Love Apartment: Yifei is my junior aunt

Chapter 719 Friendship First, Competition Second

"Want to make a bet?"

Yifei raised an eyebrow with interest, crossed her arms, and said, "Do you want to have a competition with me? If you win, our debts will be wiped clean?"

Zeng Xiaoxian nodded emphatically: "That's right."

"Oh."

Yifei smiled contemptuously and said, "The idea is good, but I'm in the right now. The four of you are destined to be tortured and ravaged by me."

"If I don't gamble, I'm guaranteed to win. If I gamble, there's even a tiny chance I might lose, so why would I bother betting with you?"

"Because you are Hu Yifei."

Xiao Xian licked his chapped lips and said nervously, "Instead of simply bullying and tormenting the weak with violence, wouldn't you rather be able to humiliate and mock the losers as a victor, inflicting both physical and mental torment on them?"

Upon hearing this, Yifei crossed her legs, a playful smile appearing on her lips: "Hmm, it does sound much more fun than simply tormenting and torture."

She looked up at Xiaoxian, her tone becoming more serious: "But Zeng Xiaoxian, are you sure you want to bet with me?"

Yifei narrowed her eyes, but she still couldn't hide the coldness in them: "If you lose, the consequences will be very serious."

Xiao Xian shrugged, finally showing some manly qualities when he was forced into a corner.

He straightened his back and looked straight ahead: "Whether I don't gamble or I lose, it's just a matter of dying once or dying ten times. I'm not afraid!"

"Besides, I, Zeng Xiaoxian, am a gambler..."

Xiao Xian paused, then sadly realized that he seemed to have never won, whether in bets or competitions.

"...We will win!"

Xiao Xian, with a desperate, all-or-nothing attitude, declared his challenge to Yi Fei: "Are you scared yet? Humph!"

"ha!"

Zhang Wei, Zi Qiao, and Guangu also stepped forward to bolster Xiao Xian's courage and willingness to risk his life.

"Oh dear, I'm so scared!"

"Hahahaha, hahahaha..."

Yifei leaned back on the sofa, threw her head back, and laughed wildly. She slapped her thigh and exclaimed, "Very good! Excellent!"

"Zeng Xiaoxian, it's been a long time since anyone has been foolish enough to challenge me. I admire your overestimation of your abilities and your recklessness."

"In that case, why don't we go all out?"

Yifei raised her chin high, looking down arrogantly at Xiaoxian, Ziqiao, Guangu, and Zhang Wei.

"I could easily defeat Zeng Xiaoxian like cutting sugarcane with a knife. Even if I won, I wouldn't feel any sense of accomplishment."

She shrugged and said with a disdainful look, "Why don't we just skip it and have all four of you come at me together?"

"Depend on!"

"oops!"

"Yo ho!"

"What the hell!"

Xiaoxian, Ziqiao, Guangu, and Zhang Wei are all genuine men; how could they possibly tolerate Hu Yifei's contempt and disdain?

They immediately struck a pose, trying to show off their muscles and strength in front of Yifei.

Zhang Wei said angrily, "Yifei, you're underestimating us!"

"that is."

Ziqiao's competitive spirit, no less than Yifei's, was immediately ignited: "One against four? Hu Yifei, are you sure?"

Yifei smiled dismissively: "You three are all show and no substance, plus Zhang Wei, this useless dud. Do you think I'm afraid of you?"

"As long as we don't have absurd competitions like 'who can pee the farthest,' what can the four of you combined possibly do?"

Before Xiaoxian and the others could object, Yifei slapped the sofa and shouted, "Enough nonsense, tell me what we're competing against!"

Xiao Xian and the other three exchanged glances upon hearing this.

Although Ziqiao, Zhang Wei, and Guangu didn't initially intend to bet or compete with Yifei, her sarcastic remarks left them no room to back down or surrender.

Faced with such contempt, they may lose, but they must never back down!

If you back down, you'll be trampled underfoot by Yifei for the rest of your life and become the laughingstock of the apartment.

Now, even if they weren't trying to escape Yifei's clutches, just for their own dignity and honor as men, the four of them had to win this competition!

So the four of them covered their mouths and whispered among themselves.

Zhanbo, standing to the side, whispered to everyone, "Damn it, my older sister's really had a blast this time."

"We know."

Yu Mo replied in a soft, barely audible voice, "It would be good if Yi Fei really had a good time. At least if she's in a good mood, she won't resort to violence to solve problems."

"In any case, Teacher Zeng and the others have basically been spared physical pain."

Wan Yu said worriedly, "If Fei Fei wins, even if she doesn't use violence, Teacher Zeng and Zi Qiao will be half dead."

"That's outside the scope of our concern."

Nanfeng shrugged and said, "If they can still lose in a four-on-one situation, then they're just noobs."

"It's common knowledge that noobs don't deserve sympathy."

"Hmm, that makes sense."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Mika and Curry Sauce, seeing that a good show was about to unfold, held hands and secretly ran off to buy popcorn.

"So, have you made up your mind?"

At this moment, Yifei was trembling slightly with excitement: "Have you decided what you want to compete in? I'm getting impatient waiting."

"I've made up my mind."

Xiao Xian stepped forward as a representative and said, "The tragedy we are in now is all because Zhang Wei lost the right to use the room, so we have decided to use the same competition to re-determine everyone's fate."

"Hu Yifei, let's have an intelligence contest!"

"Hey, not bad."

Yifei immediately looked at Xiaoxian and the other three with new respect: "I thought you guys would come up with shameless competitions like the 'Japanese food competition,' 'girl-chasing competition,' and 'drawing competition,' but I didn't expect you guys to be so manly."

She clapped her hands and said, "A contest of intelligence is truly a competition that can convince both sides, but..."

Yifei launched another disdainful attack on Xiaoxian and the other three: "Do you four really want to compete with me in intelligence?"

Zeng Xiaoxian widened his small eyes, clearly not believing he was intellectually inferior to Yifei, this violent woman: "Are you scared?"

"Hahahaha, hahahaha..."

Yifei laughed wildly: "You four think you can scare me?"

Yifei swept her arrogant gaze over everyone, then beckoned to them and said, "Everyone, please sit down."

Everyone was taken aback: "Why?"

"Sit down when we tell you to!"

"oh."

Although everyone felt that Yifei was a little confused, they still obediently sat down as she instructed.

"Zhanbo, stand up."

"Huh? Oh."

Zhanbo, who had just sat down, stood up again, completely bewildered.

At this moment, Yifei also stood up straight, raising her chin high, like a queen looking down at her dull and ignorant subjects.

"Don't get me wrong, I'm not targeting any one of you. I'm saying that in terms of intelligence, you're all trash!"

"What?!?!"

Leaving aside Xiaoxian and his group who were specifically humiliated, Nanfeng and his group, who were inexplicably attacked by Yifei's sweeping generalization, also became dissatisfied.

Only Zhanbo's eyes lit up at the sight, and he exclaimed happily, "This looks fun! I want to try it too!"

"Sis, you should sit down too."

Yifei, who had been so arrogant just moments before, suddenly stiffened, and her gaze toward Zhanbo became more murderous.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Everyone burst into laughter and gave Zhanbo a thumbs up.

"Zhanbo, well done!"

"That's right, Zhanbo, you're amazing!"

"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth—that works, Zhanbo!"

……

Everyone applauded Zhanbo, but when Zhanbo saw his older sister staring at him with murderous eyes, the hierarchical relationship between the siblings immediately made him behave.

"I'll sit down, I'll sit down."

Seeing Zhanbo sit down with a sheepish grin, Yifei snorted and turned to look at Zeng Xiaoxian and the other three as if nothing had happened.

"Just one last time, are you really going to try and out-intelligence me?"

Xiao Xian and his three friends exchanged glances, then stood tall and took a step towards Yi Fei.

"Bring it on!"

"very good."

Yifei nodded in satisfaction. If Zeng Xiaoxian and his three companions really surrendered without a fight, she would actually look down on them.

"If I lose, all our debts will be wiped clean, and I'll return all of Zhang Wei's messy stuff, including the right to use his room, to you."

"But what if you lose..."

Yifei smiled wickedly, "Not only will I settle the score for the night raid, but I'll also take the right to use the rooms for the remaining three of you."

"What?!"

Guan Gu was stunned: "Why do you need the right to use so many rooms?"

"The right to use four rooms just makes one suite."

Yifei hooked her finger and played with her hair: "That way, after the renovation of 3601 is completed, everyone can switch rooms and free up a new suite."

"I plan to completely transform it into our own all-inclusive entertainment and leisure club on the sixth floor. When that happens, everyone's quality of life will definitely improve significantly."

"By the way, Zhang Wei should pay for the renovation."

Zhang Wei's eyes widened: "Why?!"

Yifei blinked: "Because you've already lost the right to use the room to me, and even if you win, you, Zhang Wei, will benefit the most, so you have to bet something else, right?"

"Hmm, that makes sense."

Everyone nodded in agreement; it was reasonable for high returns to come with high risks.

Xiao Xian and the other three exchanged glances, then nodded resolutely, saying, "Okay, it's a deal!"

Ziqiao quickly added, "However, you can't set the questions for this intellectual competition; that's not fair!"

Yifei shrugged dismissively: "Whatever, we'll just find a third party to act as the referee."

"Me! Me! Me!"

Youyou excitedly raised her hand: "Let me do it! Let me do it!"

Yifei nodded: "In that case, then... Nanfeng, you will be in charge of setting the questions and acting as the judge."

Nanfeng pointed at herself in astonishment: "Me? Why?"

Youyou wailed with a mournful face, "Yeah, why didn't you choose me!"

Yifei shrugged: "Who told Youyou that you're not only Ziqiao's aunt, but also Guangu's girlfriend?"

"For the sake of fairness and justice, I naturally need to find someone ruthless enough not to compromise their principles out of sympathy for the four of them."

"Alright, let me do it then."

Nanfeng nodded, and without any hesitation, said, "Since I'll be the referee for this match, then the referee declares... It's getting late, let's all go eat together."

Nanfeng said cheerfully, "I vote for hot pot, what about you?"

"what?"

Yifei was almost overwhelmed by Nanfeng's sudden turn of events: "Wasn't it supposed to be a competition? Why are we suddenly going to eat?"

"nonsense."

Nanfeng rolled her eyes at Yifei: "Do you think we're in a TV drama? We just finalized the competition in one scene, and now we're jumping straight into the trash-talking part?"

"The competition was so sudden, you should at least give the referees some time to prepare and answer the questions, right?"

"That's true."

Yifei nodded: "Then let's call a truce for today and settle things tomorrow... I'm also voting for hotpot, how about we go for beef hotpot?"

The group exchanged glances and nodded, both amused and exasperated: "Alright, alright, let's go eat hot pot together."

"Let's go eat hot pot!"

Just moments ago, Yifei and Xiaoxian were at loggerheads, ready to settle their differences in one decisive round. Now, they're all gathered together as usual, chatting and laughing as they prepare to go eat hot pot.

As they walked, Zhang Wei asked, "By the way, where am I going to sleep tonight?"

Ziqiao joked, "Why don't you sleep with Teacher Zeng? You're all used to sleeping with him anyway."

Zeng Xiaoxian immediately clutched his head and cried out in anguish, "No!!!"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

The apartment was filled with everyone's relaxed and comfortable laughter.

……

Ten minutes later, Mika and Curry Sauce, who had sneaked out to buy popcorn, returned to 3604.

The two women were stunned to find the suite completely empty, without a single person in sight.

[Aren't we supposed to have a competition?]

[Weren't we supposed to fight to the death?]

Where were you guys during such a tense and exciting time?

Surely they wouldn't end up going out for hot pot halfway through an argument, would they?