Chapter 19: Han Ning: Gu Yifan! If you don’t apologize to me, I’m never talking to you again
"BANG~"
Hearing the sound of the room door slamming shut, Han Ning froze on the spot.
"Hey, you little brat, what were you yelling about!"
Just then, Chen Dongmei walked out of the kitchen, wearing an apron.
"Uh..."
She paused when she saw Han Ning was the only one in the living room.
"Where’s that brat Gu Yifan?"
she asked in confusion, looking at the dumbfounded Han Ning.
Hearing Gu Yifan’s mom’s voice, Han Ning finally snapped out of it.
"Aunt Dongmei, sorry for the trouble. I’ll be heading back now."
After saying that, she got up and walked out of Gu Yifan’s home without another word.
Chen Dongmei: "..."
"BANG~!!"
The door was slammed shut.
Chen Dongmei stared at Han Ning’s retreating back, completely bewildered.
’Wait a minute!’
’What is going on?’
’What’s wrong with that girl Han Ning?’
’And where did that kid Gu Yifan go?’
At this point, Chen Dongmei felt like her CPU was about to fry.
Suddenly, she smelled something burning.
"It’s burning!"
With no time to worry about anything else, she slapped her thigh and rushed toward the kitchen!
...
Meanwhile, Han Ning, who was waiting for the elevator, had a dark expression on her face.
She glanced back at the door to Apartment 305 and ground out through clenched teeth, "Damn you, Gu Yifan! You stinking Gu Yifan! Fine! Don’t even think I’ll ever talk to you again!"
This time, she was truly angry!
"DING~"
The elevator doors opened. She stomped her foot, her face still dark with anger, and stormed inside huffily.
...
「9:30 AM.」
"You little brat, what was wrong with that girl Han Ning just now?"
At the dining table, Chen Dongmei asked Gu Yifan, who was munching on a steamed bun beside her, while she sipped her millet porridge.
"What was wrong?"
Gu Yifan asked, feigning ignorance.
"Just now!"
"Didn’t she come looking for you?"
"Why’d she suddenly leave?"
"And from the looks of it, she seemed a little angry!"
"What did you do to her?"
Chen Dongmei asked quizzically.
"How should I know?"
Gu Yifan replied casually.
Then, he added, "Oh, right. She wasn’t here for me. She was here for you!"
Chen Dongmei: "..."
"You brat, what nonsense are you spouting!"
"Alright, alright!"
"I won’t ask anymore, okay?!"
"I can’t be bothered with the petty drama between you two kids!"
Chen Dongmei shot him a glare and said irritably.
"Oh, okay..."
Gu Yifan nodded and didn’t say anything more, happily munching on the large meat-filled bun in his hand.
"BEEP BEEP BEEP... BEEP BEEP BEEP..."
Just then, his phone, which was sitting to the side, started ringing.
Gu Yifan paused.
He casually stuffed the rest of the bun in his hand into his mouth and picked up his phone to take a look.
Swiping to unlock the screen, he saw a friend request on Penguin Messenger: "July Qinghe wants to add you as a friend!"
There was no note with the request, so Gu Yifan didn’t know who it was.
He clicked on the person’s profile and saw that besides the avatar, everything else was blank.
Oh, and a lonely status signature: "Happiness belongs to them, but I have nothing."
It was updated several years ago, too!
’Who is this?’
’It’s not one of those tea scammers, is it?’
Gu Yifan frowned, thinking to himself.
Seeing him on his phone, Chen Dongmei said irritably, "All day long, you’re glued to that phone. When you’re eating, just eat. Why are you playing on your phone!"
After a moment’s thought, he accepted the friend request anyway.
As soon as he accepted, a message came through.
July Qinghe: Hello, are you student Gu Yifan?
Seeing the message, Gu Yifan felt a little disappointed.
In his past life, he’d read online about lots of people encountering these tea scammers, and plenty of suckers fell for it!
At the time, he had even wondered why he’d never run into one himself!
’If I ever met one, I’d have to get her to send me a couple of free tins of tea, one way or another!’
Remembering all the slick lines people online in his past life had come up with, the corners of Gu Yifan’s mouth couldn’t help but curl up slightly.
"Tsk~"
"What are you looking at, kid!"
"Grinning at your phone so lecherously!"
Chen Dongmei said with a look of disgust.
Er...(⊙o⊙)...
The curve of Gu Yifan’s lips vanished instantly.
"Wait!"
"What do you mean, grinning ’lecherously’???"
"Who talks about their own son like that?"
"Mom, am I really your biological son?!!"
He looked at his mom, speechless, and said with some bitterness.
Chen Dongmei’s eyes widened. "Shoo, shoo!"
"What nonsense are you talking!"
"Even food can’t shut your mouth. If you’re not going to eat, I’ll take it away!"
She shot Gu Yifan a look and said irritably.
Gu Yifan: "...-_-||"
’My mom was the one who started it, but somehow it ended up being my fault!’
’Where’s the justice in that!’
’Sigh~’
’My life is so hard!’
Gu Yifan sighed silently to himself.
Not daring to say anything more, he lowered his head and ate in silence.
’The reason was simple!’
’If he talked back again, Ms. Chen could lecture him all morning!’
’Can’t be helped!’
’In this house, Ms. Chen reigned supreme!’
’Even his own dad had to avoid her wrath, let alone him!’
’Besides, his dad was there to take the heat.’
’So, this wasn’t embarrassing at all!’
"I’m full!"
After finishing the millet porridge in his bowl in just a few quick slurps, Gu Yifan got up, took his bowl and chopsticks to the kitchen, and then walked over to the sofa.
"BEEP BEEP BEEP... BEEP BEEP BEEP..."
Just then, his phone went off again.
He glanced down; it was another Penguin Messenger notification.
An avatar with the contact name "Princess Ning’er" was bouncing on the screen.
Seeing this name, Gu Yifan paused for a moment.
Memories associated with the name instantly flooded his mind.
That’s right!
The owner of this screen name was none other than Han Ning, who had just left in a huff!
Princess Ning’er: "Gu Yifan! If you don’t apologize to me right now, I’m never talking to you again! (angry.jpg)"
Uh...
Seeing the message, Gu Yifan was completely bewildered.
’What the hell is this girl on about now?’
’Apologize?’
’Apologize for what??’
’She’s nuts!’
He shook his head and ignored it, casually closing her chat window.
Then he saw that July Qinghe had sent another message: Are you there?
Yifan Is Annoying: Not here!
Gu Yifan typed back casually.
Meanwhile, in a girls’ dorm room at Mountain City First Middle School, Su Qinghe was lying on her bed, flipping through a textbook.
But she had been flipping through the book for a long time without a single word sinking in.
The reason was simple.
She was worried that the discussions on the school forum would cause trouble for Gu Yifan.
After finally managing to get Gu Yifan’s Penguin Messenger ID from a classmate, she had immediately added him as a friend to tell him about it.
Unexpectedly, though he had accepted her friend request, Gu Yifan hadn’t replied to her message!
’Did I add the wrong person?’
Su Qinghe’s mind started to wander.
After a while, she thought for a moment, put down her textbook, and sent another message to the contact she had just added.
After sending the message, she put her phone aside and once again picked up the book, forcing herself to read.
She had only been reading for a short while when her phone suddenly started to vibrate.
"BZZZT—BZZZ BZZZ—"
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