Love Has Fireworks - Chapter 28

Chapter 28: The Ugly Girl's Big Transformation

Qian Fei felt that, in fact, letting Li Yifei stay for another period of time wasn't bad either. At the very least, she would have someone to keep her company. Although this guy was pretty much a scoundrel—lazy, cheap, gluttonous, plus possessing a highly destructive tongue—whenever those endlessly long nights right before her period arrived making her exceptionally vexed, she could at least find someone to pick a fight and bicker with. It was always better than enduring it all by herself while clawing at her heart and scratching at her liver.

Having experienced a second romantic failure, she could no longer muster any enthusiasm for finding a partner. However, her family was urging her urgently, basically giving her no time to heal her wounds. Qian Fei's father even told her over the phone, "Once you find the next one, you'll naturally let go of the previous one. What wounds are you healing? By the time your wounds are healed, even a cactus will have blossomed! Hurry up and find a partner to get married, that's the proper business!"

Qian Fei agreed noncommittally, not taking this matter to heart either.

One day, Xiao Yuan told her that an old colleague who had already jumped ship was getting married this Saturday, and asked her if she was going. She and that colleague used to be in the back-office support service department together and had a good relationship, so after thinking about it, she decided to go and give a cash gift.

On Saturday, she and Xiao Yuan went to attend the wedding together. During the wedding ceremony, the master of ceremonies asked her old colleague why she was marrying the groom.

This old colleague was quite similar to her, having previously experienced an earth-shattering romance that lasted for a full seven years, which also ended in the male party cheating. After that, this colleague claimed she would never believe in love again and was firmly determined never to get married for the rest of her life.

Qian Fei heard the bride on the stage say, "I had originally long stopped believing there was still such a thing as love in the human world. But one time when I was sick, running a fever of thirty-nine degrees, I posted on my Friends Circle. Many people replied to me telling me to drink more water and take more medicine, a whole wave of care and concern. But in the end, he was the only person who brought a huge bag of medicine to my house to see me. I asked him why, and he said for no reason, he just wanted me to get well sooner. From that moment onward, I believed in love again, and it was also at that moment that I decided to marry him!"

Somehow, this speech poked right into Qian Fei's heart. She was moved to an absolute mess.

Later, quite miraculously, she caught the bride's bouquet. When the bride was pouring toasts, she held her hand and said to her, "Qian Fei, I heard Xiao Yuan talk about your matter! Right now I only want to tell you, you must absolutely not lose heart, and don't give up on love so easily just because of one or two pieces of human scum! You are a girl who never calculates your inputs. You are so good, Heaven will definitely treat you kindly, and will definitely give you a very good lover! I am waiting to drink your wedding wine!"

Placed in normal times, hearing such a sappy quote that used the Chiung Yao style to look forward to the future would definitely make her shiver, but that day the backs of her eyes felt pricked.

She truly seemed to have consistently been putting in effort. Being good to a person, she would lower her head and focus solely on being good to him, never considering herself, nor calculating whether there was an equal return.

But she discovered that she wasn't actually not longing to be repaid. She also hoped someone could bring medicine to come see her when she was sick, keep her company to talk, and cook a bowl of porridge for her to drink.

Returning from the wedding, she immediately registered an account on Baihe Date.

Seeing her browsing the Baihe Date webpage, Li Yifei asked her in great shock, "How did you become famished and thirsty to this extent?"

She worked hard to restrain her impulse to throw a white eye at him, striving to construct a very solemn atmosphere to tell him, "I am not famished and thirsty, I am seriously and earnestly searching for a life partner! I hope for a person who, when I am sick, can deliver medicine to me, just that simple!"

Li Yifei looked at her. A few seconds later, he curled his lip, "Then why are you going on Baihe Date? You should directly dial one-two-zero for an ambulance!"

Qian Fei finally didn't hold back, throwing a fierce white eye at him and flinging a slipper over.

She would never again attempt to have a heart-to-heart with this family-ruining, bear-like gadget.

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The next day, Qian Fei nestled at home surfing the internet.

Her room door was not closed.

Li Yifei was slacking on the sofa shouting directly at her that he still wanted to eat stir-fried eggplant strips in the evening, but Qian Fei ignored him.

Li Yifei was displeased. Flipping himself up from the sofa, he rushed straight to the front of Qian Fei.

"Damn! I was wondering what you were doing to ignore me, you're unexpectedly still browsing Baihe Date!"

Qian Fei drove him outside, "Can you have a bit of a tenant's self-awareness? The landlord's room is not a place you can enter just because you say you want to enter, okay!"

Li Yifei said, "You promise to stir-fry eggplant strips for me tonight, and I'll go out immediately!"

Qian Fei felt her head aching, "Big brother, were you too poor to afford eggplants when you were little? You've already eaten it for three days in a row, is it still not enough?"

Li Yifei let out a he-he cold laugh, "This young master had a full Manchu Han Imperial Feast for every single meal when I was little, I ate very well! Haven't you watched that television drama about Empress Dowager Cixi? Usually she ate too many delicacies from land and sea, and one day she ate a piece of roasted sweet potato, which was so fragrant to her that she didn't even know where north was! I am the same logic as her!"

Qian Fei almost vomited.

"You truly are shameless enough!"

Pausing for a bit, she said, "You answer me a question. If you answer it well, I'll still stir-fry eggplant strips for you."

Li Yifei curled the corner of his mouth, "Ask away!"

Qian Fei thought for a bit, then asked, "What kind of woman do you say can tie down a man?"

Leaning on the doorframe, Li Yifei looked at her lazily, his gaze sweeping her from top to bottom, his mouth even making clicking sounds, "Anyway, it's not someone like you!"

Restraining the impulse to kick him to death, Qian Fei asked, "What am I like?"

Li Yifei brushed his hair back to act handsome, putting on an air of speaking from the bottom of his heart to say, "You, you're just like a big old man—careless, unkempt, daring to crack any kind of joke, and when others crack any kind of joke with you, you don't know how to get angry either. This way is good, it's true a man will be quite happy being together with you, but he won't treat you as a woman, do you know that! Over a long time, you are just a buddy who hasn't grown a little brother!"

Qian Fei was dumbstruck from listening, asking with a face full of defeat, "Am I like this? Do I look like a man? Then what should be done!"

Looking at her frost-bitten eggplant-like appearance as if struck by lightning, Li Yifei thought for a bit and said, "If you want to make some changes, it's also not hard, but first of all you cannot be too stingy on yourself. Look at those clothes of yours, is there even a single piece that can be brought out into public? If you put those clothes on your body and then place a bowl in front of you, others would be able to toss money to you! You have to know, life is just like giving birth to a child; only with a energetic and painful investment can there be a painful yet happy output!"

When Qian Fei first heard these words, she felt it made quite a bit of sense, but savoring it carefully, she immediately realized with alarm that the color was slightly yellow...

Her thick eyebrows stood upside down, "Can you say this sentence in a more high-class and grand manner! For example, in life, only with output can there be harvest!"

Li Yifei raised his brows, "Too much posturing, it doesn't conform to this young master's style!"

Qian Fei almost knelt.

In this world there was simply no person who postured more than him, okay...

She heard Li Yifei let out a sigh beside her.

She asked him what he was sighing about; Li Yifei said with three sighs for one breath, "It's nothing much, just that seeing you raise your eyebrows just now was a bit horrifying. Placed on others doing this movement, that would be called willow eyebrows standing upside down, but on you, it can only be called two piles of unhappy weeds."

Qian Fei took over the mirror on the side in dejection, "Sigh, who told me not to know how to trim eyebrows. That crazy bestie of mine, she actually knows how, but she went to Dalian!"

Li Yifei leaned his face right in front of her, narrowing his eyes to look at her, and said, "You stir-fry eggplant strips for me tonight, and I'll help you pull off an ugly girl's big transformation!"

Sprouting two piles of unhappy weeds, Qian Fei asked, "Am I quite ugly?"

Looking at her, Li Yifei hesitated for a moment, "That sentence above, you accomplished the first two words."

The flame wanting to drive him out began to burn furiously within her heart again.

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For the sake of the stir-fried eggplant strips in the evening, Li Yifei domineeringly began to implement his so-called "Ugly Girl's Big Transformation" plan. He dragged Qian Fei away from the front of the computer, pulled her out of the house door, and dragged her toward the shopping mall.

"If you want to live looking like a human, first of all you must dress looking like a human!" He instructed Qian Fei like an authoritative figure.

Qian Fei struggled on the road, "I am poor, I can't afford to wear it, let me go home! Won't it do if I stir-fry eggplant strips for you!"

Li Yifei absolutely would not allow her to shrink back, pulling her wrist to stride forward.

"Little Stingy Qian, you live so stingily, do you do justice to your surname? Didn't I promise to pay you more rent every month!"

Qian Fei still struggled with all her might. Li Yifei held her wrist until the web between his thumb and index finger began to feel sour, and said with a bit of impatience, "Fine, fine, fine, I'll take a step back and won't force you to buy particularly expensive ones. I'll just bring you to Viva Plaza to buy some low-grade cheap goods, will that do?"

Qian Fei had an unsteady footing and almost tumbled headfirst forward.

His urge where he would die if he didn't posture came up again. Viva Plaza was actually called low-grade? Usually she couldn't even bear to go inside to browse, okay!

Li Yifei dragged Qian Fei forcefully into the shopping mall.

Walking into a shop, he stood sloppily in the center of the floor with his two hands in his pockets, saying to Qian Fei, "You select two pieces yourself first, what kind you like, take it! Don't look at the price tag, just look at whether the style caught your eye or not!"

Qian Fei then picked out two pieces according to her own taste.

Holding the clothes hangers to measure against her own body, she asked Li Yifei, "How about it?"

Li Yifei looked at her, that wave of dislike on his face was enough to make thin-skinned people unable to live on.

He walked over and hung back the two pieces of clothing Qian Fei had taken, "Actually I just wanted to know exactly how bad your taste is. Right now I regret it, I shouldn't have tested you, because after looking at your matching, I have a kind of thought that life might as well just end here!"

He pulled Qian Fei to walk to the clothes rack on the other side, took two pieces of clothing and a short skirt that she usually wouldn't even glance at and which she categorized as bizarre in style and monstrous in shape, and gave them to her, "Try these two pieces!" Then he asked the sales assistant, "Do you guys have leggings here? If there are, take a pair for her!"

Qian Fei wanted to stop him, murmuring to him in a small voice, "Hey! Why buy leggings here, it costs several hundred Yuan! On Taobao it's only twenty-eight and includes shipping!"

Li Yifei pushed her into the fitting room, "Less nonsense, go inside to try on the clothes!"

He waited outside.

After waiting for a long half-day, Qian Fei still didn't come out.

He became impatient, going over to pat the door of the fitting room, "Big sister, can you come out already, ah?"

Qian Fei let out a grumble inside, "I feel this outfit is very strange, ah. How about I still change out of it!"

Li Yifei let out a long sigh, "Big Sister Qian, can you come out first and let me see how it is strange before speaking further?"

The bolt of the fitting room let out a ka-da sound, and Qian Fei walked out sheepishly from inside.

She had never worn this kind of clothing on her body where the V-neck was a bit deep, feeling as if her cleavage was about to be exposed. She also had never worn such a short skirt; although there were leggings, she still had a kind of feeling like many things that shouldn't be seen were being seen by people.

Walking out sheepishly, she lowered her head and asked bashfully, "Very strange, right?"

There was no echo.

She raised her head to look.

Li Yifei was currently stroking his chin and staring at her.

From his face, she unexpectedly saw a look akin to "approval."

She was startled.

"Li Yifei," she called him, "don't you think this outfit is very strange?"

Looking at her, Li Yifei raised his brows, answering beside the point, "Didn't expect you to actually have a bit of a figure! The waist is quite thin, the legs are quite long, and unexpectedly you actually have a bit of a chest, tsk-tsk! A female's figure and a male's soul—tell me, how come the Thailand ladyboy show didn't look for you to go? Looking for you to go would definitely be able to make you wildly popular!"

Qian Fei was made red-faced by his words—in the beginning it was a bit shy so she was red-faced, but later it was purely because of anger.

"You haven't even played Invincible East yet, where do I have the qualifications to play a Thailand ladyboy, ah!" she said, biting her back teeth.

Li Yifei narrowed his eyes trendily, shaking his index finger at her and saying, "No, no, no! Wearing like this, you should not speak in such a rugged way anymore! Otherwise you will make people feel that you are a man dressed as a woman!" After he finished speaking, not caring that Qian Fei had upside-down sprouted two piles of unhappy weeds again, he turned around to the side to pick a coat out and came back, draping it over her body, "Let's go, go get a pair of high heels again and the whole setup is complete!"