Chapter 9.1

Translator: Superbulat

Him: 【?】

I quickly typed my reply: 【I had confronted him! You’ll get beaten up if you come over now.】

He responded: 【Ha-ha. Do you think I’ll be afraid of him?】

I was dying from the anxiety: 【Anyway, don’t come here now!】

Before my message was sent, I heard rapid knocks on the door from outside.

He was already here!

I hurriedly tried to move the table and open the door, but the table got stuck with the cabinet. I could only open a small gap, not even enough to see the scene outside.

I could only hear Little Bastard opening the door for him and reminding him to change into home slippers.

Rong Shi didn’t seem to move, but instead asked, “Where is she?”

Little Bastard insisted that he change his shoes. “I just finished cleaning the house. Change your shoes.”

I opened a wider crack at the door, and I could now barely see the living room. When Rong Shi heard the sound, he turned his head and saw me. He took a step forward but was pulled back by Little Bastard. “Take off your shoes!”

Rong Shi shook his hand away.

Little Bastard stood in front of him and said glumly, “You want to sleep with the woman I’ve slept with. There is a new pair of slippers here, but you don’t want to wear them. Why are you so pathetic? Must you wear torn shoes?” 1

This fucker…

Rong Shi still wanted to walk towards me, but he was dragged again and punched in the face by Little Bastard.

Pow , the punch landed on the corner of Rong Shi’s lips.

My heart twitched in pain, and I desperately yanked on the table to get out, but the more anxious I became, the more difficult it was for me to think properly.

Rong Shi smiled at me, then licked his lips and turned to Little Bastard once again. “I owed you this punch, but what about the one you owed me?”

Little Bastard was so immersed in his rage that he couldn’t hear what Rong Shi was saying. With a furious growl, he tried to pounce on Rong Shi again, but his attack was easily dodged.

“Your woman?” Rong Shi asked. “Ask yourself, is she supposed to be your woman?”

Little Bastard glared at him and grabbed him by the collar. “But she’s with me now!”

Rong Shi smirked. “Without me, would she be with you?”

As Rong Shi’s words fell, it was as if the person who was grabbed by the collar became Little Bastard. He panicked. “You promised never to bring this up again!”

“Well,” Rong Shi said in a clear voice as he shoved him away, “I take back my promise.”

He wanted to come over to me, but Little Bastard pushed him against the wall. Just as Little Bastard raised his fist, Rong Shi kicked him in the lower abdomen. A fight was about to break out.

“Stop fighting!” I was afraid that an accident might happen, so I yelled to Little Bastard, “It has nothing to do with him. I went to him because I found out you had cheated on me!”

I never planned on telling him this. Cheating girlfriend vs. girlfriend cheating for revenge. Clearly, the former had a greater impact.

As expected, Little Bastard stopped when he heard my words and turned to face me. He was at a loss at first, then panicked, and then he appeared to have found hope. “Wifey, I don’t have any feelings for her, and I have already broken up with her! I just lost my mind for some time, I swear!”

His eyes were unusually bright. “Wifey, please forgive me. I swear I won’t make such stupid mistakes from now on, and I won’t care about what you did before. Can we start over again?”

“It’s over between us.” I shook my head.

He knew me. During the years that we had been together, we had never broken up, and even quarrels were rare. If I mentioned breaking up, I won’t take it back.

His eyes had completely dimmed. “I’m sorry…”

Rong Shi was finally able to walk over to me. He knocked on the door frame and said to me, “Step back a little.”

After I took a few steps back, I saw him lift his foot and kick hard, pushing open the door along with the table, and the corner of the table scraped a long mark on the cabinet.

I couldn’t walk out because the table was still in the middle, so I handed over my suitcase first, then climbed up the table to cross over, but before I could turn around, Rong Shi held my waist and carried me down.

He did not let go even after I landed on the ground. “Do you have anything else?” he asked as he held my suitcase in one hand and the other on my waist.

I shook my head, pushed his hand away, grabbed my suitcase from him, and walked out.

In fact, I had already delivered my favorite pairs of shoes to my best friend’s house. I couldn’t be bothered about the remaining ones.

Fortunately, Little Bastard didn’t stop us from leaving.

When we entered the elevator, Rong Shi was silent and didn’t even look at me.

“Thank you,” I said as I turned to face him.

He stared at the elevator button. “Thank me for what?” His tone was indifferent.

I didn’t know what else to say when he replied with such an attitude, so I just said awkwardly, “Thank you for kicking the door open for me.”

“Hmph!” he snorted and imitated my tone. “ It has nothing to do with him. I went to him because I found out you had cheated on me !”

I didn’t expect him to be upset because of this. “I was afraid that he would hit you.” I couldn’t help but smile.

“Hmph! It’s not like I can’t beat him.”

I looked at the corner of his mouth, which was already a little swollen.

Naturally, he understood what I meant, and his expression was slightly embarrassed. “I owed him this. He’ll only feel better after this punch.”

“I’m sorry…” I still felt bad. “You can no longer be friends after this. I shouldn’t have told him it was you.”

At that time, I was overwhelmed by the desire for revenge. I had thought that he would be even angrier if he knew that who I’d cheated with was Rong Shi, so I had told him without considering the consequences.

He cracked a small smile at me. “It’s all right. I didn’t want to be friends with him anymore anyway. If it hadn’t been for you, I would have cut contact with him after graduation. So I wasn’t afraid of you telling him, I was afraid that you wouldn’t tell him…”

He stroked my hair, and his characteristic gentle tone returned. “If he didn’t call me over, imagine how badly you would have been bullied.”

“I locked the door,” I retorted.

He was a little speechless. “You had to lock the door to talk to him, wasn’t that more terrifying?”

I had nothing to say to that, and after a while, I asked him, “How did you come back so soon?”

He had been gone for a while, so he shouldn’t have been able to rush back so quickly.

The elevator arrived, so he pushed my luggage with one hand, hovered the other hand behind my waist, keeping a gentleman’s distance, and answered me, “I had never left.”

破鞋 (Torn shoes): A slang term for loose women.