Those Sweet Times - Chapter 54 Part 1

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 54 Part 1

Xiang Nuan practiced playing top for a few days and grew more and more curious about Yang Yin.

She searched online for Yang Yin and found mostly bad reviews about her. Some said Yang Yin had slept with the boss of the club to become the leading player of the team; some said she acted out of line too often because she was the only girl and her teammates had to let her have her way; some said she was rude, cursed at fans, and bad mouthed others……

There were even many pictures that came with the comments online, as if those were definite evidence. Xiang Nuan felt that if she didn’t know Yang Yin in person, like most of the audience, she would more than likely believe what had been posted online.

However, based on her contact with Yang Yin in the past few days-- --though she could be quite arrogant when playing games, and said Xiang Nuan and her teammates were noobies…...Xiang Nuan chose to believe in Yang Yin’s character.

“Yin Jiejie, why are there people bad mouthing you like that?” Xiang Nuan asked Yang Yin. She thought those people must’ve been Yin Jiejie’s enemies, otherwise why would they make up so much gossip.

Yang Yin wasn’t surprised that Xiang Nuan had seen the messy rumors; what was curious to her, however, was why Xiang Nuan concluded that everything had been lies created by someone?

“How do you know that I didn’t do the things that they said?” Yang Yin half jokingly said.

“I trust you. I know what I see.”

Yang Yin remained quiet for a while. Xiang Nuan thought Yang Yin was annoyed because she had brought up old wounds and said in a low voice: “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have mentioned it.”

“Don’t take it the wrong way. It was a long time ago and I don’t really care about it now. I just regret it happened that way.” Yang Yin spoke after a light chuckle, with a tint of frustration in her voice: “You and I have only known each other for half a month. You’re willing to totally trust me, but my boyfriend for two years couldn’t.”

“Ah? Then he now-- --”

Xiang Nuan was going to ask whether her boyfriend trusted her now but was interrupted. “He’s now my ex-boyfriend.”

Xiang Nuan was a bit saddened. Some of the gossip did mention her boyfriend. He was on the same team as her and seemed to be a tough player who had a lot of fangirls.

Yang Yin could sense Xiang Nuan’s change of emotions and turned around to comfort her: “Don’t be sad. In my world, men are far less important than games.”

Xiang Nuan was impressed by her confidence.

-- --

In addition to Laofuzi, Xiang Nuan also practiced other more popular top champions such as Cao Cao, Yang Jian, and Hua Mulan. To maximize the teams’ flexibility, she also practiced some less played top champions such as Na Zha, Liu Bang, and Guan Yu. Yang Yin asked Xiang Nuan which one champion she found was the most difficult to play. She thought Xiang Nuan would pick Hua Mulan, but she responded that Guan Yu was the most difficult one.

“Because Guan Yu has to keep running, even when he’s hiding in the bushes he has to keep turning in circles. My fingertips are almost abraded away.”

Lin Chuyan said: “Your fingertips are too tender.”

Yang Yin found Lin Chuyuan’s conclusion rather unique. It had nothing to do with whether someone’s fingertips were tender or not, it was simply because Xiang Nuan used too much force when clicking.

Fortunately, Xiang Nuan didn’t have much occasion to use Guan Yu. There was limited time for her to practice and she focused her time on Laofuzi and Cao Cao. Hua Mulan was a strong top, but because of her strength, it was rare for her to not be banned in a competition.

Aside from Diaochan, Lin Chuyan also practiced other strong mage champions such as Shiranui Mai and Zhuge Liang.

The other three teammates also expanded their champion pool. Yang Yin would randomly divided them into two groups. Xiang Nuan sometimes teamed up with Lin Chuyan, sometimes with Shen Zemu. However, Yang Yin would put herself in the same group as Xiang Nuan most of the time. She needed to teach Xiang Nuan to learn her new position and champions from scratch.

Xiang Nuan had heard Yang Yin scold Shen Zemu as “nooby.” Yang Yin didn’t have much patience when it came to playing games.

Shen Zemu, a Challenger player, was only a noob in Yang Yin’s eyes.

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Starlight Has No Past - Chapter 41 Part 1

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Starlight Has No Past
Chapter 41 Part 1

Ye Qiao was still in the ICU and couldn’t receive visitors. Zhou Tingsheng could only watch doctors and nurses come in and out of the ward, sometimes catching a glance of her from afar. It wasn’t until the next day that Ye Qiao was transferred to the general ward and Zhou Tingsheng could finally keep her company by her bedside.

Ye Zhiliang, his wife, and Ye Qiao’s grandmother visited Ye Qiao together before returning to the hotel. Ye Qiao was still quite weak and fell asleep right after the visit. As she slept, waves of people came to visit, including her company’s upper management and crew members from the movie. Qianxi turned all of them down, giving them the excuse that a patient needs rest in peace and quiet. Zheng Xishuo also came to the hospital, dragging the media after him when he came.

Zheng Xishuo thought he was rather close to Ye Qiao and should’ve been allowed to see her. He got rid of the media, came back to the ward secretly, and grabbed Qianxi: “Now you can tell me, how’s Qiaoqiao doing now?”
Qianxi spread out her arms, blocking him from entering the room: “Don’t, don’t come in! My cousin’s sleeping, don’t wake her up!”
Zheng Xishuo couldn’t get past her and tried to sneak in from under Qianxi’s arm: “I’ll just take one glance of her! I promise. I won’t wake her up!” Qianxi knelt down to block the doorway: “No way!”
“Go away!” “I won’t!” “Have I offended you before……” “I won’t move!”

When Gu Jin came out of the elevator with a bouquet of lilies, he happened to see Zheng Xishuo and Qianxi struggling with each other. The two instantly straightened up when they saw Gu Jin. Zheng Xishuo flicked the dust on his sleeve and asked with a darkened face: “Why are you here?”
Qianxi could tell the unfriendliness in his tone and backed away a little, not wanting to get caught in between. Gu Jin, however, gave a good natured smile: “I’ve come to see Qiaoqiao.” Then he turned to ask Qianxi: “Is your cousin in this room?”
Qianxi was taken aback by his presence and attitude and nodded: “......En.”

Gu Jin went over to open the door. Irritated, Zheng Xishuo slapped Qianxi’s head: “Where’d your imposing demeanor go! You’re so scared of him that you let him in? Didn’t you say your cousin needs rest and won’t see anybody?”
With the smack, Qianxi shrank her head and hesitantly said: “He’s the one who’s responsible for all this; he has to see her……”

As they squabble, the door opened from the inside. Zhou Tingsheng blocked the doorway and forced Gu Jin from entering the room.
As the two men stood there facing each other, Zheng Xishuo gave Qianxi a stare: To hell with not seeing anyone! Who’s this inside the room?
Zhou Tingsheng turned his hand to close the door and glanced at Qianxi’s direction: “Send the guest off first.”

Qianxi paused for a second before she started to drag Zheng Xishuo away. Zheng Xishuo wouldn’t budge. Qianxi tugged and dragged: “Please, please! Let’s go, fast, come back next time!” Zheng Xishuo understood what had been going on the moment he saw Zhou Tingsheng come out of the room. He was unwillingly dragged away, cursing all the while. After they were some distance away, he suddenly shouted in the empty hallway: “You, the Zhou guy, if you have the guts, then don’t let him go in!”

As Zheng Xishuo’s voice echoed in the hallway, Zhou Tingsheng, leaning against the door with arms crossed over his chest, fixed his eyes on Gu Jin.
Gu Jin figured that it’s impossible for Zhou Tingsheng to let him inside. He handed over the bouquet and politely said: “Since Qiaoqiao is resting, please give this to her for me. I’ll come back some other day.”

Zhou Tingsheng didn’t even look at the flowers. He took the bouquet and flung it away. The flowers fell on a row of chairs nearby and fell onto the floor.
Gu Jin frowned: “You……”
“She’s allergic to pollen.”
Gu Jin found the entire situation rather ridiculous and laughed: “I wouldn’t know whether she’s allergic to pollen or not?”

Zhou Tingsheng’s facial expression turned cold: “So you know?” He suddenly stepped forward and picked up Gu Jin’s collar with one hand and threw Gu Jin onto the chairs. Surprised, Gu Jin staggered and fell onto the metal chair with a thud. The tall man crushed the lilies into pieces.

A nurse pushing a cart happened to pass by. She gave a panicked cry as she pushed the cart to the side to avoid them. Gu Jin sat on the floor with his long legs spread out, in visible pain. Zhou Tingsheng picked him up to make way for the nurse. The nurse was about to say something but swallowed her her words when she saw the look in Zhou Tingsheng’s eyes.
The nurse pushed the cart past them, with the rattling sound of the cart in the background, Zhou Tingsheng clutched Gu Jin’s collar: “You know she isn’t allergic to pollen, then you must know that she has a heart problem?”

There was a streak of blood on Gu Jin’s forehead. He looked up and said: “I’ll take all the necessary responsibility for the accident, all the medical expenses, and compensate for any emotional distress……”
-- --Bang!

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Starlight Has No Past - Chapter 40 Part 3

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Starlight Has No Past
Chapter 40 Part 3

Zhou Tingsheng took out a laminated leaf from his wallet and lifted it up in front of his eyes to block the view of Ye Qiao’s pale face on the tv. The leaf was well preserved, it was still green with clear grains as if it had never left the branch on the tree or ever experienced a chilly autumn and a freezing winter.
The leaves of white birch trees were some of the most beautiful leaves. White birch trees were the first to grow new leaves after a forest fire.
Zhou Tingsheng mumbled: “My Qiaoqiao is alive and well.”

When Qianxi came back to the inpatient ward, she happened to see Liang Zirao leaving. The well dressed woman look quite familiar to her. The moment she saw Zhou Tingsheng in the lobby, she immediately realized who that lady was. Brother and sister looked very much alike, yet the sister looked like the iron lady on a fashion magazine while the brother looked like a down and out young man in a Hong Kong drama.

Qianxi went over to greet Zhou Tingsheng and shared one of the hot drinks she was carrying when she noticed his worn out face. “Here. The lobby is quite cold at night. I’ve arranged for my dad to stay in an empty room very close to my cousin’s room. It’s easy to get news more quickly there. Do you want to come along?”
Zhou Tingsheng didn’t take the drink but agreed to go to the hospital room with her.

On the way there, Qianxi kept looking at her cell phone and said in a small voice: “The video showing how cousin got hurt is now all over the internet. If she hadn’t been with the little girl, my cousin’s route and position at the time wouldn’t be in the fireball’s way. She could’ve gotten away unscathed. The little girl’s parents already sent a statement of their appreciation for it. There are many people sending well wishes to cousin and hope that she’s fine. It’s been even more popular than any press conference for new movies.”

They arrived at the room while she was talking, Ye Zhiliang had just had a nap and opened his eyes to see Qianxi and Zhou Tingsheng entering into the room. He cordially said to Zhou Tingsheng: “You’re here too.”
Qianxi handed over the drinks and food to her dad and said: “He’s been here all along. He even helped with the blood transfusion.”
Ye Zhiliang then noticed the bandage on Zhou Tingsheng’s arm and gave an appreciative smile. Zhou Tingsheng sat down quietly. Qianxi received a message and made an excuse to go out of the room, leaving the two men in the room to wait for news about Ye Qiao. Ye Zhiliang opened the window and lit up a cigarette. When Zhou Tingsheng smelled the cigarette, he was a little surprised.

The middle aged man suddenly sighed with tight knitted eyebrows and spoke with a smoky voice: “It seems the daughters of our Ye family don’t have a long life.”
Zhou Tingsheng understood what he meant. Even if Ye Qiao came out of this accident safely, she still faced many health issues.

Ye Zhiliang turned his head to look at Zhou Tingsheng: “When Qiaoqiao’s mom passed away, she was only a little bit over 30. Before she died, she made me promise to take good care of Qiaoqiao. I’ve been taking care of her like my own daughter ever since. It’s been over ten years now. Qiaoqiao’s heart transplant has been very successful. Not a single major problem in the last decade. However, deep in my heart, I’m scared every year……”

Qianxi, though naughty, was comparatively easier to raise since all her emotions were written on her face. On the contrary, Ye Qiao wouldn’t say anything to her family. After her relationship with her father, Xu Zang, went sour, she lived like an orphan. Yet the reason for her breaking off with her father was still a mystery to the Ye family. Ye Zhiliang spent a lot of time and energy on his niece and sometimes he felt like he was more like her father.

Ye Zhiliang flickered off the cigarette ash with his finger and asked Zhou Tingsheng: “There will be more situations like this. Are you ready for them?”
Could Zhou Tingsheng accept the fact that the one who died the next would be the one he loved the most?
Before Zhou Tingsheng could reply, Qianxi rushed into the room to report: “Cousin’s awake, she’s awake!”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 66 Part 5

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 66 Part 5

It was proof enough seeing Old K and the others running back and forth in the video.

By now, whether a person was a fan of ZGDX or not, everyone’s criticism changed direction. Comments constantly appeared with messages like: “disgusting,” “brain dead club management,” “it’s stupid to do an event the day before a major competition, didn’t expect they could make the event even dumber”.

[We went to the event to see the players, not to see them make a monkey of themselves.]

[I heard in the beginning that all the players had been asked to play the game. Don’t ask me how I know -- --There were six showgirls on stage. When Old K and them were doing the game, three of the showgirls were just watching at the sidelines…...In the end, neither the two Cs of the team played. I’ve heard both Cs of the team suffer from professional injuries. If this incident happened because of that, then I’m siding with Smiling : )]

[I was one of the showgirls this afternoon. To tell the truth, that girl deserved it. Since the morning she was in and out of the players’ rest area numerous times asking for autographs. After Smiling refused, she came to complain to us that Smiling was small-minded. When it was time to do some games on stage, Smiling told the host that Cheng Ge and some of the others had hand injuries and to change the program. Before the host could say anything, she jumped in asking why there was a need to change anything. I was thinking of slapping her right then!]

[Wow, is everything above true? ! A big piece of information! ! ! ]

[.............................................................The plot changes every second, I surrender.]

[No matter what, to avoid being slapped in the face after everything turned around. I’ll first go delete my comments about Smiling being rude, hhhhhhhh]

[I’m not happy at all seeing esports players being asked to do activities like this: they should be shining from behind computes. They aren’t crowd pleasing clowns. The organizer of the anime convention is the first to blame, then the Club should take a hard look at themselves. If you don’t treasure and protect your own players, then who will?]

……

Tong Yao browsed through the new posts on Tieba, then went to Weibo.

Several people, who were cursing her earlier, were now sending private messages apologizing to her.

Other than that, some fans who seemed to be young girls judging by their usernames also sent private messages to thank her: “It would be hard to imagine how Cheng Ge or Old Cat would look if they had played the game”......

Tong Yao logged off Weibo and took a look at her teammates who were all sitting at the gate waiting for the flight. She stood up from her chair, shook the cell phone in her hand, and asked: “Who posted that program sheet?”

“Don’t know.”

“Not me, I was busy watching the commotion at the time.”

“I’m holding you back then, how could I have time to worry about such details?”

“Probably one of the staff? Whoever he is, he’s a master of changing the direction of the wind, changing public opinion like that in an instant-- --”

Tong Yao’s teammates started to discuss who it could be. Lu Yue looked at Tong Yao with his arms crossed in front of his chest and said to her: “Welcome to my world.” Lu Sicheng, who was sitting next to him with earbuds in his ears and the hood of his jacket covering half of his face, had his eyes closed with a cold face…..

“Though I don’t know who it is, you’ve done me a big favor, thank you, really.” Tong Yao bowed towards her teammates and all the staff. “I’ve caused trouble for all of you today, I’m sorry.”

“Don’t say that.”

“Don’t bow to me, it’s more than I can take!”

“It really isn’t me. Whoever it is, stand up. Maybe our mid will be so excited that she’ll marry you……”

Her teammates teased her, until the gate announced it was time to board.

Lu Sicheng opened his eyes, took off his earbuds, stuffed them into his pocket, and stood up. He glanced at all his teammates who had finished joking: “Boarding. Go back and continue training. Get ready for tomorrow’s match.”

Then he passed by Tong Yao without looking at her to the boarding gate.

Tong Yao was taken aback, looking at the straight but frosty back of his-- --

…...very well.

Her captain was still angry.

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 53 Part 3

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 53 Part 3

Yang Yin explained: “You haven’t played this kind of game for long and lack map awareness. A support needs a better sense of the whole picture, you aren’t as good as Waiwai at that. But your reaction time is good and have fast hands. Your ability to assess what’s on screen is passable. Besides, you’re brave. I don’t mean to say that you can’t play support well, but under the circumstances, we would be maximizing the strengths of our team if we let Waiwai play support and have you start practicing top. Do you understand now?”

“Understood.” Xiang Nuan nodded even though no one could see it and replied: “What you mean is it’s a waste of my talent to keep playing support. Right?”

Waiwai reminded her in a low voice: “Be humble. It’s a virtue.”

The rearrangement of positions was decided without any objection. Yang Yin then arranged for them to form teams to play ranked matches.

The five teammates plus Yang Yin were divided into two teams, three on each team.

Yang Yin, Xiang Nuan, and Lin Chuyan were in one group. Xiang Nuan picked Laofuzi as her champion, Lin Chuyan chose Diaochan, and Yang Yin randomly chose Taiyi Zhenren. Taiyi Zhenen has an interesting passive-- --Whenever Taiyi Zhenren is nearby, the gold that he and his teammates earned was increased by 35%. Though his position was support, his teammates wouldn’t object to farming together with him.

This was the first time Xiang Nuan had used Laofuzi. She was a little worried: “Why don’t we go play a few normal matches? What if we drag other people’s level down playing ranked matches……”

“Just concentrate on your own champion. Leave winning to me.” Yang Yin replied.

What confidence, Xiang Nuan admired.

Lin Chuyan said: “My Diaochan can also carry the game.”

Xiang Nuan laughed.

……

Laofuzi was a close ranged champion. His weapon was a jiechi[1], that made a “pa pa pa” sound effect when striking the enemy, and his ultimate tied his opponents up.

Xiang Nuan didn’t play well since it was the first time she tried this champion. One of their teammates playing Miyamoto Musashi started to bash her. Xiang Nuan was aware of her own shortfalls and thought about blocking Miyamoto Musashi so she couldn’t see him talk. Then she worried that the other teammate whom she didn’t know might start calling her names too. In the end, she blocked the entire chat. She, Yang Yin, and Lin Chuyan had their mics on anyway. They didn’t need to type to communicate.

Since she had blocked the remaining two teammates, she didn’t know that Miyamoto Musashi later began cursing her parents and all her ancestors.

When Lin Chuyan was stealing the enemy’s blue buff, he saw Miyamoto Musashi fighting two enemy champions nearby. Miyamoto Musashi signaled Daiochan to come and help. Lin Chuyan however took his time finishing blue buff. It wasn’t until Miyamoto Musashi had died that Lin Chuyan went over and easily took down Musashi’s two killers.

Miyamoto Musashi was so angry and asked Lin Chuyan: Is Diaochan blind?

Chu god (Diaochan): Yes.

Miyamoto Musashi didn’t respond, perhaps because he’d never seen anyone this shameless.

Later on, Diaochan ignored Miyamoto Musashi’s pleas for help.

By this time, Diaochan was doing very well in this match, which made Miyamoto Musashi subconsciously ask more politely: Why isn’t Diaochan saving me?

Chu god (Diaochan): Because you’re Japanese.

By this point, there was no way to alleviate Miyamoto Musashi’s hatred towards Diaochan.

Once Miyamoto Musashi found out that cursing had no effect, he started to deliberately die to the enemy to irritate his teammates. Then he went as far as giving out information about his own teammates’ locations to the enemy.

There was a time gap between the delivery of the information and the actual situation. Yang Yin and her teammates used that difference to ambush the enemy, accruing four kills total.

The other side started to suspect it was all a trap and started to blast Miyamoto Musashi on the public channel.

The match finally ended in a messy state. Xiang Nuan, however, didn’t know about anything that had transpired on the public channel. Now she had only one thing on her mind-- --

Laofuzi is such a fun champion to play!



[1]: An ancient Chinese ruler normally wielded by teachers and used to punish students. Google images link.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 66 Part 4

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 66 Part 4

Tong Yao carefully looked behind her then swiftly turned her head back and lowered her voice as if she was a thief avoiding detection: “......Our captain is furious.”

Jinyang: “What is he angry about?”

Tong Yao: “Yesterday, he had just patiently cautioned me on doing my own job well and not to mind what other people are saying-- --Then 12 hours later, I got suspended.”

Jinyang: “......That’s really irritating. If I were him, I would probably be mad as hell.”

Jinyang: “But, something is not right. Why don’t you explain? Just let others diss you without any defense?”

Tong Yao thought about it. It wasn’t that she couldn’t defend herself. It was that anything she said now would sound like a bad excuse, with no persuasive power……

She talked on the phone with Jinyang for a while, pouring out the grievances the world had done her. She apprehensively arrived at the airport at 4:30 in the afternoon to catch the flight back to Shanghai.

As she was getting off the bus, she received a message from Jinyang-- --

[Ah Mao’s mom: Go check the site.]

The corners of Tong Yao’s lips twitched, she already guessed what Jinyang was referring to. She logged on Weibo and saw a new post on the ZGDX official site-- --

[Today at noon, a member of our ZGDX Club’s League of Legend Team, Tong Yao Smiling (id: zgdx, smiling) had an argument with a showgirl while attending the X Anime Convention in C City over the contents of one of the activities. During the argument, our club member exhibited excessive behavior and language, setting a bad example of proper social conduct. Our Club deeply apologizes for this improper conduct and will be dealing the following punishments to said member-- --

1: Suspension. Unless some unforeseen incident happens, said member will be forbidden to participate in the June 11th (tomorrow), professional league competition at 17:00. We hope said member will take the time to reflect on her mistakes and take the necessary steps to rectify her behavior.

2: Deduction of the said member’s pay of two months salary and all bonuses.
We hope everyone working in the Club has learned their lesson from this incident and work together to establish good examples for the esports business.]

That was the entire public announcement about Tong Yao’s punishment.

It had glossed over what had happened exactly, like all the public relation statements did. With the announcement of her punishments-- --even if there were still some people demanding to know what had happened exactly and what Tong Yao had done, as long as the Club didn’t respond to their demands, the statement served as a closure to the whole incident.

Surprisingly, there was a reversal of public opinion right after the club’s statement went live.

Under the official announcement on Weibo, there appeared one comment, evidently from someone’s sockpuppet, sharing a picture of the program sheet that each of the special guests had received in the afternoon at the anime convention, with the caption: The so called truth?

This picture quickly became the top searched post on Weibo.

Numerous people replied-- --

“What’s this?”

“What happened?”

“What the hell is this picking up showgirls thing?”

“Don’t tell me Tong Yao is being deducted pay because she refused to play and irritated some showgirl who wanted to be picked up by who knows which player.”

“That’s…...disgusting. Isn’t it pretty tasteless? Did they really do it in the end? Is the management of your Club so brain dead that they would allow your injured players to play this sort of game?”

Someone immediately took a screenshot and posted on the Tieba forum with a title: [The fighting incident of our mid little sister seems to have turned around] -- --

The post instantly gained over a hundred replies!

All of them commented that the reversal from this afternoon was quite amazing!

With the turn of tides, more and more people came out to express their opinions. Many of these people were ZGDX fans at the convention. They proved that they really did this activity this afternoon and they all felt quite uneasy watching it!

Someone even posted a video showing Old K and the others carrying showgirls doing the game on stage. One could clearly hear in the video the fans in the audience yelled “What kind of game is this” “Disgusting” “Stop it, we don’t want to see this” -- --

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 53 Part 2

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Those Sweet Times
Chapter 53 Part 2

Lin Chuyan thought his parents would see his post on WeChat Moments then question him about his trip to Lingxi City. He was prepared to tell his parents that he was there to visit a girl, but in the end his parents didn’t see the post nor question him.

His parents had flown out of the country for a ski vacation. They were more occupied with enjoying the hot springs and hunting that they didn’t bother to check their son on social media.

After Lin Chuyan and the others returned to Nanshan City, the Times team participated in the online elimination round against other teams from their own school. They easily won every match, gaining entrance to the provincial level competition.

Xiang Nuan was quite happy about it. She was always exhilarated when victorious, as if there was a mass of energy inside her body that could make her fly into the sky once ignited…...She liked the feeling.

“The result is just as we expected, don’t get so excited this early.” Yang Yin said. “We have only one goal and that’s the national championship. No matter what kind of competition, our goal will always be the very top. It’s just that simple.”

Xiang Nuan was mesmerized by Yang Yin’s ruthlessness.

Yang Yin: “From today on, we’ll start our regular training.”

Xiang Nuan was wondering: “Eh? Aren’t we training all week?”

“That’s just letting you guys get used to each other. It also helps me get a sense of each of your individual skill level.But it’s not at the level of training. The training schedule I’ve set is for 8 hours each day. Is there any problem?”

Waiwai: “Yes.”

Yang Yin: “Then keep it to yourself.”

Waiwai: “......”

Yang Yin: “We can have New Year’s day off, but training for the rest of the time. Since you’ve asked me to be your coach and we all want to be the champion, then you all have to listen to me and follow the schedule. If all you want to do is just play around at the Collegiate Competition, then we can say goodbye now.”

“I don’t have any problems. I have nothing to do during the New Year holidays.” Xiang Nuan was the first to make her determination clear.

“I don’t have any problems either.” Lin Chuyan said.

Then Shen Zemu, Zheng Dongkai, and Waiwai each declared that they would do as she said.

Xiang Nuan thought about what Yang Yin had just said and asked: “Yin Jiejie, you said you were measuring our skill level, how do you feel about us?”

The other four members also wanted to know the answer and the chat became quiet, which made Xiang Nuan nervous.

Yang Yin: “Uh, a bunch of rookies.”

“Wuwuwu……” Xiang Nuan didn’t know what to say. She felt like she had suffered a huge blow to her confidence.

It hit the others just as hard, but they kept their silence. If it was someone else calling them rookies, they would refuse to accept it. But it was Yang Yin telling them…...They had no choice but to accept it. = =

Yang Yin could be rather arrogant when talking about anything related to video games. But she had more patience when dealing with Xiang Nuan. When she heard Xiang Nuan whining, she softened her tone and comforted her: “Alright, you aren’t a rookie; you’re a cute rookie.”

“Yin Jiejie, I know you’re trying your best, but somehow I don’t feel any better……”

It was followed by Lin Chuyan’s laughter.

Xiang Nuan angrily said: “Lin Chuyan, what you’re laughing at!”

Lin Chuyan played dumb: “It wasn’t me.”

“Don’t play dumb. I recognize your voice.”

“Hmph.” Yang Yin interrupted them. “Anything not related to the game can be discussed in a private chat…...I mean, Xiang Nuan, Waiwai, I suggest that you two exchange positions. Waiwai plays support and Nuannuan will be top.”

Waiwai had been playing support all along, it was because they reorganized the team that he had switched positions. He had no problem switching back to his old position.

However, Xiang Nuan had a big problem with the switch: “It can’t be. I only know how to play support. I haven’t played any other positions.”

“You can practice then if you haven’t played before.”

Xiang Nuan was quiet for a while, then asked: “Yin Jiejie, can I know why I have to change positions? I feel our line up now is pretty good.”

“To win.”

“I don’t understand.”

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