SUSPICIOUS

"Hey Chaoxiang, drink once more.", Suyin lend a drink to Chaoxiang's hand.

"Yeah bro, give in to your ex's request."

Chaoxiang is just looking at his phone, waiting for his personal assistant to send him a message. Earlier before he went to the bar, he instructed his personal assistant to look after Meixiu. He told his assistant to standby, wait for her on the coffee shop located in front of Meixiu's office.

All of his staff, assistants, makeup artists, hairdressers and all the crew knew about the wedding. All of them are paid, obliging them to keep quiet. "Since they are all paid, I should know how to use them properly.", Chaoxiang said to himself when he came up to the idea that someone should look over Meixiu.

He knows Meixiu didn't bring her car today, basically because he insisted to drive her to Yang Diamond Enterprises. "She has no plan to go home?", he thought for it is already late at night.

"If you refuse to take this, I'll kiss you.", he heard the woman speaking.

"Bro I need to go. Excuse me.", he stood up.

He isn't willing to wait longer. Genuinely, he is worried about Meixiu. People like him, who tend to rehearse a lot for him to perfect the song he's about to pull out often sleep late at night, but he can't totally understand why Meixiu has to do the same considering the number of staffs they have in their company.

"Okay I'll drink this for you my bro."

Chaoxiang signaled a thumbs up after his older brother Chaoming represented to drink the shot Suyin poured on his glass. Now the both of them find it bizarre that Suyin disagrees with the thought. She even voiced out her disapproval.

"Hey!"

"What?", Chaoming replied.

"It's for Chaoxiang."

"But he's leaving. So it's my turn now.", he said and satisfied his throat with it.

About Chaoxiang, he got in his car and headed straight to Meixiu's office. He is thinking he has nothing to say. He doesn't want her to assume he has fallen in love with her for he isn't. So why is he going to her office? He just wants to get her out of that place, bring her home and make her rest.

In all honesty, he doesn't want to take care of her when she's sick. So the best way to make sure she will not get sick again is to monitor her time of sleep, monitor what she eats and prohibit her from doing whatever she wants.

"Zhao Meixiu!", he pushed the door and saw his wife on her chair, sleeping with her head on the table.

Her laptop's still on and he saw some calculations, some graphs on its screen. "Working up to 2:30 AM? What kind of a Director are you?", he whispered and carried her.

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"You have no choice but to sleep here with me.", Chaoxiang said and he laid Meixiu on his bed.

"You're sleeping so soundly. If I was a rapist, you're already banged by now. I am under the influence of alcohol Meixiu."

He stared at her beauty and somehow, pity started to eat him again. "She keeps on working herself to sleep. I wonder if she still feels healthy.", he covered her body with a blanket.

Chaoxiang headed to the shower after confirming Meixiu's asleep. He closed the shower curtain and turned the shower on. "I should freshen up, I had enough shots.", he can still taste the alcohol in his tongue.

"Suyin is really a liberated woman. Hanging out with guys and she's the only woman? Well, we're not going to do anything against her but Meixiu can't even go out with me alone.", Chaoxiang shrugged.

After a few minutes, he heard the door opened and he knows it's Meixiu. Who else can be there? "What is she doing?", he said before he heard her spewed up.

He looked through the shower curtain and saw Meixiu kneeling on the bathroom floor. Her left arm is extending, leaning on the toilet bowl. And her head is on her arm.

"Meixiu!", he yelled at her and wore a towel in his core.

"I'm alright. Don't mind me."

"You're working until 2:30 AM. How can you be alright?", he said and wiped her mouth with a tissue.

She surrendered her head to his chest before she started moving her legs.

"Continue taking a shower. I am going down to sleep."

"Sleep here with me. I'll be checking you for tonight.", he said in his worried tone.

"Okay. Your brother's flood messaged you."

He assisted her in standing up. He is holding her waist the moment she is gargling and held her until she got back on the bed.

Chaoxiang checked his brother's messages.

"Bro, my head's spinning and it never happened before."

"I feel like I'm going to die with the headache. I feel like my brain's going to explode."

"She put something on your drink. Are you feeling some dizziness too?"

Those were the messages he received. "What's with his messages? I think I should go to him.", he said but as he look at his wife, he knows Ruomei will cause another riot again once he left her alone here. "This woman, wasting her life like this.", he said and covered her again with a blanket.