The only "head" that did not fit in watched the three make identical movements. "..."
You three really did "hit it off at first sight." Looking at you, anyone would think you were siblings.
Meanwhile, in the corridor.
Having followed the door number Ye Mo had given him, Qi Yuheng stood outside apartment 1303 with his friend, staring at the door before him as a tangle of thoughts and questions filled his mind.
Who would appear behind the door?
He wondered.
[...Apartment 1303, thirteenth floor, Building C. Mr. Qi, go there, and you might find an unexpected surprise.]
What exactly was the unexpected surprise Miss Ye had spoken of?
At that moment, Qi Yuheng actually felt a little nervous. He took a deep breath and reached out to knock.
Knock, knock, knock!
Chapter 24: The twenty-fourth melon: What melon? Take twenty-four bites...
Ding-dong! Ding-dong!
When the doorbell rang, Qi Yuwen and Zhang Hanyue were churning red waves beneath the covers, tumbling like phoenixes in their lovemaking, oblivious to everything else.
Oh, it had slipped mention: Zhang Hanyue was Qi Yuheng's fiancée, Qi Yuwen's future sister-in-law.
Hearing the doorbell, Qi Yuwen had initially intended to ignore it, but it simply would not stop, ringing again and again until it grated on his nerves.
He had already been in a foul mood that day. With the doorbell stoking his anger, he furiously threw off the covers, picked up the pants discarded on the floor, and pulled them on, ready to go settle accounts with whoever was outside.
"Where are you going...
..."
A pair of lotus-root arms reached around him from behind. Zhang Hanyue pressed her soft body against him, her voice seemingly coated in honey.
Qi Yuwen turned to look at Zhang Hanyue's blushing, bashful face and felt some of his pent-up frustration ease.
He thought smugly, Let everyone talk about how capable you are, Qi Yuheng, and how I can never measure up to you. But whenever I want, your fiancée has to pant beneath me every single day.
The thought alone made his eyes redden with excitement, and he grabbed Zhang Hanyue and kissed her fiercely.
Only after kissing her did he say, "Someone keeps ringing the doorbell. I'll go see what's going on."
Zhang Hanyue gave him a silky, seductive look and lightly traced a finger across his chest, teasing him like scratching an itch through a boot.
"Hurry back," she said with a smile.
Qi Yuwen's heart itched at her teasing. He held her and kissed her again, cursing, "Little vixen!"
Zhang Hanyue was dignified, elegant, and lofty in public, but who knew she was so wanton in private?
Especially that dear older brother of his. He would probably never know in his entire life how wanton and debased his fiancée was, or what an enormous green hat she had put on him, leaving him a green-headed cuckold turtle for the rest of his life.
Whenever Qi Yuwen thought of that, a fierce thrill of revenge rose within him. All his frustration instantly vanished, and even the noisy doorbell outside no longer seemed quite so irritating.
He got up to answer the door. "Coming, coming! Ringing me to my death, are you?"
Little did he know, that doorbell really was ringing him to his death.
When he opened the door and saw who stood outside, his mind went completely blank, leaving only a single thought: Why was Qi Yuheng here?
Qi Yuwen was shocked and panicked, but Qi Yuheng was no less surprised to see that the person behind the door was him.
Qi Yuheng asked, "Awen, why are you here?"
Was this the "unexpected surprise" Miss Ye had mentioned?
Qi Yuheng glanced inside and asked again, "When did you buy an apartment here?"
As for the possibility that this apartment did not belong to Qi Yuwen... Qi Yuheng looked him up and down.
His upper body was bare, and he wore nothing but a pair of loose shorts below. It was an extremely casual outfit; he would never have dressed so casually anywhere but his own home.
Suddenly, Qi Yuheng's gaze sharpened, settling on Qi Yuwen's neck.
Noticing his gaze, Qi Yuwen instinctively reached up to touch the spot. A slight sting told him instantly what it was.
-It was a scratch Zhang Hanyue had just left, and it looked very fresh.
Qi Yuheng naturally knew what the scratch on Qi Yuwen's neck meant. He took a deep breath and asked his younger brother, "Do you have a girlfriend?"
No, that was not right.
Even as he spoke, Qi Yuheng shook his head, rejecting the idea.
If she were his girlfriend, Qi Yuwen could have seen her openly. There would have been no need to sneak off here or buy an apartment to keep her in.
Judging by the situation, the likeliest possibility was that the identity of the woman involved with Qi Yuwen could not be exposed, which was why they had to sneak around here.
For a moment, all sorts of possibilities flashed through Qi Yuheng's mind.
"Is she a married woman?" he asked Qi Yuwen.
Qi Yuwen's thoughts were a tangled mess. He had never imagined he would run into Qi Yuheng here so suddenly, and for a moment, he felt cold sweat about to break out on his forehead.
But upon hearing Qi Yuheng's question, his somewhat frozen mind gradually began working again, and a flash of inspiration struck him.
"Yes!" He immediately followed Qi Yuheng's lead. "She-she is married, so we can only see each other in secret..."
"Brother!" He looked pleadingly at Qi Yuheng. "Don't tell Dad about this."
With his suspicion confirmed, Qi Yuheng's face instantly darkened. Pointing at Qi Yuwen, he snapped, "Have you lost your mind? There are so many good women in this world. Why did you have to get involved with a married woman?"
His tone brooked no argument. "You are ending things with her immediately!"
Qi Yuwen immediately said, "I'll end things with her. I won't see her again... But, Brother, you absolutely can't tell anyone about this."
Qi Yuheng was furious. "If you know this sort of thing is shameful, why did you do it?"
Qi Yuwen pleaded, "Brother..."
Qi Yuheng was livid, but what could he do, however angry he was? The man fooling around with a married woman was his own younger brother. Surely he could not beat him up?
While the brothers were talking at the door, a sweet, coquettish voice suddenly came from inside. "Awen... What are you doing out there? Why haven't you come back in?"
Qi Yuheng heard the voice too. His mind rather sluggishly registered that it sounded somewhat familiar, but before he could think further, Qi Yuwen was already pushing him outside, shutting the door behind himself as he went.
Only after doing all that did Qi Yuwen breathe a sigh of relief. By then, a layer of cold sweat from his lingering fright had broken out across his back.
He could not help feeling fortunate that his older brother was not the sort to barge into someone's home. Otherwise, this really would have been difficult to conceal.
"Brother, this isn't something we should spread around," he told Qi Yuheng quietly. "If you saw her, she'd definitely feel too ashamed to face anyone."
Qi Yuheng could only sneer at that. "If she knows enough to be ashamed, why is she fooling around with you? I doubt she's anyone decent."
He thought his younger brother was no good, but the woman inside was hardly likely to be any better-a married woman sneaking around with another man here. No normal person would do such a thing.
Still, although Qi Yuheng kept scolding him, he did not insist on going inside to see who the woman was. The great stone weighing on Qi Yuwen's heart finally fell away.
He was just about to say a few words to fob Qi Yuheng off and send him away when four more people suddenly appeared before him.
"Wow, Mr. Qi, what a coincidence! I never expected to run into you here!"
Ye Mo had been secretly watching apartment 1303 all along and had seen with her own eyes how Qi Yuwen fooled Qi Yuheng with just a few words.
To be honest, she was not the least bit surprised by this development. In fact, when she had brought the matter up with Qi Yuheng that day, she had already more or less foreseen this situation.