Bai Xiaoruo suddenly felt a little wronged. Was she really that unpopular with him?

Seeing Bai Xiaoruo's embarrassment, Gu Yao quickly smoothed things over, "Sister-in-law, he just drank too much, don't mind him. I'll help him upstairs. Or you could make him some hangover soup, so he can at least sleep better tonight."

"Okay, I'll be right there." Bai Xiaoruo immediately ran into the kitchen and got busy.

Gu Yao helped Xuan Mingyu back to his room and downstairs, where they ran into Bai Xiaoruo, who had already prepared a hangover soup and was carrying it upstairs.

"You've worked so hard, won't you sit a little longer? Are you hungry? How about I make you something to eat later?"

"No, I have to go to work tomorrow. I'll head back now. Please take care of Mingyu, sister-in-law."

Still sitting? Still eating her food? If Xian Mingyu woke up and saw this, given his temper, he'd skin her alive.

Preserving my life is the priority; it's best to retreat first.

"Okay then... from now on you can just call me Xiaoruo. I shouldn't be... that old, right?"

Bai Xiaoruo felt extremely awkward being addressed as "young mistress" or "sister-in-law" and didn't like such titles at all.

"Okay, okay, I'll go now, sister-in-law... Xiaoruo, you should go upstairs quickly."

"Um."

Bai Xiaoruo carried the steaming hot hangover soup back to the master bedroom, where Xuan Mingyu was already asleep under the covers.

He reeked of alcohol, which made the bedroom smell bad. He didn't even change his clothes, let alone take off his shoes. It must be so uncomfortable to sleep like that.

Bai Xiaoruo placed the hangover soup on the table, sat on the edge of the bed, and hesitated whether to wake him up to drink the hangover soup or help him take off his suit first.

"Um... could you wake up first? Don't go to sleep in dirty clothes..." Bai Xiaoruo cautiously poked Xuan Mingyu's exposed arm with a finger.

I poked it, and poked it again, but there was absolutely no reaction.

Is she really asleep?