Chapter 61: Why Can't Shangyang Just Be a Bit More Superficial?

The system listened with disdain. [If the host omitted that "he-he" at the end, you would sound a bit more dedicated.]

[Well, shouldn't I properly savor... cough, reminisce about it? If anything actually happened, I could make up for it today by pretending I just got the wrong person.]

However, Lin Xianxian wrung her brain, yet still could not recall what had happened after last night.

Still, the clothes she was wearing...

Had definitely been changed.

This discovery made Lin Xianxian's eyes light up.

Could it be...

Yet, there was not a single mark on her body.

Just as she was feeling puzzled, Shang Yang arrived:

"Come down for breakfast once you're awake, or should I have the housekeeper bring it up?"

Lin Xianxian instinctively climbed out of bed, and then, she noticed the replaced bedsheets.

These sheets had only been put on two days ago, and they were changed again last night?

[Could it be that things were so intense between us last night that we had no choice but to change the sheets?!]

Lin Xianxian was both thrilled and filled with regret.

[What a pity, I don't remember anything. Just how... he-he, must that have been.]

Shang Yang was silent for two seconds. "Next time, drink less."

Just as Lin Xianxian was happily thinking that Shang Yang was showing concern for her, Shang Yang smiled slightly:

"You had just finished kissing me last night before you threw up all over me, oh, and on the sheets too..."

"Lin Xianxian, even though we are not short on bedsheets in this house, but..."

Shang Yang said, "Do you know what kind of look the housekeeper gave me today?"

Lin Xianxian opened her mouth, unable to utter a single word.

[Host, you... your character persona has completely collapsed!!]

The system shrieked in terror within Lin Xianxian's mind:

[The housekeeper thinks the two of you were... very... intense last night!!]

So intense that even Shang Yang found it too embarrassing to let the domestic help see, to the point where he had to wash the bedsheets himself!

Lin Xianxian: "..."

It's over. Is it still too late to pretend I had a memory blackout?

Lin Xianxian felt deeply aggrieved.

How was she supposed to salvage this?

[It’s bad enough that I didn't get to sleep with Uncle Shang, but now I’ve been misunderstood by the housekeeper! Wuwu, my persona is completely ruined in front of her! I am no longer that spoiled, self-willed, bad-tempered young lady who drove Uncle Shang out of our marital home!]

[Wait... If the housekeeper misunderstood... that proves the bedsheets were washed by Shang Yang himself.]

[Which means...]

Lin Xianxian's eyes suddenly lit up.

[Which means the clothes I'm wearing were changed by Shang Yang!]

Shang Yang, who was currently eating breakfast: "..."

He raised his gaze to glance at Lin Xianxian. She was...

Lin Xianxian grew more excited the more she thought about it.

[He-he, Little System, tell me, since my figure is so gorgeous, what must it have felt like for Shang Yang to change my clothes? Did he get a nosebleed or something?]

Shang Yang, who had indeed gone through a great deal of trouble changing Lin Xianxian's clothes last night: "..."

The system let out a cold, mocking chuckle and taunted:

[Host, have you forgotten? At the time, you vomited all over Shang Yang and the bedsheets, which means you must have been covered in it yourself... In other words, you stank!]

Lin Xianxian: "..."

The system twisted the knife further:

[If Shang Yang had any thoughts, would you still be in one piece right now? Facts prove that faced with a drunkard who threw up all over him, and had just forcefully kissed him before throwing up all over him... absolutely no one could generate any romantic urges!]

Lin Xianxian: "............"

[Even being completely naked wouldn't help!]

[So, Host, you'd better stop trying to seduce Uncle Shang and just focus on following your plotline!]

Lin Xianxian gnashed her teeth in her mind:

[System, shut your trap!!]

Fine, after being dealt this heavy blow by the system, those risqué fantasies in Lin Xianxian's mind instantly shattered, replaced by the image of her smelling awful while clinging to Shang Yang like a barnacle...

Lin Xianxian:

[Damn alcohol, if I ever get drunk again I'm a dog!]

System: [Heh.]

Shang Yang: ...

Actually, it wasn't entirely true that he didn't feel a thing...

After all, last night, after helping her change and wiping down her body, he still had to head into the bathroom for a cold shower, and even...

The moment he got into bed, she clung to him...

In the end, having no other choice, he woke up early, took another shower, and retreated to the study.

Shang Yang deeply suspected that if he kept cooperating with Lin Xianxian and playing along with her plotline like this, his physical health would run into problems sooner rather than later.

Yet...

The culprit of all this remained completely oblivious.

She was even mentally cursing him in her heart:

[Abominable, he even changed my clothes and didn't take the slightest advantage of me! System, tell me, is Shang Yang shooting blanks?]

She even began to harbor self-doubt:

[No way, am I really that lacking in charm?]

System:

[Pardon my bluntness... Host, in front of Shang Yang, besides your face, your figure, and the partial abilities you displayed after your identity as a designer was exposed, do you have any other charms?]

[At most, being a designer makes Shang Yang appreciate you. As for your face and figure... Host, do you really think Uncle Shang is the kind of superficial human being who only cares about appearances?]

[If he truly were, you wouldn't have loved him the most when you were reading the plot of this world!]

Lin Xianxian was left speechless.

Perhaps out of sheer frustration, when Lin Xianxian ate her breakfast, she practically treated her steamed bun as if she were biting into Shang Yang.

[Detestable Shang Yang, completely blind! Heartless!]

Shang Yang: "..."

[A hot bombshell like me got stripped naked by you, and you even helped wipe my body... yet you could remain completely indifferent and do nothing? That's just an insult to my dignity!]

System: [...]

Shang Yang: "............"

There were so many things he wanted to say, but he couldn't say them.

Shang Yang choked back his words for a long time and took a deep breath.

Fine, his patience with Lin Xianxian was truly...

Impossible to take to heart.

Shang Yang swallowed the words he had wanted to blurt out.

Once Lin Xianxian finished breakfast, her thoughts drifted back to the events of last night.

[Speaking of which, tomorrow is Shang Feifei's graduation ceremony, right? Perfect, the very next day I'm going to pack her up and ship her abroad!]

[I've already arranged it with several friends; I'm going to make sure Shang Feifei's arrangements are airtight so that phoenix-man Yang Haoyu won't have any chance to play hard to get!]

[In the original plot, the moment Shang Feifei graduated, she felt extremely anxious at the thought that she wouldn't be able to see Yang Haoyu every day. Later, upon discovering that Yang Haoyu worked at the Shang Corporation, she was thrilled out of her mind and even sneaked in to apply for an internship there herself.]

[During her internship, she learned about many of the difficulties Yang Haoyu faced at work—like who was making things difficult for him, or how badly he wanted to secure a certain project—and Shang Feifei secretly helped him behind the scenes.]

[Moreover, under the advice of yours truly—a brainless female supporting character—she pretended to get drunk, or pretended to get caught in the rain without a way home and got soaked... and successfully let that phoenix-man take her back home, leading straight to cohabitation and making their relationship official!]

[Yang Haoyu had known Shang Feifei's true identity all along, yet he feigned ignorance, pretending he had been tricked by her. Shang Feifei thought she was doing a stellar job acting as a poor intern chased out by her landlord, but in reality... even though she changed into ordinary street-market clothes, every other aspect of her lifestyle remained as extravagant as ever.]