"Mmm-hmm, I'm so happy, Aunt Xia is very good to me, and she tells me bedtime stories at night!" Tong Tong nodded enthusiastically.
"Then when we go out tomorrow, how about we buy a gift for Aunt Xia?" Liu Yifeng felt that Xia Qianqian had helped him so much that giving her money directly would seem too distant.
Giving a gift was the best way, it expressed his gratitude and would make her accept it happily.
Tong Tong agreed without a second thought: "Okay, I'll pick the gift tomorrow!"
After that, Liu Yifeng took Tong Tong to wash up. By the time they were done, it was almost half past two, and the father and son finally went to sleep.
Meanwhile, Yun Duo'er returned to the hotel also past two o'clock. Back in her room, she looked at the medicine in her hand and threw it directly onto the table. Even a dog wouldn't eat this.
She knew that Tong Tong had asked the doctor to prescribe medicine for her, not because he was worried about her, but to subtly criticize her.
He said he was afraid she would blackmail his father afterward, but no matter how bad she was, she would never do something like blackmail.
So, seeing the medicine, she couldn't help but think of what Tong Tong had said. She wished she had thrown the medicine away in front of them then.
Instead, leaving it here only made her feel angry.
After she washed up, removed her makeup, and applied a mask, it was already three o'clock.
She lay on the bed and fell asleep within seconds, but was woken up by her alarm at five-thirty again. As if afraid she wouldn't wake up, her assistant knocked on the door at that moment.
Yun Duo'er had given her assistant the day off yesterday, so she didn't know that Yun Duo'er had only slept until three o'clock.
Seeing Yun Duo'er opening the door, her assistant's eyes fixed on the large dark circles under her eyes and she asked with concern: "Sister Duo'er, did you not rest well?"
"Who says I didn't rest well? I rested very well. Go pack my things, and I'll leave after I wash up." Yun Duo'er said expressionlessly and turned to go into the washroom.
Even though she didn't want to get up, she had already signed the contract. Breaking it would mean not only a financial penalty but, more importantly, irreparable damage to her reputation.
With her huge panda eyes, she left for another city early in the morning. Liu Yifeng and Tong Tong slept soundly until eight-thirty.
They went to sleep at half past two and woke up at half past eight, having slept for a full six hours.
Just as he was about to go wash up, his phone rang. It was Mengxi calling.
He guessed that she had also just woken up and planned to ask her to settle the fee for him.
However, as soon as he answered the call and before he could say anything, he heard Mengxi's agitated voice: "Liu Yifeng, what did you do to me last night?"
Her voice made Liu Yifeng's ears hurt, so he quickly moved the phone away. Only after she calmed down did he bring it back to his ear and reply: "I didn't do anything, don't blame me!"
"You didn't do anything, but my clothes are torn? And when I woke up, I was completely naked.
I called hotel staff, and they said everything was fine when you took me to the room. After you left, this happened to me.
I was blind to believe you and let you help me. I didn't expect you to be two-faced. You took advantage of me when I was drunk. What's the difference between you and that scumbag producer?" Without asking for details, Mengxi started yelling at Liu Yifeng.
Heaven knows how distraught she was when she woke up naked.
Initially, she thought Liu Yifeng was a gentleman, but unexpectedly, he turned out to be a hypocrite in a virtuous guise.
He had taken her out of one pit only to throw her into another. She was so angry she wanted to kill him.
After listening to Mengxi's words, Liu Yifeng was immediately displeased: "Miss Meng, don't you think it's very impolite and excessive to wrongly accuse someone like this without any regard for the facts?"
"What do you mean by that? Are you saying I wrongly accused you?
I wish I had wrongly accused you, but the clothes on the floor and my naked body make it hard for me to convince myself that you had nothing to do with this.
And I've confirmed with the hotel staff, you were fine when you brought me in. When you left and the staff came in to help me adjust the blanket, I was like this.
If it wasn't your doing, could it be myself? Or should we blame it all on ghosts?"
Liu Yifeng didn't expect his good intentions to help her would bring trouble upon himself. He regretted agreeing to help her.
However, it was done now, and regretting it was useless. What he could do now was to clear his name, as he didn't want to bear such unjust accusations.
"Don't get agitated. Let me explain slowly. If you still think I'm lying after listening.
Then you can go to the hospital for an examination and see if I did anything of that sort to you!"
Seeing that Liu Yifeng showed no signs of guilt and instead appeared open and honest, Mengxi couldn't help but doubt herself. Could it be that she had misunderstood?
Thinking of this, she changed her aggressive demeanor and said calmly: "Then explain what happened last night. If I wrongly accused you, I will apologize to you and pay you double the agreed fee.
If I didn't wrongly accuse you, I won't call the police. Just consider me blind and paying for my own mistake!"
Liu Yifeng cut to the chase and explained the events of the previous night: "Last night, you sent me a message asking me to rescue you from the private room in five minutes, right?"
Mengxi: "That's right, I called you!"
"When I rescued you from the producer, you were already completely drunk.
I could only find you the nearest hotel and book a room for you to rest.
After I brought you to the room, you kept saying you were hot and started taking off your clothes. I tried to stop you, but it was no use.
Later, I covered you with a blanket, but you kicked it off and hugged me yourself.
Seeing your condition, I knew it wasn't just alcohol. So I suspected you might have been drugged.
As it turned out, I was right. To confirm my suspicion, I gave you a cold shower, just like in the novels, and you indeed became much quieter and more obedient.
I put you on the bed, covered you with the blanket, and left the room immediately. I found the front desk lady and asked her to keep an eye on you. Thinking that you had torn your clothes, I gave her another two thousand yuan to buy you clothes to wear.
After making all the arrangements, I left the hotel.
I never expected this to lead to such a big misunderstanding. If I had known, I shouldn't have agreed to help you in the first place."
After listening to Liu Yifeng's explanation, Mengxi was half-convinced: "Is that really what happened?"
"I told you, if you don't believe me, go to the hospital for an examination. A doctor will be able to tell if you had sexual intercourse last night!"
Seeing Liu Yifeng's candidness, Mengxi recalled how the producer had kept pouring her drinks last night, and one of them had been fizzy. She had found it strange at the time, wondering why red wine would bubble.