Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 654 You're a really nice person

"Chen Wenwen," Ye Sheng called out the name from the doorway.

It seems that Kassel College has no intention of avoiding any appearance of impropriety, directly scheduling the interviews for Liu Miaomiao, Su Xiaoqiang, and Chen Wenwen together.

When Chen Wenwen heard her name finally called, she jumped up from her seat.

Lu Mingfei cheered her on from behind: "Go for it, Wenwen. Just answer the interview questions normally."

"Ah."

Chen Wenwen pursed her lips and nodded, following Ye Sheng into the interview room under everyone's gaze. The interview room was the high school student council office, as there were no more suitable classrooms available at the school, so the student council office was temporarily requisitioned.

Chen Wenwen, being the arts and culture committee member, had visited the student council classroom a few times before. However, her feelings were somewhat different each time she came.

The meeting room was empty; the table, which was usually filled with student council members, was now occupied by only two interviewers.

The tall, gray-haired professor wore a slightly loose-fitting suit. The girl with tanned skin wore the same uniform as Ye Sheng, except it was a skirt suit; it seemed to be the uniform of Kassel College. The nameplate on the table read the girl's name as Selma.

Selma watched as Chen Wenwen entered and politely bowed in her direction to introduce herself. She nodded and then used a ballpoint pen to mark Chen Wenwen's name in her notebook.

I'm actually prettier in person than in the photos... but not as pretty as Aya. A few nights ago at the night market, I ran into Junior Brother Lu with two girls; was one of them her?

Damn it, even though I already know Lu Mingfei is a scumbag, Selma still can't help but want to ship Lu Mingfei and Selma.

This was the first couple she ever supported, how could she be willing to let it end so quickly!
But there was nothing she could do, no matter how unwilling she was. After all, Aki had even entrusted the job of interviewing to her... which was enough to show how much Aki didn't want to see Junior Brother Lu right now!

……

"Junior Brother Lu's interview should be almost over, right?"

As Aki sat upright on the table with her hands clasped, her eyes unconsciously fixed on the latte art that had already begun to smudge and spread across the surface of her coffee cup.

She was in the coffee shop of the InterContinental Hotel in Purence. It was overcast outside; it wasn't a bright, sunny day. Such gloomy, rainy weather was common in the south after May, and given that Lu Mingfei's hometown was on the coast, this kind of weather was even more frequent. Fortunately, it wasn't raining today, otherwise the damp, muggy weather would have been even more unbearable.

"The coffee will get cold if you don't drink it soon," the person sitting across from her reminded her casually.

Aki belatedly came to her senses and, like a wind-up doll, immediately picked up her coffee and took a sip. She drank it so quickly that the latte art foam smeared on her lips, making it look like she had grown a white mustache.

Su Enxi whispered in Jiu De Mai's ear, "Long legs... your sister doesn't seem very bright, does she? She looks a bit slow..."

"You're the stupid one!" Mai Shutoku retorted fiercely. She and Aki were twins, so saying Aki wasn't smart was the same as saying she wasn't smart either.
Aki's behavior today was definitely off. Even though Aki had initiated the meeting, Aki barely spoke during the entire sisterly reunion, mostly just spacing out. It was unclear what she was thinking about.

Su Enxi pouted, thinking to herself, "How come I never noticed before that long legs are so protective of their own..."

"Don't move," Mai Shutoku said to Aki.

"what?"

Aki blinked, confused, not knowing what Mai was trying to do by suddenly telling her not to move, but she still sat obediently.

Then I saw Mai Shude sigh, stand up from her seat, pick up a napkin from the table, and bend over to wipe her mouth.

Aki and Su Enxi both showed expressions of surprise. Su Enxi, in particular, hadn't expected Mai to have such a maternal side... while Aki recalled how, when she was little and her mouth was covered in watermelon juice while eating watermelon, her older sister would wipe her mouth like this.

"Is there anything urgent at Kassel College that you need to handle?" Mai Shude asked as she sat back down. "If it's urgent, Aki, you can go ahead. We're fine here."

"...Nothing's going on at the academy. I'm taking the whole day off today," Aki said, realizing that her absent-mindedness had alerted her sister to her unusual behavior.

"Then why were you staring at that coffee cup for so long? Was it that beautiful?"

Aki was speechless. She couldn't very well tell her older sister that she had been lost in thought about Junior Brother Lu, could she? Her sister knew Junior Brother Lu, and they seemed to be quite familiar with each other... She couldn't let her sister know about this.

Su Enxi, standing next to her, gave a half-joking look: "You're not thinking about some young boy, are you? Relationship problems? Did you have a fight with your boyfriend?"

Aki blushed and immediately waved her hands in front of her: "How could that be? I, I don't even have a boyfriend yet..."

For some reason, whenever the word "boyfriend" came up, Aki immediately pictured the scene of her kissing Lu Mingfei, and her face flushed even more.

Looking at Aki's suddenly blushing face, Su Enxi thought to herself, "Little sister, your little expression is completely unconvincing." Um... does she seem a few years younger than Aki?
“You can have a boyfriend even if you don’t have one,” Su Enxi said. “Yaqi, you’re so pretty, there must be a lot of guys chasing after you at school, right? Do you have a crush on any boys?”

"..."

Aki remained silent, her ears burning, and could only pick up her coffee cup and take a few more sips.

Aki's actions further confirmed Su Enxi's suspicions... she must have been thinking about a young boy just now!
"Don't joke like that with Aki."

Mai Shude delivered a chop to Su Enxi's head, and Su Enxi immediately cried out in pain, clutching her head and yelling, "Ouch, ouch..."

Mai looked at Su Enxi expressionlessly, thinking to herself, "This potato chip girl is such a love-obsessed person. No matter what we were talking about before, she always manages to steer the conversation to the topic of romance. If she's so eager to find a younger guy, why doesn't she go find one herself?"

This is troublesome... She's really not good at dealing with topics about love.

Mai Shude cleared her throat lightly, deciding to change the subject: "By the way, Aki, have you met with Lu Mingfei since you came back?"

Although she is Aki's older sister, Mai Shude had not seen Aki for many years. It wasn't until a few months ago in Japan, under Lu Mingfei's deliberate "matchmaking", that she and Aki were able to reunite.

She didn't know what Aki liked, what her hobbies were, or what she was interested in. The two sisters had very little to talk about.

After thinking it over, Mai could only think of Lu Mingfei as the common ground between her and Aki, which is why she wanted to bring up Lu Mingfei to change the awkward topic of romance.

"Cough cough cough...!"

No sooner had she finished speaking than a violent coughing fit erupted from the other end of the line. It turned out that Aki had choked on her coffee.

"I haven't met Junior Brother Lu yet..."

Aki blushed and answered, her eyes unconsciously drifting to the side, her voice barely audible: "Besides, why do I have to meet with Junior Brother Lu..." ...No one said, Aki, that you have to meet that guy.

Looking at Aki's reaction, Mai Shude suddenly sensed something unusual.

Wait a minute, could it be that Aki, you...?!

Whoever the boy in your heart is, it can't be that guy! Damn it! She should have warned Aki to stay away from that guy a long time ago!

……

Chen Wenwen's interview has ended.

The door opened, and Chen Wenwen politely bowed to Ye Sheng at the entrance. She was the one who stayed in the interview room the longest among the three girls, for a full ten minutes. After bowing, she jogged towards Lu Mingfei.

"How did the interview go?" Su Xiaoqiang asked impatiently, "Did they ask you any questions?"

Chen Wenwen nodded slightly: "They asked... but the questions were different from Miaomiao's. They asked me a political question about idealism versus materialism..."

"A political question?" Liu Miaomiao asked curiously. "So, Wenwen, how did you answer it?"

"I……"

Chen Wenwen glanced at Lu Mingfei and said somewhat embarrassedly, "I followed your example, Miaomiao, and talked to them for more than ten minutes about Schopenhauer's views on love... I don't know if my answers were good."

It seems that those with a "love-struck" mindset answer questions in a slightly different way. Lu Mingfei reached out and patted Chen Wenwen's head: "The interviews are over, so don't think about it too much. Let's celebrate tonight, what do you guys want to eat?"

"Are you treating?" Su Xiaoqiang smiled, his eyes narrowing. "Then I'll have to take advantage of you!"

Lu Mingfei nodded: "Sure! Would you like to have Baskin-Robbins or Häagen-Dazs later? DQ is fine too, don't be shy."

Su Xiaoqiang paused for a second, then realized what was happening...

Damn it, so all of these are ice cream brands, huh!
The people waiting for their interviews nearby silently watched in Lu Mingfei's direction, filled with righteous indignation, wondering when this semester would finally end. They couldn't wait to see Lu Mingfei transfer to another school.

However, with the Kassel College interviews officially over, the matter was now concluded. All Lu Ming had to do next was wait for the Kassel College admission results.

Although the night after the interview seemed like a night worth celebrating with ice cream, unfortunately, it just so happens that Liu Miaomiao and Xiaotiannv are feeling unwell recently.

Chen Wenwen, on the other hand, has been staying out too often lately and needs to take a break for the next few days. Therefore, Lu Mingfei's plan to sleep with her in bed has to be put on hold for now and postponed.

However, the dinner party still went ahead as planned, and the venue was set at the Regent Hotel, which is not far from Shilan Middle School. This was also because Liu Miaomiao and Chen Wenwen had to go home that night.

Lu Mingfei and Erii were in one taxi, while Liu Miaomiao and the others were in the taxi in front of them. This was already the established way of allocating passengers.

Erii was huddled in the corner of the taxi, holding a PSP and wearing headphones, seemingly engrossed in playing some game. It seemed that since last week, Erii hadn't played her 3DS or PS3, spending all her time on her PSP. No one knew what game had her so addicted to.

Out of curiosity, Lu Mingfei leaned over to take a look at the PSP screen in Erii's hand, and the first thing he saw was...

"ん...ん...きもち(kimoji)..."

...a scene with a strong visual impact.

Lu Mingfei was momentarily dazed, thinking it was because he had been replenishing the magic of the little fairies Miaomiao and Wenwen too much recently, causing him to hallucinate. So he closed his eyes and glanced at the PSP handheld console again.

This time it was much clearer; the handheld screen indeed showed a red-haired female character embracing a boy, her face filled with tender affection. Below the screen were embarrassingly explicit Japanese subtitles.

Lu Mingfei: "?"

He wasn't mistaken. Erii really was playing... a visual novel? And an all-ages one at that.

Looking closely at the screen, Lu Mingfei realized that he actually recognized the red-haired female character. Her name was Sakuragi Mai, one of the romanceable female characters in the classic galgame "Doukyuusei" and also the heroine of "Doukyuusei". Her character was a gentle and wealthy heiress.

After all, it's a very famous masterpiece, so Lu Mingfei naturally played this galgame as well.

The problem is... who taught Erii to play visual novels? In his mind, Erii should be a sweet, soft, innocent girl, as pure as a blank sheet of paper! The image of a pure little shrine maiden serving the gods perfectly matches her persona.

As if noticing Lu Mingfei's gaze, Erii turned her head and blinked, then considerately took off one of her earphones and put it on Lu Mingfei's ear.

Hearing the emotional and joyful voice in his ears, Lu Mingfei paused for a moment and said, "...Thank you."

Erii, you're actually a pretty nice person.

"You're welcome," Erii mouthed.

Lu Mingfei's expression was somewhat subtle. After holding back for a while, he finally couldn't help but ask, "Eri...where did you find out about this game?"

Playing games on PSP requires cartridges or digital downloads, and Lu Mingfei didn't believe Erii would download and play those eroge (adult games) herself. A yakuza princess shouldn't possess this kind of ability, which is only found in hardcore otaku!

Erii turned her head to the side, took out her phone and typed: "Xiao Mi helped me download it. She said you can learn to meow from this kind of game."

A cat meowing?

Lu Mingfei paused, recalling their conversation about "cat meows" in the hotel room a while back. Erii had mistaken the sounds Lu Mingfei made every night when he was doing naughty things with girls for meowing like a cat. She even thought it was something that boyfriends and girlfriends had to do.

Erii was completely clueless in this area. She probably wanted to learn more, which is why she asked Natsumi. Then, the cunning Natsumi recommended this game to Erii.

"So the culprit was my junior sister..."

Listening to the unbearable sounds coming from his headphones, Lu Mingfei secretly decided that he would make his junior sister meow like a cat tonight.

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(End of this chapter)