My System Forces Me to Live off Women-Chapter 97 - 94: I’m Just as Bad as You

Zhao Qingge pretended to be asleep again.

This familiar scene made Li Peifeng suddenly feel a bit hot, but a breeze started to blow in his heart.

What kind of breeze?

The spring breeze!

The spring breeze carried scents of blue roses and coffee, gently brushing by, like love softly caressing one’s earlobe, sowing the seeds of happiness in the heart.

Just then, they passed a traffic checkpoint, a red light, one hundred and three seconds.

Li Peifeng stepped on the brake, shifted gears, waiting for the red light countdown traffic flow to pass, took this opportunity to steadily and evenly reach out and grasped Zhao Qingge’s left hand.

No need to pinch, no need to rub.

Skip the probing step.

Once held, it was ten fingers intertwined!

Zhao Qingge didn’t move at all, even slightly cooperating with her left hand.

Li Peifeng became bolder, simply pulling this jade hand slowly into his embrace, holding it like this.

Zhao Qingge remained motionless, still with her eyes closed.

"It would be great if you often felt sleepy in front of me in the future."

Li Peifeng murmured softly, Zhao Qingge’s eyelids twitched slightly, but she didn’t wake up.

He reluctantly held her hand tightly, even when the traffic light turned green, Li Peifeng didn’t let go, awkwardly shifting gears with both their hands and continuing forward.

After passing the traffic checkpoint, Li Peifeng lost interest in driving, glancing around.

After a while, he finally found a suitable spot, turned the wheel, and temporarily parked the car by the roadside.

"Screech."

The brake disc made a slight sound as Li Peifeng shifted to park mode.

Feeling the car stop, Zhao Qingge slightly opened her eyes in confusion, looking ahead...

Li Peifeng whispered, "Darling, we haven’t arrived yet. Let me check the navigation."

Zhao Qingge glanced sideways at him, then closed her eyes again.

"I’m checking how to proceed next."

Even as Li Peifeng spoke, he unbuckled his seatbelt, leaning closer to the right side.

Then, he moved close to Zhao Qingge’s face, close enough to see the barely trembling lashes on her face.

Gazing, he slowly kissed her.

Temple, cheek, ear, then skimming towards the lips...

"Mm." Zhao Qingge hummed lightly, not in warning, but more as an unconscious surprise.

Li Peifeng tightly continued holding her hand with his right, raising her chin with his left.

Zhao Qingge’s eyelids remained firmly closed, but her breathing became rapid, and her body under the seatbelt grew taut.

Li Peifeng held her chin, kissing her intensely.

Intense enough to melt the sunset, to smooth the water’s ripples.

Intense enough to push the moon back up into the sky, to plant feet deep into the ground.

The car’s soundproofing was excellent, with only the sound of their breaths and lips lightly touching, soon followed by the soft clash of teeth and gulps...

Unexpectedly, Zhao Qingge did not resist, blushing, letting it happen, even responding during the kiss.

Li Peifeng almost couldn’t believe it, slowly released, feeling braver, but he didn’t touch or move to Zhao Qingge’s body, instead softly suggesting, "Darling, can you sleepwalk?"

"..."

"The kind of sleepwalking with eyes open." Li Peifeng chuckled, "I want you to open your eyes, watching us kiss, but your brain can’t receive the image, you understand?"

"..."

Zhao Qingge kept her eyes tightly shut, as if she hadn’t heard anything.

Huh, was it a bit too much? It’s good she lets me kiss her!

But Li Peifeng, feeling a bit unwilling, continued to test, "If sleepwalking is not okay, maybe you can talk in your sleep? I’ll give you a word to try, like, baby?"

Zhao Qingge seemed agitated, took a deep breath, lips slightly pouted, brow lightly furrowed, after exhaling the breath, her teeth clenched, still eyes closed, as if she really was about to talk in her sleep...

However, instead of the tender murmurs Li Peifeng imagined, out came a chilling and severe rebuke through gritted teeth.

"Li Peifeng, you heartless disciple, shameless, lacking propriety, disregarding decorum, morally corrupt beyond tolerance, deserving to be skinned alive in hell, repeatedly fried to medium-well in an oil pot, and rolled over a blade mountain..."

Li Peifeng was so scared he began to tremble, but Zhao Qingge, eyes shut, grew more energetic, the scolding more fluent.

"Don’t ever become my student again, you disgrace without a sense of shame, if you choose me as your supervisor, I’ll ensure you’re jailed, indefinitely delayed graduation, squeezing every bit of labor out of you..."

Enough scolding, one would turn foolish.

Li Peifeng shook with fear, breaking into a cold sweat, just about to let go and sit back when he suddenly realized something was off...

Not right, her hand is still holding mine!

"I’ll make you edit books till 3 am, clock in at my office by 7 am, submit your thesis, and for any minor issue, I’ll scold you to tears..."

Li Peifeng glanced at Zhao Qingge, then at their tightly held hands, trying to let go.

"Huh?"

Li Peifeng’s mouth twitched, he loosened, but the fair jade hand didn’t!

He questioned reality a bit, then leaned again to the right, closing the distance...

"What am I to you? I’m your mentor! You dare to inch up to me, my biggest regret is accepting you as my student...mmph."

Zhao Qingge was vigorously scolding when her mouth was stopped.

Then, unbelievably, Zhao Qingge opened her eyes fiercely, glared furiously, though her tone retained its cold edge, her face was flushed as she mumbled harshly, "You ruin my...integrity, seducing me...absolutely, the worst, most terrible, student under the sun..."

After a long time, lips parted, Zhao Qingge closed her eyes again.

Li Peifeng, however, was chilled by the scolding, especially the last words.

The immense pressure of reality and some deep truths forced him to calm down.

Li Peifeng slowly released her hand, sat back in his seat, silent for a while, self-deprecatingly chuckling, "You’re noble, you’re amazing, it’s me who seduced you, and has nothing to do with you."

"You’re untainted, pure as snow. You’re in the center of storms yet remain untouched by fire and water."

"You sit high on the platform, it’s just me that’s no good. You’re so great."

Li Peifeng muttered a few words, simply started the car, and continued forward, but upon reaching the broken line on the road, he turned around and drove back.

"..."

Zhao Qingge didn’t know when she opened her eyes again, observed their direction, and softly asked, "Where are we going?"

"Taking you home."

Li Peifeng looked ahead, "No need for you to come shopping with me, I’ll go myself, truly troubled you today, really sorry."

"...Oh."

Zhao Qingge responded softly, then remained silent, turned to gaze out the window, fingers gently fidgeting on her lap, wanting to say something, but couldn’t speak.

Not long after, they returned to the same traffic checkpoint, once again facing the one hundred and three second red light.

Silence, red turned green.

Li Peifeng stepped on the brake, reached out to shift gears, but felt another hand on his.

"..."

Li Peifeng instinctively turned to look, Zhao Qingge stared straight ahead, expressionless, her left hand placed over his on the gear stick.

Then.

She held it.

Li Peifeng’s mouth turned up, his smile grew, "So I’ll, turn around up ahead?"

"..."

"Not speaking means you agree!" 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

Li Peifeng held Zhao Qingge’s hand, and together they shifted gears, hit the accelerator, and the car sped up...

Zhao Qingge sighed in her heart.

Why am I untainted by dust? Why pure as snowy white?

I sat on the high platform, bound to fall.

I’m not such a good person, I should be bad like you...

(If I die, it’ll be from overwork!)