Chapter 4: Why Are You in My Bed?

"I will pay you back for this money as soon as possible."

Carrying the clothes as he walked out of the shop, Shen Huai stopped in his tracks and said to Lu Sheng, "I don't like owing others favors, especially favors from an ex-girlfriend."

Lu Sheng's eyes flickered; she turned her head away in silence and did not respond.

According to their prior agreement.

Lu Sheng would help Shen Huai pick out clothes, and Shen Huai would treat Lu Sheng to a meal.

Shen Huai pointed at a Japanese restaurant, turned his head, and asked Lu Sheng, "Still having Japanese food?"

Lu Sheng was stunned for a moment, then nodded with a touch of shyness.

She hadn't expected that after so many years, Shen Huai would still remember her preferences and tastes.

Shen Huai bought a set meal for two online, then walked into the shop.

He was different from Lu Sheng.

Lu Sheng was someone easily swayed by her emotions.

Take, for example, her impulsive act of spending seventy-five thousand just now to buy that professional outfit for him; it was clearly a moment of being carried away after reuniting with Shen Huai.

As for what exactly she was carried away by, Shen Huai didn't want to delve into it.

But he was different; no matter what happened, he could always remain clear-headed.

He would absolutely not turn back to eat this "revisited grass" just because Lu Sheng was showing him favor.

That would be far too lacking in integrity.

The two of them ate their Japanese food face-to-face in silence.

It seemed she sensed Shen Huai's coldness and deliberate distancing toward her.

Lu Sheng's expression was deeply dejected, and she absentmindedly poured drink after drink into her mouth.

"Boss, another carafe of sake!" Lu Sheng raised her hand to call out.

The next moment.

Her raised hands were pressed down by Shen Huai.

"You can't drink any more."

Shen Huai looked at the empty sake bottles in front of her, his eyes darkening.

Although the sake at the Japanese restaurant was house-brewed plum wine and not very strong.

But if you drink too much, you will still get drunk.

Not to mention that Lu Sheng had barely eaten anything to line her stomach, and she was drinking quickly, which would only make her get drunk faster.

"Don't you worry about me! Who do you think you are to me?"

Lu Sheng's face was flushed with the tipsiness of alcohol, and her eyes seemed to be brimming with a layer of mist.

The emotions hidden within that mist made it impossible for Shen Huai to see her clearly.

"Let's go, I'm taking you back."

Shen Huai couldn't be bothered to say much more to Lu Sheng; he quickly paid the bill, hoisted Lu Sheng up, and left.

Shen Huai hailed a taxi, threw her into the car, and then sat in himself.

"Driver, Number One Heaven and Earth, please."

They sped along the way.

Lu Sheng was tossed about inside the car.

As soon as she got out of the car, she vomited all over the ground.

Shen Huai frowned, hoisted her onto his back, and arrived at her door.

"Lu Sheng, wake up, we're home." Shen Huai looked back at the unconscious, drunken Lu Sheng on his back. "Do you remember what your door code is?"

"……Mm, 0212……28."

Shen Huai's expression froze.

Isn't this his own door code? His mother actually set the codes for both apartments to be exactly the same.

She really was lazy beyond compare.

Shen Huai quickly punched in the code, entered the room, and laid Lu Sheng flat on the sofa.

He immediately went to the kitchen, rummaged through the cabinets to find ginger, sliced a few pieces, boiled them in water, and then poured in vinegar and stirred.

A simple bowl of hangover soup was finished.

Shen Huai carried the hangover soup and came before Lu Sheng.

"Drink a little; don't ruin your health."

Shen Huai's voice was very gentle.

Lu Sheng's eyes were unfocused, her gaze wandering between Shen Huai and the bowl of soup in his hand for quite a while.

The next moment.

Lu Sheng suddenly sat up, snatched the hangover soup, and set it on the coffee table.

Her other hand wrapped around Shen Huai's neck and pulled him toward her! Their lips touched.

The faint fragrance of plum wine instantly entered Shen Huai's mouth.

Shen Huai widened his eyes; only then did he react, and he hurriedly pried Lu Sheng's hands away.

"Lu Sheng, do you know what you're doing?" Shen Huai said with suppressed anger.

"I know, I'm very clear-headed!" Lu Sheng's hands were forcibly pried away, her face full of frustration.

"Shen Huai, do you know? I really missed you."

"But when I returned to Jiangcheng, I discovered you already had a new girlfriend. I could only silently act like a thief, peeking at your life."

As Lu Sheng spoke, she sobbed softly in grievance.

"I thought there would be no intersection between us, but I didn't expect you to become my neighbor."

"And you've broken up, too. Tell me, doesn't this count as a second chance given to me by the heavens?"

Shen Huai sat to one side.

Silently listening to the truths Lu Sheng blurted out after drinking, his heart was also quite conflicted.

"You're drunk and starting to talk nonsense." Shen Huai stood up straight away. "The hangover soup is on the table; drink it or don't. It's getting late, I'm leaving."

After saying this, Shen Huai did not give Lu Sheng any more chances and turned to leave.

Escaping the tiger's den.

Shen Huai quickly returned to his own home across the hall.

Hearing the sound of the door locking, Shen Huai finally let out a long sigh of relief.

That look in Lu Sheng's eyes just now, she practically wanted to eat him alive.

Terrifying, simply terrifying.

As expected.

One must have less contact with creatures like ex-girlfriends.

Especially those like Lu Sheng, a career-oriented woman with an ultra-strong desire for control who gets worked up on a whim and loses interest just as quickly.

It's completely unpredictable; better to avoid her whenever possible.

The night was deep.

Shen Huai had carried Lu Sheng back the whole way and was exhausted from the ordeal.

After a simple wash, he entered the bedroom, collapsed onto the soft, large bed, and quickly fell into a dream.

The next day.

Shen Huai was woken up by an inexplicable feeling of suffocation.

He opened his bleary eyes—

The next moment.

Shen Huai was so scared he nearly rolled off the bed, bedding and all! "Lu Sheng???!!!!!"

"Why are you sleeping in my bed???"

Shen Huai's brain buzzed, and he immediately lifted the quilt to check his pajamas.

Thankfully, he was still wearing them.

But... that wasn't the point!

The point was, he had clearly returned home alone and gone to sleep alone.

How could this Lu Sheng be sleeping in his bed?!

Shen Huai's exclamation finally woke Lu Sheng up.

Lu Sheng rolled her eyes and opened them sleepily.

Her eyes met Shen Huai's, and her expression instantly froze on her face!

"Why are you here?!"

Lu Sheng looked around in horror and discovered this wasn't her home, but Shen Huai's home across the hall.

"That's a question I should be asking you, right?"

Shen Huai looked depressed. "How did you get into my house?"

"I..."

Asked like that.

Lu Sheng clutched her heavy, throbbing head, and those fragmented memories from last night surged up on their own.

Vaguely, she remembered.

After Shen Huai left, she had rummaged through her home but couldn't find a trace of him.

Dizzily, she opened the front door.

Like a ghost, she drifted to the entrance of Shen Huai's home.

Skillfully pressed the unlock code, and walked into Shen Huai's home as if it were her own...

Lu Sheng, having recalled what happened.

Was completely speechless, sitting on the bed unable to laugh or cry.

Shen Huai wasn't stupid either.

Seeing Lu Sheng's depressed expression, as if she wanted to slap herself, he guessed most of it.

Shen Huai's Adam's apple bobbed as he thought about how to start wrapping this up.

Unexpectedly, Lu Sheng spoke first: "Who told you to make your password the same as mine? Change the password immediately, did you hear me?"

?

Shen Huai was completely dumbfounded.

This could be blamed on him?

"Anyway... I'm leaving. From now on, if there's nothing going on, let's see less of each other."

Lu Sheng's eyes were so guilty she didn't dare meet Shen Huai's gaze.

She feigned composure and slipped away.

Hearing the sound of the door opening and closing.

Shen Huai remained frozen in place, still unable to recover from the shock.

Last night, he had almost lost his chastity.

This Lu Sheng never plays by the rules.

Still rarely meeting?

He simply didn't want to meet at all, okay?

Just last night alone, he was exhausted enough by her.

Especially the things Lu Sheng said last night, and that surprise forced kiss.

Recalling it now, Shen Huai still feels like he has a bone stuck in his throat.

Lu Sheng's affection is like the tide; there is no telling when it might run aground.

(End of chapter)