Love Has Fireworks - Chapter 35

Chapter 35: You Need to Grow Some Sense

Qian Fei patted Yao Jingjing’s back to comfort and calm her down, and then asked, "Are we going home now?"

Yao Jingjing shook her head wildly and said, "I'm hungry!"

Qian Fei almost fell to her knees before her.

With a belly full of alcohol, she actually still knew how to feel hungry.

She raised her head, looked at Lu Ze, and said, "I'll take her to Jin Ding Xuan to have some porridge before heading home. You can go ahead and busy yourself with whatever you need to do!" Then she turned her head toward Li Yifei and added, "You should hurry up and go meet your friends too. They're probably waiting for you!"

Li Yifei gave her a white eye, pulled Yao Jingjing off her body, and handed her over to Lu Ze beside them. "You hold onto this woman," he said. Then, half-dragging and half-supporting Qian Fei as they walked toward Jin Ding Xuan, he said with no good grace, "Just stop worrying about other people, alright? If you have free time, growing some sense in your own body would be better than anything!"

As Qian Fei was being dragged forward by him, she kept looking back. "Hey, whatever-your-name-is, Lu Ze! Don't you go cooking up any crooked ideas to secretly abduct and run away with her behind my back! I'm keeping my eyes fixed right here! Support the Vixen and hurry up and follow us, okay?!"

In her fuzzy, muddled state, she seemed to see that guy named Lu Ze tightly knitting his brows with a face full of displeasure, appearing extremely unaccustomed to someone barking orders at him.

Looking at that expression of his, Qian Fei felt exceptionally happy in her heart, feeling as if she had just avenged Yao Jingjing.

Once inside Jin Ding Xuan, Li Yifei had the waiter find them a small private room.

Qian Fei originally wanted to pull Yao Jingjing over to sit next to her, but she was met with a silent and firm refusal from Lu Ze.

He sat side-by-side with Yao Jingjing, carefully resting her head onto his shoulder to let her lean against him and rest. Then, he called the waiter over to pour a cup of hot water and set it aside to cool for her.

Li Yifei sat down next to Qian Fei.

Qian Fei pulled out her cell phone to check what time it was, but after pressing the screen to light it up, she discovered there was a missed call from Li Yifei.

"You called me? What business did you have looking for me?" She raised her head to ask Li Yifei beside her.

Li Yifei said with no good grace, "I was idling with nothing to do, that's why I called you! I pressed it by mistake!"

Qian Fei let out an "oh" and nudged him. "Go find your friends then. It just so happens that I have some things I need to chat about with this big brother here!"

Li Yifei brushed her hand away in disgust. "I haven't even said anything about you yet, and here you are driving me away instead!"

As he spoke and spoke, a fitting rage rose upon his face.

He crossly questioned Qian Fei: "In the middle of the night, why aren't you staying safely at home? What are you doing out here making a display of yourself?"

The corners of Qian Fei's mouth pulled up into a silly grin at him. "What a coincidence, you're here too!"

Li Yifei's dark brows shot straight up. "Qian Fei, let me tell you, you are a woman. You can't compare yourself to us men. You need to respect and love yourself, do you know that! Just smell the scent of alcohol on your body! Is there any woman like you!"

Qian Fei looked at him with a beaming smile. "Are you having a late-night snack with us here, or are you going back to have a late-night snack with your friends?"

Li Yifei slammed the table and fiercely scolded her: "You just happened to run into me today. If I hadn't been here to deliver that flying kick, would you have been dragged away by someone? Once tonight passed, you would have become a ruined flower and a withered willow, do you know that!"

Qian Fei opened her slightly out-of-focus eyes wide, blinking and blinking as she looked at him. "I want to order a papaya and snow fungus sweet soup. What are you ordering?"

Li Yifei said with no good grace, "Order a lung-moistening tea for me. I need to lower my internal fire!"

He unbuttoned the collar of his dress shirt and tugged it open toward both sides. "You're driving me to death with anger!"

Yet even as he said this, he discovered that after being repeatedly sidetracked and sidetracked by Qian Fei, he didn't seem to be very angry anymore.

He looked over at Lu Ze and Yao Jingjing. The former was currently feeding the latter water as if he were feeding a little bird. He constantly felt that the former's water-feeding was actually just a cover, and that he was actually pricking up his ears to listen to him and Qian Fei speak.

He felt that a man’s imposing aura could not just be extinguished in front of outsiders, so, strong on the outside but weak on the inside, he slammed the table once more and shouted at Qian Fei: "Big Sister, I am currently in the middle of being angry right now! Can you be a bit more serious and wait until I'm finished being angry before you order food?!"

Qian Fei held the menu with both hands and respectfully presented it to him. "Yes, yes! Please be angry, please be angry! After you're finished being angry, you can order!"

Looking at her stubborn, shameless, devil-may-care attitude, Li Yifei was completely worn down until he didn't have a single shred of temper left.

He wondered to himself how his temper had suddenly become so good. If this had happened in the past between him and Gui Lili, the two of them would have long since fought until heaven and earth turned upside down.

He suddenly discovered that Qian Fei had a massive virtue: she was exceptionally accommodating of things. Especially when someone else was angry, regardless of whether the other party was right or wrong, she would always accompany them with a smiling face, completely smoothing over the other party's temper.

He watched as Qian Fei blinked and blinked her eyes at him. Shouting at her was something he could no longer carry on with, yet throwing down his arms and calling it a day just like this left him far too unwilling. Thus, he fiercely poked her forehead and said savagely, "Big Sister Qian, I beg of you to please grow some sense!"

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While joyfully eating her papaya and snow fungus sweet soup, Qian Fei stared with wide eyes at the half-asleep, half-awake Yao Jingjing, who was eating her porridge so fast she practically buried her face into the porridge bowl.

Watching this from the side, she couldn't stop grinning sillily.

From across the table, Lu Ze glanced at her, a faint trace of condemnation in his gaze. He set down his own porridge bowl and began to carefully and meticulously feed Yao Jingjing.

Qian Fei felt even happier watching this.

Suddenly, a group of people outside began straining their necks and screaming loudly as if someone had stepped on their tails.

Qian Fei was momentarily stunned before reacting—twelve o'clock had arrived.

The New Year had begun!

She set down her spoon, raised her upper arms, turned her head toward Li Yifei, and shouted at the top of her lungs: "Happy New Year!"

She clearly saw that because she was too excited, a small bit of snow fungus residue that she hadn't had time to swallow was sprayed from her mouth in a bright, beautiful parabola, and then landed right... on... Li Yifei's... face...

She watched as Li Yifei's two eyebrows instantly twisted together. Savage as could be, he tore out several napkins in a row to vigorously wipe his face, glared at her fiercely, and said venomously, "As long as you don't eat things in such a disgusting manner, I'll be happier than anything!"

Qian Fei grinned sillily at him: "It's the New Year! Hurry up and wish that I can marry a good man this year!"

Li Yifei gave her a look of utter disdain, the corner of his mouth twitching as he asked, "Can you be any more desperate and thirsty?"

From across the table, Lu Ze suddenly spoke up and interrupted them: "Qian Fei, can we talk?"

Qian Fei turned her head to look at him, tilted her head in thought, and then turned her head back to look at Li Yifei. "Go back to your friends. I need to have a little chat with him!"

Looking at her tilted head and muddled appearance, Li Yifei had originally felt that her charming silliness tonight was getting a bit close to cute. But upon hearing her words, his brows instantly shot up.

"This action of yours is called killing the donkey once it's done grinding at the mill, do you know that!" He had a face full of displeasure.

Qian Fei patted his shoulder. "Be good, stop making a fuss. I have proper business to talk about with him!"

Her attitude of coaxing a child made him extremely displeased. With no good grace, he brushed her hand away, gave her a white eye, and said, "I do need to go back and give them a heads-up. You wait here for me. In a bit, I'll head home together with you guys!"

Qian Fei raised her wrist and waved her hand dismissively. "Alright, alright! Go on, go on!"

Li Yifei stood up and left the private room. Qian Fei adjusted her sitting posture to face Lu Ze. Yao Jingjing was currently slumped over the table, humming in a dazed, groggy state.

"Was that man just now your boyfriend? You live together?" After staring at each other for a long while, Lu Ze opened the conversation with this sentence.

Qian Fei shook her head like a rattle. "He isn't my boyfriend, he is my tenant!" Then she questioned Lu Ze, "It's my turn to ask you. Speak up—how did you torture my sister into this state?"

Lu Ze knit his brows, that high-cold aura instantly spilling out from between his tightly locked brow.

"Can you first let me hear how Jingjing described the matters between the two of us to you?"

Qian Fei felt that saying a few more words wouldn't cost her anything, nor would she lose a piece of flesh, so she rattled off a description of everything.

As she described it, she carefully observed the expression of this high-cold tycoon. But fundamentally, his expression remained completely expressionless throughout the entire process. Except for those two eyebrows of his, which would knit together for a bit, smooth out for a bit, and then knit together yet again.

Qian Fei secretly thought to herself that being his eyebrows must be an incredibly exhausting job.

"In any case, as the Vixen's premier—and possibly only—best friend, I feel that you handled this matter in a way that deeply hurt her. If you can't give a proper explanation, I'll have to think up some methods that can vex your mind to torture you. Regardless, I'm not afraid of you being rich; I've resented the wealthy ever since I was a child!" She looked at Lu Ze, intimidating him in her own way.

Lu Ze remained silent. He turned his head to look at Yao Jingjing, who was smacking her lips while slumped over the table, reached out a hand to stroke her head the way one would stroke a beloved little pet, and then turned back to look at Qian Fei, saying, "Next, I ask that you listen to this matter once more from my perspective."

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"I got to know her through an introduction from a senior executive at her company. On our first date—or rather, blind date—the feeling she gave me was that she wasn't as pretentious as other girls. The way she spoke with her hands and feet flying all over the place was very interesting. I felt that being friends with her shouldn't be boring, so when she proposed to go to Dalian with me to work for me and help me develop the branch office together, I didn't refuse.

"Actually, at the very beginning, I felt that she wasn't genuinely trying to be with me for real. Once, I asked her what she liked about me, and she said she liked that I was rich.

"She looks exceptionally like the kind of girl who loves dressing up and material enjoyments; I thought so too at the beginning. But after she said that to me later on, I instead felt that she fundamentally wasn't the way she portrayed herself to be.

"Gradually, I discovered that this is a girl who brings more and more surprises the more contact you have with her. She looks clever and shrewd like a monkey, but her heart is pure and simple; she appears to be someone who can pick things up and put them down, someone who can speak harsh words, but in reality, her heart is more fragile than anyone's.

"I had a girlfriend previously. We argued and fought for several years, leaving both sides exhausted. Dragging it out until the very end, we finally broke up. To be honest, ever since that breakup, I've been very afraid of dating a girlfriend again; I've already grown terrified of arguing. So I never explicitly told Jingjing to make her my girlfriend. But in reality, without even realizing it myself, I had gradually already begun treating her as my girlfriend."

Hearing up to this point, Qian Fei couldn't resist interrupting him.

"How come you look like a person who speaks exceptionally little and is exceptionally cold, yet when analyzing your inner world, you're so artistic and talkative? I'll just ask you one question: do you like the Vixen?"

Lu Ze looked at her fixedly. "Actually, I do not like it when someone interrupts me while I am speaking!" After a pause, he carried on to say, "Do you think that if I didn't like her, I would take a flight in the middle of the night to rush over here?"

Qian Fei used her alcohol-soaked, dulled brain to process this for a moment. "Oh, so it means you do like her, right? Then explain to me—what exactly was the deal with that meal with your ex-girlfriend on Christmas Day?"

Lu Ze looked at her fixedly once more, saying neither hot nor cold: "Actually, I do not like the feeling of being interrogated!" Then pausing again, he followed up to say, "My ex-girlfriend currently lives in Shanghai. In order to win me back, she chased me all by herself to Beijing, and then chased me all the way to Dalian. She has been pampered and spoiled since childhood and has never lived independently, so after arriving in Dalian, she fell ill. On Christmas Day, she told me she had a fever and didn't have a single family member by her side to take care of her, so she felt very miserable. Hearing her describe it so pitifully, a spark of compassion was moved within me, so I took her out to have a bowl of porridge. I didn't expect that she would secretly take a photo of me while we were eating and then send that photo to Jingjing."

While contemplating, Qian Fei tapped her finger against the table with a tap-tap-tap. After tapping for a while, she raised her head toward Lu Ze and said, "I'll ask you one more question. If you can answer this question well, you can consider yourself to have passed my test, and I'll drag you off my wealth-resenting list!" She picked up her water glass to take a sip of water and then asked, "What exactly is your attitude toward your ex-girlfriend right now? If you genuinely like the Vixen, how do you plan to handle your ex-girlfriend?"

Lu Ze raised his hand once more to stroke Yao Jingjing's head like a pet, saying, "What is past is past. I will not get back together with her, nor will we remain inextricably entangled. After returning to Dalian, I will speak clearly with her to make her realize as well that if you don't cherish certain things when you possess them, once they are past, they are past, and they cannot be chased back."

Those final two sentences made Qian Fei feel a wave of sighing and lamentation in her heart.

She let out a soft sigh: "Alright, seeing that your attitude is clear and bright, I'll consider you to have passed my test. However, whether the Vixen is willing to leave with you or not is up to her to say."

Lu Ze looked at her and knit his brows once more, appearing to be tolerating something.

In the end, he finally couldn't hold it back after all, looking at Qian Fei and saying in a heavy voice, "Actually, among the people in my company, nobody dares to speak to me as casually as you do."

Qian Fei thought he was displeased, and for that reason, she felt quite happy. Just as she was about to tell him about her pleasant mood, she saw him suddenly smile in a bizarre manner: "However, this kind of feeling is actually quite special! It seems you and Jingjing truly are birds of a feather!"

Qian Fei was dumbfounded. Could it be that this big brother only looks noble, cold, and elegant on the outside, while in substance he is actually an empty man who enjoys being mistreated…