CIFB Chap. 32 Summary

First draft of this chapter was done entirely by STT. I probably should have timed it to see if it took less time or not. A lot of words don’t get recognized correctly, or maybe I need to work on my enunciation more. Hmm hmm……

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Chapter 32:

Gao JunFei was already used to Xie QiBao making a fuss over nothing and was thus immune: “What something big? Didn’t you go eat with a hot girl? Yo, if you ended up having an affair with her, haha……”

Xie QiBao cursed, “What affair! That woman’s a pervert!”

As soon as Gao JunFei heard “pervert”, he became excited: “Eh? What pervert? How was she perverted? Did you get molested?”

Xie QiBao almost spewed out a mouthful of blood and fainted from anger!

It was rare for Gao JunFei to make Xie QiBao tongue-tied, thus he happily continued, “Okay okay, what could possibly be so important? We’ll talk back at the dorm!”

Before he hung up, Xie QiBao asked, “Is Qi Bro in the room?”

Gao JunFei didn’t take his words to heart, turned around, and only saw Ling Ke: “Nope.”

Ling Ke got up to get a cup of water and asked, “Xie QiBao?”

Gao JunFei threw his cell phone on his desk: “Yep, so noisy. Who else could it be?”

Ling Ke went into the bathroom and soon heard the front door open— Xie QiBao was back.

“Gao Bro!” As soon as Xie QiBao came in, he immediately started firing off his mouth: “I just met a perverted woman! She asked me about some online ‘Rare Treasure, Hot Sale’ thread, asking if I was the poster and wanted me to steal Qi Bro’s things to sell her, like cups, towels, and even underwear! She also gave me a lot of money!”

Gao JunFei couldn’t contain his joy and screamed, “Holy fuck! For real?!”

Xie QiBao pulled out that stack of cash: “For real! Look look look! She gave me this much!!”

Gao JunFei: “AHHH~! We’re going to be rich!!!”

Infected by Gao JunFei’s mood, Xie QiBao asked, “How? We definitely can’t let Qi Bro know about—”

Before he could finish, the bathroom door opened, and Ling Ke walked out.

Gao JunFei: “……”

Xie QiBao: “……”

Right now, the two of them looked exactly like little miscreants who just got caught red-handed!

Ling Ke: “What are you looking at me like that for?”

At this point in time, Xie QiBao’s mind was filled with only four questions: Who am I? Where am I? Why is Ling Ke in the room? Now that Ling Ke knows, how could they hide this from Qi Feng?

Compare to the stupefied Xie QiBao, Gao JunFei was debating whether to use force or persuasion to convince Ling Ke to defect to their side.

Ling Ke then asked, “Wait, it can’t be that you really plan to steal Qi Feng’s things to sell?”

This sentence of his was like a bolt of holy light, obliterating Gao JunFei and Xie QiBao’s wicked thoughts right in the cradle……

After a while, Qi Feng returned. He wasn’t far away to begin with as he only went to the convenience store to buy some water, and as soon as he came back, he found that the atmosphere in the room wasn’t quite right.

Ling Ke was silently sitting in front of his computer, Xie QiBao was curled up off to the side, quiet as a mouse, and Gao JunFei was clutching his head in vexation, collapsed on his desk as if he had died.

And then, Qi Feng saw the money placed on his desk.

“What is this?” Qi Feng put down his water, glanced around the room, then looked towards Ling Ke: “Whose money is this?”

Ling Ke threw the other two an insipid look: “Why don’t you ask them.”

Qi Feng picked up the cash and asked, “This money…”

With just these two words, Xie QiBao immediately started to systematically narrate his lunchtime encounter with righteous indignation, the complete opposite of how he conspired with Gao JunFei earlier.

Gao JunFei’s heart bled… Ahh, such an amazing get-rich-quick opportunity, but why did it have to fall into Xie QiBao’s lap first? At that time, why did he have to write “Rare Treasure (aka QiBao), Hot Sale” and not “JunFei’s Hot Sale”! Was he just not destined for wealth, or was it because he met Xie QiBao, that harbinger of misfortune!? He couldn’t accept this!

After hearing Xie QiBao’s tale, Qi Feng’s expression turned somewhat grave as he counted how much money there was: “There’s only ¥900 here.”

“Oh,” Xie QiBao said embarrassingly, perhaps somewhat guilty over having lost his head over a pretty face. “I used some of it…to pay for lunch. I’ll return that to you now.”

“No need,” Qi Feng shook his head, took out a new ¥100 bill to replace the one Catherine wrote her number on, and handed all ¥900 back to Xie QiBao. “Thank you for telling me about this. However, whether or not you help her, she gave this money to you, so you should keep it.”

“Qi Bro……” Xie QiBao was moved to the point of tears. If Ling Ke’s words were a cleansing reminder, then Qi Feng’s words completely purified his soul, making him rejoice that he didn’t do those despicable things. With his morals renewed, he insisted, “No, I can’t take this money.”

Qi Feng: “Take it.”

Xie QiBao: “I can’t!”

Seen this back and forth of theirs, Gao JunFei’s came this close to blurting out: “If you guys don’t want it, then give it to me.”

Ling Ke: “Since neither of you want it, then let’s make this money the room’s public funds and leave it in Gao JunFei’s care.”

Holding onto money that wasn’t rightfully his felt uncomfortable, and thinking this made sense, Xie QiBao obediently handed everything over to Gao JunFei.

Gao JunFei acted resigned and sighed, then joked, “You guys are so dumb. If that woman wants Qi Feng’s things, then just randomly give her things. For example, if she wants underwear, give her Xie QiBao’s while saying that it’s Qi Feng’s. It’s not like she’ll know.”

Xie QiBao cried, “WTF Gao JunFei you pervert! Why is it my underwear and not your underwear?”

Gao JunFei smiled wickedly, “Mine’s fine too. I can go buy a pack and change it daily. Since she said she’d pay for every single item, then I could make at least ¥7000 a week, haha!”

Now, even Qi Feng couldn’t hold back from laughing, “You pervert.”

Xie QiBao then reminded in jest, “Don’t forget that Qi Bro wears Before, CK, and other brands like that. One pair of underwear costs at least ¥300, so could even afford to buy a pack?”

Gao JunFei cursed, then waved his hand: “Rich people rich people, can’t compete can’t compete.”

After this, the atmosphere in the room eased.

Qi Feng sat down at his desk, staring blankly at that girl’s phone number.

Ling Ke gave him a glance, and still infected from their joking mood earlier, meaningfully remarked, “Never expected you would have……this kind of stalker .”

Qi Feng bitterly smiled: “You think I want this?”

Ling Ke: “Then how do you plan on handling this matter?”

“First, I need to find out who this person is……” Qi Feng pulled out his phone, inputted that number, and as expected, it wasn’t in his phone book or WeChat.

Other than the obvious alias of “Catherine”, Qi Feng knew nothing about her.

This kind of feeling made him very uncomfortable, especially the fact that she had asked his roommate to steal his things. Putting aside what she planned to do with his things, her action of using money to entice and cause a rift between him and his roommates made Qi Feng extremely angry.

He rarely got so angry, especially towards girls, but this time she completely crossed his bottom line and made him want to seriously retaliate.

Qi Feng looked towards Ling Ke and asked, “I want to lure her out, what do you think?”

Ling Ke didn’t like meddling in other people’s affairs, and even though he cared about this matter, if Qi Feng didn’t plan to do anything, then he wouldn’t move either. But now that Qi Feng was consulting him, he opened his mouth and asked back, “The reason?”

Qi Feng: “Normally, people all have some self consciousness. That woman dared to do something like this only because she’s relying on the fact that I don’t know who she is. But after I see her and have a chat, I can try to convince her to give up on me. If that doesn’t work, then at least I’ll know who to go find if troubles arises in the future.”

Ling Ke agreed, “Ok.”

“Then, can you let me borrow your phone?” Qi Feng asked.

“……What for?” Ling Ke covered his phone with his hand by reflex. “You want to use my phone to contact her?”

“Yeah, since I can’t use my own.” Qi Feng wrinkled his brows: ” I think she might know my phone number. If it’s like that, then as soon as I contact her, she’ll know that she’s been exposed and definitely won’t come out to meet me.”

That’s certainly true. No one who does this kind of thing dared to do it out in the open.

“Using mine isn’t safe either. I’ve posted my phone number on Campus Web. If she grew suspicious and did a search and found me, she’d also guessed that it’s you using my phone to test her out. That she went to find Xie QiBao probably means that she knows our relationship is good.” Ling Ke turned to look at Xie QiBao: “Why don’t we beat her at her own game……”

Ling Ke’s suggestion was more thorough, so Qi Feng nodded and said to Xie QiBao, “Big Bao, help me out.”

“Ah? What is it?” Like a summoned puppy, Xie QiBao scooted his chair over.

“Lend me your phone, then help me out a bit……”

“Okay okay……”

Ling Ke let out a sigh of relief, quietly stuffing his phone back into his pocket. He had a ton of Qi Feng’s photos on there, and although it wasn’t guaranteed that the other would find them, but the risk was still too high.

While listening to Qi Feng and Xie QiBao discuss their plan, Ling Ke was also mulling over whether or not he should take care of the photos in his phone, just in case……

In the end, they decided to have Xie QiBao send a text to Catherine asking to meet, showing that he had “thought things through and was willing to cooperate”.

Gao JunFei also joined in the talks and suggested that to make it more real, they should take a few pictures to send as proof.

“What kind of pictures? Certainly not underwear ones, right?!” Xie QiBao side-eyed him.

“What’s wrong with underwear ones! So innocent. If she’s really that crazily in love with Qi Feng, you want to bet that after seeing underwear photos, she’d immediately rush over?” Gao JunFei retorted.

Everyone else simultaneously face palmed. Not that Gao JunFei was wrong per se, but they still couldn’t help but feel disturbed.

However, they had to use a good enough of a bait to lure her out.

Qi Feng helplessly conceded, “Let’s just take some photos of my toothbrush and towels…… As for underwear, that’s too private and I can’t show that to other people.”

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[A small interlude]

Xie QiBao and Gao JunFei excitedly conspired for half a day, turned around, and then realized all their scheming was completely seen by Qi Feng’s official Empress.

Ling Ke: “What were you guys talking about just then?”

Xie QiBao: “……” This small one doesn’t dare, Empress please spare me! QAQ

Gao JunFei: “……” Don’t, don’t tell Qi Feng…… QAQ

[[The skit at the end is mimicking ancient palace speech, hence MC being referred to as ‘Empress’, though I’m not really sure how much of that came through.

Also, Qi Feng’s last line made me want to tack on a “But Ling Ke’s not other people” haha~ It’s probably going to be a long time before they show each other their underwear though…]]