Jingling was not online when Apricot made the complaint, only heard it from other guild members afterwards.
Not in a hurry to call Yang Juan, Zhuo Lan went to the game and inquired another player about the situation.
[(Friend) Poems Like Wine: Yeah, I was there. Apricot Sprig did not hold back at all, going directly to find Lang-ge in guild chat.]
[(Friend) Willow Tree Dear: I bet she intentionally made a big deal out of it (frown)]
[(Friend) Poems Like Wine: What happened last night?]
[(Friend) Willow Tree Dear: Tell me first, what exactly did she say to Lang-ge?]
[(Friend) Poems Like Wine: She said that when she was commencing with Cherry in Snow Breeze on the route to Misty Sand Mountain last night, Sheep Curls got someone to plunder their goods.]
[(Friend) Willow Tree Dear: Did they get screenshots of Sheep Curls and the culprit together?]
[(Friend) Poems Like Wine: Yes.]
[(Friend) Willow Tree Dear: What did Lang-ge say?]
[(Friend) Poems Like Wine: Lang-ge said he would deal with it once Sheep Curls is online.]
[(Friend) Willow Tree Dear: Last night, I was the one who plundered them.]
[(Friend) Poems Like Wine: What the heck?! (stupefied)]
[(Friend) Willow Tree Dear: Cherry in Snow Breeze plundered Curly twice, and I got back for her on my side account.]
[(Friend) Poems Like Wine: Do you have a screenshot of the system prompt as proof?]
[(Friend) Willow Tree Dear: …I don’t think so.]
[(Friend) Poems Like Wine: Oh no, it will be a hard fight for you two to win. Lang-ge is already biased when it comes to Apricot Sprig. If she refused to let this go, and neither of you could show proof, it means you two are the one at fault and lied. That would make things worse. To say the least, even if Lang-ge believed you and your roommate’s words over theirs, the one plundering Sheep Curls was Cherry in Snow Breeze, not Apricot Sprig.]
[(Friend) Willow Tree Dear: Oh well, the worst case is being removed from the guild. Cherry in Snow Breeze, that fool still cannot see that Apricot Sprig is using her.]
As he made this statement, he added something inside. He and Blustery Dead of Night were about to break up anyway.
[(Friend) Poems Like Wine: Aren’t Night-ge and Lang-ge friends in real life? Why don’t you try to get Night-ge to talk with Lang-ge?]
Their relationship was about to end anyway, but ‘was about to’ were the key words as they were still together. Getting the other man to help their case should be no issue, he would consider this as getting something out of his relationship with Dead of Night.
So, he opened his friend list, scrolled down, and found that Dead of Night’s icon was dimmed.
He directly went on QQ to send a private message.
In their chat history, the last time they messaged each other was saying good morning, which was more than twenty days ago. After saying good morning, they were out of words to say.
Zhuo Lan told Yang Juan at that time that he suspected that Dead of Night were flirting with other people behind his back. Beside getting testimony from his in-game friends, there was also the fact that how little they have been talking.
When Shao Ye received the message, he was looking down on his phone, playing games in the lecture room for his major.
He and He Lang were not in the same major, nor were they in the same dormitory.
Blustery Dead of Night: [I will talk to him later.]
Willow Tree Dear: [Ok.]
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Blustery Dead of Night: [Do you remember how we agreed that either of us could end this relationship at any time?]
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It was fine if the other person wanted to break up peacefully, but this was before the other man hit on other female players behind his back. He did not have the habit of wearing a green hat for no reason.
Willow Tree Dear: [You want to end it?]
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Blustery Dead of Night: [I have been working on getting this girl to be my girlfriend recently, in real life that is.]
In real life? So not in game? After thinking about it, Zhuo Lan felt that he was not one to keep things bottled up, so he simply brought up the elephant in the room.
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These days, some people come to him in secret, telling him to watch out for his roommate. Only then did he realize that this method was not feasible, at least, not great in terms of Yang Juan’s reputation in the game.
Fortunately, Yang Juan did not plan on continuing playing.
Willow Tree Dear: [It is fine if you want to break it off, but tell me first, have you been seeing another person in the game these days?]
Blustery Dead of Night: [? Of course not.]
Willow Tree Dear: [A long time ago, someone told me that they saw you with another player on your side account.]
Shao Ye had a subtle change in his expression as he secretly cursed at He Lang.
After a moment of consideration, he still did not tell the other party that He Lang was the one behind the side account, but found a casual excuse to brush it off.
Blustery Dead of Night: [Maybe it was the person from the playing service that is flirting with other female players. I rarely get on my side account these days, it is all in the hands of the playing service.]
Zhuo Lan looked skeptical.
But he did not say more, after all, the game and real life are two separate entities from the start, and he knew his feelings like the back of his hands. Since the other party had promised to help, he would forget about what happened in the past, regardless of whether they were true or not.
Willow Tree Dear: [All right, since you are doing a favor for me, we can break it off.]
Blustery Dead of Night: [There is one last thing. Guild war is next week, so we should hold off on announcing our breakup until later.]
Zhuo Lan agreed without hesitation.
After Shao Ye exited the chat room, he did not send a message to He Lang.
From the perspective of an insider who knew all the nit and gritty, there was no need for him to say anything about the handling of this matter, He Lang was well aware of the situation in regards to Sheep Curls.
He opened the game’s mobile version and entered the arena to start a ranked match.
On the other side, Zhuo Lan also put down his phone and called up his friends to go to the arena.
When his friends arrived, he picked up his phone again and wanted to send a message to Yang Juan, telling his roommate that he did not need to get on the game anymore.
Before he sent out his message, he hesitated again.
Squeezing the phone in his hands, he recalled the conversation he had with Dead of Night again.
Isn’t it a bit lame-ass to use the playing service as an excuse?
After all, the other party did not seem to be the type of player who would pay for that kind of service.
The more he thought about it, the more he came to the conclusion that behind Night Ferry, it was neither Dead of Night nor someone from a playing service, possibly someone who was an acquaintance of the former.
He wondered if that someone was Errant Wolf.
He did not care whether Errant Wolf was a scum man or not, but if the guild leader was the one playing Night Ferry, it meant this was an opportunity of giving Apricot a green hat. Now that was an opportunity he would never pass on.
After clearing his message, he decided to wait until the end of the month before telling Yang Juan.
Yang Juan got onto the game in the evening and was being questioned straight away on the guild chat.
He knew about Apricot told on him, and he was no longer able to find the system prompt from last night either.
Even so, he did not panic.
[(Guild) Errant Wolf: Sheep Curls, come out. Sprig said that you got someone to plunder her and Cherry in Snow Breeze’s goods. What do you have to say for yourself?]
[(Guild) Sheep Curls: Cherry in Snow Breeze plundered me twice first.]
[(Guild) Apricot Sprig: Are you trying to frame Cherry for plundering you twice? A mere verbal statement cannot be taken as proof. Do you have proof of this? (rage)]
Standing on the side, Zhuo Lan angrily reflected, “Man, I was not thinking straight last night, it must be the roasted food. It did not occur to me that they might be deliberately baiting you into attacking them and took screenshots as proof.”
In contrast, Yang Juan was being rational and clear headed. “Isn’t she the guild leader’s wife? Even if we have evidence, she and her friend would definitely insist the evidence was photoshopped. Nonetheless, Errant Wolf would certainly stand on his wife’s side.”
Zhuo Lan cursed, “Fuckers.”
[(Guild) Sheep Curls: I did not save screenshots.]
Sweet One stood up to speak for Yang Juan.
[(Guild) Crush Pick This Sweet One: You said Curly got someone to plunder you two, do you have any evidence?]
[(Guild) Apricot Sprig: Of course, I saved a load of screenshots. Do you want me to post them in the main guild chat? (smile)]
Sweet One stopped talking.
[(Guild) Apricot Sprig: Hubby, are you there? I was bullied, you have to bring me justice (grievance)]
He Lang, who was staying quiet, finally spoke.
[(Guild) Errant Wolf: I am here. I just received a private message from a random player. Last night, someone saw Cherry in Snow Breeze plundering Sheep Curls twice on their way from Misty Sand Mountain to South Continent Port. Sheep Curls did not lie.]
Hearing that there was an eyewitness, Apricot hushed herself, but Cherry, who had been watching silently, could no longer sit still.
[(Guild) Cherry in Snow Breeze: Which random player was it??? I did run into Sheep Curls on the way from South Continent Port to Misty Sand Mountain! Could you at least get an eyewitness with half a brain first? (sneer)]
Shao Ye, who was lurking on the side to watch the excitement, stepped forward to add fuel to the flame.
[(Guild) Blustery Dead of Night: Are you saying that you run into Sheep Curls on your way from South Continent Port to Misty Sand Mountain?]
Cherry panicked slightly and began to ramble off.
[(Guild) Cherry in Snow Breeze: Yes! That is right! Then we got plundered!]
[(Guild) Willow Tree Dear: But did you not say that it happened on your way from Misty Sand Mountain to South Continent Port? (thinking) (angel)]
Apricot Sprig almost face dove to the ground in anger from her friend’s IQ.
[(Guild) Cherry in Snow Breeze: I made a typo just now. It was just a human error, I am not a machine. Isn’t it normal to confuse the locations?]
She hurriedly sent a distress signal to Apricot Sprig.
[(Friend) Cherry in Snow Breeze: Sprig, what do I do? I made a mistake trying to clear up the witness’s claim…]
Apricot straight out ignored her friend’s message.
[(Guild) Errant Wolf: There is a rule in the guild that members cannot plunder from the group. Since Cherry in Snow Breeze was the first to act, she is the one to blame. Those who violated the guild rules must be removed from the guild, wife, do you agree?]
Apricot was quick on her brain as she echoed in agreement.
[(Guild) Apricot Sprig: Yes, hubby.]
Cherry was torn between shock and anger.
[(Friend) Cherry in Snow Breeze: Sprig??? Did you not say that you have a way to bail me out???]
Apricot herself was still angry. She sneered coldly at the situation while trying to put on a front by comforting her friend.
[(Friend) Apricot Sprig: Cherry, I am sorry. I spoke for you in private, but hubby said that he could not make an exception when it comes to violating the guild rules, otherwise, it will be on his authority as the guild leader. But we came to an agreement that after the guild war next week, once everyone gradually forgets about this incident, he will let you back to the guild.]
[(Friend) Cherry in Snow Breeze: Really?]
[(Friend) Apricot Sprig: Really.]
[(Friend) Cherry in Snow Breeze: That is great! Sprig, you are indeed my best friend in the game (finger heart)]
Her friend is so gullible. Last night, she happened to run into Sheep Curls. Seeing that the dancer was doing commerce by herself, she went to complain to her friends in a few words. Cherry agreed to help her to get Sheep Curls kicked out of the guild out of spite.
Sadly, their plan failed. This amazing opportunity was wasted.
Apricot Sprig dropped her eyes in contentment as she typed.
[(Friend) Apricot Sprig: Cherry is also my best friend (finger heart)]
Although the outcome did not have any impact on her, this was also expected by Zhuo Lan.
Yang Juan got up to get a drink of water, while Zhuo Lan remained in front of his computer. “You added Errant Wolf as friends, right?”
“I think so.” Yang Juan tried to remember and suggested, “You can check my friend list.”
Zhuo Lan stopped to open the friend list, and Errant Wolf’s name was indeed there.
As he was about to close the friend list, thinking that he should tell Yang Juan to pay attention to Errant Wolf and Night Ferry in terms of when each of them get online, before he saw that Errant Wolf’s icon went dim.
He paused, waiting patiently for a moment—
In less than two minutes, Night Ferry’s icon lit up.
Slowly releasing the mouse in his hand, he pondered with his hand under his chin.
Caught changing cloaks…hahahahaha! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣
Zhuo Lan deduced so much in such little time xD at least now he’s free to mingle again.
Thank u for the update!
Indeed 😂 he should tell his friend though that they are the same person, he still thinks he is flirting with his friends dude even if they may breakup 😅
Ah, Zhou Lan is smart
Thank you for your translation 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
He’s been caught Hehehhe 😈
Thanks for the translations!!
Smart bro! At least he finally figured it out. But damn that’s a clean breakup. First he made so much drama and in the end they just go like: “let’s split?” “ ok no problem” 🙈
Thanks!🥰
i’m so glad zhou lan doesnt have deep feelings for shao ye. i mean ofc shao ye is an ass and zhou lan doesnt deserve to get cheated on but we generally have no clue how their in game relationship started so that was neat and no hard feelings
caught in 4k whoops
With a friend like Zhuo Lan, there’s no need for enemies.