Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 633 I want you to help me practice!
The night sky was a serene black, while the hot spring beneath it was blue. It was already evening, and the city skyline outlined by neon lights was slowly fading away. Without light pollution, the moon seemed to have just risen into the night sky, illuminating the surface of the open-air hot spring with a shimmering glow.

Finally, the entire city went dark, with only the surface of the hot spring still faintly reflecting the moonlight, like a firefly that always shines in a dark forest.

Mai Shude was soaking in the shimmering light, her face up, a white towel soaked in cool water covering her eyes. Wisps of white steam rising from the hot spring obscured the beautiful spring scenery beneath the surface.

A voice nearby said, "Such is life, such is the fleeting nature of existence; birth and death are predestined, who knows, who knows?"

Mai Shude stretched out her long, white arm from the water, lifted the white towel covering her eyes, and glanced at her old friend who had suddenly become a bit of a chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) for some reason: "Have you passed out from soaking in the hot spring?"

"It's a line from the movie 'Green Snake'!"

Su Enxi picked up a porcelain bottle of plum wine from the small wooden tray floating in front of her, poured it into a small porcelain cup, and took a sip: "It's a movie starring Maggie Cheung and Joey Wong. When the two leading ladies were soaking in the hot spring, the voice-over suddenly said this line. Long Legs, have you seen this movie?"

"The one where Zhao Wenzhuo played Fahai?"

"Ah."

"I have seen it, but I don't remember the plot very well. I only remember Xiaoqing seducing Fahai... Why did you suddenly remember this movie?"

"Just a thought, don't you think life is sometimes a bit like a movie?"

"If only it could be like a movie. Movies always have an ending, but you may not see how the story ends until the moment you die."

Su Enxi stared blankly at her old friend: "Long Legs, why are you talking so old-fashioned lately, like a philosopher? You're still a proper female college student, how can you talk like those forty or fifty-year-old uncles!"

Mai shrugged lazily, too lazy to pay attention to Su Enxi, and continued soaking in the hot spring while looking up at the sky. Su Enxi, however, plunged into the hot spring like a mermaid, then emerged from beside Mai and sat down next to her, hugging her knees: "What's wrong, Xiao Qing, getting all smug? Thinking of the Sea of ​​Thought to help you cultivate?"

Shokuto Mai irritably covered Su Enxi's head with a white handkerchief: "I'm older than you by age. If you have to say, I'm your older sister, and you're Xiaoqing. As for Xianghai, you can figure it out yourself."

Su Enxi took the white handkerchief off her head and made a face: "Just kidding, Mai, your temper has been getting worse lately..."

She muttered to herself, "Like an old maid who's been lonely for years."

Steam rose from the water's surface as Su Enxi hugged her knees, gazing wistfully at the night sky. After the city dimmed, the stars slowly began to light up. Just as, after the silence in the hot spring subsided, other sounds gradually became clearer.

With each tap of the bamboo "deer chaser," hot spring water gurgles and flows into the pool. If you listen carefully, you can faintly hear the chirping of insects on a summer night outside the bamboo fence surrounding the hot spring. For a hot spring resort built on a mountaintop, these sounds from nature are a major selling point.

"It's so quiet..."

Su Enxi slowly closed her eyes, imitating Jiu De Mai, placing a white towel soaked in cold water on her forehead, and leaning against the edge of the pool, looking up at the sky.

A sudden "beep" broke the tranquility of the hot spring pool. Su Enxi lazily sat up, took off her white towel, and her phone screen lit up inside the waterproof bag. Jiu De Mai stretched out her arm and took the phone from the edge of the hot spring pool.

Su Enxi came over from the side to watch: "Who made the call?"

Mai paused for a moment, then turned her phone screen towards Su Enxi with a blank expression.

Upon seeing the name on the caller ID, Su Enxi's eyes widened in surprise. She exchanged a glance with Jiude Mai, and then suddenly realized that it was quite reasonable for this person to call Mai in the middle of the night.

"It was actually your Fahai who called..."

"So what exactly is Fahai?"

"Oops, my slip of the tongue. It was Lu Mingfei calling." Su Enxi smiled with narrowed eyes. "Mai, answer it quickly, or it will hang up automatically. Listen to what he wants to say. Remember to put it on speakerphone."

Mai Shude pursed her lips. To be honest, if Su Enxi hadn't been urging her, she wouldn't have really wanted to answer the call; she would have just let it hang up on its own. Because anything involving Lu Mingfei was never good. But looking at the flashing caller ID on the screen, she hesitated for a moment before pressing the answer button.

"Who?" Mai Shude asked, her lazy voice feigning ignorance.

"Your Master."

With a "click," Mai Shude hung up the phone without hesitation.

Su Enxi, standing to the side, looked surprised, thinking to herself, "So Mai and Lu Mingfei have already been playing around like this in places I didn't know about? They've even started playing Ace's love game."

If she remembered correctly, "Master" was a term used in Ace's fandom to refer to the master/dominant figure, right? The corresponding slave/obedient person was "Slave"...

Lu Mingfei, whose call was abruptly disconnected, was completely bewildered. He wondered what had happened and why the call had been hung up so quickly. Had he said something wrong? But he had indeed been Mai Shude's Master (employer), hadn't he?
Lu Mingfei dialed the number again. After a few seconds, the call was answered. A familiar female voice snapped at him, serious and stern: "If you dare to say anything out of line again, your number will be on my blacklist in the next moment."

In the hot spring pool at the top of the mountain, Su Enxi looked at her best friend beside her and thought that Mai's threatening tone sounded so soft and weak... What about blocking phone numbers? It sounded like a young couple arguing, with the girl threatening to delete the boy as a QQ friend in a fit of pique.

Lu Mingfei guessed that his previous "Master" must have broken some taboo he was unaware of. Although he didn't know why Mai Shude was so angry, he knew that with his rich experience in dealing with girls, he should avoid the topic that had upset her and quickly change the subject.

"Is it convenient for you to take this call now?" Lu Mingfei chose to get straight to the point.

Mai glanced at Su Enxi, who was leaning against her with a gossipy look on her face, and wanted to say that it wasn't convenient right now...

However, when the words were about to come out, he still stubbornly insisted on saying, "Speak up if you have something to say, or shut up if you have something to say."

"emmm..."

He said he wanted to ask Mai Shude for help, but when it came to actually asking, Lu Mingfei didn't know how to explain it. He could only beat around the bush and say, "I remember, you seem to be a shareholder behind Su's Energy Group?"

Mai Shude replied, "Yes."

"When you were pretending to be my secretary before, didn't we attend an investment promotion conference together with Yingrui Financial Company?"

Lu Mingfei still remembered the company where his father-in-law, Liu Yue, worked: "Do you have any business dealings with Yingrui Financial?"

Mai frowned, failing to grasp the hidden meaning in Lu Mingfei's words. However, Su Enxi, who was standing to the side, astutely noticed Lu Mingfei's intention.

She picked up her phone, typed something, and then held the screen up to Mai Shude.

Upon seeing the text on the screen, Mai Shude paused for a moment. However, urging from her friend, she continued, "You want us to find a reason to help you get Liu Miaomiao's parents away, creating an opportunity for you two to be alone?" This time, Lu Mingfei was stunned. He hadn't even figured out how to bring it up, and she had already guessed his thoughts so subtly. It seemed his secretary was truly good at understanding people's intentions… ah, not so good at understanding their feelings.

But why did she say "we"?

"Yes Yes……"

Lu Mingfei didn't think too much about it, scratching his head. He was still a little embarrassed to admit that he'd asked Jiu De Mai to get rid of his parents-in-law: "Do you have a way?"

"Sure, it would be a good way to repay the favor I owed you. But it might take a little time to prepare."

"Favor?"

“...It’s about Aki.” Mai Shutoku said, “Alright, alright, is there anything else? If not, I’ll hang up now, I have some urgent business to attend to.”

Before Lu Mingfei could speak, a "click" sound came from the receiver, and the call was disconnected.

Lu Mingfei looked at the call log on his phone screen, thinking about what Mai Shude had just said about "Aki's matter".

Is she shy?

……

"Mai, you really are still a college student girl. You even get shy about Lu Mingfei introducing you to your sister," Su Enxi teased.

Mai Shude, her pretty face flushed from the mist, rolled her eyes and said, "I've said it several times already, I'm not shy."

"Then why is Mai's face so red?"

"Nonsense! If you soak in a hot spring all night, wouldn't your face turn red? If your face turns red, does that mean you're shy?"

"Okay, okay, don't be shy. So what are you going to do about Lu Mingfei's situation?"

Mai Shude tilted her head, combing her long hair, and said calmly, "What do you mean, 'what should I do'? This is definitely something you have to handle! You're the hidden dragon and the phoenix among our team, always strategizing and perfecting plans like this. You've always been a professional at making these kinds of plans."

Soaking in the hot spring, Su Enxi blinked blankly: "Me? What does this have to do with me? Didn't Mai say you were going to repay his favor?"

Mai Shude pouted: "Isn't my business your business? We're all good sisters, why are you being so petty?"

Su Enxi's face fell: "But I also arranged Lu Mingfei and Su Xiaoqiang's birthday date! It's only been a few days! Can't I take a break?"

"You got on the boss's pirate ship and still wanted a vacation? You're lucky you weren't sent to help Fahai cultivate."

"So, Sister Bai, you're quite experienced in helping Fahai cultivate? Tell me, what's it like cultivating with Fahai?"

"Speak up!"

Mai Shude threw Su Enxi into the hot spring. Water droplets immediately burst open on the surface of the pool, which was covered with a curtain of mist. The sound of the splashing water and the girls' laughter echoed in the hot spring.

……

After Mai agreed to help Lu Mingfei create some alone time with Liu Miaomiao, the Shilan Middle School sports meet finally came to an end as the days went by.

The closing ceremony of the sports meet was scheduled for the afternoon of the last day of the sports meet, and it was held on the school playground as usual. Just like at the opening ceremony, Liu Miaomiao was also to perform a piano solo at the closing ceremony.

There are actually quite a few talking points about this sports meet.

For example, the Grade 11 (Class 1) soccer team unsurprisingly won the soccer championship at the school sports meet. Chu Zihang, the fake number nine, dominated the field, and Lu Mingfei scored a hat-trick from the stands... Well, this isn't really news anymore; Chu Zihang basically comes in first place in every sports meet event he participates in. That's why we didn't let Chu Zihang sign up for the basketball competition—it's too predictable.

For example, the new foreign transfer student, Erii Uesugi, not only broke the school's record for the pole vault at the sports meet, but also pushed that record to an outrageous 3.81m. Even Li Xiaoxi, the school's top pole vaulter, was defeated by her.

For example, Lin Huihui led her team to win the curling championship, which made many people at Shilan High School realize that there was such a hidden gem and a potential school beauty in such a large school...

Of course, these topics were not the top news stories of the school sports meet. The most exciting news during the sports meet, both unexpected and reasonable, fell on Lu Mingfei's head.

"A love triangle of the century! Lu Mingfei 'princess-carries' his ex-girlfriend Liu Miaomiao on the field, heartlessly abandoning his current girlfriend Su Xiaoqiang!"

"Lu Mingfei abandons Su for Liu! The playground instantly turns into a melon-eating scene!"

Exclusive: The biggest surprise of the sports meet isn't the competition! Lu Mingfei gives a public "hug" to Liu Miaomiao! His current girlfriend, Su Xiaoqiang, is relegated to the background!

Looking at the headlines in the newspaper, Lu Mingfei couldn't help but frown and asked Xia Mi beside him, "Where did all this come from?"

“It was published by the school news agency.” Xia Mi shrugged. “Senior, you’re quite the campus celebrity now… no, senior, you seem to always be at the center of the school’s whirlpool of events.”

Lu Mingfei glanced at the publication number on the newspaper, and sure enough, it was the Shilan Middle School newspaper... and it was a special feature on the sports meet.

Although Lu Mingfei had anticipated that his act of carrying Miaomiao to the infirmary while leaving Xiaotian alone on the track and field would cause quite a stir at school, he hadn't expected it to even make the school newspaper.

Isn't this supposed to be a special school newspaper article about the sports meet? What's the point of putting gossip news in here? Besides, isn't Shilan Middle School officially against early dating? Although in reality, the teachers won't interfere if you're dating quietly, this has now become public...

"I feel like I should probably clarify this..."

Lu Mingfei sighed. He wasn't afraid of being condemned by everyone and being labeled a scumbag. After all, he really was a scumbag, having dated several girlfriends.

However, the rumors circulating at school seemed a bit unfair to Xiao Tian, ​​who had just officially become his girlfriend.

……

(End of this chapter)