Those Sweet Times - Chapter 81 Part 1

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Those Sweet Times

Chapter 81 Part 1

The “Leiting Cup” was named after the organizer of the esport competition, Zou Leiting. He was a legendary streamer on Pea TV and also one of Pea TV’s partners. So the competition was closely associated with Pea TV. Pea TV would be the usual platform that promoted and streamed the competition.

The winner of the Kings of Glory category in the Leiting Cup would receive a one hundred thousand RMB award. The requirement for participation in the Cup was that there must be at least one Pea TV contracted streamer on the team.

Chen Yinghu briefly introduced the Leiting Cup. Once Xiang Nuan heard that the champion would win one hundred thousand, she became very much interested: “Sure, we must do it.”

“Yin Jie also said she can do it.” Chen Yinghu said: “Then we’ll have four people now, only need one more.”

Xiang Nuan thought about Oblivion. Oblivion was a great player; Xiang Nuan always thought about him first when playing competitions: “How about Oblivion?”

“Oblivion needs to train. It’s not good to take a leave for a competition.”

Zheng Dongkai and Waiwai couldn’t do it either. Though the Leiting Cup was an amateur competition, most of the participants were streamers who were very good at the game and the rest were boosters or semi-professionals. In general, most of the players were people who made their living by playing games. So the skill level of the players were much higher than the collegiate competition they participated before. Chen Yinghu had discussed with Yang Yin earlier and she felt that Zheng Dongkai and Waiwai weren’t at the level yet to play in this sort of competition. It wouldn't be worthwhile if they formed a team which would only be pulverized in the end. 

There was actually a better choice. But Chen Yinghu didn’t know whether he should bring the name up or not after pondering the situation.

Lin Chuyan was listening to them talking all the while but didn’t join the discussion. At the moment, his champion, Zhuge Liang, was chasing after the enemy.

He soon found that it wasn’t a good idea continuing his pursuit, but it was too late for him to retreat since the enemy’s reinforcements had arrived from the side. The enemy he was chasing after also suddenly turned around to join the other two who had just arrived to attack Zhuge Liang. They intended to kill him.

Xiang Nuan saw Zhuge Liang was surrounded on the mini map. Taking a look at the distance between her and Zhuge Liang, she felt there wasn’t enough time for her to get there to rescue him. Instead of going there to help, Xiang Nuan took the chance to push the turret.

Lin Chuyan was a bit upset and said: “You aren’t going to save your man?”

The phrase ‘your man’ made Xiang Nuan blush. She cleared her throat before saying: “Hum, you’ll die in any case.”

Lin Chuyan: “If I survive this, you’ll have to call me ‘hubby’.”

Xiang Nuan: “If you die, you’ll have to call me ‘daddy’.”

All the bullet comments went “hahaha.”

Xiang Nuan didn’t believe that Lin Chuyan could survive the attack. No matter how good Lin Chuyan was at handling his champion, the attributes of a champion were fixed. She checked on Lin Chuyan’s status. At the moment, Lin Chuyan had killed one of the enemies and damaged another, but he was almost out of health.

It was the best result that could happen. Xiang Nuan didn’t feel sorry for him at all.

She watched the handsome Zhuge Liang fall to the ground, with regret and a little unease at calling his girlfriend ‘daddy.’

Xiang Nuan couldn’t help but laugh: “Ha! Ur……” Her laughter abruptly halted.

Zhuge Liang stood back up from where he fell down.

How could it be?

The only possible reason for a champion to stand up like that was that Lin Chuyan had bought a guardian angel. Xiang Nuan took a look at his champion’s information and sure enough, Lin Chuyan’s inventory had “Sage’s Shelter” which was the so-called guardian angel that could resurrect the champion two seconds after death and recover a little health level.

The question was, when did he purchase it? Xiang Nuan was quite sure that it didn’t exist when she checked earlier……

The two enemies were getting ready to retreat when Zhege Liang came back to life. They were evidently surprised like Xiang Nuan and weren’t able to react in time.

Zhege Liang leisurely killed the enemy with the lowest health.

Immediately after killing one enemy, Zhuge Liang turned around and ran away. Another enemy chased after him. Xiang Nuan heard Lin Chuyan call out weakly: “Help.” Then she recovered from her surprise and went over to help him.

After she took care of the third enemy, the first enemy to die sent a message on the public chat questioning why Zhuge Liang would buy a guardian angel this early in the game.

Usually the guardian angel was the last item people bought, buying it too early wasn’t cost-effective.

Lin Chuyan answered: Afraid of getting killed.

That person replied with a string of ellipsis.

Xiang Nuan asked Lin Chuyan: “When did you buy the guardian angel exactly?”

“Right before Zhege Liang died. I bought it with the money I got after selling other items.”

Xiang Nuan didn’t believe him: “That’s impossible. How could you have the time to do all 

that? How fast would it take with your fingers?”

Lin Chuyan lightly chuckled: “You know why my fingers can move this fast?”

Xiang Nuan, out of instinct, felt that he probably would say something obscene and hurriedly said: “Keep your mouth shut……”

“Because I’ve been playing piano since I was little…...what are you thinking of?”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 102 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 102 Part 2

Tong Yao pulled out the writing tablet and took a look at it under the dim porch light, then started to read aloud: “11 minutes 12 seconds, miscalculated ability damage, champion is at level 6 and Jinx initial damage is 79 (including damage from runes), with accurate calculation should be able to block two abilities from enemy ad; 12 minutes 13 seconds, missed minion, not familiar with champion’s damage, should practice more on farming……”

Dubhe turned his head to give Tong Yao a look. Tong Yao handed the tablet over: “Though Cheng Ge is mean and harsh, at least he earnestly wants to bring you up as his successor…...Think about those years when he was in Korea, he probably wouldn’t have been treated as nicely.”

“I don’t care about that. I only know that with him on the team, I’ll never have the chance to play in any competition.”

“You can lead your own team to play from the junior league to go up to the major league.”

“That’s impossible. The new mid we have now can’t catch up with us. It’ll be possible only if Lu Yue is with us or Cheng Ge retires and I get into the A team.” Dubhe took the tablet to take a glance: “Tsk. So when is he going to retire?”

“......” Tong Yao kept her squatting position but raised her head to glance at the kid next to her: “Little Dubhe, aren’t you a bit too impatient?”

Dubhe lowered his head to give Tong Yao a deep look but didn’t say anything.

After a long while, he slowly said: “I always win when playing ranked with you, it feels good.”

Tong Yao: “Oh yeah? Thank-- --”

Dubhe: “I also want to have a strong mid like you, not that wimp on the team now who only waits for others to win for him.”

Tong Yao stood up, brushed down the nonexisting dusts on her knees, and didn’t know what else to say-- --She should be happy being complimented by the kid, yet she couldn’t feel any happiness. The kid next to her had an overly strong desire to win, to move up to the A team. His every word, every expression all let Tong Yao sense his impetuous eagerness……

Tong Yao frowned.

Dubhe on the other hand just chuckled: “I really envy Cheng Ge; fame, money, good teammates-- --he has everything I want.”

……

Inside the base, Xiao Rui knelt on the couch with his bottom sticking out and his face pasted to the window to look outside. He kept mumbling while looking: “Cheng Ge, I suddenly feel that maybe we haven’t been caring for the B team enough?”

Lu Sicheng, who was sitting on the couch reviewing the video of the just finished match, didn’t respond.

“Little Dubhe seemed to have a pleasant conversation with Tong Yao. But he usually isn’t like that when he speaks to his teammates; he’s not like that even when management talks to him. Why?” Xiao Rui had already pressed his face into a pancake against the window. After a while, he came up with a conclusion with his wild imagination: “.........................Could it be that there’s something going on between the two? !”

The man who was reviewing the video still didn’t reply. He took the pen to write down some numbers on the writing tablet next to him. After a long while, as Xiao Rui’s bottom was pointing higher and higher, Lu Sicheng finally asked without looking up: “What something?”

“Tong Yao’s room is right across from Little Dubhe’s computer. The girl opens her door and the first thing she meets is the pair of eyes behind that computer. They smile bashfully and greet each other. Finally, after being under the same roof for some time, affection between the two develops…...Thus began the underground love affair between the kid and the girl.”

“Oh.” Lu Sicheng responded, still looking downward to jot something on the writing tablet.

Xiao Rui: “These two look quite well-matched. Little Dubhe is a little over 1.7m now and still growing. I figure he’ll eventually be at your height.”

Xiao Rui: “You’re getting old. After you retire, Little Dubhe will replace you to be the first adc of the team and pair with Tong Yao.”

Xiao Rui: “Oops, I can’t control my imagination-- --You know it isn’t true that they said our team doesn’t allow relationships within the team. All we have are male creatures here and even if you guys want to have a same gender relationship, I can’t stop you……”

Xiao Rui: “But, as the captain, you have better watch over these two kids more closely. Make sure they won’t let their love affair interfere with their training and ranks.”

Lu Sicheng: “......”

Lu Sicheng reached over to click the pause key on the tablet and put down his pen.

Then he smiled and answered: “Sure.”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 102 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 102 Part 1

Before Tong Yao ran out, she grabbed the writing tablet from Lu Sicheng.

On the way out of the base, she began to doubt herself-- --In reality, she didn’t know Dubhe that well; they had only exchanged a few words occasionally…...Usually, all the kids from the B team would stay in the training area on the second floor. The training area was in the open area across Tong Yao and her teammates’ rooms. Aside from the regular biweekly training matches against A team, B team wouldn’t normally have much of a chance to interact with the players from the A team.

Occasionally when the power went out or the internet went down, Little Fatty would shout out: “Kids upstairs, is your internet down? !”

Other than that, once in a while when a player from A team walked out of his own room, he would meet the eyes of the B team player who happened to sit facing his room……

Tong Yao and Dubhe met under this situation.

They would greet each other with a smile across the space once in a while and get to know each other a little better that way. Dubhe’s rank was between Diamond one and Master on the Korean server. Sometimes when Tong Yao was playing ranked, she would see him in her match…...Tong Yao knew he actually played a decent Kalista, but seldom chose it.

Tong Yao didn’t go far out of the base to see Dubhe squatting outside the yard of the base. It was a hot day and it had just rained. Outside the base, it was muggy, hot, and swarming with mosquitos. Dubhe was squatting with a cigarette in hand.

Tong Yao had a younger brother herself. Though her brother was only a few years younger than her, she knew very well how a rebellious adolescent looked like when he was acting up-- --

She walked up and pulled the cigarette out of Dubhe’s hand and threw it into the trash: “Youngsters shouldn’t learn this nonsense.”

Dubhe was stunned and turned to take a look at her. Tong Yao couldn’t clearly see the expression in his eyes in the darkness. She could only hear his voice which had just started hitting puberty: “Oh, it’s you.”

The voice sounded quite listless. It was quite a difference from earlier when he blushed and spilled water-- --

He was in a bad mood.

Tong Yao put the writing tablet under her arm and squatted down next to him. She thought for a bit before speaking: “It’s normal to win or lose in a training match. Obsidian, in any case, beat the second place junior league team in the Spring season relegation game and kept its standing in the major league…...It’s normal to lose to them, don’t feel bad.”

Dubhe: “Oh. Before today’s match…...At that time you and Cheng Ge hadn’t come back yet. Ming god said that since Ah Lu’s our mid, our team should be at par with an average major league team.”

Tong Yao: “......”

Dubhe: “It’s my fault that we lost the game-- --I know that. You don’t need to comfort me. I know very well that if I took Kalista, we would’ve won the match.”

Tong Yao took the writing tablet from under her arm.

Dubhe frowned and his voice became somewhat defiant: “But I just don’t want to take it.”

Tong Yao stuffed the writing tablet, which she was about to hand over to Dubhe, between her chest and her lap.

She circled her knees: “......I know you’re not happy being called Little Chessman.”

Dubhe didn’t say anything.

Tong Yao said after giving it some thought: “It was like back when Cheng Ge just started to play professionally and was a trainee in Korea. He was a substitute and was called Pope’s shadow-- --He wasn’t happy about it then, besides he was surrounded by Koreans. It’s very possible that in the beginning when people referred to him as ‘Pope’s shadow’, the intention wasn’t the same as here when people call you ‘Little Chessman.’ At least, the latter nickname in most people’s perception is meant to be a compliment.”

Dubhe gave out a light mirthless laugh.

“Later it was through Cheng Ge’s own efforts that changed the nickname from ‘Pope’s shadow’ into ‘look, that’s the man who’s on equal footing with Pope,’ or ‘that’s the shadow that can block the light.’-- --Kalista is the signature champion for both of them, yet Cheng Ge never avoids using Kalista because of it.”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 101 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 101 Part 3

Tong Yao moved back three steps away from Lu Sicheng.

Then she swiftly sprang to the couch and shivered next to Little Fatty: “Shit, why is the captain so mean?”

“.....................................Our captain has always been this mean.” Little Fatty took a glance at Tong Yao: “Last night, I asked him to help me rank up. I had to play Bard the whole night. Think about it, a whole night of Bard.”

Little Fatty wasn’t good at playing Bard, he would cast the ultimate at the wrong moment or miss the moment all together-- --

When Little Fatty played by himself, he would never use Bard as his champion……

Little Fatty: “If it wasn’t for the fact that Cheng Ge was playing with me and my account was one that Riot gave me, I probably would have been reported numerous times that the ‘skill level didn’t match the rank’.”

Tong Yao: “......”

Little Fatty: “Now don’t you feel overly pampered after you grabbed the red buff from our captain and still live till this day. Don’t you feel like you’re covered by Buhdda’s halo and have gold fingers?”

Tong Yao: “........................Don’t say that. I’ve been shut into the little black house to be lectured.”

Little Fatty: “But our captain is doing that for our own good, you do know that, right? Look at Little Dubhe, he resisted taking Kalista just because it’s our captain’s signature champion. That’s not a good thing. With the lineup they have, it’s perfect to take Kalista. When playing a match, nothing is more important than to win.”

Tong Yao nodded with a serious look on her face.

……

In the end, the B team lost the match to Obsidian because of bot. Everyone looked somewhat depressed-- --They all knew that Obsidian was one of the weaker teams in the major league and the reason for arranging this training match was originally to build up B team’s confidence.

But the end result was a loss.

After the match was over, Old Cat and the other A team players were all standing behind their own seats analyzing, based on the stats, what had gone wrong with the B team’s young players……

But Dubhe didn’t wait for Lu Sicheng to walk up to him to say anything, he stood up and walked out of the base himself…...Lu Sicheng put down the writing tablet in his hand which was covered with handwritten notes. He took a look at Dubhe’s back but didn’t say anything, just frowned.

Tong Yao moved over to take a peek at Lu Sicheng’s notes. She found that Lu Sicheng had jotted down, in dense handwriting, all about what Dubhe had done during the match and what he should have done at each moment-- --

X minutes x seconds, miscalculate where to position, should have gone to xxx then won’t be hit or start a team fight;

X minutes x seconds, miscalculate ability damage, champion is at level 6 and Jinx initial damage is xxx, with the items xx, xxx and the q ability damage should be xxx;

X minutes x seconds, miss minion, not familiar with the champion’s damage, should practice more on farming;

X minutes x seconds, the enemy’s top has good teleport ability at the moment, hastily pushed line while your support has seen wards there, rash;

X minutes x seconds ……

Tong Yao read all the way from top to bottom. In the beginning the characters were bold and flying probably because their captain was cranky. Later, there was not much space left for him to write, the characters became smaller and smaller, finally shrinking into teeny-weeny ones……

Tong Yao: “......”

The notes became more and more detailed…...It looked like Lu Sicheng almost wanted to grab the mouse from Dubhe and go play himself.

…………………………Tong Yao thought: what a babysitter!

As Tong Yao was amazed by the discovery, the tablet in her hand was pulled away by the man behind. “Gee.” She turned her head and met a pair of dark brown eyes which were without much emotions.

“......” Tong Yao blinked: “What?”

Lu Sicheng had an expression on his face as if he was torn-- --but only for one second-- --The face returned to being expressionless and ordered: “You go to get him back.”

Tong Yao: “Huh?

Lu Sicheng: “Dubhe.”

Tong Yao: “......You’re the one who scared him away.”

Lu Sicheng pretended that he didn’t hear it and kept nagging: “Why run out after the match when it’s time to do review? If he doesn’t want to hear it, I’ll just throw away the tablet.”

“......” Tong Yao fixed her eyes on the man, then squeezed out words through her teeth: “What are you being tsundere for? You scared him off and then turned to me to clean up the mess you’ve made.”

“Don’t know what you’re talking about.” Lu Sicheng felt it was justified: “Lu Yue doesn’t need you to do a review with him anyway. You go call Dubhe back. Aren’t you his jiejie? He just listens to you.”

Tong Yao turned to look at the direction where Dubhe had left, looked back to make a face at Lu Sicheng, then hurriedly ran out with her slippers.

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 80 Part 2

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 80 Part 2

Xiang Nuan’s choice of Zhang Fei triggered another wave of bullet comments.

-- --Kneel down to the little sister who plays Zhang Fei.

-- --The man plays Diaochan and the woman plays Zhang Fei. The young people nowadays really know how to have fun.

-- --Help! I was imagining what Chu’s girlfriend would look like, but now, all I can think of is Zhang Fei!

-- --Looks like Nuan Little Sister doesn’t care about one’s looks. Is it true that it’s easier for the one who doesn’t care about looks to find a really good looking boyfriend? Alright then, I declare that from now on I won’t be someone who cares only about appearances!

……

The match had just started. Xiang Nuan led the team’s archer to help Chen Yinghu’s jungler take down the enemy’s blue buff. During the melee, she protected the other two and they all retreated uncathed. The archer even took down one enemy.

Later, Xiang Nuan would roam around the map. She wouldn’t compete with her teammates for resources or take other’s credits. Even if she had a chance to kill an enemy, she would let her teammates take the kill.

She acted as a support was supposed to be in these types of team games; she had been trained by Yang Ying afterall.

In the beginning, some people kept questioning whether Xiang Nuan had reached Master level with the help of her boyfriend. But gradually, these voices died away as the match went on.

Zhang Fei had the lowest economy of the team, but he had over 90% kill participation rate and had 0 deaths.

Even without looking at those stats, everyone could see how well Zhang Fei had protected his teammates.

After the match, there was a lot of chatter. Many people were discussing Nuan god. Some called her “goddess.” It seemed that the fact she could play the game well was quite a surprise to the fans.

Xiang Nuan was somewhat timid being on Lu Chuyan’s stream for the first time and didn’t really say anything the whole time. But seeing those bullet comments about her performance, she couldn’t stop herself from saying: “Girls can play games well. It’s a very natural thing.”

Some tried to be picky and said that it didn’t mean much when she could only play support. Some even said that girls can only play support.

So in the second match, Xiang Nuan grabbed Mulan as her champion.

Mulan wasn’t an easy champion to handle; one could either be very good or very weak with her.

Xiang Nuan learned to play Mulan from Yang Ying; she definitely wasn’t weak.

During the early game, Mulan single handedly fought against two enemies, making the top lane impenetrable. At one team fight at the mid game, she sneaked to the back and killed the enemy's mage and archer one after another.

The bullet comments sent a wave of “666” to Mulan.

Lin Chuyan laughed: “Now that’s my girlfriend.”

The bullet comments:

-- --Chu god, tell the truth, did your girlfriend bring you up to Master?

-- --Maybe it’s because I’ve been single for too long, now anything you say makes me feel like it’s PDA.

-- --Somehow I feel that when this streamer is with Nuan god, even his breath is in pink color.

-- --Nuan god, I’ll wait for you to marry me.

-- --Hello everyone, I’m announcing that I’ve divorced Chu god. Now my hubby is Nuan god.

……

Lin Chuyan looked at those bullet comments that wanted to marry Xiang Nuan. Xiang Nuan on the other hand looked at those bullet comments that wanted to marry Lin Chuyan. Both of them had mixed emotions.

Chen Yinghu suddenly spoke: “Hey, are you two going to participate in the Leiting Cup competition?”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 101 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 101 Part 2

Lu Sicheng walked over with a writing tablet in hand for taking notes and stopped behind his own seat. He used the pen in his hand to tap the head of the person who was sitting on his seat: “Why are you goofing around over here? Where’s that kid, Dubhe?”

“He spilled some water and I’m here to pick a champion for him.” Tong Yao kept clicking the mouse without looking back and kept asking the B team top next to her: “Has Little Dubhe said what champion he wants to get?”

Right afterwards, she heard the man behind her use a voice that only she could hear mumble “Little Dubhe” in a sneering tone.

Tong Yao looked back and met the eyes of the stone faced man for three seconds.

Tong Yao: “Don’t stand behind me, you’re blocking the light.”

Lu Sicheng: “......”

The other three players of the B team cast envious looks towards Tong Yao. The jungler of B team, Ah Yue, stretched his neck to ask Lu Yue: “Ugh, Ah Lu, does everyone on A team dare talk to Cheng Ge this way?”

Lu Yue’s eyes rolled around: “Take a look at Little Fatty and the others, do they all have a face like Smiling which says she’s getting tired of living?”

Ah Yue shook his head. Lu Yue gave out a short, mirthless laugh and took Ekko as his champion at the same time…...After mid made his choice, it was time for the ad to choose. Tong Yao found that the B team had taken Alistar and most of the other ad champions had been banned. She raised her voice to ask: “Does Little Dubhe know how to play Kalista?” She was about to take Kalista for him when Dubhe’s flustered voice came from behind: “Don’t take Kalista!”

Tong Yao’s hand paused and turned together with Lu Sicheng to look at the kid who had just scurried out of the bathroom-- --

“It’s ok to take Jinx.” Dubhe’s face was slightly red: “I’ve practiced Jinx lately.”

Tong Yao said: “Oh.” Lu Sicheng kept quiet, but didn't stop him. Tong Yao locked Jinx for Dubhe and stood up to give the seat back to him. Dubhe thanked her in a low voice and sat down at Lu Sicheng’s seat.

The ban & pick phase ended then.

The training match between ZGDX B team and Obsidian officially started-- --

ZGDX’s B team was actually one of the stronger teams in the junior league this season. Their mid was a new recruit, because of that Lu Yue took his place and further strengthened the power of the team. The B team had a good chance to beat most of the junior league teams and even a weaker team from the major league such as Obsidian shouldn’t pose too much of a difficulty for them either-- --Before the match started, everyone was confident that the B team would win the match easily. But the end result was rather unexpected……

Tong Yao stood with Ming god and Lu Sicheng behind the B team players, watching. They discovered that only Lu Yue could play at his usual skill level and keep the opponent’s mid under the turret. However, bot’s performance was totally under par!

“Back, back. Have you seen the other team’s support’s ward, cd? You haven’t even warded the river yet, why go in so deep? Are you waiting to be caught? Wait till their jungler comes this way and you’ll be dead. Are you giving them two kills as a gift?”

“If you two went up together, the enemy would be dead by now. Where’s your communication with your support?”

“Missed a minion.”

“Missed again.”

“Check the stat, see how far you’re lagging behind?”

“Move forward a bit. If you want to be this wimpy, why did you let Alkaid take Alistar? Wouldn’t it be better to have him take Soraka to keep healing you?”

Lu Sicheng’s voice was the only voice in the base other than Alkaid’s voice giving out instructions-- --Lu Sicheng’s cold and harsh questions made everyone in the base, except the two cats, cast sympathetic looks at Dubhe.

With Lu Sicheng’s icy glare on his back, Dubhe was forced by Obsidian’s ad to farm under the turret. And without knowing why, he didn’t seem to be very good at calculating Jinx’s attack damage and often missed last hitting the minions……

Tong Yao pulled on Lu Sicheng’s sleeve-- --He bent over towards her but his eyes were still fixed on Dubhe’s computer screen.

Tong Yao: “You’re too harsh on him that he doesn’t even know how to farm now.”

Lu Sicheng was quiet for a moment, then he used a voice which could be heard by everyone in the base: “In the last half month, he has never used Jinx in a ranked or training match. He doesn't know how to play and lied about having practiced it. What is he trying to prove insisting on taking Jinx?”

Dubhe’s hand shook and the mouse hit the desk making a light impact sound.

Tong Yao released Lu Sicheng’s sleeve.

Lu Sicheng: “This is just a training match so it doesn’t matter whether you win or lose? Do you plan to surprise your teammates like this at the Demacia Cup as well?”

Dubhe’s back stiffened up and he slightly sat up straighter, then he quietly finished farming the wave of minions before returning to base.

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 80 Part 1

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 80 Part 1

Lin Chuyan’s stream was scheduled from 8 to 10 at night. On the second day of his stream, Xiang Nuan had a class meeting that night. She didn’t get to go back to her dorm until almost 9 pm. She hurriedly logged on Pea TV to watch the stream.

She was surprised when she logged on. How could his popularity soar so fast? Xiang Nuan found it to be unbelievable!

It was only the second day of Lin Chuyan’s stream and his viewership had almost caught up with Hu Ge’s. Hu Ge was one of the most popular stream hosts playing Kings of Glory. Xiang Nuan even suspected that the website had done something to boost Lin Chuyan’s popularity since the site had invested a lot in him. She clicked open the list of followers of the stream.

If there were artificial followers, there would be many zombie fans on the list. Xiang Nuan checked carefully and found few zombie fans.

His popularity was quite real.

Xiang Nuan had thought about what would happen when Lin Chuyan became popular. But she had never imagined that he would be popular this fast.

Well, he was Lin Chuyan, always flashy wherever he went. He was destined to be unusual.

After the first match, Lin Chuyan called Xiang Nuan to ask whether she had gone back to her dorm.

They had planned in advance to play ranked matches that night. But there was a little unexpected development-- --Chen Yinghu was there also.

Before Xiang Nuan had gone back to her dorm, Chen Yinghu had been playing duos with Lin Chuyan. Even though he had heard that Xiang Nuan was going to play ranked with Lin Chuyan, he hadn’t shown any desire to leave and just waited there for the three of them to play together.

Lin Chuyan couldn’t ask him to leave and just had to accept it.

Xiang Nuan logged on the game on her cell phone while using her computer to watch the stream. When she formed a team with Lin Chuyan and joined the voice chat with Lin Chuyan and Chen Yinghu, the bullet comments all became “how are you, sister-in-law”. She was amused.

Other than “how are you, sister-in-law”, there were also comments like “how are you, rival in love, your boyfriend is mine.” Xiang Nuan simply ignored these comments; they couldn’t really take Lin Chuyan away from her anyway.

Lin Chuyan asked: “What’s your plan tomorrow?”

Chen Yinghu: “I’m thinking of going to Laofeng Street tomorrow.”

Lin Chuyan: “I’m not asking you.”

The bullet comments went “hahaha.” Chen Yinghu was also streaming at the same time. All of his fans expressed sympathy towards Hu Ge.

In the past, when fans felt sorry for him not having a girlfriend, Chen Yinghu could secretly gloat that he actually had a girlfriend. But now, when the fans felt sorry for him, he felt sorry for himself as well.

But it was too boring to play by himself. Though Chen Yinghu was hurting inside, he still stayed to form a team with the couple.

Lin Chuyan asked again what Xiang Nuan’s plan was for tomorrow. After they had finished watching the movie and having dinner in the afternoon, their date for the day had to end and he didn’t have the chance to ask her about tomorrow.

Xiang Nuan answered: “I don’t know what I’m going to do.”

“Let’s not study tomorrow. Let’s go see the cherry blossoms. We’ve already missed the peach blossoms, can’t miss the cherry blossoms.”

“Alright.”

As Xiang Nuan replied, she took a look at the bullet comments and found a lot of “ohohoh.”

She was a bit embarrassed. These fans were too easily getting excited. Her conversation with Lin Chuyan was quite normal, she thought.

The three of them got into a match as they were talking. They each chose a champion. Xiang Nuan originally wanted to play top, but top was already taken by another player. Support was the only one left for her to choose. To be on the safe side, she chose Zhang Fei as her champion, which she was better at.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 101 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 101 Part 1

After the movie, Tong Yao and Lu Sicheng were planning to eat dinner before going back to base. As they walked out of the theatre, Lu Sicheng’s cell phone started vibrating. Lu Sicheng answered the phone and Tong Yao could hear Little Fatty’s loud voice at the other end of the phone-- --

[Hello? Cheng Ge? Did you two go shopping all the way to Las Vegas to get married? Can you come back now? The B team has gone down to the first floor this afternoon. They’re going to have a training match with Obsidian tonight at 8. Ming god wants you to come back to watch over those kids! ! !]

Lu Sicheng listened with the phone next to his ear, then replied simply: “Wait.” He looked down and glanced at Tong Yao. Tong Yao shrugged and gestured: then we just go back, what else can we do?

ZGDX’s LoL B team was formed from kids picked from various youth training camps. Their ages ranged between 15 and 19. Usually, they would sit at the second floor of the base and play training matches against teams from the junior league or city leagues…...The B team players were really only kids and considered ZGDX’s reserve-- --Among these kids…...there were certainly some more rebellious ones like any normal school and wouldn’t listen to anyone when they acted up. So it was harder to manage than the regular players…...Ming god, Little Fatty, and Old Cat had all moved up from the B Team. Since Ming god was much more senior than the others and was well respected, those kids would listen to him. The only other person who could keep those kids in line was A team’s captain, Lu Sicheng. The reason was simple, he was a strong player and was very strict.

That was the reason why Xiao Rui was in a hurry to get Lu Sicheng back to base to keep those kids reined in

“......” Obviously Lu Sicheng wasn’t too interested in going back to watch over a bunch of monkeys, he covered the phone and said to Tong Yao: “Actually, it won’t matter if I don’t go back. Ming god can keep those little monkeys in check as well.”

[Go to hell, Captain, I can hear it! You think it’s like in those TV dramas when you cover the phone I can’t hear what you say on the other end!]

Lu Sicheng: “......”

Tong Yao: “......”

Lu Sicheng had no choice but to hang up the phone and drove back to base with Tong Yao. When they were in the car, Tong Yao chuckled as she buckled in: “I feel like dating a big movie star. We have to act secretively to avoid fans and get called back without even eating dinner.”

“Not happy about it?”

“No.” Tong Yao shook her hands: “Next time. There’s other times.”

When Lu Sicheng heard “next time” and “there’s other times,” his eyes brightened up and he sat up a little straighter. As if inadvertently, he glanced over the lips of the person next to him. “En.” He answered in a low voice and drove the car out of the parking lot.

……

When they were back at base, Tong Yao saw Little Fatty, Old K, and Old Cat crowded on the couch. Old K and Old Cat each had a cat in arm, Little Fatty was looking at them enviously……

The B team players were all on the first floor, looking rather excited to be there. They each sat in an A team player’s seat who played the same position as them and were happily conversing. Only Tong Yao’s seat was empty; since Lu Yue had fought to get his own seat earlier, he already had his own seat on the first floor.

The person sitting on Lu Sicheng’s seat was someone with a game id called Dubhe. He was only 15 years old, not even old enough to play in league competitions or international tournaments. Despite that, Tong Yao had heard her teammates talk about him: Though young, he already showed a lot of potential and was the B team’s important carry. When he played, he was aggressive and flexible with his positioning. One could faintly see Lu Sicheng’s playstyle from an earlier time.

Some people called Dubhe “Little Chessman” and they meant it as a compliment. But Tong Yao felt that Dubhe probably didn’t appreciate the nickname-- --It was just like back when Lu Sicheng wasn’t satisfied with being resigned to being Pope’s “shadow.”

“Little Dubhe, which champion are you planning to take tonight?”

Tong Yao went to her seat to put down her bag and looked up to greet the kid sitting on Lu Sicheng’s seat-- --Dubhe was holding a cup in his hand drinking water. Tong Yao’s voice might have startled him as his hand shook and water splashed onto the floor, his cup almost fell to the ground……

It was Tong Yao who acted swiftly and caught the cup midair.

At the time, B team’s support Alkaid called out: “We’re ready.” Dubhe rather uncomfortably stood up from the seat and quickly took a look at Tong Yao, then whispered: “Tong Yao Jie, pick the champion for me?”

Tong Yao waved her hand, telling him to hurry back. Dubhe turned around with his wet clothes and hurried off…...

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 100

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 100

With movie tickets in hand, Tong Yao ran into their viewing room dragging Lu Sicheng behind her. Lu Sicheng, now plopped down into a seat, didn’t resist the entire way-- --It was very likely that he was in a daze by Tong Yao’s sudden action…...Maybe happiness had come so unexpectedly to Lu Sichen that even he didn’t fully grasp what had happened.

The lights went dark in the viewing room and no one could make out anyone’s face.

Now only lit by the movie screen, Tong Yao noticed from the corner of her eye that Lu Sicheng had taken off his face mask. He thought for a while, then turned his head towards Tong Yao and asked without much expression on his face: “What did it mean just now?”

“I saw our team’s fans again.”

“Hrm?”

“So I risked the danger of being found out and did that.”

“Why?”

“I’m using my own action to prove to you that I don’t think you’re an eyesore at all. You’re very good and quite handsome.” In the darkness, Tong Yao counted with her fingers. She also found that now that no one could see her face, she had become rather cheeky. “And, besides, I’m not a wimp. Occasionally, I also have a great romantic, adventurous spirit.”

“......” Lu Sicheng didn’t say whether he was satisfied with Tong Yao’s answer or not. After being silent for a while, he responded: “Very well.”

Tong Yao thought it was fine as long as he felt ‘very well,’ as long as he stopped asking any more questions.-- --The real reason she had done it was because she had suddenly realized how handsome he was with the mask on and had gotten carried away to the point that she gave him a peck on his lips!

Then the movie started. Lu Sicheng watched with his full attention for a while. But then he leaned more and more towards Tong Yao, until finally he was resting his head on Tong Yao’s shoulder-- --Tong Yao thought that something wasn’t quite right. Shouldn’t it be the other way around. She looked down and saw Lu Sicheng’s eyes were already closed. She moved her shoulder up and down and Lu Sicheng slowly opened his eyes. Tong Yao asked: “When did you go to bed last night?”

Lu Sicheng thought about it and answered: “4 in the morning.”

Tong Yao: “You got up again to go down and play ranked?”

Lu Sicheng yawned while saying: “Little Fatty begged me to take him out of Diamond 2 hell.”

“So you played with your support the entire night, then openly doze off while you’re on a date with me. You’re really something, my captain.” Tong Yao shook her shoulder again: “Get up, don’t lean on me.”

“You’ve already kissed me, but you won’t let me lean on your shoulder?”

“................................................................What if I kissed you?”

“......Nothing.” When the light from the movie got a little brighter, the head on Tong Yao’s shoulder moved a bit and Lu Sicheng lifted his head a little. He fixed his dark brown eyes on Tong Yao from below: “That kiss went by too quickly, I didn’t have the chance to react to it. Do it again?”

His eyes brightened even in the dark theatre.

The answer from Tong Yao was to lift the hood of his sweater up to cover his face.

Tong Yao didn’t recall what the movie was about afterwards. She only remembered that Lu Sicheng had looked at her for quite a while in the darkness. Then as if he had given up the idea, he put his head back squarely on her shoulder and fell asleep……

……

Lu Sicheng woke up right before the movie ended.

He didn’t say anything after he woke up. He just opened his eyes and quietly looked at Tong Yao through the edge of the hood…...At the time, the movie screen was showing the female lead hugging the big fish floating in the air. The lighting turned brighter and Tong Yao looked down and met Lu Sicheng’s eyes.

Lu Sicheng: “......”

Tong Yao: “......”

They looked at each other for three seconds.

Tong Yao suddenly lifted the hood on Lu Sicheng and bent over to kiss his thin lips-- --When the background music of the movie began playing, Tong Yao could feel Lu Sicheng move a bit to sit up and the tip of his tongue swept over her lips to lightly peck on them. When Lu Sicheng was about to deepen the kiss, Tong Yao straightened up.

Lu Sicheng: “......Gee.”

Tong Yao: “............................What gee?”

Lu Sicheng: “To express my disappointment.”

Tong Yao twitched her mouth and pushed the head off her now numb shoulder.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 99 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 99 Part 3

Lacking a large enough vocabulary, Tong Yao was unable to tell the man across from her that indeed she was very anxious about protecting his reputation and keeping him from being blamed for anything.

It was because she felt especially lucky just for the fact that she was ‘being together’ with him.

Now she was quite surprised to find out that Lu Sicheng seemed to feel the same way.

-- --In this budding relationship, Tong Yao had thought the scale was tilted towards Lu Sicheng’s side in terms of their standing. It wasn’t till about a minute ago when she suddenly realized that it wasn’t the case at all. The scale had never been tilted in any direction, it was exactly balanced.

The result was that Tong Yao stuffed the mask back into Lu Sicheng’s pocket with a red face and buried her face in food…...The conversation between them turned rather benign. They were basically talking about the trip to Xiamen for the Demacia Cup.

Lu Sicheng used his cell phone to check the list of the B team players who would be playing the Demacia Cup and said in the tone of a captain: “This time Lu Yue will be playing too. He’s the only one who’s an A team substitute to go to the Cup. Looks like the club wants to win at least the first three places, if not the championship.”

Tong Yao used her cell phone to check travel websites to see what to see and where to eat in Xiamen. She talked in the tone of a tourist: “What’s in Xiamen? Pineapple cake? Pork jerky? Night market? Is the hotel we’re staying close to the night market? It wouldn’t be fun if the night market closes before the games are over.”

Lu Sicheng: “......”

Tong Yao: “What about the weather there? Is it hot? Is it alright to wear short sleeves?”

Lu Sicheng: “Tong Yao.”

Tong Yao: “Huh?”

Lu Sicheng: “We’re going there to watch the B team play a nationwide competition, not sightseeing.”

“......I didn’t say that I won’t be there to root for them.” Tong Yao put down her cell phone with a serious look on her face.

“You go root for them to make sure they can win the game faster so you can go to the night market?”

“......” Tong Yao palmed her face then pointed to the food in front of Lu Sicheng: “Eat your food.”

……

After lunch, they still wanted to hang out together but were afraid of being seen by the fans on the street. What to do? The only solution was to go into a movie theatre where no one could see them in the dark.

Lu Sicheng put his black mask back on when they walked out of the restaurant. Tong Yao frowned: “You have the strength to be disgruntled again after eating?”

“No.” Lu Sicheng slightly tilted his face to look at his face which was reflected on the window of a nearby store: “I was going to teach you a lesson at first, but then I found out that I look good wearing the mask.”

“.....................................”

Tong Yao followed behind him and rolled her eyes.

They walked to the theatre on the top floor. There was already a long line. Tong Yao and Lu Sicheng continued with their conversation about the Demacia Cup. They discussed the strength and weakness of the B team players while waiting in line. Pretty soon, they were at the head of the line and made their choice of which movie to see. As Lu Sicheng was pulling out his wallet, a burst of laughter could be heard coming from the entrance of the theatre.

Tong Yao looked across the crowd behind her and noticed that it was that group of fans she had seen earlier-- --

However, there were many people between them and her.

Tong Yao and Lu Sicheng exchanged a look. Lu Sicheng cast his eyes down and took out money to pay for the tickets. From the corner of her eye, Tong Yao noticed that those fans were circled around the self-service ticket machine. She looked up at Lu Sicheng-- --

Lu Sicheng thought she was still uneasy about it and lifted his hand to pull the hood of Tong Yao’s sweater up to cover her face.

He heard Tong Yao say his name suddenly and said: “What’s that on your face?” It looked like she was raising up her hand trying to wipe it off. Lu Sicheng bent over with his wallet in one hand-- --

At that moment, he felt Tong Yao’s warm hands reaching to his ears to take off his mask. The next second, Tong Yao stood on her tippy toes and quickly gave him a light kiss on his lips.

It was as light as the feather.

She giggly put the mask back on for him. There was a splash of pink on her fair cheeks. She looked like a silly Siberian roe deer[1] which had just accomplished an amazing prank.


[1]: Original footnote in Chapter 92 Part 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.

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 79 Part 3

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 79 Part 3

Lin Chuyan was now laughing even harder, his mouth had widened from ear to ear and his eyes had bent into crescents. Though his smiling face was good looking…...it was a little frightening as well! Who would laugh to this extent just for 39 RMB? Was there something wrong with his psyche……


Xiang Nuan was concerned; she didn’t want to go against Lin Chuyan’s wish and sat down back as he had asked. Then she silently looked at him.

Lin Chuyan picked up some food for her with a wide smile: “Come, eat some more.”

“You, you, you, you, what’s wrong with you?”

“I’m just happy.” He said and winked at her: “Come, eat, quick.”

Xiang Nuan picked up the chicken to put into her mouth, but couldn’t taste the chicken at all. All of her attention was on Lin Chuyan now.

Lin Chuyan called her while smiling: “Boss.” Then he paused for a while, overlooking the expression on Xiang Nuan’s face like she had seen a ghost, before continuing: “I heard that you wanted to fuck - me?”

“Pu, cough, cough, cough……” Xiang Nuan choked on the chicken and started coughing while patting her chest.

Lin Chuyan lightly patted her back, very gently: “Why aren’t you more careful, boss?”

Xiang Nuan finally smoothed out her breath and took a look at Lin Chuyan. She looked confused: “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“The password is the initials of your name plus student id number.” Lin Chuyan waved his cell phone as he spoke. Pea TV was on the phone screen, not a shopping website. “Signed in successfully, Haven’t been boss for many years.”

Xiang Nuan didn’t expect Lin Chuyan would trick her to get the password to her alternate account. He had pretended so well that she didn’t suspect anything at all.

Then she just fell into the trap and told him about her account herself.

Xiang Nuan felt like she couldn’t face him anymore!

She, with a dark face, was ready to leave. Lin Chuyan hurriedly pulled her back: “Eat. After you’re full then you’ll have the strength to fuck - me, boss.”

Xiang Nuan was so embarrassed that she still wanted to leave but Lin Chuyan clasped her wrist tightly and Xiang Nuan couldn’t free herself.

Lin Chuyan watched Xiang Nuan’s red face and said: “I didn’t know that our Nuannuan has a wild side.”

“You shut up!”

Lin Chuyan was afraid of annoying her further and stopped talking. He just kept looking at her, wanting to laugh but holding it in.

“I did that to teach you a lesson.” Xiang Nuan explained in a small voice.

She felt that Lin Chuyan was teasing her all the time and was trying to let him have a taste of his own medicine.

Then she thought it was possible that Lin Chuyan would enjoy being teased by a girl, so she decided to pretend to be a man.

She generally knew how a man teased another man since she had been a moderator on Hu Ge’s stream and seen all kinds of comments.

She had always been a well-behaved girl. It was the first time she used foul language last night. She was even somewhat nervous when she sent it out. But on the other hand, it was also a little exciting for her at the same time.

The excitement came from the fact that no one knew she had done something bad and no one would find out.

Who would know that she would be found out the next day…...Xiang Nuan felt so unlucky! Q A Q

Lin Chuyan tried hard to hold back his laughter and kept a straight face. He picked up the chopsticks on the plate and handed them to Xiang Nuan: “Let’s eat first.”

“I’m not eating.”

“Not eating? Then I’ll call you boss.”

Xiang Nuan really wanted to sell off her boyfriend; 20 cents for a kilogram, she wasn’t going to ask for more.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 99 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 99 Part 2

Lu Sicheng sat across from Tong Yao with his hands still in pockets. He wouldn’t look at the menu and instead he fixed his eyes calmly on Tong Yao. Tong Yao felt like the gaze had burned a hole in her face-- --Finally, Tong Yao raised the menu to block the terrible gaze and didn’t put it down until she had decided what to order: “I’ve decided. What do you want?”

“I’m not eating.”

“What?”

A deep, muffled, husky voice came from behind the mask: “Such a ugly person like me has no right to eat.”

“......”

The first reaction of Tong Yao was to look at the waiter. As expected, the waiter looked completely confused.

Then the waiter looked at Tong Yao as if he was accusing Tong Yao.

When Tong Yao’s eyes met the waiter’s, it was quite an awkward moment.

Tong Yao quickly decided to order two of the things she wanted and sent the waiter away who kept peeking at Lu Sicheng as if he wanted to see whether the face behind the mask was disfigured or not. Tong Yao reached over the table to grab the mask away from Lu Sicheng’s face!

Lu Sicheng: “Hiss.”

Lu Sicheng: “What are you doing?”

Tong Yao was about to burst but got timid under Lu Sicheng’s glance: “Alright, fine, I’m wrong, ok? Lu Sicheng, can you just let me off-- --There were fans over there! How would they think if they saw us hanging out here hand in hand? ! Remember those comments from your fans that day? They couldn’t accept that you have a girlfriend! They won’t accept!”

Lu Sicheng frowned: “I don’t care.”

As he was speaking, he reached over: “Give me my mask back.”

Tong Yao held the mask in hand and leaned backwards, avoiding his big hand. However, Lu Sicheng had long arms; his fingers teasingly touched Tong Yao’s face here and there then pinched the tip of her nose…...Tong Yao almost slapped the table: “You don’t care, but I care. It’s not that I’m afraid they would treat me like they had treated Jinyang or said that I don’t do my job well, only knowing how to lure their idol-- --My only concern is that ever since you started playing professionally, no one has said anything bad about you-- --Not even those on Tieba that do nothing but diss players!”

Lu Sicheng released his hand which was pinching Tong Yao’s nose. There was something twinkling slightly in his dark brown eyes: “So, then?”

“I won’t allow myself to be the breach for those trolls to diss you.”

“......” Lu Sicheng was quiet for a few seconds. Then he sat back squarely in his chair: “Isn’t it too late to think about this now?”

“?”

“But you are.”

“? ?”

“Any normal human being will have his Achilles’ heel. I’m not a god, so I have it too.”

“......”

“And you’re it.”

Lu Sicheng became quiet after saying so and changed his sitting position: “I don’t care what they say. If their assessment of me is positive, I would be very happy and feel very honored. But my own behavior won’t be coerced by complimentary remarks-- --My reputation comes from my actions. It’s not the other way around, that I behave in certain ways to fit into those remarks-- --It seems that’s too complicated for you to understand?”

Tong Yao looked confused.

Lu Sicheng lightly sighed: “I just happen to like a girl. I haven’t done anything wrong. Why are you so nervously trying to protect me?”

Tong Yao’s confused look was starting to fade away.

It wasn’t that she didn’t understand what Lu Sicheng just said. It was that she was suddenly hit by a realization that she didn’t know what to say-- --She didn’t know what she had done or said to become the Achilles’ heel of the number one male idol in the LoL professional circle. Yet the term had come out of the male idol’s mouth so naturally in a tone of voice as if to say ‘I’m reasoning with you”......

Tong Yao had to try hard to recall whether she had indeed saved the galaxy in her previous life-- --

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 79 Part 2

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 79 Part 2

Lin Chuyan moved closer to Xiang Nuan and rested his head on his elbow on the desk. He asked in a small voice: “Then, do you want to marry me?”

Xiang Nuan turned her head away: “Go away, I’m only 19.”

Lin Chuyan straightened up and lightly sighed from frustration. Indeed, Xiang Nuan was too young and it wasn’t appropriate for him to push forward their relationship too intimately at this point.

Though he was a little……

“I dreamt of you last night.” He said.

He didn’t say anything more, yet Xiang Nuan could guess what the dream probably was after their passionate kiss yesterday.

Xiang Nuan blushed and her heart was also beating fast. She threw away her pen and took out a roll of tape. She pulled off a piece of tape and taped over Lin Chuyan’s lips.

She couldn’t focus on her studies if he kept talking.

Lin Chuyan’s mouth remained taped for a rather long time, until Xiang Nuan had finished a practice sheet and was ready to go to lunch.

Xiang Nuan put down her pen, moved her shoulders around, then found out that the tape was still on Lin Chuyan’s mouth. When she looked at him, he even winked at her.

He looked quite pathetic.

Xiang Nuan felt guilty and carefully peeled off the tape from his face.

Lin Chuyan used a tissue to wipe his mouth and said: “You have to make it up to me.”

“You can’t kiss me today.”

“Why not?”

“I can’t accept a Lin Chuyan that smells like tape.”

Lin Chuyan: =  =

……

They had three-cup chicken, lamb soup, and two stir fried vegetable dishes for lunch. Lin Chuyan saw an ad of a shopping website on the table and used his cell phone to scan it: “There's a red envelope for registering.”

Xiang Nuan could understand that when a person’s out of money, he would easily be attracted by any red envelope giveaways.

“Help me think of a password.” Lin Chuyan said.

Xiang Nuan was picking up a piece of radish in the lamb soup to put into her mouth. She responded: “Just use the initials of your name plus your student number. Don’t use your birthday. Birthdays are too easy.”

Lin Chuyan: “Oh.” He dragged the word.

The piece of radish was a little too hot to put into the mouth, Xiang Nuan only took a little bite, then began to blow on it. When she looked up, she saw Lin Chuyan was laughing.

He was looking at his cell phone. His eyes looked like they were shining and his white teeth were showing as he laughed. It seemed that he was quite happy about something.

“Come on, how big is the red envelope?” Xiang Nuan was curious.

“39.” Lin Chuyan made up a number.

Xiang Nuan thought that Lin Chuyan could be this happy from just a 39 RMB red envelope, he must be really poor. She wanted to buy some more good food for him.

She grabbed her meal card: “I’ll go get a tomato beef.”

“No need.” Lin Chuyan grabbed her hand: “We have enough here. Don’t be wasteful. Sit down.”

He was still laughing.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 99 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 99 Part 1

With a guilty conscience, Tong Yao jogged over to Lu Sicheng’s side and took a look at the cigarette in the trash, it seemed that he had only taken a few puffs before extinguished it-- -- Tong Yao remembered Little Fatty had said that Lu Sicheng wasn’t a heavy smoker to begin with and would only smoke when he was upset or needed to relax…...Since the team banned smoking, he would go to the yard outside the base to smoke so as not to bother his teammates, though it was easier for Xiao Rui to catch him smoking and deduct his pay this way.

After Tong Yao joined the team, he seldom smoked, though he still enjoyed the game he played with Xiao Rui hiding cigarettes as one of his favorite pastimes.

Tong Yao stood before Lu Sicheng, but before she could say anything, Lu Sicheng had already straightened up and said after a short pause: “Let’s go down to eat.”

He strode forward with his long legs as he spoke. Tong Yao had to quicken her steps to catch up: “Why didn’t you go down to wait for me at the restaurant?”

Lu Sicheng slowed down a bit and answered after thinking for a while: “Don’t want to go there by myself.”

Tong Yao gripped the tail of his sweater. Lu Sicheng didn’t turn around nor refused. They walked forward without saying anything to each other with Tong Yao attached to his sweater-- --Tong Yao was quite familiar with his stone face which seemed cold and mean. At the moment, he was her captain alright, but not her boyfriend.

Tong Yao released her grip on his sweater and quietly reached over to grab his hand. However, it seemed that Lu Sicheng had eyes on his chin as he casually lifted his hand, avoiding Tong Yao.

Tong Yao: “......”

She was certain by now that her captain was unhappy.

Tong Yao tried again to hold his hand and Lu Sicheng still avoided her hand-- --

Tong Yao couldn’t take it anymore, she used both hands to grab Lu Sicheng’s wrist as if catching a rabbit. “Tsk.” Lu Sicheng made a sound and pulled his hand out-- --He simply wouldn’t cooperate with Tong Yao…...Having no other choice, Tong Yao gave up on holding his hand and went back to grabbing the tail of his sweater. She twisted the hem and the loose bottom was twisted into a small triangle-- --Lu Sicheng could feel the pulling from behind and slightly raised his eyebrows to look back. He was met with a pair of black eyes which were looking up at him at the same time…...Tong Yao earnestly said: “Earlier I saw our team’s fans in front of that Korean BBQ place across from us, that’s why I threw your hand away.”

“Oh.”

Lu Sicheng didn’t have much response.

At the time, they happened to pass by a houseware store. Under Tong Yao’s confused gaze, Lu Sicheng turned to walk into the store and picked out a black mask from the shelf.

Tong Yao followed him into the store and watched him take the mask to the register to pay for it. She stood next to the register and stretched her head out to ask: “Why are you buying a mask?”

Lu Sicheng paid for the mask, tore open the package, put the mask on, and said calmly: “I’m being considerate, since I’m an eyesore next to you.”

Tong Yao: “.....................................”

The cashier behind the register looked at Tong Yao in confusion and her look seemed to say “Girl, are you alright, how can your boyfriend be an eyesore? You should count your blessings.”
Tong Yao stood on her tippy toes trying to take the mask away. Lu Sicheng put both of his hands in his pockets and leaned backward. Tong Yao wasn’t tall enough to reach the mask on his face.

The cashier’s gaze became even more complicated.

Tong Yao grabbed Lu Sicheng’s arm and dragged him out of the store and scurried away.

-- --With the black mask on his face, Lu Sicheng, with a pair of dark brown eyes showing above the mask and his tall and straight stature, looked like a movie star who had come out in disguise.

Many passersby glanced at him from the corners of their eyes, then gathered to discuss in low voices.

If it wasn’t for the fact that Tong Yao was hanging onto his arm like a sloth, she would probably be taken as the assistant of the movie star while walking next to him…...Since she was the one who had made the mistake, she had nothing to complain about it. She dragged Lu Sicheng downstairs to eat at that restaurant-- --

But even in the restaurant, Lu Sicheng hadn’t stopped punishing her.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 98 Part 4

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 98 Part 4

When Tong Yao handed the coins over to Lu Sicheng, she could feel the envious looks from the surrounding girls and the nervous look of the owner behind them-- --She lifted up the two rabbits to take a closer look then turned to Lu Sicheng: “Which one is cuter?”

Lu Sicheng hit the confirm button, as the metal claw firmly picked up a third rabbit, he turned back to take a look at Tong Yao who was earnestly asking while holding up the two rabbits. He said without any expression: “You’re cute.”

Tong Yao: “......”

……

The end result was that before lunch Tong Yao had collected a big bag full of stuffed rabbits. She imagined that when she lined all the rabbits up along the head of her bed, it would really be like a grand meeting of rabbits……

Tong Yao: “I used to think, when I couldn’t get anything from the claw machines in an amusement park, that I just needed to wait till I have a boyfriend and then come back to clean out all the machines.”

Lu Sicheng: “You’ve done it.”

Tong Yao: “What?”

Lu Sicheng: “You’ve gotten a capable boyfriend.”

Tong Yao: “......”

Lu Sicheng: “Which amusement park is that? Go get the tickets and we’ll go clean them out.”

Tong Yao: “......The Disneyland in Tokyo?”

Lu Sicheng: “ ……”

It was 1:30 in the afternoon.

A date for any normal couple would usually be to eat lunch, watch a movie, have afternoon tea, play some games, eat dinner, then say goodbye and return to each other’s home. Since Tong Yao and Lu Sicheng were practically living in the same house, they could skip the last step. What they needed to do now was to take care of lunch.

Tong Yao carried a big bag of rabbits and led Lu Sicheng around in the mall. Her indecisiveness prevented her from deciding on what to eat. She hesitantly stopped in front of a dessert place and bent over to check the menu at the front of the store. But someone yanked her back: “Lunch. What are you looking at ice cream for?”

“Why can’t ice cream be for lunch?”

“Are you a three-year old?”

Lu Sicheng dragged her away. As Tong Yao said: “tsk” and was about to say something more, she suddenly noticed from the corner of her eye that there was a group of girls, standing in front of a store across that looked rather familiar. She took a look to make sure and was stupefied. Those four or five girls in front of that Korean BBQ place were those fans who carried those support banners at the competition a few days ago.

The tallest one probably still had the support bracelet with Tong Yao’s name on it on her wrist.

-- --If any one of them looked up now……

Then they would see the two players from their favorite team didn’t stay at base to play rank games. Instead the two were hanging out at the mall hand in hand.

Tong Yao gasped, threw away Lu Sicheng’s hand, and told him that she needed to go to the restroom and he should wait for her in front of a certain Western restaurant on the first floor before he could say anything. Then she scurried away…...She rushed into the restroom and took a while to calm herself down. Then she walked out the restroom and found Lu Sicheng hadn’t followed her suggestion to wait on the first floor. He was leaning against the exit with arms crossed at the bend of the staircase, smoking.

When he heard her footsteps, he looked up at Tong Yao then looked down without saying anything and extinguished the cigarette on a nearby trash can.

“......”

At that moment, Tong Yao felt like she had done something really lousy and her captain had been especially, especially mistreated.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 98 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 98 Part 3

Lu Sicheng: “The first time we met, I thought you were a fangirl who had come to gank the base and shut the door right in your face-- --What was your thought at the time?”

Tong Yao thought about it, turned to take a glance at the man next to her, and replied only when she saw Lu Sicheng seemed quite earnest and not trying to play a trick on her: “ ‘Damn, idiot.’”

Lu Sicheng nodded: “At that moment, I was already quite a distance away from the public image you’ve imagined.”

“Idiot doesn’t mean indecent.”

“I’m a perfect gentleman in front of other girls.”

“Huh?”

“Isn’t that nice?” Lu Sicheng took the chance while Tong Yao was still in a daze about what he had just said to grab her hand and pulled her over closer to him: “You can freely enjoy my inner personality all to yourself.”

“.....................................”

While her hand was firmly held in his big hand, Tong Yao’s brain stopped function-- --Though she didn’t really know exactly what the enjoyment “freely and all to herself” was, Tong Yao reluctantly accepted what he just said in consideration of the fact that he had told her about the principles of survival on the professional playing field in all seriousness and his blue and white striped underwear.

Somehow, Tong Yao felt like she had been tricked by her captain again.

But when she was going to continue arguing over it, their conversation had turned to a new topic-- --They had stopped in front of a claw machine. Lu Sicheng took a glance: “Remember this?”

Tong Yao took a look at the stuffed lop rabbits inside the machine. Though there was no longer any with a rabbit in its arms, she still recognized them since they all looked pretty much alike. She nodded.

There were many young girls gathered in front of the machine, jumping up and down. They kept pointing at the stuffed rabbits inside saying this one was cute or the other one was cute. Yet they couldn’t get any of them out of the machine-- --

“Ahhh, your clumsy hand!”

“It fell down again.”

“I can’t do it. I’m not playing. With the money I’ve spent here, I could buy a bunch of these on Taobao. Wait till I buy ten of these then I’ll bring them back here and display in front of this machine.”

One of the girls took out her cell phone to search on Taobao as they spoke. Some of the girls backed away from the machine, Lu Sicheng dragged Tong Yao to squeeze in-- --The chattering girls suddenly stopped talking when they looked up to see a handsome guy coming closer to the machine. But Lu Sicheng didn’t pay any attention to them. He only asked the person who was behind him, tightly held in his hand: “Which one do you want?”

Tong Yao instantly felt the eyes all around her were focused on her face and the hand that was in Lu Sicheng’s-- --

The looks seemed to say “she must have saved the whole galaxy in her previous life.”

Tong Yao sniffled and thought: I did save the whole galaxy, are you all envious of me? She reached over to take a look: “......I already have one.”

“I know you have one, I got it for you. I even know that you put it at the head of your bed. We can get more and let them have a meeting.” Lu Sicheng pointed at the machine: “They all look different; this one has a little hat.”

Tong Yao: “......”

Tong Yao wasn’t sure whether she was mistaken or not, but the way Lu Sicheng said “this one has a little hat” seemed a little frivolous yet cute…...The girls around them seemed to feel the same way; one of them had already chuckled.

“These rabbits are very hard to grab.” The girl tried to make a conversation: “We’ve stood here for a long time.”

Lu Sicheng gave her a glance but didn’t say anything. Then he took out a bill and sent Tong Yao to get some more changes. When Tong Yao came back with coins, there were already two stuffed rabbits placed right next to Lu Sicheng’s hand: one was wearing a little Christmas hat and the other had a strawberry in its arms.

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 79 Part 1

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 79 Part 1

Lin Chuyan quietly opened the “Haven’t been boss for many years’” profile.

It was a level one account, had never followed any other streamers and never spent any money on other streams.

Given the situation, this account must either belong to a newcomer or it was an alternate account.

But this person seemed rather familiar with purchasing rewards. So it couldn’t be from a newcomer. Then, whose alternate account did this belong to?

If it was someone he didn’t know, then why did this person have to use an alternate account?

Then it was very possible this is someone he knew?

Someone he knew and happened to see his stream online? Or was this someone who knew that he was going to do a stream today and came to support him?

He’d only been streaming for half an hour. If it was by chance that this person noticed, wouldn’t it be too much of a coincidence?

It would be very interesting if this person knew ahead of time that he was going to do a stream……

The accounts on Pea TV could be registered with nicknames. Lin Chuyan typed in a nickname and used Xiang Nuan’s birthday as the password, but failed to find an account.

In the meantime, the audience was rushing him to play another match. Lin Chuyan could only set his suspicions aside and continued with his stream.

-- --

The next day was a Saturday. Lin Chuyan went to the other campus to look for Xiang Nuan. They planned to study in the library in the morning then go to a movie in the afternoon.

Xiang Nuan acted quite normally and even smiled at Lin Chuyan.

Lin Chuyan smiled back.

They went to the library and set their things down. Xiang Nuan began to play with her cell phone. It was her warm up activity before doing her homework.

She would check her friend circle on WeChat, then look at esports news, and then find out whether there was anything interesting on Weibo.

She saw a trending topic on Weibo named “Help the little brother marry his girlfriend.” Out of curiosity, she clicked open it…...Ha, wasn’t this Lin Chuyan?

Excited, Xiang Nuan handed her phone to Lin Chuyan and whispered: “Lin Chuyan, look quick, it’s you!”

Lin Chuyan took a look and was also surprised.

The post was written from the point of view of a boy crazy person. She talked about things that happened at the stream yesterday. The narration was rather random and didn’t look like a press release from marketing. In the post, there were several screenshots and a clip when Lin Chuyan said he needed money to marry his girlfriend.

The pictures and the clip were all blurry. Despite all this, the post still went viral. It had been shared more than twenty thousand times. There were all sorts of comments under it; some trying to find out who Lin Chuyan was, some volunteering to be his wife, some seeking a significant other for themselves, and some exclaiming that nowadays hype was everywhere.

Lin Chuyan was pretty sure that he didn’t pull any publicity stunt yesterday. He wasn’t sure whether the site had done anything to that effect. He sent a message to his contact at the company to ask about it. The person also didn’t know anything about it.

Xiang Nuan read all the comments and the more she read, the more angry she got-- --At least half of the comments were saying that they wanted to marry Lin Chuyan.

She put her cell phone on the desk, with the screen down on the table.

Xiang Nuan was the kind of person who couldn’t hide her emotions. Lin Chuyan noticed that she was annoyed at something and lifted his hand to lightly pat her: “What’s wrong?”

“There are ten thousand people here who want to marry you.” Xiang Nuan felt her chest hurt when she spoke.

Lin Chuyan kept stroking Xiang Nuan’s hair and lightly laughed: “But I don’t want to marry other people. I’ll only marry you.”

The pain in Xiang Nuan’s chest suddenly went away.

Xiang Nuan was impressed by Lin Chuyan’s ability to calm her down with just one sentence. All she felt now was tenderness and sweetness in her heart. A little embarrassed, she looked down and pulled her English practice sheets in front of her. With pen in hand, she looked like she was focused on the practice questions.

She was going to take the CET-4 this semester, she had better study hard.[1]


[1]: The College English Test (CET) is an English proficiency test in China for undergraduate and postgraduate students in China. CET-4 is the level 4 proficiency test.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 98 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 98 Part 2

Lu Sicheng started the car and backed out of the garage: “He’s teasing you. My mom, that’s his mom too by the way, is about your height. Are either of us 1.5 meters high?”

Tong Yao grabbed the seatbelt with a dark face: “I’m not talking.”

Lu Sicheng reached out with his big hand to pat Tong Yao’s head: “As long as our son plays more basketball then he’ll grow taller. Don’t panic.”

“...............................................................” It took 3 seconds for Tong Yao to reflect that there was something wrong with his words: “Who, who’s having ‘our son’ with you!”

“If it’s a daughter, then it'll be fine if she’s just like you. She can go capture a tall guy later on from another family, perfect.” Lu Sicheng drove out of the residential area, then earnestly said after being quiet for a while: “To tell the truth, I’d prefer having a daughter. Sons are too naughty.”

Tong Yao covered her red face with both hands

“......You, too, shut up.”

“Why can I just imagine for a moment?”

“You can’t, imagine something more normal.”

“En.”

“You sound like you’re smiling.”

“I’m not.”

“You are.”

“I’m just being a little emotional here.”

“What are you being emotional about?” Tong Yao put her hands down from her face.

“I just thought what luck to pick up a little cutie like you. If you were underwear, you’d be the one with blue and white stripes.”

“..........................................................................” The color on Tong Yao’s face turned from red to white then to red again. After a short moment, she looked straight ahead without much expression on her face and said: “Captain, do you see that huge tree next to the road?”

“I see it, what?”

“Crash into it, I want to die together with you.”

“......”

……

Tong Yao refused to respond to Lu Sicheng for the rest of the drive, no matter what he brought up. Tong Yao didn’t speak until they had arrived at the shopping mall and Lu Sicheng had parked the car: “Captain, you’ve totally ruined your public image.”

Lu Sicheng seemed undisturbed: “Why do you say that?”

“In my memory, Chessman is calm, composed, cold, sharp, and prescient.” Tong Yao released the seatbelt, turned to jump off the car because of her short legs. Then she closed the door and stretched out her head to say from the other side of the car: “But in the end I found out that you’re just a shameless wily old fox with indecent thoughts. I’m sad.”

Lu Sicheng had gotten out of the car as well. He closed the door while saying briefly and to the point: “Too much imagination.”

Tong Yao: “......”

To avoid bumping into any fans, they had picked a shopping center in a more remote location. They walked shoulder to shoulder out of the parking lot, Lu Sicheng reached over to touch Tong Yao’s hand. Tong Yao knew what he was going to do and stepped to the side a bit.

Lu Sicheng sighed: “Be reasonable.”

Tong Yao: “......What do you mean?”

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 78 Part 2

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 78 Part 2

Lin Chuyan suddenly pushed her against the door.

Without waiting for her reaction, his kisses had fallen on Xiang Nuan’s lips like silky rain falling on a lotus leaf.

Xiang Nuan’s hand loosened, the bag dropped onto the floor, then she embraced him with both of her hands.

Actually, she also missed him a lot.

Xiang Nuan’s reaction seemed to encourage Lin Chuyan. He lightly bit her on the lip, Xiang Nuan was surprised by the suddenness and opened her mouth a little. Lin Chuyan seized the chance to push his tongue into her mouth.

Lin Chuyan’s breathing grew heavy and his passion made Xiang Nuan feel as if she was on fire.

Lin Chuyan didn’t let Xiang Nuan go until he sensed Xiang Nuan was struggling to catch her breath.

After releasing Xiang Nuan, Lin Chuyan backed away a bit and bent over to pick up the bag for Xiang Nuan.

He handed the bag over to her and said: “I’ll go to find you tomorrow.” His voice was extremely hoarse.

Xiang Nuan didn’t notice the difference in his voice. She hadn’t fully recovered from the passion from before, her heart was still racing and her face was still reddish when she left Lin Chuyan’s dorm room with her bag.

-- --

Originally, Xiang Nuan was going to log on to Lin Chuyan’s stream debut. But she was a no show that night.

It was probably because she was still somewhat bashful to face Lin Chuyan.

Though she wasn’t there, the stream still had to go on since the site had already spent a few days preparing for it.

Lin Chuyan was good looking, played well and had a pleasant voice. To the site, he had a giant sign that said RMB all over him. The site had put in quite a lot of resources to support his stream, which was unusual for new streamers. Before his debut, the site already advertised it and on the day of the debut, posted his stream on the homepage of the site.

Many people watched his stream after seeing the homepage. Their first reactions after logging on: Hrm, I’m at the wrong stream?

Then they backed out and searched for the board for Kings of Glory, then they would see Lin Chuyan again.

A streamer…...looked like this?

Wait, was this a movie star streaming?

They checked the id of the host, Chuyan? Never heard of it, he shouldn’t be a movie star.

Some decided not to ignore his looks and checked in to see what his skill level was.

After a while, many couldn’t help themselves but send bullet comments: 66666.

……

Everytime Lin Chuyan finished a match, he would take a look at the bullet comments and answer some of the questions. He would read out the question first: “How old is the host…… 20. Where is the host from…...Nanshan. Does the host have a girlfriend…...Yes. Does the host stream every night…...Yes.”

When he answered that he had a girlfriend, there was a lot of moaning in the chat.

Actually, the site had suggested that Lin Chuyan not disclose the existence of his girlfriend, but he had directly refused.

The composition of the audience of the stream came from various backgrounds, some were civilized, some were there just to make trouble, some to diss other streamers, and even some were there to sell porn videos. Lin Chuyan banned those who were there to sell porn videos and let all the others say whatever they wanted.

After answering questions, he said: “You all can click follow and send me some rewards. I need money.”

The audience was surprised to see such a handsome host be this frank! He didn’t even bother putting on a public facade to protect his idol image!

Some asked: Why do you need money so badly?

Lin Chuyan read out the question then answered: “I have to earn money to marry my girlfriend.” He was looking down with a smile while saying that, as if he was a little embarrassed.

There was a lot of noise in the chat again. Some were infatuated by Lin Chuyan’s smile, some moaned because they were single.

Suddenly, there was a special sound effect in the stream. It was the sound effect when someone had sent a gift purchased with real money.

“Haven’t been boss for many years” had sent the host ten deepwater torpedoes.[1]

Ten deepwater torpedoes equals one thousand RMB.

Haven’t been boss for many years: Cute, want to fuck.

Lin Chuyan: “......”



[1]: Something you can buy for streamers that translates to money, like a donation but with an in system currency. This is similar to bits on Twitch.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 98 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 98 Part 1

At noon the next day, Little Fatty, who was eating instant noodles in front of his computer, heard someone come downstairs. He looked up with a piece of noodle still hanging from his mouth and the first thing he saw was the section of leg between a short skirt and a pair of knee high stockings…...The piece of noodle fell back into the bowl and Little Fatty asked: “What are you up to?”

Tong Yao, with slippers, crouched down in front of the shoe cabinet and earnestly looked for the shoes she wanted to wear. While looking, she pulled out a shoe box and opened it to take a look. Inside was a pair of shoes which she hadn’t seen before and they turned out to be her size-- --She looked up to make sure it was her personal shoe cabinet…...Tong Yao blinked: “When have these shoes been here?”

“The mutual sponsor of you and the mid next door put them in there the last time she was here. She said she already had a pair of the exact same ones…...Where are you going?”

Tong Yao took out the shoes from the box; they were a pair of black shoes, with low heels decorated with a few pearls and metal brand logo on top of the shoes with the signature fabric of red and green stripes…...Tong Yao put down the shoe box and put her feet inside the shoes to try it out, they were a perfect fit. She looked up to glance at Little Fatty: “I’m going out shopping.”

Little Fatty with the noodles bowl in hand: “Oh. Lipstick is a little too red.”

Tong Yao mumbled: “Really?” Then hurriedly grabbed a tissue to wipe her lips…… At the same time, there was the sound of a door opening and closing upstairs. Little Fatty looked up-- --This time, it was the team’s ad who was wearing a simple outfit, thanks to the hot summer weather which didn’t give a man too many choices about what he could wear. But even when dressed simply, he was still much better looking than 95% of the men on the street since he had paid some attention to putting his outfit together in addition to shaving and washing his hair……

The other 5% might as well be those handsome movie stars.

Little Fatty: “Captain, oh captain, where are you going then?”

His captain stopped in the middle of the stairs with hands in his pockets and took a glance at the person next to the shoe cabinets-- --Tong Yao paused and smoothed out her breath: “I’m going out shopping.”

Lu Sicheng turned to look at Little Fatty: “I’m going shopping with her.”

Before Little Fatty could say anything, Lu Yue happened to come out from the kitchen with a bowl of noodles in his hands. He passed by Tong Yao and Lu Sicheng and glanced at them. Finally he sat down at Lu Sicheng’s chair right next to Little Fatty and logged on to the game to invite Little Fatty to play duos. While he was doing all this, he said with an imposing manner as if he had seen through them: “Why do you two have to dress like you’re going to the Civil Affairs Bureau every time you two go out on your own?”

Lu Sicheng: “I look like this every day.”

Tong Yao: “Me too-- --”

Lu Yue: “Forget about that, what you too. The last time you wore a skirt was when you went with my brother to go buy goldfish in the market. There isn’t any other time.”

Tong Yao: “..................................True! But what’s wrong when a country pumpkin dresses up to go shopping!”

Lu Yue didn’t pay any attention to her, but poked at his noodles and said: “When did you two get together?”

The shoe box in Tong Yao’s hand dropped on the floor.

Lu Sicheng raised his eyebrows.

Little Fatty choked on a mouthful of burning hot soup. The burning sensation made him thump his chest and stamp his feet as he struggled, his face red: “I’ve been deserted? !  The ad who I worked hard to raise abandons me for mid? !”

Lu Yue looked up without much expression: “I’m just joking.”

Tong Yao: “......”

Lu Yue: “I can’t accept the miserable fate of my brother’s son who would only be 1.5 meters high like his mom and be laughed at all his life.”

Tong Yao used all her might to suppress the urge to throw her slippers at the face that looked similar to Lu Sicheng: “You shut up.”

Lu Sicheng didn’t bother with Lu Yue and dragged Tong Yao out of the door. Tong Yao kept looking back as she was brought to the garage. Even after Lu Sicheng had strapped her into the passenger side seat, she still fretfully slapped her lap and said: “Lu Sicheng, why didn’t you give him a retort? Is it because you think what he said makes a lot of sense? Hrmph, I’m so angry. Your Lu family’s perfect genes are going to be contaminated by my 1.5 meter inferior genes-- --”

“Go ahead, come contaminate me.”

“......”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 97 Part 4

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 97 Part 4

Tong Yao pushed the door to her captain’s room open and saw the bundle on the bed inside. Her captain was facing the door with his back and playing games under the blanket-- --He probably had just showered as his hair was still wet.

When Tong Yao walked into the room, Lu Sicheng said without turning his head: “The hair dryer is broken, can’t dry my hair, don’t nag.”

From the way he spoke, he probably thought it was Little Fatty who had come into the room.

Tong Yao stood behind him, squatted down, then opened her arms to bear hug the man together with the blanket and giggly cried out: “Trap you in bed!”

The cell phone fell from Lu Sicheng’s hand, he confusedly turned his face to look into a smiling face-- --Lu Sicheng kept a blank face and turned himself around inside the blanket. Then he reached out with both of his hands to grab Tong Yao and picked her up to put her on his bed. His body was leaning forward.

Tong Yao was still giggling, but tried to keep her distance by leaning backwards.

Lu Sicheng continued to move forward.

Tong Yao continued to lean backward. The atmosphere between the two became somewhat complicated-- --Tong Yao’s body was bent back almost 45 degrees; her smile disappeared and her face tightened: “Captain, I’m not that flexible, my back is going to break.”

Lu Sicheng stopped and their faces were a finger length apart, very close.

Lu Sicheng cast his eyes downwards and said flatly: “What are you getting away for? You climbed onto a man’s bed yourself.”

A soft hand lifted up to push the man’s expressionless face back. At the same time, Tong Yao said, with a voice that seemed to be a little flustered: “You’re dangerous, full of dirty thoughts.”

Her palm somehow touched his lips.

Lu Sicheng paused for a moment, then pushed away her hand but at the same time clasped her wrist to bring her into his arms. Then he lifted the blanket up to cover Tong Yao who had bumped into his chest. His other hand naturally landed on her waist: “What’s up?”

“Do we have to keep this posture?”

“It’ll also do for you to lie under me.”

“..................................Evil.”

“Are you going to tell me or not?” Lu Sicheng exerted some force in his hand, pretending that he was going to push Tong Yao onto the bed.

“...... I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you.” In order to keep the currently seemingly more innocent position, Tong Yao reached out with both her hands to embrace the man around his waist. “I came here to thank you for trying so hard while playing 4 protect 1 today, showing everyone a textbook example of how to play at a disadvantage. And also to thank you for so courageously announcing in front of everyone in the country that you have someone you like already.”

“Therefore you climbed onto my bed? I accept this appreciation.”

When he finished, his arm was being pinched though it didn’t hurt nor did it itch.

Lu Sicheng looked down and met the pair of sparkling eyes under the blanket. Then he heard the person in his arms excitedly say: “Cheng Ge, are you busy tomorrow?”

“Yes, get more points, move up to Challenger.”

“.......................Other than that?”

“Nothing else.”

“Then, let’s go on a date? Ah? A date! Not the kind in the Summoner Canyon, a real one like any normal person.”

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