LWDC Chapter 161

## Chapter 161 – He’s Not Happy

## Chapter 161 – He’s Not Happy

## Chapter 161 – He’s Not Happy

A night passed, and the people of the royal capital had all heard about the fires that had blazed during the night – three of them.

Besides the royal palace and the church manor, which Ning Fei had “personally designated” as bonfire locations, there was one other place that joined in this “bonfire party.”

“What’s wrong? Still sulking?”

Ning Fei took a tall glass, sat down on the long red velvet sofa, leaned against the armrest, lifted his long legs, and put his foot on the man’s leg at the other end of the sofa. “Is it because I forced you last night, or because your house was also set on fire?”

Yes, the third “torch” forced to illuminate the night sky was none other than Duan Yunhong’s, or rather, Baron Andrew’s castle. When Ning Fei heard the news, he wasn’t too surprised, but he still couldn’t help but chuckle. After laughing, he glanced at Duan Yunhong, whose expression was indifferent, making it impossible to tell if he was unhappy.

Taking advantage of the fact that it was just the two of them, Ning Fei casually asked.

Duan Yunhong pushed his foot away, but it didn’t budge, so he had to let it rest there. “Does that even count as my home?”

Ning Fei chuckled. “So it’s because you’re unhappy about being forced by me.”

Duan Yunhong: “…”

“Hahaha…” Ning Fei found his vexed look amusing, laughing so hard that he almost spilled the contents of his glass. He quickly steadied himself and took a big gulp, preventing it from spilling everywhere.

Duan Yunhong held his fidgeting foot and turned to look at him. “Drinking in the morning? Are you that happy?”

“It’s just water. This casino hotel said that they only had these kinds of glasses left, so I’m using it to drink water.” Ning Fei offered the glass towards the man. “Have some too, Baron. Even if your house is still smoldering, at least you can cool down.”

Duan Yunhong took it but didn’t drink, just holding the glass. “That doesn’t really count as my house. From the moment I left with you, no matter what happened to that house, it wouldn’t make me angry.”

“Seriously, this fire was probably deliberately set by someone afterward.” Ning Fei leaned back against the sofa armrest again, arms crossed. “Before, I snuffed out all the sparks, it wouldn’t have reignited on its own. And before we left, I gave your servants instructions to not reveal our actions, and to take whatever they wanted, a ‘zero-dollar purchase,’ and then leave immediately. Without my explicit instructions, they wouldn’t have gone to the trouble of setting a fire.

“Most likely, it’s retaliation from the royal family or the church. Or, they thought we were still hiding in some corner of the castle, so they launched a fire attack, intending to force us out.”

“I said, it doesn’t matter, it’s just a fire.” Duan Yunhong’s tone was indifferent. “The things I didn’t bring are just the trash I’ve already discarded.”

Ning Fei raised his eyebrows slightly. “How ruthless, Director Duan. Love leads to endless patience, while dislike is like discarding worn-out shoes?”

“Are you trying to apply that to yourself?” Duan Yunhong caught the subtext in his words. “Then we can talk about the first half first. Although my emotions aren’t quite there right now, perhaps this detached feeling will allow me to analyze my memories more rationally, and then discuss the details with you.”

“No way.” Ning Fei refused decisively, pointing his index finger. “And you even dislike the glass I used, how dare you talk about patience?”

Hearing this, Duan Yunhong lowered his eyes to look at the glass.

In the past, Ning Fei could have handed him a drink and he would have drunk it, it’s not like he’s never drank from Ning Fei’s water bottle. But now, with the Light Magic still strongly affecting him, Duan Yunhong subconsciously used it as a cup holder after taking the glass, without having the real idea of drinking from it.

Even just sharing a cup would give him a strong sense of “desecration.”

“Haha, it’s just drinking water, do you have to be so resistant? So you’ve been wearing that long face all day, it really is because I forced you last night, right?” Ning Fei flashed a wicked smile. “Then I’ve decided, I’m going to do it again tonight. Let you experience another collapse of ‘faith,’ how about it? Exciting?”

Duan Yunhong finally raised the glass and drank the water in one gulp.

Ning Fei laughed even more wantonly. “What’s this, throwing caution to the wind?”

Duan Yunhong put the glass aside. “It’s just because the casino downstairs was too noisy last night, so I couldn’t relax and didn’t sleep well.”

“Wow, I really didn’t expect you to be so stubbornly sarcastic in this kind of place!” Ning Fei leaned back against the sofa, slightly raising his eyes to look at the man half a meter away, his expression playful.

“Alright, then you have to catch up on your sleep during the day, and tonight we’ll have some good, good fun.”

*

The hotel that Ning Fei chose after escaping from the castle was less of a hotel and more of an accompanying facility to a large casino.

The benefits of choosing this place were obvious. In this kind of mixed place, no one would ask about the guests’ origins. After all, most of the guests here were carrying three or five crimes, big and small. And the place was more lively at night, so even if two new guests arrived in the middle of the night, no one would pay attention. The gamblers here didn’t even care about the three fires that had risen in the royal capital in the middle of the night, they were more concerned with the changes on the gambling table.

So choosing this place to stay was even more suitable than a hotel in the commoner district. The only problem was that since it was run by a casino, you had to spend some money in the casino as an entrance fee. However, while this was a threshold for commoners, it was nothing to Ning Fei and Duan Yunhong, who had a pile of gold coins with them.

As soon as the two entered yesterday, they threw a lot of chips on several gambling tables respectively. Whether they won or lost, the main goal was to give people the feeling that “I’m here to gamble.” Ning Fei wasn’t wearing his signature black cloak, and he was wearing a long, straight black wig. The bangs and long hair covered most of his face, making him look very gloomy. People who had seen him before would probably have a hard time recognizing him. Duan Yunhong hadn’t changed much, but he had changed into rough linen clothes worn by commoners. But he just followed behind Ning Fei and kept a low profile, so the gambling addicts were even less likely to recognize him.

The two of them walked around the casino like this, and finally stopped in front of a huge gambling wheel.

To be precise, it was an odds table – the odds of who the next noble to be killed by “Devil Ning Fei” would be.

Ning Fei didn’t know how the casino calculated it, but they wrote the odds and opened the prize once every seven days. If you guessed right, you got money, and if the dead person wasn’t on the list, the house took all. Next to it was an even bigger name and odds, which was the prediction of whether Ning Fei would be “caught” or “die” within these seven days.

“Tsk, how come my odds are only a little higher than the king’s.” Ning Fei looked up at the list, raising an eyebrow. “The Pope’s odds were also very high before he died, wouldn’t the casino have to pay out of their ass on the prize day? What are these actuaries doing?”

“In this kind of world, what kind of serious actuaries can there be.” In the midst of the noise, only Duan Yunhong next to him heard his words and responded, “And in a world with this kind of economic level, civilians should be prohibited from gambling, otherwise it will seriously affect productivity. But this world doesn’t ban gambling for civilians at all, and the powerful even build casinos to bleed civilians dry, which will only accelerate the complete collapse of society until the world is destroyed.”

“What’s so strange about that? Which thing done by the powerful in this world isn’t accelerating the world’s destruction? They even suck mosquito blood. They won’t be soft if it can make them richer in the moment, just drinking poison to quench their thirst.” Ning Fei mocked. “You’re affected by the Light Magic, and you can’t help but think about what a normal world should be like. If it were the usual you, you would only think that these rotten things and absurd things in this world are only natural. A rotten pot goes with a rotten lid, a rotten world goes with rotten rules.”

Duan Yunhong looked at the bloody “death” word below Ning Fei’s name, his eyes seemed to sting as he looked at it, and then he turned to look at Ning Fei. “This kind of place, although it doesn’t check our identities, we have to be careful of someone attacking us. We’re carrying obvious luggage, so we’re easily seen as targets.”

“I said you were affected, and you’re really starting to worry.” Ning Fei also turned his head to look at him. “Take care of yourself, at worst I can just fly away, leaving you behind can help me block the pursuers.”

Duan Yunhong stared at him, and said with certainty, “You won’t.”

Ning Fei narrowed his eyes and smiled. “I will.”

…

Then, when Duan Yunhong woke up from his nap in the afternoon, Ning Fei really left him “ran away”.

This room wasn’t big, you could check it by looking around. When he couldn’t find anyone at first glance, Duan Yunhong subconsciously sat up suddenly in bed and scanned it again.

There really was no one. This room wasn’t equipped with a bathroom or any other small rooms. If he wasn’t in the same room, then he had gone out.

For some reason, Duan Yunhong remembered the first world where the two met, the morning when Ning Fei left in the end.

That feeling should be very strong, but under the influence of the Light Magic, Duan Yunhong couldn’t feel that familiar emotion. The sense of dislocation stung him again, making him feel annoyed. And this irritability would only accumulate more and more.

Ning Fei said in the morning that Duan Yunhong was angry because of last night’s “forced spring night”, but in reality, it was more out of the accumulation of irritability. Duan Yunhong rationally believed that he should be enjoying this, but his emotions couldn’t keep up, and sensory stimulation occurred forcibly at the same time as emotional malaise. Ning Fei played with him like a child testing the maximum pressure of a toy. It wasn’t even testing, but rather going in the direction of breaking the limit. The more Duan Yunhong refused, the more Ning Fei forced it, and without concealing his malice.

Perhaps, Ning Fei wanted to break the line of “endless patience” and let Duan Yunhong fall in the direction of disgust.

–But, he burned the royal palace and the church, killed the Pope, and is now recklessly trampling on me…Is he finally a little happy?

–Has he started to vent the grudges in his heart?

Duan Yunhong tried to think rationally, quickly changed his clothes, and went downstairs to the casino to look for him. Ning Fei’s clothes were still in the room, so he definitely hadn’t really left. Most likely, he had gone downstairs to relieve boredom.

Unexpectedly, it wasn’t difficult to find him.

After all, it was still afternoon, and the casino hadn’t reached its full capacity in the evening. It was easy to check each gambling table. And although Ning Fei wasn’t a neat freak, he wasn’t someone who liked filth and disorder. So Duan Yunhong looked for tables that were relatively clean and not too crowded.

Ning Fei was sitting at a card table with only four players.

There was a bottle of wine that he was enjoying alone on the table, next to a wine glass, and in his other hand, he was holding a cigarette. It was a self-made cigarette that Ning Fei had made in the castle before, not as strong as the tobacco in this world. Even though he only brought a small amount of luggage when he came out, Ning Fei brought the entire box of cigarettes he had made.

At this moment, he casually tied up his long hair, revealing his jawline, which made him look much more refreshed than yesterday. He quickly noticed Duan Yunhong coming over, but didn’t make any more moves, just slowly exhaled a puff of smoke, and then he could vaguely see his slight smile in the smoke.

Duan Yunhong remembered the first world, one night, Ning Fei wanted to go out to smoke, but he told him not to. So Ning Fei sat by the bay window and leisurely lit one.

He even took a sneaky photo at the time…no, he was discovered by Ning Fei, so it should be considered taking a photo in the open.

Duan Yunhong clearly remembered every detail of that scene.

He thought: My bottom line, it’s not that easy to be trampled on.