Though Yun Xiaoran outwardly looked disgusted, exasperated, and angry, seeing Shen Jin so helpless and pitiful after drinking...
Made it impossible for him to fully maintain the attitude he had arrived with. Seeing her like this, the stern words he had been preparing in his head came out several degrees softer.
"Hubby will get angry?"
Shen Jin had already drifted into a light sleep. Hearing those words, she slowly forced her eyelids open, revealing a pair of dazed, helpless eyes. Her gaze wandered until it landed on Yun Xiaoran, who was watching her.
There was a trace of concern in his eyes, though his outward displeasure and furrowed brow were more obvious.
Yun Xiaoran is here.
Shen Jin's brain, almost numbed by alcohol, slowly began to turn. Once that thought sprang into her mind...
She suddenly perked up from where she lay on her side on the couch, hugging a burgundy cushion. She was worlds apart from the drunken wreck she had been a moment ago.
The knowledge that Yun Xiaoran disliked her drinking had already been planted firmly in her mind.
Now Shen Jin instinctively kicked the bottle by her feet aside. Gazing at Yun Xiaoran with her beautiful eyes, she murmured:
"Hubby..."
"You've been drinking again?"
Seeing that Shen Jin seemed to have sobered up, Yun Xiaoran instinctively asked her that question. But seeing her tear-filled eyes...
He simply could not muster even a hint of a scolding in his originally stern tone.
"I..."
Shen Jin's emotions were especially volatile when she was drunk, as she had already demonstrated before.
Now her eyes brimmed with tears as she lowered her head and blinked repeatedly.
Her tears fell to the floor with a patter, blurring the view before her.
Disappointing someone she liked felt truly awful. Shen Jin sniffled