“Hahh… Mmm…”
This sleep was a very heavy one for Bai Jinghong.
It wasn’t until the next day that a sharp cry pierced through the room.
The shriek was filled with shock and horror.
Bai Jinghong jolted awake to find the daylit sky already bright. Sunlight traced faint, soft shadows across the bedroom floor.
A gentle breeze lightly stirred the curtains.
Yun Mengxi, however, was clutching the blanket tightly around herself, staring at him in alarm.
“Mengxi, you… what’s wrong with you…”
Bai Jinghong knew exactly what was wrong. She probably hadn’t recovered yet, had a memory blackout.
He also wondered if the gas’s effect would make her forget the events of last night. He figured she probably remembered but was still in shock and hadn’t processed it fully yet.
Bai Jinghong rubbed his eyes, looked left and right, and deliberately said with confusion, “We… how did we end up in the same bed?”
His voice was also full of surprise.
Yun Mengxi gritted her teeth and started hitting Bai Jinghong’s shoulder repeatedly.
It was unclear if it was from anger or shyness.
After hitting him for a long time, she finally stopped, her teeth clenched as she said, “You… how could you do this to me? You… you’ve gone too far…”
“What did I do?” Bai Jinghong rubbed his shoulder where he’d been hit, still playing dumb.
“You… you tell me what you did! Can’t you… can’t you see for yourself? Don’t you know already?”
Bai Jinghong turned his head and looked at the clothes strewn all over the floor by the bedside.
He lifted the covers and saw he was stripped completely bare.
He feigned great shock, exclaiming, “Mengxi, so we… we…”
“Isn’t it… utterly obvious?”
In her shame and anger, Yun Mengxi hit Bai Jinghong again and then turned her head away.
She clearly hadn’t wanted this to happen. She appeared angry, embarrassed, and somewhat mortified.
Bai Jinghong quickly said, “Mengxi, I’m sorry. I… I really had no idea…”
“You… you had no idea? How could you have no idea?”
Yun Mengxi hung her head, her psychological defenses crumbling.
Her body had been taken by Bai Jinghong, and she felt as if the fortress of her heart had been breached by this man as well.
Bai Jinghong continued his act, widening his eyes.
“I really didn’t know! I don’t even know how I got into this room, or onto this bed. I think I got drunk last night!”
“Where is this?”
Yun Mengxi listened and was stunned for a moment. She suddenly said, “Right… right! You were drunk. It was me… it was me who helped you onto this bed!”
At that moment, memories of the previous night flooded Yun Mengxi’s mind.
She herself was dumbfounded.
In her earlier anger, she hadn’t had the time to think much. But with Bai Jinghong’s prompt, she remembered everything.
It wasn’t that Bai Jinghong had done something to her; she was the one who had done such things to Bai Jinghong.
And she had been the one to initiate it.
At this moment, Yun Mengxi felt her world collapse.
Bai Jinghong looked very shocked, staring at Yun Mengxi. “Mengxi, could it be that you… you forced yourself on me?”
“I… I…”
Yun Mengxi truly didn’t know what to say. It certainly seemed that way.
Overcome with shame, she hit Bai Jinghong again, trying to mask her embarrassment.
Yun Mengxi really wanted to cry.
How could it be so absurd?
“Mengxi, I treated you as a friend, but you actually… actually…”
Bai Jinghong put on an expression of utter disbelief.
Yun Mengxi felt wronged and utterly lost.
This was her first time, lost in such a confused and muddled way.
And it was her, really her, who had done those things to Bai Jinghong.
She had only intended to help Bai Jinghong to the room and then leave, but unexpectedly…
Thinking about last night, she felt very dazed. Her consciousness was awake, but perhaps due to too much drinking, she kept wanting to be close to Bai Jinghong.
It was mostly intimate contact with Bai Jinghong, and in the end, it had gotten real.
“I’m… I’m sorry…” Yun Mengxi lowered her head and offered an apology.
Bai Jinghong was also shocked. Yun Mengxi actually apologized.
Damn, he had gotten everything handed to him, and even received an apology on top of it.
Tears welled up in Yun Mengxi’s eyes, threatening to fall.
She felt intense regret and anger—but mostly anger at herself.
Seeing this, Bai Jinghong immediately pulled her into his arms. “I didn’t mean to blame you!”
Bai Jinghong was used to being shameless and reversed the roles, becoming the one offering comfort.
“Last night… can you keep what happened last night a secret?”
Yun Mengxi spoke softly, her eyes red-rimmed. She truly looked pitifully endearing.
Bai Jinghong glanced at her and smiled. “Mengxi, do you think I’d be so bored as to go around telling people about our business?”
“Heaven knows, earth knows, you know, I know. No one else will ever know!”
Yun Mengxi nodded, feeling in her heart a growing closeness to Bai Jinghong.
“Ah… it’s truly unbelievable. To think that I was actually taken to bed by you, and I can’t remember such a wonderful experience at all!”
“Jinghong, you…” Yun Mengxi was somewhat indignant and ashamed.
But given the situation, she didn’t have the courage to say much more.
So she gently extricated herself from Bai Jinghong’s embrace, wrapped the blanket more tightly around herself, and, still tangled in it, got off the bed to pick up her clothes.
But as she pulled the blanket away, Bai Jinghong was completely exposed.
Yun Mengxi just happened to catch sight of Bai Jinghong full of vigor, looking so large, as if strutting victoriously.
Enduring some soreness, she fled in a panic.
Watching her escaping figure, Bai Jinghong secretly laughed.
After today, it would likely be impossible for Yun Mengxi to ever treat him as just a normal friend again.
To her, in every sense, he was now the most special man!
Bai Jinghong didn’t rush to get up either but lay back down, pondering how to arrange things for Ye Chen that afternoon.
