Jintian City Apartments, Li Peifeng looked at the familiar surroundings and let out a long breath, "Finally back."

"You sort it out yourself, I still have work to do."

Wu Wenyue didn’t want to talk much with him and turned to leave, but Li Peifeng grabbed her.

"Wait a minute?"

"What now?"

Li Peifeng said tenderly, "Sister Yue, having you is like a gift from heaven!"

Wu Wenyue twitched her mouth, rolled her eyes, "Stop fooling around with her, and that would be the biggest gift for me!"

With that, she shook off his hand and left.

"A gift, a gift indeed!"

While packing his luggage, Li Peifeng was relieved that this time being ’caught cheating’ ended relatively well.

Wu Wenyue indeed covered for him, after experiencing He Yimeng’s tearful attacks, and practical interest considerations, Wu Wenyue agreed not to target the "white hair" at work, and also to keep this matter confidential, not to disclose it to Xu Manning and the other three.

But the premise was that from now on, Li Peifeng must keep distance from He Yimeng and not get entangled again.

Luckily, the one who ’caught him’ this time was Wu Wenyue, if it had been Zhao Qingge or Xu Manning, it definitely wouldn’t have ended so simply, nor would it have been so generously resolved.

It seemed that the situation was perfectly resolved, Li Peifeng also organized his bedroom with a good mood, and began to work after tidying up a bit.

Not just writing, but also preparing the manuscript for the lecture with Yu Hua on Friday.

During this, he emailed some of his drafts to Yu Hua, hoping that he could finish reading them before the lecture so that they could discuss more topics.

"Speaking of which, I don’t think I’ve finished reading his new book ’Wencheng’."

Li Peifeng frowned slightly, thought for a moment, then opened the webpage, found the e-version of the book, and started going through it.

As a literature graduate student, he read a lot, whether it was online literature or traditional literature, he read N books every week.

But compared to these two different types of works, he didn’t like reading books written by these traditional literature writers, very simply because the impression made him uncomfortable, unpleasant.

These old writers, constrained by the characteristics of the era, mostly have numb and painful characters, the world in the books seems like hell, only the place names are the same as reality, the protagonist never escapes the twists and turns of fate and the tragedy of life.

Just looking at Yu Hua’s book released after eight years of silence, no need to elaborate on the story, just the media promotions; even more heart-wrenching than ’To Live’, more piercing than ’Brothers’...

Otherwise, Li Peifeng wouldn’t have given up after reading half of it back then.

"Yu Hua, you old bastard, leaving the sadness to the readers and keeping the happiness to yourself!"

Li Peifeng gritted his teeth and read on, trying to find the one-liner literary language that made people sit up and take notice from his perspective as a literary critic.

Unfortunately, he only saw an absurd, frenzied, and despair-inducing world, lifeless characters, bland language, excluding the story, techniques hadn’t improved further, and the cruelty was too stiff...

"Ding~"

The WeChat notification sound from his phone chimed.

"Tsk?"

Li Peifeng broke out of the story, picked up the phone and focused on it, his brows slightly furrowed.

Because he suddenly realized that the matter of being ’caught cheating’ wasn’t as perfectly resolved as it seemed, it hurt not just Wu Wenyue but also He Yimeng...

He Yimeng: "You can love someone but still choose to leave them. You can miss someone every day but still feel grateful they’re not in your life."

Li Peifeng: "Feeling emo? Want to say goodbye to me?"

He Yimeng: "When I was crying, you didn’t have the courage to comfort me in front of her, which suddenly made me understand."

Li Peifeng sighed, earnestly replied: [You understand the situation then too, if I comforted you, Wenyue would definitely be angry, making the situation worse.]

He Yimeng’s emotions calmed without a ripple: [No need to explain, I’ve seen through you. Your fake compassion is filled with love, coursing through you wildly, it doesn’t matter who it’s for. Let’s leave it at that, unless necessary, let’s not contact each other. Let me know when things end with them, now I have to work.]

Li Peifeng could feel her distance and determination, he remained silent for a long time, let out a sigh, and a certain indescribable emotion surged within;

[Listen to the plea in my wanton life, I need to find more sorrowful people, to wade through the desert of time into the same river. I need to be seen, I need to be saved; I need deep bonds to hold an affection for the world, greed and lust, and being overly sentimental can keep disappointment from filling me, to prevent me from rash actions detrimental to societal stability...]

This was Li Peifeng’s defense against He Yimeng’s contempt, also one of the reasons he thought he was a philanderer.

Indeed, having multiple wives is every man’s dream, but reality and moral constraints make this idea hidden in most men’s hearts.

Li Peifeng didn’t intend to fool around at first either, his dream was like an ordinary person, just wanting a stable life, earning money through writing, traveling the world, seeing beauties from different regions, and finally, driven by fate, finding that soul connection, getting married, and having children. If not, continuing single was fine too.

He was just such a simple and straightforward man, but he was lucky enough to have obtained the system, under the influence of assessment tasks, Nether Sea’s Breath, and many subsequent factors, mistakenly establishing intimate relations with multiple girls at the same time, step by step leading to the present, Li Peifeng has been completely unable to make a choice, or rather is unwilling to compromise.

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