Xiao Keke looked worriedly at Muxingge, who had just grabbed another can of beer, and said, “Is Star Song Senior really okay? Maybe we should send her home first today…”
“No way! No one is allowed to leave until we’ve had our fun tonight!”
Seeing Muxingge getting worked up, Xiaoxi quietly shook her head at Xiao Keke.
She was already well acquainted with how to handle a drunk Muxingge; at times like this, it was best to just go along with whatever she said.
Besides, Muxingge wasn’t completely drunk yet. After all, she was still able to hold a conversation, even if it was a bit shaky.
If she were fully drunk… well, Xiaoxi could only say that she and the Silverflame Dragon Princess used to deal with drunk Muxingge often, because only the two of them could handle Muxingge in that state.
“It’s fine, we’ll just play it by ear. Once Star Song Senior gets tired of playing, she’ll be easier to manage.”
Xiaoxi spoke from experience. Although Xiao Keke was still a bit skeptical of Xiaoxi’s inexplicable confidence, her firm tone still comforted her.
“Doesn’t Senior say she has a good tolerance for alcohol?” Xiao Keke whispered.
“The worse someone’s tolerance is, the more they like to brag about it.”
Xiaoxi shook her head. Miss L knew this well.
The first time she accompanied Muxingge to drink, she was deceived by that very sentence.
That night, it took three people who had transformed just to barely hold Muxingge down.
Since then, everyone clearly recognized that Muxingge’s alcohol tolerance was pretty poor.
“I need to go to the bathroom…”
Muxingge muttered something on her phone, then tossed it aside and stood up unsteadily.
Naturally, Xiaoxi, who was holding her by the neck, was pulled up as well.
Xiaoxi certainly wasn’t going to let Muxingge go out alone.
After giving Xiao Keke a meaningful look, she steadied Muxingge and left the KTV private room.
But the drunk Muxingge was like a limp rag, leaning heavily against Xiaoxi.
It took considerable effort for Xiaoxi to drag her to the restroom.
“Sirius, is this your first time at this KTV?”
“Yes, Senior, why?”
“Then how did you… manage to walk straight to the bathroom on the first try?”
“Luck, I guess? I just wandered around, didn’t expect to get it right so quickly.”
Xiaoxi was startled, but she guessed Muxingge wasn’t paying attention to details in this state. After finding a casual excuse, Xiaoxi shut the restroom stall door behind them.
“I’ll wait for you outside, Senior!”
Xiaoxi felt a bit frustrated. Before, when everyone faced a drunk Muxingge, no one had good expressions—there was always some grumbling while taking care of her.
Now, she didn’t even have the right to grumble and had to call her “Senior” at every turn.
After a while, Muxingge staggered out of the stall. Seeing her unsteady steps, Xiaoxi quickly went to support her.
When Muxingge’s weight pressed against her, Xiaoxi couldn’t help but let out a muffled grunt.
Has Muxingge gained weight? She’s so heavy!
Muxingge was originally tall and slender, the kind of figure suited for an idol—naturally no need to say more about that.
But now, she was holding onto Xiaoxi’s arm, her head resting on Xiaoxi’s shoulder, and the soft pressure of her arm made Xiaoxi’s face flush.
She hurriedly helped Muxingge back to the private room, afraid something might go wrong again. But before they took two steps, Muxingge mumbled:
“Buy two more boxes of beer… Where’s my phone? It’s gone…”
Muxingge fumbled in her pocket, then suddenly stopped, “The phone… I dropped it in the bathroom. I have to go back and find it!”
She tugged at Xiaoxi, wanting to turn back. Xiaoxi felt a headache coming on. She clearly remembered putting Muxingge’s phone on the table before leaving the room.
But at times like this, reasoning with Muxingge was pointless. Xiaoxi slipped her own phone into Muxingge’s hand.
“It’s with me, Senior. I held onto it for you before you went to the bathroom.”
Muxingge clutched the phone silently. Xiaoxi smiled slightly—after all these years, she was still so adept at handling a drunk Muxingge.
But soon, Xiaoxi realized she was facing a common KTV problem—she couldn’t recognize which private room was theirs.
Xiaoxi sighed, “Senior, can I borrow your phone for a moment? My hand…”
Muxingge, half-closing her eyes, nodded and handed the phone over, practically pushing Xiaoxi backward with her strength, almost knocking her over despite Xiaoxi being in her transformed state.
Xiaoxi took a deep breath and leaned against the wall. No wonder it was only after Muxingge got drunk that Xiaoxi and the Silverflame Dragon Princess had to come to her aid!
At this moment, Muxingge’s arms wrapped around Xiaoxi’s waist, the soft pressure increasing.
Xiaoxi barely managed to stand firm as she lit up the phone screen, but then saw a line of text:
“Fingerprint verification failed the maximum number of times, please use passcode to unlock.”
Had Muxingge accidentally triggered the fingerprint lock while clutching the phone? Xiaoxi sighed, “Star Song Senior, it’s hard for me to operate like this…”
Muxingge obviously wasn’t listening, half resting her head on Xiaoxi’s shoulder as if Xiaoxi was her pillow.
Xiaoxi was helpless. Really, she was such a big star now and yet cared so little about her public image…
Xiaoxi could only struggle through the phone’s lock screen, inputting the digits one by one, planning to call Xiao Keke to come help them.
Just then, two figures appeared around the corner of the corridor.
One of them caught sight of Xiaoxi and Muxingge acting so intimately in the hallway and let out a small exclamation, then poked the person beside her in the side.
“Hurry up, hurry up, Xinglan, move aside, move aside. Don’t disturb the little couple…”
Xinglan? Xiaoxi was momentarily stunned. When she looked up, she met the eyes of Ye Xinglan, who was being pulled to the side by Jie Tianxin.
Wasn’t this little Rich Girl supposed to be home gaming hard at this hour? How did she end up in a KTV?
It was normal that Jie Tianxin didn’t recognize Xiaoxi, because Xiaoxi was currently transformed as Sirius, but Ye Xinglan knew very well that “Magic Girl Sirius” and “Xiaoxi” were the same person.
And right now, Muxingge’s behavior looked like she was hugging Xiaoxi… So when their eyes met, Xiaoxi could feel the sharp murderous intent radiating from Ye Xinglan.
“Oh, don’t stare at the little couple like that, it’s rude, Xinglan. You’re no angel yourself…”
Jie Tianxin’s words were obviously pouring fuel on the fire. Xiaoxi wanted to say something, but Ye Xinglan had already entered another private room.
Just before the door closed, Xiaoxi read Ye Xinglan’s lip movement from a distance—probably, “You, are, dead, meat”…
Damn it!
So after bringing Muxingge and Xiao Keke back to the room, Xiaoxi collapsed onto the sofa as if she had burned out.
Meanwhile, Xiao Keke was pulling Shandie into a duet, singing nearby. Muxingge was sitting and resting quietly.
After thinking it over, Xiaoxi decided to send a message to Ye Xinglan to explain things…
But before she could figure out how to start, Muxingge’s phone, tossed on the table, rang again. When picked up, a male voice came from the other end.
“Hello, your waking wine medicine has arrived. We’ve placed it in the hall.”
Xiaoxi was stunned. Before leaving the room, Muxingge was fumbling with her phone because she was ordering waking wine medicine? When did she get so self-aware?
“Okay, I’ll go get it now…”
Muxingge staggered to her feet. No one dared let her get the delivery by herself, so Xiaoxi hurriedly took the phone and left the private room.
“Hello, is the delivery in the hall? Okay, okay, I’m coming out now to pick it up.”
As Xiaoxi stepped out, the previously dizzy Muxingge quickly stood up, grabbed her phone from the table.
“I’m going to the bathroom again.”
“Senior, I’ll go with you?”
“No need! Are you looking down on me?” Muxingge slurred in a troublesome drunk manner. “I still remember the way. Go straight out and turn left, that’s it.”
Xiao Keke hesitated, but recalling Xiaoxi’s advice to follow Muxingge’s wishes, she didn’t insist.
She only let out a sigh of relief when Muxingge left the door and was indeed heading toward the bathroom.
But… wasn’t Senior drunk? She was so dizzy just a moment ago. Why is she suddenly walking faster now that she’s outside the room?
Once inside the stall with the door locked behind her, Muxingge’s eyes cleared immediately. She stood straight, no longer staggering like a drunk.
A cold smirk curled at the corner of her lips. Bad tolerance? She used to have a poor tolerance, yes. But that was then, and this was now. Muxingge was no longer the rookie who would fall after a few cans of beer.
Muxingge didn’t actually like drinking. She only tolerated it.
As an idol, she couldn’t avoid accompanying brand partners and investors to drinking events, so over the years, her tolerance improved.
But at such events, she habitually pretended to be drunk after just a couple of drinks.
That way, when some ill-intentioned person tried to make a move, she could beat them up without remorse, then apologize the next day saying she lost control after drinking, asking for forgiveness.
This trick was like her interrogation skills—always effective. And now, as a famous Big Star and an S-Rank Magical Girl, hardly anyone dared act badly toward her at drinking parties.
Clearly, her skill in faking drunkenness was well-honed, and Sirius was apparently very good at handling drunk people… otherwise, she wouldn’t have been so easily tricked by her.
Inputting the lock screen password she had glimpsed earlier, Xiaoxi’s phone finally unlocked.
Xiaoxi could only feel like a helpless husband, completely unaware that her phone was being rifled through by Muxingge.
Hmph, hiding things pretty well…
The logged-in account on the phone wasn’t the same as the one Xiaoxi had shown her earlier that day.
Seeing that Xiaoxi was the Group Owner of “My 50 Crazy Thursday Chat Group” made the smirk on Muxingge’s lips widen.
Thinking about the lies Xiaoxi had spun earlier, Muxingge almost laughed. Playing mind games with me? You’re not nearly good enough!
There was even the Feng Li Bao app… and she could see the Author Backend? Oh, let me have a look…
At this moment, Xiaoxi returned with the waking wine medicine but found Muxingge missing—and her own phone gone!
A cold sweat broke out on Xiaoxi’s forehead. She had taken Muxingge’s phone to get the delivery and hadn’t taken her own phone with her.
“Where’s Star Song Senior?”
“Oh, Senior went to the bathroom again.”
“I’m going to check!”
Before the words finished, Xiaoxi rushed out. Xiao Keke, surprised, blinked at Shandie mid-duet. Who would’ve thought that Ah Lang cared so much about Star Song Senior?
When Xiaoxi arrived at the bathroom, Muxingge was washing her face at the sink.
The cold water splashed on her face, and when she looked up at Xiaoxi in the mirror, her eyes blurred again.
“I said I can manage on my own.”
“I just worried Senior might not find the room again,” Xiaoxi smiled supportively. “Um, I got the delivery, here’s your phone.”
“My phone?” Muxingge slowly pulled a phone from her pocket. “Hey, this isn’t my phone.”
“You took the wrong one. This is yours.”
After swapping phones, Muxingge drunkenly leaned back on Xiaoxi’s shoulder again. Xiaoxi secretly checked her own phone, of course, finding nothing unusual.
Judging by Muxingge’s reaction just now, she probably hadn’t touched Xiaoxi’s phone—she just accidentally took the wrong one while drunk.
And Xiaoxi knew Muxingge’s tolerance well enough to know she wouldn’t notice anything now.
Xiaoxi relaxed for a moment, but before she could take two steps, the door of a nearby private room suddenly opened and closed again.
“Xinglan, don’t go out yet. It’s those little couples from before. Let’s wait until they leave to buy water.”
Xiaoxi: “…”
Though she didn’t see Ye Xinglan, for a moment Xiaoxi could feel a tangible murderous intent drifting out from that room.
Back in the room, after taking the waking wine medicine, Muxingge seemed a bit better. At least she no longer needed coaxing.
With one hand on a beer and the other clutching the microphone, she sang death metal with a ferocity that surprised both Xiao Keke and Shandie, who exchanged glances in disbelief.
“You two sing pretty well. How about I introduce you to an agent I know?”
“What? Sing my own songs? No way! Singing my own songs is work. Coming to a KTV means singing what you like!”
Xiaoxi sat back and watched Muxingge drape her arms around Shandie and Xiao Keke’s shoulders, a smile tugging at her lips.
She couldn’t quite remember the last time she’d come to a KTV with her teammates, and these days it was hard to get them all together for a night out.
Seeing Muxingge chatting and laughing with the others, Xiaoxi felt a fleeting sense of returning to those old days.
Shandie seemed less distant than before, even throwing in the occasional comment.
When the next song started, Muxingge sat back down and passed the microphone to Xiaoxi.
“Forget it, Senior, I really have no talent for singing…”
“Alright then,” Muxingge said with slightly narrowed eyes, still a little tipsy, “By the way, I’ve got a pretty good idea who’s been writing my little imperial story.”