Chapter 132: Becoming the Person I Used to Hate

Chen Feng had always considered himself a very traditional person, fundamentally different from those other men who turned bad after getting rich.

The reason was simple: he was a decent person.

Before he learned he had a terminal illness, he had always been a person who followed the rules. He had never done anything that harmed others, nor had he done anything immoral. He certainly had never done anything that was offensive to public decency.

But now he felt that he had changed. The main change was in his attitude towards relationships and women.

Before he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, he had never thought that one day he would spend money on women.

At this moment, the charming Lin Yujiao lying beside him could be considered one he had spent money on. Of course, there was still some difference. Lin Yujiao was not only with him because of money; he himself was the most important factor.

This made him feel a little dazed for a while, and a very dreamlike and absurd feeling welled up in his heart.

He had never dreamed that he would sleep with a woman he had only known for two or three days. He used to be a decent person.

It could only be said that the saying “men turn bad when they get rich” was really very reasonable. Not 100%, but in Chen Feng’s view, there was an 80-90% probability, it was just a matter of time.

It wasn’t just because he had a terminal illness. In Chen Feng’s own view, that was a factor, but the main reason was that he had become rich, which was why he was so unrestrained and released his male hormones so wantonly.

A man without constraints and with money, in many cases, really found it difficult to control his desires.

Chen Feng was very helpless about this. He used to look down on those men who went around looking for women after getting rich, and now he had undoubtedly become this kind of man.

The clown was actually me! I have become the person I used to hate!
Chen Feng felt a little absurd in his heart.

A decent man, in his post-coital clarity, would always have a little bit of guilt and reflection, like a philosopher.

“What are you thinking about?”

Lin Yujiao had originally closed her eyes, but seeing that Chen Feng was motionless and not speaking, she couldn’t help but open her eyes to look. Seeing his serious face in contemplation, she asked.

Of course, Chen Feng couldn’t say that he was thinking about philosophical questions. He just said, “I’m sorry. I was a little too eager this time, too rough.”

“Get lost!” Lin Yujiao said coquettishly with some shyness.

“Hehe. I can only say that you are too attractive. I really don’t understand how your ex-husband could bear to divorce you?”

“Really. Why are you talking about him?” Lin Yujiao rolled her eyes at him and said, “I was the one who proposed the divorce. He refused to divorce me at first. I said if we didn’t divorce, I would go to court and make a big deal out of it. His mother was afraid of losing face and had always had a bad relationship with me, so she helped persuade her son to divorce me. We only divorced later.”

“No wonder,” Chen Feng said with sudden realization. He reached out and naturally put his arm around her, saying with a smile, “This is a bargain for me.”

Chen Feng was now a little reluctant to just keep her for a month. It just didn’t seem realistic to take her to Xiuzhou. And he couldn’t stay in the countryside forever.

This was a bit difficult.

“It’s better to be a bargain for you than for others,” Lin Yujiao said in a low voice, drawing circles on Chen Feng’s chest with her finger. “I’m also quite satisfied with you. It’s just a pity that you don’t plan to date, and you’re going back to Xiuzhou after the New Year. It seems we are not destined to be together for long.”

Chen Feng smiled and said, “At least we have each other now, which is very good. We are both divorced and single. Our two souls are very lonely. It was fate that brought us together. I think this is God’s arrangement. Now we just need to cherish the present. We’ll talk about the future in the future.”

Lin Yujiao said with a resentful expression, “You don’t care. You just enjoy the present. I’m already twenty-six, and I’ll be twenty-seven after the New Year. Soon I’ll be thirty. A woman at thirty is like dregs of tofu. It will be harder and harder to find a good man to marry in the future.”

“Don’t be too pessimistic. A beautiful woman like you will have a lot of men chasing you even when you’re forty. It’s too easy to find a rich man to remarry…”

Before he could finish, Lin Yujiao snorted coldly and turned away from him, leaving him with the back of her head.

Of course, Chen Feng understood the reason. What he had just said was a bit scummy. The two of them had just done that, and he was still holding her in his arms, but he was talking about her remarrying another man in the future.

Chen Feng smiled awkwardly, “Don’t be angry. If you really can’t find a suitable one in the future, you can just be with me. I will definitely not let you suffer. Not to mention other things, I can guarantee to satisfy you financially. I’ll give you thirty thousand yuan a month for living expenses, so you don’t have to worry about food and clothing.”

“Are you serious?” Lin Yujiao immediately turned her body and looked at Chen Feng with some surprise.

“Of course I’m serious,” Chen Feng nodded with a determined face. “From this month on, I’ll give you thirty thousand yuan a month. Until you find a new boyfriend.”

“This… didn’t you say before that we would only be a temporary couple for a month?”

Lin Yujiao was a little disbelieving. Even if Chen Feng wanted to keep her for a long time, you had to have money. Thirty thousand a month, three hundred and sixty thousand a year, this was not a small amount of money.

Did he really have so much money? Was he really willing to spend so much money to keep her?

Chen Feng saw her doubts to some extent and said with a smile, “That was before. Now I’m really a little reluctant to let you go. I want to have you as my partner for a long time.”

Lin Yujiao smiled self-deprecatingly, “It should be a long-term kept mistress, right? I never thought I would be kept by someone one day.”

“If you have to understand it that way, you can. There’s nothing to be ashamed of. In this society, the relationships between men and women who are dating are essentially not much different. Many men have to spend a lot of money on women, but in the end, they only get to hold hands and kiss. The men lose out big time.”

“Get lost. Do you have to have sex when you’re dating? They’re mainly talking about feelings, not that kind of relationship between men and women.”

“If there is no such relationship between men and women, this relationship cannot be strong. It is certainly important to be in love with your heart, but you also have to be in love with your kidneys, otherwise it is incomplete,” Chen Feng said with some sophistry.

“This is just your disgusting male thoughts and logic. We women don’t think like that.”

“Alright, alright. Let’s talk about our own business,” Chen Feng wisely stopped this topic and returned to the main topic. “I’ll do what I say. I’ll give you 30,000 yuan a month for living expenses starting this month.”

“You’re not thinking of taking me to Xiuzhou, are you? I’ll make it clear first, I don’t want to go to Xiuzhou. I’m used to it here in my hometown. I don’t want to leave my hometown and go to another place.”

Chen Feng had no intention of taking her to Xiuzhou in the first place. There were already enough people there. He didn’t want to bring her to make a mahjong table. Now that she didn’t want to go herself, it was just right.

It was just a pity that when he went to Xiuzhou, it would be difficult to be like today.

“Sigh, alright,” Chen Feng sighed with feigned disappointment. “I was actually thinking of taking you to Xiuzhou, but since you’ve said so, I can only respect you. However, I will still give you thirty thousand a month for living expenses. Until you find another man.”

Hearing this, Lin Yujiao immediately felt a little embarrassed and at the same time very moved.

But she hesitated for a good while and in the end still did not express her intention to go to Xiuzhou with Chen Feng.

After all, Chen Feng only regarded her as a temporary kept partner, not a girlfriend or a partner, let alone the kind to get married in the future.

Out of a very realistic consideration, since Chen Feng was not serious with her, she could not hang herself on this one tree, Chen Feng. She still had to find a good family man who suited her own heart, rebuild a new home, get married, and have children.

A woman can only have a support when she has a family. With children, this family will be stable.

This had always been Lin Yujiao’s traditional and simple idea.

But now Chen Feng could not give her this promise. Even though she was also very satisfied with Chen Feng in her heart, reason told her that Chen Feng was obviously not the most suitable partner and final destination.

“I’m sorry…”

In the end, Lin Yujiao could only turn her thousands of words into this one sentence.

“Silly girl, what’s there to be sorry about? If I have to say sorry, it should be me. I can’t give you the marriage and new home you want.”

Lin Yujiao didn’t speak anymore, just silently snuggled into Chen Feng’s arms again.

Chen Feng didn’t speak anymore either.

At this moment, silence was better than words.

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At noon, the two of them came out of the hotel and then went to a nearby restaurant for lunch.
Originally, the two of them were going to wander around in the afternoon, but his mother, Zhao Xiaolan, called and urged him to go back, saying that there was an emergency at home.

Seeing this, Chen Feng had to take Lin Yujiao back to Qingpu Town.

He first sent Lin Yujiao back to her shop, and then went home.

From a distance, he saw a lot of people gathered at the entrance of his small shop. Chen Feng thought something had really happened at home. He quickly accelerated to the entrance of his house, stopped the car, and quickly got out.

As a result, he squeezed through the few people watching the fun at the entrance and quickly walked into the small shop. He saw his mother and Wu Mengting talking and laughing. There were also a few aunties standing next to them.

Wu Mengting’s face was red, and she had a friendly smile on her face. His mother also had a smile on her face, looking at her with a motherly gaze.

A very bad feeling immediately welled up in Chen Feng’s heart.

“Ah Feng is back.”

“Ah Feng, your girlfriend is here to see you.”

“You have good taste. Your girlfriend is very pretty.”

…

Several aunties smiled and teased Chen Feng. This made Chen Feng feel even more pained.

“Brother Feng!”

Seeing Chen Feng, Wu Mengting was very happy and quickly stood up.

Chen Feng’s face had a clearly stiff smile. Without saying any nonsense, he walked forward quickly, pulled her up, and walked towards the back.

Wu Mengting was like a little bride, her face red and her head down. She looked very obedient, letting Chen Feng hold her hand and follow him straight to the back.

Behind them came the sound of several aunties’ bell-like laughter.

Chen Feng quickly pulled Wu Mengting into the independent room in the back, closed the door, let go of her hand, and said unhappily, “What are you doing? Why did you suddenly come to my house? It’s not good for you to act first and report later, you know?”

“Brother, I was wrong, I was wrong. I apologize to you,” Wu Mengting repeatedly admitted her mistake with a very proper attitude. Then she said with a bitter face and lingering fear, “I really didn’t expect your family to run a small shop. And there are so many neighbors around. If I had known, I definitely wouldn’t have come to your door like this. You don’t know how terrifying those aunties are. They asked me all sorts of questions. I was so embarrassed before.”

Chen Feng could imagine the scene of Wu Mengting being surrounded by those aunties and asked all sorts of questions. He couldn’t help but shiver. He might not be able to stand it either.

Thinking of it this way, it was really a bit difficult for Wu Mengting.

However, she had brought this upon herself. Who asked her to make a surprise visit to his house?

“Alright. You suddenly ran to my house. Now those aunties all think you’re my girlfriend. Don’t you think this is just messing around? I just told my family two days ago that Xiaorui is my girlfriend.”

Wu Mengting said weakly, “I didn’t say I was your girlfriend.”

“But you definitely didn’t deny it, did you? Otherwise, how would those aunties think you’re my girlfriend?”

Wu Mengting was suddenly speechless. The fact was indeed so. Before, when an auntie asked if she was Chen Feng’s girlfriend, she just blushed and smiled, without denying it.

“Tell me. What did you come here for?” Chen Feng glared at her unhappily.

Wu Mengting immediately said with righteousness, “To play with you. Don’t you forget that you promised me before that you would invite me to your house to play at the end of the year. You haven’t forgotten, have you?”

Chen Feng thought for a moment. It seemed there was indeed such a thing. Although it was just a perfunctory excuse at the time, now that she had come, Chen Feng couldn’t deny it.

“Alright. There is such a thing. Then you can play here for two days. But later, you have to explain it clearly to my mom. Just say that you’re a friend I met in Xiuzhou, not a girlfriend.”

“How can I say that?” Wu Mengting refused in one go. “If you want to say it, you say it yourself.”

Chen Feng thought about it and agreed. He had to scratch his head and change the subject, “Have you booked a hotel? If not, I’ll take you to book a hotel.”

Hearing this, Wu Mengting was unhappy, “Your mom and your brother both said I should stay at your house.”

“Stay at my house?” Chen Feng couldn’t help but frown.

Wu Mengting pouted with dissatisfaction, “You still say you treat me like your own sister. Your own sister comes to your house as a guest, and you just let her sleep in a hotel outside? It’s not like your house has no place to sleep.”

Chen Feng’s teeth ached. He could only follow her words, “If you want to sleep at my house, of course I don’t object. Then you can sleep here. It’s all new.”

“Then what about you?” Wu Mengting asked with a red face.

Chen Feng held back from rolling his eyes and said in a muffled voice, “I’ll go sleep in the old room on the second floor.”

“Oh… then okay. I’ll just sleep here. My luggage is still in the front. You go help me get it.”

Chen Feng quickly said, “Let’s go later. Those aunties haven’t left yet.”

“Hehe, the neighborhood relationship here is really good. So many people talking and laughing together, it’s really lively.”

Chen Feng pouted, “What’s so good about it? They’re very gossipy. They can’t stand to see other families doing well. They’re two-faced. They love to gossip behind people’s backs. It’s better to be in the city, where neighbors keep a certain distance. At least everyone is polite on the surface.”

“Let’s not talk about this. Where are you planning to take me to play this afternoon? You don’t have to take me to the places we’ve already played.” Wu Mengting looked at him with anticipation.

Chen Feng said helplessly, “You’ve already visited the few more famous scenic spots here last time. The other places we haven’t visited are not scenic spots.”

“We haven’t been to Beilu Island yet. How about we go there to play?”

Beilu Island was a relatively famous tourist resort island in Linnan County and even Lu City, but it was not close to Chen Feng’s place.

Chen Feng immediately shook his head and refused, “What’s so fun about going to the island in this cold winter? The sea breeze will freeze you to death. And it’s very troublesome to get there. It takes more than an hour by boat. If you haven’t taken a sea boat before, you might get seasick. There’s not much seafood to eat there in winter either.”

“Then where are we going to play?” Wu Mengting pouted.

Chen Feng thought for a moment and said, “How about we go to Haiwan Town to play? It’s not far from here. Coincidentally, I have a friend whose hometown is also in Haiwan Town. I’ll take her with us tomorrow. Let her be our guide.”

Wu Mengting didn’t want to add another person. She quickly said, “We don’t have to trouble your friend. Since it’s not far, we can just go there by ourselves. Besides, I don’t know this friend of yours. It feels strange to add him to play with us.”

Chen Feng just didn’t want to be alone with her, so he planned to call someone. He said, “I’m not familiar with that place either. And the terrain is a bit complicated. It’s all winding mountain roads. Plus, it’s by the sea. Without a guide, you really don’t know where the fun places are.”

Wu Mengting frowned slightly and asked, “Is this friend of yours a man or a woman?”

“A woman,” Chen Feng said in a natural tone. “She has a shop on our street. It’s the end of the year, right? She’s idle and has nothing to do. I can just take her to play with us.”

“A woman?” Wu Mengting’s heart immediately sounded an alarm.

“Yes, she’s quite pretty,” Chen Feng said with a smile. “A blind date I met before.”

Wu Mengting’s whole face immediately darkened.