Love Has Fireworks - Chapter 30

Chapter 30: Unable to Call It Childish

Coming out of the small alleyway, Qian Fei asked Li Yifei how much money he had spent.

Li Yifei raised a brow. "What's the matter, as if you can afford it?"

Qian Fei shivered. "Is... is it very expensive?"

Li Yifei said, "Forget it, you can't afford it anyway, so don't ask."

Qian Fei said, "Can't I afford it even if I sell myself?"

Seeing how pitiful she looked while asking, Li Yifei swept his gaze up and down across her face and body, then burst out laughing. "Spruced up like this, it's actually not bad. You should still be able to sell for the price of a few pounds of pork!"

Qian Fei truly wanted to bypass him and walk off on her own, ignoring him. However, she had forgotten which side of the alleyway they had cut in from...

Seeing her fairly attractive, well-groomed face squeezing out an expression of constipation, Li Yifei couldn't help but laugh. "Don't stress over it. I opened a membership card here before and haven't used it up yet. Today's expenses will just be deducted directly from inside." He paused, then considerately added another line, "If I don't use it soon, it's going to expire."

Qian Fei was half-believing and half-doubting. "There's even a time limit on this?" Didn't he say wealthy people cried and clamored to come but weren't necessarily entertained? Was there any need to use this kind of forced consumption method?

Li Yifei nodded solemnly. "The crucial point is that Steve has a bad memory. If too much time passes, he won't remember whose card still has tens or hundreds of thousands left in it, making the accounts hard to manage!"

While Steve took the blame lying down, Qian Fei felt that Li Yifei had smoothly postured and bragged once again.

On the way home, Qian Fei took Li Yifei to the food market to buy a huge sack of eggplants. Quite rarely, after the money was paid, Li Yifei proactively carried the groceries over.

Qian Fei gazed at him with a face full of disbelief. "I can almost guess what you're about to say to me!"

Li Yifei narrowed his eyes at her with his chin raised. "What am I going to say?"

Qian Fei let out a "tsk." "It's definitely: 'Let me tell you, this young master has never helped a woman carry groceries before. Don't fail to take it to heart, this is yet another first time for this young master!'"

She imitated him flawlessly, making Li Yifei laugh straight out beside her.

"You actually guessed right! This really is the first time this young master has helped a woman carry groceries. Don't be oblivious to it, just focusing on smiling like an idiot without knowing how to be grateful!"

Qian Fei threw a white eye at him and asked, "But why are you performing so well today?"

Li Yifei said, "I'm afraid you won't know how to walk properly, turn your ankle, and drop my eggplants!"

Qian Fei wished she could poke his mouth with the thin little heel of her shoe.

She knew he couldn't say anything nice.

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In the evening, Qian Fei chopped a large pile of eggplant strips and tossed them into the pot to stir-fry.

While she was stir-frying, Li Yifei was like a cat desperate with gluttony, strolling back and forth in front of her, continuously asking: "Is it ready? When can we eat? I'm starving to death, do you know that?"

Qian Fei was both angry and amused. "How did you grow up safely to this size? Your mouth is so impatient, wasn't there anyone responsible for beating you or straightening out this flaw of yours when you were little?!"

Li Yifei let out a "humph." "Who could bear to!" Leaning against the kitchen doorframe with his arms crossed over his chest, he scrutinized Qian Fei as she stood in front of the induction cooker wielding the spatula.

"Tsk-tsk, if I knew earlier, I would have implemented the transformation on you sooner to give you an ugly girl's big turnaround! Watching a beautiful silhouette stir-fry is much more comfortable than watching a yellow-faced woman with disheveled hair stir-fry!"

When Qian Fei first heard these words, she felt it was quite beautiful, because her focus instantly landed on the words "beautiful silhouette."

But upon savoring it carefully again, she became displeased.

So the beautiful part was only a "silhouette," while that "yellow-faced woman with disheveled hair" seemed to refer to her as well...

Qian Fei turned her head in anger, raising the spatula in her hand at Li Yifei, saying viciously, "If you keep chirping and don't shut your mouth, I will burn this entire pot of eggplant strips!"

Li Yifei let out a humph and walked proudly toward the living room with his chin raised.

For dinner, Li Yifei ate a full three bowls of rice. When he wanted to scoop more rice, Qian Fei was frightened.

"Big brother, have you never eaten rice before? Is this your rhythm for stuffing yourself to death? Aren't you afraid of turning into a pig and no longer being handsome?"

When Li Yifei heard the last sentence, his face changed, and he set down his bowl and chopsticks.

Except just after one second passed, he picked up the rice bowl once again.

"I'll eat another half-bowl! I'll go for a run later!"

He went trotting lightly toward the electric rice cooker...

Qian Fei looked at the trajectory of his actions with hot tears filling her eyes.

In her gaze, the Li Yifei of this moment was permanently equal to a glutton.

After finishing dinner, Li Yifei went back to his room and tinkered in front of his computer for a long time. While Qian Fei was washing the dishes, she craned her neck to ask him loudly, "Didn't you say you were going for a run?"

Li Yifei responded indistinctly.

Just as Qian Fei finished tidying everything up and was preparing to return to her room to read a book before sleeping, someone knocked on the door.

Li Yifei rushed over to open it.

Several people wearing uniforms came in carrying a huge object.

Li Yifei greeted them: "Come, come, come, just put it in the living room!"

Qian Fei walked over and asked, "What is this?" Then looking at the deliverymen, she said, "You guys have too little of a temper, delivering goods this late, aren't you tired!"

The deliverymen smiled. "The customer is God, after all."

Qian Fei curled her lip. "But you can't spoil God's flaws either!"

Li Yifei tugged her from the side. "Don't blindly cause trouble for people, can't you see they are installing a treadmill! Show some sense, let them finish installing early so they can go home early."

Qian Fei was speechless. "That mouth of yours is truly twisted, you can rigidly turn a straight point into a crooked one! Did I say—did you ask me before buying a treadmill? This is my living room! You really treat this as your own home, ah!"

Li Yifei tossed his head. "In a couple of days, I also plan to buy something to train abdominal muscles, so I can save myself from having to go to the gym every weekend in the freezing weather!" He patted his own belly. "I have to take measures to protect my nine-box grid from being submerged in your rice cooker!"

Qian Fei let out clicking sounds and shook her head. "So you also know you are gluttonous and only know how to eat? I say, just keep wasting money! Fortunately, your dad doesn't want you anymore, otherwise, he'd be angered to death by this ruinous energy of yours!"

Li Yifei acted as if he couldn't hear what she was saying, completely ignoring her.

After the treadmill was installed, he ran on it joyfully. That flaunting energy in the middle of the night made Qian Fei incomparably vexed, making her straight up want to send him flying with a kick.

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The next day was Christmas Eve. Qian Fei went to work with her completely fresh image, receiving unanimous praise among her colleagues. Zhao De even cried out exaggeratingly, saying, "Feifei, as long as you don't open your mouth to speak, you are practically not inferior to Assistant Gui at all, oh!"

Looking at Li Yifei sitting beside her, straight-backed and expressionless, Qian Fei silently felt a bit of liver pain from this praise.

In the afternoon, Liu Yifeng gave Qian Fei a file, telling her and Li Yifei to go to the top floor together to find the general manager to check some data.

Afterward, an earth-shattering, ghost-weeping event occurred.

When the elevator stopped midway, a young, talented gentleman stepped inside. Seeing Qian Fei, the gentleman's eyes lit up. Subsequently, he very proactively struck up a conversation with her, very proactively introduced his own name and asked for Qian Fei's name, and very proactively left his own contact details while attempting to get Qian Fei's contact details. Except before Qian Fei had time to speak, the elevator had already reached the top floor. Under the guise of "don't dawdle, the general manager is waiting," she was fiercely, coolly, overbearingly, and coldly yanked off the elevator by Li Yifei, leaving the gentleman standing inside the elevator, gazing longingly with unfulfilled desire.

Qian Fei couldn't help but say fiercely to Li Yifei, "You snapping someone's peach blossoms means you will go to hell!"

Li Yifei performed his classic movement of drooping his eyelids toward her, saying in a mocking tone, "An effeminate young man covered in the scent of perfume—you even dare provoke him? I'm entirely worried for you that he actually took a fancy to me!"

Qian Fei was almost choked to death by him.

He already felt so good about himself that he even began to compete for her peach blossoms.

By the time they finished checking the data, it was almost off-work hours. Li Yifei asked Qian Fei what they were eating for the evening. Qian Fei told him with grand heroism, "Tonight, we are eating outside! Big sister's treat, taking you to spend a Christmas Eve!"

Li Yifei asked why. "An iron rooster plucking its feathers—this matter is a bit terrifying, ah? You don't have some kind of plot, right? I can tell you in advance, I'm not moving!"

Qian Fei gave him a contemptuous white eye. "Look at that little bit of prospects of yours! Still calling yourself a young master, have you seen the world? Wanting to take you to eat something good frightens you!" She adjusted her expression, making herself become serious. "I actually just want to thank you for sprucing me up to the point that someone actually came to strike up a conversation!" She blinked at him at the end of her sentence.

Li Yifei looked at her for two seconds, then let out a retch. "Big sister, I beg you not to blink your eyes like this in the future, I always feel like I've seen a ladyboy!"

In an instant, Qian Fei's hopes turned to ash, and she no longer wanted to treat him to dinner at all.

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Qian Fei asked Li Yifei what he wanted to eat. Li Yifei said, "In consideration of your poverty, I won't make you treat me to Chengfu Feast or the like. I'll lower my requirements by ten thousand steps—just treat me to a meal at Golden Jaguar!"

Qian Fei ignored him, bringing him directly to Hannashan.

While Qian Fei was flipping and roasting the beef, Li Yifei sat by the side, drinking the free barley tea with the posture of tasting top-grade Da Hong Pao tea, while murmuring and asking, "You didn't listen to me again, so why did you still ask me what to eat!"

Qian Fei didn't even raise her eyelids. "Just treat it as if I passed gas!"

Li Yifei choked on a mouthful of water.

Qian Fei said, "Can't you help me roast it a bit? Waiting idly to eat ready-made food, you have the nerve!"

Li Yifei let out a laugh of "ha." "This young master has already degenerated myself enough at your place. Don't tell me that now I even have to do the matter of roasting meat? Besides, aren't you treating? Have a bit of a host's grace and broadness of mind, don't care too much about these small matters and details!"

Qian Fei was truly defeated by him. That broken mouth of his could practically chatter until the entire Tianya forum fell into a state of men being silent and women weeping.

When they were almost done eating, they heard several young girls at the neighboring table chatting about the matter of chasing stars and idols.

Curling his lip, Li Yifei uttered a word: "Childish!"

Qian Fei picked up a piece of meat with her chopsticks and put it into her mouth, saying indistinctly, "You aren't childish! Competing with young girls you don't even know!" She swallowed the meat, then continued, "Furthermore, how is chasing stars childish? This is very normal, ah? I also like a star to the absolute extreme!"

Li Yifei curled the corner of his mouth and asked, "That star you like, what's his name anyway?"

Qian Fei said, "He's called Da Peng! The host Da Peng from Da Peng De Ba De! Zhao Benshan's fifty-third disciple, the one who acts in Diors Man!"

Li Yifei burst out laughing. "So you like the rustic style, I haven't even heard of this person!"

Qian Fei's face instantly changed. "Li Yifei, if you dare say one more word downward, if I don't sever ties with you, I'll change my surname to match yours!"

Seeing how serious she looked, Li Yifei reined in his wild demeanor slightly, stopping his joking words and asking in a serious, proper manner, "Alright, then why do you like him?"

Qian Fei said solemnly, "Because I feel he is very inspirational. Do you know what he studied? He graduated from Jilin Jianzhu University. The things he studied don't connect with arts, variety shows, or performing at all, yet he stepped by step, down-to-earth, walked from being a small Beijing drifter and a small dior to this day, becoming a host, director, and actor! Making so many big-shot star celebrities play minor roles for him in Diors Man!" She paused, not knowing how to express her feelings, and said upon thinking, "You don't understand. Every time I watch him, I feel that Heaven isn't incapable of seeing people who put in effort. As long as one keeps persisting, whether it's for a dream or for life, there will always be a turnaround of achievements!"

Looking at her with her glowing eyes, Li Yifei fell silent.

He felt that the Qian Fei of this moment was a bit charming. She was very foolish, very much a Holy Mother, and very long-winded, but she lived her life with effort, was moved with effort, and appreciated every person who put in effort with effort.

She chased stars so sincerely that it made him entirely unable to utter the word "childish" ever again.