You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 169 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 169 Part 2

The next day, the second round of group matches of the S6 international competition officially began.

Being part of the first match of the first day of the second round group matches, ZGDX and the wild card Russian team, Bear, had both arrived at the arena early-- --During the ten-day break time, the two teams interacted with each other with broken English and had gotten to know each other well. Before they went into the break room after arriving at the arena, the two teams greeted each other warmly……

The Bear players had gotten the news that their opponent had changed their lineup for today’s match. Before going into the break room, their bot duo made sure to come over to greet Tong Yao and expressed their anticipation of playing against her…… Standing in front of the big  Russian guys, Tong Yao looked like a little chick, her thigh was thinner than their arms. Tong Yao however wasn’t intimidated, she shook hands with them and said with a smile: good luck!

After going into the break room, Lu Sicheng laughed: “ ‘Good luck’? You should say that to me. I’m the one who’s going to be playing a one versus three at bot.”

Tong Yao pulled on his clothes: “......Lu Sicheng, that’s enough. You don’t understand, friendship comes first, competition second!”

Lu Sicheng didn’t buy a word she had said: “If you don’t buy a sightstone (an item that allows the player to place wards, the support is responsible for placing wards over the whole map and so it’s a must buy item)[1] today, I’ll pull your power cable. Just try it.”

Tong Yao: “I’ll buy it, I’ll buy it. I can place wards all over mid!”

Lu Sicheng: “......”

As they were happily bickering, Xiao Rui rushed in from outside and interrupted them-- --The break room was quiet for a few seconds. Xiao Rui took a deep breath: “Do you guys remember that before the beginning of the competition, LPL kept bragging about how they had invited a secret guest to do commentary on site, right?”

Tong Yao thought about it and seemed to remember hearing about it. But at the time no one was really paying attention to it since they figured it was probably just some sort of gimmick…… She absent mindedly answered Xiao Rui: “Who’s the secret guest?” While she was saying that, she grabbed Lu Sicheng’s hand over to check his wrist then asked in a low voice whether he needed to wear a brace.

Lu Sicheng looked down at Tong Yao who was carefully holding his hand. He was about to say that he didn’t need a brace when he noticed that Xiao Rui was pointing outside: “That person is here. It’s your Gao oppa.”[2]

Lu Sicheng paused.

Tong Yao didn’t get what Xiao Rui said, frowned: “What?”

Xiao Rui: “It’s Gao Xuecheng! ! ! ! “

Tong Yao: “......”

Tong Yao: “? ? ?”

Tong Yao: “! ! !”

Tong Yao screamed and dropped Lu Sicheng’s hand. She jumped up, pushed aside Xiao Rui who was standing at the doorway, and quickly walked outside-- --She stood at the front of the passageway to the stage and craned her neck to look around. Then she walked back to the room to announce to her teammates: “It really is him, the special commentator is really my king! Friends, do Tong Yao a favor, play good today, don’t lose-- --I can’t do a thing like losing to a wild card team while playing with Smiling as my id.”

Everyone: “...........................”

Lu Sicheng: “What happened to friendship comes first and competitions second?”

Tong Yao gave him a glance: “It's a lie. In esports, only winning counts.”

Lu Sicheng: “......”

Tong Yao remained in an excited state.

If she was still playing mid today, she would either attack the other side aggressively to get a penta-kill or be attacked by the other side and be part of a penta-kill-- --Lu Sicheng tried to calm her down but failed. He tried to hold her down but still failed……

Finally, he had to accept the fact that his support today would be a maniac.

[1]: To those who keep up with LoL, the story takes place in 2016, before sightstones were removed from the game.

[2]: The Chinese here is 欧巴, (ōu bā), which doesn’t actually mean anything inherently in Chinese. It’s a transcription of the Korean word “oppa” (오빠) to Chinese. To those who aren’t familiar with Korean, “oppa” is the Korean word for “a female’s older brother” and is used roughly similar to “ge ge” in Chinese (though in Chinese both genders use it to address an older brother). And like in Chinese, it can be used as an honorific to an older male who isn't actually your brother.

However, when the word “oppa” is used in Chinese, it's used to indicate that the person is a male idol that many female fans adore.

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 11 Part 3

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 11 Part 3

“If you take my position into consideration, then what about the movie production company?”

This question wasn’t in the script Xu Huaisong had planned out for her, Ruan Yu was for a moment lost for words. Then she saw a message from Xu Huaisong popped up on the screen: [Sigh.]

Ruan Yu immediately worked up a sigh.

Cen Sisi seemed to sense that Ruan Yu would be in a difficult position and started pleading: “Xuejie, I really didn’t know things would turn so ugly. At the time, I had only hired a small group of spammers to test the waters. Who knew it would get out of hand and get so popular and hit trending…… You have to help me, let them go easy on me, or I…...I’ll be destroyed……”

Xu Huaisong made a “stop here” gesture.

Ruan Yu took a glance at him and quickly replied to Cen Sisi: “Ok, I’ll help whatever I can. I’ll talk to the lawyers again.”

She hung up the phone and carefully ended the recording. Then she got closer to the screen to ask: “Will this work?”

Xu Huaisong nodded: “Give the recording to Liu Mao.”

Ruan Yu was relieved.

The core strategy of the script was actually quite simple. Xu Huaisong had told her that according to the law only the original author could make accusations of copyright infringement. Cen Sisi was in no position to file any lawsuit. The reason why she tried appeasing Ruan Yu while encouraging “Poem Writer” to file a lawsuit was to earn time for “Poem Writer” to bring her case to court first.

With that goal in mind, once Cen Sisi felt that Ruan Yu seemed to be having second thoughts about reconciliation, she would naturally spill some of the beans which she believed to be harmless in order to keep Ruan Yu from proceeding with the lawsuit.

The end result was exactly as Xu Huaisong had expected.

Ruan Yu felt so at ease now that she had gotten over her nervousness.

She wondered why she felt so invigorated afterwards. Was it because she had played a trick on someone together with a lawyer?

She got a little carried away since she was in such a good mood. She said: “Is my acting good enough for prime time dramas?”

Xu Huaisong was looking down while typing on his keyboard. He seemed to be busy with something and answered offhandedly: “Good enough to fool amateurs.”

Ruan Yu wondered if he was a professional in this regard?

As she was worried that her acting skill wasn’t good enough for him, she heard his cell phone start ringing.

Xu Huaisong didn’t turn off the video chat, but picked up the phone and answered with Chinese: “I’m at home.”

Ruan Yu couldn’t hear the voice on the other side of the phone but fragments of his answers: “We can’t rule out the possibility that it's the defendant retaliating. SG’s upper management should know very well that the defendant’s capable of using a computer to remotely control a bomb.”

Xu Huaisong sounded very calm but Ruan Yu was stunned by what she had heard.

He seemed to notice that his words had scared her. He took a look at her and picked up the phone to walk over to the window: “This is police business……”

Ruan Yu couldn’t hear the conversation clearly anymore. After Xu Huaisong came back to the computer, she couldn’t stop herself from asking: “Is there anything wrong?”

Xu Huaisong shook his head.

Ruan Yu: “Oh. Thank you for today, Mr. Xu.”

Xu Huaisong raised his eyelids. Was she trying to end the video chat right after she was done using him?

Seeing there was no response from him, Ruan Yu continued: “I was going to talk about the case more, but since it’s already so late over your place……”

A meow from nowhere interrupted her.

She stopped to look around.

It certainly wasn’t a cat over at her place.

There was no cat in her home now. She had kept one right after graduation, but the cat got sick and died. Its death had saddened her for a long time. Though she liked cats, she didn’t have the courage to keep another.

Then, the sound should be from Xu Huaisong’s side?

As she was wondering, Xu Huaisong had gotten up again, walked a few steps away, then came back with a cat in his arms.

It was a beautiful orange kitten about two or three months old.

The kitten had caught Ruan Yu’s attention.

Xu Huaisong glanced at her while stroking the kitten: “What did you just say?”

It took five seconds for Ruan Yu to take her eyes off the kitten. She swallowed: “I said that it’s getting late over there…… Is it convenient to continue discussing the case?”

Xu Huaisong nodded but sounded a little reluctant: “It’s alright.”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 169 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 169 Part 1

Not only was ZGDX’s official Weibo account instantly overwhelmed by fans responding, the players also received a lot of comments on their individual accounts from the other side of the Pacific. It was bustling under Tong Yao’s page-- --When Tong Yao saw the new lineup, her first instinct was to post on Weibo:

[Salted fish[1] girl Smiling: Dear Captain, I’ll do my best to be your support. Muah.]

Old Cat who saw the message first just sighed: “You’re such a good player, why are they making you feed him turrets.”

It very quickly turned into quite the scene on her Weibo page-- --

[Ah ya this ZGDX: You play support! I can only say that this is a very creative decision…… What I want to say is if Little Fatty isn’t dead, it’s probably still better to carry him up onto the stage instead.]

[Neat freak: This round…… as long as you’re happy <laugh cry> <laugh cry> <laugh cry>]

[Shit you stay there: Be reasonable, Tong Yao doesn’t know how to play support. I’ve seen her playing duos with Lu Sicheng at bot, and she can move like a Master but has map awareness like a Platinum player…… Just from the fact that she didn’t buy a sightstone or place wards. I wish I could have blown her into Bronze!]

[Popping candy biubiubiu: Hahaha, the moment she breaks up with her partner at bot is just around the corner.]

[Don’t fool me: I heard that Fatty’s in the hospital after eating hot pot? Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!]

[Salted fish don't have dreams: Damn, always something.]

[Hahahahaha hehe: If you lose to the wild card team tomorrow, the other two teams who refused to give you Lao Ga Ma will bear one third of the blame! The reason? They failed to form a united front!]

[I don’t have dreams either: I really have nothing to say. You didn’t go for hot pot in those ten days of break and just remembered to have it the day before the game-- --Shit, you guys just let Little Fatty eat to his heart’s content! ! ! Why didn’t you put a muffler on him? ?]

……

On the way back to the hotel, Tong Yao slapped her lap in regret while looking at her cell phone: “That’s right! Why didn’t we put a mouthpiece on Little Fatty at the time!]

Lu Yue: “Where would you find a large enough muffler to attach to Little Fatty’s head?”

Tong Yao: “......”

Lu Sicheng also took out his cell phone to check Tong Yao’s Weibo: “Your fans are right. I’m also quite worried that you playing support might cause me to not love you anymore-- --I’ve never expected that I have to have you as my support other than when we play duos, and during the world competition too……”

“We've only played three times as duo at bot.”

“That’s right, and now it’s time for you to think hard why there were only three times.”

Tong Yao turned to look at him with a smile. Lu Sicheng put down his cell phone: “Tell me, what champion do you plan to take to support me?”

Tong Yao rolled her eyes around: “There is a lot I can play: Karma, Jayce, Annie, Brand, or Leblanc will all do, but the other side won’t let me…… And there’s Lulu? Right, Lulu’s good. Her Q ability has good reach, W can give you haste or act as hard crowd control and silence an enemy champion, E can give you a shield or can damage the enemy, and her ultimate can give you more health, plus knock up……”

Lu Sicheng finished the sentence for her: “Your W won’t give me haste, E will only be used to deal damage, the ultimate is just for yourself, and your Q ability has long reach to get kills for yourself-- --Others who play Lulu for playing 4 protect 1, protect their AD, but I can only feel that you’re harboring some evil intent when deciding to play Lulu……”

The more Lu Sicheng talked about it, the more he felt his prediction would be correct. He stood up as he was talking and announced to everyone: “Tomorrow, ban Lulu. I don’t want to see this champion.”

Tong Yao put away her cell phone and irritatedly said: “Lu Sicheng, you really don’t love me anymore.”

Lu Sicheng turned his head and looked at Tong Yao who had fallen down on the seat with her hand covering her chest. He smiled: “Right, excuse my inability but I really can’t afford to love you.”

[1]: We believe this is from the Chinese idiom 咸鱼翻身 (xián yú fānshēn), literally salted fish turns over, which means to “experience a reversal of fortunes” (from bad to good) or “rag to riches.”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 168 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 168 Part 3

At 10 pm, Xiao Rui cursed as he got up from bed to open his room door. He was surprised to see the team captain standing outside the door. Lu Sicheng took him to his room. The moment he stepped into that room, he saw a pale Little Fatty collapsed on the bed…… Xiao Rui stayed there to take care of Little Fatty while Lu Sicheng went out to find a drug store.

At 10:30, Lu Sicheng finally saw a drug store. But before he was able to walk into the store, he received a call from Tong Yao to inform him that there was no need to buy medicine. She, Xiao Rui, and the other teammates with the help of the staff were taking Little Fatty to the hospital. About 15 minutes earlier, Little Fatty passed out while sitting next to the toilet vomiting.

Now the whole thing was getting serious.

When Lu Sicheng rushed to the hospital, the first thing he saw was his teammates and Xiao Rui sitting in a row outside the emergency room. He lifted his wrist to check his watch, it was 11:30 pm, US time. They were going to have a match with a wild card team at noon the next day.

Lu Sicheng frowned but didn’t say anything. He went and sat down next to Tong Yao-- --She immediately got closer and gave him a worrisome glance. Lu Sicheng took her hand which was a little cold. He patted her shoulder to comfort her and took his jacket off to put over her shoulder.

They didn’t exchange a single word during the whole time.

There was only the sound of clothes rustling.

It was so quiet outside the emergency room that one could hear the sound of a needle dropping on the floor.

After a while, Little Fatty was wheeled out of the emergency room. He had an acute case of food poisoning and had a light fever now-- --Tong Yao was leaning against Lu Sicheng and getting sleepy. She woke up when heard the noise and immediately got up to check on Little Fatty. The normally energetic Little Fatty was now attached to an IV bottle. His face was as white as a sheet and his forehead was covered in a cold sweat from the pain.

Tong Yao searched in her pockets and took out a pack of tissues to wipe the sweat off for Little Fatty. When she turned her head, she found Lu Sicheng and Xiao Rui discussing about reporting the situation to the organizer and asking to use a substitute for tomorrow’s match-- --

ZGDX had only brought one substitute, Lu Yue. Therefore, Lu Yue was going to play tomorrow.

Fortunately, Riot Games and the organizer of the competition quickly sent over their staff to verify the situation. Once they saw Little Fatty’s condition, they immediately approved ZGDX’s request. An unexpected statement was published that same night which shocked fans both inside and outside of China-- --

[ZGDX’s support Pang has been hospitalized due to acute food poisoning and therefore can not attend the match the next day. ZGDX will use a substitute to play the match against the wild card team in the second round group match tomorrow. Since ZGDX hasn’t registered any emergency substitute players and the only substitute of the team, Lu, is registered as playing the mid position which can not be changed, the lineup of ZGDX for tomorrow’s match will be-- --

Top: Cat

Jug: K

Mid: Lu

Sup: Smiling

Adc: Chessman]

The news exploded on all major media platforms.

It was 12 midnight now.

Tong Yao sat in the hallway of the hospital watching the translators, ZGDX staff, and organizer’s staff walking back and forth. Little Fatty, almost half dead, was in the ward on the other side of the wall……

She looked around and Lu Sicheng was nowhere to be found. He was probably hiding in a staircase somewhere to smoke. Tong Yao was totally speechless-- --

Very well, then, happy birthday to me.

This was surely a big surprise gift to her.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 168 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 168 Part 2

Players from other regions began to gather in the hallway to see what the commotion was about. They didn’t understand Chinese but watched the three Chinese teams shouting back and forth at one another-- --It didn’t really look like a fight, either way, ZGDX was denied entry into the other two teams’ training rooms. But they could hear giggling inside the two training rooms……

It was quite baffling to the other teams.

In the end, Lu Sicheng forced his teammates to go back to their own training room so as not to cause any further embarrassment…… Those who gathered in the hallway then started to disperse. However, the players from the Korean region picked up their cell phones immediately after they were back in their training rooms to call Pope and Butterfly to find out what was really going on……

After sitting down back in the training room, Little Fatty began to throw a tantrum: “It won’t do. My stomach is all for Lao Ga Ma now. I can’t live if I don’t have some Chinese food tonight!”

Tong Yao: “You may not like the food in the Chinese restaurants here. The more authentic ones probably aren’t near our training base or hotel……”

It became very quiet in the training room. With the mention of Chinese restaurants, not only Little Fatty but everyone in the room was thinking of having a bite of greasy, hot and spicy food…… While everyone was feeling helpless, Lu Sicheng said: “There seems to be a Sichuan hot pot place nearby. Let’s go for some hot pot?”

Little Fatty instantly came alive from his listlessness and stood up.

-- --That was their second mistake of the night.

Half an hour later, the whole ZGDX team including staff and players got on the bus to go to the hot pot place.

In the meantime, there were numerous twitter and facebook posts on the internet of many foreign countries-- --

[Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, the three teams of LPL almost had a fight over food!]

[I saw it with my own eyes.]

[ZGDX has won their matches but lost the favor of the other two teams. The other two teams shut their doors on ZGDX. So gratifying to see that! : DDDDDD]

[Now they’ve left. Ah, I also begin to miss the food back in my country T _ T Let’s finish the game quickly. I want to go home to eat my mother’s cooking.]

[Missing kimchi, BBQ.]

[I want to eat fried chicken with beer 55555555]

Without knowing that they were being laughed at, the entire ZGDX team sat down at the hot pot shop. They found out that the restaurant had everything a hot pot place should have and the hot pot soup base was quite authentic. They were all so moved that they almost cried……

To use Little Fatty’s words, this place was even better than that expensive hot pot place they usually went back home.

Everyone was having a good time at the restaurant, especially Little Fatty.

Little Fatty had finished two plates of meat all by himself, no one could stop him.

-- --And that was the final fatal mistake they had made tonight.

……

At 8 pm, Little Fatty got on the bus, burping and rubbing his stomach, to go back to the hotel. On the way, his stomach started to gurgle. Tong Yao laughed and said: “Oh no, after ten days of American food, now your stomach can’t take greasy and spicy food now.”

At 9:15 pm, the bus arrived at the hotel. Little Fatty grabbed Lu Sicheng’s jacket which had their room card in it and ran upstairs like a rabbit…… Leaving a speechless Lu Sicheng, who went to Tong Yao’s room to stay there for a while.

By 9:30 pm, Lu Sicheng went back to his room. Little Fatty opened the door for him, then immediately turned to go to the bathroom to use the toilet for a second round.

At 9:40 pm, Lu Sicheng noticed that something wasn’t right inside the bathroom-- --In addition to the noise coming from the toilet, he could hear the sound of someone throwing up. He frowned and got up, went to the bathroom and knocked on the door: “Fatty, are you alright?”

It was silent for a few seconds inside.

Then Little Fatty answered honestly: “I’m not.”

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 11 Part 2

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 11 Part 2

When Ruan Yu put a spoonful of yogurt into her mouth, she stopped.

The cereal hadn’t softened enough yet. If she started chewing, it would make a lot of crackling sounds and she felt it wouldn’t fit the vibe of the moment.

She hadn’t really talked to Xu Huaisong in their high school days and even now, she didn’t know him that well. She felt quite uneasy making crunching sounds as they were eating lunch face to face across the screens……

Ruan Yu held the mouthful of yogurt in her mouth until the cereal had softened enough. Then she chewed little by a little before swallowing. Afterwards she lightly coughed and said: “Mr. Xu, you seem quite busy?”

Xu Huaisong happened to have stuffed a mouthful of pasta into his mouth. He wasn’t able to talk but simply nodded.

Ruan Yu happily said: “Then you go ahead. I’ll contact you when it’s time to call!”

Xu Huaisong hadn’t swallowed the pasta yet and couldn’t find a reason to shake his head. So he could only nod again.

Ruan Yu was relieved and quickly clicked on the x.

*

They didn’t get back on the video chat until 12:15 pm Beijing time.

Ruan Yu held her cell phone in hand and kept taking deep breaths.

Xu Huaisong could tell that she was very nervous. If she made the call now, she would expose her intentions without a doubt. But there was only one chance to collect evidence from the defendant, it would be impossible for Ruan Yu to try it again.

Xu Huaisong thought about it and asked: “Why don’t you do a set of eye exercises?”

“Hum?”

He lifted up the papers next to his hand and shook them: “Looks like it works.”

He was talking about something in the story of <Really Want to Whisper in Your Ear>. The night when the male lead in the story picked up the female lead’s hand, the female lead was too excited to go to sleep that night. She did ten sets of the eye exercises to calm herself down before she could finally fall asleep.

But, in reality, it was an adaptation of what really had happened that night.

Ruan Yu gave him a spurious smile: “Novels are usually deceiving.”

The reality was she had stayed up the whole night that night till it was almost dawn. Then she suddenly realized that if Xu Huaisong had said that he made a mistake, it was obvious he had someone else in mind. She got angry and sad and started to curse him as a jerk and only then she was finally able to go to sleep.

Ruan Yu was an eighteen years old girl then who was being unreasonable. Thinking back on it now, there wasn’t anything wrong with Xu Huaisong not liking her.

She was glad that she didn’t write the part about cursing him as a jerk into the story.

Xu Huaisong didn’t know about all these thoughts going through her mind. He was silent and cast down his eyes when he heard her saying that “novels are usually deceiving.”

Ruan Yu seemed to have relaxed a bit. She held her cell phone and said: “I’ll make the call now?”

Xu Huaisong came back to himself: “En.”

Ruan Yu turned on the recording app, dialed Cen Sisi’s number, and turned on the speaker.

Ten seconds later, the call was picked up on the other side.

Ruan Yu took the initiative: “How are you, I’m Ruan Yu. Is this Cen Sisi?”

The other side immediately answered: “Yes, it’s me. Xuejie, I’ve saved your number!”

Ruan Yu had successfully confirmed the identity of the other person on the phone.

Ruan Yu glanced at the computer screen and saw Xu Huaisong nodding at her as approval. She continued: “Is it convenient for you to talk now?”

“It’s fine. Go ahead.”

“It’s about the matter of reconciliation. I was planning to have the lawyers talk to you tomorrow. But come to think of it, I think I should talk to you first.”

“Hum?”

“The thing is that a while ago a movie production company contacted me about buying the copyright and adaptation of the story.”

Cen Sisi replied with “ah” in a low voice. It seemed that she had anticipated how this conversation would develop.

“The movie production company wants me to handle this scandal properly. Otherwise the movie adaptation won’t happen. Therefore, my lawyers won’t just be representing my personal interests. They want you to give an apology statement and admit that in addition to posting the insinuating long Weibo post, you’ve also incited paid spammers and bought trending hashtags to attack me.”

“I…… I didn’t do those things, Xuejie!”

The conversation had come to the most critical point. Ruan Yu again was feeling perturbed. She subconsciously glanced at Xu Huaisong.

Xu Huaisong couldn’t make any sounds, but simply nodded to her and mouthed: “Continue.”

Ruan Yu pursed her lips: “Such a statement certainly is asking a lot from you. But, according to the production company, if there’s no reconciliation then we’ll have to proceed with the lawsuit.”

“But Xuejie, I really didn’t attack you on purpose……”

“I know, you didn’t know Wenxiang was me at the time anyway. But since I’ve made this phone call, I would like to hear your thoughts on this. We’re from the same school; those businessmen won’t take your position into consideration, but I certainly would.”

It was using the bitch’s own way to trick her. Even Ruan Yu was moved by her own words. The script created by Xu Huaisong floated as naturally and smoothly as in a prime time TV drama.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 168 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 168 Part 1

Tong Yao could swear that ZGDX had truly made good use of their ten days of break. They had fully recuperated, rested well, went out touring, seriously played skirmishes, and watched videos of the other groups’ competition matches-- --Since every point earned in every match of the world competition was important, all the strong teams had finally brought out the strategies they had been hiding during their regional competitions. In those ten days, Tong Yao’s little notebook was almost filled with notes from watching those videos.

……

On the afternoon of Oct. 12, US time, ZGDX had just finished a skirmish with G4 from the European region. All the players had decided to rest well tonight, no more skirmishes, and face the second round of group matches tomorrow in the best condition possible-- --It was a good decision, but it was bound to have problems when these busy bodies suddenly had nothing to do in the evening.

Then someone, Tong Yao couldn’t remember who that was, suggested that they go to the other teams to borrow some instant noodles and Lao Gan Ma[1] since they were all tired of eating western food for so many days.

-- --That was the first mistake they made that night.

After eating steak, fries, and pasta for ten days, the entire team was intrigued by the suggestion. They went as a group to the YQCB and CK training rooms. Yet, these two teams who had promised to help each other out with ZGDX before they left China wouldn’t even open the training room doors after they learned of the purpose of ZGDX’s visit. The three teams started shouting at each other with the door between them-- --

Captain of YQCB, Liangsheng: “We just brought with us one bottle of hot pepper sauce which was made for us by our housekeeper! If you guys take that away, it would be like killing us! You can find Lao Gan Ma in the supermarkets, go buy it yourselves!”

YQCB mid, Ai Jia: “I only brought with me Lao Tan Pickled Cabbage and Beef Flavored Noodles[2]!”

Tong Yao: “I love Lao Tan Pickled Cabbage and Beef Flavored Noodles!”

YQCB mid, Ai Jia: “To hell with it! You can’t have it! I won’t give it to you! It’s so precious that I would break the noodle cake in half and save the soup for breakfast to dip the bread in!”

Tong Yao: “Go to hell!”

YQCB mid, Ai Jia: “Watch your manners!”

ZGDX then went to CK’s training room. Not only did CK’s players refused to share their food with ZGDX, they even started to sneer at ZGDX players-- --

CK’s support, Old Wang, was also a chubby guy. He was blocking the door like a small hill: “Why ask us for food! Damn, isn’t your team an all Chinese team! An all Chinese team has gone abroad without taking Lao Gan Ma with them? ! Who are you trying to fool!”

CK’s ad, Butterfly, was a Korean. He came to the door to see what was going on. He said in Mandarin with a Xinjiang accent: “What do they want? Hot pepper sauce? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, don’t have it! Won’t give it to you!”

Lu Sicheng reached over to pat Tong Yao’s shoulder and pointed at the door. He mouthed: “Yang god.” Tong Yao turned to stare at him: “You would abandon your own girlfriend just to trick him to get a bite?”

Lu Sicheng was quite at ease: “You said it yourself, just to trick him. Trade nothing for something. I’m here. It’s alright.”

The indomitable man who had told her that he would “let her spend 9.50 if he only had 10 and save the 0.50 to buy a bun so she won’t go hungry” had now been subdued by a jar of Lao Gan Ma. Tong Yao stepped on his foot with force, then turned around to slap CK’s door: “Let Yang god come out to negotiate with me!”

There was commotion inside CK’s training room. Old Wang was shouting: “Hold Yang god down, don’t let him commit treason with the enemy.” Tong Yao could hear the noise of a chair being flipped over and the roar of laughter from Butterfly…… Moments later, Old Wang spoke: “Our Yang god has said that he refused to negotiate with you-- --We have heard that the day after the group match was over, you had said that you wish we would lose more matches so we would be placed second in the second round and you guys can go straight to the semi-finals. He’s quite angry about that!”

Tong Yao was stunned: “Damn, we have a traitor in our team!”

As all the players were looking at each other rather annoyingly, Little Fatty giggled while scratching his head: “Hehehe, it’s me. I asked Come Good Luck whether he could lose a few matches so they would get second in the group, so we can go to the semi-finals.”

Everyone: “......”

What a brainless teammate Little Fatty was!

[1]: 老干妈 (lǎo gàn mā), literally means “old godmother,” is the name of an internationally popular brand of hot pepper sauce.

[2]: The Chinese is 老壇酸菜牛肉面 (lǎo tán suāncài niúròu miàn). Lao Tan Pickled Cabbage is the name of a famous type of pickled cabbage and a popular flavor for instant noodles.

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 11 Part 1

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 11 Part 1

Ruan Yu seemed eager to learn from Xu Huaisong.

Xu Huaisong looked at her, with locked fingers and straight back, and began to list some tips: “The first thing you need to do to get a valid telephone recording is to let the person identify herself. You have to seize the first moment when she picks up the phone.”

Ruan Yu nodded and asked: “Then what?”

“The recording is to be handed over to the court and can not be edited. But there’s only limited time during a trial, therefore you need to be mindful of the length of the conversation. Try to go directly to the main subject without arousing the person’s suspicions.”

In other words, since they highly suspected that Cen Sisi had, with malicious intent, hired paid spammers and paid money to boost posts so that they began trending, Ruan Yu had to entice her to confess in doing so.

Ruan Yu frowned: “Will there be anyone who’s dumb enough to admit it?”

“Under normal conditions, no. So that’s the difficult part.” Xu Huaisong said and took a glance at Ruan Yu’s empty hands.

Ruan Yu instantly understood the gesture. She quickly grabbed the memo pad and pen on the table, then looked at him attentively: “Please continue, Mr. Xu. Please continue.”

*

Half an hour later, the memo pad was filled with densely packed characters. Noticing that Xu Huaisong had finished speaking, Ruan Yu asked: “Should I call her now?”

Xu Huaisong shook his head: “12 noon Beijing time.”

At that time, most people would’ve just finished their lunch and there would be less blood going to the brain. The other person would have a reduced ability to think and would therefore be less likely to be suspicious.

“But, won't my own IQ be lower at that time?”

Xu Huaisong almost choked. He wondered why he didn’t find out before that she could be a little goofy sometimes……

He looked up: “Can’t you eat your lunch a little earlier?”

“......” Why didn’t she think of that?

Ruan Yu covered her forehead, a little embarrassed, then she remembered something and suddenly raised up her head.

She found Xu Huaisong fixing his eyes on the screen.

Ruan Yu was taken aback and about to ask him what was wrong. Then she noticed that his right hand seemed to be scrolling on the mouse. It looked like he was checking on some file.

He wasn’t watching her.

Ruan Yu was secretly abashed. She cleared her throat and called him: “Mr. Xu.”

Xu Huaisong nodded. It seemed that he didn’t bother to speak but gestured to her to speak her mind.

“Later on, when I’m doing the phone recording, I don’t know whether there’ll be some unexpected situation which I can’t handle. So……” She pointed at the camera: “Can you keep the video chat on?’

In Ruan Yu’s mind, the request was out of the trust of a professional like a patient to the doctor. But her dependence on him made Xu Huaisong feel differently.

He replied with an en, then he turned his head to sip some coffee, trying to ease that different feeling at the bottom of his heart.

Ruan Yu felt relieved and started to practice the conversation she was going to have quietly in her mind. Almost an hour later, she heard Xu Huaisong knocking on the table.

“It’s 10:30.” He said.

“Then I’ll go cook something for myself.” She put down the memo pad and pointed at the screen: “Should I end the video chat?”

“No need. I’m going to eat too.”

Ruan Yu was surprised.

It was already 7:30 at night over in San Francisco and he hadn’t had dinner yet? And he was drinking coffee with an empty stomach?

While Ruan Yu was lost in thought, Xu Huaisong had already gotten up and left. Ruan Yu didn’t feel right to shut down the video chat on her own, so she also turned to go into her kitchen. She opened the refrigerator to see what she could make for herself.

She didn’t really have an appetite, probably because she was nervous. She took out a cup of yogurt and added some fruity cereal to it. Then she brought the yogurt with her back to the computer.

She wanted to get more practice in since Xu Huaisong wouldn’t be there anyway.

As she was thinking, her eyes locked with a pair of eyes on the screen.

“......”

“......”

Xu Huaisong was eating pasta right in front of the computer.

Ruan Yu’s eyeballs slowly rolled in a circle.

Didn’t he say he was going to have dinner? Why did he bring the dinner over to the computer? Was he trying to snoop around while she wasn’t there?

As Ruan Yu was standing still in front of the computer, Xu Huaisong seemed rather at ease. After a short pause, he resumed eating gracefully while checking the files next to his hand.

So, he was eating while working at the same time.

Realizing that she was flattering herself again, Ruan Yu awkwardly sat down. She opened her memo pad while slowly stirring the yogurt with her other hand. 

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 167 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 167 Part 3

After riding on the bus for a while, the players began to fall asleep. Lu Sicheng also closed his eyes. Tong Yao was also about to fall asleep, but her cell phone vibrated. She checked her cell phone and found Jinyang was messaging her-- --

[Ah Mao’s mom: Where are you? Why didn’t I see you after the match? Is this the so-called running after showing off?]

[This girl keeps a German shepherd at home: What?]

[Ah Mao’s mom: Your new name sounds rather suggestive.]

[This girl keeps German shepherd at home: Shut up. Why are you looking for me?]

[Ah Mao’s mom: Do I have to have an excuse to look for you?]

[Ah Mao’s mom: See, isn’t your birthday on the 13th? How do you want to celebrate it? This is the first time that we’re out of the country and can still meet. Somehow I feel like it’s worth commemorating. What should I give you for your birthday? A handbag? Shoes? A necklace? Jewelry? A wedding gown?]

[Ah Mao’s mom: Nevermind jewelry and wedding gown, let your man give them to you. I’m not being cynical, he’s much richer than me and with just a word from you, he can buy the entirety of San Francisco for you and change the name to “Wishing my wife a happy birthday city”.]

[This girl keeps German shepherd at home: ……………….Don’t, don’t, don’t do that. Don’t tell him it’s my birthday. If he really bought some expensive thing for me, I won’t be able to repay him even if I got chopped up and sold by the pound.]

[Ah Mao’s mom: Human flesh doesn’t taste good. Girl, you are worth more as a whole than in pieces…… I’m so jealous, I wish my boyfriend could buy me a gift so expensive that I can’t pay back even if I sold myself.]

[This girl keeps German shepherd at home: ……What are you trying to say exactly? Why are you all of a sudden bringing up my birthday?]

[Ah Mao’s mom: Auntie…… Er, your mom gave me a call earlier and said that this is your twentieth birthday, an important one. She told me to celebrate with you, not to let you pass the day without realizing it.]

[This girl keeps German shepherd at home: Is she your mom or mine? Why didn’t she tell me directly?]

[Ah Mao’s mom: She felt awkward telling you to your face.] 

[This girl keeps German shepherd at home: “What?]

[Ah Mao’s mom: “I know you young people like to celebrate birthdays romantically, especially now Tong Yao has a boyfriend…… I just saw it on Weibo, her boyfriend’s pretty good. Good looks and well educated. So we don’t have any objection to it but Yangyang, remind her to be more careful. She needs to finish her schooling, so make sure they don’t create a new life.”-- --That’s what she said to me.]

[Ah Mao’s mom: Hehe.]

[Ah Mao’s mom: Let me translate it for you: Make sure he’s wearing the condom. Your mom is still young and does not want to be a grandma yet.]

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

Tong Yao gasped.

Lu Sicheng happened to wake up and glanced at Tong Yao in a daze: “What’s wrong? Why is your face so red?”

He reached over with his hand to touch Tong Yao’s face as he asked.

When his hand barely touched her, Tong Yao stared at him and jumped up as if she had been scalded. Lu Sicheng was baffled: “What’s wrong?”

Tong Yao: “My mom watched the video of your interview.”

Lu Sicheng raised his eyebrows.

Tong Yao: “She said you’re good looking and well educated.”

Lu Sicheng: “Oh.” He looked quite complacent.

Tong Yao: “But your facial features look immodest and she could tell you’re a douchebag. She told me to keep a safe distance from you.”

Lu Sicheng: “You added the last part yourself, right?”

Tong Yao: “......”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 167 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 167 Part 2

To all the otakus on the bus, they actually weren’t very interested in touring. To them, it was better to have a one-day tour of Summoner’s Rift-- --But Tong Yao said something to change their minds: We’re here already, why not go have a look around.

The other players thought her words made some sense. They figured that after they went back to China and when people asked them what they had seen in the US, they couldn’t just say that there wasn’t any lag playing games in the US.l.

How embarrassing would that be?

They began flipping through sightseeing pamphlets to see whether there were any places worth visiting.

Tong Yao was checking the pamphlet while looking at her cell phone at the same time. She opened a video of Lu Sicheng’s interview which had been shared over several tens of thousands of times. The most popular comment under the video was: [If Smiling’s vindicated all the female players by her performance at the world competition, then Chessman has vindicated all internet addicted teenagers with the interview. Dammit. Who dares to say that we’re a bunch of uneducated people that only know how to play games? ! Who ? !]

Tong Yao was quite amused and gave this person a like.

Her annoyance of being upstaged by Lu Sicheng had now been completely replaced by pride for taming such an outstanding man.

Lu Sicheng also flipped through a pamphlet as Tong Yao leaned against him. He didn’t find anything interesting in the pamphlet and put down the pamphlet while deciding that he would go along with whatever Tong Yao had decided. Then he lazily responded to Little Fatty’s comment: “Assuming all of our teams come out of the second round of group matches in the same ranking as they are now, there’ll be the drawing for all groups to match a first place team against a second place team from a different group. And since teams from the same region won’t be matched against each other, then the only possible teams that we’ll go up against in the quarter finals will either be the second place team from D group or OP if they stay in second place……”

Tong Yao: “If OP places first in their group and CK comes in second, then aren’t we playing the second place from D group and be guaranteed to go to semi-finals?”

Lu Sicheng: “Correct.”

Tong Yao sat up, Little Fatty also sat up, Old K, Old Cat, and Lu Yue all turned to look at Lu Sicheng with eyes shining with excitement. They asked in unison: “Is that so?”

Lu Sicheng frustratly said: “Can’t you grow a backbone? I’ve educated you all for so long and you just all turned into cowards, hrm? Afraid of the Koreans?”

Everyone burst out laughing.

Tong Yao: “Ah, what should I do, now I want CK to lose the match. Is it very evil of me-- --We’ve all agreed to work together after we arrived in the US. I said that I’ll bury the past and sincerely wish my ex-boyfriend will win every match except the one against me? All promises become drifting clouds in front of the reality of trying to get ahead.”

Little Fatty: “If OP is second in their group and we happen to have bad luck in drawing, we’ve beaten them a few times in skirmishes, right?”

Lu Sicheng: “We have to face them sooner or later.”

Little Fatty: “Maybe OP will get sent packing by some other teams before we have to face them.”

Lu Sicheng: “Then what about TAT?”

Little Fatty: “We’ve beaten them a few times during skirmishes-- --when Lu Yue was playing.”

Tong Yao rolled her eyes.

Lu Sicheng gave Little Fatty a glance, then reached over to grab the pamphlet out of Tong Yao’s hand. He slightly bent over and got closer to ask her in a small voice: “Have you decided where to go?”

“It doesn’t matter.” In the dim light inside the bus, Tong Yao noticed that Lu Sicheng’s usually stone face was unusually mellow. She reached over to pinch his face: “I’ll go wherever you’ll go.”

She had the same idea that Lu Sicheng had earlier.

Something flashed in Lu Sicheng’s eyes and his lips curved up: “Shopping?”

Tong Yao shook her head without even giving it a thought: “I don’t have anything I want to buy.”

Lu Sicheng grabbed her hand and used it to pat his chest: “You have a human ATM machine here and you’re telling me that?”

Tong Yao pulled her hand back: “Am I attracted by your money?”

Lu Sicheng’s smile widened: “Are you attracted by my money?”

Tong Yao placed the back of her hand onto his forehead: “Are you alright? Why do you want me to spend your money so badly?”

Lu Sicheng didn’t push her hand off: “En, when you like a person, you simply want to let her spend all of your money. If I have 10 dollars, I’ll let her spend 9.50 and use the leftover 50 cents to buy a bun in case she was hungry.”

Lu Sicheng’s voice could be heard by everyone on the bus. Amid all the “eew”s, Little Fatty was saying: “I’ve played support for you for three years and fed you countless kills. I'm not greedy at all, just give me a Givenchy dog shirt.”...... Tong Yao pushed Lu Sicheng’s head back while laughing and watched him slump back in the back row.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 167 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 167 Part 1

October 3rd, 9:30 pm US time, the first round of S6’s group matches concluded after ZGDX finished and deferred Tank from the North America region, in only 35 minutes.

During this match, Tong Yao played Leblanc and earned 15 kills, 0 death, and 3 assists. She had moved up from being the “first Leblanc on the Chinese server” to the “first Leblanc of the world.” Even commentator F who hadn’t thought too highly of the China region sighed with admiration after the match-- --

[During the second round of the group matches, there might not be any team that’ll willingly let Smiling have Leblanc again.]

ZGDX and their female mid won overnight fame from the first round of group matches!

On foreign websites, comics appeared depicting Tong Yao thrashing the other 17 mids from other teams. The comics were in various forms and basically showed her high up in a leading position-- --

It was awesome in capital letters!

Female games back in China could now hold their heads high. Whenever there were male players who said “she thought she was somebody just because she beat a bunch of noob teams,” the female players could confidently say “you’re just jealous.” Then they would haughtily turn their heads and walk away-- --

Starting from the day the group match began, the number of Tong Yao’s fans on Weibo had increased three fold over three days. Many of them were female fans and her popularity among female fans was beginning to gain on her boyfriend, Lu Sicheng.

Perhaps Lu Sicheng was shocked by the phenomenon or he liked showing off to begin with. The night after the first round of group matches ended, he also did something that shocked his fans-- --During the interview with foreign media, Lu Sicheng showed that he not only had a good looking face, but was also well educated. He didn’t use a translator throughout the whole interview and interacted with the foreign reporters in fluent English.

His pronunciation was quite accurate and he had no problem conveying his ideas precisely. The only imperfection to the Americans was that Lu Sicheng was speaking British English, with a little bit of a London accent.

-- --About an hour later, the video of Lu Sicheng’s interview quickly became the headlines of various media, replacing the news about Tong Yao’s excellent performance during the match against Tank.

The headlines were quite uniform-- --

[Hubris! ZGDX’s captain boasted during the interview with foreign media: ZGDX will again be undefeated in the second round of group matches! Not intimidated by the Korean teams, the ultimate goal is the championship!]

……

The second round would begin October 13.

The standings after the first round for the teams from the China region was: ZGDX was first in its group with an undefeated record; CK lost to the Taiwanese team but beat the Koreans, OP; CK was tied with OP in points but since CK had defeated OP, CK was placed first in their group; YQCB also had two wins and one loss and was second in their group.

Overall, the Chinese teams had performed well enough that both CK and YQCB managed to schedule a lot more skirmishes with other teams. The most disheartening defeat for the China region in the group matches was delivered by a Korean team which made the LPL players feel relieved but also helpless-- --

They felt relieved because it seemed that there wasn’t much of a problem for LPL teams to defeat teams from other regions, except the Korean region. The imaginary scenario that LPL teams would be thrashed by foreign teams didn’t happen. Actually, they had discovered that, after they were out of the country, there were a lot of noob teams as well. The only difference from the league back home was that there were a greater variety of noob teams.

They felt helpless because they still had difficulty defeating Korean teams and it was a difficult obstacle to overcome. It was like someone had placed three weasels inside the chicken coop and the 15 chickens inside were just staring at each other……

Little Fatty: “Especially that TAT, the king of the weasels-- --They’re too strong. Not only were they undefeated in their group, no other team has even seen what their inhibitor looks like…… The team next door hung in there for 40 minutes and was only able to take down 5 or 6 of TAT’s outer turrets before giving the GG.”

Little Fatty made his comment as ZGDX was riding on the bus on their way back to the hotel-- --There was a ten-day break from between now and the start of the second round. Xiao Rui was kind enough to give everyone a break and didn’t arrange any skirmishes for them tonight. The players planned to use one or two days during the break to tour around……

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 10 Part 4

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 10 Part 4

Ruan Yu was preoccupied with Cen Sisi. At the start of her video chat with Xu Huaisong, she was feeling rather down and absent-mindedly said towards the camera: “Mr. Xu, good morning.”

Xu Huaisong was still in the same room as last time. He took a glance outside the window: “It’s not morning anymore.”

Ruan Yu realized her mistake and wrily laughed.

Xu Huaisong looked at her as he picked up the documents on the desk and said flatly: “I’ve read the file.”

Ruan Yu had sent him the file yesterday before she went out with Shen Mingying. She asked: “Is there any problem with it?”

Xu Huaisong was about to say something but suddenly he noticed that the WeChat icon flashed. It was from Xu Huaishi again. He was planning to ignore it, but the first line of her message caught his attention: [Ge, that Su Cheng even dared……]

It looked like it wasn’t just a random chat. Xu Huaisong told Ruan Yu to wait a bit and clicked open the message.

Ruan Yu was bored as she listened to the notification sounds that kept popping up from the other side of the video chat. About 15 minutes later, she noticed that her own phone was making notification sounds.

When she opened WeChat, she found that Liu Mao had created a chat group for all three of them.

Liu Mao was posting pictures in the group chat, three in a row. The pictures looked like screen shots of Weibo private messages. Liu Mao added: [Please look at these, both of you.]

Ruan Yu enlarged the pictures and started smirking from irritation.

The pictures were showing the screenshots of the chat history of “Poem Writer.” The first picture showed a person claiming to be “Su Cheng'', using her Weibo’s alternate id, to contact Poem Writer and suggested that Poem Writer should file a lawsuit against “Wenxiang” for plagiarizing. Su Cheng even listed a whole bunch of advantages for doing so.

“Poem Writer” hinted that she didn’t believe this was the real “Su Cheng”. In order to convince her, “Su Cheng” was forced to send a message under her real id to prove herself.

Ruan Yu was too angry to care about her lady-like image and pointed at the screen to say: “Such a lu cha!”[1]

Xu Huaisong was obviously taken aback.

Ruan Yu realized that she had forgotten her manners and self-consciously smoothed out her bangs: “Sorry, I overreacted.”

But Xu Huaisong only blinked his eyes and asked: “What’s lu cha?”

Ruan Yu figured that he probably wasn’t familiar with internet slang back in China. She lightly coughed and seriously replied: “It’s the green tea we drink. My friend just sent me a link to an online store, hehe……”

Xu Huaisong opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but didn’t. Instead, he went on Baidu.

Ruan Yu continued to check the other two pictures.

It was more chat records between “Su Cheng” and “Poem Writer” further discussing the idea of filing a lawsuit. In the end, Poem Writer said she would contact a lawyer and give serious consideration about Su Cheng’s suggestion.

Since the chat history was in Liu Mao’s hands, Ruan Yu figured that “Poem Writer” should be on her side and she was only bluffing that she would consider it seriously.

Ruan Yu asked Xu Huaisong: “Did Mr. Liu instruct her to say that?”

Xu Huaisong wanted to say it was him actually but he couldn’t. So he nodded: “Probably.”

As the lawyer of the case, it wasn’t odd for Liu Mao to have contact with the key person in this case, “Poem Writer.” Ruan Yu didn’t think too much into it and asked again: “Then what should I do after this?”

“Ask Liu Mao.” Xu Huaisong was busy typing something and didn’t even give her a look.

Ruan Yu didn’t mind it at all and sent a message to Liu Mao in their group chat.

After two full minutes, Liu Mao replied: [If you’re really angry, simply block Cen Sisi’s WeChat.]

“......,” What a childish way of doing things, Ruan Yu felt that it wouldn’t do anything to relieve her anger.

She was about to tactfully suggest that doing so would be acting on impulse when she saw Xu Huaisong say in their group chat: [You’re in grade school?]

Zhikun Liu Mao: [......Then what would you suggest?]

Xu Huaisong: [You go help her preserve the online evidence.]

Zhikun Liu Mao: [......Alright, then what?]

Xu Huaisong: [Nothing else you need to do.]

Ruan Yu once again sensed that Xu Huaisong and Liu Mao weren’t on very good terms.

To smooth out what seemed to be tension between the two lawyers, Ruan Yu typed: [Sorry to trouble you, Mr. Liu!]

Liu Mao didn’t even bother to reply.

Xu Huaisong knocked on the desk on the other side to get Ruan Yu’s attention: “Do you have the defendant’s cell phone number?”

Ruan Yu nodded: “Yes.”

“Do you know how to record things as evidence?”

Ruan Yu was surprised but quickly understood what he meant.

If she followed Liu Mao’s suggestion and had a falling out with Cen Sisi right away, it wouldn’t be wise. She should pretend that she didn’t know anything about Cen’s exchanges with Poem Writer and try to get more words out of her. If Ruan Yu could do that, then in addition to the chat history with “Poem Writer”, she would have another piece of evidence in her favor in court.

Thinking through Xu Huaisong’s question, Ruan Yu couldn’t help but admire Xu Huaisong’s quick wit and intelligence. It seemed that he was more reliable than Liu Mao. Ruan Yu sat up straight and said: “I don’t really know how, could you teach me?”

“En.”

Liu Mao, sitting in his office, lazily leaned against a swivel chair and sighed while looking at the private chat between him and Xu Huaisong just a few minutes ago.

Xu Huaisong: [She would ask you what to do later on, tell her to block the defendant to get even.]

Zhikun Liu Mao: [Why? Can you be more professional like a lawyer? We should try to get her own words as evidence at a time like this.]

Xu Huaisong: [I know. Just tell her like I’ve told you.]

[1]: She is saying 绿茶, lǜchá, which literally means “green tea.” We struggled with translating the overall context of the sentence and settled on just transliterating the word rather than it’s normal meaning. In this case, she’s using the slang form of the word which basically means “bitch.”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 166 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 166 Part 3 

“Then,” Tong Yao had collected herself enough to speak again, her voice was a little hoarse: “Why do you think you would die after me?”

“Because a scourge lives for thousands of years.”

“Lu Sicheng.”

The two had arrived in front of the break room; they could faintly hear the voices of Old Cat and Little Fatty chatting inside. Lu Sicheng stopped at the door, resting his hand on the door knob: “You would be spoiled by me for most of your life. If I died before you, what would happen to you since you can’t take care of yourself by then? I’ve decided to take care of you for the rest of your life, I certainly have to be responsible for you all the way to the end, including your funeral-- --You’re such a high maintenance person, even when you’re older you’ll still be a demanding old lady. Obviously, you’ll be picky about your own funeral, no one, except me, would……”

Before Lu Sicheng could finish, Tong Yao had stretched her arms out and tightly embraced him around his waist. Her eyes were reddish, her facial expression, if it could be seen, showed that she was head over heels over him……

Tong Yao: “I was wrong.”

Lu Sicheng: “Why is that?”

Tong Yao: “I was jealous of you.”

Lu Sicheng laughed: “Oh.”

Tong Yao closed her eyes and pressed the tip of her nose to Lu Sicheng’s chest: “You’re all mine. Why should I be jealous of something I own? It’s ridiculous.”

Lu Sicheng patted her: “It’s a good thing. You’ve started to ponder how to surpass me to become the high achiever of the team, just like that kid, Dubhe, who’s energetic and motivated-- --It’s a comforting thing for you to think that way, at least better than having all of you always thinking of letting me carry the game so you can win without putting in any effort. When that day finally comes, I’ll be very glad. I’m getting old, sometimes I would also like to win a game without putting in much effort.”

Tong Yao looked up: “Really?”

He looked down to meet her eyes and smiled: “Really.”

-- --Little Fatty opened the door and saw his team’s mid was holding their AD like he was a treasure.

Little Fatty was amused: “Yo ho, what’s going on here? Just ten minutes ago, didn’t our mid want to split up with our bot…… Why are you embracing him like he’s precious now? You aren’t going to break up with him? You aren’t going to avenge that 400 gold now?” 

Lu Sicheng patted the back of Tong Yao who was buried in his chest.

He suddenly felt the arms around him tighten even more.

Lu Sicheng looked up and glanced over at Little Fatty with a spurious smile: “Aren’t I always precious to her?” Then he lowered his head to ask the person in his arms: “Right?”

Little Fatty rolled his eyes. He figured this man must have played some evil tricks on her…… With a cold shiver, Little Fatty stepped aside to let the two walk in the break room like conjoined twins so they wouldn’t be standing in the hallway and become an eyesore for the other teams. 

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 10 Part 3

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 10 Part 3

On her way back to her table in the dessert shop, Ruan Yu kept thinking about all the issues she had with “Su Cheng” over the past few years. She tried to connect all the disputes with the girl she was having sweets with. Before she could mentally sort through everything, she saw Cen Sisi turn to look at her. Cen Sisi fixed her eyes on Ruan Yu’s face and asked: “What’s going on with you, Xuejie? You look so serious.”

Ruan Yu gave her a wry smile. After sitting down, Ruan Yu decided to tough it out and get straight to the point: “Xuemei, do you use the pen name Su Cheng in Jinjiang?”

Cen Sisi widened her eyes in surprise: “Xuejie, are you psychic?”

Ruan Yu cleared her throat: “I’m not psychic. I’m Wenxiang.”

Cen Sisi’s jaw dropped onto the rim of the glass in front of her. She grimaced in pain and rubbed her jaw with her hand. It seemed to have been quite painful as tears came out of her eyes. It took her a while to get over the pain and said: “Xuejie, you aren’t joking with me?”

Ruan Yu was silent for a moment, then she turned on her cell phone and clicked to show her the Jinjiang web page.

Cen Sisi was dumbfounded: “The world is really small!” Then she seemed to remember all the furor on the internet caused by her: “Uhm, Xuejie, that Weibo thing before…… I, let me calm down a bit……”

She kept fanning with her hand at herself and her whole face was flushed. After a long while, she sat up straight: “Xuejie, there’s a big misunderstanding here. If I knew Wenxiang was you, I would never have posted that long comment on Weibo……”

Following Liu Mao’s instruction, Ruan Yu made sure she had full control of the direction of the dialogue: “Why?”

“It’s impossible for you to plagiarize!” She seemed to be even more outrageous than Ruan Yu’s fans. But soon she deflated like a ball: “Xuejie, have you filed a lawsuit against me?”

Ruan Yu nodded, not dodging the question like Liu Mao had told her.

Cen Sisi pursed her lips: “En, it is I who has done a bad thing to you……”

“I have no intention of escalating the whole matter. If you think it’s a misunderstanding, then we can consider reconciliation.” Ruan Yu squeezed out a somewhat pleasant smile.

“Really, Xuejie?” Cen Sisi breathed out a long breath: “That would be great. If my father found out about this, he'd scold me to death. If you’re willing to forgive me, I would make a public apology to you; I’ll make an effort to eliminate the negative impact that I’ve caused you and will never do such a stupid thing in the future…… Whatever you want me to do to make it up to you, I’ll…….”

“It’s not that big a deal.” Ruan Yu interrupted her with a smile: “However, I have no knowledge about the procedure of reconciliation, you have to talk to my lawyer. Tomorrow is Monday, do you have time?”

Cen Sisi looked like she was reluctant: “I have meetings all day tomorrow in the office. I probably can’t get away. How about the day after?”

“Sure.”

“Then, what about the court house……”

“I can contact them to temporarily suspend the process. Don’t you worry.”

Cen Sisi nodded while twisting her fingers and lowered her head, unable to look Ruan Yu eye to eye.

It had grown quite awkward between the two. Ruan Yu exchanged WeChat and cell phone numbers with her, then made up an excuse to go home.

When she was back at her apartment, she called Liu Mao and told him the details of the conversation with Cen Sisi from beginning to end.

Liu Mao had instructed her during the call earlier to speak less and be more observant. After listening to Ruan Yu’s detailed account, Liu Mao asked: “As far as you can tell, is the defendant lying?”

Ruan Yu didn’t want to think Cen Sisi was lying. Because if she thought that way, then it was truly a fridge horror when she thought back of the past few years.

“It’s hard to tell…… All of her reactions seemed like she was trying too hard.”

“I see.” Liu Mao comforted her: “It’s alright. You’ve done quite well, just leave everything else to me…… and Mr. Xu.”

Ruan Yu suddenly was reminded of the other “battle” she was going to face tomorrow morning. She asked: “With the situation now, do I continue with the work with Mr. Xu?”

Liu Mao thought about it for a moment: “I’ll tell him about the current situation. But for the time being, let’s just continue as we’ve planned.”

“Alright.”

Ruan Yu sighed after she ended the call. She was exhausted and went to bed early. At 8 am sharp the next morning, she was once again sinking into the fear of being dominated by Xu Huaisong. 

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 166 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 166 Part 2

Tong Yao was lost in thought and suddenly figured out the meaning of what Lu Sicheng said to her last night, “You’d be better off begging me than trying to find a master.” She controlled her urge to beat up the man and rushed to catch up with him: “Lu Sicheng, I’m disheartened.”

Lu Sicheng didn’t even look back: “What’s wrong?”

Tong Yao reached over to clutch the hem of Lu Sicheng’s clothes: “I suddenly realize that you’re a heartless person.”

Lu Sicheng slowed down a little and curved his lips up: “What?”

The cheering from the audience was still loud and clear. Tong Yao paused for a moment before saying: “Yesterday you fed me kills, even a quadra-kill. It was like a couple in their love bubble, anything I said was good and you would accommodate me. But today, you snatched the kill right from me, turned against me. It’s like you’re trying to tell me that if one day you no longer love me anymore, I’ll starve to death and you won’t even give me a sip of hot soup.”

Lu Sicheng laughed.

In the beginning, Tong Yao was joking. But towards the end, she started to feel uneasy-- --Even though she felt that she was being childish and fussing over something trivial, she still tightly tugged his clothes and frowned: “What are you laughing about? I’m serious.”

The passageway to the backstage was a little narrow. Little Fatty was walking right ahead of them. Lu Sicheng slowed down, so he and Tong Yao began to fall behind their teammates-- --When Tong Yao tugged at his clothes, Lu Sicheng suddenly stopped and turned around. Amidst the loud cheering of “Chessman” “Chessman” “Chessman”, he held onto Tong Yao’s shoulder, bent over to kiss her knitted eyebrows, and quietly and gently said: “That’s easy to take care of. I’ll just love you for your whole life.”

The noise surrounding her seemed to have disappeared all of a sudden.

Tong Yao was taken aback-- --Has he ever made such a promise to her before?

It didn’t seem like he had.

Lu Sicheng released her and straightened up, his big hand picked up her hand.

The two walked forward, shoulder to shoulder-- --Tong Yao didn’t know when it had started but now Lu Sicheng knew to slow down so his steps could match the short legs next to him…… Tong Yao pinched his fingers: “What about when I’m old and ugly?”

“I don’t know what gave you the impression that it was your beauty that won me over……” Lu Sicheng stopped for a while, his fingers starting to hurt: “I’m older than you by 5 years. When you’re old and ugly, I’ll be even older.”

“A model answer would be: You’ll always look beautiful in my mind no matter how old you are.”

“Oh.”

“But a whole life is too long. Captain, you’re just saying that.”

“How long can it be?” Lu Sicheng, with his eyelashes covering his dark brown pupils, unassumingly said: “Play competitions, retire, marry you-- --The exact sequence of events can be switched according to the actual situation-- --Have a daughter, then a son-- --Watch League of Legends shut down, carry backpacks for the children-- --Watch the children grow up, get married-- --Then we get old-- --One day, I’ll stand at your funeral describing your glorious life; counting how many games you’d carried and how many Koreans you’d made cry when you were young. Then I’ll carve “This woman was beautiful all her life, I love her” on your tombstone…… See, a whole life is just as short as that. Why would you feel it’s long?”

“......”

Tong Yao turned her head slightly, with her mouth slightly open and looked at the man next to her dumbfounded. It’s impossible that this man majored in law, he must be a Chinese language and literature major?

Otherwise, how could he be this good at phrasing words?

Listening to him describe the possible life they would have in such a calm and slow tone of voice made Tong Yao feel like crying-- --Not only had she gotten over the uneasy feeling that developed when Lu Sicheng took her kill from her. Now she was willing to feed him all the kills for the rest of her life. 

Just like Little Fatty would feed Lu Sicheng.

With just a few words, Lu Sicheng had turned Tong Yao, the mid, into a support.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 166 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 166 Part 1

Though Lu Sicheng’s arrow had cost Tong Yao 400 gold, the advantage that action brought to the mid lane was still there-- --While C’s mid was waiting to respawn, a wave of minions moved towards the other side’s outer turret and he couldn’t farm any of them, missing the chance to develop. Tong Yao seized the opportunity to stunt his growth.

In the end, ZGDX defeated Team C with their bot carrying the game. The win calmed the nerves of fans across the Pacific.

After the match, amidst the cheering of the audience, the commentators also got quite excited-- --

Commentator D: [What a match! LPL has shown us what they can do-- --We seem to be watching those excellent LPL AD players from S2. That year, they brought tremendous pressure and fear to the other regions!]

Commentator D: [I can still remember the names of those players’ id. Ah, haha! They were the ones who inspired me to commentate for the LPL competitions in the past four years.]

Commentator F: [LPL has produced a lot of top ADs. But in the past couple of years, their performance has been unsatisfactory. On the other hand, the AD players from LCK and LCS  regions are much better.]

Commentator D: [You just can’t leave your beloved LCS players out of this. Ah, but that’s fine. I hope this match will be the bugle sounding before dawn……]

Commentator F: [What?]

Commentator D stood up and waved his arms to shout on top of his lung: [They’ve come back! Those excellent ADs from LPL, welcome back! ! ! ! ]

His excitement invigorated the audience. The audience also stood up in waves to shout: “LPL” -- --

ZGDX players started to take their headphones off and the first thing they heard was the excited shouting of the initials of their league, as if they were playing in their home court…… They were baffled, but stood up to walk over to shake hands with the Taiwanese players-- --Tong Yao didn’t know what the commentators had said to arouse the audience to this degree…… She heard the other team’s mid mentioning Ashe’s arrow at the beginning of the game. He grabbed Lu Sicheng’s hand and said with a smile: “That shot was awesome, right on target, did you calculate it? It was unbeatable, I was stunned.”

Lu Sicheng modestly said: “Thank you.”

Tong Yao: “......”

Tong Yao thought: all you remembered was that arrow? What about me? Me? The accurate calculation, the tricky angle, and the perfect casting of abilities in a combo had frightened you-- --What about me? !

After shaking hands with their Taiwanese friends, the ZGDX players walked to the front of the stage as usual and bowed to the cheering audience. Then they went back to their own seats to check the stats and packed up their equipment. Tong Yao sat down to check the stats; Lu Sicheng had 11 kills, 1 death, 5 assists and she had 4 kills, 4 deaths, 12 assists. His numbers looked much more grand than hers……

She recalled the last few team fights. Ashe stayed at the back of the team and dealt lots of damage to the enemy while the teammates at the front had all died. Ashe was still at full health. Stepping over the bodies of his teammates, Ashe was able to ace the enemy and had triple-kill twice…… The second time he got a triple-kill, Tong Yao was waiting to respawn and had looked up at the audience. Many people had stood up in the audience and were shouting something in excitement…… Probably just like they were doing right now-- --

They were shouting the game id of the AD god in their minds-- --

“Chessman.”

It was as if there was only one carry position in ZGDX all along. What was more amazing was that they weren't playing a 4 protect 1 game at all.

…...She had a lot of envy and a little bit of jealousy.

She wanted to be like him, one day……

Tong Yao stood up, somewhat bewildered. She was uneasy about her own thoughts-- --She felt that it was dangerous for her to think that way. The man walking ahead of her was the pillar of Team ZGDX, how could she be thinking of surpassing him someday?

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 165 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 165 Part 3

Commentator D: [Whoa, Smiling’s Leblanc! As far as I know, no one at the LPL competitions ever let Smiling take her! Team C, you haven’t done your homework!]

Commentator F: [Well we’ll find out after this game just how good she is with her. I personally think that if a player hasn’t used a champion in a competition setting for a long time, the feel will be a little off when the player picks them up again…… In comparison, I’m more amazed by LCS’s[1] player Jones’ Leblanc.]

Commentator D: [You don’t know anything about the LPL.]

Commentator F: [I’m surprised that you would say that. I’ll wait and see.]

The commentators had gotten off on a heated start and the audience also got excited. While they were bickering, the ban & pick phase had ended with Lu Sicheng locking Ashe as the last pick-- --

The match began.

Team C was a rather strong team overall, especially their mid and carry Ah Long. He had taken Vladimir as his champion, who had strong lifesteal ability. He was playing cautiously and, for the time being, Tong Yao couldn’t do anything to him……

Team C’s top and bot lanes had chosen to play conservatively since they knew that they couldn’t beat ZGDX in the laning phase. They wanted to wait till their mid was fully developed and have him carry the game-- --The burden of whether ZGDX could mess up Team C’s momentum now rested on Tong Yao’s shoulder. She was nervous.

The laning phase lasted for 8 minutes.

Tong Yao had already calculated and positioned herself at the right spot to strike as soon as the minions in the lane were cleared. When Ah Long realized the situation and tried to retreat, it was already too late. Leblanc cast w, q, r, e, w in quick succession and Vladimir’s health practically disappeared-- --

The audience watched Vladimir survive with only a sliver of health and all it took was a basic attack from Tong Yao to finish him off. Smiling would have one kill under her belt. But they suddenly heard a woman's screech coming from the stage!

The crowded arena was quiet for a few seconds. Everyone was wondering what had happened.

Commentator A stretched his neck to take a look: [We seem to be hearing some noise from the competition stage-- --What’s happening? ! Is there a mouse on stage frightening our lady? !]

As the commentator finished his words, the scene, which was on a 3 second delay, appeared on screen. When Smiling was about to kill Ah Long, an arrow shot from a blind spot from bot, Ashe’s ultimate, smashed right into Vladimir’s head and killed him! ! ! 

Everyone: “...................................................”

The two commentators instantly burst into a fit of laughter.

Commentator D: [Oh ho ho! My goodness, have you ever seen a pitiful guy who’s forced to be single because he steals his girlfriend’s snacks? You’re about to see one soon.]

Commentator F: [What a precise ultimate, from the angle to the timing.]

Commentator D: [We can see now-- --Urh, director, could you give us a shot, please-- --Alright, alright, now we can clearly see that Smiling’s saying something in a towering rage……]

Commentator F: [If it’s a random match, the mid would go AFK by now.]

Commentator D: [But in formal competitions, going AFK counts as passive play and there's a penalty for it.]

Commentator F: [......]

……

At the same time, onstage, Tong Yao: “Lu Sicheng! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !”

Lu Sicheng clicked the b key to go back, adjusted his headphones, and calmly said: “What? I was afraid that he was going to slip away so I helped you nail him there……”

Tong Yao: “Nail, shit! ! ! Damn you! ! ! ! ! You did it on purpose! ! ! !”

Lu Sicheng: “Watch your language. Isn’t it just 400 gold? Why so angry.”

Tong Yao: “I’m pissed off! ! I’ve used ten thousand abilities, damn! ! And all that to benefit you! !”

“Yesterday, didn’t I also use ten thousand abilities to give a whole bunch of low health ones for you to kill? Where do you think your quadra kill had come from? You’re spoiled.” Lu Sicheng turned his head to take a look at Tong Yao. Instead of comforting her, he squinted his eyes and said with a smile: “You’ve become a pufferfish when you’re angry.”

Tong Yao wished she could smash the keyboard on that nonchalant handsome face.

Tong Yao: “I’m going AFK. You’ve lost your baby, there’s no mid in this match!”

Lu Sicheng calmly said: “Oh. Think it through; the penalty for passive play in international competitions is in US dollars.”

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

Lu Sicheng: “I know you wouldn’t dare doing it. Come, don’t be angry now. Where’s Old K? Come over, go help this pufferfish take blue buff  to calm her down.”

Tong Yao: “.........................................Fuck!”

[1]: LCS, League of Legends Championship Series, is the North American professional LoL league.

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You're My Belated Happiness - Chapter 10 Part 2

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You’re My Belated Happiness

Chapter 10 Part 2

In fact, Ruan Yu didn’t feel that there was anything to catch up with Cen Sisi. But since Cen Sisi was so enthusiastic, Ruan Yu decided to buy her some sweets and chat.

Since they weren’t that familiar with each other, Ruan Yu was rather quiet. When Cen Sisi asked about her profession, Ruan Yu vaguely replied: “It’s sort of freelance work.”

Cen Sisi: “Whoa, are you an author?”

It wasn’t that surprising that she would make such a guess since they both were Chinese majors.

Ruan Yu said: “Not really, just an ordinary writer.” Since she didn’t want Cen Sisi to ask about her pen name. Ruan Yu asked Cen Sisi a question to change the subject: “How about you? What have you been doing after graduation?”

Cen Sisi bit on the straw and was a little embarrassed: “Me? I work for my family’s business.”

Ruan Yu was about to say that was nice, but her phone started ringing.

It was from Liu Mao.

She was afraid that it was something urgent and got up: “I’m sorry, I have to take the call.”

Cen Sisi glanced at the screen of Ruan Yu’s phone and saw the name “Lawyer Liu” on screen. She nodded: “No need to be sorry, go ahead.”

Ruan Yu went outside of the shop and picked up the call. She heard Liu Mao’s voice: “I was just informed by the courthouse. We’ve added another defendant to the case.”

Liu Mao was very efficient. He had filed the complaint to the court six days ago and applied for an investigation order to be issued. The original defendant was Weibo. Once the case was filed with the court, the court would ask Weibo to provide related information about the accuser. Weibo wouldn’t take responsibility for the accuser and would investigate accordingly.

It looked like Liu Mao now had the information about the accuser “Su Cheng.”

“The case is going quite smoothly thanks to all your efforts.” Ruan Yu said.

“You’re welcome. I’m not calling to claim the credit but to ask you about a person. I don’t know whether it’s coincidental or not, but you might know this defendant.”

Ruan Yu was taken aback: “Someone I know?”

“Right, I’ve heard from Uncle Ruan before that you graduated from Hang University, right? This defendant is from the same department as you, three years younger, called Cen Sisi. Any recollection about this person?”

Ruan Yu: “......”

Ruan Yu was caught off guard by what she had heard.

Subconsciously, she turned her head to look at the direction of the dessert shop. Through the window, she could see Cen Sisi look at her while biting her straw. Seeing that Ruan Yu was looking at her, Cen Sisi even smiled at her.

Her white teeth showed inside her red lips and her almond shaped eyes were bright as if there were water in them.

Ruan Yu smiled back at her. When Liu Mao asked her what was going on, she turned her head back and said: “......I’m having dessert with her right now.”

It was Liu Mao’s turn to be shocked.

Ruan Yu calmed down and told Liu Mao of what had happened from beginning to now. She asked: “What you mean is that it might not be a coincidence that she’s attacking me online and happened to run into me today?”

After saying so, even before Liu Mao had answered, Ruan Yu shuddered and had goosebumps all over her.

“We can’t exclude that possibility.”

“But I don't remember having any problem with her while in school……”

“Then think of it positively, this is maybe just a coincidence. But even if it’s not, don’t panic. Tell me first, does she know who you are talking to on the phone now?”

Ruan Yu thought back: “She probably saw your name on my phone which is ‘Lawyer Liu.’”

“Then go ahead and have an open and honest chat with her.”

Ruan Yu frowned. She hadn’t even fully grasped what had happened and now she had to go straight into the battle?

“If she didn’t know your pen name and since you two are from the same school, I would suggest going through private mediation. It’s better than going through the court if we can reach a settlement which is more favorable to your interests. It takes a long time to go through the legal process. Compared to other kinds of lawsuits, it’s better to resolve the case early rather than late to protect your reputation.”

“However, if she had malicious intentions from the beginning, then she probably would know what you’re up to by now when she saw ‘Lawyer Liu.’ Besides, she should have been served by the court in the last couple of days, then you two have to face each other shortly after anyway. As it is now, you wouldn’t be unnecessarily alerting her in advance of the existence of the case……”

Liu Mao gave Ruan Yu detailed instructions. After hanging up the phone, Ruan Yu had no choice but to go back to the shop and face the battlefield.

She felt that her life lately had become more and more fantastical.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 165 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 165 Part 2

After the skirmish with TAT, Tong Yao was about to smash her head onto the keyboard. Lu Sicheng, unruffled, stretched his hand between Tong Yao’s forehead and the keyboard and said plainly: “It’s alright. Use your brain, take it easy.”

“Can’t use my brain.” Tong Yao said: “Only the one on top of Ah Tai’s neck can be called a brain.”

Lu Sicheng gently said: “Don’t say that. A pig’s brain is still a brain.”

Tong Yao lifted her head from his big hand and turned to angrily stare at him.

Lu Sicheng affectionately patted Tong Yao’s head-- --In the history of skirmishes against TAT, Lu Sicheng’s bot had never been stopped. It looked like TAT’s new adc, though the best one in their league, was still overshadowed by the accomplishments of his predecessors.

It was the demon that haunted a person’s mind, just like the shadow Ah Tai had cast over to Tong Yao. She could gradually walk away from it, but when she carefully looked back, it was always there, irritating yet unavoidable.

Around 2 am US time, ZGDX had finished all their scheduled skirmishes and was getting ready to go back to the hotel when they heard some gossip-- --

First, it was said that Team Bear, which had gotten smashed by ZGDX today, didn’t perform well because its mid player hadn’t fully acclimated to the U.S. and was also suffering from diarrhea. But he had gotten better tonight after taking medicine and during the skirmish against North America’s Team Time, Bear unexpectedly crushed them.

Second, the European Team Moon, which was in the third seeded pool, had gone undefeated in all their skirmishes tonight. They first defeated the high spirited CK, then took down the Korean team RP as well.

Third, this year’s S finals might be different from previous years. The wild card teams might not be here to make the other regions comfortable like before.

……

On the second day of the competition, ZGDX was against Team C, YQCB vs. TAT, and CK vs. FZ.

To the China region, this was the day of three tough battles. ZGDX’s match was scheduled after the other two teams but they still arrived at the arena early to watch the matches and to collect information about their opponents-- --That valuable little notebook of Tong Yao’s had traveled all the way from Shanghai to the US.

After four hours, she had taken down two full pages of notes. On said pages, she had written down in precise detail, down to the second, the process of how the China region’s “most hopeful year” had sunk to the bottom of the ocean……

In YQCB vs TAT and CK vs FZ, both Chinese teams lost.

TAT reclaimed the Korean region’s pride after OP had lost the match on the first day of the competition-- --In this match against TAT, the only decent performance from YQCB was the duo at bot, Pope and Liangsheng. The other two lanes and the jungler were badly thrashed. At the 15th minute into the game, the match was almost over. At the 22nd minute, the screen of the stream was covered by comments like “gg” “20 minutes surrender”, like snowflakes covering the screen to the point that nobody could see the game anymore.

-- --When the match ended, the Koreans took off their headphones and stood up with expressions that seemed to say: I’m still your dad.

-- --Tieba had always been good at trying to discourage the teams.

By the time of the third match, before the match between ZGDX and Team C was about to begin, it was all quiet on Weibo and Tieba. Only a fan posted on Weibo sarcastically: [It would be nice if ZGDX lost as well. Now it’s 6 am here, a beautiful day would begin with the failure of ZGDX?......]

The fans back in China were quite anxious.

The pressure on ZGDX was mounting.

When the fans in China were eating their breakfast while watching the stream on their cell phones, Tong Yao and her teammates got on the stage and put on their headphones-- --In international competitions, there were more ways of playing the game and fresher strategies. Tong Yao’s Leblanc and Twisted Fate wouldn’t get 100% banned like back in China’s league competitions. Therefore, Tong Yao got Leblanc for this match.

The commentators and the audience who knew anything about her all cheered for her.

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