APCF -Chapter 2 (2)

Walking past the piano room, he looked through the glass window, and there was Zhou Yu pointing to the watch on his wrist, radiant with delight as he chatted with some people.

From the appearance of the watch, it should be from the same brand as the one Qi Yuji gifted him. It was surely bought at the same time by her.

Qi Xingchen’s eyes darkened, and he gripped onto the door handle of the piano room. Han Qing promptly stopped him: “Zhou Yu and the others are inside!”

“I saw.”

“You saw yet you still want to go in. Did you forget about the time when we were ridiculed?”

The original owner had ordered the Qi family to not reveal his identity to anyone. Hence Zhou Yu didn’t actually know that Qi Xingchen was his girlfriend’s younger brother and ridiculed his and Han Qing’s cut-price clothing.

Qi Xingchen raised his eyebrows, ignored Han Qing, pushed open the door and stalked straight to Zhou Yu. He was eager to fight with Zhou Yu in a place with surveillance.

As he walked closer, he could vaguely make out phrases like “Milan”, “haute couture”, “watch a show”, etc. Qi Xingchen cleared his throat, “Cough, Yu-ge, what a coincidence.”

Zhou Yu only realised at this point that an extra person appeared, and pretended that he wasn’t too happy being cut off, “Didn’t you see that the piano room is being used by us? Come by a bit later on ba.”

“Yu-ge,” Qi Xingchen did not budge, “You just said you were going to Milan to watch a show?”

Zhou Yu could not help but be surprised. He thought that this person was here for revenge and did not expect him to call him “Yu-ge” so respectfully, as Qi Xingchen never called him that before.

It was natural to feel happier with more people to listen to him boast, and thus he acted reluctant: “That’s right, the brand invited me to watch their show the day after tomorrow. Every time I go there, I always have to take lots of pictures. It’s really tiring.”

“What about your girlfriend?”

“She kept pestering me to let her come along,” Zhou Yu sighed, “Even if she comes along with me, she still wants to buy this and that for me, how annoying.”

Unlike female celebrities, Qi Yuji is a female socialite. Being able to find this sort of girlfriend was indirect proof of a man’s charm. Especially when this female socialite was this crazy and wild for him and would do anything for him1. Everyone around him revealed looks of envy.

“Annoying huh,” Qi Xingchen’s eyes dimmed and he rested his chin on his palm, “Didn’t you really like the new wristwatch?”

Zhou Yu was taken aback.

“Taking other people’s things, yet still saying that they’re annoying. There’s another way to phrase this, what was it called……”

One boy was curious: “What?”

“I remember now,” Qi Xingchen grinned and said: “Became a wh*re, yet still claimed to be chaste.”

Zhou Yu: “……”

His face darkened, only then did the few friends facing him realise that Zhou Yu was being mocked and stood as well, surrounding Qi Xingchen on all sides.

At this moment Han Qing, who had been waiting outside, noticed the change in atmosphere. Afraid that something bad would happen to Qi Xingchen, he ran over with gritted teeth: “What- what are all of you doing? The piano room has a surveillance camera, don’t fight ah!”

Hearing that there was a surveillance camera, those people backed down.

Qi Xingchen felt that this was not according to plan, and he signalled via eye contact to Han Qing not to butt in. He continued to infuriate Zhou Yu: “Pardon me Yu-ge, I said something wrong just now. As the bigger person, please don’t take my words to heart. That reminds me, where is your fashion week invitation card? Bring it out to show us?”

Zhou Yu’s facial expression became even worse. He was prepared to scrounge off Qi Yuji for a view of the show, then take a few red carpet pictures to upload onto Weibo, acting as if he was the one who was invited. How could he have such good fashion networks?

As he was exposed in front of others, Zhou Yu’s face flushed red, and his handsome looks twisted to look like a full-fledged clown.

However, his friends were still present. He could not do anything to Qi Xingchen, because if he did, wouldn’t that imply that he did not actually receive an invitation letter?

“I left my invitation card at home,” Zhou Yu suppressed his anger, “Who would carry around such a thing?”

Qi Xingchen just said an “Oh”, then turned around and brought Han Qing to leave very disappointedly.

Right before leaving, he said gently, “Yu-ge, I have never seen an invitation card for haute couture before. Maybe you can bring it tomorrow to let us see something new.”

Zhou Yu: “……”

Seeing the doubtful gazes of his friends, the veins on Zhou Yu’s temple nearly burst from anger..

From Zhou Yu’s response, anyone could see that the invitation card hid something suspicious.

After leaving the vicinity of the piano room completely, Han Qing squeezed himself to Qi Xingchen’s side and excitedly said: “Wah, Xingxing, you were simply too handsome just now!”

Qi Xingchen shook his head and did not say anything. Han Qing continued muttering: “This could be considered as karma for the previous time he made fun of my clothes being low. Say, Xingxing, how did you know that he didn’t have any invitation card?”

“Little Qing,” Qi Xingchen was helpless, “Don’t talk about people behind their backs.”

During his real life, he never liked discussing about others behind their backs. What’s more, they are currently in the deepest waters of the entertainment circle.

“Okay okay, I won’t say anything further.” Han Qing waved his hand.

He immediately turned his head sideways to inspect Qi Xingchen, “Xingxing, you seemed to have changed.”

“……How?”

“I can’t pinpoint it, I just feel that you’re different compared to the past. Your eyes are brighter than before, your temperament too…… How do I describe it? Seems to be more serious, and not as light as before.”

As long as he did not discover any tangible differences, Qi Xingchen secretly let out a sigh of relief and made a few casual remarks to Han Qing.

“AAAAA so handsome!”

“Wu wu wu ying — Gege please look at me just once!”

“Bo Ye, I am your eternal Night sky!!!”

“Holy crap I managed to see the actual Ye-ge, I can die without regrets today!”

Just as they were talking, a commotion suddenly started at the main entrance of the lobby. There was the frenzied screamings of girls, as well as the clicking sounds of camera shutters.

“Wah, it can’t be Senior Bo Ye arriving ba!”
Han Qing’s attention was instantaneously drawn over, and he dragged Qi Xingchen along while sprinting to the main entrance.

Even so, they were still late. Just when they reached the lobby, they already saw a few bodyguards shielding a man that passed by them swiftly.

Other than an angular profile, the owner of the profile had sunglasses and a baseball cap on; his jawline was sharp and narrow, in addition to broad shoulders, a thin waist, and long legs. His entire being radiated an aggressive aura.

As though he felt someone was watching him, the man threw a glance over this way.

As if a giant pie fell from the sky, and so happened to smash into his head, Qi Xingchen felt like he was going to be knocked unconscious. What tombstone- what family torn apart and killed- all of that faded into nothing.

There was only one idea left in his head:
—Transmigration was a really f*cking good thing ah!!!