I brought about eleven chips today, two goes for my sis. So I got nine.
When I was eating the fourth one, I decided to give one chip to my sis out of good will, when she took a bite, she said "This is spoiled!" And I berated her, "There's no way this is spoiled!-" I checked the expiration date... It was 13 oct 2018... I gasped, "It's expired." My sis, "What?!" Shows her the expiration date My sis: "I was just kidding!" She proceeded to laugh while finishing the rest of the chips... There are two expired bags... She also ate the second one because she's hungry, despite all my warning and scolding... So... I got seven and she got four.. Pray for her to not getting sick and end up in a hospital, that crazy b*tch XD
Also guys... Let me said it here too. I absolutely dislike reviews like "Next chapter please." "More please" "Where's the next chapter?" PLEASE please stop it. Why? It killed my muses. When I write and post my work, I was hoping to see your reaction, your opinion. THAT really matters to me, to writers in general.
When you commented things like I mentioned, it killed my enthusiasm to continue writing. It's dangerous. Truly. I get it that you guys are excited but please understand the author... Don't urge them. Don't urge me.
"Yes... Yes, Third Ye... It was only a normal post... I don't know how they could interpret it that far Ah San... Ha... Alright, alright, just leave it to me," Big Ye turned off his phone, cutting off Ye Xiu's yell of 'I don't trust you!' and turned to Second Ye.
"What's wrong with Ah San, he sounded pissed," Second Ye asked nonchalantly.
"Apparently the both of us are married now in the eyes of netizens," Big Ye shrugged nonchalantly as if that was a usual everyday occurrence.
Second Ye, however, perked up in horror, "We are what? How could we be married- wait, did you post something weird in Weibo?" Second Ye glared.
"I was only posting the picture of our hands."
"Wearing the rings?" Second Ye hissed.
"Yes," Big Ye nodded, again, Second Ye is extremely pissed at his nonchalant attitude... Is this how the others felt whenever he acted nonchalant? It sure is annoying, Second Ye should do that more often in his own timeline later.
"Do something about that! We're doing fine right now because Ye Qiu is in a jet to somewhere, when he knew he would call us nonstop!"
"Calm down, Feng'er. Ye Qiu is our twin, he will understand our circumstance."
"Well I don't want to be stamped as married!"
The two ignored how ambiguous their conversation is, or how the taxi driver looked mortified at the content of their conversation.
Aiya, this world is getting crazier day by day, ah! This two are certainly brothers but talking about marriage!
The Taxi driver shook his head, young people nowadays are lacking the parents' guidance. He'll make sure to guide his son and daughter properly in the future, so something so scandalous like this won't happen to his family.
Ye Qiu V: I'm not married. Stop saying otherwise, don't you know someone at home kept nagging me because of this?
Huang Shaotian V: First!
Huang Shaotian V: Anyways. And who is this 'someone at home'. Why are they nagging you, are you involved in some kind other relationship close to marriage- why didn't you tell me?! Doesn't our friendship count to something?! If you're getting married it's fine, ah! I'm giving you blessing. Blessing blessing blessing blessing! I just hope the new sister in-law (or brother in-law, lol) could stand you enough to last for a lifetime.
Han Wenqing V: Explain the rings.
Chu Yunxiu V: Aiya, Senior Han is so domineering ah! But senior Ye, I believe you if you tell me it was a misunderstanding.
Dai Yanqi V: The ships haven't sank yet!
Fang Rui V: You mean you're making everyone emotional for nothing?! My hand was almost broken for the sake of copy-pasting the link to Glory's Sorrowful Anthem to everyone and you're telling me all of those are for nothing?! Nah, I'm lying, lol! This is fun.
Yang Cong V: And suddenly, he's not married anymore.
Wang Jiexi V: A beautiful misunderstanding. Now, I hope everyone learned to not easily making a fuss over nothing.
Li Xuan V: You know what I love from this post? The fact that the first responses come from pros... A proof that everyone was desperately waiting for an update.
Xiao Shiqin V: You're guilty too Li Xuan V
Wu Yuce V: Yes, he even officially stopped the training all just for the sake of keep refreshing Senior Ye's weibo. Can we continue training now, captain?
Li Xuan V: Aiya, it was only for a little while, ah!
Zheng Yuan V: Huang Shaotian, I can understand... But Senior Han was the second to respond... Does that mean...?
Yu Feng V: Tact! Zheng Yuan, do you know what TACT is?! Delete that!
Yu Wenzhou V: I see so that's a misunderstanding. It was indeed our fault for judging too early.
Li Xun V: GUYS! I FOUND A LOOPHOLE IN SENIOR YE'S WORDS! HE'S NOT MARRIED BUT WHO KNOWS IF HE'S "GETTING" MARRIED?! GETTING MARRIED IS NOT THE SAME AS "MARRIED"!
Huang Shaotian V: THE CAPS!
Huang Shaotian V: And, OMG YOU'RE RIGHT! Ye Qiu V Ye Qiu V Ye Qiu V Ye Qiu V Ye Qiu V Ye Qiu V Ye Qiu V Ye Qiu V Ye Qiu V Ye Qiu V Ye Qiu V Ye Qiu V Ye Qiu V Ye Qiu V Ye Qiu V Ye Qiu V Ye Qiu V Ye Qiu V Ye Qiu V Ye Qiu V Ye Qiu V Ye Qiu V
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Ye Qiu V: You guys are as stubborn as my dungeon record. No. I'm not married. I'm not getting married.
"It's a mess isn't it?" Fourth Ye said blandly. "You should see how Excellent Dynasty practically changed their whole theme to be red to celebrate your supposed wedding. They kept throwing my Lord Grim some wedding bouquet."
"I know, Fourth Ye. My Lord Grim too," Ye Xiu said with bored but mildly annoyed tone.
"I mean, it's not so bad, third brother..." Fourth Ye said and looked at Ye Xiu, puffing out a cloud of smoke, "Our income certainly improved dramatically," those wedding bouquets are no joke, one bouquet alone is equal to some level 50 purple weapon in price. He's certainly not complaining.
Ye Xiu sighed, he couldn't help but agree with his younger self... "Wait, why are you online in your Lord Grim?" Ye Xiu asked sharply, wasn't Fourth Ye ordered to train their Cleric and play Unrivalled Super Hottie?
Fourth Ye couldn't help but grin sheepishly, he did not need to say anything as Ye Xiu already knew enough how his mind's wired, "You little fox," Ye Xiu sighed helplessly.
"Third Ye, do you know why Excellent Dynasty in the tenth server is going by red wedding theme?" Fifth Ye asked as he put off his earphone. Ye Xiu sighed exasperatedly.
"I wonder if Blue Brook would do the same if I told them I'm getting married?" Wei Chen wondered as he jealously looked at the two Lord Grims' loot.
"It would be a fortune that they actually remember you. Moreover, wedding gifts are based by the character of the receiver, if you're getting married, you'll get a lot of curses from your monastery of a team and trashtalks from the rest of the fans," Fourth Ye was quick to trashtalk towards Wei Chen who fumed at him.
"Going by that, others should have given you trashes since you're worse than I am!"
"Even if that's the case, I still have three championships under my belt," Ye Xiu interjected, not denying.
"Old Wei get burned," Little Ye stated with a happy tone and expressionless face. Wei Chen rolled his eyes, not about getting in an argument with a brat still reeked of his mother's milk.
"Third Ye, seriously, at this rate, I'm afraid Glory would actually make it an event as a way to give respect to its three-times champion getting married," Fifth Ye said seriously.
"Calm down, Big Ye already stated in the Weibo that we're not getting married," Ye Xiu comforted.
Fourth Ye chuckled, "If it was Old Wei who got married, Glory would probably made an igniting-candle event to pray for the bride."
Wei Chen coughed, "Brat! Ye Xiu control your damn younger brother!"
"Boss Wei is the bride?" taking off his earphone, Bun blinked, getting a messed-up understanding of Fourth Ye's words. All the Ye's covered their mouths and snorted discreetly.
"Yeah, what make sure it won't be Old Wei who becomes the bride, Fourth brother?" Fifth Ye snickered.
"Damn you, you're the bride! Your whole family is a bride!" Wei Chen cursed.
"Are you sure about this, Nightmare Boss?" Wei Chen said solemnly to Big Ye.
"It's always up to you, Old Wei. It's supposedly to happen, and fate is a funny thing, even if change the event for a bit, the plot of fate will still continue on mending itself," Big Ye said casually as he smoked.
"But you said my research guaranteed an easy win to Samsara?" Wei Chen frowned, no matter what, the final teams are Samsara and Blue Rain. One is simply desperate for victory and also very rich, whilst the other is his old team...
"If you're asking me..." Second Ye interjected, "Blue Rain's loss is inevitable. Moreover, the advantage of your skill books research will only work in this season, the next season there will be a grand upgrade to Glory."
Wei Chen and Ye Xiu exchanged a complicated glance, no matter what, that kind of bomb will still surprise them in this kind of situation. In the end, Ye Xiu shrugged, "It's up to you Old Wei, it's your work anyways, though, I have to say we should rip benefit from it as much as we could, in the next season it will be useless, it'd be for your own good too."
Wei Chen sighed and ran his fingers through his hair, "Fine, I'll leave it to you guys."
Big Ye and Second Ye exchanged a glance and smiled, "Ah San, it will be up to you now," Big Ye said and pulled out a bullet train ticket out of nowhere.
Ye Xiu calmly puffed out a cloud of smoke, "It's all up to me, so I'll make the decisions, is that okay?"
Wei Chen nodded, "I trust you wouldn't disappoint me in this kind of serious thing, no matter how shameless you are."
When Ye Xiu was about to leave Samsara's building, he suddenly got a phone call from Big Ye. Because of how it'll be hard to communicate when they're outside, Big Ye decided to buy another phone for them, in all the Ye Xiu's household, there are only two phones, one is with Big Ye, while another one is for whoever wanted to go outside, usually used when someone want to order food from the one who is outside.
Ye Xiu calmly picked it up, "Hello?"
"Little Three, you're still in S City right? How was the transaction? Did you get the twenty millions and some materials?"
Ye Xiu blinked, "You already knew what happened, what's the need to ask?"
"Who knows with our presence here, you forgot to."
"I-"
"Okay, since you did it splendidly, I'm not worried. You're in S City right? Can you buy us something?"
"What is it?"
"Well, not much. Nanxiang Steamed Buns, Fried Pork Buns,D Restaurant's Peking Duck, X Restaurant's Beggar Chicken, Some sweet osmanthus, XJ's restaurant's Steamed Crab is good too."
"You're saying not much, but you're listing almost all the famous things," Ye Xiu sighed helplessly. "It won't be that delicious by the time I reached home." Without Ye Xiu's notice, Zhou Zekai was actually wanted to walk pass by but stopped when he recognized Ye Xiu near the main lobby.
"It still will, use Old Wei's money first, he agreed for some food. I'll pay him back later."
"Okay, okay, I'll be back tonight. Don't expect me to bring all of them though."
"You can do it, Ah San. Be careful on your way home."
"Yes," Ye Xiu calmly replied and cut off the line. Seeing Ye Xiu finished his phone call, Zhou Zekai decided to approach.
"Senior..." The One Man Team greeted and Ye Xiu was surprised to see Zhou Zekai.
"Little Zhou, we met again. How long since you stood there?" Ye Xiu asked curiously.
Zhou Zekai shook his head, "Not long..." He looked down on Ye Xiu's hand and opened is mouth again, "Phone?" he tilted his head in askance.
Ye Xiu looked down to the phone in his hand and nodded, "Yeah, I just finished a phone call."
Zhou Zekai's expression tighten slightly and he shifted on his feet, Ye Xiu raised his brows, "What's wrong?"
"Zhou meant, you got yourself a phone, God Ye?" Suddenly from behind them both Jiang Botao appeared and spoke up. He was also just passing by when he heard Zhou Zekai's one-word line and couldn't resist translating it when he heard Ye Xiu didn't get it.
"Oh, yeah, it's pretty handy to stay in contact with the people at home to make sure no troubles come," Ye Xiu shrugged and simply said.
"It's a surprise, God Ye never had any phone while still in the Alliance, the only way to contact you is through QQ or Miss Su," Jiang Botao smiled and said.
"It was a hassle, it still is," If only he didn't bring it, he won't be stuck with the duty to buy food to feed those helpless chicks at home.
Zhou Zekai suddenly took out his own phone, "Number?" He asked.
"You want my phone number?" Ye Xiu raised his brows and Zhou Zekai happily nodded. Ye Xiu opened his phone, "Alright," Ye Xiu recited the phone's number and Zhou Zekai eagerly put it into his phone.
"Umn," Zhou Zekai nodded and saved Ye Xiu's number. After that, he intentionally pushed 'Call'.
Ye Xiu's phone rang and he furrowed his brows, looking at the screen he didn't recognize the number, "Little Zhou?" Ye Xiu looked at Zhou Zekai.
"Trial," Zhou Zekai said simply.
Ye Xiu smiled exasperatedly, "Alright, I'll save your number too. I need to go now, see you later."
Zhou Zekai nodded, "See you..."
When Ye Xiu already disappeared through the exit, Jiang Botao looked at his captain and proudly patted his shoulder, "Good work, captain. At least you got his phone number," Even though Jiang Botao is not sure that Zhou Zekai would even use it...
Unknown to Jiang Botao, there would be many instances that Zhou Zekai accidentally called the number in the future, and whenever he called, it was never the Ye Xiu, who gave him the number, who picked it up...
"Ah Wu, When will you be in the Heavenly Domain?" Ye Xiu asked the second youngest. The situation within their team is already very good. Soft Mist and Steamed Bun Invasion managed to get into the Heavenly Domain, but the only one who's left is their main Cleric, Cloudy Autumn Sky.
"I... Will be there, shortly," Fifth Ye answered difficultly.
"What? You can't finish the Holy Heavenly Challenge?" Heavenly Challenge was split into two, one is for a fighter alone, while another is for the healers. If Glory insisted on fighting to get into the Heavenly Domain, the headquarter would be burned down with Sacred Fire by the Healer Classes.
"It's your fault in the first place, Soft Mist and Steamed Bun Invasion already started their Heavenly Challenge before I even thought of doing it," Fifth Ye furrowed his brows. To maintain the fairness, Healer classes would also have a fighting challenge, but also could get an outside help. The outside help must be done by a character who never ever did a Heavenly Challenge, it was only three fights which needed outside help but still...
"What, you need help?"
"... If you're offering..." Fifth Ye shamelessly trailed off.
Second Ye snorted, "Why can't you do it alone?"
"..." Fifth Ye started to think that rejoining Blue Brook might not be bad, he could ask Blue River to assist him, his 'family' can't be trusted.
"What are you doing here?" Fifth ye blinked as he heard voice speaking to him and directed his vision to see a Striker stood behind him.
"Lamenting my fate," Fifth Ye bluntly said. Cloudy Autumn Sky is currently standing before the place to take the Heavenly Challenge quest, not sure to take or not to take.
"You're already in max level?" The Striker, Dusty Smoke, asked.
"No," Fifth Ye answered simply.
"Then why are you here?"
"Can a Cleric lament his fate here? I want to take the Challenge but have no partner, happy?" Fifth Ye grumbled. The more he played Cleric, the less he actually feel patient and pure.
"Are you sure? Aside for fights with partner, later on you will also need to take the Healer Class' tests alone..."
"You sound so knowledgeable, have you ever did this before?" Fifth Ye raised his brows.
"I have... For a friend," Dusty Smoke answered.
"Then, help me."
"Excuse me?"
"You said you did it once, right? Help me, I'll give you this level 60 orange Boxing Gloves?" Chaos Theory's guild resource is pretty huge now, this Boxing Gloves is a thing that they got when they fought a Wild Boss last week.
Dusty Smoke seemed dumbfounded but he spoke up again, "Alright, but if you fail even once in assisting me, no matter what, I won't help you again."
"As long as you're half-capable, I can make you a winner," Fifth Ye said in shameless arrogance as he invited Dusty Smoke to party with him.
"What use of big words, I'll see how you do it," Dusty Smoke accepted the party request. Soon, both avatars disappeared into the light.
"What are you doing guarding our door? I'm asking you to guard the door in the game!" Ye Xiu speechlessly exclaimed and he could hear Tang Rou and Little Ye laughed hysterically.
"Bun guarded your door instead?" Tang Rou asked in between laughter and Little Ye confirmed it to her, earning another fit of graceful laughter,
"This was a grave mistake on your part," Wei Chen said solemnly as he died yet again in the wild war between Blue Rain and Samsara.
"Start attacking, gather in the group, those who are not in a group don't cluster around, don't stand loosely, cover some more! Open up your eyes, the Character is a Ninja, his ID is Deception, his strong point is being shameless. Very shameless!" Ye Xiu ordered his troops, he's actually not really in a hurry as he got his own personal high-level helps waiting in the back.
"Okay, guys. Today is the day, we'll have to deceive Deception to join our team, again," Second Ye didn't even use pleasantries such as 'convince' or 'coax'.
"What do we do if he didn't want to join again?" Little Ye asked calmly as One-Inch Love is already standing in an easy route to run after Deception. Whichever route he took, One-Inch Love just needed a slight tilt and jump to chase.
"Well, we just have to try again, eventually he will join."
"He's in my route," Fourth Ye said to inform the others and everyone quickly jumped into action, of course, with the existence of Ye Xiu's troops, they didn't need to do much aside for preventing Deception to go too far as that would be a waste of time.
Deception stopped short when he saw the Umbrella-wielding avatar in front of him, "Why are you here?!" he exclaimed.
Fourth Ye did not bother to talk to him as Deception quickly found himself to be attacked by a barrage of bullets. Deception cursed his luck and do a quick maneuver to escape from the attack range, surprisingly for him, Lord Grim didn't move and he managed to escape, Just when he thought everything it was too easy, he was greeted by a light Chaser.
"You?!" Deception gritted his teeth. Out of all his pursuers, the one he hated the most is the Battlemage before him.
Sad Autumn Night twirled his silver Spear in his hands, the same Silver Spear that Deception eyed... Ai, he was a bit too greedy back then, who knows even with a sliver of health Sad Autumn Night could still deal with him and even kept his grudge for so long?
"We met again you shameless scrap-picker," Second Ye mocked with an even tone.
"I don't want to hear that from you!" Deception yelled, who knows how many times he had been killed by this guy? He even knew his alt accounts, and every time Deception died and drop an equipment, he'd took it, no matter how much of a trash it was.
"I believe you got a thing that our friend needs," Second Ye ignored his plight and activated his Chasers again, the visual of the raven-haired Battlemage with seven Chasers behind him and silver weapon in hands is really divine. As expected of those who bear the charisma of a God-level player.
But Deception has no desire to marvel over how great the visual is, he quickly ran to another direction with Sad Autumn Night in tow, however, it's not Ye Xiu if he couldn't even deal with this. With a terrifying timing and accuracy, Second Ye used circle swing throw Deception away.
Deception was originally happy, the further he was from that lunatic, the happier he was, only he suddenly found out that it might not be the case. Second Ye tossed him to the upcoming troops with Lord Grim as the leader. In a moment to make a decision, Deception quickly threw Smoke Bomb.
Waiting for a while, he quickly jumped to one direction-
*Whooosh*
Deception felt a cold sweat on his back as a missile missed him, what the hell was that? Why is that guy's accuracy so frightening?! This couldn't happen, he needed to get out of duel mode and log off immediately.
"After him!" Ye Xiu ordered. "Steamed Bun, go with Little Tang and help me stop this Deception guy."
"Okay!" Steamed Bun told Tang Rou about the order via whisper and quickly ran to the coordinate himself.
When Deception is in the run, he suddenly sees a female Battlemage with mismatched equipment running towards him. As it turned out, Tang Rou was closer to the target, she wasted no time in swinging her Battle Spear valiantly, thinking it will be another easy duel, but to her surprise, Deception jumped over her attack as like nothing.
But how could the valiant Tang Rou let it be? She quickly turned around and swing upwards, the two avatars immediately engaged in an intense fight with Soft Mist intensely attacking and Deception intensely dodging and trying to escape.
A Sword light appeared from above and flashed down, but Soft Mist wasn't hurt and it was only Deception who got knocked back, "We're capturing him alive, Jie-jie," One-Inch Love appeared and said to Tang Rou who simply answered with an "En," before attacking the Ninja again.
Soon, Deception found himself dealing with two madmen who used low-level skill to keep him back, but not killing him at the same time, he used Shadow Clone to get away from their bombarding attacks but when he just teleported a brick hit him square in the back of his head accompanied by a Sand Toss afterwards which make him blinded.
God, just what deity he offended to get him in this situation?
When Sad Autumn Night was transferred into the Heavenly Domain, he's transferred right in the middle of what seemed like war, luckily, he was on the edge of battlefield so it was easy for him to quickly evacuate himself to the milder area.
"What's happening?" Fifth Ye was too focused in his own business to get into the Heavenly Domain. He knew that there some disagreement between the fans of Blue Rain and Samsara because of the result, but he didn't know it was actually this chaotic... Moreover, he didn't know where his character's 'brothers' are.
The First Cleric's entrance from tenth server went on unnoticed by the war, but Fifth Ye didn't care, he even thought that it was convenient that way. Checking Little Ye's computer to see where he is, Fifth Ye decided to not go there, he wasn't about to be involved in a deadly hunt of many monster-like players against one little Ninja.
He plans to check out the war to see if there's any Cleric who died and leave behind good stuffs, but when he was about to move he was suddenly surrounded by many avatars with Tyrannical Ambition's guild tag.
"This place is dangerous for a lone Cleric, you should come with us, we'll escort you to the safe area," a Striker who seemed like their leader said to Cloudy Autumn Sky.
The golden-haired Cleric stopped moving altogether, Huh? "Uhh, No thank you," Fifth Ye said carefully. Fuck, in his entire time playing Glory he never felt this screwed, a hopeless Cleric without any fighter by his side, surrounded by fighters from an enemy guild.
"Don't be like that, we only want to help."
In the end, Fifth Ye gave up, the other side is too strong, ah. In fact, if they want to kill him, they could do so, Cloudy Autumn Sky is only at level 69, with blue equips level 65. Fifth Ye decided to gamble and just follow them, even if he's killed, he still could accuse the other side for being shameless and get his revenge later on.
"Thank you for your help, senior," Song Qiying thanked politely via phone call.
"That wasn't a problem Little Song, though I have to wonder why you're helping Cloudy Autumn Sky, he's often seen playing with Lord Grim's party... And Lord Grim was suspected to be Ye Qiu," The guild leader of Tyrannical Ambition, Jiang You said.
Song Qiying smiled, "I just want to show some appreciation as well a thank you, I'm not one to be in a debt," he explained easily.
"Ah, that's okay, then. Call us again if you need anything!"
"Thank you, senior."
"No need to be so polite, you're our Tyranny's future. Alright, let's cut it short here, goodbye."
"Goodbye," Song Qiying turn off his phone and stared at his screen, the level 65 orange Boxing Gloves in his inventory become the center of his attention for a while before he decisively logged out of Dusty Smoke.
Zhou Zekai is in a dilemma as he stared on his phone, the championship has just ended, Zhou Zekai had made some excuses to be alone. He initially wanted to send his first message to Ye Qiu about his victory, and maybe affectionately thanked the senior player for the Skill Books secret along with several praises about how Zhou Zekai wouldn't be able to do it without Ye Qiu...
Imagination is beautiful, but as expected those things are impossible for Zhou Zekai. His beautiful fingers just suspended over his phone, unable to even type a complete sentence. Zhou Zekai wanted to give up, but this is simply a perfect moment for First Message, his first message need to be something great, if he lost this chance he'll have to wait for an entire year and try win another championship for another chance for grand first message.
"Is that Old Ye's name in the addressee?" An incredulous voice made Zhou Zekai jumped in shock, and if Zhou Zekai is any less than a shy gentleman he is he would have cursed outloud. Zhou Zekai snapped his eyes to look at the losing team's ace, Huang Shaotian. On closer look, Zhou Zekai noticed how Huang Shaotian's hair is damp and there's a bathroom nearby...
Huang Shaotian looked at the tense Zhou Zekai with disguised hostility and blunt suspicion, he was trying to calm himself and wanted some time alone from his team. He had thought hiding in the bathroom is the best choice, he also could use some water to cool him down, but upon coming out he was only greeted by his least favorite player. Huang Shaotian had no desire to chat with Zhou Zekai but accidentally glimpsed Ye Qiu's name on Zhou Zekai's phone.
Zhou Zekai nervously fiddled with his phone, but ultimately couldn't stand under Huang Shaotian's interrogating stare and could only meekly nodded in confirmation.
"You have his number? That shameless guy got himself a phone? Why do you have his number? You met him somewhere? When did he get a phone? How did he get a phone? Why haven't I heard about this? What are you trying to do? Are you texting him? Is he replying?" Huang Shaotian proceeded to shoot a barrage of questions to Zhou Zekai sharply.
Zhou Zekai didn't know how to answer those questions with an average of three words, so he only shook his head to show that he's overwhelmed but Huang Shaotian is having none of it. Huang Shaotian is pissed, okay? Losing so early is already a humiliation in the first place, now Zhou Zekai has Ye Qiu's number. Did heaven really unfair and only partial towards face?
"How did you get his number?" Huang Shaotian said, this won't do, Ye Qiu is not someone who carelessly spread his number, Su Mucheng, who is practically Ye Qiu's secretary, also was not someone who like to divulge Ye Qiu's information unless really needed. There's only one possibility on why Zhou Zekai has the number, Zhou Zekai met with Ye Qiu.
Zhou Zekai scratched his cheek awkwardly, "Met him..."
Motherfucker, he was right! Huang Shaotian was about to say something when someone ran up to them, it was Jiang Botao.
"Zhou, we were searching for you- oh, hello Senior Huang," Jiang Botao greeted Huang Shaotian with a smile.
Having lost his momentum, Huang Shaotian waved his hand carelessly, "I'll leave you guys to your own device, congrats on winning," Huang Shaotian said half-heartedly and turned around, walking off. He has a more important thing to do than chatter with them, like interrogating a certain shameless god via QQ for example.
"Thank you," Jiang Botao said politely and looked at Zhou Zekai, "You're okay? Did you finish your business?"
"En," Zhou Zekai reluctantly nodded and slipped his phone into his pocket, He'll just message Ye Qiu when the team done celebrating.
"And then, perhaps we should destroy the kitchen," Big Ye said as he pointed at a blueprint on the coffee table.
"Shouldn't we just rebuild the garage?" Second Ye asked.
"Bold of you to assume we won't be getting any car," Big Ye raised his brows.
"Cool, let's have two," Wei Chen laughingly said.
"Okay, so not the garage, but what about-"
*Ding dong!* *Ding-dong* *Ding dong*
Everyone paused to blankly stared at the door before sharing a look, "Does anyone ordered a take-out?" Big Ye asked to the rest who all shook their head.
"Is it a tax collector?" Ye Xiu asked.
"No way, I already paid our taxes for the next several months," Big Ye said.
"Do you think they'll go if we ignore them?" Fourth Ye asked.
*Ding-dong* *Ding-dong* *Ding-dong*
"I guess not..." Big Ye sighed and got up to open the door. Everyone looked at each others before Second Ye continued on.
"We should rebuild the unused storage," Second Ye said.
Big Ye reached the door and opened it to reveal a devastatingly beautiful short-haired lady, Big Ye had to hold himself to not blurt out a thing.
Tang Rou looked at Big Ye, "Long time no see," she greeted with a light smile, no doubt mistaking Big Ye for Ye Xiu. "There are some people in the Cafe demanding to see you," Tang Rou said, a tad bit of annoyance tinged her tone.
"Who?" Big Ye asked in confusion.
"Little Tang?" Ye Xiu got out when he heard the familiar feminine voice to really find Tang Rou.
Tang Rou blinked rapidly before she gazed at Big Ye again, "Oh... Pardon me," Tang Rou bowed a bit in apology.
"No, it's fine," Big Ye smiled. "We were indeed too similar to each other, people mistook us a lot," Maybe they really should get a new hairstyle like Fourth and Fifth...
"No, you are actually much more mature-looking and more groomed, I haven't seen Ye Xiu in a while so I thought he had transformed for better," Tang Rou chuckled.
"So, what brings you here?" Ye Xiu asked.
"Some people demanded to see you back at the Cafe," Tang Rou said again.
Ye Xiu raised his eyebrows at Big Ye who shrugged, "Who are them?" Big Ye asked.
"I don't know, but GuoGuo recognized them as people from Excellent Era..." Tang Rou said.
It immediately clicked and Big Ye finally recalled that bit of unimportant memory of his from years ago, "Oh..." Was all he could say.
Ye Xiu arched his brows, "What do they want?" The question seemed to be proposed to Tang Rou, but it was actually more to Big Ye.
"Xiao Xiao had joined and arrived at Excellent Era," It was more like a statement than a question but Tang Rou nodded anyways.
"Yes," The festivity was hard to miss.
"I see..." Big Ye smiled. "That means, Yifan should arrive anytime here now," he completely missed the point with Excellent Era.
"Is that so?" Ye Xiu asked.
Big Ye looked regretful, "Too bad..."
"What's wrong?" Ye Xiu raised his brows.
"I gave him the address of this clubhouse instead of Happy Internet Cafe... He supposedly uncovered those guys' disguises..." The scene back then was priceless too, such a waste, Big Ye actually forgot about that!
"What are you two talking about?" Tang Rou asked ignorantly.
"Events..." Big Ye sighed before brightened up, "Let's get Little Ye to act surprised instead!"
"Why are you so pushy about this?" Ye Xiu asked suspiciously.
"It might affect their conditions," Big Ye shrugged before turning back to yell, "Little Liu! Come here! I need you to do something and bring your baseball cap too!"
"Why?!" Little Ye yelled from the living room, but still grabbed his baseball cap and ran to the entrance door anyways.
Tang Rou's eyes brightened when she saw the little boy from long ago ran out and looked up disgruntledly to Big Ye, "We meet again," Tang Rou kindly greeted.
Little Ye was surprised to see the beautiful Internet Cafe's xiaojie here, but quickly covered it up with a perfect polite smile, "Jiejie!" he put on his baseball cap and looked at Big Ye, "What do you need, father?" Little Ye asked.
"We'll do a mission with your older brother, let's go Ah Xiu," Big Ye said.
"Actually, what are you planning?" Ye Xiu asked again.
"Little Tang, you can stay here and familiarize yourself, a new member might arrive anytime soon. You probably want to meet Steamed Bun and the others inside, you'll see my twin brother, Ye Shunfeng, inside, if you need anything. He looked similar to me," Big Ye reminded her so that she won't be surprised when she saw another Ye Xiu look-alike inside.
"Ah, okay," Tang Rou nodded.
"Just come inside, treat it like your own home, don't mind the shameless old guy either," Big Ye reminded one last time before he grabbed Ye Xiu and strolled to the direction of Happy Internet Cafe.
When they are already far away, Tang Rou turned to enter before she glimpsed a nervous-looking boy was looking around hesitantly, "Um... Is this Chaos Theory's clubhouse?" Qiao Yifan awkwardly asked to the beautiful short-haired lady who stood in front of the opened door.
Tang Rou slowly blinked, "You are...?" She asked curiously, because Big Ye mentioned that a new member will arrive today, this boy could be her future teammate.
"I'm Qiao Yifan, One-Inch Ash...? Err, Just Qiao Yifan," Qiao Yifan introduced himself before correcting himself halfway when he realized that the lady before him might not even his future teammate.
Tang Rou's lips curved upwards, "Tang Rou, Soft Mist," She held out her hand and introduced herself.
Qiao Yifan was pleasantly surprised, before smiling in relieve and grabbed Tang Rou's hand, "Nice to meet you."
"Nice to meet you too," Tang Rou nodded. "You want to come in? The others are inside, though, I hadn't had the chance to meet them yet too. We can go together."
"That'll be nice, thank you," Qiao Yifan was extremely flattered with the kind gesture and followed her in.
"Excuse us? We're part of the team and the mature-looking gentleman let us in, nice to meet..." Tang Rou trailed off as she saw the living room's occupants.
"Ah, We got guests. Might I know what avatar you used?" Second Ye slipped into his fake-smiling mask and innocently asked.
"I'm Tang Rou, Soft Mist. This is Qiao Yifan, One-Inch Ash," Tang Rou introduced and Qiao Yifan nodded.
"Nice to meet you two, I'm Ye Shunfeng. The mature-looking gentleman you saw was most likely my elder twin brother, Ye Qianliyan. Everyone, these two are our members!" Second Ye quickly took hold of the rein and ordered them.
"Yo," Wei Chen waved. "It's nice to have a girl around, are you living here?" Wei Chen smirked.
"Ignore him," Second Ye blandly said. "They are the other set of twins, Ye Xiusi and Ye Xiuwu, respectively Little Lord Grim and Cloudy Autumn Sky, you know, the Cleric," Second Ye said.
"Nice to meet you two," Fourth Ye got up and walked over to shake Tang Rou and Qiao Yifan's hands. "You two have potential, very much, unlike some who just won't understand that they don't make the cut."
"Thanks?" Tang Rou said.
"Thank you," Qiao Yifan nodded thankfully, again, he's moved with their kind treatment... Although it can't be considered as 'kind'.
"Xiuwu, come here," Fourth Ye looked over to Fifth Ye who already a few steps behind him.
"I'm Xiuwu, it's nice to finally meet you two," Fifth Ye said kindly, what refreshing sight of an innocent upstart. Tang Rou and Qiao Yifan once again expressed their good will to Fifth Ye.
"Second Boss! I don't know which one it is so I brought them all!" Steamed Bun emerged from the kitchen with an armful of snacks and was surprised to see two unfamiliar guys. "Who are them? Are they tax collector?!"
"No," Second Ye easily answered. "They're our members, look here Bun, this lady over here is Soft Mist, the boy is One-Inch Ash."
"OH!" Steamed Bun dropped over all the snacks on the coffee table and eagerly approached them, "Nice to meet you! I'm Steamed Bun Invasion! If you need any help, just tell me, I can do anything!" Steamed Bun proudly pointed to himself with his thumb. "I can even sing a welcome song for you two!"
"That's all for now, the others you probably have met them already?" Second Ye asked as he dismissed Bun gently.
"I have, but Qiao Yifan haven't," Tang Rou answered.
"Where are they now?"
"Probably in Happy," Tang Rou shrugged. "Some people came to search for Ye Xiu."
Second Ye blinked before he looked at Qiao Yifan and remembered the unimportant piece of memory, "Ah... I see, the three who are not present are my elder twin brother, Ye Qianliyan. He played Sharpshooter, you guys rarely seen him in the game, but he's good," Second Ye emphasized the lie that they're twins.
"Then, there's Ye Qiu, who is actually Ye Xiu," Second Ye glanced to Qiao Yifan who looked confused. "His real name is Ye Xiu but for some messed up reason, he ended up using his twin's brother's name for... almost eight years," Second Ye said. "If you want the detail, you can ask Ye Xiu later."
"There are three pairs of twins?" Tang Rou stared speechlessly along with Qiao Yifan.
"Our family is exceptional in producing twins, having two or three pairs of twins in one generation is not really strange," Second Ye smoothly lied, ignoring the scoffing Wei Chen in the background. "Besides, you'll get higher chance of getting twins if you're a twin too," Second Ye persuaded with facts. Tang Rou and Qiao Yifan astonishedly nodded.
"And then the last, is the youngest, Ye Xiuliu, no he's not a twin," Thank God, "He's One-Inch Love," Second Ye flicked a glance to the secretly excited Qiao Yifan, "Though, I don't really know why he went with Qianliyan..."
Meanwhile,
"AH! Sun Xiang! Xiao Shiqin!" Little Ye exaggeratedly yelled out and pointed at the suspicious duo, completely like a passing underage fan who recognized his idols in a glance, totally not planned at all.
Everyone in the cafe stopped and looked at the disguised Sun Xiang and Xiao Shiqin.
"GODDAMN MOTHERFU—IT'S SUN XIANG!"
"XIAO SHIQIN!"
"KYAAA!"
"SUN XIANG! SUN XIANG! XIAO SHIQIN! XIAO SHIQIN!"
"CAN WE TAKE A PIC TOGETHER?!"
"SIGNATURE-!"
"LET ME SHAKE YOUR HAND!"
"THIS GOING IN A FUCKING WEIBO-!"
"SUN XIANG, LET ME HAVE YOUR BABIES-!"
"Hold on-!" Sun Xiang and Xiao Shiqin stood no chance, even Tao Xuan was dragged down and maybe stepped on in the midst of that horrifying human flow.
Big Ye took off his borrowed glasses to wipe an imaginary tear away, "I'll remember this second time."
Ye Xiu was simply horrified as he covered Little Ye's eyes.
"But, oh well! They'll live, come on Yifan, you'll be roommates with Xiuliu, is that fine?" Second Ye dismissed his worry and instead asked Qiao Yifan.
Qiao Yifan readily nodded, "I'm okay with that as long as Ye Xiuliu doesn't mind."
"He'll be okay with that. I'm so sorry Little Tang, the rooms are full of guys currently, we're planning on renovation soon, for the time being, you'll have to cope with training in separated place," Second Ye said apologetically.
Tang Rou smiled, "I don't mind at all."
I want QYF and TR to have some interaction, they rarely interact in the novel. The combination that I often seen was: Tang Rou/Steamed Bun, Steamed Bun/Luo Ji. Some bit of Luo Ji/QYF, QYF/Steamed Bun. I'm letting the kind little brother interact a bit with his valiant older sister.
Edward: You can go to sleep now...
No.
Austin: But-
This is my birthday! I can do anything I want! Not sleeping till morning is one of them! GO away!
*Edit*
Austin: She ended up passing out and only updated this story in the afternoon...