But I couldn't take advantage of her!
Conscience? Integrity?
No, mainly because there was a glaring camera on the ceiling of the private room, and it was flashing!
After calling Shen Xingyue's name a few more times and confirming she was truly drunk, I took off my outer jacket and draped it over her fair thighs to prevent any accidental exposure that might be seen by the surveillance room.
Her phone had a lock screen password, so I couldn't contact her relatives or friends. I should have gotten the phone number of Xingyao the monk earlier, then he could have come with his pickup truck and taken his "senior sister" away.
Both of us had been drinking, so neither of us could drive. There was no choice but to call a female designated driver through DiDi.
While waiting, I asked the waiter to pack up the food, planning to eat it back at the hotel.
Fifteen minutes later, the female designated driver called to say she had arrived and asked her to come upstairs to help carry her.
Actually, I could have gotten Shen Xingyue into the car myself, but it would have been too undignified and might have led to misunderstandings from other diners.
The female designated driver came up. She was a typical strong woman from Northeast China, over 1.7 meters tall, and clearly strong. She carried Shen Xingyue downstairs, drove her Beetle, and took us both back to the hotel. I then asked the "tiger girl" to help me carry Shen Xingyue into the room.
I gave the designated driver an extra two hundred yuan as a tip for the effort of carrying her up and down – roughly the price for a worker handling pork.
I placed Shen Xingyue on the bed, covered her with the quilt, and went to the bathroom to wash my face. I intended to sober myself up, but when I came out after washing, I saw Shen Xingyue had kicked off the quilt. Her bare feet were exposed, her elegant legs on display, and her body was positioned on the bed in a way that was both undulating and curvaceous, sparking all sorts of impure thoughts.
To be precise, the "impure" part should be omitted.
There were no cameras in the hotel room.
I gulped down saliva repeatedly, mentally rehearsing several scenarios. Several times, I almost couldn't resist lunging at her and "making her my own" right then and there.
But in the end, I restrained myself. Even if I could succeed, I wouldn't do it. Angering her would be of no benefit to me whatsoever. I still wanted to find more clues about Jiuxian Cave and Yaoyao through Shen Xingyue. Patience is a virtue that prevents major plans from going awry!
However, with her lying there like that, I was genuinely worried about losing control. I needed to get her to wake up quickly.
I covered her with the quilt again and turned the air conditioning to the lowest setting to prevent her from kicking it off. Then, I sat at the table with my back to her and searched Baidu for "hangover soup." I found several recipes, but unfortunately, I had no ingredients or cooking utensils. I decided to try my luck with Meituan Waimai. There was no hangover soup, but strangely, Meituan Pharmacy next door had hangover medicine – an oral liquid called Oyster Soy Peptide Carnitine. It was from Haiwang Jinzun, a well-known brand, so it shouldn't be a scam.
One bottle wasn't enough to meet the minimum for delivery, so I clicked "add items." The first thing that caught my eye was a "sixth sense" product. However, I wasn't tempted by the numerous small bumps on the condom wrapper. I added two bottles of Red Bull and placed the order.
The delivery guy arrived quickly. I opened the oral liquid and caught a whiff of its oyster-like fishy smell, which almost made me vomit. Did its hangover mechanism involve inducing vomiting?
No matter, it wasn't me who had to drink it.
I turned Shen Xingyue over, propped up her upper body, pinched her mouth open, and poured half a bottle of the oral liquid down her throat. She still had the ability to swallow. After drinking half a bottle, perhaps she found it tasty? She actually leaned her lips forward and drank the remaining half bottle. She even let out a hiccup, releasing a gust of alcohol mixed with the oral liquid's fishy scent that sprayed all over my face!
Disgusted, I put Shen Xingyue back on the bed and hurried to wash my face. When I came out, she had actually woken up. She was licking her lips, smacking them, and looking at me with confusion.
"This hangover remedy really works, huh?" I said, shaking the water off my hands and laughing. "How did it taste? Can you handle it? If not, you can just spit it out."
Shen Xingyue became even more confused. She exhaled into her palm and sniffed it carefully, her face contorted with disgust and surprise. She suddenly flipped over from the bed and lunged at me. I didn't even see what move she used before my hands were twisted behind my back, and I was pinned against the wall.
"Hey, hey, what are you doing! I was helping you with your hangover, for your own good!" I struggled.
"Scum! You actually did that disgusting thing to me! I'll castrate you!" Shen Xingyue yelled furiously.
Wait, castrate me?
"Xingyue, did you misunderstand something?" I turned my head to ask.
"Misunderstanding? Do you think I haven't tasted this fishy smell before? Isn't that the smell of you stinking men's *that, that* part! You little beast, taking advantage of me and calling it for my own good? Who uses this method to cure a hangover? Disgusting! Vile! Pervert! You are unjust, so don't blame me for being unrighteous! Today, I'll let you taste the power of my Eagle Claw Technique!"
Ah—
A scream of unparalleled misery echoed throughout the hotel...