"I... got drunk and blacked out?"
Zhuang Xiaoyan patted her head. How did she end up like this?
She hadn't been drinking, had she? She had intended to drink, but then that incident happened...
Wait, what incident? What incident was it?
What happened?
What was going on?
Zhuang Xiaoyan felt a throbbing pain in her head, unable to recall anything.
As her hand touched her cheek, she felt a stinging pain. Her face was swollen?
Suddenly, she remembered Lin Xiao! And how she had watched Manager Wang collapse on the ground, bruised and bloody... and that strange, terrifying man who slapped her.
He had knocked her unconscious.
She just hadn't expected him to claim she was drunk and then send her to the hospital.
"You little brat! Do you know when I found you, you were lying on the ground, surrounded by your vomit? Oh my god, and the smell of alcohol on you! It was so strong! Why can't you learn anything else, except to drink like your father?" Her mother continued to scold Zhuang Xiaoyan, her face etched with worry. "With you like this, what will happen in the future? Do you think any decent, well-matched young men will even look at you?"
"They don't need to look at me," Zhuang Xiaoyan retorted subconsciously.
"Do you really think you can live by yourself? With your current behavior, what have you been doing all this time? Besides hanging out with your so-called friends, clubbing, what else can you do? Are you out looking for your 'little brothers'? Or are you smoking, drinking, and fighting? Today you got drunk and blacked out, ending up in the hospital. What about tomorrow? What if you end up lying in the middle of the road? Would you even survive to see me again?"
Speaking of these things, Zhuang Xiaoyan's mother grew even angrier. Hands on her hips, she ignored whether Zhuang Xiaoyan had recovered, pointing at her and chattering away.
Zhuang Xiaoyan wanted to cover her ears, not wanting to listen to the same old lectures.
"Right, Mom, who called you?" Zhuang Xiaoyan finally managed to speak during a lull in her mother's tirade.
"The phone? A well-dressed young man."
Her mother said curtly, "Look at you, your drinking has been seen by outsiders. You don't even try to change. This young man even helped pay for the ambulance. The doctor's report just came in, saying your blood alcohol level is too high. You might have alcohol poisoning, so they're giving you an IV drip and protecting your stomach."
Blood alcohol level too high?
Zhuang Xiaoyan looked bewildered. If the hospital had really tested her, they would never have found her alcohol level to be abnormally high, right?
No...
Zhuang Xiaoyan felt her heart skip a beat. This meant that the person from last night... no, Lin Xiao!
Lin Xiao could control even the people at the hospital. If Lin Xiao wanted, she could die right here in the hospital, and he could even forge a completely convincing diagnosis report...
Thinking of this, a flicker of panic crossed Zhuang Xiaoyan's face. She quickly said to her mother, "Mom, I'm sorry for making you worry."
"You little brat, you actually know how to apologize... Huh?!" Her mother stared at her daughter strangely. Was this still her daughter? Usually, she only talked back or asked for money.