The Unreturnable Refrigerator - Chapter 22.2
Chapter 22.2
Lu Yin was a little dazed. It took a long time for her to distinguish between reality and memory.
Lu Yin reached out and pushed her away: “You’re drunk. You’ve come to the wrong place. Your home is across the hall. Go back and find a bed to lie down on. Don’t go crazy… anymore…”
The heat in her ear made Lu Yin’s words falter, and she suddenly tensed up.
“Mmmph—”
Lu Yin was completely unprepared. As soon as her ear was bitten, a muffled grunt escaped her mouth. In the quiet night, it was like a bomb! It made Lu Yin’s body sound an alarm, wanting to find a place to hide!
Her shoulders shrugged, and she shrank her neck. If she could, Lu Yin really wanted to bury her ears. Some memories seized the opportunity to rush out, and her regret was more tumultuous than the current that was running through her body.
How could she have forgotten this person’s “unrestrained” behavior when she was drunk?
Lu Yin reached out and covered her ears: “Wake up. If you keep this up, I’m going to scream!”
A soft chuckle brushed past the top of her head. Lu Yin was mortified. She knew what she was laughing at.
Once upon a time, when she was young and foolish, no, she should say when she was young and shameless, she also liked to play this “Don’t come closer, or I’ll scream” game.
She must be crazy. Lu Yin felt that she was truly crazy. How could she have dared to let a drunk Sheng Xiali in?
Lu Yin reached out to cover Sheng Xiali’s mouth. She didn’t want to hear another sound from her mouth, and she didn’t want her ears to be burned by her hot breath anymore.
Her ears… she even suspected that Sheng Xiali was doing it on purpose…
In the darkness, she couldn’t see Sheng Xiali’s expression. When a person couldn’t see, their other senses were magnified tenfold. Lu Yin felt that the smell of alcohol from Sheng Xiali was overwhelming her.
She didn’t know what kind of alcohol she had been drinking. It was so strong that it was making her crazy. She was also a little dizzy. Could the smell of alcohol also make a person drunk?
Lu Yin felt the burning breath getting closer. She uncontrollably thought of the dream she had just had. The breath in the dream was even hotter. For a moment, the past and the present seemed to overlap…
Lu Yin tilted her head up, looking at the approaching lips…
Her breathing was rapid, heavy, and thin, getting closer and closer…
No, she couldn’t. At the last moment, Lu Yin turned her head.
Their intertwined breaths separated instantly, both of them holding their breath.
Lu Yin held her breath, feeling her heart in her throat. She had almost…
The next second, her brow felt hot.
Lu Yin’s heart skipped a beat. She remembered the last scene before she woke up from her dream. On that stormy night, Sheng Xiali had also turned her head away, and in the end, she had kissed her on the brow…
Lu Yin dazed, covered her brow and met her eyes. In the darkness, she thought she saw a hint of a smile in those eyes, hot and a little sour.
Lu Yin’s heart suddenly jumped up. She pushed her forward with all her might. No, she couldn’t do this. They were over.
With a loud thud, Lu Yin looked up in surprise and saw the figure in front of her slowly falling. In a panic, she turned on the light.
The sudden, piercing light illuminated the shattered mirror in front of her, and the person who was sliding down against the shattered mirror.
Lu Yin’s actions were faster than her mind. She went forward and held Sheng Xiali: “What, what happened?”
She looked at the mirror behind Sheng Xiali and saw that the full-length mirror on the wall in the entryway was full of cracks. She felt a pang of fear in her heart.
“Are you okay? Did you hit something?”
Lu Yin nervously turned Sheng Xiali’s head and checked for injuries.
“Did you hit your head? Does it hurt? Where did you hit it?”
Lu Yin didn’t dare to use too much force. She carefully and flusteredly brushed Sheng Xiali’s hair away: “Is it your head? Say something. Where does it hurt? Where did you hit it?”
Lu Yin let go of her in a hurry and went to Sheng Xiali’s back. After a thorough check, she didn’t see any bumps or bl00d on her head. Her trembling hands finally regained some feeling.
After a thorough check, she confirmed that it was Sheng Xiali’s elbow that had shattered the mirror. Looking at the scraped skin, Lu Yin felt a pang of guilt.
She hadn’t expected Sheng Xiali to be pushed away so easily…
She had also forgotten that there was a mirror behind Sheng Xiali. Looking at the multiple “split” versions of herself in the mirror and Sheng Xiali’s lowered head, Lu Yin felt a pang of panic.
“Sheng Xiali?”
Lu Yin gently lifted Sheng Xiali’s head. Looking at her tightly closed eyes, she called out: “Sheng Xiali, wake up. Don’t scare me. Wake up.”
She didn’t dare to use force and could only pat Sheng Xiali’s face gently and quickly. Finally, those eyes opened.
Lu Yin breathed a huge sigh of relief. Thank goodness, she was okay.
Just as she was about to help her up, she saw the person who had just opened her eyes look at her, yawn, turn over, and fall asleep on the floor…
“No, don’t sleep. This isn’t your home. If you want to sleep, go home and sleep!”
Lu Yin was going numb. When Sheng Xiali was drunk before, she didn’t act like this. She was just… actually, she was just a lot more “passionate” in some “activities.”
She wasn’t this unrestrained, sleeping on the floor.
Oh my God, seriously, was she doing this on purpose to mess with her?
After confirming that she was okay and just asleep, Lu Yin tried her best to pull Sheng Xiali up: “Get up. Get up now. Go back to your own home and sleep.”
In the process, the boxes in the entryway were pushed around and almost fell over. Seeing that they were about to fall on her, Lu Yin quickly went to deal with the boxes first.
After she had secured them all, she looked back and saw that Sheng Xiali, a tall person, was curled up into a small ball, sleeping quietly in that small space in the entryway.
Lu Yin’s heart suddenly trembled and then softened.
She had forgotten where she had read that this sleeping position meant a lack of security…
But Sheng Xiali probably wasn’t lacking a sense of security, Lu Yin thought. It was just that the entryway only had this much space, so she had to curl up.
Lu Yin sighed, suppressing a strange emotion that was welling up in her heart. She reminded herself not to overthink things and to send her back to her own home first.
But when Lu Yin opened the door and saw the keypad lock across the hall, her grip on Sheng Xiali loosened.
A keypad lock!
Lu Yin squatted back down next to Sheng Xiali, leaned close to her ear, and raised her voice a little: “Sheng Xiali, what’s your passcode?”
“Tell me, and you can sleep. Otherwise, you’ll have to sleep in the hallway.”
“What’s the passcode? Six numbers. Think about it. Which six numbers?”
…
Ten minutes later, Lu Yin gave up. Sheng Xiali’s breathing was steady, and she was sleeping soundly, completely ignoring the noise she was making.
Lu Yin was now genuinely curious. Did Sheng Xiali sleep on the street when she was a child? How could her sleep quality be so good that no sound could wake her up?
After slapping Sheng Xiali’s back in frustration, Lu Yin’s numb mind finally figured it out.
Why was she asking for the passcode…? The person was right here. Couldn’t she use her fingerprint…?
Lu Yin was glad no one knew about this. It was truly embarrassing. She must have lost too many brain cells because of Sheng Xiali…
Lu Yin stopped asking for the passcode and started asking Sheng Xiali which finger she used for her fingerprint. But there was still no response.
After thinking about it, it was most likely her thumb or index finger.
Lu Yin used all her strength to carry her on her back. Fortunately, she worked out regularly. She carried her to the door of 902 with great effort.
She grabbed her hand and tried the fingerprint, thinking that once she opened the door, she could get her fridge and her takeout back.
With this belief, Lu Yin gained a little more strength, and all the frustration from the night was swept away.
Unfortunately, her right thumb failed. She quickly tried her right index finger.
The index finger also failed…
Lu Yin was a little angry. What was wrong with Sheng Xiali’s brain? The passcode was complicated enough, but she didn’t even use her right hand for the fingerprint? She wasn’t left-handed!
Angry, Lu Yin grabbed Sheng Xiali’s left hand and tried the thumb.
“Fingerprint verification failed. Please try again later.”
Are you kidding me? Lu Yin immediately pinched Sheng Xiali’s left index finger. If this one was wrong too, she would just leave Sheng Xiali there.
Beep, beep, beep, beep, “Verification failed. Multiple verification attempts failed. Passcode locked. Please try again in six hours.”
Lu Yin was shocked, looking at the red message on the keypad. Now, let alone the fingerprint, she couldn’t even try the passcode. Great, this was just great!
Lu Yin was so angry that she bit the index finger she was holding: “What is wrong with you? Did you set your passcode with your middle finger?!”
Even if it was her middle finger, why didn’t she also set her index finger? You could set more than one fingerprint!
What was going on in this person’s brain?!
Lu Yin felt that she had found the reason why she couldn’t guess the passcode. Sheng Xiali was not a normal person!
The great joy was followed by great sorrow, and Lu Yin’s head was buzzing with anger.
Lu Yin turned to the side and put Sheng Xiali on the floor: “You can sleep here. I’ll come back in six hours and try your other six fingers!”
She wanted to see which finger it was!
Lu Yin went back to 901 in a huff and closed the door.
…
A minute later, the door opened. Lu Yin went back to the door of 902 and carried her back with resignation.
She owed her. She must have owed her in her past life!
Lu Yin took a big gulp of water and looked at the person on the floor of the entryway, panting from exhaustion. If she hadn’t just remembered that summer when Sheng Xiali had taken her in, she wouldn’t have cared about her!
This was her paying her back!
Lu Yin looked back at the sofa. Great, it was piled high with things. As for the guest room, she didn’t have one.
She only had one bed in the master bedroom. Lu Yin sighed. Why didn’t she have the habit of hoarding more beds?!
Lu Yin walked back to Sheng Xiali, picked her up again, and carried her on her back. She was so heavy! Why was such a thin and tall person so heavy?!
After she threw her onto the bed, Lu Yin collapsed. It took her more than ten minutes to get up, her limbs sore.
“Wake up. Can you take your clothes off? Take your clothes off before you get under the blanket!”
Lu Yin looked at Sheng Xiali’s shirt, which had been clean during the day but now had several stains on it. She really couldn’t accept her just lying in her blanket like that.
But the person was sleeping like a log. Lu Yin resigned herself to doing it herself.
“I’m not the one who wanted to take your clothes off.”
It was fine, Lu Yin thought. What hadn’t she seen before?
She said that, but as soon as her hand touched the button on Sheng Xiali’s skirt, her fingers became a little stiff, and her face started to feel hot.
It was probably because she had seen everything that so many inappropriate images could appear in her mind… and she couldn’t get rid of them…
Lu Yin took a deep breath and sped up her movements. The slower she went, the more she thought. She threw the skirt and shirt she had pulled off onto the floor and quickly pulled the blanket over Sheng Xiali.
Phew, Lu Yin let out a heavy sigh and sat down on the edge of the bed. Looking at Sheng Xiali’s tightly closed eyes, she said, as if explaining to her or herself: “I didn’t see anything.”
She had just accidentally glanced…
Should she take off her bra? In that one glance, she saw that Sheng Xiali was wearing a beige lace underwire bra. It looked very tight. It must be uncomfortable to sleep in like that…
“No, Lu Yin, what does her being uncomfortable have to do with you? You’ve already done more than enough by giving her half your bed!”
Lu Yin heard a voice in her head scolding her. She quickly came to her senses and stood up.
Her mind easily became foggy when she was close to Sheng Xiali. Lu Yin looked down at the person who was sleeping soundly after all that tossing and turning. She looked at the long shadows her eyelashes cast on her eyes, gently rising and falling with her breathing. Perhaps because the alcohol hadn’t worn off, Sheng Xiali’s face was still flushed, and the tips of her ears were the same pink color.
She must have been wearing light makeup today. There was a thin layer of lipstick on her lips, not thick, but a little darker than her natural lip color.
They say that work makes you old, and Amy said she was a complete workaholic. So why was she still so beautiful…?
Lu Yin sighed. She would still be moved by this face. This wasn’t her fault; it was a love of beauty…
She shouldn’t look anymore. Lu Yin looked away and massaged her sore arms. She was covered in sweat and wanted to take a shower.
She grabbed her clothes and went into the bathroom. Just as she was about to take off her clothes, she suddenly remembered something.
She looked back at the bathroom door, hesitated for a moment, and then turned around and locked the door.
What if she woke up while she was in the middle of her shower? What if she woke up and opened the door?
It was better to be safe.
As soon as the lock clicked, the person who was sleeping soundly on the master bedroom bed suddenly opened her eyes.