My System Forces Me to Live off Women-Chapter 167 - 161: The Path to Redemption

Faced with Li Peifeng and Zhao Qingge's explanation, Li Xin naturally didn't believe it, but she had a way to verify whether what they said was true or not.

"Give me your phone." Li Xin extended her hand to her daughter, her expression serious.

Zhao Qingge hesitated slightly, but still handed over her phone: "I turned it off during dinner, worried it would disrupt the atmosphere." 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"Shut up!"

Li Xin sneered as she took the phone, turning it on while saying, "I should have checked your phone from time to time like I used to, otherwise you wouldn't be unclear with your student now. Do you know what would happen if this got out? A joke, a huge joke!!"

"Mom, there's really nothing going on between us!"

"You better pray there's nothing going on!"

Li Peifeng stood to the side, peeking at the phone screen, his heart in his throat. It seemed Li Xin's controlling nature as a mother was really strong. Did she used to check her daughter's phone? But now, won't she find the 'Yun Xin Yue Xing' and his chat records on TT? And those photos...

"Auntie, please calm down, please sit and check."

Li Peifeng tried to comfort, observing Zhao Qingge's expression, seeing Old Zhao very calm, estimating there shouldn't be an issue, maybe she, like himself, deletes the chat records after every online chat. Photos were saved in some secret folder on the computer, with perfect security measures.

"Which one in your WeChat is him?"

Li Xin, after turning on the phone, immediately opened WeChat.

"This one."

Zhao Qingge reached out and tapped their chat box, then looked at Li Peifeng, frowning, "You should just go home if you're free..."

"Don't even think about leaving!"

Li Xin flipped through their WeChat chat records, not looking up as she said, "No one's leaving until this is resolved!"

"Okay, I won't leave."

Li Peifeng calmly said, "Auntie, you can check it here, and once the misunderstanding is cleared, I'll leave. Rest assured, there's absolutely nothing improper, pure teacher-student relationship between me and my advisor's daughter!"

Despite saying this, Li Peifeng was actually worried. If things really reached the stage of meeting the parents with Zhao Qingge in the future, the more righteously he proclaimed now, the more face he'd lose later.

Yet the situation forced him, there was no other way.

"..."

Zhao Qingge was expressionless, and so was Li Xin, until she finished browsing through their WeChat chat records for the past month. Not seeing anything inappropriate, she briefly scanned the recent chat with a WeChat account that had chatted in the past two days. Among them was the research group's chat, confirming the dinner gathering fact, her expression slightly eased. She exited WeChat and then clicked into the phone's photo album...

"Mom! Why are you also checking my album?"

Zhao Qingge immediately tried to snatch the phone back, but Li Xin dodged: "I'm your mom, what's wrong with having a look? If you have nothing to hide, why are you afraid of me checking? If you want to see mine, I'll give you my phone, you can look freely!"

"My student is here!"

Zhao Qingge said impatiently, "Can you restrain yourself a little?"

Li Xin didn't reply, still looking at the phone.

"I'll go pour you both a glass of water."

Li Peifeng sensibly found an excuse to leave the living room, avoiding the awkward scene, and stayed in the kitchen to give the mother and daughter some private discussion space.

Sure enough, once Li Peifeng left, Li Xin flipping through the phone, immediately started chatting with her daughter.

"Who's your online dating partner? Which app did you use to meet?"

"I'm not in an online relationship, I've told you before, you can search however you like!"

"Who's the man in this photo with you?"

"I went to Wuzhen for a conference before, and some online authors asked to take a photo with me. I don't even know their real names."

Li Xin still sounded half-believing, "Are you really not involved with Li Peifeng?"

Zhao Qingge firmly insisted, "Nothing's going on!"

A moment later, getting nothing, Li Xin sighed in disappointment: "You indeed got nothing going on, you don't even have a single male friend! If you keep being single, you might as well have something with him after he graduates..."

Zhao Qingge's face froze: "What are you saying? He's my student."

Li Xin snorted, "You know he's your student? Why let him come to your house late at night to discuss projects?! You both drank, alone in the middle of the night, nothing's certainly turned into something!"

About four or five minutes later, Li Peifeng vaguely heard the talking in the living room gradually stop, so he carried two glasses of warm water back to the living room.

Just then Li Xin put down the phone, much calmer than before: "Peifeng, Auntie got a bit excited just now."

"Please don't say that."

Li Peifeng beamed with a smile: "I completely understand, and besides, it was my fault too, not knowing my boundaries. Auntie, I promise you, I will correct it in the future!"

Li Xin nodded with a smile: "Auntie's attitude was also a bit off earlier, haha, you're still single, right?"

"Ah? Ah!" Li Peifeng suddenly felt something bad and, as he expected, the next words came exactly as he had anticipated.

"Tomorrow, Auntie will introduce you to a few female students from Cai University, sounds good? Consider it as my apology."

Li Xin smiled kindly, "There might also be a chance for your uncle to introduce you to a few girls from Yandu University, get to know them, and get out of singlehood soon. You're so outstanding, you should focus on your life while not delaying important personal matters."

Li Peifeng understood, this was Li Xin still doubting their relationship, so she came up with this strategy. But he had no choice but to agree, forcing a smile and nodding: "Thank you for that."

"Hey, Duoduo, what do you think?"

Li Xin even deliberately asked Zhao Qingge!

Zhao Qingge's eyelids drooped slightly, showing no expression of joy or anger: "Mom, as long as you think it's good. I only take care of the students' academics, I don't have the time to worry about their relationship issues."

"Well, that's not right of you." Li Xin criticized, "A good mentor should not only impart knowledge but also try to solve their life's problems." Then she turned to smile at Li Peifeng: "How about this, add me on WeChat. I currently have two students with me, there's a girl who's particularly pretty and comes from a good family. I'll talk to her tomorrow, I'll send her WeChat to you, you two can chat among yourselves."

"Okay, got it." Li Peifeng glanced at Zhao Qingge, sighed inwardly, and without delay, took out his phone: "What's your phone number?"

Li Xin told him her number, also taking out her phone to accept Li Peifeng's friend request, then chuckled: "If chatting with this one doesn't work out, your uncle and I will introduce you more. Girls from Cai University and Yandu University are no worse than those from Beihua Normal University, strive to get out of singlehood within a month!"

"That sounds great."

Li Peifeng feigned happiness, while inwardly chuckling bitterly, Li Xin was now trying to solve him since she couldn't solve her daughter, thinking that as long as he gets out of singlehood, the likelihood of having an inappropriate relationship with Old Zhao would be eliminated?

Wishful thinking!

"What if I told Li Xin, I already have two girlfriends, and am waiting for me to return home, how would she react?"

At eleven o'clock at night, Li Peifeng left Zhao Qingge's house, sitting in a taxi pondering, and the answer came instantly.

"Li Xin's reaction isn't important, my advisor would definitely break up with me!"

Li Peifeng had a bit of a headache. After further progressing in his relationship with Zhao Qingge earlier, he finally realized the crisis of capsizing was gradually increasing, but how to solve this problem perfectly, he had no idea, thinking so hard that his head almost split, yet finding no solution.

Fortunately, the system still gave him some solace, for completing the task [Please support me]gave him two lottery chances.

"I want to draw a prize!"

Li Peifeng murmured: "Perhaps the path to redemption lies within!"