Love Apartment: Yifei is my junior aunt

Chapter 51 It's all Ziqiao's fault

"Shouldn't they be preparing for Yu Mo and Guangu's date next door right now? Why does it sound so noisy?"

Zhanbo curiously tried to stick his head out to look, but Wanyu pulled him back.

"Zhanbo, we should go to Teacher Zeng's room to get the computer now," Wanyu urged. "If we go any later, we don't know if the buyer has a habit of going to bed early."

"But the neighbor..."

"With Fei and Meijia next door, what could possibly happen?" Wanyu had great confidence in these two older sisters who had always taken care of her.

"It's because my older sister is around that things are prone to going wrong," Zhanbo muttered. "From childhood to adulthood, every time she's tried to play matchmaker and set people up for dates, acting as their love strategist, she's never succeeded."

"No way."

Zhanbo's words piqued Wanyu's already strong curiosity, which had been focused on getting down to business: "Does Yifei often introduce people to potential partners?"

"To put it another way, the only time she was ever criticized by school was when she was caught by a teacher for trying to get her classmates into a relationship too early."

As if remembering something, Zhanbo quickly added, "You absolutely mustn't tell my older sister about this embarrassing incident, or she'll definitely kill me."

"Well, it depends on how you do." Wanyu winked at him playfully.

Wan Yu's blink was like the first clap of thunder in Zhan Bo's heart, signaling the revival of all things.

Yes, to put it simply, Zhanbo has started to molest.

"Wanyu..."

Just as Zhanbo was about to say some innocent and sweet words, he heard a series of loud cracking noises from next door, followed by the panicked screams of three girls.

The two of them didn't even bother to go to Zeng Xiaoxian's room to get the computer, and rushed straight to 3602.

Just as they stepped out of room 3601, the two saw Guan Gu and Curry Sauce rushing toward room 3602.

"Guan Gu, Curry, do you know what happened?" Wan Yu asked.

Curry Sauce was also confused: "Sister Yifei just told me to wait for Guan Gu to come back at the elevator, and then loudly notify them when Guan Gu arrives."

"As soon as I left, I heard arguing coming from room 3602."

"I was planning to go back and check first, but then Guan Gu came back. So I shouted 'Guan Gu, you're back!' as Sister Yi Fei told me, and then I heard a crackling sound inside."

After a brief exchange, the four of them arrived at the door of room 3602.

At this point, the area around the dining table in room 3602 was a mess, with broken plates, wine glasses, and aromatherapy fragments scattered irregularly across the entire dining area.

The dragon and phoenix candles that should have burned until dawn had long since gone out; the dragon had been cut in half at the waist, and the phoenix had its head cut off.

As for the dining table.

Sorry, there are no dining tables available right now.

All that remained were four-legged torches burning fiercely.

Yifei hurriedly ran out of the kitchen carrying a basin of water, but when she saw the four bewildered people crowding at the door, she froze on the spot.

"Guan Gu, you're back... As you can see, there seems to be a tiny problem with our planned date."

Guan Gu picked up his glasses, which had fallen from his shock, and said to Yi Fei with a serious expression, "Yi Fei, this isn't a small matter; this is an accident!"

Curry Sauce thought somewhat guiltily, "Although I've had a very unlucky day, this accident shouldn't be my fault, right?"

Zhanbo then gestured to Wanyu with his eyes, saying, "See? I knew any date that my older sister arranged would never work out."

At this moment, Meijia and Yumo ran over, one carrying a basin of water from the bathroom and the other getting water from the tap on the balcony.

"Don't just stand there, help put out the fire!!" Yu Mo shouted anxiously.

The four people outside the door then seemed to wake up from a dream and rushed in to put out the fire.

"Don't take off your shoes, and watch out for the broken pieces on the floor."

"Three people go to room 3601 to get water—to the kitchen, the balcony, and the bathroom. Hurry, hurry!"

……

Although a burning dining table may look alarming, there aren't many flammable materials in that area to begin with, so if someone notices the fire immediately, it's unlikely to escalate into an uncontrollable blaze.

With everyone working frantically but with relatively clear thinking, the fire on the dining table was extinguished in almost no time.

Putting out the fire wasn't the hard part; the real challenge was the cleanup afterwards.

For example, there were food scraps and glass shards all over the floor, and the floor was covered in water from everyone putting out the fire. This water was mixed with red wine and other random, unidentified liquids on the floor.

Especially since Zhanbo and his three friends were wearing outdoor shoes, the sticky liquid stained the shoes, resulting in footprints that would make anyone doing housework feel hopeless.

Not to mention dealing with the table that had turned into a charred mess.

It took them a tremendous amount of effort to clean up the messy living room.

The seven-person firefighting team filled the sofa to the brim, and they all leaned back and sighed, "We're exhausted..."

"Yifei, is it really okay for us to just leave Ziqiao on the ground like this? He'll probably catch a cold like this, won't he?" Wanyu looked at Lu Ziqiao, who was still unconscious and had been kicked off the sofa by Hu Yifei, and felt a little sorry for him.

"He'll probably catch a cold, but there's no room on the sofa. Or do you have the energy to take him back to his room?"

"I suddenly think it would be nice to let Ziqiao lie on the ground."

Wanyu decided to give up this behavior of helping others while exhausting herself.

Zhanbo asked, "So why exactly is Ziqiao unconscious?"

"More than that, I'm curious about how you managed to burn the table," Guan Gu said, giving Yu Mo an awkward smile.

This should have been the time for the two of them to try to develop their relationship, but before they even had a chance to get to know each other, the dinner table caught fire.

It seems that neither of them has any intention of developing a relationship with the other now.

"These two issues can actually be summarized into one issue." Hu Yifei didn't even have the strength to sneer anymore. She stared wearily at the ceiling. "But I really don't have the energy to say it again."

"Let me explain," Meijia said with a guilty look. "Actually, the reason for this was very simple. It was because Ziqiao was caught by Yifei for picking up Yumo at a bar behind my back."

"Meijia, you're going to make Yu Mo?" Guan Gu's eyes nearly popped out of his head again. "Oh my god."

"Guan Gu, you misheard. It was Zi Qiao who was picking up Yu Mo at the bar."

"Ziqiao? Wasn't Ziqiao carrying Meijia on his back?"

"It's carrying on your back, not carrying on your back..." Curry Sauce suddenly didn't know how to explain to Guan Gu. "Anyway, Chinese culture is profound and extensive. Just remember what I said."

"I found the temple." Guan Gu murmured in Japanese.

Next, Meijia briefly explained how Ziqiao fainted and why she tried to stab him with a knife.

"Anyway, I was about to stab him with a knife, but Yifei stopped me. I definitely couldn't just let it go, so I struggled desperately. And then..."

Yifei sighed and added, "Then we heard Curry Sauce shouting outside, 'Guan Gu, you're back!' I panicked and couldn't hold Meijia back for a moment."

Mika, with a mournful face, said, "Then I just collapsed onto the table, and right there with my knife, I knocked down the dragon and phoenix candles. Everything on the table was smashed to pieces, and the candles set the tablecloth on fire... And then, this is what you see."

"Sister Yifei, I'm sorry, Yumo, Guangu, I'm sorry, I ruined your candlelight dinner and made a mess of everything."

"If I hadn't been so agitated and angry, things definitely wouldn't have turned out this way."

Yifei rested her head on Meijia's shoulder: "It's okay, Meijia. You didn't do it on purpose. Besides, it's my fault for making things turn out this way. I panicked when I heard that Guangu was back, so I didn't hold you tight enough and you fell."

"Meijia, don't be sad. You've already done a great job," Yu Mo comforted her. "If it were me, I would have burned his heart with gasoline. You're just being human."

"Yes, Meijia, you don't need to feel sorry... Okay, Yifei and Yumo have already said everything I wanted to say, and you know my Chinese isn't very good."

"In short, none of the three of us will blame you for this, and please don't blame yourself either."

Even though all three parties involved said it was no big deal, Mika was still very upset, not only because she had ruined a potential marriage that could have happened that night.

Moreover, she had painstakingly arranged tonight's candlelight dinner, only to have it so absurdly ruined by herself, which Mika truly couldn't accept.

"Meijia, don't be sad. This isn't your fault. If you have to blame someone, blame Ziqiao." Zhanbo pointed and found the culprit.

"Yeah, right." Wanyu chimed in, "Think about it, if Ziqiao hadn't gone behind your back to pick up girls, none of this would have happened tonight."

"So who else could be the culprit besides Ziqiao?"

Although Wanyu understood that it was wrong to blame Ziqiao entirely for tonight's events, if someone had to be held responsible...

That can only be described as the good fortune Ziqiao deserves for being a scumbag.

Meijia listened and found it increasingly reasonable: "That's right, if it weren't for Ziqiao, none of this mess would have happened."

"It's all Lu Ziqiao's fault!"

Yifei and Yumo also thought it made a lot of sense, mainly because no one was more suitable to take responsibility for this matter than Mr. Lü: "Yes, it's all Lü Ziqiao's fault!"

"Although I haven't figured out exactly how things turned out this way, everyone says it's Ziqiao's fault, so it must be Ziqiao's fault." Guan Gu, who is still learning Chinese, gave up on figuring out the whole process on his own and chose to copy the answer directly.

The seven-person firefighting team exchanged smiles, finally having found the culprit.

"It's all Ziqiao's fault!"

I caught up, but I figured that rushing around every day wasn't a long-term solution.

So I plan to stay up all night tonight, having some drafts on hand will give me peace of mind.

The main reason is that this way there is more time to revise the manuscript and adjust the plot. Otherwise, without a draft and without polishing, it is indeed difficult to guarantee the quality of each chapter.

(End of this chapter)