Li Yifei found the private room where Da Jun and the others were, went in, and sat down. He asked Jin Tian, who was sitting next to him, “Have you eaten yet?”
Jin Tian looked at him with watery eyes and shook her head, “I had no appetite without you here!”
Li Yifei nodded and turned to call a waiter, “Bring her a white fungus and papaya soup.” Then he said to Jin Tian, “Try this, it’s delicious. You’ll have an appetite!”
Jin Tian smiled sweetly at him.
He smiled back and told her, “Eat slowly, chew the white fungus thoroughly, and don’t try to talk while eating!” Then he turned to whisper with Da Jun.
“Help me take Jin Tian home later.”
Da Jun pouted, “Where are you going?”
Li Yifei said matter-of-factly, “I have to take those two drunk girls home!”
Da Jun looked past him at Jin Tian and lowered his voice, “You keep asking me to pick up and drop off the flower girl you brought. Is that appropriate? I do all these tiresome tasks for you in life, don’t you think you should show some appreciation?”
Li Yifei punched him, “Since when did you become so fussy? Do a little work and you’re already looking for ways to seek praise and affection from me!”
Da Jun squinted at him sideways, “By the way, who are those two girls?”
Li Yifei raised an eyebrow, “One is a tomboy, the other is the tomboy’s best friend.”
Da Jun’s expression changed as he asked slyly, “Which one is the tomboy? The one with shoulder-length hair or the one with hair past her shoulders?”
Li Yifei answered, “The one with hair past her shoulders.”
Da Jun’s eyes lit up as he exclaimed softly, “Damn! I think my taste has become a bit perverted! I like the tomboy! Hey Yifei, I won’t ask for praise or affection anymore, just introduce me to the tomboy!”
Li Yifei slapped the back of his head, “Get lost! What are you thinking? She may look like a girl, but she’s rougher than you inside! You’d be better off going to Thailand to find a wild ladyboy than dating her!”
Da Jun rubbed his head and whined, “Look at your face, afraid I’ll ruin her. You’re acting like you’re looking out for me, as if!”
Li Yifei composed himself and looked at Da Jun seriously, “I am looking out for you. I’m afraid you’ll have a moment of fun and then not be able to shake her off. She’s different from us, she lives life very seriously. Either you go for marriage with her or don’t even think about it. She’s not someone you can play with or hurt.”
When Li Yifei returned to the small private room, Qian Fei and Lu Ze were just finishing their conversation.
They began discussing sleeping arrangements for the night.
Qian Fei said to Lu Ze, “I’m taking the little devil home, you can find a hotel yourself.”
Lu Ze looked at her and then at Li Yifei standing in the doorway, and asked, “Are you two leaving together?”
Qian Fei nodded, “Yes!”
Lu Ze was silent for a moment, then said, “In that case, I’ll go back with you too.”
Li Yifei spoke up before Qian Fei could, “Don’t compare yourself to me, I already live there!”
Lu Ze looked at him expressionlessly and said, “I can sleep on the couch.”
Qian Fei was about to speak when Li Yifei stopped her, “I agreed when I signed the contract that the living room is mine so that couch is mine too!”
Lu Ze glanced at him and said in a low voice, “I heard you’re doing export business. I happen to have channels for selling to Japan in Dalian.”
Li Yifei’s expression became serious, “You seem to know quite a bit. May I ask how you got this information?”
Lu Ze’s lips curled slightly, “Your friend passed your business card to my friend.”
Li Yifei looked at him carefully, stroking his chin.
Qian Fei stood up unsteadily and asked impatiently, “What are you two whispering about? Can you speak louder so drunk people don’t have to think too hard to understand?” She pointed at Lu Ze and asked Li Yifei, “How are we going to arrange for him tonight?”
Li Yifei’s attitude changed as he slapped her hand, “Where are your manners? Is it polite to point at people while talking? He’s coming home with us tonight!”
He changed so quickly that Qian Fei’s breath caught in her throat, “Oh, coming home together? Where will he sleep?”
Li Yifei said, “On the living room couch.”
Qian Fei said “Oh” and stood up to call the waiter for the bill.
Li Yifei stopped her, “No need!”
Qian Fei asked with delight, “You’ve already paid?”
Li Yifei smiled mischievously, “No, I told the waiter to add it to the big private room bill!”
Qian Fei said “Oh” again and smiled flatteringly, “Next time those people eat out, arrange a small private room for me next to theirs!”
Li Yifei followed behind Lu Ze, who was supporting Yao Jingjing, as they walked out. “If you keep me happy like this, you won’t miss out on these good things in the future!” At the door, he paused and turned back to ask Qian Fei, “Have you sobered up?”
Qian Fei pounded her chest hard and said, “Of course I have! Do you think I have the capacity of an ant?”
Seeing how heavily she was hitting herself, Li Yifei knew she was still drunk. He sighed impatiently, walked back, and half-dragged, half-supported her as they walked out. “Let me tell you, if you dare to drink with others outside until you lose control again, I’ll slap you! What kind of woman behaves like this!”
Qian Fei chuckled and asked, “Is it okay at home then?”
Li Yifei said, “It’s fine at home, but you have to make sure your future man won’t be disgusted by the sight of you vomiting when drunk.”
He supported Qian Fei as they left Jin Dingxuan.
The four of them took a taxi home.
After arriving home, Li Yifei washed up and went to sleep first. Qian Fei settled Lu Ze in the living room and supported Yao Jingjing back to the bedroom.
Yao Jingjing rolled around on the bed twice before starting to complain about feeling sick. Qian Fei had to help her to the bathroom. As soon as Yao Jingjing entered the bathroom, she seemed to find her life’s purpose and rushed to the toilet, vomiting vigorously with “Ah, oh, ugh” sounds.
After throwing up, Yao Jingjing fully regained her spirit.
She rinsed her mouth and wiped it, then said to Qian Fei with determination, “Fei Fei, call him in. I need to talk to him!”
Qian Fei almost cried.
She hadn’t thrown up at all, and only half of the alcohol had been metabolized. The other half was still fermenting in her stomach. She didn’t want to deal with anything now, she just wanted to sleep.
She wandered out of the room like a lost soul and sent Lu Ze in.
As soon as Lu Ze entered, he closed the door. Qian Fei stood outside the door, suddenly feeling as pitiful as the little match girl, her nest taken over by others on New Year’s Eve.
She was really tired and fell asleep as soon as she lay down on the couch and closed her eyes.
But just as she fell into a deep sleep, there was a sudden “bang” from the room.
She sat up abruptly, and in her sleepy state, she thought the two people in the room were fighting. So she sprang up from the couch like a rocket and rushed to the bedroom door, slamming into it hard, “What’s wrong? What’s wrong? How can you start fighting when you should be talking…”
Her voice trailed off as she saw the two people in the room fiercely entangled and devouring each other. At their feet was a thick stack of her business books that had originally been on the table.
How wild were these two…
She retreated with a red face, kindly helping to close the door. She heard a click from inside as the door was locked. She, the host, was locked out.
She was stunned for a moment, thinking that those two inside were being a bit shameless in their hunger…
The next morning, Yao Jingjing and Lu Ze came out of the room looking perfectly normal, with an air of righteousness as if they hadn’t done anything improper the night before but had just sat facing each other discussing Zen all night.
Qian Fei had already made breakfast and was setting out bowls and chopsticks when she called out “Little devil”. But before she could say anything else, Yao Jingjing interrupted her righteously, “Don’t ask me anything, I don’t know what happened yesterday, I blacked out!”
Qian Fei stopped what she was doing, straightened up, and sneered, “I was just going to ask if you wanted porridge or soy milk. But since you’re acting so guilty, I’d be remiss if I didn’t play along!” She narrowed her eyes, a sly expression instantly appearing on her face, “Can you tell me why your lips are swollen? Did he take advantage of your blackout to slap you hard?” Qian Fei pointed at Lu Ze and asked Yao Jingjing with a look of curiosity.
Yao Jingjing, without blushing or panting, said, “I spent all night cursing you out, that’s why.”
Qian Fei laughed and said, “Would it kill you to maintain a good image in front of your man?”
She had Yao Jingjing and Lu Ze sit at the dining table while she went to knock on Li Yifei’s door to wake him up for breakfast. Through the door, Li Yifei groaned and told her he wanted to sleep a bit longer, asked her to keep some of everything warm for him in the pot and also to iron his favorite Golden Button brand shirt and clean the trash can in his bathroom.
Qian Fei spat at the door fiercely, “Pah! Getting used to being the master, are you? I couldn’t care less, I’ll starve you into submission!”
Although she said this, when she returned to the dining table, she still set aside a bowl each of soy milk and porridge.
Yao Jingjing stared at her and clicked her tongue, saying, “Looks like that saintly disease you were born with has gotten worse again!”
Qian Fei grumbled back, “Your lips have turned into two fat sausages but still can’t stop your poisonous tongue!”
She asked Yao Jingjing and Lu Ze what their plans were after breakfast, whether they wanted to go out or stay home and chat.
Lu Ze said, “I’m taking her back to Dalian soon, my assistant has already booked the flight tickets.”
Qian Fei was stunned and looked at Yao Jingjing with reluctance, “Leaving so soon? Won’t you stay a few more days?”
Yao Jingjing also frowned, “He has a high-level meeting this afternoon!”
Qian Fei looked incredulous, “Really? But it’s New Year’s Day! The whole of China is on holiday. Mr. Lu, aren’t you being a bit too much of a capitalist slave driver?”
Lu Ze looked at her expressionlessly and said, “Can’t be helped. It was supposed to be yesterday afternoon, but someone threw a tantrum, so I wasn’t in the mood for a meeting. Had to postpone it to today.”
Qian Fei looked at Yao Jingjing and clicked her tongue, “You have become a troublemaking little devil!”
After breakfast, Qian Fei saw Yao Jingjing and Lu Ze off to the airport.
Before boarding, Qian Fei and Yao Jingjing were reluctant to part, talking endlessly as if it were a life-and-death separation. Lu Ze watched from the side, feeling both headache and confusion, “Weren’t you both just scrolling through Weibo on your phones in the car?” His implication was, why are you talking non-stop now, what were you doing earlier?
Qian Fei and Yao Jingjing almost simultaneously turned to him and said, “You don’t understand!”
Qian Fei said, “It’s like taking an exam. Would you study a week before? No!”
Yao Jingjing followed up, “But the night before the exam? You’d want to study all night, right?”
Lu Ze looked at them, his lips twitching silently.
Just before entering the boarding gate, Qian Fei said to Lu Ze, “You’d better get everything sorted out at your Dalian branch and bring the little devil back to Beijing soon! I can’t endure too long without her, I’ll die if it drags on!”
Lu Ze broke from his usual expressionless demeanor and raised the corners of his mouth, “Certainly.”
Qian Fei patted Yao Jingjing’s shoulder, “Go on in, little devil!”
Yao Jingjing entered the boarding gate. Lu Ze strode after her with his long legs. After walking a few steps forward, he suddenly stopped and turned back, looking at Qian Fei with his usual expressionless face, and said, “That Li Yifei looks very familiar to me.”
Qian Fei replied seriously, “Well, maybe it’s because when his surname was still Liu, he once cross-dressed to play a killer named Wuqing!”
Lu Ze smiled, “What a coincidence, I watched that movie with Jingjing.” He waved and turned to leave.
When he was walking side by side with Yao Jingjing, she asked him, “What were you saying to Fei Fei just now?”
He smiled faintly and answered, “Nothing much, just that Li Yifei looks very similar to the chairman of Qian Sheng Group.”
Yao Jingjing sighed in amazement, “Wow, Qian Sheng Group! Wang Ruhai, that bastard – oh, he’s Fei Fei’s ex-boyfriend – works there. Back then I wanted to work there and submitted my resume three times but never succeeded!” She clicked her tongue again, “Looking at it this way, physiognomy and such are all nonsense. Similar looks, but one is the big boss of a group and the other is a kept man renting an apartment, worlds apart!”
Lu Ze looked at her, the corner of his mouth twitching slightly.
This woman and that Qian Fei were the most thoughtless humans he had ever encountered.
Note: Qian Sheng Group is fictional, hehe…