My System Forces Me to Live off Women-Chapter 210 - 192: Only Regret How Brief It Was

At ten o'clock at night, Li Peifeng had almost finished packing. He managed to do it so quickly because he only packed some seasonal clothes, roughly a third of all the clothes in the wardrobe, and didn't even take single-layered clothes or down jackets, let alone the books on the shelves.

The first reason was to avoid trouble, and the second was a deliberate move.

By leaving some of his belongings behind, he could use it as an excuse to visit again for things, possibly even stay over, rekindle love...

"Knock knock~"

Just as Li Peifeng was zipping up his two large suitcases, Wu Wenyue entered wearing pajamas. She symbolically knocked twice on the already open door, stepped in, and glanced around: "How's the moving going?"

"Almost done."

"But there's still so much stuff left here!" Wu Wenyue frowned, pointing at the desk and the clothes still in the wardrobe, then she sat on the bed and patted it: "And the bedding, you aren't taking them?"

Li Peifeng didn't respond immediately. He kicked the suitcase into the corner and sat next to her, silently staring at her with a meaningful gaze.

"What are you looking at?!"

"Looking at the beauty of the world, looking at a straight woman's wrench, looking at the wife of my dreams."

Wu Wenyue was extremely disgusted: "You talk too much, are you moving or not?"

"Do you really want me to move everything clean?"

"Yes!"

"If you truly don't want to see me again, go to the kitchen, grab a knife, and just kill me."

"Is that your attitude towards communication?!"

Li Peifeng took a couple of deep breaths, calmed himself down, and changed the subject: "How is your injury? If it still hurts, I'll give you a massage, and take you for therapy at the hospital tomorrow..."

"None of your business!"

"Stop nagging, lie down on the bed."

Physical contact between the opposite sexes can definitely heat things up, not to mention this counts as treatment.

Li Peifeng massaged her for half an hour, maybe because the massage felt good, Wu Wenyue could reluctantly communicate with him normally again. In the end, she even took out a car key and said softly, "You drive tomorrow and move by yourself."

Li Peifeng laughed: "Just say you're giving me the car keys, don't beat around the bush like Manning does!"

"I'm lending you the car so you can move all your stuff completely."

While the two were bickering, Xu Manning also entered the bedroom to deliver the apartment keys. When she saw Li Peifeng massaging Wu Wenyue on the bed, she frowned but still threw the keys onto the bed.

"After you move in, if you damage any of the furniture, appliances, or decorations in the house, please compensate accordingly. Also, you're not allowed to invite guests or let anyone stay overnight, regardless of their gender or relationship with you..."

"Even my parents can't stay?"

Xu Manning hesitated: "Of course, Uncle and Aunt can."

"That's good."

Xu Manning looked at Wu Wenyue, puzzled: "Did he talk to you?"

"No."

"Talk about what?"

Li Peifeng was confused, and Xu Manning's face turned very sullen before she turned to leave. Wu Wenyue also got off the bed, ready to leave.

"What does this mean? What am I supposed to say?"

"Bang~"

Xu Manning had already returned to her room, slamming the door loudly.

Wu Wenyue couldn't help but turn back and said: "Even a child of seven or eight knows to say sorry if they do something wrong, what about you? Or do you think you've done nothing wrong?"

Apologize?

Sorry, I'm Li Peifeng and I'm really not in the habit of that.

Apologizing automatically means there's something to owe.

But I did indeed make a mistake...

"A real man must have the courage to admit his mistakes! Whether it happens again doesn't matter!"

Li Peifeng made up his mind, following Wu Wenyue back into the side bedroom. Xu Manning shouted 'get out' and even tried to shove him away, but he remained unfazed, sitting calmly and gently on the bed.

"Although you already know those things from the dream, I still want to tell you once more and sincerely say that I was wrong..."

Aside from that time in the dream, this was the second time Li Peifeng explained the entanglements with Zhao Qingge and Huang Tianxuan in reality, along with the details of how things came to this point.

Honesty is definite and apology is inevitable, but it's important to control the extent. What if apologizing pleases the two girls so much that they don't want me to move out?

It's not a big deal for the luggage packed to be wasted, but delaying the start of a new life is the big deal.

So the focus of Li Peifeng's conversation wasn't on apologizing, as he didn't believe the apology would truly matter to the two girls. Just one 'sorry, I promise to correct it next time' wouldn't suffice for their forgiveness.

What they wanted was understanding and affection. They wanted care and attention and a way to alleviate their emotions.

To put it more complex, they wanted to find the sense of existence in this world through Li Peifeng.

That's why the focus was: appeasing!

Previously, Wu Wenyue and Xu Manning also hadn't spared efforts in appeasing him, and now it's turned around, there's no big deal.

But making an upset girlfriend happy is definitely considered a skilled task.

Most guys don't know how to appease because they fail to understand the essence of it, which is neither reasoning nor communicating.

Appeasing a girl is a single-sided emotional effort, like when you upset your girlfriend and compensate by taking her out for a meal. But this meal isn't a material thing but a boost of emotion, and what you pay isn't money but your patience and time.

You take out the menu: "Today, darling, order whatever you want (vent whatever grievance, criticize whatever you can), as long as you're happy, I don't care how much it costs, I'll pay (I can bear it all)."

An understanding girl would generally order a few dishes, costing you some blood, but she'd give you a step down, showing a willingness to reconcile.

But some occasionally unreasonable, fiddly, and currently angry girls, seeing your attitude, might really order food relentlessly, selecting more, selecting expensive ones, without considering your wallet or feelings.

And if you become dissatisfied because of this or rationally say things like 'it's too expensive, you ordered too much, we won't finish it, calm down', etc.,

She may become angrier: "Weren't you inviting me out to eat, saying I could order whatever I wanted?" 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

In conclusion, never confront, and don't reason during this process. Wait until the other party calms down before saying anything.

Meanwhile, appeasing a girl also has a progress bar.

The first phase shows: "I'm furious, I really want to finish you off!"

The second phase shows: "You realize your mistake? What's it then? What if it repeats next time?"

The third phase shows: "Ah, annoying, really irritating!"

Over half an hour passed, Xu Manning and Wu Wenyue's expressions obviously improved, and their tone returned to normal. The former even entered the second phase.

"So what do you plan to do next? When will you apply to the school leadership to change your advisor?"

Changing advisor? Did I say that?

Li Peifeng hesitated for a moment before beginning to make excuses. It wasn't really an excuse because this matter was genuinely hard to manage.

In any school, it's taboo for a graduate student to change advisors; without extremely special circumstances, neither school leaders nor advisors would agree.

From normal people's reasoning, why would a student change advisors? Either the advisor had issues in academics or character, or the student themselves had problems...

"I'm relatively prominent in school, once it's done, making a big fuss, it negatively impacts both me and the advisor. Outsiders would surely guess randomly, creating chaos."

"On the other hand, which advisor would want to risk offending colleagues to take on such a problematic student? And I'm just over a year away from graduation, truly not much necessity..."

Xu Manning and Wu Wenyue's expressions changed from sunny to gloomy again.

"You don't want to change advisors?"

"You guys already have issues, continuing like this makes it worse. I don't believe that if you tell them you and Professor Zhao share more than just academic emotions, the school leaders wouldn't want to change advisors!"

Li Peifeng couldn't help sighing and honest words came out: "Why do that, in the dream everyone was genuinely happy."

Xu Manning's expression froze, then became furious: "Who's happy with you? Get out!"

"Manning, as I recall you really liked Old Zhao and often called her Xiaoge, but now after waking up, you refer to her as Professor Zhao, isn't it too heartless..."

"Get out!"

"And Wenyue, weren't you especially close with Tianxuan in the dream? Not only did you stop a knife for her, but you also allowed her to be the kid's godmother..."

"Son, I'm your mother! Keep nagging and I'll make you face the knife!"

...

At eleven o'clock at night, Li Peifeng was driven back to his room, opened his laptop to write. The five-in-one dream with the four girls had given him some inspiration for a new book. If it weren't for the morning course and Zhao Qingge asking him to write a review, he might have already written an outline by daytime.

But after experiencing so much this day, Li Peifeng seemed to have depleted his inspiration, not knowing how to start.

He glanced at the two large suitcases on the floor, then turned to the computer screen, recalling the differences between reality and dreams with Wu and Xu daughters and the happy time he had in the dream, feeling a bit melancholic.

He typed the first sentence of the new book's outline on the keyboard:

"Regret not the place of dreams, just hate the haste."