Chapter 59: The Price of Being Drunk (Part II)

Sending away the dark night, people have welcomed a brand new day.

Today's weather is even better than yesterday's; one could even say it's summer in a second!

On the streets, not only are there more and more beauties wearing skirts, but men have also started wearing short sleeves.

Today is the first workday of the week; for ordinary people, this is just a normal workday.

But for some people, today is destined to be extraordinary, and it will become a day of historical significance!

The time is now past nine in the morning; at this point, the breakfast carts on the roadside are already packing up, preparing to finish work and go home.

And in a hotel on the commercial street in the city center...

In two rooms next to each other, Zhou Xiaoru, in one of the rooms, has woken up ten minutes earlier than Jiang Bufan in the room next door.

At this moment, she is the only one in the room, and she is staring intently at something left on the nightstand!

It is an employment contract!

At the beginning and the end of the contract pages, the name Zhou Xiaoru is written prominently.

And in the Party A signature column, not only is there her own signature, but also her own red thumbprint.

However, in the Party B column, there is even the bold, sweeping autograph of the Big Boss of Tengyuan Company!

She finds it hard to believe, looking at the red ink pad stain on her right thumb that has not yet faded.

In the clouds, in the mist, amidst the chaos, memories are piecing together.

Last night, later on, what exactly happened!

It turns out that not long after she was brought here, she also started vomiting due to dizziness and nausea.

Afterwards, it seems that Gu Liyan was the one taking care of her the whole time, and then later...

Gu Liyan called his Executive Secretary Zhang Haiyan, telling her to get Zhou Xiaoru's personnel contract ready overnight.

He even had her fax it directly to the fax machine in this hotel office.

After printing it out, Gu Liyan asked Zhou Xiaoru, who was as muddled as one could possibly be.

And with her "consent" obtained, he helped Zhou Xiaoru sign it, hand over hand!

Zhou Xiaoru looks at the attached page of the contract, which already has the company seal, and there is also a breach of contract statement!

Below the statement, Zhou Xiaoru's name is also prominently signed! Along with her red thumbprint!

And the content of the statement leaves Zhou Xiaoru speechless with shock!

This statement stipulates that if she resigns within two years for reasons that are invalid, or reasons that Party B deems inconsistent with reality, it will be considered a breach of contract.

The price of the breach is the need to pay a huge penalty!

Seeing this, Zhou Xiaoru is completely stunned.

Is this a case of trying to steal a chicken only to lose the rice?

This Gu Liyan is too cunning and sinister! She must hurry and find Jiang Bufan to discuss this!

But in the room next door, it is a different scene...

Jiang Bufan, who has just leisurely woken up, is rubbing her somewhat aching forehead; she has not yet opened her eyes.

Just keeping her eyes closed, her hand is fumbling around beside her, constantly searching for her phone.

The blackout curtains in the room are drawn completely, making it especially dark inside; Jiang Bufan squinted and looked, thinking it was not yet dawn.

After fumbling for a while, she found that she didn't touch her phone as expected, so she thought since it was still dark, she would sleep a little longer.

Then, Jiang Bufan turned over, preparing to hug the quilt and continue sleeping soundly!

But with this turn, a muffled groan came from beside her.

Jiang Bufan couldn't help but frown; in her daze, she moved her leg, which was about to clamp onto the quilt, a little further away, and then put it down again with force!

A man's muffled groan sounded once more!

This time, it drove away all the sleepiness of the person who was originally planning to continue her nap!

Jiang Bufan opened her eyes abruptly; her body, limbs, and senses were all hit by various intuitive feelings.

The bed she is sleeping on now is too soft, completely unlike the hard, bone-grinding bed boards at school!

The pillow under her head is also too soft, and furthermore, there is a strong smell of disinfectant on it!

And then, she feels that she seems to be a bit insecure right now!

Because at this moment, she is completely naked, with nothing on her body.

And then... her waist is a bit sore, and her thighs are also a bit sore...

This is...

Just as all of Jiang Bufan's consciousness and senses are like an airplane about to start, slowly taxiing, speeding up, and about to take off...

At this moment, the man beside her who just made the muffled groan also turned over, directly extending a similarly bare arm, and pulled Jiang Bufan, who was about to take off, straight back to the ground!

To forcibly drag an airplane that is about to take off back to the ground, that is bound to cause a serious accident!

At best, it continues to taxi on the runway; at worst... an explosion!

Clearly, Jiang Bufan belongs to the former!

At this moment, the scattered memories of last night have slowly pieced together into half an episode of a drama!

She only remembers the first half: the few of them went to eat skewers and drank alcohol; she seems to have gotten drunk, and afterwards was brought to the hotel they went to during the day.

Then she seems to have vomited several times, but what happened after that...

She actually has no impression at all!

She only vaguely feels that she seems to have had a wet dream; in the dream, her body was very hot, and likewise, there was another hot body entangled with her!

So that means, that wasn't a dream!

At this point, a term flashed into her brain...

A one-night stand!

Her first time, to think it was actually given away like this to a one-night stand!

For Jiang Bufan, who is open-minded and has dirty jokes at the tip of her tongue, but is exceptionally conservative in actual practice.

This was no small blow!

She felt somewhat desperate, sorrowful, and unable to cry! She didn't even want to look at what the person she had spent the night with looked like.

She lay on the bed for a while longer, letting herself slowly accept the current reality!

The grave mistake had already been made; what remedy could there be for such a thing? Besides, in that erotic dream, she seemed to have been the more proactive one.

Thinking of this, she had the urge to bury her head in a toilet bowl.

It can only be said that to remain so calm and rational at a time like this, Jiang Bufan is truly no ordinary person!

She was seen brushing away the arm draped over her body, then slowly getting out of bed.

But the moment her legs touched the floor, they went soft, and she knelt directly on the ground.

One can imagine just how intense the battle was last night.

Jiang Bufan slapped her own thigh in frustration, feeling that social morals were truly declining, and even she had started to degenerate along with them.

She hurriedly looked for her phone and finally discovered her bag on the sofa not far from the bed.

She took out her phone and glanced at the time; it was already nearly ten o'clock!

She slapped her forehead in annoyance again, cursing herself for showing off and drinking when she didn't need to. Now it was done; she had enjoyed the pleasure, but it was only in her own dream.

It was truly not worth it!

She turned on the phone's light to find her clothes...

The room was filled with the smell of alcohol; if she hadn't been sleeping like a dead pig, how could she have been unconscious until now?

She hurriedly put her clothes, which were stained with the smell of barbecue and alcohol, back on.

Then she went to the washroom, splashed her face randomly, and prepared to leave.

But as she passed by that spacious bed, staring at the dark lump wrapped in the quilt on the bed, and listening to the sound of that person's light snoring...

She felt extremely unwilling to accept it!

To think she had just given a playboy a freebie for nothing! There is truly no justice!

Could it be that even the Heavens were drunk last night?! To arrange for her to be with such a pot!

She didn't need to look at who this man who slept with her for the night was at all!

Besides Su Poyang, who had been vomited on by her last night and had been looking after her ever since, who else could it be!

The more she thought about it, the more unwilling she felt!

But a one-night stand is, after all, a matter of mutual consent; she couldn't just brush off all responsibility because she considered it an erotic dream.

After thinking for a moment, she opened her bag and pulled out two red banknotes; this was the pay she and Zhou Xiaoru had earned yesterday for handing out flyers while dressed as big bears!

She placed the two hundred big ones on the nightstand, pressing them under Su Poyang's phone.

Last night, she would just treat it as if she had visited a brothel and slept with a male escort! Having slept with him, naturally, she had to pay!

Thinking this way, her depressed mood eased quite a bit.

Jiang Bufan had truly become the first female patron in history!

Just like in many novels and TV dramas, after the parties involved have finished their "firing of the gun," the male lead wakes up the next day and either writes a blank check or quietly walks away.

But when it came to our Miss Jiang, the roles were reversed.

She couldn't write a sky-high check, but she could afford the tip!

After doing all this, she left the room without a sound.

Only after getting outside did she dare to let out a long breath; she had been terrified of waking the person on the bed.

She really didn't know how to face the male lead of that one-night stand!

She had no choice but to slip away first...

She picked up her phone and hurriedly called Zhou Xiaoru; she was in such a state, and she didn't know if Zhou Xiaoru had also...

The call was answered quickly...

"Hey, you're finally awake. I was just wondering when I should wake you up."

Unaware that Jiang Bufan was already standing outside her door, Zhou Xiaoru answered the phone while her eyes remained fixed on the contract in black and white.

Jiang Bufan asked directly, "Where are you?"

"I'm in the room right next to you. I originally wanted to call you to go back earlier, but thinking you drank quite a bit last night and vomited several times, I didn't wake you."

Hearing this, Jiang Bufan glanced at the room next to her and said.

"Open the door! I'm outside your door!"

It was fortunate she hadn't gone looking for her, otherwise, how would she have faced such an awkward situation!

Hearing this, Zhou Xiaoru took her phone and went to open the door.

As soon as she pulled the door open, she saw the person standing outside, face pale, brows tightly locked, and lips pressed thin!

Thinking she was hungover and uncomfortable, she asked.

"What's wrong? Is your head hurting?"

Jiang Bufan kept a completely dark face and only said one sentence.

"I just want to leave this place immediately, right now!"

She had clearly come to help punish a playboy, so how did she end up getting herself involved after one night!

Jiang Bufan felt she was a bit wronged!

Not until they left the hotel and returned to school...

The face of a certain Bufan remained gloomy the whole time.

Once they entered the school gate, Zhou Xiaoru finally couldn't help but ask again.

"Fanfan, what on earth is wrong with you?"

She had been observing her the entire way, and for her to not say a single word was truly not like Jiang Bufan's personality.

Unless, something happened last night that she did not know about!

Jiang Bufan did not answer her persistent questioning, but instead headed in the other direction from the dormitory, walking straight toward the school playground!

At this moment, there were many people playing on the playground.

Jiang Bufan walked to a place where no one would disturb her and plopped down onto a patch of lawn.

Zhou Xiaoru, feeling very uneasy, followed her the whole time and also came to sit down beside her.

Refusing to give up, she asked one more time...

"What on earth is wrong? If there is something going on, tell me!"

In the dormitory, the two of them had the closest relationship; they would confide everything to each other and keep no secrets from one another.

How could today...

Just as she was in the middle of her persistent questioning, Jiang Bufan let out a sigh, lowered her head in dejection, and said something that left a certain Xiaoru extremely shocked!

"Last night, I... slept with Su Poyang..."