LWDC Chapter 138

## Chapter 138 – If You’re Unwilling

Chapter 138 – If You’re Unwilling

Chapter 138 – If You’re Unwilling

Duan Yunhong indeed brought a rich and high-end dinner.

At least it was more stylish and romantic than going to Yue Fengping’s comrade’s small restaurant. Duan Yunhong even lit a few candles, saying they were prepared at Huichuan to prevent power outages, but now they were no longer needed, so he used them to set up a candlelight dinner for Ning Fei.

During dinner, Ning Fei received a message from Yu Zhou asking, “How’s it going?” Ning Fei replied: 【Everything’s going smoothly, tomorrow you can come and see the mark being destroyed.】

Yu Zhou: 【So fast? You’ve already smoothly submitted?】

Ning Fei: 【Just a tactical retreat. Is admitting defeat so difficult?】

Yu Zhou: 【Then why not destroy it tonight? Aren’t you afraid of complications?】

Ning Fei: 【I want to have some fun tonight first, the boss is paying the final payment.】

Yu Zhou: 【Got it, luck-boosting kidney tonic, happy for both of you.】

“…You’re constantly texting while eating. Do you still need to work so hard and overtime?”

Duan Yunhong suddenly said, “That’s not right. You haven’t looked at your phone much all day, which means you don’t plan to manage the base’s work anymore. So, is Yu Zhou checking up on you?”

“Does it matter if he is?” Ning Fei turned off his phone and replied, “You seem particularly interested in him. Are you interested?”

“Him? You’re overthinking it. I’m not interested in control freaks.” Duan Yunhong immediately denied, “But, he’s your teacher. Won’t he get angry if you lose to me like this?”

Ning Fei casually replied, “He doesn’t care about the result. He’ll just laugh at me.”

“But haven’t you forgotten? You initially said that he wanted Yue Fengping to become the savior, so we bet on which base could become the leader.” Duan Yunhong narrowed his eyes slightly, “But now, you and Yu Zhou both don’t care about the result of losing. Isn’t that a bit different from what you said before, hmm?”

Ning Fei: …Oops.

——Luckily, I was prepared.

Yes, since Ning Fei decided to readily admit defeat, he naturally had this explanation ready. Otherwise, it would be a real joke if Duan Yunhong realized he had been deceived.

“Yu Zhou really wanted his little darling to win, otherwise why would I have been arranged to run all over the country, busy as hell?” Ning Fei calmly replied, “But there’s no way, losing is losing. Actually, I had a feeling before I came, and so did he. He can only scold me like a dog, he doesn’t have any other tricks. If you let him come and discuss the merits and rewards, he might drag out the negotiation process for several days, but the result is hard to change.

“Also, didn’t you ask before why I was so sure that the zombie crisis was over so early? I said at the time that Yue Fengping had stepped down, and Yu Zhou wasn’t competing anymore. Actually, there’s a more accurate statement—Yue Fengping is no longer the manager, and even if Tianyue grows and develops, the credit can’t all be attributed to Yue Fengping. Since Yue Fengping is destined not to become the ‘savior,’ there’s no point in continuing this bet. So let’s just consider it completed, and settle the accounts.”

Duan Yunhong was surprised to hear that these two defined the goal of the bet so trivially.

But after thinking about it carefully, he actually understood Ning Fei’s logic.

The logical chain here is: the bet started because “Yu Zhou wanted Yue Fengping to be the savior” — Yue Fengping retired and couldn’t be the savior — the bet stopped here — Ning Fei and Yu Zhou both anticipated that Duan Yunhong would win — peacefully accept the result.

——But, something still feels wrong…

Duan Yunhong began to vaguely realize that he seemed to have been deceived.

But Ning Fei immediately diverted his attention: “Speaking of which, I’ve admitted defeat, and we’ve eaten. Boss Duan, it’s time to pay the final payment, right?”

“…Now?” Duan Yunhong pulled himself out of his thoughts and glanced at the table still full of fine wine and delicacies, “Do you have to make things so tight?”

“Hey, don’t always think about procedural things. Can’t this transition naturally?” Ning Fei picked up his wine glass, stood up, and leisurely walked to Duan Yunhong’s side, “I see you’ve eaten almost enough, you’re full of food and wine, aren’t you thinking about that thing? Besides, we’ve played at the dinner table before, what are you pretending to be serious about?”

Duan Yunhong pulled over the chair next to him: “Sit down first.”

Ning Fei sat down as he was told: “Anything else to order, President Duan?”

“Give you something.” Duan Yunhong stretched out his palm towards him, holding a palm-sized box, “If you accept it, I’ll settle the final payment for you.”

Ning Fei took a closer look. It was a velvet box. He didn’t touch it, and raised his eyebrows: “What do you mean, President Duan?”

“No other meaning, open it and see.” Duan Yunhong’s tone was calm, “I’ve only seen your aesthetic preferences for this kind of thing in the model world. If it’s not suitable, we can adjust it.”

Ning Fei: “It won’t be an ambush as soon as I open it, right?”

Duan Yunhong: “If I wanted to ambush you, would I notify you in advance? Isn’t it more convenient to put it in the food and drinks?”

Ning Fei was actually very sensitive to this kind of link, but Duan Yunhong didn’t seem excited at all, and even joked. So Ning Fei suspiciously, hesitantly, reached out and took the box and opened it.

Inside was a brooch.

The metal streamlined main design, with a small gemstone inlaid at the top, simple, understated, but indeed very artistic. To be honest, this was really Ning Fei’s preferred style.

The point is, Ning Fei sensed that this thing actually had subtle abnormal energy fluctuations.

Duan Yunhong said, “Although this is a brooch design, it’s also easy to change it into a necklace…”

“No, wait a minute, is the brooch necklace the point?” Ning Fei frowned, “You attached your power to this thing? Why are you giving me this cursed thing?”

“Curse? Am I so idle that I’d waste my power and luck to cast a curse on you that can be thrown away at any time?”

“Then what’s it for?”

“This is my positioning marker!”

“…Huh?” Ning Fei was stunned, and quickly threw the hot potato back into his hand, “Why are you giving me this? Who wants to be your STK! Do you think this is hide-and-seek, and if you catch me, you’ll give it back to me to catch you?”

“Who’s playing a child’s game with you? I’m just giving this to you, and giving you the choice too!” Duan Yunhong stuffed the box back into his hand, “You refuse to talk no matter what, then fine, then we won’t talk. Anyway, I’m giving this to you to show my attitude. If you ever figure it out, or want to talk, come find me.”

Ning Fei blocked his movement: “Who wants to find you!”

“Then you can come find me for sex when you can’t find someone with better skills than me! You’re welcome to purely come to me for sex, okay!” Duan Yunhong pried open his hand, pressed the box into his hand, and forcibly closed his fingers, “I’ve processed it with my power, you don’t need to spend luck to bring it in and out of different worlds.”

Ning Fei wanted to open his hand and throw it away, but Duan Yunhong’s strength was great: “You son of a… Is this a forced sale?!”

“What can I do? You don’t want to talk, but I have to show my attitude, so you don’t come back later and say ‘You never made it clear,’ wouldn’t I be wronged to death?!” Duan Yunhong just grabbed his hand tightly, “This won’t bite you, and you won’t lose anything, isn’t this very in line with your habits? The initiative is in your hands, and you don’t have to suffer.”

“…” The fingers holding the box were a little stiff, “You’re out of your mind. Don’t you think this behavior is very much like a simp? How can you say such simp remarks so heroically?”

“You’re so stubborn, if I don’t budge at all, nothing will change.” Duan Yunhong subtly brought a few words of what he wanted to talk about, “You always say I’m stubborn, but I’m also very clear-headed, I don’t do things that I’ll regret.”

To get Ning Fei to accept the thing, Duan Yunhong did everything he could, and didn’t even refute the “simp” comment. But since he took the thing out, he had to find a way to send it out. Duan Yunhong is stubborn, but even more persistent.

He saw that Ning Fei didn’t continue to struggle desperately, and said again: “You don’t need to sense it, it’s just a simple decoration for you, even if I’m a wall away from you, it won’t keep harassing you and reminding you. If you really want to see me, but it’s inconvenient for you to come find me, then pour your power into it. I’ll sense it, and I’ll come find you.”

“In the end, it can still locate me?”

“It won’t if you don’t pour power into it. The initiative is still with you.”

“…” Ning Fei didn’t speak. He realized that what Duan Yunhong repeatedly emphasized wasn’t just the brooch, but also implied the relationship between the two.

“Don’t be like this.” Ning Fei was a little annoyed, he just didn’t want to face this situation, “You’re not the kind of person who makes concessions like this. If you do this, you’ll regret it before long.”

And Ning Fei himself might regret it a little if he didn’t step in now; but if he stepped in now, he would (very likely) regret it extremely in the future. He didn’t want to take this risk. He had sworn long ago that he would never be manipulated by others again, and would never be tamed, so naturally it was difficult for him to just accept Duan Yunhong’s positioning mark.

“I’m willing to stoop to the identity of a simp, would you have any psychological burden accepting a simp’s gift? I don’t think you’re that conscientious.” Duan Yunhong knew he was hesitating. Hesitation meant there was a chance. So Duan Yunhong continued: “Actually, whether you accept it or not, I’ll pay you the final payment. But if you think I’d feel better if I changed my statement, then I’ll say: if you don’t accept it, then I won’t give you the 1 million either.”

Ning Fei: “…”

Ning Fei: “How many innocent and ignorant youths have you deceived with this trick?”

Duan Yunhong sneered: “Do innocent and ignorant people need to be deceived? If I had known I’d have this day, I shouldn’t have even known your name, and I was dragged to a crackdown on prostitution with you.”

“…” Ning Fei couldn’t react this time either.

He was obviously very good at dealing with this kind of clingy relationship, and he obviously had thousands of ways to refuse. But Duan Yunhong said such aggrieved things in such an overbearing tone, retreating to advance like this, and Ning Fei actually felt that it would be a bit… too much if he smashed it back at him again.

But if Ning Fei just accepted the thing like this, he felt that he was too easy to be manipulated.

He felt that the thing in his hand was very hot, but he couldn’t say more reasons to refuse.

Duan Yunhong watched Ning Fei lower his eyes and stare at the brooch without speaking, so he went ahead and took the brooch out of the box and pinned it to Ning Fei’s chest.

“Okay, put it on, just treat it as if it was bought with the money from this world, don’t think about it.” Duan Yunhong had just finished putting it on when he saw Ning Fei immediately raise his hand to touch the brooch, and thought he was going to take it off right away. So Duan Yunhong stood up again, picked him up directly, and interrupted Ning Fei’s movement.

“You’ve accepted the gift, so we can move on to the next step. I’ll pay you the final payment.” Duan Yunhong hugged him towards the bedroom, in the rare and intimate position of hugging a child face-to-face, “By the way, do you still need to change clothes?”

Ning Fei, who couldn’t take off the brooch: “…I changed them long ago.”

Duan Yunhong: “Hmm?”

Ning Fei: “I thought you would start during dinner.”

“Am I that impatient?” Duan Yunhong raised his eyebrows, “…No wonder you brought this up, is it because those clothes are uncomfortable, so you want to start as soon as possible?”

“Do you think I’m an inexperienced newbie who would make this kind of mistake?” Ning Fei temporarily changed the subject with him, “I’m not going to use the points from this world anyway, so naturally I’ll buy the most expensive things.”

“Spending a lot of money on this at the end… It’s also thanks to the fact that the shop owner will forget all about you after you leave, otherwise, even if you’re gone, those people will definitely make up stories about you.” Duan Yunhong said, “If Yu Zhou knew, he’d probably scold you too.”

“You really are paying attention to him.”

“I’m not a white-haired fan, I only mention him because he always interferes in your affairs, and you always let him manage you.”

Ning Fei didn’t know if he heard Duan Yunhong’s sowing discord, and just remained silent. When Duan Yunhong put him on the bed, he touched the brooch again, and Duan Yunhong pressed his hand down: “Don’t take it off.”

Ning Fei looked at him: “I’ll ask one last time, are you sure you’re giving it to me like this? If you deliberately play me, deliberately let me see you having fun with other people, I’ll kill you.”

“How can I predict whether you’ll come, or when you’ll come? Do I have to deliberately stay in bed forever to piss you off? Does that make sense to you?” Duan Yunhong’s hand pressed against the side of his head, looking down at him, “Or like this, when you come to me, if I’m having fun with someone else, I’ll give you luck, and you can chase after me and kill me; if I’m not having fun, then you give me luck.”

Ning Fei raised his eyebrows: “So if I go, I’m just rushing to give you luck? Isn’t that still a big trap?”

“It’s okay if you don’t give it.” Duan Yunhong knew that he had finally decided to accept the brooch, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and showed a bit of relaxed smile, leaning down.

“Then use your body to pay.”

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This is what President Duan prepared!!!