Sweet Chief Secretary - Chapter 456

“Auntie, you can rest assured. As long as I can do it, I will do it.” Shen Yan patted Madame Zeng’s back and comforted her while saying.

“Shen Yan, thank you. I said back then that you were a good boy. It was her father who couldn’t tell the good from the bad. That’s how we got to this stage.” Madame Zeng cried even louder.

Was this a promise to Madame Zeng? Xia Yu turned pale and took a step back before turning around and running out. She fled weakly. Eventually, she did not go in or pull Shen Yan away.

She ran out of Mr. Huang’s house and kept running on the road until her tired legs could no longer move. Her legs were soft, and the whole body was paralyzed on the ground.

“Huh, huh…” Xia Yu panted and gasped. She bent down, and her body was shaking constantly.

“Xia Yu?” A silvery BMW parked beside Xia Yu. The door was opened, and Li Wen came out. He looked at her with surprise. “Why are you sitting on the ground?”

He reached out to hold Xia Yu up from the ground, but Xia Yu’s legs were so soft that when she stood up, her whole body almost fell to the ground again. Fortunately, Li Wen was holding Xia Yu’s waist.

“Young Master Li, thank you.” Xia Yu tried very hard to smile. But after trying several times, she couldn’t even raise the corners of her mouth.

“I help you get into the car first.” Li Wen got Xia Yu into the passenger seat almost by carrying her. Then he asked her after getting into the car, “How come you were sitting by the road?”

“Do you have water? I’m thirsty.” Xia Yu did not answer him. Instead, she switched the topic.

Li Wen took out a bottle of mineral water that wasn’t opened. He twisted the bottle cap and handed it over to her. Xia Yu drank most of the bottle in one breath, and because she drank too fast, the water chocked her. As a result, she was coughing badly.

The warm palm touched Xia Yu’s back in order to pat her gently to stop her from coughing. After a while, she was fine. After seeing that Xia Yu no longer coughed, Li Wen started the engine and didn’t ask what happened to Xia Yu just now anymore.

“No, I don’t want to go back. I can go anywhere.” Xia Yu shook her head.

“It happens that I have an appointment with some old classmates at my alma mater. There’s going to be a basketball game this afternoon.” Xia Yu was in such a state. Li Wen didn’t have to guess but knew that it was because that asshole , Shen Yan, bullied her. In this case, of course, he wouldn’t need to send her back.

Xia Yu said okay. She could go anywhere as long as she didn’t go back. She didn’t want to see Shen Yan for the time being.

At this time, the mobile phone in her pocket rang, and Xia Yu took it out. Seeing that the caller was Shen Yan, she hesitated for a while before hanging up and turning off the phone.

When Li Wen took Xia Yu to the school, many old classmates had already arrived there. When he changed his clothes and walked to the stadium, many girls around him called his name excitedly.

He looked at Xia Yu. He was grinning and showed an extremely bright smile.

“Young Master Li smiled at me. God! He’s so handsome.” A girl sitting next to Xia Yu said excitedly.

Throughout the game, an excited scream would arrive in her ears every time Li Wen scored a goal.

At the end of the basketball game, Li Wen’s team won. He ran towards Xia Yu, exuding youth and vitality all over his body. At the same time, a happy smile appeared on his handsome face.

“Xia Yu, do you have water?” He breathed slightly and reached out his hands towards Xia Yu.

The girl next to her immediately handed him a bottle of water, but he directly ignored it. Xia Yu was quite embarrassed because she did not buy him water. The water in her hand was drunk by her. She was about to say that she was sorry for forgetting to buy water while he unexpectedly snatched the water bottle in Xia Yu’s hand directly and said, “I’m so thirsty. Xia Yu, let me drink this bottle of water!”

After saying that, he opened the bottle cap and started drinking water from the bottle mouth.

After drinking it up, he grinned at Xia Yu. “Wait for me. I’ll change my clothes first.” After saying that, he was pulled away by the team members.

“Are you Young Master Li’s girlfriend?” The girl next to her suddenly asked Xia Yu. Her eyes were red, and her face was full of sadness.

“Ah! No, I’m not Young Master Li’s girlfriend. You misunderstood it.” Xia Yu quickly explained.

“Xiaomei, she is really not. Didn’t you watch the news? She is Young Master Yan’s girlfriend.” A girl came over and glanced at Xia Yu. She said, “Aren’t you going to be engaged to Young Master Yan soon? How come you came here with Young Master Li?”

The girl was also surprised. She looked at Xia Yu and asked her.

“My car broke down in the suburbs, and I happened to run into Young Master Li. So, I carpooled with him.” Xia Yu explained with a smile.

The girl said with a smile, “Aha! That’s why. I was wondering why you suddenly joined our classmate reunion.”

“Really? Great.” Upon hearing that Xia Yu wasn’t Li Wen’s girlfriend, Xiaomei immediately cheered happily. “Sorry. I just misunderstood it.”

Xiaomei later apologized to Xia Yu. She blushed as she felt rather embarrassed.

The girl who just recognized Xia Yu pulled Xiaomei aside and whispered, “It’s true that she’s not Young Master Li’s girlfriend, but it’s also true that Young Master Li likes her. You have no chance.”

“Isn’t she about to get engaged to Young Master Yan? Young Master Yan is not worse than Young Master Li. She will never keep thinking about Young Master Li. After her engagement, Young Master Li will give up on her, and I will have a chance at that time.” Xiao Mei envied Xia Yu’s luck in her mind, as the two Princes Charming in S city both liked her.

“You… You just take your time.” The girl said with a smile.

They thought that their voices were very low and didn’t expect that Xia Yu heard their talk. She was about to get engaged to Shen Yan? In this situation, how could she get engaged to him?

Xia Yu suddenly felt down. At this time, Li Wen changed his clothes and waved to Xia Yu. Xia Yu went down from the stand and walked to the front of him.

“Xia Yu, our basketball team will go to celebrate later. Let’s go together!”

He invited Xia Yu enthusiastically, but she shook her head and declined. “That’s your basketball team’s celebration. I won’t go with you.”

“Come on! Come on! Not all of them are members of the basketball team.” Li Wen held Xia Yu’s hand and looked at her with anticipation in the eyes.

Xia Yu didn’t want to go back now to see Shen Yan. Seeing Li Wen’s look which was full of anticipation, she hesitated for a while and finally nodded in agreement.

Li Wen immediately smiled happily, and his amber eyes sparkled. Most of the people of the basketball team looked familiar, as she had seen them at Li Wen’s birthday party. So, she felt fine and didn’t feel too restrained.

They went to the KTV near the school to sing. They all felt high, and the atmosphere was lively.

Xia Yu was sitting in the corner, and Li Wen was singing a somewhat sad song, which resonated with her heart. Suddenly, she wanted to get drunk for once and forget about Shen Yan and Zeng Mina’s past.

The bitter liquid entered her throat, and it brought coldness and irritated her stomach. She drank one cup after another.

“Xia Yu, you will be drunk if you drink like this.” Li Wen somehow had finished singing and walked to the side of Xia Yu while looking at her worriedly.

“It’s good to be drunk!”

Xia Yu laughed and said. She raised her head and drank up the wine in the cup again. Li Wen tried to stop her but was pushed away.

Xia Yu’s capacity for wine was not high, and she drank on an empty stomach. So soon her head began to be groggy, and Li Wen in front of her became blurred. Yet she still didn’t want to put down the wine cup in her hand. She remembered vaguely that she drank several bottles of beer.

“Xia Yu, you really have to stop.” Li Wen beside her had been advising Xia Yu all the time.

“Yes, I can continue. Young Master Li, can you drink with me?”

Xia Yu looked at Li Wen beside her with drunk eyes. She took an opened wine bottle on the table and handed it into his arms, and then she asked him to hold it and shouted, “Cheers!” She then held the wine bottle before directly pouring the wine into the mouth.

Li Wen reached out to take Xia Yu’s bottle. At this time, she was flexible enough to hide her body and interrupted him from getting it. But lots of wine spilled out. Her neck was soaked, and the cloth on her chest was also soaked by the wine that went down from her neck. She felt a little cold, and her body shivered.

Afterward, she was drunk enough to be a little unconscious, but she vaguely remembered that Li Wen had been taking care of her all the time. She also heard him telling his friends that he would take her home first.

“No, I won’t go back.” As soon as she heard that he was going to send her back, Xia Yu, who was almost asleep, struggled to open her eyes and shook her head before saying that she wouldn’t go back.

“Then I will take you…”

Xia Yu didn’t hear him clearly later, but no matter where she went, it was fine as long as she didn’t get back. She said “okay” immediately.

Li Wen picked up Xia Yu directly. Later, she only remembered that they got into a taxi and completely forgot the things that happened later.

Waking up the next day, Xia Yu looked at the unfamiliar environment and still felt muddled. She couldn’t figure out what happened, and after a long time, she remembered that she was drunk last night. This was not a hotel room, and this was obviously a guy’s room.

The quilt had a faint mint smell, which was very refreshing. Xia Yu thought that this was probably Li Wen’s room. She was surprised that he brought her back to the place where he lived.

“Xia Yu, you are awake. I have prepared breakfast. You can go to wash and refresh yourself. The red toothbrush and the pale-yellow towel are for you. They are new.”

While thinking about Li Wen, he appeared. His smile was as bright and sunny as ever.

“Well, thank you, Young Master Li. Last…, last night I wasn’t drunk enough to do some crazy things, right?” Xia Yu looked at him gratefully and remembered her unconsciousness from drinking last night. She wondered if she was drunk enough to do some crazy things. If so, she would feel quite ashamed.

Of course, she was more afraid of saying the wrong words.

“Yes! You were singing and dancing.”

“Ah!” Xia Yu screamed. She covered her face with her hands in shame.

“Ha-ha, you are so easy to be deceived. You didn’t do crazy things out of drunkenness, and you were very quiet last night and didn’t cause any trouble at all.” Li Wen was amused by Xia Yu’s look.

Xia Yu exhaled a long breath. It turned out that he lied to her. She was really scared just now. Xia Yu went into the bathroom and took a bath. The smell of alcohol on her body was too strong. If there was a new set of clothes, she would want to change her clothes and wash the old ones. Thinking about it, she saw a new set of clothes on the bed.

He was quite attentive. Xia Yu knew it was for her and changed her clothes without being courteous. After taking a shower, she felt refreshed a lot, but her head was still faint and painful because of the hangover last night.

Xia Yu came to the living room and saw a blanket stacked on the sofa. Li Wen must have slept on the sofa last night. It was easy for him to hear something in the living room in case Xia Yu would need anything during the night.

“You taste it and let me know if it is good or not.” He put a bowl of preserved egg and lean meat porridge in front of Xia Yu and looked at her with his bright eyes. He was being unassertive. “Of course, I know what I can and cannot do. It’s incomparable with something made by a famous chef like you.”

Xia Yu tasted the porridge, and it was very good. After the hangover, she had the appetite for some light porridge in the morning. Li Wen must have thought of this, so he cooked the porridge for breakfast. It was quite considerate of him.

“It’s delicious. I didn’t expect your cooking craft to be so good.”

After hearing Xia Yu’s praise, Li Wen was as happy as a child. “It’s great that you like it.”

After eating breakfast, Xia Yu turned on the mobile phone, and all the missed calls and text messages came out at once. Most of them were calls from Shen Yan. Others were from Fang Feifei, Xiao Tang, Liu Sijie, Zhou Yan, Wanru…

Xia Yu opened Shen Yan’s text messages. There were more than thirty text messages. She read them one by one.

“Xia Yu, why didn’t you answer my call? Why did you turn off the phone? Where are you?”

“Turn on the phone. Where on earth are you?”

“Xia Yu, I’m very worried about you.”

“…” The tone of the following messages after that became more impatient and worried. Before reading all the text messages, Shen Yan’s call suddenly came over.