A Round Trip To Love Volume 1 Chapter 28 99 Mar 11, 2020

I carried on with my work as usual, the tranquility in my daily life belied the fact that Lu Feng has returned. An insignificant personnel like me in the company has neither the need nor the privilege to interact with him, so even though we are physically together in the same building, we have never met each other.

I had once imagined our reunion to be as momentous as a savage storm, but it turned out to be an inconsequential wave.

I am happy for that, I really am.

Weekends that did not require me to put in overtime work are golden opportunities for me to catch up on much needed sleep. I could literally sleep all day only waking up to feed myself if I get hungry. Zhu Sha is always so jealous that I can live like a pig and still have the body figure of a monkey.

As I fall back into a deep sleep, the alarm on my phone rang. I was so irked by the noise that I felt like slapping myself for forgetting to turn off the alarm. Blindly reaching out for the phone on the head of the bed I randomly pressed down on a button, which gave me a moment of peace, before it rang again with a vengeance. I could have died from frustration, groping about for a long time before I realised it was a phone call.

” Hello…… what is it?” I could barely open my eyes, basically a breathing corpse, guessing that if this is not Ding Ding, it must be Zhu Sha, either trying to entice me to go wild with them or entertain them.

” Are you sleeping at this hour?”

The voice over the phone was rather vague, I could not figure out immediately who it was, ” Mn……. I'm sleepy………”

The person on the line chuckled lightly: ” Don't speak using this tone, you will easily let others develop obscene thoughts. ”

I awoke in a start. Lu Feng.

” ……………. ” At that precise moment I did not know whether to call him by his name or address him as boss.

” Are you free now? “

Without waiting for my response, he added: ” Come and fix my computer if you have time.”

What…… what the fuck…… so what if he is the boss.

” That's not my expertise. ” To be abruptly woken up from a peaceful slumber, I would not even give a crap to a heavenly deity.

” Did you not major in computer science? You can't even troubleshoot such small issues how did you get yourself employed into this company?”

” I specialise in software design, not hardware repair.”

” Not much difference, just get here.”

Does he not know that different skills are akin to being on different sides of a mountain? !

Still in a fouled up mood I retorted: ” Just tell me what's the problem, I will guide you over the phone.”

After piss-farting around for half the morning, I was getting impatient: ” If it is nothing important just delete it. “

He tossed around for a while: ” Hey, now it says the drive cannot be formatted.”

I almost fell off the bed, and continued to guide him through disassembly and reinstallation ” Now turn it on and try again. “

There was a strange noise on the other line.

“………. I can't turn it on now……… in fact it looks like it's smoking up. ”

Just, just kill me now.

An hour later, I appeared in front of Lu Feng looking listless and dispirited.

This person must be sick, he has a perfectly fine-looking laptop sitting there, yet chose to use the old outdated personal computer.

” The storage card is loose. ” I was expressionless. ” The power supply needs to be replaced…… the internal fan is not working, it needs to be changed ASAP otherwise the hard drive will be overheated, and…….. ” I glared at him in disbelief: ” Who's the idiot who installed an anti-viral recovery segment on the motherboard?! ”

Lu Feng kept laughing. I am starting to suspect that this guy is not the computer idiot he is making himself out to be.

Sitting on the low, simple Scandinavian-style sofa, I drank the hot coffee he brought over. As my mood lightened, I started to feel self-conscious and wondered what to do with my hands and legs.

” This house, is very tastefully designed. ” Yeah right, I know dog shit about interior designing.

” My sister used to stay here. Since I had to relocate here urgently, we just did a minor refurbishment before I moved in.”

That explained the colour theme being a horrible shade of pink.

I casually flipped a pillow on the sofa, and a pair of black laced panties appeared like a damning piece of evidence at a crime scene.

We were dumbfounded.

A pornographic image of Lu Feng tumbling with a woman on this very sofa flashed through my mind, and I sprang off the seat like I sat on a hornet nest.

” I need to get back. “

” Don't misunderstand,” Lu Zheng pleaded innocence, ” this is not mine. ”

Of course this is not yours to wear.

” My sister that crazy woman likes to throw her stuff everywhere, it has nothing to do with me. ”

Despite Lu Feng's long list of flaws and shortcomings, he is not one to lie.

I calmed down, and instantly realised that my reaction was ludicrous, even if that was indeed a remain of Lu Feng's amorous activity with a woman, I did not have the rights to be provoked.

” …………. I thought it belonged to your fiancee.” Nervous chuckle.

“Her?” Lu Feng smiled sheepishly. ” Truth is……. in less than a month's time, you will hear news of us calling off the wedding.”

I was confounded.

” It was just a business transaction. Our announcement of a marriage alliance was an effort to stabilise the stock market, ” he spoke offhandedly, ” We both knew we were putting on a show, so it is not like a deception. It was not going to hurt anyone. After I did this huge favor for my dad, he awarded me a large sum of money and allowed me to return to the mainland, so it was well worth the while.”

It was not going to hurt anyone.

What about me?

Ah, yes, I nearly forgot. As it turned out…… I have long lost the prerogative to be hurt by him.