They both returned to the command center dormitory.

When Lu Lin went to take a shower, Shi Sheng lay on the bed playing with his phone. Suddenly, the long-silent Hearthstone CP thread on a certain university forum exploded.

It was a thread that had been around for some years, and the so-called “Hearthstone” referred to Lu Lin × Shi Sheng. During their time at university, people in the thread enjoyed discussing the interactions between the two protagonists.

Main Post: Insider information, your ship has sailed. They are now together.

1st Comment: What, what? In this lifetime, they actually got together?

2nd Comment: ??

3rd Comment: ??

4th Comment: ??

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52nd Comment: Where did OP get this insider information? Is it reliable?

53rd Comment: What did you say, that’s a thread started by Big Deer!

54th Comment: Shi Sheng told me himself! I’m here to fulfill your dreams! Your ship has sailed!

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Back in the day, when Shi Sheng went to the university where Lu Lin was, at the beginning of the school year, Lu Lin carried his two suitcases to the sixth floor without letting him touch a single one. When the roommates were amazed that even the current volunteers were so reliable, Lu Lin touched Shi Sheng’s head and began to tidy up the bed for him.

Passing volunteers were stunned. When did the computer department’s handsome guy Lu Lin ever become a bellboy for a freshman? With a photo spreading around campus, the forum secretly started buzzing.

Later, the forum experts gradually discovered a certain pattern.

Anywhere one of them was seen, the other would always be nearby. With a height difference of fifteen centimeters and a well-matched pair, the Hearthstone CP emerged. Only the two protagonists were unaware.

Whenever they passed by, there would always be people staring, accompanied by whispers from groups of girls, and Shi Sheng could always feel the burning gazes behind him.

“Is it because I’m too handsome?” he knowingly asked.

“Look at me,” Lu Lin turned his head, forcing Shi Sheng to look at him. “This is what handsome looks like. You, on the other hand, are just considered pretty.”

Behind them, there were low screams from girls.

But at that time, the Hearthstone CP on the forum was not well-known. Although the looks of the people involved were among the top in the school, there weren’t that many people who knew them. It wasn’t until one day when two IDs appeared, becoming the two main fans holding up the CP flag, that more people began to ship them.

These two IDs were named “Yansheng” and “Big Deer.”

@Yansheng: Xiao Shi came to the basketball court today, and when Lin ge saw him, he threw the ball. I can’t figure out why Xiao Shi threw the water.

@Big Deer: Xiao Shi went to the basketball court today, and Lin ge was playing basketball. I guess Xiao Shi wanted to bring water, but there were only girls around. Oh well, Lin ge just doesn’t get it.

They always posted separately, but miraculously, their content was always coincidental. People always asked how these two thread starters could grasp the dynamics of the protagonists so quickly, but they never answered. Not long after, these two big CP fans became gods. The two towers built by Big Deer and Yansheng gathered a group of sincere CP fans.

Unfortunately, after Shi Sheng and Lu Lin graduated, the two big fans withdrew from the scene, leaving only an undefeated legend about the Hearthstone CP on the forum.

Later, younger females who browsed through these high-rises all sighed in admiration, thinking that these were a group of truly emotional forum regulars.

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At this moment, Shi Sheng threw his phone aside, and the tower built by “Big Deer” quickly reached over a hundred floors. Shi Sheng couldn’t help but marvel at how things had changed over the years, and it wasn’t as popular as it used to be.

Yes, he was the Big Deer himself, the one who started shipping his own CP, doing so sincerely. At first, he just wanted to tease Lu Lin, the straight guy, along with a suppressed crush with no one to confide in. He didn’t expect the teasing post to become a CP post, inadvertently becoming an ally, and attracting so many onlookers, so he stepped up his game.

Now, after so many years, recalling the past, he felt it was time to give his CP fans a perfect ending and explanation.

Would there still be protagonists as considerate as him in the world?

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There might be.

At this moment, in the bathroom, Lu Lin stared at the new post lost in thought. He didn’t expect to see Big Deer resurface and post again after so long.

After a long time.

A long-familiar ID suddenly appeared in the forum again.

Yansheng: Correction. Not yet together. For now, it’s a temporary CP