Chapter 72: Get Her!
Zheng Qi was left speechless.
Taking advantage of the moment, Cheng Fei quickly struck first.
“That’s right. It’s like what you two are thinking, but also not exactly the same. I really did change. After meeting him, I felt like my whole world changed. He spoiled me like a child and treated me like the most precious thing in the world. Heaven made me suffer for a few years, and now it paid me back with enough happiness to last a lifetime. Honestly, it feels unfair… because I feel like I gained way too much from this deal! At the same time, I think couples don’t need to have similar personalities. Different personalities are more interesting and fun together. So I’m willing to be the one who changes, to become more open, cheerful, and even a little mischievous.”
Tsk tsk!
For Cheng Fei, saying all that felt painfully embarrassing.
But honestly speaking, Gao Ming really was a pretty good person. Being friends with him would not be bad at all.
Then she looked at the two women across from her. Just a moment ago they had been fighting each other, but now, seeing Cheng Fei’s bright and excited expression…
Whew!
These were two starving single women. Hearing all this lovey-dovey talk really was hard for them to accept.
Still, this was Cheng Fei’s only usable card. Without dragging Gao Ming into the explanation, there was no way to cover up how sudden all her changes had been.
Forget it. They were definitely going to make trouble again anyway, so bring it on!
“Haha… Cheng… Cheng Fei.”
“Little Feifei, let me recover first… then we’ll settle the score… ahahaha!”
As the saying goes, the one who acts first has the advantage, while the one who acts later suffers.
It was not completely accurate for this situation, but taking advantage first was still important.
Cheng Fei flexed her fingers in the air, and then…
The playful laughter upstairs became so wild that the three men downstairs could not bear listening anymore. They tried to distract themselves by looking at the old furniture and decorations, but the sounds were far too good at awakening natural instincts.
In the end, the three men decided to leave the house to the women for the time being.
Even after they left, the playful fighting and laughter continued.
As for the final result…
The huge bathtub that had been completely full of water ended up losing more than half of it because of the three women splashing around.
After playing around enough, all three were exhausted and lay against the edge of the bathtub, breathing heavily.
Zheng Qi half-opened her eyes and glanced sideways. Then she casually brushed the wet hair off Cheng Fei’s face.
“Feifei, it’s not that I absolutely had to prove there’s a man’s soul inside you. I was just thinking… what if? Recently, one of my fans recommended me a novel. I thought it was pretty interesting, and I wanted to try writing something like that too. If you really were like that, I just wanted to ask how you felt inside. Whether novels are fake or not, emotions should still feel real.”
Cheng Fei smiled calmly and pulled her into a hug.
“It’s actually simple. Just treat me as if I really were. After all, I’m already a… a married woman now. I understand men better than you two.”
That sentence hit another sensitive point.
The moment she finished speaking, Bai Xi immediately lifted her head off Zheng Qi’s shoulder, while Zheng Qi stared at Cheng Fei with dangerous eyes.
“How many relationships have you even had? A little kid wearing a fake beard pretending to be mature!”
“Hiss! Feifei, do you think what happened earlier still wasn’t enough?”
Cheng Fei was honestly a little scared now.
The people who understood men best were men themselves, and the opposite was true too. When these two started messing around physically…
Whew, it was truly overwhelming.
If things continued one more round, she would not only have to worry about the three men outside misunderstanding something, but also about whether she could still walk properly afterward.
“No no no, enough already! Teacher Bai is mighty and amazing! Miss Zheng is powerful and majestic! I willingly admit defeat!”
As she spoke, Cheng Fei quickly flipped herself out of the bathtub.
But the moment her feet touched the ground, her legs felt weak, sore, numb, and completely powerless, as if someone had poured vinegar into her muscles.
She stumbled backward until she grabbed the edge of the bathtub to steady herself.
She could feel burning stares behind her. Turning around, she saw the two women smiling proudly, both still looking completely energetic, as if all the earlier chaos had not affected them at all.
How strange.
During all that playing around, she definitely had not done less than they did. So why was she the only one left weak like jelly?
Could she really be that sensitive?
Drying themselves off created another beautiful and slightly seductive scene, but Cheng Fei had the desire without the strength anymore.
In the end, she could only sigh as the two women supported her back to the bedroom together, almost like escorting an empress back to her palace.
The soft bed was two meters by two meters. It was already spacious enough for one man and one woman, let alone three slim women.
After all the earlier excitement, everyone was exhausted.
The temperature had dropped with the autumn weather, and the warm blanket was far too comfortable.
Zheng Qi and Bai Xi truly fell asleep the moment they touched the bed.
Only one pair of eyes remained open, staring at the bright moon outside without any sleepiness.
She had almost exposed herself just now. It really had been dangerous.
Today, Zheng Qi’s sharp gaze had sounded an important warning bell in her heart.
If she really kept living the same careless way as before, ignoring how others saw her, what would the final result become?
Maybe she could fool them once like she did today, but could she fool them forever?
Zheng Qi said it lightly, saying she did not care who Cheng Fei really was.
But when the real truth actually appeared in front of them, who could say for sure how they would look at her then. With what expressions, attitudes, and judgment?
She had already seen enough of how society worked, hadn’t she?
A forbidden same-sex relationship had once happened around her, and when it was exposed in front of everyone, she herself had also been one of the people throwing out judgmental looks.
Even if she was not afraid of Zheng Qi and Bai Xi, if one day the truth was exposed in front of unrelated strangers, who would hold back the sharp words that could so easily leave their mouths?
After being hurt by silent pressure and cold treatment, the pain shown in people’s eyes was something she could now truly understand herself.
A man’s soul inside a woman’s body, an existence like an outsider.
Other than someone almost like family such as Zhou Lin, how many ordinary people could really treat her as a normal person?
From childhood to adulthood, people slowly formed a set of rules deep in their minds because of the environments around them.
So what happens when they meet something that breaks those rules?
Monster. Pervert.
The moment people’s attention gathered on that point, all kinds of ugly labels would burst out from their subconscious minds. Then would come mocking words, followed by people avoiding her as if she were something disgusting, pushing her away and isolating her.
The result of going against society’s accepted rules without having the power to change them was always tragic.
If she did not want that future to become reality, if she did not want to be rejected by others, then the only choice was to become the most common kind of “normal person” in society.
In other words, let go of her obsession, face her current reality, and peacefully become a real woman.
Hide the traces of the past as much as possible, and make everything look natural.
Thinking about it was easy, but actually doing it was far from simple.
She turned to the side, facing away from the two sleeping women, and looked directly at the bright moon hanging high in the night sky.
Was it just her imagination?
Why did tonight’s moon seem larger and brighter than ever before?
It was as if the fairy in the moon was dancing with the jade rabbit again. The moonlight seemed to pass through skin and flesh, washing away the burden weighing on her soul.
Her spirit felt pulled into another mysterious world, while the feeling of her physical body slowly disappeared.
At the horizon, the pale light of dawn began to appear. The deep night was about to end.
Leaving the warm blanket behind, she found that the three men in the next room were still asleep, while the people in this room had already gotten up to wash and get ready.
Everything had already been packed. Before leaving, they still needed to put on beautiful makeup.
The time Cheng Fei planned to wake up was actually not much different from Gao Ming and the others. Unfortunately, Bai Xi and Zheng Qi had been making loud noises nonstop, making it impossible for her to sleep.
And that alone was not even the worst part.
To wake her up, Zheng Qi directly pulled away her blanket!
Hiss!
Even though it was only early autumn, the cold air was no joke. It woke her up instantly. After that, falling back asleep was impossible.
With messy hair, she went into the bathroom to clean herself up. After coming out, she saw one woman carefully drawing her eyebrows in front of Cheng Fei’s fancy-looking dressing table, while the other sat cross-legged on the sofa putting on powder.
When it was Cheng Fei’s turn, she casually rubbed some skin lotion onto her face the same way she always did, looking very careless about it.
The two women who had been seriously doing their makeup both turned to look at her.
“Feifei, we’re going on a trip today, not staying at the shop.”
“We admit you still look pretty without makeup, but at least respect yourself a little, okay?”
Cheng Fei was stunned by those words.
Not wearing makeup meant not respecting yourself?
Since when had that become popular thinking?
What did self-respect have to do with putting stuff on your face?
Of course, she could only think those things in her heart. She could not openly argue with them, otherwise yesterday’s dangerous suspicions might rise up again.
Besides, what had she been thinking about last night?
About becoming the most “normal” kind of woman.
And what woman did not enjoy dressing herself up beautifully?
It was a contradictory thought, but also something perfectly normal.
“We’re going far away today. Nobody there knows me anyway. And isn’t a natural face more fresh and natural?”
The two women looked at each other for a moment, then stood up almost at the same time and slowly circled around Cheng Fei.
“This little sheep has changed. She’s starting to stop listening now. So what should we do?”
“Fix her up!”
Like a hungry tiger pouncing on prey, Zheng Qi jumped onto Cheng Fei. Together with Bai Xi, they forcefully pressed her down in front of the dressing table and began a full “makeover.”
Before the sky was fully bright, they were already on the road, driving steadily toward their destination at a speed just under the limit.
Because they had woken up too early, yawns kept echoing through the car one after another, nonstop like waves growing stronger and stronger.
Their biological clocks had already formed habits. Fighting against instincts passed down through millions of years of evolution was not easy at all.
A touch of orange finally appeared on the horizon, and with one command, the car stopped by the roadside.
In the countryside, farmland stretched endlessly into the distance. Without the city’s trapped heat, even early autumn weather was enough to make lightly dressed people shiver.
The cold wind quickly forced everyone back into the car.
The thin clothes the three women wore were not enough to keep them warm, so they all dug out the hoodies they had packed away earlier because they thought carrying them was troublesome.
After putting them on, the three looked at each other.
They were all wearing the exact same color.
Standing together, they looked like some low-budget girl group.
“So this is how you buy clothes?”
“Dark blue looks nice and makes you look slimmer! And it was buy two get one free. Such a good deal.”
After hearing that, Bai Xi immediately looked like she wanted to lecture her the way she lectured students.
But…
After everything Cheng Fei had gone through, and considering how much money she normally spent on cosmetics, it was already pretty good if the rest of her salary was enough to keep her fed. Saving money in daily life was understandable.
“Hehe… you really do look youthful,” Cheng Fei said with a fake smile.
As Zheng Qi got out of the car, she joked casually.
“If only we really were young girls. Sadly, the three of us are already… sigh… married women, old hags, and—ah!”
Smack!
A sharp sound like a clap interrupted Zheng Qi before she could finish speaking.
The one who got hit covered her full, well-endowed chest, her mouth opening wide enough to fit a plate.