Editor: Decembery
Ten days before the Regular Summer Season began, the manager Yuan Lu accompanied the team to the studio they reserved to shoot promotional and introduction videos of the team members. There were great changes to the Eagle Riders’ lineup in the summer season, so the clips taken during the Spring season could no longer be used. If only the new members Qiu Yu, Lin Jinxi, and Lu Cun went to shoot, it would make the team seem a little fragmented, so they may as well drag the entire team over to reshoot.
When Qiu Yu was placed before the dressing table, his entire body was as stiff as a board.
Placing his head wholly under the ministrations of another person was extremely uncomfortable for him. Especially when the makeup artist dabbed with a brush around his eyes, he couldn’t help but lean back to avoid it. If not for the fact that the original body had memories of similar experiences, he might not have been able to suppress the urge to fiercely slap the makeup artist away from him.
“Don’t move,” the makeup artist said helplessly, “Sit tight, what are you avoiding me for?”
“There’s no need to do so much…” Qiu complained uncharacteristically in an attempt to end this mental torture as soon as possible.
In actuality, Qiu Yu’s current body had pretty aesthetically pleasing features that made him a natural beauty without needing careful decorations.
However the harsh lights in the photography studio would drown out his brows and eyes, hence makeup could not be omitted even if Qiu Yu was a natural beauty.
The makeup artist held Qiu Yu down in his seat using a single hand and said, “Sit properly and open your mouth a bit.”
As he spoke, the makeup artist dipped a brush into some lipstick and gently applied it to Qiu Yu’s lips.
Seeing Qiu Yu sitting so stiffly with his hands balled tightly into fists, Mu Feibai couldn’t help but laugh. He suddenly felt that it was actually quite interesting to shoot a promotional video. The reason he always saw these sorts of processes as a waste of time must have been because his teammates were too boring.
Zhou Shu leaned over beside Mu Feibai and laughed mischievously, “Your eyes may as well be glued onto his person, is he really so good-looking?”
Mu Feibai immediately wiped off his subconscious smile and glared at Zhou Shu, “Mind your own business.”
Zhou Shu wasn’t scared of him, “Tsk tsk tsk, after finding a new interest, the old lover is now told to ‘mind his own business’. Captain, I’m so sad! How can you be like this, giving up on me after you’re bored!”
Mu Feibai scoffed, “Yo, now you’re being like this? Didn’t your nose bleed all over the floor yesterday with a single glance, huh?”
Zhou Shu: ???
“My nosebleed was because you ran into me!!!”
No matter what, his nose definitely didn’t bleed from looking at Qiu Yu’s figure! He liked big beauties that were curvy at the front and back!
Mu Feibai continued to laugh at him, “I ran into you from the back and your nose bled. Do your blood vessels work like that?”
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He tried to wrench the topic back to his home court. “Do you still remember the bet you made with Lao Zhang when we first entered the team?”
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Afterwards, he continued under his breath, “Don’t joke about everything, it’ll affect Qiu Yu.”
Seeing Mu Feibai’s serious countenance as he spoke, Zhou Shu’s smile fell and he didn’t continue to blabber.
After the team members changed into their outfits and finished their makeup, the shooting immediately began.
Mu Feibai and Zhou Shu were quite familiar with the process, and Du Chen had also experienced the shooting process as a substitute player in the Spring Season. However, it was the first time for the new member’s Lin Jinxi, Lu Cun, and Qiu Yu. It wasn’t too bad when taking photos as their poses were all planned and organised by the photographers. During the promotional photos, all they had to do was keep a straight face, there were no requirements to smile or have emotions in their eyes,so the individual and team photos took less than half an hour to complete.
However, when it came to taking a video—
“Although I am just a new member, the e-sports world doesn’t look at the past, only the future. I have the confidence to surpass my past self and bring, bring the team… to, to… victory…”
Lu Cun got stuck halfway through his script, his face flushing red. He couldn’t help grumbling under his breath, “Would this sound a bit too arrogant?”
The scriptwriter Yuan Lu sighed, “This is what’s needed for a promotional video! Of course, you need the confidence and the momentum! If you don’t even dare to say it, how are you even going to win? Just think of yourself as number one in the world, and everyone else sitting here as trash!”
Lu Cun blinked and looked towards Mu Feibai, who was seated not far behind Yuan Lu.
Everyone sitting here is… he didn’t dare to think it.
He’ll get beaten.
Lu Cun and Lin Jinxi’s videos took up an entire hour, so Yuan Lu almost sank into depression when it was Qiu Yu’s turn.
“Xiao Qiu, you need to have confidence! Bring out your strongest aura! Got it?” She waved around her fist to cheer on the only Omega on the team, “You can do it!”
Qiu Yu closed the script page on his bracelet and stood before the 360-degree virtual recording room. Without any hesitation or dithering, he raised his eyes towards the main camera and apathetically spoke:
“People don’t ask after the births of heroes. I took the first step, carving a brand new path into this e-sports world. On this path, I will bravely march forward towards victory.”
His voice was full of conviction, and his gaze steady. His emotions were very much adequate—just judging by his aura, it was hard to believe he was an Omega.
The man standing behind the camera and Yuan Lu were both stunned. It was only until Qiu Yu’s confused gaze swept towards them that Yuan Lu came back to herself, “Ah! Ah… pretty good, that’s a pass.”
Just as she finished speaking, her eyes lit up, “Ai, Xiao Qiu, you’re doing really well! Good confidence! Really really really good! That’s what it’s supposed to be like! Keep it up ok? Next segment!”
The next segment was a challenge to the opponents. Both Lin Jinxi and Lu Cun once again took a long time before they had a barely acceptable shot.
Somehow, it was like Qiu Yu had some talent in trash-talking or something. His three dialogues were recorded extremely smoothly—that tone, it was really as if he viewed his opponents like cabbages on the chopping board, for him to cut down at leisure. That look in his eyes, it was almost like he wasn’t looking at enemies, but rather a pile of bodies waiting to be slaughtered.
The cameraman looked at the seemingly frail Omega with gentle and beautiful features through the virtual camera lens and couldn’t help his throat tightening, uncontrollably swallowing.
If he were to describe it, he could only say this—this Omega has such a strong killing intent! No wonder he could become the first Omega player in the history of Century’s Finale!
Mu Feibai raised a hand to rub at his chest and smiled, his jaws tightening.
Qiu Yu’s three challenges were too provocative, such that even a bystander would uncontrollably get excited. He hated that he couldn’t drag Qiu Yu into the game immediately, right now, at this moment, and challenge him to an exhilarating fist-to-fist 1v1 match until one of them dies.
He’d gotten addicted, it was hard to bear.
As Qiu Yu walked out from the surrounding cameras, he felt a line of sight and looked back at Mu Feibai.
Does this guy… want to fight?
He was all too familiar with this kind of hot-blooded, eager gaze. When he was leading new troops in the army, there were always one or two thorny recruits who would chase him around for one-on-one fights. Even if they lost many battles, they would still continue to fight, and got more excited the more they fought.
Given Mu Feibao’s infatuation with fighting, he would probably have been the leader of those thorny recruits if he grew up in the apocalypse.
As expected, when Mu Feibai saw Qiu Yu looking back at him, he asked smilingly, “When we get back to the club… want to have a round of 1v1?”
Just as he was about to agree, Zhou Shu interrupted, “Don’t rush to get back ya, you still haven’t taken us out for dinner after losing the bet yesterday in the training match. I don’t want to let Xiao Du off… Oi, Du Chen, don’t you dare run!”
In the second round of yesterday’s training match, Du Chen made a big mistake that the coach had also raised in the post-game review.
Of course, losing a match wasn’t the responsibility of a single person, but Mu Feibai and Zhou Shu both performed well in that round. Although Lin Jinxi and Lu Cun also made quite some mistakes, they were brought over from the youth camp after all and hadn’t had enough time to get used to the team, so Mu Feibai and Zhou Shu tossed the pot of losing the game to Du Chen—only because they wanted to smooch some hotpot off him. They didn’t really pin the blame of losing on him.
After all, Du Chen had been in the team for a year and so was quite familiar with Mu Feibai and Zhou Shu’s “skills”. Despite his stinky expression, he still agreed to take everyone out for a meal.
It just so happens that everyone went out together today. The earlier he took everyone out for food, the sooner he could save his ears from Zhou Shu’s nagging.
Hence, after the shooting was completed, the Eagle Riders happily went to a hotpot store on the street adjacent to where the club was located. They brought along Yuan Lu as well in order to compensate her for all the pain she suffered earlier in the shooting studio.
After they finished eating, the sky was still bright and there was still an hour left before evening training.
So the boys who had eaten until they were stuffed decided to walk back, while Yuan Lu drove off alone.
The six boys laughed and messed around under the setting sun during the entire walk back.
As they strolled around, Zhou Shu, who was walking at the front together with Du Chen, suddenly felt something out of place.
“Hey, Captain? What’s up with you today? Do you not feel like training?” He asked with a strange smile, “I was just thinking how it’s not as noisy as it used to be, turns out you somehow walked to the back of the group. What’s wrong, you wanna leave us behind?”
Zhou Shi’a gaze kept flitting to Qiu Yu as though he was asking: Did you fall behind to make it easier to look after Qiu Yu?
Mu Feibai calmly looked towards Zhou Shu, “You manage people more than the traffic rules. I’ll walk wherever I want to.”
As the two started to bicker, Qiu Yu subconsciously took notice of his surroundings and a thought floated to the top of his mind—this was a protective formation.
Du Chen and Zhou Shu walked at the very front, to his left, closest to the building walls was Lu Cun, and to his right, closest to the road lanes was Lin Jinxi. At his back was the strongest fighter in the team, Mu Feibai. If there really happened to bea malicious attack, his position would be the safest from any direction.
Qiu Yu’s footsteps paused, turning around.
As expected, Mu Feibai didn’t continue to walk forward around him, but rather stopped together with him. After a momentary pause, he raised an eyebrow. “You also don’t feel like training today?”
Qiu Yu’s smile faded. He spoke in a lowered tone, “You don’t have to protect me so carefully like this.”
Mu Feibai quietly tsked and nodded towards the group, “Let’s go quickly so we don’t delay training.”
He didn’t laughingly talk nonsense—it seemed that his intention was seen through, but he didn’t want to admit the reason he was walking at the back.
Qiu Yu didn’t expect that just after saying he didn’t need protecting, he would be slapped in the face by those very words the moment they turned the corner.
They saw a well-built man standing outside the gates to the Eagle Riders club, seemingly arguing about something with the management. Seeing Qiu Yu’s group approach, his expression immediately changed and he rushed towards them in big strides. He bypassed the surprised Zhou Shu and Du Chen to grip Qiu Yu’s forearms—
“Xiao Yu! How can you wear this outside? Where’s your neck guard?”
T/n: Happy Easter everyone!
Ok who is this person and where is my baseball bat?
It’s the guy that was using Qiu Yu from the beginning! I’ll happily take my bat out too! (
⌒*)O-(⌒´Q)Wait a minute i will bring my kitchen knife 🔪
Imma go get my wok then
It seems like we’ll all bring out weapons for this scum (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
Nothing can go wrong with a good ol’ pair of slippers
Where’s the front guard action?
I have a bomb with that bitchass’ name on it 😡
I find it so mice that Mu Feibai just REALLY wants to fight with Qiu Yu as his way of being interested in him 🤣
It’s definitely the guy that past qiu is interested with…. I hope someday xiao qiu could fight in the real world the same as in the virtual world
What happened to the protective formation? J*rk just blew through the front guards… wha? Is this now Ev1 intruder? Fighting!! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️⚔️
Oh dear, not good!!!!!😅
Punch him!! Say it was an instinctive reaction! Though it’d be good if the “white moonlight” mess could get cleared up now, the scumbag should get thoroughly publicly rejected. I do love that Qiu Yu looks at Mu Feibai and thinks “ah, baby rookie wants to fight, I understand” it’s a 10/10 place for a relationship to start
Thank you so much for translating! <3
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
👀👀 I can’t wait for next chapter to see the whole group rush to protect him, let’s goooo
+1 patiently imagines what the next chapter will be QAQ Let’s goooo!
Oh lord, (takes off shoes) I’m ready!!!
Yeah, the dude just straight up grabbed mc… an over-the-shoulder throw is pretty much a well deserved punishment for his unruly hands.
Also, i’m sure Qui Yu’s instincts will be online once he recognizes the dude as a threat, if he is one.
Omg is this the original’s white moonlight?
adzuki beanpaste is reddish brown color, anywhere from a burnt sienna hue (#722204) to a brownie hue (#5e1b17), so perhaps a sienna toned lipstick?