Love Has Fireworks - Chapter 34

Chapter 34: The Critical Moment

By the time they finished eating and drinking, it was already close to ten o'clock. Eating, drinking, and chatting together, Qian Fei and Yao Jingjing actually became more and more hyperactive. With her belly full of food and alcohol, Yao Jingjing said she had slept too much in the afternoon and now the alcohol coursing through her body was making her blood boil uncomfortably; she insisted on dragging Qian Fei out to sing.

Unable to win the argument against her, Qian Fei had no choice but to head out the door with her.

Qian Fei asked Yao Jingjing where she wanted to go sing, and Yao Jingjing said: "Go to the Tango near the Lama Temple! It's the grand New Year, let's sing a couple of songs for the Buddha to listen to!"

The corner of Qian Fei's mouth twitched: "Aren't you afraid of scaring the Buddha? The Buddha will make you fall into back luck for the entire upcoming year!"

They took a taxi straight to Tango.

Because it was New Year's Eve, Tango's business was incredibly booming. By the time Qian Fei and Yao Jingjing arrived, there were already no private rooms left. They sat in the main lobby to wait.

A group of young people whose styling style fell somewhere between Gothic and smart-casual walked in from the entrance. One of them went to the bar counter while the rest of the people looked over toward Qian Fei and her friend, with two of them even whispering to each other.

After a moment, those two walked over. One of them turned around in a showy manner and sat down right next to Qian Fei, striking up a conversation with a face full of blooming peach blossoms: "Beauties, are there just the two of us? Do you want to play together to make it a bit more lively?"

Qian Fei nudged closer toward Yao Jingjing, saying coldly and politely: "No need, thank you!"

That man was relentless, edging a bit closer once again. Qian Fei smelled that the scent of alcohol on his body was even heavier than her own.

Just as she was thinking about how to cleanly and swiftly break away from the drunkard's pestering, the waiter rescued her.

The waiter told them that a small private room had opened up, stating the room number. She hurriedly pulled Yao Jingjing up and followed behind the waiter.

Once inside the private room, Qian Fei asked Yao Jingjing what she wanted to eat, and Yao Jingjing tossed her head back, saying: "Eat a hair. Coming to this kind of place, it's either singing or drinking!"

She then asked the waiter for four bottles of Budweiser.

Yao Jingjing shoved her to the side and said to the waiter: "Don't want beer, change it to Chivas Regal for me!" Pausing a moment, she pulled the waiter back and changed her mind again, "Chivas Regal is needed, beer is also needed!"

Qian Fei couldn't resist burying her face in her hands, "Big Sister, can you tell me exactly how you plan to drink this?"

Yao Jingjing picked up a microphone and randomly selected a song, Love Business. Amidst the sound of the prelude, she said loudly: "Big Sister wants to mix and drink! Baboon, tonight the two of us must not return until we are drunk!"

After speaking, she strained her voice and began to sing: "Selling out my love, forcing me to leave, in the end knowing the truth my tears fall down..."

Qian Fei's knees went soft, and she almost knelt down.

How on earth was this still "not returning until drunk"? It was clearly having already been drunk once before even leaving the house, okay...

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After the alcohol was brought in, Qian Fei witnessed the tiger-like, reckless boldness of a premier Central Business District white-collar worker drinking.

Yao Jingjing truly did exactly as she said, mixing and drinking!

One gulp of beer, one gulp of Chivas Regal, then singing a few lines of a song. Within this kind of abnormal rhythm that manifested perversion amidst dominance, Qian Fei beat her breast and stamped her feet, lamenting that her performance when she broke up was far too normal and not grand or spectacular enough.

When she and Yao Jingjing were each clutching a microphone—her singing the male vocal part and Yao Jingjing singing the female vocal part as the two of us collaborated on The Drunken Concubine—she felt the cell phone tucked into her jacket pocket vibrating.

Annoyed to no end, she pulled it out, wanting to press it to disconnect.

Yet looking at the 11-digit number on the screen, she faintly felt a sense of familiarity, as if it looked quite similar to the number Yao Jingjing had put onto her blacklist.

She put down the microphone, walked out of the private room, and connected the call.

On the phone, a deep and magnetically rich voice asked: "Hello, you are Qian Fei, right? I am Lu Ze."

Qian Fei answered with no good grace: "I am Qian Fei. Who is Lu Ze? I've never heard of him!"

The other end of the phone paused for a moment before saying: "You've never heard of me? Alright, I am Jingjing's friend. She actually mentions you to me frequently."

Qian Fei let out a snort against him in her heart.

"Oh, it's you? What business do you have looking for me?" Thinking that the person on the other end of the phone was precisely the culprit who caused Yao Jingjing in the private room to go wild as if she had suffered a relapse of mania, Qian Fei had less and less good grace.

The other party, however, was not moved by her bad tone at all. He paused for a moment and asked: "You guys are together, right? It's very noisy on your end. It's this late, where are you guys?"

When Qian Fei heard him ask that latter line, his tone had a bit of a tendency to turn bad, making her feel quite refreshed in her heart. "Us? The two of us are singing at Tango!"

She heard the other party seem to let out a heavy sigh, "You guys just stay there first and don't go anywhere. I am immediately taking a taxi over from the airport right now!"

After speaking, the phone hung up.

Qian Fei was momentarily stunned.

Could the tycoon have chased her all the way to Beijing?

She looked inside the room. Yao Jingjing was hysterically singing that final line: "Drunkenly lying in the monarch's embrace, dreaming back to the love of the Great Tang."

She couldn't resist being moved to laughter by her ghostly voice.

Perhaps tonight that vixen truly could "drunkenly lie in the monarch's embrace, dreaming back to the love of the Great Tang"!

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While accompanying Yao Jingjing in drinking, singing, and acting crazy, Qian Fei waited for the legendary tycoon to rush over through the wind and dust straddling his Renminbi.

She originally felt that she had almost sobered up from that round of alcohol at home, but upon arriving at Tango, she was dragged into a messy round of drinking by Yao Jingjing, and now she was drinking until she was a bit dizzy and fuzzy again.

Just as they were preparing to sing Phoenix Legend's Fly Freely, someone suddenly pushed the door and walked in.

Qian Fei was startled. She thought it was the waiter, but taking a closer look, she couldn't help but jump again.

The ones who came in were actually those two sharp young men with a fusion style of Gothic and smart-casual who had struck up a conversation with her in the lobby just now.

Yao Jingjing was already highly drunk, jumping and singing all by herself on the side. Qian Fei did her best to steady herself, striving to make it so the other party couldn't tell that her eyes were already turning blurry.

The sharp young man edged closer, asking: "Hi beauty, we meet again! We are just diagonally opposite, how about playing together?"

Qian Fei refused, "Sorry, we've sung just about enough and are about to head back now!" Fearing that complications would arise out of a side issue, she snatched Yao Jingjing's microphone away while calling out loudly for the waiter.

The waiter entered the room, and the sharp young man looked at Qian Fei sheepishly, "What do you mean by this?"

Qian Fei said: "We have to go home, sorry about that!" After speaking, she quickly packed up her things and led Yao Jingjing outward.

Exiting Tango, she supported Yao Jingjing for a distance and then stood by the roadside to hail a taxi. Yao Jingjing asked swaying and swinging: "What's wrong? Why suddenly stop singing? The alcohol hasn't been finished drinking yet! That is all money, money, do you know, Baboon!"

Qian Fei had to guard against being hit by her waving arms on one hand, while on the other hand having to mind that she didn't accidentally fall flat on her face. Yet she herself was also dizzy and fuzzy, so after such a stretch of tossing and turning, she was exhausted to no end.

There was never an empty taxi passing by, and Qian Fei felt she was about to give out by the roadside. Dizzy and brain-swollen, she truly wished to drag Yao Jingjing and lie down on the curb to sleep for a bit.

The sound of footsteps came from behind. Qian Fei turned her head and discovered that those two sharp young men had actually followed them out.

Qian Fei turned her head and supported Yao Jingjing, wanting to walk forward faster, but her feet were soft beneath her; no matter how much effort she exerted, she couldn't walk fast.

Those two people chased over and blocked them.

"Beauty, what's the deal, not giving face, is it? It's just everyone drinking alcohol, singing songs, and playing a bit together, and we didn't ask you to accompany us to do anything else, is it worth not giving face to this extent!"

Qian Fei was a bit afraid, wanting to bypass them, "Sorry, we truly have to go home!"

One of them reached out a hand and forcefully grabbed her arm, "What home are you going back to, the good times have only just begun, isn't it! Go, head back, let's make a friend, play for a bit together before you leave, and when the time comes, the two of us brothers will send you guys back, alright?"

Qian Fei's heart was both angry and anxious, and Yao Jingjing hung onto her body, swaying straight down. She said in her heart that things were finished; could she have encountered foul rascals who wanted to act like rascals? With the rotten mud-like state of her and Yao Jingjing, running was out of the question, but she just didn't know whether shouting a line for help later on would give her a chance to protect her chastity for the great motherland.

She struggled forcefully, wanting to break free from the foul rascal's hand, "Take your hand off! You've drunk too much, haven't you? I don't even know you, is it right for you to pull me like this for no rhyme or reason?"

Upon hearing her words, the other party actually laughed, "Then let's get to know each other together!" He pulled Qian Fei toward his own body, while the other one went to pull Yao Jingjing.

"Don't be ungrateful, ah, it's only because you look decent that I want to take you along to play, don't refuse the face given to you!" The man pulling her said grumblingly.

Qian Fei was scared to no end, shouting loudly. Some passersby edged closer, appearing to want to ask what was going on.

Those two looked like rascals and cursed at them: "What are you looking at, haven't seen a young couple arguing before?"

The passersby were about to leave, and Qian Fei shrieked: "I am not his girlfriend, please help me call the police!"

Those two intimidated the passersby: "Don't poke your nose into other people's business, hurry up and leave!" As they spoke, they grabbed Qian Fei and Yao Jingjing, about to leave.

Qian Fei's entire body was soft and unable to exert force, half of her heart sinking instantly, and she was so anxious she was close to crying.

Suddenly, the person pulling her fiercely plunged forward and wiped out. She followed along, almost about to fall, yet was supported by someone scooping up her waist from behind.

The first thing she did after standing steadily was not to turn her head to see who rescued her, but to eagerly plunge toward the other person, wanting to rescue Yao Jingjing from the wolf's claws.

Yet her waist was held firmly by someone, and she couldn't move no matter how she tried.

She turned her head anxiously, struggling, "Release me first!" As a result, when she clearly saw the furious face of the person behind her, she was stunned, "Li Yifei?"

From a slant below, a taxi abruptly slammed to a halt, and a person rushed down from the car in a great hurry.

That person aimed for Yao Jingjing's direction, taking three steps in two to reach her front, flew up a foot, and delivered a flying kick right toward the foul rascal pulling Yao Jingjing.

The posture of the foul rascal flying out was exactly identical to the one pulling Qian Fei, a absolute dog biting dirt wipeout.

Qian Fei suddenly felt a warmth by her ear. She heard Li Yifei let out a snort: "That flying kick of mine just now was much handsomer than his!"

Qian Fei felt this person was truly beyond saving; even at a time like this, he had to compete over this kind of matter.

The man who came down from the taxi walked to Qian Fei's front while holding Yao Jingjing.

He asked chillingly: "Didn't I tell you guys to stay inside and not go anywhere!"

Qian Fei shrunk her shoulders. She recognized him as that tycoon named Lu Ze in Yao Jingjing's cell phone; his real person looked even handsomer and higher-cold than in the photo.

Standing by her side, Li Yifei also opened his mouth icily, "Who might you be, sir? Do you understand manners? Coming up and speaking to someone like this, is it good?"

The other party lifted his eyes to size Li Yifei up. Sizing him up and sizing him up, he knit his brows, adopting a thoughtful expression.

Those two sharp young men crawled up from the ground, shouting and cursing: "Who the fck are you guys? Damn it, if you have the guts, don't leave!" They made a phone call to call for back-up.

Qian Fei was a bit afraid, pulling Li Yifei and saying: "Let's hurry up and leave, he's calling people!"

Li Yifei looked down at her angrily, "Knows to be afraid at this point? Where did you go earlier? Who allowed you to bring a girl out to sing in the middle of the night!"

Qian Fei was scolded until she shrunk her neck straight down.

From a distance, a crowd of people walked out from Tango, all of them a single shade of the Gothic plus smart-casual fusion style.

Li Yifei let out a "damn it": "Where did this gang of ox-ghosts and snake-gods gather from? Did they all fcking run out from Journey to the West!"

Qian Fei couldn't hold it back, bursting out laughing with a "pfft."

Li Yifei glared at her: "Laugh, laugh, laugh, laughing no matter the time, can you grow a bit of sense!"

The man supporting Yao Jingjing asked Li Yifei: "How many can you handle?" He appeared to be considering the combat strategy for a moment later.

Li Yifei let out a snort, raising his chin to nudge toward the space behind Lu Ze, "Not a single one needs to be handled!"

Qian Fei followed along to look behind Lu Ze.

Another gang of people was currently walking out from Tango, looking like they were going to turn to the neighboring Jin Ding Xuan to eat late-night snacks.

Equally a gang of people, this gang of people was simply far too pleasing to the eye compared to that previous gang of people!

Li Yifei greeted that pleasing gang of people, so those people all walked over toward this side.

Looking at the two gangs of people walking toward her from front and back, Qian Fei's mood was incomparably surging and excited—never had so many people converged together like this moment right now, taking her as the focus.

She suddenly had a kind of feeling as if she had already stepped onto the peak of life.

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The Gothic and smart-casual sharp young men finally fled in panic amidst the long leg formation of the pleasing young men whose average height was no lower than 1.8 meters.

The battle concluded successfully.

Qian Fei saw that among that gang of long legs, there was one who looked very much like Jing Boran, who was currently widening his eyes with effort to look at her.

Beside him, there was also a very beautiful girl, who also followed him in looking at her the entire time.

She was left dazed for a moment by their looking, and couldn't help but lower her head to look at herself too.

The back of her head was lightly patted, and she heard Li Yifei say with no good grace: "Knowing you did something wrong, lowering your head to atone for your sins, is it?"

When she lifted her head, she saw that long-legged guy who looked like Jing Boran currently asking Li Yifei: "What's the situation? Didn't you just say you were heading downstairs to make a phone call and then we'd meet up at Jin Ding Xuan, how did it inexplicably turn into everyone coming to help you fight a gang war?"

Li Yifei said to him: "To put it simply, it's that you just participated in a large-scale act of acting bravely for a just cause. Alright, let's not say so much first, you guys head to Jin Ding Xuan first, I'll head over in a bit!"

"Jing Boran" led the pleasing young men interspersed with that good-looking female youth together toward Jin Ding Xuan. Before leaving, he twisted his body to look at Qian Fei a few more times, and bloomed a peach blossoms-in-bloom smile at her.

Qian Fei was given a shiver by him, and then turned her head, her gaze shifting dazedly past Li Yifei to look onto Yao Jingjing and Lu Ze.

Lu Ze was supporting Yao Jingjing, asking deeply: "Did you put me onto your blacklist?"

She felt that this line being asked out from the mouth of a man who looked high-cold and serious, while the object he asked was a female drunkard who was already so drunk she couldn't stand steadily without someone supporting her, this situation was not ordinary funny.

Yao Jingjing, who had been fuzzy the entire time, suddenly opened her eyes wide. After seeing clearly the person supporting her, she began to twist frantically, "Lu Ze, you soul-haunting fellow, can I not even rid myself of you when I am drunk!" She broke free from Lu Ze's hand, plunging slantwise and crookedly toward Qian Fei, saying tearfully, "Baboon, tell me what I should do, ah, Lu Ze's shadow has appeared before my eyes again! Tell me am I just unable to forget him like this!"

Qian Fei looked up at the starry sky, silently sweating.

How was she supposed to honestly tell her: Child, are you blind? That is a real person, not a shadow, ah...