218 I Just Fancy You 2 (1/2)
An idea struck her mind as she counted the wad of cash he had given her, which amounted to a few thousand dollars.
What happened to me tonight though? she wondered. How did I get so drunk from just a can of beer?
Xu Jingwen could not seem to find an answer as she began to wonder if it was because her tolerance for alcohol had decreased drastically.
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Jin Qingyue woke up from her dreams at almost midnight. She placed a hand onto the spot beside her on the bed, only to find that Shi Shaochuan was still not home yet.
She switched on the lights and gave him a call, which he did not answer. Thus, she tried to call him again, but to no avail.
She then proceeded to call a classmate of his whom he was rather close to, only to hear that Shi Shaochuan had gotten drunk from chugging three large jugs of beer as a forfeit for the drinking game they were playing.
Jin Qingyue got out of bed to get dressed and decided to go pick him up.
She grabbed her car keys and headed out of the door with two bodyguards.
The streets were almost empty at that hour, and thus, she sped along the roads and arrived at the entrance of a karaoke centre in no time.
She proceeded to the entrance of a karaoke room, which was rather noisy and boisterous.
That explained why he could not hear the sound of his phone ringing and thus did not answer her calls.
Upon sight of her arrival, one of Shi Shaochuan's former classmates gave him a nudge and said, ”Shaochuan, your wife is here.”
At this point, Shi Shaochuan was already drunk beyond his senses as he laid sluggishly on the couch, murmuring incoherently, ”My wife is at home right now, why would she be here?”
”Have a look for yourself, it really is your wife,” said the classmate.
He squinted at Jin Qingyue, who was standing before him, and said, ”Oh? It is indeed my wife who's come to pick me up.”
”It's almost midnight, yet you're still not home. Of course I'd have to come and look for you.” Jin Qingyue then turned around and instructed the bodyguards behind her, ”Carry him to the car.”
”Yes, Young Madam.”
Shi Shaochuan was then carried away while Jin Qingyue said smilingly to Shi Shaochuan's classmates, ”Hey, everyone, hurry and drink to your hearts' content. Tonight's on me.”
”Ah, seems like you're the one holding the purse strings, Sis-in-law. Thank you so much,” said a classmate.
”Yeah, thank you,” another added.
”No problem, you guys go ahead, we'll be making a move first.”
”Alright.”
Jin Qingyue decided to get the tab so as to allow Shi Shaochuan's classmates to hold him in high esteem.
Besides, the bill was only peanuts to her.
On the journey home, the bodyguard took over the wheel while Shi Shaochuan continued to blabber continuously before throwing up his intestines as soon as he alighted from the car.
Jin Qingyue pinched her nose in disgust and instructed the bodyguards to bring him to the living room.
Drunk out of his senses, Shi Shaochuan fell asleep immediately after sprawling himself across the couch. Jin Qingyue covered him with a blanket.
”Young Madam, Young Sir left his phone in his car,” said the bodyguard, handing her Shi Shaochuan's mobile phone.
Jin Qingyue took the mobile phone from his hands. Just as she was about to place it on the table, an incoming text message popped up on the screen of his mobile phone.
Jin Qingyue opened the text message, which read: ”Thank you for sending me home.”
Jin Qingyue's womanly intuitions told her that it was a text message from another woman.
Staring intensely at the screen to decipher the message, she could not help but find it unusual as she began to wonder if she was reading too much into things.
Jin Qingyue recorded the unknown number in her phone before deleting the text message.