Love Has Fireworks - Chapter 58

Chapter 58: A Span of Three Days

Before going to sleep that night, Qian Fei called Yao Jingjing and related the entire sequence of events to her, asking, "Was I being too high-maintenance by blowing up over him claiming a younger sister?"

Yao Jingjing said bluntly, "You weren't high-maintenance at all! I feel that as long as a woman isn't an idiot, there's no way she could welcome this kind of thing! You silly child, isn't your tongue usually quite sharp? Why couldn't you outtalk him at the critical moment? You should give him an example. Ask him what his thoughts would be if you claimed Wang Ruohai as an elder brother, and then one day this brother begged you to attend a gathering because he wanted to use you to climb up and make connections with a powerful person, and you brought this brother along while keeping him in the dark. Ask him what he would think in his heart, and that's it. If he says it's perfectly normal and not worth making a mountain out of a molehill, I will immediately buy a plane ticket back to kneel down before him!"

Qian Fei felt a bit relieved, no longer expressing conflict or doubt about her own character. Yet, she felt an indescribable sadness.

Yao Jingjing asked her what she planned to do from now on, and she replied, "Let it go cold. In any case, he and I simply do not belong to the same world after all."

Yao Jingjing let out a sharp "Pht!" "What world do you belong to? What world does he belong to? Aren't you both people of the poor and backward Third World developing countries! How can you not belong to the same world? Besides, back in 2008, Liu Huan already sang it: 'You and me, from one world, we are family, and we live in the same Global Village!' The people of the entire world are all villagers of the exact same village. Why are you and Li Yifei so special? Is one of you two from outer space or something?"

Qian Fei became confused. "Can you keep a consistent viewpoint? One moment you're agreeing with me, and the next moment you're contradicting me!"

Yao Jingjing said, "Actually, what I want to say is that regarding this whole older brother and younger sister business, Li Yifei was indeed in the wrong. However, there's no need for you to kill his chances with a single stroke of the pole by bringing up some issue about one world or two worlds. Men aren't sensible right from the beginning; you have to train and correct them slowly. You didn't even attempt any training before knocking him down for good with a single blow. Tell the truth to yourself: aren't you afraid of having a time when you'll regret it in the future?"

Qian Fei fell silent for a moment, then asked, "Then what do you think should be done? In any case, I've already spoken my peace. From now on, we will interact as ordinary people, and he also said it would be as I wished."

Yao Jingjing let out a sigh. "Since you've already walked to this step, you might as well just keep walking down this path. After this, if he's willing to lower his pride and turn back to find you, you can consider looking into whether he still has any room left for training. If he does, then grind his disposition properly. If he doesn't, or if he simply doesn't turn back to find you at all, then you should just cast this man aside completely and thoroughly."

Qian Fei thought about it and asked, "What counts as him turning back to find me?"

Yao Jingjing said, "He calls you within three days. If it exceeds three days, don't pay any attention to him even if he looks for you. From then on, eat what you want, drink what you want, go on blind dates when you should, and whenever you see him grieving, you just happily add a piece of painful firewood to his fire. Do you understand?"

Qian Fei said she understood and hung up the phone.

She knew why Yao Jingjing specified a span of three days. During the time Yao Jingjing had thrown a tantrum with Lu Ze, she had told her why she forgave Lu Ze so quickly.

"He gave chase too timely, following me over within a single day. Actually, the time limit I gave him was three days. No matter which day he came within those three days, I would consider giving him a chance. But once it exceeded three days, everything was off the table. A span of three days is completely enough for a person to sort out his feelings. If he truly loves someone, no matter how great his anger is, his yearning won't be able to endure past three days. After three days, even if he comes to find you, the state of mind of both parties has actually long since undergone a change. It's just like when you want to eat a certain food, wanting it intensely to the point where you'll practically go crazy if you can't eat it. Yet on the first day, you just don't get to eat it, and you'll feel it is very painful. On the second day, you still don't get to eat it, and you will still feel painful, but the pain is already not as sharp as the first day. By the third day, you still haven't eaten it; at this point, the pain has already become a habit, and a habituated pain will no longer make a person feel particularly miserable—it has already turned into a kind of numbness. And when the fourth day arrives, you finally get to eat it, but the sense of satisfaction toward this food when you eat it is clearly no longer as urgent as it was on the first day. You might even feel: so this is the item, now that I've eaten it, I've eaten it, it's nothing remarkable. Was it truly worth me thinking about it day and night to that extent beforehand?"

Previously, Qian Fei didn't particularly understand Yao Jingjing's analogy about eating food. However, during the following three days, she deeply experienced through her own feelings just how rich in philosophy Yao Jingjing's 'three-day theory' truly was.

The first day was her most difficult day to endure. For the entire day, her emotions were deeply trapped in 'sadness' and 'distraction.' Although she and Li Yifei had spoken clearly that it would be better for both parties to act as friends, and he had also said it would be as she wished, she didn't know whether Yao Jingjing had stirred up her thoughts or if the care she had invested in Li Yifei was actually far more than she herself had imagined. She kept thinking about whether that bad boy with the stinky temper would come to find her.

She always couldn't resist flipping through her phone to look, checking whether there were any unread messages. Whenever someone called, she would swiftly pick up the phone to look after a sudden jolt, and every single time she saw clearly that it wasn't that person, her heart was truly chilled thoroughly by loss and disappointment in an instant.

On the second day, that person remained completely silent without a sound. Qian Fei's 'sadness' and 'distraction' had gradually turned into half numbness and half sadness.

By the third day, that person still hadn't sent a single word or phrase. Qian Fei's sadness had completely turned into numbness. She didn't even cry at all, telling herself directly that it truly was time to thoroughly cast aside this period of illusions like flowers in a mirror or the moon in water.

Yet after she had made up her mind to say goodbye to the old acquaintance and past events, on the morning of the fourth day, she unexpectedly received a text message from Li Yifei.

Li Yifei sent her two messages. The first one: "Come over to our company this afternoon for a meeting. There are some project issues that need to be discussed. Can you find the way? If you can't find it, I'll pick you up downstairs."

The second one: "Still haven't cooled down your anger?"

Looking at these two text messages, Qian Fei deeply experienced the state of mind of finally getting to eat that long-craved food only on the fourth day.

Just for this person, just for these two text messages he sent, was she reduced to waiting with her heart and soul hanging for three whole days?

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On the very evening after he finished fighting with Qian Fei, Li Yifei forcefully tore Dajun away from his computer desk, dragging him to a bar to force him to accompany him in drinking.

Dajun wailed the entire way, begging Li Yifei to let him go. "Damn it, we're having a team war today, Big Brother! My equipment is so awesome, if I don't get online, our clan is absolutely dead without a doubt, Big Brother! I beg you to let me go back, alright, Big Brother!"

Li Yifei paid him no mind, pulling out his phone and making a gesture as if he were about to call Dajun's esteemed mother. Wailing, Dajun snatched his phone away.

"Li Yifei, you are a total bitch, a bitch, a massive bitch! What on earth do you want to do?!"

Li Yifei put away his phone and said, "Nothing much, I'm thirsty."

Dajun looked at him and let out two clicks of his tongue. "Coming out to drink before the sky is even completely dark—you're either drowning your sorrows in wine or intending to behave promiscuously after dark. I'm telling you I am very pure, don't you dare direct your thoughts toward me!"

Li Yifei gave him a sideways glance and said coldly, "The Doberman at your house possesses more good looks than you do, and your dog is still alive. For me to direct thoughts toward you, I'd have to be blind!"

Dajun's face contorted. "You won't even spare a beast; you truly are worse than a beast!"

Li Yifei swatted the back of his head. "Shut up! I'm in no mood to banter with you today!"

Dajun asked him what was wrong. After Li Yifei downed three glasses of whiskey in succession, he knit his brows and asked, his voice carrying perplexity, "Tell me, is it true that as long as it's a woman, no matter how special, open-minded, and tomboyish she looks at the beginning, she will also become high-maintenance after getting together for a long time?" He drained his fourth glass completely. "Tell me, why are women like this? I've done so much and changed so much for her, yet she can't see any of it? A single sentence saying we aren't from the same world obliterates everything! Fine, didn't she want to forget about it? Then let's forget about it. Let's see if this young master will indulge her temper!"

After listening to this large chunk of words from the side, Dajun blinked his eyes and asked slily, "Are you talking about Qian Fei? Did you two have a falling out?"

Li Yifei felt displeased upon seeing his expression at this moment, raising his hand to swat the back of his head again. "Whether the two of us have a falling out or not, what's the deal with that expression of yours that looks suspiciously like secret joy?"

Dajun continued to blink. "I was just thinking about what stage you two have fought to, whether you've broken off the relationship, and if there's an opportunity I can exploit!"

Li Yifei raised his hand to strike him, but Dajun dodged it.

"Are you tired of living? Still haven't given up hope? Haven't you heard that a friend's woman must not be targeted?"

Dajun stayed on guard to prevent being struck again, saying, "I've only heard that toward a friend's woman, one doesn't need to be polite! In any case, if you feel she is high-maintenance and plan to claim her as a younger sister or something, I don't mind developing into your brother-in-law!"

Li Yifei casually picked up an empty glass and flung it right toward Dajun's face.

"I'm telling you, don't even think about it! Give up on this idea as early as possible!"

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After a while, Dajun carefully edged his way back, saying to Li Yifei, "Look, the moment I mention touching that person, look how angry you get. You didn't even care about the feelings we've cultivated since kindergarten and directly threw a weapon! Since you care about her so much, why must you keep holding onto your young master temper tightly? Aren't you afraid of truly driving her away by holding it so tight? Do you think everyone is as cheap as me, staying loyal and never leaving you despite being beaten and scolded by you for half a lifetime!"

With a dark face, Li Yifei said, "If she runs, she runs. It's no big deal. Do you truly think this young master can't survive without her!"

Watching him from the side, Dajun said weakly, "I feel that based on your current performance, the day you won't be able to survive is actually just around the corner. Young Master, you have never drunk down your sorrows because of a woman before, hahahaha!"

Li Yifei swiftly raised his hand and swatted the back of Dajun's head yet again, making him let out a tragic howl.

"I can't figure it out. If she's jealous, she can just say she's jealous. Why must she high-maintainedly drag in some nonsense about one world or another!"

Dajun fell silent for a moment, then said weakly again, "But how come I feel she isn't being jealous? She is seriously stating her position that she is unsuited to you. I feel she is quite a sincere, masculine woman. She isn't being high-maintenance; she is being serious!"

Li Yifei narrowed his eyes to look at him. He looked for a good long while until Dajun was about to get goosebumps before asking sinisterly, "Tell me the truth, you aren't truly still thinking about my woman, are you?"

Dajun rolled his eyes at him. "None of your business! In any case, tone down your arrogance a bit. Even if I'm not thinking about her, there's no guarantee others aren't thinking about her! You don't indulge a person's bad habits, but it's hard to say whether there are others who would be more than delighted to indulge her habits! Be careful that you put on too grand a young master show and truly end up losing the person!"

Li Yifei fell silent.

After a while, Dajun asked him what he planned to do.

Li Yifei said, "Let's both calm down first."