Love Apartment: Yifei is my junior aunt

Chapter 24 Talking to a Fool

Looking out from the balcony of 3602, Ziqiao saw Zeng Xiaoxian and Lisa sitting on the sofa talking about something.

Zeng Xiaoxian's gaze fell on Ziqiao, who was about to climb over the balcony. Before Ziqiao could even gesture for him to take his boss to the room, he had already found an excuse to push Lisa into the bedroom.

Wow, Teacher Zeng, your emotional intelligence seems to have improved after being subjected to unspoken rules!

Just as Ziqiao finally managed to turn over, Xiaoxian also came out of the room under the pretext of going to the bathroom.

"Teacher Zeng, I've come to..."

"Lu Ziqiao, I'm going to strangle you!" Zeng Xiaoxian pounced on Ziqiao like a vicious tiger, locking his neck tightly.

"Lu Ziqiao, what are you doing here? Didn't I tell you to go to another house?" Zeng Xiaoxian hadn't even had time to exert any force with his hands when he was overwhelmed by a stench that made him feel weak all over.

"You haven't showered yet?"

Ziqiao pushed Zeng Xiaoxian away and explained, "The water pipe in the suite just happened to break today, and we haven't had time to fix it yet."

"Then why don't you go wash up by the south wind first? Don't you mind the smell?"

"I don't mind, but Nanfeng does, so he absolutely refuses to let me use his bathtub."

"Oh, that's normal. He's a germaphobe and can't stand dirty things."

"Then why have I never seen him do any cleaning?"

"His obsessive-compulsive disorder means he can't stand seeing dirty things and insists that someone else do the cleaning..."

Ziqiao: ...

"Alright, alright, let's not talk about this for now. Teacher Zeng, I'm here to rescue you."

"You'll save me? What can you save me from?" Zeng Xiaoxian didn't understand what Ziqiao wanted to do for a moment.

Just then, Lisa came out of the bedroom. Before Xiaoxian could think, he pressed Ziqiao down into the blind spot under the sofa.

Ziqiao knew that neither of them wanted to let others know about the unspoken rules, so he cooperated by lying still and pretending to be a stone.

"It's nothing, I just came out to close the curtains," Xiaoxian casually made up an excuse.

"Weren't you going to the restroom?"

"Yes, I'm afraid the people in the building across the street will see me."

Lisa was completely taken aback by Xiaoxian's words: "You're going to use the toilet here?!"

"How could that be..." Zeng Xiaoxian laughed awkwardly, "I have kidney problems, so I have to prepare myself before I go to the toilet."

Just as expected, Ziqiao thought to himself as he lay on the ground.

Teacher Zeng, Teacher Zeng, I'm here to rescue you.

"I know an old military doctor, would you like me to introduce you?"

Ziqiao thought the voice sounded familiar, but after thinking about it, he realized that girls' voices are all pretty much the same, so he didn't think much of it.

But this female boss was actually willing to introduce Zeng Xiaoxian to an old military doctor...

Could it be that this isn't just a matter of unspoken rules, but actually true love?

The fishy smell reached Lisa's nose again, triggering an instinctive reaction in her, as the smell of fish would release estrogen: "Why am I smelling that exciting scent again?"

"Maybe, maybe I couldn't resist when I was getting into it..."

"OK, go ahead." Lisa was about to vomit and turned back to her bedroom.

As soon as Lisa left, Ziqiao stood up and put his hands on Zeng Xiaoxian.

"Teacher Zeng, I know everything now."

Zeng Xiaoxian was taken aback.

So what Ziqiao means is... that he knows his boss started a relationship with me and then abandoned me?

That makes sense. Since they had a wonderful night, there's no reason why Ziqiao wouldn't remember if he saw the face and heard the voice.

Surely every night can't be wonderful for him.

As an honest man, Zeng Xiaoxian obviously couldn't imagine how happy Ziqiao's daily life used to be.

"You knew all along?"

"Of course, there was the initial encounter, the passionate revelry, and the less-than-ideal ending."

Of course, Ziqiao couldn't directly tell Xiaoxian that he was fully aware of the power-for-sex deals between him and Lisa, as well as his impotence.

After all, even if the relationship is very good, this kind of thing can only be understood implicitly and cannot be expressed in words, otherwise it will only hurt Xiaoxian's male pride.

However, it was this vague overview that completely misled Zeng Xiaoxian. The first encounter, the passionate revelry, and the less-than-ideal ending—wasn't this just a description of his one-night stand with Lisa?

Since they didn't know when Lisa would reappear, their time to talk was quite limited. So Xiaoxian could only ask directly, "Now that you know, what are you planning to do? Are you going to handle her?"

I'll handle her?

Teacher Zeng is so generous?

Ziqiao felt like he was seeing Zeng Xiaoxian in a new light; it seemed his ability to judge people still needed improvement.

Zeng Xiaoxian, it turns out you're the man who's been hiding the truth the most.

The female leader really loves you and even wants to introduce you to the old military doctor, but you only see her as a stepping stone for advancement.

As long as there is progress, it doesn't matter who climbs this ladder.

Beast!

Who was this beastly man that Ziqiao saw last time?

Oh, it was just me. Never mind then.

Although Zi Qiao's "beast value" is higher than Zeng Xiao Xian's, as the saying goes, everyone has their own expertise, and there are different kinds of beasts.

Ziqiao may be a scumbag and a liar, but he still can't accept that his brother is dating someone one after the other: "I'd rather not, it's not appropriate for me to be here..."

Zi Qiao wanted to remind Zeng Xiao Xian that he couldn't let his female boss know that the unspoken rules had been discovered. However, Zeng Xiao Xian felt that Zi Qiao, who had finally married Mei Jia, couldn't face his former lover.

Moreover, if Ziqiao were to appear, wouldn't Lisa find out about the lies I just told?

"Yes, yes, I have to do it myself... How should I do it?"

"Here you go, my trump card." Ziqiao secretly slipped the kidney tonic into Zeng Xiaoxian's hand.

"Kidney Tonic? What's that?" Xiaoxian looked at the small bottle in his hand, completely confused.

"For men to have healthy kidneys, they should drink Shenbao (a traditional Chinese medicine). After drinking it, they will be faster than Liu Xiang and taller than Yao Ming."

"One bottle refreshes the mind, two bottles keep you from getting tired, three bottles grant you longevity, oh yeah, Kidney Tonic, it tastes amazing."

Ziqiao patted Zeng Xiaoxian on the chest: "Teacher Zeng, good luck! Use your masculine charm to win her over."

Zeng Xiaoxian looked completely incredulous.

You're not asking me to conquer her, you're asking me to seduce her, you bastard!

The best way to make someone forget a one-night stand is to give them a new one-night stand, right?

This is not just a one-night stand; it's blatant exploitation and sex trafficking.

Lu Ziqiao, Lu Ziqiao, I never would have guessed you were this kind of person.

You're forcing me to make a mistake!

"No, no, I can't handle it." Zeng Xiaoxian's upbringing didn't allow him to do such a thing.

Especially since the other person was his brother's one-night stand.

"Teacher Zeng, what are you afraid of? Practice makes perfect. Once you've experienced something like this once, it won't happen again so easily."

Ziqiao sighed inwardly. It seemed that Teacher Zeng hadn't been using the female leader as a way out earlier. Perhaps he was just having a bad experience and was now a bit timid and hesitant.

It can only be said that not all men have a pair of indestructible kidneys like I do.

At this moment, Zeng Xiaoxian was completely bewildered.

Practice makes perfect – is this the mentality of urban men and women today?

Even so, why should you cook the raw food while I cook the cooked food?

Zeng Xiaoxian was about to say something when he was interrupted by Ziqiao's next words.

"Keep it up, Teacher Zeng! Your dream of becoming a TV host is beckoning you. Besides, if you and I don't say anything, who else would know about what happened today?"

TV host, dream...

No one else knows.

Zeng Xiaoxian opened his mouth as if to say something, but felt so dry that he couldn't utter a single word.

Xiaoxian could no longer hear what Ziqiao was saying; all he could hear now was the increasingly rapid beating of his own heart.

Immediately afterwards, everything around seemed to be stripped away—colors, light, sound—and Ziqiao's anxious expression froze for a moment.

To Zeng Xiaoxian's astonishment, the sofa began to collapse, the walls began to expand outward, and the 3601 solid wood floor was blasted apart piece by piece, squeezing in new tile flooring.

Countless dazzling changes happened in the blink of an eye, so fast that Zeng Xiaoxian didn't realize when he had suddenly moved from the living room of 3601 to the bright and beautiful studio.

Color, light, and sound returned to the space, and Zeng Xiaoxian looked up at the light source.

The studio lights were so intense and dazzling that it was hard to look directly at them, as if they were witnessing a brilliant future that one could never see in their lifetime.

"That concludes today's 'Xiaoxian's Appointment.' I am a good man, I am Zeng Xiaoxian."

Xiao Xian heard lines that were both familiar and unfamiliar. He looked in the direction of the voice and saw another Zeng Xiao Xian, dressed in a suit and tie, with his legs propped up on the studio table, smoking a cigar and sipping red wine.

The spotlights in the entire studio centered around him, making him appear so radiant and dazzling.

"Do you like this kind of life?" Xiao Xian in the suit asked with a wicked and arrogant look. "Of course I'm asking you, how could you not like it?"

"Isn't this the life we've always dreamed of?" Xiao Xian in a suit laughed heartily.

Zeng Xiaoxian looked at his own chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) self and scratched the back of his head, feeling a little embarrassed: "So this is what everyone sees when I act silly? It's an embarrassing feeling of digging my toes into the ground."

"Avoiding the important points and changing the subject won't help our conversation." Xiao Xian in a suit stood up and walked up to him.

"Answer me, do you like sitting in this position?"

"……like."

"If you like it, why don't you do what Ziqiao says?"

Zeng Xiaoxian remained silent.

I'll be taking two days off tomorrow and the day after to do some work. I'll be leaving tomorrow morning and coming back the night after tomorrow. I also need to think more about why my writing couldn't be signed. Don't worry, I will definitely finish writing it.

(End of this chapter)