Drugging

“Beg me? Why aren’t you begging me? If you beg me, I’ll tell you.” Ruan Yuexi, with flushed cheeks and misty eyes, leaned closer to him. Completely intoxicated, she had no idea she was pressing against Shang Yao.

Her small face, about the size of a palm, was now rosy, her eyes misty with spring-like charm. Her delicate lips were slightly parted, and she tilted her head up, revealing her flawless neck.

Shang Yao’s cold eyes darkened as he silently stared at Ruan Yuexi. Confused, she shook her head. “Why aren’t you begging me? Aren’t you curious?”

“Not curious,” Shang Yao replied, his gaze fixed on Ruan Yuexi’s small face.

“Not curious? Why aren’t you curious? I’m especially curious on why you’re not curious. This is Shang Yao’s secret! How could you not be curious?” Ruan Yuexi raised her head and kept getting closer to Shang Yao, challenging him with her words.

Shang Yao remained silent, but Ruan Yuexi, impatient as a drunk person would be, continued, “Fine, I’ll tell you then, Shang Yao’s earth-shattering secret!”

Shang Yao remained silent. but Ruan Yuexi suddenly wrapped her arms around his neck and leaned into his ear. “Shang Yao is actually… a pervert!”

Her voice was so loud that it shook Shang Yao’s eardrums.

Shang Yao: … 

He was probably thinking of how to “punish” her.

Uncle Chen almost hit the brakes. Oh no, Madam was sure to anger Master again.

“Shocked, right? This is a big secret. Who would’ve known he’s a pervert? Only me! Hehe, I’m so smart.” Ruan Yuexi leaned against Shang Yao’s chest, squinting as she spoke.

Shang Yao exuded a cold aura, but Ruan Yuexi, drunk as she was, had no idea she was leaning against Shang Yao.

Raising her head again, she glanced left and right at Shang Yao. She couldn’t see clearly, but he looked quite handsome to her. “You’re quite good-looking. Much better than that pervert.”

“That pervert?” Shang Yao’s tone was icy.

Ruan Yuexi nodded, “Forget about that pervert. Just mentioning him brings bad luck. You’re very handsome… hehehe…” She giggled foolishly at his face again.

Uncle Chen: … 

He couldn’t hear, see, or know anything.

Shang Yao chuckled suddenly, “I’m handsome?”

Ruan Yuexi nodded sincerely, “Handsome. It’s a pity you only appear in my dreams. Even in my dreams, I can’t treat myself unfairly.”

Leaning forward, she kissed the “handsome guy” on his cheek. “Hehe, this is my first time kissing someone of the opposite sex, even if it’s in a dream…”

As she spoke, Ruan Yuexi arched her back against Shang Yao’s chest, smacked her lips a few times, and fell asleep.

Unable to get angry at her, Shang Yao covered her with his warm jacket since Ruan Yuexi had fallen asleep on him. 

Uncle Chen was dumbfounded. Is this still the Master he knows?

Under the shocked gazes of Uncle Chen and Xiao Fang, Ruan Yuexi was carried into the room by Shang Yao.

Ruan Yuexi was gently placed on the bed. She tossed and turned uncomfortably, probably because she was a little hot, and pulled open her collar.

Shang Yao’s eyes were burning with heat, and he tried his best to suppress certain emotions, then turned and left the room.

When he returned to the room and sat on the edge of the bed, Ruan Yuexi suddenly sat up and grabbed his hand. “Are you sick?”

Before Shang Yao could react, her forehead bumped into his thin lips.

The taste of blood filled Shang Yao’s mouth. “Ruan Yuexi!” he gritted his teeth in anger.

Ruan Yuexi didn’t feel any pain, and she fell asleep again. The next morning, she woke up with a headache.

Rubbing her head incessantly, she remembered drinking two glasses of fruit wine at Ning Chen’s villa and then passing out. She couldn’t remember anything that happened afterward.

“Ouch…” Her head hurt. Ruan Yuexi gently shook her head, lying in bed trying hard to recall what happened last night, but she couldn’t remember anything.

Confused, Ruan Yuexi quickly pulled back the covers to check her clothes. Fortunately, the clothes were a little wrinkled, but they were still the same clothes she wore last night.

At least she was physically safe, and the room was empty except for her. How did she get back here last night?

Ruan Yuexi went to the bathroom to freshen up, and when she came downstairs, Xiao Fang had prepared sobering soup for her. She drank it in one gulp.

“Where’s Brother Yao?” Ruan Yuexi didn’t see Shang Yao’s figure. It wasn’t unusual for him not to be here early in the morning.

“Madam, Master has gone out,” Xiao Fang smiled and said to Ruan Yuexi.

Ruan Yuexi was puzzled by her smile. “Is there something good happening early in the morning?” She couldn’t see her smile.

“Just happy for Madam,” Shang Yao finally saw Madam.

Ruan Yuexi: “?” Why is she happy for me?

“Why didn’t I know I had good news?” Ruan Yuexi looked at Xiao Fang in confusion.

“Last night, Madam got drunk, and Master brought you back. He instructed me to prepare this sobering soup for you,” Xiao Fang explained.

Ruan Yuexi was stunned. Could this pervert be so kind? Was there some kind of scheme? Did she say anything inappropriate to Shang Yao last night?

She panicked. What should she do? Ruan Yuexi rubbed her head. She couldn’t be sure if she blabbered nonsense while drunk. She had no memory of it.

“He asked you to prepare this sobering soup for me?” Ruan Yuexi was genuinely surprised.

She wasn’t feeling joy but rather shock. Something wasn’t right. She didn’t believe Shang Yao could be so kind, especially after he tried to drown her not long ago.

The point of the abuse value has not increased for too long. Ruan Yuexi felt she couldn’t continue like this. “Maybe Brother Yao wants to compensate me.”

She pretended to wipe tears from her face, looking pitiful. Xiao Fang’s smile froze. “Compensate Madam?”

“Maybe. Yesterday, Brother Yao ‘accidentally’ pushed me down and helped another woman up. Maybe he feels guilty.” Ruan Yuexi sighed with despair.

Xiao Fang listened with a heavy heart. “Madam…” No wonder Master was acting strangely. They all thought he was turning over a new leaf.

Ruan Yuexi sighed heavily. “I don’t blame him. It shows he still cares about me.”

Xiao Fang thought Lady Ruan was being too foolish, “What the master did was wrong, you…” Stop being so stupid.

Ruan Yuexi smiled bitterly and shook her head, “What can I do? As long as he looks at me more, I will spare no effort to love him with all my heart in this lifetime.”

Xiao Fang was almost moved to tears by her “earth-shattering” love…

Ruan Yuexi said this with a bitter heart. Everything was for the sake of increasing her abuse value. This time, she had to raise it by a few points.

After she finished selling her sorrow and received countless consolations from Xiao Fang, Ruan Yuexi silently declared victory.

Entering the room, she opened the abuse value system—79 points! Ruan Yuexi was on the verge of screaming in excitement.

Xiao Fang was so helpful. It was really thanks to Uncle Li and Xiao Fang that the abuse value had reached 79 points. Otherwise, she didn’t know when it would have reached that point.

Just then, there was a knock on the door. Ruan Yuexi casually asked, “Who is it?”

“It’s me, Madam.”

It was Xiao Fang. Ruan Yuexi opened the door and asked, “What’s the matter?”

“The master just called. Tomorrow is Mr. Lu’s birthday. He asked if you wanted to buy anything.”

Ruan Yuexi was speechless. Seriously? Their birthdays were so close to each other? She really didn’t want to go anymore.

“Tell Brother Yao that I don’t want to go. He can pick the gift himself and take it over,” Ruan Yuexi didn’t want to bother with these things anymore.

If it couldn’t increase the abuse value and would put herself in danger, it wasn’t worth the risk.

Xiao Fang could only agree and hurried downstairs to answer Shang Yao’s call.

Ruan Yuexi closed the door and lay on the bed, lost in thought. What was it that she had forgotten? What was it?

Suddenly, she jumped up from the bed, “Drugging!” 

Right, she remembered vaguely that Liu Yaran drugged someone at a birthday banquet.

Since Liu Yaran didn’t do it at the Ning Chen birthday banquet, would she do it at Lu Yiliang’s birthday banquet?

Ruan Yuexi was relieved that she had refused. As long as she didn’t attend, Liu Yaran wouldn’t have a chance to pin the blame on her.

But she wasn’t sure whether it happened at Lu Yiliang’s birthday banquet. “What if it wasn’t Lu Yiliang’s birthday banquet?”

Ruan Yuexi climbed out of bed, picked up her cell phone and called Shang Yao.

“Hello, Secretary Fang, I want to ask if tomorrow is Lu Yiliang’s birthday?”

“Yes, Madam,” Secretary Fang’s voice came from the other end of the phone.

“Besides him, whose birthday is it around this time?” Ruan Yuexi wanted to rule it out. If only Lu Yiliang and Ning Chen had birthdays recently, then it must be Lu Yiliang.

“Madam, I checked. Apart from Lu Yiliang, there will be Feng Yi and Ye Yishen’s birthdays in a week, one day apart.”

Ruan Yuexi: “…” 

Why were their birthdays all so close together? So it might not be Lu Yiliang. If not Lu Yiliang, then who could it be?

Whether it was Feng Yi or the sickly Ye Yishen, because Lu Yiliang wasn’t very familiar with Liu Yaran, at least compared to the other two, Liu Yaran wouldn’t drug Shang Yao in an unfamiliar place and with unfamiliar people.

Ruan Yuexi held her head. Who could it be? Just as she was puzzled, her phone rang.

The display on her phone showed the three characters “Lu Yiliang.” She answered the phone, “Hello, Mr. Lu.”

“Yuexi, do you have time tomorrow?” Lu Yiliang’s gentle voice entered Ruan Yuexi’s mind.

Ruan Yuexi knew what she wanted to say, “I may not have time tomorrow.” Although there might not be an incident at his birthday banquet, she didn’t want to take any risks.

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a few seconds. “Is it something urgent?” His voice sounded noticeably disappointed.

Ruan Yuexi could tell. After all, the other party had a “life-saving grace” for her and had acted as a human shield for her. Her heart softened.

“It’s not something urgent. Is Liu Yaran coming to your birthday banquet?” Ruan Yuexi vaguely asked him while inquiring about Liu Yaran.

“Liu Yaran isn’t coming. I’m not very familiar with her,” Lu Yiliang replied calmly to Ruan Yuexi.

Ruan Yuexi breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing his response, “That’s good to hear.” She sounded cheerful, “I suddenly remembered that it can be postponed. I’ll come over on your birthday and wish you a happy birthday in advance.”

Lu Yiliang chuckled, “Thank you, I’ll wait for you.” His “I’ll wait for you” contained an unclear affection.

Ruan Yuexi didn’t notice his words and replied casually, “Okay, see you tomorrow.”

After hanging up the phone, Ruan Yuexi began to think about what would be a good gift for him. She looked at her wardrobe, ran to it, and rummaged through it until she found a gift box.

Ruan Yuexi opened the gift box, which was wrapped very delicately. Inside was something meant to be placed in the car, covered in scattered diamonds that looked real.

It was very pretty. Ruan Yuexi picked it up and examined it carefully. Not bad. She couldn’t give something too shabby to her lifesaver.

But how many gift boxes had the original owner placed in the wardrobe? Had she not sent them out, or had she not had the chance to send them out?

It didn’t matter. Saving herself some trouble, Ruan Yuexi put the gift box back.

As night fell, Shang Yao pestered her again. Although his face looked cold as always, Ruan Yuexi had no way to refuse and could only let him be as long as he didn’t touch her.

As a result, she heard a noise in the middle of the night. She got up in a daze and found that there was no one beside her on the bed.

Strange. Where’s Shang Yao? The bathroom light was also off, and Ruan Yuexi was too tired to care about where he had gone.

Just as she lay down, the wardrobe door made a soft sound, and Ruan Yuexi was almost scared out of her wits. She sat up suddenly, her eyes wide open, and she was wide awake.

Ruan Yuexi stared at the wardrobe. Could it be a thief or a bad guy? She forcibly calmed down and picked up the antique vase nearby.

Quietly approaching the wardrobe, she pressed her ear against it to listen, but there was no sound now.

With a “whoosh,” she opened the wardrobe. All the clothes in the wardrobe fell out, and the person inside was huddled in the corner of the wardrobe, holding his knees and not moving.