I, a Scumbag, Only Flirt but Never Marry [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 6
Gu Shuofeng turned the TV volume down to the lowest setting, leaned against the headboard, and swung her fair, tender feet. The platinum anklet on her ankle occasionally flashed a glimmer of light.
Her expression was lazy and content, but the voice she spoke with was full of grievance.
“Isn’t all this for your sake? And you’re still being so mean to me…”
“For my sake?” Wang Jianfei almost sneered out loud. “You’re pushing all the responsibility onto me, pretending to be innocent and making your choices so clearly, and you still say it’s for my sake?”
“What do you mean, Wang Jianfei? You suspect me?”
Gu Shuofeng silently yawned, lazily picked up the towel, and continued to wipe her hair casually. The delicate, choked sob in her voice didn’t sound like it came from her at all.
“Since you don’t believe me, then I have nothing more to say. I wish you a happy ever after. Goodbye, no, we don’t need to see each other again in the future!”
Snap.
Gu Shuofeng hung up the phone.
On the other end of the line, Wang Jianfei furiously kicked the bedside table twice and cursed “damn it” three or four times.
She hung up the phone before he even got things clear?!
Wang Jianfei was also upset. Xu Tinglan’s sudden appearance had caught him off guard, and he had instinctively protected Chen Xiyao. But now that he had completely calmed down, he actually knew very well what he should do.
Chen Xiyao was just a small clerk in the customer service department, a drifter in the city, with extremely ordinary family circumstances. Honestly, apart from her looks being comparable to Xu Tinglan’s, she couldn’t compare to Xu Tinglan in any other way.
But she possessed something that Xu Tinglan had completely lost – a sense of novelty.
Xu Tinglan was very beautiful, but he had been looking at that beauty for so many years that he was already tired of it. Having eaten delicate and light Cantonese cuisine for too long, he always wanted to change his palate and try some spicy and stimulating Sichuan food.
Thinking of Chen Xiyao’s charming appearance as she tied her robe at the bathroom door just now, Wang Jianfei couldn’t help but feel another surge of desire.
Damn it! That little vixen was too alluring. Anyone who could resist her wasn’t a real man! Why couldn’t his wife understand? It was just sleeping together, not marrying her. Couldn’t she just turn a blind eye? Why be so dramatic?
Wang Jianfei wasn’t worried at all that Xu Tinglan would divorce him. He was still very confident in his ability to control his wife.
From the time they met until now, a full six years, Xu Tinglan had been completely obedient to him. Everything from food and clothing to buying a house and decorating it was done according to his preferences. They had argued before, but every time they had a disagreement, he would always coldly wrap himself in the quilt and go sleep on the sofa, and Xu Tinglan would always feel sorry for him in the middle of the night and come over to soften her stance and make up, without exception.
Although this time the matter was slightly more serious, at most it would drag on until tomorrow, and Xu Tinglan would definitely not be able to hold back and would come to reconcile with him. However, thinking of Ma Yanzhi, that long-tongued woman, Wang Jianfei decided to take it a little more seriously and make a simple little plan.
He would buy a case of beer on his way home later, drink while watching the replay of the soccer game all night. Xu Tinglan would definitely come home in the morning. When she saw him drowning his sorrows in alcohol, she would definitely feel sorry for him and take the initiative to make up with him. Then he would take the opportunity to express his loyalty, and all the problems would be solved.
Excellent, that’s what he would do!
Thinking that his wife’s side was completely unproblematic, Wang Jianfei began to feel itchy again for that little vixen Chen Xiyao.
No, he still had to ask clearly what she meant by those words just now.
Wang Jianfei called back.
Beep—beep—
[Hello, the number you dialed is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.]
She actually hung up on him?!
Wang Jianfei’s anger flared up, and he continued to call.
She hung up again.
He called again.
Still hung up.
He called seven or eight times in a row, and she hung up on him every time!
Wang Jianfei was so angry that he kicked the bedside table twice again with a bang.
“Hiss! Damn it!”
This time he wasn’t as lucky as before. He used too much force and strained his already aching lower back, the pain making his knees buckle, and he almost knelt down.
Thinking that the little vixen had kicked his back, he felt even more unwilling to give up.
Call, he had to call! He refused to believe he couldn’t get through today!
In room 202 at the other end of the corridor, Gu Shuofeng took out a hanger and hung up the freshly washed white shirt. She plugged in the hairdryer, turned the heat to the maximum, and hummed a light tune along with the music gala on TV, slowly drying her clothes.
“Made a beautiful nightmare in the night, da~da da~da da da da~da da da~”
The phone kept ringing stubbornly, a soft, weak, and affected tone. How could it compare to the lovely voice of G.E.M.? Changed!
Gu Shuofeng cut off the call and instantly changed the ringtone.
That was better, no more ear torture.
Gu Shuofeng was in a good mood, drying the shirt, drying the underwear, and then drying the jeans. By the time even the socks and skateboard shoes were dry, her phone battery was low.
Only 10% battery left.
The deadly chain calls hadn’t stopped, but the intervals were much longer than before. Wang Jianfei’s emotional value had clearly peaked and was gradually declining.
Big ups and downs were more likely to cause internal injury. How could she let it slowly slide to the bottom?
It was almost time to answer the phone.
Wang Jianfei had made dozens of calls, all either cut off or unanswered. He hadn’t expected that this particular call would actually go through. He dialed the number and casually threw the phone on the bedside table, just slipping one leg into his suit pants when Gu Shuofeng’s faint “hello” startled him so much that he didn’t bother to put on the other leg and grabbed the phone with his bare leg.
“What do you mean, Chen Xiyao?!”
“I still want to ask you what you mean! I’ve gone to such lengths for you, what else do you want from me?”
“You’ve gone to what lengths? Huh? What do you mean ‘for me’? You better explain it to me clearly!”
Gu Shuofeng slowly rummaged through the original owner’s small handbag and said with feigned grievance, “You said it yourself, although you and Mr. Zhang are more than ten years apart, you were both students of Mr. Xu, and your relationship is rock solid. Isn’t Mr. Xu your father-in-law?”
Wang Jianfei frowned. “What does this have to do with him?”
“How can it not matter? You’ve only been with the company for two years and you’re already a department manager, and now you’ve been transferred from the planning department to the marketing department. Dare you say it has nothing to do with your father-in-law?”
No matter what, the planning department wasn’t as good as the marketing department. The marketing department was famous throughout the company for its high commissions and bonuses, and there were many shady dealings and opportunities for kickbacks. For such a lucrative position, ability alone was not enough; the most important thing was the boss’s trust. Without Mr. Xu’s connection, Wang Jianfei would never have been able to sit in this coveted position.
Speaking of Mr. Xu, his relationship with Mr. Zhang wasn’t just that of teacher and student. It could be said that if it hadn’t been for Mr. Xu’s strong support, Mr. Zhang would have dropped out of university in his freshman year and at most would be just a wage earner now. Mr. Zhang’s first venture capital was given by Mr. Xu Xu.
Wang Jianfei knew all of this better than anyone else, but precisely because he knew it, he couldn’t stand hearing others say it.
“This is because I’m capable! What does it have to do with my father-in-law?! I’ve been leading the marketing department for over a year now, and the marketing performance has been steadily increasing. Can’t you see that?!”
“I know you’re capable, and I’ve never said you weren’t, but what’s the use of me knowing? How many people in the company are jealous that you got promoted too quickly? No matter how hard you work, they’ll still say you got there through nepotism.”
Wang Jianfei grabbed his head irritably, accidentally touching the scalp Zhizhi had grabbed, the pain making him suck in a breath of cold air, making him even more annoyed.
“Alright, alright, let’s not talk about this for now. You still haven’t explained clearly why you put on that show with my wife.”
Gu Shuofeng sighed softly, the lingering sound soft and ticklish, making one’s heart itch.
“Wasn’t it because I was afraid your wife would make things difficult for you and then divorce you? And then your father-in-law would get angry and have Mr. Zhang fire you.”
Wang Jianfei, a dignified department manager of a listed company, was stunned and didn’t understand the logic behind this.
“You pushed all the responsibility onto me, and now you’re saying this kind of thing. Don’t you think it’s contradictory?”
Gu Shuofeng said with a low murmur of reproach, “Why don’t you understand? What I said was not only killing two birds with one stone, but also a permanent solution, the best way to deal with it.”
“What do you mean?”
“Firstly, it proves that I’ve given up on you, so your wife won’t suspect that you’ll continue to be entangled with me. Secondly, you can completely explain to your wife that she is your true love, and that with me it was just a casual affair, otherwise you wouldn’t have even told me you had a wife.”
Wang Jianfei touched his chin, feeling that what she said… actually made quite a bit of sense. His tone softened slightly.
“Then you didn’t have to kick me, and kick me so hard!”
“For the sake of realism! Did you think I wanted to kick you? My heart ached so much.”
Gu Shuofeng finished her lines without changing her expression, then took out the house keys and wallet from her bag. The other tissues, lipstick, hand cream… along with the handbag, she threw them onto the side table.
Listening to her delicate voice, Wang Jianfei felt another stirring in his heart.
His wife’s side could definitely be settled, and it seemed there were no problems on Yaoyao’s side either. Perhaps…
“That kick of yours was really not light. Do you have any medicated oil at your place? I’ll come over, and you can rub it in for me.”
Gu Shuofeng rolled her eyes, took out her ID card and a few banknotes from her wallet, and with a clatter, threw the rest onto the table as well.
“I don’t have any medicated oil at my place. Why don’t you bring a bottle over on your way?”
“Okay, wait for me, I’ll go right now!”
“Wait, please put away that set of clothes for me.”
“Alright, I’ll bring it over to you later.”
“No need, I don’t want it anymore. Please pack it up and send it to the front desk. There’s a girl named Wang Xiaohui, look at her name tag. Earlier when I came out in the hotel bathrobe, she was kind enough to run errands and buy clothes for me. That outfit is at least Givenchy, it’s a pity to throw it away, so just give it to her.”
“Okay!”
Wang Jianfei didn’t suspect anything else, happily put on his suit pants, whistling and buttoning his shirt, imagining the scene where he would use his back pain as an excuse to have Chen Xiyao take the initiative, wishing he could teleport to Chen Xiyao’s house in the next second.
He casually picked up the clothes on the floor and stuffed them into a bag, then left the hotel room, going all the way down to the first-floor lobby. There were two receptionists at the front desk. He glanced around and saw Wang Xiaohui’s dark gold name tag.
Wang Jianfei had never paid attention to such poor little receptionists. He casually threw the bag of clothes on the counter without saying much, just one sentence.
“Wang Xiaohui, this is for you.”
Wang Xiaohui remembered Gu Shuofeng’s instructions and didn’t think much of it, taking it and stuffing it under the counter. Only after Wang Jianfei checked out and left did she take it upstairs.
Gu Shuofeng opened the door, took the bag of clothes, and handed over the rummaged handbag along with the lipstick and other items.
“This is for you.”
Wang Xiaohui was taken aback. She glanced at the overlapping letter logo on the bag. Although she really wanted it, she was a bit bewildered. “Wha… why are you giving this to me?”
Gu Shuofeng lowered her eyelashes, her expression dim. “To be honest, this was given to me by the man who delivered these clothes just now. He lied to me. I don’t want him anymore, so of course I don’t want what he gave me either.”
Wang Xiaohui glanced at the clothes in her hand, the meaning was self-evident.
She didn’t even want the LV bag anymore, so what were these few clothes?
Could it be a counterfeit bag?!
Even counterfeit bags weren’t cheap!
Gu Shuofeng followed her gaze to the clothes in her hand and gave a bitter smile. “I bought these myself. I originally left them in his room and didn’t want them anymore, but he insisted on sending them to my place. I live alone as a girl, and I’m afraid he might…”
Wang Xiaohui suddenly understood and patted her shoulder sympathetically, sighing, “I used to rent a place alone too. It was really a bit scary coming home late from work. Now I share a place with two other girls. It’s cheaper and safer. You can also find someone to share with!”
Gu Shuofeng smiled slightly. “That’s what I’m thinking too. I should… be able to find someone soon.”
Xu Tinglan, how about giving you half a month? No longer than that.
Let’s… live together?
Xu Tinglan: You said it, no take-backs!