FOG [e-sports]Chapter 13

Chapter 13

Although Yu Sui had his misgivings about Shi Luo’s family, he never asked Shi Luo anything about them. d98SK0

Judging from the previous situation, anyone with eyes could see that Shi Luo’s family relationship was very complicated. Yu Sui wasn’t good at helping people work through their issues and he also didn’t want to pry into another’s private matters. So by tacit mutual understanding, they shelved that matter. Until one day, when Yu Sui together with Shi Luo had to drive for ten kilometers before they found a  wonton shop. Yu Sui, finally couldn’t help but ask, “Ke Hao was loaded when we were in junior high school. So, why was…”

Why was your situation so miserable that now, you’d even feel uneasy if you don’t get to eat breakfast every day?

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“Captain, among your relatives, do you have one who’s …” Shi Luo’s tongue was scalded by the hot wonton. He quickly sucked in some air to cool it down. “Outrageous? Or relatively outrageous?”

After a bit of hesitation, Yu Sui nodded. z3YCNZ

Shi Luo said, “For everyone in my extended family, my dad was that outrageous relative.”

“Starting from when he was young, he was already ignorant and incompetent. When he grew up, he began to run amok. All his romantic relationships were a mess. His decision to get married was an impulsive one and after he got married he didn’t want to bear any responsibilities. At the post my grandfather arranged for him, he enjoyed all the privileges without doing a stroke of work and he stole funds to invest in get rich quick schemes …” Shi Luo sneered. “’Engaged in every kind of evil imaginable’, that’s him, alright.”

Yu Sui frowned slightly.

When he was a teenager, Yu Sui occasionally went to Ke Hao’s house. That year when he left home, his visits there became more frequent and he would freeload meals off them almost every month.

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At that time, Ke Hao lived with his parents in a little family of three. Their house wasn’t very big, but a single glance was enough to see that it was a very exquisite home.

Ke Hao’s father was gentle and refined. Ke Hao’s mother was gentle and elegant. They treated others with respect. When they found out about Yu Sui’s profession, they were very understanding. They even often advised Yu Sui to keep in touch with his parents, hoping that they could resolve their conflict as soon as possible. Family was, after all, family.

That year, Ke Hao’s family was a source of great comfort for the young Yu Sui. So when he found out that Ke Hao had an uncle and cousin, Yu Sui instinctively thought that, given they came from the same clan, even if their situation wasn’t as good as Ke Hao’s, it wouldn’t be that different either.

This clearly wasn’t the case. qBcjmv

Shi Luo preferred strong and rich tasting foods. When eating wonton, he would put a lot of condiments in his bowl. Soon, he had dumped half a bottle of vinegar into his soup. He continued to add vinegar and asked, “Do you think my father’s a lot poorer than my uncle?”

Yu Sui said nothing.

Shi Luo, himself, wasn’t the least bit concerned. “It’s nothing that can’t be said. He really doesn’t have much money. Think about it, if you were my grandfather, would you trust someone like him to hold an important position? Can you trust him to be in-charge of a lot money?”

Yu Sui smiled but said nothing. slACof

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“Maybe, grandfather did give him a lot of money but my father’s great at squandering away a family fortune. He was always throwing money at things I always felt were no good. When he lost big time, it was my grandfather who told me the whole story. My uncle and my aunt don’t say anything outwardly, but inwardly… “Shi Luo laughed at himself,” I was always the one who was embarrassed for him. But he didn’t feel ashamed. He was always asking money from my grandfather. My grandfather also felt that things couldn’t go on like that. It would be very unfair to my uncle. So, my dad was paid a little less than half of the company five years ago. After that, he wasn’t to be given any more money. ”

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Something flashed in Yu Sui’s eyes. His lips moved, but he still didn’t speak.

Shi Luo took a sip of soup and raised an eyebrow. “So, now, the only thing my dad has that’s presentable enough is me. Although my grandfather doesn’t like me, I am still his grandson. And my grades are really good, so he needed to give it more consideration. After that … my grandpa is already eighty years old this year. Do you understand? ” hHY QX

Yu Sui looked quietly at Shi Luo. “So you dropped out?”

“Yes.” Shi Luo said indifferently. “I won’t help my dad to fight for a share of the will. Even if he does manage to get something someday, he won’t give it to me anyway. Besides, I don’t want any part of it.”

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Shi Luo held the soup bowl with both hands. “So, while it’s still early, better smash the pot because it’s cracked. Let my grandfather give up on both father and son altogether. It would be best if he leaves us not even a single penny. I can already support myself. He……”

“He won’t go hungry. He’ll just have to live the rest of his life depending on my uncle’s handouts and my aunt rolling her eyes at him.” Vkx4GM

Shi Luo let his imagination run wild and thought about that scene. He gave his thigh a loud slap. “If things really turn out that way, I’ll be ecstatic!”

Yu Sui looked at Shi Luo with a smile on his face and an unlit cigarette between his lips.

Were it someone else, they would have perhaps impatiently or maybe earnestly persuaded Shi Luo to not sabotage himself for the sake of some momentary satisfaction. The future is yours. You mustn’t hurt yourself for revenge, let alone against your own father. How can there be intense and deep-seated hatred between father and son?

But the person before him had been Yu Sui. I6Vuof

At that time, Yu Sui simply said, “Your choice, your freedom.”

His future was his own, his father was his own, and the pain and torment he had suffered since childhood was also his own.

Yu Sui didn’t want to interfere with anything. He hadn’t suffered the same bitterness as Shi Luo. It wasn’t Yu Sui’s place to forgive anyone for the wrongs Shi Luo had suffered.

However, Yu Sui definitely didn’t like Shi Luo’s suicide-style revenge and attack. At that time, he warned Shi Luo that there won’t be another matter like this again. RybT0U

Yu Sui had just come to his rescue and helped preserve his dignity in front of his father. Shi Luo listened to Yu Sui’s words and hurriedly nodded his head, agreeing with him.

Before he had promised so earnestly and in the blink of an eye, two years had passed and here was Shi Luo frantically giving Yu Sui ten cups of lemon tea for the price of an entire season of his free service.

In his core, Shi Luo was such a person.

Even at this moment, Shi Luo didn’t regret it. His only regret was that he hadn’t executed it beautifully enough this time. There wasn’t any of that great satisfaction from that year. vFVDMZ

After two years, Shi Luo once again sat in this renovated breakfast shop and looked at the same large bowl of wonton. Shi Luo gently sniffed and thought to himself; he hadn’t failed because he’d been reduced to some weak chicken these past two years or because his own brain had turned wooden and he hadn’t prepared thoroughly enough. It was simply because the one who had provided the follow-up blow that year was now standing against him.

That day during that year, as soon as Ke Chunjie stepped out of the training room, Shi Luo hurriedly placed the keycaps on the table. He hurriedly turned to the sole witness of the incident and asked Yu Sui to testify for himself that he had just played with the keycaps; that after playing, there had absolutely been no damage, and he hadn’t caused any wear and tear on those keycaps.

Yu Sui’s game was already in the second half. His stomach hurt from trying to hold back his laughter. He said, “I’ll testify for you.”

“Four thousand each, four thousand each …” Shi Luo looked around blankly. He felt like he understood less and less the prices of these things around him. He looked in awe at the plain takeaway bag on the table, not daring to underestimate it. After studying it for a long while, his attention was gradually attracted by the words on the takeaway bag. He said slowly, “Captain, although … but, shouldn’t a private kitchen as expensive as that have a special food box with dry ice or something? Why … are they using Red Armor takeaway boxes and takeaway bags? ” JV7OFB

Yu Sui took a cigarette and lit it. He stared at the screen and said, “Because that’s take-away crayfish from Red Armor.”

Shi Luo was tongue-tied. “Just now, you said …”

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“I made it up. So what?” Yu Sui said without a change in his expression. “The private kitchen I mentioned does regularly deliver to us but we happened to order crayfish last night. I didn’t make it up from out of nothing. I just pretended a little. So what?”

Yu Sui’s argument seemed to hold up, but Shi Luo couldn’t help casting another suspicious look at those keycaps on the table. “Then, these little things …” AiYzMs

Yu Sui said, “Those are really four thousand each. If you don’t believe me, pick it up and take a look. There should be special serial number inside the keycaps.”

Shi Luo didn’t want to touch these more than 10,000 yuan things at all, and he shook his head: “No need, no, I believe it.”

There was a smile in Yu Sui’s eyes. He took a puff of his cigarette and continued playing.

Very few of what Yu Sui said then were true. He especially loved to tease Shi Luo. But, at the time, Shi Luo was still at that honest young age when he’d believe anything. He couldn’t distinguish between jokes and serious talk. As long as Yu Sui said it, Shi Luo believed it without the slightest doubt. 4qQkfI

Although Yu Sui was very young at that time, he was already a veteran-level figure in the circle. He was also at the pinnacle of all medics and he was their division’s strongest shield. So many haloes had been bestowed upon his person that it was all too easy to be duped by Yu Sui. So, it wasn’t until long after that, when Shi Luo had entered NSN and then IAC; after being beaten down several times by reality and having received wages from both teams did he realize, that wages should have been paid by the club’s finance department. They weren’t paid via direct cash transfer from the team captain’s Alipay account.

It was then that Shi Luo found out that the two months salary he had received from FS that year were all from Yu Sui’s personal account.

Until now, the former senior executives of FS didn’t even know that their club had a parasite of a substitute who had been earning that much of an annual salary.

Those two months’ high monthly salary was just Yu Sui’s way of letting Shi Luo maintain his dignity in front of Ke Chunjie. qwD Qg

Shi Luo, who came to understand afterwards, also wanted to question Yu Sui. But Yu Sui had already left for Europe. He thought of returning the hundreds of thousands to Yu Sui. But, of course, these simply remained as thoughts.

The two had long since broken all relations with each other and they’ve both said they’d never contact the other again.

At that time, Shi Luo looked at the transfer records from Yu Sui and found it hard to breathe. He suddenly realized why, despite Yu Sui’s situation, despite hurting so many people with what he did, he still had so many die-hard followers.

Some people were able to treat you so well and also break off things with you so decisively that in the following years, you would hate them to the bone but you would be unable to let go. xWpg 2

For a time, Shi Luo hated Yu Sui so much he’d almost gone crazy.  He wanted to tell everyone. Don’t be fooled by this person. Don’t let him treat you well. Otherwise, he’ll dig a pit for you from which you won’t be able to crawl out of and you’ll regret it to death. But later, Shi Luo gradually found out that the only one who couldn’t crawl out of his pit of memories, was only himself.

Shi Luo’s eyes were reddened by the hot steam coming from the wonton soup. He forced himself to eat all of the wontons and then drink the soup until there wasn’t a single drop left.

Shi Luo wiped the corners of his mouth with a tissue. He hung his head low as he swiped his QR code to pay. He turned around and headed out of the breakfast shop, walking back to the IAC base.

It was only seven o’clock in the morning and the base was silent. Shi Luo dragged his feet towards the stairs. When he passed by the meeting room on the first floor, the door to the meeting room opened. VdNTBh

Shi Luo looked out from the corner of his eyes. It was Zhao Feng.

Zhao Feng looked up and down at Shi Luo. Shi Luo’s eyes, ears and neck were all red, but his lips were slightly pale, and his eyes were slightly ashen. He was obviously in a bad state. Zhao Feng was speechless. “You, you are …”

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“I drank too much. Have the substitute join the afternoon training matches instead. I need to sleep this off.” Shi Luo’s voice was hoarse, “Don’t call if there’s isn’t anything the matter.”

Zhao Feng nodded hurriedly. vIR3mG

Shi Luo turned and started climbing the stairs. Zhao Feng hesitantly called out, “Evil.”

Shi Luo frowned. “Is there anything else?”

Zhao Feng gulped. “I don’t want to disturb you, but I wouldn’t be able to hide this. It’s just that…”

Shi Luo had a splitting headache, and said irritably, “Can you just spit it out?” gZbCRw

Zhao Feng said, “Whisper will be coming over tonight, should I … call you?”

Shi Luo froze in place.

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23 comments

  1. I can understand why Shi Luo can’t let go of Yu Sui. He was the first person who cared for him, and the pain of his betrayal can’t top that.

    Thanks for the chapter!

  2. Yeah, it’s only Shi Lou himself who likes to cling to the past. I guess it’s in his personality, given with how he said he keeps bringing old accounts to his father. Tbh, if that’s all there is it to the past, then there’s no reason for Shi Lou to have bone-deep hatred for Yu Sui. He just didn’t tell him about the salary, it was Yu Sui’s choice not to tell, but now that Shi Lou had known it, he was more than capable of paying it back, then let bygones be bygones. Why harbor hatred that’ll only burden yourself?

    Shi Lou is smart, I just hope he’s got higher EQ too. I think he’s getting too invested in his emotions. Or maybe there’s actually more to it that we know. That’ll be reasonable…

  3. wahhhh they have so much past history and so much to talk through!!

    i love this novel so far already!!

    • Actually it’s hard to analyze on why the MC is angry at the ML. I mean the ML deceive the MC (the salary) but that’s it, he lied for the purpose of saving the MC’s face to his father.

      Maybe, he is angry because was sold by ML and did not get him to go abroad? (but this is still to vague as a reason).

      Therefore, I think we need ML’s reason on why did he leave and sold MC to other teams.

  4. I feel like other than betrayal, there may be some feelings of guilt… Like, Yu Sui saved him and done a lot for him, but Shi Luo didn’t know about it. Yu Sui helped him maintained his dignity by giving him a whole bunch of money. Knowing that Shi Lou shouldn’t have earned that much and making him all happy(?)…it feels like he had been successful using something so false/like a dream. It ade him feel ashamed?

    Anyways, this is a really complicated situation….or maybe I’m just overthinking lol

    Thank you for the chapters!!

  5. Shi Luo was 17, who had a hella lot of baggage from his family, he trusted and opened up to🙃🙃🙃 the effin ML only to be sold * like what Shi Luo Father wants Shi Luo be in the family * and the man left .

    The R in this tag isn’t romance, it’s revenge, I want revenge 😂🙃

  6. naur bc if someone’s been doing me such a huge favour then disappeared to another continent the NEXT day without ANY explanation. i too would drown him in 10 glasses of lemon juice

  7. YS’s only fault is the promise he gave to SL and didn’t hold afterwards ig huh? (it is a big matter tho)

  8. Weren’t they teammates for only 3 months? Yu sui had been the first person to take care of him in 17 years and it only took 3 months for shi luo to get so attached to him. Understandable. But that deep-seated hatred lasted for 2 years omg they really need to talk this out. I’m the one getting stressed. Shi luo really sound like an ex lover who couldn’t move on.