039 “AV Shooting Guide” Chapter 38

38: Waking up with a hangover

If you woke up after a night of hangover and found yourself naked in a strange, comfortable bed – how would you react?

“Ah!” Qiao Qiao covered his chest with the quilt in embarrassment. He shrank into the corner and pointed at Zhou Yuanchuan beside him and stammered, “You, you, you… me, me, me…”

“Are you awake?” Zhou Yuanchuan, who was leaning on the bedside while working with his upper body exposed, stopped writing. He took off the thin-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose and smiled kindly and decently, “Good morning.”

Accompanying the words ‘good morning’ was a gentle kiss on the corner of Qiao Qiao’s mouth.

“Why am I naked…” Qiao Qiao’s face turned red, and after choking on the word, he continued to ask, “Last night we -”

“Yes.” Zhou Yuanchuan nodded, “We did it. Although I insisted on doing it five times, you probably only lasted until the fourth time. I’m not sure… you seemed to wake up again after that.”

“Five, five times…” Qiao Qiao’s eyesight went dark. The amount of information was so overwhelming that she didn’t know how to react.

“Oh, yes, are you hungry? I asked the front desk to bring food in.” Zhou Yuanchuan gently rubbed Qiao Qiao’s messy hair, lifted the quilt and got out of bed.He seemed to have been up for a long time, and his lower body had already been put on trousers. Although Zhou Yuanchuan’s figure was not strong, he was still much stronger than the average person. His muscles were evenly attached to his bones. His skin was a kind of transparent white, and even cyan blood vessels were faintly visible underneath.

He casually picked up a vest from the ground and put it on. Because his back was to Qiao Qiao, Qiao Qiao could clearly see the bright red and hideous scratches on his back.

Qiao Qiao immediately understood that it was probably his own handiwork.

“Your back…”

“Huh? What?” Zhou Yuanchuan seemed unaware. He stood in front of the mirror, looked sideways, and then smiled, “It’s okay, it’s just a scratch. I’m the kind of person who shows up even if I’m injured, so even though it looks serious, I actually don’t feel anything.”

He walked to the bed and leaned over to kiss Qiao Qiao’s face: “Thank you for your concern.”

The man’s cool lips were pressed against his cheeks, carrying the fresh breath of mint leaves. At close range, Zhou Yuanchuan’s delicate facial features became more clear-cut and handsome. No matter how angry you were, they were all gone in an instant.

Good-looking people really have their own ‘forgiveness + pitiful buff’. Qiao Qiao was originally quite indignant at being ‘seduced’ last night, but when he saw the red stripes all over Zhou Yuanchuan’s back, he softened his heart. Then after being kissed by Zhou Yuanchuan, he suddenly thought, ‘Anyway, he is pretty good-looking, so just treat him as a prostitute’…

And then he felt smug about having a prostitute without having to pay for it, man…

“It’s already eleven o’clock, why don’t we just have lunch?” Zhou Yuanchuan cleared away the paper full of symbols on the table and turned to ask Qiao Qiao, who was still stunned on the bed.

eleven o’clock…

Qiao Qiao trembled all over and woke up with a jolt.

“It’s eleven o’clock?!” Qiao Qiao suddenly lifted the quilt, “Oops! I have to go filming at ten o’clock! It’s over!”

She didn’t care that she was still naked, and rushed to her clothes in three steps. She took out her phone and looked through it, and her face suddenly fell.

Because she accidentally set the vibrator during dinner yesterday, none of the three alarm clocks were heard or spoken, and none of the twenty or so calls made by Song Qiyan were received…

“What should I do, what should I do, what should I do?” Qiao Qiao scratched her head. The phone in her hand vibrated again. Qiao Qiao was so frightened that she threw it on the bed. In this situation, for her, it took much more courage to answer the phone than to continue pretending not to.

“I’ll drive you there now.” Zhou Yuanchuan put on a coat and looked quite remorseful, “I’m sorry, I didn’t know I still have work today.”

“No, no, Director Song hates people being late the most…” Qiao Qiao jumped on the spot worriedly, “Otherwise, I might as well take half a day off! Mr. Zhou, can you help me? Can you pretend to be a doctor? Just say that I had a fever last night and am in the hospital. I can’t go there until this afternoon.”

“Of course.” Zhou Yuanchuan picked up the phone on the bed, paused for a second and then picked it up, “Hello.”

From Qiao Qiao’s perspective, she couldn’t hear what Song Qiyan said on the other end of the phone, so she could only uneasily guess Song Qiyan’s answer through the changes in Zhou Yuanchuan’s expression. She saw Zhou Yuanchuan paused for a few seconds after saying “hello”, then said “it’s me” with a smile, and then hung up the phone after saying “hmm” twice.

“How’s it going?” Qiao Qiao leaned over holding the pillow, “Does he believe it?”

“Song Qiyan recognized my voice.” Zhou Yuanchuan returned the phone to Qiao Qiao, “He also guessed that we were together last night. He said you can go back in the afternoon. He also said that if something like this happens again, he hopes you will call him personally.”

“Then, is his tone okay?” Qiao Qiao asked hopefully.

“Well, it’s quite normal.” Zhou Yuanchuan smiled and picked up a piece of Qiao Qiao’s clothes on the ground and handed it to Qiao Qiao, “What do you want to eat later?”

“Thank you, but let’s forget it…” After letting go of the big things in her mind, Qiao Qiao began to feel embarrassed again about being face to face with Zhou Yuanchuan. She put on her clothes hastily, “I’m going back. Last night… let’s forget what happened last night. Don’t mention it again.”

Zhou Yuanchuan looked at Qiao Qiao intently for a while, then sighed slightly, “I didn’t force you last night.”

“Hmm…” Qiao Qiao forced a smile, “I guess so, otherwise you must have scratches on more than just your back.”

“I’m sorry, let me take you away. Although it’s not far from the city center, it’s harder to get a taxi.”

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Qiao Qiao unbuckled his seat belt and reached for the car door.

“Wait.” Zhou Yuanchuan stopped her, Qiao Qiao turned around in confusion, and the man leaned over. This time the kiss was restrained and gentle, falling on the forehead, like a kind and harmless care from his brother.

“Qiao Qiao…” the other party murmured in a low voice, “Can I come to you again?”

Qiao Qiao hesitated for a moment, but after seeing the slightly pleading look in the other person’s eyes, she couldn’t bear to say no. Besides, Zhou Yuanchuan looked really affectionate, so she could only nodded vaguely, and hurriedly pushed the car door and left without even saying goodbye.

Zhou Yuanchuan kept leaning forward for a while before slowly returning to his seat.He opened the drawer in the car and took out a slender cigarette to light it. Orange flames bloomed from his fingers, and then swirling snow-white smoke rose.

“We’ll get married this month.” He leaned on the back of his chair and murmured, “No, it’s better to hurry up.”