Super Soldier in the City
Chapter 77: Being Drunk is Very Scary

Chapter 77: Chapter 77: Being Drunk is Very Scary

"Yifei, why haven’t you opened the drinks for us yet?" Xu Yingying suddenly turned her head and looked at Li Yifei with a reproachful gaze.

Li Yifei smirked, opened several cans of beer, and said, "I’m telling you, Xu president, you can’t boss people around like this."

Xu Yingying giggled and said, "I’m happy today, so just play along, will you? I’ll even let you smoke."

"That’s more like it." Li Yifei immediately pulled out a cigarette, lit it, and began to puff away contentedly.

He Fangqing looked at the two of them, the corner of her mouth twitching, and said to Xu Yingying, "President Xu, are you two..."

Xu Yingying chuckled, said, "It’s nothing, don’t worry about him, let’s just talk about us." She actually sidestepped the question.

He Fangqing could not ask any further, so she and Xu Yingying continued to drink beer and discuss the route for the next day. Neither of them was from Mile City, but there was plenty of information on the computer. While Li Yifei was out buying alcohol, Xu Yingying had already organized most of it with impressive efficiency.

Both He Fangqing and Xu Yingying were workaholics. Once they started discussing work, they completely forgot about everything else, leaving Li Yifei extremely bored and wanting to leave early. However, as soon as he stood up, Xu Yingying said to him, "Where are you going? If Director He and I drink too much, you’ll have to wake us up early tomorrow morning."

Li Yifei rolled his eyes and said, "You could just drink less."

"Go away, it’s none of your business. We’ll drink as much as we like."

"Then drink up, I’m going to sleep."

"No way, you stay with us."

Li Yifei glared in annoyance. Xu Yingying was being unusually willful today, so different from her usual aloofness.

"Alright, quit glaring, just drink with us." Xu Yingying actually pulled Li Yifei down by the hand to sit, and her tone... carried a hint of coquettishness.

Li Yifei glanced at He Fangqing, only to see her secretly glowering at him and downing a big gulp of beer.

Li Yifei picked up a can of beer and said, "Drink up, drink up. Aren’t you afraid I’ll get drunk and then take advantage of you two?"

Xu Yingying looked at Li Yifei with contempt and asked, "Would you dare?"

Li Yifei’s eyes suddenly widened as he replied, "You’d better not provoke me. I may not dare do many things, but if two beautiful drunk women were lying in bed, I would definitely dare."

"Go to hell, just drink your beer," Xu Yingying said, glancing at Li Yifei, then resumed her discussions with He Fangqing.

"Hey, Director He, what’s wrong with you? Why do you seem so distracted?" After saying a few words, Xu Yingying stopped and looked intently at He Fangqing.

He Fangqing rubbed her forehead and said, "President Xu, I can’t hold my liquor. I’m feeling a bit dizzy. I need to go wash my face." She then went to the bathroom.

At this time, Xu Yingying looked at Li Yifei with a smile, her legs crossed and her calf swinging lightly, and said, "Still dare to say nothing’s wrong?"

Li Yifei chuckled and said, "When did our President Xu become so nosy?"

"I please, is it any of your business? Do you want me to get Director He drunk later, to give you a chance?"

Li Yifei stared dumbfounded at Xu Yingying, then said with a wry smile, "I thought the two of you sisters were very different, but now I see, you’re exactly the same. It’s just that you’ve been hiding your true nature."

Xu Yingying burst out laughing and said, "You just realized? Seems not too late."

At that moment, He Fangqing came out of the bathroom. Seeing the two of them chatting and laughing, she felt a twinge of sourness in her heart, but her mood had already calmed down. She smiled and said to Xu Yingying, "President Xu, can you stop flaunting your affection with Li Yifei? Please think of my feelings as a woman who has just divorced."

This made Xu Yingying a little embarrassed, and she hurriedly said, "You’ve got it all wrong. Li Yifei and I have no relationship. It was just during the New Year that I hired him to pretend to be my boyfriend, to deal with my parents."

"Pretend?" He Fangqing looked at the two, disbelieving.

Xu Yingying chuckled lightly and said, "Of course it was fake, but this guy is somewhat reliable, so I let him come and drink with us."

He Fangqing was still doubtful and said, "But it seemed to me that there was a bit of ’real acting within the fake performance.’

Li Yifei laughed heartily and replied, "If you act long enough, you get used to it."

Xu Yingying glared at Li Yifei and scolded, "Don’t spout nonsense." Then she turned to He Fangqing and said, "Director He, there’s no one else here, so there’s no need for you to keep hiding things. People always need to look forward."

He Fangqing’s face turned red, and she stuttered, "We... we... we don’t have anything."

Xu Yingying laughed heartily and said, "Alright then, if you don’t want to say it, that’s fine. That night when you called this guy, he was at my place."

At that moment, He Fangqing wished she could find a hole to crawl into, feeling both embarrassed and at a loss. If it weren’t for her recent divorce, she wouldn’t need to feel this way. But having just divorced and getting together with Li Yifei, such a thing was neither easy to explain nor pleasant to hear. People would probably think she and Li Yifei had had an affair for a while, and that’s why she had divorced.

At this point, Xu Yingying patted He Fangqing’s leg and said, "Sister Fangqing, I know about the stuff that happened at the head office, and it isn’t your fault. Why bother with such a scumbag? Although Li Yifei is nothing special, he’s still much better than your ex-husband."

Li Yifei rolled his eyes and protested, "What do you mean I’m ’nothing special’?"

Xu Yingying glared and retorted, "This has nothing to do with you. We women are talking; why in the world are you men butting in?"

He Fangqing felt much closer to Xu Yingying after being called "Sister Fangqing" and, having already drunk quite a bit, she tossed her hair and with watery eyes looked at Li Yifei and said, "President Xu is right, this guy is indeed nothing special. He’s okay as a bed partner, but as for being my husband, he definitely wouldn’t make the cut."

Xu Yingying laughed heartily again and said, "That’s your business, not mine. Let’s continue drinking."

Li Yifei shook his head. Although He Fangqing was a bit older than Xu Yingying, she was clearly not as cunning. Xu Yingying had easily coaxed her into spilling the beans in just a few words.

However, it mattered little to him if people knew or didn’t know about them. All that mattered was that He Fangqing didn’t actually want to marry him.

The atmosphere warmed up considerably after that. All three had drunk quite a lot, and Xu Yingying, already tipsy, stood up and said, "Alright, I’m off to sleep. The room next door is for you two." Then she stagger-stumbled back to her own bedroom.

He Fangqing was dumbfounded. How could Li Yifei just casually enter Xu Yingying’s bedroom, and especially while she was sleeping? That was way too casual, wasn’t it? Could it be that Li Yifei had also slept with Xu Yingying?

The thought made He Fangqing feel somewhat troubled, but even more so, it was a relief. If Li Yifei had been with Xu Yingying as well, they were all in the same boat, and there’d be no need for awkwardness.

Li Yifei, unaware that his actions had led He Fangqing to such thoughts, had already reached Xu Yingying’s bedside. Seeing that Xu Yingying was still deep in slumber, he nudged her shoulder and said, "President Xu, time to get up."

Xu Yingying grunted and opened her eyes, asking, "What time is it?"

"Half-past six."

"Oh, then I need to get up," said Xu Yingying as she sat up, wearing her pyjamas and shaking her head, looking utterly exhausted.

"I told you not to drink too much, but you just had to. Look at the state you’re in," Li Yifei shook his head.

Xu Yingying glared at Li Yifei and said, "It’s not because I drank. I was about to fall asleep, but your voices were so loud I couldn’t sleep."

There was a loud "bang!" from outside, as if someone had bumped into the door. Xu Yingying couldn’t help but laugh and called out, "Sister Fangqing, are you okay?"

"I’m fine, I’m fine," He Fangqing hastily replied.

Xu Yingying laughed again, then glared at Li Yifei and said, "Now get out; I’m changing clothes."

"Change then, you’ve changed in front of me before," Li Yifei muttered under his breath but still quickly left the room.

Xu Yingying snorted and began to change her clothes at rapid speed. Today’s affair was too important, and she couldn’t afford to be unprepared. If Su Mengxin called early and she wasn’t ready, it would be truly impolite.