If You Are a Dodder Flower

Part 48

Xia Rou's eyes were wet as she suddenly burst into laughter.

"You must have taken revenge for me!" she laughed, "You must have!"

Cao Yang was speechless. "What did Liang Ziheng do to you?"

Xia Rou fisted his shirt and began to cry. "He killed me! I died!"

She was just laughing and now she was crying, Xia Rou was really drunk! Now she was even speaking nonsense?

The buttons on Cao Yang's shirt were beginning to strain, so he said helplessly, "I got it, I got it. I'll take revenge for you!"

"Now go back to your room and sleep!" he urged her. Translated by The Novelst

She released him in satisfaction. When she turned around, she tripped on the staircase and fell to the floor. Luckily the staircase was carpeted, so it wasn't that painful.

But she didn't want to get back up. After an entire round of trouble, the alcohol had overtaken her and she couldn't find the will to get up herself.

Cao Yang was speechless, looking at the little drunkard splayed over the stairs. She had only managed to climb a few steps. He rolled his eyes and went to pull her up so she could stand.

He bent down, grasped her legs, and threw her over his shoulder.

Hmmph. This damn little girl who had gotten drunk and come back late didn't deserve to be princess carried!

He used one hand to carry her and with just a few steps reached the second floor. He entered her room and threw her onto her bed.

Xia Rou rolled on the bed, beginning once again to cry as she curled up her body.

"Don't kill him..." she said, crying, "You just have to beat him a little, I... I..."

As she spoke, she began to sob, unable to speak properly.

Cao Yang snuffed out his cigarette, going to her side and patting her back.

She continued to sob for some time, before recovering. She tried to suppress her hiccups: "I-I just hate when people touch my body... I..."

Cao Yang's hand froze.

She was just speaking nonsense, he thought.

Hu Chen had asked and his people had investigated this matter. That Liang kid was nearly a stranger to her and they had no contact at all, so it was nearly impossible for him to have done anything to her.

Xia Rou was indeed speaking nonsense. The next minute her eyes filled back up with tears as she looked at Cao Yang and said, "Big brother, I'm leaving soon. I have to go to school, I won't return home anymore... Y-You need to live well and not get divorced..."

She was raving. Cao Yang was relieved.

"I'm not married yet," he said, reaching to brush at the hair over her forehead.

"Then don't get divorced. Don't, okay?" she said, her eyes still watery, dripping tears. "Don't get divorced... Live well, you need to live well... Alright?"

"Alright," he coaxed her. Translated by The Novelst

Xia Rou liked to hear his reassurance, like what he said was a promise weightier than a thousand bars of gold.

She fell asleep while she was still crying.

Cao Yang stood up, taking the blanket to tuck around her.

He also took a tissue to wipe the tears on her face and her runny nose before he left, quietly.

After shutting the door to her room, he stood in the corridor and lit up again. The moonlight streamed through the huge windows into the hallway.