Chapter 120: Flower Room (1/2)
Happy House, 7 pm.
I was sitting carefully in my seat and sneaking glances at the two lively girls sitting opposite me. Lin Yixin and Sun Qingqing were currently staring at the menu and agonizing over tonight’s choice of meals. For this evening, they both dressed in fashionable youthful outfits.
“When are Bloody Mercenaries founding their own guild, Lu Chen?” Lin Yixin asked out of nowhere.
“I’ll do that the second I get a Hero’s Token!”
“Mn.” Lin Yixin nodded with a smile. “It won’t be easy though. The drop rate of Hero’s Token is already insanely low, and bosses between Level 60 to Level 70 are also very rare at this stage of the game. It would take both skill and good karma to find another Hero’s Token this soon~”
Sun Qingqing said, “Lu Chen definitely has the skill to make it happen, but his karma? That’s a different story…”
I asked, “Why do you say that? It almost sounds like you’re questioning my moral standing.”
“That’s because I am!” Sun Qingqing planted both hands on her waist and interrogated me out of nowhere. “Two days ago, Yiyi didn’t return to the campus for the whole night after she went for supper with you. What did you do to her during this time? Speak honestly!”
I shivered and looked at Lin Yixin immediately because she was the only one who could clear my name.
But not only did she not help me, she complained pitifully to Sun Qingqing like I actually did something to her, “Qingqing, I’m telling you he’s a monster. You need to help me…”
What the fuck… I groaned on the inside and tried to explain myself, “Qingqing, nothing happened, seriously!”
Sun Qingqing paid no heed to my plea and uttered murderously, “You’re still denying it after everything?”
I looked at Lin Yixin and noticed her smiling like a fox and pretending to look outside the window. She was clearly enjoying my suffering while sipping her fruit juice.
Well, you asked for it!
Steeling myself, I said, “Sigh, I didn’t want to do it, you know. Everyone here is as pure-hearted as a virgin after all. But Yiyi… she said she was tired and didn’t want to go back to the campus, so I had no choice but to take her to Green Tea Inn…”
“Ah?”
Sun Qingqing gaped at me and her best friend for a moment. Finally, she looked at me and asked, “She, uh… didn’t experience any discomfort, did she?”
Lin Yixin’s face immediately turned as red as an apple. She slapped the table—not too loudly since it was a public area—and shot me a look of concealed murder before whispering to Sun Qingqing, “Come on, Qingqing, you… do you really think I would go to a place like that with a guy I’ve barely known for a couple of weeks?”
But Sun Qingqing’s shock only deepened. “Ah? You didn’t even rent a hotel room? You went straight to Lu Chen’s apartment?”
I shot her a glare. “Come on, you can at least try to act a bit better…”
“Like I care about your opinion…”
Sun Qingqing still looked a bit worried, however. “Yiyi, do you feel like throwing up lately?”
Lin Yixin was this close to bursting into tears when she heard that. She wrapped her arms around Sun Qingqing’s shoulders and said, “Qingqing, I beg you, can you please not let your imagination run wild? We’re not even going out, there’s no way I would, you know, also—ahhhh, forget about it. If you still can’t believe me I’ll let you run a full body checkup after we return to the dorms…”
“Ah? A full body checkup?” My jaw hit the floor as all kinds of exciting scenes started blooming inside my mind.
……
Lin Yixin’s phone suddenly rang and cut off everyone’s antics. From what I could tell, it was a guy on the other side of the phone.
“%&#@%&*&...%”
“What? How did this happen…” Lin Yixin exclaimed in surprise.
“%&#@%&*&...%”
“Hmph, how dare him!” Lin Yixin cursed angrily.
“%&#@%&*&...%”
“Sigh. We’ll talk later, okay? I’m having dinner right now.”
“...”
Lin Yixin finally hung up the call and looked at me. “There’s going to be a fourth guild in Floating Ice City in an hour or so.”
I asked, “What? Who is it? Is it Mad Dragon, Wild Sand Alliance, or maybe even Eternal Friendship? Eternal Friendship has been pretty famous for the past couple days.”
“You are wrong on all accounts…” Lin Yixin replied with an inexplicable expression, “It’s Flower Room…”
“Excuse me? Flower Room? What the hell is that...” I was completely confused.
Sun Qingqing came to my rescue and cried out, “I know! It’s Li Le’s gang, am I right? A while ago, I heard Li Le and his friends talking about creating a ‘Flower Room’ in the office at Mingzhi Building. It’s actually real?”
Lin Yixin nodded. “It is. I heard that someone in Floating Ice City found the fourth Hero’s Token and started a public auction at the eastern plaza. Roaming Dragon wasn’t present at the time, so Li Le spent two million RMB and won the bid…”
“Fuck, two million?” I gasped audibly. “This Li Le sure doesn’t care about money!”
But Lin Yixin smiled a little and said, “So what if he got the Hero’s Token? Li Le is a talentless little snob who’s worth nothing without his family. Flower Room? I can’t believe he actually fancies himself as another Casanova…”
Her comment put a smile on my face. “But I heard that Li Le had never had a lack of women. It is true in a sense, don’t you think?”
Lin Yixin rolled her eyes at me before pointing out, “You mean those below-20-IQ girls who turn starry-eyed when they see a BMW and faint when they meet someone handsome? He can collect as many of them as he wants, it won’t change the fact that he’s nothing more but a vase collector, am I right?”
I shivered. As expected of our virtuous and talented Fruit Knife Goddess, she had hit the nail right on the head. The truth of the matter was just as she said, Li Le’s so-called Casanova lifestyle was nothing but a farce.
Sun Qingqing also nodded in agreement. “Correct. There was a girl in the foreign language class that Li Le tried to chase, but he never succeeded. Our Yiyi never once looked at him in the eye either. Even you can be a gentleman if compared with Li Le, Lu Chen!”
“Fuck…” I rubbed my nose. “Why does that sound like not really a compliment?”