The story of Rose starts with being a brother

Chapter 414 Confusion and Chaos (Part 3): Bomb Disposal Expert Zeng Xiaoxian

In response to Qin Yumo's ordeal, the people in Love Apartment not only expressed their sympathy but also planned to provide her with long-term comfort and help her overcome her psychological trauma.

When a girl is heartbroken, she usually feels better after crying her eyes out.

The apartment also had several extra boxes of tissues prepared for this purpose.

But to everyone's surprise, those tears on Sunday night seemed to be Yu Mo's last tears.

After that night, Yu Mo neither cried nor made a fuss, as if the breakup had no effect on her.

She ate her meals as usual, went to class as usual, spoke softly and gently, and seemed to be doing even better than before.

But soon, everyone noticed something was wrong. Yu Mo hadn't gotten over the heartbreak and wasn't crying anymore, but she was gradually losing her energy and spirit.

……

Tuesday morning, 3602.

Zeng Xiaoxian slumped on the sofa with a solemn expression, tossing an orange around in his hand.

"Teacher Zeng, you've been tossing oranges for ten minutes already," Guan Gu Shenqi, who was sitting across from him reading comics, couldn't help but say. "If you keep tossing them, I'm going to want to squeeze the oranges!"

When Guan Gu is feeling irritable, his favorite way to relieve stress is to squeeze instant noodles and oranges.

"Guan Gu, you have to be understanding of Teacher Zeng. After all, he doesn't usually drive much in order to save fuel, and then his car was smashed overnight."

After finishing a game, Lu Ziqiao tossed the controller aside, turned to Zeng Xiaoxian, and smiled, "But Teacher Zeng, you should also be understanding of Yu Mo. After all, all you lost was a smooth car roof, but Yu Mo lost love!"

"..."

Zeng Xiaoxian put away the oranges, rolled his eyes at him, and said, "What do you know? It's just a car. Do you think I'm that petty?"

He then sat up straight and said with a serious expression, "When I went back to the apartment just now, I ran into Yu Mo at the door. She put the car keys into the door of apartment 3601, and... broke them in half."

"Huh?" Guan Gu Shenqi said with surprise, "No wonder Yu Mo went back from our balcony just now!"

"Wasn't Yu Mo's mood quite stable yesterday?"

"Stable? She was standing at the door just now, complaining about a series of unfortunate things. She said she went to the supermarket and was forced to buy a box of frozen dumplings because the cashier wrongly accused her of eating them!"

Lu Ziqiao asked with a strange expression, "So... she stole some?"

Zeng Xiaoxian nodded: "Anyway, I saw that the box of frozen dumplings was indeed opened, and two dumplings were missing."

"..."

Lu Ziqiao and Guan Gu Shenqi exchanged a glance, their expressions turning serious.

"Why does it feel like... Yu Mo is a little out of it?" Lu Ziqiao frowned.

Zeng Xiaoxian sighed and continued, "There were also things that happened to her, like when she made a mistake at the company and happened to run into the boss's inspection, when she went out she forgot to put on eyeliner, when the vegetables she had planted for twenty days on the farm were all stolen overnight, and so on—a whole series of things that she felt were bad luck!"

"hiss!"

Lu Ziqiao gasped, while Guan Gu Shenqi thought for a moment and then suddenly raised his hand and said with an embarrassed smile, "Um... Yu Mo's vegetables, actually I stole them."

"..."

Meeting their deadpan gazes, Guan Gu quickly added, "But I didn't steal it all, I only stole a little bit."

Who told him to be able to multitask, drawing and stealing vegetables at the same time!

Zeng Xiaoxian waved his hand and shook his head, saying, "Sigh, never mind that. The problem now is that Yu Mo's condition is quite serious. To explain it scientifically, heartbreak has made her... lose her soul!"

"What should we do? Yu Mo is in great danger right now. What if she loses her soul while driving one day? That would be unimaginable!" Guan Gu Shenqi said worriedly.

"Her car key is broken in the door lock, so there's no need to worry about that for now."

"Oh, that's true." Guan Gu breathed a sigh of relief, but quickly added, "We still can't let our guard down."

"In my opinion, no one else can help with heartbreak; only time can heal the wounds in her heart," said relationship expert Lü Ziqiao.

"What you said is as good as nothing at all," Guan Gu Shenqi dismissed his opinion. "Yu Mo needs an outlet to vent and release her inner pain!"

"Easy for you to say. Yu Mo is a ticking time bomb right now. If you mess around, you'll suffer a terrible fate."

"Hahaha!"

Just as Guan Gu Shenqi and Lu Ziqiao were having a heated discussion, Zeng Xiaoxian suddenly burst into laughter.

Guan Gu was startled by his sudden action and shrank back: "Teacher Zeng, you... also stole Yu Mo's vegetables?"

"Pooh!"

Zeng Xiaoxian put down the orange, looked them over from left to right, and then a confident smile appeared on his face: "Yu Mo is lucky, because I'm a professional relationship talk show host. Defusing bombs? I'm the radar detector in this apartment!"

“This is not the same as making sarcastic remarks on the radio. Yu Mo is very emotionally unstable right now. If you cut the wrong wire, you will be blown to pieces,” Lu Ziqiao stopped her.

"Is it that serious? I wasn't the one who provoked her!"

"That key didn't provoke her, and now it's dead, isn't it?"

"..."

Relationship guru Lu Ziqiao added, "As a dating coach, I've personally set off many bombs, so I feel it's necessary to remind you that once a girl is heartbroken, unless she cools down naturally, she's impossible to get close to. If you dare to touch her sore spot, it will only make her turn her grief and anger into strength, thus triggering a violent incident!"

Upon hearing this, Zeng Xiaoxian exchanged a glance with Guan Gu, then shook his head and stood up, saying, "Don't worry, I won't die with Yu Mo. I'll make Yu Mo understand that there are plenty of fish in the sea, so why bother with a single garlic clove!"

After saying that, the radio host, who was known for his sarcastic remarks on late-night relationship programs, casually tossed his head and walked from the balcony to the location of the bomb.

Seeing that he was courting death, Lu Ziqiao had no choice but to say to Guan Gu, "Quickly call Yifei. This man is stubborn and will cause a huge mess. If Yu Mo climbs a tree, hangs himself, or crashes into a train, only Yifei can control the situation."

"Don't think of things so negatively."

“I call this taking precautions, or we could call Wensheng back.”

"you……"

"Click."

Just then, the door to room 3602 was pushed open, and Zhang Wei entered with a sullen face.

"Zhang Wei? What's wrong? You look terrible!" Guan Gu Shenqi asked. "What hit you this time?"

"I've been scammed!" Zhang Wei said with a bitter face.

"Huh? Didn't you go to the library?" Lu Ziqiao asked in surprise, then his tone changed, "Were you trying to swindle money or sex?"

Zhang Wei glanced at the two of them, walked to the refrigerator, picked up a bottle of milk, took a sip, and said, "Both of them have been cheated."

"real or fake?"

"These past few days I've met a pretty girl at the library. She has long hair, big eyes, a sweet smile, and..."

"Stop!" Lu Ziqiao interrupted him, "Get to the point."

"Today I mustered up the courage to strike up a conversation with him... and when he opened his mouth, his voice was even more manly than mine!" Zhang Wei said painfully, taking another sip of milk.

"..."

There was a two-second silence in the living room, followed by bursts of cheerful laughter.

Seeing their laughter, Zhang Wei's face darkened further. He said, "Don't you two have any sympathy at all? How would you feel if you hit on a real man?"

"OK, OK, stop laughing." Lu Ziqiao held his waist and forced himself to suppress his laughter, but soon couldn't help but say, "Sorry, I've been hitting on girls for so many years, and the girls have been tall and short, fat and thin, but I've never... had a guy."

"you……"

"Alright, Ziqiao, stop laughing." Guan Gu Shenqi calmed himself down and then asked, "So, what's the deal with you swindling money?"

"The situation is even worse!"

The unlucky guy Zhang Wei looked even uglier: "After I found out that the person I was flirting with was a man, I went back to the bar downstairs from the library to write my thesis. Then my college classmate got married and asked me to lend him money."

"Borrow money? You can't lie about that, can you?"

“Every single expense exceeding three figures that came from me, I refer to as… being scammed.” “…”

Guan Gu Shenqi turned his head and looked at Lü Ziqiao speechlessly.

"It seems the person who has cheated him out of the most money so far is the apartment landlord!"

At this moment, Zhang Wei, having drunk most of the milk that someone had bought, gradually emerged from the shadow of being asked to lend money, and then asked curiously, "By the way, why are there only two of you? Where is Teacher Zeng?"

"Teacher Zeng went to defuse the bomb. We're figuring out which reinforcement to call," Guan Gu Shenqi sighed, then asked, "By the way, where's Wen Sang? Didn't he leave with you this morning?"

“Ask Wensheng. After he dropped me off at the library this morning, he said he was going to get his windshield replaced, and then…” Zhang Wei thought for a moment and then added, “It seems he was going to his former company.”

"His former company?" Guan Gu was taken aback. "Didn't he leave a long time ago?"

"Then I don't know." Zhang Wei shook his head, then asked curiously, "What did you mean when you said Teacher Zeng went to defuse the bomb?"

……

At this moment, the atmosphere at the bomb disposal site next door, 3601, is somewhat heavy.

Bomb disposal expert Zeng Xiaoxian sat down shakily at the dining table, opposite a bomb chewing gum and looking somewhat dazed.

He's already done a preliminary test; now, he needs to find out which wire is faulty and... cut it!

"Teacher Zeng, do you think I'm the kind of brainless girl? The kind who can't control herself when she sees a rich or handsome man, and becomes a gold digger and a lovesick girl who doesn't care about character?"

Qin Yumo said softly, "I can only satisfy my hunger by chewing gum."

Having experienced betrayal by Richard and contempt from Wen Sheng, she now harbors thoughts of self-deprecation.

"Of course... no, no, of course not!" Zeng Xiaoxian, who almost detonated the bomb, quickly changed his tune.

"So that means the man I chose was actually a pretty good person, but he turned into a bad person after spending time with me!"

"Of course not!"

"Then I'm the kind of person who craves love. If someone suddenly treats me nicely, I'll fall for them. I'm not suited for dating and I'm not worth a man's attention... a scumbag."

"How could that be? How could you think that? That's even less likely!"

Zeng Xiaoxian was shocked by Yu Mo's opinions of her, as they were all increasingly outrageous.

"No, that's right! Maybe I'm not just one of these three, but the sum of all three!" Qin Yumo's expression shifted between sadness and excitement. "Because I'm a gold-digging, womanizing, and love-starved scumbag, men who spend time with me will be influenced to become men too!"

"..."

At this moment, Zeng Xiaoxian finally understood what Lu Ziqiao had just told him.

This bomb is far too dangerous!

After trying to sort out his thoughts and finding himself increasingly confused, Zeng Xiaoxian grabbed his hair and said, "Yu Mo, why do you always feel like there's something wrong with you? The one who cheated is Richard; he's the root of the problem. You're innocent; you have absolutely nothing to do with it!"

"That means I have bad taste in men. If I hadn't made the wrong choice, none of this would have happened. So, it's all my fault!"

"No, your judgment is perfect!"

"That's because men only turn bad after they've been with me!"

"..."

Very well, we've come full circle.

Zeng Xiaoxian had to admit that Lu Ziqiao was right; he only knew how to make sarcastic remarks on the show!
Qin Yumo's logic was like a chaotic adventure that had him completely baffled, leaving him utterly clueless about how to break free.

"Teacher Zeng, you also think what I said makes sense, right?" Qin Yumo looked at him pitifully.

"wrong!"

Although he couldn't untangle the mess, Zeng Xiaoxian knew he absolutely couldn't admit that Qin Yumo was right.

Otherwise... the bomb would just explode!

“Let’s go through this again, Yu Mo.” Zeng Xiaoxian stopped Qin Yu Mo’s next logical attack, then analyzed, “You have no problem, that’s for sure!”

"But……"

"Let me finish!" Zeng Xiaoxian interrupted her. "You're definitely fine, so let's assume... the man you chose is also fine!"

"Then who has a problem?" Qin Yumo asked, pouting.

"Yeah, who's in trouble?!" Zeng Xiaoxian felt like he was about to explode and was on the verge of collapse, but then a thought suddenly struck him, "That's right, there's also that mistress!"

"Little San?"

"That's right. Think about it, you and Richard were doing so well, wasn't it all because of that mistress that all of this happened? So it's all that mistress's fault!"

Having finally found the key, Zeng Xiaoxian spoke with absolute certainty, and then, with a sigh of relief, asked, "By the way, what was that mistress's name again?"

"Tina."

"So it's Tina's fault, so you don't need to blame yourself," Zeng Xiaoxian said with a smile. "You know, the most annoying and hateful thing in a relationship is a mistress, right?"

"..."

Qin Yumo nodded subconsciously, but her expression suddenly became dazed again.

After hearing Zeng Xiaoxian's words, she suddenly thought of her past feelings and ambiguous behavior towards Wen Sheng. Wasn't that also the behavior of a mistress caught between him and his ex-wife?

Thinking about it this way, Qin Yumo couldn't help but shudder.

"Yu Mo, what's wrong?"

"No, it's nothing." Qin Yumo came back to her senses and looked at Zeng Xiaoxian, asking, "By the way, Teacher Zeng, what did you just say?"

"..."

Zeng Xiaoxian now wants to smash his head against the dining table and die.

"I said it's all Tina's fault, you don't need to blame yourself!"

Qin Yumo fell silent. She dared not think any further. She didn't want to be a mistress. After being betrayed by Richard, she had thought she could at least lessen the guilt caused by Wen Sheng, but...

That night, Wen Sheng's words, that she was actually just pretending to be affectionate to hook him and disgust him, deeply stung her.

A clownish idea had been lingering in her mind these past few days.

Adding to the Richard affair, all sorts of terrible negative emotions had been weighing on her, and now she needed an outlet for these emotions.

And that outlet has already appeared.

"Teacher Zeng, you're right. The problem isn't with me, it's with Tina!"

"Yes, it's good that you've figured it out." Zeng Xiaoxian said cheerfully after successfully defusing the bomb.

"Am I overreacting? She's the one who's the mistress!"

"It's just a little bit excessive."

"Wouldn't making things so tense now be playing right into that mistress's hands? Making her loved ones hate her and her enemies rejoice?" Qin Yumo said seriously, her mind seemingly unclear.

"This one……"

“Teacher Zeng, you’re right. Since the mistake wasn’t made by Richard or me, I should apologize to him!”

"..."

Zeng Xiaoxian's face froze. In a daze, he vaguely saw the bomb that had stopped start its timer again.

"I didn't say that."

"I know that's your logic!" Qin Yumo stood up and finally laughed. "Thank you, Teacher Zeng. Mistresses are the root of all evil!"

The mistress is the bad woman. I, Qin Yumo, am not a bad woman!

(End of this chapter)