Cheng Yu was injured because of him, and he was also the person in charge of his endorsement for Donghai Investments.
Qi Feng felt gratitude and politeness towards him.
He replied to Cheng Yu: 【I’m fine, thank you. How is your hand injury?】
Cheng Yu: 【To be honest, the burned area hurts a bit. Cry-laugh.jpg】
Qi Feng paused at his fingertips, feeling a bit frustrated and not knowing what to say. After all, it was because of him that he was injured, he wanted to say, sorry. But it seemed that he shouldn’t say it, he wanted to comfort him, but their relationship was not that close.
Fortunately, Cheng Yu quickly sent him another message: 【But, luckily the burn was not on you. Otherwise, as a fan of yours, I would be sad if I couldn’t see your guzheng live stream. Laugh.jpg】
Probably because Cheng Yu had emojis at the end of both messages, he seemed a bit cute and friendly.
Qi Feng also smiled along.
Cheng Yu sent him a few more messages: 【I just saw your trending topic, I didn’t expect you to go through so much, betrayed by your former friend, you must be very sad in your heart. Hug.jpg】
【I sent you a message hoping that you won’t be sad, I want to tell you that you have a lot of fans who like you, support you. We all hope to see you recover one day. Looking forward to your guzheng live stream tomorrow.】
After all, he was not the original owner, he did not have any anger or sadness in the few hours that Ning Yufei’s trending topic came out, but seeing such comfort, his heart softened a bit.
Cheng Yu was the first person to come out and comfort him.
He replied slowly and seriously: 【Cheng Yu, thank you.】
He did not call him Director Cheng but called him by his name.
Cheng Yu looked at these words…..and smiled.
His dark eyes were unfathomable.
Saying too much would make Qi Feng doubt his purpose, he had to end the conversation when it was time to end it.
So, he finally sent a sentence: 【Good night.】
Qi Feng: 【Good night.】
After putting down his phone, Qi Feng frowned.
Cheng Yu, this person still felt familiar.
Where had he seen him before?
Pei Yan had been in the study dealing with Ning Yufei’s matter, making sure that this person could die completely, before putting down his computer and coming to the living room to look for Qi Feng.
The boy was still wearing loose pajamas, sitting and lying on the sofa. Around him were scattered some materials, magazines, and brochures about Donghai Investment.”Are you still looking at these?”
Pei Yan walked over, casually picked up a book titled “The Establishment and Transformation of Donghai Investment” and glanced at it, “If you want to know anything, just ask me.”
Qi Feng was serious: “Many things are not easy to understand by just talking. You have to slowly appreciate them from these pictures and the words between the lines so that you can really understand the image that your company wants to convey to the outside world.”
Pei Yan: “For taking endorsement photos for our company?”
Qi Feng nodded.
Pei Yan was amused by his seriousness and said, “Isn’t it all the same how you take them, anyway, you just have to stand and smile. You don’t have to work so hard.”
Qi Feng glanced at him disapprovingly.
Pei Yan: “Be confident. You are the spokesperson that my dad personally appointed. He may not have a good EQ, but he has a good eye for people.”
Qi Feng: “That’s why…..I can’t let him down.”
“So serious?”
Pei Yan looked at the slender boy with admiration.
He was young, and also an entertainer in the entertainment industry.
He thought he would be a playful boy, but the more he contacted him, the more he found out that he was very hardworking in everything he did.
He was clearly afraid of spicy food, but he could eat hot pot with numbness and spiciness as if nothing happened for the live stream of Gourmet Boutique. He practiced the guzheng for several hours a day, just to play a song during the livestream.
For the sake of taking endorsement photos, he had been reading books, checking information, and studying the history and corporate culture of Donghai Investment for more than eight hours since he got home.
After Ning Yufei’s recording was exposed, it caused a storm on the internet, but it didn’t affect him at all. He wouldn’t waste time on meaningless things, he would use every bit of time to learn or improve himself.
Pei Yan touched the boy’s head and said, “You have me, don’t drive yourself too hard.”
Qi Feng put the book in his hand aside and asked him, “I saw that the founder of your company was Unc….your father President Pei and Cheng Anming, who are now the chairman and vice chairman, have they always been in charge of Donghai Investment?”
“You mean Uncle Cheng.”
Pei Yan smiled, “Uncle Cheng was originally one of my dad’s subordinates, and later when my dad founded Donghai Investment, he brought him out and they did it together.”
“Uncle Cheng is very nice, every time my dad wanted to beat me up when I was a kid, he would come out to protect me. By the way, his son Cheng Yu is also our friend, the one who helped you block the coffee tonight, I have to thank him tomorrow.”
Qi Feng wanted to know more about Cheng Yu, and asked him, “Are you also very close with Cheng Yu?”
Pei Yan: “We grew up together, by the way, he also lives in this community, maybe one day he will come over, and you can meet him.”
Qi Feng paused, looked up at him, and asked, “Are you not afraid of others knowing about our relationship?”
Pei Yan asked without hesitation, “What’s there to be afraid of? Sooner or later, people will know.”
As he spoke, he walked to the boy, bent down, and lifted Qi Feng from the sofa with his strong arms.
He was tall and big, and the sudden loss of gravity and suspension made Qi Feng exclaim, instinctively wrapping his arms around Pei Yan’s neck, “What are you doing so suddenly, you scared me!”
Pei Yan laughed brightly, his black eyes shining, holding his boy and heading straight to the bedroom.
Qi Feng exclaimed again when he was thrown onto the bed, after rolling around on the big bed, he quickly sat up, glaring at Pei Yan accusingly.
Pei Yan was also afraid that he was really angry, he sat over and shamelessly coaxed him and kissed him, and let the boy kick him twice.
As they were making a fuss, Qi Feng’s phone rang at an inappropriate time.
The caller ID showed Ning Yufei’s name.
Pei Yan grabbed the phone and sneered, “He really dares to look for you? He must be begging for mercy, don’t be soft on him. Don’t answer this call.”
Pei Yan uploaded a few minutes of audio and video to the internet and didn’t do much after pushing it up. He just blacklisted the studio that Ning Yufei hired to scold Qi Feng for him get out of the internet.
The rest was left to the netizens to judge.
In less than two hours, the huge reversal of public opinion caught almost everyone off guard.
The whole network was sympathetic to the victim Qi Feng and scolded Ning Yufei, occasionally someone would question the authenticity of the recording, and they would be chased and scolded right away.
Especially those who used to scold Qi Feng for Ning Yufei, they were used so thoroughly at the beginning, and now they were so furious. Almost all of them were scolding Ning Yufei. He was completely bitten by the dogs he raised.
“If I’m still soft-hearted like this, will the netizens scold me for being a white lotus in a prosperous world?”
Qi Feng answered the phone coldly, “Ning Yufei, what do you want from me?”
“Xiao Feng…..”
On the other end of the phone was Ning Yufei’s sobbing voice, “I…..I’m sorry for you…..please, please forgive me for the sake of us debuting together, okay?”
“You’re too good, good-looking, strong, and you can play instruments, but I have nothing. I’m, too jealous of you…..”
There was remorse, regret, and helpless sincerity in his voice.
As if he was not the same person as the handsome and charming star Ning Yufei.
Qi Feng’s voice was calm, “What do you want me to forgive you for?”
The phone transmitted the suppressed sobbing and breathing, revealing Ning Yufei’s inner struggle. After a long time, he finally spoke with difficulty: “I really regret it, I shouldn’t have… drugged you twice.”
Qi Feng: “Twice? When was the first time?”
Ning Yufei only wanted to harm Qi Feng and get what he desired when he did those things. But when he faced Qi Feng and said them out loud, he realized how vile his actions were, and how dark his mind was.
But now, if he didn’t confess his mistakes to Qi Feng and beg for forgiveness, he would not only ruin his future but also face the risk of being sued and jailed.
He trembled and let out a long breath, slowly and hesitantly saying: “A year ago, when you invited me to film an advertisement with you, I put sleeping pills in your drink, making you oversleep and miss the shooting…”
“What about the second time?”
Once these things were spoken, the burden on his heart was much lighter or he had given up on himself.
Ning Yufei sighed deeply: “A month ago, when you went to see Mr. Li for the endorsement, I asked Xu Ran to put a bottle of water in the locker of the resting room because I knew that you would be thirsty after training and would drink that bottle of water.”
“The drug was slow-acting, and it would take effect when you met Mr. Li. I had sent someone to wait outside the room that Mr. Li had booked, hoping to take some photos of you and Mr. Li together, but you didn’t go…”
Of course, he didn’t go, because that time he met Pei Yan for the first time.
“Good.”
Qi Feng chuckled, “The recording that was posted online didn’t have any evidence of you drugging me twice, so it would be a bit troublesome to sue you. I recorded our conversation, and these will serve as evidence for later. Ning Yufei, it’s time for you to pay for what you have done.”
Pei Yan almost laughed out loud as he listened from the side, he knew that Qi Feng was not a kid to be messed with, even though he seemed calm and aloof.
He didn’t dare to offend him.
Pei Yan found his cold face more and more adorable and quietly kissed the boy’s tense face.
Qi Feng pushed him away warningly.
Ning Yufei almost choked when he heard that. He was already enduring the humiliation of apologizing to Qi Feng, but he didn’t expect Qi Feng to trick him like that!
He was furious and indignant, and could no longer hide his pretense. He blurted out: “Qi Feng, you… you fucking set me up!”
Qi Feng sneered: “Ning Yufei, you used my trust in you to harm me over and over again, stirred up public opinion to slander me, and even used drugs. You have done such vicious things, why do you think I can forgive you?”
In Yong’an Music Hall, there were many people like Ning Yufei, who smiled on the surface but used all kinds of malicious means to frame and harm others behind their backs.
He had experienced more vicious methods than Ning Yufei, and being soft-hearted would only make them more arrogant. Because people who are jealous will never repent, they are pitiful to the point of being pathetic.
Ning Yufei completely gave up on himself, and roared like a madman: “Qi Feng, I’m jealous of you, I fucking envy you! If it wasn’t for you, how could I become like this?!”
“Do you really think you won, without Pei Yan, could you bring me down? Could you get the endorsement from Donghai Investment?”
Ning Yufei laughed strangely: “Qi Feng, is the benefit you get from selling your body really cleaner than mine? If it wasn’t for Pei Yan, you are nothing!”
His words made Qi Feng suddenly stunned, and the knuckles of his hand holding the phone turned white.
He pursed his lips, his voice low and cold, “Ning Yufei, you better live well. I will let you see me reach the height that you covet, but can never attain. You keep being jealous, be jealous of me for your whole life.”
“Qi Feng!”
Ning Yufei screamed like a madman, Qi Feng hung up the phone, and blocked his number, saving the recording.
Pei Yan saw that Qi Feng’s face was wrong, and came over to hug him in his arms and rub him, asking: “Why are you unhappy? Did that bastard Ning Yufei say something?”
“Nothing?”
Qi Feng pushed him away, “I’m tired… stop it.”
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