Chapter 005: The Real and Fake Qi Feng
As the season was about to change, Qi Feng tricked Ling Ke into going out with him on a date under the guise of “buying new clothes.”
Ling Ke saw Qi Feng pick a white T-shirt from off the rack and couldn’t help ridiculing him, “You have so many T-shirts and you’re still buying another one?”
“No, I’m buying it for you.” Qi Feng picked up the clothes and wanted to hang them on Ling Ke.
“I don’t need it, I’ve already got a lot too!” Ling Ke stepped back.
“Don’t you think this one’s a bit special?” Qi Feng unfolded the clothes more and winked towards Ling Ke.
Ling Ke only then discovered that a small maple leaf was embroidered with silk thread on the cuff of the T-shirt. Because of the hidden location, he hadn’t noticed it at first.
“It can’t be that you want me to wear this kind of clothes to school, do you?” His face turned hot, “What should I do if people see? You think we don’t have enough gossip posts about us in the school forum?”
Qi Feng said with a smile, “If you don’t want to wear it out, it’s good to wear it as pajamas at home too.”
Ling Ke: “You have enough…”
In spite of his objections, Qi Feng picked out a few items and took them to the checkout. When they exited the shop, Ling Ke asked him the price of the shirt. Without thinking it about it, he blurted out, “It wasn’t expensive. Just 299 yuan.”
“299!?” What was with that f*ckng ‘just’ 299! ! ?
Ling Ke didn’t believe it. He took out the T-shirt from the bag and looked at the price. He was shocked. “A T-shirt costs 299? Damn, just because of some broken maple leaf? It’s not worth it!”
“Bro-broken maple leaf?” Qi Feng’s heart was broken.
Ling Ke earnestly explained to him, “Look, see? This embroidered maple leaf has a part missing.”
Qi Feng relaxed his breathing. He mumbled, “I bought it already. Wouldn’t it be all worth it if you wear it?”
Ling Ke was unable to change his mind. Helpless, he stuffed the T-shirt back into the bag and offered, “Want some milk tea?”
Qi Feng leaned over and hooked his hand, “You’re inviting me to have a drink?”
“Don’t get so close to me when we’re outside.” Ling Ke warned him. However, feeling unreconciled, he turned his hand over and hooked his hand around his as well. “…Well, since you bought me clothes.”
“Oh? Is that why you’re also getting fresh with me?” Qi Feng teased him again.
“You started it…” The two were in the middle of their flirtatious banter, when they suddenly saw an unfamiliar man staring at them. Ling Ke said hurriedly, “Don’t make trouble. There are people watching us.”
He tried to separate a bit from Qi Feng. However, not only did that man not look away, he walked straight towards them.
Just as Ling Ke was wondering if they knew each other, the other had already called out Qi Feng’s name —“Qi Feng?”
The newcomer was none other than Fu Yansheng. He walked in front of Qi Feng and stood still. With a hint of happiness in his tone, “I didn’t expect to see you here.”
Qi Feng bewilderedly stopped in his tracks. “You are…?”
Fu Yansheng was also startled—So, this guy was really called “Qi Feng”!?
Actually, since giving “Qi Feng” a call, Fu Yansheng already suspected that the young man at the bar had given him a fake name and contact information.
The owner of that number hadn’t admitted to seeing him at all. Moreover, the other person’s voice over the phone was different from what he remembered.
Because he had just changed jobs recently, he had a lot of work to do. Additionally, there was too little information about this person. Fu Yansheng had shelved this matter and hadn’t taken any action. That was until today, when he saw “the man himself” and decided to come and verify it himself.
Looking at this person up close, he clearly matched the person in his memory, but Fu Yansheng felt that something wasn’t quite right.
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Fu Yansheng shot a glance at Ling Ke and asked pointedly, “Is this…your friend?”
Unlike the obtuse Qi Feng, Ling Ke’s rival radar had been buzzing the moment Fu Yansheng appeared.
He put his hands in pockets, conscientiously rectifying his title, “It’s ‘boyfriend’.”
The look in Fu Yansheng’s eyes instantly turned cold. He looked at Qi Feng and asked, “You already have a boyfriend. Why did you have me kiss you at that time? Is this why you haven’t been answering my calls?”
These two questions directly struck Qi Feng stupid…
“Wha-what sort of nonsense are you talking about!?” What bar, what kiss, and what ‘not answering your calls’?
Ling Ke also looked like he’d been struck by lightning. He stared at Qi Feng in shock.
Wait a minute. Qi Feng seemed to have thought of something. He suddenly pointed at the other and blurted out. “Ah! You’re the one…”
But his expression of sudden realization was more like a symbol of his “extramarital affair” in the eyes of his lover. Ling Ke couldn’t quite believe it. “Qi Feng, you…!”
Fu Yansheng sneered, “Now, you remember?”
“No, Ling Ke!” Qi Feng reacted and rushed to say, “I don’t know him at all!”
But such words were obviously too weak and the atmosphere remained tense.
Fu Yansheng’s tone of ridicule, the indignant expression in Ling Ke’s eyes, were like invisible knives dealing 10,000 rounds of lingchi on Qi Feng, who was caught in the middle, unable to defend himself.
At this moment, you could say that Qi Feng was completely at a loss as to what to do. Putting aside his image and his upbringing, he explained to Ling Ke in a panic, “This person added me on WeChat a month ago. I didn’t accept. Then he gave me a call. Over the phone, he said something about a Skyline bar, but I’ve never even been to that place. I thought he was sick, so I blacklisted him! If you don’t believe me, I can show you my phone records…”
Fu Yansheng crossed his arms. He was starting to wonder if the young man in front of him had split personality…otherwise, how could his acting be so vivid and compelling?
Before things could get completely out of hand, Ling Ke first reinstated his calm. He looked at the sincere Qi Feng, and then at Fu Yansheng, who was detachedly looking on. He said, respectfully, “Excuse me, mister, could you please tell me when you met Qi Feng?”
Fu Yansheng paused then gave a quick answer, “Last month on the 17th, around 9:30 in the evening.”
“April 17?” Ling Ke thought back and then checked the date on his phone. He looked up at Fu Yansheng with a strange look, “Are you sure?”
Fu Yansheng: “En.”
Ling Ke: “That seems to have been a Monday. If I remember correctly, Qi Feng and I stayed in the dorm after returning to school that day. How could you have seen him?”
Hearing what he said, Qi Feng relaxed as if he’d been granted an amnesty. He nodded again and again. “That’s right! I really haven’t seen you!”
Because Fu Yansheng had complete confidence in his memory, he was inclined to think that Ling Ke was lying to help out Qi Feng.
However, Ling Ke’s expression and tone were very firm. In order to prove that what he’d said was true, he added, “Aside from me, our other two roommates can also testify for Qi Feng.”
Fu Yansheng’s brows furrowed. The lover might cover for Qi Feng out of blind love, but would others do the same?
At this time, Qi Feng was also infected by Ling Ke’s calmness. He began to think how he could have encountered such an unexpected incident.
“…Last month on the 17th?” He touched his chin, “My brother was in China at the time, could it be him?”
As soon as he finished speaking, it was like he had frightened himself with what he’d said. He turned his head and locked eyes with Ling Ke.
Immediately afterwards, strange looks from both set of eyes fell on Fu Yansheng’s body!
“… At that time, did you really see someone who looked exactly like me at the bar?” Qi Feng’s expression was strange, “Then, you two kissed, and he told you that his name was ‘Qi Feng’? And he also gave you my number?”
Seeing Fu Yansheng nod, Qi Feng’s expression twisted once again.
“Fuck…” He raised his hand to cover his face. He held it there for a couple seconds and then put it down. With a ‘what a pain in the ass’ expression, he explained to Fu Yansheng, “Then one you ran into was probably my brother! … No, it must have been my older brother!”
Fu Yansheng was puzzled, “Your older brother?”
Ling Ke awkwardly added, “Qi Feng has an older twin brother.”
“……!?”
Fu Yansheng then suddenly realized where the sense of “wrongness” he had from the beginning came from!
He could not tell the difference before because he never even considered the possibility of “twins”. The person and the name matched and so, he thought they were the same person. Now, that Qi Feng had brought it to his attention, he immediately noticed the differences between the two——
The hair of this Qi Feng before him was leaning towards sepia, as if it had been dyed. The fake Qi Feng he’d seen at the bar had short black hair. This Qi Feng had an ear stud on his left ear, but the fake Qi Feng didn’t seem to have it. There was also his voice and temperament. The fake Qi Feng’s voice was a bit lower, and there was a slight craftiness that bled into his expressions. This Qi Feng seemed to be much simpler…
“So you mean, your older brother borrowed your identity to lie to me?” Fu Yansheng asked.
“Definitely! This is his usual trick. Anyway, the one you saw couldn’t have been me!” Qi Feng said and hugged Ling Ke’s shoulders to show his loyalty, “I already have a boyfriend. I absolutely couldn’t have gone teasing others again!”
Ling Ke: “……”
Fu Yansheng seemed to believe him. He then said, “What’s your brother’s name?”
“His name is Qi Yu, the ‘Yu’ in island!” Because he’d been pitted by his brother first, Qi Feng felt no qualms about selling out his brother now. After reporting his name, he even provided his brother’s phone number. “This is his WeChat number. For every grievance someone is responsible, for every debt there is a debtor. Go look for him and don’t mistake other people for him again!”
Fu Yansheng wrote down the number. He extended his hand out to apologize to them. “Just now, I had been rude to you.”
“It’s okay, it’s fine. You didn’t know…” Qi Feng knew that the man in front of him was also a “victim” and was no longer angry. The two shook hands. Qi Feng suddenly remembered something and warned, “Hey, that’s right. Don’t tell my brother that I was the one who told you his number!”
Fu Yansheng couldn’t help laughing. “Okay.”
Watching Fu Yansheng disappear in the distance, Qi Feng grabbed Ling Ke and dragged him to crouch in a corner. He spit out three consecutive “f*ck”s to express his inner Sparta. “I didn’t expect my brother to be gay too!”
Ling Ke’s mood was also quite complicated. “You didn’t know before that your brother was too?”
Qi Feng had a despairing expression on his face. “I didn’t know! We were separated when we were ten. We didn’t understand sh*t at the time. Where would we have gotten the chance to talk about this kind of topic!?”
Ling Ke: “No, don’t you often go to your brother’s place during middle school and high school vacations? You didn’t talk even then?”
“I didn’t go there for sightseeing and he couldn’t accompany me every day! Only once, we went to the youth military camp together, but at the time…” Qi Feng recollected the past and said, “it seems we just kept competing to see who had the better physique and who could take on more abuse?”
Ling Ke: “……???”
“In any case, we never chatted!” Qi Feng shook his head, “Besides, ever since we were young, he’s always liked snatching away my girlfriends. I always thought he was straight…”
“Girlfriends?” Ling Ke’s tone rose all of a sudden.
“No, no, no, no!” Qi Feng hurriedly corrected his mistake, “They were girls who chased me! I have never recognized the relationship!”
Because all of them were snatched away by his brother before he could confirm the relationship…
Afraid that Ling Ke would dwell on it, Qi Feng quickly hugged him and acted all pitiful. “Now you understand where all those weird rumors about me came from? It’s been really tough for me. Ah! And when he came back last month? He said something about coming to find out the situation. I think he must be jealous of me! No wonder he wanted to seduce you!”
Thinking of what his brother had done to Ling Ke before, Qi Feng let out another peal of shouting…
His incoherent words truly reflected his shock at finding out that his brother was a kindred spirit.
Ling Ke said helplessly, “Don’t be jealous. I won’t go running away with him. Besides, if your brother wants to find a boyfriend, he’s perfectly capable of relying on his own situation to look for one. Why would he need to dig out his own brother's corner?”
Qi Feng said, chopping the nail and slicing the iron, “No, he can’t go looking for a boyfriend!”
“Why not?” Ling Ke was surprised.
Qi Feng said, “Dad won’t allow it. I heard my mom say that this time my dad had a very big reaction after knowing that I was with you. He even called me once…”
Ling Ke asked nervously, “Did he scold you?”
Qi Feng was like a hedgehog whose paw had been pricked. “Scold me? My household registration is under my mother’s name. What right does he have to scold me?”
Ling Ke: “……”
“No need to mind him.” Qi Feng paused, and continued, “But my brother’s situation is quite miserable. My dad may seem very lenient towards him, but he has a lot of demands when it comes to his studies and social interactions. And after our parents got divorced, they didn’t look for another mom for my brother. Now, he’s dad’s legally recognized son. Dad has built the company up to be so big; someone’s got to inherit it, right? My brother has to continue on the Qi family line, right?… So it’s impossible for my brother to come out of the closet. He doesn’t even think about it.”
Ling Ke asked, “You said before that stealing your identity to deceive people is a trick your brother usually uses. He does this often?”
“A lot more when we were young but very seldom in the past two years…”
After answering this, Qi Feng was suddenly stunned.
Because now that he was carefully thinking back, when his older brother used his identity before, it was mostly during junior high school. During those few years, he grew taller and his masculine charms began to be more prominent. He was surrounded by wild bees and wanton butterflies…
His older brother came back to China several times and he ran into those girls who chased after him; chased after him even to their house. Similar to what how he bullied Ling Ke, Qi Yu also pretended to be him. Qi Yu seduced those girls who were pursuing him and then threw them mercilessly away once he succeeded.
Although those pranks often made him extremely depressed, his brother never caused him any substantial harm. On the contrary, Qi Yu made him understand that some people’s repeated professions of “like”, were in fact, just skin deep. That was why, every time he found out, he, at most, just grumbled a bit about it.
In the past two years, his older brother had become more and more mature. Even their mom said that he was becoming more and more like their dad in how he handled matters. So this time, when he was “harassed” by Fu Yansheng, he didn’t immediately think that it might be his older brother pitting him.
Qi Feng was silent for a while and then said, softheartedly, “Forget it, let’s just pretend we know nothing about this.”
Ling Ke: “…Huh?”
Qi Feng: “My guess is, my brother’s just playing around. He couldn’t have taken it seriously.”
Ling Ke thought for a while, “Then, you just told that person your brother’s number. Is it going to cause trouble for him?”
Speaking of this, Qi Feng was still panting with rage. “It’s only right that he deal with the people he provoked. He can’t have me carry the pot for him every time, right?” He snorted again, “Don’t worry. My brother can be a lot more vicious and merciless than I am when handling this sort of thing. If he’s really determined and doesn’t want to acknowledge someone, there’s no one who can harass him.”
The author has something to say: [Little Theater]
Qi Feng: “No, Ke Ke! I don’t know him at all! QAQ”
Fu Yansheng: “…” You’re acting’s pretty good, you little minx! (* ￣︿￣)
Qi Feng: “It must have been my older brother that you saw!”
Fu Yansheng: “What?”
Qi Feng: “I’ve got it so tough!” ˊ_&Gtˋ
Hugging Ling Ke afterwards, he said, feeling moved: “Fortunately, you believed me!”
Ling Ke: “Please explain about the girlfriends.” (￣_￣)
Qi Feng:? ? ?
lol the little theatre! I miss Qi Feng soooo much. and Qi Yu got sold by his brother so fast, that’s what you get from always pitting your brother! 🤣
Hahaha this is the best brothers interaction! Their so funny.
Thanks for the translation!❤️❤️❤️
waaaaahhhhh i love this novel already! so happy you are kind enough to give us multiple per week ❤
Haha, As always their interaction are just so cute!!
But kind of worried about QY tho.. I wonder if there will be any problems in the future about coming out of the closet? Since he has to continue their family line?
And Thank you for the chapter! I’m enjoying this novel more than I thought I would have.
Thanks 🥰
I’ve missed these two! I’m glad they got a long cameo
thanks for the chapter <3
Finally the confrontation 😂😂😂 cant wait to see Qi Yu’s reaction when he know that his cover is blown away already
“Fu Yansheng already suspected that the young man at the bar had given him a fake name and contact information.” he did 😭😂
more drama ✨_✨~🍿
thank you for the chapter ❤
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thanks for the chapter!
QF jumping in to one pit after another…