When Cheng Liu woke up, she smelled the still strong smell of alcohol on her body and immediately jumped up from the bed.

She lowered her head and touched her clothes with some distress. Ji Chaozhou had chosen this outfit himself!

Cheng Liu hurriedly walked out, preparing to take a bath immediately. She needed to wash and dry the clothes, and put them away!

As soon as she opened the bedroom door, she saw a glass of water and hangover medicine by the door. Memories of last night’s events gradually came back.

Cheng Liu remembered that last night Ji Chaozhou asked her to return his watch! ! !

After picking up the plate and placing it on the table inside the bedroom, Cheng Liu took a change of clothes and went to the bathroom to take a shower. She also recalled that she planned to deduct the chief assistant’s bonus.

Assistant He almost took off her watch last night! Fortunately, she ran away quickly.

While Cheng Liu was taking a bath, she still felt some lingering fears.

She smelled too heavily of alcohol, so she squeezed several pumps of shower gel. Smelling the aroma of green pomelo and lemon, she began to miss Ji Chaozhou’s bath fragrance again.

It was prepared by her beloved himself!

It was a pity that she was only able to use it for a day or two. It was all the fault of that renovation team. They refused to do any of the unspoken industry rules.

Cheng Liu took a shower and came out full of resentment in her heart.

She wiped her hair casually and had just picked up Ji Chaozhou’s watch when some memory suddenly surfaced in her mind.

Last night, Ji Chaozhou seemed to have called her.

Impossible, how could he have called her?

Cheng Liu wiped her hair randomly twice, then stopped, walked quickly to the bedroom, and picked up her phone from the bed.

She first checked WeChat, which contained many messages from her business partners.

Cheng Liu didn’t click on any of them. She only looked at the pinned WeChat message. There was no new message sent. 

The last one was still the ‘Yeah’ sent by Ji Chaozhou before. She logged out of WeChat and clicked on the ‘recent calls’. The one at the top was Ji Chaozhou.

Cheng Liu clicked on the call history details and stared at the phone screen, completely stunned.

How long was this call time?

Cheng Liu rubbed her eyes, looked at it carefully again, and confirmed that the call time on it was more than six hours.

She—Cheng Liu—was on the phone with Ji Chaozhou for more than six hours! How could she have no impression of this at all! ! !

Young President Cheng suddenly felt like she had lost 100 million.

She stood by the bed, thinking over and over again, trying to recall what they had said in those six hours.

In the end, she just remembered that Ji Chaozhou seemed to have called her name.

Cheng Liu was a little panicked. She probably didn’t tell him on the phone that she was going to live in his villa next door at all costs, right?

Young President Cheng rarely got really drunk, and she herself knew how good she was at drinking.

However, what phone call can last for more than six hours? Was she so talkative?

Would Ji Chaozhou really let her bother him that long?

Cheng Liu exited the recent calls list and looked at the time. It was already half past seven in the morning.

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Cheng Liu dragged her feet at home for a while and finally took Ji Chaozhou’s watch to the villa next door.

She opened the gates guiltily and went in.

Ji Chaozhou was in the front courtyard. He was pruning branches while wearing gardening gloves. His back was to Cheng Liu. Although he heard the gate opening, he didn’t immediately turn his head.

Cheng Liu cleared her throat, “Good morning.”

At this time, Ji Chaozhou turned to look at her, and his eyes were still beautiful and indifferent. “Your coat is on the sofa.”

Cheng Liu walked over slowly and returned the watch to him, “Thank you for lending me the watch.”

Ji Chaozhou’s eyes fell on the watch for a moment, then he took off his gardening gloves and reached out to take it. The titanium dial that should have been cold was warm. He didn’t know how long she held it in her hands.

“Then, I’ll get my coat.” Cheng Liu quickly walked into the living room and picked up the plaid coat on the armchair. Something flashed through her mind at that moment, but she couldn’t seem to grasp the idea.

Ji Chaozhou also walked in from the outside, and he casually placed the watch on the coffee table.

“Last night, that… that phone call.” Cheng Liu could talk eloquently in front of countless cameras, but now her brain seemed to have frozen as she looked at Ji Chaozhou. Her gaze skittered away, “If I said anything, it was all nonsense.”

Ji Chaozhou looked straight at Cheng Liu, “What do you think you said?”

“It’s just the mess caused by the renovation.” Suffering under a  guilty conscience, Cheng Liu started to change the subject again, “Why did you call last night?”

“Your assistant left immediately last night and did not stay to take care of you.” Ji Chaozhou’s expression remained unchanged, and he said quietly, “I heard that falling asleep while drunk may cause suffocation, so I called to confirm that nothing happened to you.”

Cheng Liu listened to what he said and didn’t react for a long time. She finally asked, feeling uncertain, “Were you worried about me?”

“Well.” Ji Chaozhou walked to the island, poured a glass of water, and said casually, “Aren’t we friends? I don’t want anything to happen to my neighbors.”

Cheng Liu nodded quickly, “We are friends.”

He! Worried! About! Her!

Rounded up, weren’t friends also boyfriends?

Cheng Liu suddenly felt very happy. Ji Chaozhou had begun to worry about her. She firmly believed that other feelings would also develop in the future.

Ji Chaozhou raised his head and took a sip of water, his Adam’s apple sliding up and down. He put down the glass; his lips has become moist from drinking. He looked at Cheng Liu and said in a low and calm voice, “If you left anything in the guest room, take it with you.”

“… Okay.” Cheng Liu, who had been so happy just now, felt her heart grow cold again. The chance of being in the same house was now gone.

There wasn’t many of her personal belongings in the guest room—just the love manual that Cheng Liu personally compiled and wrote down by hand.

Ji Chaozhou had never been inside the guest room Cheng Liu used and didn’t know.

However, when Cheng Liu went to get the love manual, she thought about matters—then turned to the bathroom and took out the bottle of bath fragrance prepared by Ji Chaozhou himself. Anyway, this was given to her, and she had already used it.

When Cheng Liu came out with the bath fragrance and handwritten-love manual, Ji Chaozhou was still standing in front of the island, but he has his head lowered and was pinching the mouth of the cup with his fingers. The tip of his index finger was dipped in the water, stirring slowly, as if he was bored and was killing time.

However, his fingers were slender and white, the veins faintly outlined against his skin. His small movements of slowly stirring the water revealed an indescribable ambiguity.

His temperament was so clean that this kind of enticing behavior was a bit inconsistent.

Cheng Liu was unconsciously attracted by his hand, and it wasn’t until Ji Chaozhou looked up that she managed to tear her gaze away. 

“I’m leaving,” she told him.

Cheng Liu held the love manual and a bottle of bath fragrance in one hand, her coat draped over her other arm, and hurried out to return to the villa next door.

She walked to the courtyard of Villa No. 6, stopped suddenly, looked down at the coat in her hand, and finally remembered what she noticed before.

The coat she held was stained with that familiar moist fragrance, the slight sweetness giving it a sense of ambiguity.

If It’s Wrong, Then It’s Wrong translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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Chapter 57.1 — Day 20: Congee
Chapter 57.2 — Day 20: Congee
Chapter 58.1 — Day 20: Housewarming
Chapter 58.2 — Day 20: Housewarming