Love Has Fireworks - Chapter 68

Chapter 68: I Am His Childhood Friend

Qian Fei looked at the beautiful girl sitting on the sofa, and it took her a moment of staring blankly to wrap her head around it.

Li Yifei had mentioned to her that someone would be moving into the apartment when he went to visit her in Hubei. It was just that she had been far too busy recently and had almost completely forgotten about it.

According to Li Yifei's narrative from a little over a week ago, he missed her terribly—his heart was starved and his body was parched, and if he didn't find her to have a hearty meal soon, he would starve to death.

Then he caught a flight to see her. The very first sentence out of his mouth when he arrived at her hotel room was, "I washed myself clean before coming over. Let's dig right in, okay, Jinjin?"

Following that, he pinned her against the wall, pinned her against the table, pinned her against the kitchen counter, pinned her against the bed, and pinned her against every single spot where he felt she could be pinned down, partaking in his meal without a pause.

The next morning, she predictably could not get out of bed. Meanwhile, he rubbed his eyes, wiped his mouth, and said, "Jinjin, it's time for breakfast!"

She was so terrified she nearly lost control of her bladder, gaining an exceptionally profound understanding of the idiom "as insatiable as a wolf or tiger" amidst her trembling.

Later, after he finished his lunch with her, he was finally willing to get fully dressed and have a proper chat.

He said to her, "There's something I need to discuss with you."

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Li Yifei consulted Qian Fei about whether he could let one of his childhood friends stay at the apartment for a while.

Qian Fei asked him, "Who? Da Jun? Did his mom catch him playing video games and sever their mother-son relationship to kick him out of the house?"

Li Yifei said, "It's not that brat. Da Jun has been focusing all his energy on harassing a female internet user lately and hasn't bothered me in a long time." He paused and added, "It's a woman."

Qian Fei thought about it and asked, "It isn't some godsister you adopted, is it?"

Li Yifei became displeased. "Stop constantly bringing up that godsister matter to slap me in the face!"

Qian Fei suddenly said, "But seriously, I happened to look at the entertainment news recently, and Jin Tian has genuinely become a sensation. She is absolutely an A-list celebrity now! Seeing her blow up like this always makes me feel as though I somehow hindered you from rising to fame alongside a 'celebrity girlfriend' or a 'celebrity sister'!"

Li Yifei poked her forehead forcefully. "Can you not veer off-topic? Can we please finish talking about one thread before starting another? I only want to be 'Jinjin's boyfriend' and 'Jinjin's brother,' okay? And can we resume talking about my childhood friend first!"

Qian Fei said, "Fine." Then she asked, "You say that girl is your childhood friend, which means she should also be a Beijing local. How could she have no place to live?"

Li Yifei explained to her, "Her family constantly wants to push her together with someone she doesn't like—of course, she doesn't like that guy, and that guy likes her even less. She got so annoyed by the constant nagging that she moved out of her family's house. Originally she owned an apartment of her own, but it's said to hold some bad memories. She doesn't want to go back, claiming she wants to die the moment she goes there. So she bought a new one, but it's currently under renovation, so she can't move in yet. She asked me if I could manage to take her in for a period of time, and she'll move out as soon as the new house is renovated. I thought about it, and since I can't be around to accompany you right now, I'm a bit worried about you living alone anyway. If you don't mind it, let her stay there to keep you company for a while."

Qian Fei knit her brows and said, "Hold on a second. The information load in your words just now is a bit heavy, and a few bolts of lightning just flashed through my brain. Let me sort this out first. You say she has a house but wants to die the moment she steps inside, which indicates she must have had a highly unbearable relationship history. It seems she's a woman with a story. Then you say her family constantly wants to push her together with someone she doesn't like, and you deliberately emphasized that the person she doesn't like likes her even less. Based on this slightly superfluous line added at the end, can I boldly deduce that this person is named Li Yifei?"

Li Yifei curled his lips into a smile at her, humming as he said, "Sponsor Representative Qian, I find that your thinking is exceptionally sharp when it comes to adult romantic issues. It seems you are still highly interested in adult topics." After a brief pause, he added, "Anyway, if you feel uncomfortable about it, just pretend I never brought the matter up. I'll have her find some other place."

Qian Fei also curled her lips into a smile and said, "Let me test you with a logic problem first. I'll tell you whether I feel uncomfortable or not after you answer. The question is: is it because this female childhood friend of yours doesn't like you that you don't like her, or is it that regardless of whether she likes you or not, you don't like her anyway?"

Without leaving himself even a second to think, Li Yifei blurted out flatly and resolutely, "It must be that regardless of whether she likes me or not, I don't like her anyway! She is simply not this young master's cup of tea!"

Qian Fei figured that if measured by Li Yifei's standards for his "cup of tea," his female childhood friend probably wasn't very good-looking.

She felt reassured.

"As for whether she stays at the house or not, you actually have the final say. After all, you are the landlord right now!" She played a little game of diplomacy.

Li Yifei rolled his eyes flirtatiously at her and said, "But right now, the landlord belongs to you, so he has to listen to you! This matter still requires you to make the final call!"

Qian Fei felt exceptionally pleased in her heart from being coaxed by his sweet words.

She stopped putting on airs or beating around the bush. "Fine, give her the keys and let her stay at the apartment!"

Just before the topic concluded, Li Yifei said, "Let her stay in your room."

Qian Fei asked why.

Li Yifei said, "The only woman allowed into my room can be my woman!"

Qian Fei instantly felt that the satisfaction in her heart was almost ready to make her disown all her relatives again.

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Qian Fei had always assumed that Li Yifei's female childhood friend—whom he claimed he would never like regardless of her feelings and who was absolutely not his cup of tea—was rather unattractive. However, she never expected that this "cup of tea" would actually possess an incomparably cold and beautiful face.

Looking at this beautiful face, Qian Fei's heart trembled slightly. After staring blankly for a moment, she bent over to change her shoes while greeting the beauty on the sofa.

"Hello, you must be Liao Shiyu, right? I'm Qian Fei!"

The beautiful woman sized her up, slowly stood up from the sofa, and the first sentence she uttered was, "You look a bit different from your photos. You're much prettier than in the photos."

Qian Fei was stunned again, offering a modest smile. "Not at all, I'm famously unphotogenic!"

Liao Shiyu smiled faintly at her and said, "Li Yifei should have explained my situation to you. I'm very sorry that I have to trouble you for a period of time!"

Qian Fei returned a friendly smile. "It's no problem. Coincidentally, I was feeling a bit lonely by myself anyway. Now that you're here, we can keep each other company!"

Qian Fei moved her luggage into the room where Li Yifei originally stayed. More than half of her personal items had already been moved over from her own original room. She took stock of them and found that there was still a small portion of things she needed that hadn't been brought over yet.

She stood up, went to the living room, and consulted Liao Shiyu, "Can I go into your room for a moment? I still need to grab a few things!"

Liao Shiyu sat on the sofa and smiled faintly at her. "Of course, this is your home, and I am merely a guest. Feel free to grab whatever you want."

Qian Fei smiled as well.

She always felt there was something slightly strange when speaking with Liao Shiyu, but she couldn't pinpoint exactly what it was. She thought that perhaps the auras of the two of them hadn't harmonized into the same spatial dimension yet.

She went to her own original room to pack her things. After packing for a while, she remembered that on the day they crossed from '13 to '14, Li Yifei had tucked a few unused condoms into the mattress padding under her pillow. Her face flushed all at once. This stuff absolutely must not be discovered by his female childhood friend.

She quickly reached her hand under the mattress to search. After feeling those small items, she swiftly pulled them out and stuffed them into her pants pocket.

Then she stood up to leave, but stopped abruptly just as she turned around.

The corner of her eye caught sight of something.

She turned her head back again, her gaze locking onto the pillow.

A corner of a booklet peeked out from beneath the pillow. No matter how she looked at it, that corner appeared incredibly familiar.

She pushed the pillow aside and saw the booklet. It was the photo album containing pictures of her and Wang Ruohai from the past, which she hadn't managed to throw away yet.

No wonder Liao Shiyu had said just now that she looked much prettier than in the photos. It turned out the photos she referred to meant this album.

Qian Fei picked up the photo album and placed the pillow back in its original position.

"I saw it in the corner on the day I moved in. I thought it was quite interesting, so I took it out to flip through. I casually left it next to the pillow when I finished," Liao Shiyu said, having stood at the bedroom door at some unknown point.

Qian Fei turned her head and smiled at her. "Didn't you notice that the man in these photos isn't Li Yifei?"

Liao Shiyu shrugged. "Presumably that is your ex-boyfriend."

Qian Fei didn't know what kind of mindset led her to find the photo album "quite interesting," so she decided to be perfectly straightforward and tell her, "Li Yifei has already seen this album."

Liao Shiyu looked at her, letting out an "Oh" after a long silence. "I think you might have misunderstood a bit. I didn't find it interesting that you kept photos of a man other than Li Yifei. Rather, I found the settings where you and your ex-boyfriend took photos during your university days to be quite interesting. I went abroad right after graduating high school, so I don't know what domestic universities look like. I was just a bit curious!"

Qian Fei thought about it and said, "Then whenever you're free, I'll take you to wander around our campus." She raised the album in her hand and said, "But this thing really ought to be thrown away."

Holding the items she had gathered, she prepared to return to Li Yifei's room. As she passed by the doorway, she heard Liao Shiyu ask in her magnetic voice, "After all, it's your memory. Can you really bear to throw it away?"

Qian Fei stopped, turned her head to look at her, and said with a smile, "Throwing away certain bad memories might be better for oneself and for others."

Liao Shiyu looked at her, and her consistently formulaic smile suddenly became somewhat genuine. She extended her hand and said to Qian Fei, "I like your personality. Qian Fei, I hope we can become friends!"

After dropping the photo album into a nearby wastebasket, Qian Fei freed up her hand to shake Liao Shiyu's. "It's very easy for me to become friends with people!"

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Qian Fei had just moved her things back to Li Yifei's room and hadn't even had the chance to unpack when she heard the sound of Li Yifei's voice coming from the living room.

A few seconds later, he slipped into the room, hooked the door shut with his foot, pulled her over, pinned her against the wall, and began to devour her lips.

Qian Fei struggled to push him away.

While stretching his lips forward to reach for her, Li Yifei said, "Don't dodge, I'm practically starving to death. Quickly let me take a few more bites to make up for it!"

Qian Fei slapped his face and pushed him back. "Stop it! There's still someone outside!"

Li Yifei pulled her hand down, completely disregarding his image as he continued to stretch his lips forward. "Just stop viewing her as a person and won't that fix it? Be good, let your brother take a few more bites. As the saying goes, when love runs deep, sexual desire intensifies, and once desire intensifies, one tends to get hungry! Quickly show some consideration for my rumbling stomach!"

No matter what, Qian Fei refused to comply.

She understood this shameless man far too well. Once he was allowed to take a bite, he wouldn't be able to stop, and he would definitely pin her down all over the place to partake in his meal. If there were no one else at home, it would be fine, but right now Liao Shiyu was sitting on the sofa in the living room outside. In the event that she was pinned down to the point of losing control and crying out, and that girl outside heard it, she really wouldn't be able to face anyone ever again.

She resisted with all her might. Her sacred attitude of vowing to expend her very last ounce of strength to defend her chastity ultimately annoyed Li Yifei.

Li Yifei let out a "damn it," retracted his lips which were puckered to the point of being nearly numb and sore, and full of uncontrollable anger, he grabbed Qian Fei, yanked the bedroom door open, and walked out.

As they passed through the living room, Qian Fei saw Liao Shiyu, who was watching television, look at her with a face full of astonishment before scanning the photo album inside the wastebasket in the living room with her eyes.

Qian Fei understood that she was asking her: Are you alright? It isn't that he discovered that photo album and wants to find trouble with you, is it?

Before being yanked out the front door, Qian Fei managed to throw her a "don't worry" look at the absolute last microsecond.

Then she was dragged into the elevator by Li Yifei.

As the elevator descended, Qian Fei could finally catch her breath. She asked Li Yifei, who had a face full of unfulfilled appetite, "Why are you looking so deeply resentful? Where are you taking me?"

Li Yifei looked at her, narrowing his eyes and raising his eyebrows as he said in a deep voice, "Food is the primary necessity of the people. Naturally, I am taking you out to find a place to dig into our meal!”