Even With Tears, You Must Finish the Fight

"Na Shi Hua Kai?" Li Qiang's eyes lit up as he heard the name. "This name, it's not too bad."

Zhang Wei also nodded with a smile. "That's right, Hao Fengjing is a lotus flower. I must say, President Feng, you really are a man who cherishes flowers."

Feng Jun smiled without a word, thinking to himself, I hope you're still laughing in a moment.

To find a woman ugly enough, he had opened nearly a hundred cameras in the space before finally selecting one. It hadn't been easy.

Li Qiang swiped through his phone and quickly found Na Shi Hua Kai. "Huh, the profile picture is a desk. The Moments are open, but I can only see ten photos... No personal photos here."

He paused and looked up at Feng Jun. "It's a bit interesting, but President Feng... you have to help me add her."

Feng Jun rolled his eyes at him. "Do you need me to teach you how to add someone? Don't you know how?"

Of course Li Qiang knew how; he had just learned it today.

Powerful Brother Qiang: Beauty, I made a bet with a friend to add you. If you accept, I'll send a 100 yuan red packet.

After about ten seconds, the screen displayed, "Na Shi Hua Kai has accepted your friend request. You can now chat."

She didn't beat around the bush; a message arrived immediately: "Handsome, where's the red packet?"

Li Qiang followed the script, sent a 50 yuan red packet over, and then began frantically scrolling through Na Shi Hua Kai's Moments.

She posted to her Moments very frequently—one every day or two, sometimes even several in a single day.

Li Qiang nodded, thinking, That makes sense. As a beauty, she must get harassed too much and can only post to her Moments to brush it off.

However, after scrolling for a long time, he finally spoke in frustration, "I'm telling you, there are no photos of her... though there are plenty of photos of food."

Zhang Wei was also leaning over to look at her Moments and chimed in, "That's normal, right? Some beauties like to post photos, some don't. She's just confident in herself."

Li Qiang blinked, feeling that this made some sense, but at the same time, for some reason, he felt a faint, ominous feeling in his heart.

Just then, messages from Na Shi Hua Kai arrived one after another, asking why there was only fifty yuan, her tone growing worse with each message.

Zhang Wei laughed. "As expected of a beauty... she certainly has a temper."

Li Qiang followed the script again and requested a video call.

Na Shi Hua Kai's reaction was much the same, emphasizing that she wasn't a beauty. "Does the word 'beauty' nowadays just refer to gender?"

"She's quite reserved... I've realized that women these days are more pretentious than the last. Seriously, how hypocritical," Li Qiang muttered with a laugh, then began typing a message again.

He sent video requests one after another, and under his persistent insistence, Na Shi Hua Kai finally connected the call.

Zhang Wei was tilting his head, happily drinking while watching the phone screen, when suddenly, he spat out a mouthful of alcohol and began to cough violently.

"Damn it," Li Qiang shuddered and threw the phone away. "..."

Fortunately, the floor of the private room was covered in wood, so the phone didn't break.

Zhang Wei coughed while laughing intermittently, as if he were about to run out of breath.

"What the hell," Li Qiang said with a dark face. "This is... who did I offend? How did I end up adding a fat person, and an old lady at that?"

At first glance, Na Shi Hua Kai looked at least fifty years old. Not only was she exceptionally obese, but she was also incredibly ugly: she was balding, had sparse eyebrows, tiny squinty eyes, a flat bridge of the nose, a lion-like nose with nostrils pointing upward, and her lower lip protruded further than her upper lip—the legendary underbite.

What was even more disgusting was that her face was covered in clusters of small red spots, pitted and uneven; it was impossible to tell if it was a skin condition or a hormonal issue.

Li Qiang was beyond furious. Damn it, I spent fifty thousand yuan just to add this person?

However, seeing everyone cackling with laughter—the hostesses were laughing so hard they were practically spilling out of their dresses—he couldn't help but laugh at himself, albeit bitterly. "I have to say, President Feng, you're high... you're truly high!"

Feng Jun was also laughing heartily, breathless.

Amidst the laughter, Li Qiang's phone on the floor emitted a sound: "Handsome, is it fun?"

Feng Jun quickly waved his hand to signal that he wasn't watching the video, then held a finger to his lips, making a "shh" gesture.

In the end, Li Qiang knew how to handle social situations. Although he was already very annoyed, he steadied himself, walked over, and picked up the phone. "It was just my friends playing around, no malice intended. Sorry to bother you, sister."

After saying that, he ended the video, turned his head, and glared fiercely at Feng Jun, gritting his teeth. "President Feng!"

Feng Jun finally managed to stop laughing, though his shoulders were still shaking. He asked, breathless, "Well? I certainly didn't lie... ugly enough, right?"

"Damn it," Li Qiang replied, baring his teeth. "I swear, I have never seen a woman this ugly in my entire life!"

"Then there's no problem," Feng Jun said with a straight face. "It seems I won this bet without any controversy."

The hostesses burst into laughter again, and one of them actually laughed so hard she slid right under the sofa.

"Damn it," Li Qiang really wanted to curse, but it wasn't convenient to lash out at Feng Jun.

He turned to the side and noticed Zhang Wei, who was clutching his stomach in laughter, so he said with a dark face, "Da Wei... you're paying all fifty thousand."

"Why?" Zhang Wei protested as soon as he heard this. "We already agreed, I was only paying two and a half... If you want me to pay it all, give me a reason."

Li Qiang's mouth twitched, and he said expressionlessly, "You're going to spend the rest of your life living off this joke, aren't you?"

"That does make sense," Zhang Wei nodded and burst into laughter again. Among their group of close friends, there weren't many opportunities to encounter such embarrassing incidents; this was something they could talk about for a lifetime, laughing whenever they remembered it.

Compared to this kind of joy, the money didn't matter.

However, he still didn't want to pay the full fifty thousand. "Then I'll add a bit more, I'll pay thirty thousand... This was just encountering an ugly woman. If we had encountered a beauty, would you have let me have her?"

Li Qiang argued forcefully, "But I was the one who stepped on the landmine for you, you can't deny that, right? And even if I won, President Feng is the one paying your bill, that's also true, right?"

It wasn't that he was short on money, but the key was that encountering such a thing was already frustrating enough; if he had to pay for it too, he figured he'd be so angry he'd vomit blood.

"No way," Zhang Wei shook his head, still laughing. "I'll give you three seconds. Otherwise, just call the police and tell them President Feng is running a gambling ring with a massive amount of money and a terrible social impact."

"Damn it," Li Qiang's face grew even darker. "You're actually still joking."

Feng Jun, however, had returned to normal and quickly reminded him, "Send the red packet. Send the red packet to Na Shi Hua Kai."

"Send a red packet my ass," Li Qiang gritted his teeth and tapped his phone. But the next moment, he froze, followed by a sharp intake of breath. "Holy..."

Seeing this, Zhang Wei rushed forward and leaned in to look at his phone.

It turned out that Na Shi Hua Kai had sent more messages, quite a few of them.

She first demanded the remaining fifty-yuan red packet. Later, presumably seeing no response, she actually issued a threat: "Handsome, I'm only asking for fifty yuan because you're good-looking. Don't force me to get rough."

The last message was particularly threatening: "Do you know who I am? I'm not joking. If I don't see your red packet within ten minutes, I'm going to send people to find you. Blocking me won't work... I'll track your location directly!"

"A psycho!" After steadying himself, Li Qiang blocked her immediately.

Zhang Wei, however, sided with Feng Jun's opinion. "Why bother? It's only fifty yuan. Even if she's just bluffing, it's not like you're short on cash."

Li Qiang glared at him with a dark face. "If you want to pay, you pay. I don't have the money!"

"Haha," Zhang Wei laughed again. To see Li Qiang haggling over fifty yuan showed just how much of a blow he had taken today. "I think I can live off this joke for the rest of my life."

The hostesses also laughed for a good while, finding the whole affair today far more entertaining than any New Year's comedy film.

The other two hostesses were a bit afraid of angering Li Qiang, but the one next to Feng Jun wasn't. "President Feng, that trick of yours was simply magical. Could you teach me?"

Hearing this, Li Qiang and Zhang Wei exchanged a look, both feeling a sense of absurdity: Could it be that Feng Jun really could use his sixth sense to find specific people through a mobile phone?

This feeling was truly absurd, but regardless, the two women Feng Jun had found—whether the beautiful one or the ugly one—were spot on.

The pretty one was breathtakingly beautiful, while the ugly one was soul-shatteringly hideous.

Was this really a coincidence? Perhaps not.

Feng Jun explained to the hostess with a straight face, "Sixth sense is just a pure feeling. I don't know how to teach it, and you wouldn't be able to learn it anyway."

Just then, Li Qiang's phone rang. He picked it up and glanced at it. "Huh, this number is impressive... Hello, who is this?"

A woman's voice came through the receiver: "Li Qiang, right? From the TV station? Your boss is Lao Duan, isn't he? You blocked me? You've got some nerve... Just wait for me to come find you!"

"..." Li Qiang couldn't help but wince. "Sister, I was just joking. It was my friend who blocked you; it really had nothing to do with me. I'll take you off the blacklist right now, and I'll send that fifty-yuan red packet immediately."

He was a sharp guy who knew how to read the room. Willful as he might be, he understood very well that someone who could get his phone number through Liaoliao in such a short time and even dig up his background was not someone to be trifled with.

In fact, just looking at this phone number, someone without status wouldn't be able to get it.

So, he decisively admitted defeat. Fifty yuan... really wasn't worth the trouble.

However, Na Shi Hua Kai wasn't so easy to talk to anymore. "Handsome, since I was able to find you so quickly, how many fifty-yuan packets do you think that's worth? You're at Mingjuehui, right? Dare to tell me which private room you're in? You wouldn't want me to go room by room to identify you, would you?"