Drunk

Wang Siyi didn't answer him. She had been sitting here for quite a while. She had thought he wasn't home, but the lights in his room were all on.

Afraid he might be doing something in his room, she hadn't dared knock and had simply sat blankly in the living room.

After waiting for a while, she finally saw his door open.

Only to find Li Changle acting all strange and mysterious.

This guy had something seriously wrong with him.

"I'm hungry. Didn't you cook dinner tonight?"

She calmly stated her request. Li Changle smiled awkwardly. "I was just about to cook."

"Wait a moment..."

After saying that, he went to the refrigerator and took out noodles and frozen Chicken Soup. Before long, he had cooked two bowls of Chicken Soup Noodles.

He hadn't cooked in days, so he could only fry two eggs and sprinkle on a little chopped scallion. Even the simple Chicken Soup Noodles gave off a faint aroma.

Smelling that familiar scent, Wang Siyi felt ravenous. She picked up her chopsticks and began eating without saying a word.

Seeing Wang Siyi across from him eating with such relish, Li Changle immediately started slurping noodles too.

The living room was left with nothing but slurping sounds. A few minutes later, as he looked at the two empty bowls on the table, Li Changle felt that familiar feeling return.

He wanted to cook again. Tomorrow, he would get up early and go to the market to buy the freshest ingredients and make a whole feast!

"Didn't you go record songs? You're so busy, yet you still had time to come back. How long are you staying this time...?"

Li Changle was still surprised by Wang Siyi's sudden arrival, so he voiced the question in his heart.

"The songs are gone. I'm not recording anymore. I won't sing again."

Wang Siyi clearly didn't want to discuss the topic. She gave Li Changle a brief answer without telling him how long she planned to stay.

The moment Li Changle heard that, he understood. She had been suppressed by her company again. This Xinyi Huyou really didn't do anything decent...

Such a beautiful voice, such an outstanding singer, yet they spent all day thinking about doing such filthy things.

Trash company!

Li Changle silently blacklisted Xinyi Huyou in his heart.

"Then... you really won't sing anymore?"

"It'd be such a shame for a voice as beautiful as yours not to sing..."

Li Changle felt somewhat regretful. He had even been considering whether to write a song for her himself, but she had already given up.

Then... should he still write her a song?

Li Changle fell into deep thought...

Wang Siyi ignored Li Changle, who had sunk into thought, and returned to the room across the hall.

Looking at the incoming call on her phone, Wang Siyi saw that it was her mother. She didn't know whether to answer.

After a moment of silence, she chose to pick up.

"Hello, Siyi. Mom was teaching during the day and didn't see your call. What's wrong?"

Hearing that her mother's tone was no longer as stiff as before, and hearing her deliberately explain herself, Wang Siyi felt relieved.

After arriving at Xingfuli in Yangcheng, her emotions had calmed considerably. She was no longer as irrational as she had been in Shanghai during the day.

At the time, it hadn't occurred to her that her parents might have missed her calls because they were busy. She had only wondered whether they truly didn't want to answer her calls.

"I'm fine, Mom."

Ever since the mother and daughter had fallen out, they rarely called each other. Neither of them knew what to say, and the atmosphere was a little awkward.

"Are you really okay? If something's wrong, you need to tell your father and me."

"It's already fine, Mom. Don't worry."

"I've known your temperament ever since you were little. Why would you call us if nothing was wrong? If you ask me, you should stop singing. Why sing at all? You could study law or classical literature instead. I never should have agreed to let you enter the entertainment industry in the first place. Now you've been wronged, haven't you? Come back. I'll have your father arrange everything for you. You could even become a music teacher at a university..."

On the other end of the call, He Shumin went on and on, already trying to arrange Wang Siyi's future life for her.

Wang Siyi frowned. Aside from genuinely loving to sing, she truly disliked how her parents had arranged every aspect of her life since childhood.

It was as if they could only rest easy if she followed the life they had laid out for her step by step.

But Wang Siyi didn't like that kind of life, a life where she could see the end at a glance.

"I don't want to do those things, Mom, so stop talking about it. I'll stay in Yangcheng for a while first."

Wang Siyi cut her mother off.

"You child, why are you always so disobedient? Look at yourself. No matter how we tried to persuade you back then, you insisted on entering the entertainment industry to sing. Now that you've been wronged, you come looking for us. We arrange a job for you, and you don't want it either. Are you trying to anger me to death?"

He Shumin's words began to turn harsh, and Wang Siyi felt terrible listening to them.

"I'm sorry, Mom. I won't trouble you again in the future."

Holding back her sobs as she said those words, Wang Siyi hung up immediately.

Then she tossed her phone aside and lay facedown on the bed, crying.

Jinling.

Wang Weimin looked at his wife, frowning.

"You spoke so harshly. Aren't you just deliberately making Siyi sad?"

He Shumin clearly felt that she had gone a little too far, but she also felt she hadn't said anything wrong.

The two of them were a president of Jinling University and a university lecturer, both with doctoral degrees. Yet their daughter was a singer.

How was she supposed to tell others about her daughter?

"Honestly... There's a poetry academic exchange conference in Yangcheng in a few days. I'll go there and visit Siyi while I'm at it. Don't keep criticizing her..."

He Shumin glanced at her husband without saying anything. She turned and walked away, no longer wanting to deal with him.

He understood so much, so why hadn't he told their daughter that just now? He made her place the call, letting her play the villain while he got to be the good guy. Men were all terrible!

In Yangcheng, Wang Siyi felt utterly helpless. Her parents didn't understand her at all.

She had thought that after giving up singing, her relationship with them could improve.

But before she even had the chance to tell her mother that she no longer intended to sing, her mother had started arranging her life again.

She truly hated a life arranged for her. The only person who had understood her was her grandfather.

But her grandfather was already gone. The only person who had supported her was no longer there. Thinking of her grandfather's kind smile, Wang Siyi became heartbroken again.

For no reason at all, Wang Siyi suddenly wanted to drink. It was the Baijiu her grandfather had left behind before his death, kept in the study.

It took her quite a while to open the bottle. Then she tipped it up and took a huge gulp.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

The fiery Baijiu made tears stream from her eyes, while her mind remained somewhat blank.

Apparently, drowning one's sorrows in alcohol did make sense. At the very least, while drinking, she wouldn't think so much about all those troubling things.

She took another gulp from the bottle. Wang Siyi drank half the bottle of Baijiu, and she could already feel that her brain had stopped working.

Her stomach felt a little uncomfortable. Instinctively, she opened the door to find Li Changle, staggering out and making her way to the door of his apartment.

Wang Siyi felt like she couldn't find the doorknob. She didn't know how to open the door, so she simply knocked on it with her hand while shouting.

"Open the door! Open the door..."

She knocked for half a minute, but there was no response. Wang Siyi frowned and stared at the door, seemingly pondering whether she could force it open.

Then she took several steps back and suddenly kicked forward.

Bang!

The door didn't open. Instead, Wang Siyi twisted her ankle because she had kicked it too hard.

Li Changle had been typing away in his room when he heard a loud sound from outside.

He was a little puzzled. Who was so damn inconsiderate, smashing doors in the middle of the night...

When he came out and opened the door, he saw a beautiful woman sitting beside it, clutching her foot.

Li Changle was stunned. Was this woman crazy? Couldn't she just open the door if she needed something? Why was she kicking it? It wasn't like she didn't have a key...

Seeing how she seemed to be clutching her foot in pain, it looked like she had even twisted her ankle...

Uh... this woman didn't seem quite right in the head.

When Wang Siyi saw the door open, she looked up and saw the stunned Li Changle.

Drunk Wang Siyi became bolder too.

She looked up at Li Changle pitifully and said, "My foot hurts so much. Boohoo..."

She started crying outright. Li Changle wanted to slap himself again, just to see whether this was all a dream.

What was wrong with this world? Wasn't this woman usually cold and aloof?

He couldn't let her keep sitting limply on the floor, so he bent down, intending to help her up.

Before he even got close, he smelled a strong stench of alcohol.

Damn, how much had she drunk?

Had this woman gone crazy today?

Li Changle reached out to help Wang Siyi.

But Wang Siyi refused. Crying, she said, "My foot hurts. I can't get up. Carry me."

Li Changle was helpless. Why had she drunk when she had nothing better to do? And her behavior when drunk was this bad.

Did he dare carry her? What if she woke up tomorrow and came after him to settle the score...

But she clearly looked like she wouldn't get up unless he carried her. Fine, fine.

Li Changle crouched down. Wang Siyi's entire face was flushed red from drinking, even her neck rosy and red. She was actually kind of cute.

Li Changle thought to himself. He slipped one arm beneath her legs and the other beneath her shoulders, supporting the back of her neck.

He lifted her up in a princess carry. Drunk Wang Siyi instinctively wrapped both arms around Li Changle's neck.

Wang Siyi even smiled happily at Li Changle. "Hehe, you're so nice!"

After saying that, she tried to lean in and kiss him. Li Changle felt that if she actually kissed him—

he probably wouldn't live to see tomorrow's sunset. He hurriedly turned his face away, carried her into the apartment, and placed her on the sofa.

This woman really was something. Even lying on the sofa, she wouldn't settle down. As Wang Siyi lay there, she kept shouting.

"You people don't understand me at all!"

"I don't want you arranging my life..."

"I want to sing..."

"I want to become a Diva!"

"Alright, alright, Diva. Drink a bowl of Ginger Soup first."

While she was lying on the sofa, Li Changle went to cook a bowl of Ginger Soup to sober her up.

Seeing that she was still shouting and seemingly hadn't heard him at all, he simply held her shoulders, scooped up a spoonful of Ginger Soup, and brought it to her lips.

After being helped upright, Wang Siyi stopped shouting. Smelling the Ginger Soup, she sniffed at it and took a sip.

"So spicy, so spicy! I'm not drinking this. I want to drink alcohol, drink alcohol..."