Love Has Fireworks - Chapter 25

Chapter 25: Cheated on Again

When she returned home in the evening, Li Yifei was nowhere to be seen just as it was almost time for dinner. Qian Fei thought it was strange; he was still in the apartment when she was stir-frying the dishes, so could he have returned to his planet of troublesome people in the blink of an eye?

She called Li Yifei, and the phone rang out facing her inside the room.

She went to knock on the bathroom door, shouting for Li Yifei: "Come out and eat!"

Li Yifei did not answer her.

She thought Li Yifei was languishing alone because of the daytime events, so she threatened him: "Li Yifei, if you don't come out right now, I'm going in!"

A click resounded from the main door, and Li Yifei walked in carrying a case of beer.

"I truly surrender to you. If I had come back any later, you would have spent the whole night chatting with the bathroom door!"

Qian Fei felt that she had a tendency to shatter into pieces.

"When did you go downstairs?" she asked.

Li Yifei moved the beer onto the table, "Right when you thought I was using the toilet."

Qian Fei asked again: "Why did you buy beer to bring back?"

Li Yifei raised his eyes to look at her, "What do you think?"

Qian Fei curled her lips, "Did the scenery stir up your feelings during the day today? The girlfriend you loved for several years is going to marry someone else, and the groom isn't you? You're renting an apartment to live in and wearing high-imitation Taobao clothes to fake a bourgeois lifestyle, while your ex-girlfriend's fiancé's company is going public, using Chinese Yuan to arm his fiancée so that her entire body gleams with gold—did all of this make you feel sorrowful?"

Li Yifei let out a "damn" sound: "Can you be a bit more subtle? Do you assume I truly don't care even a single bit?"

Qian Fei let out a he-he cold laugh: "You are just a stubborn and contrary person. When others try to comfort you with good words, your smelly face is colder than a cold backside, saying, 'Which eye of yours saw that I have a problem, stop poking your nose into other people's business, just look after yourself.' But if someone speaks straight to the point, you feel your little heart is wounded and howl that you can't stand it. Li Yifei, tell me, why are you such a twisted and contrary person?"

Li Yifei was startled, looking as though he had never realized that he was actually like this before.

He pulled out a chair and sat down, calling out to Qian Fei: "Stop talking nonsense, sit down and eat!"

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It was said to be eating a meal, but in reality, eating had long since degenerated into a secondary behavior before the beer.

Qian Fei thought, living a life in this world, how many times can a person experience a breakup? And how many people, after a breakup, can encounter a scenario where the new love instantly turns the old love into a tall, handsome, and poor guy right in front of the ex-girlfriend? Thinking like this, she brought out the grand momentum of risking her life to keep a gentleman company, drinking alongside Li Yifei.

The two of them began to chat about this, that, and everything in between.

When her brain grew hot from the alcohol, Qian Fei began to lose control of her mouth again. Possessed by a holy mother persona, she advised Li Yifei with earnest words and good intentions: "If you ask me, you shouldn't hold a grudge against yourself either. If you truly feel awful, don't go around pretending to be like Xu Wenqiang every day. Your wife was already snatched away by Ding Li, yet you're still looking after the stability and unity of the Shanghai Bund every single day, working hard and fighting for it—it's useless! If you truly can't let go of Gui Lili, then go find her and speak clearly, why must you drag me into drinking this depressing suffocating liquor here!"

Li Yifei thumped the beer onto the table, "Big sister Qian, are you alright? You're telling me to turn back and go look for her? I tell you, from childhood to adulthood, this young master has never done such a face-losing thing! The reason I feel stifled today has nothing to do with letting go or not! What annoys me is that it has always only been this young master's share to dump others, there has never been anyone who could say they dumped me first!"

Looking at him, Qian Fei couldn't bear it anymore and gifted four words to him: "Stinky and shameless!" Thinking about it, she gifted two more words over: "Scumbag!"

Being cursed at inexplicably by her, the alcohol rushed to Li Yifei's head and he became unhappy, "I'm a scumbag? Then tell me who isn't a scumbag? Is your ex-boyfriend not a scumbag, or is your current boyfriend not a scumbag? Look at these boyfriends you've dated, which one of them didn't cheat!"

After he finished speaking, he picked up a beer can and drank in large gulps.

Qian Fei stared at him blankly.

He put down the beer can.

Qian Fei was still staring at him blankly.

Li Yifei instantly sobered up by half from the alcohol.

Qian Fei stared at him blankly, asking: "What did you just say? What do you mean by, look at those boyfriends of yours, which one of them didn't cheat? What boyfriends do I have? I have only dated two boyfriends in total, alright! Also, what do you mean by which one of them didn't cheat?"

Li Yifei let out a sigh, looking at her with an expression that showed he had decided to open the skylight and speak plainly, "I ask you, how long has it been since you and this later boyfriend of yours contacted each other?"

Qian Fei's eyes blurred for a moment, "It has been a long time, but he went on a business trip!"

Li Yifei hooked his lips into a mocking smile: "A business trip? He went on a piece of crap business trip! He wasn't even selected as a supervisor, so what kind of business trip is he taking every day? He's lying to you, Qian Fei!"

Qian Fei suddenly felt her head swim and expand. She held her head and stood up, "My head hurts, let's talk about it tomorrow, I'm going into my room!"

Li Yifei did not stop her, but just as she was about to enter her room, he shouted toward her: "Qian Fei, leave a bit early after work tomorrow and go wait at the entrance of his hotel to see whether Hu Zining actually went on a business trip or not!"

Qian Fei did not turn back, entering her room and shutting the door directly.

She rushed into the bathroom and washed her face.

Just now she was clearly still very dizzy, but now she seemed to have sobered up from the alcohol all at once.

She walked back to her room, took out her phone, and sent a WeChat message to Hu Zining: Zining, what are you doing? Have you come back from your business trip yet?

After quite a long while, the other party finally gave a reply: Working overtime, haven't returned.

Merely five words, which made Qian Fei want to cry as she looked at them.

She remembered the period of time when Wang Ruohai was out socializing every single night and didn't come home, he also possessed this exact kind of tone that was too lazy to speak: Working overtime, don't wait; working overtime, you go to sleep first; working overtime, aren't you annoying.

Her heart began to sink downward bit by bit.

The next day, she was a bit out of her mind for the entire day. When there was still one hour left before off-work hours, she requested an early leave from Liu Yifeng.

She directly took the subway to the hotel where Hu Zining worked. She found a corner to stand and wait.

Before long, it reached off-work hours, and people continuously came out from inside the hotel. Qian Fei strained her eyes to watch, watching until the corners of her eyes felt completely sour.

Then she saw Hu Zining.

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Hu Zining was wearing a crisp, well-fitted suit and holding a briefcase in his hand that seemed to be from quite an expensive brand. He walked out of the building with his head held high and his face full of smiles.

Qian Fei blinked her eyes with force. She had not misread it; Hu Zining was indeed full of smiles. But of course it wasn't directed toward her, but rather toward a woman who was walking face-to-face toward him.

As she watched that woman walk over, Hu Zining naturally locked arms together with her.

Qian Fei reminisced; Hu Zining had never had such an intimate action toward her near the hotel. They always detoured to a place further away before holding hands and strolling.

Qian Fei couldn't describe what kind of flavor was in her heart. Right now, she only wanted to ask Hu Zining to his face exactly what was going on with all of this.

She walked out from the corner and went toward Hu Zining.

She saw that Hu Zining had seen her.

That first glance when he initially saw her still carried some surprise, but immediately, he calmed down. When looking at her, the depths of his eyes were very cold, even carrying some mockery.

She became muddled; why did he have this kind of attitude?

She walked over and greeted him: "Zining, can we chat?"

She saw clearly the woman beside Hu Zining, who wore pearlescent, gleaming pendants on her ears, a translucent, emerald green jade Buddha hanging from her neck, and within her very low-cut round neckline, an explosive career line wrapped inside. She looked mature and charming, only she seemed to be several years older than her and Hu Zining.

"Who is this?" The wealthy woman was asking Hu Zining.

Hu Zining seemed very afraid that she would talk recklessly, hurriedly rushing before she could open her mouth to soothe the wealthy woman, saying: "Xiaoyi, you wait for me for a moment first, this is a client of mine, I'm going over there to discuss some business with her!" After saying this, he shot her a meaningful look.

Qian Fei couldn't help but let out a mocking smile.

Right now she couldn't distinguish either who exactly was the official girlfriend.

She followed Hu Zining back to the corner where she had been standing just now.

She asked Hu Zining: "Zining, I am not a person who endlessly pesters, but at the very least you should let me know what exactly is going on with all of this? Who is that woman? Are you stepping in two boats at the same time?"

Hu Zining's face darkened, "Qian Fei, you shouldn't be stupid. Who that woman is and what relationship she has with me, you should have seen through it with a single glance! You say you are not a person who endlessly pesters, then why did you trace your way to my workplace? Did you do it intentionally to give me embarrassment?"

Qian Fei's brain was a complete mess, "Why did you lie and say you went on a business trip? You clearly did not go on a business trip!"

Hu Zining said with an ill-tempered tone: "Stop joking, Qian Fei, are you truly stupid or faking stupid? Can't you hear that my constantly telling you I'm on a business trip was just telling you that the two of us are pulled down and finished, that's it! I was saving face for you, can't you see it clearly?"

Qian Fei became lost, "But if you wanted to break up, at least, at least you should let me know! You just told me you went on a business trip, I truly didn't understand! While you were dating me, you were also simultaneously dating other women, right?"

Hu Zining let out a chi sound and laughed: "Fine, Qian Fei, since you insist on tearing faces apart, then I don't need to care about saving face for you either! You say I'm dating other girlfriends, then what about yourself? Aren't you also cohabiting with another man! I wondered why you never let me send you home! That kid is Li Yifei who is doing the project together with you, right? I have followed and seen the two of you entering the apartment together! For such a handsome man to be able to be together with you, it's you who is raising him, right? One can tell just by looking at that kid wearing a whole body of designer brands every day! If it wasn't plotting for your money, would such a handsome young fellow be good with you? No wonder as soon as I borrowed money from you, you said you didn't have any, it was all taken to paste onto the little white face, right? Now you conversely have the reason, even running over here to interrogate me, what right do you have? I tell you Qian Fei, the two of us come together well and scatter well, let's just pull it down like this and let it go. Don't go thinking of looking for Xiaoyi to talk random nonsense. Even if you look for her, she won't believe you either, she will only think you are a crazy person harboring an unrequited crush on me!"

Qian Fei had never imagined that when Hu Zining turned his face around, it would be such a hideous countenance. She was so angry that her entire body trembled, and tears spun around directly within her eye sockets. She had never heard such filthy words before. In an instant, she only thought that she should be like in a melodramatic romance drama, fiercely throwing a slap across the scumbag's face to be right.

Her body moved along with her heart, swinging her arm up, but her arm was caught firmly in mid-air by Hu Zining in a single grasp.

And after he intercepted her arm, he used the force to push her backward with strength. Her left foot sprained from his push, and she stumbled, falling backward.

"Are you crazy!" While pushing her, she heard Hu Zining say this.

Her heart felt like cold ashes, falling backward.

But just as she was about to crash toward the ground, she was caught steadily from behind by someone.

She turned her head around in a daze to look.

Unexpectedly, it was Li Yifei.

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After Li Yifei caught Qian Fei, he lifted his eyes to look at Hu Zining, his vocal cords filled with disdain and provocation, "Grandson, hitting a woman, are you! Do you believe it if I go tell that wealthy woman in front how many households' soft rice you have eaten!"

Hu Zining was not to be outdone, also spitting out words to return to him: "Grandson, aren't you also relying on her to raise you! Neither of us is a hero or a brave man, let's simply neither speak of the other!"

Li Yifei lowered his head to look at Qian Fei, asking: "Can you stand steadily?"

Qian Fei nodded.

Li Yifei asked again: "Left side or right side?"

Qian Fei said bitterly: "Front side!"

Li Yifei let go of her, took one step forward, and swiftly threw out a punch, smashing it squarely right in the center of Hu Zining's nasal bridge.

Hu Zining instantly covered his face, wailing as he squatted down.

Li Yifei shook his hand, walked back, and supported Qian Fei's shoulder, feeling that beneath his palm, she was continuously trembling.

He didn't want to entangle further with this scumbag in front of his eyes anymore; he had to take her away quickly.

"Grandson, I'll let you bounce around for a bit more. You wait, there will be a day when you cry, kneel down, and call me grandfather!" After he finished speaking, regardless of what Hu Zining was cursing about while covering his nose, he supported Qian Fei and left immediately.