Chapter 53

Chen Keren angrily looked at this “uninvited guest”. She used to think it was a rude waiter or waitress who opened the door without knocking first, but when she saw the angry face of Yi Duanfang, she was stunned.

Yi Duanfang glanced at Lan Xiao and was deeply impressed by this handsome and mature man. After that, he shouted grumpily, “Chen Keren, you’re such a jerk!”

…

Wang Weixi was shocked. Upon seeing him, Chen Kexin happily called him “honey, honey.” Lan Xiao looked surprised. Chen Keren’s face quickly changed, and it was hard to tell what she was thinking about at the moment.

No one was more surprised than Yi Duanfang himself. He stood there in a daze, as astonishment flashed across his face. Even he himself did not know why he suddenly acted like this. He looked into Chen Keren’s increasingly cold eyes and swallowed hard. He revealed a charming smile and said, “Uhm… Looks like I’ve come to the wrong place. Goodbye, everyone.” With these words, he turned around and planned to run away as fast as he could.

Right at this moment, Chen Keren stood up and grabbed his arm. “Mr. Yi Duanfang. You want to escape after verbally abusing me. You know you can never easily escape punishment in this world,” Chen Keren said coldly.

Yi Duanfang really regretted what he had done and felt as if he had eaten some poison. He believed that Chen Keren was the most poisonous thing in this world. He gave Wang Weixi a meaningful look, asking for help.

Nevertheless, Wang Weixi just smirked at him and said solemnly to Chen Keren, “I think you’d better drag him into another room to teach him a lesson.”

Upon hearing that, Yi Duanfang stared at Wang Weixi in surprise while thinking, “You brat, you not only refused to help me out. You betrayed me and created even more difficulties for me!”

When he glared at Wang Weixi, Wang Weixi just smiled sympathetically back at him, with a “you-do-this-to-yourself” look on his face.

Chen Keren said flatly, “That is exactly what I want.” With these words, she dragged Yi Duanfang out of the room. Yi Duanfang was panicked and shouted hysterically, “Help me! Someone is going to rape me and kill me. Help!”

Chen Keren looked back at him and said in a threatening tone, “Yi Duanfang, if you don’t want to die, just keep quiet.”

Yi Duanfang quickly closed his mouth and turned his face to cast sheep’s eyes at Wang Weixi. Wang Weixi simply ignored it and continued to smirk. After that, he entered the room and closed the door.

Yi Duanfang gritted his teeth and cursed in his heart, “Wang Weixi, you’re such an ungrateful bastard. How come I took you to be my best friend?”

Yi Duanfang finally felt what Wang Weixi had felt before. Wang Weixi often regretted taking Yi Duanfang to be his best friend. Now they could call it even.

With the departure of Chen Keren and Yi Duanfang, the atmosphere inside the room suddenly became somewhat depressed.

After Lan Xiao and Wang Weixi greeted each other politely, Chen Kexin looked at Lan Xiao and said meaningfully, “Xiaoxiao, Yi Duanfang is our sister, so don’t take it wrong.”

Lan Xiao was totally confused upon hearing that,

“Yeah, Duanfang is my best friend. I’m sure that there’s nothing between them. They just liked to bicker with each other every time they meet,” added Wang Weixi, meaningfully.

Chen Kexin looked at Wang Weixi in disbelief as she wondered, “Was he trying to drive a wedge between them by telling Lan Xian that my sister and Yi Duanfang like to bicker with each other every time they meet? Wow… it’s incredible to watch a man doing this! I never knew that he has such an ability.”

Lan Xiao looked at the two queerly. It took him a long time to realize what was going on here.

Nevertheless, he did not say anything to explain his relationship with Chen Keren, as he remembered what Chen Keren had told that night. Now he finally understood why Wang Weixi suddenly agreed to let Chen Keren join his class. He guessed that Chen Keren must have given him a very good reason.

Lan Xiao forced a smile and wondered, “Why does she have to lie about this?”

Wang Weixi carefully observed Lan Xiao but failed to detect any emotion from his face.

After quite a long time, Lan Xiao said plainly, “I know it. Don’t worry, I won’t misunderstand it.”

“Well~ That’s good~” Chen Kexin said with a sigh of relief.

Lan Xiao looked at her, feeling even more dejected.

Wang Weixi smiled and finally felt relieved. Suddenly he wondered, “Did this Lan Xiao work together with Chen Keren to deceive me?” The next moment, he thought, “That’s ridiculous. Chen Keren is not capable of such a thing.” Anyway, he still chose to believe that Lan Xiao was Chen Keren’s fiance.

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Inside the private room at the other end of the cafe, Yi Duanfang and Chen Keren sat face to face. Chen Keren looked grim and glared at Yi Duanfang. Yi Duanfang looked frightened, very different from himself a moment ago.

“Why did you scold me?” Chen Keren asked grumpily.

Yi Duanfang was stunned and thought helplessly, “You ask me why. If I tell you that even I myself don’t know why I did that, will you believe it? I just felt annoyed upon seeing the handsome face of Lan Xiao. I really don’t know why I scolded you. Who knows? Maybe I just had a little brain fart there. Sigh… what can I do now?”

Chen Keren looked at his face coldly, but he just kept silent. After a while, she said somewhat sullenly, “Speak. Are you dumb?”

Yi Duanfang lifted up his head, looked into Chen Keren’s beautiful but angry eyes and said furiously, “You broke your promise.”

Chen Keren frowned and asked, “What? I broke my promise? What have I done?”

“You promised me that you were going to work with me to divide Wang Weixi and Chen Kexin, but now when I’m busy carrying out our plan, you’re just busy dating your boyfriend. How can you say that you’ve kept your promise?” Yi Duanfang said slowly and solemnly, as if what he said were true.

Chen Keren was very surprised to hear that and wondered, “Does he really believe that I’m in love with Lan Xiao and want to marry him?”

She could not help but laugh out and asked, “Yi Duanfang, do you really believe what I said to Wang Weixi?”

Yi Duanfang looked at Chen Keren in a daze and repeated her words in his head again and again. Suddenly, he stared at her and asked incredulously, “Were you… lying back then?!”

Chen Keren rolled her eyes at him. Right at this moment, someone knocked on their door. It was a waitress who brought coffee to them.

“Come in,” Chen Keren said flatly, looking calm again.

The waitress put the coffee pot and cups down and then poured two cups of coffee for them. She stealthily glanced at the glum-looking Yi Duanfang and the peaceful-looking Chen Keren. After that, she hurriedly walked out of the room and rushed downstairs as if she had gotten some startling news.

Chen Keren picked up her coffee, took a sip of it and then looked up at Yi Duanfang while saying, “I told you that there’s a very good man who likes my sister. I also told you that I would help him get my sister. Do you forget about that, Yi Duanfang?”

Yi Duanfang looked at Chen Keren embarrassedly as he thought, “Yes, I do know that Lan Xiao is the man that Chen Keren wants Chen Kexin to marry. I do remember our plan, but why did I suddenly act so impetuously?

“No, no. I didn’t just act on impulse. I really don’t like the way Chen Keren handles things.”

“Can you guarantee that you’re not interested in that brat? Do you want to create chances for yourself on the excuse of creating chances for him and your sister?” Yi Duanfang said meaningfully. He sounded somewhat jealous.

Chen Keren looked at him and said with a sneer. “Do you really think that I’m such a person?”

Yi Duanfang snorted, with an “It’s-hard-to-tell” look on his face.

Surprisingly, Chen Keren did not flare up. She just explained calmly, “If I really fall in love with a man, I’ll never let him marry anyone else. I’ll tell him what I feel directly. That’s my style. However, I’m afraid that the man I love has not yet appeared in this world.”

Yi Duanfang looked at Chen Keren with his mouth agape, as he found it hard to believe that she was so arrogant. He coughed twice and said, “Well, it’s my bad. I know you’re brilliant and beautiful and have countless suitors, Chen Keren. I was just too nervous. I’m sorry.”

Chen Keren squinted her eyes and asked, “Why were you so nervous about me?”

Yi Duanfang looked at the smiling face of Chen Keren and felt a rush of panic. He hurried explained. “I was not nervous at all. I was not nervous about you. I was worried that you forgot our plan. I just want to free Weixi from your family as soon as possible!”

Sometimes, the harder one tried to cover up the truth, the more he or she would be exposed.

Somehow, Chen Keren felt that she did not hate Yi Duanfang anymore and even found him somewhat adorable at this moment.

She suddenly approached him and asked meaningfully, “Are you jealous?”