Downey reached out and directly dragged Nie Chuan over by his collar. He glared at the other fiercely, “Where’s the key?”
Nie Chuan raised his leg and fished something out from his sock.
When Downey lowered his head to take a look, Nie Chuan ruthlessly smashed the thing on Downey’s instep.
“Ah——”
It was the lead weights that Nie Chuan used in sprinting.
“F*ck—— I’m gonna kill you!” Downey’s fist came down.
Nie Chuan also didn’t know how he could be so nimble as he bent down and dodged.
He pulled out the other weight and raised his arm as if to smash Downey with it. Downey subconsciously reached out for it when Nie Chuan unexpectedly turned and ran back upstairs.
“Idiot!”
Nie Chuan scolded him loudly in Chinese.
In that instant he hurled abuse, Nie Chuan’s heart felt incomparably delighted.
Without the weights on his legs, Nie Chuan ran faster.
Downey chased after him only to see the hem of his spacious T-shirt flying up.
“Stinky kid—— you stop right there!”
When Nie Chuan ran back to the dormitory, Reece was at the door, his key having just entered the lock.
“Reece—— there’s a bad guy behind me that’s pretending to be your cousin!”
Nie Chuan rushed in Reece’s direction, behind him was the furious Downey.
He saw that he was about to run into Reece when, unexpectedly, the book that Reece had clamped under his left arm fell down as he opened his arms and caught Nie Chuan.
At that moment, Nie Chuan’s feet seemed to leave the ground. He could clearly feel the strength of Reece’s hands as they steadily caught him and brought him behind Reece.
Having been chased by Downey, Nie Chuan couldn’t even speak properly. He pointed from behind Reece and gasped, “Th…… that guy…… said he’s your cousin…… lying…… right?”
Reece’s hand didn’t leave Nie Chuan and instead gently patted him on the back, as if to help him breathe.
“Did you run far?”
“Nonsense…… I ran the whole corridor! Then I ran from the eighth floor to the first floor and from the first floor back up to the eighth floor! At full speed!”
Soon, Nie Chuan’s breathing calmed down. Reece turned and frowned at Downey, “How come you’re here?”
“Don’t stop me! I’m gonna beat this little liar up!”
Downey wanted to drag Nie Chuan out from behind Reece but no matter from where, if he wasn’t being obstructed by Reece moving sideways then he was being blocked by his arm.
Downey eventually realized that Reece was protecting Nie Chuan.
With a look of surprise, he pointed at Reece and exclaimed, “You’re actually helping this guy!”
Nie Chuan stood behind Reece and replied, “Of course, I’m Reece’s roommate, who are you to him?”
“I already said it a thousand times! I’m his cousin!”
Downey was at the end of his patience and simply pushed Reece away to directly reach Nie Chuan when his shoulder was pressed firmly.
“Since you came to find me, don’t touch my teammate.”
“Ha? He’s also on DK’s basketball team?” Downey was stunned then immediately realized, “No wonder I couldn’t catch up to him!”
Nie Chuan also realized something from this sentence and said excitedly to Reece, “Hey! Hey! I finally beat someone whose legs are longer than mine at running!”
This instantly made Downey laugh and the tense atmosphere was gone.
Reece didn’t speak, he just rubbed Nie Chuan’s face gently with his knuckles then bent over to pick up the book that had fallen on the ground.
This simple act made Downey look at Nie Chuan with wide eyes. Nie Chuan completely ignored Downey as he turned the key that Reece left in the door to open the door.
Reece walked in and set the book on the shelf.
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Reece sat down at his desk indifferently.
Downey looked at Reece’s bed. It was smooth and tidy without a single crease on the sheets.
Then he looked at Nie Chuan’s bed. The sheets were crooked and rolled together while his pajamas were thrown on the bed at random. It was also unknown how long the sheets hadn’t been changed, so it was obvious that Nie Chuan’s disposition was quite nonchalant.
Downey casually sat down on Nie Chuan’s bedside.
Immersed in his game, Nie Chuan didn’t pay this point any mind and continued to fight in another dimension.
At this time, Reece turned around from in front of his desk, motioned at Downey with his finger, and raised an eyebrow. Downey, who had been sitting on Nie Chuan’s bed, stood up.
“Can’t touch your roommate oh……” Downey grumbled in a low voice.
“Say it, what are you doing coming all the way here from New York?”
“Haha, I’ll tell you. Your Coach Gordon personally recruited me! He wants me to come to DK! After all, my performance in high school was outstanding!”
Downey made a gesture of shooting a basketball..
“Mm,” Reece nodded, which could be considered his recognition of Downey’s strength.
“So I came to take a look! Even though NCAA’s training hasn’t started yet, it’d still be nice to be able to see the strength of the main players! Plus, I also want to play basketball with you!” Downey obviously had great adoration for Reece.
“Actually, compared to being teammates with me, you want to be my opponent more. Your wish is to defeat me on the court and let everyone watch you make me suffer, isn’t that right?”
“Hey…… is it necessary to say it so directly?” Downey smiled.
The bad smile at the corner of his lips was just like the one Nie Chuan had seen when he was outside the door.
“So my suggestion is that you join CBU. They’re quite strong. If you can really get onto the main team then with Owen Wishaw, Wright and Thomas, you might not lose too badly to me here.”
Despite playing games, Nie Chuan couldn’t help but pay attention to their dialogue.
Reece hadn’t denied that Downey was his cousin so Nie Chuan was a little guilty about what had happened earlier.
But looking at the current situation, why does it seem like there were sparks flying?
“You’re still the same; arrogant and conceited. I really want to see if anyone can pull you down from up high and make you cut a sorry figure.”
Downey’s smile grew more sinister, the line of his lips like an arc cut by a sharp blade.
Nie Chuan wasn’t careful and his attack failed. Not only did he lose blood (health), he even implicated Mao Xian.
From Nie Chuan’s headset came the sound of Mao Xian’s complaints.
Nie Chuan quickly covered his mouth and appeased Mao Xian in a low voice on the mic, “Sorry! I’ll change the gender of this account tonight, put a picture of a pretty girl on it, and then let those idiots take me to upgrade equipment! When it’s done, I’ll send you a set ah!”
Mao Xian clamored that Nie Chuan must definitely keep his promise.
“Rest assured! I’ll do what I say!”
In the other dimension, Nie Chuan had no dignity to speak of.
“Although last time that idiot with the ID ‘Supreme Devil’ kept wanting to voice chat with me but I ignored him! He even sent me a system message today, asking me if I was mad at him and wanted to throw him off by changing the gender to male! You tell me if he’s crazy or not!”
Mao Xian’s reply was: It’s really hard to come across someone dumber than you.
“Fuck, he proposed to me! With the equipment we’ve always wanted! What else can I do other than marry him?”
Zhou Bin couldn’t help swearing: Marry my ass! Can you have a little more backbone?
Nie Chuan continued using a low voice to answer, “What use is backbone ah, customs clearance is the king’s way!”
Zhou Bin: ……
Mao Xian: ……
At this time, Reece looked at Nie Chuan’s back as he played with his eyebrow raised.
Downey followed Reece’s gaze over. He didn’t know what Nie Chuan had said since he was speaking in Chinese.
But it was very clear to him that Reece definitely didn’t dislike this roommate. On the contrary, he protected him very well. But something in what Nie Chuan said must certainly have aroused Reece’s displeasure and this guy still hadn’t realized it yet.
How interesting!
Reece, who’s always kept to himself and pays special attention to personal space, actually has a roommate?
At this time, Reece had already gotten up. He came up behind NIe Chuan and knocked Nie Chuan’s desk with his knuckle.
Nie Chuan raised his head, “That…… What is it?”
“Who were you going to marry?” Reece’s voice was faint but the oppression in his eyes was obvious.
Nie Chuan hurriedly explained, “No! It’s my account! Just marrying someone in game! Not actually marrying!”
Nie Chuan thought to himself that Reece probably didn’t play video games very much so he didn’t know about these things.
Could Reece have misunderstood that he was secretly in love with someone he shouldn’t again and was confessing his love online?
“And you don’t think this is cheating?” Reece asked.
“This…… this…… there’s a saying in China that goes ‘Zhou Yu fought Huang Gai, one is willing to fight, the other is willing to suffer.’ Have you heard of it?”
[tn: from Romance of the Three Kingdoms, its meaning is that both sides are willing]
“Do you think you have Zhou Yu’s cunningness or Huang Gai’s royalty?” Reece asked back.
“You actually know about Zhou Yu and Huang Gai! That’s amazing!” Nie Chuan completely ignored the key points of their dialogue and was full of admiration for Reece.
Downey, who had been left hanging on the side, finally couldn’t help speaking, “Reece, I’m hungry! Let’s go eat!”
Reece’s gaze finally moved away from Nie Chuan’s body as he replied, “I have an appointment with my professor for dinner this evening, you figure it out yourself.”
“Huh? How can you be like this? Then can I sleep here?”
“Of course not.” Reece’s reply was as succinct as ever.
When Reece walked to the door, he suddenly said to Nie Chuan who was still sitting in front of the computer, “While this guy is here, you are not allowed to use the bathroom.”
“Huh? Why?”
“You like your butt getting seen by strangers?” Reece asked back in Chinese.
Nie Chuan was immediately embarrassed 囧…… it seems like the bathroom door still hasn’t been fixed, haha……
Reece opened the door and didn’t forget to emphasize again before leaving, “Got it?”
“…… Got it.”
Could it be that he really won’t let him use the bathroom even if it’s urgent?
Downey was still in Reece’s room. With his hands in his pockets, he was observing the books on Reece’s bookshelf like a detective and then his bed.
He seemed to really want to sit down.
In fact, Nie Chuan also really wanted him to sit down so that he could observe Reece’s reaction after he finds winkles on the bed!
But Downey came up behind Nie Chuan instead. “Hey, what did Reece say to you just now?”
“He said that you weren’t a good person and told me not to talk to you,” Nie Chuan replied.
Who made you not understand Chinese?
“How could that be. Reece would never evaluate someone as good or bad.”
“If you don’t believe it then forget it.” Nie Chuan turned off his computer, also planning to go out to eat.
“Hey, since you’re Reece’s teammate, you’re also on DK’s main team right?”
Nie Chuan shook his head. He also didn’t know what he was, he only knew that Coach Gordon would coach him regularly and always treat him like a main player and train him as if he was one.
“Alright, no matter what you are, Reece at least recognizes your strength! Let’s go! Have a match with me!”
“I haven’t eaten yet!”
Nie Chuan got pulled off his chair by Downey.
“I’ll treat you to a meal or something later! Let’s go! Let me see for myself what level you guys are at! Reece cares so much about you so you should be quite good, right?”
Nie Chuan thought back to how Downey tried forcing him to open the door to the dorm room. He reckoned that if he didn’t have a match with him then this guy wouldn’t leave the matter at that.
“Ok, three goals will determine the victor. If I beat you, you’ll have let me finish my meal and you can’t bother me anymore.”
“Yo, you’re quite confident!” Downey’s hand suddenly pinched Nie Chuan’s cheek, forcing him to look up. “And if I win?”
Nie Chuan was pained by the pinching. This Downey was definitely a violent brute!
“If you win then you win, what else do you want?”
“Well…… I also won’t ask for too much. If you lose then strip and walk a lap around this dorm naked!”
“What?!” Nie Chuan looked at the other with wide eyes.
“Weren’t you running around this building quite happily this afternoon?” The corners of Downey’s lips rose as he smiled viciously, “I’m serious, I’m not kidding with you.”
Nie Chuan pictured himself strolling around with his bird (penis) out, it really couldn’t be more beautiful.
“What, you don’t dare?” Downey lowered his head, “Maybe you’re small in that place? Just hatched from an egg? Afraid of catching a cold so you don’t dare take it out for a walk?”
“Are you a pervert?” Nie Chuan wrinkled his brow. Downey’s vindictiveness was really heavy!
“I am,” Downey admitted indifferently.
Nie Chuan considered it for a moment, then very calmly answered, “Then you go play by yourself, I’m going to go eat.”
“Huh? What?”
Downey grabbed Nie Chuan who had turned to leave. “Hey, you already promised to have a match with me just now, three goals to determine the victor!”
Nie Chuan shrugged, “When I promised you, you didn’t say I would have to walk around naked if I lost.”
“Then if I lose then I’ll also walk. That makes it fair, right?”
“How can that be fair?” Nie Chuan showed a funny expression. “There are many people in this dormitory, in the whole school even, who would recognize me. Who would recognize you? Even if you walked around with your bird out, it’ll still be far more destructive to me than you, so why should I promise you?”
Downey laughed, “Eh, it seems to make sense when you put it that way?”
“So you can go play on your own.”
“Then let’s take out the part about walking around naked.”
“Even if you take that part out I still don’t want to play with you.”
Nie Chuan walked to the door and was just about to take the opportunity to slip away when Downey hooked the back of his collar.
“You should already know that you can’t get rid of me, right?”
Nie Chuan simply crouched down to let the back of his collar leave Downey’s fingers and deftly sidestepped, breaking away from his control.
“Oh! You’re quite nimble!”
But he got caught by Downey again.
This time, it was Nie Chuan’s turn to lose his patience. “Would you cut it out already! I don’t want to play with you!”
“Why are you acting like a grade schooler? What ‘I don’t want to play with you,’” Downey laughed.
He looked at Nie Chuan just like he was watching a kid, it was the kind of gaze that Nie Chuan hated the most.
Nie Chuan pushed the other forcefully, but Downey directly pulled him back and pressed him onto Reece’s bed.
When Nie Chuan’s face was pressed on the sheets, his heart jumped.
Finished! He was finished!
He wrinkled Reece’s sheets!
At this time, someone walked in. An icy voice sounded and the temperature dropped a few degrees lower.
“What are you guys doing?”
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Drea: Downey is a massive jerk and I like it xD Apologies for the late chapter by the way!
MadMadamMims: Just waiting for this jar to slowly fill with vinegar. *sips tea*
XD BED-DON
tsk tsk tsk NC… It wasn’t enough that you married someone, you even got on bed with another guy, how many boats are you stepping on? XDD
KSVSIS The vinegar jar is gonna pour like crazy now xD
Thanks for the chapter! 🙂
NC!!!! What you’re worried about is wrinkling Reece’s sheets????? Priorities man, he’s gonna care way more that some random dude is pressing you down on them. The vinegar will overflow….
Thanks for the chapter!
“get married to get stacked” god that sounds like a convenient game mechanic. no wonder nie chuan is so willing to marry his game character to someone with op gear
so the rando’s (probably?) not a serial killer, but he’s definitely a pervert. thats cringe
thanks for the update!
Nie Chuan is amazing. Where does he find all these people to antagonize Reece? Poor Nie Chuan. He was doing so well. But the end result is the same. Thanks for the chapter!
hahaha waiting for downey to become a UCB player ○w○