You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 119 Part 3

You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 119 Part 3

Hearing what Lu Sicheng said, both Tong Yao and Little Fatty stiffened and sat upright. Though they very well knew Lu Sicheng wasn’t talking about them, but still felt guilty and broke into a cold sweat. Old Cat and Old K on the other hand both kept their cool, no facial expression and no response.

Tong Yao pulled out her cell phone-- --

[ZGDX, Smiling: Do you guys have a skirmish today? Do you mind having a visitor over?]

[A rascal when in high school: For what?]

[ZGDX, Smiling: …...Emergency shelter.]

[A rascal when in high school: Hahahahahahahaha, the skirmish with CK went under?]

[ZGDX, Smiling: Even worse than that.]

[A rascal when in high school: What happened?]

[ZGDX, Smiling: Top and jungler split up. Cheng Ge explodes.]

[A rascal when in high school: ……………………………(candle) (candle) (candle) That’s really bad.]

……

The team next door also had a scheduled skirmish today. Tong Yao failed to find shelter there.

To get away from the depressing atmosphere in the small training area on the second floor, Tong Yao chose to immerse herself in her own world-- --She started streaming and playing ranked matches.

It started out rather normal, as usual, until Lu Sicheng came out of the meeting room. His whole body was in a depressed mood-- --His mood soon encompassed the whole training area. He walked closer and looked down to see that Tong Yao was streaming. He flatly ordered: “Turn off the mic.”

Tong Yao had just finished a match and was waiting in queue for the next one. Hearing Lu Sicheng, she turned off the mic in no time, overlooking the viewers’ series of comments like [don’t turn off] [unsubscribe] [Ahhhh, they’re going to talk in secret and won’t let us hear, so angry] [......Cheng Ge, you’re in bad mood today. Did you two get into a fight]. The second after she turned off the mic and was about to type to let the viewers know that it was going to be just a short while, she heard behind her Lu Sicheng talking to the troublemakers, top and jungler, who were sitting to the back: “Give me an explanation.”

The tone of his voice was the kind that meant there was no room to refuse.

Old Cat scratched his red hair and looked quite impatiently: “What’s there to explain? I was attacked at top, how do I develop if I don’t farm? I was locked in at the top and couldn’t go to other lanes to help. I could make up for the lower economy from other lanes by staying at the top. Go check the endgame screen if you don’t believe me.”

It sounded quite familiar.

Old K took a look at Old Cat, but didn’t say anything.

Tong Yao and Little Fatty took a glance at Lu Sicheng’s face and remained silent.

Lu Sicheng walked over to Tong Yao and had her move over a little. Then he used her computer to click open the data analysis of the recently finished match: “At the 35th minute of the game, you as top had a 11.7% team participation, damage to enemy’s champions was 12,000 the whole game, only higher than the support by 2,000. Starting from the 12th minute 18th second, there were 7 large or small team fights and you were there only once, the time when K god wasn’t around-- --And that was the only time we won a 4 vs 4 team fights-- --With your 0 kills, 6 deaths, 2 assists record, you only contributed two assists the whole game.”

Tong Yao looked up at Lu Sicheng in a daze, shocked: Except the rate of team participation and the stats, everything about the numbers of team fights, who were there and who wasn’t when Old Cat showed up for a team fight, and things like when the first team fights happened at what minute and what second, all of those weren’t in the data shown on the screen.

In other words, all that information came from Lu Sicheng’s brain.

………………………………………….Tong Yao figured that he must’ve been a Scorpio, who could hold grudges to this extent?

Those Sweet Times - Chapter 89 Part 1

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Those Sweet Times

Chapter 89 Part 1

Three years later.

On June 28th.

“......my weighted gpa is ranked 8th in my class. I’ve received the outstanding student, merit student, and national scholarship awards. In addition, I’ve actively participated in various school activities. I’ve won first prize in a national English speech contest and together with my team, we’ve won the grand prize in a national college students entrepreneurship competition. While I was interning at the Yuelin Group, I’ve won the honor as the group’s “outstanding intern of the year.”......This was my college life. In these four years, I’ve transformed from someone perplexed by the world to being more resolved, from callow to mature. I’ve gained knowledge, grown as a person, and learned how to take on responsibilities. In this season of departing, I wish to say thanks to all my teachers; thank you for your great attention and care as you’ve patiently teached us. I also wish to say thanks to my parents; thank you for raising me, educating me, and indulging my willfulness…....”

With a prepared statement in hand, Xiang Nuan took her time as she read from it. There were over three thousand students, teachers, and guests sitting inside the stadium on the Nanshan University’s Yuanchi campus listening to Xiang Nuan’s speech as the representative of the graduating class.

There was a male student watching her through binoculars at a seat far away from the podium. He was talking to another male student next to him as he watched: “Is this Xiang Nuan? So pretty! Why isn’t there such a goddess at the main campus? It’s not fair!”

“Even if there is, she’s not yours.”

“Lin Chuyan is too crafty! He already set his sights on her when she was only a freshman. Shameless!”

“If he hadn’t started that early, she might be someone else’s.”

“Is it too late to steal her from him?”

“Haven’t you heard the rumor circulating Nanshan University-- --If anyone tries to go after Xiang Nuan, Lin Chuyan would retaliate against that person.”

“Oh? How?”

“Not sure. But according to some people, he’s vicious and sometimes down right perverted. They say that one time he had dragged a guy into the woods and did something to him……”

“What do you mean? It can’t be what I’m thinking?”

“You can think whatever you like. Besides, afterwards he forced that guy to call him ‘mom.’”

“Shit! ! !”

……

Xiang Nuan fluently finished reading her statement and walked off the podium. The audience applauded. She could faintly hear people calling her ‘goddess.’

She wasn’t aware when the students of Nanshan University started to call her goddess. It seemed to have begun after she was with Lin Chuyan?

It was also after that when she became more and more famous.

Lin Chuyan was a man that already carried the spotlight. Once she was with him, it was hard for people not to notice her.

Xiang Naun went back to her own seat for the rest of the graduation ceremony.

“Nuannuan, you were awesome!” Min Lili gave her two thumbs up.

Xiang Nuan was too embarrassed to tell Min Lili that Lin Chuyan had actually helped her polish it. Despite his enjoyment at keeping a high profile and occasionally acting rather presumptuous, Lin Chuyan was quite useful as a boyfriend after all……

Min Lili was going to go abroad for school after graduation. Zheng Dongkai had given up on getting a recommendation to graduate school last year. This year, he had applied to the same school as Min Lili and got accepted.

“Is Zheng Dongkai waiting for you?” Xiang Nuan asked.

“He said no.” Min Lili curved her lips up.

“I don’t think he’s telling the truth. He must have learned it from Lin Chuyan, one takes on the color of one’s company.”

“I don’t think so. Zheng Dongkai may be pretending, but Lin Chuyan is outright ostentatious.”

Xiang Nuan: =  =

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 119 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 119 Part 2

Everyone sat down in the training area on the second floor when it was time for the skirmish.

Old K would usually go into the jungle at the beginning of the game. Usually top helped the jungler get the blue buff before going to top to start farming-- --But today, when the game began and the five champions spawned in the fountain, Old K didn’t wait for the others but asked Tong Yao to come help him. Old Cat on the other hand moved towards the top lane with a dark face……

The atmosphere instantly became awkward.

Only Little Fatty tried to pretend nothing had happened and started chatting to save the moment: “The current version of Zyra is a really strong support, very good at countering Thresh. Every time Thresh uses the hook, he throws the hook and Zyra just plants a flower in the way! Cheng Ge, I, as the god of Thresh, don’t think this is good. We have to work together as a team to counter Zyra……”

Lu Sicheng didn’t bother with Little Fatty but turned to glance at both Old Cat and Old K with a stone face-- --The look didn’t do anything to Old Cat and Old K but successfully made Little Fatty shut up. He cleared his throat and pretended that nothing was happening.

“Next time, try using champions with longer arms to fight Zyra. Don’t limit yourself with traditional support champions, you can give all the other champions a try.”

Lu Sicheng proved that he had heard Little Fatty just fine. Then he looked back at his own computer and clicked his mouse, focusing on farming on his own-- --The rest of the team felt the mounting pressure and kept their mouths shut. But they didn’t expect that this was only the beginning……

What followed was two troublemaking juveniles demonstrating what it was like when the jungler ignored top and top ignored supporting their jungler-- --

The jungler left the upper half of the jungle immediately after clearing it of monsters. Though he had seen the enemy’s jungler in the upper half of the jungle, he didn’t bother signaling to top to warn of the danger of being ganked by the enemy jungler. All the wards were placed to gain vision around mid and bot lanes, none of them were for top.

A team fight broke out at mid and top didn’t bother teleporting over to help even as his team’s jungler was being attacked-- --Usually, he would have reacted quickly enough to save their jungler from dying, but this time he didn’t do it. He watched the enemy’s top teleport to bot to join his team and killed ZGDX’s jungler…...Then with the advantage of numbers, CK easily killed ZGDX’s mid and support. Lu Sicheng reacted more quickly and avoided death. But CK was still able to take down one of bot’s turrets and the first infernal drake.

Lu Sicheng hid in the bushes to go back to base. At that point, Old Cat started to slowly walk towards mid lane. He was going to help Tong Yao guard the outer turret at mid-- --

But that wasn’t going to help the team.

At the 12th minute, CK forced ZGDX into a team fight. At this point, CK had earned extra gold from destroying the first turret in the match in addition to getting three kills and killing the valuable infernal drake. ZGDX was far behind……

It all began with Old K’s absent-mindedness when he carelessly went over knowing that the enemy had all gathered there. It ended with Old Cat playing blind at top, refusing to teleport down to help no matter what.

CK was a strong team and good at pushing whatever advantages they had. Once they seized the opportunity, they made the rest of the match quite miserable even for Tong Yao and Lu Sicheng who still had an edge up to this point-- --

Additionally, Jian Yang was in a very good condition today and had discovered that ZGDX’s top and jungler weren’t working together today. He stayed put at top again and constantly attacked Old Cat...

At the 25th minute, Old Cat’s Trundle died from a random attack from the enemy’s ad. Without top, it was hard for ZGDX to drag it into the late game.

At the 35th minute, CK pushed into ZGDX’s base. When ZGDX’s inhibitor blew up, the stats of all five ZGDX players looked quite pitiful-- --

Ming god went over and smacked both Old Cat and Old K at the back of their heads with his writing tablet and commented: “Gee, what an ugly play!”

Lu Sicheng didn’t have much of an expression on his face and clicked to check the post match stats. Then he turned off the computer and said flatly: “Just tell us if you don’t want to play the skirmish. No need to waste everybody’s time here.”

His voice wasn’t loud, but low and slow. It was enough for everyone on the second floor to hear it clearly.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 119 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 119 Part 1

“Threatening people to replace them with substitutes…...Is this how you deal with this?”

Tong Yao lifted her hand to push Lu Sicheng’s face away: “Go tell them yourself if that’s what you’re going to say. I won't pass something so offensive to them.”

“Then what should I say?”

“Use more loving care.”

“They aren’t you.” Lu Sicheng said with a matter-of-fact tone of voice: “Who has that much loving care to spare? It would be a waste to use loving care on them.”

“You haven’t really given me much loving care either. You stood behind me while I was playing ranked and said I was doing this wrong or that wrong, or I had bought weird items, or I moved like a handicap person. Is all that words of loving care? Do you really know what loving care means, I truly doubt it.” Tong Yao pinched the tip of Lu Sicheng’s straight nose: “Sometimes, you even get Ming god to join you at taunting the team. Ming god wasn’t even interested, do you know?”

Lu Sicheng gave her words some serious thought, then said matter-of-factly: “It’s slander. I’ve never done anything like that.”

Tong Yao pushed him away to sit up.

But she was pressed back down into the bed.

“What are you doing?”

“Giving you loving care?”

As he was speaking, he lowered his head to bite Tong Yao’s neck. He would always bite the same spot. Whenever the mark on her neck disappeared, he would bite there again…...Tong Yao lifted up the blanket and pushed him away. She got up on her own and gathered the blanket to push onto his face: “Better not say things like replacing them with substitutes. What if you make things worse for those two chuunibyous?”[1]

“I won’t say it if they behave themselves.” Lu Sicheng responded, muffled under the blanket: “Take your hands away. It’s stuffy.”

Tong Yao released her hands. When Lu Sicheng lifted up the blanket, Tong Yao wiped her face with her sleeve and turned around to walk out of the room-- --When she opened the door, she heard the door to the base open at the same time. Tong Yao took a look from the railing and found Old Cat had come back. But he didn’t go up the stairs to his own room. He threw the key onto his desk, then went directly onto the couch and closed his eyes. The two cats rushed to jump onto his tummy……

“Old Cat.” Tong Yao stretched her head out from the second floor: “Go back to your room to sleep.”

After saying so, Tong Yao felt that she was like a bystander who was urging an upset  daughter-in-law who had run away from home to go home to sleep. Her tone of voice sounded very much like a cautious busy body.

Old Cat opened his eyes, turned to the other side, then patted the heads of the two cats while curling up on the couch. He sounded aggrieved: “I’m not. I’m sleeping here tonight.”

Old Cat did sound like someone who was upset.

Tong Yao: “......”

She was worried.

……

The next day, they had their skirmish with CK in the afternoon.

Old K had returned to his room quite early last night, but he didn’t come out of his room until it was almost time for the skirmish. Old Cat on the other hand resisted going back to his room to wash up. In the end, he had to use the disposable toothbrush the base had prepared for the staff who sometimes had to stay up all night working at the base……

After Old K came out of the room, Old Cat then went up to get a change of clothes in his room. When the two of them crossed paths on the stairs, Tong Yao felt the whole base was depressingly quiet……

Old Cat held his head high and walked by Old K with his eyes looking steadily forward.

-- --Watching that, Tong Yao had the feeling that today’s skirmish would be a goner.

The result was just as she had expected.

[1]: 中二病, a Japanese term that describes a person who manifests delusional behavior, particularly thinking that one has special powers that no other person has.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 118 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 118 Part 2

Lu Sicheng’s voice was low and his body followed Tong Yao, falling on top of her with his hands touching her at random places. He didn’t release Tong Yao until she was trapped on his bed with messy hair and a blushing face-- --With his big hand securely placed on Tong Yao’s waist, Lu Sicheng squeezed himself so that he lied down next to her…...His slightly hoarse voice sounded next to Tong Yao’s ear: “What’s up?”

While asking, his hand began to hook up the edge of Tong Yao’s underwear. The tips of his fingers were about to touch a certain part of her body……

Tong Yao reached over and slapped his hand off her and pulled on her own clothes: “I came to ask you what to do with Old Cat and Old K. Both of them came back from the arena today with dark faces…...Then Old K started to play solo-- --Hrm.”

The man next to her pulled himself up a little as she was still talking. His body shadowed hers and he started to kiss her, from her eyes, to below the eyes, the side of her face, the cheek, the lips, the neck……

“Continue.”

How could Tong Yao continue?

Tong Yao tried to get away.

Lu Sicheng pushed her down so she wouldn’t move around.

“Old K isn’t playing duos with Old Cat. Besides, it’s 11 o’clock now and Old Cat hasn’t come back yet.”

“Already 11 o’clock?”

“En.”

“Then why don’t you sleep here tonight? I’ll sleep with my arms around you but I won’t do anything else.”

“........................................Lu Sicheng, I’m talking to you about serious business.”

Lu Sicheng giggled, he liked to hear her calling his full name when she was annoyed…...The moist and warm breath was right next to Tong Yao’s ear-- --Her ears became red. Tong Yao pinched Lu Sicheng’s ear so he wouldn’t move randomly. Then she finished what she had in mind: “But the stream viewers kept asking about Old Cat. Old K then simply turned off the stream with a super dark face.”

“Oh.” Lu Sicheng lowered his head to kiss Tong Yao’s lips. His dark brown eyes looked very deep: “So?”

“Tomorrow we have a skirmish with CK, the day after we have another skirmish with YQCB. How can we play with the two of them fighting like this? You’re the captain, aren’t you going to do something about it?”

Lu Sicheng paused for a moment then laughed. The corners of his lips faintly curved up, with hardly a look of concern: “Aren’t you worrying too much? It’s normal to be irritated when being targeted during a game. During the second match today, Old K was farming a little too much. Don’t know what he was up to, looks like he was purposely trying some new tactic-- --That time when you were targeted by Li Huanshuo, weren’t you also irritated? It’s normal to get annoyed at the time…...They aren’t kids anymore, should be fine in a while.”

He sounded like there wasn’t anything to be concerned with.

Tong Yao pinched his earlobe.

“You better remember what you just said.”

“What?”

“If we lose the skirmish tomorrow because the two of them, you better not make a big deal about it. I’ve reminded you anyway. Though it’s just a training match, I still don’t want to lose to Yang-- --”

Tong Yao’s lips were sealed by Lu Sicheng’s mouth. The tip of his tongue agilely worked its way into Tong Yao’s mouth, the tips of both tongues tangled together-- --Lu Sicheng’s kiss came with a sense of aggressiveness, as if something she just said annoyed him. Tong Yao found it was getting difficult to breathe and all she could breathe in was his breath.

The overflowing saliva spilled over the corner of Tong Yao’s lips-- --

Tong Yao sighed in a low voice and cast her eyes down.

Only then, Lu Sicheng backed out of her mouth.

“Then, you go and warn Old K and Old Cat. If we lose tomorrow’s skirmish, I’ll consider having substitutes for the skirmish the day after tomorrow.” Lu Sicheng and Tong Yao looked at each other for a while in the darkness under the blanket. Lu Sicheng fixed his eyes on Tong Yao’s slightly swollen red lips for a while, lowered his head to lick her lips with the tip of his tongue, then briefly said: “Tell them it’s from me.”

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 88 Part 4

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Those Sweet Times

Chapter 88 Part 4

Shen Zemu drank the wine quietly and watched the others toasting each other. He put down his glass to pick up the harmonica and started to play it.

The sound from the harmonica was clear and melodious. The tune he played was like affectionately telling a tale, but also felt like a sigh of loneliness.

Xiang Nuan couldn’t keep track how much she had drunk, but sometime later, she even invited Lin Chuyan to drink with her while interlocking their arms.

Afterwards, she insisted on going onto the rooftop to look at the moon. Lin Chuyan couldn’t stop her, so he took her arm and said: “I’ll take you there.”

He brought her up to the balcony. When they looked down, they could see their friends in the garden.

The lights on the balcony had turned on. Yang Yin looked up at the two of them standing on the balcony; Lin Chuyan was putting his arm around Xiang Nuan’s shoulder to keep her steady.

Yang Yin looked back and saw Shen Zemu was also looking up at them.

He looked quite peaceful.

Yang Yin was a little curious and asked Shen Zemu: “You don’t feel sad?”

Shen Zemu lowered his head and thought for a while before answering: “What attracted me is her innocence, but what stops us being together is also her innocence. There’s nothing to be sorry about; unsuitable is unsuitable.”

Yang Yin poured some more wine for him: “You’re too cool headed to fall in love. Let’s just drink.”

Chen Yinghu and Oblivion had already gotten drunk; they were singing while hugging each other.

Yang Yin and Shen Zemu clinked their glasses to make a toast: “One glass for tomorrow, one glass for the past.”[1]

Shen Zemu looked at the reflection of the moon in his glass and showed a rare smile: “En.”

……

Xiang Nuan stood on the balcony looking at the people on the ground instead of the moon. She felt everyone and everything on the grass looked especially gentle tonight, perhaps it was because of the lighting.

Lin Chuyan at first was hugging her shoulder, but later on he switched to embracing her from behind.

Xiang Nuan didn’t resist; she looked at her friends in the garden, Hu Ge and Oblivion were singing while Shen Zemu and Yang Yin were still drinking.

“Lin Chuyan.”

“Hrm?”

“I’m quite confused. My mom always tells me that it’s meaningless to play games. I sometimes feel the same way but look how many friends I’ve met through games. Except Shen Xuezhang, I met each of them from playing games. With so many good friends, how can it be true that playing games is meaningless?”

Lin Chuyan didn’t respond but tightened his hug. There was a breeze blowing over the balcony, he was afraid that she would catch a cold.

Xiang Nuan kept asking: “What do you think, whether playing games is meaningless or not?”

“Any experience has meaning.”

Xiang Nuan slowly sighed: “Why do I always feel that you make a lot of sense no matter what you say.”

“Because I’m your hubby.”

“Ha, it looks like you want to go to naughty corner again.”

Lin Chuyan lowered his head, used his chin to rub against the side of her neck, and chuckled lightly: “Please spare me.”

The two of them snuggled together without saying anything more. It was all quiet around them. After a while, Xiang Nuan suddenly said: “I feel the most meaningful thing I did in this game is meet you.”

Lin Chuyan used his lips to rub her ear and whispered in her ear: “Glad you realize that.”

“Hey, at a time like this shouldn’t you reply ‘so am I’?”

Lin Chuyan didn’t follow suit.

Xiang Nuan felt like she got short changed and bent her elbow to nudge the person behind her: “Say it, hurry, say it.”

“I love you.”

[1]: A footnote from the original author herself: This is a line from a song called “消愁” (Alleviate Sorrow) sang by 毛不易 (Mao Buyi).

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 118 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 118 Part 1

As soon as they arrived back at the base, Old Cat put down his stuff and went out of the door, not even waiting for Xiao Rui to remind him about the curfew. Old K sat down at his seat and started to play ranked matches as if nothing had happened, he even started to stream.

Tong Yao took a look at him. Today, Old K had changed his stream id from the usual [Play duos with Princess Cat to drop our ranks] to [Solo for a while, Korean server rank ~].

Tong Yao went to his stream. There were already quite a lot of viewers there. However, not many of them were talking about Old K’s game, rather most of them were interested in-- --

[Where’s Old Cat?]

[Has Old Cat deserted you?]

[....................................Are you going to have a new princess? Choose me, choose me, choose me!]

[Why don’t you play duos with Cat? He’s not at the base? It’s especially quiet at base when he’s not around!]

[Cat’s gone out? At this hour? Don’t all the clubs have curfews after the incident with Xu Tailun? Going out at this hour means a pay deduction.]

[ZGDX top and jungler are estranged. They probably can’t beat YQCB next Sunday.]

……

Tong Yao looked at the computer and thought all these people really knew how to stir up a controversy and appeared to be really trying to irritating Old K…...As she was thinking, she saw a line flew by on the screen-- --

[Wow. I was present for the match today. Old Cat suffered miserably at top and Old K didn’t go to help. Old Cat had a dark face throughout the game. At the middle of the match, they exchanged some words but I couldn’t hear it clearly since I wasn't sitting in the front rows. I only knew that after the exchange, Old K’s face looked even darker and he didn’t say anything afterwards…...It can’t be that they’re having a fight because of this? 23333333333333][1]

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

How could the person use ‘23333’, Tong Yao thought, the person didn’t know how serious the situation was.

Tong Yao looked at the comment with alarm; she almost wished that she could reach into the computer and delete it. From the corner of her eye, she could see that Old K had switched screens to look at the comments. She was even more nervous now, afraid that Old K would blow up when he saw those bullet comments-- --

What surprised her was that he had seen the comment but didn’t say anything.

But after the match was over, he logged out of the game and said: “I’m tired, no more streaming.” Then he simply turned off the stream with a lot of people facing the dark screen still typing “? ? ? ?” Old K stood up, shut down the computer, and went upstairs.

Tong Yao and Little Fatty looked at each other with concern.

Little Fatty: “These two can’t be for real?”

Tong Yao: “......I don’t know.”

After Old K went upstairs, the first floor became even quieter. Unease about the entire situation made Tong Yao lose any want to play any games. She dropped her mouse and went upstairs to look for her captain-- --She knocked on Lu Sicheng’s door and heard footsteps after a while. The door opened from inside, a damp face appeared behind the door with the fragrance of the soap……

Lu Sicheng was bare chested and wore loose shorts. He looked into Tong Yao’s eyes. A water drop dripped from his flat stomach all the way down and finally disappeared into his shorts-- --

Tong Yao silently swallowed.

She thought to herself “be calm, we’re all adults.” She didn’t show any emotion on her face and forced herself to move her eyes away from where the droplet had disappeared. Tong Yao used a calm voice to say: “You’re showering, then I’ll come back-- --”

Before she finished, Lu Sicheng had already clasped her wrist and pulled her into the room, though there was hardly any expression on his face. The door slammed shut! Before Tong Yao could say anything, Lu Sicheng had picked her up and thrown her onto the bed-- --

“You came yourself.”

[1]: 233 is the number of a laughing emoji (like lol). Extra 3’s is like the same thing as typing “lolololol”

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 88 Part 3

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Those Sweet Times

Chapter 88 Part 3

Chen Yinghu said: “Why didn’t Manager Wang ask about me? I played Miyamoto Musashi brilliantly today; I let my teammates develop more but ran to the front when there was a team fight. I ate grass but squeezed out milk.”

“Because you’re too talkative.” Shen Zemu taunted him.

Chen Yinghu felt his cousin seemed to enjoy taunting him more and more. He felt like he had been mistreated…...

Oblivion was listening to the others talking with a smile. When he saw Chen Yinghu looking a little down, he hurriedly said: “We watched the matches today.”

“Your team?”

“Yeah, all our teammates watched together. The other team was Team Invincible’s B team. We sometimes meet them when doing training matches. They are pretty good. So saying that you guys played very well this afternoon is far from an overstatement.”

Xiang Nuan was very happy to be validated by a professional player. She raised her wine glass and said: “Come, let's cheer for the super power of our team, bottoms up!”

She drank the wine in her glass, wiped her mouth, then asked: “How are you doing on the team? Is there anyone bullying you?”

“I’m doing pretty good.” Oblivion smiled shyly: “Oh, right, my coach said that he’ll arrange for me to be in some matches in the next season.”

“Really? That’s great! Congratulations! Come, let’s drink.”

Oblivion, with glass in hand, suddenly had a serious look on his face. He solemnly looked at everyone around the table and said: “I want to thank all of you.”

“Hrm? Why are you being so formal?”

Oblivion slowly stood up and said: “Really. I used to have a hard life. My father abandoned my mother and I. Our relatives all jeered at my mom. I went to work before I finished middle school. I’ve been through the ups and downs of life. In the real world, most of the people I met have been bad ones. I never expected to make friends like you all on the internet. I used to feel that I had bad luck. But now I feel that I’m a very lucky person. Thank you all, you guys have changed my life’s path.”

After saying those words, he tilted his neck up and drank the glass of wine in one gulp.

Yang Yin sat next to him. As she was watching him drink, a teardrop fell from the corner of her eye. Light reflecting off the teardrop made it look like a diamond.

After Oblivion sat back down, Yang Yin patted his shoulder. Then Yang Yin looked down at the wine in her glass and said: “I used to be quite headstrong. I ran away from home and haven’t had any contact with my family for many years. I wasn’t having a good time at the team I used to belong to. The boss always forced me to do things that I didn’t like. Sometimes I would have terrible fights with my ex-boyfriend. I don’t know how I survived those days. They were a mess. But I feel happy when I’m with you guys. I can’t tell why, but I’ve been very happy, very relaxed. I also want to thank fate for letting me meet a bunch of friends like you.”

After listening to the two of them, Chen Yinghu tearfully looked at them: “And me.” He said: “I didn’t have many friends before. When I was in school, because my grades were so poor, the teachers and my parents always scolded me. After I dropped out of school to play professionally, my classmates’ parents all forbade them from going out with me. I sometimes feel quite sad, like I’m a monster. Thanks to you all, you guys never look down upon me and are even willing to be friends with me……”

Lin Chuyan knocked on the table lightly and said: “What are you guys doing? Is this a roast? Hu Ge, you cried?”

“Oblivion also cried. Why don’t you talk about him?”

“He’s too dark, I can’t tell.”

“......”

Xiang Nuan leaned over to rest her head on Lin Chuyan’s shoulder and said: “I also want to thank fate for letting me meet all of you. Let’s drink to friendship-- --Bottoms up!” She drank without waiting for the others.

Lin Chuyan placed some food on her plate: “Eat something. Don’t just drink, silly.”

Xiang Nuan put down her glass and said: “When you guys play in the professional world in the future, Oblivion, Yin Jiejie, and Hu Ge, remember to win for me too. Please.”

“Alright.”

“Sure thing.”

“Just you wait!”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 117 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 117 Part 3

Xiao Rui saw all the players come in with long faces and didn’t know what had happened. He tried to comfort them: “Hrm, what’s wrong with you all? You just won the game, be happy. In any case, you have an all win record through the second phase……”

“We’re not done with the second phase yet. The real battle is on Sunday next week. The team next door is really strong now. After Pope joined them, it was like a catalyst and the whole team has changed. Even their captain’s support has regained his aggressiveness and fighting spirit he had when he was the support god in the junior league. If we let them seize the chance, there’s a chance that they’ll press down so hard we won’t be able to breathe.” Lu Sicheng interrupted Xiao Rui. “You all better worry about that coming game. With today’s mindset, it’s likely that we’ll lose that game.”

-- --ZGDX was going to face the last team in B group, YQCB, on Sunday, next week. After that game, they would finish the second phase of the competition and return to round robin within their own A group, playing against Huawei, Red Arrow, King, Lan, and Obsidian.

In other words, whether they could maintain their all-win record before the third phase-- --or in the whole three phases of the competition-- --the match on that Sunday was the one that mattered the most.

…………………...Though what he said was all true, Xiao Rui took a look at Tong Yao and lifted his chin up, signaling for Tong Yao to do something.

Tong Yao reached over to push Lu Sicheng at the back of his waist. Lu Sicheng turned his head and raised his eyebrows to look at her: “Gee, what are you doing? I’m telling the truth.”

“Who wants to listen to your truth?” Tong Yao rolled her eyes at Lu Sicheng who still didn’t know what’s going on: “Go on the bus and take your nap. Don’t talk so much.”

Lu Sicheng had no choice but to pick up Tong Yao’s backpack and walked towards the door. After a few steps, he thought about something and turned around to hug the owner of the backpack under his arm as well. He hugged Tong Yao with one of his arms and walked towards the parking lot ostentatiously.

Xiao Rui followed behind them: “Aren’t you two a bit too cocky after getting out of the closet?”

“Yeah.” Lu Sicheng lazily replied without even looking back: “Otherwise, why do we want to take the risk of going public?”

Xiao Rui: “......”

They all got on the bus and Lu Sicheng led Tong Yao to sit on the very last row-- --

When Old K got on the bus, he sat down on the same row on their way here. Old Cat’s jacket was still on the seat next to him.

Tong Yao got nervous when she saw Old K had sat down on the same row. A few seconds later, just as she had anticipated, Old Cat got on the bus and didn’t stop at his original seat. He passed by the row and didn’t even look at Old K, even though Old K looked up at him. He simply bent over to grab his jacket, put it over his shoulder, and moved to the row behind to sit next to Little Fatty.

When he swung the jacket over his shoulder, the edge of the jacket even brushed over Old K’s face.

At that instant, Old K’s face, which was usually an expressionless baby face, became darker and darker.

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

Tong Yao clung to the sleeve of her captain next to her and whispered: “Oh no, top and jungler are totally estranged.”

Lu Sicheng took off his earbuds and asked without much concern: “What?”

Before Tong Yao could answer, Little Fatty turned his head and gave her a look while grinning. A little while later, Tong Yao’s cell phone lit up-- --

[The rounded fat: ……………………………...Help, I’m afraid. Will K god give me a caning tonight?]

[ZGDX, Smiling: Take a look at Old Cat sitting next to you. K god will surely give you a caning plus three feet of white silk[1] to make sure you’ll be really dead. Take care.]

[1]: They’re referring to punishments used at the imperial courts in ancient China. One is analogous to caning. The three feet of white silk refers to a punishment where people were ordered to commit suicide and were offered white silk long enough to be used to hang oneself.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 117 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 117 Part 2

The match against Team Alpha was on Thursday.

Team Alpha was one of the upper middle teams in the league and was very resilient. The team was usually nicknamed by esports fans as “the major league’s quality control team” or “strong teams’ quality inspection bureau.” Those nicknames meant that one could tell whether a team was truly strong or just looked strong compared to other weaker teams by looking at the result of any team that played against Team Alpha.

It turned out that ZGDX had a difficult time winning their second match against Team Alpha. Old Cat, during the early game, was under constant attack from Alpha’s jungler. At the eighth minute into the game, his score was 0/2/0 and he was behind Alpha’s top by a level and a half. At the twentieth minute, his champion Maokai still hadn’t been able to develop well. After he was killed by Alpha’s top and three others, Old Cat threw down his mouth and moved his wrist around: “Finish up quick, let’s forget about this one, wait for the next match.”

The tone of his voice sounded like he was irritated from being targeted by the opposing team.

Tong Yao could totally relate to the feeling.

But since Alpha had focused on top, Tong Yao and Lu Sicheng’s champions had both developed quite well. Tong Yao kept silent but Lu Sicheng briefly said: “We still have a chance, try to hang on a little longer. Old Cat, after farming the minions at top, comes down to the bot to farm. I’ll go to the jungle to see if I can farm anything there.”

Old Cat: “Oh.” Old K half jokingly said: “You give your minions to him then come to take my monsters. You earn all the credit and take all the advantages.”

Everyone on the team laughed. The nervousness seemed to relax a bit. Tong Yao was about to say “let him go to the enemy side and get their monsters.” But Old Cat, who hadn’t been talking much since the beginning of this match, suddenly said: “What’s the big deal of taking a couple of your monsters? You’ve been farming monsters non-stop this match, haven’t you had enough?”

Tong Yao instantly swallowed what she was about to say. The other teammates also quieted down.

-- --Old Cat was blaming Old K for not coming to help while he was being targeted by Alpha’s jungler.

Old K thought for a moment before replying: “There were four of them, it wouldn’t help even if I went over. When there were only two of them, I was at bot at the time and couldn’t make it-- --Alpha’s jungler even gave up the buff in the jungle to target you, there’s nothing I can do about it. You can make up your economy in other lanes, right? If you don’t believe me, wait till we check the endgame screen after the game.”

Old Cat didn’t have much response after hearing Old K but uttered another “oh.” However, his tone made Tong Yao feel that it was probably better for him to say nothing at all.

Tong Yao felt that it wasn’t just her on the team who had issues with their period every month.

“You all shut up.” Lu Sicheng flatly said: “We’re in the middle of a game. Do you all want to go AFK and let them push our nexus?”

Both Old Cat and Old K stopped saying anything. The rest of the match was played in a rather depressed mood, only Tong Yao and Little Fatty spoke. In the end, it was through Lu Sicheng and Tong Yao’s steady development that allowed them to carry the team and turn the game around.

At the fiftieth minute, ZGDX finally destroyed the enemy’s nexus after much difficulty. At that moment, Tong Yao let out a long breath and took off her earphones. When she put her earphones down and stood up, she found that her palms were all sweaty and her body was slightly trembling-- --

Lu Sicheng also stood up next to her. He immediately sensed the person next to him was unusually quiet. He lowered his head to take a look at her: “You nervous?”

Lu Sicheng was about to laugh at her for being overly concerned about winning or losing. Then he figured that Tong Yao must have read some of the comments left by extreme fans on Weibo or Tieba which had wished that she'd get crushed in the game and she was concerned with making any mistakes during the game. He stopped himself from saying anything and lifted his hand to stroke her hair, then said: “Let’s go shake hands. Don’t forget our manners.”

Tong Yao felt like she was coming out of a daze and walked somewhat stiffly towards the Team Alpha-- --

They shook hands, bowed and after performing all the rituals ZGDX walked backstage. Old Cat and Old K still didn’t exchange a single word with each other.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 117 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 117 Part 1

Lu Sicheng removed his hand from the camera, took a glance at the computer screen, and happened to see one of the bullet comments-- --

[You two go ahead and show your PDA. Next week you’ll be facing Team Alpha, make sure you show us what you can do or else, suffer the consequences hehe.]

Lu Sicheng pursed his lips.

Tong Yao also saw it and embarrassedly lifted her hands to pull her hair behind her ears-- --Old K, who had just woken up and turned on his computer to get ready to play duos with Old Cat, was also watching Tong Yao’s stream. He saw the comment and cursed: “To hell with him, why hasn’t the mod banned the person! How does that have anything to do with you and their PDA.”

“...............................You still have time to watch our mid streaming, can’t you come to top to gank!” Old Cat kicked Old K’s chair. “Lately, you really don’t like ganking the top. If you do that to me in a competition, I’ll kill you.”

“Coming, coming. Are you retarded? Can’t survive without me.” Old K logged off Tong Yao’s stream.

“The second round of group matches is almost over. There’s only YQCB left which is a tough team.” Lu Sicheng said flatly: “Let’s make the effort to win. Get on top of both groups and show them just who they’re talking to.”

As he talked, the corner of his lips was curved up with a contemptuous expression on his face.

Tong Yao couldn’t turn off the mic in time.

The bullet comments immediately reacted-- --

[YQCB is quite strong nowadays.]

[The fateful showdown between Lu Sicheng and Li Junhe, 666666666]

[Fans of YQCB are trembling…...I’ll skip class to watch the game that day.]

[I’m waiting to see the trolls getting slapped, hahahahaha]

[Don’t be overly confident, you might get slapped instead.]

Tong Yao checked the comments and turned to look at her captain: “......You’re quite full of yourself.”

Lu Sicheng: “It’s just an aspiring goal. Why do you say I’m full of myself?”

Tong Yao: “......”

The rule for professional League of Legends competitions is that twelve teams will be divided into two groups, six teams in each group. The competition is divided into three phases: 

The first phase is round robin within each group.

The second phase is round robin between the two groups.

The third phase is round robin within each group again-- --

After the three phases, the team that won a best of 3 match gets one point and gets no points if they lost. All the teams will be ranked by their accumulated points. The top four teams from each group will be able to move on to the playoffs.

As of now, ZGDX had reached the end of the second phase in this year’s summer competition.

On Thursday, ZGDX would be against the second to the last team from B group, Team Alpha-- --There should be another cross-group match against Team CK on Sunday, but the organizer had moved this particular match to the beginning of the tournament for promotional purposes. Therefore, for ZGDX, there was no game this coming Sunday. They would finish two thirds of the competition ahead of other teams in the A group.

Before the playoffs, they wouldn’t have a chance to face off against the strong Team CK.

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 88 Part 2

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Those Sweet Times

Chapter 88 Part 2

Lin Chuyan took out a harmonica from his pocket. He had just found the harmonica in the study room upstairs. There was a violin in the room as well, but he didn’t know how to play it.

Just when he was about to play the harmonica, his cell phone rang.

It was Manager Wang from Pea TV.

Lin Chuyan figured Manager Wang was calling about the competition this afternoon, so he turned on the speaker.

“Hello, Xiao Lin?” Manager Wang sounded very enthusiastic, he had even changed the way he was addressing Lin Chuyan.

“Manager, when can we get the award money?”

“The award money? The process of issuing the award money isn’t under my authority. But I’ll take care of the extra bonus from the company tomorrow after I get to work. Don’t you worry about it.”

“Alright, thank you, Manager. Goodbye, Manager.”

“Wait, wait, wait……” Manager Wang hurriedly stopped Lin Chuyan and said: “There’s another thing I want to ask you.”

“Oh?” 

“The thing is…...That Nuan god, is she interested in joining our streaming platform? The pay is negotiable, she can make any requests she wants.”

Lin Chuyan looked at Xiang Nuan.

He certainly didn’t want her to stream, but he wouldn’t respond for her either.

Xiang Nuan looked like she was hesitating somewhat, but she shook her head right afterwards.

It would be rather fun for her to stream, but the viewers were a mixed bag, some were rather vulgar. She didn’t feel like she would be able to handle the insults.

“Manager Wang, she said she doesn’t want to do it.” Lin Chuyan said to his cell phone.

“Oh? You asked her this quickly?” Manager Wang sounded a little suspicious.

“That’s right. She’s here right next to me. Should I send a video clip showing her shaking her head to you?”

“That’s not necessary, hahaha……” Manager Wang awkwardly laughed. Afterwards, he felt even more uneasy and hurriedly asked again: “Oh, right, one more thing. How about Zemu, is he interested in coming to our platform? Pay is negotiable and he can make any request.”

Shen Zemu didn’t even give it much thought and shook his head immediately.

“Manager, he doesn’t want to do it either. He’s also right next to me. We’re having dinner together. Is there anything else, Manager?”

“There is, there is one more thing…...That Yang Yinyin, is she interested-- --”

Yang Yin shook her head without an expression on her face.

“She doesn’t either. Anything else, Manager?”

“Yes, yes, yes, one last question.”

“Manager, Hu Ge is with Pea TV already.”

“Ah? No, it’s not that. I know he’s with us. I’m not talking about him…...I was going to say that from the time you guys won the competition up till now, I’ve already received calls from managers of three different professional teams. They asked me to ask whether Nuan god’s interested in playing professionally? If she can join a team, they can’t guarantee she would be the main player right away but for sure she would have the chance to play in competitions. If she performs well, she should be moving up to be the main player in no time.”

Lin Chuyan looked at Xiang Nuan again.

Xiang Nuan’s eyes brightened up when she heard about the invitations from professional teams, but the sparkles dimmed rather quickly.

“Nuannuan, do you want to play professionally?” Lin Chuyan asked her.

Xiang Nuan lifted up her glass and took a sip of the wine before answering: “I’m a person who has to study hard and make progress everyday.”

Manager Wang still wanted to try persuading her. Lin Chuyan had enough and simply said goodbye to him before hanging up.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 116 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 116 Part 3

Little Fatty went downstairs and shouted: “What’s for dinner?”

Tong Yao switched over to the bullet comments and all the comments were [6666 Fatty only knows about food] [Fatty woke up] [Tell him to start streaming]......Tong Yao chuckled and switched back to game. At this point her score was 0/2/0, she was the only one who had died in the whole game. Taliyah had a nice kit for ganking, she could knock up enemies and ensnare them. She could also slow enemies and increase her movement speed as well. She was especially good at escaping, but Tong Yao wasn't familiar with the champion enough to use all the skills well and ended up dying……

Fortunately, she had a solid foundation in farming and didn’t fall too far behind with her items.

When the match was entering the 20th minute, her score was 1/6/5, 1 kill, 6 deaths, 5 assists-- --At that moment, the door in front of her opened again. Lu Sicheng walked out of the room with his hair still dripping wet.

Tong Yao switched over to check bullet comments and found everyone was saying that they had heard the sound of a door opening. She chuckled: “En. Our captain is up.”

[Our captain, our.]

[I smell of PDA.]

[Rubbing the PDA ing! Unsubscribe!]

[Ahhhhh, our captain, hum, why didn’t I notice the lovey dovey before!]

Lu Sicheng had gone downstairs to get a bottle of water from the refrigerator and went back up to the training area on the second floor. He stood right behind Tong Yao-- --

Lu Sicheng: “1/6/5 Taliyah. If you dare use Taliyah in a competition, I’ll break your head.”

“...............................I’m practicing now, uhm.” Tong Yao frowned: “Go away.”

“I’ve seen Ah Tai using Taliyah, that isn’t the way to use it. What messy handling, let me show you how to do it……” Lu Sicheng put down the bottled water and bent over to grab the mouse from Tong Yao’s hand.

“Don’t, don’t, don’t. Hrm, you’re an ad, why the hell are you teaching me how to play mid. You’re way over your head. Go away, hurry.” Tong Yao wouldn’t let go of the mouse and reached over to push him away.

“Let me try it. Don’t push me.”

Lu Sicheng pushed Tong Yao away. At that time, the minion lane in mid was not too bad. Tong Yao, from the beginning, was too afraid to be aggressive and the enemy’s mid, Ryze, was able to get on top of her-- --Just then, Ryze obviously didn’t know that someone else was playing Taliyah and was surprised to see Taliyah use her e and w abilities and followed by q and a-- --Ryze instantly lost more than half of his health. Ryze then reacted by casting a set of abilities on Taliyah. Because of the difference in their items, Taliyah wasn’t able to deal enough damage and ended up being killed instead.

The screen went dark.

Tong Yao’s teammate ad speechlessly typed: ?

The support of her team was more direct: A fake Smiling.

Lu Sicheng: “......”

Tong Yao was mad: “Damn, go away, go away!”

Tong Yao pushed Lu Sicheng away and went to buy some new items while waiting to respawn-- --As she was figuring out what to buy, she felt someone pinch her face from the side.

Tong Yao’s face was forced to turn to one side while her eyes were still fixed on the computer screen, looking like a typical internet addicted teenage girl: “Lu Sicheng, don’t bother me. I’m still-- --”

Before she finished the sentence, the man standing behind her lowered his head to kiss her.

Tong Yao: “......”

It was a light kiss, he lightly bit her lips before letting her go. He looked quite satisfied and lazily asked: “What?”

Tong Yao said with a straight face: “I’m streaming.”

Lu Sicheng’s expression froze for a moment. He took a look at the camera which was facing right at them. He paused again then used his big hand to cover the camera up: “......You didn’t say so earlier.”

“You didn’t give me a chance to say it. What are you covering it for? Do you even know what’s shameful?”

“I do.”

……

The viewers couldn’t see anything in the dark screen and could only hear the two arguing in tiny voices. They couldn’t hear anything clearly, but that didn’t stop them to keep sending bullet comments-- --

[6666666666666]

[666666]

[Can’t you play the match? I’m here to learn how to play better.]

[Perverted streamer, I’ve reported you to the police!]

[Take your hand off her, ahhhhhhh, fuck off, Lu Sicheng, take your hand away.]

[Perverted streamer, I’ve sent a police report! !]

[66666666666666]

[I’m just here to watch the stream. Why do you have to feed me PDA.]

[Have called the police already.]

[Already unsubscribed.]

[[666666666666]

[Continue to unsubscribe.]

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 88 Part 1

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Those Sweet Times

Chapter 88 Part 1

After Yang Yin and the others returned, the food Xiang Nuan had ordered also arrived. They transferred the food from takeout boxes onto plates. Now it looked like the food had been entirely home made. Xiang Nuan quite enjoyed the homey feeling.

It was a clear day without any wind and since there weren’t any bugs in the garden, they decided to eat outside.

“Oblivion is coming.” Lu Chuyan said as he put down his cell phone. “He’s at the door now.”

“Really? Why didn’t you tell us earlier?”

Lin Chuyan didn’t answer and just quietly looked at Xiang Nuan, the unfairness was visible in his eyes.

It was Xiang Nuan who had pushed him out the door before he had the chance to tell her.

Xiang Nuan scratched the back of her head and said: “How does Oblivion have the time to come over?”

“He asked for leave for a few hours.”

-- --

Oblivion came in carrying a nylon mesh bag with a round blackish thing in it. Xiang Nuan thought he was carrying a watermelon. When he came nearer, she discovered that it was a jug.

“What’s this?” Xiang Nuan asked out of curiosity.

Oblivion put the jug on the table carefully and said with a smile: “Take a look.”

Xiang Nuan came closer and walked around the table to check out the jug. Chen Yinghu was also curious and stood opposite of Xiang Nuan and circled around the jug in the same direction as Xiang Nuan.

Lin Chuyan was amused by the two: “Are you two doing a duet?”

Xiang Nuan looked up at Oblivion with a laugh: “Is this a jug of rice wine?”

“En.”

“Can I open it?”

Oblivion nodded: “I brought it here to drink.”

Xiang Nuan lifted the seal of the jug and peeked inside. She saw the liquid inside was still slightly rolling from side to side and the moon was reflected on the surface. A full-bodied aromatic smell came out the jug. Xiang Nuan took a deep breath with closed eyes: “Ah, it smells so good!”

Lin Chuyan used the back of his finger to tap on Xiang Nuan’s head: “A little boozebag.”

Yang Yin also smelled the rice wine and asked Oblivion: “Why is this wine so aromatic? How old is this wine?”

“Twenty years.”

“Wow……”

Even Lin Chuyan was surprised and asked: “Why do you have such a precious thing?”

“My family made it when I was born.” He paused after saying so and looked a little embarrassed.

Yang Yin understood: “Is it for when you get married?”

Oblivion didn’t answer but blushed a little, silently admitting to it.

Xiang Nuan felt uneasy about drinking the wine now: “Such an important jug of wine. If we drink it now…...it doesn’t feel right?”

“Good wine should be for good people, it’s quite alright.”

Xiang Nuan was brimming with joy hearing what Oblivion said.

They all sat down around the table and chatted as they ate.

It was a happy occasion with good friends and good wine.

Xiang Nuan took a small sip of the wine and squinted her eyes as she savored it. Lin Chuyan could tell from the look on her face that she probably would drink quite a lot tonight. He consciously controlled the amount he was drinking and made sure that at least one of them wouldn’t get drunk. His love rival sitting right next to him after all…...  

His love rival seemed to think the same way and happened to glance at him at the same time. The two men looked at each other, then both turned their faces away.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 116 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 116 Part 2

“It’s the top three. I can’t say he’s the number one since there’s another ad with similar skill living right next door afterall…...The king of ad in my mind is Weixiao[1], Gao Xuecheng, king in capital letters-- --He’s the guy who’d scream from missing just a single siege minion…...Cheng Ge won’t do that, he only inherited Gao Xuecheng’s stone face. So boring.”

[So you two are really together? Ahhhhh, if you see this, answer me, answer me!]

“Yeah, we’re together. Otherwise, how could we be like that.]

[Who’s after who! ! ! How did you get together! ! !]

Tong Yao bent over to pick up Xiao Cong which happened to pass by-- --In a short half of month, Xiao Cong had already grown from ‘little scallion’[2] into a ‘big scallion.’ The originally scrawny kitten had a plump belly now…...Tong Yao held the cat closer to the camera and said: “He said if I don’t agree to be together with him, he would throw Xiao Cong away. I figured that it was a life no matter what, so I agreed to it.”

[666666666666666]

[Didn’t expect Cheng Ge to act like this.]

[66666666]

[Damn, that’s a great trick. Wait till I use the same trick to get me a wife!]

[Then, when are you two going to break up!]

With a wave of “66” bullet comments, Tong Yao stroked Xiao Cong’s head and calmly replied: “We aren’t going to break up. I found a boyfriend by my own merit, why should we break up.”

As she finished her words, the ban & pick phase ended and she adjusted her runes as she waited for the match to start-- --Once the game started, she didn’t look at the bullet comments anymore and focused on playing…...The content of the bullet comments became rather anxious; it was a rather different kind of stream from what the viewers had expected in the first place-- --

They thought Tong Yao would avoid all the topics regarding Lu Sicheng, yet she didn’t.

They thought Tong Yao would spar with those trolls, yet she didn’t either.

They thought Tong Yao would complacently engage in some PDA to slap the faces of those fans who claimed to be Lu’s wives, yet she didn’t.

They thought Tong Yao would hypocritically appease the feelings of Lu Sicheng’s fangirls, yet she didn’t-- --

Everything went normally.

Everything went as usual.

Because of Tong Yao’s matter of fact reaction, some of the fangirls, who were feeling jealous and pissed off at the beginning, were cooling down instead-- --It was quite miraculous. They cooled down without even realizing why-- --Tong Yao acted so naturally; she didn’t bother taking special care of other people’s emotions and didn’t deliberately avoid any questions……

It seemed that everything simply happened naturally.

After Tong Yao began playing her ranked match, some of the people who had made comments about ZGDX or questioned Tong Yao on Weibo quietly deleted their derogatory statements. Some even sent private messages to her to apologize. Others kept quiet, only a few continued to jump all over Tong Yao……

It looked like Tong Yao’s tranquil demeanor had placated most of the fans: That’s right, it’s just two players dating, what a normal thing, what’s wrong with that……………

Tong Yao, on the other hand, didn’t know about these subtle changes; she was still playing her ranked matches and working hard learning how to play her new champion-- --Taliyah was fast and agile. Additionally, she was very effective at charging at assassin type champions. The only drawback was that Taliyah wasn’t very strong during the laning phase. To Tong Yao, a more aggressive type of player, Taliyah wasn’t a very handy champion……

One time, she was killed by the enemy’s mid, Tong Yao took the chance to switch to bullet comments and saw all the [66666] at the enemy’s mid. There were others like [You’re in love and lost your touch. You seldom get killed by others online before. I’m waiting for the explosion of ZGDX.] [Taliyah isn’t your type of champion.]......

“I feel like I don’t play Taliyah very well too. But I see a lot of Koreans play it quite well, so I have to practice it. If I don’t, then there’s no way we can win the world tournament-- --One less practiced champion means I’ll waste one ban which is no good.”

Tong Yao replied calmly and switched back to the game afterwards.

There were footsteps on the third floor. The B team players had all woken up and had gone down to the first floor for training.  Tong Yao stretched out her head to greet them. When she looked back at her computer, the room right in front of her-- --Lu Sicheng and Little Fatty’s room door was opened from the inside and both men walked out with sleepy eyes.

Lu Sicheng took a look at Tong Yao, scratched his hair, then went back to his room to take a shower with eyes still narrowing to slits.  

[1]: weixiao (微笑) is the id of a real Chinese professional player Gao Xuecheng, now retired. His id translates to Smiling. Tong Yao mentioned him as the reason for her user id.

[2]: Xiao Cong means “little scallion” in Chinese.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 116 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 116 Part 1

Little Fatty, while scratching his butt and with eyes narrowed into slits, opened his room door and was getting ready to get a drink of water downstairs. He took one step out of the door when he saw his team’s mid and ad embracing each other in the hallway facing head to head talking in small voices. He was taken aback and dropped a line “too hot for my eyes” before going back in and slamming the door shut.

Tong Yao let go of Lu Sicheng and urged him to go back to sleep. Lu Sicheng didn’t argue, released his hold on her, and turned around to go back to his room.

Tong Yao went to practice farming with several mid champions in custom game mode by herself-- --She paid special attention to the champions that she wasn’t too familiar with, such as Taliyah. When she felt she was ready, she decided to go into some ranked games to try it out. She logged on and got in the queue.

While she was waiting, she noticed the little notebook on her desk. She picked it up and flipped through it-- --Then she discovered that she was far behind her required streaming hours for this month because she had procrastinated early in the month, then she was preoccupied with other things plus the trip to Xiamen. She thought for a moment then logged on to do stream.

-- --Everyone found it unexpected that Tong Yao would do a stream in the teeth of the storm!

The viewers of her stream grew exponentially. During those dozens of seconds between the time when she reached over to adjust the camera to the time when she sat back into her chair, the viewers grew from a dozen or so in the beginning to over two hundred thousand……The bullet comments flew over the screen. The viewers who hadn’t had a chance to face the female lead in the incident for the past few days finally got their chance to express themselves!

[Wow, she’s streaming!]

[Damn, damn, my wifey is streaming. I’m here to support-- --Wifey, are you alright! !]

[6666666666666]

[Warning: Bunch of trolls ahead.]

[How dare you do a stream. Is it because you’re the hot topic recently so you’re here to rub it in for more attention? Hehe.]

[↑It’s here already.]

[Demacia Cup 6666666666666. How did you two get together anyway? Hahahaha.]

[Moderator, get to work, moderator, get to work. Or, Smiling, let me be the moderator. I’ll be here till you get off.]

[How are you, our ZGDX’s sister-in-law? Where's my Cheng Ge?]

[Where’s Lu Sicheng, where’s Lu Sicheng, where’s Lu Sicheng, where’s Lu Sicheng?]

[Let your man come on the stream! ! ! !]

……

The bullet comments flew by quickly. Comments, both supportive or insulting, disappeared quickly from the screen. Tong Yao took a few glances at them and randomly picked a few rather neutral questions to answer: “So I’m streaming. I’m practicing with rank matches, if I don’t stream at the same time when would I have time to stream? Why would I be shameless streaming? I’ve been streaming before…...If I don't stream today, I won’t have enough streaming hours by the end of the month again. By that time all I can stream is me sleeping-- --”

[Sleeping with Lu Sicheng!]

[Perverted streamer, I’m calling the police!]

[Shame on you, who wants to watch you sleep with Cheng Ge.]

“...............I sleep by myself.” Tong Yao answered, keeping a straight face. At this time, she got in a team and entered the game. She immediately chose Taliyah at champion select, then continued to chat: “Teammates? They’re all still sleeping. We just got back to base last night and are all exhausted-- --Right, we came back from Xiamen-- --The B team? The B team played pretty well. Though they lost the match to CK, they still managed to squeeze into the next round. Dubhe is quite talented……”

[How could you praise another ad!]

[Only your man deserves to be called talented, thank you.]

[Recording, reporting. Switch to Lu Sicheng’s moderator!]

[Tell us about Cheng Ge! ! !]

“Tell you what about him?” Tong Yao glanced over the bullet comments and replied quite at ease: “Cheng Ge is a very strong ad, is ranked at least in the top three in the world now……”

[Only top three!]

[Damn, how can you keep cool when talking about your man? Where’s your teenage girl’s heart! I want to see you blush! I want to see you embarrassed!]

[Top three 6666666666]

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 115 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 115 Part 3

After finishing with all the downloads, Tong Yao logged on to all social networks to check them. She picked a few private messages which were dissing her on Weibo and replied “read,” and replied to those which were supporting her with “thanks.” Then she put down her cell phone and went to take a shower and get a change of clothes. When she opened her room door, at 8 o’clock in the morning feeling all refreshed, she jumped by a huge creature squatting in front of her door-- --

“Shoot! What are you doing here! It’s so early in the morning!”

Tong Yao pulled on the man’s hair-- --He looked up, there were dark circles under his eyes, obviously from lack of sleep. Tong Yao had messed up his hair. He was unshaven and had an unlit cigarette in his mouth.

Startled by his disheveled appearance, Tong Yao subconsciously released her hold on his hair: “.........................What’s this? You haven’t slept the whole night?”

Lu Sicheng’s eyeballs rolled around in his eyes and then opened his mouth with a somewhat hoarse voice: “I slept for an hour and couldn’t go back to sleep again…...I was worried about you so I came to your door to check whether you were crying, hiding inside your blanket, only to hear you snoring loudly.”

“...............................” Tong Yao blushed a little and walked around to face Lu Sicheng. She also squatted down and quickly pulled the cigarette out of his mouth: “Didn’t you quit?”

“I haven’t lit it.” Lu Sicheng gave her a glance: “I’m upset. Having it in my mouth calms me down.”

“What are you upset about?”

“I messed up.” Lu Sicheng turned his face away and said flatly: “I’m too impulsive. Didn’t consider the consequences.”

“What consequences!”

“......Regarding, what you have to face.”

Tong Yao reached over to turn his face back and stroked his head like stroking a big dog, then used a mollifying tone of voice to say: “If you’re worried that I would be defeated by those comments online, then it’s totally unnecessary. I’m fine.”

Lu Sicheng stood up and pulled Tong Yao up as well.

Tong Yao hugged his waist with both of her hands as she stood up: “I was very scared at the beginning. I always thought that if we went public, there would be an overwhelming amount of objections and questions. I had a lot of concerns-- --What I was afraid of the most is whether you would be influenced by it, just like what Jian Yang did before, and start to regret being with me. Then there’ll be cheating, lies, indifference, and eventually we would go our separate ways…...That’s what I’m afraid of the most, but then afterwards-- --”

“What happens afterwards?” Lu Sicheng let the girl who was much shorter than him hug him. He could feel the soft body pressing against his and when he lowered his head, he could smell the faint smell of the shower gel which made him feel warm and reassured…… He paused but couldn’t help stressing about it: “Let me make it clear first, at least in this regard, I haven’t regretted it.”

“Afterwards, I found that you’re different from Jian Yang. That you won’t do those things to me, I’m certain of it. You firmly and clearly know what you want……” Tong Yao tightened her arms: “I feel reassured. Therefore, one day I decided to end your probation.”

Tong Yao looked up to face those dark brown pupils of his: “From that day on, I’ve mentally prepared myself to face the coming storm. You said that you don’t regret it, so neither do I-- --”

Tong Yao stopped for a moment.

Her black pupils were never this bright before.

“I don’t regret it.” She looked into Lu Sicheng’s eyes and said word by word: “I’m not afraid either.”

The moment she ended her sentence, she could feel the arms around her waistline suddenly tighten. Lu Sicheng hugged her tightly as if he wanted to press her inside his body. He lowered his head and kissed her deeply with the feeling of gratitude.

……

[The person totally tricked by a high schooler: Little ostrich, I heard that you’ve redownloaded Weibo and Tieba, where did you get your courage?]

[ZGDX, Smiling: From a lot of people, you, other friends, teammates, the club……]

[ZGDX, Smiling: And him.]

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 87 Part 3

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Those Sweet Times

Chapter 87 Part 3

“It’s just a suggestion, of course.” Yue Yingying quickly added: “If your parents don’t have time, we’ll have dinner some other time in the future.”

“Actually my parents have already met Lin Chuyan before.” Xiang Nuan replied in a small voice: “My mom likes him very much.”

Yue Yingying opened her mouth and took a look at her son with a surprised look. The look in her eyes was filled with encouragement and approval which Lin Chuyan had never seen before. He didn’t get that kind of look when he won awards for competitions or received his score on the college entrance exam. 

Yue Yingying stayed a while longer to chat with them. In the end, she asked Xiang Nuan what gift she wanted for her birthday. Xiang Nuan was too embarrassed to ask for anything.

When Yue Yingying was ready to leave, Lin Chuyan and Xiang Nuan walked her out. Lin Chuyan asked: “Mom, do you remember my birthday?”

“I know why you ask.” Yue Yingying lightly patted his shoulder and said softly: “You have to believe mom, Chuyan. If you weren’t our biological son, we would have discarded you long ago.”

“......Thanks, mom. Motherly love is so great.”

“Don’t mention it, that’s from your dad.”

Lin Chuyan thought that his mother was too accommodating to his father.

However, when he thought about it, if his own wife in the future could be this accommodating…… it would be quite nice that way.

After Yue Yingying left, Lin Chuyan closed the door and asked Xiang Nuan: “What do you want as a birthday gift?”

Xiang Nuan looked at him with her chin resting on her palm: “Hum…...What do you want to give me?”

Lin Chuyan smiled: “I’ll give myself to you.”

“Then you don’t have to spend a dime? You wish, Lin Chuyan. Don’t try to get away with it, you’re mine already.”

“My heart is yours, but my body isn’t yet.”

“......”

-- --

Chen Yinghu liked the feeling of driving the Mercedes Benz to the supermarket to buy beer. To make the pleasure last longer, he and Yang Yin both decided to go to the market that was further away.

Chen Yinghu drove the car on their way to the market and Yang Yin was the one who drove it back.

Yang Yin asked while she was driving: “What should we do tomorrow?”

“I’m going to the lab.” Shen Zemu said.

“How about you, Little Tiger?”

“I want to go to Laofeng Street.”

Shen Zemu couldn’t understand it: “What’s the fun of going to Laofeng Street?” The street was always crowded which gave him a headache. For him, one visit there was enough.

He couldn’t understand Chen Yinghu and Chen Yinghu couldn’t understand him either. Chen Yinghu: “No matter what Laofeng Street would be a better place than the lab?”

Shen Zemu was speechless.

Yang Yin laughed: “I would like to go to Laofeng Street too. There’s a place there with very good tofu pudding. I’ll take you there.”

“Sure, sure…...Yin Jie, how’s your job search? You still haven’t found a suitable team?”

“No, Deng Wenbo, that damn fool keeps spreading rumors about me even now. I think I’ll need to beat him up again.”

“Why did you beat him up before?”

“He wouldn’t keep his hands off me.”

“That kind of person deserves to be beaten. Next time remember to call me when you go beat him up.”

“Alright.”

Shen Zemu leaned against the car window, looking at the view outside as it quickly passed by. Though he felt that the other two were talking nonsense, to his surprise, he found it to be rather peaceful and didn’t find the conversation boring.

When they were back at the villa, they parked the car, carried the stuff they had bought to the villa, and saw Lin Chuyan at the door.

Lin Chuyan was squatting down at the foot of the wall next to the door. The sun had already set and it was getting dark. They couldn’t clearly tell why Lin Chuyan was doing there.

“What are you doing here?” Yang Yin went over to ask.

“I’m checking to see whether there are any bugs out here. If there’s no bug, we can eat in the garden later.” Lin Chuyan stood up and said with his body straightened upright.

He would never let anyone figure it out that Xiang Nuan had actually driven him out to reflect on his misdeeds.

He was a good actor and Yang Yin didn’t find anything wrong with his reply. Yang Yin and Chen Yinghu walked in the front to ring the doorbell. Lin Chuyan followed them back into the house.

He figured that the most important thing to a person was to have thick skin.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 115 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 115 Part 2

It was even messier on ZGDX's official Weibo site. Some were calling Tong Yao shameless for seducing Lu Sicheng; some were calling Lu Sicheng names for having a crush on Tong Yao…...and the others were blaming management: [Damn the management, they don’t even come out to stick up for their players when they’re being blasted online. They obviously don’t treat their players like human beings. They only know how to squeeze players dry to make money from them. Get lost!]

It was said that the girl who administered the official site had been dissed so badly that she burst into tears and went directly to the public relations department of the club to demand the director issue a statement.

When the plane carrying Tong Yao and her teammates landed at Shanghai’s airport, the ZGDX Club finally issued an official statement-- --

[To the fans of the ZGDX Club:

Greetings to everyone.

Thanks to everyone for your long time fondness and support to the two members of our Club’s League of Legends Division: Tong Yao (game id: Smiling) and Lu Sicheng (game id: Chessman).

As to the private relationship between our team members, our club, upholding the management concepts of independence and open mindedness, will not excessively interfere in private relationships under the condition that said relationships haven’t impacted their training and performance-- -- “The mutual attraction will become a legend with high approbation,” will be the best blessing and wishes from the management of our club.

As to the online verbal attacks on our players recently, our club will investigate and follow through. Any speech that infringes on the personal safety of our players, our club will uphold our right to take legal action and safeguard the personal rights of our players to the end.

Finally, there is a quote on Weibo-- --

“If you are watchful of the current situation in the world, it seems that the opposite side of goodness isn’t evil, but ignorance.

Evil is only the by-product of ignorance.”

Don’t let ignorance blind your eyes to goodness.

We wish you all a happy life.]

……

On the bus back to the ZGDX base, Xiao Rui read the official statement from the club word by word on the microphone. After he put down the mic, he faced the two who were sitting on the last row and said: “I heard the official Weibo administrator cried three times from being attacked by fans. But there’s nothing to be afraid of, it’s not something shameful at all-- --But you two have to understand one thing: a lot of people are watching you, some who are sincerely wishing you well and some who are waiting to see you fall so they can laugh at you. Therefore, in regards to the world championship, there’s only winning. There’s no room for losing.”

Tong Yao and Lu Sicheng didn’t say anything at the time.

The atmosphere in the bus grew serious. Everyone had a ponderous look on their face. Everyone was carefully mulling over what Xiao Ruo had just said-- --

[Some who are sincerely wishing you well and some are waiting to see you fall so they can laugh at you. Therefore, in regards to the world championship, there’s only winning. There’s no room for losing]

……

After arriving back at base, they all went back to their rooms to take showers and get ready for bed. Tong Yao didn’t bother to think about anything or do anything. She only took out her cell phone to charge it and then fell sound asleep on her bed, without a dream throughout the night…...The next morning, the sun shone brightly into her room. Tong Yao took off her eyeshades and got up. She grabbed her cell phone and the first thing she saw was a WeChat message from her friend Chen Jinyang-- --

[The person totally tricked by a high schooler: Your official site is really something, facing off those trolls just like that. It’s almost like wishing you two for a harmonious union and to soon have a baby.]

The corner of Tong Yao’s lips twitched. 

She logged off WeChat and opened the Apple store to download Weibo, Tieba, the LoL app, and other various social network apps. She was at peace with herself as she waited for the downloads.

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 87 Part 2

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Those Sweet Times

Chapter 87 Part 2 

Lin Chuyan got hold of Xiang Nuan’s wrists and pulled them over her head. His hand was large enough to pin both of Xiang Nuan’s wrists. Xiang Nuan wasn’t able to move, like a fish stranded on the beach.

Lin Chuyan was on top of Xiang Nuan and slowly kissed her, tenderly. Her body was soft as wicker and smelt as fragrant as flower petals. Lin Chuyan’s hand caressed her waistline and he kissed her lips greedily and indulgently. His heartbeat grew faster and faster and his breathing became more and more erratic.

He told himself that he couldn’t continue.

There was a voice in him telling him to stop.

His body was about to go out of control.

Yet he couldn’t stop himself. She was his fatal weakness, how could he stop?

Suddenly, there was noise coming from outside…...It was the sound of a key opening the lock.

He had to stop whether he liked it or not.

Lin Chuyan released Xiang Nuan and sat up. Then he pulled her up and helped her tidy up her hair and clothes.

Xiang Nuan had a red face and glistening eyes.

Lin Chuyan squinted to look at her moist and bright red lips. He swallowed and said: “You better hide first, the way you look now……”

Xiang Nuan ran to the bathroom, splashed her face with cold water, and walked out only after she was sure that she didn’t look suspicious.

It was Yue Yingying who had come to visit. When she saw Xiang Nuan coming out of the bathroom, she immediately waved at Xiang Nuan: “Xiang Nuan, come over here, quick!”

“Auntie, why are you here?” Xiang Nuan was happy to see her and sat down right next to her.

“I came over to see you…..” After saying so, Yue Yingying noticed that her own son was casting a look at her, she then added: “you all.”

“What is this?” Xiang Nuan pointed at a simple yet elegant looking box which Yue Yingying had brought with her.

“They’re hand-made pastries, from the most famous bakery in Nanshan City. Taste it and see whether you like them.”

“Thanks, auntie!” Xiang Nuan helped herself to some pastries.

Lin Chuyan still felt odd that his mother had come so suddenly and asked: “Mom, is there something you plan to do here?”

“There’s something. Isn’t Xiang Nuan’s birthday coming up soon? We’ll celebrate her birthday together this year…...Is it alright, Xiang Nuan?”

“Sure, auntie. Auntie, the pastries are so good!”

“Good. I’m glad that you like them. I’ll bring more for you in the future.”

Lin Chuyan said: “There’s still one more month before Xiang Nuan’s birthday. How can it be coming soon?”

“It’s coming soon if you round off.”

Lin Chuyan couldn’t refute his own mother.

Yue Yingying continued: “Xiang Nuan, will Professor Xiang and your mother come here for your birthday?”

“I’m not sure.”

“They should, right? It’s your first birthday away from home.”

“En. En.” Xiang Nuan certainly wished that her parents would be here for her birthday.

“If that’s the case, then why don’t we all celebrate it together? We can formally meet your parents at the same time, what do you think?”

Xiang Nuan knew very well what Auntie Yue had in mind. Wasn’t it like meeting the parents before arranging the wedding?

She was a little embarrassed and didn’t know how to reply with a red face.

Yue Yingying realized that she might have acted too rashly. Xiang Nuan was only a college freshman and she was already in a hurry to meet her future in-laws. What if Professor and Mrs. Xiang didn’t want to meet her? Xiang Nuan was their most precious daughter afterall and it was her son who was going to take their daughter away……

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