My System Forces Me to Live off Women

Chapter 330 - 268: Welcome, Welcome

"Have you been in close contact with those two recently?"

Faced with Huang Tianxuan’s provocation, Li Peifeng didn’t mind and instead smiled, "Manning told you she was on a business trip?"

"Does it have anything to do with you?"

"You wanting me dead always has something to do with me, doesn’t it?"

Li Peifeng seemed a bit helpless, "Last time Wenyue wanted to take a kitchen knife to chop me, you were there at the time. This time, it might blow up again, can you really bear to watch her hack me to pieces?"

"I can’t bear it, so I’ll close my eyes."

Huang Tianxuan waved dismissively, "Go cook already."

"I’ll cook, but when they both arrive, Tianxuan, could you not stir the pot?"

"Don’t worry, I definitely won’t meddle, just maybe state some facts." Huang Tianxuan smirked, "Like the fact that you taught me to cook hands-on, and then stole a kiss from me..."

Li Peifeng advised sincerely, "You’re harming yourself while hitting the enemy. You think you’ll get any good out of saying these things? Remember how last time Manning hit you with a pillow for being such a vixen? Let’s have peace, not war."

"Manning isn’t here this time, is she?"

Huang Tianxuan, being smart, analytically deduced, "Yueyue wouldn’t hit me, Professor Zhao isn’t one to get physical, so who do you think they would hit? I know, but I’m not saying!"

"You really deserve a beating!"

Li Peifeng was at a loss for words and wanted to deal with her but realized there wasn’t enough time, so he turned to the kitchen to continue cooking, thinking about how to deal with the upcoming scene.

Continuing to use Nether Sea’s Breath was inadvisable; it might get him through, but it wouldn’t be as effective as before. Once awake, the issues might still persist, and the relationships and bonds might not deepen.

Since the girls had frequently entered dreams, they were familiar with each other and understood the peculiarity of shared dreams. If they entered the dream again, considering their concerns about reality, Li Peifeng couldn’t be sure if they would still develop a relationship with him or more likely keep their distance, focusing on exploring and learning about the Otherworld.

Most importantly, if a few girls dream-shared again because they sat down to eat together, they might become suspicious.

Why does eating with Li Peifeng always lead to shared dreams?

Once, twice, three times might be a coincidence, but four, five times... Hey, are you up to something?

Just thinking that they might develop this suspicion made Li Peifeng feel uneasy.

Therefore, unless it was a life-or-death situation, he didn’t want to use Nether Sea’s Breath. However, it kind of was a tough situation, one of the 81 tough situations, how could he get through it?

"I don’t know! Many things don’t have answers!"

Li Peifeng sighed inwardly, opened the oven, and watched as the sizzling, fragrant ribs filled the air. As he brushed the marinade on, he pondered life.

Huang Tianxuan, unbeknownst when she arrived from the living room to the dining room, sat at the table watching him roast ribs, her gaze unfocused, seemingly pondering something as well.

"At present, each person faces difficulties that pile up like mountains, and we’re all thinking about how to live in times filled with uneasiness and terror from which we can’t escape."

"I believe that many difficult problems have no solutions. By accepting them with a nonchalant attitude like ’welcome, welcome’, it might be a kind of wisdom."

Huang Tianxuan’s eyes moved, pupils focused, looking at Li Peifeng, "Have you always been this brave?"

Li Peifeng sighed, "Just a little insight into life, let what comes come, there’s no difficulty I can’t overcome!"

"Ding-a-ling~"

The entry system rang, and Huang Tianxuan’s lips curled up, "Now, do you have any new insights?"

Li Peifeng didn’t reply but instead turned around and walked out of the kitchen, opened the downstairs unit door, and when Zhao Qingge came up via the elevator and entered the house, he smiled, "Welcome, welcome."

"..."

This demeanor left Zhao Qingge somewhat puzzled as she glanced at him.

"Director, please change your shoes."

Mr. Li began to play it loose, and Zhao Qingge slightly frowned, glancing around the room, not seeing Huang Tianxuan, she instinctively wanted to ask, but then saw her come out from the kitchen.

"Professor Zhao, please have a seat, the food’s almost ready."

Huang Tianxuan said with a smile, holding a spatula, and even wore an apron around her waist, looking every bit the hostess.

It turned out that the vixen sneaked into the kitchen to outfit herself while Li Peifeng was letting Zhao Qingge in!

"You cooked?"

Zhao Qingge slightly parted her lips, glaring at Li Peifeng.

"Yes, but I don’t cook often..."

"Better put the spatula down."

Li Peifeng interrupted, "You’re great at adding fuel to the fire, but cooking, not so much. However well you perform, I won’t give you a little gold statue."

Then, he pulled Zhao Qingge to change her shoes, "Hang tight; the food will be ready soon. Wenyue will be coming over in a bit."

Zhao Qingge bent to change her shoes, frowning even tighter, "What’s she coming for?"

"I called her over."

Huang Tianxuan raised her hand and answered, "We haven’t gathered in a while; I thought we’d all sit down and have a meal together."

Zhao Qingge finally realized the special nature of this meal, and after changing shoes, she earnestly asked, "What about Manning? Is she coming?"

"She’s on a business trip."

Li Peifeng quickly replied, reached out to Huang Tianxuan, "Give me the apron."

"Here, take it all."

Huang Tianxuan pursed her lips, handing over both ’performance props’, then sat down at the table, fiddling with her phone. As she saw Zhao Qingge hadn’t come over, she slightly leaned back to sneak a peek, only to find Old Zhao also looking her way, their eyes crossed before quickly parting.

"There are two more people, so need to stir-fry two more dishes..."

Li Peifeng was pondering what to stir-fry, but vaguely sensed the thoughts in Huang Tianxuan’s mind.

[A bit awkward, first time meeting Xiaoge after the five-person shared dream, should’ve woken up first that time... Sigh, why isn’t Yueyue here yet?!]

Five-person shared dream? Woke up first?

Li Peifeng suddenly looked up, vaguely recalling that at the end of that dream, five of them were about to exercise on the beach, but Wu Wenyue was the first woken up by the call of nature and then woke him and Xu Manning. Therefore, Huang Tianxuan and Zhao Qingge, undisturbed by external factors, naturally woke up last, but... the exercise didn’t stop?

Huang Danai and Director ended up with that kind of dream ending?!

"Did he hand over the medicine for you to recreate? Any progress?"

Zhao Qingge walked into the dining room, sitting a seat apart from Huang Tianxuan, looking quite composed, but Mr. Li could sense that his director was not that calm inside, her inner awkwardness comparable to Huang Danai’s.

Things just got interesting!

Imagining Huang Danai and Zhao Qingge all cuddled up, each waking from the dream with a mix of emotions, standing to change underwear, Li Peifeng couldn’t help but laugh, almost forgetting the impending predicament.

Huang Tianxuan put away her phone, cleared her throat, "Not yet."

"...The potential for the medicine is probably tremendous," Zhao Qingge seemed to seek conversation, "I’ve taken it for a while, and not only is my astigmatism better, but I feel my body is getting younger."

"Really?"

Upon hearing this, Huang Tianxuan paused her drifting gaze, earnestly examining Zhao Qingge. The closer she looked, the more she noticed, half was suspicious, "Really, compared to last time, your skin condition has improved, looking younger indeed."

"Only by meeting the right person can you live childishly!"

Li Peifeng said while tossing the pan, but no one paid him any mind.

Zhao Qingge glanced at him, paused for a moment, turned to Huang Tianxuan, and asked, "When was the last time you met?"

The topic shifted, and the atmosphere took on a subtle charge, an inevitable hint of gunpowder.

The various elements of the dream world, however delightful and worthy of revisiting, are mere whims. When the dream ends, everything inevitably returns to reality.

Helping each other, loving blissfully, succeeding together, living in happiness, are just ideals, illusions like the moon in the mirror, a flower in the water.

Because reality is cold and cruel, with a thousand heavy waters, ten thousand heavy mountains in the mundane world.

It’s easy to outdo a rival, hard to traverse mountains and seas.

No evasion is possible, only unyielding confrontation, swords drawn!

Huang Tianxuan raised her brows, shifting her gaze from Li Peifeng to Zhao Qingge, and with a subtle inflection in her tone, said, "Certainly not as often as you, the diligent, conscientious teacher, who is tireless and day-and-night devoted to educating students, which is incomparable to me."

Zhao Qingge’s gaze shifted, her eyes slightly frosty, and she stared at her for a while, slowly saying, "He’s about to graduate, no need for innuendos, I understand."

Huang Tianxuan leaned back, ran her hands through her hair, chuckling lightly, "Really? When he graduates, he’ll have more time for his career, like writing novels, or with that short video studio he started with Wu Wenyue and Xu Manning... Professor Zhao, I wonder if you understood my words? You have never been my rival!"