Wiping all her face and body with wet wipes, of all the dirt and vile liquids, she winced at the pain that erupted by touching her bruises. She could tell there wasn't any fatal internal injury but her ribs were surely bruised.

"That b*tch!" Lei Xinyi cursed with every hiss and moan in pain.

There wasn't much she could do in this state of her. Her hairs were sweaty and sticky and smelled of champagne and vodka. 

She ripped open the carton and took out a change of a Tee s.h.i.+rt denim jeans and a scarlet jacket.

She was in no condition to exhibit her body in a seducing-short dress. There were bluish bruises on many parts of her body. She looked like a woman who has objected victim to domestic violence. 

Lei Xinyi inspected her swollen cheek and busted lip and closed her eyes in irritation. She cursed under her breath.

"Is the whole world conspiring to get me slaughtered?!"

It would be one h.e.l.l of a job to cover it. She opened her makeup bag and caked her face. As her skills were well polished, she looked like a woman looking for a hook up than a woman battered and beaten to the inch of her life.

Okay! That was an exaggeration but she took her fair share of kicks and blows.

Once she was done, she thought of a convincing lie but there was nothing she could come up with.

So she did the second most intelligent thing of her life: She drank, in leisure without a care in the world. 

The good wine had the bittersweet obliviousness she needed. She told herself she was just calming her nerves.

And in the array when the bottle had emptied, she had no idea. As she tilted the bottle in the air to lick the last drop of the white wine from the rim, she frowned in annoyance.

But she still wanted more, her thirst was unquenchable. She was craving the relief it provided her. 

She threw the bottle out of the window, shattering it on the barren land. She reached for the other bottle of wine with swaying hands. 

As she grasped it, the deafening sound of swis.h.i.+ng air froze her hand.

She looked out of the winds.h.i.+eld gla.s.s to find a helicopter in front with a woman and man dressed in black coming out.

If her vision hadn't completely given up then, they were both dressed in black thick latex with leather jackets. Like they were on a spying mission.

Lei Xinyi was sleepy and her eyes were dropping. Everything was moving, she tried to make sense of the situation or identify the people but her mind had left her on autopilot.

The man and woman stood in front of her and Lei Xinyi instinctively hugged the wine bottle close to her chest. If need be she would fight till death.

No one was parting her from her Baby!

Lei Xinyi was eying them with caution, constantly blinking to identify the familiar-looking people.

"Mam, we have orders to escort you home. Please cooperate." The woman said in a robotic expressionless voice.

Lei Xinyi tilted her head in confusion and dismay, and slurred, "Or...orders? Ho...home?"

"Yes, Mam. Master Li has ordered your retreat. Please come with us." This time it was the man who replied.

Lei Xinyi still didn't budge but apprehensively asked, "Li Yuan?"

"Yes, Mam."

In her most vulnerable state, her subconscious felt warmth hearing his name and as if on command all her protective instincts left her and her shoulders relaxed.

The woman held her arm to keep her steps steady, Lei Xinyi half stumbled and half got dragged to the chopper all the time holding the wine bottle tight on her bossom.

The woman sat in front of her and hesitated then not perceiving anything suitable she could do for a drunk woman, she stood up and draped a blanket around Lei Xinyi's shoulder.

Lei Xinyi didn't even take notice of her actions instead all her concentration was devoted to the bottle of wine whose cap won't budge.

She scratched it with her nails and even tried to scarp it with her teeth but it was typical opening a wine bottle and the drunk Lei Xinyi couldn't comprehend that. All she could comprehend was the lack of alcohol in her system for last months and the need to devour it now.

Finally having sought her talons and fangs, she huffed and looked at the metal wall of the helicopter and clashed the upper head of the wine bottle against it.

The bottle opening shattered at once and red wine spilt out of it, Lei Xinyi sloppily grinned at the sharp-edged broken gla.s.s and brought it to her lips.

The woman's eyes widened at the scenes as their Master's fiance was going to cut open her jaw with the broken wine bottle.

In lightning speed, she s.n.a.t.c.hed the bottle from her hands and threw it out of the helicopter.

"NOOOO!" Lei Xinyi shouted in grief and despair at her baby being brutally thrown out.

She ran forward to it, ready to face the same fate as her precious bottle when the woman held her back by the waist saving her from the fall that would probably turn her into smashed potatoes.

Lei Xinyi turned to the woman with a teary glare, "How could you?! You vile w*tch! Yo..you threw it from miles above the surface without even blinking once in mercy?!"

The woman looked at her dumbfounded but didn't say anything. A wise woman never argues with drunk woman.

She made her sit on the seat and this time, strapped her in. Lei Xinyi kept shouting profanities and curses but a drunk Lei Xinyi wasn't a match for a SSS level agent.

She kept on mumbling about the conspiracy and brutality of throwing her wine bottle out of a running helicopter and eventually pa.s.sed out. 

A shaking woke Lei Xinyi from her slumber, she groggily eyed the dizzy and blur surrounding. She hardly registered when a hand grabbed her and brought her out of the helicopter.

Blinking and rubbing cleared her vision but she was still dizzy with grogginess. Everything was shrouded in dark.

Night has fallen.

The Agent guided her for some more steps when Lei Xinyi weakly broke free from her at the sight of the man dressed in a navy blue suit behind the threshold of his Mansion.

He stood there with regality and poise and pursed lips and hardened eyes. Even with her blinding view, she could recognise the man who she yearned.

Lei Xinyi wavered some steps without falling and reached a couple of steps away from the threshold, looking at him with antic.i.p.ations to reach her.

Li Yaun made no move instead stood with a stiff posture and his hands in his pocket and stared at her with a scorching gaze that could emit radioactive rays.

"Where were you?" He asked coldly.

She licked her lip and took a stumbling step forward, held her finger up moving it around then pointed it at the bushes behind the chopper, "I was the..re"

Li Yuan narrowed his eyes, "I am asking before that."

Lei Xinyi didn't answer but tried to take another step forward when she saw his cold eyes intensified, she felt a shock wave pa.s.s through her spine and halted.

"Are you drunk?" It was a rhetorical statement but in her state, she could hardly tell apart from a dog or wolf.

She tilted her head and looked at the ceiling with squinted eyes and pouted lips, in a thinking gesture. Then turned to him, shook her head like five-year-old, "Nope!"

"Are you lying?!" Li Yuan spat through gritted teeth. 

He wanted to shout at her but she couldn't even conjecture what he was saying and probably wouldn't even remember tomorrow morning.

"Nope!" She glared at him and made an angry pout, at being called a liar despite lying, while wrapping her arms around herself. She was cold. 

It was no use. Banging his head on her was of no use right now.

He huffed a calming breath and held her by her slender arm to drag her inside when Lei Xinyi finally gave out.

Li Yuan glared at the pa.s.sed out Lei Xinyi in his arm. Shaking his head he brought his left arm behind her knee and picked her up to carry her to their room.

As he pa.s.sed by the open terrace door, where three maids, Butler Yang and Housekeeper Xu were standing under the pergola decorated with fairy lights and French Cuisine. 

He glared at the magnificently decorated dinner date venue that was mocking him. It was p.r.i.c.kling his eyes to see all the s.h.i.+mmering glimmer. 

He came an hour earlier from work so that he could give her a decent and prim date but here the woman in his arms was drowning herself in booze in some deserted no-named place.

"Wrap this up, and throw everything in the junk." He said in a calm voice with suppressed rage.

Butler Yang and Housekeeper Xu compiled at once. Till morning there weren't going to be any traces left of the night except the bitter taste that it brought in their Master's mouth.