They returned to the hotel at four in the morning.
Chu Ningwu, fully conscious while riding in the same car as the male lead, felt like she was about to fall apart.
And as she was falling apart, she ended up dozing off in the car.
There was no helping it she had used up too much energy and simply couldn’t hold on anymore.
The sleeping little kitten relaxed and began to whimper softly as she instinctively wriggled toward Huo Zhi Chuan.
The cleaner’s uniform was thin, and the Maybach’s interior heating wasn’t turned on. Once Chu Ningwu fell asleep, she naturally gravitated toward wherever it was warm.
So when Xiao Liu, the driver, glanced casually at the rearview mirror while waiting at a red light, he saw that at some point, the CEO had already pulled her into his arms again!
And he was even lowering his head to look at her face his gaze so soft it practically melted!
The partition between the front and back seats slid down with a swish.
Huo Zhi Chuan lifted his eyelids slightly, shot a glance at it, then returned his gaze to the little kitten in his arms.
Like a child who had just gotten a new toy, still in that phase of novelty where he couldn’t put it down, thinking about it even in his dreams.
Even when he closed his eyes, he could still recall the pleasure from a few hours ago, and… every one of her reactions.
By the time they reached the hotel and he lay down with her in the single bed in the master suite’s guest room, the feeling hadn’t faded instead, it had intensified.
Chu Ningwu was completely out cold. She didn’t even know when her cleaner’s uniform had been changed into a white silk nightgown.
Huo Zhi Chuan tossed and turned for a long time before finally falling asleep.
In truth, his routine was always strict, like a machine. He never went to bed past one o’clock.
Otherwise, it would disrupt his biological clock and affect his performance the next day.
As the heir of the century-old Huo Family and the one in control of a vast global business empire, he knew that a single misstep could overturn the entire ship when the next storm hit.
But the single bed was too small. No matter how he moved, he could always feel the soft, fragrant presence of the woman curled up beside him.
He couldn’t understand why he was acting like some inexperienced young man in his early twenties, his mind filled with the sounds of that little kitten and the echoes of spring.
So when dawn broke and faint light seeped through the heavy curtains into the room, Huo Zhi Chuan quickly woke up.
Feeling the situation, the man frowned slightly, got up helplessly, and went to the bathroom for a cold shower.
The soft mattress bounced slightly. With the instinctive sensitivity of a small animal, Chu Ningwu immediately sensed the loss of warmth beside her.
She stretched lazily, her watery eyes still closed, only to feel a deep, lingering soreness in her bones.
Suddenly, she shot upright like someone jolted back to life.
“Damn… I’ve got an 8 a.m. class today!”
The hotel’s pure white blanket slipped off her shoulders, revealing her slender, delicate frame. Two thin white straps hung over her collarbones, looking as if they might snap with the slightest touch.
Realizing she was in a completely unfamiliar room, Chu Ningwu abruptly looked down.
What the hell, she’d never seen these clothes before! Who changed her?!
Wait why was that changed too?!
Just as she was about to scream, memories flooded back like a tidal wave.
The scream got stuck in her throat. Her expression shifted between pale and flushed as she pieced everything together in an instant.
Clearly, she hadn’t even had time to carry out her follow-up plans. At most, she had accidentally climbed into the male lead’s bed.
And now it was the morning after the perfect time for him to settle accounts.
It had to be that the male lead wasn’t satisfied with last night’s revenge and wanted to hurt her again!
Otherwise, there was no way to explain why he had brought her to the presidential suite again.
As the vicious supporting female character, the male lead’s cannon-fodder ex-girlfriend, what she needed to do now was:
Run!
Take emergency contraception!
Disappear from the male lead’s world forever!
Chu Ningwu rubbed her sore eyes. She had shed too many “little pearls” yesterday, and her eyes still felt uncomfortable…
After sleeping, she somehow felt even more exhausted and in more pain who could understand that?
There was now something in the world more dreadful than attending an 8 a.m. class.
Sleeping with the male lead.
Using all her strength, she climbed out of bed. Looking around, she quickly spotted a set of women’s clothes placed on a small sofa, marked with two back-to-back Cs, clearly expensive.
Chu Ningwu swiftly changed out of the nightgown, even rolling her eyes inelegantly midway.
Male lead, huh. More like a dog.
He had bitten her all over there wasn’t a single patch of skin untouched, like a palette of colors!
No matter how handsome he was, it couldn’t hide his rotten character! His beastly nature!
She had worked the night shift yesterday, so she could rest during the day today.
Grabbing her phone, bag, and personal belongings, Chu Ningwu slipped away like she was fleeing a plague.
It was just past seven in the morning. The streets weren’t crowded yet, except for the breakfast stalls.
Following the original owner’s memory, Chu Ningwu headed home a rented apartment in a small residential building about ten minutes away.
As she passed by a baozi shop, the owner called out to her, “Xiao Ning, the usual today? Eight meat buns and two vegetable buns?”
Chu Ningwu was startled. The original owner had such a big appetite? Ten buns in one meal, with both meat and vegetables?
To maintain her cover and avoid suspicion, she mechanically nodded and dug through the memory.
Oh, right there were also two younger brothers at home, both “precious sons.” Even in elementary school, they already showed an astonishing appetite, eating four large meat buns each.
Right. The original owner ate the vegetable buns.
“Thank you.” Chu Ningwu took the bag of buns, lowered her head to scan the payment code, and casually checked her balance. She didn’t notice the owner freezing slightly upon hearing her polite thanks.
Since when had this temperamental, hard-to-please beauty become so polite?
Chu Ningwu checked through her shopping app accounts. The balance was only a few hundred yuan, and she still owed over a thousand on next month’s bill.
Unwilling to believe it, she opened her messaging app. Even worse only a two-digit balance, not even enough to pay for phone credit.
Her hands trembling, she checked other platforms. Each one showed several hundred yuan in pending payments.
The original owner’s family lived in an old hutong in Jing City. Not poor, not rich just getting by.
Working as a receptionist at a high-end club actually paid well, around ten thousand a month.
But every time her salary came in, it went straight to repaying debts across platforms, plus two thousand sent home. On top of that, she shared a rental with three other girls.
Her life was a constant cycle of debt and repayment, with nothing left to save.
At this point, Chu Ningwu almost understood the original owner no wonder she wanted to latch onto a rich man.
But crossing social classes wasn’t something everyone had the luck to achieve.
She might as well just work honestly, survive day by day, and hope to return home soon.
Dragging her sore legs, she slowly walked toward her rented place, passing by a pharmacy on the way.
Pushing open the glass door, she said to the clerk in a white coat:
“Hello, I’d like to buy a box of emergency contraceptive pills.”