Chapter 27: Awakening

At home, Shen Mo carried Liu Yue to the bathroom, washed her body, changed her clothes, then supported her while she gagged for a while, trying to make her feel as comfortable as possible.

Once everything was taken care of, he carried Liu Yue back to the bedroom and covered her with a blanket.

After making sure Liu Yue was fine, Shen Mo went to the kitchen and started brewing a hangover soup.

While the soup was cooking, Shen Mo received several messages—the other people had all been sent home.

Especially the three little girls—Xiao Bai, Lan Lan, and Li Zi—the female escort had even taken a video and stayed behind to look after them.

After confirming everything was fine, Shen Mo transferred a thousand yuan to the girl looking after them as a辛苦 fee.

This trick was taught to him by Zhu Kailan.

During the crash-course in wealthy-family etiquette one month before the wedding, Zhu Kailan had taught Shen Mo quite a few little skills, one of which was throwing money around.

In Zhu Kailan's words, the things that slip through your fingers are enough to buy you a life-saving chance.

When he went out with the finished hangover soup, he happened to run into the elegant lady coming back.

Seeing the hangover soup in the kitchen, the elegant lady's lips curved into an ambiguous smile.

After feeding the soup to Liu Yue, Shen Mo finally started cleaning himself up.

That night, the videos once again shot to the top of the trending searches.

Tags like "the portion sizes of Northeastern cuisine," "drunk employees," "the female CEO's filter shattered," "good man Shen Mo," "generous boss," "a company held together with spit and glue," "what a bunch of heavy drinkers," "a young female streamer who recites classical poetry when drunk," and so on all became explosively popular searches.

The top one was "the female CEO's filter shattered."

Who would have thought that the ascetic-looking female CEO in a business suit and gold-rimmed glasses was privately a total lush who could put away forty-eight bottles of beer all by herself.

Shen Mo looked at the trending tags online, then looked at Liu Yue beside him, and posted another video from his phone's storage.

It was a video from a gathering before New Year's, of Liu Yue, Ms. Qin Hao, and the elegant lady shouting out hype tracks together.

Absolutely domineering.

Once this video came out, Liu Yue shot even higher up the trending searches.

Down-to-earth, way too down-to-earth.

Netizens never imagined that the gorgeous Liu Yue and the seemingly delicate elegant lady could actually shout hype tracks.

Of course, knowing how to shout hype tracks isn't the important part—what's important is that such badass people actually do shout hype tracks instead of playing Chopin, Nocturnes, and other high-class stuff, and that is what really surprises people.

This sudden trending search caused untold pain to a certain freshly divorced rock singer who thought he'd finally get a turn on the hot search.

Why won't they give him even one trending spot.

Life is too hard.

When the first ray of morning sunlight fell on the black earth.

When Liu Yue was groggily sipping porridge, the elegant lady sat smiling beside her.

"Oh my, isn't this our Northeastern girl hype-track female CEO?"

Still not fully awake, Liu Yue blinked her eyes cutely at the elegant lady.

What the heck?

Pinching Liu Yue's cheek, the elegant lady asked playfully, "Still drunk?"

Liu Yue remained bewildered.

The elegant lady pulled out her phone, opened Weibo, and handed the first item to Liu Yue.

First came the scene from the hotpot restaurant where Liu Yue got tipsy on a single iced beer, followed by the scene in the eatery where she stood on a crate to drink and threw back "five, six, six" toasts with Grandpa Zhao and Auntie Chen, then the scene of Liu Yue's domineering hype-track shouting, and finally the scene of Liu Yue clinging to Shen Mo and kissing him wildly, demanding he say "Hubby, love me."

The bullet comments were all wondering whether Bro Mo had been tricked into coming home by CEO Liu.

My wife was the same—one bottle before marriage, and after marriage she drank me to the point of heartbreak.

Dying laughing, the Chopin-listening female boss instantly turned into a street hype-track girl.

Does this count as a different kind of scandal collapse?

……. Liu Yue snapped awake instantly, sitting in the chair with a look that said life was no longer worth living.

Shen Mo, coming in with dishes, saw the whole scene and found it hilarious inside.

【Is my wife feeling shy now? So cute.】

Hearing his inner voice, Liu Yue jerked her head up, glared fiercely at Shen Mo, and shrieked, "Hubby, why didn't you stop me?!"

【Stop you? I'd be risking my life to stop you.】

【What if you got me drunk—how would I get you home?】

Shen Mo's gaze drifted as he recalled the first time he'd seen Liu Yue's true drinking ability.

It was three months after arriving in the Northeast—Liu Yue had mostly recovered her health, and to celebrate, Ms. Qin Hao took Liu Yue, the elegant lady, and Shen Mo out drinking together.

That drinking session made Shen Mo realize he should just sit at the kids' table.

That same session also let Shen Mo confirm two things: first, back at the hotpot restaurant, Liu Yue had been acting.

Second, you really can't judge a book by its cover.

When Liu Yue used to say she had social anxiety, that "social" must have meant Deyunshe social.

One drink in, she could grab a bottle and start shouting hype tracks.

And what's even more outrageous is that research scientist Ms. Qin Hao and the Jiangnan-water-town elegant lady could actually keep up.

Watching a girl from the water town and a research big shot shouting hype tracks into their bottles was no less shocking than seeing Du Fu riding a motorcycle at full throttle.

From then on, Shen Mo never again bragged about his drinking capacity.

Liu Yue slumped in the chair, wanting to die—socially destroyed, her carefully maintained cold-and-distant persona of over twenty years completely shattered.

When Liu Yue got her phone and saw the voice messages and videos her besties had sent, she felt terrible all over.

Opening them, sure enough they were all interrogations—stuff like "Liu Yue, you don't treat me as a sister, you knew this skill and never told me."

Shen Mo took it all in stride—his wife having another side was like marrying two wives at once.

How wonderful.

All the way to the company, Liu Yue still hadn't figured out why she had suddenly let loose and started drinking.

When she saw the spry and refreshed Grandma Liu, Chen Yi, and the two grandpas, Liu Yue understood — it was because the atmosphere those elders set was just too good.

When Xiao Bai, Lan Lan, and Li Zi arrived, their expressions were about the same as Liu Yue's — utterly drained of the will to live.

The three young women never imagined that one moment of being outgoing would cost them a lifetime of being introverted.

Who understands waking up early in the morning, getting a call from Mom, and hearing her say, "Daughter, I know you're no weakling, you didn't drink too much."

Tapping open the trending searches and watching the scene of themselves reciting classical poetry while drunk, the three young women immediately used their toes to dig out an entire villa out of sheer embarrassment.

When they saw themselves shouting at their phones, "Tell my mom I'm no weakling," they died of social shame on the spot.

In the end, it was the girl who had looked after them all night who woke them up and told them they had to go to work.

During the chat, the three young women learned that this girl was from Hao Ya Media's HR department, and her name was Zhao Yangyang.

Zhao Yangyang told the three young women that they'd get used to it, because Ms. Wen Ya and Ms. Qin Hao were both also fond of their drink, and every company team-building gathering ended with everyone getting drunk.

So much so that Ms. Wen Ya's company team-buildings were always split up by branch and department, so there'd be someone sober to take care of everyone.

Along the way, Zhao Yangyang gave the three young women a rundown of the company's benefits.

First, team-building — the company pays for everything, and it only happens during work hours on workdays. The sober person in charge of looking after everyone gets extra pay; as for how much extra, it depends on the boss's mood that day. For Zhao Yangyang this time, she got two thousand yuan, and after Liu Yue sobered up, she transferred another thousand.

Zhao Yangyang said the company was definitely a good one, told them not to give up, then drove the three young women to Yue Mo Media.

Mm, Hao Ya Media and Yue Mo Media are on the floors right above and below each other.

(End of this chapter)