Chapter 138 - If You Don't Want
Chapter 138 - If You Don't Want
Duan Yunhong did bring a rich and high-end dinner.
At least it's more stylish and romantic than going to Comrade Yue Fengping's small restaurant. Duan Yunhong even lit a few candles, but he said that they were used as backup in case of power outages in Huichuan, and they were no longer needed, so he used them to prepare a candlelight dinner for Ning Fei.
During dinner, Ning Fei also received a message from Yu Zhou asking "how is the situation". Ning Fei replied: [Everything went well. You can come and see the destruction mark tomorrow. 】
Yu Zhou: [So fast? Have you slid down successfully? 】
Ning Fei: [It's just a tactical surrender.] Is it hard to admit defeat? 】
Yu Zhou: [Then why don’t you just destroy it tonight? Aren’t you afraid that the night will be long and full of troubles? 】
Ning Fei: [Let’s have some fun tonight, boss will pay the balance. 】
Yu Zhou: [I understand. It’s Qiyun brand kidney treasure. It will benefit you and him. 】
"...You keep sending messages while eating. Do you still need to work overtime so diligently?"
Duan Yunhong on the opposite side suddenly said, "No, you haven't looked at your phone much all day, which means you don't plan to take care of the base's work now. So, is it Yu Zhou who came to check on us?"
"Is he related to you?" Ning Fei turned off his phone and replied, "You seem to be paying special attention to him. Are you interested?"
"Him? You're overthinking it. I'm not interested in this kind of control freak." Duan Yunhong denied it immediately. "But he is your teacher. If you lose to me like this, he won't get angry?"
Ning Fei casually replied: "He doesn't care about the result. The most he will do is laugh at me."
"But have you forgotten that you said at the beginning that he wanted Yue Fengping to be the savior, so we bet on which base would become the leader." Duan Yunhong narrowed his eyes slightly, "But now, you and Yu Zhou don't care about the result of losing. Isn't it a bit different from what you said before, huh?"
Ning Fei: ...Oh.
——Fortunately, I was prepared.
Yes, ever since Ning Fei decided to admit defeat, he naturally prepared this explanation. Otherwise, it would be really funny if Duan Yunhong realized that he had been cheated.
"Yu Zhou really wanted his little darling to win, otherwise why would he have arranged for me to travel all over the country and be so busy?" Ning Fei replied calmly, "But there is no way, losing is losing. In fact, I had a hunch before I came, and so did he. He had no other tricks except scolding me. If you let him come to discuss the reward, he might extend the negotiation process for a few days, but the result is hard to change.
"Also, didn't you ask before why we decided so early that the zombie crisis was over? I said at the time that Yue Fengping had stepped down and Yu Zhou would not fight for it. In fact, there is a more accurate statement - Yue Fengping is no longer the manager. No matter how big and prosperous Tianyue is, all the credit cannot be attributed to Yue Fengping. Since Yue Fengping is destined not to be the 'savior', there is no point in continuing this gamble. Why not just treat it as completed and settle the account."
When Duan Yunhong first heard this, he felt that the definition of the goal of the bet given by these two people was too frivolous.
But when he thought about it carefully, he actually understood Ning Fei's logic.
The logical chain here is: the bet was caused by "Yu Zhou wanted Yue Fengping to be the savior" - Yue Fengping retreated to the second line and could no longer be the savior - the bet ended there - Ning Fei and Yu Zhou both had a premonition that Duan Yunhong won - calmly accepted the result.
——But, I still feel like something is wrong...
Duan Yunhong began to vaguely feel that he seemed to have been cheated.
But Ning Fei immediately drew his attention away: "Come to think of it, I've admitted defeat and eaten my meal. Boss Duan, it's time to pay the balance."
"...Now?" Duan Yunhong pulled himself out of his thoughts and glanced at the table covered with wine and delicacies. "Do you really have to make things so tight?"
"Hey, don't always think about procedural things. Isn't this a natural transition?" Ning Fei picked up the wine glass, stood up and walked slowly to Duan Yunhong. "I see you've almost finished eating. Don't you want to do that after having enough wine and food? Besides, it's not like we haven't played at the dinner table before. Why are you pretending to be so serious?"
Duan Yunhong pulled over a chair next to him: "Sit down first."
Ning Fei sat down as he was told: "Anything else you want to tell me, Mr. Duan?"
"I'll give you something." Duan Yunhong spread his palm towards him, holding a palm-sized box, "If you accept it, I'll give you the final payment."
Ning Fei took a closer look and saw that it was a velvet box. He didn't touch it, but raised his eyebrows and asked, "What do you mean, Mr. Duan?"
"I don't mean anything else. Open it and take a look." Duan Yunhong said calmly, "I've only seen your aesthetic preferences for this kind of thing in the model's world. If it doesn't suit you, you can adjust it."
Ning Fei: "You won't plot against me once you open it, will you?"
Duan Yunhong: "I want to plot against you, but I need to inform you in advance? Wouldn't it be more convenient to put it in the food and drinks?"
Ning Fei was actually very sensitive about this kind of situation, but Duan Yunhong didn't seem excited at all and was even able to make jokes. So Ning Fei reached out for the box suspiciously and hesitantly and opened it.
Inside was a brooch.
The streamlined metal body is designed with a small finishing gem inlaid on the top. It is simple and low-key but indeed very artistic. To be honest, this is really Ning Fei's preferred style.
The point is, Ning Fei sensed that this thing actually had a faint abnormal power fluctuation.
Duan Yunhong said: "Although this is in the shape of a brooch, it is also very simple to change it into a necklace..."
"No, wait a minute, are brooches and necklaces the point?" Ning Fei frowned and said, "You attached your power to this thing? Why did you give me this cursed thing?"
"Curse? I have nothing better to do than to waste my energy and luck to curse you so that I can throw it away at any time?"
"So what is this used for?"
“This is my location marker!”
"...Huh?" Ning Fei was startled, and quickly threw the hot potato back into his hand, "Why did you give me this? Who wants to be your STK? Do you think this is hide-and-seek? If you catch me, I will catch you."
"Who is playing a child's game with you? I'm just giving this to you, and the choice is yours!" Duan Yunhong stuffed the box back into his hand. "If you don't want to talk, then fine, then we won't talk. Anyway, I'm giving this to you to show my attitude. If you ever think it through and want to talk, come find me."
Ning Fei blocked his action: "Who wants to find you?"
"Then when you can't find anyone with better skills than me, you can come to me to play C! You are welcome to come to me just to play C, okay!" Duan Yunhong pried his hands apart, pressed the box into his hands, and then forced his fingers shut. "I have processed it with my power. You don't need to spend your luck to bring it in and out of the worlds."
Ning Fei wanted to open her hands and throw it away, but Duan Yunhong was very strong: "You...are you forcing me to buy or sell this?!"
"What can I do? You don't want to talk, but I must make my position clear, so that you won't come back and say 'you didn't explain it clearly'. Wouldn't I be wronged?" Duan Yunhong held his hand tightly. "This won't bite you, and you won't lose anything. Isn't this in line with your habits? The initiative is in your hands, and you don't have to suffer any loss."
"..." Ning Fei's fingers holding the box were a little stiff, "What's wrong with you? Don't you think that this behavior is like a dog-licking? How can you make the dog-licking speech sound so heroic?"
"You are so stubborn. If I don't give in, nothing will change." Duan Yunhong quietly brought up the topic he wanted to talk about. "You always say that I am stubborn, but I am also very clear-headed. I won't do anything that will make me regret."
In order to get Ning Fei to accept the gift, Duan Yunhong tried every possible means and did not even refute comments like "dog licker". But since he has taken the things out, he has to find a way to send them out. Duan Yunhong is a tough-talking person, but he is even more persistent.
Seeing that Ning Fei had stopped struggling, he continued, "If you don't sense it, it will just be a decoration to you. Even if there is a wall between you and me, it won't keep harassing you or reminding you. If you really want to see me, but it's inconvenient for you to find me, then put your strength into it. I will sense it and come to find you."
"Can you still locate me after all?"
"If you don't give it strength, it won't work. The initiative is still in your hands."
"..." Ning Fei stopped talking. He realized that what Duan Yunhong repeatedly emphasized was not just the matter of the brooch, but was also hinting at the relationship between the two.
"Don't do this." Ning Fei was a little annoyed. He just didn't want to face this situation. "You are not the kind of person who would give in like this. If you do this, you will regret it soon."
Ning Fei himself, if he does not take a step forward now, he may regret it a little in the future; if he takes a step forward now, he will (most likely) regret it extremely in the future. He didn't want to take the risk. He had long ago sworn that he would never allow himself to be manipulated or tamed by anyone again, so it was naturally difficult for him to accept Duan Yunhong's positioning mark.
"I'm willing to lower myself to the status of a bootlicker. Do you still feel psychologically burdened by accepting gifts from a bootlicker? I don't think you have such a conscience." Duan Yunhong knew that he hesitated. Hesitation means there is an opportunity. Duan Yunhong continued, "Actually, whether you accept it or not, I will give you the final payment. But if you think that if I put it another way, you will feel better, then I will say: If you don't accept it, I won't give you the 1 million."
Ning Fei: “…”
Ning Fei: "How many innocent and naive teenagers have you deceived with this trick?"
Duan Yunhong sneered: "Do innocent people need to be deceived? If I had known that I would end up like this, I shouldn't have known your name and let you drag me to the defense."
"..." Ning Fei would not react now.
He is obviously very good at dealing with this kind of infatuated relationship, and he obviously knows thousands of excuses to refuse. But Duan Yunhong spoke in such a domineering tone with a tone that contained aggrieved words, and he was retreating in such a way that Ning Fei actually felt that if he hit him back, it would be a bit... excessive.
But if Ning Fei just accepted the things like that, he felt that he was too easy to be manipulated.
He felt that the thing in his hand was very hot, but he couldn't think of any more reasons to refuse.
Seeing that Ning Fei was staring at the brooch with his eyes downcast without saying anything, Duan Yunhong decided to take the brooch out of the box and put it on Ning Fei's chest.
"Okay, put it on. Just think of it as being bought with money from this world and don't think about it." Duan Yunhong had just put it on when he saw Ning Fei immediately raise his hand to touch the brooch, and thought he was going to take it off immediately. So Duan Yunhong stood up again, picked the person up directly, and interrupted Ning Fei's actions.
"Now that you've received the gifts, we can move on to the next step. I'll give you the final payment." Duan Yunhong carried the child to the bedroom, and he held the child face to face in a rare intimate pose. "By the way, do you want to change clothes?"
Ning Fei, who couldn't take off the brooch, said: "...I've already changed it."
Duan Yunhong: “Hmm?”
Ning Fei: "I thought you would start at dinner time."
"Am I that impatient?" Duan Yunhong raised his eyebrows. "...No wonder you took the initiative to bring this up. Could it be that the clothes made you uncomfortable, so you wanted to start as soon as possible?"
"Do you think I'm an inexperienced newbie who would make such a mistake?" Ning Fei temporarily changed the subject with him, "I don't use the points in this world anyway, so I'll buy the more expensive ones."
"In the end, a lot of money was spent on this... It's also a good thing that the store owner will forget about you completely after you leave. Otherwise, even if you leave, those people will definitely make up stories about you." Duan Yunhong said, "If Yu Zhou knew, he would probably say something about you too."
"You really pay attention to him."
"I'm not obsessed with Baimao. I only mention him because he always interferes in your affairs, and you always let him interfere."
Ning Fei didn't know whether he heard Duan Yunhong's attempt to sow discord or not, and just remained silent. When Duan Yunhong put him on the bed, he touched the brooch again. Duan Yunhong held his hand and said, "Don't take it off."
Ning Fei looked him in the eye: "I'll ask you one last time, are you sure you want to give it to me like this? If you're deliberately playing tricks on me and deliberately let me see you having fun with others, I will kill you."
"How can I predict whether or not you will come, and when you will come? Am I going to deliberately roll around in bed forever just to piss you off? Do you think it makes sense?" Duan Yunhong put his hand on the side of his head, looking down at him, "How about this, when you come to find me, if I'm having fun with others, I'll give you luck, and you can chase me as you like; if I'm not, then you give me luck."
Ning Fei raised his eyebrows: "So if I go, I'm just trying to bring you luck? Isn't this still a big trick?"
"It's okay if you don't want to give it to me." Duan Yunhong knew that he had finally decided to accept the brooch. He secretly breathed a sigh of relief, revealed a relieved smile, and leaned down.
"Then exchange your body for mine."
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This is what Mr. Duan prepared! ! !
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