“What are you thinking about?” Seeing Yu Qinghuan staying silent, Ren Jian nudged the dazed man with his elbow.
“Huh…” Yu Qinghuan came back to his senses and said with a light smile, “Nothing, your mother is very kind.”
“Well, all right, time to go back upstairs.” Ren Jian turned around and went back.
But Yu Qinghuan said, “I am not going back with you. I have to go visit my dad at the hospital.”
Ren Jian paused his step, felt a sudden surge of inexplicable displeasure inside, as if on a hot, unbearable summer day, he took a bite of the ice cream in his hand, but before he could swallow the bite of the cold and sweet ice cream, the scoop of ice cream dropped to the ground. A gloom that he could not find the fault of.
Yu Qinghuan continued, “But because my clothes are not dry yet, I will have to borrow your clothes that I am wearing for now. I will come and pick up my clothes later this evening. I hope that is not too much trouble.”
Oh, you still have to come back.
The gloom was gone instantly, as Ren Jian replied, “Sure.”
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After bidding goodbye to Ren Jian, Yu Qinghuan rushed to the hospital. The young nurse saw him and greeted him with a smile, “Xiao Yu, you are here again. Eh, your outfit today looks good, but they also look big on you.”
Yu Qinghuan nodded in embarrassment. “They are a friend’s.”
After having a pleasantly short conversation with the young nurse, Yu Qinghuan came to the ward and said to Papa Yu, “Dad, let’s go. I will take you to eat noodles.”
“Huh? What kind of noodles?” Papa Yu had forgotten everything he said last night after one night.
“Carb mustard noodles.”
After getting the hospital’s permission, Yu Qinghuan took Papa Yu to an upscale restaurant with a quiet environment, and ordered two extravagant bowls of crab mustard noodles.
Papa Yu was so hungry that he wolfed down the noodles with his chopsticks.
Yu Qinghuan laughed and advised, “Dad, slow down, there is no need to rush.”
“Mhmm.” Papa Yu stammered in reply with a mouth full of noodles.
“Dad, today is my birthday.” Yu Qinghuan shared.
“Mm-hmm.” Papa Yu focused on his bowl, slurping his noodles and showing no reaction.
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In this meal, the pair of father and son ate their fill and soon their stomachs were round and happy.
Yu Qinghuan got up and went to the front desk to pay the bill, then he suddenly thought of something and said to the waiter, “One takeout of the crab mustard noodles please.”
They quickly completed the order and Yu Qinghuan sent Papa Yu back to the hospital. After confirming with the hospital that there was nothing pending on his side, he set off to Ren Jian’s home.
Wearing his headphones, Ren Jian was duoing with Gu Zhixiao. “Come with me, top is alone.”
Gu Zhixiao checked the mini map and laughed out loud. “Ren-ge, there are three top.”
“So?”
“You called this ‘top is alone’?”
Ren Jian glanced at the items and level between both parties and uttered lazily, “Yeah.”
“Fucking awesome, Ren-ge, let’s go!”
Gu Zhixiao moved in by himself, used his ultimate and firmly caught the three enemies, shouting, “I cc’ed them.”
Then he died.
Gu Zhixiao: “…”
He searched for his jungler. Not only did Ren Jian not follow him, he found a safe place to hide, baiting Gu Zhixiao directly.
“What the fuck?! Ren Jian, where the fuck did you ran off to?”
There was no answer coming from his headphones.
Ren Jian went to open the door.
Yu Qinghuan stood at the door, holding up the container with crab mustard noodles and asking with a smile, “Have you eaten yet?”
Ren Jian replied, “Not yet.”
Yu Qinghuan sighed, “Good, this noodle is delicious. Let me use your kitchen, I will warm it up for you.”
“Go ahead.” Ren Jian’s eyes curved into two crescent moons, and his tone rose.
Watching Yu Qinghuan walk into the kitchen, Ren Jian went back to his computer, put on his headphones, and was not surprised to hear Gu Zhixiao incessant chatter about baiting him. Ren Jian stated, “Let’s end the game quickly, I am going to eat.”
Gu Zhixiao huffed, “??? There was no concept of sleep and sleep in esports! What the hell do you plan to eat!”
Ren Jian camped in the bush, pinged ‘On My Way’, before diving into the enemy’s backline, killing their mid laner. “Going to eat noodles.”
“No one asked what you’re eating!!!” Although Gu Zhixiao was spilling nothing but complaints, he closely followed Ren Jian’s rhythm, and beautifully locked down the enemy ADC and support with his area of effect crowd control. Ren Jian instantly unleashed his skills in the fight and decisively got a Double Kill.
“You asked earlier. Gu Zhixiao, you should buy some walnuts to improve your intelligence.” Ren Jian suggested.
Gu Zhixiao: “…”
With the enemy core members added into Ren Jian’s kill count, the remaining two players could not hold, and soon, their base and the crystal were destroyed in a single push.
Ren Jian took off the headphones emitting with nothing but Gu Zhixiao’s swearing voice, closed the client and walked out of his study.
Yu Qinghuan just finished warming the noodles as well. He brought them out of the kitchen and placed the dish on the table. “The noodles clumped together a little bit. See if you can separate them by stirring. Try it, this crab mustard noodle is super yummy.”
“Hmm.” Ren Jian wordlessly replied, but instead of taking his seat at the table, he took a detour to the fridge, opened the door and brought out something.
The moment Yu Qinghuan saw what Ren Jian took out from the fridge, his eyes widened.
Ren Jian he…
He took out a box of birthday cake.
Ren Jian put the cake on the table and pushed it towards Yu Qinghuan. “You dropped your ID the night you were drunk. I learned today is your birthday from seeing your date of birth by chance when I went to pick your ID up. So I bought you a cake, without knowing what you like. Nonetheless, happy birthday.”
Dedicated to the faraway past, the first tears of stepping into the unknown territory of life.
Dedicated to how no one knows, the arbitrariness of the original plan of eating a bowl of noodles.
Dedicated to the arrival of warmth, the simple yet heartwarming ‘happy birthday’.
“Tha-thank you…” Yu Qinghuan choked up a little, and afraid of looking like a joke to Ren Jian, he lowered his head and murmured, “Go eat your noodles.”
“Okay.” Ren Jian actually picked up the subtle change in Yu Qinghuan’s mood but did not go probing. He sat down at the table, picked up a mouthful of crab mustard noodles with his chopstick, and intentionally started a casual conversation, “Yes, this is good. What is the restaurant’s name? I will take my parents there next time.”
After Yu Qinghuan gave the address, there was a brief silence between them.
Yu Qinghuan was quietly recovering from the sudden embarrassment, while Ren Jian was waiting for Yu Qinghuan to get his bewilderment under control.
As Ren Jian was focusing on eating the noodles, he heard Yu Qinghuan ask, “Were you training just now?”
“Yes.” Ren Jian looked up. “It is not really training, more of a fun match.”
“Oh.” Yu Qinghuan responded thoughtfully.
Ren Jian swallowed the food in his mouth, wiped his lips with a napkin, and then began, “So, to bring up the old matter of discussion, would you like to come back and play professionally?”
This time, Yu Qinghuan did not deliberately avoid the question. He raised his gaze to meet Ren Jian’s. In the depth of his calm eyes, he was confused and curious. “Ren Jian.”
“Yes?” This was the first time Yu Qinghuan called his name, Ren Jian was unconsciously startled.
Yu Qinghuan kept their eye contact and asked the next question softly.
“Why are you so insistent on me coming back to competitive esports?”
The translator has something to say:
Teo: Many thanks to GRain for helping me out with the passage below.
致遙遠時光，踏入未知人生的第一次啼哭。
Dedicated to the faraway past, the first tears of stepping into the unknown territory of life.
致無人知曉，原本只打算吃一碗麵的隨意。
Dedicated to how no one knows, the arbitrariness of the original plan of eating a bowl of noodles.
致溫暖而至，簡單卻扣人心扉的生日快樂。
Dedicated to the arrival of warmth, the simple yet heartwarming ‘happy birthday’.
Oh! Theo! Thanks for the chapter. Im too a little sour. It was a beautiful passage.
So sweet! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🎂
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Thank You for the new chapter ♡(ŐωŐ人)
Oh, so sweet!!!!!! Thank you for your translation 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
Thanks for the chapter ❤️❤️
thank you for the chapter!
I went to check Wine and Gun. Although I’m a wimp at bloody, killing, violent scenes even when written I will still try for the smut and bl, especially since it’s a rare switch 😂 the summary totally hooked me so I’ll read it after finishing this story