translator: Oyen
This holiday, Chu Jianxin stayed at Sang Jun’s house for half a month, visited all the gardens in Suzhou, and ate all the food in Suzhou.
Sang Jun had been with him and worked as a free tour guide for him. Chu Jianxin was very moved—— this friend was really not a bad friend!
Before leaving, he offered to buy Sang Jun a gift to express his gratitude. Sang Jun smiled and said, “Why are you so polite to me?”
Chu Jianxin said very stubbornly. “I have been eating and living at your house for the past half a month. The money I brought to Suzhou this time was basically not spent. Don’t be polite to me. I will give it to you. ‘ll buy you something practical. What do you want?”
Sang Jun thought, what I want is you.
But he didn’t dare to say this. He had to casually say, “Then buy me a pair of tennis rackets. My tennis rackets are broken.”
Chu Jianxin immediately agreed and went to the Sports City with Sang Jun in the afternoon. After picking up a pair of the most expensive tennis racket, he had to pay at the counter.
Sang Jun helplessly stopped him. “There is no need to buy such an expensive one.”
Chu Jianxin smiled. “The price is worth the goods, and the expensive things must be of good quality. Don’t stop me, I will buy them, I want to buy the best for you.”
Sang Jun: “…”
He was always so frank and kind to people, but he didn’t know how attractive he was to Sang Jun.
Sang Jun stood in the same place, watching him actively run to pay, then ran back happily, handed the tennis racket to Sang Jun, and said, “Done, give it to you!”
At that moment, Sang Jun suddenly wanted to give Chu Jianxin a hug.
In fact, he did it. He stretched out his arms and hugged Chu Jianxin tightly into his arms, and whispered, “Thank you.”
Chu Jianxin was stunned and found that Sang Jun’s hug was a little tight. He smiled and said, “You’re welcome, why are you so excited? I have been eating and living in your house for half a month. This thing is nothing!”
Sang Jun didn’t speak, just tightened his arms lightly, and a smile appeared on his lips.
The person in his arms was like his angel.
He would guard him silently.
***
After the holiday, Time team’s players gathered in the club. Tan Shitian convened a meeting and decided on the list of players for next season.
Sang Jun and Chu Jianxin were both in the list.
Miracle League had a limit on the number of players every season. Almost all teams would report the full number, but the players who had signed up would not necessarily play, because many captains would report some newcomers on the list and only serve as substitutes. If a player in the main team was in a bad state temporarily, or in some less important regular season events, they would let the substitutes come to the top.
Most of the time, the substitute players sat off the stage and watched the game.
Among the list submitted this time, there were only two newcomers, Sang Jun and Chu Jianxin, and the others were all old players.
Chu Jianxin was very excited even when he knew that he was just a substitute. He took Sang Jun out for a midnight snack that evening and said with a longing expression, “It’s really great that we can make our debut so quickly because there are so many great gods in Time team! I just don’t know how long we have to sit on the bench to have a chance to play?”
Sang Jun replied, “Don’t worry, when the time comes, we will go to the game with captain Tan. Let’s get used to the environment of the arena and take our time.”
Chu Jianxin nodded seriously. “En, the rhythm of the professional league is much faster than our usual training match, and our team just won the championship last season, I can’t lose face to the team.”
Sang Jun: “Don’t worry, I’m here.”
“You are also a newcomer, so confident in yourself?” Chu Jianxin wondered.
Sang Jun smiled and replied, “I mean, even if you lose face, I will accompany you to lose face.”
Meeting his smiling gaze, Chu Jianxin’s heart warmed, patted him hard on the shoulder and said, “This is a good brother!”
***
As a result, Sang Jun’s crow mouth was really right.
It was also strange that Tan Shitian was too courageous. After the opening of the autumn game, he actually let the two newcomers Chu Jianxin and Sang Jun play in the first game, but the opponent was still a very strong Flying Feather team.
Both of them were completely stunned, and they were out of touch with team during the team battle. Chu Jianxin was killed in seconds before the shield was opened, and Sang Jun’s assassin played a little better. but he was still knocked out by a group attack by the other side’s super prediction ability.
Looking at the gray screen, Chu Jianxin bowed his head in frustration, and Sang Jun looked a little embarrassed.
Tan Shitian didn’t scold them. After the game, he patted them on the shoulder backstage and said, “How bad the fight is, summarize it yourself.”
“…” Chu Jianxin’s head almost dropped to his chest, his face flushed, and he was embarrassed to speak.
Sang Jun nodded calmly. “Okay, captain Tan.”
Tan Shitian smiled and replied, “I can give you the opportunity again. There are many games in the regular season, so adjust your state as soon as possible.”
After returning to the dormitory, both of them stared at each other and remained silent for a moment. “We usually cooperate very well,” he said gloomily. “How come when we played today, our heads suddenly went blank and couldn’t keep up with captain Tan’s train of thought? I don’t even know which button to press…”
Sang Jun comforted in a low voice. “We have too little experience in the game, and the reaction speed is not fast enough when we encounter a team battle, so that’s why we are so passive.”
“Netizen must scold us as newbies.” Chu Jianxin replied.
“Nevermind,” Sang Jun smiled slightly. “It’s two newbies they scold.”
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Chu Jianxin: “…”
Sang Jun said, “Look, a pair of newbies. We’ll be scolded together. I’ll keep you company.”
Chu Jianxin couldn’t help but laugh. “When you say this, I suddenly feel better! Let’s practice again and try to play better in the next game!”
“It’s already 10pm, do you still want to practice?” Sang Jun asked.
Chu Jianxin said, “I can’t sleep! Let’s secretly go to the training room to practice, don’t turn on the lights.”
Sang Jun nodded and accompanied him to the training room secretly. They opened two computers in the corner and began to practice in the arena.
When Tan Shitian passed by, he saw a faint blue light coming out of the training room, so he couldn’t help but smile slightly and said, “Quite ambitious.”
Sang Jun and Chu Jianxin made rapid progress. After Tan Shitian let them play three times in a row, both of them quickly kept up with the rhythm of the league. Chu Jianxin played steadily and surely. As the front row of the team resisted a lot of damage, Sang Jun also showed his flexibility to the fullest. After Tan Shitian gave instructions, he could quickly go to the enemy’s back row to kill key players in seconds.
As the champion team of last season, Time team firmly occupied the top three in the scoreboard after only one month in the regular season.
But to everyone’s surprise, Wind Colour plummeted this season, losing four games in a row at the beginning of the regular season, and the result was at the bottom for a time. Qin Mo, the vice-captain, didn’t play all the time, and there were some negative comments on the Internet gradually. Sang Jun seldom browsed the Weibo at that time, but Chu Jianxin browsed Weibo every day before going to bed, so Sang Jun often listened to him gossip.
That night, Sang Jun was cutting fruit in the kitchen when he suddenly heard Chu Jianxin cursed. “F*ck!”
Sang Jun came over with fruit and asked, “What’s the matter?”
Chu Jianxin said, “These keyboard warriors are so wicked. I don’t know who is taking the rhythm. A group of people went to god Mo’s Weibo to scold… Fool, when people play the World Competition, you are still abused by Boss in online games, and now each and everyone stands up to be holy warriors.”
He cursed while typing quickly with his fingers.
Sang Jun asked, “If you comment under his Weibo, aren’t you afraid of being touched and scolded?”
“I used my smurf account, they don’t know about it.” Chu Jianxin replied.
Sang Jun looked over and found that Chu Jianxin’s new smurf account was very fierce against netizens, contrary to what they might expect, Cheng Wei was angry against netizens.
Taking a closer look—— Wasn’t there Cheng Wei’s smurf account in the top comments?
Sang Jun didn’t like to take care of this online gossip, smiled slightly and said, “In fact, it’s useless to do this. Qin Mo hasn’t looked at Weibo at all recently.”
Chu Jianxin looked back and said, “How do you know he doesn’t look at Weibo?”
Sang Jun said, “I have a hunch that he is not in a normal state this season. Do you remember when we met him and Xiao Han when we ranked in the partner arena?”
Chu Jianxin nodded. “Of course I remember, we were both wiped out for one minute in that game.”
Sang Jun said, “You also told me at the time that Qin Mo and Xiao Han often team up to abuse people in the arena when they are free, but this season, no one has ever seen them in the arena.”
Chu Jianxin was stunned, and finally came back to his senses. “You mean…”
Sang Jun said, “Qin Mo no longer forms a team with Xiao Han, nor does he play in a single challenge arena. In addition, he has not played in the regular season, which shows that he has rarely played games. I heard that he is training some newcomers in Wind Colour’s training camp, which is not a good sign. I have a hunch that he is doing the aftermath work, and it is very likely that he will leave Wind Colour at the end of this season.”
Chu Jianxin: “…”
A long time later, Chu Jianxin realised that Sang Jun had guessed the result so early.
Sang Jun, who seemed to be as careful as hair and as calm as water, could see through things that many people couldn’t see through after several years. At that time, he was less than 18 years old.
***
Time team won the championship in the spring, but failed to win the championship again in the autumn.
Miracle League’s experts were like clouds, even after Li Cangyu and Ling Xuefeng’s retirement, there were many ruthless characters among the new generation of captains, it was not so easy for Time to win consecutive championships.
This season, Time team only won second place, and the championship was taken away by Ghost Spirits team.
But Time’s fans were pleased that in the final World Competition’s voting stage, Time team Tan-Cheng combination was still undoubtedly selected into the national team, and Tan Shitian became the captain of this national team because of his excellent command ability.
Although Sang Jun and Chu Jianxin couldn’t go to the World Competition, they were also very happy for captain Tan.
What made Chu Jianxin even more excited was that Cheng Wei suddenly wanted to accept him as an apprentice.
Chu Jianxin was naturally 100% willing, and immediately ran to give Cheng Wei a master worship tea.
On the second day after his apprenticeship, Cheng Wei gave him ten yuan to buy two packs of biscuits, and he was quite active.
On the third day, when he was asked to buy potato chips, he was also obliged.
But on the fourth day, Cheng Wei looked for him in the group again: “Apprentice, help Master buy a box of coffee beans, thank you!”
Chu Jianxin finally realised something was wrong.
God Wei wasn’t looking for an apprentice, but looking for a junior brother!
He returned to the dormitory with a sad face and said, “How can I recognize such an unreliable master!”
Sang Jun held back his laughter. “Don’t worry, captain Tan will take you.”
“Ah? Why?” Chu Jianxin was stunned.
Sang Jun patiently explained, “God Wei accepts you as an apprentice, but he has always been simple and can’t bring apprentices very much. Only captain Tan can take you.”
“How could this be?” Chu Jianxin looked blank.
Looking at him, Sang Jun asked. “Don’t you know what their relationship is?”
“Aren’t they a good teammate?” Chu Jianxin said innocently.
Looking at his innocent gaze, Sang Jun was silent for a moment before he sighed lightly and said, “They are lovers.”
Chu Jianxin: “Ahhh??”
Seeing him almost stuffing an egg into his mouth, Sang Jun couldn’t help laughing. “Do you really think that there is only pure friendship between two men?”
Chu Jianxin’s tongue was about to knot. “A-aren’t their relationship pure?”
Sang Jun shrugged. “It’s not pure for a long time. Haven’t you seen the photos of god Wei’s Moments traveling to Suzhou? He went with captain Tan. They are both still young, with captain Tan’s character, do you think they will chat hand in hand under the quilt?”
Chu Jianxin: “…”
When we were in Suzhou, didn’t we just chat under the quilt? He didn’t even pull his hands.
This sentence was forcibly swallowed by Chu Jianxin, because he felt that it was not appropriate to say so.
How could they be the same with captain Tan and Cheng Wei? They had pure friendship!
Sang Jun told the truth, which was the same impact as a nuclear bomb for Chu Jianxin. His head was out of order. It was totally unexpected that Tan Shitian and Cheng Wei actually had this relationship. Captain Tan, who looked graceful and always smiles, actually liked men? Also like Cheng Wei, this simple person?
After a long time, Chu Jianxin looked complicated and said, “So. so it’s like this.”
Sang Jun looked at him and asked, “Do you think two men together are disgusting?”
Chu Jianxin waved his hands hurriedly, “No, no, I can’t comment on other people’s affairs. It’s very, very bad for us to discuss in private.”
Sang Jun said, “What if it’s you?”
Chu Jian Xin was stunned and pointed at his nose. “Me?”
Sang Jun said, “If a man likes you, do you feel disgusted?”
Chu Jianxin thought for a while, and then laughed. “Don’t be kidding, I have such a pure man character, which man will be blind and like me.”
Sang Jun: “…”
The blind man is right in front of you.
After Chu Jianxin laughed, he replied, “It’s not disgusting, it just feels a bit strange. After all, I can’t interfere with other people’s feelings. If someone really likes me, then I can’t get into the other person’s mind and let it to stop liking me. Anyway, the emotional matter is quite complicated. It’s not easy to say who is right and who is wrong.”
Sang Jun was silent for a moment. He thought Chu Jianxin would directly say ‘it’s disgusting’, but he didn’t expect this kind of answer.
This person was much kinder than he thought, and he considered issues from the perspective of others, and his personality was so open-minded.
Sure enough, his eyes were right.
Sang Jun smiled slightly, patted Chu Jianxin’s shoulder lightly, and said softly, “Get some rest early.”
***
After that day, although Chu Jianxin was shocked, his relationship with Tan-Cheng was not alienated.
On the contrary, captain Tan taught him a lot. Chu Jianxin had always been very grateful. After a long time, the estrangement in his heart had disappeared. Anyway, the relationship between captain Tan and god Wei had nothing to do with him. From a competitive point of view, both were very good players and worthy of his respect, that was enough.
Time flew quickly. Three years had passed in a blink of an eye, and Time team had seen many outstanding new players. Chu Jianxin and Sang Jun had also become very stable players. Both of them had experienced many twists and turns, greeted the glory together, and participated in the World Competition together, and their relationship was getting better and better.
When many newcomers first came to the team, they felt quite thunderous when they heard Chu Jianxin called Sang Jun ‘Sangsang’, but soon, they would be popularised by their seniors—— Sang-Chu, who made their debut together, in the esports circle, they were regarded as bamboo and horse partners, and their relationship was better than that of brothers. It was also appropriate to have an intimate nickname.
Newcomers soon discovered that Sang Jun and Chu Jianxin had a tacit cooperation, and even didn’t lose to Tan-Cheng, the ace partner.
In particular, every time in the partner challenge arena, Chu Jianxin was under pressure in front, and Sang Jun walked flexibly. Whenever the opposite side wanted to kill Sang Jun, Chu Jianxin could always open a shield in time; whenever he was accused, Sang Jun could always come to the rescue in time. The rhythm of the two was as if the brain waves were about to be synchronized.
The seniors said that this was because they had been together and inseparable for many years, and they knew each other’s habits and rhythms very well.
Such a partner was hard to find.
This winter, the club suddenly received the news that an internal test of a new game was about to begin, after which it would be officially tested next year and a new professional league would be launched.
After a meeting and discussion, the senior management of Huaxia Club decided to pick someone from the Time team to lead the team in a new project.
The boss chose Chu Jianxin because he was the most popular in the team, and because he was open-minded and willing to work hard, it was most appropriate for such a serious and diligent person to be sent to a new project. If he was the captain, it was no problem to deal with the media with Chu Jianxin’s cheerful style.
The club arrangement was naturally difficult to be opposed by Chu Jianxin, but in this case, he would be separated from Sang Jun.
Chu Jianxin was a little worried, and he was reluctant to part with him in his heart.
But the boss said that Sang Jun was currently the main force of Time team, and if they were transferred away, it would be more difficult for Time.
Chu Jianxin had to start preparing for the stationing of new projects gloomily, and took several teammates, Lin Yao and Wen Hua, to explore on the new game in the internal testing area.
Sang Jun knew he went to the new game, but these days, Sang Jun had been quietly training with Time team as usual.
Chu Jianxin felt a little bit uncomfortable inexplicably—— could it be that he was the only one who couldn’t bear to part with him, and he didn’t mind whether they were separated or not?
Thinking of this, Chu Jianxin felt a little upset.
There weren’t many players in the internal test area, but it was said that there were many vanguard teams in major clubs, but everyone was wearing a vest and no one knew each other.
Chu Jianxin set up a guild in the new area, mainly to quickly upgrade the level by doing guild tasks, and collect some secret books by the way.
Only when they were familiar with the game and waited for the public test of the game next year, could they quickly adapt to the rhythm of the new game.
Chu Jianxin was soon engrossed in exploring in the new area.
Since the internal test was a ‘file deletion test’, so, everyone’s account information would be emptied by the server after the test, and everyone in the newly opened public test would stand at the same starting line. In this way, no matter how good or bad they were in the internal test phase, it wouldn’t have an impact on the public test.
Because of this, a guild called ‘Killing God’ suddenly appeared in the internal test server, and a group of crazy people formed a group of more than 20 people and sneaked attacks on high-level accounts everywhere.
Some people say that this was a guild by some idle and boring folk experts. They were giving professional players a predicament and deliberately harassing the smurf account sent by major clubs to upgrade.
Chu Jianxin’s established ‘Exploring Wasteland Team’ guild didn’t have any grudges with this ‘Killing God’ team, but on one occasion, he, Lin Yao, Wen Hua and others had just finished playing in the dungeons, only to be ambushed at the dungeon’s gate.
More than 30 people beat their five-person team, directly destroying Chu Jianxin’s team.
Chu Jianxin wanted to strike the table angrily. “F*ck! Ambush directly with a group control secret book, this group of people is simply shameless!”
Wen Hua, who was next to him, was also quite depressed. “This guild has a strong momentum now, and there are many people in it. Every time, dozens of people flock together, which is totally unreasonable…”
Lin Yao said, “A bunch of psychopaths! It is said they want to give the professional players of major clubs a little color. Just wait and see until our level is a little higher. A group of 70-level players beat us, 60-level players, really embarrassing.”
Chu Jianxin frowned. “Forget it, we have few people now, so try to avoid them when you see them.”
As he was talking, Sang Jun suddenly passed by, saw a few people’s gray monitors, smiled and said, “Killed by the so-called folk expert?”
Chu Jianxin was already angry, but he was even angrier when he heard his sentence. “If you don’t come to the new area to explore, don’t be sarcastic”
Sang Jun was silent for a moment and turned to leave.
***
The next day, a message suddenly came out of the internal test news—— it was said that a mysterious assassin chased the leader of ‘Killing God’ guild, killing him in the field ten times in a row!
Hearing this, Chu Jianxin was very happy. “Hahahahaha, you kick the iron plate! I guess this mysterious assassin must be some professional player. You are so arrogant, do you really think that a professional player is a steamed bun?”
Taking advantage of the chance that ‘Killing God’ guild was occupied, he immediately formed a team to fight the dungeon. After a few fights, he got the secret book fragments and disbanded the team contentedly.
Idle and bored, he went to Qingcheng Mountain to see the scenery for a while.
As a result, he was turning around in the field when he suddenly spotted two members of the ‘Killing God’ guild killing an elite monster in the wild.
In the new game, Chu Jianxin also played the role of meat shield, and he had no attack power. If he fought two opponents, his opponent’s level was higher than his, and it was difficult for him to kill all his opponents.
Otherwise… Be a little bit terrified, and made a detour.
Just thinking about it, he suddenly saw an assassin in the distance. The assassin operated very slowly, and after being directly invisible, he set up a series of skills, giving a killing to the crispy guqin player among the three. When the other two people reacted to beat him, he followed the battle stealth, disappeared in the field of vision, and then suddenly appeared behind the other party, keeping up with a set of critical to kill the swordsman.
Double kills, like moving clouds and flowing water!
Chu Jianxin couldn’t wait to applaud.
A line of words popped up on the nearby channel, which was sent by the other side: “Tell you guild leader later that the professional players don’t care about him because everyone is busy upgrading. If he does this again, I don’t mind directly taking your entire guild.”
Chu Jianxin: “……”
Brother, you are so domineering! I’ll sing you a song of conquest!
The other two ran away in despair, and Chu Jianxin immediately chatted privately: “Hello, I am Chu Jianxin of Huaxia club. Which club do you belong to? why don’t we add friend?”
Opposite player: “……”
A moment later, a smiling expression was sent in the private chat window: “Fool ^_^”
Chu Jianxin: “Ah? Why did you curse me?”
Opposite player: “It’s me Sangsang.”
Opposite player: “I come to accompany you.”
Chu Jianxin: “……”
Sangsang is so sweet😊
Ikr ❤❤
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Awww SangSang ❤❤❤ don’t worry Chu Jianxin don’t be mad SangSang won’t abandon you of course 🥰
Yess, Sangsang will accompany you, don’t be sad 🤭
Puahhahahahaa!!! Fool ^_^ ahahahaha omggggg I never realized how much I love this couple… I feel like I didn’t know very much about them at all! Thanks for the translation~
Lol, that’s why there’s flashback for them, their stories is cute 🥰🥰
You’re welcome~ 💕
Sang Jun: “I come to accompany you.”
Ahaha~ Sang Jun ah, how can you be so sweet (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)?
Thank you for the chapter~ ( •̀ ω •́ )✧
He’s really sweet~ 💕
HAHAHAHA CHU JIANXIN YOURE SO CUTE ehehe sangsang is so cute as well, seeing his cough, friend, get killed he also come and accompany chu jianxin~ how cute eheheim glad i was able to catch up with all the updates! binging so many chs really made me so nostalgic and i wish that the author would never end this series and always let me see the next generation of players….. but thats not possible ah qwqthank you for the chapter, oyen! its been a while hehe
Lol, long time no see~
yes, this is the last book of the trilogy, I still one to see them grow up but it’s not possible T_T
So, just savour all of the sweetness in the extras ❤
Yeah!! I went to peek at jjwxc to see how many extras there are left and there are so many im so excited!!! like 16 more chs for the Xiao Han and Qin Mo couple and theres still captain Lin and Xiao Song aaaaaa im so excited ehe
That was so sweet of Sang Jun~ 💖 Loved the flashback story!
Thank you for the chapter
bro… I feel so bad for sang Jun..