My System Forces Me to Live off Women-Chapter 32 - 30: So the Clown Was Me All Along (2)

Chapter 32: Chapter 30: So the Clown Was Me All Along (2)

"Shut up, you little bitch! I get it!"

"Just watch my cues when the time comes!"

Wu Wenyue was a bit upset by these words, gave Li Peifeng a fierce glare, tidied her clothes, and left the bedroom.

"I know she doesn’t love me~ Her eyes reveal her heart~ I see through her heart~ And the silhouette lingering of someone else~ Her memories~ Aren’t erased cleanly~"

Li Peifeng silently sang in his heart, and stood up to straighten the wrinkled bed sheets, erasing traces of the judo they just practiced.

...

...

"Beep~beep~beep~"

At the entryway, Wu Wenyue could vaguely hear the sound of a phone connecting.

"Avoiding won’t solve the problem!"

Wu Wenyue steeled her resolve, reached out, and turned the doorknob directly.

"Click~"

"I thought you weren’t home, why was the door so..."

At the entryway, Xu Manning, holding a big bag of groceries in her left hand and a phone by her ear with her right, saw the door open and was about to complain when she looked up and saw Wu Wenyue.

Why is she here? No wonder it took so long to open the door!

Xu Manning’s face instantly turned from pale to red, a sign of her emotions rushing to her head.

"Are you here?"

Wu Wenyue smiled and tried to maintain a calm tone.

But Xu Manning was anything but calm. She let go, dropping the groceries with a ’clunk’ on the floor, squinted her eyes, and stormed into the room, heading straight for the master bedroom when she found no one in the living room...

"Manning?"

Li Peifeng was sitting at the desk in the bedroom, headphones on, typing away. Seeing Xu Manning enter, he took off his headphones, seemingly surprised: "When did you arrive?"

Li Peifeng was always good at playing dumb!

Xu Manning said nothing, or rather, couldn’t be bothered to expose him, just frowned deeply and started sniffing the air in the room, but didn’t smell the expected scent of osmanthus.

Instead, she was surrounded by a faint, fresh, cool scent, like a sea breeze mixed with hints of citron, lavender, and earth gently brushing her face.

"Using perfume to cover up!"

Strangely, upon smelling it, Xu Manning’s anger slightly diminished, but she was still unwilling to give up and looked for traces, beginning to inspect the bedroom.

She first glanced at the well-straightened bed sheets, not noticing anything unusual, then approached the wastebasket by the bedside, opened it, and found it empty before closing it again.

"What are you looking for?"

Wu Wenyue followed in and, seeing her detective-like appearance inspecting a crime scene, felt a bit tense, yet somewhat relieved.

Luckily, nothing drastic happened earlier; thank goodness she cleared the trash after waking up, or things would have gotten ugly...

Xu Manning still said nothing, shot a glance at Wu Wenyue, bypassed her, and walked out of the bedroom, entering the second bedroom.

Upon finding the formerly storeroom turned into a clean, cozy bedroom, Xu Manning let out a cold laugh.

To confirm her suspicions, Xu Manning opened the wardrobe on the wall and, seeing the familiar clothes, bit her lip in hatred: "You’re actually living together?!"

Wu Wenyue followed in, explaining: "I just moved in yesterday. I’m co-renting with him because the place I was renting got sold and I couldn’t find another place quickly. Manning, don’t misunderstand."

Xu Manning paused for a moment, then elegantly let out a fake smile: "Misunderstand? How could I misunderstand? Yueyue, I’m not blind; I have eyes!"

"I certainly didn’t take a year to realize you and I used pure and noble friendship to cover up the secret feelings and deep down desire to mate!"

"I definitely didn’t despicably think that being with you was just to make Li Peifeng jealous, seeing me as a tool encouraging the breakup. Nor did I, after breaking up with you, out of revenge, pursue Li Peifeng, become his lover, and tried to expose it, making you miserable and heartbroken, wearing a big green hat to make you feel my pain and betrayal... definitely not that, uh!"

"What are you saying?!"

Wu Wenyue simply couldn’t believe her ears, as if struck by lightning, her face changed color, eyes widened in shock, looking at Xu Manning as if seeing her for the first time.

"You, you pursued him because of this? We didn’t even..."

Seeing Wu Wenyue’s expression, Xu Manning felt the joy of revenge, as if she had finally expressed all the resentment buried inside her.

But soon, her delight turned to anger, uncontrollable anger, her voice rising from low to shouting: "But I really didn’t think, after all I’ve done, you two could still shamelessly hook up? Aren’t you disgusted by this chaos?! Aren’t you sick?! Cheap!!"

"Cheap? Yes, very cheap!"

Wu Wenyue was also trembling with anger, her eyes flashing with fiery sharpness: "Once twisted like a mosquito coil, now straight as a steel plate. You think one word of revenge clears you from it all?"

"You think you’re innocent, pitiful? If it was just revenge, what are you doing at his house today?"

"Stop making excuses for your indecisiveness, your fickleness! You’re a woman who jumps from one to another, even your sexual preferences switch on a whim! Freak! Shameless!"

Xu Manning clenched her fists; if she didn’t know she couldn’t win in a fight, she would have slapped her by now.

"Who are you calling fickle?!"

Xu Manning growled through gritted teeth, "I caught you two in the act, and you still dare to slander me?!"

"You call this catching in the act? Nothing happened; we just co-rent!"

Wu Wenyue played the innocent card, her acting reaching a peak.

"You can’t even lie, if it’s just co-renting, why did it take so long to open the door?! If you weren’t guilty, what was it?!"

Xu Manning, clear-headed, found the weak spots and pressed on.

"Li Peifeng was listening to music, writing, didn’t hear. I was in the restroom just now, should I have opened the door with my pants off?!"

Wu Wenyue agilely dodged, her answers slick and smooth, like wielding Tai Chi to push away.

"Oh, you can lie now!"

"What, wanna fight?"

Finally, a warrior and a mage faced off on the mid lane, looking ready to pull hair, tear clothes, slap each other at any moment.

At the doorway, Li Peifeng, watching the whole scene, felt his hair stand on end, his worldview shattered.

So Xu Manning pursued him not for his charm but to avenge Wu Wenyue?

"I..."

Li Peifeng felt as though he had fallen from a popular male fantasy novel into a flop female romance one, and the worst part was this book’s theme was a yuri. Despite having the script of the male lead, he was actually just a pitiful tool between two female leads, a spare tire, a jack in the trunk.

To be used when needed, forgotten in the trunk when not.

No way, the clown has been myself all along?!

"I finally took it seriously twice!"

"But you made me lose so completely?!"

"Damn it!!"

Our relationship lacks further qualification~After all, deeply loved but unwilling to step back yet unwilling to let go~The greatest pain is~Unable to love and unwilling to forget...

"Everyone shut up!"

Li Peifeng, with the BGM in his heart, furiously slammed the door: "Let me speak a fair word!"

"..."