Love Has Fireworks - Chapter 26

Chapter 26: Who Do You Think I Did It For

Qian Fei had sprained her foot when she tumbled backward. Feeling that taking the subway would be inconvenient, Li Yifei waved his hand and hailed a taxi.

Qian Fei hesitated, "The traffic on the route back to our place is too congested. It's better to take the subway."

Li Yifei stuffed her directly into the car, "I know it's congested too. Otherwise, why do you think I don't take taxis to work and instead squeeze onto the subway every day? But your foot is already like this, so let it be congested."

Inside the taxi, Qian Fei suddenly asked blankly, "By the way, how did you get there?"

Li Yifei felt that her state of mind hadn't been quite right since a moment ago. Staring at her, he said, "I felt uneasy, so I followed right after you left."

The road was continuously congested, gridlocked for nearly two hours before the car finally drove up to their apartment building.

Until they got out of the car, Qian Fei didn't speak another word.

Arriving downstairs at their building, she got out of the car and walked with a limp into the hallway. After paying the taxi fare, Li Yifei hurriedly ran over to support her.

"I tell you, Qian Fei, I've never even supported the smelly old man of our family like this! You better cherish it!" As he spoke, he supported her into the elevator.

Qian Fei still didn't speak.

Once they entered the apartment, he supported Qian Fei onto the living room sofa to sit down.

Qian Fei had been staring blankly the entire time, but right after sitting down, she suddenly raised her head out of nowhere and said, "Right now, I especially want to drink alcohol!"

Without a second word, Li Yifei turned around and went downstairs to buy liquor.

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Qian Fei sat on the floor, gloomily drinking can after can of beer without saying a word. Li Yifei ran his fingers through his hair, a trace of annoyance welling up in his heart.

"Qian Fei, can you say something?"

Hearing his voice, Qian Fei raised her head to look at him. Her gaze was perfectly straight and unblinking, staring until he almost felt a bit hair-raised.

"Do you think I'm a massive idiot?" Qian Fei suddenly asked him.

Looking at her, Li Yifei didn't know how to answer for a moment.

"Do you think it's just my destiny to be cheated on?" As she asked this question, two massive tears rolled out of her eye sockets and poured down her cheeks, making Li Yifei's heart leap in fear.

He had never seen any girl shed tears with such a calm expression before.

He watched her tears drop continuously, yet she didn't let out a single sound of crying.

He felt suffocated in his heart from her silent weeping and couldn't help but ask, "Why don't you make a sound when you cry? Make some noise, don't bottle it up until you make yourself sick!"

With her face covered in tears, Qian Fei looked at her and let out a miserable smile, "Even if I make a sound, who would I be crying for?"

Looking at her, Li Yifei suddenly felt a bit uncomfortable in his heart.

At that moment, it was as if he could personally experience how much Qian Fei's heart ached and burned.

It was also from that moment onward that he finally learned the true power of tears—it wasn't a delicate cry of pain, but rather weeping silently with a miserable smile.

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After crying for a while, Qian Fei gradually calmed down.

Drinking her beer, she said to Li Yifei, "Thinking about it now, I really am an idiot. You dropped hints to me several times before, telling me to pay attention, but unfortunately, I never took the meaning of your words to heart. Li Yifei, how did you find out that Hu Zining was cheating? Also, since you knew, why didn't you just tell me straight out? I'm foolish and single-minded; if you don't make things plain to me, I really can't hear the hidden meaning!"

Li Yifei looked at her, "I never interfere in other people's relationship issues. To drop hints to you several times is already an unprecedented, earth-shattering event for me." He paused and asked, "Is your current emotional state able to withstand me telling you the truth?"

Qian Fei nodded, mocking herself, "This isn't the first time anyway. No matter how sad I get, how much sadder can it be? I've already cried, so feel free to speak!"

Li Yifei pondered for a moment, then revealed the origin and development of the matter.

"Do you still remember the day the fuse broke at home? I came back very late that night because I was called to a bar to talk about business. In the bar, I saw a guy at the neighboring table hugging and kissing a woman clad in gold and silver, acting very intimate. At a single glance, it was obviously a relationship between a wealthy woman and a little white face. It left a pretty deep impression on me. Later when we went to the hotel to do due diligence, I recognized that guy. I asked you if that man was your boyfriend, and you said yes. At that time, I thought I wasn't very close to you, so I didn't tell you about it.

"Later there was another time when my buddy—the one who got a bag of tea leaves for topping up his phone bill—and I went to a bar to drink. We saw Hu Zining again. He had changed to a different woman beside him, who wore a massive Cartier bracelet on her wrist, a huge Tiffany diamond ring tied to her finger, and an emerald green jade necklace looped around her neck. At that time, I quite admired Hu Zining. Facing a woman who mixed and matched accessories so recklessly just to show off that she was a nouveau riche, I wouldn't even be able to bring myself to kiss her even if she were a celestial immortal! But he could coax her into happily pulling out her wallet to pay the bill and buy him drinks. Truly a skill!"

Listening to these matters, Qian Fei suddenly felt extremely fortunate about the time Hu Zining had pulled her over to his place; she had very firmly and unswervingly extinguished his attempt to get intimate with her.

Clasping her beer can, she fell into silence and began to seriously examine herself. Why were the various signs so obvious, yet she had consistently failed to discover that Hu Zining was that kind of person?

Was it because, at the fundamental root, she had never truly placed him in her heart? In her subconscious, was he merely an object suitable for marriage to dispel her loneliness?

Perhaps she had never truly been moved by him, and thus had never truly invested her heart in him. Therefore, no matter what he said or did, she never spent mental energy trying to distinguish truth from falsehood. Rather than saying others had deceived her, it was better to say she was happy to stay within the world of her own impressions, deceiving herself.

She suddenly felt a sense of release regarding Hu Zining. In reality, he was also just a shield she used to escape and forget Wang Ruohai, except she had consistently failed to discover this point before.

But no matter what, at the thought that this man had once used the mouth that had coaxed or even kissed other wealthy women to kiss her, she suddenly felt a churning sensation of absolute disgust welling up in her chest.

Not even caring to put on her slippers, she limped and stumbled, rushing to the toilet to vomit.

She vomited heart-rendingly, almost throwing up her entire stomach.

Li Yifei followed her into the bathroom. While covering his nose with a face full of disgust, he asked her in fear and trepidation, "Qian Fei, I say, you weren't taken advantage of by him and got pregnant, right?"

Using her very life to retch out the final mouthful, Qian Fei squatted weakly by the toilet bowl. Tilting her head, she shot at Li Yifei, "Pregnant your sister! This auntone precisely didn't let him take advantage of me in terms of sex or money, which is why he became driven to the wall like a cornered dog and bullied me!"

Looking at her, Li Yifei clicked his tongue repeatedly, "He really is something. He truly isn't a picky eater, being able to bring himself to kiss just about anyone!"

Qian Fei didn't react to what Li Yifei meant until she finished rinsing her mouth. Her brain hot from the alcohol, she didn't even think; she bent down, took off a slipper, and threw it right toward Li Yifei's face.

Stunned from being hit, Li Yifei hopped around in exasperation and shouted, "Qian Fei, are you crazy? Don't throw a drunk tantrum just because you went through a breakup! Don't assume I'll yield to you! Try throwing another slipper at my face again!"

As soon as the words left his mouth, just as he wished, the other slipper accurately struck his face once more.

Li Yifei was truly enraged. He rushed over, grabbed Qian Fei's arm, and roared in anger, "Do you believe it if I slap you!"

Qian Fei tilted her head to look at him, her eyes washed by tears looking terrifyingly bright and clear, "Slap me then, just slap me to death and be done with it! Anyway, after going through this rotten matter tonight, and then thinking about how I still have to continue squeezing onto the subway after waking up tomorrow morning, I feel that only living up to this point is actually whatever!"

Looking into her eyes, Li Yifei's anger suddenly vanished completely.

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Qian Fei worked hard to gather her emotions. Three days after the incident, when she felt she could already manage her emotions very well, she called Yao Jingjing and told her about what had happened here.

Yao Jingjing directly blew her top on the other end of the phone, insisting on buying a plane ticket to fly back immediately and pour sulfuric acid on Hu Zining at his hotel. Qian Fei begged a thousand times and pleaded a ten thousand times, using all sorts of good words before finally soothing her down.

Before hanging up the phone, Yao Jingjing told her, "Baboon, endure it for a bit longer. I'll finish up the work on my hands as quickly as possible, and once it's finished I'll go back to keep you company! What piece of crap wealthy person, this master doesn't give a damn anymore, let him go play with his own balls!"

After hanging up this phone call, Qian Fei was a bit moved on one hand, but on the other hand, she felt that perhaps Yao Jingjing had also encountered difficulties in the development of her relationship over in Dalian.

Vibrant and fiery as she was, she had always been full of high fighting spirit; when had she ever spoken words of abandonment like "let him go play with his own balls"?

Qian Fei didn't want Yao Jingjing to return at all, because she knew that if Yao Jingjing truly returned, it would mean she had been hurt.

Another two days passed. While having dinner at home, she unexpectedly received a phone call from Hu Zining.

Hu Zining loudly cursed at her over the phone, "Qian Fei, did you sleep with our Chairman? If you have the ability, don't play underhanded tricks on me!"

Before she could even figure out what exactly had happened, Li Yifei beside her had already reached out and snatched her phone, saying to the person inside, "Grandson, I said it before, didn't I, that there would be a day when you kneel down and call me grandfather! I tell you not to harass Qian Fei ever again in the future, watch out or grandfather will make it impossible for you to mix around in Beijing City!"

After saying this, he hung up the phone directly.

Qian Fei stared at him blankly.

He flipped his hair and asked, "Stunned blank by my handsomeness, are you?"

Qian Fei couldn't help but burst out laughing with a pu sound, "What's going on? Also, why did you hang up the phone? He cursed at me and I hadn't even had time to reply back yet!"

Li Yifei clicked his tongue twice, "From head to toe, only this petty mindedness of yours still looks like a woman!" Following that, he enlightened Qian Fei in a calm and casual manner, "It's nothing much, just that the hotel fired Hu Zining."

Qian Fei was startled, "Real or fake? What did you do?"

Putting on airs, Li Yifei said, "I didn't do much, just made a few phone calls!"

Qian Fei curled her lip at him, "Boast, keep on boasting!"

Li Yifei was a bit displeased, "Why don't you believe it? Otherwise, how do you think I accomplished it?"

Qian Fei said, "You looked for your project leader to go speak with the securities representative, right?"

Li Yifei wagged his finger at her, "No! Matters of work and matters of private life, I distinguish them very clearly. Therefore, I absolutely would not look for people on the project team to speak! As for me, I have an uncle who can connect with a certain municipal government agency leader over the directly administered hotel through a few twists and turns. So regarding this matter of making Hu Zining beat it, it really was just a matter of making a few phone calls to have that municipal person pass a word to the hotel's Chairman Lin! Actually, this bit of fart matter didn't even warrant directly troubling the Chairman, but I had to make Hu Zining learn a bit of a lesson. I had to let him know exactly who he was spraying feces at! Can he afford to spray it!"

Qian Fei was still half-believing and half-doubting, "Connecting with a municipal leader through a few twists and turns! Through a few twists and turns, I can even connect with Qian Xuesen!"

Li Yifei had a face full of speechlessness, "Qian Fei, am I truly that unreliable in your heart?"

Without much hesitation, Qian Fei nodded her head.

Li Yifei felt heavily struck.

Qian Fei suddenly said, "Don't say my holy mother persona is acting up, ah. Although Hu Zining was unkind and unjust, to put it plainly, I was also utilizing him to walk out of that past relationship. Having him directly lose his job because of my matter, is doing it this way a bit too much?"

Li Yifei slammed his chopsticks onto the table, "I can't eat anymore! Qian Fei, it's not like the Earth won't spin without a holy mother, alright! Can you have a bit of temper and a bit of character, and stop acting like a holy mother!"

Qian Fei hurriedly picked up the chopsticks and handed them back into his hand, "Fine, fine! No problem! I'll grow a temper right away!"

Looking at her flattering, peace-making appearance, Li Yifei didn't know for a moment whether he should laugh or be angry, "I tell you, Hu Zining has done plenty of underhanded and dirty things in their hotel; even if he got fired, he isn't wronged! For example, that matter you told me about before where someone advised you to change apartments—that was his doing, right? He didn't manage to trap you later on, but instead trapped a girl from their hotel's reception desk!"

Qian Fei listened, completely dumbfounded.

"How did you know?"

Li Yifei answered her in a perfectly calm and composed manner, "The kid who tops up phone bills told me."

Qian Fei watched him finish his last mouthful of rice, "I didn't expect you to be so interested in men too, you quite pay attention to Hu Zining!"

Li Yifei put down his bowl and chopsticks, throwing a white eye at her, "Who do you think I did it for?" After speaking, he stood up with a face full of proud pampering and twisted his body to return to his room.

"I tell you, even if I am beaten to death tonight, I won't wash the dishes!"

Looking at his retreating figure, Qian Fei swept away the gloom of the past few days, laughing from the bottom of her heart.