"Knock, knock, knock~~"

"Open the door, open up!"

Huang Tianxuan urged, accompanied by urgent knocking. Li Peifeng was truly a bit confused.

What’s going on? Why come upstairs to look for me instead of staying downstairs?

"What’s she here for?!"

Zhao Qingge was both surprised and suspicious: "Did you ask her to come up?"

"No, I didn’t."

Li Peifeng shook his head in denial, then saw Zhao Qingge looking around, finally fixing her gaze on the curtain...

Too scary!

Li Peifeng immediately stopped her, panicked: "What are you doing?"

"You go open the door!"

Zhao Qingge tried to push away his hand, walking towards the curtain’s direction. Although she didn’t say much, her thoughts were still exposed in Li Peifeng’s mind.

[I want to see what Huang Tianxuan is after, delivering a package? Delivering herself?! If you dare get involved with her... Hmph!]

"No, don’t hide, just sit here, I’ll get rid of her, then we’ll continue chatting."

Hidden behind the curtain stood Wu Wenyue. Li Peifeng couldn’t just let Zhao Qingge go in, but Old Zhao was determined to dive into the curtain, pushed away his blocking hand in one swift motion, reached the front in three steps, and directly pulled open half of the curtain.

The hem of Wu Wenyue’s trench coat was exposed, just a tiny bit. Zhao Qingge, still in a tense state, hadn’t realized there was someone standing behind the curtain. She turned back, instructing, "Go open the door!"

After speaking, she turned back intending to go into the curtain, but as she did, she saw Wu Wenyue pulling open the other side of the curtain, revealing her gloomy pretty face.

"!!!"

Zhao Qingge was stupefied, her mouth opened wide enough to swallow an egg.

"What are you dawdling about, hurry up, come in!"

Wu Wenyue’s expression changed, instead, pulled her inside, then closed the curtain firmly again, but it didn’t stop the curtain from swaying back and forth...

Zhao Qingge stormed, "Wu Wenyue, what are you doing here?"

Wu Wenyue retorted, "Why can’t I be here? This isn’t your room!"

Zhao Qingge was choked by the response, glancing down, seeing Wu Wenyue’s getup and the several large holes in her black stockings, got even angrier, "What kind of outfit is that? You’re coming into his bedroom dressed like this?!"

Wu Wenyue instinctively covered with her hands, annoyed: "I like it, is it any of your business?"

"Li Peifeng! Why didn’t you tell me she was here too?" Zhao Qingge turned to glare at Li, then realized something, pointing at Wu Wenyue’s nose, lips trembling: "Did you, did you eavesdrop on our conversation?"

"Not just eavesdropping, but caught a great show too!"

Wu Wenyue waved the hand covering her leg, sneering: "I witnessed certain someone shamelessly kissing her student, it’s a pity I was too shocked to record it with my phone right away, what a shame!"

"Shut up!"

Zhao Qingge, suppressing her anger, quietly said: "He’s my boyfriend, already met my parents! Stay away from him in the future!"

"Nonsense!" 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Wu Wenyue, ignoring any teacher-student authority in her agitation, exclaimed: "Can you not be so shameless, not only wanting to date your student but also becoming a mistress sabotaging others’ relationships? He’s clearly my boyfriend, haven’t I told you this countless times, don’t you understand?!"

"He’s met my parents!"

"He’s going to meet my parents too, and has already met Xu Manning’s parents!"

"He met my parents!"

"Is that the only line you know?!"

Their quarrel was accompanied by the violent swaying of the curtain, and the knocking outside persisted with an untimely ’knock knock’, as if Huang Tianxuan outside wasn’t aware of anything happening inside, just shouting ’Li Peifeng, hurry up and open the door, don’t hide in there quietly, I know you’re home!!’

Which difficulty of the eighty-one trials is this?

Li Peifeng’s thoughts drifted away, ignoring the two behind the curtain, gazing through the gap at the snowstorm of the winter night, for some reason recalling his early childhood.

Back then, he didn’t understand what kind of hardships and setbacks his future might encounter.

He only wished for school to end soon, to rush home and finish his homework, then it would be time to practice guitar with his dad, learn painting from his mom, and when all was done, Li Peifeng could finally take out his heavy bootleg online novel and indulge in the joys of ’spiritual opium’...

In such a childhood, he couldn’t wait for the days to pass quickly.

"Perhaps to punish my childhood’s disregard for time, life’s tribulations and setbacks wouldn’t wait for me to be ready before they arrive!"

Li Peifeng was clear as a bell in his heart, Li Peifeng felt void of desires!

"Click~"

He silently walked to the door and opened it, just half a second before the door opened, Zhao Qingge and Wu Wenyue also stopped arguing, the curtain once again concealing them.

"I thought you’d taken out the doorknob."

Outside, Huang Tianxuan’s expression was calm, as if she hadn’t just been the one urgently knocking to open the door.

Li Peifeng frowned slightly with a bit of surprise, but upon closer inspection, he got even more shocked seeing her attire — Huang Danai was wearing a black bathrobe, though it was thickly lined with cotton, the low neckline and slightly exposed legs design made it seem chilly in winter, and her hair was still wet, obviously just out of a shower, not even having time to dry her hair.

No wonder she was in such a rush to have me open the door, turns out she was freezing?

"Why did you come up here dressed like that? Aren’t you cold?"

Li Peifeng was speechless to the extreme, thinking the scene was already messy enough, and here you are barging into my room in a bathrobe like that, flaunting your chest, the play just got even more interesting!!