Love Apartment: The All-Around Comedian

"Oh my god, I was so suffocated! This old man's taste is just amazing!" Lu Ziqiao laughed until tears streamed down his face.

"Yeah, it's one thing to be old and blind, but he didn't even realize that Mingyang was mocking him. His emotional intelligence is on par with Zhanbo's!" Zeng Xiaoxian said, clutching his stomach.

"Teacher Zeng, what's wrong with me?" Lu Zhanbo, a bystander, scratched the back of his head.

"It's alright, Zhanbo, you're fine," Su Mingyang said with a smile.

"Stop laughing!" Hu Yifei slammed her hand on the table, her eyes wide as she demanded, "Tell me, do I look that old?"

“No, Feifei, I think you’re very young, you look like you’re eighteen,” Lin Wanyu quickly replied.

Lu Zhanbo nodded: "Sis, I agree with what Wanyu said. You've always been young in my heart."

"Where are the three of you?" Hu Yifei asked, looking at Su Mingyang and the other two.

“That’s right, very young.” Zeng Xiaoxian and Lu Ziqiao agreed.

"Mingyang, what about you?"

"Yes, Yifei, you're very young." Su Mingyang nodded, unable to resist making a sarcastic remark, "You're far from being my mother-in-law."

"Hahaha!!!!!!"

Zeng Xiaoxian and Lu Ziqiao laughed even louder than before!

Lin Wanyu rolled her eyes at Su Mingyang, but couldn't help but laugh.

Hu Yifei glared at Su Mingyang, her eyes practically spitting fire.

Looking at everyone's reactions, Lu Zhanbo was confused: "What's going on? Did I miss something?"

Chapter 59 Ziqiao, what's wrong with your back?

　"Just kidding, Yifei, don't take it to heart." Su Mingyang felt a little uncomfortable under Hu Yifei's fierce gaze.

"Oh, really?" Hu Yifei cracked her knuckles. "Then I'll joke with you too."

As she spoke, she stood up and walked toward Su Mingyang with ill intent.

"Feifei, don't be like that, Mingyang was just joking." Lin Wanyu quickly stopped Hu Yifei when she saw this.

Lu Zhanbo and the other two also quickly tried to persuade them.

Su Mingyang remained calm and smiled, "Yifei, do you still want to have my river seafood feast tonight?"

"This..." Upon hearing this, Hu Yifei involuntarily swallowed, stopped in her tracks, and thought of Su Mingyang's cooking skills, and the anger in her heart disappeared without a trace.

"Heh, no matter how powerful your kung fu is, it still has to bow down to my cooking skills." Su Mingyang sneered inwardly.

Zeng Xiaoxian and Lu Ziqiao secretly gave Su Mingyang a thumbs up, thinking that it was good that he could cook, so they didn't have to be afraid of Hu Yifei's fighting power.

"Mingyang, what is a river seafood feast?" Lin Wanyu asked.

"Well, I caught a few fish, and a big bag of snails. Teacher Zeng will also buy crayfish. All of these together make a river seafood feast," Su Mingyang explained.

"Wow, this sounds delicious!" Lin Wanyu's face was full of anticipation.

"Of course, we'll do it tonight."

"Great!" Lin Wanyu was so excited that she almost jumped up, forgetting all her frustration at losing her job.

……

Evening, Suite 3601.

Su Mingyang was cooking blackfish soup in the kitchen, preparing a feast of fresh river delicacies.

Zeng Xiaoxian, Hu Yifei, and six others split into two groups, one male and one female, and sat on small stools, using toothbrushes to clean crayfish and snails.

The men were cleaning lobsters, and the women were washing snails.

Originally, Hu Yifei, being someone outside the two main genders, was supposed to be the supervisor.

However, seeing that Lin Wanyu and Chen Meijia were too busy, she had no choice but to join in the work.

"My God, Teacher Zeng, why did you buy so many crayfish? How long will it take to finish washing them all!" Lu Ziqiao looked at the two large basins in front of him, filled with crayfish that were baring their claws at him, and said with tears in his eyes.

"Haha, there's a big sale on crayfish today, so I bought a lot. It's about 30 pounds, which isn't much for eight people," Zeng Xiaoxian said with a smile.

"Ziqiao, if you think it's too much now, don't complain about it being too little when you eat it later," Su Mingyang joked. "Hurry up and wash it, my blackfish soup is almost ready."

Lü Ziqiao reluctantly started scrolling.

Chen Meijia put down the snails in her hand, leaned close to the pot, took a deep breath of the aroma, and said with a look of delight, "Wow, Mingyang, the fish soup you made smells so good, and the color is so white, it looks just like milk."

"It's alright, Mika. Just follow the steps I just taught you..."

Before Su Mingyang could finish speaking, Chen Meijia interrupted him: "You can make fish soup like this, right?"

"You're overthinking it. Just follow the steps I taught you. Without dozens of practice sessions, you simply can't make fish soup with the same pure color and taste as mine," Su Mingyang bluntly retorted.

"That's for ordinary people, right? A smart and beautiful girl like me could definitely do it in one or two tries." Chen Meijia wrinkled her nose.

Su Mingyang was amused by her words: "Meijia, are you trying to make me laugh to death so you can inherit my cooking skills?"

"Mingyang, what do you mean by that?" Chen Meijia didn't understand.

"You'll understand what I mean once you drink more fish soup," Su Mingyang said, pursing his lips.

"I'm not drinking. I want to save room for crayfish. Guan Gu should drink more to boost his brainpower so he doesn't lack creative inspiration." Chen Meijia said, then suddenly realized something and pouted, "Oh, I get it. Mingyang, you just said I'm stupid, right?"

Su Mingyang didn't say anything, and stirred the fish soup.

Lu Ziqiao couldn't stand it anymore: "Chen Meijia, hurry up and clean your snails, stop slacking off!"

"Tch, mind your own business!" Chen Meijia rolled her eyes at Lu Ziqiao and went back to her seat to brush snails.

Seeing this, Hu Yifei stopped what she was doing and couldn't help but ask, "Hey, Ziqiao and Meijia, are you two really a couple? I see you always arguing when you're together."

Previously, Su Mingyang said that although they were a couple, they each did their own thing, which she thought was open-minded, but now it seems that something is not right.

Upon hearing this, Lu Ziqiao and Chen Meijia exchanged a glance, a hint of panic flashing in their eyes.

“Feifei, I think so too,” Lin Wanyu agreed.

The way Lu Ziqiao and Chen Meijia interacted was so different from what she had imagined a romantic relationship to be.

In the romantic movies she usually watches, the male and female leads are always sweet and affectionate, and that kind of love is exactly what she longs for.

Lu Ziqiao and Chen Meijia shattered her illusions about this kind of love.

Su Mingyang, who was chopping vegetables, smiled slightly, thinking to himself, "You've finally discovered the truth."

Lu Ziqiao's mind raced, and he chuckled dryly, "Of course Meijia and I are a couple! Haven't you heard of the term 'love-hate relationship'? We are!"

“Yes, we’re like a pair of bickering lovers. We’re always arguing, it’s not comfortable if we don’t bicker. We’re used to it.” Chen Meijia quickly chimed in.

"Really?" Hu Yifei was still somewhat doubtful.

"Yifei, hurry up and clean the snails, I'm about to stir-fry them," Su Mingyang urged. He felt it was best not to expose the fact that Ziqiao and Meijia were pretending to be a couple.

"Okay!" Hu Yifei replied irritably, no longer dwelling on the issue between the two, and quickened her pace.

Lu Ziqiao and Chen Meijia exchanged a glance, thinking that they had finally gotten away with it.

For a moment, everyone fell silent and focused on their work.

More than half an hour later, while Su Mingyang was preparing a sweet and sour carp, Hu Yifei, Lin Wanyu, and Chen Meijia finished washing all the snails and cutting off their tails, and then sat down on the sofa to rest.

Meanwhile, Zeng Xiaoxian, Lu Ziqiao, and the others are still bitterly continuing their "struggle" against crayfish.

Suddenly, Lu Ziqiao threw down his toothbrush, struggled to straighten up, touched his waist, and his face scrunched up like a chrysanthemum.

"Ziqiao, what's wrong with you?" Guan Gu Shenqi asked with concern when he saw Lu Ziqiao's pained appearance.

"Are you alright, Ziqiao?" Lu Zhanbo and Zeng Xiaoxian asked as well.

"My lower back is suddenly so sore, I need to rest on the sofa for a while." Lu Ziqiao gritted his teeth.

Hearing his words, Chen Meijia couldn't help but purse her lips: "Lu Ziqiao, you're quite the actor. You just said I was slacking off, how can you be so shameless?"

"Who's pretending? Chen Meijia, don't talk nonsense," Lu Ziqiao said irritably.

“Meijia, I think you’ve misunderstood Ziqiao. Judging from his expression, he doesn’t seem to be faking it,” Lin Wanyu said.

"Okay." Chen Meijia looked at Lu Ziqiao carefully for a moment, then remained silent.

Su Mingyang turned to look at Lü Ziqiao and guessed, "Wanyu is so smart. Ziqiao must have spent all night fishing last night and then helped Teacher Zeng get things sorted out this morning..."

Su Mingyang stopped mid-sentence.

He almost blurted out what Lisa Rong had done.

"What do you need to help Zeng Xiaoxian with?" Hu Yifei asked curiously.

Before Su Mingyang could speak, Zeng Xiaoxian quickly interrupted him, saying, "It's nothing. Ziqiao helped me move the table this morning, and that's why he hurt his back."

"I see." Hu Yifei nodded.

"Hmm." Zeng Xiaoxian breathed a sigh of relief, raised an eyebrow at Su Mingyang, and then said to Lu Ziqiao, "Ziqiao, let me help you to the sofa to rest for a bit."

"Okay." Lu Ziqiao slowly stood up.

Guan Gu Shenqi and Zeng Xiaoxian together helped Lu Ziqiao onto a single sofa.

Seeing Lu Ziqiao sprawled on the sofa like a lazy bum, Su Mingyang teased, "Hey Ziqiao, hurry up and chew one of those 'Qiao's Divine Skill Pills' you have. Didn't you say it can nourish your kidneys? It should be able to relieve your lower back pain, right?"

Lu Ziqiao: "..."