Those Sweet Times - Chapter 84 Part 4

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Those Sweet Times

Chapter 84 Part 4

The fans of that popular streamer didn’t expect that their idol would be knocked around so easily. Some blamed the streamer on the bullet comments, some were discussing the details of the just finished match, and some were lamenting how strong the enemy was.

They commented that for a good team, strong skills weren’t good enough, it had to have good coordination.  The enemy team was indeed much better in this respect than their favorite streamer’s team.

Then, as the discussion kept going, the topic suddenly changed:

-- --No one feels that their ids are quite familiar? Chu god? Nuan god? Zemu?

-- --Chu god is the rising new streamer who’s been overtaking Pea TV with his face. Certainly he looks familiar.

-- --No, it seems that I’ve seen those ids long time ago. 

-- --Con man’s new tricks?

-- --I remembered now. I know now! It was at the Collegiate competition! Because I was so impressed by their looks when watching the award ceremony stream at the time, I paid special attention to their ids. I thought maybe I’ll run into them later in a game.

-- --What’s the Collegiate competition? What nonsense about being impressed by their looks?

-- --It was held during the New Year this year. It was also broadcasted on Pea TV but not many people watched because most of the teams weren’t that good.

-- --Shit, I went to check out the video. Go take a look, quick! Go to the end of the video to watch the award ceremony directly!

-- --I’ve seen it, my goodness! I have goosebumps, what kind of people are they?

-- --I can accept that one of the players looks good, but with so many good looking people in one team…...damn what kind of team is this?

-- --Hahahaha, I remembered that not too long ago someone had just said that Nuan god is ugly. Hahaha, how’s it feel getting slapped? Some even said my Chu god is a gigolo. Both of them are students from the Nanshan University. Some of those trolls probably didn’t even know where the gate of Nanshan University faces?

-- --Beg to know Chu god’s channel name.

-- --Just search “Chuyan”, that’s his Pea id.

-- --Is Nuan god a streamer? I want to see her stream.

-- --Nuan god doesn't have her own stream. Nuan god is a tycoon, always buying gifts for her boyfriend. Oh, right, Chu god and Nuan god are a couple. Tsk, tsk, the so-called fairy couple is them.

……

Xiang Nuan’s team didn’t check the stream during the match in order to keep their focus on the game. After the first match was over, they got a short break then started the second match right away.

Xiang Nuan felt that the second match was roughly the same situation as the first one.

Xiang Nuan started to wonder whether the other teams, that her team was going to face later on, were going to be like these two. They were all formed loosely centered around one strong player. They all looked quite aggressive, but weren’t coordinated. For those who didn’t know too much about the game, they would think the team looked quite capable. But for those who knew, it was quite easy to seize the flaw of the team.

Xiang Nuan was very grateful for having Yang Yin on her team, otherwise her team would be the same as the others.

When the matches ended on the first day, Lin Chuyan received a phone call from a manager of the Pea TV.

“We need your help.” The manager went right to the point.

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 84 Part 3

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Those Sweet Times

Chapter 84 Part 3

That night, Lin Chuyan played duos with Xiang Nuan during his stream as usual. Xiang Nuan saw someone ask her in the bullet comments whether she was really ugly. She replied: “No matter how I look, your idol is head over heels over me in any case.” After saying so, Xiang Nuan felt she had somewhat vented her irritation.

Lin Chuyan laughed: “Yes, I’m head over heels over you.”

He purposely lowered his voice to say that. Xiang Nuan had a tingling feeling over her body, now she was also head over heels over him.

The bullet comments exploded again.

-- --Damn it, someone tell me where I can find a gigolo just like the streamer, please. I’m willing to pay with all the wages of my entire life!

-- --Nuan god, don’t mind the others. No matter how you look, I’ll wait for you to marry me! I don’t mind Chu god being the first wife, I’m willing to be the mistress.

-- --Raising my hand! I’m willing to be the waiting maid, the kind who watches at the side when you two are together. I do!

-- --The one above, what you said is the director of a pron movie.

-- --I’m also head over heels now. But what right do I have to be head over heels being a single person myself. / ( T o T ) / ~ ~

-- --This streamer has a very well upbringing, though I follow you because of your face……

-- --Every day I watch you two PDA in every possible way with a broad grin. I might be bewitched.

-- --Why isn’t Hu Ge talking?

-- --Idol, when is the competition?

……

Lin Chuyan took a look at the bullet comment and replied: “The competition will start at 2 pm on May 1st.”

-- --

Since there were quite a few famous streamers participating in the competition, there were quite a lot of viewers during the Leiting Cup streaming. The first match of Xiang Nuan’s team was against a team formed by another popular streamer from Pea TV. He was quite popular and many who posted on the bullet comments were his fans cheering for him.

Ten minutes into the first match, Xiang Nuan felt that she had a good grasp of the enemy team’s skill level. The five players of the opposing team were all good players but weren’t coordinated as well as Xiang Nuan’s team. It was a common problem facing teams which were formed at random.

Beside, the opposing team’s strategy was quite obvious; they basically played centered around their streamer. Therefore, Xiang Nuan’s team only needed to focus on him and it would knock out half of their strategy. They would be halfway to victory.

They would need to get the other half with good coordination from Xiang Nuan’s team.

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 84 Part 2

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 84 Part 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Their conclusion was: Xiang Nuan must be ugly!

Xiang Nuan was dumbfounded after reading all those comments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lin Chuyan smiled: “Sure.”

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 84 Part 1

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 84 Part 1

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

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

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

“It’s alright.”

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

“I’ll play support.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“You can’t either.”

“How so?”

“Not enough IQ.”

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

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

Yang Yin didn’t go on.

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

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

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

Lin Chuyan reservedly pressed his lips.

-- --

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

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



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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 83 Part 3

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 83 Part 3

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

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

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

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

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

There was one more problem after they decided on the schedule

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

“It’s probably not appropriate.”

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

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

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

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

-- --

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

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

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

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

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

Boss Lin meant Lin Xueyuan.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yue Yingying: No.

Lin Chuyan: Why?

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

Lin Chuyan: =  =

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

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

Lin Chuyan: Congratulate me, for what?

Yue Yingying: Congratulations for becoming an internet celebrity.

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

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

Lin Chuyan: ……

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

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

Xiang Nuan asked: “What’s wrong?”

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

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

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 83 Part 2

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 83 Part 2

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

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

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

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

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

His facial expression frightened the girl away.

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

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

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

Xiang Nuan: =  =

It was a bit awkward.

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

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

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

Without knowing why, Shen Zemu felt relieved.

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

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

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

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

“I see.”

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

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

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

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

He had changed the topic to the Leiting Cup.

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

“Three days?”

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

“16 teams?”

“Right.”


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

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

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


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

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 83 Part 1

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 83 Part 1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“What did you say? Louder.”

“Hubby.”

“I can’t hear it.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“You, don’t…...don’t do that.”

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

“Lin Chuyan, you’re a jerk.”

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

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

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

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

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

Lin Chuyan called her: “Nuannuan.”

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

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

His voice was so sweet.

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

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

“Maniac.”

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 82 Part 3

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 82 Part 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Mind your own business.” Shen Zemu said.

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

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

“Ha? What did you say, cousin?”

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

“Cousin, don’t tell my parents.”

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

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

“Because you’ve been scammed.”

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

“What else can she be?”

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

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

“Call the police.” He said.

“I won’t!” Chen Yinghu resisted.

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

Chen Yinghu turned to walk away with a dark face.

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

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

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

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

Shen Zemu suddenly felt quite lonely.

……

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

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

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

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

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 82 Part 2

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 82 Part 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I’m fine.”

“That’s good then.”

“En.”

The conversation didn't seem to make much sense.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

-- --

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

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

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



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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 82 Part 1

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Those Sweet Times

Chapter 82 Part 1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chen Yinghu also said: “Looks good.”

Lin Chuyan leered at him.

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

“It’s for you.”

“Me?”

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

Xiang Nuan: =  =

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

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

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

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

“I won’t have any affairs.”

“How can you be so sure?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lin Chuyan leered at him again.

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

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 81 Part 2

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 81 Part 2

The viewers were all blinded by Lin Chuyan’s bright smile. Many responded with bullet comments.

-- --Actually you don’t need to play any game. I can watch you for a hundred years just like this.

-- --You’re a master at teasing your girlfriend?

-- --Played the piano since you were little! Awesome!

-- --Don’t blame Nuan god for not believing you. I wouldn’t believe it if it wasn't for the fact that I watched it happen with my own eyes! It was just a blink of the eye, I didn’t even see clearly what was on screen!

-- --Hahahaha, I was here to watch the result of PDA, then I heard a piece of stand-up comedy.

-- --Nuan god, what were you thinking? Say it out loud, we want to hear it!

-- --Pron streamer, I’ve reported you.

-- --Am I the only one who noticed that Hu Ge hasn’t talked much? I feel for Hu Ge.

-- --Feel +1. Then don’t play with them, Hu Ge. They’re bad people.

-- --I have to pay respect to this streamer who can reduce a chatty person to this state.

……

“I’m getting mad.” Xiang Nuan suddenly said.

Lin Chuyan was a little startled: “I was wrong, don’t get mad.”

The viewers all thought their streamer had apologized too quickly, at least he should find out why she was mad……

“You speak nonsense in front of so many people, haven’t you thought that it would embarrass me?” Xiang Nuan explained why she was mad herself.

Some people had already made bullet comments saying Xiang Nuan was such a high maintenance girlfriend and many became critical about her.

Sweat formed on Lin Chuyan’s forehead. He was afraid that Xiang Nuan would be even more annoyed after seeing those comments. He hurriedly coaxed her with a soft voice: “Alright, I won’t do that in the future. I’m sorry, forgive me this time.”

“It won’t do unless you promise me one thing.”

“What thing?”

“You have to make the promise first.”

“Alright, I promise.”

“You’ll never force me to call you hubby again.”

Lin Chuyan squinted his eyes and grit his teeth, his silly girl had finally learned how to be smart.

Xiang Nuan was finally able to trick Lin Chuyan for once and felt quite proud of herself. She didn’t want to talk to Lin Chuyan at the moment so she turned to ask Chen Yinghu: “Hu Ge, why haven't you spoken?”

“I did, but you guys didn’t hear me.”

“Oh, oh, I’m sorry, Hu Ge.”

“It’s fine.”

“Hu Ge, what are you planning to do tomorrow?”

“I don’t have any particular plans, just want to walk around Laofeng Street.”

Xiang Nuan thought about an idea and turned to ask Lin Chuyan: “Chuyan, why don’t we-- --”

Before she finished, Lin Chuyan interrupted her: “No.”

Xiang Nuan stuck her tongue out: “I mean, aren’t you getting tired of staying with me all the time……”

She didn’t really expect to hear an answer from Lin Chuyan. As she was about to continue, Lin Chuyan suddenly interjected: “Not at all.”

Xiang Nuan forgot what she was going to say all of sudden.

After a while, she continued: “I was going to say that I also miss Yin Jiejie, why don’t we invite her to go out with us. We’ll be competing soon, let’s use the chance to develop a good rapport. Right, Hu Ge?”

Chen Yinghu felt it make a lot of sense.

Ever since Lin Chuyan started dating Xiang Nuan, Lin Chuyan seldom spent time with Chen Yinghu anymore. One time, Hu Ge jokingly asked Lin Chuyan who would Lin save first if he and Xiang Nuan all fell into the water.

Lin Chuyan said he was asking to humiliate himself.

Later on, Lin Chuyan probably felt he was being a little too mean and asked Hu Ge what he liked that he could burn to him.

Chen Yinghu only wanted Keke, but he didn’t want her to be burned.

……

Chen Yinghu felt quite lonely in Nanshan but he didn’t want to go back to Z province since his parents constantly asked him to bring his girlfriend home. They still didn’t know that his girlfriend had already turned into a butterfly and flew away.

Though it hurt sometimes to play with the couple, Chen Yinghu still felt it was better than being by himself. He would rather stay here and play with the two.

“How about it?” Xiang Nuan asked Lin Chuyan.

Lin Chuyan couldn’t refuse her. He couldn’t even refuse her when she wanted to braid his hair after all.

“You better ask Coach Yang whether she has the time.” Lin Chuyan said.

Yang Yin had injured a rich man before. Now this man had come out of the hospital and was discrediting her everywhere. She was having trouble finding a job. When Xiang Nuan asked her about going to see cherry blossoms tomorrow, Yang Yin happily agreed.

Chen Yinghu then thought about the fifth person for their new team. He could no longer hold it back and asked in a small voice: “Shall we ask my cousin to come too?

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 81 Part 1

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Those Sweet Times

Chapter 81 Part 1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All the bullet comments went “hahaha.”

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

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

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

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

Zhuge Liang stood back up from where he fell down.

How could it be?

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

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

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

Zhege Liang leisurely killed the enemy with the lowest health.

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

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

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

Lin Chuyan answered: Afraid of getting killed.

That person replied with a string of ellipsis.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 80 Part 2

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 80 Part 2

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

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

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

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

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

……

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The bullet comments:

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

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

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

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

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

……

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

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

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 80 Part 1

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 80 Part 1

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

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

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

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

His popularity was quite real.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lin Chuyan: “I’m not asking you.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Alright.”

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

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

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

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 79 Part 3

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 79 Part 3

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“You shut up!”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I’m not eating.”

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

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

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 79 Part 2

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 79 Part 2

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

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

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

Though he was a little……

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

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

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

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

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

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

He looked quite pathetic.

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

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

“You can’t kiss me today.”

“Why not?”

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

Lin Chuyan: =  =

……

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“39.” Lin Chuyan made up a number.

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

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

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

He was still laughing.

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 79 Part 1

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 79 Part 1

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

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

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

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

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

Then it was very possible this is someone he knew?

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

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

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

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

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

-- --

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

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

Lin Chuyan smiled back.

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

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

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

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

Lin Chuyan took a look and was also surprised.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 78 Part 2

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 78 Part 2

Lin Chuyan suddenly pushed her against the door.

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

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

Actually, she also missed him a lot.

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

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

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

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

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

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

-- --

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

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

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

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

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

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

A streamer…...looked like this?

Wait, was this a movie star streaming?

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

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

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

……

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some asked: Why do you need money so badly?

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

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

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

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

Ten deepwater torpedoes equals one thousand RMB.

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

Lin Chuyan: “......”



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

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