Just completed a dirty money transaction!

Yue Qianling had never waited so nervously for someone’s reply.

In those two or three seconds, she had already imagined various awkward conversations in her mind, and she even regretted that she impulsively asked so bluntly.

What if she misunderstood? Wouldn’t it make her seem presumptuous?

And what if he confessed? How should the process of rejecting an online friend go?

And if he evaded the question?

Regardless of the scenario, Yue Qianling felt that she wasn’t prepared to deal with any of them. Even with someone like Tang Xin, she only dared to drop a subtle hint. Not to mention that she was now dealing with an online friend she had never met.

Yue Qianling almost counted the seconds, staring at the phone screen as if she were on pins and needles.

Seeing that he didn’t reply immediately, Yue Qianling’s mind raced, and she quickly retracted the message just now.

However, the next second.

​​【School Grass】: You… don’t tell me you think I also like you?

Yue Qianling: “…”

Fuck.

Unexpectedly, he chose the most embarrassing one among a myriad of responses.

Moreover, the use of “also” was very meaningful, as if it was deliberately reminding her of something.

Yue Qianling’s mind recalled the awkwardness of when Tang Xin mentioned that he had a girl he liked.

For a moment, she didn’t know how to reply, so she sent a string of “hahaha” in an attempt to ease the atmosphere.

It was a pity that the other party didn’t give her this chance at all.

​​【School Grass】: It’s just a casual gift, so it’s not necessary.

​​【School Grass】: As for me, I don’t have other merits.

​​【School Grass】: I’m just generous with money.

Yue Qianling thought about it, and she realized when she jokingly mentioned charging 500 yuan per hour, he actually transferred 5000 to her.

And that day when he asked her for her address, she had joked about meeting up for a fight, and he had also played along. Yue Qianling had then given him the address of a police station.

In the end, she had made a mistake by speculating on the thoughts of a rich person with her narrow-minded thinking!

​​【Glutinous Rice Twist】: Hahaha, just kidding [wipes sweat]

​​【School Grass】: If the keyboard is really making you uncomfortable, then you can return it.

​​【School Grass】: I won’t think too much about it.

Wouldn’t that be more embarrassing??

​​【Glutinous Rice Twist】: No, I really like it! [grinning]

​​【School Grass】: OK.

Following that, he accepted the money Yue Qianling transferred and then sent her another sum of money.

​​【School Grass】: [Transferred 722 yuan to you]

​​【Glutinous Rice Twist】: ?

​​【School Grass】: Extra money.

​​【School Grass】: I’m afraid you’ll overthink it.

“……”

After doing the math, considering the second item at half price, she did indeed overpay by more than 700 yuan.

​​【Glutinous Rice Twist】: okk! Saved quite a bit of money!

After receiving the money, Yue Qianling lay on the table, using its cool surface to cool down her flushed cheeks.

Had she really developed a narcissistic syndrome called “All men in the world like me” recently?

“How did it go?”

Yin Xue finished tidying up her wardrobe and walked over, asking, “Did your online friend confess?”

“Confession my ass.”

Yue Qianling just wanted to find a hole to bury herself in. “Now the only one who’s embarrassed is me!”

“Let me see.”

Yin Xue picked up her phone and took a look at the chat history, immediately wrinkling her brows in disgust. “Oh my god, can’t you be more tactful? What’s the difference between what you said and directly telling him, ‘I have someone I like, so don’t have any thoughts about me’? I’m really impressed by you!”

Yue Qianling also wanted to be more tactful, but sometimes she was just too impulsive.

If she considered everything carefully, she wouldn’t be Yue Qianling.

Now she just wanted to give Lin Xun a bowl of *Meng Po soup, or even drink one herself.

^[1]*Meng Po soup is drunk by the dead to erase the memories of their lives

Unfortunately, not only was there no Meng Po soup, but Luo Tuo and Xiao Mai were adding fuel to the fire in the group.

​​【Luo Tuo】: What giving a keyboard? Why didn’t I get one?

​​【Xiao Mai】: Why didn’t you give me one? Just because I’m a guy?

When Yue Qianling saw what the two of them were saying, her heart tensed again, feeling that they were about to lead the conversation astray again.

Also looking at them with displeasure was Gu Xun.

So much load of crap.

He had a cold expression and was about to make these two shut up when Yue Qianling’s reply popped up in the group.

​​【Cilantro connoisseur who loves chili】: They were having a promotion before, so the second one was half-priced! I forgot he bought it for me, and I forgot to give him the money.

​​【Cilantro connoisseur who loves chili】: Just completed a dirty money transaction!

The next second, Luo Tuo started a private chat with him.

​​【Luo Tuo】: Holy shit, you still took money from her? Why didn’t you just give her one?! Do you lack this bit of money? Are you a pig?!

A lump of air was stuck in his chest, making him extremely uncomfortable.

He threw the phone back on the table, but it bounced off the edge of the table, producing a crisp sound.

Gu Xun: “……”

Jiang Junnan, who was playing games next to him, was startled and turned his head to see that Gu Xun had already gone to the balcony.

“Did you quarrel with your mom again?” Jiang Junnan helped him pick up his phone and noticed that the right corner of the screen was cracked. He shouted at him, distressed, “See, I told you to put a screen protector on it! This screen breaks as soon as it falls!”

Gu Xun ignored him, washed his face with cold water, and wiped it casually.

When he returned to the dormitory, the drops of water from his brow slid down the curve of his smooth cheeks, leaving a blurry trail of water.

It should have been a very sexy picture, but Jiang Junnan felt a chill running down his spine.

He opened his mouth to speak, but Gu Xun said coldly, “Shut up.”

“What the hell?” Jiang Junnan was completely dumbfounded. “I haven’t said anything yet!”

Ignoring him and the phone, Gu Xun turned on the computer and said, “Kick someone.”

Jiang Junnan was playing with friends in a five-man team, and when he heard Gu Xun say this, he understood that he wanted to join, so he immediately kicked the weakest one out of the team.

After all, the experience of being carried by Gu Xun while playing games was really amazing.

Logging into the game, Jiang Junnan lit a cigarette, and the pungent smell quickly spread in the dormitory.

The two computers were close to each other, and Jiang Junnan’s fingers, holding the cigarette, were also swaying back and forth next to Gu Xun’s arm.

After a while, Jiang Junnan felt like he was being stared at with a deathly gaze.

He turned his head and sure enough, he met Gu Xun’s impatient gaze.Top of Form

“Why don’t you just burn yourself up for some excitement?”

“Did you eat gunpowder?!”

Although he said that, Jiang Junnan reluctantly put out his cigarette. Who told him to hug someone’s thigh?

However, just as the first game started to heat up, the internet suddenly went down.

“Fuck! Again!” While Jiang Junnan had become accustomed to the occasional campus network outage over the years, at this time, it was even more disruptive to his mental state than his girlfriend breaking up with him.

“Do the people in the network center eat shit?! If they can’t handle it, let me teach them!”

After cursing by himself for a while, Jiang Junnan realized that Gu Xun hadn’t paid any attention to him.

Gu Xun was leaning back in his chair, he was sitting in a casual posture, but his face had a gloomy expression.

What the hell was going on today?

Jiang Junnan’s mood shifted rapidly. One moment he was furious, and the next moment, when he remembered something, he immediately became dispirited. He turned to Gu Xun, “By the way, my girlfriend broke up with me during the Chinese New Year.”

Gu Xun let out an “oh” and got up to grab his coat.

“Then let’s go out for a meal to celebrate?”

Jiang Junnan: ?

***

Having dinner at nine o’clock in the evening was pretty normal for two university students,

Since it wasn’t the start of the semester yet, there were only seniors on the huge campus, and there weren’t many restaurants open outside.

As a result, the Chinese restaurant they went to was packed.

Luckily, there was still one table left when Gu Xun and Jiang Junnan arrived.

After sitting down, Jiang Junnan directly took two bottles of alcohol from the freezer, poured a glass, and downed it in one go. Only then did he begin to speak sullenly.

“I’ve been with her for two years, playing the role of a devoted boyfriend, and guess what?! When she went home, she bumped into her high school first love, and the old flame was rekindled like dry firewood.”

“It’s only been a few days, and the two of them are already together. Back then, it was the guy who dumped her!”

“When she broke up with me, she cried and said she couldn’t forget her first love. So, am I just a spare tire?”

“I wonder if women really can’t forget their first love? What kind of magic do those two words have? I can’t even remember the last name of my first love now!”

Jiang Junnan rambled on by himself for quite a while, and the more Gu Xun listened, the more annoyed he became. He didn’t want to respond to a single word.

Just as he was about to tell him to stop talking about those love and relationships, Jiang Junnan suddenly shut up on his own. He stopped talking and stared blankly at something, and then tugged at Gu Xun’s sleeve.

“Look, quick, look.”

Gu Xun turned his head impatiently, just in time to see Yue Qianling and Yin Xue walking in hand in hand.

He glanced at them for a moment, without any emotion, then turned back to his phone.

The owner passed by them and came over to greet them, “Are you two lovely ladies here for a meal? You may have to wait a bit, and there will be a table soon.”

When Yue Qianling entered, she also noticed Gu Xun and Jiang Junnan.

This time, however, her gaze swept over Gu Xun’s back very restrainedly and quickly withdrew her gaze.

When she wanted to meet him, she couldn’t meet him if even she wandered around their college building every day.

But when she didn’t want to meet him, he would always appear in front of her.

Yue Qianling shook her head, “No, thanks.”

Thinking that she didn’t want to wait, the owner looked around and saw that many tables had only one or two people. So he suggested, “How about sharing a table? The other restaurants are not open.”

Yue Qianling was about to refuse when she saw Jiang Junnan waving at them, smiling very warmly.

“Come over here and sit!”

As the words fell, Yue Qianling’s heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and her fingers unconsciously tightened on her sleeves.

Yin Xue glanced at her, somewhat uncertain, not sure if Yue Qianling wanted to go over or not.

Meanwhile, Gu Xun, who had his back turned to them, didn’t even raise his head, seemingly indifferent to who Jiang Junnan was calling.

Yue Qianling suddenly felt surrounded by a sense of powerlessness.

This feeling was actually not unfamiliar, but she had always chosen to ignore it before.

“No need,” she smiled stiffly at Jiang Junnan, “Thank you.”

He has a girlfriend, so why should she bother him?

After Yue Qianling and Yin Xue left, Jiang Junnan scratched the back of his head, not understanding why the girl was so lively the last time she saw Gu Xun, but this time she didn’t even want to share a table and smiled so bitterly.

“What’s wrong with her?”

Gu Xun was replying to the head planner’s message, his fingers flying over the keyboard, and replied without much tone, “None of my business.”

On the way back, Yin Xue chatted about the dog-blood gossip she heard from relatives during the Chinese New Year, the kind of content that would be too daring even for novels, and successfully diverted Yue Qianling’s attention.

Upon returning to the dormitory, as soon as she pushed open the door, Yue Qianling received a call from her dad.

“A package has been delivered for you.”

Before going out to eat, Yue Qianling searched through the pile of text messages from various online stores and operators for that courier’s message.

The package had indeed been delivered in the police station’s mailroom a few days ago.

Yue Qianling cursed the courier for being increasingly lazy and asked her dad to help pick up the package, using the excuse that the courier had delivered to the wrong address.

Yue Wenbin was a law-abiding citizen who had never set foot in a police station in his life, except when he got his ID. He went to pick up the package late at night and got scolded a few times by the staff on duty in the mailroom, so he felt that this trip was quite unlucky.

“Don’t use this courier again next time!” He said unhappily, “They can’t even get the delivery right. Luckily, it wasn’t anything important!”

Who said it wasn’t important?

It was worth more than two thousand yuan.

After hanging up the phone, Yue Qianling prepared to take a shower.

Before putting down her phone, Xiao Mai sent a message in the group.

​【Xiao Mai】: Is there a chicken dinner today?

Yue Qianling thought about it for a moment and didn’t reply. She hugged her clothes and went into the bathroom.

After finishing her shower and completing her skincare routine, it was already eleven o’clock at night.

Yue Qianling lay down on her bed while holding her phone, and saw that only Luo Tuo had said “yes” in the group half an hour ago.

Normally, this was the time when the four of them logged in.

Lin Xun didn’t say anything. He was probably also feeling awkward.

Yue Qianling couldn’t help but think back to that embarrassing scene in the evening. Its impact was very huge, and it could still make her toes curl.

At this moment, Xiao Mai saw no response for a long time, so he mentioned them both.

​​【Xiao Mai】: @ShoolGrass @GlutinousRiceTwist, can you guys at least say something? You’re not going to bed so early, are you?”

Yue Qianling thought, maybe it was better to pretend to be dead.

She took a deep breath and was about to put her phone down.

​​【School Grass】: ok, let’s go.

Seeing his nonchalant tone, Yue Qianling suddenly felt like she was making a little fuss.

He doesn’t think there’s anything wrong, so what are you thinking so much?

We’re all adults. What misunderstandings are there that you’re still dwelling on them after talking it over?

Yue Qianling, be more generous!

After pumping herself up, Yue Qianling typed with a slightly crazy smile.

​​【Glutinous Rice Twist】: I’m ok too!

​​【Xiao Mai】: Then let’s get online! No time to waste!

Despite the psychological preparation, when Yue Qianling logged into the game and opened the voice chat, she was still a bit nervous, so she didn’t speak.

Lin Xun was the last to log in. Xiao Mai gave him the host position.

He didn’t say anything and just directly clicked to start the game.

After spawning on the spawn island, he asked, “Where do you want to drop?”

His tone was as casual as usual.

Xiao Mai felt that he had improved a lot now and wasn’t interested in the corners of the map. He didn’t even want to go to Paradise Resort and directly said, “Training Base!”

“Oh.” Luo Tuo laughed, “Truly a little parachute genius.”

Xiao Mai: “Fuck you! Don’t ask me for help later!”

Luo Tuo and Xiao Mai chatted for a while until they boarded the plane.

“Xiao Mahua, you haven’t turned on your mic?”

Yue Qianling was stunned for a moment and quickly pretended, “Oh, I just forgot.”

“Two squads have already dropped at the main building,” Lin Xun continued, “Let’s go to the side first and let them fight.”

Yue Qianling said, “Okay,” but her mind was doing reading comprehension.

The tone seems quite normal, right?

He probably doesn’t mind what happened earlier, right?

After picking up an M762, Yue Qianling asked, “Is there a red dot?”

Lin Xun didn’t say anything but marked one for her.

Yue Qianling ran over to pick it up, organized her inventory, and asked, “Does anyone need a 6x scope?”

“I do!” Xiao Mai immediately responded, “I just picked up an M24!”

Yue Qianling felt that giving Xiao Mai a 6x scope was a bit of a waste since he didn’t know how to use a bolt-action sniper rifle and couldn’t control the recoil with a 6x scope. So, she asked, “Lin Xun, do you want it?”

Usually, in such situations, if she found something good, she would share it with Lin Xun first.

And in the rainforest map, Lin Xun would only use two M762s and, if he found a sniper rifle, he would help Yue Qianling by marking it.

But this time, without waiting for Lin Xun’s answer, Xiao Mai jumped up, “Do you look down on me?!”

“You can’t handle the 6x scope!” Yue Qianling said unhappily. “First, learn to use the 4x scope and the sniper rifle. Don’t think about running before you learn how to walk.”

Xiao Mai thought about it and didn’t say anything more.

At this point, Lin Xun finally spoke, “I’ll come find you for it later.”

Hearing him say that, Yue Qianling quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

It wasn’t until halfway through the game that she finally settled her feelings.

He was just his usual self.

It was probably just that Lin Xun felt that he had become a little too familiar with her recently, which led to her misunderstanding. So, he was deliberately maintaining a certain distance in terms of attitude.

But he was not talkative, to begin with, so this made him seem even colder.

This subtle difference was only noticed by Yue Qianling, who was paying attention. Luo Tuo and Xiao Mai were completely oblivious, and the two were just chatting away non-stop.

When Xiao Mai landed, he picked up a level 3 armor. He saw another one this time and marked it, reminding everyone, “There’s a level 3 armor here, first come, first served!”

“I’m coming!”

Yue Qianling immediately ran towards the direction he marked.

After running two hundred meters and going around the second floor, she found that the only thing at the marked location was a discarded level 2 armor.

She didn’t react for a while, and asked, “Where’s the level 3 armor?”

Lin Xun’s calm voice came through the headphones.

“On me.”

Yue Qianling: “……”

She smiled, “Okay.”

A short while later, the four encountered a vehicle while running from the poison gas.

Gunfire immediately rang out, sounding like fireworks during New Year’s Eve.

Yue Qianling held a fully equipped M762 and was having a lot of fun. In just a few shots, she blew up the enemy’s vehicle, leaving all of them with low health, but none of them were killed. So, she decided to switch to the red dot sight and rush in for close combat.

However, just in the few seconds it took her to switch scopes, Lin Xun single-handedly killed the entire enemy squad.

Looking at the kill feed on the lower left corner, as well as her own unchanged kill count, Yue Qianling suppressed the urge to curse.

It’s doesn’t matter, we’re teammates.

After a while, Yue Qianling noticed an airdrop landing not far from them.

She deliberately kept quiet and, without notifying anyone, sprinted towards the red smoke.

After running only a few steps, she saw Lin Xun heading towards the airdrop from another direction.

Yue Qianling still didn’t say anything and sprinted with all her might to secure the airdrop.

But gradually, she realized that she seemed to be unable to outrun Lin Xun, and began to shout anxiously, “No need! No need! We’re all teammates! No need!”

But Lin Xun didn’t slow down at all, and he filled up his energy to run faster.

Two seconds later, Yue Qianling helplessly watched as Lin Xun reached the airdrop ahead of her.

Yue Qianling: “……”

She didn’t give up and asked, “What guns are inside?”

Lin Xun nonchalantly replied, “Of course, it’s an AWM.”

Yue Qianling: “……”

OK, I’ll endure it.

A few minutes later, Xiao Mai and Luo Tuo died in a fierce battle at the bridge. They cursed and switched to spectator mode.

The final circle was already approaching, and there were still a lot of people left. Yue Qianling and Lin Xun were unlucky, and the circle was far away from them. They had very little medicine, so they had to run for their lives.

Just then, they encountered a full enemy squad.

The enemy squad fired a few shots from a distance at Yue Qianling, who was dressed in bright clothes. They were using M416s, and the 5.56 mm bullets they were using didn’t do much damage but were extremely provocative.

Yue Qianling decided not to run anymore and carried her gun to go fight the enemy.

“Don’t!” Luo Tuo was watching her and immediately shouted. “Run from the poison first! The poison is far and painful!”

“Heh, they provoked me, so I’ll run? I’ll definitely kill them today!”

Having said that, Yue Qianling rushed towards the poison gas.

After a fierce battle that lasted for several minutes, Yue Qianling successfully killed three members of the opposite side. However, the poison was too painful, and her energy was running low. She was shot down by the only remaining opponent.

Kneeling on the ground, Yue Qianling shouted loudly, “Lin Xun, come revive me! I can still fight! They only have one person left! He’s low! Come quickly, aaaaaaahhh!”

After shouting, she suddenly realized that something was wrong.

Why didn’t Lin Xun come to steal her kill just now? Why was it so quiet?

Sensing that something was off, Yue Qianling slightly shifted her perspective, but he couldn’t be seen in her field of view at all.

Then Luo Tuo’s laughter echoed in her headphones, “Hahaha, this bastard ran into the safe zone hundreds of meters away while you were fighting!”

Yue Qianling: “……”

How narcissistic was she to think this bastard liked her??!!!