The next morning, when the early sunlight filtered into a room, lighting up the figure of a woman wrapped in bandages, with a supple body, on the bed, she let out a light grunt and her beautiful eyes cracked open slightly.
However, this moment of clarity soon caused the woman's face to change drastically. She sat up abruptly from where she lay, realizing that her clothes had been changed. Who had helped her change her clothes?
"Uh... you're awake?"
Just then, Yi Xiaofei came over, wiping his face with a towel. He glanced at the woman and lazily opened his mouth to speak.
"You... what did you do yesterday? Where are my clothes? I... I..."
Feeling that even her intimate garments seemed to have been changed, she now wore underwear that was definitely not her own.
"What do you mean 'what'? You nearly wore me out yesterday. You look light for a girl, but you're so heavy when carried!"
"What did you say? You think I'm heavy!?
Girls are very sensitive about their weight, and she was not heavy at all. Yet, the man in front of her was complaining about her weight.
"Of course! I carried you, so I should know. But what kind of trouble are you getting into, girl, that you've got people after you with such murderous intent?"
Yi Xiaofei was intensely curious, especially considering the man he had fought yesterday possessed the strength of a Grandmaster Realm Peak, almost at the Great Grandmaster level.
"Mind your own business!"
"What do you mean mind my own business? If not for me, you would have been dead by now, okay?"
Upon hearing this, the woman glanced at Yi Xiaofei. After all, this man before her had saved her life; without him, she truly wouldn't have made it away yesterday.
"My name is Ye Qingrou. What's your name?"
Ye Qingrou hesitated slightly, but ultimately decided to tell him her name.
"Yi Xiaofei!"
Yi Xiaofei spoke matter-of-factly, but his expression quickly turned playful, "What's up? You're quite a beauty, and you have plenty of assets. Very pleasing to the eye! Since I saved your life, maybe you're thinking of repaying me with your body? I suppose I could make do—that would be okay!"
"You scoundrel!"
Ye Qingrou listened, catching the implied meaning in Yi Xiaofei's words.
She raised her leg to kick Yi Xiaofei, but he dodged smoothly.
"Come here! My body isn't something you can just casually gaze upon. I should gouge out your eyes!"
"Please! You're still playing tough. You look pretty lively, so leave early. I really don't want to have to save you again, otherwise, I'll get stuck with a pesky hassle!"
Yi Xiaofei was clearly issuing an eviction notice.
"You..."
Eager to retaliate, as Yi Xiaofei's words had truly angered her, Ye Qingrou nevertheless knew she was no match for him. Moreover, the most important thing was that this man indeed had saved her life.
"You saved my life, and you've seen my body. Now, Ye Qingrou doesn't owe you anything!"
Ye Qingrou huffed, got out of bed, put on her shoes, manifestly resolved to leave.
But as Ye Qingrou reached the door, Yi Xiaofei's voice rang out, "Hey! At least give me back my underwear. I only have two pairs to swap between, and if you take one, I'll only have one pair left to wear!"
"You... you..."
Ye Qingrou had a fiery temperament, a true tomboy; but now what? How could someone only own two pairs of underwear to swap between, and now she was wearing one of those pairs?
"What do you mean 'what'? Give me back my underwear!"
Yi Xiaofei gave a shake of his hand.
"Return them to your own damn head!"
Ye Qingrou exploded in anger, disregarded Yi Xiaofei entirely, flung open the door, and ran out. The thought of spending even another second there, breathing the same air as him, filled Ye Qingrou with revulsion.
Watching Ye Qingrou's retreating figure, Yi Xiaofei chuckled and headed towards the bathroom. He had to get to work at Fate Restaurant soon. However, once Yi Xiaofei entered the bathroom, he felt something was off, as if something was missing?
"Damn! Where's my great-uncle? It seems like I didn't bring him back yesterday!"
He dashed outs quickly, living as he did at the Fate Restaurant staff apartment building, with so many people around the day before, he wondered if perhaps someone had brought his great-uncle back and he was staying in someone else's room.
But after asking several people in a row, there was no sign of his great-uncle.
......
Two hours later, at Fate Restaurant.
In Proprietress Ye Mengyan's office, Li Qian was expressing his gratitude, while Ye Mengyan kept covering her mouth with laughter.
"All right, let bygones be bygones. But Xiaofei, I do need to scold you a bit. How could you leave your great-uncle behind? Did you go off to pick up girls in a bar?"
"No way, Proprietress! I'm not that kind of person!"
Confronted with his great-uncle's murderous glare, Yi Xiaofei shook his head vigorously, but the proprietress shook her head, "Still trying to argue your case? I've heard from the other staff that a very pretty woman, disheveled and furious, stormed out of your and Li Qian's room in the staff apartments. Tell me! Did you do something you shouldn't have to that girl?"
"You rascal! You did that on purpose, right? Not bothering to get a hotel, you did it right where we live!"
Li Qian got angry just thinking about it. His nephew seemed to have gotten into quite a bit of trouble, picking up some girl at the bar, while what about him?
"Great-uncle! I haven't done anything, and explaining won't make it clear. Anyway, the innocent are clean!"
Yi Xiaofei grinned helplessly. He hadn't done anything at all, just couldn't bear to stand by and ended up saving a woman.
"Okay, okay! Xiaofei, you're a young man, full of energy; I get that, and your great-uncle will understand too! Go on, get to work! This is the peak time for deliveries, Xiaofei, so you better hustle!"
Ye Mengyan smiled seductively, her eyes constantly sizing up Yi Xiaofei.