APCF -Chapter 23 (2)

When he finished speaking, he set his phone up on the ground, with the screen brightness turned down to the lowest level, and shouted towards his left, “Eh? Yu-ge!”

“En,” Zhou Yu walked towards him, then went around him to look behind, “where are the others?”

Qi Xingchen used his body to block the phone, “There’s only me here ah, why did you come over?”

“……Only you?”

Zhou Yu was sceptical; he had clearly heard Qi Xingchen make a phone call seeking someone.

But he couldn’t ask, if he did, his thoughts would be exposed. His eyes stared at Qi Xingchen in an unkind manner.

Qi Xingchen seemed not to see that the other party was in a bad mood, slapping his forehead, “Right, Yu-ge, I met you just in time. I wanted to apologise to you, I really didn’t want the PASS card yesterday.”

Zhou Yu cracked a smile, his face grim, “Apologise? Heh, I’ve already lost my face completely, what’s the use of you apologising?”

Yesterday he was humiliated in front of everyone in public, all because of the “good work” of this little sh*t’s in front of him. Zhou Yu was itching for the little sh*t to be annihilated1; he didn’t want to say a single extra word to him.

Qi Xingchen had already expected him not to accept the apology and pulled a box out of his trouser pocket.

It bore the RICHARD MILLE logo —- it was the very same watch that Qi Yuji had gifted him.

Afraid that Qi Yuji would be sad if she discovered him not wearing it, he had stuffed the watch into his suitcase compartment before he left, not expecting it to come in handy now.

“The new model of this year……” Seeing the watch, Zhou Yu’s eyes lit up, “What are you doing with this?”

“Yu-ge, both of us are from the same company. Rather than being enemies, I would prefer to be friends with you. This is a little something from me, so don’t be too serious about what I say, okay?”

Don’t be too serious about what you say?

Heh, Zhou Yu sneered in his heart — stealing his position in the variety show, then causing him to lose his face greatly, how could he forgive him?!

But the wristwatch was indeed quite nice. This brand had released a total of two models this year; Qi Yuji gave him one, if he got this one as well, he could send it to his friend circle again.

“Whether or not you are sincere in your apology still remains to be seen,” Zhou Yu took the watch and couldn’t wait to wear it on his wrist. Looking at it left and right, he suddenly remembered something, “That’s not right, how can you have the money to buy a watch with you being laughingly poor, this isn’t a fake, right?”

“How could I dare fool you with a fake? Right now, I have more fans and also took on some more work,” Qi Xingchen lied, “The first thing I did when I got the money was to buy you a watch to make amends and apologise.”

“Oh, and you even know of such a high-end brand.”

“I didn’t know of it,” Qi Xingchen let out a sardonic laugh, “Didn’t your girlfriend buy you this brand before? I saw that you liked it quite a lot, that’s why…… Mmph.”

Halfway through his sentence, Zhou Yu immediately reached out to cover his mouth and glanced around like a thief: “We are in a public place, don’t f*cking speak nonsense!”

“It’s okay, Yu-ge,” Qi Xingchen said, “I came here behind the camera team’s back.”

“Count yourself smart,” Zhou Yu sighed with relief, “anyway, in the future when there is no one around, don’t talk about her anymore too.”

“Who?”

“……Just that rumoured girlfriend of mine.”

Yet, one could recall that not so long ago, Zhou Yu was still proud of himself for having a socialite girlfriend. But now, he did not even want to acknowledge Qi Yuji’s status and even used “her” in place of it.

What f*cking type of trash is this?

A wave of anger surged up within Qi Xingchen; he had originally wanted to slowly lure Zhou Yu into revealing everything, however, at this moment, his patience ran out: “What do you mean by rumoured girlfriend?”

Zhou Yu looked indifferent: “Because I’m currently considering dumping her.”

“One moment she just found someone to squeeze you into 《Budget Travels》, but the next moment you’re dumping her. How is this any different from destroying the bridge after crossing the river?”

“I didn’t like her in the first place; she was the one who kept clinging to me. Moreover……” Zhou Yu was puzzled, “how did you know she was the one who helped me pull strings to build the bridge?”

Seeing that he portrayed himself hanging onto Qi Yuji as Qi Yuji was clinging to him, Qi Xingchen could no longer control himself and reached out to grab Zhou Yu by the collar!

“You don’t like her, and yet you still accept her things?! You don’t like her, and yet you still use flowery speech to deceive her?! You don’t like her, and yet you still tricked her into chartering a plane to see the aurora?! If you don’t like her, why didn’t you break up with her earlier?!”

Zhou Yu was strangled to the point of coughing a few times. As far as he could remember, Qi Xingchen had nothing to do with his girlfriend, why was he fighting for her justice?

Seeing that his thoughts were guessed correctly4, Zhou Yu flew into a range out of humiliation and backhandedly swung a punch at Qi Xingchen, “You son of a b*tch, why are you always meddling in our affairs?”

As he said that, it seemed as if he suddenly thought of something, his expression gradually turned into a leer, “What, you like her, and you’re waiting to take over?”

…

During the afternoon break, Bo Ye was scrolling through Weibo and happened to see Qi Xingchen’s livestream notification.

The little fan had helped him to find a quilt, and even gave him a hand-painted charging case; thinking that he could help the little fan attract traffic, Bo Ye entered his livestream to show his face, conveniently watching a corny performance for free.

Who knew that Zhou Yu would later come looking for him, and things would develop in this direction. Bo Ye was afraid that they would start trading blows due to their disagreement and picked up his phone, thinking of going to the drying yard.

When he heard “you like her”, Bo Ye paused in his steps.

Last time in the corridor of the company, when the little fan argued with Zhou Yu, it seemed to be about Zhou Yu’s girlfriend.

……Could it be that the little fan really had a thing for Zhou Yu’s girlfriend?

Zhou Yu’s punch landed right on the bridge of Qi Xingchen’s nose; Qi Xingchen was so disgusted by him that he also returned a punch, “Being able to even speak this kind of words, are you still a man?”

Qi Xingchen’s strength was not small and Zhou Yu staggered as a result of the blow. However, just as Zhou Yu steadied himself and wanted to retaliate,

A small whirlwind of green suddenly burst forth!

The small whirlwind spun in front of him, and with a “bang”, Zhou Yu only felt pain on the right side of his face, followed by a beef-smelling liquid smeared onto his face—

Qi Yuji flung a big slap with her left hand, and with her right hand, she smashed the bottle of spicy beef sauce directly onto his head!

​​”AH! It hurts!”

The original owner and Qi Xingchen were both equally fond of spice, thus Auntie Zhang had put a lot of chillies into the beef sauce. At this moment, the chillies were dripping into his eyes, and Zhou Yu’s tears and snot were flowing all over his face as he wailed in pain!

“You swiped my black card and drove my car out to flaunt your wealth, I had put up with it; you stared fixedly at luxury goods like a Pekingese dog and wouldn’t leave, then made a U-turn and twisted it into me insisting on buying it for you, I had put up with that too; now you actually dare to hit my……you actually dare to hit people as you please, I’m telling you, lao niang can’t stand it anymore!!!”

Qi Yuji wore a grass green dress, with curly brown hair falling to her waist, possessing red lips and snow skin. As if she was a sprite that had leapt out of the forest, she simultaneously used her handbag to swing at Zhou Yu and calculated the accounts with extreme rationality, “Those small things that cost 30,000 to 50,000, I won’t want them back. The 2004 Kalimna Block 42 Cabernet Sauvignon wine I gave you last, last month; the Sri Lankan Padparadscha sapphire tie clip I gave you last month, the RICHARD MILLE I gave you half a month ago, return them all back to me!”

“By the way,” Qi Yuji paused, then pointed to the Gucci logo on Zhou Yu’s clothes, “this entire outfit was bought by lao niang too. Sun-ge, Li-ge,”

Qi Yuji called out to the bodyguards who came with her, “His clothes and trousers — right now, immediately, at once, strip them off for me!”