When she went to a corner of the police station to pick up Xie Qining, she saw that he was disheveled and reeked of alcohol.
Sasha helplessly helped him up and said, "Let's go, it's time to go back to the hotel."
He, not yet fully sober, tilted his head and leaned on her shoulder, exclaiming loudly, "Come on, let's keep drinking..."
Sasha felt very embarrassed and whispered a warning, "Snap out of it. If you want to drink, do it in the hotel room. Don't embarrass yourself here."
"Embarrassment? You all think I'm embarrassing... My father thinks I'm embarrassing, and even though he sent me, he doesn't trust me at all..." Xie Qining continued to babble drunkenly.
Sasha didn't bother to respond, just wanting to get him away quickly.
As they passed a room next door, a blonde woman in a slip dress and heavy makeup suddenly rushed out and said to Sasha, "Are you his family? You're taking him away now, can you pay my bail too? Take me out with you."
"Sorry, I don't know you." Sasha just wanted to get rid of her; supporting Xie Qining alone was already a handful.
The blonde woman, however, wouldn't let her go, saying, "He got into a fight with someone because of me. He said he would protect me and bail me out too..."
Sasha said, annoyed, "Get out of the way! You believe anything a stranger says? You should stay here and get your brain checked!"
At this moment, a police officer came over to separate them and asked Sasha, "Do you know her too?"
"No," Sasha replied curtly. "She was bothering my husband and caused him to get into a fight! Please don't let her harass me!"
"Okay, madam." The police officer put the blonde woman back into the room and warned her to behave.
The officer then turned back to Sasha and asked, "Ma'am, do you need any help?"
"Yes, please help me get him into the car. Thank you," Sasha said eagerly.
The police officer helped her get Xie Qining into the car. As she was about to get in, he asked, "Ma'am, you look very familiar. Have we met somewhere before?"
Sasha let out a soft "oh," then smiled, remembering something, and said, "In a movie. I played the female lead in a film."
"Oh, oh, it was an Eastern film," the male officer said, tapping his head in surprise. "You're a star, it's an honor."
"The honor is all mine," Sasha replied perfunctorily, then quickly drove away.
But she saw in the rearview mirror that the officer was still standing there, watching her car.
Feeling that the officer seemed to have a good impression of her, she suddenly thought it wouldn't be bad to make a police friend.
If Gu Susu could have a police friend, why couldn't she?
With that thought, she formulated a plan, but for tonight, she had to get Xie Qining sober first.
Back at the hotel, thankfully, a concierge helped her get Xie Qining to his room.
She looked at Xie Qining lying drunk on the bed and was utterly disgusted.
All those words like "handsome but useless" and "incapable of being helped" were fitting for Xie Qining.
Xie Qining, in his stupor, rolled over and kissed a pillow, "Beauty, don't run, come with me... What's a boyfriend anyway? Watch me beat him up..."
Sasha couldn't stand it and walked out of the bedroom, having no time to attend to someone like him. She went to the living room outside to seize the moment and do her own things.
The next morning, Xie Qining woke up with a headache and found himself alone in the hotel room bed.
He had no memory of what happened after the fight. Seeing shopping bags piled on the chair, he knew they were new purchases from Sasha yesterday.
He rolled out of bed, glanced at the designer brands in the shopping bags, and walked around the hotel suite. Finding Sasha asleep on the sofa outside, he nudged her, "Why are you sleeping here? Why not in the bed inside?"
Sasha woke up, looking a bit tired, and pointed at him, saying angrily, "How dare you ask? Going out to fool around last night was one thing, but you even made me go to the police station to bail you out. If your parents find out, they'll be extremely disappointed in you again."
"Ah, ah, so they know? Did you tell them?" Xie Qining asked nervously, sitting down on the sofa.
"Of course not," Sasha said. "You're my husband. What good would it do me to make them angry?"
Xie Qining felt relieved and hugged her, wanting to kiss her.
She quickly pushed him away, "Don't touch me, you're filthy. Who knows what you did with that foreign woman last night? Get away from me!"
Xie Qining let go of her and noticed his clothes were still the same as last night, unchanged, and carried a foul smell of alcohol.
"I'll go take a shower then. Last night, it was just a group of people drinking together, nothing else happened."
Sasha remembered something and said, "After I brought you back from the police station last night, Assistant Zhan called, asking why you haven't been attending the project negotiations for the past two days."
Xie Qining became nervous again. "She's sent by my father to monitor me. You didn't say anything to her, did you?"
"Do you think I'm stupid? Of course, I told her you had a cold these past two days and were resting at the hotel. I said you'd definitely go once you recovered," Sasha replied.
Xie Qining felt she was truly wonderful, having helped him out of a big bind. He impulsively reached out to hug her again.
Sasha firmly pushed him away, "Hey, you haven't showered yet, and you stink."
"Oh, oh, I'll go shower now." With that, Xie Qining hurried off to shower and change.
Sasha sat alone on the sofa, thinking about what he had said earlier about drinking with a group of people last night.
But when she went to the police station, she had only seen him and that blonde woman, no one else.
When Xie Qining came out after his shower, she had already ordered breakfast. While eating, she asked him, "How did you end up drinking with a group of people when you went to the bar here?"
"I was originally drinking alone at the bar, feeling down. I didn't expect to run into the friend who helped me kidnap Lan Yu's adopted daughter," Xie Qining said without reservation. "He was with a group of friends, so I joined them for drinks. The blonde woman approached me on her own, struck up a conversation, and I had a few drinks with her."
"Then why did the fight happen?" Sasha asked again.
Xie Qining said, "Later, that blonde woman's boyfriend showed up and attacked us without any reason. But look, I'm not injured at all. That friend's group is quite good at fighting. With them around, we beat that foreign guy until he was spitting teeth..."
Sasha interrupted him disdainfully, "What's there to be proud of? When the police arrived at the station, I only saw you, not them. And the police only asked you to pay medical expenses. I paid a lot of money for you last night, including the bail."
"It's all small money. I'll transfer it to you later." Xie Qining felt much better after eating something and smiled mysteriously.
"You can still smile? The police must have arrived, and they all ran off, leaving you to take the blame for the assault." Sasha could guess the situation perfectly.