LWDC Chapter 46

Chapter 46 – Journalism

Chapter 46 – Journalism

Chapter 46 – Journalism

On Ning Fei’s first day in this world, he had the Second Prince’s guest room and the General’s mansion’s “VIP small courtyard,” but none of them were used.

His Furious with Duan Yunhong went on until late at night. Afterward, Duan Yunhong even had people clean up the leftovers in the outer hall and ordered hot water for washing up. Ning Fei didn’t hide anything, and in the end, he directly slept on the bed of the General of the Vanguard Cavalry. With such a commotion, who in the entire General’s mansion wouldn’t know about their relationship? Duan Yunhong didn’t need to bother arranging a guest status for Ning Fei anymore; saying it would only be a clumsy attempt to conceal the truth.

Duan Yunhong naturally shared the same bed, but he had to get up when the sky was just beginning to lighten. Ning Fei was awakened by his movements, turned over to look at his back as he dressed, then looked at the sky towards the window. He lazily chuckled, “Ha… finally, you have a time when you have to scramble to get to work.”

Duan Yunhong heard his hoarse voice and turned to look at him, finding that he had already sprawled into the spot he had been sleeping in, even stretching one hand out and dangling it by the side of the bed. Staring at his fingertips, Duan Yunhong felt the place on his back that had been stabbed seemed to itch again.

“I’m going to the camp outside the city. I’ll be back after the morning exercises. You can keep sleeping.” Duan Yunhong forced himself to turn his gaze away, also suppressing his wandering thoughts. “You… won’t play me again, will you?”

Ning Fei’s eyes were already closed, but he reopened them upon hearing this, scoffing, “What, afraid you’ll come back to an empty room again? Is it necessary?”

Duan Yunhong said, “You have a record, after all.”

Ning Fei had already closed his eyes again: “Stop putting on a deep and affectionate act. You’re looking for me just to get your own back, sleeping is just a bonus.”

“You don’t even want to fight now, what am I going to get back?” Duan Yunhong fastened his belt, saying, “In the current situation, even if Dong Lingyan’s relationship with his enemies is stable, as long as you and Chonglin don’t admit defeat, theoretically, your mission still has a chance to turn things around, your mission won’t end. So, as long as you want to, you can lie here for as long as you want.”

“Yeah, nicely put, it’s called ‘having enough time to do the mission,’ but to put it bluntly, it’s ‘inefficient.’ I don’t like being inefficient in mission worlds, so I’m always quick, ruthless, and accurate, finishing and leaving.” Ning Fei’s tone was lazy. “But you guys don’t have a system and can’t actively admit defeat, so don’t you often stay in one world for a long time?”

Duan Yunhong casually replied, “If you want that transmigrator’s luck, you stay. If you don’t want to stay, you can also give up the luck and leave directly.”

“Then you should have had quite a few fuck buddies and lovers, right?”

“…” Duan Yunhong paused in his movements, turning his head to look at him. “Why are you asking this?”

“Don’t get me wrong, no other thoughts.” Ning Fei chuckled, his tone teasing. “It’s just that yesterday I learned that your mansion doesn’t even have a kept woman. I’m a little puzzled how you’ve been solving that problem this past year. With your personality, now that you’ve gotten this kind of status, it’s impossible that you’d still participate in the ‘sharing economy,’ right?”

“Am I a horny beast at all times? Do I have to drag someone into bed?” Duan Yunhong walked back to the bedside, looking down at Ning Fei. “Have you forgotten, even in the last world, you were the one who came to me first, right?”

“Hey, get this straight, we were mutually attracted to each other, okay? Otherwise, would you have gone upstairs with me without even asking my name?” Ning Fei’s foot also stretched out of the blanket, kicking Duan Yunhong’s leg. “And I forgot to remind you, it was the last world for you, but not for me.”

“Whose efficiency can compare to yours? Chonglin said you’re just a ‘maniac who’d do anything for the sake of the mission.'” Duan Yunhong grabbed his ankle, pressing his thumb on his ankle. “Then is your changing of lovers also very efficient? How many did you change in your last world?”

Ning Fei smiled: “Guess?”

“… I won’t guess, what does it have to do with me?” Duan Yunhong released his foot, turning to walk out. “I’m leaving, sleep if you want.”

Ning Fei raised an eyebrow slightly, watching the departing figure of the man and chuckling, retracting his hands and feet.

He turned over and actually continued to sleep.

*

Duan Yunhong kept his word, returning to the mansion after supervising the morning exercises.

Although it was already broad daylight, Duan Yunhong thought that Ning Fei definitely hadn’t gotten up yet. After all, at night, Ning Fei was already tired and irritable, even saying that playing too hard in a technologically backward world was just asking for trouble; otherwise, it would be fun on the bed but hell afterwards. If Duan Yunhong hadn’t helped clean up later, Ning Fei might have been annoyed enough to leave the world on the spot. After finally finishing cleaning up, Ning Fei almost fell asleep as soon as he hit the bed.

Plus, he had been woken up early in the morning, so Ning Fei’s return sleep should be quite long.

However, Duan Yunhong returned to the General’s mansion only to see his bed empty and neatly made, that person who should be sleeping in hadn’t left a trace.

This sense of déjà vu made Duan Yunhong’s heart sink.

He had someone call the butler, who seemed to have been prepared, immediately reporting to him that Ning Fei had already gone out.

Duan Yunhong’s gloomy expression softened a bit, asking, “What did he go to do?”

The butler said, “He didn’t say in detail, only said he was going to wander around, but he took two servants with him. Should we have people look for him on the street?”

Duan Yunhong first said, “No need, let him go,” paused, then added, “If he hasn’t returned by dinner, tell me again.”

The butler nodded, hesitated for a few seconds, then asked, “General, should we arrange for some new clothes for Young Master Ning?”

Duan Yunhong felt that the butler’s words had an underlying meaning. “What did he say?”

The butler said euphemistically, “Young Master Ning was just a little unhappy when he got up to get dressed this morning…”

This explanation was too conservative. Actually, Ning Fei directly complained about Duan Yunhong in front of the servants while putting on his original clothes. Something about being violent and loving to tear clothes, and about not asking or knowing to compensate after tearing them, describing Duan Yunhong like a hooligan thug, making the servants tremble in fear.

Duan Yunhong didn’t know the details, but he had sent Ning Fei a lot of clothes in the last world, so he didn’t hesitate at all on this point: “Buy him some.”

The butler asked, “How many sets?”

Duan Yunhong: “… You decide.”

The butler only thought he was inexperienced and a little shy. In reality, Duan Yunhong couldn’t be sure how long Ning Fei would stay, perhaps he would still be here today but gone tomorrow. Once he left, others would forget completely, only Duan Yunhong would know who those clothes were bought for, and seeing them would be very annoying.

After giving the instructions, Duan Yunhong went to do his own things, not mentioning Ning Fei’s name again.

He didn’t mention it, but Ning Fei strolled back at lunchtime. Duan Yunhong was a little surprised to see him at the dining table: “You’re back so soon?”

“Otherwise?” Ning Fei spread his hands, replying very frankly, “No money, can’t eat outside.”

For some reason, these words actually made Duan Yunhong feel a little happy. He sat down, replying as if it were natural, “… I’ll get you some later.”

“Oh—” Ning Fei tilted his head to look at him. “Then the butler just asked me to choose four sets of new seasonal clothes, is that also General Duan’s ‘getting some’?”

Four sets at once, that’s a lot. Duan Yunhong didn’t even know if he would stay for four days. It seemed that the butler had a lot of guesses about the relationship between Ning Fei and his master.

“You were unhappy when you got dressed this morning, the butler suggested it after he found out.” The Great General Duan looked calm and collected, pushing the credit outwards. “If you think it’s too much, then don’t take it.”

“Why wouldn’t I want it, it’s not like I’m paying for it.”

“You want to wear them all?”

“Can your way of keeping people be more direct?”

Duan Yunhong was choked for once in a long time. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to retort, but in the moment he was about to open his mouth, he seemed to already hear Ning Fei’s next sentence, which would definitely be “being stubborn again.”

Ning Fei saw the man’s familiar stunned reaction, was amused, and took the initiative to pick up food for him: “Okay, stop testing me. I’ll tell you before I leave, I’ll probably play for a few more days.”

After a pause, he stared at Duan Yunhong, saying quietly, “It’s just, can General please restrain yourself a little? There are no props here, and it takes effort to clean up afterward, too troublesome! It’s not like you’re the one suffering the consequences, so you’re just running wild?”

“… Cough.” Duan Yunhong didn’t feel that his straightforwardness was anything bad, but being reminded by his words, he couldn’t help but think of the temperature of the night.

“You were the one who wanted to play this and play that, now it’s all my responsibility?” Duan Yunhong composed himself, trying to analyze rationally, “You yourself forgot yourself later on. If I hadn’t poured water into you before you went to sleep, you definitely wouldn’t be able to speak today.”

Ning Fei: “So what? Did you want to fuck a dead…”

Before the word “fish” could come out, Duan Yunhong grabbed a piece of meat and stuffed it into his mouth: “Got it, I’ll try to control myself, not inside.”

Having gotten his promise, Ning Fei finally ate quietly.

Halfway through the meal, Duan Yunhong asked seemingly unintentionally during their idle chat, “You didn’t bring any money with you today, what did you go out to do?”

Ning Fei also replied smoothly, “Went back to the Second Prince’s mansion.”

“To get something?”

“Nothing to get.”

“Then you went to…?”

Ning Fei thought about it: “If I had to say, I went to spread rumors. Oh, no, it’s spread ‘news based on facts with a certain amount of linguistic processing,’ it should be called ‘disseminating news.'”

“… Hmm?” Duan Yunhong was a little puzzled. “Didn’t you already decide to give up on this mission?”

“What, afraid that I’m two-faced? Is it necessary?” Ning Fei scoffed. “I just think that Chonglin took your luck, tricked me into coming here, and then just sat back and enjoyed the results, it’s too easy for him. Since I’m not leaving immediately, I can cause some trouble for him.”

Duan Yunhong thought that was right, this person was just that vengeful.

“So, what did you spread?” Duan Yunhong asked, “How did you spread it?”

Ning Fei glanced at him: “I spread… that the encounter between Dong Lingyan and the Prime Minister’s daughter had ulterior motives.”

Duan Yunhong raised an eyebrow slightly.

“Not going to expose you, there’s no point in doing that.” Ning Fei said slowly, “What I spread was that, actually, before Dong Lingyan met the Prime Minister’s daughter, he and the Prime Minister’s son Chonglin had already known each other privately.

“The Second Prince is a hardliner against foreign tribes, and Dong Lingyan initially strongly supported Strikeforeign tribes as well. And the First Prince is a moderate, and the Prime Minister supports the First Prince. At a crucial time, how did the Prime Minister’s son just happen to meet Dong Lingyan? And then how did the Prime Minister’s daughter also happen to be saved by Dong Lingyan?

“Did Dong Lingyan really change from a hardliner to a moderate from when he met the foreign woman?

“Don’t look at Dong Lingyan having great merits in pacifying foreign tribes, but the one who benefits even more is actually the First Prince. And all of this seems to be inseparable from the Prime Minister’s family.

“No wonder that Chonglin is now openly proclaiming how close his relationship with Dong Lingyan is, it turns out he had already poached Dong Lingyan from the Second Prince. He’s also a great contributor to the moderates, and will be Dong Lingyan’s brother-in-law in the future. Now he walks down the street with the wind!”

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Ning Fei: Majoring in journalism [.

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