I Just Want to Freeload on Your Luck - Chapter 41

Mingxi curled up in the blanket after taking a shower. She still couldn’t figure him out after thinking about it, and she wasn’t in the mood to review her school work either. She couldn’t help but send a WeChat message to He Yang: “Could it be that boys also get upset once every month?”

He Yang: “What happened?”

“Fu Yangxi and I were planning to watch a movie, but he suddenly said that he was sleepy and that we’ll watch it another day.”

Mingxi typed quickly, wanting nothing but to tell He Yang what happened in the afternoon.

“What’s going on? Does he hate me? Or is it that when he heard me say those things about Shen Liyao and Dong Shen, he felt that it was very boring and didn’t want to listen anymore? But am I not trying to share my past group of friends with him after I got to understand his group of friends?!”

“Could it be that he regrets taking me as a follower? He has been emphasizing that I shouldn’t call him ‘boss’ recently…”

The more Mingxi typed, the more indignant she became: “How can he take back his words after accepting me as his follower?! If you don’t carry out your promises, are you even a man?!”

He Yang replied with a voice message after a short delay: “This boy changes his mind in three minutes. This is not okay.”

Mingxi: “…”

He Yang: “By the way, I discovered something.”

Mingxi: “What is it?”

He Yang was typing for a long time, then she suddenly said: “Zhao Mingxi, have you noticed that the topic you have been talking about these days is always Fu Yangxi? It stands to reason that you have had a lot of contact with Ke Chengwen and Jiang Xiuqiu after you changed classes, but you seem to have only mentioned Fu Yangxi to me the most.”

“Look through the chat history yourself.”

This line of text jumped out of the dialog box unexpectedly, and Mingxi was shocked for a moment.

“What?”

…

She stared at this line of words blankly. Her heart was suddenly beating fast and her blood rushed to her scalp.

That kind of feeling was hard to describe. It was like the sky’s spirit cover was opened in an instant and lightning struck down, rendering consciousness and thinking completely blank for a moment.

It was only after receiving such a reminder by He Yang that she realized that her attention had been on Fu Yangxi a lot recently?!

The way she stared at him in class to the point where Mr Lu had to call her out on it.

…Today when she heard him say that even if it was Ke Chengwen’s blanket that was soaked, he would also provide him with a place to live. There was still a flash of disappointment in her heart— but what was she disappointed for? How many years has he and Ke Chengwen known each other? How long has she known him? Isn’t this normal?!

And that morning when she saw Fu Yangxi carrying breakfast to the ground floor of the dormitory. When she heard that he was just coming to fetch his coat which was worth tens of thousands of dollars, she was suddenly splashed with cold water— why did she have that emotional change?!

Mingxi sat up while being wrapped in a blanket. She stared at the phone dumbfoundedly, suddenly not knowing how to react.

She just felt her mouth go dry.

As to what He Yang sent her next, Mingxi didn’t even have the mind to listen. She was in a daze with her mobile phone in her hands.

…

At the same time, Fu Yangxi was lying in bed, feeling like a child who did not receive any love. He stared up at the ceiling, having lost sleep again.

He couldn’t sleep, and he didn’t dare to sleep.

In the past, he tried to fall asleep with the mood of ‘Little Mask likes me’ and survived many nightmare filled nights.

And now, Zhao Mingxi didn’t like him.

The nightmares were back.

Ke Chengwen created a group on WeChat and pulled Jiang Xiuqiu in. The two sent condolences to him.

Ke Chengwen: “Xi ge, what are you doing? Did you use the candlelight dinner we taught you?”

Jiang Xiuqiu: “…Remove the word ‘we’. Candlelight dinner? What kind of corny idea is this? Using this trick will only make Zhao Mingxi question Fu Yangxi’s eye for aesthetics.”

Ke Chengwen: “Xi ge, actually, just because Zhao Mingxi doesn’t like you now, it doesn’t necessarily mean that she won’t like you in the future! Life is so long, who can tell?! Jiang Xiuqiu, instead of dashing his hopes, you might as well find a way to make Zhao Mingxi like Xi ge!”

Jiang Xiuqiu said: “Do you want to listen to my opinion? My opinion is that Zhao Mingxi likes Shen Liyao, and Fu Yangxi and Shen Liyao are completely different beings. The failure rate is very high.”

“It’s useless even if you dye your hair black. The difference in personality is too big.”

Fu Yangxi was lying on the bed with two rows of cold tears. From the bottom of his heart, he didn’t believe that Zhao Mingxi would like him. But seeing Jiang Xiuqiu’s words, he felt a sting in his heart.

He stood up and scolded a paragraph of words.

“You, the one with the surname Jiang, is such a pessimist. I always knew that a dog can’t spit out ivory from its mouth. You just have to force me to break my relationship with you! Today Zhao Mingxi took the initiative to ask me to watch a movie. :D”

Jiang Xiuqiu: “You don’t listen to the words of the loyal. If you listened to my advice before to stabilize your mind and don’t be passionate so quickly, you won’t end up in such a situation right now. She asked you to watch a movie because she felt awkward when she went to your house. She probably wanted to relieve that awkward atmosphere. Why can’t you understand that experience is the mother of wisdom?”

Fu Yangxi: “…”

Jiang Xiuqiu is actually so f*cking accurate.

Little Mask seemed to have only invited me to watch a movie to ease the awkwardness.

Also, she and Shen Liyao saw the random movie I chose.

…

Fu Yangxi’s heart was shattered into pieces. He lay back on the bed in the winter breeze.

Later, Ke Chengwen and Jiang Xiuqiu discussed some tricks, but Fu Yangxi didn’t look at it anymore. He turned his face sideways and looked out the window sleeplessly.

Gradually, the dim light penetrated halfway through the curtains.

Dawn had arrived.

Fu Yangxi’s eyes became panda eyes.

The hour hand pointed to five o’clock in the morning. The consequence of not falling asleep for even a moment was a throbbing head.

Fu Yangxi got up, washed his face with cold water and went out to buy breakfast.

…

When Mingxi got up at around 7am, she found several different breakfasts in the microwave.

Fu Yangxi seemed to have gotten up and then went back to his room.

Fu Yangxi was always in a bad mood in the morning. Even when he used to be in a good mood, all arrogant and triumphant, he would still sleep through the first two classes of school with a long face. This made people suspect that he was chased by a dog in a dream for a million meters.

Mingxi thought that he should still be asleep at the moment, so she moved gently so as to not disturb him.

She packed up her things, put on a black down jacket and planned to go out, but when she walked to the hallway, she glanced at the gray and black on her body. She figured that since she was going to see Aunt Dong today, it would be better to change to a brighter color— Aunt Dong noted last time that she was always dressed in gray albeit her young age.

Mingxi didn’t want the Dong family to feel that she wasn’t doing well.

After hesitating, she returned to the room and put on the other pink jacket that she had brought yesterday.

Fu Yangxi absent-mindedly struggled up from the sofa in the room. Hearing the movement outside, he quickly raised his eyes and took a glance.

Because the room’s door was not closed, he could see Zhao Mingxi walking outside. Little Mask went out and came back. She changed into better-looking clothes, closed the door and went out.

Fu Yangxi hesitated about how to go out to say hello, and then what reason would he use to ask her to come home early in the evening and have dinner together.

Fu Yangxi thought bitterly, although the candle light dinner is a little corny, what if it’s useful?

As a result, while he was thinking, he heard Zhao Mingxi’s gentle footsteps walking towards the door of his room.

Some of the tangled problems in Fu Yangxi’s mind were immediately emptied and disconnected. He nervously pulled off the blanket and jumped onto the bed, before closing his eyes and pretending to sleep.

…

Mingxi walked over cautiously when she saw that Fu Yangxi’s door was not completely closed.

“Young Master Fu?” She whispered and knocked gently on the door.

No one responded.

Mingxi noticed from the corner of the door that most of the dark green and white striped blanket on Fu Yangxi’s bed had fallen on the ground. She couldn’t help but walk in gently.

Fu Yangxi was falling asleep with his back facing her. There was only a small piece of blanket on his body. He looked like he had gotten into his bed in a hurry. With a white short-sleeved T-shirt on his upper body, the boy’s sharp and firm arms were exposed.

If he falls asleep without a blanket, his cold will recur tomorrow.

Mingxi picked up the blanket on the ground and put in all her effort to pull it on him. Because she was afraid of waking him up, Mingxi moved extremely slowly. She pulled up halfway, then went around to the window to continue pulling.

So her line of sight couldn’t help but fall on his face.

Fu Yangxi closed his eyes tightly, his lips tightly pressed. She wondered if he was having a nightmare or something, for his eyelashes trembled violently. A bunch of short red hair curled up in front of his forehead.

Mingxi pulled the blanket on him and stood still while staring at him for a while.

She didn’t know if it was because he had not completely recovered from his cold, and did not drink a lot of water, but his tightly pressed lips showed some pale and cracked marks.

When he fell asleep, his eyes were not fierce, and the small mole at the end of his right eye diminished his irritability a little, making him look a little more youthful and delicate.

…I have to admit that this arrogant prince is quite handsome.

When she came back to her senses, Mingxi’s sight had already lingered between Fu Yangxi’s eyebrows and lips dozens of times!

She was tense, and He Yang’s words last night burst into her mind.

WeChat chat search history—

The three characters ‘Fu Yangxi’ appeared 1,096 times.

There were more than a thousand! Mingxi was dumbfounded after searching a lot last night. She hadn’t realized it before!

Mingxi swallowed. Her face started to heat up unconsciously.

She seemed to have a guilty conscience, so she didn’t dare to look any more. She stepped back and left Fu Yangxi’s room quietly.

…

Mingxi carried her school bag on her back, boiled water in the living room, left a post-it note saying “Remember to drink hot water”, and hurried away.

The room went quiet quickly.

As Fu Yangxi was holding his breath, he was practically suffocating. He took a deep breath before slowly opening his eyes.

She didn’t like him yet she still covered him with a blanket!

He didn’t let her call him ‘Xi ge’ or ‘Boss’, but when she really called him ‘Young Master Fu’ in good faith, he panicked again.

Mingxi, Dong Hui and Dong Shen made an appointment to meet each other at the mall.

After going abroad for two years, Dong Shen’s taste had improved a lot. He was no longer the same chubby boy before. He was now 1.78 meters tall, dressed in a very cool manner. He could even be called a handsome boy. Walking beside Mingxi, the two attracted a lot of attention together.

Last time, Dong Hui mainly asked Mingxi about the situation in the past two years, but this time, Mingxi had the opportunity to have a good conversation with her young playmate Dong Shen.

“Mingxi jie, you’ve really changed a lot. Of course, the change is not in your personality, but you have changed a lot on the outside.” Dong Shen blushed a little when he saw Mingxi. He was not good at expressing himself. What he wanted to say was that when Mingxi first came out of Tongcheng, she would be a little timid when she faced anything strange here, but now Mingxi was no longer like that. She had a courageous personality and would do whatever she thought of.

Mingxi smiled and said, “You too. You’ve become more handsome.”

In fact, they have all changed a lot. After two years of absence, such change was really shocking.

Dong Shen asked again, “Is your face completely healed?”

The Dong family went abroad after Mingxi entered the Zhao family and Mingxi’s grandmother passed away.

There was a scar on Mingxi’s face at the time and she wanted to hide it from them, but she couldn’t resist Dong Hui and her request to video call her, so the Dong family knew about it.

Dong Hui even gave Mingxi a sum of money, but Mingxi did not accept it.

“It’s completely healed.” Mingxi touched her cheek subconsciously.

If Dong Shen didn’t ask, she would have almost forgotten that her face was injured.

All this was thanks to Fu Yangxi whose luck she freeloaded on.

Mingxi glanced at her own young shoots again. Four small trees had grown and that was equivalent to 200 young shoots.

Mingxi remembered that Fu Yangxi’s birthday was approaching, so she decided to prepare a gift for him.

When she and Dong Shen were walking around the mall, whenever they saw some small things where the production date happened to be November 5th, they would buy them all, including baseball caps and other things. But Mingxi has no idea about what to give him. She just kept accumulating these items quietly, hoping that Fu Yangxi would feel that her gift was different. She also hoped that Fu Yangxi would be happier that day.

“Oh, yes.” Mingxi suddenly took out her mobile phone and showed Dong Shen the photo she took yesterday. When she went to the balcony to dry her clothes last night, she saw a white bottle falling out of Fu Yangxi’s school bag. She picked it up and casually took a photo of the French words on it and then stuffed it into Fu Yangxi’s school bag.

“Didn’t you just come back from France? You should understand what these words mean, right?”

Dong Shen took the phone and looked at the photo for a while. Then, he said, “I don’t understand this. I can only distinguish a few words, such as treatment, usage, and chronic insomnia disorder. After all, I only use oral English and don’t understand professional vocabulary. You should take it to a doctor and ask them.”

“They don’t say ‘vitamins’?” Mingxi was stunned.

Dong Shen said:, “Of course not, vitamin is another word.”

It was then that Mingxi discovered that because Fu Yangxi once said “vitamins”, she assumed that all the medicine Fu Yangxi took were vitamins.

Insomnia?

But why would he have insomnia?

Mingxi saw him lying lazily on the table, sleeping every day in class, so she always thought that he slept better than ordinary people.

Mingxi suddenly remembered the bruises and glass scratches that had appeared inexplicably on Fu Yangxi several times, and her eyelids suddenly twitched.

“What happened?” Dong Shen asked.

“Nothing.” Mingxi came back to her senses and put away the photos. She planned to find a chance to take another photo of one of Fu Yangxi’s medicines, and then go to a doctor in a hospital to inquire about them.

Because she was interrupted by this incident, Mingxi lost her mood to go shopping.

She just wanted to go back to Fu Yangxi’s house quickly.

Mingxi and Dong Shen accompanied Dong Hui on her shopping spree. Meanwhile, Madam Zhao was accompanied by her friends from her social circle as they bought some bags and relaxed.

Madam Zhao did not expect to meet Dong Hui and Mingxi coming down the escalator here.

“…”

She was taken aback for a moment. She subconsciously took a step there, but the escalator she was on was going up, so she could only turn her head and watched Zhao Mingxi, Dong Hui and Dong Shen leave.

When her friend saw the odd look on her face, they followed her gaze and saw Zhao Mingxi and the people around her. They couldn’t help but say to Madam Zhao, “Isn’t that your child? Who is next to her, your relatives? Why is she shopping with another family?”

Madam Zhao felt anxious. She didn’t know what to say for a while.

Her gaze fell on Zhao Mingxi’s hand holding Dong Hui— Zhao Mingxi used to hold her hand when she went out shopping with her.

Now that Mingxi has left, no one will go shopping with her.

At this moment, Madam Zhao’s heart was no longer filled with just regret. A feeling of jealousy towards Dong Hui had also emerged. Why did she lose her biological daughter, yet Dong Hui could get along with Mingxi so well?

“It’s a relative of my family.” Madam Zhao replied. But she could only say that, otherwise, the news of Zhao Mingxi’s break with them would be spread out tomorrow.

“I think your Mingxi is kind to your relative.” The friend beside her curled their lips into a smile and said, “She is helping them choose some new clothes, how patient. My daughter would never be so patient with me.”

The two turned their heads and saw Mingxi walking into a branded store with Dong Hui. She picked up a piece of clothing at the entrance of the store and made gestures to Dong Hui.

Madam Zhao only felt that her heart was getting overwhelmed. She wanted her to stop talking, but she was still mumbling about it, “I like your Mingxi. She looks beautiful. Let her come out and go shopping with us next time.”

“…”

Madam Zhao’s lips were pale. She smiled, but her smile was filled with reluctance. “Okay, I’ll take her out next time.”

When Zhao Mingxi’s figure was about to disappear from their field of vision, Madam Zhao only felt anxious, and a tingling sensation of losing something.

This cannot go on.

She thought.

I must find a way to slowly pull Mingxi back.

She was expecting Mingxi to change her mind gradually and finally come home. But seeing her living so happily outside now, she seems to have regarded Dong Hui as a relative. On the contrary, it didn’t matter whether she wanted to be with her real family or not.

If they don’t come up with something, Madam Zhao is afraid that she will lose Zhao Mingxi forever.

She gritted her teeth and sent a text message to Zhao Zhanhuai: “Is there any way you can go and tell Mingxi’s school to let them take back Mingxi’s right to live in school?”

*

After Mingxi left home, Fu Yangxi went to take a shower, took the key and went out.

10 minutes later, he walked into a familiar private barber shop. As soon as he walked in, the designer quickly emptied the place and escorted him to the third floor.

“Young Master Fu, do you want to cut it short? A shorter cut will make you look more energetic.”

In the mirror, Fu Yangxi had red arrogant short hair, but his mood was obviously a little low today. He was not as lazy and sloppy as before, but was cold and tired, barely opening his eyelids.

The designer could only see Fu Yangxi’s lowered eyes. He was unable to guess what he was thinking.

After a while, he raised his eyes and said, “Dye it black.”

“Dye it black?” The designer was stunned. “You never thought of dyeing it black before.”

Dark hair, dark eyebrows and cold pale skin, just like Fu Zhihong.

Yu Jiarong would not accept it, nor would Grandpa.

But Zhao Mingxi obviously liked this type of guy.

Fu Yangxi very much hoped to return to the previous dream of self-deception.

He said impatiently, “Enough with the nonsense, just dye it black.”

After sitting in the barber shop for two hours, his body felt like it was going to fall apart.

“4,500.”

Fu Yangxi stood up, took out his mobile phone from his pocket and scanned the code to pay.

When he went downstairs, the employees in the store couldn’t help but stare at Young Master Fu.

Hair color has too much of an influence on a person’s temperament.

Before, Young Master Fu had short red hedgehog-like spiky hair. He practically placed the arrogance and scariness on his face, making people want to run as soon as they saw him. It almost made people ignore his handsome and charming appearance.

But at this time, his pitch-black short hair, clean and tall, was a little bit less violent and uninhibited at a glance. It was a little bit more crisp and indifferent, proud and young.

When he turned to scan the code, the neck at the collar of his coat was strong, revealing young and powerful lines.

Several people in the shop were dumbfounded as they looked at him.

“What are you looking at?” Fu Yangxi came back to his senses. Seeing these people staring at him, he glared back anxiously. “If you look some more, your eyeballs might fall off.”

The people in the shop hurriedly looked away. Young Master Fu was still Young Master Fu. Even if he changed a hairstyle it did not mean that he changed his temper.

Fu Yangxi touched his new hairstyle in an unfamiliar manner and walked out of the barber shop.

He took a selfie with a stinky face and sent it to the group.

Sure enough, Ke Chengwen and Jiang Xiuqiu started making noise again.

The three of them got in a video call.

Jiang Xiuqiu: “???? I just talked about it last night, yet you actually went ahead and did it? Young Master Fu, you are really doing everything to get her attention.”

Fu Yangxi suddenly jumped into a rage: “Are you f*cking with me? What do you mean you ‘just talked about it’? Didn’t you say that Zhao Mingxi likes this type?!”

Ke Chengwen hurriedly tried to smooth things over, “Okay, Xi ge, hurry up and buy candles and steak—”

After thinking about it, Ke Chengwen said again, “I think Zhao Mingxi’s still prefers the more learned type. Xi ge, it might be difficult for you to pretend to be studious.”

Fu Yangxi became anxious and said angrily, “Can you explain to me what is meant by ‘difficult for you to pretend to be studious’? If you don’t explain it clearly, your dog life will be gone tonight. I am studious, understood?”

Ke Chengwen: “…”

Jiang Xiuqiu replied, “I can vouch for Fu Yangxi on this.”

Fu Yangxi urged with a long face, “What else? Don’t hide your ideas, send them all at once.”

Ke Chengwen retracted his neck and said, “Also, do you want to buy a few Olympiad Mathematics books and a few gold medals and place them at your home? Then during the candle light dinner tonight, when Zhao Mingxi asks who your idol is, you must speak of Einstein, remember, Einstein! The most inspirational moment is when the apple falls—”

Fu Yangxi said, “That’s Newton!”

Ke Chengwen scratched his head and said, “In short, in addition to developing toward her type, you have to be romantic. Then, you can beat Shen Liyao.”

When Fu Yangxi heard the name Shen Liyao, there was a surge of dark clouds above his head. Seeing that he would be furious in the next second, Ke Chengwen quickly said, “Zhao Mingxi likes the quiet and cold type, Xi ge, stop talking!”

Fu Yangxi: “…”

Fu Yangxi swallowed the swear word at the tip of his tongue.

“See you in the next life.” He cut off the video directly and found a place to buy materials for dinner.

When he had that red hedgehog-like hair before, he looked arrogant and domineering, and no one dared to look at him directly on the street.

Now that he dyed his hair black, there were many girls staring at him as he walked down the street.

Fu Yangxi’s fists were itchy. With a glare that said, “Want to fight?”, he stared back at them.

Finally, he scared away the people who were staring at him.

Fu Yangxi’s face was dark. He tried his best to endure the discomfort caused by his black hair.

He glanced at the time. Little Mask should be having lunch with Dong Hui and her family.

Maybe he could buy some things first, and then pick her up at the place she is having her meal.

…

Fu Yangxi held secret expectations in his heart. Perhaps he thought that after Little Mask sees his black hair, something similar to ‘like’ would appear in her eyes.

Thus, he couldn’t wait to see her.

Although they could see each other tonight, he wanted to see her now.

Just like a child eager to offer treasures.

Fu Yangxi came out from the first floor of the mall carrying candles and steaks in white environmentally friendly bags. Then, he drove to the place where Mingxi told him she was going to eat last night.

He arrived quickly.

There was only one place to eat here and the whole building was covered by glass windows.

Fu Yangxi quickly saw Zhao Mingxi who was eating in a western restaurant from across the street, and the people opposite her.