You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 108 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 108 Part 1

Lu Sicheng was going to take Tong Yao to eat. Little Fatty was planning on going with them. Lu Sicheng checked his cell phone to find the restaurant was a 15 fifteen minutes walk from the internet cafe. Without a second thought, Little Fatty opened the door to the internet cafe and said to the other two: I want to eat meat, make sure you buy meat dishes for me.

As the captain of the team, Lu Sicheng took the responsibility of ordering take out for the rest of the team.

Little Fatty went inside to sit down. Xiao Rui took a look at him and asked: “Where is the captain of our team and the young girl of our team?”

Little Fatty played with his mouse and, composed like a first rate actor, responded: “They’ve gone to eat.”

“Oh.” Xiao Rui thought about it and something didn’t feel right: “Why have these two been going out together so often lately? They were like fire and water, constantly bickering before, now they seem to be getting along quite harmoniously?”

Little Fatty didn’t answer. It was Lu Yue, who was playing a match next to Little Fatty, abruptly said without even lifting his head up: “I’ll be an uncle?”

It was as if Xiao Rui had been struck by lightning: “It can’t be? One can get pregnant just by going shopping?”

Lu Yue: “Think about it, what kind of decent man would lay eyes on a childish young girl like Tong Yao. My brother is an animal, a wolf in sheep’s skin.”

When he finished, everyone from ZGDX around him burst into laughter. Everyone was having fun with the feeling “it feels damn good to speak evil of the captain when he’s not around.” Only the comparatively righteous Ming god lifted his foot to kick Lu Yue’s chair to remind him: “You’re the same age as Tong Yao.”

Lu Yue finally looked up and casually took a glance at Ming god: “I’m bigger.”

Little Fatty had begun cracking up like a duck. Old Cat shook his head, claiming they were all perverts. It took Ming god five seconds to realize that Lu Yue was making a dirty joke. He slapped Lu Yue’s head with the clipboard in his hand and made Lu Yue’s slightly tilted head turn back: “Pay deduction.”

It was a joyful scene inside the internet cafe.

From beginning to end, only Dubhe hadn’t joined in. He was tucked into a corner, not playing matches, but constantly sending messages on his cell phone. He would erase the chat history after he sent out each text.

……

Lu Sicheng held hands with Tong Yao on their way to the restaurant. As they were walking Lu Sicheng kept mulling over one thing. It seemed to him that while he was focused on working with Dubhe and overlooked the team’s mid for a short half an hour, Tong Yao seemed to have somehow experienced some mysterious change-- --

If it was how she was before, Tong Yao would hardly ever put her hand into his on her own when they walked on the street.

It was an unexpected surprise when Tong Yao threw herself into his arms outside the internet cafe on a bustling street. Then after Little Fatty left them, when they started walking just after two steps, he felt his hand be suddenly grabbed by a smaller hand. The soft, as if boneless, fingers tried to squeeze between his fingers……

Lu Sicheng was a little confused at the time.

He even thought he might have misinterpreted her intentions. When he lowered his head to ask Tong Yao what she was up to, before he could open his mouth he was met with a pair of bright black eyes. The mid of his team eagerly looked at him and asked in a small voice: “You don’t want to hold hands?”

Lu Sicheng held his breath at the moment and felt a little unsteady on his feet. All he could think of was wanting to commit a crime right on the street.

He certainly wanted to hold hands.

He almost felt like crying out from joy right on the street. He would be a 1.85 meter high crying baby.

But Lu Sicheng still couldn’t resist the mischievous side in him. Seeing Tong Yao letting him hold her hand and walk right next to him, he couldn’t help but tease her: “You aren’t afraid of being seen holding hands with me in broad daylight on such a big street?”

Tong Yao was focused on keeping up with Lu Sicheng’s large steps and didn’t even have time to catch her breath. She wasn’t in the mood to converse with him after she heard him. She looked up and confidently said: “This is Xiamen, not Shanghai. What are the chances that we’ll be spotted?”

“All the players are basically here and all live nearby.” Lu Sicheng said: “Your fan group of junglers in the major league……”

Tong Yao: “......”

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 84 Part 2

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 84 Part 2

Lin Chuyan’s streams were very popular, yet as a newcomer who rose to fame all of sudden, it was inevitable that others would become jealous of him. From time to time there would be people who posted rubbish on the bullet comments. Some even praised other stream hosts during his streams or called him names. Lin Chuyan couldn’t tell whether they were marketing tricks or trying to perform sabotage, but he didn’t really care.

There was one good thing that came from being trolled. One time Lin Chuyan saw a netizen with an id called “Chuyan’s dad” who donated a gift in RMB and left a comment: It hasn’t been easy for my son.

This time he finally felt a bit more confident about the blood relationship between his father and himself.

There was only one rule during Lin Chuyan’s stream. That was it was alright to troll him but not alright to troll his girlfriend at all. If someone dared to say bad things about Xiang Nuan, the person would be forever forbidden to speak.

Xiang Nuan was quite moved by Lin Chuyan’s gesture and felt like she should also do something for him. She noticed that Lin Chuyan was ranked sixth on the weekly hot list. If he could move up to fifth place then he would show up on people’s recommendations and be known to even more viewers.

She therefore spent some money to push Lin Chuyan’s stream to number 5.

This time she used her normal id “It’s Nuannuan” to send the gift. Xiang Nuan didn’t think too much into it. She thought, wasn't it quite a common thing to send gifts between boyfriends and girlfriends? Unfortunately there were others who didn’t think so. The next day after she sent the gift, there were posts on the Pea TV forum on Tieba trolling her.

The people criticizing her were probably people who found her offensive. They made speculations about her relationship with Lin Chuyan with utmost maliciousness. They believed that since Lin Chuyan became a stream host, it was proof that he came from a not so well off family. Just because he was such a good looking guy, he must be financially supported by a woman like a gigolo. To them, it didn’t matter whether there was any logical connection between being good looking and being a gigolo. In any case, since Xiang Nuan had given Lin Chuyan so much money, she must be the one who kept him as her beau. Besides, Lin Chuyan always listened to Xiang Nuan no matter what and they talked lovey dovey all the time, the exact behavior of a gigolo.

Since Xiang Nuan had to spend money to keep a gigolo, it was the proof that she probably wasn’t good looking at all

Their conclusion was: Xiang Nuan must be ugly!

Xiang Nuan was dumbfounded after reading all those comments.

She couldn’t stand others misrepresenting the facts and wanted to argue with them. Lin Chuyan stopped her.

“All of those are baseless speculation without any logic. If you argue with them using the logic of any normal person, are you sure they would listen to you? If they can cook up one scenario, they could fabricate another one. It’s not worth it to spoil our mood by arguing with them. We might as well do something else to make us feel happy.”

“Then what should we do?” Xiang Nuan was troubled: “Don’t tell me that I have to show pictures of myself?”

“It won’t work. I’ve looked into some cyber bullying incidents and found out that once you respond, you’re falling into their trap. What those people really want isn’t your response or the truth, but a target to vent their frustration. To stand at a morally higher point to rebuke others will bring these people a sense of fulfilment to their souls. Even they themselves can’t stop their own craving for these kinds of needs. Your response will only give them more fuel to vent about and make them even more excited.”

“But you’re just going to watch them say that you’re a gigolo?”

Lin Chuyan raised his eyebrows and asked: “You don’t mind them saying you’re ugly?”

“They can say what they want. I’m not really ugly anyway.”

“Same here, I’m not really a gigolo. I don’t care what they say.”

Xiang Nuan still felt somewhat disconsolate. She felt like when she looked at her life from a distance, it was perfect. But when she looked closely, it was still quite nice but there was mold in some corners.

Lin Chuyan wasn’t bothered by it. He felt that since he was earning money from the streams, it was just normal to pay some price for it. He only felt sorry that he had gotten Xiang Nuan involved in it.

“Nuannuan, if you don’t like me doing the stream later on, I’ll stop doing it.”

“What are you talking about, I’m not that melodramatic. Lin Chuyan, I hope you will become the super popular king and make those people trolling you have a fit stamping their feet but be unable to do anything about it.”

Lin Chuyan smiled: “Sure.”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 107 Part 4

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 107 Part 4

Tong Yao was a bit nervous when she saw that it was Little Fatty in front of her. She was afraid that Little Fatty would say something like “you two are dating but don’t hamper Cheng Ge’s training” “Everyone has high hopes for going to the world tournament, we can’t drop the ball halfway just because of you two”. She was kind of apprehensive about everything to begin with. Those words would probably make her even more anxious…… To be honest, Tong Yao really hoped that her teammates would at least support her.

Tong Yao was quite uneasy following Little Fatty out of the internet cafe. All she could think of was things like “Little Fatty didn’t disapprove yesterday” “it doesn’t look like he feels it’s something bad” “could it be that he’s pretending” “damn, I thought he didn’t have any objections to it, ahhhhhh”-- --

The two stood outside the internet cafe and Tong Yao was already prepared to face a storm. She didn’t expect Little Fatty to take out his cell phone and hand it to Tong Yao while nudging her with his elbow: “Listen to this.”

Tong Yao took a glance at him baffled, then played the audio clip Little Fatty had pulled out on his phone-- --

[What exactly do you like about her? Don’t give me those superficial things like on the marriage oath-- --To tell the truth, Tong Yao’s looks are pretty ordinary-- --compared to those pretty fangirls of yours.]

It sounded like Little Fatty’s voice amid a rustling background noise.

Tong Yao was taken by surprise and looked up at Little Fatty. Little Fatty was grinning from ear to ear and pointed at the phone, gesturing for Tong Yao to keep listening: “It’s quite something, listen on.”

Tong Yao: “......”

[She’s quite a strong player.]

When she heard Lu Sicheng’s voice, Tong Yao blushed.

[She’s cute when she cries.]

Tong Yao felt like she was going to suffocate. What was he doing telling all these things to Little Fatty, ahhh.

In the recording, Little Fatty pushed on: “Anything else?” Lu Sicheng was quiet for a moment. As Tong Yao thought the clip had ended, she heard Lu Sicheng’s low and slow voice-- --

[The spark of love comes from nowhere, but the feelings get deeper and deeper.]

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

With the cell phone in hand, Tong Yao’s face turned to the color of tomatoes and looked at Little Fatty at a loss of what to say or do. Little Fatty, holding onto the railing on the sidewalk, guffawed while pounding his chest and stomped his foot. “Hahahahahahahahahaha,” he asked Tong Yao: “Isn’t your man quite something?” Tong Yao couldn’t reply as if her tongue was tied in a knot. She hastily stuffed the cell phone into her own pocket, only to remember a few seconds later that it was Little Fatty’s phone. She took the phone out to return to Little Fatty with a red face-- --

“You want me to send you a copy, ha.” Little Fatty was laughing so hard that his eyes disappeared.

At the very moment, the door to the internet cafe was pulled open from inside. Their captain came out with his usual stone face and asked: “Want to get something to eat?” After he stood in front of his support and mid, he sensed that there was something going on. He looked down and saw Tong Yao holding Little Fatty’s phone in hand. He raised his eyebrows to ask: “What are you two talking about?”

Just as he finished, Tong Yao, like a bird flopping its wings to stagger forward, threw herself into his arms.

Lu Sicheng lifted both of his arms to accept the unexpected embrace, but lowered his head in confusion to look at the person in his arms. Tong Yao lifted her reddish face to look back at him: “Let’s eat, let’s eat. I’m famished. It took long enough for you to come out.”

“?”

Lu Sicheng stroked her head.

He still felt that there was something not quite right and looked up at Little Fatty, warning him with a serious attitude: “You stay away from her, always coming up with weird ideas.”

Little Fatty collected himself and stood straight: “Oh.”

Little Fatty took his warning, too bad it was too late. In his mind, all he was thinking was: hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 84 Part 1

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 84 Part 1

Before they began their training, they had to assign each player’s position.

Lin Chuyan would be the mage, Shen Zemu the marksman, and Chen Yinghu the jungler; there wasn’t any problem with these positions.

What’s left was top and support. Xiang Nuan hesitated and asked Yang Yin: “Yin Jiejie, how’s your top?”

“It’s alright.”

“Hum, hum, then you play the top, I’ll be the support.” Based on her understanding, the support was the lowest position.

“I’ll play support.”

“Yin Jiejie, no need to make me look good.”

“I’m not.” Yang Yin said: “Your character is rather suitable to play top, besides,” she paused then continued: “I always feel that the skill level of the support decides the upper limits of a team.”

“Oh?” Xiang Nuan was very interested to know more: “I’ve never heard about this theory.”

“Actually this theory doesn’t really apply to normal matches. The function of a support is to gain advantages and strategize for the team. In a random match, players don’t have any mutual understanding and the room for a support to function is really limited. That’s the reason why the position of support is sometimes overlooked. But if it’s a professional match, to help gain advantages for the team is only the basic responsibility of the support. Supports are the commander at the same time. An excellent support assumes overall responsibility; giving feedback and solutions according to the changes on the battlefield, reasonably allocating resources, and directing teammates to maximize their potential. Therefore, the support is actually the brain of the team.”

Xiang Nuan somehow got excited about the idea and asked: “Then, what you mean is that the support is actually the most important?”

“No, every position is important. It’s just that each position has its own way of showing its importance.”

Xiang Nua asked: “Yin Jiejie, do you think I can be a good support?”

“Support doesn’t suit you, you’re more suitable at charging forward.”

Charging forward wasn’t bad either, Xiang Nuan actually liked fighting in hand to hand combat more.

Chen Yinghu asked: “Then how about me? Can I be one?”

“You can’t either.”

“How so?”

“Not enough IQ.”

“......” Chen Yinghu was a little sad.

Yang Yin didn’t wait for the other two, Shen Zemu and Lin Chuyan, to ask and continued: “Shen Zemu can’t do it either. You’re a man of few words. It would be hard for your teammates to receive your intentions precisely.”

Yang Yin didn’t go on.

Xiang Nuan was a little anxious and kept asking: “Then what about Lin Chuyan? Can he do it?”

“Lin Chuyan.” Yang Yin smiled: “If he’s willing, he could be the top support of the whole esports-- --By esports, I mean the whole industry, including the professional league.”

“Wow!” Xiang Nuan exaggeratedly used both of her hands to cup her face and turned to look at Lin Chuyan with adoring eyes.

Lin Chuyan reservedly pressed his lips.

-- --

However, even if Lin Chuyan started to practice playing support right now, there wouldn't be enough time for him to get ready for the Leiting Cup. In the end, he would still be playing mid.

He thought that he could practice once in a while during his nightly stream.



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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 107 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 107 Part 3

When the next wave of friendly minions arrived, Lu Yue confirmed that the opponent’s jungler was at top and followed the minions across the river. Then he made a turn to go to bot lane and used Azir’s ultimate to catch the enemy’s support before he could retreat-- --He was aiming at blocking both the bot and support, but Speedy Star was indeed a good player and escaped Azir’s ultimate. Lu Yue hit the support twice then let Dubhe kill him.

Then Lu Yue went into the bush to go back.

“Those people basically faded away from the stage at the peak of their careers just like that.” Lu Yue said: “Quite helplessly, but there’s disparity between the major and the junior leagues, in terms of the players’ abilities, the morale of the team……”

Tong Yao nodded though didn’t fully understand.

She raised her head, somewhat worriedly to take a glance at Dubhe sitting next to Lu Yue-- --

Dubhe looked calm, his eyes fixed on the game. After he had one kill, his gold was barely even with Speedy Star. It became less stressful for him in lane and was now able to play less defensively.

Tong Yao took her eyes off Dubhe, leaned forwards onto the back of the chair, and lowered her voice as she asked Lu Yue: “Who were you saying those things to?”

Lu Yue abruptly stopped clicking the mouse for a second. He turned to take a look at Tong Yao, with a faint smile, then gave a seemingly irrelevant answer: “Dubhe is pretty strong. I just don’t know whether he can hold on long enough like Butterfly in CK.”

Tong Yao nodded: “Oh.” Then she realized something was off: “......You’re cursing your brother to retire?”

“He’s old, though still strong. But in the eyes of young people like us, he’s still a bit like an eyesore, an old man, asocial.”

Tong Yao lifted her hand and mercilessly pushed down on Lu Yue’s head.

……

The B team, as expected, won the skirmish. The expressions on the faces of those young players were quite different than the day before.

After the skirmish, it was time for debriefing and team training in ranked matches. Tong Yao took a look at Lu Sicheng and found he was talking to Dubhe with a writing tablet full of notes. Dubhe was looking dowards, playing with his fingers. Tong Yao couldn’t tell whether Dubhe was listening to Lu Sicheng or not-- --

It looked like Lu Sicheng had a lot to say to Dubhe.

Tong Yao took out her cell phone to send a WeChat message to Lu Sicheng [Babe is hungry], then put her cell phone away. While all the other players were discussing the recently finished match, Tong Yao turned without much expression to face Lu Yue quite awkwardly. Lu Yue also didn’t have much of an expression on his face and said: “We have different styles. Don’t try to force it. You know I won’t listen no matter what you say, right?”

“That’s exactly what I have in mind, Mr. Substitute.” Tong Yao flipped her hair: “Best of luck winning the competition. You’ll have to share my glory for winning the summer season, as for the championship cup for the Demacia Cup, you’ll have to take that home on your own.”

Lu Yue looked at her for a while then suddenly chuckled and gently shoved Tong Yao before getting back to his ranked match.

Tong Yao put both of her hands in her pockets and walked around the internet cafe. She took a look at Lu Sicheng who was still nagged at Dubhe. Tong Yao was amazed that Lu Sicheng could have so many things to talk about. Especially since the words Lu Sicheng said to her in a day were much less than what he had said in the last ten minutes. She turned to sit on the couch and started checking to see whether there was anything good to eat around here……

Someone came over to look for her after a little while……

It was Little Fatty.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 107 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 107 Part 2

The next day, the other teams participating in the competition also arrived at Xiamen one after another. Early in the morning, Xiao Rui went out to arrange skirmishes for the B team for the next few days. The players from both the A and B teams were led by their coaches to an  internet cafe near the hotel to do some training matches.

Just like at the base, the A team players would sit behind the B team players during the match and tell the B team kids better ways to handle the situation, or when to cast abilities, or when to hold their position, or when to move up.

-- --The B team at the moment was playing a skirmish with a team called RMB, which was a junior league team. It wasn’t too difficult for ZGDX’s B team to handle RMB since they were one of the strongest teams in the junior league and very likely to move up to the major league this year……

Besides, RMB was ranked a second tiered team even in the junior league.

“The other side has put a ward at red buff. Their jungler was at top a few dozen seconds ago. If he wants to go to bot, he would go get the buff first. You should place a ward so you don’t get caught unaware.”

-- --It was Little Fatty’s voice and Alkaid responded with mhm, mhm.

“Is bot about to reach level 6? Check your farm, check the mini map; if your teammate ad is leading in farm then you need to calculate the right moment, don’t wait till your teammate calls you then teleport to support him. Look for the correct timing on your own. If your team’s ad is under pressure, then you should prevent the other side’s top from teleporting before you……”

-- --It was Old Cat’s voice and B team’s top silently nodded.

“Don’t bother looking at it. Stay safe at bot. Your opponent is Speed Star and he has Jinx. You’re no match for him.”

-- --It was Lu Sicheng’s flat voice. Dubhe didn’t respond at all, only the sound of him clicking on the mouse became louder.

Tong Yao: “......”

Tong Yao turned her head to take a glance at the pair of ads who didn’t get along, then turned back to reach over to click the keyboard of the person in front of her. She took a look at the stats amid the protest of the person in front. The game had started for ten minutes now and bot was truly behind, over 20 minions. Bot was in bad shape.

Tong Yao jabbed the back of the person in front: “Who’s Speedy Star? How come your brother knows so much about the ad of a second tiered team in the junior league?”

Lu Yue replied after a short silence: “You don’t have anything more technical other than gossip to say to me?”

Tong Yao: “I do.”

Lu Yue: “What?”

Tong Yao: “The opponent’s mid obviously is afraid of you and you’re so timid as well. Are the two of you prepared to stay put under each of your turrets and never cross the river? There’s no lane phase in mid lane in this match. I’ve watched for ten minutes and don’t even know what skin the other side’s Leblanc is using today. You two are really something, playing the game like this.”

Lu Yue: “......Speedy Star isn’t some third rate ad. A couple years ago when my brother just came back to the league, Speedy Star was the first ad of team CK and very strong, really strong, especially when he’s using Jinx and Ashe. He is particularly good at using their ultimates. At that time, he was at least on a par with my brother.”

Tong Yao widened her eyes: “Yi yi yi yi yi?”

Lu Yue handled his champion to walk out of the turret towards the other side and the other side’s mid appeared: “See, it’s the Elderwood skin, see it? Now that you’ve seen it, don’t force me to come out or I’ll go back to being timid. To develop steadily is halfway to winning the game-- --Back to gossip-- --Later on, CK didn’t do well at the world tournament that year and Speedy Star was the one who took the blame. He died seconds into the team fight, messed up his team’s positioning, stayed put in lane and couldn’t fight against anyone. The audience at home was very disappointed at him. Tieba at the time almost exploded.”

“How so?”

“Everyone was making an uproar to tell him to come back and stop shaming the country. Some told him to swim back, that he wasn’t worth the price of the airline ticket.” Lu Yue frowned while remembering: “Some cursed the airplane hoping it’d crash. Anyway, he was trashed pretty badly-- --After the team came back, CK couldn’t take the pressure and switched Butterfly, the current ad, as its first ad for the Spring season next year. The original idea was just to let Speedy Star lie low for the moment. But he couldn’t take it and switched to a club in the minor league……”

“......What’s his reason?”

“Striving for vindication, he wanted to lead a junior team and fight its way back to the major league by himself and like giving a hard slap to those trolls.”

“......And the result?”

“The result is that even you, as a professional player, don’t know who Speedy Star is.”

“......”

“It’s quite common. And not necessarily for vindication. Sometimes it’s because a player refused to take defeat or for more money that he would willingly move down to the junior league and always thought that since he’s such a good player, he would fight back to the major league one day……”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 107 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 107 Part 1 

It was midnight when they arrived at Xiamen. After checking into the hotel and getting their room keys, everyone went to their assigned rooms to go sleep. Tong Yao, after washing up, exchanged a few words with Lu Sicheng on WeChat, then she fell asleep with her phone still in hand.

The last sentence Lu Sicheng said to her was to go and lock her door. Little Fatty happened to pass by behind Lu Sicheng while drying his hair after showering. Little Fatty stretched his head to take a look at the chat between Lu Sicheng and Tong Yao and asked: “Locking the door to keep thieves out or you out?”

“..........................................” Lu Sicheng put down the cell phone and turned to look at his support who was getting into his bed: “Are you done yet?”

“I just couldn’t get over the scene I saw today at the airport. I can only vent my frustration on you.” Little Fatty pulled up the blanket to cover him and stared at the ceiling: “I treat Tong Yao as a teammate and you only want to get her pregnant.”

Lu Sicheng: “......”

Little Fatty turned over: “Cheng Ge, Tong Yao is a very nice girl.”

Lu Sicheng raised his eyebrows.

Little Fatty used one hand to support his head: “Look at Yang god, look at Ah Guang, look at Li Huanshuo…...They’re all eyeing our mid. They don’t even bother to go to mid lane to gank her during matches. If you ever act like a jerk to her, the junglers from half of the major league’s 12 teams would station at our bot lane from now on-- --It’s alright for you for you’ve brought it onto yourself but don’t forget that I’m also at bot, that would be losing two lives! ! !”

Lu Sicheng sneered and also got ready to go under the blanket on his bed: “What exactly are you trying to say?”

Little Fatty sighed: “You have many competitors, don’t keep thinking about your image just because you feel you’re an idol.”

Lu Sicheng stopped half way into the blanket: “I’m not thinking of my image. The day when we’re together, I wanted to announce to the world that I’ve found someone to be my queen, but she wouldn’t let me.”

“Why not?”

“At first, I thought maybe it was better to keep it under wraps so as not to affect her performance. Later on I found that her ability is already well recognized. Nowadays if someone comes out saying she isn’t good enough or this and that, then that person would be slapping their own face-- --The team has an all win record at the group phase of the competition. And you can ask yourself when did we have a team with a solid three-man core ever since ZGDX was formed-- --I was figuring how to make this thing public then there came that incident with Ai Jia and his girlfriend. It created such a storm that my fans even posted some comments on Tieba and she happened to see them.” Lu Sicheng thought about it and frustratedly said: “Now she keeps saying that if I declare that I’m with her, I won’t have any fans anymore.”

Little Fatty covered himself under the blanket to muffle his laughter, making sounds like he was farting.

He happily touched his face: “Young girls like to worry for nothing.”

“Yeah.” Lu Sicheng gave Little Fatty a glance with a stone face: “How’s your face wash?”

“You even get jealous about the face wash, what a jealous guy.” Little Fatty laughed with great satisfaction until he had enough fun with it: “What exactly do you like about her? Don’t give me those superficial things like on the marriage oath-- --To tell the truth, Tong Yao’s looks are pretty ordinary-- --compared to those pretty fangirls of yours.”

Lu Sicheng turned off the light.

The room became dark.

After a long while, Little Fatty heard the person in the next bed turn over and heard his low and slightly sleepy voice-- --

“She’s quite a strong player.”

Little Fatty: “Nonsense.”

“She’s cute when she cries.”

Little Fatty: “Pervert.”

“......”

Little Fatty: “Anything else?”

“Yes.”

Little Fatty: “What?”

“The spark of love comes from nowhere, but the feelings get deeper and deeper.”[1]

Little Fatty: “.................................................................”

Little Fatty: “This one is good, quite fancy.”


[1]: A famous quote from a popular traditional Chinese opera (kunqu, 崑曲). The piece is called Mu Dan Tin (牡丹亭) or Peony Pavilion.

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 83 Part 3

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 83 Part 3

“We better have some training beforehand.” Shen Zemu said.

Chen Yinghu nodded: “Yin Jie is also thinking about it. Do you have a lot of classes now, cousin?”

It was the second semester of Shen Zemu’s junior year and he didn't have many classes, though his advisors would sometimes call him in.

Lin Chuyan did have many classes, but he didn’t have any problems with skipping his classes.

Therefore, they had decided to work their training schedule around Xiang Nuan’s classes.

There was one more problem after they decided on the schedule

“We don’t have a place to do the training.” Chen Yinghu said: “It’s better to do training face to face, offline. We don’t want any distraction or to disturb anyone…...Cousin, can we use your club’s office?”

“It’s probably not appropriate.”

He didn’t own the office. It was alright to use it once or twice, but to use it for an extended period of time wouldn’t be appropriate. Besides, the club’s activities would probably affect their training schedules.

“I should be able to provide a place.” Lin Chuyan said.

“Oh? What do you mean by ‘should’? How sure are you?” Chen Yinghu asked.

Lin Chuyan chuckled and looked some distance away at Xiang Nuan who was still taking pictures: “That depends on how big a favor Xiang Nuan can get.”

-- --

The favor Xiang Nuan was able to get was much bigger than Lin Chuyan had imagined.

Yue Yingying heard that her future daughter-in-law was in need of a training site and agreed to provide one without a second thought. Lin Chuyan led the others as he searched for the address he got from his mother. It was located in a villa community near the Yuanchi campus.

Chen Yinghu’s chin dropped from surprise: “Why didn’t you say it’s a villa?”

Lin Chuyan: “I just found out myself. I didn’t know that my family owned a house here.”

Yue Yingying’s assistant handed over the key to Lin Chuyan then pointed at the garage: “Boss Lin said he also chipped in.”

Boss Lin meant Lin Xueyuan.

Chen Yinghu ran to the garage to take a look and saw a Mercedes parked there.

He was in a trance: “For the hundred thousand award money, we get to use a villa and a Mercedes. What an exciting life!”

Lin Chuyan was pondering with one hand cupping his chin. This house was very close to the Yuanchi campus, less than twenty minutes walk. Did that mean it would be much more convenient to date Xiang Nuan?

He sent a message to his mother: Nice house, thanks, mom.

Yue Yingying: You’re welcome. Remember to return it afterwards.

Lin Chuyan: Can I have it for some more time?

Yue Yingying: No.

Lin Chuyan: Why?

Yue Yingying: What do you want to do to Xiang Nuan?

Lin Chuyan: =  =

Yue Yingying: You are both too young, wait for later.

Yue Yingying: Oh, right, mom hasn’t congratulated you yet.

Lin Chuyan: Congratulate me, for what?

Yue Yingying: Congratulations for becoming an internet celebrity.

Lin Chuyan: I thought you would be embarrassed by me.

Yue Yingying: Your dad told me to tell you to not think too much into it. Your face is the only thing going for you, this is what we’d call making the best use of what you got.

Lin Chuyan: ……

Yue Yingying: Go for it. We’ll watch your stream regularly.

Lin Chuyan put away his cell phone and sighed while looking up at the sky.

Xiang Nuan asked: “What’s wrong?”

“From now on,” he picked up her hand: “you will be the closest person to me.”

“Lin Chuyan, it’s time for you to take your medicine.”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 106 Part 4

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 106 Part 4

Tong Yao and her group didn’t get to board the airplane until 9 o’clock that night.

By the time they were boarding, Tong Yao was so sleepy that she couldn’t think straight. She checked her boarding pass to see that her seat was a window seat and figured that she could get some sleep after getting on the plane…...As she finally settled in her own seat, she saw her captain sit down in the seat right next to her.

Tong Yao’s sleepiness was halfway gone: “......Isn’t Little Fatty supposed to sit next to me?”

“He’s too big, it’s roomier for him to sit in the aisle seat so he changed the seat with me.” Lu Sicheng took off his own jacket and threw it over to Tong Yao: “Go sleep. You’ve yawned ten times already.”

The smell of Lu Sicheng clung onto his jacket and his body warmth as well.

Tong Yao held the jacket and blinked: “He agreed to us being together?”

“...................Are you feeling alright? You’re going to kick me off if he said he disagreed, hrm?” He reached out to push Tong Yao’s head down: “What does it have any damn thing to do with him?”

Tong Yao lifted up the jacket to cover half of her face and giggled: “No, I’m not. It’s just that I’m especially happy to have the support of a teammate. Hehe, what are you being so nasty for?”

Lu Sicheng sat up straighter and cast his eyes down to think for a while.

“Because today someone told me that I’ve passed my probation period. I don’t expect to go backwards.”

“......” Tong Yao’s giggling suddenly paused.

“I remember everything-- --I’m not Jian Yang. I don’t mess around nor cheat, only play ranked games and watch game videos, quit smoking just because you sneezed next to me-- --Xiao Rui has begged me to quit smoking for two years, I didn’t do it but quit just because of one sneeze from you.”

“So?” Tong Yao looked quite nervous hiding behind the jacket.

“Nothing.” Lu Sicheng turned his head to look at the nervous Tong Yao with a clear smile, his dark brown eyes were unusually bright: “A very nice confession, makes me feel like everything has been paid off. I’m very happy, thanks.”

“......................”

Tong Yao’s first reaction was to blush and her heartbeat quickened. She thought: wow, this man is seriously saying thanks to me!

Then a few seconds later, she calmed down and didn’t get lost in his sugar coated bombshells: “......My sanity is telling me that you haven’t finished saying what’s on your mind. What do you want?”

“Nothing. Just to remind you.” Lu Sicheng collected his smile, changed his posture to make it more comfortable, then used a relaxing tone of voice to say: “Once you’ve changed a man, you have to be responsible to him.”

Tong Yao: “......”

Lu Sicheng: “As you’ve promised the fans before, at the opening ceremony of the Demacia Cup, you go upstage with a bullhorn and announce to everyone: I’m Smiling, my body and heart completely belong to the captain of my team.”

Tong Yao: “Yuck!”

Tong Yao lifted Lu Sicheng’s jacket off herself and tried to cover his face. Lu Sicheng easily blocked her. Then the voice of Xiao Rui came from behind: “What are you two fussing about?” Xiao Rui sat down on the empty seat next to Lu Sicheng as he was talking. Tong Yao’s body staggered, Lu Sicheng caught her just in time and held her in his arms.

Xiao Rui: “What are you two doing? Are you two kindergarteners? You still have the energy to hustle after sitting in the airport the whole day? Captain, where are your hands? Take them off her waist. You’re like a hooligan. Is she yours that you can touch her freely?”

Lu Sicheng probably was annoyed hearing what Xiao Rui said. His hand deliberately grabbed her with some force at a place which was hidden from Xiao Rui’s angle. The act made the hairs on Tong Yao’s back stand up. Then Lu Sicheng put Tong Yao back to her seat. He quietly said: “I just let her do something and she got over excited.”

Xiao Rui yawned: “What thing?”

Lu Sicheng said with a serious look: “I allowed her to announce with a bullhorn to the national audience that her body and heart all belong to m-- --”[1]

Little Fatty began coughing in the seat behind them.

Lu Sicheng: “Our team.”

Xiao Rui nodded and commented: “It’s quite a sick request. Take some medicine, quick.”

Tong Yao chimed in: “Take some medicine!”

Xiao Rui: “You two take it together.”

Tong Yao: “......”


[1]: There’s some Chinese wordplay here because he says “me” (wo, 我) then pauses and continues with 们 (men). wo men (我们) means “we,” “us,” or “our” depending on the sentence. So he quickly swaps the meaning from “me” to “our.”
Since this wordplay doesn’t exist in English, the closest we got is him half saying “me.”


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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 83 Part 2

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 83 Part 2

Xiang Nuan and Lin Chuyan climbed over the little hill, less than 100 meters high, that was inside Yuanchi Park. When they came down from the hill, they saw Shen Zhemu at the lakefront.

The rain had stopped. Shen Zhemu was standing next to a cherry tree, looking at the lake. His umbrella was placed next to his feet.

He stood there tall and erect, his usual frosty and stern temperament softened by the pink cherry blossoms next to him. As Xiang Nuan looked at him, she couldn’t help but think of one verse in a poem: “alone among fallen petals I stand.”

A girl passing by probably thought of the same thing as Xiang Nuan and mustered enough courage to go up and say the same verse to Shen Zemu.

Shen Zemu’s face went dark. Why did the whole world laugh at him for being single today?

His facial expression frightened the girl away.

Xiang Nuan went over: “Xuezhang, what are you looking at?”  She followed Shen Zemu’s eyes to look at the lake and saw two mandarin ducks floating in the lake.

“So pretty, little mandarin ducks.”[1]

Shen Zemu took his eyes off the lake and turned to look at Xiang Nuan baffled: “They’re just ducks.”

Xiang Nuan: =  =

It was a bit awkward.

Lin Chuyan hugged Xiang Nuan’s shoulder and racked his brain trying to help Xiang Nuan alleviate her embarrassment: “We’re a pair of little mandarin ducks.”

Shen Zemu felt disgusted, he was so disgusted that he wished he could jump into the lake and swim to the other side so he could stop looking at the mandarin duck couple.

Chen Yinghu and Yang Yin walked over from a distance, chatting along the way. When they came closer, Shen Zemu noticed that Chen Yinghu was back to his normal self.

Without knowing why, Shen Zemu felt relieved.

Chen Yinghu braced himself to say to Shen Zemu: “Sorry, cousin, I know you’re doing it for my own good.”

Shen Zemu was somewhat surprised, raised his eyebrows, and turned instead to look at Yang Yin.

Yang Yin had gone to take more pictures with Xiang Nuan.

Chen Yinghu told Shen Zemu: “I only borrowed money from Chuyan, the rest is all from my own pocket. I’ll pay back Chuyan’s money.”

“I see.”

In the end, Chen Yinghu wasn’t prepared to make a police report. Shen Zemu couldn’t understand earlier, but he had pondered on it since then and somewhat understood where Chen Yinghu was coming from. What Yang Yin said to him made sense. Everyone has the right to be weak. Chen Yinghu was now in a rather safe mental state though it was in a precarious state; he was afraid to move forward and to step back. He couldn’t bear the result of either going forward or moving back; the only thing he could do now was to stay at the same spot and wait passively.

If evading the problem would make him feel better, then so be it.

All the strong hearts were hammered out from repeated misery. At that moment, Shen Zemu even felt a little envious of his silly cousin.

“When is the competition?” He asked Chen Yinghu.

He had changed the topic to the Leiting Cup.

Chen Yinghu answered: “The official competition will be during the long weekend on May First.”

“Three days?”

“En, all three days. Two matches the first day, then one each of the following days.”

“16 teams?”

“Right.”


Due to the registration requirements, all 16 teams were led by streamers. The Leiting Cup was open to streamers from all platforms. But since the other platforms were basically competitors to Pea TV, there weren’t many streamers from other platforms participating. The number of teams from other platforms was basically equal to the teams from Pea TV alone.

Not many teams were formed completely by streamers. Most of the teams had one or two streamers, the rest were friends. But in any case, all teams seemed to have relatively high skill levels.

Shem Zemu was always serious about anything he undertook. Once he agreed to do it, he would do it the best he could do it. Since they had registered for the competition, his goal was to get the championship, there wasn’t any thought of just “playing for fun.”


[1]: yuan yang (鸳鸯) or mandarin ducks usually mate for life. In Chinese culture, they are the symbol of loving couples and loyalty in marriage or relationships.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 106 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 106 Part 3

“How did you two click?” Little Fatty asked.

Tong Yao thought about it and replied: “I don’t know. Feelings develop after he kept being mean to me over and over.”

Lu Sicheng on the other hand didn’t need to think about it but earnestly answered: “She’s especially cute when she hid the water in the supermarket on her tippy toes, when she plays games, when she practiced Azir all through the night while crying after being defeated by Ah Tai with Leblanc, when she disrespectfully retorted at Yang god after winning the match, when she acted cocky after beating me in a solo match……”

Tong Yao: “......”

She used both of her hands to cover her face; the face showing through the gaps between her fingers was so red it looked as if it could bleed blood.

Little Fatty said with a stone face: “I’m just asking.”

Lu Sicheng also had a stone face: “I can add some more.”

Little Fatty continued with the same stone face: “ Save them for the pastor when you go to church to get married.”

Lu Sicheng turned to take a look at Little Fatty as if he was feeling sorry from Little Fatty’s reaction: “You don’t want to hear more?”

Little Fatty tore off the cover on his instant noodle bowl, used the plastic fork to prick a soggy noodle, then there was a struggling expression on his face. After hesitating over and over, finally he carefully asked the question that he wanted to know the most at the moment but was also afraid to know: “One last question, you two…...how far along have you gone?”

Lu Sicheng chuckled immediately-- --Tong Yao put down her hands from her face and kicked Lu Sicheng on his leg then hurriedly explained to Little Fatty: “Just like what you’ve seen! Nothing else!”

“If you didn’t yell to let me take you up to Diamond 3 last night, there should be a different answer.” Lu Sicheng took his time to turn to the other side and pulled the loose hair on Tong Yao’s face to the back of her ears. Tong Yao slapped his hand away with a red face. Lu Sicheng leisurely took his hand back which was a little reddish from the slap: “Now, don’t you feel it makes sense for you to lose that 100 points?”

Little Fatty: “Bullshit! ! ! !”

Lu Sicheng curved his lips upwards: “What else you want to know?”

Tong Yao was anxious and called out in a tiny voice: “Lu Sicheng!”

Little Fatty waved his hand: “As of now, I only want to eat my noodles quietly. You two go away, go as far away as possible!”

Lu Sicheng pulled Tong Yao up and asked offhandedly: “Have you found anything you like while wandering around for so long? I’ll go buy it for you.”

Little Fatty stuffed some noodles into his mouth and also said offhandedly: “I’ve been playing support for you for two years and you’ve never even bought face wash for me.”

Tong Yao dragged Lu Sicheng to flee. Then she chose the most expensive brand among all the cosmetic counters to buy the most expensive face wash for Little Fatty-- --

Lu Sicheng stood behind Tong Yao like a gate god and watched Tong Yao, still with a blushing face, pull out her credit card to hand it over to the sales lady to pay for it. With an expressionless face, Lu Sicheng made a sarcastic comment: “You don’t have to feel guilty. He’s just saying that.”

“He’s been with you for two years!” Tong Yao grabbed the pen to quickly sign her name on the invoice and said without looking up: “You never even bought face wash for him! What a shame!”

“......”

Lu Sicheng became quiet. He didn’t tell Tong Yao even after they had left the counter, which was unusually kind of him, that, while she was signing the invoice, how the sales lady behind the counter had given a complicated look at her.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 106 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 106 Part 2

Little Fatty cleared his throat-- --

The two who were now in the middle of tugging each other looked up at Little Fatty in unison. Little Fatty switched the bowl to the other hand and forced himself to suppress the urge to throw it like a grenade at the two. He thought for a moment then asked: “.................How long have you two been like this?”

“It has been for some time now.” Lu Sicheng flatly answered.

Oh, it’s been that way for some time now.

…...To hell with it, Little Fatty thought!

“......You’ve covered it well. No one has noticed it. Shit. Yesterday, Xiao Rui even let his imagination run wild with Tong Yao and Dubhe?” Little Fatty asked again: “Who committed the crime first to break the pure teammate friendship?”

“Me.” Lu Sicheng answered without any hesitation: “I threatened her that if she didn’t go along with me, I would throw away her cat……”

Tong Yao frowned and slapped the back of Lu Sicheng’s hand. Lu Sicheng didn’t resist, but moved his hand on the waist to her shoulder. He pulled her into his arms, patted her head and quite proudly said: “Then she just went along with me without a hitch.”

Little Fatty: “......”

The bullet comments flying in Little Fatty’s head all changed into [Damn, is that how it works?]

Lu Sicheng had been acting quite unperturbed, as if calmly saying “Oh, you happened to find out, what a coincidence.” Faced with Lu Sicheng’s frankness, Little Fatty was frustrated that he couldn’t really speak all the things he wanted to say-- --

Five minutes later, the three of them found some empty seats to sit down. Tong Yao sat to the right side of Lu Sicheng and buried her head in her cell phone. It looked like she was embarrassed to face Little Fatty because she “accidentally caught their captain.”

Lu Sicheng sat in the middle and kindly reminded Little Fatty: “Your noodles are getting soggy.”

Little Fatty sat at the leftmost seat and opened his noodle bowl to take a bite. Then he happened to recall the scene he had seen earlier when Tong Yao stood on her toes, clutched their captain’s clothes to let him bend over to kiss him. The seafood instant noodles instantly lost its flavor, the only thing Little Fatty could taste was the bitterness of being a single-- --

“It’s not right, you two.” Little Fatty put down his noodles and said hurtfully: “There’s only one girl in the whole team. Everyone cherishes her, protects her and treats her like a treasure. You, as our captain, took her from behind our backs……”

Lu Sicheng: “So, I should let you guys get her first?”

Little Fatty: “......”

Lu Sicheng: “I’m captain, not Lei Feng.”[1]

Tong Yao: “......”

Little Fatty felt what Lu Sicheng said seemed to make some sense especially when he said it so self-righteously. He turned then to the team mid who seemed to have a more guilty conscience: “And you, Tong Yao, you too. Didn’t you say you wanted to be a good professional player and wouldn’t fall in love with professional players since they’re all jerks? You just slapped your own face like this-- --”

Tong Yao lowered her head, her chin almost disappeared into the collar of her shirt, then said in a small voice: “Captain isn’t Jian Yang. He doesn’t mess around, nor cheat. All he does is play ranked and watch competition videos. The other day, I sneezed next to him, he doesn’t even smoke anymore……”

Tong Yao’s voice was getting lower and lower and her head bent further and further downwards. On the other hand, the smile on Lu Sicheng’s mouth became more and more visible. He reached out to pat Tong Yao’s head with a complacent expression on his face…...It was probably the same expression he had when he replaced Pope, won the Korean regional championship and received the trophy with his own hands.

Little Fatty felt the smell of the noodles in front of him had become even more unpleasant.


[1]: Lei Fei is a propaganda hero of the Chinese communist party whose story teaches about sacrificing oneself for the good of others.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 106 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 106 Part 1

At that very moment, Little Fatty understood why Tong Yao was still alive even after she had taken Chessman’s red buff.

He understood why Tong Yao could get Chessman to drop the ranked match he was playing and go upstairs just to deliver a bottle of water.

He understood why Tong Yao’s cat, after having the nerve to eat the fish it was not supposed to, could still shamelessly rub against the fish owner’s leg to open a can of cat food.

He understood why a seven figure car could become “You want it? It’s yours.” amid a lively conversation.

He understood why in the past couple of months Lu Sicheng hadn’t gotten a pay deduction due to violating the smoking ban.

He understood why it would take Lu Sicheng over 30 minutes in Tong Yao’s room to deliver a bottle of water which could be done in less than 3 seconds……

And all Little Fatty did was come out of the lounge to get hot water for his instant noodles-- --

Yet, at this moment, someone up in the sky had arranged for him to crash through the mystery of the century…...At this very moment, the ZGDX support, with one hand holding the bowl of noodles, had hundreds of bullet comments flying through his brain. The comments were like this-- --

[Damn, damn, damn? ! !]

[I’ve time travelled.]

[Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !]

[They’re together? ! These two? Do they match? ! ! !]

[My noodles are getting soggy.]

[But that’s not the point.]

[Why didn’t anyone inform me that I was getting cuckolded-- --The ad’s run away with the mid, this support has been left behind. Why is the water in the river at bot lane green?[1] Because I’m washing my hair upstream.]

[It hurts my eyes.]

[..............................................Wait, what were those two doing inside the room last night?]

[..............................................Wait, when I knocked on the door, did I interrupt something?]


[..............................................Wait, when the door was opened, what did the captain’s crotch look like?]

[......Suddenly, it’s clear to me why I worked hard for a whole night to play duo with the captain and still ended up with negative points. This bastard was doing it on purpose all along. He didn’t even use his own id! ! ! ! ! Damn! ! !]

[Superman and Chessman, very well, it sure is a couple id.]

[Bastard.]

[Bastard.]

[Bastard.]

Little Fatty took the plastic fork out of his mouth and opened his mouth to say “you” before pausing again. He probably felt that at this moment silence spoke for itself. He put the fork back into his mouth-- --He had returned to his original position with fork in mouth and one hand holding the bowl of noodles-- --He quietly looked at Lu Sicheng and Tong Yao, then his eyes moved downwards and noticed that Lu Sicheng’s hand was still resting on Tong Yao’s waist.

Little Fatty: “......”

Tong Yao’s face turned red. After realizing what Little Fatty was looking at, Tong Yao hastily lifted her hand trying to remove Lu Sicheng’s hand off her waist. But Lu Sicheng’s hand remained on her waist, not budging at all…...Tong Yao anxiously looked up and mouthed to Lu Sicheng “let go.” Lu Sicheng, seeing her wide, anxious eyes, twitched his lips and mouthed back “I won’t.”-- --

Tong Yao rolled her eyes, so pissed off that she almost passed out.


[1]: There’s a saying that a man being cuckolded is when their gf/wife gives them a green hat to wear.

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 83 Part 1

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 83 Part 1

Xiang Nuan took pictures with Lin Chuyan for just a little while, then discovered that Yang Ying and the others had all disappeared.

Xiang Nuan was curious: “I was thinking of taking some more pictures with Ying Jiejie.”

Lin Chuyan held Xiang Nuan’s arm and said: “Let’s go first. We may run into them later.”

The park was huge and bustling with visitors. Xiang Nuan felt that she had to keep her eyes open in order to find them amidst the crowd.

Xiang Nuan walked on the slab paving with flower petals falling around her and felt like she was in a dream. Then she heard Lin Chuyan ask her: “Do you want to learn how to switch to guardian angel in seconds?”

Xiang Nuan certainly wanted to learn that…...But when she thought about his freaking fast hand speed, she immediately shook her head: “I can’t. My hands aren’t that fast.”

“Your hands are fast enough, just needs more training.”

“Really?” She turned her head sideways to look at him and smiled: “Then teach me.”

Lin Chuyan curved his lips up: “But I can’t teach you for nothing.”

Xiang Nuan felt his smile could only be described as-- --up to no good. Yet she wanted to learn it, so she asked: “Then, what do you want?”

“You still owed me for calling me ‘hubby’.”

“You promised not to force me to say it.”

“I haven’t forced you.”  Lin Chuyan stopped walking all of sudden and looked at Xiang Nuan: “We are-- --” As he was talking, he slightly bent over to blow a puff of air near her ear: “It’s an equal trade.”

Xiang Nuan got goosebumps and turned her face to get away from him: “You, go away.”

Lin Chuyan straightened up and continued to walk holding Xiang Nuan’s hand. After walking out some distance, Xiang Nuan suddenly hummed in a small voice: “Hubby.”

“What did you say? Louder.”

“Hubby.”

“I can’t hear it.”

“Hubby, hubby, hubby!” Xiang Nuan decided to throw caution to the wind.

What Lin Chuyan did afterwards was rather playful. He hugged Xiang Nuan and with his height advantage, picked her up off the ground. Then he turned to go onto the grass along the path. Xiang Nuan felt like a tiny grasshopper in front of him, he could pinch her up however he wanted.

The two of them were standing under a cherry tree some distance away from the slab pavings. The umbrella which Lin Chuyan was holding up suddenly changed direction. The umbrella handle was resting in between their arms and the umbrella was now facing out towards the path to block the view from passersby.

The tiny umbrella created a space which belonged to only the two of them.

Xiang Nuan was about to say something, but Lin Chuyan suddenly lowered his head to kiss her.

She was surprised that he had the audacity to kiss her there!

Xiang Nuan was frightened, her body was tense like a zombie.

Lin Chuyan released her and said with a laugh: “Don’t be afraid, they can’t see us.”

“You, don’t…...don’t do that.”

Lin Chuyan tightly held Xiang Nuan’s waist to prevent her from running away and said in a low voice: “I’ve wanted to kiss you under the cherry tree a long time ago.”

“Lin Chuyan, you’re a jerk.”

“I’m still your hubby, despite being a jerk.”

They kissed in the end. Though Xiang Nuan knew that people couldn’t see them, she could still hear people talking…...The happy conversations and laughter from passersby came into her ears. She was too scared to move and just let Lin Chuyan do as he wished. She felt her heart was almost going to come out of her throat, like she could die on the spot.

Lin Chuyan was quite aggressive in the beginning, but slowed down. He stuck out the tip of his tongue to lick Xiang Nuan’s lips, used the tip of his nose to rub against hers as if to placate her. He laughed in a low voice: “Why are you so scared like this?”

Xiang Nuan believed that her reaction was a normal person’s reaction, only Lin Chuyan’s was an animal's reaction.

They came back to the path. Xiang Nuan kept looking downwards to avoid the eyes of people around them.

Lin Chuyan called her: “Nuannuan.”

Xiang Nuan felt like her heart was going to melt. She bit her lips and chastised herself for being  too soft.

“Nuannuan.” Lin Chuyan called her again. What she didn’t know was that when Lin Chuyan called her name, he felt like his tongue was covered with sugar.

His voice was so sweet.

“What are you doing?” Xiang Nuan asked in a small voice.

“Nothing, I just feel like calling your name. Nuannuan.”

“Maniac.”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 105 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When Smile
Chapter 105 Part 3

“What esports, isn’t it just playing games?” The middle aged woman shoved the kid: “You kids get addicted to the games that interfere with your studies and still try to come up with glorified excuses. What esports-- --”

“What are you talking about, there’s no addiction to games. Esports has been officially recognized as the 99th regular sports event by the General Administration of Sports of China!”

“Hrm, a sports event? Are you kidding me, if it’s a regular sports event, why isn’t it in the Olympics-- --Alright, alright, stop talking nonsense, hurry, it’s time to board!”

The woman pushed her kid in the opposite direction. Tong Yao was speechless but also felt quite amused. The kid suddenly turned his head to wave to Tong Yao: “Smiling! I also want to play professionally! To win the championship! But I’ll leave this year’s world championship to you, please!”

His mother forcefully slapped his head.

Tong Yao was surprised by his words and covered her mouth to laugh, the frustration she had felt seemed to have dissipated a little. She nodded and waved back at the kid, gave him a gesture to say go for it, and watched him be led away……

As the kid and his mother disappeared into the crowd, a cold voice came from behind Tong Yao: “What are you goofing around again?”

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

It was her captain.

Tong Yao turned her head and looked at the man standing behind her: “Why are you here?”

Lu Sicheng checked his watch then said with a stone face: “You’ve disappeared for a total of 30 minutes. I thought you’d been kidnapped by someone.”

“I don’t have money.” Tong Yao, with a smile, reached out with both of her hands to hug Lu Sicheng’s waist, snuggling against his body: “I haven’t even played professionally for three months but already got deducted for three months’ pay. My personal assets are negative.”

“I have money. What if they kidnap you to ask money from me? I have to pay even if they ask for 5 million……” Lu Sicheng held the person in his arms: “Who’s that kid just now?”

“A passerby fan.”

Tong Yao seemed to have remembered something while she spoke and hesitatingly pulled her head out of his arms getting ready to back away. Lu Sicheng, however, seemed to have guessed her intent and lifted one hand to push her head back against his chest: “What did you two talk about?”

“He asked for an autograph and took a picture with me. He also wanted to be a professional player-- --” Tong Yao heard a sneering laugh coming from the top of her head. She slapped his waist and the laugh stopped, then she continued: “But the kid got ganked by his mom on his way to be professional. His mom retorted quite compellingly that if esports was a sports event, why isn’t it in the Olympics?”

“......Golf only gets to be part of the Olympics this year but can you say it’s not a regular sports event?”

“......”

“Read more books and newspapers.” Lu Sicheng said with a tone of voice as if pitying a retarded person. He thought about it then added: “But if being ignorant means you’ll throw yourself on me more, then I don’t mind it at all. You can continue to be retarded like this, no problem at all.”

“What are you talking about? I was treated as an internet addicted girl by his mom.”

“You’re an internet addicted girl…...I don’t mind.”

Lu Sicheng lowered his head to look at the person against his chest while he was talking. Tong Yao in the meantime was probably still afraid of being seen by a passerby and carefully buried her red face in his arms-- --Something flashed in Lu Sicheng’s eyes and Tong Yao happened to look up at this time. They looked at each other for two seconds.

Lu Sicheng: “Let me ask you a question.”

Tong Yao: “What?”

Lu Sicheng: “Have I passed my probation period?”

Tong Yao: “......”

There was a three-second silence.

Tong Yao grabbed Lu Sicheng’s clothes to pull him downwards a bit, while at the same time she stood up on her toes and quickly smacked him on the lips…...After the light kiss, Tong Yao’s feet landed back on the ground and was getting ready to back away. Lu Sicheng got ahold of her and was getting ready to further pursue her lips-- --

At that moment, Tong Yao felt the hands on her waistline suddenly pause.

She looked up at Lu Sicheng baffled, then turned her head and followed the direction of Lu Sicheng’s quiet eyes-- --

She quickly discovered, amid the bustling crowd, Little Fatty who was quietly looking at them without much expression with a plastic fork in his mouth and a bowl of instant noodle in one of his hands.

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 82 Part 3

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 82 Part 3

In the beginning, all the pictures Xiang Nuan took were quite normal. Later, Lin Chuyan pulled her to the side to stand under a cherry tree and pinched her face.

He had pinched her face out of shape and took a funny picture of her.

The pinch didn’t hurt her face, but her pride had been hurt by the pinch. In revenge, she also pinched Lin Chuyan’s face.

Then it went out of control, they each pinched the other’s face as they took pictures, some solo some together.

Chen Yinghu watched them from afar for a while and felt a bit jealous. He took his eyes from them and said to Shen Zemu who was next to him: “Cousin, don’t you feel that those two are really a perfect match?”

Shen Zemu had a difficult time understanding his own cousin. Why would he keep stabbing knives into his heart over and over? What was he after? Money?

Chen Yinghu sighed: “Cousin, take it easy. Just find someone else to like.”

“Mind your own business.” Shen Zemu said.

Chen Yinghu’s heart skipped a bit and sneaked a look at Shen Zemu. He couldn’t tell from Shen Zemu’s expression. Chen Yinghu scratched the back of his head and was going to brush off the topic.

Shen Zemu lightly grunted and sounded quite disdainful: “You think I don’t know.”

“Ha? What did you say, cousin?”

“You haven’t shown PDA in the friend circle for quite a while now.”

“Cousin, don’t tell my parents.”

Shen Zemu pondered for a moment, then asked with a curious look in his eyes: “It can’t be that you haven’t called the police yet?”

Chen Yinghu turned his face away and muttered: “Why call the police.”

“Because you’ve been scammed.”

Chen Yinghu was defensive and retorted: “Who said Keke is a swindler?”

“What else can she be?”

“Why can’t it be that she gets into a car accident and loses her memory? Isn't it always like that on the TV?”

Shen Zemu really had the urge to open up Chen Yinghu’s brain to see if there was sweet tofu pudding or salty tofu pudding inside.

“Call the police.” He said.

“I won’t!” Chen Yinghu resisted.

“If you truly believe in her,” Shen Zemu’s eyes were cold and sharp as a blade scraping Chen Yinghu’s heart: “You should call the police all the more.”

Chen Yinghu turned to walk away with a dark face.

Yang Ying heard their exchanges. She walked over and gave Shen Zemu a look: “I also feel that you’re depressing.”

Shen Zemu looked at her and asked: “You think I’m wrong?”

“You are not wrong, you’re tough. But tough isn’t human nature. People have the right to be weak.” After saying so, she too ignored Shen Zemu and turned around to go after Chen Yinghu.

Shen Zemu stood under a cherry tree all by himself. When he looked to the left, it was the back of Yang Ying who was walking away from him. To the right, it was the couple who were in their own world taking pictures.

Shen Zemu suddenly felt quite lonely.

……

Xiang Nuan picked out several pictures showing Lin Chuyan’s distorted face to send to Aunty Yue.

Aunty Yue replied so quickly that Xiang Nuan began to suspect that she was waiting to receive these pictures.

Yue Yingying sent several ‘guffawing while pounding on the table’ stamps to Xiang Nuan, then  sent the funny pictures of her son to Lin Xueyuan.

Lin Xueyuan was extremely happy to see those pictures. He told his wife: Finally there’s justice. There’s finally someone who can keep him at bay.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 105 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 105 Part 2

Tong Yao was left to face the anxiety all by herself. She was worried that either Dubhe or Alkaid who were sitting in the row ahead of them would turn their heads-- --She was left agitated for two whole hours until the bus arrived at the airport. Lu Sicheng, still in a daze, lifted his head up from the flabby body of the person next to him. Tong Yao, the person he had used as a pillow, was crowded into the corner of the last row, curled into a rather miserable ball.

Lu Sicheng sat up, moved the hood back, and bent over to hide behind the back of the front seat to grab Tong Yao’s hand up to kiss it. Then he felt completely refreshed and said: “Appreciated.”

Tong Yao, with her waist almost going to break, pulled her hand back and was totally unmoved by his appreciation: “Shut up, you shut up. I’ll never sit in the same row with you again. Next time, I’d rather sit on the floor.”

Lu Sicheng: “Gee.”

Tong Yao: “What are you geeing for.”

Lu Sicheng: “ To express my disappointment. I really want to sit with you.”

The two kids at the front row turned their heads back and gave them a look as if in horror. Facing their looks, Tong Yao had no choice but to remain silent.

……

ZGDX had decided to arrive at Xiamen two days early before the competition. They soon found it to be a wise decision. After they had all received their boarding passes, it was announced that the flight would be delayed and there was no estimated time as to when the plane would be fixed-- --

At first, there were passengers circling around the airline staff demanding a more definite answer.

The staff soon lost patience and replied plainly: “The airplane is having a mechanical problem. They’re fixing it. Do you want to fly in a broken airplane?”

Everyone quieted down and returned to their seats without any more complaints. Everyone from ZGDX was waiting in the VIP lounge…...One hour later, Tong Yao impatiently stood up and told the others that she was going to walk around outside-- --At the time, Lu Sicheng was discussing game strategies with the B team kids. He looked up when he heard her voice and said flatly: “Don’t go too far, bring your cell phone, and don’t talk to strangers.”

There was a momentary silence inside the lounge.

Tong Yao, with both hands in her pockets, looked straight without much expression at Lu Sicheng. Little Fatty thought for a little while and broke the silence: “Captain, you do know that our mid is an adult?”

Lu Sicheng looked deeply at Tong Yao then answered slowly: “I know.”

Tong Yao categorized that look as a part of his “rogue behavior” and gave him a hard look before turning around to go out of the room.

The airport was bustling with people hurrying to and fro…...Tong Yao had figured that the chance of being recognized by fans here would be less than 5% and so didn’t wear a face mask or flat cap like movie stars would. Then twenty minutes later, she was successfully ganked by a fan-- --

As she was bending over to check a certain skin care product, she felt someone pulling her clothes and heard a timid voice: “Are you…...Smiling?”

Tong Yao turned her head and found a 13 or 14 years old kid standing behind her. When their eyes met, the kid’s eyes brightened and began stammering before Tong Yao could answer: “It’s really you! Wow, I, I, I’m your fan. Ahh, your fan! Even before you started playing professionally, I already loved watching your streams. I also played mid and learned a lot of skills from you-- --I’m Dimond 1 now on China Telecom Ionia server. After I move up more, I’ll probably be able to play matches with you. My dream is to play a match with you!”

Tong Yao couldn’t say anything since the kid kept talking. Yet she felt quite happy seeing the kid’s red face and gladly signed an autograph for the young fan. Then they took a picture together amid odd looks from passerby-- --

It was clear on their faces: Who’s this? A movie star? What TV drama is she in?

After taking the picture, the kid wasn’t done with his questions and grabbed Tong Yao to ask in a small voice: “I’m now 13 and Diamond 1. I’m sure I can move up to Master during summer vacation. Smiling, do you think I can play professionally?”

“You’re Diamond 1 at such a young age. As long as you work hard, for sure you can play professionally. But to play professionally, you probably still have to have your family-- --”

Before she could finish her words, a well dressed middle aged woman hurriedly walked over from behind. Without waiting for the kid to turn his head, the woman dashed forward and grabbed him from behind while scolding: “I took my eyes off you for just a minute and you’ve wandered off, even chatting with random people everywhere. It’s almost time to board and I have to look for you everywhere. Why can’t you let me worry less? !”

The smile on the kid’s face instantly wiped away. He took a glance at Tong Yao, probably feeling especially embarrassed being scolded in front of his idol. He listlessly said: “I haven’t wandered off or talked to random people. This girl’s my favorite esports player-- --”

“What player?”

“Esports.”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 105 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 105 Part 1

When Tong Yao went downstairs, she heard Little Fatty yelling that he was hungry and start claiming that he was becoming skinner from being so famished…...Tong Yao squatted in front of the shoe cabinet to look for shoes to wear and asked without looking up: “Little Fatty, did Cheng Ge bring you back to Master last night?”

It was dead quiet behind her.

She looked back and saw Little Fatty pointing to the black circles under his eyes: “Do you think these are the depressing black circles that a Master would have?”

Tong Yao: “......”

Tong Yao turned her head to look at Lu Sicheng who was making coffee for himself in the kitchen and asked: “Cheng Ge, why did you screw up our Little Fatty?” Lu Sicheng replied casually: “I didn’t.” Then he walked over to the doorway and stuffed a bowl of instant noodles into Little Fatty’s arms: “Ask for hot water after we get to the airport. Stop yelling.”

Little Fatty tightly held onto the instant noodles. At the same time Xiao Rui stood outside the door and announced loudly that the bus had arrived, everyone had to get out quickly without delay. Tong Yao hurriedly put on her shoes and as she was reaching out for her luggage, Lu Sicheng had already picked it up for her.

“I can carry it myself……”

“Get going.” Lu Sicheng pointed with his chin.

Tong Yao turned to walk out with empty hands, but was stopped by Lu Sicheng: “Wait, get on the bus last.”

Tong Yao looked back at him confused. When they finally walked out of the base, the B team kids had already gotten on the bus. The A team players followed them, then Xiao Rui, Ming god and the rest of the staff. Tong Yao and Lu Sicheng were the last two waiting to get on-- --

It was the first time the bus was this full. When Tong Yao got in, all the seats in front were occupied, only the last row was empty which was reserved especially for Lu Sicheng…...Little Fatty and Lu Yue were sitting in the first row. Little Fatty said to Tong Yao giggling: “Sorry, you’re stuck with our captain.”

Tong Yao opened her mouth about to say something but the man behind poked her with a finger. She walked towards the back while saying: “Is your captain a cannibal?” After she sat down, Lu Sicheng sat right next to her. Tong Yao glanced up at him.

Soon Lu Sicheng saw Tong Yao take out her cell phone and started typing.

In no time, he felt his own cell phone started vibrating inside his pocket-- --

[Rabbit holds tight of carrots: Move over, why are you so close to me?]

[fhdjwhdb2333: The air conditioner is cold.]

[Rabbit holds tight of carrots: Turn it off.]

[fhdjwhdb2333: I won’t.]

[Rabbit holds tight of carrots: What do you mean you won’t; what would it look like if you sit so close to me while there is plenty of room on this long row of empty spaces?]

[fhdjwhdb2333: No one is looking at us anyway, look up.]

Tong Yao looked up and indeed no one was paying any attention to them. Most of them were either playing games or listening to music or sleeping. The rest was looking down studying their notes from the practice match-- --Everyone was busy with their own business-- --Indeed, no one noticed them.

Tong Yao breathed out a sigh of relief. Through the corner of her eye, she noticed that the man next to her had slipped down a little, crossed his legs, and pulled the hood of his sweater over half of his face, taking the usual slouching position of the ZGDX captain-- --

But this time he had silently stretched one of his arms behind Tong Yao’s back to hug her waist.

Tong Yao swallowed her breath of relief back. Her back slightly tensed and she sat up straight a little. She could feel the man using his lean fingers to pinch her waist and used a low and lazy voice to say, quite irresponsibly: “Relax.”

Tong Yao reached over trying to pry open Lu Sicheng’s hand, but those slightly cool fingers wouldn’t budge at all-- --Until Tong Yao stretched out her index finger to pry his fingers off, the man finally released his hold on her waist but silently grabbed her index finger instead.

Tong Yao: “......”

Lu Sicheng pulled on her finger, pinched it, then gave a brief comment: “soft.” Then he kept his position, half-leaning against Tong Yao and fell asleep feeling quite content.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 104 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 104 Part 3

“What is concealer?” Lu Sicheng asked.

In the meantime, he couldn’t stop himself from rubbing against Tong Yao’s neck. After rubbing off layers of foundation, he finally found his own teeth marks. He let go of his own hand and enjoyed looking at it like a pervert.

Tong Yao brushed off his hand and stood up to go to the dressing table. She picked up a thing that looked like lipstick and pulled out the little applicator out of it-- --

“This is it. I usually used it to cover pimples and blemishes. Let me give you a sample……” Tong Yao walked back in front of Lu Sicheng and hooked up his face with one hand. Seeing that Lu Sicheng lifted his head up without any objection, Tong Yao felt especially satisfied and her lips curved up. But she couldn’t find any blemishes on his face and said quite disappointedly: “Oh, you don’t have any pimples, damn.”

Lu Sicheng clasped her hand as she was about to take her hand off his face. Tong Yao followed with the force on her wrist to bend over and accepted the kiss on her lips from the person who was sitting on the bed looking upwards……

The sunlight came in from the window behind the bed and shone on both of their faces from the side.

The kiss this time was different from the impatient and rash kisses from last night. He was now like a lazy feline using the tip of his tongue to trace her lips and moistening her soft lips……

Being so close together, Tong Yao could smell the minty shaving cream on Lu Sicheng which was a perfect match for the early morning sunlight-- --Tong Yao slightly squinted her eyes, pulled her lips away from his, then used her nose tip to rub against his nose tip.

“We don’t need to go on stage to play matches at the Demacia Cup. It’s surprising that you would shave for it.”

“Xiao Rui told me to.” Lu Sicheng’s voice was low. He lifted his hand to pinch Tong Yao’s earlobe. “Though we don’t need to go on stage to play games, the camera will probably catch us while we’re sitting there watching the matches.”

Tong Yao: “Oh.” She didn’t think too much of it but turned to take a look at herself in the mirror. She noticed that her lips were reddish and returned to the dressing table to put some lipstick to cover it up.

Lu Sicheng sat cross-legged on Tong Yao’s bed and watched the reflection of Tong Yao in the mirror: “You put on that thing to tell me not to kiss you?”

Tong Yao stopped in the middle of applying the lipstick: “.....................You can, this isn’t poisonous, just a little expensive.”

Lu Sicheng slightly squinted his eyes but kept silent.

He quietly watched Tong Yao put on the lipstick and reapplied the concealer to cover the red mark on her neck. After a short pause, Lu Sicheng suddenly made a shocking statement: “If we go down now to let everyone know the truth, we can still book the same room in Xiamen.”

Startled, Tong Yao jabbed herself on the neck with the concealer applicator. She turned around to take a look at Lu Sicheng: “Who wants to stay in the same room with you?”

“I want to.”

“Frivolous.”

“It’s too hard to keep it a secret. I’m afraid you’ll be able to open a shop after you retire just selling bottled water.”

Tong Yao humphed and turned back to continue applying the concealer while teasing him: “Think about all of your fans, comrade captain, Mr. zero gossip poster boy of esports. You don’t want your fans now?”

The man behind Tong Yao became quiet.

Tong Yao looked at him in the mirror out of curiosity.

Then she saw him frown and earnestly said: “I don’t want fans now. I only want you.”

Tong Yao stopped her hand, after feeling sweet embarrassment, she blinked and laughed at him: “You retard. Go down downstairs.”

Lu Sicheng sighed and stood up to walk towards outside-- --

“Hey, bring my luggage with you.”

Lu Sicheng came back from the doorway, picked up her luggage with a frustrated look, then walked out of the room and closed the door.

The room quieted down all of sudden. Tong Yao put down the concealer in her hand and fixed her eyes on herself in the mirror. The smile on her lips gradually faded and after a long while, she talked to herself in a low voice: “......How can you not want fans. I can’t support this livelihood by myself, what a retard, really.”

She lifted her hand to wipe the mirror.

“Retard.”

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 82 Part 2

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 82 Part 2

Yang Ying had arrived a little earlier than Shen Zemu at the front gate of Nanshan University. After getting out of the bus, she pulled the hood of her sweater over her head and waited there with both hands in her pockets. The rain in the spring usually wasn’t heavy, the drizzles were like fog and she could hardly feel the rain falling on her. After waiting for a few minutes, she sent a voice message: “I’m here, how long does it take for your guys to get here?”

She suddenly heard a voice that sounded quite close behind her: “Turn around.”

Somewhat startled, Yang Ying turned around to see Shen Zemu was right there.

She looked up and discovered that there was an umbrella above her head.

“You don’t make any sound while you’re walking.” She mumbled.

Shen Zemu was pretty sure he did make sounds when he walked, it was Yang Ying herself who didn’t hear it. But it wasn’t something worthwhile arguing about. They stood there under the umbrella and quietly watched the passerby.

Yang Ying remembered the triangle relationship Shen Zemu had with Xiang Nuan and Lin Chuyan. She asked: “Are you doing alright?”

“I’m fine.”

“That’s good then.”

“En.”

The conversation didn't seem to make much sense.

After a while, Shen Zemu suddenly said: “Thanks.”

Yang Ying looked up and was about to say something more when she saw Xiang Nuan and the other two were walking towards her direction. She was happy to see them and started waving at them: “Xiang Nuan, here, here!”

Xiang Nuan started to run towards her: “Ying Jiejie!” She seemed to have forgotten that it was drizzling.

She dashed over too fast, like a small missile. Shen Zemu was afraid that she would fall and held her shoulder when she tried to stop herself in front of Yang Ying.

Xiang Nuan was a little taken aback: “Xue - Xuezhang, how are you.”

A pair of eyes fixated at the hand on Xiang Nuan’s shoulder. Shen Zemu slightly raised his eyes and looked at Lin Chuyan’s face, quietly meeting his eyes.

Chen Yinghe sensed the tension between them and walked in front of Lin Chuyan with his mushroom cloud: “Cousin.”

Shen Zemu looked away and indifferently responded: “En.”

Xiang Nuan showed her fingernails to Yang Ying: “Ying Jiejie, look at my cherry blossom nails, do they look good? Too bad you don’t like to get your nails done, otherwise we could do it together.”

“I don’t know. I just don’t like getting my nails done. I’ll just look at yours.”

The two girls kept talking. Lin Chuyan walked over and Xiang Nuan took her small umbrella to cover both her and Yang Ying. They kept chatting as they walked.

Lin Chuyan had no choice but to share the mushroom cloud with Chen Yinghu.

-- --

There were two places in Nanshan City that were famous for viewing cherry blossoms. Yuanchi Park was one of them. It only took 15 minutes to walk from the Yuanchi campus to the park. When they arrived at the park, they were greeted by a sea of fully bloomed cherry blossoms in the drizzle, gorgeous and misty. Many flower petals fell to the ground with the rain and stuck to the slab paving. When they stepped onto the slab, it felt like stepping on top of the stars.

Though Xiang Nuan knew what cherry blossoms looked like, she still couldn’t help but be amazed: “So beautiful…..”

Surrounded by such breathtaking scenery, she felt she had to take more pictures.



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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 104 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 104 Part 2

Little Fatty stopped asking questions. He felt that there was evilness in Lu Sicheng’s smile…...Finally, Little Fatty won this match. It was probably because compared to Little Fatty, the noisy Li Huanshuo irritated Lu Sicheng more-- --

Little Fatty certainly didn’t know about all this.

On that night, Little Fatty continued to play duos with Lu Sicheng. Lu Sicheng had taken turns using every irregular and seldom used ad champion in LOL that he could find. In the end, at 1 am in the morning, Little Fatty remained at Diamond 2…...The difference in points between now and when he started playing duos with Lu Sicheng earlier that night was -100.

Lu Sicheng threw down his mouse and massaged his wrist: “It looks like this isn’t a good night for getting more points.” 

Little Fatty: “Getting points? This is what you call getting points this whole night? It looks more like going to the graveyard to me. Tomb Sweeping Day wasn’t too long ago.”

“It passed three months ago.” Lu Sicheng logged off the game and said without much emotion: “Go sleep.”

Little Fatty: “You go ahead. I’m staying here all night. I’m afraid that once I get back in the room, I can’t control my urge to press a blanket on your face and send you to eternal rest…...Diamond 3, damn, I’m going to fall to Diamond 3 now. This is the end of the rope of the first support at the first team of the major league-- --”

Lu Sicheng stood up: “Good night.”

Little Fatty nodded: “Go to hell.”

……

Early in the morning of the next day, everyone got woken up by Xiao Rui to pack for their trip to Xiamen for the Demacia Cup. The flight was in the afternoon-- --

The five players of the A team would be there just to observe and took the chance as a short vacation. Everyone was beaming with joy, except for Lu Sicheng who still had his usual expressionless face. The players of the B team though looked more nervous. They still hadn’t gotten over the shock of losing to Obsidian so badly last night……

Tong Yao was busy picking up things both upstairs and downstairs. When she dragged her packed luggage out of her room and was going to move it downstairs, she was stopped by their captain at the top of the staircase-- --

He had a bottle of water in his hand.

Tong Yao: “......”

Nowadays, Tong Yao would have an indecent association in her head whenever she saw the water bottle-- --She probably was the only person in the world who had this kind of strange reaction to a water bottle. She took a look at the people standing downstairs and raised her voice to say: “Thanks captain for bringing me water again!”

“Get it yourself next time.”

As Lu Sicheng was saying that, he walked towards Tong Yao’s room.

In order to not be suspicious, Tong Yao didn’t close the room door but naturally followed Lu Sicheng to go into her room. The first thing she saw was that Lu Sicheng threw the bottle onto her bed, startling the two cats that were curled up in bed. The two cats jumped up and ran out of the room one after another meowing……

Then Lu Sicheng pulled the owner of the cats over to sit on the bed.

He first bent over to rub against her lips then lifted her hair to take a glance at her neck-- --At first he was just casually glancing over it, then he started to stare at it. His other hand also moved up to lift the other side of Tong Yao’s hair then he took a look at the other side of the neck……

“What?” Tong Yao held the big hands which were moving back and forth around her head: “What are you looking for?”

“......” Lu Sicheng let her hair go down and asked with a stoned face: “Where’s that thing I left there last night?”

“......What thing?” Tong Yao lifted her hand to smooth out her messed up hair.

Lu Sicheng pointed with one finger at roughly the place he had remembered: “You tell me what thing?”

Lu Sicheng’s expression looked as if he had let Tong Yao have the all important red buff but she had turned around and gotten killed by the enemy’s ad and lost the red buff to the enemy again…...quite unhappy.

…...Tong Yao was confused.

She lifted her hand to touch her neck and thought about it for a moment, then: “Oh. That thing, I certainly have to cover it with co ncealer! Keep it there and wait for others to ask about it?”

“I’m waiting for you to be asked.” Lu Sicheng sat down next to Tong Yao: “Then watch you say with a red face that you were bitten by a bug or place a bandage over it to make it even more conspicuous-- --”

“......Captain, watch less of those retarded TV dramas.”

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 82 Part 1

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Those Sweet Times

Chapter 82 Part 1

Lin Chuyan bought an extra large, one liter, thermo and had Chen Yinghu carry it, then
they went to the Yuanchi campus to find Xiang Nuan.

Xiang Nuan was sitting in the pavilion next to a lake, getting her nails done.

The manicurist had been sent by Yue Yingying. Yue Yingying was excited when she heard
that they were going to see cherry blossoms. Though she couldn’t go with them, she made
a reservation with a manicurist to come early in the morning to do cherry blossom nails
for Xiang Nuan as a token of her eagerness.

Lin Chuyan didn’t realize that his mother was such an open minded person until he
started dating Xiang Nuan.

In addition, Yue Yingying also urged Xiang Nuan: Take more pictures.

When Lin Chuyan and Chen Yinghu arrived, Xiang Nuan just finished getting her nails done.
She thanked the manicurist and asked for the price.

“It’s already paid.” The manicurist was a twenty something young lady. She answered
while packing up her stuff. When she saw Lin Chuyan’s looks, there was a stunning
expression on her face. 

After the manicurist left, Xiang Nuan stretched her hands out to show Lin Chuyan while
flexing her fingers and asked: “Do they look good?”

“Let me see.” Lin Chuyan pulled at her hands and looked at them one finger at a time.
After looking at one hand, he looked at the other one. He looked at them very carefully,
even more carefully than when he was working on a practice test.

After checking all ten fingers, Lin Chuyan finally said: “Looks good.”

Chen Yinghu also said: “Looks good.”

Lin Chuyan leered at him.

Xiang Nuan pointed at the large thermo hanging from Chen Yinghu’s shoulder: “Why did
you bring such a big thermo? We probably can buy bottled water in the park?”

“It’s for you.”

“Me?”

“En.” Lin Chuyan patted Xiang Nuan’s head with an amiable expression on his face: “You
need to drink more warm water.”

Xiang Nuan: =  =

Xiang Nuan was having her period, but the problem was why would Lin Chuyan know
about it……

“How do you know?” Xiang Nuan blushed a little and asked in a small voice.

Lin Chuyan: “With my keen observation ability, it basically eliminates the possibility of you
having any affair after we get married.”

“Hey, you’re getting carried away……” Xiang Nuan was embarrassed, then felt that something
didn’t seem quite fair: “I can’t have an affair, then you can have affairs whenever?”

“I won’t have any affairs.”

“How can you be so sure?”

Lin Chuyan didn’t answer. He just smiled while fixing his eyes on Xiang Nuan.

Xiang Nuan felt uneasy and gave Lin Chuyan a light shove.

Lin Chuyan took the opportunity to seize her hand and put it inside his own hand: “Let’s go.”

By the time they walked out of the pavilion it had started to drizzle. Chen Yinghu asked
Lin Chuyan: “Chuyan, did you bring an umbrella?”

“There’s one here.” Lin Chuyan noticed that Xiang Nuan was carrying one in her hand. He
took it and opened it to cover both of them.

The umbrella was pink with white flowers, quite suitable for cherry blossom viewing. Unfortunately,
it was a small umbrella, good for only one person. With the two of them under it, they had to be
very close to each other.

Lin Chuyan held the umbrella slightly slanted and hugged Xiang Nuan tightly in his arms.

Chen Yinghu, meanwhile, took out an umbrella from his backpack and opened it up. This one
was dark blue and quite large. Once he opened it, it cast a great shadow over his head.

It wasn’t just an umbrella, it was actually a mushroom cloud.

Chen Yinghu stood under his mushroom cloud and invited Lin Chuyan: “Aren’t you two
crowded under that umbrella? Chuyan, come share the umbrella with me, my umbrella is bigger.”

Lin Chuyan leered at him again.

Lin Chuyan didn’t switch to Chen Yinghu’s umbrella. He huddled with Xiang Nuan under that
small umbrella as they made their way to the front gate of the campus to meet the other two people.

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