Gege~

Gu Xun’s spectator mode couldn’t hear the in-game voice chat, so he couldn’t understand how desperate Yue Qianling was.

She just wanted to play a game to relax after coming home at night, so she logged on and planned to play solo.

Coincidentally, her newly added WeChat friend, Su Zheng, appeared online in her game friend list.

Su Zheng had also just logged on to the game, and when he saw Yue Qianling online, he immediately invited her to team up.

Because of Gu Xun, Yue Qianling thought that people from the Ninth Business Division must be masters of playing games, so she agreed.

Who knew that he would be the first killed in the first match?

Yue Qianling thought he was probably just unlucky.

When he was knocked out in the second match, she realized that something was wrong and checked Su Zheng’s KD. The number shocked her, leaving her speechless for a while.

Who would have thought that the game planner of the Ninth Business Division, who spoke confidently about his ideas in the meeting room, would perform so poorly in a game?

Not only was he bad at the game, but he was also very addicted to it.

“Help me up! I can still fight!”

Yue Qianling had heard this line at least five or six times in two or three games. Watching her scores drop significantly, she suddenly had a feeling that the company was about to go bankrupt.

Despite being bad at the game, Su Zheng’s ambitions were pretty big. He didn’t like stable 5.56mm guns, but he preferred using high-damage 7.62mm bullets.

He couldn’t control the gun well and was shaking like he had Parkinson’s syndrome, and the title of the master of outlining the human body was given to him.

But Su Zheng’s attitude was very good. Whenever he dragged Yue Qianling down, he would immediately apologize sincerely.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, my bad. I won’t do it again next time. I’ll try harder in the next match.”

With such an apology, Yue Qianling felt embarrassed to criticize him.

But what’s the use of apologizing?

Su Zheng was really bad to the point of being infuriating, and his dreams were especially big. He wanted to use the fiercest guns with the worst fingers.

In the end, scolding him wasn’t good, so Yue Qianling completely gave up and regarded it as charity.

Want a machine gun? Here you go.

Want a sniper rifle? No problem.

Want an AMW? You can have it.

After finally entering the final circle, Yue Qianling crawled on the grass with great effort, squirming for a long time to find a perfect position to sneak attack the team on the opposite hill.

Just then, Su Zheng, who was next to her, accidentally fired a shot that echoed through the sky.

With that loud noise, Yue Qianling’s mentality completely collapsed.

She felt like her esports career had reached a new level.

Then she calmly took out a firecracker from her backpack and lit it.

Su Zheng even applauded her: “Wow! That new special effect is good! I’ll remember that!”

Yue Qianling also smiled, “Haha, isn’t it beautiful?”

The enemies on the opposite side had never seen such arrogance before. They were already attracting their firepower by shooting, and they were still afraid that they couldn’t locate their position, so they set off fireworks.

They wanted to pick up their guns and fight, but they were afraid that the other side was fishing and there would be an ambush.

So the enemies also cautiously stopped moving, but they were a little unwilling, so they also set off fireworks.

For the first time, Yue Qianling set off fireworks with the enemies in the final circle, and she turned on the public microphone: “Big brother on the opposite side, a belated New Year’s greeting to you.”

The other side was not to be outdone: “Thank you, thank you. Meeting is fate. On behalf of my teammates, I greet you an early New Year.”

In the end, Yue Qianling understood what “competition is second, friendship is first” meant.

After the agreed five matches, Yue Qianling felt like she had experienced a spiritual cleansing.

Esports, it does not exist.

When logging out, Su Zheng said: “I had a lot of time playing with you. I’ll find you next time.”

Yue Qianling laughed nervously: “I’ve never had this kind of gaming experience, thank you very much.”

After logging out of the game, Yue Qianling stared at the ceiling and emptied her mind.

***

This night, every time she closed her eyes, she would think of her plummeting score.

She didn’t know when she fell asleep. She entered a dreamland of another fierce battle.

And this time, the one fighting alongside her was Gu Xun.

The coordination between the two of them was more tacit than any previous duo, sweeping through opponents all the way, winning every match.

At the end of each match, Yue Qianling would calculate her score.

In the end, after making up for the points that she lost in the duo queue with Su Zheng, she opened her eyes excitedly.

Looking at the dark room, Yue Qianling was in a daze for a while.

She had never missed playing games with Gu Xun so much.

Little did she know, the man living next door to her nearly blew himself up into a firework when he saw her setting off fireworks for Su Zheng.

***

The next morning, Yue Qianling went to work as usual and saw a small advertisement posted on her door.

She took the paper down and looked at it twice, feeling strange, and then turned to look at Gu Xun’s door.

Why wasn’t there one there?

What, was advertisers discriminating?

Yue Qianling walked a few steps closer, wanting to check if Gu Xun had torn it off already.

At that moment, his door suddenly opened.

The moment their eyes met, Yue Qianling subconsciously turned to leave.

Just as she took a step, she heard Gu Xun’s voice.

“I knew it.”

Yue Qianling: “……”

He probably thought that she must have had an ulterior motive for coming to his door.

Yue Qianling had no choice but to turn around, take a deep breath, and try to appear calm.

“There was a small advertisement posted on my door. I just wanted to see if yours had one too.”

Gu Xun: “That’s not what I’m talking about.”

“?”

Yue Qianling looked at him in confusion.

Gu Xun took a step forward and closed the door behind him. With a “click”, the hallway sensor lights turned on.

Under the bright light, the tiredness on his face was evident. When his eyelashes drooped, one could still see the slight redness in his eyes.

He lowered his head and looked straight at Yue Qianling.

“I know you don’t want to talk to me at all now.”

His voice was not loud, just enough for Yue Qianling to hear. It was low and hoarse, like he was whispering in her ear.

Isn’t that because of fear of being embarrassed?

Yue Qianling turned around, facing away from Gu Xun. She wanted to calm down, but she found that she couldn’t organize her feelings.

The two of them see each other all the time. Avoiding wasn’t a solution, so she might as well be honest.

“What can I do? You know everything, and I’m the only one left in the dark, being seen as a joke at by you. How can I face you?”

“See you as a joke?”

Gu Xun seemed to have heard something unbelievable, and his tone suddenly went higher.

But seeing Yue Qianling’s stubborn back, he silently sighed and softened his voice again. “Even if I’m unbearable, I wouldn’t go see a girl’s joke.”

Hearing this, Yue Qianling’s fingers curled up slightly, but she didn’t make a sound.

Gu Xun seemed to take another step toward her, getting very close.

He had probably just taken a shower as the scent of the shower gel still lingered.

In the quiet hallway, his voice was exceptionally clear.

“I never thought something coincidental would happen to me, and while I don’t know how you found out, I really never meant to keep you in the dark to laugh at you.”

At this point, he paused.

“I’ve never been in a relationship, nor have I had much contact with girls.”

When Yue Qianling heard this, she was about to say that this kind of thing had nothing to do with whether or not he had been in a relationship, but then she heard him say, “I don’t know what to do to make you not hate me.”

His voice was too gentle, and his tone carried a hint of imperceptible grievance, making Yue Qianling unable to tell if he was trying to be pitiful, so she turned her head and asked him in a daze, “Are you still afraid that I’ll hate you?”

“Afraid.”

“……”

When the word “afraid” came out of Gu Xun’s mouth, Yue Qianling was suddenly shocked.

The person in front of her seemed to be different from the Gu Xun who had coldly rejected her back then.

With this change in attitude, coupled with the fact that he had mentioned that he had never been in a relationship, Yue Qianling couldn’t help her wandering thoughts……

When Gu Xun was still Lin Xun, she had suspected that he liked her.

It was just that she couldn’t connect the Lin Xun who played games with her online with Gu Xun.

But thinking about that photo, she subconsciously followed his shoulder and looked at his hand.

Gu Xun: “What are you looking at?”

Yue Qianling: “……”

I can’t say that I suspect you like me, right?

Would Gu Xun like an online gaming friend?

Is it possible?

After a while, Yue Qianling licked the corner of her lips and muttered softly, “You take games too seriously. You should go to the roadside to apply tempered glass.”

“……?”

Watching Yue Qianling hastily run away, Gu Xun closed his eyes irritably.

Why are women’s minds so complicated?

On the way, Yue Qianling kept thinking about this, always feeling that the world was too strange.

During breakfast, she looked at the rice ball in her hand and felt that it wouldn’t be surprising if it started talking in the next second.

It wasn’t until she walked into the company building and saw the bustling crowd that she slapped her head and threw those unimportant thoughts to the back of her mind.

Today was still the same work as usual, but at lunchtime, Wei Han suddenly sent her a message, asking her to put aside her current tasks and go upstairs to find him in the afternoon.

Yue Qianling was still hesitating about her own work, but Wei Han said that he had already talked to the boss and asked her to go to the Ninth Business Division to help first.

So Yue Qianling went upstairs with relief.

A group of people spent the entire afternoon in the conference room, and after settling dinner on the U-shaped table, everyone continued to brainstorm.

Looking at Su Zheng confidently discussing things on the projection screen, Yue Qianling felt that the world was even more bizarre.

She really couldn’t connect this coherent planner in front of her with the noob from last night.

It can be seen that there is really a big difference between reality and the Internet.

At ten o’clock at night, the meeting finally ended.

Yue Qianling and Su Zheng walked out while chatting.

Suddenly, she felt a familiar presence around her. Before she could turn her head to look, she saw Gu Xun had already passed her and Su Zheng, striding towards the elevator.

Looking at his back, Yue Qianling thought of what happened this morning again. She became quietly distracted for a moment, but her thoughts were quickly brought back on track by Su Zheng’s words.

When the elevator arrived on the first floor, Su Zheng looked at the time and said, “How about I send you home?”

Yue Qianling: “No need, we are going in two different directions, it’s not convenient. I’ll be fine taking the subway.”

Su Zheng didn’t ask further, “Okay, then be careful. Let me know when you get home.”

Yue Qianling nodded and walked out of the elevator.

After two subway stops, Yue Qianling leisurely walked towards her home, carrying her bag.

Suddenly, the exclusive DingTalk notification sounded on her phone.

Thinking it was about work, Yue Qianling quickly took out her phone to look but found it was a message from Gu Xun.

【Ninth Business Division – Gu Xun】: So, when will you remove me from the little black room?

Yue Qianling: “?”

What little black room?

She lowered her head and typed, pressing a few times, when she suddenly felt something unusual around her.

It was as if someone was following her.

Yue Qianling’s heart skipped a beat, and she withdrew her attention, intending to continue typing.

However, the footsteps behind her seemed to be getting closer and closer to her.

Yue Qianling suddenly tightened her grip on her phone and turned her head to look.

A man in a black short-sleeved shirt was walking about two meters behind her, and when he saw her look back, he silently turned his face away.

In this late night, Yue Qianling’s sixth sense was tingling, making her feel somewhat unsafe.

Coupled with the small note she found on her door in the morning, she began to suspect whether someone was surveying her as a single woman living alone.

So, she quickened her pace and walked towards the community.

As she swiped her keycard, she observed her surroundings, and the man had indeed followed her inside.

Yue Qianling didn’t dare to be entirely sure about this person’s intentions. After all, she had only moved here not long ago, and maybe he was also a resident here.

Even if he was up to no good, in such a large residential area, he couldn’t be that audacious, right?

Thinking this way, Yue Qianling still unconsciously sped up her pace.

When she entered her building, she clutched her bag tightly and took two or three steps into the elevator.

However, just as the elevator door was about to close, a rough hand suddenly reached in and blocked the elevator door.

Yue Qianling was immediately frightened and took a step back.

Immediately after, the elevator door opened and the man in black walked in.

He cast a gloomy glance at Yue Qianling, then turned around, facing the elevator wall.

The elevator began to ascend slowly.

Yue Qianling noticed that he didn’t press any floor, causing her heart to panic even more, and a cold sweat unknowingly broke out on her back.

These few seconds were as long as centuries, Yue Qianling’s heartbeat couldn’t stop from speeding up and her brain made up all kinds of criminal cases. She even pressed the power button on her phone, ready to call the police at any moment.

When the elevator door finally opened, she immediately strode out.

Especially when she found out that the man also followed her out of the elevator, all the nerves in her body began to tense.

No way!

Was she really being stalked?!

What to do now?!

She looked at her front door, her breath starting to catch.

***

Not long after Gu Xun returned home, he found that Yue Qianling still hadn’t removed him from being blocked, so he went to take a shower in annoyance.

At this moment, he had just come out, wearing only a pair of trousers, his upper body was naked, and his hair still dripping with water, when the doorbell rang unexpectedly.

Who would come to find him at this hour?

Gu Xun rubbed his hair while walking towards the door.

“Who—”

“I’m back!”

Yue Qianling?

Gu Xun squinted his eyes, a bit slow to react to the situation.

Her voice continued.

“Open the door quickly.”

“Gege~”

(tl: okay we all know that means brother, but I sticked with “Gege” because it sounds more intimate.)

Although he didn’t know what Yue Qianling was up to, but being called “gege”, which man could stand it?

Gu Xun took two steps over and directly pressed the door handle.

However, before the door was fully opened, Yue Qianling, carrying her fragrance, squeezed her way in and crashed right into Gu Xun’s arms.