Love Apartment: Yifei is my junior aunt

Chapter 327 I'll Be With You

"Go! Go! Go!"

Zeng Xiaoxian rolled his eyes at Yifei: "I can guarantee I'm perfectly normal. Every year during the station's physical exams, all my indicators... are just a tiny bit short of passing, okay?"

Yifei scoffed, "The station's physical exams don't check your function in that area, do they? And you really need to work on it."

Zeng Xiaoxian bit his finger and stalled, "Next time, when I have time."

"You'll never be lazy enough!"

Yifei gave a soft snort; she was like a sullen wife annoyed by her boyfriend's disobedience.

Seeing how adorable she looked, Zeng Xiaoxian couldn't help but grin mischievously.

"cut."

Seeing Zeng Xiaoxian acting like a scoundrel again, Yifei became even angrier.

But Hu Yifei is a man of her word, and she had promised to have a heart-to-heart talk and not cause trouble for Zeng Xiaoxian today. As long as Zeng Xiaoxian didn't go too far, she definitely wouldn't break her promise like that.

But Zeng Xiaoxian's cheeky attitude really made her uncomfortable.

Furious, Yifei could only vent her anger on Zeng Xiaoxian's suitcase.

With an unreasonable push, the suitcase fell to the ground again.

"Yifei, let's talk this out. Why are you pushing my suitcase?" Zeng Xiaoxian, who is a germaphobe, quickly took out a tissue from his pocket to wipe the suitcase.

"I just get angry when I see it."

Yifei snorted coldly, "The moment I saw this suitcase, I was reminded of your plan to run away."

She asked angrily, "If I hadn't found this suitcase, were you planning to sneak away later?"

Zeng Xiaoxian nodded. That was indeed what he thought. After all, Laura's dinner party tonight was clearly a trap. If he couldn't handle it, he would have no choice but to run away.

"Zeng Xiaoxian, I'm not trying to mock you, but this is truly cowardly behavior."

The assertive and domineering Yifei has always disapproved of such cowardly escapist behavior. She simply and directly said, "If you have a problem, you should solve it instead of running away."

"But I just can't solve this problem."

"If you can't solve the problem, you should try even harder to find a solution!"

Yifei said firmly, "You can lose, but you absolutely cannot back down."

"Besides, with so many of us here tonight, what are you afraid of? Are we just going to stand by and watch you get deeper and deeper into Laura's clutches?"

Zeng Xiaoxian complained in a low voice, "Well, none of you are willing to pretend to be my girlfriend either..."

"What did you say?"

"No, I meant..."

Xiao Xian suddenly stopped, and after a long while, he asked in a low voice under Yi Fei's puzzled gaze.

"Yifei, if I really don't want to see Laura anymore, will you support me?"

Are you scared?

He shook his head: "It's not that I'm afraid, it's just that I don't want to."

"I don't want her to continue appearing before my eyes, in my world, or in my memories."

Laura, a renowned journalist who just won the Pulitzer Prize, a woman who could wear out three printers just by printing out her ex-boyfriends' information, a columnist for National Geographic, and a woman who treats marriage and love like toys.

Whether you praise her professional skills or ridicule her moral standards, it doesn't matter.

But in Xiaoxian's memory, he always remembered the girl who held an umbrella for him when they first met.

Even though he could no longer find even a trace of the girl's charm in Laura's eyes.

Didn't he let go of Laura?

No, I've already let it go.

After taking the medication, Zeng Xiaoxian clearly understood that he and Laura were now from two different worlds, and that he should not, and could not, have any more entanglement with her. On this point, Xiaoxian no longer hesitated.

But he still misses the girl on that rainy day.

Xiao Xian hugged his knees tightly, burying his head between his legs without saying a word.

"Xiaoxian?"

"Zeng Xiaoxian?"

"That bastard Zeng?"

"That scoundrel Zeng Xiaoxian?"

No matter how much Yifei called out, she never received a response from Xiaoxian.

She stared at Xiaoxian with a complicated expression and sighed softly.

Yifei knew that an eight-year relationship was not something a normal person could easily let go of, let alone someone as indecisive as Zeng Xiaoxian.

But for some reason, she had a lot of confidence in Xiaoxian.

Perhaps it was because this guy tried to confront Laura once, twice, or three times.

Although all the results were unsuccessful, it was still a rare and precious achievement for Zeng Xiaoxian.

Even though he ultimately chose to run away with his suitcase, he had indeed done his best before that.

Even though such a performance would still be considered unacceptable for a normal man, Xiaoxian's progress is still obvious.

Perhaps it's because this progress is so significant for Zeng Xiaoxian that I selfishly hope he can improve even more, and then even more, until...

But now it seems, did I push him too hard?

I don't know when, but dark clouds covered the sunset, and a light drizzle began to fall.

The cold, fine rain, carried by the gentle breeze, seeped into the balcony, silently lashing against Yifei and Xiaoxian's backs.

One strand, two strands, countless strands.

At first, Yifei didn't care at all, but by the time she realized it, both of their backs were already soaked.

A chilling coldness traveled down her spine and through her limbs, causing even Yifei's fingers to tremble slightly.

However, Zeng Xiaoxian remained motionless, still hugging his knees.

She gazed at Zeng Xiaoxian gently and quietly for a while, then suddenly she gently placed her hand on Xiaoxian's already damp back shirt.

As Yifei rhythmically patted Xiaoxian's back with her right hand, the water droplets splashing from her wet shirt were like musical notes dancing in the dark, rainy night.

Yifei cleared her throat, and her gentle and ethereal voice began to resonate with the sound of rain all around.

"Hey boy over there, look over here, look over here, look over here."

"The performance here is fantastic, please don't pretend to ignore us..."

"Oh……"

Zeng Xiaoxian finally smiled and raised his head. His eyes were full of surprise, but even more so, a heartfelt warmth.

"I never expected you, Hu Yifei, to be able to comfort people."

"You're right, my comfort is very rare. If you told others, Zhanbo and Nanfeng would be green with envy."

Yifei, eager to compete, asked, "How was it? Did I sing this song much better than you did back then?"

Zeng Xiaoxian was speechless for a moment: "Do you really have to argue about winning this kind of thing?"

"Of course, the desire to win and the competitive spirit are what drive human evolution."

"Then you shouldn't evolve anymore."

He laughed and joked, "If you keep evolving, you'll soon become the Terminator."

"snort."

The two leaned against the balcony, completely oblivious to the raindrops blowing in the wind.

Zeng Xiaoxian suddenly said, "The first time I met Laura was on a rainy day."

"At that time, I didn't know that my umbrella had been stolen, so I had to run back to the dormitory alone in the rain."

"It's just that my stamina has always been poor since I was a child. I would collapse from exhaustion in the rain after running only a few steps."

Just as I was panting heavily in the rain, an umbrella quietly appeared above my head.

"I looked up and saw Laura smiling and saying something to me."

"What did she say?" Yifei said irritably. "Did she say, 'Zeng, let's go back to the Umbrella Dorm together?'"

Zeng Xiaoxian shook his head: "She said: Zeng classmate... could you vote for me in tomorrow's class committee election?"

"Depend on!"

Yifei pouted: "Was Laura this calculating even a decade ago?"

"Perhaps."

Zeng Xiaoxian recalled: "Laura was very beautiful and smart in high school. Many boys liked her back then, but who could blame me for being so outstanding back then?"

"Later, we started dating without telling our teachers and parents, and then we both got into universities in Shanghai."

"Then comes university, graduate school, and then... that's it."

Xiao Xian glossed over his eight-year story with Laura in less than a hundred words, but Yi Fei still imagined many scenes.

"After breaking up with Laura, I couldn't understand why such a wonderful girl in my memory would become so unfamiliar in the end. I thought about it again and again and finally realized that maybe she was always like this, but I never paid attention to it at the time."

He chuckled self-deprecatingly, "Maybe the only reason we're together is because she feels it's prestigious to have me, the student council president, as her boyfriend."

Yifei comforted her, "Don't say that. Trusting your partner is the right thing to do. You're just blind at best."

Zeng Xiaoxian: "...You're quite good at comforting people."

He turned to look at Yifei: "Yifei, whether you believe it or not, I have really let go. If there is anything I haven't let go of, it's just the memories."

Xiaoxian paused for a moment and continued, "But I just realized something: reminiscing about this is only meaningful when you're with the right person, like what happened just now."

"We reminisced about how much time we had spent together, about the scene of our first meeting, and you even comforted me with the song I sang the first time we met."

"Remembering things alone only brings pain and trouble; only reminiscing with the right people can bring happiness, warmth, and a comforting power."

He exhaled a long breath, as if releasing all the troubles and worries of the past few days.

Xiaoxian stood up, stretched lazily, and looked like a pine tree growing upwards in the rainy night.

"So I've completely let go. I no longer need to worry or fret about why the current Laura is different from the Laura in my memory."

"Let the wrong memories be discarded along with the wrong ones!"

Xiao Xian turned around and stared straight at Yi Fei. He spoke each word firmly, as if he had used all his strength.

"Right now, all I want to do is get Laura's situation sorted out as soon as possible, so that I can have a chance to start a new life."

Yifei stared blankly at Zeng Xiaoxian's resolute face, then suddenly burst into laughter.

"Feed".

Zeng Xiaoxian instantly broke down: "I finally made up my mind again, how come even you are laughing at me?"

No, I'm not mocking you.

Yifei burst into laughter and said, "I'm just happy, I just want to laugh. Let me laugh for a while."

"Okay," Zeng Xiaoxian replied helplessly.

Two or three minutes later, Yifei, who was laughing so hard that tears were streaming down her face, also stood up.

"Zeng Xiaoxian!"

She put her hands on her hips and shouted.

Xiaoxian was startled: "What are you doing now? Didn't you agree not to bother me today?"

"Who's causing you trouble?"

Yifei patted Xiaoxian on the shoulder: "I was thinking... Laura's dinner party is about to start, let's go together."

She wiped her nose and said domineeringly, "You were defeated by Laura three times before, it's time for you to win a beautiful comeback."

This time, I'll be with you.

I'm coming

(End of this chapter)