LWDC Chapter 56

Chapter 56 – Hot

Chapter 56 – Hot

Chapter 56 – Hot

An unopened book scared Ji Xingzhe so much that he fled the scene to go to the bathroom.

Ning Fei and Duan Yunhong, the two “culprits,” went to the back garden for a stroll side by side. Most of the people who came to the birthday party were socializing in the villa, so there were basically no people in the garden. Thus, the two didn’t need to lower their voices when they spoke.

“Ji Xingzhe’s uncle… you really got another advantage.” Ning Fei grabbed a folding fan before leaving the villa, fanning himself as he walked. “This position is too advantageous for sabotaging the mission. Whether it’s recognizing Lin Shengjia or finding a way to stop him from studying, this position makes it easy to manipulate. The identity itself also has good living conditions. You spent a lot to exchange with the world, right? Truly a ‘rich person’.”

Duan Yunhong glanced at him, his tone meaningful, “It’s alright. In the last world, your colleague left quickly. Thanks to him, I managed to extract a lot of the overflowing luck from Dong Lingyan.”

Once Chong Lin was gone, it was a complete write-off. After a write-off, transmigrators actually still have a good chance to take the luck given by the original owner. However, this isn’t their own thing, so it takes time to absorb and digest. “Luck bandits” can take advantage of this transition period to forcibly seize this “theoretically ownerless” luck and turn it into their own.

Luck is something that can bring transmigrators good fortune and an amazing life, and it can also nurture existences outside the “world rules” like Ning Fei and Duan Yunhong. In addition, it has an important function: to trade with the “world rules.” In short, it’s “hard currency” in higher dimensions. If you don’t have the ability, you can’t get it; if you get it, especially a lot of it, life is incredibly comfortable.

Therefore, in the last world, Duan Yunhong’s statement that he was willing to give up the luck he was guaranteed to get, though the timing was uncertain, in order to catch up with Ning Fei as soon as possible was quite rare.

Duan Yunhong’s true thoughts when he said this were unknown. Ning Fei’s actual feelings when he heard this were also hard to say.

But the fact is that Ning Fei said, “I won’t help you with a quick write-off,” but as soon as he returned to the Bureau, he used a report to pull Chong Lin away. Duan Yunhong also successfully devoured the luck that originally didn’t belong to Dong Lingyan before leaving.

Now that Duan Yunhong suddenly brought this up, Ning Fei felt a mocking sense of “being stubborn” and “slapping himself in the face.”

“What, do you think I’m going to stubbornly say, ‘I just didn’t want Chong Lin to continue enjoying life in that world, so I immediately reported him’?” Ning Fei chuckled. “I’ll just tell you, I just didn’t want to owe you a favor.”

“…” Duan Yunhong thought that this guy always had new ways to retort, and after a pause, he retorted, “I was just stating a fact at the time, when did I ask you to owe me a favor? Wasn’t helping you in this world supposed to be in exchange for your location marker?”

“That’s hard to say,” Ning Fei glanced at him. “I don’t want to hear you bring up old debts in the future, suddenly saying, ‘I gave up easily obtainable luck for you’.”

Duan Yunhong was truly amused by his words: “Am I that kind of resentful woman?”

“Who knows? If not a resentful woman, then you’re a grade school student who has to chase after someone to compete after being defeated once,” Ning Fei used his fan to kill a mosquito on his arm, casually replying, “Tsk, the Ji family is so rich, but the garden doesn’t even have mosquito repellent?”

Duan Yunhong was about to reply to his previous sentence, but his attention was immediately drawn to the latter: “Who’s to blame for wearing short sleeves to the garden? I heard Ji Xingzhe describe you as always wearing a shirt and glasses, elegantly and sophisticatedly going to class. How come you’re wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt at the Ji family? Where’s your temperament?”

“Am I supposed to ride a second-hand motorcycle in a suit? Am I sick?” Ning Fei glared at him. “You, on the other hand, are back in your familiar suit. Families with air conditioning at home are different, huh?”

“Your family doesn’t have air conditioning?”

“Can’t afford it for now.”

“Isn’t your identity supposed to have a study abroad background? Ji Xingzhe even thinks your family environment must be good, that’s why he wants you as a teacher and wants to befriend you,” Duan Yunhong asked, puzzled. “How come you don’t even have the money to buy an air conditioner?”

“In this day and age, air conditioning is an absolute luxury, okay?” Ning Fei shrugged. “And I, as usual, have no father or mother, an orphan start. Where would I get a family environment?”

“You’re an orphan again? You only got a study abroad English teacher identity for Lin Shengjia?” Duan Yunhong narrowed his eyes slightly, smiling meaningfully. “You spend quite generously in each world, not wasting any luck when exchanging for identities, you’re quite good at saving.”

“Why are you using archaic language, CEO Duan… ah, are you still CEO Duan this time?”

“Yes, I use my mother’s surname.”

“Whatever you say, CEO Duan,” Ning Fei nodded. “In short, I ride a bicycle to the bar, saving where I should and spending where I should. If you don’t like it, then don’t come to my place this time. I’ll go to your place to enjoy the air conditioning.”

Duan Yunhong really didn’t know how the topic got this way again.

But he was used to it, replying, “Oh, so you’re coming with me tonight?”

“Isn’t that too blatant? I have several students here,” Ning Fei chuckled. “But then again, if you go to my place, you might encounter an ‘unexpected surprise’.”

Duan Yunhong saw that he wanted to cause trouble: “What ‘unexpected surprise’? Why don’t you just say it clearly?”

Ning Fei asked instead of answering, “Do you know Luo Chenghong?”

“Luo Chenghong? No impression,” Duan Yunhong said, puzzled. “Which characters?”

Ning Fei grabbed one of his hands, and with the other hand, he wrote stroke by stroke in his palm with the end of his fan, saying as he wrote, “This person is Lin Shengjia’s uncle, I mean, his adoptive mother’s younger brother. And this uncle recently plans to develop in Shenzhen, and Lin Shengjia is clamoring to go with him, not even wanting to study.”

Duan Yunhong deliberately ignored the tickling sensation in his palm, and calmly discussed with him, “What’s he going to do in Shenzhen? Did the previous Lin Shengjia have this too?”

“Probably not. The current Lin Shengjia says that this world is a novel he’s read, and he knows which places in Shenzhen will suddenly become developed in the future, so he wants to start a ‘business empire’ in Shenzhen. But as long as his adoptive parents disagree, it’s all useless,” Ning Fei let go of his hand. “…It’s written, and it’s a different ‘hong’ than yours, and his naming style is completely different from his sister Luo Xiuping.”

“These characters aren’t the commonly used characters of people I know either,” Duan Yunhong put down his hand as if naturally, and pinched his fingers. “However, you’re asking me this, which means this person has a problem? He’s not from this world?”

Ning Fei opened his fan again with a *pa* sound, shaking it. “Yes, I suspect he’s one of your colleagues.”

“…’Time Walkers’ can’t be considered colleagues,” Duan Yunhong narrowed his eyes slightly. “So, it’s also possible that he’s tricking Lin Shengjia into going to Shenzhen?”

“Very likely. But Lin Shengjia’s English score is only 28 points, so it’s normal that he doesn’t want to study. The two of them are birds of a feather,” Ning Fei paused, and leaned closer to fan Duan Yunhong twice. “CEO Duan, since you’re here to help me, then help me deal with this troublemaker, right? Competitors are enemies.”

“I said I would help you, but I won’t take your orders,” Duan Yunhong lowered his eyes to glance at him. “At the Ji family, I’ve already done my best to prevent Lin Shengjia from being recognized. You don’t think I’ll do all the work for you, and you can just lie down and win, right?”

“CEO Duan, please get this straight, is it easy to raise a score of 28 points to the line for a key school? Have you seen those videos of parents collapsing while tutoring their children with their homework?” Ning Fei snorted, pulling away to not fan him. “If I had known, I would have gone out to play with him if he invited me, maybe he would be in a good mood and wouldn’t compete with me?”

“What are you talking about, he asked you out to play?” Duan Yunhong also said sarcastically, “You don’t expect me to be jealous, and then be provoked by your reverse psychology into dealing with an unknown ‘Time Walker’?”

Ning Fei thought: But you are really stubborn, reverse psychology is the most effective.

However, since Duan Yunhong said so, Ning Fei was too lazy to beg him for help: “Forget it if you don’t want to help, then you can enjoy yourself at the Ji family. With the Ji family, big and small, blocking Lin Shengjia from entering, you two can be doormen.”

After saying that, Ning Fei didn’t wait for Duan Yunhong to answer, and turned to walk towards the villa: “Going in to enjoy the air conditioning. It’s already hot, and talking to you is even more annoying, not talking anymore.”

Duan Yunhong still wanted to say something, but upon opening his mouth, the final words were, “Give me your phone number first.”

Ning Fei didn’t turn his head: “Didn’t buy a phone.”

“…Then your landline number.”

“Ask your nephew, he has it.”

After answering this, Ning Fei opened the back door of the villa and walked straight in.

*

That night, Ji Xingzhe was intentionally or unintentionally avoiding Ning Fei, but silently observing him.

When Ji Xingzhe confirmed that Ning Fei had only chatted with his uncle Duan Yunhong for a few minutes, and otherwise mostly stayed by himself, without much contact with the rest of the Ji family, his slightly raised heart finally relaxed.

Perhaps it was just a coincidence. Ji Xingzhe thought, Teacher Ning couldn’t possibly know about that matter. He chose that book because he just happened to like it.

Even so, Ji Xingzhe still hid *Pygmalion* in the corner of his room, and prepared to keep it hidden forever.

When it was time to cut the cake, Ji Xingzhe finally completely returned to normal. As the protagonist surrounded by everyone, he stood in the center of the living room to make a wish, blow out the candles, and cut the cake, and personally handed the cut cake to Ning Fei. Ning Fei took it with a friendly smile, and Ji Xingzhe saw that his expression didn’t seem fake, so he thought he had really been overthinking it just now.

Taking advantage of this moment, Ji Xingzhe also introduced Ning Fei to his mother, Tang Huilan, and in front of Ning Fei, proposed to Tang Huilan: “Mom, I want to invite Teacher Ning to be my private English tutor, and have him tutor me on weekends!”

“It’s rare for you to take the initiative to want to study, of course Mom supports you,” Tang Huilan replied to her younger son, and then looked at Ning Fei with a smile, “Teacher Ning, are you free on weekends? Our Xiaozhe has a good foundation, so it won’t take too much of your energy. We mainly want him to understand the situation abroad and broaden his horizons. And we definitely won’t let Teacher Ning contribute his precious rest time for free. We will definitely make Teacher Ning satisfied with the tuition fee.”

Saying that, Tang Huilan extended her finger, and said in a low voice with a smile, “For one lesson, we can give this much tuition fee…”

Ning Fei glanced at it: …Tsk, a few more lessons, and it would really be enough to buy an air conditioner for the summer.