Love Apartment: South Wind Passage.

Chapter 574: Echoes at Midnight (Two in One)

By the time Nanfeng and his group returned to the apartment, it was already late.

The few people who witnessed and imagined the drama between Guan Gu and You You from a distance in the car were extremely anxious and wanted to rush directly to Guan Gu's bedroom to ask him what he meant by "a gesture".

But everyone took into consideration that they didn't know what happened next. What if Guan Gu and You You's "interesting gesture" tonight was really that interesting? If they just rushed in, they might see a surprise all over the bed.

No matter how gossipy they are, they would not appreciate such messy pictures.

So Nanfeng and his group of five returned to their own suites, and after a quick wash, they prepared to go to bed.

For Ziqiao and Meijia, their current state is indeed not suitable for taking a bath.

But as a normal person, even in winter, you can't go without a bath for three whole days, not to mention that they have been busy these two days and are covered in sweat. If they don't take a bath, their bodies will soon ferment.

Although they can only go into the bathroom together if they want to take a bath, fortunately there is a thick curtain inside the bathroom that separates the dry and wet areas of the bathroom. The two of them only need to stand inside and outside the curtain respectively, and they can still take a bath.

The only thing to consider with this way of bathing is the character of the other person while one is bathing.

Of course, it is impossible for Meijia to peep at Ziqiao taking a bath. As for Ziqiao...his character is indeed not very good, but he is just lustful, not a pervert. Ziqiao would never bother to do such a vulgar thing.

Besides, what’s so good about Chen Meijia’s figure?

Ziqiao crossed his arms and turned his back to the curtain with an impatient look on his face.

Women are slow when taking a shower.

Listening to the sound of water dripping behind him, his eyes slowly began to become uncertain.

……

After both of them finished washing up, they carefully pushed open the bathroom door and two heads poked out stealthily.

Seeing that there was no one in the living room, they rushed out of the bathroom in a hurry.

The first thing Meijia said when she arrived at the living room was, "I am so tired. This is the first time I have taken a shower and felt like I was protected from thieves."

"Hey, who do you say is the thief?"

Ziqiao immediately shouted in dissatisfaction: "I didn't look away the whole time, and I didn't even move my head."

"so what?"

Meijia rolled her eyes at him and said in a bad mood, "So should I continue to praise you for having the desire but not the courage to do it, and that you are truly a moral model and a role model for men?"

"Prejudice, naked prejudice!"

Ziqiao was too lazy to say anything more to Meijia, and they both spread out their own quilts on their respective sofas.

Ziqiao sat down on the sofa, closed his eyes and moaned with pleasure.

“It’s cool~~~”

Meijia sat on the sofa on the other side, playing with her phone, and was too lazy to pay attention to Ziqiao.

"Are you still playing on your phone?"

Ziqiao patted the sofa, really treating himself like a young master and giving orders: "Hurry up and go to bed, we still have to continue to pick up girls tomorrow morning."

"Still want to pick up girls?!"

Meijia's eyes widened: "Didn't Teacher Xian have a date with Lisa tonight? Now no one wants to compete with you for the throne of the king of picking up girls in the apartment.

"Lü Ziqiao, don't you think it's embarrassing enough that I followed you around for the past two days?

"Can't you just be quiet for a while?"

"Sorry, this is called life is endless, pick up girls are endless."

Zi Qiao said confidently: "When it comes to picking up girls, what matters is perseverance. Just as a drop of water wears away a stone, a pile of sand makes a tower. An old horse in the stable still has a thousand miles to go. Only in this way can you be invincible and unstoppable, just like a dragon swinging its tail and galloping on its horse."

"cut."

Meijia said disdainfully: “Your cultural level is not high, but you use quite a few idioms.

“Anyway, you have to go by yourself. I will never go with you and embarrass myself.

"If I go with you to pick up girls again, rumors might start to spread in the bar that a pair of orthopedic siblings are looking for someone to have a threesome."

"Hey, you're not going to be so cowardly, are you?"

Zi Qiao persuaded him, "At worst, you can help me be my wingman to pick up beautiful women, and then I will help you be my wingman to pick up handsome men."

"Get lost, I'm busy!"

Seeing that Mika flatly rejected his idea and continued to play with her mobile phone, he immediately leaned back on the sofa and wailed.

"If you don't let me pick up girls, you have to let me have something to entertain myself, right?"

Ziqiao's eyes lit up, and he started to think of a bad idea again: "How about we have a party at 3602 tomorrow and invite a bunch of handsome guys and beautiful girls to have fun together?"

"Handsome guy? Party? Happy!"

Mika's eyes suddenly lit up when she heard that, and a silly smile spread across her face, as if she was about to agree to it impatiently the next moment.

In fact, it was true. She excitedly reached out to Ziqiao, and her eyes seemed to have crossed time and space and saw the handsome guy at tomorrow's party.

Zi Qiao was puzzled when he saw Mei Jia reaching out to him: "What for?"

"Take the money, take the money for the party!"

Meijia was so impatient that she said tremblingly, "Give me the money now, and I'll contact Joey to order drinks and other things for tomorrow's party.

"You don't have a good relationship with Joey. If you make a reservation with him, he will definitely not give you a discount. Let me do it."

"Ha ha……"

When Ziqiao heard this, he thought about his wallet and the smile on his face instantly became uglier than crying.

As soon as Meijia saw Ziqiao's embarrassed smile, she knew that he was short of money. Meijia waved her hand and said, "It's okay. We have ways to deal with it if we don't have money.

“I’ll cover the basic expenses for the party, and you can pay off your share with your labor.

"Tomorrow morning you will go to the wholesaler to move the wine and then go to the supermarket to pick up the things. The arrangements for the party and the subsequent cleaning will also be left to you..."

Seeing Meijia blabbering on about a lot of troublesome and tedious things, the smile on Ziqiao's face became more and more stiff.

He shrank his neck and muttered in a voice as thin as a mosquito's buzz: "Can't we just have a party first and then collect everyone's share of the money?"

"cut."

Meijia expressed her contempt for Ziqiao mercilessly: "You are not willing to spend money, nor are you willing to contribute your efforts. All day long, you always expect others to pay for your happiness.

"Lv Ziqiao, you are really ambitious. Do you really think of yourself as a young master?"

Ziqiao was embarrassed by what Meijia said, and he quickly said, "Okay, okay, I won't hold this party."

Ziqiao, who failed to host the party, leaned back on the sofa in frustration and began to sigh.

They can neither pick up girls nor have parties. As for the side effect of the two of them being unable to separate, as long as Meijia doesn't cooperate, there will be no fun at all.

Ziqiao suddenly felt that his life in the next few days would be absolutely dull, with no beauties, no parties, and no excitement.

There is only endless boredom, boredom, and more boredom.

He glanced listlessly at Meijia who was still playing with her phone: "What on earth have you been doing these days with your phone in your hand? If you want to have fun, take me with you."

Mika subconsciously covered her phone and said nonchalantly, "Nothing."

"Oh."

Ziqiao nodded silently. After a while, he suddenly shouted in horror: "Lisa? Why did you follow me here!"

Meijia was startled when she heard that. She quickly turned her head to look, and then Ziqiao snatched her phone away at lightning speed.

"Lü Ziqiao! Give it back to me!"

Meijia yelled angrily, but Ziqiao just laughed and said, "Let me see what's so interesting in your phone."

His eyes swept across Meijia's mobile phone screen, and then he was stunned.

Ziqiao looked at Meijia with a strange expression on his face: "You are actually looking for a job?"

Meijia snorted and snatched her phone away: "What's wrong with looking for a job? Can't I just find a job?"

"But aren't you doing a good job as Guan Gu's personal assistant?"

"Oh……"

Ziqiao suddenly realized: "Is it because Guan Gu spent too much money after falling in love, so he planned to fire you to save money on salary?"

Without waiting for Meijia to reply, Ziqiao stood up and said, "That's ridiculous! Meijia, don't worry, I will go and fool Guan Gu, and I will definitely not let him fire you!

"sit down."

When Meijia saw Ziqiao was determined to help her without thinking, she felt helpless and even found it a little funny.

She pulled Ziqiao to sit down and explained seriously: "It's not that Guan Gu wants to fire me, it's me who plans to find a new job."

"You want a new job?"

Ziqiao suddenly realized again: "I see, you are dissatisfied with Guan Gu for not giving you a raise?
"It's okay. I'll go and help you fool Guan Gu."

"No."

Meijia said with a smile: "It has nothing to do with what you think. I just want to find a new job."

Zi Qiao was completely confused now: "Why?"

Meijia turned her head to look at Guan Gu's bedroom, then covered her mouth and whispered to Ziqiao what was in her mind.

"Oh, I see."

Ziqiao finally understood what was going on, and then he reached out and touched Meijia's forehead: "You don't even have a fever, why are you confused?"

"What, what?"

Meijia patted Ziqiao's hand in disdain.

"No, Mika, are you really short-circuiting your brain?"

Ziqiao looked at Meijia with a crazy look in his eyes. This was the first time in his life that he heard someone say that they disliked their job because it paid too much but did not do enough work, and that they were planning to find a new job.

Isn’t this simply a disease?

"Meijia, I remember your previous wish was to marry a good man, live a good life with no worries about food and drink, eat and wait for death, have money and love, right?

"Although marrying a man is different from choosing a boss, why would you waste your time on this opportunity to just eat and wait for death?"

“People always have to make progress.”

Meijia lowered her head and swiped the recruitment software on her phone, muttering softly, "In the past, when I was in the underworld, I spent lavishly when I had money, and starved when I didn't. My biggest wish was of course to have enough food and drink, to eat and wait for death, and to find a good man to marry.

“Now that we’ve moved into an apartment, we have enough food and clothes, and we don’t have to worry anymore.

"The most important thing is that with everyone in the apartment, I feel that even if I end up doing badly, I will never live the same life as before.

"At times like this, people always want to pursue something higher."

"Something more advanced?"

Ziqiao moved closer to Meijia and glanced at the recruitment software information on her phone.

"Formaldehyde purifier, negative review eliminater, water quality tester... These messy jobs don't look very advanced." He stretched out his hand and clicked on the recruitment information of these occupations, and was surprised to find that there are actually people who would apply for these stupid jobs.

"Why is it that all the applicants for these part-time jobs are from the same person named Du*? Is he short of money?"

Ziqiao looked at Meijia and asked, "So these are the more advanced things you're after?"

"Oh, I'm not talking about the advanced level of the profession."

Meijia took back her phone. Actually, she also felt that these jobs were too stupid. But it was because she had no education, no ability, and no background. The companies she wanted to work for looked down on her, and the companies she wanted to work for were all scams.

However, when Meijia thought about the fact that most college students today are in the same situation as herself when looking for jobs, she felt less depressed.

She said seriously, "In fact, it doesn't matter to me how much money I make, as long as the money I earn is enough for me to live on, to buy clothes, comics, dolls, snacks, lollipops, cosmetics, and so on..."

Meijia's voice got lower and lower as she spoke. She suddenly felt that the money she earned was really worthless.
She coughed lightly and tried to save face by saying, "I actually just want to find a job that can reflect my own value, so that I can feel that what I do is useful, rather than being Guan Gu's assistant now, where it doesn't make much difference whether I'm there or not."

Ziqiao frowned. He still felt that Meijia’s decision of not wanting to be Guan Gu’s personal assistant and instead wanting to find another job was too stupid.

How come I didn’t know that Mika was also an idealist?
He advised: "Meijia, whether there is a difference or not is not up to you to decide. "Since Guan Gu did not fire you, it proves that you are very important to him."

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"Ah."

Mika nodded: "If it weren't for me, he wouldn't have to change so many pairs of pants."

Zi Qiao looked puzzled when he heard this: "Huh?"

"...I accidentally ironed dozens of pairs of trousers for him over the past year."

"Oh."

Zi Qiao was immediately embarrassed. He racked his brains for a long time and could only say dryly: "At least, at least you have to help him cook."

"But even if I don't work as Guan Gu's life assistant, I will still cook for him as I cook for you. It's not like I'm confiscating your food money."

"The food expenses are worth a few dollars."

Ziqiao said in a deep voice: "Meijia, I think you should not think so much, just work hard and be Guan Gu's assistant honestly, making money is the kingly way."

When Ziqiao said this, he sighed silently. It was hard for him to imagine that one day he would actually advise others not to think too much and to work hard.

But for Meijia who has retired from society, this is already the best choice.

After all, the skills she learned in the underworld are more social and not suitable for serious work.

The most important thing is that she and Curry Sauce are two human-shaped error-making machines. No matter what they do, they may make mistakes and omissions that others cannot expect.

Otherwise, with Meijia's full ability in housework, how could she have burned dozens of Guan Gu's pants.

Meijia still shook her head in response to Ziqiao's persuasion.

“In fact, even if I am willing to continue to be Guan Gu’s personal assistant, this job will not last long.

“I support Guan Gu and You You being together a thousand times, ten thousand times, but they will get married, have children, and start their own family in the future.

"By then, I will still be Guan Gu's personal assistant, just cooking all day long, and then feel at ease letting Guan Gu spend money to support me. What's going on here?

"Guan Gu will no longer need a personal assistant sooner or later. Rather than making things difficult for him and Youyou, I might as well find a good job while I am still useful as a personal assistant."

"impossible."

Ziqiao said firmly: "You are our friend. Guan Gu and my aunt won't mind. If it doesn't work... you can go and be a nanny for them."

"I'll kill you with a sip of salt soda!"

Meijia spat at Ziqiao and said, "Tell me yourself, is this an idea that anyone could come up with?"

He shrugged. "I don't think there's anything wrong with it."

Meijia curled her lips and said, "I think Nanfeng is right. If the basis for maintaining a job is not ability but friendship, then this relationship will deteriorate sooner or later.

"I still want to be good friends with Guan Gu and You You for life, not a babysitter who lives on their friendship."

"It's Nanfeng again. He has a lot of great principles to say."

Ziqiao snorted coldly, and then asked unhappily: "Since he is so good at talking, has he helped you find a job?"

Meijia's face turned red when she heard that. She said sheepishly, "Actually, Nanfeng asked me to go to his dubbing studio before to see if I can handle the operation or front desk job."

"and then?"

"Then I was sitting at the front desk and playing on the computer when I accidentally got a computer virus. The computers in the entire studio were paralyzed, and all the data on the operations side was lost."

After hearing what Meijia said, Ziqiao couldn't stop twitching his lips.

He suddenly wasn't so worried about Mika stopping being Guan Gu's personal assistant and doing other jobs.

With her destructive work ability, she can only handle some small things in life in Guan Gu, because even if she messes up in the end it won’t be too bad.

As for Nanfeng, even if he didn't expect the dubbing studio to make much money for him, as a boss he had to ensure that the studio could make money for his people.

It is enough to have a curry sauce in the dubbing studio. If a small studio can raise the pair of Mijia and Curry...

The weather is getting cold, let the south wind go bankrupt.

Seeing Ziqiao like this, Meijia muttered with an embarrassed face: "Oh, I know I'm not very good at these, but I also want to improve."

Zi Qiao raised an eyebrow: "Progress?"

"correct."

Meijia counted on her fingers, "In the more than one year since we moved in, Nanfeng and Zhanbo are now preparing to start a company together, Wanyu has become a fashion editor, and Curry Sauce has become a voice actor.

"Yifei's role as a counselor is just a transition, she will be promoted to a formal lecturer sooner or later.

"Teacher Zeng has upgraded from a radio program host to a TV program host, but Teacher Xian is still not satisfied and wants to treat Lisa to dinner tonight to encourage her to make progress.

“Guan Gu’s Love Trilogy has been successfully published and distributed, and we are now preparing to launch a new digital comics channel.

“Youyou has signed with a new agency, not to mention Yumo.

"Zhang Wei, Zhang Wei, Zhang Wei... Although Zhang Wei has not passed the bar exam yet, he works very hard."

Meijia talked about everyone in the apartment one by one, and then she concluded: "Look, everyone is changing and making progress, and no one of them is satisfied with the status quo.

"Everyone is getting better and better. I can't just stay where I am and watch them go further and further away."

When Ziqiao heard Meijia's words, he was stunned at first, and then some sweat appeared on his forehead.

Before he could say anything, Meijia continued, "Don't even mention it as me. Aren't you worried about the same things these days?"

Zi Qiao subconsciously denied it and said, "How could I worry about such a boring thing? Are you crazy?"

Meijia rolled her eyes at Ziqiao and said, "You can fool others, but can you fool me?
"The reason why you went crazy trying to pick up girls after Teacher Xian stole the limelight from you is because you felt that there might be someone among you who is more charming and better at picking up girls than you.

"You are worried that you will be replaced by Teacher Xian, so you try hard to prove that you are the king of love in Love Apartment.

"This way, even if you don't know anything, at least you can help everyone with picking up girls and relationships, and you won't be left behind."

Ziqiao suddenly fell silent, and silence often means guilt.

After seeing that Yanyan, whom he had tried to strike up a conversation with two or three times without any results, was taken away by Teacher Xian so easily, and he accidentally became his wingman.

At that moment, Ziqiao felt indescribably panicked.

You have to know that he can't do anything. In his life, all he can do is lie and pick up girls.

If even the charm and attraction that I am proud of, or even the only thing worth praising, is suppressed by others, then what is the point of living in the apartment?

If his charm and attractiveness are not the best in the apartment, then he really doesn't have any advantages at all.

However, Ziqiao mistook the panic and uneasiness in his heart at that time as his overly strong competitive spirit. He would never allow Teacher Xian to treat him as a wingman and step on him.

But until Meijia said this now, he realized that his mischief and absurdity in the past few days were actually more due to his fear of being replaced and eliminated.

Ziqiao figured out all these things, but he would never admit it in front of Meijia.

"I think you just worry about nothing, so you think everyone should be the same as you."

He snorted and pretended to be tough and said, "I won't worry about these things, because I am the best pick-up girl in the apartment."

"Okay, okay, whatever you say."

Meijia curled her lips. She felt that it was a rare opportunity for her to speak her heart out to Ziqiao, but this guy just acted stubbornly and treated her as an outsider.

This made Meijia feel very bored. She put down her phone, pointed at Ziqiao's nose and warned him: "I warn you, you must not tell Guan Gu and Youyou about what I told you tonight. I don't want them to think that they did something wrong."

"understand."

Ziqiao was so flustered that he didn't even have the heart to argue with Meijia. He just agreed perfunctorily.

"That's good, turn off the lights and go to bed."

Meijia patted Ziqiao and motioned him to go with her to turn off the lights.

The two of them got up, turned off the lights, and lay down on their respective sofas in the dark.

After a while, Meijia turned over and said, "Ziqiao."

"Ah."

"In fact, you don't need to worry about that, because even if one day you are no longer the most cool and romantic playboy among us, everyone will still like you."

Mika's words of comfort echoed in the dark living room, but other than that the only sound was the two people's long breathing.

One minute, two minutes, five minutes, ten minutes...

In this dark, blind, quiet and peaceful little world, the passage of time seems to become blurred, and everything around seems no longer important.

Only two hearts are gradually beating in unison.

After an unknown amount of time, Ziqiao's voice suddenly rang out.

"Mika..."

Mika's long, thick eyelashes trembled slightly: "Hmm?"

"I……"

"I……"

"I……"

"I want to go to the toilet."

Meijia opened her eyes, and there was a ferocious look in them, as if she wanted to eat Ziqiao alive.

"The atmosphere has gotten so tense, and you actually want to go to the bathroom?!!"

Nan Feng looked at 3602 with an expression like an old man on the subway looking at his phone: "Bah, you coward!"

He shook his head helplessly, then turned around and knocked on Yumo's door.

　I'm coming

　　I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but Pigeon feels that his ability to break up passages has improved.

　　Hahahaha.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)