Chapter 110: Chapter 109 Lin Xinyue's Tender Feelings Like Water

It was past ten at night."Really, how did you end up drinking so much?"

Lin Xinyue supported Gu Yu, who had a red face and blurry eyes, with a helpless expression.

Although she had anticipated Gu Yu would drink a fair amount, she had not expected him to get completely plastered.

"Ya, you support Qin Shan, okay? I'll help Boss Pu," said Pu Tongren, pointing to the dizzily shaking Qin Shan still on his seat, before he hoisted Laoer, who was now unconscious, making sure one of his arms was over his shoulder to prevent him from sliding onto the ground.

Hu Xiaoya nodded and walked over to help Qin Shan to his feet.

Qin Shan still had a bit of consciousness, and saw someone approaching, but his eyes were too tired to fully open, making out only the figure of a girl.

"Hehe, Jinfeng... you've come to pick me up!"

Subconsciously mistaking Hu Xiaoya for Wan Jinfeng, Qin Shan opened his arms, wanting to embrace her.

Hu Xiaoya sidestepped quickly, avoiding his hands, then helped him up from the side.

Qin Shan stood up wobbly, squinting at Hu Xiaoya. He stared blankly for a while, then confusedly reached out to touch her head.

"Eh... Jinfeng... why have you gotten shorter...? And your hair is up in a bun... I remember you don't... don't like buns, right?"

Qin Shan said foolishly.

Hu Xiaoya clenched her fists, cheeks puffing up with irritation.

She hated it most when people commented on her height!!!

But she also realized that the current Qin Shan was probably mistaking her for his girlfriend, which is why she didn't take it to heart.

"Let's go!"

Hu Xiaoya struggled to carry Qin Shan's arm, almost dragging him across the street.

Boss Pu and Lin Xinyue followed closely behind.

Upon reaching the apartment building where Lin Xinyue lived, she stopped.

"Shall we let Gu Yu stay in my room tonight? I won't send him back to the dorm," she said, wiping the sweat off her forehead. She didn't have the strength of Hu Xiaoya, and Gu Yu was a lot heavier than Qin Shan, so she couldn't support him on her own!

Turning her head to look at her best friend, Hu Xiaoya pouted and said helplessly, "Fine~ then you'll sleep with me tonight."

Lin Xinyue quickly nodded and helped Gu Yu into her apartment, while Hu Xiaoya and Pu Tongren continued to send the other two drunks back to their dormitory.

"Uncle, please make an exception! He's my boyfriend... you've seen him quite a few times already!"

"You see, he's drunk too much, I can't just leave my boyfriend out on the street, can I?"

"Mmhmm, mmhmm! Thank you, uncle!"

At the entrance to the apartment, the security guard finally agreed to let Gu Yu in after Lin Xinyue's earnest pleas, combining emotion with reason.

He even helped her carry the dead-drunk Gu Yu into the elevator.

"Ding! Seventh floor!"

When the elevator doors opened, Lin Xinyue dragged Gu Yu to her door, then fished out her keys with one hand to unlock it.

The security door swung open, followed by the living room lights.

A brightly lit living room, simple and styled in Scandinavian decor, appeared before her eyes.

On the wall opposite the security door hung a reproduction of Van Gogh's "Starry Night."

Groggy, Gu Yu lifted a hand, pointing at the "Starry Night" and muttered, "Fake!"

"..."

Lin Xinyue rolled her eyes at him and pulled his hand.

She had a tough time getting him to lie down on the couch, as he kept insisting on sitting up.

"Lie down!"

She pressed him down, he sat back up: this back and forth continued until Lin Xinyue had no choice but to let him sit.

She then went into the kitchen to look for ingredients to make a hangover soup.

She vaguely remembered that her mother used to make a hangover soup for her father, with the main ingredient being mung bean sprouts.

Coincidentally, she had been dieting recently and had prepared plenty of such light foods.

Although she had bought yellow bean sprouts rather than mung bean sprouts, there shouldn't be much difference, she presumed.

Bean sprouts, spring onions, garlic, white pepper powder, soy sauce, salt.

Going through the ingredients she needed in her mind, recalling from her childhood memories, Lin Xinyue got busy at work.

About ten minutes later, a bowl of clear and sparkling bean sprout soup for sobering up was ready.

Just as she ladled the sobering-up soup into the bowl, Lin Xinyue heard a snap from the living room.

She thought Gu Yu had fallen over, so she quickly carried the sobering-up soup to the living room, only to find it was just Gu Yu's smartphone that had fallen to the ground.

Setting the sobering-up soup on the coffee table, she picked up Gu Yu's smartphone. Sёarᴄh the novёlF~ire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

She hadn't paid much attention to it before and now noticed that Gu Yu's smartphone was quite old.

On the back of the phone, the Mi logo was almost completely worn off. She took a picture of Gu Yu's phone with her own iPear 11 ProMax and used an image search to look it up.

Gu Yu's smartphone was the HongMi 5 plus, which back in 2017 cost just 1,300 yuan for the 4+64G version.

The price of the iPear in her hand, no exaggeration, could buy seven or eight of Gu Yu's smartphones.

It was a birthday gift from her dad last year.

Gu Yu's family background certainly wasn't worse than hers, and he himself was quite wealthy, so why didn't he ever change his phone?

With only 4G of RAM, the phone must be very laggy by now, right?

Could it be of some sentimental significance?

She examined Gu Yu's phone carefully.

Its screen was protected by a tempered glass and had no cracks, but the back of the phone was covered in various scratches, all marks of time.

She accidentally pressed the power button.

The screen lit up automatically, and the screensaver was still that photo of her stealing a kiss from Gu Yu, which had been sneakily captured.

Every time she saw this photo, she inevitably blushed.

This was the first time she had ever kissed a boy!

And it had been secretly taken by Gu Yu's roommate!

And set as his screensaver!

Feeling both embarrassed and warmed inside for a while, she thought about finding some excuse to get Gu Yu a new phone, when she suddenly realized she didn't even know Gu Yu's birthday!

"Ah... I'm such a failure as a girlfriend!"

Lin Xinyue held her forehead in self-reproach.

Looking at the drunken Gu Yu, she decided to feed him the sobering-up soup first.

She casually placed Gu Yu's HongMi on the coffee table, and the screensaver happened to change automatically.

An image of a humble old woman appeared on the screensaver, standing next to a little boy with a red face.

It must have been a snowy day; the two were standing by the Huangpu River with snow on their heads and shoulders, smiles beaming on their faces as they held hands.

"This must be Yu's grandma, right? She looks so kind... and Yu was already a little stud even as a child... no wonder he's grown up to be so handsome."

Her fingers traced the screen, and she could almost imagine how happy this grandmother and grandson duo were.

She also recalled that Gu Yu once told her all his family members had passed away, leaving him alone.

Her heart ached at the thought.

How strong must his spirit be to bear all this!

How had he managed to get by all this time?

Perhaps it was because all his loved ones were gone that he seemed indifferent towards money and status.

With all his close kin gone, what use was a fortune to a once mighty figure?

No wonder Gu Yu always seemed so detached.

With teary eyes, she sat beside Gu Yu, scooped up a spoonful of sobering-up soup, gently blew it cool, and brought it to his lips, trying to feed him.

But Gu Yu turned his face away, refusing to cooperate.

After several attempts, Lin Xinyue still couldn't get him to drink the soup.

Seeing the drunken Gu Yu still looking so guarded, Lin Xinyue was at a loss.

After a moment of thought, she had no choice but to hold Gu Yu's head in her embrace, letting him lean on her chest, and gently patted his shoulder, comforting him:

"Yu, be good~ Drink the soup, and you won't have a headache when you wake up tomorrow."

Her tone was gentle, soothing to anyone who listened.

Sure enough, Gu Yu immediately cooperated, letting Lin Xinyue feed him as much sobering-up soup as he would take.

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One bowl of sobering-up soup later, Gu Yu didn't wake up but fell into a deep sleep.

Lin Xinyue looked at the sleeping face in her arms and smiled warmly; it seemed even the strongest of men had their fragile side.

She was grateful that she could make Gu Yu let down his guard completely.