Jiang Chen looked at this message in silence.
Here he was still considering how to verify further and Fang JingXing was already smacking the evidence in his face.
He could already guess Fang JingXing’s thoughts at this moment— He was live streaming right now, and all those fans were watching; if the two people are pretending to meet for the first time a second ago, then sending this would clearly seem like a joke.
If that morning scene didn’t happen, he really wouldn’t have taken this seriously.
But right now…… he couldn’t help but suspect that Fang JingXing was deliberately using the live stream to confess his feelings.
Jiang Chen closed the chat box and sat cross-legged on the ground.
Gu Wen had entered the private PK Arena instance with him and already pressed the ready button. Seeing him now, Gu Wen asked: “Not fighting anymore?”
Jiang Chen said: “Let me ponder about life for a moment.”
Gu Wen: “……”
Jiang Chen seriously considered when this started.
Was it during the period when he lost contact or a little later?
However, did Fang JingXing know who he was?
Thoughts running two laps inside his head, unwittingly, they turned onto Fang JingXing himself.
Last time, he was even surprised that with Fang JingXing’s circumstances, how could he still be single if he had someone he liked. So it wasn’t because he was unsuccessful in his pursuit, but rather he was still in the process of pursuing; Jiang Chen just didn’t know at that time.
Living this long, this was the first time Jiang Chen has been liked by a guy.
What’s amazing was that he didn’t dislike it or feel as disgusted as he thought he would. Considering he actually liked Fang JingXing’s voice very much, he guessed that he himself might also be a bit gay.
He couldn’t help but say: “I have a question.”
Gu Wen said: “Ask.”
Jiang Chen paused.
He wasn’t the type of person to discuss emotions with others. Falling silent for two seconds, he stood up: “Forget it, it’s nothing. Let’s PK.”
Gu Wen looked at him: “Related to Abyss?”
Jiang Chen flatly denied: “Unrelated.”
Gu Wen was someone with experience in this after all. Seeing the Ace like this, he surmised it was a relationship issue. Feeling like he wouldn’t be escaping the fate of running around naked, he asked: “Is Qing Yan still not joining the hidden story quest this time?”
Jiang Chen said: “He’s busy.”
He pressed ready. Seeing the other not moving, he asked: “Are you fighting or not?”
Gu Wen said: “Fighting.”
On the live stream’s side, the comment section had already exploded because of Fang JingXing’s impromptu words.
“To let us see our Ace, you’d sacrifice everything like this?”
“Oh fuck, why do I feel like these words are very flirtatious?!”
“Me too, just imagine them in the male god’s voice, I’m going crazy ahhhhhhhh!”
“I don’t care, I’m going to pretend these words were meant for me!”
“I heard Total Annihilation has a bad temper. Bro, don’t play around too much, take care.”
“It should be fine? He’s speaking as a fan.”
Fang JingXing ignored the comments and quietly waited for the reply. He heard nothing from the other side for quite awhile.
Towards the person he liked, he was somewhat unable to resist the temptation of being chatty, so he sent another message.
[PM] This is a Side Account: Ace, what are you doing?
[PM] Total Annihilation: PK Arena.
[PM] This is a Side Account: My recent words were from the bottom of my heart. Let me go cheer for you?
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.
[PM] Total Annihilation: Get lost.
[PM] This is a Side Account: A lot of people have praised me for my wonderful voice. Do you want to hear it and see? At the same time, it can also prove that I’m indeed Fang JingXing.
Ktf ojcr fzqibvfv bcmf wbgf.
“! ! !”
“Qtja vbfr atlr wfjc? Tbe’gf ublcu ab rklamt ab sbeg bglulcji nblmf?”
“Vklamt rklamt rklamt, cba rklamtlcu kbeiv yf lctewjc(f)!”
“Gb sbe tjnf j kbcvfgoei nblmf? Lbk mbwf kf vbc’a xcbk atja? Ofa er tfjg.”
“Cttttt qifjrf rklamt. P tjnfc’a tfjgv sbe rqfjx obg remt j ibcu alwf.”
“Thank you, Total Annihilation Ace!”
“Sisters, let’s type our thanks in the public chat!”
After Jiang Chen sent that “Get lost”, he focused on PKing with Gu Wen. Playing three rounds, he saw messages from the other side again.
[PM] This is a Side Account: Ace, please don’t ignore me~
[PM] Total Annihilation: Not actually him
Seeing that, Fang JingXing couldn’t help but laugh out loud. Recalling the Wardcaster’s temper, he suppressed the unbearable itch in his heart and didn’t dare to tease him outrageously.
At this time, his friends had finished playing a match. As such, he went down to the field to squad up with them and started to queue for ranked games.
The fans lost it.
“Just this? Just this?”
“The guy says he’s not actually him and you just believed it?”
“You can’t raise our curiosity like this and then abandon it carelessly [wail][wail][wail]”
“I want to see the Ace!”
“Not seeing the Ace is fine as well, just make it up to us and switch your voice!”
“That’s right, that’s right!”
Fang JingXing said with a smile: “What’s the hurry? It’s not like I’ve stopped live streaming.”
He waited for the system to randomly match him with opponents and then followed his friends into the map: “One step at a time. Today, I was able to add him as a friend. Perhaps, I can run into him some other day. Then in a few more days…… I can cheer him on.”
“Hahahaha, are you really just going to cheer him on?”
“Can’t you have some higher pursuits?”
“Ace, I want to see you PK with him and hear you comment on Total Annihilation’s skill level.”
“Am I the only one who felt that pause in the middle seemed very ambiguous? Is cheering him on truly honest words from his heart?”
“I’m crying, can you please switch back to your original voice!”
“Waiting for the day that the Male God and Ace meet for the first time. Judging from this situation, the Male God really likes the Ace very much.”
Walking halfway, Fang JingXing caught a glimpse of this comment and said with a smile: “That’s right. I like him.”
His friends fell silent in unison.
Today, Fang JingXing finally rediscovered his conscience and remembered them. A few seconds ago, they even considered him human(e). Yet within the blink of an eye, this guy was running off to flirt with the Ace again. Upon learning that Captain Fang was chatting with the Ace, their fans were back to driving them to near death again.
They received comments like “Hope you can learned from a certain someone”, “Clearly, you’re in the same guild as the Ace, yet you still have not spoken to him even now”, “If you never speak to him, you’ll never get to know him”, and more— the sight causing blood to pour down their faces.
Seeing he was still flirting right now, they were so angry, they grew bold briefly and asked: “Call the Ace over to queue together?”
Fang JingXing said: “It’s not him in person.”
You’d actually fucking say something like this?
The group said: “No problem, call him over and it might be him again.”
Fang JingXing said: “Nah, let’s not. The guy’s busy.”
The group: “……”
What a jerk!
The “very busy” Ace slowed his momentum and pk’ed 7-8 more rounds with Gu Wen before seeing his nephew log in suddenly.
Xie ChengYan has been filming late into the night everyday lately. Afraid he’d play too much, his manager confiscated his VR equipment.
Today, he finally got some time to catch his breath and abruptly realized that he had missed his childhood friend’s birthday, so he asked for the VR equipment back and logged online.
As soon as he logged in, he saw his childhood friend sitting next to the guild lake, fishing. Walking over to greet the other, he didn’t receive a reply and knew the other was afk. As such, he sent a message to his little uncle and went to the PK Arena.
Seeing him, Gu Wen was stunned.
His guild members had been calling him to for team fights this entire time. The rounds that he PK’d with the Ace was enough for him to digest and reflect on. He recalled the wager and said: “You guys chat. I’ll be leaving first.”
Xie ChengYan watched him leave and looked at his little uncle: “JingXing is afk. Is he live streaming?”
Jiang Chen said: “En, he bought a side account and is streaming on this server.”
Xie ChengYan thought to himself, then I’ll send him some flowers, JingXing should be able to see them.
As such, he sat down and sent flowers as he chatted with his uncle.
[System] The player Qing Yan gifts Abyss 99 roses. If love can last the test of time, why do they need to stay together day and night?
[System] The Player Qing Yan gifts Abyss 99 roses. Who knows when we will meet again, I long for you. How will I bear this lonely night, this lonely moment.
[System] The Player Qing Yan……
After sending several of them repeatedly, Xie ChengYan felt it was too troublesome and went for a big one.
Wandering Dreams provided rich patrons plenty of recognition, so it was a golden system announcement: The Player Qing Yan gifts Abyss 999 roses. The world holds many beautiful wonders, but I only love you.
Gu Wen, who just left the instance: “……”
Looks like the wager on Qing Yan and Total Annihilation was completely hopeless.
No wait, Abyss might be Fang JingXing.
Is that Qing Yan— the Movie King, Xie ChengYan?
Gu Wen continued walking silently, feeling like he knew too much now.
Knowing it was for his birthday, Jiang Chen and Fang JingXing (who was currently playing ranked games) both ignored the randomly speculating world chat.
Jiang Chen looked at his nephew: “Have you been busy recently?”
Xie ChengYan said: “Busy. Will be heading into the mountains in a few days.”
Jiang Chen said: “Be careful.”
Xie ChengYan said: “I know, don’t worry.”
Jiang Chen hesitated briefly and asked: “Has Fang JingXing ever asked you about me?”
“Yes.” Recalling this matter, Xie ChengYan didn’t know if he should laugh or cry: “He thought we had a bit of something and asked if I was interested in you.”
Jiang Chen’s heart thumped.
Since he asked this question, then Fang JingXing should be unaware of his identity.
Xie ChengYan explained voluntarily: “Later on, I said I saw your photo and felt bad for your face. He said he wanted to see it also, so I photoshopped an image for him.”
Jiang Chen said curiously: “What did it look like?”
Xie ChengYan said: “Wait a second, let me look through the chat history.”
As he spoke, he searched and sent it over to his uncle.
Jiang Chen opened the chat box to take a look. Instantly, an appalling face greeted him.
He fell silent for several seconds before asking very sincerely: “What did he say?”
Xie ChengYan said: “He said it’s alright.”
Jiang Chen: “……”
Even this was alright?
Not to mention, enough for him to stand outside the research institution, gazing over longingly?
Jiang Chen couldn’t help but suspect that Fang JingXing had some kind of special interests.
For example, in the past, he’s heard of a girl with a beautiful face, but every boyfriend she found was one more uglier than the last. This was because she liked the feeling of being defiled.
Fang JingXing might also belong to this category of people, who knows.
Xie ChengYan didn’t know his little uncle’s thoughts and honestly recounted the circumstances at that time: “I was such an idiot too, who knew how the topic of the conversation got there, but don’t worry, I said your face is curable. Once you leave the hospital, I will explain it to him.”
Jiang Chen patted his head repeatedly, not knowing if he should give this kid a beating or not.
His time was limited. After he chatted with his nephew for a while, he logged off to sleep.
Xie ChengYan has been very tired filming lately. Aware that Fang JingXing always streamed very late, he didn’t wait for the other and sent him a few messages before going to sleep as well.
Early next morning, Jiang Chen and Fang JingXing logged in and met up to start the hidden story quest.
There were very few people in the morning. Gu Wen wasn’t online either.
The reason this hidden story quest got triggered was partially because of Gu Wen. After all, if it weren’t for Gu Wen, Jiang Chen wouldn’t have randomly run off to Bone Burial Mountain.
Now that the guy wasn’t here and the members of the squad had not been settled yet, they were pretty idle and bored, so they wanted to start searching.
The range that the clue provided included four cities. The first mission of the hidden story quest definitely wouldn’t allow the players to find the person directly, but it should be possible to find that Sculpture Shop.
The gold canary can only chirp, there was no way to communicate with it.
This mission didn’t allow for inferences like the story plot of [Yi Lin], which allowed them to run off and fight the wolf directly. Rather, it seemed almost similar to the story plot of [Ling Huai]. However, in [Ling Huai], Love Escapist was present to squander money and change their fate, saving them a lot of trouble. Now, it looked like they had to search by themselves.
Jiang Chen was somewhat stubborn: “Do you think there are other clues on Bone Burial Mountain?”
Fang JingXing said: “Let’s go take a look then.”
As such, the two people returned to that withered tree and searched all around. Discovering that there was indeed nothing special about it, they had no choice but to accept fate.
Well aware that he was too impatient to do these kinds of search quests, Fang JingXing comforted him: “Let’s go look around in those cities first. If you get bored, I can play the Bounty Board with you.”
Hearing the thoughtfulness of his words, Jiang Chen shot him a glance.
Actually, he had been holding back since logging in today, because everytime he recalled that Fang JingXing had that face in mind while interacting with him daily, Jiang Chen couldn’t help but feel riled up. At this moment, he really couldn’t take it anymore.
A head can be chopped off and blood can flow outward, but top-rated looks can’t be lost.
He called out: “Fang JingXing.”
Fang JingXing tilted his head: “En?”
Jiang Chen said: “Last night, ChengYan said he gave you my photo before. I actually don’t look like that.”
Fang JingXing instantly laughed out loud: “I know. I can tell it’s photoshopped.”
Jiang Chen was startled.
Could tell it’s photoshopped, but didn’t confront ChengYan. Could Fang JingXing have guessed his identity?
He has always enjoyed being straightforward and blunt. Feeling like probing tentatively was too troublesome, he asked directly: “Then do you know who I am?”
Heart skipping a beat, Fang JingXing subdued his smile and looked at the other sincerely: “I do.”
He was uncertain of safety measures over the internet, so he didn’t mention the name. Instead, he used a half joking tone to say: “You’re the black Wardcaster.”
Before it was you.
And now it’s still you.
Ooooooh!!!
Thank you for the chapter!!🫶🫶🫶
Thank you for the chapter 😍 ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Hm, good chapter, but, just because you like a voice, doesn’t automatically mean you are attracted to that person or their gender; you can like a voice just as you can like a face, a song or a painting.
Thank you for the chapter!
+1
but I think he still counts as a voice con lmao
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My lovelies 😭💖💖
Lmao. Thanks for the chapter 🤣❤️
ahhhh finally!!! It feels like when the main plot finally progresses into the next chapter after 7 hours and 34 minutes of running around and getting sidetracted with side quests!!!