My System Forces Me to Live off Women-Chapter 66 - 64: Why Did We Meet Online

"I made my unbelievably gentle, kind, beautiful, and unparalleled mentor angry! How do I win her back?"

You ungrateful student, isn’t that a bit much? Why are you praising me like this in front of an online friend you don’t even know?

Zhao Qingge sat in front of her computer, staring at the chat window on the screen, feeling anxious.

Does this ungrateful student know that I am Yun Xin Yue Xing?

No way, it must be his immense respect for me that makes him describe me in such terms even in front of an online friend!

Zhao Qingge could only comfort herself this way, as panic would do no good. No matter what, as long as she doesn’t admit that she is Yun Xin Yue Xing, he has no proof. But if she admits it... she doesn’t even dare to think of the consequences!

Without hesitation, Zhao Qingge decided to continue pretending.

Yun Xin Yue Xing: "Oh really, I heard from some fans in the group that you’re a graduate student at Capital Teacher’s University and you’re on a business trip to Wuzhen with your mentor. How did you end up in conflict with her?"

How did the conflict arise? Don’t you have a clue?!

Li Peifeng wished he could hit the wall hard and wake up Zhao Qingge in the next room. You’re just a wall away, yet you choose to wear a mask and chat with me using TT software?

Can’t you be more real? Take off the mask, open the door, let’s be real for once!

Li Peifeng sighed inwardly as he tapped the keyboard and sent a message: "Not really something I can easily talk about..."

Yun Xin Yue Xing: "What? Don’t beat around the bush."

Wind in the World: "By the way, why didn’t you come to the fan meeting this time, sis? You also didn’t reply to the voice message I sent the day before yesterday."

Yun Xin Yue Xing: "Work was too busy, didn’t see it. I’ll go next time if I get the chance. Stop changing the subject, talk about your issue!"

Was it really work, or can’t you be in two places at once?

Li Peifeng chuckled silently, typing: "Then send me the address, I’ll send you a gift. There are other fans who helped me but couldn’t come to the event as well."

Yun Xin Yue Xing: "Not necessary."

Wind in the World: "I insist, if you don’t want it, I won’t chat with you anymore, sis."

After more than ten minutes passed, Yun Xin Yue Xing sent an address in Ci’an New District with the recipient’s name as Ms. Sun and a phone number Li Peifeng didn’t recognize. Was it an address Zhao Qingge used for a relative or friend?

Wind in the World: "It’s a very expensive gift, are you sure this is the right address and phone number, sis?"

Yun Xin Yue Xing: "I’m sure."

Li Peifeng silently noted it down, planning to buy some luxury jewelry for this so-called "Ms. Sun" when he returned to the Capital, as a way of returning the favor to Old Zhao from before.

Now he only owed Zhao Qingge that 30,000, everything else had been repaid.

Yun Xin Yue Xing: "I really don’t need the gift, I’m not short on money. I’m just very curious about your conflict with your mentor."

Wind in the World: "If I tell you, can you keep it a secret?"

Yun Xin Yue Xing: "Absolutely!"

Wind in the World: "Last night’s fan meeting, I drank too much, and after getting back to the hotel, I lost a bit of control and kissed my mentor. That’s all, nothing else."

As if mentioning it so lightly was just like taking a sip of water!

In the next room, Zhao Qingge gritted her teeth, tapping the screen as if trying to poke holes through her phone: "You kissed your mentor? Didn’t she call the cops?"

Wind in the World: "...No."

Yun Xin Yue Xing: "(smiles) Well, she’s indeed very kind."

Wind in the World: "I apologized the next day after sobering up, but she’s still ignoring me. It’s so frustrating. I’ve only ever been in a six-day relationship, so I don’t know how to appease a girl. I thought I’d ask you, sis, how can I cheer up my mentor and restore our relationship to the way it was?"

Yun Xin Yue Xing: "(smiles)."

Wind in the World: "I really have only been in one relationship, for six days."

Yun Xin Yue Xing: "Stop talking... Tell me about your relationship with your mentor, why did you want to kiss her? Just because she’s pretty?"

Still pretending to be clueless?

I get to watch an actress perform without buying a ticket, is that fair?!

Li Peifeng pondered for a moment, then sent a long voice message detailing how he and Zhao Qingge formed a connection through shared dreams, her subtle jealousy, and the context of the forced kiss.

Yun Xin Yue Xing: "So, you kissed her because you like her, right?"

Wind in the World: "But she’s my mentor."

Yun Xin Yue Xing: "Do you like her?"

Wind in the World: "She’s my mentor, what’s the point of liking her? Besides, she probably just sees me as a kid, not even considering me..."

Wind in the World: "Actually, I’m not even sure myself. You’re an outsider, you should be more objective. From your perspective, analyzing her actions, do you think she likes me romantically?"

Time passed, and Li Peifeng was about to lose patience and started typing when Yun Xin Yue Xing finally replied:

"Maybe a little bit."

Wind in the World: "Maybe? So not at all?"

Yun Xin Yue Xing: "There is a bit."

Wind in the World: "How much is that bit?"

Yun Xin Yue Xing: "Just a bit."

Wind in the World: "If it’s out of ten, how much is that bit?"

Yun Xin Yue Xing: "How would I know? Plus, emotions can’t be quantified."

Wind in the World: "...Okay, we are mentor and student, like birds and fishes going separate ways. We shouldn’t have even a bit."

Again, after some time, Li Peifeng saw only an ellipsis from the other side.

It feels like you, across the screen, have very complex emotions that can’t be expressed.

I did what you wanted me to do, the obviously correct thing. Then what are you regretting, Zhao Qingge!!

Now, Li Peifeng regretted ever using that bottle of Nether Sea perfume on her.

If he hadn’t used it, they wouldn’t have shared that dream.

Without that dream, they wouldn’t have formed a bond that transcends a mentor-student relationship.

Without that bond, he wouldn’t be feeling this deep, piercing heartache and the inescapable melancholy.

Is this what loss feels like?

It’s like a dull, rusty butcher’s knife slowly cutting into his passionate heart, never cutting through, only halfway.

The instinct for survival keeps his heart beating, healing while still bleeding.

When time, the great healer, finally heals the wound, it’s uncertain when and where the two of them, now worlds apart, might be reminded of the loving past in the dream, and that butcher’s knife returns, cutting again...

Li Peifeng thought he wouldn’t lose because he never imagined possessing.

Yet because of that bottle of perfume, he felt love, he had love, but ultimately it was just a dream. This is disillusionment, this is impermanence.

"Cough, cough~"

Just as Li Peifeng was sinking into depression, feeling that the world wasn’t worth it, the TT chat window on the screen lit up again, and he couldn’t help but look instinctively.

Yun Xin Yue Xing: "The photos you owe for three days."

Yun Xin Yue Xing: "I hope you’ll be more conscientious in the future, don’t always make me remind you."

"You really are a master at wasting my emotions!"

Li Peifeng smiled through gritted teeth as he typed on the keyboard: "No way, sis, that’s too unfair! I also want your photo!"

Yun Xin Yue Xing: "I paid for it!!!"

Wind in the World: "My gift cost money too, and definitely more than 30,000. The money you gave me back then has been offset."

Yun Xin Yue Xing: "Who told you to buy such expensive gifts? I don’t need them! I just want the photos!"

Wind in the World: "Then I want your photo too, that’s only fair." 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Zhao Qingge stopped responding, and Li Peifeng wasn’t in a hurry.

It’s just a test, a shot in the dark.

Whether Old Zhao agrees or not, he will fulfill his promise as a man.

"Let me see, where’s the best place for a photo shoot."

Li Peifeng stood up, searching the hotel room for a spot with good lighting, suitable for photography.

Finally, he undressed in the bathroom, leaving only his underwear, and took a burst of candid shots.

There were standing poses, kneeling, some showing only the upper body, others only the lower body, and even full-body shots...

As he filtered through the pictures, he muttered resentfully: "I’m gonna make you drool, you 33-year-old woman!!"

After he’d almost finished selecting the pictures, Zhao Qingge replied.

"I won’t show my face, one of my pictures for three of yours."

An unexpected gain!

This is a deal worth doing!

Li Peifeng’s eyes sparkled, tossing aside his phone, quickly typing, revealing his true octopus nature, his ten fingers flying over the keyboard like a blur...

Wind in the World: "Deal!"

Wind in the World: "Show me your leg first!"