My System Forces Me to Live off Women

Chapter 304 - 259: Crossing Mountains and Seas (Double-Length)

"Stop looking."

Zhao Haiqi noticed Li Peifeng’s complicated gaze towards the room and calmly said, "She wants to resign, but we won’t agree to it. Qingge can have a thousand reasons to resign, except because of you. If she really resigns because of you, I won’t even buy your train ticket back home. You’ll have to book your own ticket and leave overnight. I dare not say there’s no place for you in the capital, but since Beihua University can’t keep my daughter, it certainly can’t keep you either."

Too difficult, really no way out, won’t accept it no matter what?

Li Peifeng drooped his face, helplessly said, "Or you could just kill me, right?!"

"Hurry up and choose!"

Zhao Haiqi seemed finally impatient, "You little brat, stop dawdling, these are the only two roads, which one will you choose? I advise you to choose the first one, it’s much better for your future. Besides, if you choose the latter and stay at Beihua University, you’ll definitely still have a fluke mentality and won’t be able to resist secretly entangling with my daughter. Don’t blame me for not warning you then!"

You’ve got me figured out!

Li Peifeng sighed, "... I choose the second one."

At this point, the only strategy he had was to delay as much as possible. Changing schools was impossible; doing so would widen the distance not only from Zhao Qingge but also from Wu Wenyue and Xu Manning.

"What if you secretly contact Qingge?"

"Whatever you say goes."

Zhao Haiqi frowned, "So you definitely can’t resist not contacting her, right?"

Li Peifeng whispered, "Have you heard of the Romeo and Juliet effect?"

The so-called "Romeo and Juliet effect" means that when a couple faces external forces interfering with their romantic relationship, their emotions instead become stronger, and their relationship becomes more solid.

Perhaps the two might break up naturally after dating for a while, but facing external resistance, they’re very likely to become inseparable, refusing to be apart no matter what.

So Li Peifeng’s undertone was quite obvious...

"Naive, you’re overestimating yourself and underestimating reality!"

Zhao Haiqi laughed rather than getting angry and slowly said, "Choose the second option, is it? Fine, but if you dare to entangle with my daughter again, don’t think losing a master’s degree certificate is all there is to it. I’m not unfamiliar with web novels, if I make a call now, do you think your book can withstand the test? Do you still think you can earn a living from web novels?"

"Eh?"

Li Peifeng was stunned, thinking that after writing web novels for so many years, a face-slapping plot of being insulted and bullied by the powerful was finally happening to him?

Seeing Zhao Haiqi’s expression, it seemed he was serious. When Li Peifeng realized it, he didn’t find it funny. Because reality is not like a novel, experiencing being forced by someone’s power personally to make choices against his will indeed felt awful!

Moreover, the opponent truly had this ability. With Zhao Haiqi’s status, he certainly had connections with officials in the education and culture sectors. A single phone call, and ’Wind of the Mortal World’ could easily be blocked.

But so what?! The old man really thought himself important?!

At this point, Zhao Haiqi’s repeated threats had already made Li Peifeng angry. Without considering what the future might hold, he stood up straight, looked down at the other, and curled his lips into a cold smile:

"Uncle, I actually don’t care about the master’s degree certificate. If you’re really capable, revoke my bachelor’s degree that’s already in hand, expel me from school, then I’d be impressed."

"As for the web novel livelihood, why don’t you try? I’ll be frank, my pen name is ’Wind of the Mortal World’!"

"You aren’t afraid..."

Zhao Haiqi frowned, about to speak, but was interrupted by Li Peifeng, who directly handed over Zhao Haiqi’s phone with extreme disdain: "Afraid? Afraid of what? Here’s your phone, don’t wait for later, call now in front of me, it’s just a little whim of power. What’s so fresh about it? And rest assured, I definitely won’t tell Qingge about this, I’ll bear it myself to avoid affecting the glorious image of a father in his daughter’s heart."

"..."

Zhao Haiqi’s expression paled and flushed alternately and didn’t take the phone immediately, glaring in anger!

Li Peifeng wasn’t finished, though his tone softened slightly, "But, I must remind you, uncle, if you plan to mess with me, it won’t be so smooth. Because my platinum contract wasn’t signed for nothing, I just signed it, and haven’t earned enough money for Endpoint yet, they surely wouldn’t be the first to agree. Even if you intervene somehow and I can’t use this pen name, I can still write with another pen name."

Zhao Haiqi snatched the phone, saying coldly, "You little brat, still dare to act tough with me? Do you know what you’re saying?"

Li Peifeng laughed, "Just teaching you a little-known fact, about web novels, pen names don’t matter, novels are fundamental. I change a pen name it won’t affect anything, if it really doesn’t work, I casually find someone obscure to upstage, use any pen name like ’Li Qingge, Love Li Song, You Dare to Be a Zhao,’ whatever."

"Change the style, write a new book, I still have confidence it will become popular, I can still earn monthly hundreds of thousands behind the scenes. And parents, readers, editors, no matter who, wouldn’t know the book was written by me, and you even more couldn’t know then. At that point, what can you do with me? Do you have a way?"

"What are you saying! What Qingge, what Li Qingge? How dare you change my daughter’s surname?!!"

Zhao Haiqi began to grind his teeth, breathing heavily.

Li Peifeng calmly continued, "Do you think I would be afraid? Why should I be afraid? Misusing power to intimidate others, if circumstances are serious, it calls for suspension and inspection, causing adverse consequences leads to jail, that’s a blatant crime!"