Lu Mingfei: What? They're all real!

"I'm done eating!" he announced loudly, then opened his arms and pushed away the girl who was pressed against his face.

The war was finally mediated. The girl who had been complaining about being hungry suddenly stopped being hungry and shrank back, shaking her head. The angry girl also quieted down, returned to her expressionless appearance, and resumed her proper sitting posture.

None of the three spoke, but Lu Mingfei, caught in the middle, felt his heart pounding. He figured he probably hadn't triggered one of life's three great illusions: "She might like me"... The girls sitting on either side of him were probably thinking the same thing...

The world was gradually enveloped in night.

"By the way, where are we staying tonight?" Xia Mi suddenly asked, seemingly having a good suggestion.

“I’ll stay here!” Lu Mingfei dared not go to any shady places now. He said, “I’ll just sit on this bench for the night. I don’t have any money with me.”

"Oh……"

The girl made a slightly regretful sound, rummaging in her pockets, but didn't say anything more. In her heart, she cursed herself for not saving more money, because she had to fail at this crucial moment!

"that--"

Zero wanted to offer her opinion, but when she turned her gaze away, she met Lu Mingfei's icy stare, which warned her not to do anything pointless.

The girl blinked, then obediently shut her mouth, completely abandoning the idea of ​​taking out cash from her pocket.

Lu Mingfei finally breathed a sigh of relief, his back pressed firmly against the back of the bench, and his heart relaxed a little.

To be honest, he had a feeling that for a long time to come, he'd better not let these two ladies get involved with "the place of residence." His not-so-simple mind kept conjuring up some not-so-good ideas...

He hoped it was just because he was too despicable...

Chapter 125 Be Bold Today!

In the middle of the night, Lu Mingfei was still awake. His shoulders were occupied by the girls, with a head on each side, breathing softly and sleeping peacefully.

He couldn't sleep; he was afraid that someone would steal a kiss on his face when he fell asleep.

Just like now, someone not only had her head resting on him, but her hands were also half-wrapped around his waist, her body leaning heavily against his side, completely relying on him. She was sleeping so soundly, as if she had never enjoyed such a sweet dream before. She was breathing heavily, and the fragrant scent drifted over his shoulder and into his ear.

Perhaps she has never had a peaceful night's sleep, always having to be wary of potential dangers from any corner, just like a little girl who has been plagued by nightmares and ghosts since childhood, until today she finally found a plush bear to hug and sleep with.

"Sigh..." Lu Mingfei blew softly and looked up at the sky.

He's always been a very thoughtful person, but now he'd rather be a little slow on the uptake...

Lost in thought, he suddenly noticed something lurking in the darkness, perched on the paulownia tree diagonally opposite, its eye fixed on him.

That seems to be...that seems to be...

Lu Mingfei squinted and looked at it, finding it somewhat blurry.

Unlike Xia Mi, he doesn't have superhuman physical abilities or extremely sensitive senses. If he wants to detect what's happening in the distance, he has to rely on the "Kamaitachi" incantation, but that only allows him to hear, not see, making it practically useless.

Even without his senses, he could still vaguely discern... there seemed to be a bird perched there, a raven, not the "Muni" he had been chasing before, but another small bird called "Fokine".

The bird stared silently in this direction, just as in the myths, gathering information about the human world for its master.

Just as Lu Mingfei was trying to get a clearer view, something shone a flashlight from a distance; it was probably a patrolling policeman.

This country does not allow people to spend the night in public places, especially on benches.

Lu Mingfei didn't want the girls around him to be disturbed from their sleep, nor did he want to face the potential "room crisis." He was really afraid of getting into a problem he couldn't handle. What if he was standing at the hotel front desk and someone grabbed his arm and said sweet nothings to him? How could he possibly handle that?

Then, several beams of light slowly refracted, and darkness enveloped the three of them. Only a barely visible clump of ink remained hidden in the bench. This was a skill that Lu Mingfei had honed after his previous encounter with the mysterious "female ninja." The Word of Power: Dark Illumination was indeed a very useful stealth skill.

The flashlight beam didn't reach anyone, and the police in the distance had left. Lu Mingfei stopped paying attention to that side and turned his gaze back to the paulownia tree diagonally opposite.

But the raven had already flown away.

Lu Mingfei stared silently at that spot, finding it even harder to fall asleep.

……

"Have we arrived at Hyde Park yet? Okay, okay!"

Su Xiaoqiang hung up the phone and then nervously tidied her room. Although she had already tidied it several times, she was now extremely flustered and could not calm down without doing something.

She fiddled with the kettle on the table, feeling it was somewhat in the way, but leaving it empty made the room look a bit bare... She then moved the cushions on the sofa, hoping it would look tidier. This room was personally chosen by her mother's friend; the location was perfect, the only problem being that it was a bit small, making it look slightly messy.

Su Xiaoqiang is not good at housework; she has never done it before. She has thought about hiring a housekeeper, but sometimes she has a kind of paranoia and thinks about the horror movies she has watched.

When she first received her offer from the University of Chicago, Liu Miaomiao worriedly talked to her about how "it's scary for a girl to be all alone overseas." At first, she didn't think much of it, but when she actually crossed the ocean to a foreign land, she realized that this was no exaggeration. Every night before going to bed, she would check the doors and windows several times to make sure they were locked.

Fortunately, my mother's friend is very reliable. The place she chose was in a good location and there were no random people around.

As the girl tidied her small room, she couldn't help but mutter and complain about how silly she had been. All that effort had been completely in vain. Apart from the time she was picked up at the airport, she had never seen Lu Mingfei again... Most of the time they were on the phone.

Although we always had a pleasant chat—

What's the point of studying abroad like this? It's better to stay in China!

She punched the cushion on the sofa in frustration, secretly resolving to be more generous today and not always be so stingy with this tiny bit of space.

The girl pressed her face against the window, gazing out onto the street, hoping to catch a glimpse of someone. She scanned each person with longing eyes, some resembling the children she had heard of who, as children, would strain their ears to listen for footsteps and wait for their parents to return. But she hadn't experienced that; her house was too big to hear footsteps outside the door.

Today she experienced that feeling firsthand.

The girl hadn't seen the person she wanted to see for a long time, so she climbed down from the window and turned her attention to her bookshelf. She felt she should organize her academic achievements to make herself look like a serious, well-behaved student.

Thinking about this, she truly felt that the world was full of coincidences. She was studying economics, and her current tutor was from Sweden, with an academic background in the relatively niche "Nordic School"—of course, niche in the sense that it was less prominent than a school of thought as well-known as Hayek's.

The founder of the Nordic School was named Gustav Kassel. She didn't know if it had anything to do with the private school that Lu Mingfei attended, and she even asked her tutor, for some reason, if he knew about the Kassel College, which is an affiliated school of our university.

My advisor beamed and said, "Of course I know!" That year, I had lunch with Professor Blair Bitner of the Mathematics Department in Kassel during an open day—a memory I'll never forget!

According to his mentor, Bitner is the Einstein of mathematics, known as the "Solomon of mathematics".

As Su Xiaoqiang listened, she couldn't help but feel proud, a sense of honor that she was genuinely happy to hear that Lu Mingfei was studying at such a good university.

Then she and her mentor went further afield, and because of her mentor's hometown, they naturally started talking about Norse mythology. She took the opportunity to ask, somewhat sourly, what exactly "Frigga" looked like. Her mentor, a middle-aged woman, stared at her face for a moment, then chuckled and asked her if she had any friends who were obsessed with that image.

Su Xiaoqiang was still angry back then, and she could never let it go, so she's still angry when she thinks about it now.

She thought of a guy who, like someone in a dream, always had "wife" on his lips, and hot breath escaped his nostrils. Thinking of him, she felt she should find time to have a serious talk with him, and stop indulging in these virtual fantasies. She should focus more on concrete people, like—

Suddenly there was a knock on the door, and Lu Mingfei's voice came through. In an instant, she cleared her mind of all thoughts and hurriedly ran to the door.

Then, she saw a girl's face.

Chapter 126 Unnecessary Feelings Arose in My Heart

"Hello~"

The girl standing at the door waved cheerfully, her eyes sparkling with a lively energy that bordered on excessive, almost provocative.

"You you you you you are—"

Su Xiaoqiang remembered this pretty girl; she remembered that this was the "righteous girl" that Lu Mingfei had mentioned.

But what's this girl doing here? Where's Lu Mingfei?

She shrank back, yet still wanted to peek out the door; she had just heard it all—it was clearly Lu Mingfei's voice outside…

"Why are you hiding? Say hello to your classmate!"

Xia Mi turned her gaze away and pulled the boy next to her over. She used a lot of strength and "accidentally" went too far, almost pulling him into her arms. She happily hung on his shoulder, deliberately showing intimacy to the girl opposite her.

"Who's hiding? You're hogging the space, how am I supposed to get here? It's a bit crowded here..." Lu Mingfei muttered, turning his head to Su Xiaoqiang with an embarrassed smile, "I'm really sorry, I brought two friends with me."

"two?"

Su Xiaoqiang blinked, and then saw another familiar face glide to Lu Mingfei's side. Another girl tugged at his sleeve and appeared expressionlessly.

But at this moment, Su Xiaoqiang was not so panicked. She remembered the girl named Xia Mi. It was hard to forget someone who was so beautiful. Of course, she also remembered the girl named Ling. Her name was so strange, but she was also unforgettable.

At first, many possibilities flashed through her mind. She even suspected that Lu Mingfei had been lying to her all along... Maybe he had already become a couple with this beautiful girl, and now the girl had come to her door wanting to see who the guy who was always harassing her "boyfriend" was!

She genuinely believed that such a beautiful girl could intimidate people just by standing there. She had always understood Chen Wenwen's change from arrogance to obsequiousness... Being able to stand on opposite ends of the scale with someone so outstanding could truly change a person's perception from the inside out. This girl had that kind of magic.

Fortunately, the aloof Miss Zero also appeared.

Su Xiaoqiang breathed a sigh of relief, thankful that Lu Mingfei wasn't just traveling with this pretty girl... There were three of them now, and three people were definitely safer than two!

She just didn't believe it. Could it be that they were actually so close that the three of them could live and die together, so it didn't matter if the three of them were together?

The girl put aside her petty feelings and quickly made way for the guests to come in. Although the unexpected guests made her a little unhappy, she had to admit that it also made her less nervous.

"Come on, you brought friends." Su Xiaoqiang said bluntly in his classic tone, glancing suggestively at the two girls behind him.

"I didn't bring any gifts—" Lu Mingfei greeted them instinctively, then realized his mistake. He chuckled sheepishly, rubbing his hands together, and said, "Well, there's no other way. These two are also having trouble getting their visas approved, so I have to bring them along. Otherwise, I can't get any advice..."

"Visa approved? Do you want to ask about the visa?"

As Su Xiaoqiang asked, she took out a variety of items to welcome the guests. She had prepared these for a long time, but there were only enough for Lu Mingfei.

Perfect timing! She thought inwardly, indignantly, "I'll teach these uninvited guests a lesson! So what if they're good-looking? So what if they have a Beijing residency permit? It's all meaningless!"

She poured out all the gifts she had prepared to Lu Mingfei, then shared the not-so-long sofa with him, deliberately ignoring the remaining "guests".

"Where do you want to go?" she asked. "Now that you have a US visa, shouldn't it be convenient for you to go anywhere?"

"Hey, you don't know, when I was still in China, I wanted to go to Tokyo, but my visa was rejected because they said I had an intention to immigrate. This time, I was afraid of being affected by the visa rejection, so I thought I'd play it safe." Lu Mingfei spoke fluently, and talking to familiar people gave him a strange sense of comfort.

"what?"

Su Xiaoqiang liked to tease Lu Mingfei about his passive ability being triggered in a second. She covered her mouth and chuckled, but halfway through her laughter, she suddenly remembered that she should be more reserved now. How could she rub salt in someone else's wounds?

She cleared her throat, changed her tone to gentle, and asked softly, "Then how did you get your visa rejected? Japan and South Korea almost never reject people with immigrant intent. Were you just too careless?"

The girl deliberately lowered her voice and slowed her speech, intending to create a positive image for herself. She felt that she was behaving well and should be able to comfort the girl like a caring older sister.

"Because I told the visa officer I wanted to go there to see my wife, they rejected me for this reason!" Lu Mingfei gritted his teeth. "Baka!"

Su Xiaoqiang suddenly stopped talking. She leaned back on the sofa, her mouth twitching and her lips trembling. She couldn't say a word for a long time.

This guy brought up his non-existent "wife" again, it's infuriating!

"Haha, you idiot, it's no wonder they'll refuse your visa if you say something like that~" Xia Mi, who had found a place to sit down, pointed at his face and mocked, "Looking for a wife? Why don't you just say you're going to run for prime minister and lead them to counterattack America?"

"I'm just telling the truth," Lu Mingfei snorted.

“Then you should say it like this,” Xia Mi mimicked the strange tone, “‘Visa officer, Vadashi, I have lost my wife from a past life in your country. Please allow me to pass, arigato!’ And remember to bow, at a ninety-degree angle.”

"Get out of here..." Lu Mingfei weakly swung his fist.

The interaction between the two seemed intimate, but it gave Su Xiaoqiang, who had recovered, some ideas... Looking at the girl who kept pointing at Lu Mingfei's nose and laughing, she felt as if she saw her own past self. Suddenly, she felt that this was actually a good opportunity for her to get rid of her past negative image.

"It's not that you're stupid, you're probably just a little nervous, right?" Su Xiaoqiang continued with her gentle approach, and even increased the intensity, creating a stark contrast with the chattering, mocking girl.

She even moved a little closer and gently comforted you, "Don't be so nervous, I'll teach you."

Lu Mingfei suddenly stopped, as if petrified. He stiffly turned his gaze to the girl who was a few steps closer to him, and subconsciously patted his face.

Although he had already painfully learned that the little fairy had developed feelings for someone else, but... but...

But who is this gentle guy?! Where did you hide that little fairy who would whine and complain if you didn't make fun of me for three days straight, and whose symptoms only subside after she came to me for a good argument?!

He nodded blankly, not daring to breathe.

"Honestly, you should have explained it to them clearly back then. You should have just been more direct and told them that the wife you were looking for was actually a figure from mythology. Then they would have known you were just joking." The girl continued to breathe gently, her crisp voice uttering a light complaint, "Idiot."

The last two words floated over lightly, reaching Lu Mingfei's ears, and he couldn't help but tremble as if he had been electrocuted.

Chapter 127 Arguing is her forte

"No, don't do this..." Lu Mingfei almost shrank behind the sofa. He now truly felt that the girl he once knew so well had been possessed by some kind of ghost.

This is too bizarre. Even if we assume that "the girl has developed extra feelings," Lu Mingfei still cannot accept it.

He even started to feel a little uncomfortable.

"What's wrong?" Su Xiaoqiang approached with concern. "You look very uncomfortable."

Her tone was still gentle and soft, not at all like the girl Lu Mingfei knew.

But Lu Mingfei felt awkward no matter what. He felt even more uncomfortable, as if his fingernails were scratching a blackboard, and his whole body was writhing with a sharp hissing sound.

He always felt that those bad days in the past were very important to him.

In those past years, which could only be described as "unbearable to recall," he wasn't some S-class star who was the center of attention. No one would wait outside his dormitory building every day, from morning till night, just to take a close-up photo of him and then make that photo a headline and write about it extensively.

Back then, he was just Lu Mingfei, a loser who kept his head down in the corner. Even if he didn't look up for the whole class, no one would care. Of course, no one would listen to him, no sweet words would ring in his ears, and no girl would be there to look at him with undivided attention. All he had were jeers and taunts from all directions.

Of course, Lu Mingfei is not a masochist. He never thought it was a good thing to be treated like a stupid monkey. If he were still a hunched-over loser, he would definitely feel that his life was terrible and that there was only misery to look back on.

But he no longer lives that kind of life; he's a glamorous guy now, so he's started to miss the past.