Ni Jiu (Intoxicated) - Chap 23

Before Shen Ting took a bath, she felt that her calf that had been soaked in hot water was in severe pain. When she wiped her body after taking a shower, she found that there were signs of swelling in the place where she was injured. If she didn’t take care of it, it might affect her work tomorrow.

Auntie didn’t live at home, and he was the only one in the huge house at night, so he took a towel to dry his body, simply tied the strap of his bathrobe, and walked out of the room with his slippers on. He wanted to go to the living room to check if there was a medicine cabinet. .
Although he has lived here for a while, he is still not familiar with it. He can only guess by his own habits whether Lian Jue will also put the medicine box in the coffee table or the drawer under the TV cabinet, but he quickly He denied the first half of the sentence. Lian Jue probably wouldn’t have time to do these things by himself, and most likely a nanny or assistant would prepare it.
The open drawers are all empty, and the solid wood drawer can’t even find any sawdust. In fact, not only the drawers, but the whole villa is spotless, neat and tidy like a model room for viewing only, except for the huge double-door refrigerator full of Apart from fresh ingredients, I can’t find anything else popular.
He couldn’t find the medicine box and had to give up. Shen Ting didn’t close the drawer under the TV cabinet, and was about to stand up against the edge of the cabinet. He wanted to see if there were frozen ice cubes or popsicles in the refrigerator. Take a cold compress to reduce swelling.

The short beep of the electronic door lock sounded in silence.
Shen Ting didn’t fully react when he turned his head, and his eyes first turned to the lowered eyes of the person who entered the door. Shen Tingwei was stunned for a moment, then the deep and dark eyes in his sight slowly recovered a little clarity from the turbid fog, and his eyes stooped away from him. The loose, half-open bathrobes were drawn up.
Lian Jue stopped entering the door, turned his body slightly, blocked the door, and said to the person behind him, “Go back first.”

“Okay President Lian.” The outsider responded. It was Lin Chen’s voice.
Shen Tingwei squatted on the ground and re-fastened his bathrobe, stood up, and stayed where he was, not knowing whether he should go back to his room or say hello first. It doesn’t seem very polite to go directly to the room.
Fortunately, Lian Jue spoke first: “What are you looking for?”
Lian Jue loosened his tie and walked in, looking a little tired.
Shen Ting didn’t answer right away, he stood in front of the TV cabinet, watching Lian Jue walk to the sofa and sit down, resting his elbows on the armrests on the side of the sofa, rubbing the frown between his brows.
“Do you want to drink some water?” Shen Tingwei asked hesitantly.
Lian Jue looked very uncomfortable.
Lian Jue hummed “um” lightly, then closed his eyes, and said in a very natural and skillful tone, “Warm water will do.”
Shen Ting didn’t bring half a glass of warm water as he intended, and as soon as he approached, he smelled the clear alcohol smell mixed with tobacco smell on Lian Jue’s body. Lian Jue drank wine.
Lian Jue reached out and took the warm glass. After taking a sip, he raised his eyes and asked again, “What did you just look for?”
Shen Tingwei was a little embarrassed when he was caught digging through other people’s things without authorization, and replied in a low voice, “I want to find out if there is a medicine cabinet.”

“What’s up?”
“I hit my leg.” Shen Ting did not say.
Lian Jue followed his words and looked down, Shen Ting took a small step back uncomfortably, the bruise that was exposed outside the bathrobe was lining his cream-like delicate and white skin. Somewhat startling.
Lian Jue subconsciously asked him, “How did you do it?”
Although he regretted the words as soon as he asked the words, he quickly thought of a reasonable explanation for his abnormal behavior in his heart, which seemed really painful.

Shen Tingwei was stunned for a while, determined in his heart that he was drunk, and replied with some stumbling: “I accidentally tripped and bumped on the steps.”
Lian Jue raised his head and glanced at him, Shen Tingwei easily read the word stupid in his eyes.
“The medicine box is upstairs.” Lian Jue said.
“No……”
Shen Ting didn’t want to find an excuse to go back to the room first, but Lian Jue didn’t give him a chance. Lian Jue stood up and walked in the direction of the stairs, his words were very light, but he seemed to carry a bit of refusal: “Come here, I will bring it to you.”
Shen Ting did not follow Lian Jue up to the second floor, but stopped at the door of Lian Jue’s bedroom.
Lian Jue walked into the bedroom and turned on the light, only to find that Shen Tingwei hadn’t followed.
“What are you doing standing there?”
“I’m not going in.”
The two opened their mouths at the same time and closed their mouths at the same time.
Shen Ting didn’t stand at the door and didn’t move. His original intention was to wait for Lian Jue to go in to get the medicine box, but he saw that Lian Jue didn’t move.
So Shen Tingwei had no choice but to say, “please Mr. Lian help me…”
“The medicine box is in the second drawer under the TV cabinet.” Lian Jue turned and walked towards the bathroom.
Shen Tingwei stood outside the door for a while, and then walked in awkwardly after Lian Jue closed the bathroom door.
Lian Jue’s room was large, with a cool gray-black tone and a thick light gray wool carpet on the floor. The curtains were not drawn, and the cold white light came in from the floor-to-ceiling windows, causing Shen Ting not to look out subconsciously. Outside the window was the courtyard outside the villa. From the layout point of view, it was probably a garden.
Shen Tingwei looked back after only two glances, sighing a pity, he came to the TV cabinet, opened the second drawer as Lian Jue said, and took out the medicine box from it.
The medicine box contains a complete range of medicines. Shen Ting did not find the jigsaw and cotton swabs. He put the medicine box back in its original place, and got up to leave. He stood at the bathroom door and hesitated, should he knock on the door and say Lian Jue?
Just thinking about it, the sound of water flowing in the bathroom suddenly stopped, and then the bathroom door in front of him opened without warning, and the damp heat from the bathroom hit Shen Tingwei’s face.
Halfway through the shower, the hair that hasn’t been dried is still dripping with water on his shoulders, and the bathrobe is not properly worn. Under the slightly open neckline, a sturdy chest soaked with water vapor is exposed, and the thin bathrobe is smeared. Large dark water marks appeared.
It’s hard not to cause misunderstanding when someone else is taking a shower, standing at the door of the bathroom inexplicably. There is a little subtlety in Lian Jue’s eyes when he looks at the person in front of the door.
Shen Tingwei’s face turned red, and for a moment he felt at a loss. While pretending to be calm, he felt guilty for no reason, lowered his head and said quickly, “I took the medicine, I’ll go back first.”
He turned to leave after saying that, but his wrist was caught.
Lian Jue’s palm was very hot, Shen Ting did not instinctively want to withdraw his hand, but the strength in Lian Jue’s hand was so strong that Shen Ting did not break free.
He turned his head and looked at Lian Jue: “You…”
Lian Jue lowered his eyes slightly, and his eyes stayed on Shen Tingwei’s slender wrist for a long time, maybe he didn’t even notice it, until Shen Tingwei pulled his hand again, he then released his hand after realizing it. .
Lian Jue must have drank a lot tonight, Shen Tingwei looked at his not so clear eyes and thought to himself.
“Mr. Lian, is there anything else?” Shen Tingwei said, “I’ll go back to my room if I have nothing else.”
Lian Jue’s action was more than half a beat faster than the explanation. Shen Tingwei looked at the person who held him again in surprise: “Why…”
Lian Jue’s eyes dropped, and he quickly took the bottle of beaten medicine from Shen Tingwei’s hand, and took it in front of him to read the words on the medicine bottle.
“It’s overdue,” he said after a while.
Shen Ting didn’t guess that it shouldn’t be a big problem whether the bruises medicine expired or not, but Lian Jue had already threw the bottle of medicine into the trash can without authorization.
“…Oh.” Shen Tingwei held a pack of cotton swabs, glanced at the medicine bottle in the trash can, and said without embarrassment, “Uh, good night, Mr. Lian.”
Before Shen Ting returned to his room, he sat on the bed, pulled off his bathrobe and looked at the wound on his calf, which was already swollen.
He touched it lightly with his fingers, and it hurt a little, but it seemed to be fine when he didn’t touch it.
After some tossing, Shen Tingwei no longer wanted to go to the refrigerator to see if there were any ice cubes in it, so he turned off the light and lay on the bed with his eyes closed.
There was a very faint scent on the bedding, probably because the aunt had sprayed some sleep aids when tidying up the room. His drowsiness came very quickly, and when he was half-awake, he vaguely felt that there was still a little damp temperature on his wrists. Sleepy, he wanted to reach out to touch it, but the drowsiness that poured out engulfed him first.
“Mr. Lian, the medicine you want.” Lin Chen handed the plastic bag to Lian Jue, “Where are you hurt? Do you need to call a doctor?”
“Need not.”
Lin Chen’s efficiency is very high, it only took less than an hour from receiving the call to delivering the medicine.
Lian Jue took the medicine and knocked on the door of Shen Tingwei’s bedroom for a long time, but no one came out to open the door for a long time. He turned the doorknob and opened the door easily.
Shen Tingwei’s alertness was so low that he didn’t know what to say.
He walked in, the room was very dark, only the decorative lamps in the courtyard poured in a long and narrow light from the gaps in the curtains, like a crack torn from the dark night, polishing Shen Ting’s unsleeping face.
Shen Ting’s drooping eyelashes are long and thick, casting a small shadow under the eyelids, and the bright white light is softly shrouded, like a thin gauze, covering his already fair face with a softer layer. filter.
“Shen Tingwei.” Lian Jue called him once, “Get up and apply medicine.”
no respond.
Lian Jue couldn’t figure out how someone could sleep so soundly.

His patience was always very lacking on Shen Tingwei, and he didn’t want to care anymore. He put the medicine on the bedside table and got up to go out.
The person on the bed moved at this time, turned over lightly, and turned his face to the direction of Lian Jue.
Shen Tingwei’s body rustled under the quilt for a while, and it took a long time for him to finally adjust to a comfortable position. They were all hidden, revealing only the fluffy eyelashes and the small tip of the ear, and the small mole on the tip of the ear was still glowing indistinctly red in the light.

His breathing became heavy after a while, and Lian Jue looked at him with disgust for a while, wondering if he was going to suffocate himself if he was bored for a while.
After a long time, he still bent down, reached out and pulled down the quilt that was half-covered by Shen Ting.
Before he got up, Yu Guang noticed that the lips of the person on the bed moved, and his brows quickly wrinkled together.

Lian Jue didn’t hear what Shen Ting didn’t say clearly, maybe he just moved his mouth and didn’t make any sound at all, but Lian Jue’s movement of getting up still stopped unconsciously.
Shen Ting’s unreleased breath from the quilt became clear in Lian Jue’s ears. His warm and even breath was mixed with the aroma of sweet and sour fruit wine. The drunkenness that went down is revived again, and the drunkenness has a tendency to make a comeback.
In such a quiet moment of the night, this sweet and slightly spicy wine aroma is very easy to trigger some special reverie, together with this person.
Lian Jue subconsciously thought, what does this taste like? Cherry? Or cranberries?
His eyes stopped on the two differential lips in front of him, Shen Ting did not purse his lips, the lips were bright red with the white skin, more rich and gorgeous than cherries.

“Shen Tingwei.”
Lian Jue looked at him and called again, his voice was very low, with a little hoarseness that was hardly noticeable, as if he wanted to wake people up sincerely.
Shen Tingwei’s eyelashes trembled slightly, and he snorted inexplicably, his voice was very soft, with a thick nasal sound.
His knitted brows stretched halfway along with this low hum, and his chin was pinched.
Lian Jue’s eyes were thick like fog, and his emotions were slightly hidden in them.
If Shen Tingwei woke up at this time, he would probably find the naked desire in his eyes that had not been completely exhausted.