Xue Lingyun stood in the middle of the room and raised a hand to wipe his face.
His palm was damp, carrying the sweetness of fruit wine and the sticky residue of body heat.
He glanced down at his palm, then at the sprawled figures on the bed. Only after confirming that none of them would move again did he lower his hand.
By the end of the drinking session, everyone at the table had collapsed. Not one of them could stand steadily on their own. He did not want to support them back to their rooms one by one—it was too slow—so he simply borrowed a cart from the front desk. He planned to send all the girls to one room first, then put the boys in another.
Wang Dong's situation was rather special. He did not know whether to throw her into the boys' room or the girls' room. He considered putting her with the boys, then felt it was inappropriate. In the end, he arranged a separate room for her.
He carried the girls onto the cart one at a time, pushed it through the corridor and into this room, then unloaded them one by one onto the bed.
His movements were swift and efficient, with no concern for posture, as though he were handling a batch of cargo that needed relocating.
Just as he tossed down the last one, Ma Xiaotao suddenly sprang up from the bed, grabbed his shoulders, and asked whether he was going to the Ben Ti Sect and why he would not answer her directly. As she spoke, she leaned toward his face.
Before he could press her back down, Ling Luochen somehow pressed herself against him from the other side. Her voice was soft, as though it had been squeezed from