Chapter 51#

World 2: I Want to Be a Fish in Your Pond#

There was also a mirror in the fitting room.

After changing his clothes, Mu Feiyan didn’t rush out. Instead, he stood in front of this mirror, gently brushing his slightly messy hair and smoothing out the not-so-smooth hem of his clothes.

The man in the mirror was tall, handsome, elegant, and noble. Just a casual hook of his lips revealing a nonchalant smile could easily steal anyone’s heart.

Mu Feiyan looked at this almost flawless man before pushing the door open and walking out.

With his hands in his pockets, he slowly walked up to Qin Qing and turned slightly to show off his upright figure and perfect silhouette. He was waiting for Qin Qing to cast an admiring look at him.

Regardless of whether this look was a disguise to extract money, it would greatly please him.

However, Qin Qing sat silently, one hand resting lazily on the armrest of the sofa, the other hand supporting his forehead, covering his expression.

This was a posture of exhaustion, as if he had lost interest in everything around him.

Even hearing Mu Feiyan’s footsteps, he didn’t look up.

Mu Feiyan stood quietly for a few seconds, the expectation in his heart sinking bit by bit.

“Does it look good?” He had to speak up to remind him.

Qin Qing then raised his head. The eyes that were twinkling with happy glimmers just now were covered with a faint haze at this moment.

He just glanced at him and nodded, saying, “It looks good.” His tone was full of lack of interest and weariness, without a single extra word. No praise, no admiration, not even a careful, serious look.

Mu Feiyan seemed to have lost his attraction to him in an instant.

“What’s wrong with you? Are you uncomfortable?” The slightly curved corners of Mu Feiyan’s lips slowly straightened.

“I’m fine.” Qin Qing smiled.

Mu Feiyan stared at this smile, his already cold face becoming a few degrees gloomier. He knew Qin Qing was perfunctory with him. He could see this kind of hypocritical smile hiding annoyance in the mirror every day.

From gentle care and enthusiastic catering to the current suppression, exhaustion, and desire to escape, what exactly happened to Qin Qing?

Mu Feiyan’s emotions had never been as anxious and angry as they were now. But he still showed a gentle smile and ordered, “You go try it too. If it looks good, I’ll buy it.”

“You buy it, I don’t want it anymore.” Qin Qing handed the clothes back to the sales guide.

“Why don’t you want it anymore?” Mu Feiyan took a deep breath, the smile at the corner of his mouth fading a bit.

“I don’t want it means I don’t want it. Let’s go.” Qin Qing stood up, not even giving an extra explanation, his weary face cold as frost.

Someone who had long been captured by his gentleness, how could he adapt to such treatment?

Mu Feiyan wanted to grab Qin Qing’s arm, but it was difficult to overcome the barrier in his heart.

Seeing him reach out to touch him, Qin Qing paused, turned his head back, seemingly waiting. When the hand retracted, he could only shake his head and walk away quickly.

Mu Feiyan was really annoyed, annoyed enough to want to vent. But looking at Qin Qing’s indifferent back, he dared not unleash this anger.

Sometimes gentle as water, sometimes cold as frost; smiling as sweet as a flower one moment, and covered with sharp thorns the next. Why is Qin Qing so fickle?

Just because he is good-looking?

Mu Feiyan thought mockingly in his heart, and anger ignited in his eyes.

“What happened just now? Who made him angry?” He questioned the sales guide coldly. This anger could only be unleashed on others, not daring to taint Qin Qing who was walking slowly ahead.

The sales guide shook her head in panic: “Nothing happened, everything was normal.”

“Normal? Would he become like this if it was normal? He was fine just now.” Mu Feiyan frowned irritably. Seeing Qin Qing about to walk out of the store, he had to shout, “Qin Qing, what exactly do you want? My patience is limited!”

Is this a threat?

Qin Qing suddenly stopped in place, looked back, and there was not a trace of light in his deep eyes, only a pitch-black gloom. When he didn’t smile, didn’t move, didn’t speak, the sudden cold aura he emitted could make people feel fear.

Mu Feiyan’s heart tightened, realizing belatedly that he seemed to have said something wrong. He was used to treating everyone with a high-and-mighty, arrogant, and cold attitude, so he simply didn’t know how to make Qin Qing happy again.

Watching Qin Qing standing there, looking at him, scrutinizing him, and torturing him with eyes devoid of any warmth, Mu Feiyan’s mood gradually changed from irritable to anxious and nervous.

His hands in his pockets unconsciously clenched into fists, his heart pounding wildly.

Mu Feiyan raised his chin slightly, standing seemingly arrogantly in place, but his Adam’s apple was rolling up and down rapidly.

When he was about to be unable to support this superficial arrogance, Qin Qing walked back unhurriedly and asked indifferently, “Can I do whatever I want?”

Mu Feiyan nodded almost without thinking: “Yes.”

Qin Qing also put his hands in his pockets, looking up and silently scrutinizing Mu Feiyan. He was shorter than Mu Feiyan, but his aura was not weak at all. The haze in his pitch-black eyes dispersed, flashing with a mocking edge.

Mu Feiyan’s tense heartstrings trembled violently, and a harsh echo rang in his mind. This look… is only revealed when facing someone hated.

Does Qin Qing hate me?

The heart that had never been shaken for anyone was now swept by a storm. Mu Feiyan involuntarily walked closer, wanting to see Qin Qing’s expression more clearly. However, Qin Qing passed him by, walked to the rows of shelves, and tapped casually with his fingertips.

“This one, this one, this one… I want them all.”

After a round, all the new models in the store were swept clean by him.

The sales guide tried hard to hold back her laughter and looked at Mu Feiyan excitedly. This handsome mixed-race guy looked like a wealthy young master from a rich or noble family, and he must be the one paying the bill.

Qin Qing also looked back at Mu Feiyan, the glimmer in his eyes gradually becoming cold and dim.

“Is this okay too?” He asked slowly in a lazy tone.

From being weary and wanting to escape to the current provocative mockery, his change was really too great. Mu Feiyan looked at him steadily for a while, then smiled mockingly.

So this is another scamming method. Sensing that the target person has fallen for him, Qin Qing will appropriately lose his temper and pick faults, making the target person restless and extremely anxious. In this way, to please him, the target person will naturally agree to his many unreasonable demands.

Those professional PUA masters don’t have such skillful techniques as Qin Qing. Relying on his good looks, he simply does whatever he wants!

Mu Feiyan criticized and mocked in his heart, but found extremely unwillingly that when Qin Qing was willing to pay attention to him, even if he wanted to empty this store and squander wantonly, his chaotic emotions were actually soothed.

What a master… Is there no one who can control him?

While cursing inwardly, Mu Feiyan stepped forward and said in a much lighter tone, “Okay, whatever you like.”

The sales guide beamed with joy and immediately flattered: “Handsome, your boyfriend treats you so well! He buys whatever you want.”

A trace of a smile mixed into Mu Feiyan’s slowly warming eyes.

Qin Qing shook his head and said coldly, “He is not my boyfriend. We met for the first time today.”

Sales guide: “…” Spending so much money on you on the first meeting, being good-looking is indeed amazing!

The smile in Mu Feiyan’s eyes vanished at this moment.

Qin Qing urged Mu Feiyan: “What are you staring at? Pay the bill.” That lazy look with raised eyebrows and narrowed eyes seemed to say that if the other party hesitated for a moment, he would turn and leave without any reluctance.

Sales guide: “…” This one is a queen shou!

Mu Feiyan took a deep look at Qin Qing, then turned to the sofa to get the sweater he had just taken off. At this moment, Qin Qing extended an arm to stop him.

“Really buying for me?” He asked.

“Buying.” Mu Feiyan’s expression was extremely cold, but his words were decisive. Even he didn’t know why he was still standing here enduring Qin Qing’s fickleness and insatiable greed.

If it were anyone else…

He frowned tightly, a cold dark light flashing quickly in his eyes.

Qin Qing still reached out to block him, his slightly red thin lips hooked with a trace of contemptuous mockery: “When paying the bill later, you won’t pretend to have lost your wallet and phone, make me pay myself, and say you’ll pay me back double later, right? Is this a new type of scam? After I pay the bill, you’ll take those expensive clothes you picked yourself and flee?”

Mu Feiyan was stunned, his tense heartstrings sounding a rapid alarm.

Why would Qin Qing say such things? Did he see something?

Before Mu Feiyan could react, the sales guide laughed first: “How could that be? Your friend looks very financially capable. He can’t be a scammer!”

The real scammer is you, right?

Mu Feiyan thought to himself, but dared not say a word of questioning to Qin Qing. He composed himself and shook his head: “You think too much, I’m not that kind of person. No matter what you want to do today, I won’t say no.”

“What if I want to buy this store?” Qin Qing asked smoothly.

Really greedy. Getting some expensive items that were originally unobtainable makes one want more.

Mu Feiyan saw through Qin Qing’s true colors, but couldn’t control his mouth: “Okay, I’ll help you buy it.”

“What if I want this mall?” Qin Qing tilted his head and blinked deliberately innocently.

996, squatting on the coffee table eating candy, made a retching sound: “Please, Qin Qing, I beg you not to imitate the protagonist shou, okay! The protagonist shou is truly cute, but you are truly ridiculous! Looking like you do, you are not suitable for this expression.”

However, in Mu Feiyan’s eyes, Qin Qing, tilting his head and blinking his bright eyes, was like a corn poppy swaying gently in the wind. The contradictory temperament of bewitching and sweet softness blended so naturally.

“I’ll help you buy it!” In his distraction, he heard himself agreeing to all of Qin Qing’s unreasonable demands without principle.

The sales guide covered her mouth and muttered softly: “Real or fake? Why does it sound more and more like bragging! It’s best not to have deep interactions with this kind of man who talks nonsense!”

Qin Qing narrowed his eyes at the sales guide, his face cold as frost finally having a trace of warm smile.

Mu Feiyan glanced coldly at the sales guide, then looked at Qin Qing again and asked, “What else do you want?”

He must be crazy! Facing a scammer, he actually agreed to one insatiable and absurd request after another. If Qin Qing said he wanted the stars in the sky, what should he do?

“I want the stars in the sky.” Qin Qing indeed said it, with a mocking look on his face that said ‘you absolutely can’t do it’.

Mu Feiyan sighed softly, rubbed his dizzy temples with his fingertips, and nodded: “Okay. I bought the naming rights to a star before. I’ll transfer this right to you. As long as you like it, the star is yours. Is that okay?”

Only then did he realize that he seemed to be completely controlled by this scammer. According to the normal trend, he should expose his true colors and make him stop this greedy demand. He should refuse all his unreasonable requests and leave him with nothing.

However, this rationality could not affect Mu Feiyan’s irrational actions at all. Seeing Qin Qing lower his arm and stop blocking the way, he walked to the sofa, picked up the sweater, and began to rummage for his phone and wallet.

Since he had agreed, he would buy them all. He was not a person who broke his word.

The sales guide asked timely: “Handsome, how would you like to pay? Card or scan?”

Qin Qing crossed his arms, leaned lazily against the counter, and waited quietly for the upcoming farce.

Mu Feiyan dug in his sweater pocket for a long time, and the expression of helplessness and annoyance on his face slowly changed.

He looked back at Qin Qing, his eyes full of disbelief.

Qin Qing raised his eyebrows and asked: “What’s wrong? Phone and wallet really gone? Want me to pay?”

Mu Feiyan: “…”

At this moment, he suddenly had the urge to dig a hole and crawl into it. He had never been so embarrassed! Qin Qing was already hard to coax and very suspicious. Now he probably would never treat him as a target again.

As long as he walked out of this store today, he would disappear without a trace tomorrow. In a place he couldn’t see, he would look for prey again, show a gentle smile to that person, and emit a blurred sweet fragrance.

Mu Feiyan was angry, anxious, and panicked. Usually elegant and calm, he was now wretchedly sweating a lot of cold sweat.

His hands were still digging, pulling the sweater pockets inside out, and then searching the sofa gaps, sofa cushions, and the bottom of the sofa. Mu Feiyan looked here and there regardless of his image, and finally even lay on the carpet to check the dark corners.

The sales guides of the entire store gathered around to help him search. Several customers also looked around.

996 complained: “Qin Qing, doesn’t he look like a hunting dog?”

Qin Qing shook his head, sighed softly, and then hung the clothes piled on the counter back one by one.

“You guys take your time looking, I’m leaving first.” He waved his hand lazily.

Mu Feiyan, who was checking the fitting room, ran out hurriedly and shouted anxiously: “Don’t go!”

“Sorry, I don’t want to play this boring game with you. I will definitely pay back the money I owe you. You don’t have to act so hard.” Qin Qing said without looking back.

“What acting? My wallet and phone are really lost! Qin Qing, don’t go, I didn’t lie to you!” Mu Feiyan’s throat was so tight that he could hardly speak.

Besides embarrassment, his greater feeling was actually the fear of losing Qin Qing.

Ye Rongzheng strode into the store at this moment and bumped into Qin Qing head-on.

Qin Qing was stunned, while Ye Rongzheng showed a surprised smile.

“Qin Qing, are you buying things? Shall I pay for you?” He asked extremely humbly and eagerly. The payment code on his phone was already open, shining on the screen, as if waiting urgently for a cash register to scan it.

Several sales guides: “…” Being beautiful to this extent really allows one to have everything!

Qin Qing glanced at Ye Rongzheng lightly and walked around him.

“Qin Qing, don’t be angry anymore. I apologize to you! Can you treat me as a sandbag and hit me?” Ye Rongzheng chased after him step by step like a puppy.

“You know each other?” Mu Feiyan finally realized what was happening, the panic and embarrassment on his face turning into coldness at this moment: “Ye Rongzheng, what did you say to Qin Qing?”

“I didn’t say anything about you.” Ye Rongzheng clicked his tongue impatiently.

Qin Qing stopped and turned around, scrutinizing the two with equally cold eyes, his tone gradually tinged with anger: “You know each other? So everything today is a setup again? You teamed up to play me?”

“No, no!” Mu Feiyan and Ye Rongzheng denied in unison. Looking at each other, they both broke out in a cold sweat.

Qin Qing smiled with curved lips, but there was no warmth in his eyes; instead, they were filled with a layer of moist mist. He shook his head, his face full of bitterness, then shook his head again before turning to leave. The crowd shuttled around him, making him look so lonely alone.

996 hurriedly chased after him, persuading earnestly: “You see clearly now, right? Gong 1 and Gong 2 are not good things. Let’s not want their luck, okay? Their luck is smelly!”

After speaking, 996 turned its head, spat at Ye Rongzheng and Mu Feiyan pretentiously, and despised: “Pah, scumbags, go die somewhere!”

Qin Qing quickened his pace.

Mu Feiyan glared at Ye Rongzheng coldly and said loudly: “Qin Qing, I didn’t lie to you. My wallet and phone are really lost. I’m calling the police now. You stay and see the investigation results.”

Ye Rongzheng sneered, full of contempt and disdain for Mu Feiyan. This person is the worst! If he hadn’t proposed that revenge plan, things wouldn’t have developed to this step today!

Qin Qing slowly stopped his steps.

996 bumped into his calf and shouted in panic: “Call the police? No way, meow! The ones who stole the wallet and phone are the protagonist shou and Gong 3! Qin Qing, quickly say no need!”

Qin Qing turned his head, looked at Mu Feiyan and Ye Rongzheng silently for a while, and then raised his chin: “Call them.”

996 widened its eyes, shocked and angry: “Oh, I get it! From the beginning, you lost your temper at Mu Feiyan on purpose, right? You wanted to force him to call the police, and then indirectly get the protagonist shou into the police station! Qin Qing, you old schemer!”

Qin Qing looked at Mu Feiyan calmly and said again: “Call the police, I’m waiting.”

Mu Feiyan immediately borrowed Ye Rongzheng’s phone and dialed 110. Qin Qing excused himself for a while and bought something in the mall.

Surveillance cameras were installed everywhere in the store. Less than ten minutes after the police arrived, the suspect was caught.

In the police station, the interrogation came to an end, and the cause and effect of the matter were all clear.

Qin Qing sat aside, his disappointed gaze sweeping lightly over the flushed Ye Rongzheng, the silent and uneasy Mu Feiyan, the indifferent Yan Boxing, and the shocked Yun Siyu.

“Clap clap clap…” Qin Qing raised his slender arms and applauded slowly. The corners of his slightly curved lips held a smile, but his expression was sad.

“Really amazing, one link after another, one trap after another. What virtue or ability do I have to make you mobilize so many people?” He took out his phone and transferred one hundred and fifty thousand to Ye Rongzheng, and finally took out an exquisite red velvet gift box from his pocket.

“I said, if I have money, I will definitely buy it and give it to you.” He gently pushed the box towards Mu Feiyan across the long table.

Mu Feiyan had a premonition. Opening the box, the yellow diamond necklace worth one hundred and fifty thousand was indeed lying inside.

Various complex emotions flashed through his eyes, finally turning into guilt and regret.

It turned out that Qin Qing was not a scammer. Every sweet word he said and every gentle thing he did was not a means to extract money. He must have discovered the mocking expression inadvertently revealed when he speculated on his heart with such a sinister perspective, right?

That’s why he changed from a gentle and sweet flower into a cluster of sharp thorns. He pushed Qin Qing away with his own hands, and pushed him further and further.

Mu Feiyan slammed the box shut, daring not look at this gift again.

Absurd!

When all the truth was revealed, he realized how absurd this so-called revenge game was.

“How can you be shameless to this extent?” Mu Feiyan turned to look at Yun Siyu beside him, pouring all his anger and endless disgust onto the other party.

Yun Siyu’s tears fell immediately, shaking his head with red eyes and murmuring: “I didn’t expect it to be like this. I paid back the money as soon as I sold the oil painting today. I will pay off the remaining money very soon too. Don’t be angry, I really didn’t mean it!”

Yun Siyu lay on the table, crying heartbrokenly.

Yan Boxing questioned angrily: “Qin Qing, you and Siyu have a sponsorship relationship. What right do you have to make him pay back the money?”

Qin Qing raised his eyes and asked slowly: “Since junior high school, your basketballs, basketball shoes, basketball uniforms, basketball coaches, nutrition fees, tuition fees, and medical fees were all borne by my father. Without my father, you would still be a thief on the street. What right do you have to sit here, point at my nose and say such ungrateful words?”

Several policemen showed expressions of disdain.

Ye Rongzheng and Mu Feiyan looked askance at Yan Boxing, their eyes full of malice.

Yan Boxing instantly became mute, and then his cheeks slowly turned completely red. It seemed he still had a basic sense of shame and morality. He also understood that Yun Siyu’s behavior was simply sucking Qin Qing’s blood unscrupulously.

Let alone paying back the money, even returning everything Yun Siyu currently possessed to Qin Qing would be right and proper.

Yun Siyu, lying on the table, didn’t show his face, but his ears slowly turned red.

“Qin Qing, I’m not as bad as you think. I used your money to do a lot of charity and helped a lot of people.” Yun Siyu raised his head, choked out a defense, and then looked at Mu Feiyan timidly and expectantly.

He didn’t want to be hated by this person.

Qin Qing shook his head and smiled, asking: “In ancient times, the Buddha cut his flesh to feed the eagle, performing a great act of kindness. Whose flesh did you, Yun Siyu, cut?”

Yun Siyu was stunned, and after understanding, he dared not answer.

If he didn’t answer, Qin Qing answered for him: “You cut my flesh, but for the sake of accumulating virtue for yourself. Do you say this is true kindness or hypocrisy?”

Yun Siyu moved his lips, unable to say a word. Obviously, this is hypocrisy!

Mu Feiyan and Ye Rongzheng were too lazy to even look at him. This kind of person would pollute their vision and air even just sitting here.

“You can squander my money wantonly, donating whenever you want. Are you willing to donate the money from selling the oil painting today?” Qin Qing asked again.

Yun Siyu subconsciously gripped his phone tightly, as if afraid it would be snatched by Qin Qing and forcibly donated.

Qin Qing stood up and mocked slowly: “Money blown by the wind is different from money earned by hard work, right?”

It was too late for Yun Siyu to say “I am willing to donate”. Everyone’s eyes on him changed, including even Yan Boxing.

He was indeed a very simple person who didn’t know how to hide his petty thoughts at all, so that bit of human selfishness and greed was quickly exposed by Qin Qing in a few words.

“Truly fucking disgusting!” Ye Rongzheng cursed with disgust.

Mu Feiyan frowned and asked the police: “Can we go? I don’t want to stay with this kind of person anymore.”

Yun Siyu looked at him with red eyes, and then cried with extreme embarrassment.

996, who had been watching from the side for a long time, also howled and cried.

Damn it, Qin Qing not only ruined the plot this time but also blackened the protagonist shou completely! If Gong 1 and Gong 2 could still fall in love with the protagonist shou, it would perform sword swallowing on the spot!