The Black Card

Chapter 235 - Drink At Home Again

Translator: Lav

Editor: Seliniaki Ilikia

Wei Xingyue set the perfume on the table. "You haven't told me yet," she said. "Why are you giving me a present all of a sudden?"

"It's to thank you for telling Wei Qing to help me!"

"That's so cheap. My help is only worth a bottle of perfume?"

"First things first, you didn't help me," Shi Lei answered. "You only told Wei Qing to. Second, I could have handled it without his help. Third, how much does your help actually cost? It's just for future reference. If I ever actually need your help in the future, I'll prepare enough money beforehand so we won't owe each other anything!"

"Hey! Why are you so serious? I'm only joking. Am I someone who would ask for something in return?"

Shi Lei waved his hand. "I would hope that you're someone who does that. If all actions were measured in money, everyone's life would be easier."

Wei Xingyue didn't speak for a long time. For some reason, she suddenly found Shi Lei's words to be rather profound. It sounded simple, but also hid many unexpressed sentiments.

"Oh, right. You didn't tell me before, but what's up with you and Song Miaomiao?" Wei Xingyue asked. "Seriously, something small happens to you that she could've solved with a phone call, but she instead rushes to Runzhou? Shi Lei, I've really underestimated you. Don't tell me you have something going on with Song Miaomiao!" Wei Xingyue threw a flirtatious glance at him and her tone sounded more and more obscure. She sent a light kick at Shi Lei with one of her long, slim legs.

That wasn't right. She was misunderstanding even more.

From Shi Lei's point of view, Song Miaomiao was rather pitiful in certain areas. He, at least, wouldn't be able to stand the feeling of not having a single friend.

The moment something happened to his family, the help Song Miaomiao gave was too overbearing, but that was under the consideration that she treated him as a friend and was even willing to rush over to help him solve his problem. Even though Shi Lei seemed like he was complaining about her messing things up even more, in reality, he really appreciated her.

Hence, he was slightly unhappy with Wei Xingyue and his tone wasn't too friendly. "Song Miaomiao isn't the person you used to know. She's actually just like you and many others in the same social class as you. Lonely and isolated. Except she chose to fight back, even though her methods were childish. But it doesn't change the fact that she's an extremely lonely person who hasn't had a true friend since childhood. It's hard for the two of you to drop all pretense and communicate like normal people…Nevermind, you won't understand what I'm saying anyway. Basically, if you treat others sincerely, they will reciprocate. If you don't set any traps and stop constantly looking out for them, you'll discover that the world is actually a beautiful and amazing place."

Wei Xingyue kicked him again with a grin on her face. Once again, the kick lacked power, like she was flirting with him.

"Don't spout that nonsense. Do you really believe what you said?"

Shi Lei nodded sincerely. "I do. I really do."

Wei Xingyue laughed, but her smile quickly disappeared and the expression on her beautiful face and was grave, something Shi Lei had never seen before.

After a while, Wei Xingyue began to speak, her voice solemn. "Although what you said wasn't very clear, I think I understand what you mean. It's just like how it is between us. Our backgrounds are worlds apart, but I feel very relaxed around you because I don't need to worry about anything. Maybe she has the same feelings as me."

"Well, never mind this. Just know that Song Miaomiao won't tease you again."

"Do you really think I'm scared of her?" Wei Xingyue replied in disdain. "I just value my reputation more than she does her own."

"Perhaps you two will never be friends, but at least she won't pester you again and you should stop focusing on her as well. You two are the same kind of person anyway. You should also take back the deal made at the drag race about her not appearing within a thirty kilometer radius of you."

Wei Xingyue's eyes wandered elsewhere and when she looked at Shi Lei again, they were watery and blurred with innumerable emotions.

"Fine. For you, I won't fight with her anymore. Of course, that's under the assumption that she doesn't come and mess with me." Wei Xingyue gave Shi Lei a teasing glance. "Lil'man, this is all because of you…"

"Don't scare me! You'll make me think you're pursuing me! I already have a girlfriend! I can't give my heart to two people and therefore refuse date two girls at the same time!" Shi Lei said righteously.

Wei Xingyue still smiled charmingly as the tip of her tongue lightly brushed against her lips. "If I really was after you, would you take the bait?"

"Hmph! Don't even think about it! I want to live a for few more years!"

"Then go die!" Wei Xingyue smacked the table and stood up. She took a few steps, but turned around, remembering to take the perfume with her.

Shi Lei said there without moving, then called out, "Didn't you want to exercise?"

"Exercise your ass! It's already dark!"

"The practice ground is pretty well lit. Are you sure you don't want to sweat it out with me?"

"Sweat your head! You can hit four hundred meters away on your first try, so why would I make myself suffer by practicing with a pervert like you?" Wei Xingyue walked away gracefully, the movement of her hips extremely alluring to watch.

Shi Lei laughed and picked up the glass of water. After a moment of hesitation, he downed the entire thing. He then slung the set of golf clubs he'd bought over his back, put his hands in his pockets, and walked toward Wei Xingyue leisurely.

Wei Xingyue came out of the changing room only after Shi Lei had already finished and waited a while for her. He caught the scent of a familiar perfume, which was completely different from the one she had before.

You said my perfume was too cheap, and yet you're still happy about it! Shi Lei was pleased with himself but he seemed to be neglecting something.

When they left together, Meng Xiaodie caught sight of them and walked up to bid them farewell.

After getting in Wei Xingyue's car, Shi Lei said, "I think golf is pretty interesting. Let's come and play again if the weather's good tomorrow."

"You really are addicted, aren't you? But we don't have idiots for you to bully everyday. Your tee off is already at this level, so you can just stay home and practice putting."

"I still have a long way to go!" Shi Lei replied modestly, which earned him and eye roll from Wei Xingyue.

This time, she really was rolling her eyes, not flirting.

But Wei Xingyue didn't understand Shi Lei's mindset at all. He had spent more than 100,000 yuan on the set of clubs, but had only used one of them. It would be safer to play a few more times before the final day, just in case the Scepter tried to pick bones from an egg.

Although Wuwei Lounge was a good restaurant, there was no point in eating there too often. They settled on a commonly seen Xiang restaurant and ordered a full table of authentic Xiang cuisine. They were sweating from all the spices, but the food was still extremely good.

Wei Xingyue suggested having a drink after dinner and Shi Lei didn't really mind. However, he was horrified when she mentioned that she wanted to drink at his apartment. The giant misunderstanding before happened only because they had been drinking at his apartment, and it wasn't good to have it happen that often. Actually, it was better to not let it happen at all.

"Let's find some place else. My apartment is too tiny." Shi Lei stammered.

Wei Xingyue was a smart woman and immediately knew what he was thinking of. "Aren't you overestimating yourself a little?" she asked, glaring at him. "Did you really think I wanted to go to your place and sleep with you?"

Well, you can't talk reason with a crazy woman.

Chapter 236 - When Mars Crushes Earth

Translator: Lav

Editor: GemVoo

They drove the car into the apartment's garage as they couldn't park it on the street anymore. But upon opening the back trunk, Wei Xingyue found out that there was no wine left.

"It's fine, I'll get it. Take my key and go up first." Shi Lei gave the key to Wei Xingyue without a second thought.

Wei Xingyue also thought that it was natural as Shi Lei couldn't make her go buy wine in heels. "It doesn't need to be the best, but don't get the really bad ones. Have a look, the Australian ones are the best, or Chile is fine too. Oh, you know I'm talking about wine, right?"

Shi Lei rolled his eyes and walked into the lift.

Shi Lei walked out at level one while Wei Xingyue stayed on. Shi Lei walked out of the apartment's front door and remembered that there was a specialty store for wine in a building that wasn't too far from his school.

He quickly found and saw the brand that Wei Xingyue liked after searching for a while. It was the BIN series of Penfolds. He found that the price ranged from 700 to 800 yuan and grabbed two bottles before paying at the counter.

He only spent about ten minutes to walk from the shop to the apartment, about half an hour over all. He could only ask the guard to let him in despite not having the key, but luckily, the guard had recognized him seeing as though he had a propensity for bringing different women back to the apartment, each of whom were extremely beautiful - it would be hard for the guard to forget. When Shi Lei walked into the lift, he felt like the guard wanted to say something to him but ultimately opted not to. Shi Lei didn't dwell on the matter and walked in.

Shi Lei quickly arrived upstairs but as soon as he walked out, he heard a familiar voice. "You are … Why are you here?"

Then, another familiar voice spoke, "Why did you come?"

The two voices spoke one after another, but Shi Lei could discern that one of them was Wei Xingyue's voice, while the other intimidated voice was Sun Yiyi.

Holy shit! That's bad! What the hell is this!

Although Shi Lei wasn't guilty, he quickly dashed towards his house and saw Sun Yiyi standing right in front of the door. The door was opened and Wei Xingyue was obviously inside.

"Yiyi, why are you here!" Shi Lei opened his mouth awkwardly. When Sun Yiyi opened the door only to see another woman inside, especially one of such exquisite beauty, it was hard for her to not misunderstand.

Sun Yiyi turned around and her voice turned slightly cold as she saw that it was Shi Lei, "Brother Shitou, you are back. I just had dinner with my mom and she told me to come and give you some soup. I didn't think your house …."

Shi Lei figured that something was wrong through Sun Yiyi's tone of voice and quickly stepped forward to look inside.

He thought, Isn't it just Wei Xingyue? They have met before. Not to mention that he already told Sun Yiyi that Wei Xingyue and him were somewhat friends now. Why was she like this?

But when he saw Wei Xingyue, his nerve snapped and immediately understood why Sun Yiyi had misconstrued the situation.

Wei Xingyue was donned in only a bathrobe and it was hard to see whether or not she was wearing anything underneath. She was barefooted and although she had blue nail polish on which was cute, but why cute now! Why the hell did you dress like this? It's barely been any time and you're already acting as if it's your house?

But, bathrobe……

Shi Lei smacked his forehead and remembered that he bought this bathrobe a few days ago when he went shopping. He saw in movies that wealthy people tended to wear a bathrobe at home after showering so he impulsively decided to grab one too. He didn't really wear it after he came back as he didn't have the habit of doing so, and so he left it in the closet. If it were not for Wei Xingyue wearing it, he would've forgotten that he even bought it.

Jesus Christ! I told you that it was a bad idea to drink at my place but you just had to! It's already enough that you are here, but I just went to grab some wine, why did you also have to dress like this!

It was only now that it dawned on Shi Lei the reason as to why the guard seemed like he had something to say to him. He had definitely seen Wei Xingyue going upstairs, after which he saw Sun Yiyi also come up. This must have led to him making the face of having Mars crushing Earth.

He sighed deeply. Shi Lei pulled the door closed and called out to the inside, "Please, put your own clothes on."

Then, Shi Lei held Sun Yiyi's hands and whispered, "Yiyi, don't be angry, I need to explain to you."

Sun Yiyi's eyes were red but she didn't cry. She forced a smile to Shi Lei and said, "Brother Shitou, it's fine. She's really pretty. Now that you seem like you have a lot of money, you should have a pretty sister to accompany you."

Shi Lei shook his head and said, "It's not what you think. Come, drop your things, let's talk next to the windows." Seeing that Sun Yiyi stood there motionlessly, Shi Lei forcefully took the thermal container from her hands, put it on the floor with the wine in front of the door and pulled her to the window at the end of the corridor.

"Yiyi, do you think Wei Xingyue and I are something more than friends?"

Sun Yiyi didn't speak and still had her head lowered, while her hands incessantly fidgeted with her clothes. Shi Lei noticed that Sun Yiyi was wearing the clothes he bought for her.

"You've met her before, do you remember?"

Sun Yiyi nodded and whispered, "Yes, she's the one who accidentally hit you with her car."

"We became acquaintances because of this, but we never contacted each other after that. I went to a bar later and met her again, then we became friends. She's a super rich miss. You've also seen Wei Qing before, they are the same kind of person and she's even wealthier than Wei Qing. Rich isn't the point but the main point is that wealthy misses and young masters like don't really have any friends. You may not understand this, nor did I. I only came to slowly discover this after interacting with them."

"I believe what you say."

"That's good. In short, we are just friends. Perhaps there aren't many people out there who don't care about her identity as a rich second generation, that's why she's willing to hang out with me. Then, Wei Qing came to Wudong and I planned to have dinner with him, she just happened to come back from other cities at the same time so we let her tag along. But as soon as she arrived, I received a call from a relative …" Shi Lei briefly recounted what happened to his family.

"How can that factory's director be so bad? Is Uncle Shi fine now? Brother Shitou, why didn't you tell me earlier? If you did, I could've gone back to Runzhou to help take care of Uncle Shi."

"Idiot, what would happen to your mom if you went to Runzhou with me? Her body isn't in good condition either right now."

"Mom can already cook by herself and go out for a walk everyday……" Shi Lei touched Sun Yiyi's face tenderly and said, "Let's not talk about this. Then, Wei Xingyue told Wei Qing to go to Runzhou to help. Although she didn't directly show up, she did help out a lot. Finally, the problem was solved and the factory director will be sentenced to at least three years in prison. The headquarters of the factory also arranged people to not only give the house back to my father, but they let my father go back to work after recovery and even promoted him. So, I thought that I ought to thank her after coming back … Don't you think I should've?"