Those Sweet Times - Chapter 102 Part 2

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Those Sweet Times

Chapter 102 Part 2 

Extra: Shen Zemu and Yang Yin

After a whole day of skiing, Yang Yin and Shen Zemu stayed at a nearby hotel that has a hot spring for the night.

Yang Yin soaked in the hot spring to relax, squinting her eyes comfortably.

She voice chatted with Xiang Nuan as she was soaking in the hot spring, asking Xiang Nuan what she was doing.

Xiang Nuan was knitting a scarf. She had bought a lot of yarn and wanted to knit a scarf for Lin Chuyan. She had asked her mother to teach her. Though she wasn’t very good at it, she chose a rather difficult pattern. Everytime she messed the pattern up, she had to unravel it to start all over again.

After repeating it so many times, Lin Chuyan told her: “Just knit one with a single color.”

Xiang Nuan gave up on knitting any patterns and knitted a single colored scarf.

She comforted herself that Lin Chuyan was good looking enough anyway and any scarf on him would look fashionable. Therefore, she didn’t have to make a difficult looking one.

Later on, Lin Chuyan used the leftover yarn to knit a pair of mittens for Xiang Nuan, with a pattern of little rabbits on the back of the mittens.

“See, isn’t he just trying to prove he’s better than me or what?” Xiang Nuan complained to Yang Yin.

Yang Yin was quite amused: “You two are so funny.”

“How about you, Yin Jiejie? How are you doing lately? I’ve watched the preliminaries. My Yin Jie is invincible!”

“Me……” Yang Yin couldn’t stop herself from telling Xiang Nuan about everything that had happened on the ski slope. Then she said: “I was so nervous at the time that I could die.”

Xiang Nuan thought about it for a while before asking: “Why was Xuezhang embracing you? Is he interested in you?”

“Hard to say. It could be that he was afraid that I would fall off the sled.” Yang Yin held her forehead and said a little sadly: “If we guess that he likes me just from this one thing, even I would feel like I’m flattering myself a little.”

“Ay, it’s too bad that Xuezhang has an expressionless face. It’s hard to figure what he’s thinking of. But I think you can try to feel him out.” 

Yang Yin debated over the idea and finally shook her head: “I think I better not. What if he’s not interested. I don’t want to scare him off. I still want to make a fortune next season.”

-- --

The day after Deng Wenbo transferred one million into Yang Yin’s bank account, Yang Yin immediately opened another bank card account and deposited half a million onto that card. She set the password of the card as Shen Zemu’s birthday.

Then she had that bank card express delivered to Shen Zemu.

Shen Zemu returned the card to her without touching it.

Yang Yin sent a message to him: I said I’d split it with you, I mean it, ha.

Shen Zemu: I said I don’t want money. I also mean it.

She had to control herself not to send something flirty like ‘then I’ll give myself to you.’

……

After receiving the money, the contract between Yang Yin and Deng Wenbo was completed. Yang Yin planned to move out of Dw club as soon as possible so as not to hinder Deng Wenbo from making other arrangements.

Shen Zemu also had some stuff left in the club. He came over to move out with Yang Yin.

It was lightly snowing the day when they moved out. Deng Wenbo and the players lined up to say goodbye to Yang Yin. Two of the players even shed tears. It was quite a sad moment.

Yang Yin wasn’t used to this kind of sentimental moment. She pulled Deng Wenbo to the side and asked him: “Have you found a good, new coaching team for them yet?”

“Not yet.” Deng Wenbo looked at her, there was something flashing in his eyes: “Why don’t you just stay, we’ve all known each other so well now.”

Yang Yin shook her head.

Deng Wenbo was saddened: “Is it because of me? If you can stay, I’ll leave the whole team to you. You can treat it as if I’m nonexistent. Would that work?”

Yang Yin scratched the back of her head and laughed: “Boss, let me be frank with you. I’m now addicted to making money now. One million for one season and it’ll be two million with two seasons one year. If you want to keep me here, can you pay me two million a year?”

Deng Wenbo was taken aback: “I thought it was something else. If it’s just money, I’ll pay you-- --”

“You better stop right there.” Yang Yin waved her hand to interrupt him: “Haven’t you learned your lesson from Dw being demoted last time? Having money is a good thing, but if you don’t spend the money in the right place, you might get a worse result. A two million yearly salary for a coach is too exorbitant for any major league team. Only teams that have to get on top at the preliminaries to get into the major league will be willing to pay that kind of price. Besides, this one million is on the basis of a contract, only payable when the team gets into the major league. You spend one million each season to keep me here, can your team keep going like that?”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 142 Part 3

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 142 Part 3

The MVP of both rounds was awarded to Lu Sicheng. It looked like the organizers had made up their mind to interview him despite the fact he had stood them up last time. This time around, Lu Sicheng was probably in a good mood as he was happily being interviewed.

The hostess: [Congratulations to ZGDX for winning another match. We finally can welcome Chessman Chang Ge to the interview podium after a long absence!]

Lu Sicheng took the microphone and greeted the audience.

The hostess: [We can describe today’s match as brilliant. We’ve seen so many things which we didn’t think we would see happening to ZGDX as a team. It’s rumored that this is related to the earlier downturn of the team. Please Cheng Ge, could you tell us whether it’s true or not?]

Lu Sicheng: “I don’t know anything about a downturn. However, a while ago, our team did make some changes to our tactics and all the players also needed time to adjust among themselves.”

The hostess: [Then it looks like the rumor is true.]

Lu Sicheng: “It could be. It's not clear to me what this downturn even is.”

The hostess: [Very well. Looks like Cheng Ge’s answer today will make most of our ZGDX fans feel at ease somewhat…… Then, let’s ask another question which a lot of people are quite concerned about. Hrm, as we can see, lately it’s been Lu on the ZGDX lineup. Could you please tell us whether this is also part of the adjustment to the team’s strategy?]

Lu Sicheng became quiet for a moment.

Tong Yao fixed her eyes on the hostess’s delicately made up face on the TV screen and the rapidly widening eyes of the audience. More frankly, the question was: Where’s Smiling? Smiling got shelved? Smiling is gg? 

Tong Yao changed her sitting position and slightly lifted her chin up. She was waiting in a more comfortable position to see how Lu Sicheng would answer the question so she could decide whether he would sleep on her bed or in the cat’s cage tonight. Then she heard Lu Sicheng casually answer: “Our team will rotate our mid at the world tournament. As such, we have been letting Lu Yue get more experience playing competitions lately. Besides, Smiling hadn’t played the last couple of matches because it so happens that her hand was injured.”

Tong Yao was astounded by what she heard from the TV.

She could hear the commotion from the fans. Through the TV, she could even hear their collective gasp.

The hostess didn’t quite get what Lu Sicheng had said either: [She got hurt?]

Lu Sicheng: “Yes. But it’s not serious. She just cut her finger while she was cooking for me.”

The audience: “......”

Tong Yao: “......”

While the hostess hadn’t quite digested the implication of Lu Sicheng’s reply, Lu Sicheng continued anyways: “Since we are talking about this, I’ve also heard some other false rumors online lately. First of all, even as the team’s captain and one of the investors of the team, I don’t have the authority to decide whether a particular player can be shelved. Secondly, even if the team wanted to shelve a player, it wouldn’t be Smiling. Obviously, Lu, who resisted to take Aurelion Sol as his champion to the point of almost having a fight with our data analyst today, is more suitable to be stuffed in the refrigerator. Finally, I appreciate that everyone is so concerned about my personal love life. I can only say that as far as this part of my life goes, I’m quite satisfied so far. It’s moving along a little bit more smoothly than the progress of our team-- --Basically it’s because she can’t find anyone better than I and her likewise.”

The audience: “......”

Tong Yao: “......”

Lu Sicheng returned the microphone back to the dumbfounded hostess. His long legs pushed him up from the chair, then he simply walked away.

……………...It was obvious that today he willingly sat on that interview chair just to have the chance to say what he said in the end-- --For him, the interview concluded right after he had found the moment to say what he wanted to say.

It wasn’t a surprise to anyone though.

This matched the Chessman image everyone had in their minds.

A man, no matter how old he is, would always be strong-willed.

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 102 Part 1

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Those Sweet Times

Chapter 102 Part 1

Extra: Shen Zemu and Yang Yin

It was the peak season for skiing. Yang Yin and Shen Zemu decided to go on a weekday to avoid the crowd.

But there were still quite a lot of people at the ski resort.

Yang Yin fell in love with how Shen Zemu looked wearing a ski suit. He looked sunny and lively. When he stood in the snow, watching his straight back and long legs made her feel like her hormones were about to explode.

Her infatuated mindset made her perform crazy tricks on the slopes like a peacock spreading its tail.

Shen Zemu knew how to ski, but usually just went down the slopes without any fancy moves. He actually couldn’t understand the mindset of people who did acrobatics while skiing.

But when Yang Yin went airborne on her snowboard, swirled in the air, and stirred up the snow in a flutter in all directions…… he felt it wasn’t such a bad thing to do, at least it was pleasing to the eyes.

When Yang Yin was showing off her moves, she took an unintended look at Shen Zemu and noticed that he was filming her with his cell phone. She temporarily lost her concentration and made an error. She flopped onto the ground.

Her posture was somewhat awkward, like a wild goose that had been shot down.

“Aiyo! Don’t shoot, don’t shoot!” Yang Yin cried out as she laid on the ground.

Shen Zemu had already put his cell phone away and pulled her up from the ground: “Are you alright?”

“I’m fine, I’m fine.” Yang Yin stood up and said: “I fell down a ton the first time I learned to ski that I had to rub my bottom for a whole day. But after that, falling down won’t do anything to me.”

Shen Zemu silently tried to imagine the picture of Yang Yin rubbing her bottom. Then he took a deep breath.

……

This year, the snow resort had opened a new field for another winter sport, sledding. People would sit on big inflated sleds and slide down the slope. Yang Yin heard that it was quite the high speed ride which sounded rather thrilling.

Yang Yin thought it would be a fun thing to do and turned to ask Shen Zemu: “Why don’t we go try it?”

“En.” Shen Zemu turned to buy tickets for both of them.

There were sleds with a single seat and double seats. Shen Zemu didn’t ask Yang Yin but went ahead and bought tickets for a two person sled.

The sled was simply made, the two seats at front and back were very close to each other and there was no barrier between the two seats. Yang Yin sat in the front and Shen Zemu at the back. His two long legs were laid right against each side of her body, as if he could hook her into his arms with his legs.

“Sit tight.” Said the attendant who was responsible for pushing their sled. Then he began to run, pushing the sled forward and sent their sled down the slope.

The sled picked up speed and went faster and faster. The scenery quickly passed them by and the wind blew next to their ears like a passing train. Sometimes snow would splash onto their faces and catch them by surprise with its coldness……

Yang Yin started screaming: “Ah! Ah! ! !” It was so damn exciting for her!

Shen Zemu thought she was screaming out of fear, so he reached over with both of his arms and held her tightly in his arms.

Yang Yin: “......” Her scream immediately became stuck in her throat.

She became silent and was too afraid to move, like a petrified little lamb.

Shen Zemu tightened his hold on her. He thought that an indecent person must’ve designed this sled since the seats were so close together, it was too easy for the two people on the sled to hug.

Yang Yin’s heart was thumping fast, as if it was going to jump out. The sledding was already thrilling enough and now with the added exhilaration from the person behind her, Yang Yin felt like she would die if she kept going like this.

Though, on a second thought, it didn’t seem like a bad deal to die in his arms.

Finally, after who knows how long, the sled stopped.

When Yang Yin tried to stand up from the sled, her legs were wobbly. She tried to step off the sled and slipped, almost falling down.

Shen Zemu reached out with his arms and easily caught her.

He supported her waist and lowered his head to look at her. She blushed. There were snowflakes on her bangs and eyebrows. Her eyelashes were fluttering and her eyeballs were rolling around, like she was thinking about something.

“It was too exciting just now.” Yang Yin found a reasonable excuse for her wobbling legs.

“En.” Shen Zemu lightly nodded and released the hold on her.

They walked shoulder to shoulder. Shen Zemu had deliberately walked slower to be right next to her and asked: “Want to try it again?”

“No, no more……”

She figured if they tried it one more time, she probably wouldn’t be alive afterwards.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 142 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 142 Part 2

Soon the match started, starting with the ban & pick phase. Ever since Lu Yue used Twisted Fate in the match that Tong Yao was banned from, Twisted Fate would be banned in any match he played in. But it didn’t really matter to ZGDX whether Twisted Fate was banned or not since the team hadn’t planned to use him in major league competitions so their opponents could use those matches to further research the team. They would only use him when they were playing training matches internally between the A and B teams. The commentator was correct, ZGDX indeed had started preparing for the world tournament.

When the ban & pick phase ended, it was obvious that the champions ZGDX had picked were different from the past. Compared to the emphasis on early game champions, focused on the laning phase, they had changed to picking champions based on their synergy, for example, Kennen and Aurelion Sol who were both great at crowd control and aoe damage……

Three minutes into the game, Tong Yao sat on the sofa, cross-legged, attentively watching the match when Ming god pushed the door open and walked in. Tong Yao only turned slightly sideways and absentmindedly waved at him while keeping her eyes on the screen: “You really let Lu Yue take Aurelion Sol.”

Ming god sat down next to her: “I really twisted his arm and forced him to choose it. He was so resistant to the idea as if it would kill him…… Oh, his champion pool, I would laugh in my dreams if he can have half of your champion pool.”

Tong Yao: “He calls that fewer but better.”

Ming god: “To hell with that. In the world tournament, if the others ban three mid champions, Azir, Twisted Fate, and Ekko, that would literally mean they’ve completely banned our mid from the game. Four against five, that’s unacceptable.”

The screen happened to show Lu Yue’s face at this time, which looked gloomy and pissed. Tong Yao kept tittering with folded arms……

In today’s match, Lu Sicheng completely changed from the last match against Red Arrow where he hardly said anything. In this match, he spoke a lot and was in command the whole time…… He took Sivir but didn’t play aggressively; he didn’t try to kill anyone but kept farming like a madman. He didn’t miss a single minion. Once in a while, he would go get a couple of Old K’s monsters…… When the enemy tried to gank, he would slip away as fast as an eel, making the enemy annoyed but they were unable to do anything about it.

Commentators were also amazed at his performance today. They kept saying: Today’s Cheng Ge is the commanding Cheng Ge!

The commentators were correct. Lu Sicheng’s ability to command today was a big improvement from before-- --He wasn’t intimidated at all facing Lan’s superior ability to execute plans and their speed at providing support to each other. ZGDX wasn’t in a reactive position either; they tackled their opponent calmly and orderly from the beginning to the end……

Summoner’s Rift in League of Legends was like a sand table for him where he could have an overview of the whole map. He stood next to the sand table with sharp eyes and keen ears. All five champions from his team and the resources in the jungle had become models on the sand table for him to deploy and he handled it with ease……

It felt like Lu Sicheng was singlehandedly playing all five champions of the team.

At the 20th minute of the game, ZGDX escaped unscathed under three continuous flawless ambushes from Lan. Commentator A almost jumped up onto his chair: [Inconceivable! ! ! ! I really feel like I’m in a dream! ! ! ! Lan’s ambush at mid lane was performed brilliantly, it could be said it was perfectly done. But ZGDX was even better than them! Shaking off all three ambushes completely. I don’t believe it's a coincidence! ! ! It can’t just be coincidence! !]

Commentator B also said in an excited tone: [Well, well, today’s ZGDX…… Aiya, they really have shown us something! Alright, alright, anyway I believe now that this team is truly working on something new when they were in a rough condition earlier…… Well, shouldn’t you take it down a notch and save it for the world tournament?]

The commentators' joyous mood spread to the audience. When the first round was over, the bullet comments with “666” almost covered the whole screen of the livestream. All ZGDX fans now finally felt their hearts settle……

The second round began and ZGDX maintained their steadiness and excellent teamwork as in the first round-- --During the whole game, the fans who were sitting in the first row could hear Lu Sicheng’s voice throughout. And when he finished giving out orders, though there was a delay setup for the broadcast, on the screen viewers could see the corresponding teammate carry out his order almost immediately-- --

Once the round had reached the late game, ZGDX started to counterattack at such a fast pace that viewers held their breath. People were again seeing the same team that had dominated the major league in the past.!

Before anyone realized what had happened, ZGDX won the round and the match. The audience gave them a big round of applause. All ZGDX fans jumped up and shouts of “Go ZGDX” filled the arena!

When the players of ZGDX stood up after the match, they looked like they were also breathing out a sigh of relief-- --

“Oh no, oh no, now there will be more of those comments saying that Lu Yue’s doing pretty good and I don’t need to come back.” Tong Yao, holding her legs, teased with a smile.

Ming god drank some water, with an expression of relief. He patted Tong Yao’s head: “He’s still wet behind the ears.”

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 142 Part 1

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 142 Part 1

Thursday was the day ZGDX had a match against Team Lan.

Team Lan was a veteran team with experienced players. Among their five players, even the newest one had been with the team for two and a half seasons already. They were famous for their strong ability to execute their game plan effectively and they had maintained their position in the major league because of that-- --Their ability to execute was always the talk of the fans. Though because the skill level of each individual player wasn’t strong, they were not one of the top teams in the league but kept at the mid to lower end among all the major league teams. But because of the team’s cohesiveness and its extremely low error rate, it wasn’t rare for a top team to lose a match in their hands.

Many game analysts would give team Lan positive reviews whenever they spoke about the team. They would say that the team was like the major league’s quality inspector. The actual status of any strong team would be revealed after a match with Lan-- --Some teams didn’t seem to have any shortcomings in their matches until they went against Lan. Then viewers would find that those teams hadn’t been playing like a team in earlier games; they had won the other games on the back of one strong player who carried the game for the whole team.

Commentator B: [Hahahahaha, during the first round of the in-group match, ZGDX was relying on their advantage during the laning phase with their two carries forced to carry the game and defeated Lan. Do you think ZGDX will do the same today?]

Commentator A: [That won’t do. The summer season is nearing its end and the world tournament is right in front of us. The Koreans team: TAT, OP, and RP will all be there and every single one of their players are the best of the best-- --By that time, it’ll be unrealistic to expect ZGDX will be able to defeat any of those teams just by gaining an advantages during the laning phase…… To be honest, I think everyone knows by now that ZGDX will be, for sure, going to the world tournament this time……]

Commentator B: [Hee hee hee!]

Commentator A: [What are you giggling about!]

Commentator B: [I’m laughing at you being an old ZGDX fanboy.]

Commentator A: [It’s not that. Is there anything wrong with what I just said-- --Tell me, ZGDX fans sitting down there, is there any problem saying that one of three spots for the world tournament will be ZGDX’s?]

The audience burst into laughter and called out in unison: “No problem!”

Commentator A: [Right, see, no problem. If there’s no problem saying that, then I’ll continue. As one of the teams that is certain to go on to the world tournament, I think ZGDX can’t set its goal as simply as winning one in-group match. They really need to seriously consider the question of competing at the world tournament. This year it’s not just the Korean region, I heard it’s tough competition over in the Taiwan region as well……]

Commentator B: [Didn’t you send messages to me before to discuss how ZGDX was changing the strategies in their games…… I checked their lineup this afternoon, well, you don’t need me to tell you all. ZGDX’s players are sitting at the competition area already-- --We can see that it’s still Lu who’s replaced Smiling for today’s match. Then, can I make the assumption that in their new gaming strategy, Lu is also an important component of it?]

Commentator A gave Commentator B a glance: [ZGDX has always rotated their mid players. This season, Ming god retired and Smiling, as a newcomer, needs more competition experience, as such she’s been part of the lineup for most of the season. I’ll throw you down from the commentator seat if you keep creating issues which the media would love to pick up……]

Commentator B and the audience all giggled. The issue of Lu playing as part of ZGDX’s lineup was therefore brushed over easily-- --

Tong Yao who was sitting backstage breathed out a sigh of relief.

This time, since there was no longer a concern about her personal safety, she followed the team to the arena. From the time they arrived at the arena up till the game started, she had been worried all along-- --Before the game, there were a lot of people asking whether she would be playing today on the team’s official Weibo site. In the audience, it was obvious that there were more fans with support boards for her than usual. It looked like they all believed the rumor that she had been shelved because she had offended the club’s management. For the time being, the ill feeling against ZGDX management was on the rise…...Tong Yao was worried that this kind of negative emotion would spill over to Lu Yue. Though Lu Yue was an annoying guy, he would be her brother-in-law anyway and she didn’t want him to experience what she had been through.

Tong Yao was uptight when the lineups of today’s match were introduced. Fortunately, both commentators were experienced and casually brushed over the matter in a joking manner.

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You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 141 Part 2

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You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 141 Part 2

All the people around the table remained silent. Tong Yao spoke matter of factly and didn’t feel that there was anything wrong with what she had said. Sitting next to her, Lu Sicheng put down his chopsticks and turned to glance at the two contentious mids. He paused for a moment. Under the others’ eager gazes who were waiting to see how the show would play out, he nodded and commented: “Well said.”

Tong Yao grabbed his arm to hold in her arms.

Lu Yue was disgusted: “Take him away, take him away. Only you care for him. Don’t return him once you’ve taken him away.”

Tong Yao: “Only I care? You can go post on Weibo asking how many young ladies care about your brother.”

Lu Yue: “You fell for a wild horse. Does your home have a pasture?”

Hearing that, Tong Yao’s facial expression stiffened. She tightened her hold on Lu Sicheng’s arm and at the same time turned to fix her eyes on him. He took the chance to bend over and give her a kiss on the lips: “It’s a domesticated horse. The greatest advantage is its tameness.”

Tong Yao released his arm quite satisfactory. She grabbed some napkins over to wipe his mouth for him and tenderly asked: “Are you full?”

Lu Sicheng: “I’m full.”

Tong Yao: “Play games or go sleep?”

Lu Sicheng: “Play games with you or go sleep with you?”

Tong Yao: “Play games with me; I can be your support……”  

Lu Sicheng: “I choose to go sleep with you.”

Tong Yao spoke while throwing the napkins away: “You only love my body.”

“If at a time like this I say ‘I love your soul when you play support’, then that only proves that I’m a shallow and dishonest man.” Lu Sicheng pulled on Tong Yao to stand up: “Let’s go sleep.”

The meeting around the dinner table concluded at 9:30 pm.

Tong Yao was leading the way upstairs dragging Lu Sicheng’s hand. It looked very much like she was leading a horse back to her own room-- --The others on the first floor were looking at them with a dumbfounded expression, wondering what they assumed the base was.

At 10:30 pm, Xiao Rui decided that he wouldn’t let them have the quiet night they wished for.

Ten minutes later, when Tong Yao was lying on her stomach in bed after taking a shower, she saw an official announcement from ZGDX on Weibo. It basically announced that ZGDX would rotate the team’s mid for the following games. Lu Yue would be the one playing the following three in-group matches.

The news exploded among the fans. Some with vivid imaginations guessed that the first mid of ZGDX, being the girlfriend of the captain, had gotten so conceited that she had forgotten her place and offended the captain, and thus had gotten shelved……

Many people online supplemented the storm with even wilder imaginations or fancies about the esports couple.

While the fans were in their heated discussion, the cool, evil, and cruel ZGDX captain in their mind happened to come out of Tong Yao’s bathroom. With a towel in hand, he was drying Tong Yao’s hair for her while kissing and spreading his burning breath on her shoulder……

“Wow, these people are really something. When I was playing, they were so disgusted with me. Now that I’m not going to play, they start to miss me…… Ah.” Tong Yao dodged to the side: “It’s itchy.”

Lu Sicheng stopped, used his lips to rub against Tong Yao’s smooth face which still had a faint smell of face wash, then lightly bit on it before moving his face away.

“Here, someone said ZGDX is finished. Why do they like to predict that we’re finished so much.”

“Ahhh, and here. This person said Lu Yue’s playing very well and that I don’t need to go back…… Damn! So annoying!”

“At least these comments begging to let Smiling go on to play are much more pleasant to read. Wait till I switch to my alternate id to go on and give each one of those a thumb up……”

Tong Yao read the comments one by one until she reached the following: “This fan said you’re the one who shelved me, I’m your…… Aiyo, I can’t go on, it’s so filthy.” Lu Sicheng’s big hand easily pulled off the straps of Tong Yao’s nightgown and offhandedly pulled her cell phone away and threw someplace where she couldn’t reach. Then the person who was playing with her cell phone the second before was now pressed into the soft bed……

Amidst her heavy breathing, after a long while, Lu Sicheng responded with his low voice which was tinted with a shallow smile-- --

“Just let them keep making up stories as much as they like. Later on you can compare what they’ve said and see whether they fit into the details when we’re together.”

“What if they don’t fit?”

“Then we’ll follow their scripts and practice more so we can improve.”

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Those Sweet Times - Chapter 101 Part 3

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Those Sweet Times

Chapter 101 Part 3

Extra: Shen Zemu and Yang Yin

The generous praise of Dw’s players from the commentators made Yang Yin nervous. She was afraid her players would get complacent.

Fortunately, her players didn’t let her down. They won another match.

The tight scheduling of the matches at the preliminaries demonstrated the advantage of insisting on daily physical exercise for Dw’s players. The high density of matches took a lot out of the players both physically and mentally. To play continuously at that intensity, it was easy for physically feeble otakus from other teams to lose their concentration and the ability to make good decisions.

In any case, Dw became the black horse of the preliminaries. As this outdated team regained its glory, the mysterious pretty coach of the team, Yang Yin, also attracted a lot of attention. Before the preliminaries were over, there were already other teams poking around to see whether she was interested in changing teams.

December 10th was the last day of the preliminaries. It concluded successfully. Dw, as expected, earned its ticket to play in next year’s major league spring competition.

All the players hugged each other and burst into tears.

Yang Yin said: “Stop crying, don’t be a crybaby.”

The next day, Yang Yin did an official interview with the organizer of the preliminaries.

The interview was live streamed. Shen Zemu was in the lab at the time. When it was time for the stream, he came out of the lab and sat in the staircase by himself, watching the stream on his cellphone.

The host of the interview was quite excited. He had learned more about her background by then and had a lot of questions to ask Yang Yin.

During the conversation with the host, Yang Yin was relaxed and spoke clearly. Her attitude was neither overbearing nor self-effacing. It was quite pleasant to watch her. The host chatted with her about the past, the present, and the future. In the end, he jokingly asked her whether she had something like an acceptance speech to make.

Yang Yin looked into the camera and said: “I actually do…… First, I want to thank my boss. It was the insistence of our boss not to give up on the team which gave us the chance to keep fighting on. In addition, I want to thank my players. You aren’t noobs, you are all great players, that’s from the bottom of my heart. Finally, I want to thank a person.” She suddenly stopped and blinked at the camera: “I……”

Yang Yin actually had prepared a lot of things to say. Yet when she thought about that person, she became sidetracked suddenly and lost her train of thought. She didn't know what to say.

She smiled embarrassingly at the camera.

Shen Zemu watched her silly smile on the screen, the corners of his mouth also curved upwards.

Then he reached out with his finger to touch the tip of her nose on the screen.

Yang Yin scratched her head and made a final statement: “Well, I’ll just buy you dinner.” 

After the stream, Yang Yin called Shen Zemu on the phone: “Shen Zemu, what are you doing now?”

“At lab.”

“Did you see my interview on the livestream?”

“No.”

“Oh.” Yang Yin felt a bit disappointed. “They said there were quite a lot of viewers in the stream today.”

Shen Zemu: “En.” Then he added: “Congratulations.” 

“For what. Hum, I’ll buy you dinner.”

“En.”

“And…… I finally have vacation now. I want to go skiing, do you want to go together?”

Shen Zemu sat on the stairs, his palm holding his knee, and answered with a light voice while casting his eyes downwards: “Ok.”

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