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Lin Dongyang and Li Wei walked up the stairs of their dormitory building. Li Wei, who had been holding back a lot of questions, finally asked, “What is your relationship now?”
“Friends ah, what else could it be?” Lin Dongyang looked at Li Wei suspiciously, seeming confused as to why he was asking that.
Li Wei had a habit, that is, when he had doubts, he liked to touch his round head. As the stubble of his hard short hair prickled his palm, he questioned, “Really? I always think something is fishy.”
“What fishy? We are two big men, he couldn’t like me.” Lin Dongyang smiled casually.
When Li Wei heard this, he nodded in a very serious way, and narrated. “I really have such a feeling. You didn’t see it, but when I said I would f*cking carry you, he almost stared at me to death!”
Lin Dongyang: “How about your own love life? The girl in your heart, was there no follow-up development after seeing the movie?”
He remembered that Li Wei had asked someone to watch a movie on Sunday once before. His suntanned skin couldn’t hide the overflowing peach blossoms.
Li Wei’s face instantly collapsed. Needless to say, Lin Dongyang knew that the daylilies were already cold, he said dejectedly, “I was sent a good person card. Do you know the reason she rejected me?”
Seeing Li Wei so miserable, in order to mourn for his roommate’s relationship that hadn’t even blossomed yet, Lin Dongyang pursed his lips and asked along with him, “What?”
Li Wei said, “Ah, I don’t like guys with round heads.” After saying the odd reason for the rejection, Li Wei became even more upset and continued, “Why didn’t she just say no, or just say we’re not suitable? Why did she need to find a lousy reason like my round head? The key is that I still have no way to refute. I can’t f*cking smash my head flat!”
Li Wei rubbed his short-haired round head back and forth with some annoyance and said to himself. “Not to mention, it’s really quite round.”
Lin Dongyang couldn’t bear it any longer, he decided he would be sorry for the roommate who had suffered a tragic encounter later, and to just smile first!
Both of them returned to room 403. Lin Dongyang pushed open the unlocked door and walked in. Seeing only the two of them return, Zhu Wenbo looked towards the door, wondering, “Did you meet Fatty?”
Li Wei: “You guys didn’t see the message?”
Zhu Wenbo then unlocked his mobile phone and saw the unread message from Li Wei. “No, he took the umbrella out to look for you guys when we got back. How did you get back?”
Lin Dongyang: “Borrowed.” He took out his mobile phone and called Fatty Han. After a few rings, he got through.
Fatty Han cursed as he pushed open the door to the room, saying that the two people had collaborated to pit him. They came back and let him get wet in the rain while making a trip in vain.
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He was wearing flip-flops, getting splashed by water the whole way. Splotches of mud and water had flung all over his back. Lin Dongyang fetched a towel and threw it to him to wipe himself down first.
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“Yang-zi and Wenbo, what are you guys going to do here if you aren’t going back home?” Fatty Han asked as he sorted his things out.
During the holidays, many students chose to go home or go out for a relaxing break, arranging their own leisure time as they wished. Fatty Han bought a ticket early, it was tonight’s train, and Li Wei would leave school early tomorrow morning.
“Going out to stroll ah.” Lin Dongyang replied casually.
“Where are you going? With whom? Are you going home after that?” Fatty Han asked in a nagging manner.
Lin Dongyang hadn’t really thought about what he would do if he didn’t go home and stayed at school, so he said, “Let’s see what the temporary arrangements are.”
Fatty Han turned to Zhu Wenbo and asked, “Wenbo seems to have arrangements for the holiday? Right?”
Zhu Wenbo habitually pushed up the thick black glasses on the bridge of his nose and explained, “I’m going to be an English tutor for a full three days. I’m really looking forward to my first try at it.”
He didn’t go home because his house was far from Anling City, and it took too much time to travel back and forth. So, he might as well use this time at school to earn some extra money.
Li Wei praised sincerely. “The few of us will count on you to have more ways to earn money.”
Fatty Han also silently compared the four roommates and said, “We are here to consume, our family’s Wenbo is the one who comes to increase his treasure trove of knowledge.”
Speaking of English, Lin Dongyang gave a bitter laugh. “The exam was so bad that I lost confidence and suddenly have no passion or motivation.”
He obviously felt that he had tried hard too, but in the end he found that it was just a drop in the ocean, the tip of the iceberg! The English language was a treasure trove of knowledge that he couldn’t explore.
After dinner, Fatty Han left with his bag and waved his hand. On his way out, he affectionately staged a ‘life and death farewell’ from a bitter love drama. That corny self-directing play almost made the three of them send him away with their shoes.
The school was only about forty minutes from the train station by taxi. One of the four beds was empty that night.
Early the next morning, Lin Dongyang only remembered hearing something in a daze. And when he got up, three of the four beds were already empty, leaving him all by himself.
Without the usual chatter and noise, it was peaceful and quiet. After he opened his eyes he sighed inwardly, staring at the white walls. Then, he picked up his mobile phone and swiped the screen, bored, until he felt hungry enough to get up.
After washing up and admiring himself in the mirror, he lifted his hand to his forehead and said to himself, “My hair is getting long again. Next time, I will try a buzz cut like Li Wei’s.”
He went to the school supermarket, bought a loaf of bread and noodles, and came back to the dormitory to have a casual meal. He didn’t know whether to count it as breakfast or lunch. He walked anxiously back and forth in the dormitory several times like a headless fly. He wasn’t too interested in going anywhere by himself.
After some thought, Lin Dongyang opened his computer and re-downloaded the Xianxia game that he used to be obsessed with. He hypnotized himself: he won’t get addicted again, he’s just bored and wants to play for a bit
He clicked on his character information with some nostalgia. His purpose was the sentence he had left earlier.
Lin Dongyang felt a burst of unnaturalness. At this time, when he saw the words he wasn’t in the same competitive state of mind as he had been at that moment, so he felt a little bit pretentious, and sighed: Sure enough, the night will always make people think wildly. So, he set out to delete the sentence.
As soon as he finished deleting it, a prompt came up on his game interface.
Qiao Yichen was online.
Lin Dongyang’s heart thumped, he had an indescribable somewhat guilty conscience. He looked at the time on the desktop, it was exactly 12 o’clock, noon.
“Did he not go back?” Lin Dongyang muttered to himself. He only knew that Qiao Yichen would play online for a while at noon when he was at school, as to whether he would do the same when he was at home, Lin Dongyang had no way of knowing.
Lin Dongyang loosened his hold on the mouse, holding his chin in his hand. His eyes flickered and stared at the game interface to see if the private chat dialog box would flash, but three minutes had passed and the air was still quiet…
Lin Dongyang let out a ‘tsk’ sound, “Miscalculation.” He thought Qiao Yichen would be surprised to see him suddenly online after half a year and take the initiative to chat with him privately. However, surprisingly, he was still as cold as ever, not even stirring up a little chat. His expectations were in vain.
Lin Dongyang was puzzled by the fact that Qiao Yichen didn’t break their partner bond in the game after he had retired for so long.
If, according to the original idea, Qiao Yichen was a small novice who was new to the game, it was reasonable to hug Lin Dongyang’s thigh and rely on him after being dissed by others. But now, Qiao Yichen clearly knew all about him and had even behaved unpleasantly towards him in all kinds of ways, so why had he kept the corpse and given himself a hard time?
However, Lin Dongyang didn’t particularly take this matter to heart. He couldn’t chase Qiao Yichen and ask, “Why are you still keeping my corpse as your partner?” As if he was begging to be dumped.
Lin Dongyang took the initiative to send over an emoji to ease this invisible stiffness, then asked: [You’re at school?]
[En] Lin Dongyang had just sent it when he immediately received a reply, causing Lin Dongyang to wonder if Qiao Yichen was just like him waiting in front of the computer to see who would speak first!
Perhaps seeing that Lin Dongyang didn’t respond for a long time, Qiao Yichen waited for a while and then sent out another sentence: [There’s no one at home.]
Today was the first day of vacation, and An Qi had told him yesterday that he was going out to spend the holidays with his fiancee. As for the situation at Qiao Yichen’s house, Lin Dongyang didn’t know anything about it and didn’t want to. But he could vaguely guess from the previous birthday party and Qiao Yichen’s swollen face, that their family relationship wasn’t amicable. After his sister left, the only person he was close to and doted on, he could only be by himself. Staying at school or staying in his single apartment seemed to be the same.
He guessed that Qiao Yichen only went home on Saturday and Sunday before, probably because his younger sister was at home.
Lin Dongyang sorted out his thoughts after thinking for a while, then asked: [Will you be at school for the three days?]
[I’m not sure]
At this point in the conversation, Lin Dongyang didn’t have anything left to ask, so he changed the topic: [What dungeon are you doing? Let’s do it together ah.]
Lin Dongyang’s full-level account, that he had worked hard on, had already passed all the difficulties. In the beginning he had cleared all the dungeons dozens of times for the honorary title of ‘record holder’, and now, the new skilled players had caught up to him.
Nothing lasts forever.
Except for some sadness, he didn’t seem to have any major regrets. Anyway, he wasn’t going down the esports path, so there was nothing wrong with him withdrawing early.
Qiao Yichen: [Skeleton City]
Lin Dongyang: [So quick, you’ve reached level eighty now. I can see that you must like the game a lot.]
Qiao Yichen: [There are memories in this game.]
Before Lin Dongyang had time to think about the deep meaning behind this statement, he saw the invitation message on his game interface. He clicked ‘OK’ and not long after, he teleported to the ‘Skeleton City’ dungeon.
In the game, Lin Dongyang led in the front, like an old mother hen protecting her chick, and Qiao Yichen followed closely behind, as he had done when they first met, following his lead.
While fighting the final boss, Qiao Yichen suddenly broke away from the battle and out of the blue sent him a private message that wasn’t related to the current battle; [You deleted that sentence.]
There was no question mark. It was a declarative sentence. When Lin Dongyang saw it he started organizing the words in his mind and he didn’t pay attention to his decreasing HP.
After the battle ended, Lin Dongyang replied: [The first time I went to your apartment, I played on your account, and I was madly pursued by a sister that wanted to be your partner. I didn’t do it to help you but I also knew you don’t like talking too much, so I set up an ‘already taken’ pledge.]
[Then, why did you delete it again?]
Why? Of course, it was because he felt he was unreasonable, but because of his own face he couldn’t say this directly. So, he tried to beat around the bush and replied: [For fear that I block your real peach blossom. It’s already noon, would you like to go out to eat lunch?]
He changed the topic and, coincidentally, his mobile phone rang just a few seconds after the conversation. It was a phone call. He was alone in the dormitory and bored, so he was extremely thirsty for a companion to go out and stroll around with. Listening to the ringtone, Lin Dongyang surprisingly felt a faint expectation spread in his heart.
But that glimmer of expectation vanished when he saw the caller ID. The person who was calling wasn’t the person he was thinking of.
Is it the blond j€rk or his parents 🤨
Oh, he already expects his call! so sweet~
Thank you for the chapter~
What’s his name back in town? Austin? Thanks for the chapter 🤣❤️
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The feelings are pretty apparent like date alreadyyyy
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When they both caught feelings but don’t know but… one of them might~
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