to control himself.

‘Qingsang,’ he said her name in his head, not out loud. He was murmuring to himself.

Su Qingsang couldn’t hear him clearly, and she didn’t want to.

“Uncle, let me go.”

Zhang Yichen lowered his head to inhale her scent more deeply.

Su Qingsang gave a start. Without thinking, she raised a foot and kicked him on the shins.

Usually, she wouldn’t have made any impact.

But today, Zhang Yichen was drugged and half-conscious. He was not as alert as usual, so in the end, Su Qingsang managed to break free from his arms.

The tight hug that Zhang Yichen had given her had messed up her hair and made her clothes wrinkled.

She hadn’t been expecting to run into Liu Tongjia just as she was escaping from Zhang Yichen’s room.

Her current situation was so embarrassing that she wanted to kill herself right there and then.

Before she could explain herself clearly to Liu Tongjia, Zhang Yichen had come out of the room once again and hugged her from behind.

Watching this, Liu Tongjia’s face turned as black as thunder. She jabbed a finger at the two of them, glaring at Su Qingsang as if trying to burn her all the way through with her eyes.

“What are you doing?!”

Anger almost twisted Liu Tongjia’s face beyond recognition. If she could kill people with her eyes, Su Qingsang would have died already.

“Aunt, it’s not like what you think! Uncle is drunk.”

“Drunk?” Liu Tongjia laughed with anger, “Do you expect me to believe that? Do you think that we’re all stupid? You two are obviously up to something shameless and revolting behind our backs, and now you’re trying to cover up for yourself!”

Her words sounded awful, but Su Qingsang had no way of arguing with her at that moment.

She struggled as hard as she could, trying to break free from Zhang Yichen’s grip. But the man’s grip was stronger than before and so her struggle was entirely in vain.

An infuriated Liu Tongia continued pointing at Su Qingsang with a trembling finger.

“This is so ridiculous! I can’t believe this! Don’t you have any sense of shame at all? Su Qingsang, don’t you forget who you are!”

Su Qingsang, of course, remembered exactly who she was. She was feeling utterly embarrassed. What happened at that moment was definitely not what she wanted.

“Aunt, please help me! It’s really not what you think! Uncle is drunk…”

Once her voice faded, Huo Jinyao came out of the room.

He had been fast asleep. But the sudden noises from the outside woke him up. He had heard Liu Tongjia’s voice, which was raised and deliberately shrill, and so he came out of the room to see what was going on.