You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 96 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 96 Part 3

Lu Sicheng continued: “Generally speaking, the fans who make such suggestions are most likely teenagers-- --or even if they are adults who are already out of school-- --I would like to remind them that professional players are normal human beings. I’m not going to ask them whether they’re in class when they get online to sneer at players who won’t train more but spend time on affairs or some odd games in their spare times, or whether they get on Tieba on their cell phones during class. I only wish that, sometimes, everyone could put themselves in our shoes and consider this: We are all young and I believe that most of us have done things like skipping classes, sleeping in class, or sneaking a peek at the pretty girls in class-- --tsk.”

Lu Sicheng paused a moment.

Lu Sicheng: “Though I’ve never done that.”

The foot that was stepping on his right foot moved away.

Lu Sicheng: “-- --Those similar experiences.”

Lu Sicehng: “Therefore, we aren’t any different than all of you. Just because we play professional games, we aren’t especially noble or perfect like a saint…...It’s quite a mundane thing to talk about a player playing Moonlight Blade today and Snake tomorrow, or having an affair the day after. Most of our time is spent on playing League of Legends. It’s very possible that the time we spend on playing LOL is much more than what some people spend on their studies-- --Many highschoolers face the possibility that when they graduate, they might have to break up with their girlfriends in the future because they’ll be going to different cities for college. But there are even more professional players who get dumped by their girlfriends in the middle of their careers, why?”

Ai Jia picked up the microphone: “Why?”

Little Fatty: “I suggest you go interview the jungler of Team CK, Yang god. He’ll tell you why.”

Tong Yao: “Hrm.”

The reporter sat down, with the look as if he had been persuaded.

Yet another reporter stood up, looking unconvinced: [Cheng Ge seems quite knowledgeable about all this.]

Xiao Rui, who was leaning against the wall and keeping quiet all this time, straightened up and he wore an expression that said to the effect: you’re making trouble here, I’m going to call the security guards now.

However, Lu Sicheng waved at him to tell him that it was alright. Then Lu Sicheng naturally picked up the topic: “It’s because I’m older than most of the professional players here and I’ve been playing longer than most. Naturally, I’ve seen more things than them as well.”

The reporter: [Then, it seems that Cheng Ge doesn’t have any objection about players in a relationship.]

Lu Sicheng: “There’s nothing wrong if they know where the limits are. It’s not unheard of for highschool sweethearts to both get into Qinghua or Beida.”

The reporter: [So, does Cheng Ge also want to fall in love?]

Lu Sicheng paused with the microphone in hand. Tong Yao lifted her hand to pull her hair behind her ear.

Lu Sicheng flatly said: “I already have someone I like now.”

Everyone in the room was shocked.

All the reporters kept writing something in their notebooks. Every single ZGDX player turned to look at their captain with a confused look on their faces.

Tong Yao put down her hand and put the hand under the tablecloth to grip her pants. Her palm was drenched in sweat-- --On her face, she had to pretend to be surprised like everyone else. She also tried to convince herself: He didn’t say anything! You haven’t heard anything! Don’t blush! Can’t blush! Try to breathe lightly! Be calm! Must stay calm!

The reporter: [Then to those demanding fans, is there anything you would like to say to them, Cheng Ge?]

Just as the reporter finished his question, Tong Yao felt a big hand suddenly also go under the tablecloth and quietly put it on top of her hand. That big hand even forcefully slipped his fingers between her fingers.

In contrast to Tong Yao’s sudden stiffened back, Lu Sicheng relaxedly leaned against the back of his chair.

“I would like to thank all the fans for their support and liking us. We’ll do our best to play good games and win competitions. If possible, please come to the arena more often. And in addition to that……”

His calm and low voice sounded right next to Tong Yao’s ear-- --

“If you really like a player, please come closer to his competition stage, but stay a bit further away from his personal life.”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 96 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 96 Part 2

Tong Yao took a glance at the microphone in the reporter’s hand. Just as she had expected, the logo on the microphone showed that this reporter was from an infamous esports media outlet. They liked to take words out of context and stirred up controversies around players. Their reports had regularly been refuted by esports clubs and players and they apologized each time, but their reporters still kept doing the same thing-- --

A famous incident was when a player had said: “I think the Korean players have brought more things to the Chinese region when they first started to come over here.” But the media reported it as “A certain player has frankly pointed out that Korean players were only useful early on.”

Ai Jia also noticed who was asking the question and mockingly twitched the corner of his lips. It was obvious that he didn’t think this question was worthy of answering.

The atmosphere inside the room grew awkward.

That reporter sulkily sat back down when there were no answers forthcoming. But his question steered the interview towards a different direction, away from the matches themselves. Soon there was another report who stood up to ask-- --

Reporter: [Recently, there has been constant talk centered around the private love lives of professional players, as professional players yourselves, what do you think about all this?]

All the players from YQCB simply put down their microphones all together.

Seeing their reaction, Tong Yao felt like laughing but at the same time was somewhat annoyed by the question.

Little Fatty: [Just let it be, I don’t have any particular thoughts about it-- --Actually, we play games everyday at base with very limited contact with other people, so we’re basically all single.”

Old K grabbed the microphone from Little Fatty and added to make a point: “But that doesn’t mean we are monks in a temple-- --We can’t find girlfriends, not that we don’t want to, nor because we’re not allowed to do that-- --It’s very important to understand this.”

Reporter: [However, there are quite a lot of fans who wish that players could focus on playing games and winning championships, rather than thinking about other concerns-- --It’s like they  wish while you’re streaming ranked games, you should go check on stats or something during your breaks instead of going to play other odd games. There are quite a lot of these kinds of discussions on Tieba and other sites…...Fans just like to see you guys focusing on games and performing well.]

Lu Sicheng thought about it and used his left hand to pick up the microphone-- --Tong Yao had a feeling the man next to her was giving a signal that said: “pay attention, I’m going to make trouble.” She gave him an uneasy look and tugged Lu Sicheng’s right hand under the table.

It didn’t dissuade Lu Sicheng.

What followed was a show of Lu Sicheng’s amazing photographic memory and his caustic demeanor.

Lu Sicheng: “Allow me to rephrase what you just said and tell me if it makes sense or not: There are quite a lot of parents who wish their children could focus on their studies and earn higher scores in the entrance exam in order to get into Qinghua or Beida and not get caught up with other unrelated things-- --It’s like they wish you would go memorize English vocabulary or something during your breaks instead of going to play some other odd game. There are a lot of these kinds of discussions at places where parents enjoy line dancing…...Parents just like to see you guys focus on your studies, earn good grades, and have a better life.”

Reporter: “...........................”

Lu Sicheng: “It sounds quite reasonable.”

Little Fatty already burst into laughter as he applauded.

Ai Jia also clapped as well though without much expression on his face.

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 77 Part 2

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 77 Part 2

Lin Chuyan was afraid that Xiang Nuan would become angry at him and tried to hold his laughter in. He then asked: “Then what do we do now?” Before Xiang Nuan opened her mouth, he added: “Don’t say play games. Look at your finger.”

“Then let’s go to the library. I haven’t studied for quite some time.”

“A date in the library?” Lin Chuyan didn’t think it was a good idea.

“Lin Chuyan, aren’t you going to strive with me to advance the socialist society?”

Lin Chuyan thought he would rather strive with her to do some other things.

Certainly he couldn’t tell her that.

They went to the library together. Xiang Nuan worked on her homework. Lin Chuyan used his broken cell phone to get online to check out sneakers. He asked Xiang Nuan which one she liked.

Xiang Nuan said in a low voice: “I can buy them myself.”

“It’s the matching pair for couples. Let’s buy them together.”

Matching pairs…...Xiang Nuan felt it was so sweet and smiled with her head bent down.

After choosing the styles they preferred, Lin Chuyan placed the order and was going to pay. Then something rather embarrassing happened…...His bank account had insufficient funds.

He was out of money.

He sneaked a peek at Xiang Nuan. Fortunately, Xiang Nuan was looking downwards and didn’t notice.

Lin Chuyan adjusted the order to purchase only the women's pair. He had enough money for that.

It was time to try to get some money, he thought.

-- --

Lin Chuyan sent a message to his father: Dad, did you see the post I just sent to my friend circle?

Lin Xueyuan: No, I haven’t. I blocked you.

Lin Chuyan: ……

Lin Xueyuan had blocked his son long ago. He couldn’t stand his son always poor-mouthed to his friend circle. But since his son had asked an unusual question, he hurried to take a look and saw the big news.

Lin Xueyuan: Is it Xiang Nuan? It is, right? It can’t be anyone else other than Xiang Nuan or your mom’ll go crazy.

Lin Xueyuan: On the other hand, if you’re really with Xiang Nuan, I figure she’ll go crazy as well.

Lin Xueyuan: Ok, she’s already gone crazy.

Lin Xueyuan had sent three messages back to back. It looked like he was overwhelmed by the news. Lin Chuyan took his time to reply: “Yes.”

Lin Xueyuan: Your mom’s crying.

Lin Chuyan: = =

Though he felt his mom’s reaction was a bit exaggerated, it was nonetheless the perfect timing to ask for some money. Lin Chuyan told his dad: But I don’t have money to go on a date.

Lin Xueyuan went along and asked: Oh? How much do you need?

Lin Chuyan: I can ask for any amount?

Lin Xueyuan: Just give me a number.

Lin Chuyan figured that it wouldn’t hurt to ask for more, one had to be bold to get rich. Lin Chuyan asked for 8 million from his dad.

His father told him to get lost.

Then Lin Xueyuan gave his son 8 hundred.

Lin Chuyan didn’t complain and took the money first. Then he said: Mom isn’t worried that I’m too poor to treat Xiang Nuan nicely?

Lin Xueyuan: Don’t worry. Your mom said she’ll give Xiang Nuan a big red envelope.

Lin Chuyan: ……

Lin Chuyan wondered whether they were his real parents.



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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 96 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 96 Part 1

As usual, there was a group interview right after the game was over.

During the spring season, the group interview was conducted on the couch in the winning team’s break room. It was different in the summer season. The location for the interview had moved to a more formal setting. All players would be interviewed at a long table. Sometimes two teams that had played matches on the day would be interviewed at the same time-- --Usually, it would be the two opposing teams that were interviewed together……

Yet, today was an exception.

The ten players of both YQCB and ZGDX were crowded behind the table. To the left of Lu Sicheng was Pope, to his right was Tong Yao; he was sitting in the middle.

Reporter: [First, congratulations to ZGDX for keeping your undefeated record.]

Lu Sicheng: “Thanks.”

Reporter: [We’re also quite surprised that YQCB players haven’t left after their game and have given us this special chance to do an interview together with ZGDX.]

YQCB’s captain scratched his head: “We actually wanted to leave, but our coach wouldn’t let us. He forced us to watch in the break room to see how 4 protect 1 should be played…...It’s a new strategy we’re trying out, we’re not too familiar with it yet.”

Reporter: [Nowadays 4 protect 1 isn’t that suitable when the team’s bot is relatively weaker. Why did ZGDX insist on using it even after YQCB had failed in their attempt?]

Lu Sicheng paused a moment and leaned back to cast a sidelong glance at Pope on his left. Pope rolled his eyes. Lu Sicheng gave a short chuckle and playfully said: “Our mid said: I want to play 4 protect 1 too, I want to try it out with Lulu too…...I thought it seemed alright to do that. Besides, we can teach ‘the other AD’ how to play 4 protect 1. So we played two matches of 4 protect 1.”

Everyone burst out laughing.

Pope sensed that Lu Sicheng might have said something aimed at him. He grabbed the translator behind him to demand a translation. The translator had no choice but to translate for him. After hearing the translation, Pope used Korean to complain at a rapid pace.

…...The interview continued. One reporter asked several questions back to back about different situations during the matches. Little Fatty and Lu Sicheng were the two who answered most of the questions. Tong Yao glanced, through the corner of her eye, at Ai Jia who was sitting at the other end of the long table, quiet like Tong Yao, and seemed to have spaced out until a reporter mentioned him in the question-- --

[There was a little incident after YQCB’s second match and Ai Jia wasn’t on the lineup in the third match. We would like to know what happened? Fans really like to know.]

Ai Jia came out of his daze.

Tong Yao also straightened her body.

Ai Jia slightly frowned and received the microphone from his teammate next to him, ready to speak. However, the microphone was grabbed away from him by his captain, Liangsheng. Ai Jia was stunned. Then he heard his captain saying: “It was the decision made by the coaches and our teammates together to let Aisha play the third match-- --I know some people are making claims online right now that it was because Ai Jia’s stuck-up and refused to go on. But that’s not true. And please, everyone, enough is enough…… We made the switch just because Ai Jia was in a bad mood at the time, therefore we felt it would be more suitable for Aisha to play the third match.”

Reporter: [Then why was he in a bad mood?]

Everyone: “......”

Tong Yao uneasily moved a bit on her chair…...Even she, not to mention Ai Jia, had the urge to flip the table in front of her at the reporter-- --

Why was he in a bad mood, you tell me, thought Tong Yao.

He was already not very happy for losing the match, then found out that his girlfriend under the stage was being confronted by a fan and had to take the blame for his bad performance. Could anyone be in a good mood under the situation?!

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 77 Part 1

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 77 Part 1

Xiang Nuan and Lin Chuyan walked out of the quiet alley, holding hands with their fingers interlaced.

Lin Chuyan led Xiang Nuan under the sunlight and lifted his cell phone to take a picture of the shadow of their joined hands.

After taking the picture, he showed it to Xiang Nuan. Xiang Nuan pointed at his phone screen: “It’s broken.”

“En. It’s time to get a new one anyway.”

He sent this new picture to his friend circle. Then he seemed to sense that something wasn’t quite right. He lifted Xiang Nuan’s hand up and looked down at it.

It sure didn’t look right.

Her palm was reddish, with scrapes in some places, and her index finger was a little swollen as well.

“What happened?” Lin Chuyan furrowed his brows.

“It became like this after I dribbled for the entire class.”

“Does it hurt?”

“Not really.”

Yet he was hurting-- --his heart hurt.

Lin Chuyan pulled Xiang Nuan to sit down on a bench along the road and stretched her index finger for her.

Xiang Nuan’s index finger had become swollen because she used too much force and injured herself when the ball bounced back. It wasn’t a big deal and should recover in a few days.

Her hand was very soft. Lin Chuyan didn’t want to let go of it once he had touched it. He wrapped her hand inside his own palm and said: “Let me teach you later.”

“You know how to play?”

“I know a little.”

“Then have you signed up for the basketball tournament?”

“No.”

“Why not?”

“I don’t like training.”

Xiang Nuan understood; it was because he was-- --lazy.

Knowing that he was such a lazy person, Xiang Nuan worried about whether Lin Chuyan’s body was in shape or not. The men she saw this afternoon on the basketball court had a pretty well built body. She was vain like most girls and wanted her boyfriend to have a good figure.

Xiang Nuan pulled Lin Chuyan’s sleeve and looked at the muscles on his forearm. She even curiously pinched it.

Lin Chuyan didn’t know what was going on, but when Xiang Nuan pinched his muscles, he was tickled-- --not on his arm, but in his heart.

“What are you doing?”  Lin Chuyan was a little restless from the pinch.

“I’m just touching your muscles.” She was frank about it.

Lin Chuyan avoided her fingers and pulled down his sleeve. “Close your eyes.”

“What for?”

“Close your eyes. I promise I won’t kiss you.”

Curious, Xiang Nuan closed her eyes: “Are you going to do a magic trick for me?” She asked. Maybe he would bring out a flower or a rabbit, she thought, it always happened that way in TV dramas.

Lin Chuyan didn’t answer. He grabbed her hand and pulled it inside his t-shirt on his tummy.

Though he was prepared to have Xiang Nuan touch him, when her soft fingertips were on the skin of his stomach, Lin Chuyan couldn’t stop himself from taking a deep breath. His body tightened and even his heart quickened. He was only going to play a little prank on her, but didn’t expect to react so strongly.

Xiang Nuan moved her fingers, then realized what she was touching. She immediately pulled back her hand and opened her eyes to stare at Lin Chuyan.

Lin Chuyan looked downwards back at her. He subconsciously licked his lips and cleared his throat.

Then he asked: “Did you touch it?”

“Bad person.”

Lin Chuyan was amused by her feeble statement. “You’re the one who wanted to touch my muscles.” He said in a low voice.

“I didn’t say that I wanted to see your tummy.”

“That’s called abdominal muscles……” Xiang Nuan moved away from him a little. Lin Chuyan followed and asked again with a low voice: “Did you touch it?”

“No!”

“I’ll give you one more chance.”

“Go away……”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 95 Part 4

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 95 Part 4

As the audience felt as if they had missed the entire match, the stat screen appeared on the big screen again. To their amazement, they found that Lu Sicheng’s total gold, which had been short 1000 gold earlier, was practically at par with the enemy’s ADC who had 3 kills already. It looked like Lu Sicheng would soon surpass Doomsday’s ADC!

Lu Sicheng began to join the team fights that followed.

His champion now was totally different from the one fifteen minutes ago-- --He was finally able to unleash Sivir’s full power after she acquired all of her late game items. Tong Yao’s Lulu after being powerless in the early game was able to take a more active role and successfully won two team fights back to back. ZGDX was able to come back and turn the game around!

ZGDX took down Doomsday Orcs with two wins!

When Tong Yao and her teammates took off their headphones and stood up after trashing the opponent’s base, everyone looked quite happy-- --

Commentator A: [Do you think we’ve jinxed Lulu? We just said that Lulu is a useful champion and she didn’t contribute anything when the team was at a disadvantage.]

Commentator B: [You can’t say that Lulu didn’t contribute anything. Without Lulu, how could Sivir come out in the late game and take control. Without Lulu, it probably would take much longer for him to join the team fight. With the game changing every second, who knows what would happen in the next second…...So we didn’t jinx her, it’s that we were wrong from the very beginning-- --A 4 protect 1 lineup depends solely on the AD. If the AD isn’t good, then the mid isn’t going to be of any use. Once the AD soars, mid becomes a bothersome tumor for the enemy……]

Commentator A: [What you mean is-- --]

Commentator B: [Ai Jia can reverse the verdict now. The one who should be blamed for that YQCB match is, cough.]

Commentator A: [I see it now. You really don’t want to keep your Weibo account.]

Commentator B: [......]

Tong Yao didn’t pay attention to the chatter between the two commentators. What she had noticed was that the cheers coming from the audience seemed much louder than usual. It was thundering!

“Your last play was really good!” The captain and ADC of Doomsday Orcs said to Lu Sicheng while they were shaking hands. “It’s a textbook lesson for an AD in a disadvantaged position, Cheng Ge!”

“It’s nothing.” Lu Sicheng gave him a smile. “Our mid played like a support already. It would be too embarrassing not catching up in the late game.”

Lu Sicheng turned to take a look at Tong Yao after saying so.

Lu Sicheng paused for a moment, wiped the smile off his face, then couldn’t help but tease Tong Yao: “I’m not praising you, no need to blush.”

Tong Yao: “......”

Tong Yao lifted her hand and slapped the back of Lu Sicheng, who was standing right in front of her…...When she put her hand down it was suddenly grabbed by the man in front who had brought an arm behind his back!

The hairs on her back almost stood up. She hurriedly looked around to see whether anyone had noticed it. Fortunately, they had just finished shaking hands and the players from Doomsday Orcs were all looking down busy packing up. At the same time, her other teammates were crowded together at the front of the stage to take a bow.

No one noticed them.

Tong Yao pulled with as much force as she could to free her hand, but wasn’t successful. Lu Sicheng even shook her hand as he held it. When they were blocked by the chair of Doomsday’s support to go forward, Lu Sicheng slightly turned to the side and bent down to whisper in Tong Yao’s ear: “Without my brilliant performance in the last two matches to show everyone how to play 4 protect 1 correctly in both the best and worst scenarios, Ai Jia wouldn’t be able to get whitewashed.”

Tong Yao: “Oh.”

Lu Sicheng: “How are you going to thank me?”

Tong Yao: “.......I’ll kneel down and kowtow to you.”

Lu Sicheng: “No way.”

Tong Yao: “......”

Lu Sicheng: “You’re brushing me off again.”

Tong Yao: “I’m not.”

Lu Sicheng: “Yes, you’re.”

Just then, Doomsday’s support, bent over to picking his equipment up, noticed that his chair was blocking the way. He apologized and moved the chair. Lu Sicheng acted as if nothing was going on, straightened himself, moving his face away from Tong Yao’s ear, and released Tong Yao’s hand before their secret interaction could be exposed in front of everyone's eyes.

Even if there was anyone who had fixed their eyes on them from the beginning, it would look like they were just discussing the match earlier in a low voice.

No one would know what had happened.

Tong Yao’s heart was beating fast even after the team had bowed to the audience. Tong Yao turned to take a careful glance at the man next to him. As if he sensed it, Lu Sicheng also turned his head around and gave her a lazy smile.

Under the bright stage lights, his eyes seemed to each hold a light, that reflected her silhouette  within them-- --

Someone once said that the meaning of falling in love was when a person suddenly appears in the world and can give you everything you want or anything he’s capable of…...Anytime, anywhere, as if he were obliged to.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 95 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 95 Part 3

At the 24th minute, ZGDX pushed into the enemy base. Facing Lu Sicheng who had 10 kills under his belt with 0 deaths and 2 assists, Doomsday didn’t have any intention of dragging the match further. They let ZGDX destroy their nexus and prepared to play the next match.

Tong Yao took off her headphones, her palms were all sweaty.

She heard the commentators were talking-- --

[To be fair, this Lulu is still useful.]

[And, it seems Lulu is very useful……]

[And 4 protect 1 is still a workable strategy.]

[The key is whether the team is ZGDX or not?]

[Hahahahaha, so we all mistakenly blamed Ai Jia. Lulu is really a useful champion. Right-- --There’s no rule that we have to be superstitious about whether a champion is outdated or not, right? The lineup is more important than that.]

Tong Yao stood up and a faint smile was showing up on her face.

After a ten minute break, the second match started.

The same 6 mid champions were banned again. ZGDX kept their 4 protect 1 lineup and Tong Yao still took Lulu-- --Tong Yao was kind of surprised at the start.

She couldn’t believe why Doomsday Orcs would still let them play 4 protect 1. It wasn’t until the game started that she realized that the other team also had brought their brains with them this time.

The three champions that Doomsday Orcs took in this match: Nidalee, Lucian, and Alistar, went to bot around three minutes into the game and successfully took down Lu Sicheng and Little Fatty. They went to bot again nine minutes into the game and ganked Lu Sicheng. Then at the 15th minute, they came by a third time and took their top with them-- --

15 minutes into the game, Lu Sicheng was at 0 kills, 3 deaths, 0 assists. His farm was behind the enemy by more than 20 minutes. The big screen showed that Lu Sicheng’s economy was behind Doomsday’s AD by about 1000 gold-- --

1000 gold is almost the cost of half of a large item. If it was in a normal ranked game, Lu Sicheng would go AFK by now.

He was in a very bad position.

In this situation, Tong Yao, with a champion that was unable to deal explosive damage, was showing the same fatigue that Ai Jia had in the previous match.  She could only quietly farm and tried to develop more in order to get more items with more attacking power and cover some of the damage Lu Sicheng lacked. But since the team had decided to play 4 protect 1, the effect of her actions was minimal-- --

At that moment, ZGDX was behind in kills at 3 to 9. For Lu Sicheng, he was facing an even more serious upwards battle than the team!

Tong Yao was a little anxious seeing Lu Sicheng being picked on in such a frenzy. She had never seen him fall behind this much. Tong Yao began to make some mistakes with her movements and missed several minions under the turret.

“Take it easy.” Lu Sicheng’s calm voice came into Tong Yao’s earphones: “We can still do it. Give me some time to develop.”

“You’re behind the other AD by half a large item.”

“If I don’t confront him directly, he won’t be able to do anything to me even if he gets the best 6 items.” Lu Sicheng said flatly: “You guys try to drag the game on, can’t you do it?”

“......I’m not sure.” Tong Yao was a little hesitant. “I’ll try my best. Little Fatty, Old K, let’s do it.”

Those who were watching the game didn’t know what Lu Sicheng had said in the voice channel. They all thought that Lu Sicheng was going to lose the match. Yet they found out that ZGDX had made a different choice from YQCB when facing the same situation-- --

YQCB chose to force a team fight, facing the enemy directly.

ZGDX, however, didn’t do that. Tong Yao, after getting some items that could cause damage, took her team’s support and jungler and roamed the jungle. They encountered the enemy’s bot, support and jungler near the Dragon’s Arena and engaged in a small scale team fight!

Old K had Kindred as his champion and Little Fatty’s Bard already had his ultimate. This team fight lasted for quite a long time. They even struggled to take down two of Doomsday’s players- ---At the same time, while Tong Yao and her teammates were fighting, Lu Sicheng was farming in a frenzy at top and mid lanes to make up for lost time.

The small scale team fights occurred several more times. Lu Sicheng was killed two more times during this period.

When the match reached the 32nd minute mark, Lu Sicheng, who’s stats were now 0/5/0, killed Doomsday’s jungler while farming at the bot-- --

The audience was in shock.

Everyone had a confused look on their face. They started to pay attention to Lu Sicheng who had been mostly hiding from the beginning up till now. The audience then noticed that he had pretty much gathered enough items by now and his farm…...He had 30 some more than the other side, coming back from a 30 to 40 deficit!

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 95 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 95 Part 2

ZGDX’s players walked up to the stage still engaged in a lively conversation. Tong Yao sat down next to Lu Sicheng, took a deep breath, and put on the headphones-- --With the headphones on, she was cut off from the noise coming from the audience. She put her mind into the ban & pick phase of the first match against the team Doomsday Orcs.

When they finished banning, Twisted Fate, Syndra, Viktor, LeBlanc, Vladimir, and Ryze had been banned. Tong Yao took a look at the list and couldn’t muffle her chuckles. It also stirred up some commotion in their voice chat-- --

Little Fatty: “Wow, all six are mid champions. They didn’t let LeBlanc, Syndra, or Twisted Fate get by. The other team is prepared to give you a hard time, little sister.”

Ming god: “We also banned 3 strong mid champions ourselves. Now there aren’t many good mid champions left. Doomsday Orcs’s mid doesn’t have a deep champion pool and we’ll see who’ll suffer.”

Tong Yao took a glance at the opposite team and as expected, she saw their mid had already frowned and was biting his fingers.

Tong Yao took her eyes away: “The bullet comments on the stream right now must be bustling right now.”

Lu Sicheng: “You care about that?”

Tong Yao: “I do.”

Lu Sicheng: “It’ll explode after you finish choosing your champion.”

Tong Yao: “......”

As they were talking, the other team took some time deliberating before picking Lissandra, then Karma-- --Lissandra could be used at top or mid. Karma could be a support and was a good choice for mid as well. Doomsday Orcs took away two popular champions for mid, though it wasn’t clear how they were going to use those two champions, their intention to block Tong Yao was obvious……

Evidently, Doomsday Orcs had given some thought and played a little trick in the ban & pick phase…...But Tong Yao and her teammates hadn’t planned to pick regular mid champions in the first place. When it was ZGDX’s turn to pick, Old Cat immediately picked Lulu for Tong Yao-- --

Tong Yao and her teammates couldn’t hear the reaction from the audience. If they had taken off their earphones right then, they would find the roar from the audience was enough to blow the roof off-- --

Commentator A: [Lulu again! My goodness, what’s happening to all the teams today!]

Commentator B: [Hahahaha, probably Smiling was influenced by that YQCB match-- --You wanted to take Lulu? You couldn’t make it work? Alright, I’ll take Lulu too and teach you how to play Lulu!]

Commentator A: [It doesn’t make sense.. Smiling can’t play this kind of champion better than Ai Jia. If she really thinks this way, then she’s really inflated herself.]

Commentator B: [I’m just saying! Look, the lineup now, Old Cat took Trundle. Hrm, ZGDX is going to play 4 protect 1! !]

Commentator A: [What’s wrong with 4 protect 1?]

Commentator B: [Just now, YQCB used 4 protect 1 to protect Pope but failed. What do you say about that? That’s Pope, he’s as good as Cheng Ge.]

Commentator A: [......You can eat whatever you wish but you better watch your words. Hehe, don’t say I didn’t remind you not to talk nonsense. Wait till after the game, you can go take a look at your Weibo account then you’ll know what it’s all about.]

Commentator B: [...............]

Commentato B imagined how he would be dissed by both ZGDX and YQCB fans on his Weibo account and hurriedly changed the topic-- --From their conversation, it was obvious that these two commentators didn’t really understand why Tong Yao wanted to take Lulu and ZGDX wanted to play 4 protect 1.

Then the match officially started.

Doomsday Orcs’ bot wasn’t even a close match for Lu Sicheng and Little Fatty-- --Lu Sicheng’s Sivir worked with Little Fatty’s Bard to pressure the enemy Kalista from the very beginning. With low health, Kalista had to back away and was unable to even farm minions, missing 4 or 5 of them in the first wave.

With such a start, Lu Sicheng believed the enemy’s bot was pretty much over.

Lu Sicheng was the first one to reach level two. Tong Yao pinged that the enemy’s junger had shown himself in mid lane. Lu Sicheng cleared the minions immediately then pushed the other team’s support and AD back to their own turret. They could only farm under the turret and were being harassed from time to time, messing up their ability to farm.

Lu Sicheng and Little Fatty had utterly neutered the enemy bot. Within the first ten minutes, Old K carried out the 4 protect 1 strategy every second he could. He would pass by bot lane from time to time, causing Doomsday Orcs’ AD to only farm a little over 40 minions in those minutes. Doomsday’s AD and support died twice, with Lu Sicheng and Old K each getting two kills each……

In the mid game, Doomsday’s top, playing Ekko, wanted to hit Lu Sicheng from behind.  But whenever he got to hit Lu Sicheng, the very next second Lulu would cast her ultimate on Lu Sicheng’s Sivir, followed by all sorts of protective abilities-- --

Li Sicheng was well developed and well protected.

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 76 Part 3

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 76 Part 3

Xiang Nuan noticed that Lin Chuyan had put one of his hands behind his back the entire time. She curiously asked: “What are you hiding there?”

Being reminded of it, Lin Chuyan moved that arm out from behind himself to show Xiang Nuan.

He was holding a bouquet of small flowers.

It was three colors of daisies, wrapped with a plain yellowish paper. It was a small bouquet, simple and plain yet refreshing and unique.

Xiang Nuan liked it the moment her eyes saw it. She took it, drew the bouquet closer to smell it, and said with a smile: “Hehehe.”

Lin Chuyan lightly prodded Xiang Nuan’s head: “Silly.”

After a while, he suddenly said: “Let’s go public.”

“How?”

Xiang Nuan held the bouquet and Lin Chuyan took a picture with him holding Xiang Nuan’s hand. In the picture, two hands were together hiding under the blooming daisies, romantic and aesthetic.

Lin Chuyan posted the picture in his friend circle with the captions: In a relationship.

Pink hearts floated around in Xiang Nuan’s head, but she was still a bit embarrassed: “I just sweated a lot, I need to go back to take a shower first. Wait for me.”

Then she ran away.

Take a shower…...Lin Chuyan couldn’t wipe the image of her taking a shower from his head.

-- --

After her shower, Xiang Nuan changed and then went down to see Lin Chuyan again. But she noticed that Lin Chuyan’s expression was a little unusual.

“What’s wrong?”

“That post I just made.” He said while clicking open the comments he had received to show her.

One particular comment almost flooded his screen:

Why daisies?

Why daisies?

Why daisies?

……

They seemed to have missed the point. Xiang Nuan was dumbstruck and returned the phone back to Lin Chuyan: “What sort of people are in your friend’s circle……”

Lin Chuyan deleted his friend circle: “Let’s take another picture.”

“What kind of picture?”

“Let’s do……” He paused: “Let’s take one that’s more intimate.”

Since they needed to be more intimate, they went to a quieter place. They found a narrow alley behind the wall of a family housing complex. Miscellaneous trees were planted alongside one side of the alleyway and ivy covered the wall on the other side.

Lin Chuyan lifted up his cell phone and let Xiang Nuan kiss him.

Xiang Nuan blushed, stood up on her tippy toes, and closed her eyes to kiss him on the lips.

They didn’t separate after the kiss because Lin Chuyan suddenly threw his cell phone away, pulled her closer to him, and cupped the back of Xiang Nuan’s head, bringing her into a deep kiss.

After a while, Xiang Nuan began struggling and Lin Chuyan released his hold on her.

Xiang Nuan was gasping for air: “You, you did that on purpose.”

Lin Chuyan lowered his head to peck on her lips, his breath was hot and erratic: “I miss you.”



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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 95 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 95 Part 1

YQCB lost the third match ten minutes later. This time it was because the substitute couldn’t keep up with the rest of the team. Those who had made a fuss about “Ai Jia the noob” “Ai Jia’s the cancer of the team” “what’s the use of this mid” “the team would be better if they replaced Ai Jia” finally had to shut their mouths-- --

Some of these people would still struggle to add: However, it didn’t make sense for Ai Jia to take Lulu in the last match, he should at least take the blame for that one?

Tong Yao looked at all those comments and thought: He shouldn’t.

She didn’t know whether it was Ai Jia who refused to play the third match or the club had made the change. She was so worried that she was still exchanging WeChat messages with Jinyang seconds before her own team’s match-- --

[Nighttime angler - the crazy fisherman: I’m still trembling, I thought this silly guy’s long forgotten  wolf spirit had re-awakened…...It took me so many years to tame the wild wolf into a husky, all that effort almost crushed by that girl.]

[ZGDX, Smiling: Uh, how’s he? He won’t be punished, will he? How about you?]

[Nighttime angler - the crazy fisherman: He’s fine. He didn’t do anything to that girl, how can they punish him? They can’t ban him just because he spoke a bit harshly, right? If that’s the case, how would Cheng Ge survive?]

[ZGDX, Smiling: …………………...You can still make fun of our captain, I guess you two are alright now ( ` - ` )]

[Nighttime angler - the crazy fisherman: En. Don’t worry, focus on your game!]

Tong Yao could set her mind at ease a little bit after reading Jinyang’s assurance…...She put away her cell phone and looked at her teammates who were standing up to walk out of the break room. Little Fatty and the others were discussing what would be a good lineup for today’s match. Tong Yao was the last one to walk out. When she stepped out of the room, Tong Yao abruptly said in a small voice: “Can we try 4 protect 1 again?”

Lu Sicheng was walking at the front but he had heard her. He turned around to look at her and stopped to ask her: “Your reason?”

Seeing the serious look Lu Sicheng was giving her, Tong Yao realized that Lu Sicheng at this moment wasn’t the boyfriend who had let her hug him in the hallway just a little while ago, he was the captain of ZGDX now…...Tong Yao straightened her back and nervously said: “Not really for any reason. It’s just now there is a lot of controversy about 4 protect 1. They said that any team that insists on playing it would never win this season…...But last time when we played Huawei, we used it very well in the second match against them. So I want to try it again to see whether it can be used or not-- --Isn’t there a saying that practice is the sole criteria for examining the truth.”

“You want to take Lulu.”

“......”

Tong Yao was a bit embarrassed that Lu Sicheng had seen through her true intention with a single remark.

Tong Yao slightly blushed, lowered her head to stare at her toes, and didn’t want to admit that besides wanting to give 4 protect 1 a try, she had other hidden motives…...However, before she could say anything, Lu Sicheng suddenly said: “I think it can work.”

…....Hum?

Oh?

Tong Yao was taken aback and looked up somewhat in shock.

“ Pope’s like a non-stick pan; no matter how badly he plays, there’s always people who will whitewash for him.” Lu Sicheng moved his wrist and said flatly: “Let him open his eyes and see how 4 protect 1 should be played. Making him lose a couple nights of sleep isn’t a bad thing. So, I agree.”

Tong Yao: “......”

Lu Sicheng turned to walk to the stage-- --Aside from Yong Yao and himself, there was support, top and jungler. ZGDX was a team with three nuclei. Each lane, top, mid, and bot, was able to carry the game. But generally, it was the mid and bot who took control of the game. It wasn’t unusual for Old Cat to take a tank champion as top. Now Tong Yao had given up the chance to carry the match on her own, he didn’t have any objections.

Old K: “Arlight, alright, alright. It’ll do. I’ll get Kindred later, let’s play it like back in the spring season.”

Little Fatty: “You guys take outdated champions regardless of the game version anyways, plus use outdated strategy regardless of the game version. You guys are really over your heads. Why do I get stuck with such a screw around team.”

Old Cat: “You screw around too, with your Luxanna.”

Lu Sicheng: “Well said, Old Cat. Let Fatty take Luxanna to support you at top. I’ll be on my own this round.”

Old Cat: “......”

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 76 Part 2

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 76 Part 2

Xiang Naun and Shen Zemu had just finished exercising, it was reasonable that they were thirsty and wanted something to drink.

Xiang Nuan bought a Sprite and tried to twist off the cap while walking out of the market. Usually she wouldn’t have any problem with opening a bottle. But today’s bottle seemed unusually hard to open. Her hand was also throbbing from trying to bounce the ball for so long……

She tried for a while, but the cap refused to budge.

Suddenly, a hand reached over and took the bottle away.

Xiang Nuan looked up and saw Shen Zemu twist open the bottle without much difficulty.

“Thanks, Xuezhang.” Xiang Nuan took the bottle back, took a sip, and as she raised her head, she saw the way Shen Zemu was looking at her.

It was a look of undisguised tenderness.

“Cough, cough, cough……” Xiang Nuan was stunned by his look and choked, bending over to cough.

Shen Zemu patted her back. His palm was wide and thick. The warmth from his palm could almost reach the skin on Xiang Nuan’s back through the fabric of her clothes.

Alarmed, Xiang Nuan figured that she shouldn’t let it go on like this. She patted her chest, after she had smoothed out of her breath, she said: “Xuezhang, I’ve already-- --”

Suddenly, a voice interrupted her.

It was a clear voice, stiff in tone but cheesy in content: “Baby.”

Xiang Nuan looked over and saw Lin Chuyan standing there.

He had his hands behind his back and his mouth curved up in a spurious smile.

“Lin, Lin Chuyan……” Xiang Nuan recalled the way she interacted with Shen Zemu just now and felt that there wasn’t anything improper? Yet, why did Lin Chuyan look at her that way? As if he had caught her having an affair……

Lin Chuyan walked over and when he was close enough, he immediately held Xiang Nuan’s hand.

Xiang Nuan said: “Xuezhang, what I was going to say is that I’m going out with Lin Chuyan already.” Though it was a little narcissistic to tell someone about her own love relationship on her own, she felt under the circumstance, it was better to make it clear now rather than later.

Shen Zemu looked at their hands held together. He felt like asking Xiang Nuan some questions, but couldn’t say them now. He watched them quietly for a while, then took his eyes away, and lightly made a sound: “En.”

Then he turned to walk away.

Lin Chuyan looked at his back and said: “Xuezhang, aren’t you planning to give us your blessings?”

“I don’t plan to.”

After Shen Zemu left, Xiang Nuan secretly checked Lin Chuyan’s expression and discovered that he still didn’t look too happy.

“Hey.” Xiang Nuan felt like she had been wronged: “What do you mean by that look of yours? Don't you believe in me?”

“It’s not that. I’m just a little regretful.” Lin Chuyan looked depressed.

“What are you regretting?”

“I shouldn’t have gone to study Physics.”

The department of Physics had all its classes in the main campus for all four years. Lin Chuyan was a sophomore now and that meant he had to continue to keep a long distance relationship with Xiang Nuan for another two and half years. His girlfriend was too pretty, attracting admiring eyes all the time. To him, there was danger everywhere. There were men everywhere that could take his girlfriend away from him.

Xiang Nuan couldn’t quite figure out what Lin Chuyan was thinking. She felt that though they were in different campuses, Lin Chuyan skipped classes all the time and they still saw each other quite often.

Xiang Nuan was a bit uneasy about Lin Chuyan skipping classes: “Lin Chuyan, you skipped class again?”

“There’s only one class this afternoon.”

What he meant was that he only skipped one class this afternoon.

When he said that, he even looked like he was asking Xiang Nuan for praise.

“Don’t skip any more classes.” Xiang Nuan was worried about him.

“Don’t worry, I can learn it on my own.”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 94

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 94

Lu Sicheng didn’t think too much about it when Tong Yao went to check on Ai Jia and Jinyang. He only reminded her to return to ZGDX’s own break room afterwards so the team could go over their strategy for the coming match, then he turned to walk away.

After ten minutes into the third match between YQCB and Huawei, Tong Yao still hadn’t shown up in the ZGDX break room. She wasn’t in the audience either. Lu Sicheng had no choice but to go look for her-- --

Lu Sicheng found his team’s mid in front of the door of YQCB’s break room. She looked like she was in a daze, her face looked drawn.

“What are you doing here?” Lu Sicheng went up to pull Tong Yao up.

“YQCB didn’t put Ai Jia in for this critical match, they used a substitute.” Tong Yao staggered to stand up. Her eyes met Lu Sicheng’s but weren’t in focus.

“I see.”

“......”

Tong Yao was the kind of person who once bitten, was twice shy. When she saw YQCB switch the player for the third match, her heart skipped a beat. Then she squatted down by the door of YQCB’s break room and couldn’t move away from there-- --When she saw how calm Lu Sicheng seemed to be about it, her eyes brightened up as if she had found a piece of driftwood to cling to. She grabbed his hand: “Ai Jia didn’t do anything, he was just talking a bit loudly. He won’t get any punishment, will he? He won’t get banned? Jinyang also didn’t do anything. Normally, she wouldn’t be short changed at all, but today she was even willing to swallow her pride just because Ai Jia was playing. Isn’t that enough? They’re simply in a relationship, where’s all the whys, where’s all the conspiracies-- --No one really cares whether the person one likes is a shining player or star, it’s just as simple as one liking the other……”

She was incoherent.

She even stammered several times as she spoke.

Lu Sicheng patiently listened for a while. When he saw Tong Yao was getting more despondent and her face began to turn pale, he finally gave a frustrated sigh and lifted his hand to cover her mouth-- --

He could feel her trembling slightly.

When the big dry warm hand pressed down on her cold face, Tong Yao’s mumbling abruptly stopped……

They stood in the empty hallway. Not far from them was a poorly insulated door. They could hear the commentators’ voices coming from outside…...Tong Yao had her back against the wall, as if it was the only thing keeping her standing. She slightly blinked, raised both of her hands, and silently held onto the hand covering her mouth.

She stared into that pair of calm dark brown pupils for a few seconds, then she lowered her eyes, pulled his hand off her mouth, and asked in a deep voice: “Professional players are also human beings, who have someone he likes, and wants to be with the one he likes. What’s wrong with that?”

“......”

“Or maybe.” Tong Yao asked in a small voice: “That kind of thinking is wrong in the first place?”

“‘Because a player is a public figure, therefore his body and soul don’t belong to himself. The meaning of his existence is to win the game, please the fans, serve the team, and reach all these goals at any cost’-- --Is that what you’re talking about? Certainly, there are people who think this way. But it would be bad if the player himself thought that way……” Lu Sicheng took his time to say the long sentences which he seldom spoke: “In my opinion, winning or losing a game is certainly important. Compared to the fans’ satisfaction of a team, our players are the ones who have to face the consequences directly. Selfishly speaking, this is our own business-- --We thank your enthusiasm and support, but it seems that to win or lose a game really doesn’t have anything to do with you-- --That’s a more realistic way to think about it-- --”

“Cheng Ge.”

“What?”

“Can I hug you?”

“......”

When Tong Yao looked up to say it, Lu Sicheng’s calm voice suddenly halted. At the same time, without waiting for his reply, Tong Yao already opened her arms and buried herself into his chest-- --Her cheek pasted to his chest and her arms gathered around his waist under his jacket……

“I don’t care, I don’t care.” She buried herself in his arms and sounded depressed: “Let me hug you first.”

“......” Lu Sicheng looked down at Tong Yao as she pressed her face against him like an ostrich. The corner of his lips twitched a bit: “......What’s the matter? You sound like doomsday is coming?”

“When I think about all these excellent muscles that may not belong to me tomorrow.” Tong Yao rubbed her face against his chest: “It’s like doomsday.”

“......”

Lu Sicheng didn’t know what to say.

After a long while, the commentators outside were commenting on a team fight and yelling in annoyance: “Damn, if Ai Jia was here, he definitely wouldn’t have made a mistake like that.” Lu Sicheng reached out with his arms to embrace Tong Yao-- --

It was a very intimate embrace.

He could clearly sense Tong Yao’s uneasiness was even more vivid and definite than before.

For the first time, against her uneasiness, he didn’t know where to start. It irritated him-- --He didn’t know what to do.



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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 93 Part 4

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 93 Part 4

The fangirl was loud. The arena wasn’t very large and her voice could be heard all over the place-- --The audience became deathly quiet as the fangirl blew her fuse.

The two commentators who were just chatting had now stopped talking.

Jinyang frowned: She couldn’t play the game well, but through what Tong Yao had explained to her during the match, she could sense that it wasn’t really Ai Jia’s problem……

Tong Yao took a glance at the support LED board next to that fangirl’s feet, which was for Pope. Tong Yao stood up and was about to give the fangirl a detailed analysis of what had happened during the match so she wouldn’t be misled by the commentators. But before she could open her mouth, she heard a frustrated shout “Ai Jia” coming from the stage behind her. The voice belonged to the captain and support of YQCB.

The next second, a tall and slim figure in black jumped off the stage and came over to grab Jinyang’s arm-- --Jinyang turned to face him, flustered. She met Ai Jia’s cold eyes……

This was the first time Tong Yao saw this sort of expression on Ai Jia’s face.

…...Ai Jia’s expression nonetheless successfully made the overbearing fangirl stop talking.

“What are you doing?” Jinyang whispered to Ai Jia and tried to free herself from his grip, but failed.

“Come.” Ai Jia pulled Jinyang’s arm toward himself: “Why bother talking to this kind of person?”

The fangirl: “What? What do you mean by this kind of person? I’m your team’s fan-- --”

“Right! You aren’t deaf!” Ai Jia raised his voice: “I can’t even bear to say anything harsh to my girlfriend myself, what right do you have to grumble here. It doesn’t have any damn thing to do with her whether I play well or not. If you dare, say it to my face-- --Come!”

He tugged on Jinyang after he finished.

Jinyang stood there, unmoving. She fearlessly turned to look at Ai Jia’s fierce looking face which was on the verge of exploding-- --

Seeing Jinyang didn’t have any response, Ai Jia uttered a “tsk” and stepped forward to pick Jinyang up and carry her in his arms as everyone looked on. Ai Jia then strode towards the break room backstage carrying Jinyang!

The audience burst out in a roar.

Tong Yao was dumbfounded.

Tong Yao stook there for quite a while without fully comprehending what had happened. Only after Ai Jia had walked away with Jinyang did Tong Yao hurriedly bend down to pick up Jinyang’s bag, jumped onto stage with the bag, and dashed towards the break room……

Lu Sicheng was in the hallway playing with his cell phone. Tong Yao, carrying Jinyang’s bag, rushed in as if there was fire behind her. She passed by Lu Sicheng without noticing him. Lu Sicheng reached out to grab Tong Yao’s collar and calmly said: “Wait.”

Surprised, Tong Yao turned to look at Lu Sicheng: “Why are you here? Let go of me. You don’t know what just happened out there. I have to go check on Ai Jia-- --”

“I know what happened. Tieba is going to explode.” Lu Sicheng lifted up his cell phone: “They’re all talking about Korean drama 2.0…...Then what was version 1.0?”

Tong Yao thought about it and remembered “Korean drama version 1.0”[1]  which had been made into a gif and was widely viewed. She slightly blushed and pulled Lu Sicheng’s hand off her: “Let me go first! Let me go see them first!”

“......What’s the hurry.”

Lu Sicheng slowly let go of his hand and watched Tong Yao walk away. She was in such a hurry that her left foot tripped over her right foot and she almost fell down. Lu Sicheng straightened his body up immediately. Tong Yao, who wasn’t too far from him, staggered to regain her balance. Lu Sicheng frustratedly sighed, put down the hand which was reaching out towards Tong Yao, and leaned back towards the wall-- --

“Slow down, you can’t even walk steadily. Is your cerebellum underdeveloped?”


[1]: Chapter 56 Part 4

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 93 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 93 Part 3

It suddenly reminded Tong Yao of herself in the past. She had broken up with Jiang Yang simply because she couldn’t accept all the changes and issues that came about when he became a professional player from a normal high school boyfriend…...A wave of emotions overwhelmed her. Tong Yao patted her best friend’s back and remained silent.

The second match was about to begin.

In this match, YQCB didn’t use the strategy they had used in the previous match. Instead, they used the 4 protect 1 strategy, with their ADC as the nucleus-- --This method was somewhat outdated at this level of competition. It was difficult to achieve success with it.

…...But with Pope or Lu Sicheng as the team’s ADC, it was probably worth a try.

Tong Yao noticed that Ai Jia had picked Lulu, which he wasn’t very good at. She knew that YQCB was using this match to try out a new lineup while fighting against a stronger team such as Huawei. Since this was only one match at the group phase, it was alright to lose the match when they were trying out a new lineup and strategy. One team couldn’t just have one game plan. It was acceptable to make a small sacrifice in order to have a stronger team.

-- --Though the idea was a good one, it was more difficult to actually carry it out. YQCB obviously wasn’t quite ready to play 4 protect 1. Additionally, Huawei’s jungler, Li Huanshuo, wasn’t an easy player to deal with. Once Li Huanshuo figured out YQCB’s intentions, he started to attack bot from the beginning of the game!

Li Huanshuo was the kind of the players who couldn’t do much to help turn the team’s disadvantage around, but when the team was on the upswing, his performance was a world-class one. The match moved along quite quickly-- --

Huawei took first blood and took two more kills, pulling ahead of YQCB. It was almost the repeat of the last match but in reverse. After their support left bot, the support worked together with the jungler to attack YQCB’s mid. Then they turned to the top and took down the Rift Herald.

Within a short five minutes, Li Huanshuo had five kills.

Commentator A: [It’s only been seven minutes and none of YQCB’s champions have reached level 6. YQCB’s a bit off this match.]

Commentator B: [Honestly, if Pope breaks down, then there’s not much left for YQCB to go on. Lulu hasn’t dealt any damage…...Frankly, I don’t understand why he took Lulu, any other champion that could deal some damage would be better than her.]

Commentator A: [Yeah, yeah.]

Tong Yao twitched the corner of her lips, figuring that the commentators didn’t realize the possibility that the team was trying out a new lineup…...Unfortunately, the game went just as they said. Ai Jia couldn’t get the upper hand in his lane and YQCB was powerless in team fights because Pope hadn’t been able to develop well-- --

During the team fights, it looked like Ai Jia was dodging about for 8 seconds out of a 10 second team fight.

Basically, he didn’t have much of a chance to do anything before the match ended.

The match was over in about 30 minutes when Huawei pushed into YQCB’s base. When the match ended, the entire team except Pope seemed to be satisfied by their result……

“It looks like 4 protect 1 isn’t really useful this season. Too bad, Pope didn’t do so well either. He and Cheng Ge seem to come from the same mold. No matter what lineup they have, they start the round by getting ganked……” Tong Yao moved her body a bit and added: “No, he’s even more aggressive than Cheng Ge.”

“Hrm.”

“Are you alright?” Tong Yao elbowed the shoulder of Jinyang.

“Sure, I’m alright. It’s just losing a match, it’s not the first time I’ve seen him lose.” Jinyang shrugged: “He didn’t win many matches during the Spring season either. What the heck, do you think that I can’t take it now after just one loss. It doesn’t matter. Isn’t there another match? As long as he can win the next one back……”

She sounded rather careless.

But her words abruptly stopped when a stack of support banners smacked her on the head.

Jinyang was stunned and turned around. She saw that talkative fangirl earlier standing behind her in a rage. The fangirl looked down at Jinyang and said: “What do you mean by it doesn’t matter? ! It’s because there’s people like you that players don’t care how well they play. Wasn't Ai Jia’s performance bad enough in this match? What’s the use to have a mid like him where he couldn’t do anything at the team fights? What are you protecting him for and even bringing Smiling with you to make Pope the scapegoat! We’ve come all this way to watch the game to see them win! Please don’t make such annoying comments!”

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 76 Part 1

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 76 Part 1

The next day Xiang Nuan had a PE class in the afternoon. She had registered too late at the end of last semester and so most of the classes she liked were full. There was only soccer and basketball left for her to choose from. She picked the one which seemed the less strenuous of the two.

That was basketball class.

She didn’t expect to see Shen Zemu while attending class.

Shen Zemu was playing basketball with a group of people on the basketball court. They wore the same team uniforms, black sleeveless sports jerseys with black shorts. The players’ names were printed in Pinyin on the back of the jerseys. The uniform was simple and demure, a perfect match for Shen Zemu the person.

Among all the players, Shen Zemu was the most conspicuous one. The sleeveless top left his firm and sleek muscular arms exposed. His handsome face was covered with sweat, glistening under the sunlight. He moved swiftly, with sharp eyes, like a leopard hurting for its prey, nimble, graceful, focused, and charming.

The girls in the basketball class all lined up waiting for roll calls. All of them turned to look at Shen Zemu’s direction, like a row of sunflowers.

Xiang Nuan heard them discuss in low voices.

“That’s Shen Xuezhang? Looks so good.”

“That body, tsk, tsk, looks thin with clothes on and muscular without clothes.”

“I understand the part about thin with clothes on, but muscular without clothes? You’ve seen him without clothes?”

“I haven’t. But Lin Chuyan has.”

Xiang Nuan: “......”

Xiang Nuan looked at the other girls and said with an indisputable tone of voice: “Lin Chuyan hasn't seen it.”

The other girls noticed that it was Xiang Nuan speaking, a member of the love triangle, and felt a bit too awkward to continue the conversation.

-- --

The PE teacher said they would have to learn how to play basketball step by step. Since most of the girls in the class didn’t have any experience playing basketball, the teacher decided that it was impossible to get to shooting today.

So all Xiang Nuan did for the first class was learn how to dribble the ball. Each bounce she made was followed by a loud thump.

Shen Zemu stood behind the basketball goal stand while he was taking a break. He held a bottle of water in one hand and looked at Xiang Nuan from afar. He could tell from the way she dribbled the ball that she had never played before. The basketball in her hand was out of control, rolling all over the place. It seemed to him that she was constantly chasing after the ball……

It looked like she was walking a dog.

After the break, Shen Zemu was a little distracted playing. When he saw that Xiang Nuan’s class had ended and she was leaving the court, he suddenly told the other players: “I have to take care of something, be right back.” Without getting a reply, he grabbed his jacket hanging on the basketball stand and walked off the court.

……

Xiang Nuan regretted taking the basketball class. It wasn’t relaxing at all. The constant ball bouncing made her hand hurt. And the ball was hard to control, as if it had legs of its own. She was exhausted from chasing after the ball.

There was no one she knew in the same class, so she couldn’t even talk to anyone. She left the court by herself and was thinking what to do next.

Someone called her from behind: “Xiang Nuan.”

Xiang Nuan turned around and saw Shen Zemu. He had put on his jacket, sweat was still pouring down his face. It made him look rather manly.

“How are you, Xuezhang.” Xiang Nuan said. She still felt a bit awkward facing Shen Zemu, afterall, he had confessed to her before.

Shen Zemu: “En.” Then, he strode over next to her.

Xiang Nuan tried to find something to say: “Xuezhang, you’re done with practice?”

“I’m taking a break.”

“Oh, oh. Xuezhang, go for it.”

The campus had a basketball tournament next month. The team from Shen Zemu’s department was quite strong and considered to be one of the possible contenders for the championship.

Xiang Nuan made some polite remarks and thought they would go their own ways. But Shen Zemu followed her into the market.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 93 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 93 Part 2

[ZGDX, Smiling: The way they executed their strategy is at par with Team Lan who is famous for their ability to carry out their game plan. But it’s taken Team Lan years to reach that level, it only took YQCB half a season to do that.]

[fhdjwhdb2333: You envy them?]

[ZGDX, Smiling: Yes.]

[fhdjwhdb2333: Their bot and support play duo everyday in harmony. Our support would just use his Luxanna to drive his ADC crazy.]

[ZGDX, Smiling: ……]

[fhdjwhdb2333: It’s all Little Fatty’s fault.]

[ZGDX, Smiling: You tell him if he continues to be so willful, the top ranking support in the league will belong to the support next door.]

[fhdjwhdb2333: I’ll tell him after we go back. I’m afraid that if I tell him now, he’ll take his Luxanna out and punish us. Scary.]

Tong Yao, who had also suffered deeply while playing duos with Little Fatty, quietly put her cell phone away. On stage, YQCB had firmly grasped the initiative in the game-- --Huawei’s jungler, Li Huanshuo, was unable to prevent his jungle from constantly being invaded. YQCB’s Liangsheng was an experienced player and could go deep into Huawei’s jungle, placing wards in sneaky locations……

Tong Yao felt that she could already see the end of the match.

……

YQCB won the first match without much difficulty at the 42nd minute. During the match, Ai Jia’s Ekko performed quite well in several team fights. Tong Yao earnestly tried to explain to her friend how good her boyfriend was and how he carried the game. Jinyang sat there listening, but her head was in the clouds, with a confused look on her face……

Tong Yao pinched Jinyang’s face: “Can you focus more? This is one of the highlights of your boyfriend’s career! See how excited those fans are!”

“......What highlights. You know it very well that when I met him, he was just a silly normal high schooler. I’m with him not because he’s-- --”

Before Jinyang finished speaking, someone sitting in the row behind her roughly smacked the back of her seat. Jinyang abruptly stopped talking and turned to take a look. She saw a girl with long hair holding a bunch of YQCB support banners and LED boards smile spuriously at her: “Sorry, lost my balance.”

Tong Yao raised her eyebrows, about to say something, but Jinyang pulled her sleeve and turned back without saying anything.

The fans sitting around Tong Yao and Jinyang were mostly fans who had gotten their fans tickets from YQCB. They obviously have known Jinyang for quite some time and followed her on Weibo. They also knew what had happened recently online-- --

Most of the fans knew that Jinyang was three years older than Ai Jia. When they were little, they were neighbors when Jinyang lived at her grandma’s house. Due to some plot points similar to something found in a teenage romance novel, they began dating before Ai Jia started playing professionally…...Most of Ai Jia’s fans quite liked her-- --Most of the surrounding fans weren’t too happy about the fangirl’s sudden outburst, but they didn’t want to make trouble.

“Why did you do that?”

“What did I do? Nowadays, there are people who don't make any sense at all. They can’t play the game, don’t even understand it. But they are with players just because of their fame and even feel smug about it……”

“Hush, hush, hush, be quieter. Ai Jia’s girlfriend isn’t like-- --”

“I didn’t say whether she is or not. But nowadays, isn’t the reputation of all fangirls being smudged by these kinds of people? Look at Xu Tailun and that Guoguo. If you like the players, just focus on watching them play the game. Why do you have to entice them?”

Tong Yao and Jinyang could clearly hear the conversation behind them. Once Tong Yao heard the girl bring up Xu Tailun and Guoguo, she felt that was an insult she couldn’t just let go and was about to stand up and argue with the girls behind. But Jinyang grabbed her and pushed Tong Yao back into her own seat-- --

Tong Yao angrily turned her head back and saw her best friend was sitting on her seat with a stone face: “We’ll take care of it after the game. See that stupid Siberian roe deer is sitting on the stage happily waiting to play the game. If I start to diss his fans under the stage now, how would it look to others?”

Jinyang pointed her chin to the stage while talking. Tong Yao looked in the direction Jinyang was pointing and saw Ai Jia, who had just returned to the stage after the break, was putting on his earphones all the while giving Jinyang a goofy smile.

Tong Yao: “......”

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 75

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 75

When Xiang Nuan said those words, she looked down, refusing to look Lin Chuyan in the eyes.

She still found it rather uneasy about confessing to him.

Lin Chuyan stopped walking; Xiang Nuan, still staring at the ground, grew more nervous.

Lin Chuyan didn’t say anything, but Xiang Nuan felt that her body had suddenly left the ground.

“Ah!” Xiang Nuan called out in shock.

Lin Chuyan had picked her up and carried her in his arms horizontally. He was quite strong; it seemed effortless for him to carry her.

“You, you, you, what are you doing, put me down…...someone’s looking……”

Lin Chuyan didn’t seem to hear her and carried her down the sidewalk.

Xiang Nuan’s body rhythmically rocked ever so slightly with each of Lin Chuyan’s steps, as if she was lying in a cradle. She was a little anxious but didn’t know what to say: “Why are you behaving like a bandit……”

Lin Chuyan carried her behind a sycamore tree.

The sycamore tree was planted behind the street lights and it’s bulky trunk blocked all the light from the other side. When he put down Xiang Nuan, Xiang Nuan’s eyes hadn’t gotten used to the sudden darkness. She leaned against the tree and felt darkness suddenly fall upon her.

Lin Chuyan kissed her.

He kissed her on the lips. He used some force as their soft lips pressed against each other.

When eyes can't see, one’s sense of touch becomes even more sensitive and clear. Xiang Nuan felt like fireworks were exploding in her head. She closed her eyes, her limbs stiffened out of nervousness, and she remained nailed to the spot, too afraid to move.

Their breathing gradually hastened and grew short.

The air surrounding them seemed to heat up, turning their faces burning hot.
Lin Chuyan’s hands slowly moved up from Xiang Nuan’s shoulder and cupped her face. He used his palms to lightly hold the sides of her face. He could feel the sensation in his palms: silken, smooth, soft, delicate…...He carefully held her face in his hands while using the pads of his fingers to caress her skin. His breathing grew even more erratic.

The beating of Xiang Nuan’s heart seemed to be out of control. She was extremely nervous and found it hard to breath. She moved her head a bit to get some fresh air.

The kiss abruptly ended. Lin Chuyan was reluctant to take his hands off her face. His fingertips still softly moved up and down her skin, gentle and unhurried, as if to soothe her but it also felt like it was trying to seduce her.

In the darkness, Xiang Nuan leaned against the tree trunk and calmed herself down. After a while, she whispered: “We, we should get back now.”

They walked out from behind the tree.

Xiang Naun then discovered that her legs felt like jelly.

She didn’t know that kissing could take so much energy.

When they were back under the street lighting, Xiang Nuan felt like everyone knew what had happened earlier and avoided eye contact with any passerby.

Lin Chuyan lowered his head to look at her: “Your face is really red?” He didn’t know his voice was somewhat husky until he opened his mouth.

Xiang Nuan, however, didn’t notice the difference in his voice. She rubbed her face and tried to rationalize it: “It’s because I had too much to drink at dinner.”

Lin Chuyan curved his lips and uttered a long ohhhhhhh.

Xiang Nuan was embarrassed by his meaningful ohhhhhhh and quickened her steps.

Lin Chuyan hurried to catch up with her, wanting to hold her hand.

She avoided him: “Go away, animal.”

Lin Chuyan chuckled out loud. His laughter was soft but very pleasant to the ears. “This is animal?” He said: “There’s more-- --”

Xiang Nuan hurriedly interrupted him: “Don’t you say it!”

Lin Chuyan closed his mouth obediently, but thought to himself: I won’t say it, I’ll just do it.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 93 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 93 Part 1

The match between YQCB and Huawei was about to begin. Tong Yao looked at Ai Jia. He seemed quite relaxed and Li Huanshuo occasionally stretched his neck to look at the YQCB fan section from time to time. Tong Yao felt even more nervous than her best friend next to her-- --

Jinyang was still checking her WeChat chat groups.

“My friend, can you be a little bit more focused? At this critical point, even I’m nervous for Ai Jia…...If he can’t play this round well, you’ll be the one to take the blame since you’re the center of this storm.”

Tong Yao elbowed Jinyang. Jinyang shook a little from the nudge, but took her time to like one of her friend’s posts before looking up at the big screen: “It hasn’t started yet, has it? Ow, shit, why is this cameraman giving Ai Jia such a big close up? He's been so anxious the past two days, he’s gotten a few pimples popping up on his forehead……”

Tong Yao: “......The ban & pick phase is starting.”

“Oh.” Jinyang didn’t have much of an expression on her face: “I don’t understand the game anyway.”

Tong Yao: “......”

A YQCB fan sitting next to them glanced at Jinyang, with a not so friendly expression-- --As if to say if you don’t understand the game, why are you sitting here?......The first two rows of seats were usually reserved for the fans of a particular team, normally given out to fans and special guests of the team. The team had the right to decide who could get those fan tickets. (Usually, a pro league ticket will cover all the matches in one day, but the designated fan tickets are only valid for a particular team’s matches on that day. Once the team finished playing, those with fan tickets would have to leave the arena.)

Jinyang rolled her eyes: “I’m just a Platinum player, so what? Just because I’m in a relationship with a professional player, I have to be Diamond to qualify? You think everyone is like Lu Sicheng who’s only going to fall in love with someone that plays games better than him.”

Tong Yao: “Er. Even if you’re in Diamond, you still can’t play better than Lu Sicheng.”

Jinyang’s eyes almost rolled over to the back of her head and she turned her head to mouth to Tong Yao: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you rock.

Tong Yao giggled. People around them didn’t know what their conversation was about, it looked like they were just chatting…...On stage, they were halfway through the ban & pick phase. YQCB had picked Nidalee and Thresh. From the champions they picked, Tong Yao knew that for this match, YQCB was going to use their main strategy for this season: roaming.

-- --Normally, support would stick with ADC at bot. But if the team’s communication was good enough, the ADC had enough skill and had good map sense, then support could leave bot and work together with the jungler and agiley roam around to gank, helping the other lanes pull ahead. This kind of strategy is called “roaming.”

Nowadays, YQCB had a world class ADC player, Pope Li Junhe. His skills at positioning and map awareness were at the top. It was a strategy most suitable for this team.

Just as Tong Yao had anticipated, from the very beginning of the match, YQCB’s support, Liangsheng, was very aggressive-- --It was the total opposite from the overly conservative style he played during the spring competition. There seemed to have a tiger presiding over YQCB’s bot with a howling German shepherd at its side-- --By the eight minute mark Huawei’s AD had placed himself a little bit ahead, Pope, who had reached level 6 ahead of everyone else, obtaining his ultimate, and took his time to signal to his teammates. Liangsheng’s Thresh instantly flashed in and hooked Huawei’s AD!

The audience cried out. Huawei’s AD obviously was surprised by the move as well. He couldn’t react at all, at that instant he neither retreated nor attacked. In that moment of hesitation, YQCB killed him and drew first blood!

The audience roared as the game announced the kill!

YQCB’s support could now leave bot. He went back after placing wards in the river brush, then he joined up with their team’s jungler, Xbang. They went to mid lane but failed, then went to grab the red buff from Huawei. Afterwards, they went up to top lane, worked with top to rush the tower and gank Huawei’s top, destroying the first turret on top lane-- --

Within a short three minutes, starting from Pope’s ping, YQCB successfully gained two kills and destroyed one turret back to back!

The audience was a bit restless by now. YQCB’s fans were very excited. It was obvious that the team had been working and training hard to achieve this kind of coordination and performance.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 92 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 92 Part 3

Tong Yao used the banner to cover her face which was now as red as a tomato, then abruptly turned back to sit down in her seat. Jinyang mocked her reaction and Tong Yao kicked her under the chair. Then Tong Yao pulled out her cell phone to send a WeChat message to her captain-- --

[ZGDX, Smiling: I’ve met some fans out here! There’s so many, ahhh, and my personal fans! A young lady who was going to give up on the esports circle came back because of me, with a supporting bracelet for me on her wrist! I took pictures with them! I gave them my autographs! The support banner for the summer competition looks really great, even my name is on it! ! ! !]

[fhdjwhdb2333: Oh, I saw it.]

[ZGDX, Smiling: Nonsense! What did you see? How can you see it?]

[fhdjwhdb2333: Look up.]

Tong Yao paused and, like following an order, raised her head to look at the stage. On the stage, the players of Huawei and YQCB were already in their seats. But behind them, right at the door which led to backstage, a tall figure stood there leaning against the door frame with arms across in front of him, lazily looking at the audience.

The cell phone in his hand was still showing the chat page on WeChat.

Their eyes met in the air.

“Gee, your hubby’s worried about you sitting here under the stage? He even comes out to check on you?” Jinyang whispered to Tong Yao’s ear: “Damn, he’s so considerate. My guy only knows how to chat with his teammates and laughs like a retard-- --”

Tong Yao didn’t hear whatever Jinyang said afterwards.

She saw Lu Sicheng raise his hand to wave at her direction across the stage.

“Damn, even Cheng Ge’s out!”

“Shit, are we getting a buy one get one free promotion? Smiling’s sitting here and Cheng Ge’s out as well. So lucky today, ahhhhhhhhhh!”

“He’s waving at us! See it, see it! Heaven, is my hair messy, how about my makeup?”

“He’s too far away to see anything, but your eyeliner is smudged, want me to redo it?”

“Where, where……”

A commotion started behind Tong Yao.

Amid the noise, Tong Yao pulled her hair behind her ears, then rubbed her slightly burning ears.

[ZGDX, Smiling: I see you.]

[fhdjwhdb2333: I even waved at you. If you still can’t see me, are you blind?]

[ZGDX, Smiling: Speak nicely.]

Tong Yao looked up again and saw Lu Sicheng was looking down at his phone and typing. Then he turned to walk backstage.

[fhdjwhdb2333: I’m going in. Don’t run around and flirt with others when you’re out of my sight for just one second.]

The door to the backstage slowly closed behind his back.

[fhdjwhdb2333: Not even with the women.]

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 92 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 92 Part 2

Half an hour later, Tong Yao arrived at the arena. She sat with Jinyang at the section reserved for YQCB fans. It so happened that fans of both YQCB and ZGDX were all sitting at the right side of the audience. Many ZGDX fans had already arrived and sat some rows behind
Tong Yao. When they saw Tong Yao sitting down in the same section with them, they all felt like they had hit the jackpot. They first took out their cell phones to take pictures, then went over to ask for her autograph.

This was the second time Tong Yao had come in close contact with ZGDX fans in the audience.

But last time, she was sitting there not as a professional player, yet now-- --

“Our match is the second one today. The Hub is out of the way for most people, thank you everyone for coming all this way to support us.”

“I’m here with my friend, uh, uh, it’s Ai Jia’s girlfriend…...Are there any YQCB fans, raise your hands? Ah, hahaha, I see the LED boards for Pope right next to the ones for Cheng Ge. I know what you guys are trying to do-- --”

“Sure, I can sign it for you. Certainly I can…...It’s alright to take pictures together too. When you post the pictures, make sure you photoshop it. Don’t just photoshop yourself, that would be a crime. Come, come, one, two, three……”

Before the start of the match, Tong Yao was surrounded by fangirls.

As she was happily chatting with the fans, Tong Yao heard the sound of high heels hitting the ground behind her. The sounds felt familiar. She stopped and turned to take a look. Then she met a pair of somewhat familiar eyes-- --The young lady was slightly bending over to get to her own seat with a few ZGDX support banners in her hand. Obviously, she was giving away those banners at the back rows earlier and was just returning to her seat now.

The moment she saw Tong Yao, the young lady also was taken aback. Tong Yao quickly remembered who the young lady was. Tong Yao’s mouth curved up, showing a wide smile: “Ah, it’s you!”

The young lady was the one who Tong Yao had met during the finals at the spring competition. She was a fan of Ming god and at that time, she said she wouldn’t be following esports after Ming god’s retirement. Tong Yao didn’t expect to see her here-- --The young lady also recognized Tong Yao and bashfully smiled, pointing at her own wrist without saying anything-- --Tong Yao looked over and saw a fluorescence bracelet on her wrist, with clear markings on it: ZGDX, Smiling, Fighting!

Tong Yao: “......”

Tong Yao widened her eyes and couldn't believe what she had seen. Bright colors flashed in Tong Yao’s black pupils!

The other girls who were with the shy young lady also came over to hug the latter’s shoulder and chimed in, giggling all the while-- --

“Such a big surprise. We would never have thought that the new player of our favorite team is sitting right next to us!”

“You even dissed those men who looked down at girl players at that time, hahahahahaha! We were wondering at the time who that girl was, you were so sharp that we almost became your fans back then.”

“It turns out you’re the new mid of our team. Wow, when we saw your picture in the official announcement, our chat group exploded. We all couldn’t believe our eyes!”

The young lady with banners in her hand went to sit down at her own seat with her friends. She gave one banner for the summer competition to Tong Yao and said in a small voice with a smile: “It’s still free this time.”

Tong Yao looked at the banner, then lifted it up to cover her face giggling all the while.

Tong Yao’s eyes had narrowed to a slit. She felt an indescribable joy and besides thinking “she hadn’t left; it’s wonderful that she still loves this circle”, all she could think was “I also have fans, ahhh”-- --

Tong Yao: “It’s nice that you stayed.”

“En.” The young lady lowered her head and smiled bashfully: “I stayed because there’s a new player who’s worthy of being liked and followed.”

Tong Yao: “......”

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 74 Part 3

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 74 Part 3

A few days later, Oblivion told Xiang Nuan and Lin Chuyan the good news-- --He had done well at training and the club had decided to officially hire him.

Xiang Nuan was very happy for him.

Oblivion wanted to invite some of the friends who had helped him to dinner. Xiang Nuan gladly accepted the invitation. She and Lin Chuyan left from their own campuses. Xiang Nuan arrived before Lin Chuyan since her campus was in a suburb

They had decided to meet at a BBQ place. Oblivion poured some tea for Xiang Nuan after she arrived.

Xiang Nuan felt there was something different about Oblivion. Is he smiling more than before? Or was his face getting lighter?

After Xiang Nuan sat down, Oblivion turned to face her with a serious look and said to her: “I want to thank you face to face.”

A warm feeling filled Xiang Nuan.

She had done a lot of things that were related to the game, but this was the only time that she had earned recognition.

She was so happy that she felt like crying.

Xiang Nuan took a sip of the tea and laughed: “It’s because you’re good.”

“It’s because I have good luck.”

Xiang Nuan thought about the manager of the team. She had worried that Oblivion would experience unfair treatment at the club and asked him about it: “If someone who wasn’t as skilled as you, but is better looking than you received better treatment than you in the team…...Would you feel that it’s unfair?”

“No.”

“Oh? You don’t really care?”

“How can everything in the world be always fair?  If I care about everything, I’d have depression long ago.”

Xiang Nuan was taken aback by his reply.

A serious unfairness in her eyes was so easily brushed aside.

He acted as if that inequality wasn’t as important as the menu on the table in front of his eyes.

Exactly how much fickleness from the world had he experienced in the past to develop such a serene attitude?

And he was only half a year older than her.

While Xiang Nuan was still lost in her thoughts, Lin Chuyan and Chen Yinghu also arrived.

Chen Yinghu didn’t want to leave after he came to Nanshan. He found a place to stay near Lin Chuyan’s campus. Since he was poor now, he couldn’t afford to live in a high end hotel anymore and was instead staying at a small hostel. The kind that had thin walls that let sound in during the night.

Sometimes the noise was so loud when he was streaming that even his viewers could hear it.

During dinner, Xiang Nuan was very quiet and quietly drank some liquor.

Lin Chuyan could sense that something was off. Shouldn’t she be happy as Oblivion was finally becoming an official player of the team?

Xiang Nuan kept drinking while listening to the other three. Sometimes she would smile, but seemed absent minded.

Lin Chuyan was worried, but didn’t know what was wrong with her.

This was the disadvantage of a long distance relationship. They couldn’t see each other everyday and thus it was impossible for him to know what happened around her all the time.

Xiang Nuan hadn’t actually gotten drunk. When he walked her back to her dorm, her steps were steady as she held his hands.

The weather was getting warmer and the night breeze had grown softer, rustling the newly sprouting branches.

They walked side by side under the street lamps, their shadows growing longer and then shrinking smaller.

“What’s on your mind tonight?” Lin Chuyan asked.

“En…...Just sometimes I feel like I’m too naive. I haven’t grown up yet.”

“When you’re thinking that way, it means that you’re starting to grow up.”

“I just feel a little bit sad.”

“It’s alright. I’m here with you.”

“You’ll always be with me?”

“I’ll always be with you.”

“Lin Chuyan.”

“En?”

“I like you too.”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 92 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 92 Part 1

Lu Sicheng kept clicking his mouse and asked without even looking up: “Why did you turn the stream off?”

Tong Yao took her cell phone down from the selfie stick and threw the phone onto her desk as she sat down in her own seat: “I’ve said what I need to say. Besides, everyone on my stream was clamoring to watch you, what the hell’s with that?”

Lu Sicheng indifferently replied: “Oh. Then, let them watch. Tell them they have to donate for each look, you’ll get rich that way.”

Though he didn’t hear any sound coming from the person next to him, he didn’t think too much of it-- --Through the corner of his eyes he could see Tong Yao stretching her neck to check her surroundings. Seeing that everyone else had their earphones on and were concentrating on their own games, she shrank back and whispered: “I won’t let them look.”

The mouse clicking suddenly stopped. Lu Sicheng lifted his hand on the keyboard slightly and turned to look at the person next to him: “What?”

Tong Yao: “......”

Lu Sicheng lightly chuckled, lifted his hand to pat Tong Yao’s head, and used a tone of voice like a father who’s daughter had finally come of age: “The stupid Siberian roe deer finally knows how to protect its food.”[1]

Tong Yao blushed: “So what, so what?”

“Nothing.” Lu Sicheng put his hand back on the keyboard: “As the dog food which is being protected, I’m quite honored.”

Tong Yao: “......”

……

On Saturday, both YQCB and ZGDX had competitions to go to. YQCB’s match was at one o’clock in the afternoon. As their players got ready to board their bus, they saw the players from ZGDX next door were also noisily getting ready to board their own bus.

“Why are you going there this early?” Ai Jia pulled Tong Yao by the edge of her backpack towards him: “Isn’t your match right behind ours?”

“We’re going there early to watch you guys play.” Tong Yao said: “After the Demacia Cup, we’ll officially face your team. Now YQCB is ZGDX’s number one rival.”

“Officially face…...but you guys aren’t going to play the Cup?”

“We aren’t.” Lu Sicheng’s voice came from behind them. He grabbed Tong Yao and her backpack back from Ai Jia and pushed her onto the bus as he lightly responded: “It’s ZGDX tradition to have the secondary team play the Cup. It’s the same this year.”

-- --Every year, after the first round of competition of the pro league’s summer competition and halfway through the second round, the competition would be in recess for a week. During that week, a nationwide competition called the “Demacia Cup” would be held with participants from some pro league teams and some secondary pro league teams. It was one of the few large official competitions other than the pro league ones…...Since the competition was in a rather formal format, many teams would set the championship as one of their major goals in the year.

However, ZGDX had made it a rule that the players of the A team would not play the Cup. Usually ZGDX would send its secondary team or substitute players to play the Cup. ZGDX used this major competition for training and evaluating future A team players. The players of the A team would only go to the game to watch the competition.

Tong Yao had checked the calendar, a week after the Demacia Cup, her team would go against YQCB-- --Compared to the team that they had skirmished against back then, YQCB was no longer that relegation team. They had totally transformed and became a formidable opponent.

-- --It was a decision the entire ZGDX team had made after some discussion to go early today to the arena to watch YQCB’s match against Huawei.

Tong Yao got on the bus and sent a message to Jinyang asking her whether she was going to the arena or not.

Jinyang answered in the affirmative-- --

[Nighttime angler-the crazy fisherman: Sure. I’m going. Why not? Not only that, I’m going to sit in the first row. I’ll let those disbelievers see exactly how long my legs are.]



[1]: Siberian roe deer are known to be very curious and often die because of it. So there's a saying in Chinese, especially in Northeast of China, where they refer stupid people as stupid siberian roe deer.

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.