My Multiple Identities Revealed After Marrying the Bigshot
Chapter 182: Not as Pretty as You, Nor as Interesting

Chapter 182: Chapter 182: Not as Pretty as You, Nor as Interesting

From this angle, I could just make out the edge of the moon in the sky.

Lu Youxi hesitated for a long time before asking, "Zhou Shuyan, are you asleep?"

"Hm?" Zhou Shuyan’s voice, for some reason, sounded soft and mushy, a bit muddled.

"Still haven’t sobered up from the alcohol?" Lu Youxi pressed on.

In the darkness, Zhou Shuyan quietly rubbed his throat, his voice husky and still somewhat mushy, "Taking a bath after seems to have made me dizzier."

Lu Youxi thought for a moment and then said, "I suppose there’s a saying that taking a hot shower right after drinking can make you dizzier. But from when you finished drinking to when you returned, it’s been more than half an hour, so it’s not really right away."

After thinking a bit more, Lu Youxi concluded, "Maybe it’s because you can’t hold your liquor very well."

Zhou Shuyan stiffened.

Pretending to be drunk only to be labeled as someone who can’t handle alcohol.

Well, so be it if I’m seen that way.

"Um... could be..." Zhou Shuyan’s voice became lower and fuzzier.

Lu Youxi had to lean over to the bedside and prick up her ears to catch what he was saying.

"Zhou Shuyan." Lu Youxi called out again.

But this time, after a long while, she heard no reply from Zhou Shuyan.

Just when Lu Youxi thought Zhou Shuyan had fallen asleep, a muffled voice came from him, "Hmm?"

"The girl we met at tonight’s dinner," Lu Youxi whispered, "you don’t like her?"

Zhou Shuyan’s lips curled, counting to five silently in his head before responding, "Hmm..."

"Why?" Lu Youxi quickly followed up. "She’s quite beautiful."

Zhou Shuyan nearly replied straight away.

Fortunately, he held back and silently counted to six before saying, "She’s not as good-looking as you."

Lu Youxi: "!!!"

She couldn’t resist peeking her head out from the side of the bed to look; Zhou Shuyan was closing his eyes, slightly frowning, looking rather uncomfortable from the alcohol.

By now, Lu Youxi had adjusted to the room’s light, making out about eighty percent of Zhou Shuyan’s appearance.

At this moment, Zhou Shuyan looked uncomfortable, yet her thoughts wandered, somewhat guiltily, to other things.

But Zhou Shuyan in this state was just so irresistibly petulant that Lu Youxi couldn’t help but admire him, finding it difficult to look away.

How does this man do it?

So masculine when needed, yet his vulnerable side doesn’t feel out of place at all now.

Lu Youxi stared so intently that she grew bolder over time.

Merely poking her head out from the edge of the bed wasn’t enough; before she knew it, her whole body had rolled closer, teetering on the brink.

Lu Xiaohui and the others had recently taken to reading romance novels, dragging her along with them.

But they mainly focused on studying. Lu Youxi, apart from studying, had to manage the internet cafe business, so she had even less time.

She glanced through a couple of pages in her spare time, not nearly as much as Lu Xiaohui and the rest.

They were all reading the same novel recently, which made discussing it more convenient.

The male lead in the novel was just the pertulant type.

Listening to their descriptions, Lu Youxi thought such a character could only exist in the realm of fiction.

Whether it was about personality or physical looks.

Setting personality aside for a moment, as for the looks, what man could be so handsome that even when sickly and petulant, it wouldn’t repel others?

But now, Lu Youxi knew that the novel hadn’t lied to her.

Such people do exist!

Right then, Zhou Shuyan was like a character straight out of the novel’s pages, too spot on!

However, this man was drunk, now woozy, yet how could he still speak so well!

The words "Not as good-looking as you" from his lips had left Lu Youxi’s heart racing until now, feeling like she was on a roller coaster with ups and downs.

"You’re not as interesting either," Zhou Shuyan suddenly added.

Though he hadn’t opened his eyes, his sudden words still startled Lu Youxi.

Feeling guilty as if Zhou Shuyan had awakened, she accidentally rolled off the bed in terror, landing on top of him.

Fortunately, the bed wasn’t high, so it shouldn’t have hurt Zhou Shuyan much.

Lu Youxi’s heart raced, nearly leaping out of her throat.

Her mind suddenly flooded with all sorts of chaotic thoughts.

The thing she should least have done was indulge in admiring beauty, rolling over to the side of the bed to gaze at Zhou Shuyan – and even to the point of becoming mesmerized!

Lu Youxi wished desperately for a crack to disappear into. How could she explain it away so that Zhou Shuyan would believe that she didn’t lose herself because of his allure, but that in a moment of guilty vulnerability, she had accidentally tumbled off the bed?

"Zhou..." Lu Youxi barely uttered a syllable when she was suddenly wrapped in Zhou Shuyan’s arms.

Lu Youxi tensed up completely, only to hear Zhou Shuyan grunt softly, like a murmur in his sleep.

But after a good while, Zhou Shuyan made no other move, just held her very tightly.

She was lying entirely in Zhou Shuyan’s embrace.

His body was too rigid, and especially hot.

Lying there in his arms, Lu Youxi felt very uneasy.

It was like lying on hot pebbles, burning and uncomfortable.

"Zhou Shuyan," Lu Youxi called out. Surely he hadn’t fallen asleep, had he?

"Hmm..." Zhou Shuyan murmured groggily as if in response.

But Lu Youxi wasn’t sure Zhou Shuyan was genuinely replying to her.

"Zhou Shuyan," she called again.

Her own breath felt scorching hot by now.

This time, she didn’t hear back from Zhou Shuyan for a long while.

"It looks like he’s really asleep," Lu Youxi murmured silently, not daring to make a sound for fear of waking him.

Lu Youxi let out a small sigh of relief.

Since Zhou Shuyan was asleep, then maybe his sudden opening of the eyes had just been an accident.

He might have opened his eyes for a moment, but in reality, he was still asleep.

These kinds of things can happen.

Thinking that Zhou Shuyan must be asleep, Lu Youxi figured the embarrassing incident just now went unnoticed.

She needn’t find a crack to disappear into, nor rack her brains for an explanation to Zhou Shuyan about how she was mesmerized by him.

Now calm, Lu Youxi tried to extricate herself from Zhou Shuyan’s embrace.

But only now did she realize how tightly Zhou Shuyan was holding her.

He had trapped her arms as well.

One hand on her back, the other on her lower back, he held her in an unyielding grip.

Lu Youxi couldn’t use her hands to support herself or muster the strength to get up.

Lu Youxi: "..."

What now?

She surely couldn’t just sleep in his arms like this, could she?

Besides, she wouldn’t be able to fall asleep this way!

The more Lu Youxi thought about the position, the more it seemed inappropriate, striking a sense of familiarity.

Now with Zhou Shuyan asleep, Lu Youxi wasn’t so nervous, and her thoughts began to wander.

While thinking of how to get out of his arms, her mind also drifted to other things.