Due to the water leak upstairs, Ye Xi had no choice but to leave Jian Nian's place.
To ensure Ye Xi could rest well, Jian Nian found a nearby hotel for her to stay in temporarily.
In the hotel, after Jian Nian had settled Ye Xi in, he hurried back home to deal with the neighborly issue.
The sudden silence plunged Ye Xi once again into an emotional abyss she couldn't extricate herself from.
She dialed the room phone and ordered herself another bottle of red wine.
The night was too long.
Perhaps only by drinking herself into oblivion could she temporarily forget everything before her.
...
As the bottle of red wine reached its end, Ye Xi indeed forgot what was making her so distressed.
Staggering up from the hotel's large bed, she headed towards the bathroom, the potent wine making her body feel feverishly hot; she desperately needed a shower.
Once she had stripped off her clothes, warm water raining down from above, she realized there was no shower gel in the bathroom.
Without considering her partially wet hair, she turned off the shower, wrapped herself haphazardly in a bathrobe from a nearby rack, and walked out.
Her surroundings were a blur; she picked up her phone, pressed the screen a couple of times, but it had already shut down automatically.
"Forget it, I'll go get some from the front desk," she muttered.
After saying that, she tossed aside her phone and staggered toward the door.
Standing in front of the elevator, she spaced out for quite a while.
Even as the elevator doors opened before her, she didn't notice that it was going up instead of down and stepped inside.
Leaning against the elevator wall, Ye Xi watched as it ascended.
It wasn't until the elevator reached the top floor that Ye Xi, still in a fog, stepped out.
The top floor of the hotel featured luxurious presidential suites; their extravagant decor was completely different from the lower floors.
With her drunken, hazy eyes, Ye Xi couldn't help wondering, Isn't this 'lobby' a bit unusual?
But since she was already there, she decided to find the front desk and get the shower gel first.
She followed the hallway, treading on the soft carpet, searching, and didn't see the front desk she was looking for.
Instead, there were doors identical to each other, one after another.
Unable to locate the front desk, she decided to get shower gel from another room; that was her only thought at the moment.
She twisted the doorknobs of four or five rooms in succession, but unfortunately, they were all locked, until the sixth...
Luckily, this room wasn't locked, and she opened it with one twist.
When she pushed the door open, the light inside was dim.
The presidential suite was expansive, with a 240-degree scenic floor-to-ceiling window that almost overlooked half of Lincheng—the view was majestic.
But Ye Xi just wanted to find the shower gel to take a bath.
Not far away, the bathroom was lit with a warm orange light.
Through the frosted glass door, a tall figure was moving inside.
The sound of gushing water echoed from within.
Intoxicated, Ye Xi's mind couldn't focus on much, her sole obsession was the shower gel.
She walked barefoot toward the bathroom door and, without a second thought, pushed it open from the outside.
The sound of water suddenly surged, and the person inside was caught off guard.
Ye Xi was greeted by a faceful of warm mist; she opened her eyes and found herself looking directly into a pair of dark, familiar eyes.
Lu Lingxiao, completely nude, stood under the shower and stared at the woman who had just broken in.
The scene before her was overwhelmingly intense.
Reason told Ye Xi that she should turn around to avoid the awkwardness.
But it seemed her eyes were not obeying her brain's commands, and continued to brazenly observe.
Lu Lingxiao's long legs were eye-catching to say the least.