ATLAS TRANSLATES

The environment seemed to become the background, and it seemed that his eyes could only see the person beside.

Time seemed to be stopped, and the world was also quiet.

He looked at her, with a kind of irritating and unbearable feeling in his heart that even he didn’t understand, and he didn’t know how to relieve it.

This seems to be the boundary circled by a wonderful spell, which was finally broken by someone else coming over with a wine glass to toast.

So everyone was happy again, making noise and drinking the wine into a mess.

Seeing everyone swaying uncontrollably, Ji Feng simply took advantage of the fact that he was still a little sober, took out his black card and handed it to Xue Rui, asking him to open good rooms upstairs in the hotel for everyone in the private room downstairs, so that everyone could go upstairs and rest after drinking later.

Xue Rui did it immediately.

When everyone knew that little Ji, this good colleague, was planning to open good rooms upstairs for everyone, so that they could rest after getting drunk later, everyone cheered at once, and drank without any worries.

After Xue Rui opened the room and came back, he couldn’t care about Ji Feng and Xu Miyu anymore. He went straight to find Li Qiaoqi with the courage that had been strengthened by the wine. In the following time, he was either entangled with Li Qiaoqi or tried to get Li Qiaoqi to entangle him.

Xu Miyu felt that she had drunk too much, and was dizzy to the point where she couldn’t do single digit arithmetic. She wanted to find Li Qiaoqi to tell her that she wanted to go upstairs to rest. After looking around for a while, she actually saw her kissing Xue Rui in the corner.

The two of them hugged each other, kissing excitedly and passionately, concentrating to the point where even if the sky fell down, they wouldn’t separate.

Xu Miyu was stunned. Her nerves became dull, she knew she should hide aside at this time, and leave this ambiguous space to the sisters and brothers who were like dry wood and raging fire. But her actions were slowed down by alcohol, so the whole scene looked as if she was standing there relishing watching others make out and was reluctant to leave.

A hand was suddenly placed on her shoulder, with a somewhat familiar force. Looking back, squeezing the blurriness and dizziness out of her eyes and gathering her focus, she found that it was her former classmate Qiang Ge patting her on the shoulder. No wonder it felt familiar.

Qiang Ge was already completely drunk, he couldn’t stand steadily, so he placed his hand on Xu Miyu’s shoulder, seeking support.

“Miyu, what are you doing, peeking at others making out?” He babbled, ridiculing Xu Miyu.

Xu Miyu was embarrassed all of a sudden. She didn’t mean to peek, she didn’t.

But Qiang Ge didn’t believe her.

“It’s okay, it’s normal to want to watch, we’re all adults. Don’t worry, when Qiang Ge sobers up tomorrow, I’ll find a good match for you!”

Xu Miyu struggled to argue that she didn’t think about men that way!

One teasing and the other arguing, Qiang Ge laughed even harder and stood even more unsteadily. Staggering, he almost fell down onto Xu Miyu.

Xu Miyu saw Qiang Ge falling towards her. Next, either she would withstand his momentum to hold him up, or they would both fall back from his impact.

But neither of these situations happened.

At the moment Qiang Ge was about to crash into her, she was suddenly pulled to the side by someone, and Qiang crashed into empty space before falling to the ground.

Xu Miyu looked back and saw it was Ji Feng who pulled her away.

But he had also drunk too much himself, and was swaying unsteadily on his feet. Moreover, after pulling her…

The momentum of Xu Miyu colliding into him completely destabilized him, and he fell sideways. As he fell, he still grabbed onto Xu Miyu…

So the two fell down together.

Ji Feng rarely managed to pull out some sense of direction from his dizzy perception before falling to the ground. He changed his position so that his back faced the ground, and pulled Xu Miyu to his chest.

So as they fell, he became her flesh cushion, and she collapsed onto his chest.

Amidst the dizziness, Xu Miyu heard her heart thumping.

Her palm was pressed against Ji Feng’s chest, and the heartbeat under her palm was also thumping.

She didn’t expect to dodge Qiang Ge’s pull only to be pulled down by Ji Feng instead.

Suddenly she felt a little funny. So she chuckled softly on Ji Feng’s chest.

She laughed as she looked up at Ji Feng.

She was stunned for a long time. He had actually closed his eyes, seeming to have fallen asleep!

She was stunned for a long time, unable to regain her senses. He had actually really fallen asleep just like that, like a comedian in a skit, sleeping as soon as he fell down wherever he fell.

It would not be surprising for anyone else to have such behavior.

But this was Ji Feng!

He was the noble, cold, fastidious and disciplined Ji Feng!

Coming to her senses, Xu Miyu hurriedly propped herself up from Ji Feng and squatted beside him.

She shook him. He didn’t move. Not knowing why, she subconsciously reached out and probed in front of his nose. There was a faint, steady breath flowing. That breath collided warmly on her fingers, immediately wrapping them in a silky cocoon.

Xu Miyu’s fingers went numb, and she quickly withdrew them.

She looked up, wanting to call someone to help prop Ji Feng up.

At this time, she was shocked again by the scene in the room. Where else was there anyone who could help? Qiang Ge was also still lying on the ground nearby, and was even holding up his hand to toast the lights on the ceiling. After the toast, he was actually able to drink down the air wine from the invisible cup in his hand. Then he laughed loudly and unrestrainedly.

The others were also drunk and calling out randomly, one moment calling out old classmates, another moment calling dad and son.

The sister and brother who had been passionately kissing in the corner just now had somehow already crawled all over each other going upstairs.

Xu Miyu shook her head. She herself was also dizzy, but unexpectedly she had become the most sober person in the room now.

While she still had some sense left, she went out and asked some of the servers to help stuff those pass out drunk people into the hotel rooms upstairs.

The servers knew that everyone here was the boss’s friends. Even if they were drunk silly and looked like fools, they still could not slight them. So listening to Xu Miyu, they started propping people up the stairs to the hotel.

With a male server’s help, Xu Miyu propped Ji Feng up from the ground. She almost regretted it as soon as she propped him up, she should have taken out her phone first and photographed his current look. Who knows, maybe after he sobered up, she could blackmail him for 1.8 million with that little video.

As soon as Ji Feng stood upright, he opened his eyes. Perhaps the short nap on the ground just now had accumulated some energy for him, giving him the strength and sober mindedness to start acting up.

He was no longer enduring other people’s touch like when he was sober. He immediately swept the server’s hand away, not allowing him to touch himself or help prop himself upstairs to the hotel room, even though he was male.

Then all his weight slumped onto Xu Miyu.

Xu Miyu gritted her teeth, put one of his arms around her shoulders, and exerted herself to hold him up, pleading with him, “You don’t let others touch you, then at least exert some strength to help yourself out, can you? I can’t support you all by myself either!”

Ji Feng looked down at her. Putting in some effort, he stood upright somewhat by himself. Xu Miyu felt the pressure on her body lighten considerably.

He didn’t let anyone other than her touch him, so she could only send him to his room upstairs.

She asked about Ji Feng’s room number and fished out his room card from his pocket.

Fortunately, although Xu Miyu had drunk a lot, her alcohol tolerance was still relatively decent, especially better than Ji Feng’s. With great difficulty, she half pulled and half dragged him all the way to his hotel room.

Xue Rui did not dare mistreat Ji Feng, and got him the most luxurious executive suite in the hotel. But the luxurious suites were really not very drunk person friendly, it felt like walking from the door to the bed in the bedroom was the distance of a soccer field.

In the process moving Ji Feng from the doorway to the big bed, Xu Miyu had such a hard time she almost felt a moment of sympathy for the male footballers. Soccer fields were so tough to traverse while drunk.

With great difficulty, they finally made it to the bed. Xu Miyu was so tired from exertion she was panting loudly. She let go of Ji Feng and pushed him onto the big bed. Ji Feng crashed heavily onto the big bed. He lay flat on the big bed, eyes closed, motionless. It looked as if he had closed his eyes and was napping, or as if he had fallen asleep.

Xu Miyu was too tired to move, so she simply sat down to rest on the carpet beside the bed for a moment. As she turned her head, Ji Feng’s face got in the way of her vision.

His eyes were closed, and the shadows of his eyelashes fell upon his face. His nose bridge was prominently sculpted as if it was exquisitely carved by an artisan. His lips were pursed thinly, both abstinent yet tempting.

As Xu Miyu kept staring, she suddenly felt as if someone had hit mute in the room. Everything around became vacuum quiet. Then it felt as if someone had hit play, playing out a fast and loud thumping sound.

When she came to her senses, Xu Miyu realized the thumping sounds were the sounds of her own heartbeat.

Her heart jumped in shock, and she suddenly broke out all over in cold sweat.

She had just sweated from exertion moving Ji Feng earlier, and that sweat hadn’t even dried yet. Now another layer of new sweat broke out.

It felt disgustingly sticky.

She stood up from the carpet and swayed a little as she walked into the bathroom. She took a towel, soaked it wet, and started wiping off the sweat on her face and body.

The sticky feeling from the sweat was finally cleaned off by the wiping. Her heartbeat also returned to normal from the wiping.

Xu Miyu washed the towel clean, wrung it dry, and looked around. Above the sink facing the bathroom door was a towel hanging rack for air drying towels.

She walked over, with her back facing the door. She tiptoed and stretched both her hands and body upwards to try hanging the towel.

Between her armless top and skirt, a strip of waist was exposed with the stretching.

Normally when she felt her top riding up, she would immediately halt her actions and swiftly pull her clothes back in place to cover herself. But now she thought that since here she was alone, and the other person had passed out drunk in the room, it was okay.

So she continued stretching to hang the towel on the rack before pulling her clothes back down.

The form fitting armless top stayed ridden up above her waistline without being tugged back down right away, constricting that short strip of fair slender waist outside the hem of the top.

Xu Miyu was in no hurry to tug the hem back down. She massaged her somewhat sore arms, turned, and walked towards the door.

Yet after taking a few steps, as she looked up, she froze in shock.

At some point, Ji Feng had woken up. At some point he had walked to the bathroom door.

Now he was leaning against the bathroom door frame, staring intently at the strip of waist exposed outside her shirt.

Xu Miyu hurriedly tugged her hem down to conceal her exposed waist.

Ji Feng’s gaze moved from her waist to her face. He looked at her, so she looked back at him.

She saw his gaze become completely different from before. There seemed to be an unnamed fire burning inside, which he indulgently let burn more and more vigorously.

Xu Miyu suddenly felt flustered, and her throat became parched.

She didn’t know what to say or do, she felt very panicked.

Ji Feng straightened up from the door frame, and stepped closer to her one step at a time.

With each step he took nearer, her heartbeat sped up and intensified by some amount, while her feet did panicked shuffle steps back.

Until her waist hit the sink, she couldn’t back away anymore, and could only watch helplessly as he approached right in front of her, watching helplessly as her heart thumped ready to explode.

She turned her head about in panic to shield herself. Thinking that if she didn’t look at him, even if he invaded into extreme close proximity, he could still be treated as nonexistent in front of her eyes.

Yet Ji Feng wasn’t so kindhearted as to let her off. He grabbed her chin, turned her to face him directly, not letting her escape anywhere else but to look right at him.

Xu Miyu felt like her frantic heartbeat was about to make her have a broken heart. When she opened her mouth her voice was trembling and flustered, “You….you……”

Yet she couldn’t get anything else out after the “you”.

Ji Feng bent down slightly, leaning his head nearer to inspect her eyes closely as he looked hard into hers.

“What about me? Forget about me, talk about yourself.” His voice carried huskiness, arousal induced huskiness. “Tell me why do you always seduce me in front of me, hmm?”

Xu Miyu panickingly felt her voice scatter, “I’m not seducing you, no!”

Ji Feng fiercely grabbed her waist with one hand and lifted her up onto the sink top.

“No, you are!”

His voice had just landed when he cradled her head with one hand and abruptly kissed her fiercely.

Xu Miyu was completely dumbfounded.

Between their lips and tongues was his reckless invasion. No skills or experience, yet carrying the most primitive impulses and overpowering magnetism.

She started struggling and twisting herself about, pushing him away, hitting him, trying hard to dodge away from his lips.

He was shoved off kilter, after turning back his face to gaze hard at her. His eyes scorching and burning.

The next moment, he fiercely kissed her again. Even more madly plundering than before.

She struggled forcefully again to push him away once more.

He kissed up to her again.

In the end she exhausted all her strength, letting her arms go limp. She slumped weakly into his devouring kiss.

Her mind was fuzzily blank, her chest cavity echoing with nothing but heartbeat sounds, seemingly her own, yet also seemingly containing his.

The entire world seemed to be swirling her around into vertigo and stupor.

By the time she came back to her senses, she was already in the bedroom.

He looked at her; his gaze seemed to form a net, circling to trap her unable to retreat or advance, only able to stay captive in his restraint.

At this time he seemed like a devout seeker of truth, full of curiosity everywhere, wanting to try all kinds of things.

The one who was dizzy and falling over himself before seemed as if that were an act – none of those previous spent behaviors could be seen now.

Right now he was actually like a valiant general who excelled on the battlefield.

Later the situation quietly reversed, and she seized control of dominance during a certain chance. She became the mentor to his curiosities.

He felt as if he had melted into a little canoe, floating and sinking towards some shore. Somewhere inside him that used to feel hollow was now filled and brimming.

He sank amidst the fantasy dreamscape she had created for him. He became unlike himself. He didn’t know where his willpower had gone on this night.

He thought this was all her fault.

He felt deeply indignant, indignantly calling out her name, indignantly asking her why she kept seducing him.

She hurriedly shook her head saying no, no. He instead felt he was bullying her, and was filled with contriteness and cherishing pity.

Outside the window was the tranquil cool night of the city, yet inside was a warm, illusory, beautiful dream.

The next morning upon waking up, Xu Miyu opened her eyes staring at the snow white ceiling, temporarily confused for a moment where in the world she was.

Everything that happened last night now seemed to turn obscure, as if there were a layer of misty gauze separating those spoken words and deeds from the present.

Brushing aside that layer of gauze, her memories started flooding back. Xu Miyu leapt up from the bed, heart pounding chaotically, pounding until her entire being felt full of chagrin and panic.

Her head was still a little dizzy. She pressed on her temples to calm herself for a moment, waiting for the faintness to recede.

She looked to the side of the bed and saw only traces showing someone had been lying there before, yet not a trace of that person himself.

All was quiet, from the bathroom came the sounds of showering.

So he was inside, taking a bath.

Xu Miyu blanked out on the bed for a time, yet her thoughts were churning and boiling vigorously beneath that blank exterior.

He would have opened his eyes early in the morning, sobered from the wine, discovering that he had once again lost control with that divorced woman after drinking.

Looking at the woman sleeping by his side, what would be going through his mind?

She remembered that last time after their accidental intimacy, even though the next morning he had controlled emotions on the surface, she could still sense the extreme anger and utter disgust towards her churning inside him. She could feel he was repulsed by her, he found her filthy for sullying him.

It would probably be about the same this time too. He must feel very regretful and remorseful about what happened last night right? He must still feel that the chaotic night after drinking was dirty right? That’s why he couldn’t wait to take a bath as soon as he woke up.

Xu Miyu pressed on her chest. This line of reasoning made her feel humiliated to the point she couldn’t breathe.

She silently got dressed and silently left alone.

After Ji Feng washed away all traces of hangover and sticky sweat in the shower, he walked out of the bathroom.

He consciously kept his toweling actions very light, as if making any louder noises would wake up the woman still sleeping in the room.

She was probably exhausted last night, better let her sleep a little longer.

Recalling last night… it turned out to be the only time in his life he completely lost control and couldn’t help himself.

Waking up that morning, looking at the woman next to him, listening to the faint sounds of breathing… Thinking back on what happened last night… Contrary to that first time, he didn’t feel self contempt or annoyance churning in his heart.

But he was still somewhat lost. Because that kind of loss of control was unprecedented in his life, leaving him without any shred of know how to cope.

Might as well take a quick shower first to wash away his muddled thoughts.

But when Ji Feng walked out toweling his hair and saw the empty room, he froze blankly.

The room was already completely empty without a soul left inside. The bedding was neatly tidy without a hint anything had happened last night at all. Everything seemed like it were only his own solitary dream.

She had quietly slipped away before him without leaving a trace behind.

Ji Feng stood alone amidst the spacious empty room. For some reason his emotions lost control again in that instant as anger started simmering up.

She had actually left without any explanation at all! She turned out to be even more blasé than him!

In the days following, Ji Feng waited for Xu Miyu to come and give him an account.

But all the way until the last day of the New Year holidays, there was no movement from her whatsoever.

Her silent non-response instead made him feel even more restless.

On the last day of the New Year holidays, he deliberately passed by the lobby on some excuse, catching sight of her on duty.

On some excuse or other he called out to her to have her go upstairs with him.

She politely and obediently agreed to go upstairs with him. Her politeness with him spread out an unseen barrier of estrangement between them.

Once back inside the suite he shut the door and turned to stand in front of her directly asking her, “What are your thoughts about what happened that night?”

Xu Miyu looked up at Ji Feng.

He asked her what her thoughts were about that night between them.

When asking this, his face didn’t have a shred of expression that could hint at what he was thinking.

So his concern was probably that she would pester him right?

She smiled, striving to smile calmly. She told him, “What happened that night was purely accidental, all because we drank too much. Director Ji please don’t take it to heart, I will also forget everything that happened that night.”

She made herself keep smiling, trying hard not to leak out the shivering hidden inside her heart when saying all this.

She watched Ji Feng’s frown deepen a little.

Was he still unsatisfied with her level of answer so far?

She immediately supplemented, “Although that night had… had that between us, and we also used… but just to be safe, the morning right after I left I immediately went to buy morning after pills to take. So there will not be any risk of after effects, please don’t worry.”

Ji Feng listened to Xu Miyu’s words. His frown repeatedly furrowed and relaxed, furrowed then relaxed again. It was hard to pinpoint what kind of emotions were actually in his heart. It seemed to contain a bit of relief, yet also simmering up anger somewhat, and also seeming to harbor an inexplicable sense of sour swelling and melancholic loss.

She was actually completely breezy and carefree towards that night, breezy to the extent… he was rendered speechless.

He furrowed his brows, almost petulantly wanting to blurt out the question on the tip of his tongue — Was it because she thought he had a girlfriend that she regretted it so soon the next morning?

But before he could make a sound, she called out to stop him first.

“Director Ji.”

“….What?” Ji Feng stared unblinkingly at Xu Miyu, waiting for what she was going to say next.

Xu Miyu also looked at Ji Feng. She didn’t play push and pull games, didn’t make sly advances, didn’t deliberately try to entice him. She just directly and clearly told him: “Please be at ease, I can swear that I have never ever wanted to seduce you before. I have also never ever wanted to intentionally tease or entice you. What happened that night really was purely accidental because of the alcohol. Once I walk out this door, I will forget everything about that night and never bring it up again. I will also be careful to keep my distance from you.”

After solemnly saying all this, she bowed slightly to him in courtesy and turned to walk out. Saying all this clearly was her last shred of dignity. She was truly afraid that if her stance wasn’t made clear enough, he would casually flip twenty thousand at her again, telling her it’s compensation money for that night.

Ji Feng watched Xu Miyu’s retreating figure. His chest suddenly felt heavily stuffy.

She was too sensible, also too breezy. Between them, this instead made it seem like the one who couldn’t let things go was him instead.

He felt irritable thinking, this was truly unreasonable!

After saying all that, he still couldn’t help letting out a soft sigh in the end.