The Scumbag Alpha's Redemption in a Sweet Romance - Chapter 35
Chapter 35
The call was cut off. Yan Hua was clearly angry.
Ning Chun looked at her phone and stood alone for a while until a staff member came over and said it was time to board the plane.
Only then did she put away her phone and head to the boarding gate.
On the plane, the flight attendant’s service was very attentive. Shortly after she sat down, they brought her a selection of beverages to choose from.
Ning Chun pointed at the list of spirits and chose whiskey on the rocks.
The flight attendant also brought her a meal.
Her stomach was empty, and she felt hungry, but the meticulously prepared food tasted like sawdust in her mouth.
Ning Chun had always enjoyed food, but this time, she uncharacteristically couldn’t eat.
During the flight, she drank several glasses of whiskey in a row, wanting to get drunk for a while, but her mind became even clearer. She even started to hallucinate, as if she saw a familiar person.
Song Xiaoran’s features slowly grew larger in her chaotic vision.
Ning Chun propped her head up with one hand, her thumb and middle finger pressing on her temples.
The air conditioning on the plane was very strong. The flight attendant brought a blanket. When she tried to cover Ning Chun, she found that there was another person next to her.
“Hello, what can I get for you?”
Song Xiaoran’s gaze fell on Ning Chun’s furrowed brows. She reached out and took the blanket. “We know each other. I’ll take care of her.”
Ning Chun hadn’t slept all night. Although she was tired, she wasn’t sleeping soundly. When her eyes were closed, her five senses were more sensitive than usual.
She could hear the sound of typing and the turning of pages.
She slept on and off and was woken up by the flight attendant when they arrived at their destination.
After getting off the plane, they first went to a five-star hotel to put their luggage down. Ning Chun also went to buy a suit to wear for her meeting.
After everything was ready, the car arranged by the partner arrived.
The entire afternoon was packed with a tight schedule. She was too busy to breathe or think wildly. Her group went to the partner’s company for a preliminary meeting and agreed to visit the pharmaceutical lab for a field inspection tomorrow.
By the time they finalized the details of the itinerary, it was already evening.
In the evening, both parties had dinner together. Xiang Lan was very good at this sort of thing. She encouraged them to drink and made sure the entire banquet was lively.
But Ning Chun’s actions were confusing to the other party. She would drink when they proposed a toast, but her face was stern when they were joking to liven up the atmosphere, making people feel very nervous.
In this collaboration, Ning Chun’s side was the principal, holding the dominant position. The other party naturally had all kinds of guesses.
They didn’t know if she was satisfied or not.
The other party was a thriving pharmaceutical company called Zhousheng Biopharmaceutical Company, known for its excipients. But there were some internal issues, and the owner had the idea of selling it.
And the Ning Corporation was able to ensure that the company’s hard work would not be in vain.
This was also the reason why they were so passive.
Ning Chun drank a lot, which showed that she was giving face, but the other party was still uneasy because she drank with a cold face and didn’t even look at them.
Fortunately, the others, like Xiang Lan, were good at handling things. Otherwise, the dinner party would have ended awkwardly.
There was a small incident in the middle. A junior staff member of the other party accidentally spilled red wine on Xiang Lan while toasting. A large part of her gray suit was stained, but she reacted quickly, took off her jacket, and said that she had been meaning to change into a new outfit anyway and told the staff member not to worry.
The banquet ended around 10 p.m.
The next three days were almost all the same: investigating details and discussing the collaboration during the day, and having dinner in the evening.
By the end, Xiang Lan and the others couldn’t handle it anymore. They would only take a sip of their drinks, while Ning Chun drank as if the wine were water.
Xiao Zhao was shocked by the company’s corporate culture. She felt more and more that General Manager Ning was a good leader. The leader was the one who blocked the drinks, and the subordinates only needed to keep an eye on the contract.
During this trip, the two people arranged by the chairman had a change of heart about Ning Chun and even admired her.
Ning Chun was dead drunk. She was completely intoxicated. Xiao Zhao and Xiang Lan each supported her on one side, and it took a lot of effort to get her back to the hotel.
Before they could get her to her room, the other party called, saying that there were important details in the proposal that needed to be confirmed and that they needed them to send someone over.
This was a real matter of business. Aside from Xiao Zhao, the other three wanted to go and oversee it. The two sides would not back down.
Xiao Zhao could only stay behind to take care of Ning Chun by herself.
But the problem arose here. Ning Chun’s room key was kept separately, and her room type was different from the others. Xiao Zhao had the foresight to look for the room key, but she couldn’t find it after searching through Ning Chun’s bag.
She had to leave Ning Chun on a sofa in the hotel lobby to rest and go to the front desk to ask if she could use a spare room key to open the door.
In those few minutes, Ning Chun disappeared.
Only Xiao Zhao was left standing in the wind, holding the spare room key, feeling helpless.
At the same time, the not-so-sober Ning Chun obediently followed the person who was helping her onto the elevator and into the room.
On the bed, someone brought her a glass of hot water. She frowned, dodged it, and mumbled, “I want ice water.”
The alcohol was causing havoc in her bloodstream.
Ice water was quickly brought to her lips. She closed her eyes and drank half a glass. Her throat felt better, and she turned over and continued to lie down.
In the hotel lobby, Xiao Zhao first checked the restrooms and other places Ning Chun might have gone. After not finding her, she immediately asked the front desk to check if she had returned to her room, but the system showed that no one had checked into the room.
Although Xiao Zhao was flustered, she helped look for her and at the same time checked the surveillance.
If General Manager Ning was really lost, she could only atone for her sins by dying.
Just then, a woman in a long white dress walked into the hotel entrance. She had an elegant demeanor and a beautiful face. She asked the front desk in a gentle voice, “Hello, can you help me find out which room Ning Chun is in? I’m her wife, and I have something very important to tell her.”
Xiao Zhao’s back instantly stiffened. She had heard that her boss was married but had never seen her wife’s face.
Seeing her by chance today, she was stunning, like a fairy descending from heaven.
But along with her amazement, she was also very scared and started to wonder why something had to go wrong at this crucial moment.
Everything had been fine for the past few days, but something unexpected happened at this time.
The room service manager arrived in time and heard Yan Hua’s question. She came forward and asked, “Are you the one looking for the missing guest from Room 8037?”
Yan Hua was slightly stunned. Missing?
In the corner, Xiao Zhao stiffly raised her hand. “I’m sorry. I’m the one looking for her.”
Xiao Zhao quickly explained the whole story to Yan Hua and said with guilt, “Madam, it’s all my fault. I didn’t take good care of General Manager Ning.”
Although Yan Hua was anxious, she knew it was useless. Instead, she comforted Xiao Zhao: “Since the surveillance at the hotel entrance didn’t capture her leaving, she must still be here. Let’s wait for news.”
The room service manager was very quick. But the footage from the surveillance was not good. The guest from Room 8037 had been found drunk on the floor of the restroom and was taken away by another guest, who took her directly into another suite.
Since the wife was here, the other guest must have acted on a whim.
The hotel always handled issues between guests privately to minimize negative effects.
The room service manager wrote down the room number, called a few security guards to go upstairs with her, and planned to bring the guest from Room 8037 out first.
But Yan Hua had been paying attention to them. As soon as they moved, Yan Hua stood up from the rest area.
“Please wait here. We will find the guest and bring her back unharmed,” the room service manager said with a smile.
Yan Hua pursed her lips. “I’m very worried about her. Take me with you.”
“I want to go too!” Xiao Zhao said hastily. She had a lot of responsibility in this matter.
The room service manager was in a difficult position. She could only use her headset to remind the other colleagues to block other guests in the VIP area and try to prevent them from coming out.
The group took the elevator to the seventh floor and stopped at the door of Room 7123.
Before the manager knocked on the door, she tried to convince Yan Hua one more time: “Why don’t you wait on the side? I’ll go in and bring the guest out.”
Yan Hua shook her head. She wanted to know what Ning Chun was doing in there.
The manager knocked on the door. A voice quickly came from inside. “Who is it?”
It wasn’t Ning Chun’s voice.
Yan Hua’s heart sank for a moment.
The manager said, “I’m the room service manager. I heard you weren’t sleeping well, so I came to bring you some sleep-inducing aromatherapy.”
The door slowly opened. The woman inside had clearly just taken a shower. There were still water droplets on her slender neck. Under the bathrobe she had put on hastily, she was clearly wearing a sexy wine-red nightgown.
Although only a corner of it was revealed, it was enough to make one’s imagination run wild.
Yan Hua saw her face. Since she wasn’t wearing makeup, she looked purer than the last time they met.
But she was very confused. Why was Song Xiaoran here?
Song Xiaoran was also slightly stunned when she saw Yan Hua, but she quickly regained her natural expression.
After the aromatherapy was delivered, the room service manager asked, “The surveillance shows that the guest from Room 8037 entered your room. Her family is very worried and has been looking for her for a long time. We’re going to take her back to her original room now.”
“General Manager Ning!” Xiao Zhao’s gaze went past Song Xiaoran and searched the room. She finally saw a familiar hem of a shirt. She couldn’t care less and rushed in, carrying the soundly sleeping Ning Chun on her back and walking out.
“Hey, this is my room!” Song Xiaoran was shocked by her rude behavior.
Xiao Zhao was not to be outdone. “Hey, this is my boss! I haven’t even asked you why you took my boss away!”
Xiao Zhao walked quickly with Ning Chun on her back and was out of the room in no time.
The room service manager and the other staff members also lent a hand, holding Ning Chun steady.
Although Song Xiaoran was angry, she couldn’t say anything. In the end, she could only watch as Ning Chun was taken away.
After everyone left, Yan Hua was still standing at the door of the room. She took two steps forward and stood in front of Song Xiaoran. Her tone was very cold. “Miss Song, I hope you can have some boundaries. You and Ning Chun have no relationship anymore. Please stop bothering her.”
“It seems you’re very concerned about Xiaochun meeting with me. What if I told you that it was Xiaochun who insisted on coming to my room tonight?” She looked at Yan Hua provocatively.
Yan Hua laughed softly with her head down. “That’s between her and me. She’ll explain it all to me in detail, so you don’t have to worry about it.”
The moment Yan Hua turned around, Song Xiaoran’s calm expression cracked.
She was so close to winning back Xiaochun’s heart.
After Xiao Zhao brought Ning Chun back to her room, she collapsed on the sofa, gasping for air. She even checked her boss’s clothes. Fortunately, she was still wearing them, and nothing inappropriate had happened.
Otherwise, how could she explain it to General Manager Ning’s wife?
Just as she was about to put the spare room key and bag away, General Manager Ning’s wife arrived. Xiao Zhao, with her great perception, closed the door and left.