Those Sweet Times - Chapter 99 Part 1

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Those Sweet Times

Chapter 99 Part 1

Extra: Shen Zemu and Yang Yin

While Yang Yin was talking with the tutor, someone suddenly came by and sat down at their table. From the corner of her eye she could see a pair of arms resting on the table. This person was wearing a white long-sleeved shirt with the cuffs of the shirt neatly buttoned up, clean, neat, meticulous, and abstinent.

Yang Yin’s heart skipped a beat and looked up. She saw the face of Shen Zemu.

Shen Zemu was looking sideways at her. He looked at her quietly. When Yang Yin met his eyes, she uncomfortably moved her eyes away to look outside the window.

“Why are you here?” Yang Yin asked.

“Just passing by.” His answer was brief and forceful, very Shen Zemu-like.

The tutor put down his pen, took a look at Yang Yin, then Shen Zemu. He asked: “You two know each other?”

“Hrm.” Yang Yin turned her head around to take a look at the tutor. From the tutor’s expression, she asked: “You two know each other too? You aren’t in the same major, are you?”

“We aren’t. I’m in Computer Science. But the girls in my major, some of them like Lin Chuyan while some like Shen Zemu, and there’s quite a few more……”

“Who does quite a few more like?” Yang Yin was curious. The person who could be on par with Lin Chuyan and Shen Zemu or even surpass them must be rather outstanding.

“They like the both of them.” The tutor answered.

“What?” Yang Yin didn’t get it.

“It’s like they like them as a couple…...Like this.” The tutor seemed too embarrassed to put it in words. He gestured using his two fists with the two thumbs facing each other, wiggling a bit. Then he repeated: “Like this.”

Yang Yin found it quite amusing and thought those students were hilarious.

Shen Zemu didn’t know what bad things he had done in his previous life that he would always be paired up with Lin Chuyan wherever he went in this life…...He frowned, looked down at the books on the table, and asked deliberately: “What are you two doing?”

“Uhr……” Yang Yin was pulled back to reality. She scratched her head as her eyeballs circled in her eyes trying to find an excuse. Then she saw Shen Zemu’s eyes, calm and clear, she immediately realized that there was no need to pretend because he had figured out everything already. She then admitted quite frankly: “There are areas I don’t quite understand while I’m studying. See, that’s why I’ve hired a tutor.”

The tutor hurriedly said: “We’re studying together, improving together.”

Shen Zemu glanced at the tutor. He could see the eagerness in the tutor’s face.

Yang Yin had fair skin and was quite slender. She looked quite delicate and it was quite easy to arouse the desire to protect her from the opposite sex.

“You continue.” Shen Zemu said while nodding his head. Yang Yin didn’t know what exactly he wanted to find out.

With Shen Zemy watching next to her, Yang Yin was a little uneasy.

The tutor, rather simple-mindedly, didn’t sense Yang Yin’s awkwardness and picked up his pen to continue their discussion after the interruption.

Yang Yin had no choice but to go along with it.

After they talked for about 3 or 5 minutes, Shen Zemu abruptly pointed at Yang Yin’s notebook and said: “There’s an even simpler way to solve this problem.” Without asking, he took over the pen in the tutor’s hand and started to write down a few lines of operations on the notebook.

He returned the pen back to the tutor after he had finished writing.

Then he went to the counter to buy a glass of lemonade. The lemonade was in a pure white mug. When he walked back with the lemonade in his hand, he looked particularly like a retired official; the only thing missing would be a roll of newspaper in his other hand.

Shen Zemu sat back down with his lemonade, ignoring the looks from the other two people. He took a look at the tutor’s scratch paper and said to the tutor: “Trigonometry is taught in the second semester of the eleventh grade. She hasn’t learned it yet. You need to use another method to solve the problem.”

“What do you mean by that?” The tutor wasn’t pleased.

Yang Yin was a little ashamed: “I…...well, I indeed didn’t learn eleventh grade……”

“You have to tell me if you haven’t learned it. In any case, you have to let him leave first. With him around, I can’t help you solve the problems.”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 136 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 136 Part 3

Jinyang became very quiet on the other end of the phone.

After a long while, Tong Yao heard her frosty voice: “The last time you fetched the cat on your own to sleep with you was the night you broke up with Jian Yang. You got scared, so what. But you keep telling people you’re alright, damn, who are you trying to fool? You think you’re the lead actress in a Korean drama?”

Tong Yao: “......”

She lifted her blanket up to let Dabing and Xiao Cong in, then she used one hand to stroke the cats and one hand to hold the phone to keep chatting with Jinyang for a while longer. She didn’t hang up and go to sleep until she was too drowsy to even keep her eyes open…... She didn’t sleep well that night and was constantly hounded by random dreams. She felt like her whole body had fallen into an ice cellar and was surrounded by darkness. Though she was under the blanket, she could still feel the chilling coldness coming from the tip of her right index finger spread all over her body.

She had nightmares the whole night.

When it was almost daybreak, she didn’t know what time it began but she started to feel enveloped by the warmth of a body. The darkness and chilling cold had dissipated. She calmed down-- --She opened her eyes in a daze, with the faint early morning light coming through the window, she saw a broad chest in front of her.

“What time is it?”

“5:30.”

“Just came back?”

“En.”

“You smoked?”

“En.”

Tong Yao yawned, mumbled something, and lifted her hand to pat the man’s chest. Her hand was soon carefully brought back under the blanket by the man-- --The two cats were nowhere to be found. Tong Yao didn’t bother looking for them, since something better than the cats had replaced them.

“Go sleep.”

Tong Yao raised her head and used the tip of her nose to rub against his chin, then sighed quite satisfactory before closing her eyes-- --She had been restless the whole night, now she could get some peace of mind.

……

On Sunday, it was time for ZGDX’s match against Red Arrow.

ZGDX’s mid, Smiling, was absent and the substitute, Lu, was playing the game instead. It took only one hour and twenty minutes for the two rounds of the match, including break time. ZGDX won the game, 2 : 0.

When the game was over, the look on the faces of Red Arrow’s players seemed to indicate that they didn’t really know what had happened-- --Not only them, even the audience hadn’t gotten over their surprise. For the entire time of both rounds, Lu Sicheng hadn’t spoken a single word. Old K was the one who took over main command with the rest of the team pitching in. What Lu Sicheng did was simply hard carry his team and he was in control of the tempo of the game from beginning to end.

Lu Sicheng was the MVP for both rounds though people said this version of the game wasn’t too friendly towards ADs. He used one hour and twenty minutes to lead the audience back to the days when ADCs were the ones who dominated the game.

“So fierce.”

“He played so violently today. Wonder what’s wrong with him; it feels like Cheng Ge’s going to eat people.”

“It feels like he’s playing with a lot of emotions. There were several occasions where he shouldn’t have ganked to be on the safe side, but did it anyway. It all relied on their skill to win the team fights.”

“It seems that……………………..he’s angry? But why?”

The name of the MVP for both rounds were displayed on the big screen. The audience looked at that handsome but indifferent face on the screen and was making all kinds of guesses. What they didn’t expect was that there was something even more surprising waiting for them-- --

After the game was over, there was no MVP interview because Lu Sicheng refused to be interviewed.

The arena was left with the embarrassed host, the commentators who came to save the show but without knowing what had happened or what to say, and the dumbfounded audience.

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 98 Part 3

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Those Sweet Times

Chapter 98 Part 3

Extra: Shen Zemu and Yang Yin

Yang Yin told Deng Wenbo the situation she had found. Deng Wenbo asked: “What exactly does it mean? Sum it up briefly.”

“To sum it up briefly, it means that we have to steer Dw, a precarious little broken boat, against four battleships for the three entrance tickets. Oh, right, at the time of the preliminaries, there will be three more big ships coming down from the major league.”

“Uhr.” Deng Wenbo was taken aback and asked: “Then, is there any chance for us?”

“I don’t know. I’m now a little regretful.” Yang Yin looked depressed. She had expected that by the time of the preliminaries there would be a few strong teams, but now it seemed that there were too many of them?......

Deng Wenbo felt a little sorry for Yang Yin seeing her so upset. He said: “Then, why don’t we…...just forget about it?”

Yang Yin glanced over those players who were diligently working hard in the training room and felt that she couldn’t just give up: “Boss, I feel that we can’t give up halfway just because it would be tough. Even if there’s only a slim hope, we still have to put in all our effort.”

Deng Wenbo finally understood why he hadn’t fired Yang Yin though she rebuked him almost everyday-- --He thought mostly it was because he was such a broad-minded person-- --But the other reason was because he truly liked that vigorous attitude of hers.

Yang Yin started to closely monitor those teams. Whenever those teams played a match, she would go out of her way to find the video of the game. She would save those videos to carefully analyze them. It was unusual for anyone to do so at the minor league level. There were too many matches in the minor league and the changes in teams and players were quite fluid as well. Some matches were so minor that there weren’t even a stream of them online and it was quite difficult to get those videos.

In addition, she also analyzed the teams in the major league to predict which 3 teams they might encounter in the preliminaries.

-- --

In October, Yang Yin led her players in one of the city competitions. Their opponent at Nanshan City happened to be one of the four newly formed strong teams. Yang Yin’s team lost the match as expected, but they didn’t lose it too badly. It was 1 : 2. After the match, Yang Yin gave her players a pep talk: “It was MX we were facing! You guys won one round against them, I’m quite impressed!”

The morale of her players were lifted.

Deng Wenbo felt she was really good at what she was doing.

After the city competition, Yang Yin asked for a day off to take the exam. Afterwards, Shen Zemu asked her how the exam went.

She replied: I feel pretty good about it.

She had listened to Shen Zemu’s advise to not take the courses for her major just yet. Instead, she had started to study high school math and physics.

She used Shen Zemu’s old textbooks and studied his original, handwritten notes. She studied vigorously and felt like she had an endless amount of energy.

Even she couldn’t believe it and sometimes wondered if she had taken some energy pills.

However, passion aside, her vigorous energy couldn’t make her more intelligent. There were times when she simply couldn’t do some of the harder problems.

Yang Yin found a tutor through an agency. She was basically self-studying, but whenever she encountered any questions, she would take it down then went to the tutor two hours each week to get her questions answered.

The tutor was a student of Nanshan University, majoring in Computer Science. They had agreed to meet every Sunday morning from 7:30 to 9:30 am. The tutor at first wasn’t willing to do those hours. Yang Yin had to increase the pay before he agreed.

Since she didn’t let anyone in her team know about the self-study exams, she couldn’t have the tutor come to the club.

She had to go meet the tutor.

Sunday morning, Yang Yin took a ride to go to the Yuanchi campus of Nanshan University. Because she was afraid to run into someone she knew at campus, she had arranged to meet the tutor at a coffee shop about two bus stops from the campus.

…...What she didn’t expect was that she happened to run into Shen Zemu there.

It was quite a coincidence that Shen Zemu would show up there. That morning, Shen Zemu had gotten up early to go to Nanshan Technology to pick up some equipment for his own lab. Since the place wasn’t too far from the campus and there was no direct bus line to get there, he had decided to walk over there.

When he was about to reach Nanshan Technology, he happened to see Yang Yin through the window of a coffee shop.

There was a man sitting across from her. They kept talking back and forth with some books spread out on the table. Yang Yin, with a pen in hand, would take down notes from time to time.

Shen Zemu stood outside the window, watching them, but she didn’t notice him at all.

Then, he made a turn to go straight into the coffee shop.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 136 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 136 Part 2

That night, before Tong Yao had time to recover from her shock, the club had sent someone to come notify them that for Tong Yao’s safety, she would not be participating in the game against Red Arrow on Sunday and Lu Yue would replace her.

Tong Yao was quite calm when she heard the news. She just lowered her head to take a look at the cut on her hand and felt that the situation was a little unfair-- --What she didn’t expect was for Lu Sicheng to react so strongly to the news. He was discussing a new jungler strategy with Old K when the staff member came to inform them about the club’s decision. After hearing the news, he didn’t say anything but glanced up at the staff member, then he turned to walk out of the base without a single word.

The front door of the base almost fell from the frame as he slammed the door behind him.

After Lu Sicheng left, the whole base was in a distressed mood.

The flustered staff member watched the captain leave, then turned his head back and shrunk his neck. He looked at Tong Yao and spoke carefully: “Be careful, don’t let the cut get wet. Actually, management is making the decision for the sake of your own safety. We don’t have to risk our own safety just to prove a point……”

“En.” Tong Yao responded, then asked after giving it more thought: “We don’t have to make any announcement about it, do we? I feel it’s better to not say anything. First, there may be copycats out there and if they learn about this, then I may not be the only one who gets hurt. Secondly, I don’t want our true fans to get worried and create even more issues……”

“Right, right, right, we’ll do as you say, for sure.”

The staff member raised his hand up to wipe off the sweat on his forehead and breathed out a long sigh before turning around to leave the base.

Tong Yao watched him walk out of the door. Then she took out her cell phone at the same time when she heard Old Cat ask behind her with a worrisome tone of voice: “Are you alright? Uhr, this is really terrible but there’s nothing we can do about it. This time I can actually understand where management is coming from. Don’t get upset with them. You’re a young girl, if anything happens to you, all of us would be ashamed to face your family……”

“En.” Tong Yao looked down to tap on her cell phone: “What can really happen?”

[ZGDX, Smiling: Where are you? Come back.]

Tong Yao waited for 10 minutes after sending the WeChat message, but there was no response. She stood up to put on her shoes and went to the garage to check-- --Lu Sicheng’s car wasn’t there, just as she had suspected.

It was 9 o’clock at night.

[ZGDX, Smiling: I’m alright. It’s just a break from one match, it’s not like I’m banned from playing. It’s no big deal…...I don’t feel bad about it. Though the only job for a professional player is to play games, fans are the indispensable collateral to the business just like in the entertainment circle. Sometimes they feel so annoying and we wonder why they don’t simply disappear. But sometimes, when we're down in the dumps, they’re the ones who support us in places where we don’t necessarily see them……]

[ZGDX, Smiling: When I was doing the MVP interview that day, I saw someone in the audience lifting up high a board supporting me. It was very bright on the stage and I couldn't even clearly see what the person looked like…...I only knew that at that very moment I suddenly became quite courageous and was therefore able to say what I did that day.]

[ZGDX, Smiling: I don’t regret it even now.]

[ZGDX, Smiling: …...Nevermind, I don’t even know what I’m talking about.]

Tong Yao was standing in the parking lot sending out all those messages suffering attacks from mosquitoes all the while. She put her cell phone away and took a look at the empty parking space. She went back to base.

One hour later, about 10:30 pm, Tong Yao took out her cell phone again which had been very quiet for the past hour or so. She dialed Lu Sicheng’s cell phone, it was turned off.

[ZGDX, Smiling: It’s almost curfew time.]

Another hour later, around 12 midnight, she called his phone again and it was still turned off.

[ZGDX, Smiling: I don’t want to see the headline in tomorrow's newspaper saying a professional player drove his luxury car into Huangpu River and sank to the bottom to feed the fish. Will you be able to come back?]

Another 20 minutes later, [ZGDX, Smiling: I’m tired. But my hand still hurts, I wish the captain was here to hold me as I fall asleep.]

Tong Yao stared at her cell phone for a while after sending out the last message. Then she lifted her hand to rub her eyes-- --The act tugged the skin around the cut on her index finger and it stung. She put her hand down with a screech. Then she went downstairs to look for a plastic bag to wrap her hand before taking a shower. When she came out of the bathroom, it was 1:30 after midnight. Tong Yao listened carefully, there didn’t seem to be any indication downstairs that Lu Sicheng had come back, her cell phone likewise didn’t have any response from him either.

Frowning, Tong Yao went downstairs to fetch the two cats and put them onto her bed. Her cell phone rang, but it wasn’t from Lu Sicheng. Tong Yao answered the phone, it was Jinyang’s voice coming from the other end: “You aren’t sleeping yet, right? How’s your hand? I went back home this morning and just landed back in Shanghai. Shit, you haven’t answered the phone for so long, I thought you were dead!”

Jinyang was a little incoherent. Tong Yao could hear the announcement on the airplane, politely reminding everyone that the plane had just landed and that passengers shouldn't turn on their cell phones yet.

“It’s nothing. That guy next door is really talkative.” Tong Yao rolled her eyes. “I just went down to fetch my cats and didn’t check my cell phone.”

“Why do you want to get the cats?”

“To sleep with me.”

“......”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 136 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 136 Part 1

Usually, the site for the major league competitions isn’t very large. The competition stage usually isn’t too far away from the first row of the audience-- --It is so close that the audience sitting in the first row could step forward a couple of steps to jump onto the stage. The players who are playing matches would be just a few more steps away.

Sometimes when the players are talking slightly louder amongst themselves, the audience in the first three rows could clearly hear them.

“Is this person crazy?”

With the note in hand, Little Fatty had a rarely seen dark face. When the housekeeper came by with a broom to clean up, she worriedly asked: “Ah, how come there were blades attached to the edges of the box? Is that girl alright?” Everyone seemed to come back to their senses from the shock. Xiao Rui asked the security person to come over and told him that, from now on, no player could open any delivery box by themselves. Afterwards, he hurriedly walked up to the second floor, leaving all the others behind.

Tong Yao’s door was ajar and there was the sound of running water coming from inside.

Xiao Rui pushed the door open and walked in. He discovered that the sound of running water was coming from the sink in the bathroom, but the two people inside were sitting at the edge of the bed…… Xiao Rui went over to turn off the faucet. The room became extremely quiet that the sound of a silver needle dropping on the floor could be heard-- --The two people who were sitting at the bed were silent. Lu Sicheng was applying alcohol on Tony Yao’s cut. When the alcohol touched the cut, Tong Yao screeched and subconsciously pulled her hand back. Lu Sicheng glanced up at her, then forcefully held her hand so she couldn’t retract it.

Tong Yao’s eyes were red and misty. She stared at the cut for a while, then, as if having made up her mind to take whatever may come, she stretched her hand over to Lu Sicheng-- --Lu Sicheng quickly disinfected the area, applied hemostyptic on it, then covered it with a bandage……

He was very careful the entire time, making his movements as light as possible.

However, the bandage quickly turned a little pinkish. It looked like the cut was quite deep.

Xiao Rui stood near the door watching with knit eyebrows like an invisible man. After a long while, Lu Sicheng asked without even looking up: “Anything you want?”

His voice was low and ‘bad mood’ wasn’t enough to describe it.

“That box downstairs……”

Xiao Rui noticed that Lu Sicheng seemed about to lift his head and subconsciously stopped talking as if he was afraid to continue. Then Tong Yao, whose eyes and nose were all reddish, turned to ask with a hoarse voice: “What’s wrong with that box? Are there dead mice under those dead cockroaches?”

Lu Sicheng: “......”

Lu Sicheng pinched Tong Yao’s chin to turn her face back. She took a look at him and mumbled: “It’s standard to have blades and dead mice. The reason why this person replaced mice with cockroaches has to be the fact that I had said on stream before that I’m scared of cockroaches. I should have said that I’m scared of diamonds and gold……”

Lu Sicheng didn’t release her chin but coldly said: “Why talk so much nonsense when your tears are almost falling down.”

“......................................It hurts.” Tong Yao also changed to an expressionless face and sniffled before speaking in a small voice: “You almost doused the whole bottle of alcohol on my hand. Do you know how painful that is?”

Lu Sicheng said “oh” with no expression on his face: “It’s not as painful as my heart.”

Tong Yao: “......”

Lu Sicheng didn’t say anything more but took a deep breath and pulled her into his arms. At the same time, he turned to look at Xiao Rui as if to say: if you have something to say, just spit it out-- --The mirthless look in his eyes made Xiao Rui’s feet buckle a bit. Xiao Rui said: “There’s a threatening note in that box, saying that the person’s going to make trouble at the game the day after tomorrow……I’ve already reported it to the police and informed the organizer to increase the security check at the site. However, I don’t think all these will do any good anyway-- --What I mean is that, since Tong Yao’s hand is injured, Tong Yao doesn't have to play the game against Red Arrow to be on the safe side. It’ll also give Lu Yue a chance to play an official competition. If he keeps playing only skirmishes, I’m afraid he won’t be able to keep up with you guys when it’s time to play the world tournament. What do you two think……”

“No way.” Lu Sicheng responded without looking up: “There’s no reason to not let her play.”

Xiao Rui slightly widened his eyes: “But safety comes first, besides her hand is hurt!”

Lu Sicheng looked up to take a look at Tong Yao. Tong Yao frowned and seemed somewhat hesitant: “The audience has to pass through security checkpoints to get into the arena. They shouldn’t be able to bring anything dangerous. Besides those who are willing to come watch in person are mostly kids, they shouldn’t be able to do anything radical……”

Xiao Rui retorted: “Isn’t today radical enough?”

Tong Yao was silent and didn’t respond-- --A lot of thoughts were going through her head, she couldn’t mentally digest everything that had just happened. But she suddenly thought about the fan who held up that LCD board with her id on it in the audience when she was being interviewed the other day……

Tong Yao sighed: “My hand shouldn’t hurt the day after tomorrow.”

Lu Sicheng looked at Xiao Rui: “Hear that?”

Xiao Rui: “Then, Lu Yue……”

Lu Sicheng: “We’ll arrange for him to play later on, but not now.”

Xiao Rui didn’t push further. He knew that Lu Sicheng was filled with pent up anger and didn’t want to let the person who had hurt Tong Yao to have their way. How would it look if they just did what that person had threatened them to do? Xiao Rui also realized that his proposal was hard for the two to accept but, from his perspective, he thought that it would be the best option after weighing the pros and cons…...In the end, he could only say to them: “Just think about it again” before scurrying away.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 135 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile 

Chapter 135 Part 3

“...........................................................Uhr, what should I say?”

Lu Sicheng sat in front of the computer, lifting his hand to scratch his chin as if pondering hard on something. After a long while, he slowly said: “Those words were a bit arrogant. But, doesn’t ‘I don’t regret it’ sound like a marriage oath? Therefore, it sounded too good that I don’t have the heart to scold her…… Hum, you all thought she was talking about those haters who would scold her? That’s not it, she was talking about me, about me.”

The careless expression on his face made him look rather laid-back. However the viewers couldn’t see through the camera his disdain towards those troublemakers and his disgust towards the whole incident in his dark brown pupils……

[6666666 you have to fight with trolls over this?]

[What’s wrong with you…...This conceited tone of voice is really amazing. Smiling, come quick and take a look at your man, he’s really gone crazy.]

[2333333333 So you didn’t have the heart to scold her.]

[The whole world is speaking up for her, 6666666]

The corners of Lu Sicheng’s lips were curving upwards, but there wasn’t even a trace of a smile in his eyes.

He glanced over some comments mixed with all the “666” bullet comments which said things like “disappointed” “covering each other” “ZGDX is over” “women should stay away from esports, now everyone’s gone crazy”...... Lu Sicheng paused for a moment, the clicking sound of his mouse went silent. A few seconds later, he clicked the mouse again and the enemy’s ad died from a tower dive. Above Lu Sicheng champion’s head the number “300” appeared. At the same time, his calm voice could be heard-- --

“Those of you who can’t stand it can turn off the stream, return your tickets for the competition, tear my autograph apart, burn my pictures, and cancel your subscription to my Weibo-- --I deeply appreciated your fondness of me in the past. But I won’t feel sorry that you’re leaving. No need to send me a private message to inform me either. I won’t tearfully regret it. Goodbye, I won’t see you off.”

As Lu Sicheng was talking, Tong Yao happened to pass behind him. She slapped his back when she heard what he was saying. Lu Sicheng acted as if nothing had happened and only lifted his hand to scratch his back.

“What? You think what I said was too rude and beneath my dignity. Well, I’m an internet addicted old man.” Lu Sicheng said: “Don’t overrate me, I can’t bear it.”

He kept countering the bullet comments.

Tong Yao: “......”

Xiao Rui walked over to give Tong Yao a glance and whispered: “Just let him be. Those internet trolls can only bitch online. Could they douse you with acid in real life? It’ll be alright in a few days.”

Tong Yao nodded, but lifted her hand to touch her face.

……

It turned out that Tong Yao’s worry was valid.

One day later, about 24 hours after Xiao Rui assured her that the trolls couldn’t do anything to her, Tong Yao received an express package-- --It happened quite often when fans sent gifts to the players. Tong Yao would always get on stream after receiving the gift to thank the fan and to prove that she had received the gift in person-- --She didn’t give it much thought when opening the package……

She was then cut by a blade which was securely attached to the edge of the package. Her hand shook and dropped the box. There were several dozens of dead cockroaches falling out from the upside down box. 

The base was instantly in a state of commotion.

Lu Sicheng, with a black face, took Tong Yao upstairs to look for the first aid kit. Xiao Rui called the housekeep to come sweep away the dead cockroaches. In the confusion, Little Fatty picked up a note with crooked handwriting off the floor-- --

[Just to teach you a small lesson. So cocky. Better not play the following matches, the players section isn’t that far from the audience.]

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 98 Part 2

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Those Sweet Times 

Chapter 98 Part 2

Extra: Shen Zemu and Yang Yin

Shen Zemu had moved back to school after summer vacation ended and didn’t come to the club as often.

Yang Yin also stopped wearing skirts all the time.

The players all liked secretly inviting Shen Zemu to come over. It was the first time that Shen Zemu found that he was a rather popular guy?

Another person who was not used to not seeing Shen Zemu often was Deng Wenbo.

Deng Wenbo had known from the start that Yang Yin had a special interest in Shen Zemu.

One time Deng Wenbo asked Yang Yin: “Tell me, me and Shen Zemu, who looks more handsome?”

“Boss, where did you get the confidence to compare how attractive you are with him?” Yang Yin was baffled.

Deng Wenbo was a little disappointed and said: “Alright, I won’t compare with him. Just tell me then, do you think I’m good looking?”

Yang Yin shook her head.

Deng Wenbo said: “But all the other women all say that I’m handsome.”

Yang Yin opened her palm face up and said: “Boss, one hundred RMB for one ‘handsome.’ I can say it to you for a whole day.”

Deng Wenbo felt that he wasn’t being treated fairly: “You’re a tigress in front of me, but a little sheep in front of him.”

Yang Yin didn't fully understand what Deng Wenbo was upset about, but she didn’t bother getting to the bottom of it.

Deng Wenbo, however, kept going: “Why do you have two faces at such a young age?”

Yang Yin threatened him: “Boss, my iron fist is already hungry for action.”

Deng Wenbo: =  =

He stopped talking.

Deng Wenbo seemed to have a lot of time on his hands lately and came over to the base quite often. Though he felt bad when Yang Yin rebuked him, he still couldn’t stop himself from going over to get some more. Even he couldn’t understand his own mind.

-- --

After Shen Zemu went back to school, the offseason of the summer was over for Yang Yin’s team as well. They officially started their season in the minor league.

There were several kinds of competitions for the Kings of Glory minor league teams. Most of the teams would have to advance from weekly matches to monthly matches to finals. Those teams that came on top of the minor league competitions could qualify for the preliminaries. The first three winning teams of the preliminaries could participate in next season's major league competition.

Yang Yin, while preparing the team for the competition, tried to find out more about the other participating teams. What she had found so far didn’t seem too optimistic for her own team.

It wasn’t just a bit bad, it was outright frightening.

The Kings of Glory major league was getting more and more popular and had thus attracted many well-established esports clubs to join in. For this season, there were at least four very strong esports clubs forming new Kings of Glory teams. Those teams must all be strong teams, in terms of both financial backing and skill.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 135 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 135 Part 2

They didn’t realize that Tong Yao’s interview had once again caused an earthquake in the esports world until they arrived back at base-- --

Certainly, there was an overwhelming number of questions and abusive insults. They basically boiled down to saying that Tong Yao had an inflated ego, or had grown arrogant just because she was a girl, or being a busybody, or disrespectful of fans…… All the professional players, if they were streaming, were talking about what had happened as well…… However, the players from other teams who had been kept quiet up till now had unexpectedly started to speak out. Every player-- --almost every player who knew Tong Yao had responded positively.

*Ah Guang: [Smiling is a very nice person. All of you who are talking about her probably would never know how nice she is. So don’t measure the heart of great men with your own tiny mean hearts.]

*Team Qing Dynasty ad: [Some people, for the good of this profession, say things that are unpleasant to the ears-- --Unpleasant advice is a good medicine, yeah, that’s the saying. None of you better be creating issues for Smiling while I’m streaming, or when anyone from my team is streaming. It’s meaningless. We’ll ban you. Smiling is a very good professional player; it has nothing to do with the gender.]

*Ai Jia: [‘But before that happens, even if the path is paved with thorns or burning sand, as the captain of ZGDX who everyone trusts and carries everyone’s hope, he should endure, he’s willing to endure, and he also must endure all of that’...... Ah, how nicely said, very moving. It’s inspiring. Rest assured, though the one who’ll be standing on that stage is regretfully not ZGDX, I’ll at least raise the Five-star Red Flag for Cheng Ge.]

*Jinyang’s voice could be heard in Ai Jia’s stream: [Envy won’t make you a better person. If you have all this time for bitching, why not use the time to improve yourselves.]

Ai Jia: [Did you all hear that? My girl’s words may not sound pleasing, but it makes a lot of sense.]

*Li Junhe: [(Korean) Interview? I watched it. Such a charming person. That’s why I’ve said before that Lu Sicheng’s very lucky, very lucky.]

*Liangsheng: [Hahahahahahaha! ! ! Did you all hear that? Our ad said the ad next door is very lucky to have the mid next door, hahahahahahaha-- -- How could I understand him? Sure I understand it! My Korean is pretty good. Li Junhe learns Chinese and I learn Korean…… He’s the one who wants it this way. Though we communicate in Chinese while playing matches, he just likes to make me learn Korean.]

*Li Huanshuo: [Interview? There’s nothing wrong with what she said. Who’s saying bad things about Smiling Jiejie? ! Are there any bullet comments trolling her? ! Ur, moderator, get to work. No one can say bad things about Smiling Jiejie on my channel! Not allowed! It’s forbidden! Ban it!]

*Jiang Yang: [What do I say? What can I say? Those who don’t understand the game better not say anything or you’ll embarrass yourself…… ZGDX for sure would be even stronger than now. I hope I’ll face the transformed ZGDX later. It’s not that I’m scared, it’s just the truth.]

*Little Fatty: [It’s all damn nonsense. Our mid certainly is super duper great! !  ! ! !]

*Old Cat: [We’re getting along just fine as a team, don’t you guys worry. Tong Yao’s words are our official opinions, even the punctuation marks are the same.]

*Old K: [It doesn’t really matter if you guys have to believe that we don’t get along, it won’t affect us anyway. The final match of the summer competition….. Oh, no, during the world tournament, we’ll give you all our answer. Since the fans all want to get their words thrown back at them, we’ll give you a satisfactory answer then.]

*ZGDX Team manager Xiao Rui: [We’ve said what we want to say. All the suffering will turn into the light illuminating our road forward. Go for it, ZGDX!]

……

It was the feeling that Tong Yao had everyone’s support.

Those who she had helped before, had befriended, or had influenced all showed up to support her.

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 98 Part 1

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Those Sweet Times

Chapter 98 Part 1

Extra: Shen Zemu and Yang Yin

Shen Zemu didn’t like Lin Chuyan very much. Any straight man wouldn’t like another man who messed around with him before. This had nothing to do with Xiang Nuan.

The four of them walked around inside the convention for a while, then they split up.

Many different games were participating in the convention and divided into several areas. Shen Zemu had played many other games, as had Yang Yin. After they left the Kings of Glory area, they went to visit other areas.

On their way, Yang Yin unexpectedly ran into her ex-boyfriend.

Her ex-boyfriend was a famous esports player. He probably wanted to get closer to the fans and had come out to do autographs and take pictures with fans.

His fans were excited, noisily circling around him.

Yang Yin stood some distance away watching him. She told Shen Zemu: “That’s my ex-boyfriend…… Tell me, was I blind before?”

Shen Zemu highly agreed with her: “Yes.”

Yang Yin had left the professional circle for a while. No one had recognized her when she was standing there since the circle changed rather rapidly and, in addition, she knew how to dress herself up more than before.

However, her ex-boyfriend still recognized her.

Over the crowd that was surrounding him, he immediately noticed Yang Yin.

Then he pushed his way out of the crowd and walked over to Yang Yin.

Everyone would like to show their ex that they had a better life now. It would be even more perfect if they had found a much better boy/girlfriend than the ex. Yang Yin was no exception.

She grabbed Shen Zemu’s hand the moment she saw her ex was walking over and whispered: “Give me a hand.”

“En.” Shen Zemu gripped her hand to work with her.

Speaking objectively, this ex-boyfriend was also quite handsome. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to attract so many fans wanting to take pictures with him. In the past, there were even some fangirls who wanted to bite her head off online.

But the problem was that the man who was standing opposite the ex was Shen Zemu.

The fans who followed the ex over changed loyalties right after they saw Shen Zemu and cried out in muffled voices: “Ah, so good looking!” Then they seemed to sense that something wasn’t quite right and shut their mouths immediately afterwards.

Some old fans had recognized Yang Yin by now and stood behind the ex whispering to each other.

When her ex walked closer and saw the two, Yang Yin and Shen Zemu, holding hands, he had a scornful expression on his face: “Are you going backwards, playing that kind of trash game now?” He said to Yang Yin.

“There’s no trash games, only trash players.” Yang Yin said: “I’ve heard that your boss is thinking of joining the Kings of Glory Pro League. You better go tell your boss about your opinion about this trash game.”

“Well, now you called him ‘your boss’? Weren’t you having a good relationship with our boss?”

“Whatever you think.” Yang Yin was a little impatient. She lifted up her hand which was holding Shen Zemu’s and said: “Oh, by the way, I’ve found someone much better than you. I hope you’ll give us your blessing.”

‘I’ve found someone much better than you.’

Though there was no affection between the two now, this sentence was still quite lethal. The ex’s face turned dark and he turned to look at Shen Zemu.

In terms of a staring match, Shen Zemu had never backed down before. Shen Zemu coldly looked back at the ex.

After a while, Shen Zemu heard the ex say in a very low voice: “Do you know that she’s sick?”

“She’s not sick.” Shen Zemu replied: “It’s just that you haven't treated her well enough.”

“I……”

Shen Zemu fixed his eyes on ex’s face and said: “You aren’t man enough.”

Yang Yin felt that she was becoming more and more sentimental. Just a few words from Shen Zemu, in quite an indifferent tone of voice, had made her almost choke up.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 135 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 135 Part 1

Tong Yao’s hand was shaking when she pushed open the door to the backstage.

Her heart was also throbbing so hard that if she didn’t have a rib cage to confine it, her heart probably would have already jumped away……

In any case, she wasn’t as calm as she had shown to the audience.

Once she was in the corridor, which was dimmer and quieter, Tong Yao breathed out a sigh of relief. As she was about to jog back to the players’ breakroom, someone grabbed her collar from behind-- --

Tong Yao screeched with a jump, the person who was grabbing her was also startled. The next second, Tong Yao felt a big hand with a familiar scent had covered her mouth while turning her around. The man she was facing sighed rather helplessly and bent over to give her a kiss on her forehead.

“It’s me.”

Tong Yao carefully opened her eyes and had a clear view of who was standing in front of her. She lifted up her icy cold hand to pull away the big hand on her face, took a look behind her, then whispered: “Why are you here? You scared the hell out of me……”

“Why don’t you tell me why I’m here?” Lu Sicheng turned his hand around to pinch Tong Yao’s palm: “It’s all sweat. Don’t talk like that if you don’t have the guts. See, you got scared after giving a talk like that. It looked like you forgot how to walk after the interview……”

“Ahhh!” Tong Yao widened her eyes and jumped up to cover the man’s mouth: “Don’t you say it, don’t say it……”

Lu Sicheng avoided her hand while laughing. When he heard Tong Yao mumbling “who do I do all this for,” Lu Sicheng’s smile lessened and bent over to kiss her cheek and rubbed her hair…… The rest of the team and ZGDX staff happened to walk out of the breakroom one after another. Little Fatty was the first one out. Once out of the room, he stood there looking around. Then he saw Lu Sicheng and Tong Yao at the other end of the corridor and yelled at them. They all walked towards the parking lot as a group to get on the bus.

Tong Yao and Lu Sicheng were huddled in the last row as always.

Lu Yue who was sitting in the row in front of them took out his cell phone to watch some of the sections of Tong Yao’s MVP interview which some fans had recorded-- --When Tong Yao heard her own voice, she kicked Lu Yue then nervously hugged Lu Sicheng’s arm.

When she heard herself saying “But before that happens, even if the path is paved with thorns or burning sand,” she moved her body a bit to bury her face in front of Lu Sicheng’s chest…… Lu Yue was playing the video clips on speaker. First, it was Little Fatty who started to clap, Xiao Rui also began clapping, Old Cat joined in as well, and Old K was giggling all the while-- --Tong Yao pinched Lu Sicheng. Lu Sicheng couldn’t keep quiet anymore and said to the others: “If you keep doing this, she’ll suffocate herself in my arms.”

Finally, when Tong Yao was saying in the video: “I’ll probably get scolded again in a while,” she suddenly took her face out of Lu Sicheng’s arms and looked up at him eagerly-- -- If she had a tail like a dog, she would probably have wagged the tail off by now-- --But this time, Lu Sicheng didn’t side with her. Under the gaze of her flashing and pitiful eyes, Lu Sicheng reached over to pinch her face: “So you do know that you would be scolded.”

“I’m afraid of being scolded by you.”

“Why?”

“Last time after that showgirl incident, I promised you that I’d be good and never cause trouble. Now I’ve done it again.”

“En.” Lu Sicheng was at a loss as to what to say. “You have a good awareness.”

“Right.”

“Nevermind this time.”

Tong Yao widened her eyes and couldn’t believe what she had heard-- --In her excitement, she grabbed Lu Sicheng’s arm and stretched her body upwards to give him a loud kiss on the lips…...Lu Sicheng reached over to hug her waist while the others in the bus all made the sound of indigestion mixed with Xiao Rui’s voice: “I want to call the police.”......

Lu Yue sighed without any expression on his face: “Such a pervert.”

Lu Sicheng replied also without any expression on his face: “She’s an adult.”

Lu Yue paused a second, but insisted: “I still feel you’re a pervert who likes a flat chested young girl.”

Lu Sicheng calmly said: “Who told you she’s flat chested, she-- --” 

Lu Yue stopped talking when Tong Yao jumped up to cover Lu Sicheng’s mouth, Lu Yue had turned his face back to face the front as if he had been stung by something. He didn’t turn around to say a single word to the two at the back row for the rest of the way back to base…...

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 134 Part 4

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 134 Part 4

Tong Yao stood up, took off her earphones, and went to shake hands with Huawei’s players. After she went to the front of the stage with her teammates to bow to the audience, Tong Yao turned to take a look at the headshot of the MVP of this match, her own headshot. She paused for a moment and mumbled: “They just want to interview me, that’s all.”

Little Fatty gave her a sympathetic look: “Only you have all the drama. Who else can they interview?”

Lu Sicheng lifted his hand to pat Tong Yao’s head.

While her teammates gathered their equipment and walked backstage, Tong Yao had already sat down at the interview area-- --There was a crowd under the stage. Tong Yao wondered how many among them were thinking of throwing knives at her head?

The host: [Congratulations to ZGDX for winning this match. And congratulations to Tong Yao for winning the MVP for two of the rounds!]

Tong Yao politely smiled: “Thanks.”

The host: [How do you feel winning this match after coming back to in-group matches?]

Tong Yao: “I’m feeling pretty good. Last week after we lost to our neighbor, we were all a bit nervous and depressed. After this win, we should feel a bit relieved.”

The host: [We can all see that the way ZGDX played this week is somewhat different from before. Cheng Ge doesn’t seem to be the only one who’s giving out commands. Please tell us whether ZGDX has made some adjustment in this area……]

Tong Yao nodded: “Right, there’s been some adjustment. We’re still in the adjustment period now, but everyone’s very enthusiastic about it……”

The host laughed: [Is the team going to have a new leader?]

There was a commotion among the fans down stage.

Tong Yao smiled again and glanced at Lu Sicheng who was still bending over to gather her stuff over at the competition area: “No, our daddy is still our daddy. To change the leader, it’ll have to be over his dead body.”

Tong Yao noticed Lu Sicheng had paused in the middle of putting things into her bag. He seemed to have looked up at her direction. The smile on her lips deepened……

The host at this time had noticed the interaction between the two. He realized that the time had come, he sat up straighter and put on a more serious expression: [Smiling, actually, everyone is concerned about the incident where ZGDX’s captain had apologized to his teammates and it’s said that you were the one who was behind it…… We all know that you’ve received a lot of questions. Please tell us, regarding this matter, do you have anything you would like to say to the fans and your teammates?]

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

This was probably the only question the host wanted to ask her for as the MVP for two rounds of the match.

Tong Yao thought for a while and also grew more serious. She looked at the audience-- --It so happened that she noticed a particular fan-- --She didn’t know who the person was-- --The fan raised up the LCD board in her hand with these words written on it: “Go for it, Smiling. We’ll always support you.”

Looking at the board, Tong Yao seemed to receive silent encouragement. She slightly straightened her back and earnestly answered: “Sitting here today, I don’t even know myself how I should answer your question and to what capacity. Though I’ve only played half of a season and been a teammate for half a season, I think I should know what exactly ZGDX and Lu Sicheng want…… Ah, actually it’s not hard to know. I know many of you right here also know about it.”

Tong Yao stopped for a moment to look at the crowd under the stage. She knew there were numerous eyes fixed on her face-- --

“One day, to be able to stand on top of that stage with the Five-star Red Flag draping over our bodies and lift up that trophy we’ve all dreamed of-- --But before that happens, even if the path is paved with thorns or burning sand, as the captain of ZGDX who everyone trusts and carries everyone’s hope, he should endure, he’s willing to endure, and he also must endure all of that.”

The whole arena suddenly quieted down.

Even the host kept his silence and didn't interject.

Tong Yao switched the microphone to the other hand. The hand originally holding the microphone naturally landed on her lap and quietly wiped against her lap without being noticed by anyone.

“We earnestly ask some of our fans that we all understand your inclination to protect Lu Sicheng, but in esports, performance is everything-- --You have to distinguish between the Lu Sicheng who shines on the competition stage as a player that you admire or just the tall and handsome Lu Sicheng…… Uhr, I know this isn’t very friendly towards esports fangirls online. But many fangirls are trying hard to change how people perceive them. I feel that some of you should think this over, while those girls are trying hard playing ranked matches, watching competitions, analyzing strategies, and sending private messages to our official Weibo site to voice their opinions, what are you all doing during that time?”

“......That’s all for now. I’ll probably get scolded again in a while. But let me say this beforehand, if my words offend anyone,” Tong Yao took a deep breath: “I don’t regret it.”

Tong Yao returned the microphone back to the host, jumped off the chair, and strode towards backstage with her chin slightly raised up and with a straight back.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 134 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 134 Part 3

Before the match against Huawei officially started, the skepticism of ZGDX had reached a new height online. The doubt also carried to the arena. Even the commentators discussed it before the game. They also mentioned the comments that Rp players said about ZGDX after the skirmish a couple days ago-- --

It was a subtle hint. By the time the game was about to start, the entire audience had learned to look at ZGDX with doubt in their eyes. Any time the team was slow in following orders, or failed to support each other, or a bunch of different people were giving commands, the audience would attribute all the mistakes to the problems that had been mentioned online.

ZGDX narrowly won the first round of the match. During the later part of the mid game of the second round, they encountered some minor problems-- -- Tong Yao had killed the opposing AD, so she turned to get Elder Dragon. She then noticed on the map that the other team was starting to clear out the wards near Baron. She pinged Baron and asked in the team’s channel whether the other team was aiming to steal Baron.

“Without their AD, if they fail at stealing Baron then they’ll just get wiped.” Little Fatty said: “It’s impossible. It’s just a diversion tactic.”

Everyone voiced their opinions about the matter. Finally, Lu Sicheng decided not to give up getting Elder Dragon, they would continue their fight there-- -- The result was that Huawei indeed took down Baron. Then, during a team fight, Little Fatty’s positioning was a little off and died instantly. The round was over for ZGDX even though Huawei was missing their AD.

The ZGDX players didn’t take the defeat too seriously, it happened in competitions quite often. They simply prepared for the third round.

What they didn’t expect was that the commentators would start making an issue about it-- --

Commentator C: [For these two rounds, though they won one and lost one, reminded me of what everyone has been saying earlier. It seems that ZGDX’s tempo is indeed a little messy. The thing with Baron just now, all five players were talking. I could hear the noisy chatter. It’s really quite strange.]

Commentator B: [I just had a discussion with Commentator A by text message. He heard that ZGDX is readjusting the team and their tactics lately, they’re still in the adjustment period-- --]

Commentator C: [Adjustment, still? The season’s competition is two-thirds done, how are they still in an adjustment period? All the other teams are done adjusting. Now a strong team suddenly starts to adjust…… It feels like a pretty inappropriate time. All the worries from the fans are justified.]

Commentator B took a glance at Commentator C and forced himself to suppress the urge to kick Commentator C under the chair to warn him to watch his words: [......No need to worry too much. Just like the saying that a phoenix is reborn from the ashes. Maybe after this seemingly unusual adjustment period, ZGDX will become even stronger?]

Commentator C didn’t continue the topic.

The third round was about to begin.

The audience had started another wave of war with words online following what the two commentators had said-- --The focal point was basically the views of the two commentators. Under the official ZGDX Weibo site, roughly half the people were rooting and encouraging the team against the other half that was trying to discredit them……

Many questioned the team why they had played two lackluster rounds.

There were also many who were encouraging the team to pull through the bottleneck quickly and they were looking forward to a whole new ZGDX which would conquer the world.

When the third round began, compared to the previous two rounds, it seemed that the team’s intensive training from the previous few days had paid off-- --

10 minutes and five seconds into the match, Tong Yao teleported down to bot and worked together with bot to crush the other side’s bot and jungler. She earned a triple kill, acquiring first blood for this round.

At 15 minutes and 30 seconds, ZGDX lost a team fight. Lu Sicheng was surrounded by three enemies and died, but he took their jungler with him, leaving the other two enemies at low health…...The remaining four of the enemy team began fighting the elemental dragon. Everyone who was watching thought Huawei’s move was too risky and ZGDX should go fight for the dragon-- --Four of ZGDX players did start moving towards the dragon pit, but suddenly Tong Yao, Little Fatty, and Old Cat turned around. The three of them turned to mid lane to push the enemy’s outer turret-- --Everyone was surprised. Huawei at the time was about to finish with the dragon. Only Old K went down to the dragon pit, used smite, and tried to fight for the dragon.

At 30 minutes and 20 seconds, ZGDX first killed Huawei’s mid, then the ad. The five players worked as one, moving wherever they were directed to, and didn’t waste a single ability. They played so coordinately that it felt like there was only one person playing the match.

At 31 minutes 0 second, all five players of Huawei died. ZGDX pushed to Huawei’s base.

gg.[1]

The audience cheered.

Commentator B laughed aloud while clapping: [What did I say! Look at their execution. It seems that I’m watching Team Lan in action here! Only Team Lan could perform such a sudden change of target like this before!]

[1]: Stands for "Good Game"

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 97 Part 3

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Those Sweet Times

Chapter 97 Part 3

Extra: Shen Zemu and Yang Yin

Xiang Nuan told Lin Chuyan: “I want to buy you a cosplay costume and have you wear it to the convention with us, alright?”

Lin Chuyan asked: “Which champion costume are you going to buy? Is it Zhuge Liang?”

Among all the male champions in Kings of Glory, Zhuge Liang was Xiang Nuan’s favorite. If their appearance wasn't part of the consideration, her favorite would be Zhang Fei.

Xiang Nuan shook her head when she heard Lin Chuyan’s question: “No way. Zhuge Liang’s costume has too many layers. It’s so hot now, what if you get a heat stroke?”

Lin Chuyan was very moved by her consideration, he thought his girlfriend was just like an angel.

Xiang Nuan: “I’m thinking of buying Daji’s passionate Samba costume, that’ll keep you cool.”

Lin Chuyan: “......”

He had misunderstood her intentions……

Xiang Nuan pulled on his clothes: “Please wear it, I especially want to see you cosplay Daji.”

Lin Chuyan felt that he had met a twisted person.

Though Lin Chuyan could be shameless, there was a limit even to that. He couldn’t see himself doing that and refused.

“Please.” Xiang Nuan said.

Lin Chuyan patted Xiang Nuan’s head and said with a smile: “Under one condition.”

“What condition?”

Lin Chuyan got closer while holding her head and whispered: “You’ll put it on me yourself, one piece at the time. Undress first, then put on the costume.”

-- --

Xiang Nuan and Lin Chuyan accused each other of having twisted minds. In the end, they didn’t reach an agreement. As such, Lin Chuyan went to the convention dressed normally without cosplaying anyone.

The four of them met outside the convention. Xiang Nuan was a little surprised: “Yin Jiejie, you……”

“What about me?” Yang Yin asked with a smile.

“You’ve become more beautiful.”

Yang Yin didn’t bother making herself look good before, but now it was different.

She pinched Xiang Nuan’s face and said: “You’re so sweet.”

Xiang Nuan took a look at Yang Yin, then turned to glance at Shen Zemu. Her eyeballs rolled around.

They walked into the convention. Xiang Nuan suddenly said to Yang Yin: “Yin Jiejie, let’s go to the bathroom together?”

“Sure.” Yang Yin felt Xiang Nuan wanted to tell her something, she could see it on Xiang Nuan’s face.

Once they were in the bathroom, Yang Yin asked: “What’s wrong?”

“Yin Jiejie, are you and Xuezhang……”

When Xiang Nuan asked the question, she was slightly pouting her mouth as if she was unhappy about something. Yang Yin’s heart skipped a bit. She had almost forgotten that Xiang Nuan had told her about how she had a crush on Shen Zemu.

Yang Yin was also uneasy now and asked lightly: “You, do you mind?”

“Hrm?” Xiang Nuan was taken aback. When she finally figured out what Yang Yin meant, she hurriedly shook her head: “No, no, no, no, no! Don’t misunderstand me, Yin Jiejie. I don’t mean that……” She scratched the back of her head while saying: “I’m just a little curious. Why didn’t you tell me? I’ve told you everything about me. Besides, why do I feel that even Lin Chuyan knows more than me?”

Yang Yin relaxed and shook her head: “It’s really nothing going on. It’s just me who likes him. I haven’t told you because……”

“Because what?”

Yang Yin looked down, played with her own fingers, and said quite frustratedly: “I just feel that the gap between us is too big.”

“How can it be too big? Aren’t you the same age?”

“It’s not the age. It’s something else, like education, family background, and things like that.”

Xiang Nuan instantly shook her head: “I don’t think those things are problems. As long as you like-- --”

“Then we should be together?” Yang Yin interrupted her and sighed: “You don’t feel those are problems because there’s no such problem between you and Lin Chuyan.”

Xiang Nuan didn’t know how to respond. Indeed, she and Lin Chuyan didn’t have those concerns at all. She really didn’t know how to convince Yang Yin to not mind such things.

Suddenly, Xiang Nuan felt sorry for Yang Yin and went up to hug her.

“Yin Jiejie, go for it.”

“En.”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 134 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 134 Part 2

Lu Sicheng had kissed Tong Yao rather exasperatedly, or nervously rude, or passionately domineering, or gently, but today’s kiss was different from all the others-- -- He was cautiously sucking her lips and the tip of her tongue. He was like a large pet who had done something wrong and was licking his owner’s palm with drooping ears trying to please the owner. It was like he was worried that the next second he would be tossed out the door and join the pack of stray cats and dogs.

Tong Yao’s breath became erratic, then she felt everything in front of her become blurry. She could only see Lu Sicheng’s slightly quivering eyelashes, like two tiny fans or like butterflies fluttering wings……

“Lu Sicheng.” Tong Yao pricked the man’s ear and pushed him slightly away: “I’ve told you I’m alright, it’s not like this is the first time I’ve gotten dissed……”

Lu Sicheng backed away a bit and cast his eyes down to look at her. Tong Yao’s lips had turned into a nice red color from the kiss. Lu Sicheng pressed his lips together into a straight line, seemingly disturbed and worried.

Tong Yao reached over to touch his eyelashes. Lu Sicheng didn’t try to avoid it. Tong Yao pulled her hand back: “I’m really ok. I’m going to sleep. If you are really concerned about people dissing me, then we’d better not lose the game with Huawei this week. For esports, anything you say won’t do a thing, only winning talks.”

“En.”

“Where’s Dabing and Xiao Cong?”

“They’re in the cage downstairs.”

“Go bring them up here to keep me company in bed.”

“......”

Lu Sicheng wasn’t moving, Tong Yao gave him a push: “Go, hurry.”

Lu Sicheng stood up and walked over to the door-- --But he didn’t go out the door, rather he simply closed the door, turned around, and came right back. Then, under Tong Yao’s confusing gaze, he kicked off his slippers and climbed onto her bed: “It’s better I hug you to go to sleep than you hugging the cats.”

“......”

Tong Yao squeezed to make enough room for Lu Sicheng to lie down next to her. He put her cell phone a good distance away from her and used his long arm to turn off the light. Then he pulled Tong Yao, who had wide eyes, into his arms. Tong Yao then realized what he was doing and moved her body a bit: “You’re the same as cats?”

“We’re different.” Lu Sicheng still sounded somewhat gloomy: “I’m better than cats.”

As he was saying that, he was ready to force her into his arms to stop her from talking-- --Tong Yao couldn’t fight against his strength and stopped moving and pressed the tip of her nose against his chest……

The two of them were silent for a while. Then Tong Yao discovered that the man’s rhythmic breathing and the warm arm under her head…...were quite hypnotic.

………………………………...Tong Yao thought, never mind.

Tong Yao yawned: “Your arm will be useless tomorrow if you let me rest on it like this. I won’t pay sympathy to you then……”

“......”

“......Never mind, you just won’t listen. Whatever.” Tong Yao reached over to hug Lu Sicheng’s waist with both of her hands: “You put my cell phone so far away. I won’t sneak around to re-read those comments about me after you leave, you’re worrying over nothing.”

“......”

Lu Sicheng didn’t have a response, but surprisingly didn’t impatiently tell her to shut up either. Tong Yao was bored of talking to herself and gradually quieted down. Finally she huddled between the man’s arms and quietly said: “Good night.”

She heard the man’s chest vibrate with an “en” right next to her ear. She closed her eyes.

This night seemed especially long.

Though shrouded by uneasiness, the night was unexpectedly peaceful and full of a sense of security for Tong Yao like she had never experienced before-- --The man who surrounded her was a tent propped over her head, warm and tranquil. It seemed that as long as he was around, she could be shielded from any storm.

……

The next two days, Tong Yao kept receiving private messages saying that they were “feeling sorry for Cheng Ge, why aren’t you.” The third day was the day for the competition against Huawei.

Tong Yao was rather uptight the two days before the game, but on the day of the match, she, on the contrary, became much more calm…… The team had been busy in those few days. They played all the skirmishes they could schedule, if there was no skirmish, they would practice with the B team-- -- The purpose of all the hard work was to speed up the process of resolving the problems the team were facing now and making the necessary adjustments.

The team had to improve their ability at carrying out Lu Sicheng’s orders and improve their map awareness. Lu Sicheng, on the other hand, had to learn how to get used to his teammates who may have other suggestions and how to make the best decision in the shortest amount of time.

All the training required the entire team to be highly concentrated. Everyone was exhausted. But because there was a clear goal for them to move towards it little by little, they all enjoyed the process.

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 97 Part 2

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Those Sweet Times

Chapter 97 Part 2

Extra: Shen Zemu and Yang Yin

The books were high school math and physics textbooks. Notes came along with the contents of the books. The notes were written with the same familiar handwriting.

That was Shen Zemu’s handwriting.

All the books and notebooks were quite old. All the paper had yellowed with age, but they were all clean and well kept.

Yang Yin looked down and flipped through the notebooks, her throat felt like it was choking on something.

Shen Zemu said: “If you just want a degree, you probably don’t need all these. But if you do want to get better at this major, then you need to start with some fundamentals.”

Yang Yin nodded, took a deep breath before replying in a small voice: “Thank you. I’ll seriously study them.”

“No need to thank me. If there’s anything you don’t understand, you can ask me.”

Yang Yin swallowed her emotions and suddenly looked up at Shen Zemu, then she blinked her eyes and said: “Shen Zemu.”

“En.”

“Has anyone ever said to you that you’re actually very considerate?”

“Never.”

Yang Yin thought to herself that it must because others didn’t have the eyes to find it.

……

That night, Yang Yin got a message from Xiang Nuan. Xiang Nuan said that Lin Chuyan had some tickets for the esports convention and asked Yang Yin whether she would like to go.

This year’s esport convention happened to be held in Nanshan City. There would be some special events for games, exhibitions, interactive programs and even exhibition matches. It should be a fun filled event.

Yang Yin asked Xiang Nuan: How many tickets?

Xiang Nuan: He has 4 tickets.

Yang Yin: Is Little Tiger going to go?

Xiang Nuan: Hu Ge has his own ticket, besides he doesn’t want to go with us.

Yang Yin: Why?

Xiang Nuan: He said he doesn’t want to see me and Lin Chuyan. T ^ T

Yang Yin immediately understood…… To tell the truth, any normal single person would prefer not to be around Xiang Nuan and Lin Chuyan. It was not easy for Chen Yinghu to stay around them for such a long time.

Xiang Nuan: Oh, right, there’ll be one ticket left. I want to ask Shen Xuezhang but Lin Chuyan wouldn’t let me. He wants you to go ask him whether he wants to go.

Yang Yin: Alright, I’ll ask him.

Xiang Nuan: Good, it’s best that we don’t let the ticket go to waste.

Yang Yin was curious why Lin Chuyan would want her to ask Shen Zemu. She wondered whether Lin had noticed anything? If so, then Lin was too sharp, like a radar?

Yang Yin went upstairs to knock on Shen Zemu’s door.

Shen Zemu just finished showering, his hair was still wet and even his eyes looked moist. When he stood next to the door watching her, Yang Yin felt her heart would begin to race from just one look from him.

“The esports convention next Saturday. You want to go? I have a ticket.”

“You’re going?”

“Yeah, and Xiang Nuan and Lin Chuyan.”

“En.”

Yang Yin had been around him long enough to interpret the meaning of his ‘en’ based on different circumstances and tones. The ‘en’ this time meant he was going.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 134 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 134 Part 1

Tong Yao checked Tieba after messaging Lu Sicheng-- --There were some similar comments on Tieba as well, but not as many. Most of the comments were savagely refuted right after they were posted. It was quite normal on Tieba since its environment wasn’t friendly to all those fangirls who “felt sorry for the players”.

Any comment that appeared saying “feeling sorry for Cheng Ge. Smiling was making a fuss out of nothing. Is she expecting the whole world would praise her for being a wise queen” would receive several dozens of replies. Some of the fans sneered “feeling sorry? Fucking hell, you’re a retard, why did your mom bring you into the world”, while some Tong Yao and Lu Sicheng fans tried to reason with those haters……

Smiling fan: [What did Smiling do wrong, all she did was for the good of the team. You’re feeling sorry for a grown man apologizing, why aren’t you feeling sorry for Smiling who’s being trolled by all of you and who you’re all trying to force to make an apology?]

Chessman fan: [I’ve followed Chessman from his Korean region days. Please listen to me. Listen to me, those who don’t know who they are following, please keep your mouths shut.

Please keep your mouths shut even if you don’t understand why.

I’m bitterly disappointed looking at all of you.

The reputation of esports fangirls is undermined by all you crazy people.]

The outside world looked like it was in a mess.

Tong Yao put down her cell phone as if it was a bomb. She couldn’t tell exactly how she felt when she put down the phone. She wiped off the cold sweat from her palms on the blanket-- --Right at the time, her door opened from the outside. Lu Sicheng walked right in and strode towards her bed. He stopped in front of Tong Yao who was sitting in bed, confused. Lu Sicheng was quiet for a moment, then asked: “I’ll go make a clarification and let them all shut up?”

“......You didn’t knock again.”

“What else have they said?”

“I told you to knock before coming in, what if I’m changing-- --”

“Don’t go out on your own these days. Let me know if you need to go to the supermarket. I’ll go pick things up for you, or let me go with you.”

“......”

Tong Yao stopped talking and fixed her eyes on the man in front of her bed who looked quite serious. She thought for a moment, then chuckled. She opened her arms and looked up at the man…… She moved her arms up and down when there was no response from Lu Sicheng-- --Finally, the man sighed and bent over to pick Tong Yao up into his arms.

Tong Yao huddled in his arms, resting her head comfortably on his shoulder. She could smell the scent of soap around his neck…… She acted like a dog, earnestly sniffing for a while. A short time later, she felt the arms around her waist seemed to tighten, as if the man was a little uneasy. She then stopped.

“Lu Sicheng.”

“?”

“......How about yourself, do you feel sorry for yourself? Do you regret it?”

Tong Yao’s voice was low and she tried to keep her voice relaxed and teasing. But by listening carefully, Lu Sicheng could tell she was seriously asking those questions-- --

Lu Sicheng listened to the uncertainty in her voice and was quiet for a long time. It wasn’t that he didn’t know how to reply nor because he didn’t want to give a response. He was quiet because he was completely immersed in his own thoughts. In his twenty some years of life, he seemed never to have faced a situation like this.

It came without any warning, but it was frightening.

It was the first time that he had felt an incident develop out of his control. He felt like he was a stone cast into the chilling bottom of a lake; without the ability to escape, yet he had to face it-- --

He was frightened at what he might lose if he couldn’t handle it well.

“The thing I regret the most is that I haven’t protected you well. With just one slip of the tongue, I’ve pushed you in front of a storm.” His voice was hoarse, without much emotion; he simply tightened his hold on the person in his arms: “I should’ve known things will turn this way. I’ve been in this circle for so many years, I’ve seen a lot of things and can handle everything well. Yet in the end, with the thing about you……”

Tong Yao didn’t expect her questions due to her uneasiness would bring about this kind of reaction from him. She was somewhat taken aback, then the corners of her eyes softened…… She put her chin on his shoulder and, with a frustrated and caring look on her face, patted his head: “I’m alright, just asking. What are you so uptight about……”

Before she could finish, Lu Sicheng carefully kissed her.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 133 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 133 Part 3

Lu Sicheng then curtly talked about the skirmish with Rp from that afternoon. He said he was still the one in charge and the team was only trying out a better way to play the game-- -- Under his teammates’ peaceful and friendly gazes, he declared that ZGDX was a team of unity and friendliness, all the players were getting along harmoniously, and no one could bully him-- -- Finally, his stream ended with a lot of viewers having question marks in their head.

After getting off the stream, the first thing Lu Sicheng said was: “I’ve made such a good speech, why isn’t there anyone giving me a big sword?” (*a gift viewers can buy for the streamer that’s worth 666 RMB)

Little Fatty: “I do have a sword for cutting off a dog's head, do you want it?”

Lu Sicheng: “You’re quite haughty lately, Fatty.”

Little Fatty: “Why didn’t you ban those people who dissed me?”

Lu Sicheng: “They said your eyes are slits, are they wrong? How can I ban them, for what reason?”

Little Fatty: “......”

Lu Sicheng then turned to look at Tong Yao: “And there’s you, why did you blush for no reason?”

Tong Yao sat on the chair holding both of her knees. She couldn’t really explain why she blushed, it was just that at the time she somehow felt like Lu Sicheng was saying something flirtatious-- -- She certainly wouldn’t tell him that-- -- So she just made up something: “You looked especially handsome when you said ‘not bad at all’.”

Lu Sicheng thought about it and surprisingly didn’t give a retort. But instead he asked: “Really?”

Tong Yao: “......”

……

Everyone thought that after Lu Sicheng’s stream this matter would come to an end. All the rumors that the team wasn’t getting along should also quiet down. Tong Yao felt relieved. After spending some time with her captain that night, she went back to her room to take a shower and get ready for bed.

After showering, Tong Yao laid on her tummy on her bed and checked Weibo and Tieba for gossip. The moment she got on Weibo, she was shocked. Ever since that time at the Demacia Cup, she hadn’t seen this many private messages.

[You’re meddling too much.]

[ZGDX has always performed well, it really doesn’t need you to be nosy and make corrections. Now the team’s ended up looking like neither fish nor fowl……………...Good luck.]

[I respect Cheng Ge’s choice. I respect female professional players. However, if you hinder ZGDX’s path to the championship, I won’t let you get away with it : )]

[Please make sure you know your position. Even if you’re the girlfriend, you shouldn’t have any prerogatives…… Forcing Cheng Ge to do something he didn’t want to do…… I really don’t want to say too many ugly words, but are you happy now that the team has turned to look like this?]

[Cheng Ge’s always protecting you, but you forced him to apologize. Do you have a conscience? Your heart is probably made of stone.]

[Even if Cheng Ge had done something wrong, he should be feeling really bad at this time…… As a teammate, perhaps it’s the right thing to do to point out the mistake to him. But on the other hand, you’re his girlfriend, the one who’s closest to him, qaq. Can you let the other teammates go tell him? You should’ve stood with Cheng Ge at a time like this.]

[At least, I could be confident about ZGDX’s performance in competitions before. Now the team has turned to look at this, I’m not sure whether they can beat Huawei this week. I’m begging you, don’t make any more superfluous moves, please.]

[If you don’t know how to cherish Cheng Ge, please remember that we are here to cherish him.]

Tong Yao: “......”

[ZGDX, Smiling: The fire has finally burned to me]

[I want to tie the red thread with you: What?]

[ZGDX, Smiling: I got kidnapped.]

[I want to tie the red thread with you: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Who kidnapped you?]

[ZGDX, Smiling: The fanbase’s morals and consciousness.]

[I want to tie the red thread with you: ……]

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 133 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 133 Part 2

[If it’s not a big deal like you’ve said, then why do you have to apologize?]

[I can’t agree more. What’s the reason to apologize to your teammates just for losing one group match?]

[Talk about your apology.]

[Is the stuff on Tieba true, Cheng Ge, are you overconfident?]

[Your teammates didn’t follow orders correctly and you apologized?]

[I truly feel that your club is making a fuss over nothing. Why do you need to apologize just for losing a group match? For that round, you weren’t the only one who had a problem with the champion you picked.]

……

Seeing all the comments, Tong Yao sat up straighter. She didn’t know why but she was a bit nervous as she watched Lu Sicheng-- -- Unusually, he had turned on the bullet comment helper so he could see the bullet comments as he played.. Tong Yao noticed that his eyes had quickly moved upwards for a bit-- -- He probably had seen those comments-- -- Then his eyes returned back to eye level-- -- He didn’t seem to have much of a reaction to those comments.

“About following instructions, it isn’t anyone’s fault. It’s just that everyone’s thinking differently. Just like the end of the last round, Little Fatty and I thought it was time to leave, but the other three thought they could fight a little bit longer. Then they found out that they couldn’t actually stay for a little longer……” Lu Sicheng slightly gathered his eyebrows, “That was a totally different thing from my apology, don’t try to put the two together-- -- That person who just dissed our mid, moderator, ban him. You come to my stream to diss my girl, did you have too much to drink?”

[66666666 Why haven’t you banned that person who dissed Little Fatty earlier?]

[Honestly! Little Fatty has played as your support for two years! ! ! ! ]

[666666666]

[I feel sorry for Little Fatty.]

The whole base was watching Lu Sicheng’s stream, Little Fatty was certainly watching too.

Little Fatty, at this time, turned to take a look at Lu Sicheng.

-- --He was looking at Lu Sicheng with the look of condemnation.

Lu Sicheng simply ignored him.

He also ignored comments which pointed out that he was playing favorites.

There were still a few comments that kept asking about his apology in a provocative tone…… Lu Sicheng saw them and slowly and coldly spoke with poise: “You’re so interested in this apology thing, then I’ll talk about it. I’m here today to show you what happened to all of you troublemakers-- -- The first round of the game against YQCB, where I took Ashe, my teammates chose a carry early on for me, yet I took a champion that could easily be countered by the enemy lineup. That wasn’t a good call, why not apologize? Being unable to follow orders was just one of the reasons we lost the match. Everyone’s reflecting on what they’ve done wrong and making amends. This is one of them, so I apologized. Everyone has to resolve his own problems. Is there anything wrong with that reasoning?”

Lu Sicheng paused, glanced over at the bullet comments, and continued: “Before? I did that before as well, but none of my teammates said anything to me. I became a bit headstrong and I didn’t realize it myself before. You can say that I’ve become inflated-- -- Later on, a person came along who’s brave enough to push my head down and lecture me, so I’ve realized it.”

The screen was covered with comments like “6666666” and “Smiling.”

Lu Sicheng didn’t deny that “the person who’s brave enough to push his head down and lecture him” was Tong Yao. He just coolly replied: “There’s nothing bad about it. If I have a problem then I’ll just fix it. Don’t feel bad for me, it’s not bad at all-- -- If it was for the sake of your health that your girlfriend made you wash your underwear, would you feel bad about it-- -- Single people, don’t talk, you have to have a girlfriend first-- -- I’ve just done what I should do. A great man knows when to yield and when not to. What’s so bad about that.”

Lu Sicheng had just finished speaking, Tong Yao raised both of her hands to cover her face with a loud slapping sound.

The sound was very loud.

All the bullet comments were asking what the sound was.

Lu Sicheng turned to glance at Tong Yao, then he turned back: “That person, who’s quite tough in private and had even grasped my collar to ask me whether I was wrong, is now sitting next to me with hands over her face and is crimson red from embarrassment-- --”

Lu Sicheng: “How do I know why she blushed? I haven’t praised her. I don’t understand what all of you young ladies are thinking of.”

Lu Sicheng: “It’s not from being ashamed-- -- Tsk, troublemaker, ban him, ban him.”

Tong Yao: “......”

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