Little T Lurking in the Beauty Salon, What's the Purpose of All the Flirting? - Chapter 1

When I woke up and went to work, Xixi had already left. After washing up, I grabbed my bag and rushed out the door. As I opened my phone on the way, a text message popped up Afraid of being late, left early. See you after work. It was from Xixi, sent that morning. There was also one from Lao Mi last night Care to rate your own heat-induced moans?

A heavy hammer slammed into my head as I recalled the audio clip from last night. Was it the sound I made during Lao Mi’s foreplay when I went to provoke her that day? No, no, no! She wouldn’t be that shameless, would she?

I spent the entire day in a daze. As a human, I couldn’t fathom what Lao Mi was up to. Was she afraid people wouldn’t find her annoying? To avoid further trouble, I didn’t dare ask her what was going on. Thankfully, Lao Mi didn’t contact me again until after work.

I bought groceries and started cooking dinner, waiting for Xixi to come home. But even as darkness fell, she didn’t appear. My calls went unanswered. Starving, I kept drinking water, which only made me burp incessantly.

It was past 9 PM when Xixi finally called. The moment I answered, I heard her hysterical sobs Come… come… to my house! Get… get me out of here! He… he’s going to… fucking kill me!

I froze. Tell me, tell me your exact address! We’d been together for over six months, and I still didn’t know where she lived.

XX Road, XX Building, XX Floor, XX Apartment, Xixi managed to stammer out after nearly a minute. I immediately hailed a taxi and raced over.

Her door was ajar. Pushing it open, I found the apartment looked like it had been ransacked. Chairs were overturned, and the place was a mess.

Xiao Taohong! Xixi called from the balcony.

I walked over and turned on the light. When I saw her, I gasped. Bl00d streamed from her nose and face, and her hair was tangled like a penguin’s brain after a flight. Wh… what happened?

Xixi burst into tears, sobbing out the story between gasps After work, she called her mother and learned that her father had returned to demand a divorce. She rushed home to try and reason with him, but when she saw the mistress’s car parked downstairs, she smashed the window with a brick, kicked the mistress, and punched her. Back inside, she grabbed a slipper and slapped her father across the face, ordering him to get out. This triggered a series of retaliatory attacks. The mistress eventually caught up, and a four-way brawl erupted. The battle ended with her father and the mistress victorious.

Where’s your mother? I asked, at a loss for words after hearing her story.

My aunt took her away, Xixi replied. Xiao Taohong, do you think I should kill them both? How dare they treat her like this? I just don’t understand why my mother refuses to divorce him. Why does she keep clinging on?

Come on, let’s go home first. We can talk more there, I said, helping Xixi up from the ground. Her face was contorted in pain; she must be covered in bruises.

Do people who act so despicably really get what’s coming to them? Xixi murmured, leaning against me.

Yes, they will. Come on, let’s go home first. As we left, I glanced back at the place where Xixi had lived for over twenty years. On the living room wall hung a beautifully framed calligraphy scroll that read

Winged together through three lifetimes, never forget, never abandon.

Bound as one through nine generations, never forsake, never part.