novelraw Chapter 357 - 280: Catching the Thief with the Stolen Goods
Chapter 357 - 280: Catching the Thief with the Stolen Goods
In Zhao Qingge’s bedroom.
"Any other questions?"
"Um... not for now, you’re busy, I’ll head out."
Zhao Qingge glanced at him with a hint of surprise, nodded, and said, "Go ahead."
After speaking, she looked at the empty bowl on the table: "Take the bowl with you."
"Okay."
At 5:20, Li Peifeng left Old Zhao’s room with the empty bowl.
He had spent over an hour in the room with the supervisor, discussing topics or academic issues seriously the entire time.
There were no inappropriate words or actions, not even a hint of flirtation, let alone sweet talk.
This behavior was not only due to Li Peifeng being concerned about Wu Wenyue and Huang Tianxuan outside the room but also deliberately letting Zhao Qingge feel his emotional distance from her.
When someone wants to leave you, using humble words and actions to try to make them stay, or lowering yourself to please the other person to the point of suppressing your nature to meet their wishes...
This is actually feasible; compromise is unavoidable in relationships. But the key is to be cautious about the methods of pleasing and the limits of compromise, and how much suppression of self is tolerable.
Li Peifeng was fully aware of Zhao Qingge’s intentions, but he obviously couldn’t accept them, as they had already crossed his boundaries. Yet shamelessly, he didn’t want her to leave, so he had to resort to other methods.
For example, when she wants to leave but hasn’t really left yet, you leave her first, letting her taste the feeling of loss.
But you can’t actually go too far; you need to occasionally turn back, and it’s best to give a bit of reward, clearly illustrating; there are benefits in sticking with me, but if you truly want to leave, I will take a step away first.
In this way, you turn the situation from a defensive position to one where you have the upper hand.
Li Peifeng understood this theory and acted upon it.
When he first entered the room, Zhao Qingge was somewhat resistant to his ’intrusion into the boudoir’, likely due to being upset or possibly not feeling well, but possibly because the ’Breath of the Nether Sea’ was gradually taking effect; and because of Li Peifeng’s considerate bowl of ginger syrup, which relieved her menstrual cramps, Zhao Qingge’s attitude softened.
Even though it couldn’t compare to their previous interactions, physical touch was out of the question, at least her expression was no longer icy.
"There’s progress. Maybe after Supervisor enters the dream tonight, with some effort, the relationship can be mostly repaired."
"Speaking of which, an hour and twenty minutes, inhaled for so long, should be enough, right? For the dose of Shared Dream, I applied quite a bit."
Li Peifeng, confident that the Shared Dream with Zhao Qingge was guaranteed for the evening, turned his thoughts to what he should do after Supervisor enters the dream to achieve the desired outcome.
No matter how hard he tried in reality, as long as he didn’t change his principles, Old Zhao would probably remain with this attitude for today, and the likelihood of further improvement was not high.
If he seizes the Shared Dream opportunity well, perhaps Zhao Qingge’s attitude could change to one of turning a blind eye? Not very realistic either...
"Better not to hope for too much, just hope Old Zhao doesn’t completely cut ties with me."
Li Peifeng sighed, moved past the living room, and headed to the kitchen with the empty bowl, washing it and washing his hands, cleaning off the perfume from his wrist.
Then he went into the bathroom, used soap to wash his hands again, and soaked a towel in soapy water, wrung it out to semi-dry, and wiped his neck.
This was naturally to completely eliminate the scent, lest the smell of the Breath of the Nether Sea linger too long for Huang Tianxuan and Wu Wenyue in the same room, resulting in them also joining Zhao Qingge in the Shared Dream at night, which would be troublesome.
Speaking of which... where are Wenyue and Tianxuan?!
Li Peifeng just realized something was off and recalled that when he passed through the living room earlier, the TV was already off, and they were nowhere to be found.
"Did they return to their rooms? But it’s too quiet for that."
Perplexed, he slowly approached Wu Wenyue’s bedroom, opened the door to 45 degrees silently, and saw the scene inside.
The room was extremely quiet, and the two girls were sleeping in the same bed, heads together, breathing peacefully and soundly asleep.
"Huh? This!"
Li Peifeng was stunned for three to four seconds, his expression fleetingly frustrated and then amused!
He snapped out of it, quickly pulled out his phone from his pocket.
He tiptoed in, silenced the shutter, and took a few quick shots of Wu Wenyue and Huang Tianxuan, who were sound asleep in bed.
After photographing, he switched to video mode.
"To think that while I’m discussing topics with Supervisor in another room, you’re over here sharing a bed?!"
"How bold of you two!"
Li Peifeng clicked his tongue internally, steady-handedly maintaining a meticulous attitude, capturing the scene of the two lying on the same bed from head to toe, with intricate detail.
"Let Manning find out about this, you’re definitely in for it!"
Li Peifeng kept the evidence on his phone, then carefully observed the two on the bed.
There was no embrace; though they slept covered by the same blanket, they maintained a reasonable distance, and their clothes were intact, with no signs of tussling.
It makes perfect sense, as Li Peifeng never believed Huang Tianxuan and Wu Wenyue would dare to do anything inappropriate while awake.
This time, their sleeping in the same bed was probably due to finding watching TV boring after he left, so they returned to the bedroom to chat, and soon, they ended up napping together, and that was all!