Editor: Sahloknir
Yue Ran’s natural reaction was to return to his own spot.
With his sharp eyes and fast reaction, Jiang Xiao skillfully coaxed his little tsundere, “PK has already started. If you go open the livestream website now, you will still need to find Sunken Moon’s livestream room. By that time, you will miss quite a few scenes.”
Listening to this wise advice, Yue Ran stayed seated.
After a short time pondering, he suspiciously looked back at the Jiang Xiao and happened to see a smile that didn’t disappear in time.
Yue Ran: “…”
Jiang Xiao: “…”
There was suddenly a flare of humiliated rage inside of Yue Ran.
Jiang Xiao quickly cuddled the other to calm that rage, leaned closer for a kiss, and redirected the youth’s head back to the screen. “Look, they’ve started.”
Yue Ran struggled for two seconds before he decided arguing wasn’t worth it as he began to concentrate on watching the match.
The two contenders rolled Dark Forest for their arena stage.
Their cosmetic equipment were both gothic in style. After the battle began, they identically searched for places with cover. While walking and observing their surroundings, they intentionally walked in circles, searching for their prey. As a result, one circled in the left and the other one circled in the right, perfectly avoiding each other.
[(All) Seven Fish Seconds: Where are you, darling?]
An uproar immediately started in the spectator room.
[(All) Cerulean: Darling? Are these two also dating in secret?]
[(All) Poison Your Duck: Impossible. Moon God does not have an alt account in FBWF, and Fish God doesn’t like keeping up with more than one account. So they never play ranked together or have any chance to interact, all right?]
[(All) You Used to be Me: No interaction? Go out and turn right, please take a look at the sudden Tempest Star that exploded out of nowhere.]
[(All) Sun Sets in Mountain: That’s right. There were no traces of those two great gods interacting before they got together.]
[(All) Phone Always Dying: Then…to be fair, as a player of FBWF, our Fish God always talks like this.]
[(All) Rec Sunken Sun for Life: Bah! Lock Sunken Sun, lock Sunken Sun, lock Sunken Sun, no one is getting off the bus!]
[(All) Attired Guqin: What’s the point of chasing outdated CP? People should learn to look ahead (smile).]
The arena’s all chat was a one way mirrors between the stage and spectator area, so Sunken Moon wasn’t aware of what kind of discussion this ‘darling’ address had triggered.
He found a decent safe spot and replied.
[(All) Sunken Moon: Where are you?]
[(All) Seven Fish Seconds: (12, 31)]
[(All) Sunken Moon: Wait for me.]
[(All) Seven Fish Seconds: Come soon, I’m so *** for you.]
[(All) Seven Fish Seconds: Very (smile) needy.]
[(All) Sunken Moon: (smile)]
[(All) Doggy Loves to Lick Fur: Why do I get the feeling that these two’s smiles had hidden meaning?]
[(All) Blank: Oh, so this is Fish God’s style~]
[(All) Idolizing Girl: I think Fish God and my Inked God use a common language, this despicable language usage is the same.]
[(All) Flowing Wind: As one of the victims, I have the responsibility to inform everyone that they are different. Inked Sun is a hooligan, and Fish God is a brute. Can any other FBWF players back me up on my statement?]
[(All) Come Wander: Me, I was also played by Fish God. He is indeed a brute (tear).]
Yue Ran saw that Seven Fish Seconds really sent his location, took the time to glance at the all chat, and learned a little more about this great god.
At first glance, this ID was inspired from ‘fish only had seven seconds of memory’. He used to think that Seven Fish Seconds was a hipster, and turned out to have such a bright personality. He wondered, “Are you acquainted with him?”
Jiang Xiao answered, “Yes”
“How about the others? Do they know him as well?”
“All but Sunken Moon I think. He didn’t make it into the finals in those two competitions.”
“Oh,” Yue Ran muttered. “What kind of person is he?”
Jiang Xiao said indifferently, “A mental case.”
Yue Ran: “…”
He stopped watching the PK as he quickly turned back to Jiang Xiao.
Since meeting his senior, this seemed to be his first time hearing Jiang Xiao evaluate someone like this.
Jiang Xiao shared, “I knew him from before.”
Yue Ran was surprised.
“In high school,” Jiang Xiao added. “Schoolmate, average relationship.”
Oh, that was right. Yue Ran thought.
An aloof person and a mental case, not even playing in the same server. There was really no opportunity for friendship to be formed.
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Once Yue Ran ended the chitchatting, he turned back to the fight.
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But this ‘almost’ didn’t last long.
Because Sunken Moon quickly healed a portion of his HP.
Seven Fish Seconds’ attack sharpened immediately, with a ‘I’ll hit you double for each HP you heal’ declaration.
Sunken Moon countered each move with healing at any given chance. Finally, he won by a small margin. He won with a smidge of HP, not enough to even tank a basic attack.
The audience cheered, as new messages were posted at an insane speed, shouting for another game.
Seven Fish Seconds seemed to not have enough fun just yet. He got up and sent a message.
[(All) Seven Fish Seconds: Custom room?]
[(All) Sunken Moon: Sure.]
[(All) Seven Fish Seconds: Wait for my invite (air kiss).]
The crowd didn’t dissipate immediately as they were ready to beg for the room number.
Jiang Xiao glanced at the man in his arms and asked, “Keep watching?”
Yue Ran said, “No, let’s start our own climb.”
Jiang Xiao tentatively asked again. Seeing that his little summoner was not changing his mind, he assumed that the other might have been motivated by the PK. So he let go of the other and started their ranked grind.
The two had zero points but against the less experienced players in lower ranks they soon rose to the third rank like professional chefs chopping cucumber and vegetables. Then, they were matched against another pair of professional chefs, Pure White Sun and Qin Xiujie.
The four chefs on the stage: “…”
“They might do what they did last time, focusing everything on me,” Pure White Sun said while the clock was counting down. “Didn’t you always encourage us to outsmart our opponents? Prove to me by winning this match.”
Qin Xiujie brought up, “How about those matches we won before?”
Pure White Sun huffed, “They were all thanks to me.”
Qin Xiujie didn’t want to argue with the other as he complimented, “Yes, teacher is amazing.”
Pure White Sun said, “Stop the flattering. How should we fight this match?”
Qin Xiujie studied the map.
Their stage was a canyon. There were lush trees in the valley with a bridge wide enough for two players side by side above. From top to bottom, it was the height of a two-story structure. The two sides loaded on different sides of the canyon. They gazed towards their opponents from a distance.
He pondered for a moment and suggested, “Take the bridge for confrontation.”
Pure White Sun vetoed, “How’s that any different between last time?”
“Divide them,” Qin Xiujie smiled. “I will pierce in, and you follow closely with daze.”
As someone who fought in a competition before, Pure White Sun understood immediately.
So they went straight to the wooden bridge. Seeing that the other side were also walking on the bridge, they were ready to launch their attack and quickly executed their plan. Qin Xiujie glanced at the distance and immediately pressed his {Piercing} ability.
This was a knock-off ability.
According to their plan, Qin Xiujie would first knock Jiang Xiao off the bridge, and Pure White Sun would daze Yue Ran, then the two could finish off the summoner together.
The expectation was beautifully crafted.
Unfortunately, reality soon gave them a combo beating.
Jiang Xiao, playing as the same swordsman class, could also perform the same tactics as he too used the same ability.
In an instant, Qin Xiujie launched forward and met with air. While Jiang Xiao brushed shoulders with him and went straight to Pure White Sun, knocked the monk off the bridge. At the same time, Yue Ran summoned his Ice Spirit and froze his older cousin.
Qin Xiujie: “…”
Pure White Sun: “…”
Pure White Sun fell into the valley and immediately lost half of his HP. He shouted, “Look at your terrible idea!”
Qin Xiujie said sincerely, “I’m wrong. I should have suggested surrendering as soon as we saw their IDs. It’s no use playing tricks with a certain someone unless with a special map.”
Pure White Sun rebuked, “Can’t you have a little more fighting spirit?”
Qin Xiujie suggested, “Why don’t you command us next time we are against them? If they don’t use a complicated strategy and use a normal approach instead, maybe we have a chance.”
“…Are you praising me or mocking me?”
Yue Ran was unaware of the internal fighting in his enemies’ voice room.
After righteously executing his older cousin’s character, he and Jiang Xiao went down the valley to clean up Pure White Sun. After they successfully won this match, they continued until they reached fifth rank. During this period, they met several experts from other servers. Overall, they had a blast.
However, Jiang Xiao had an optional course he would be attending tomorrow evening, so there would be no meet up at the internet cafe on that day. But the weekend would start the day after tomorrow, they could play all day.
Leisurely returning to his dorm in a happy mood, Yue Ran was met with Lin Qian’s angry expression with eyes focused on his phone. He had to ask, “What’s wrong?”
Instead of answering, Lin Qian handed him his phone.
Yue Ran accepted it and looked, to see it was the university forum again.
One of their female seniors of the same major happened to preorder the limited bag. When she saw Yue Ran carrying it, she took a photo and posted it in comparison to the genuine thing. She complained that she felt disgusted every time she saw someone carrying a counterfeit, especially someone in her own major. It was a disgrace to the fashion design major’s name.
However, that wasn’t the main point. The main point was that the photo was a close up, making it hard not to name the classmate carrying the bag. In addition, some people even commented how this person said he was the original creator and sold it to Deng Ling for five hundred.
—[Wow, five hundred, so much money!]
—[Hahahaha, motherfucking five hundred. Only a fool would sell it for that much!]
—[The point is that he was able to showcase the bag he made. I don’t know about you, but that’s awesome!]
—[No, you’re just being sour without evidence.]
—[Although it looks fake, what if it’s real?]
—[That’s right. What if he is a relative of the designer?]
—[If you analyze everything, won’t you say it’s logical for a senior to guide their junior in a live show venue?]
The original poser soon replied and said that she had checked the fashion show’s information and there was no certain someone’s name anywhere. She even asked customer service, and they said they would ask around for her. She was still waiting on their update. If she made a mistake, she was willing to apologise.
Then this issue should have been put on hold for customer service’s reply.
But Yue Ran’s reputation was too big. When a stain was discovered on a flawless jade, of course there would be a group of people pointing it out to make themselves feel good.
—[Oh, I wonder who that is. I saw his bag yesterday and thought it looked pretty nice. It turned out it was a counterfeit.]
—[Isn’t he together with jx? Couldn’t he buy the genuine one for his boyfriend with how rich his family is?]
—[They weren’t together then, were they? Maybe the ex-boyfriend was broke, jx has the look and the money, so he seduced him?]
—[I saw his former boyfriend this afternoon. He was crying, it was terrible.]
—[It could be a good thing. I hope the guy will find someone who truly loves him in the future.]
—[Who? Who are you talking about!!!]
—[He is average looking. I don’t know what jx sees in him.]
—[I’m in his class. To be honest, he’s usually very aloof and pretty much ignores others. It’s always us who take the initiative to start a conversation with him.]
—[Don’t you guys understand? You’re useless to him. Why would that person pay attention to you?]
—[QQQQ that makes so much sense. So heartbreaking.]
—[Can you guys get off his back? Classes just started for a week. Logically speaking, we only have time to be familiar with our roommates, how could you label that as aloof?]
—[Is upstairs the person himself?]
—[You’re just jumping after a sore spot was poked.]
Yue Ran read to this point and understood the reason behind Lin Qian’s anger.
When he saw there were new posts, he couldn’t help refreshing the page. What he saw was more messages from the female senior again. It was a screenshot of her getting verbally harassed in private, with a message—[Does this message look like it was from the person himself?]
The people in the forum immediately vented about their common enemy.
—[Oh, so having such a toxic mouth is his true face.]
—[We should send it to jx to show the person he likes’ true colours.]
—[I hope jx will take a good look at the other’s former boyfriend. Can’t the school grass learn this lesson from the predecessor’s mistake? It’s clearly very obvious!]
—[Even if jx doesn’t like him anymore, he won’t start liking any of you. A bunch of rotten apples!]
—[Ho! Is this the certain person complaining again? Did you switch to an alt account?]
Both of them could feel the intense malice, as it overflowed out from the screen across the wireless signal. Lin Qian felt super pissed off immediately after seeing the screenshot of the private message, as he was grabbing back his phone and about to swear at their female senior, Yue Ran stopped him.
Yue Ran comforted him, “No use arguing. I’ll let my mother make an official statement on Weibo to clarify.”
Lin Qian’s anger was still not extinguished. “How about that private message?”
Yue Ran said, “Let’s focus on clarifying first on Weibo, then I’ll talk to the senior face to face, explain to her that the direct message wasn’t from me, and ask if she could clarify for me. This will be more convincing.”
Lin Qian studied him. “You’re not angry?”
Yue Ran answered, “Not very.”
He was angry. Although he often butted heads with alphas in high school, he had a good relationship with omegas. This was the first time he encountered such verbal abuse. However, as a little tsundere, he managed to hold his expression and thought of the most direct way.
So he took out his phone and made a call to his mother, explaining everything in detail.
At the same time, Deng Ling received information from her subordinates. She logged on to her Weibo and saw the private messages from her fans, which included the link to the currently active forum.
She said, “Okay, I will handle it.”
Yue Ran ended the call in relief.
He wondered if he was hearing things. Was his mother’s tone colder than usual?
He wanted to use facts to prove he was right. While he was on the phone, there was a new reply on the forum.
Lin Qian was so excited that he hurried to share it with Yue Ran.
241L Jiang Xiao:
[Classmate Xu, a sophomore majoring in fashion design, class 1. Since you have been performing so well, I will accept two apologies for the accidental injury. I suggest you solve the situation you caused in the game first and apologize to Ran Ran first. Also, 6L, 17L, 27L, 70L, and 101L have the same IP address as the landlord. These accounts are all created by you. You should have picked performing arts instead of fashion design major.
In addition, 12L, 21L, 32L, 42L, 45L, 57L, 67L, 83L, 95L, 113L, 134L, 189L, 201L, 212L, and 232L all have the same IP address. Also recommend that this student constantly fighting on two sides to switch to performing arts.
Next, that ‘ex boyfriend’ is Ran Ran’s secret admirer. He cried today because he was shocked by my remarks. I don’t need an outsider’s opinion on if my Ran Ran is being good or not.
Finally, Classmate Xu, I trust that you recognize my investigation ability. Please provide me the ID of the person who is harassing you and I’ll get to the bottom of that person’s identity.]
As soon as the last reply was posted, the whole building suddenly went silent for a few seconds, followed by an explosion.
—[Holy fuck! The man himself?]
—[Real???]
—[I repeat, the landlord is also jx’s suitor. She even schemed against the other person in the game. Now that she finally got the supposedly higher ground, she clung to it?]
—[The landlord went silent…]
—[Let me talk about my conspiracy theory. Could the so-called private message be sent by the landlord herself?]
—[I was dragged here by my roommate to spectate. Tsk, tsk. The reality is more dog blood than a light novel.]
—[Who is the second person?]
—[I want to know who gave her the picture of that bag more.]
…
—[Beep, visitor from Weibo.]
—[Visitor from Weibo +1]
—[From Weibo. T University, you’re getting popular on Weibo!]
—[Calling Student Jiang. Your mother-in-law posted your screenshot on Weibo.]
Yue Ran: “…”
Wait a moment, first there was the game, then alt accounts, then a secret admirer, then a Weibo and mother-in-law. The amount of information seemed to be too big.
He quickly clicked on his Weibo app and found what his mother had sent.
The contained content was very simple and clear. She directly took a photo of the limited bag, with an ‘R’ icon inside. She explained that her son often marked this letter on his works. This bag was made by her son during summer. Seeing that it was good, she signed a contract with her son and took it to her fashion show as an accessory to an outfit. Because she felt that he had the talent, but it still needed to be honed, his name wasn’t mentioned in the show. She never expected this would cause a misunderstanding.
Behind the post were two screenshots. One was comments from the forum and the other was Jiang Xiao’s replies. Finally she pinged the university’s official Weibo account with the message: [The quality of certain students in your university really opened my eyes. I also suggest they join the performing arts circle.]
Aa a designer, Deng Ling was famous, but the number of her fans was actually quite small.
However, the fact that ‘mocking on the person’s counterfeit when it was actually the original’ was too satisfying for the crowd. So the number of forwards went skyrocketing, attracting more onlookers.
The college dealt with it with urgency and deleted the post that night.
But being in the same circle, Deng Ling knew the head of the fashion design department. After sending her clarifications on Weibo, she sought him out to do a thorough investigation. The other party also knew that Deng Ling was not someone to be provoked. So he hurried on giving her his word, and temporarily suppressed the matter.
The original post was deleted, but new posts were still being created one after another.
[Classmate Xu, how are you feeling after you defended the designer and was called on by the designer herself?]
[Student Xu, where is that agreed apology?]
[Who was that second person?]
[Ahhhh so it turns out that’s my goddess’s son! Very jealous.]
[This is so thrilling! Like an idol drama!]
The forum was like it was celebrating the Chinese New Year. It didn’t die down until midnight.
Yue Ran had to call Jiang Xiao. After a short silence, he asked, “What do you mean by secret admirer?”
Jiang Xiao said, “It was just nonsense in the heat of the moment.”
“…Then why did he cry?”
“He was probably moved by my reasoning.”
Yue Ran: “…”
I would be a fool to believe you!
Jiang Xiao imagined the other’s angry yet adorable appearance, and the voice carried a hint of laughter, “Aren’t you paying attention to another thing?”
Yue Ran asked, “What?”
Jiang Xiao replied, “Your parents know that we’re together now. When will you be taking me to meet your parents?”
Yue Ran: “…”
Oh, that’s right!
He ended the call and checked WeChat to find that neither of his parents sent him a message. He really couldn’t hold it any longer as he took the initiative to send a message to his mother: [Do you have anything else to add?]
[Deng Ling: The university will investigate. We only need to wait.]
[Yue Ran: Anything else?]
[Deng Ling: No. Go get some early rest.]
I have a boyfriend and he is an alpha!
Yue Ran’s finger hovered over his phone screen for a long time. Finally, he sent an [Ok] before curling into his quilt.
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Thanks for the chapter
Thank you for the chapter (◍•ᴗ•◍)💚
Ahh the face slap is so satisfying.
Ranran is so cute.
Thanks for the chapter
Thanks for the chapter!
Does she know or not? Did DL just skim the forum and somehow the fact that her son js dating, an alpha at that, flew past her head?
Well she is in Weibo, and is probably busy…..
She probably knows from RanRans Dad. We all know what a worrywarth he is.
Ahh this was so satisfying
Thanks for the chapter!!
Yes, mother! Be proud! Your son found himself a capable alpha!
Thank you for the chapter. Hoping you survived the 5k attack !
Thanks for the chapter ♥️♥️
SO SATISFYING AHHHHH THEY KNOWW
Tysm for the chapter!
Thanks for the food ^^
Thanks for the chapter! That was great face slapping & from 2 sides too, lol. Of course ML is happy he can even more confirm their relationship & meet the parents, lol.
Ahhh i hope that b*tch should just shut the fvck up and gone already!!hmph
So happy! Mom, did you notice, or not… Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣❤️
Thanks for the chapter ❤️❤️
I thought there would be more dog blood and drama about the bag, good thing there’s none. Only a crispy dog slap for those two extra and dog foods for me~ 😍
Thank you for the chapter!
This translator does not like dog blood. Too much dog blood will make me drop the novel (if I am reading).
Thank you for reading uwu
What about Little Cat Planet? Although I haven’t read it yet but I saw it’s tagged as angsts 😭 and you translated it. 😢
Was Little Cat Planet still okay to read? I mean although it has the tag angst, does it still stands as not that painful? Or full of dramas for the couple?
Short novel is generally different since I translate in-between for a break and I don’t get attach to the characters as much. It might be different for everyone. LCP is bit sad so if you are not one for sad ending, I suggest staying away from it.
Copy that! Thanks for the warning! I’ll definitely not be tempted to sneak a peek!
thanks for the chapter!
Got face slapped by the person they said they were defending! 😛
Too much dog blood. I’m drowning. It’s scary that such things actually can happen irl. Too many bad people out there. 😔
Classmate Zhou where are you… 🤔🤣🤣🤣
Oh I just realised, Papa Yue acceptance of his future SIL is done without RanRan knowing 😂. RanRan must be baffled why his parents aren’t making deal about him dating Alpha since you know how they were when they got the news of his mutated pheromones. And RanRan still didn’t know Papa Yue already comes clean with his cousin 😅.
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