Love Has Fireworks - Chapter 38

Chapter 38: Bring Me Along to Your Blind Date

Once inside the elevator, Li Yifei lowered his voice and said, "You turned yourself out in such a sharp, aggressive way. Are you going to see some internet pal?"

Qian Fei also lowered her voice. "Internet pal your sister! That's called an online matchmaking date! It was originally a perfectly decent term, so why does it feel like something shady after you say it!"

Li Yifei let out a "heh" and said in a strange, mocking tone, "Dressing yourself up in such a loose, gaudy style will make your matchmaking date think you're exceptionally desperate!"

Qian Fei said crossly, "Pfft! Fixing myself up so seriously is called showing respect to the other party!" She checked the elevator display, which had already reached the ninth floor. "Alright, stop messing with me, go find your girlfriend!"

When the elevator stopped at the ninth floor, another five or six people squeezed inside forcefully, pushing Qian Fei and Li Yifei all the way to the back. Li Yifei was tall, with his head positioned high above the crowd, so he didn't feel any difficulty breathing. Qian Fei, wearing high heels, was about the same height as the newly entered men who were slightly over one hundred seventy centimeters tall. Squeezed among a crowd of male heads, she found it a bit difficult to breathe.

Li Yifei pulled her close to his side and guided her into a corner of the elevator. He shielded her with his own body, sandwiching her between himself and the corner, just like he used to do on the subway.

"We didn't make plans today. How about this young master goes along to vet him for you?" Li Yifei asked, with one hand shoved in his pants pocket and the other resting against the elevator wall, striking a pose to look cool.

Some people in the elevator were looking at them, making Qian Fei feel exceptionally embarrassed. She pushed Li Yifei's hand away. "Are you just suffering from having too much free time?"

Li Yifei shamelessly propped his hand back up. "I've just never seen a matchmaking date before, so I'm curious!" The elevator chimed as it reached the first floor. Qian Fei pushed past him and walked out, but Li Yifei followed her closely, tugging at her arm. "Come on, come on, bring me along to see what it's like. I'll just sit to the side and won't cause trouble! Qian Fei, you can't be so ungrateful. Have you forgotten who took you to see Da Peng's talk show?"

For the first time, Qian Fei saw Young Master Li—who always prided himself on being aloof, elegant, fastidious, and proud—acting so stubborn, rascaly, and utterly shameless in public. She was momentarily dumbfounded. "Li Yifei, are you out of your mind? What are you joining in for when I'm going on a matchmaking date!" She swatted away Li Yifei's hand, absolutely refusing to let him tag along.

Checking her watch, she realized she would be late if she didn't hurry. She stopped entangling with Li Yifei and rushed toward the lobby exit. Right before stepping into the revolving door, she glanced back.

Li Yifei was currently talking on his phone by the elevator bank.

She walked into the revolving door with a sense of relief.

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Because restaurants required waiting in lines during after-work hours and were crowded and noisy, Qian Fei and her matchmaking date agreed to meet at Wang Coffee on Dawang Road.

Regarding her first impression of him in person, Qian Fei was still relatively satisfied. Although he wasn't as good-looking as Wang Ruohai or Hu Zining, he at least looked grounded and honest. In the face of two painful past experiences, she had completely lost faith in handsome men and avoided them like poisonous scorpions.

The other party seemed very satisfied with her as well, sizing her up from head to toe several times. He kept praising her endlessly, saying, "I didn't expect you to be so beautiful in person! You look several times better than your photos!"

Qian Fei felt her face burning hot from his praise.

The matchmaking date was named Yuan Feng. He worked in the Haidian District as a civil servant. Like Qian Fei, he was also from out of town, and he hadn't bought a house in Beijing yet.

Qian Fei's standards for finding a partner were somewhat different from some girls; she didn't require the man to have a house, a car, or savings. She only looked at the person. Even if the man had nothing, as long as he was honest, ambitious, and filial to his parents, she would choose him and live a grounded life with him.

After chatting for a while and breaking the awkwardness of the first meeting, the two of them gradually opened up. However, as the conversation went on, Qian Fei felt that Yuan Feng was opening up a bit too much...

During this time, she didn't know if it was an illusion, but she constantly felt like someone was cold-laughing behind her. Twice she couldn't help but look back, but the person sitting directly behind her was clearly a plump lady.

She pulled her thoughts back to listen to a segment of Yuan Feng's enthusiastic, sincere, and heartfelt confession.

"Qian Fei, we've chatted online for so long and finally met today. I don't know what your impression of me is, but anyway, I am very, very satisfied with you! Previously online, it wasn't very convenient to introduce my situation in detail, so now I'll tell you properly. My previous girlfriend and I dated for many years and had already reached the stage of discussing marriage. However, right after both sets of parents met, the wedding date was set, and even the wedding invitations were sent out, my ex-girlfriend cheated on me and ran off with someone else! Because of this, I became the laughingstock of everyone around me! This blow was too heavy for me, which has led me to be like a bird startled by the mere twang of a bow when it comes to relationships that lack matrimonial security!"

Qian Fei faintly seemed to hear another cold laugh. Dismissing her disordered sense of hearing, she responded to Yuan Feng, "Don't worry, I hate cheating the most. My ex-boyfriend and I also broke up because he cheated. I won't act like your ex-girlfriend or my ex-boyfriend!"

Yuan Feng shook his head, "No, no, no, Qian Fei, you haven't understood my meaning. I don't doubt your character, but I have a psychological barrier of my own. I can't get past this hurdle myself! Under conditions that lack security, I don't dare to casually date a girl!"

The more Qian Fei listened, the more perplexed she became. "Then what do you mean by security?"

Yuan Feng adjusted his glasses and said seriously, "I think we should try a trial marriage first."

Qian Fei froze. She heard another faint, almost imperceptible cold laugh from behind her. She suddenly grew irritable, turning back once more, but what she saw was still the back of that plump woman.

Turning her head back, she tried to make the psychologically barrier-ridden Yuan Feng understand her confusion. "But whether we do a trial marriage or not, what does that have to do with your ex-girlfriend cheating on you?"

Yuan Feng smiled like a leader about to give an important speech, adjusted his glasses again, and said, "Qian Fei, it's like this. If we live together, neither of our strengths or weaknesses can be hidden. I will get to know exactly what kind of person you are, and the same goes for you with me. This way, we will know whether we are truly the right match for marriage!"

Qian Fei felt dizzy from his endless chatter, feeling as though she was about to be reeled into his logic. However, amidst the chaos, she rarely found a trace of clarity left in her mind.

At the same time, she also felt her warm, burning heart gradually growing cold.

"To put it bluntly, you just want us to cohabit, right?" The smile on her face remained unchanged, but the attitude in her heart had already undergone a one hundred eighty degree turn.

Yuan Feng didn't notice the change in her heart at all, nodding repeatedly with a smile, "That's exactly what I mean!"

Qian Fei asked with an amiable smile, "Then, when do you think it would be better for us to start implementing this?"

Yuan Feng startled, apparently not expecting such a blissful result in such a short amount of time. "Aren't you free tonight? Why don't you come over to my place to sit for a while and get to know the way?"

Qian Fei heard another subtle cold laugh.

She could no longer be bothered to investigate which deity or ghost this voice was coming from.

She continued to smile brightly, asking Yuan Feng, "Has your apartment already hosted many matchmaking dates?"

Yuan Feng thought she was being jealous. He adjusted his glasses and explained with a smile, "Don't mind it. Previously, it was only because I hadn't met the right one that I kept going on matchmaking dates. Now that I have you, I'll never have to use matchmaking websites again!"

That "hissing" cold laugh was so clear it practically slapped against one's face.

Qian Fei could no longer maintain her smile.

She asked Yuan Feng, "When you bring me to know the way to your place, do you purely want me to just know the way?"

Seeing that she had stopped smiling, Yuan Feng thought she was getting serious. Thus, he also put away his smile and said with a display of deep emotion, "Qian Fei, stay over tonight. Although I'm renting the apartment and there's only one room, the bed is a double bed, we can fit!"

Qian Fei felt that if she sat there any longer, she would throw up. She picked up her overcoat, preparing to put it on and leave. Yuan Feng's expression changed, and he grabbed her fiercely. "Qian Fei, what do you mean by this?"

Qian Fei broke free from his grip around her wrist, using her other hand to wipe the spot he had squeezed. She said expressionlessly, "I don't mean anything, I just plan to go home."

A fierce malice appeared in the depths of Yuan Feng's eyes. "Are you playing me?"

Qian Fei paused her actions of putting on her overcoat, looked at him, and said word by word, "I'm sorry, I cannot understand your psychological barrier, and I don't think I can cure you. You can try looking through the WeChat Shake feature; there should be plenty of people who can comfort your psychological illness."

Yuan Feng's face fell, his expression turning almost grotesque. "What kind of good family woman are you pretending to be! Do you dare to say you're a virgin? You were probably slept with eight hundred years ago! If you're a decent person and don't have a psychological illness, don't get on matchmaking websites! Since you're on them, don't pretend to be a chaste and virtuous woman to dangle people's appetites!"

Qian Fei hadn't expected that a man could turn his face to become so wretched and ugly. She was trembling all over with rage.

She was panting heavily, brewing words to strike back, but before she could erupt, a figure rushed out from the side and landed a punch right on Yuan Feng's face.

Fixing her gaze, it turned out to be Li Yifei.

She turned her head blankly. The plump woman behind her was currently turning around to watch their excitement. From the space under the woman's arm, formed by her slanted body and her arm resting on the chair, Qian Fei faintly saw a familiar male overcoat draped over the opposite seat.

People gradually gathered around to watch.

She turned her head back to look at Li Yifei. He was pointing at Yuan Feng, who had scrambled up from the floor and was hurriedly wiping his nosebleed, saying, "If you want to trick a woman into bed, find some high-end and sophisticated excuses. Don't drag in some psychological barrier illness, it easily lets people discover that you're a psychological pervert. Next time, talk to someone about things like black holes to make you look more educated! Don't be a stinking rogue by nature while wearing 'stinking rogue' right on your face. To be a stinking rogue so thoroughly without a single piece of suspense makes people feel so disgusted!"

Qian Fei felt that listening to Li Yifei's exceptionally vicious tongue curse people out was truly satisfying. He didn't use any particularly filthy curse words, yet he could insult someone to the point of making them burn with rage.

Li Yifei turned back to look at her, raised an eyebrow, and said, "Come on, I'll give you a chance. Say whatever you want to say to him. If he dares to act up, I'll make him bleed another tube of nosebleed!"

Emboldened by him, Qian Fei's blood surged. Looking at Yuan Feng's cowardly appearance of not even daring to resist after being beaten, layers of loathing welled up from the bottom of her heart.

"You... oh right! To think you're still a civil servant! Do you speak so low and act so trashy, does your unit leader know about it!" After thinking for a long time, she came up with this sentence.

Li Yifei directly snorted with laughter to the side.

"Can you grow a brain? You really believe he's a civil servant?"

Qian Fei was stunned. She had never once doubted these things. Whatever was written on the online profile was what she believed. She didn't know whether she was too naive and easily trusted people, or if this society fell too short of the trust bestowed by others.

Yuan Feng wiped his nosebleed clean, picked up his jacket, and said hatefully to Qian Fei, "Don't be covered in hair yourself and call others monkeys! If you were a clean person, would a pretty boy rush out so recklessly to fight for justice on your behalf?"

Hearing his foul mouth, Li Yifei immediately clenched his fists, wanting to help him create another tube of nosebleed.

Qian Fei held him back with all her might. "Don't go over there!" After pinning Li Yifei down, she said with earnest gravity, "Don't dirty your hands! Leave it to me!" Then she picked up a glass of water from the table and splashed it directly over Yuan Feng.

Yuan Feng was caught completely off guard by the splash, his glasses turning into a blur. Just as he was about to shout and curse loudly, his mouth was stopped by Li Yifei's harsh tone.

"Grandson, if you dare to utter a single curse word, I'll knock out your entire mouth of teeth!"

The gazes of the onlookers grew hotter and hotter. Qian Fei could no longer stay, dragging Li Yifei as she walked out. When passing by the seat opposite the plump woman, she didn't forget to grab the overcoat off the back of the chair in one swift motion.

Behind them, Yuan Feng was shouting, "Qian Fei, you've got guts!"

Qian Fei turned her head and said to him expressionlessly, "Yuan Feng, so many people are watching, save some face for yourself!"