Chapter 40

The surveillance camera captured the middle-aged man's lustful expression clearly, even the slight thrust of his hips as he pressed his body forward for the second time. He wondered how many times he'd fantasized about someone behind her back before he'd become so lustful and lost his mind the moment he saw her. Ling Yin held Qu Xing tightly, feeling both disgusted and distressed. The staff member turned the camera forward, and the man's hand was actually groping Qu Xing while he was watching her from a distance.

Ling Yin raised his hand and covered Qu Xing's eyes.

Qu Xing curled the corners of his lips slightly, letting the slender and powerful hand cover his eyes, and leaned back gently, leaning on Ling Yin.

The day after the filming ended, the DL members quickly ended their short vacation and started training.

The manager of the filming brand learned about the incident that day and rushed to Shanghai to apologize in person at the DL base.

"We've already fired him," the manager said. "I've checked with them. This cameraman wasn't originally responsible for this shoot. He claimed to be a Dazzling fan and had sought the opportunity on his own. Who knew something like this would happen? I'm so, so sorry... Where's Dazzling? I'll go apologize to him in person."

"The kids are playing a training match." Zhou Si put on a standard business smile and said, "It's not convenient to talk for the time being."

"Yeah, really?" The manager stood up. "Can I come and watch? Look at how these young boys train, each one more impressive than the other."

"Okay." Zhou Si smiled and stood up, leading the way. "Just don't take pictures with your phone. Training matches usually involve tactical planning, and showing it won't have a good impact on the game."

Manager: "Of course, I understand this rule."

The training room was unexpectedly quiet. The manager saw the legendary Wind God sitting calmly in the center. The moment he spoke, the others immediately fell silent. His voice was calm, not like someone playing a game, but rather a casual chattering during a leisurely moment. It was a stark contrast to the atmosphere he had imagined.

"Easy, go bottom," Ling Yin said, "Xingxing, come to the middle and push the lane."

Le Anyi: “Okay.”

He Weichen: "I'm going to move the dragon."

The manager was just wondering why it was so calm, completely inconsistent with the passion he had imagined, when he heard the sound suddenly get louder.

"Pull it out first, pull it out first!!!" Jiang Lin shouted, "Kill, kill, kill! Look at me! I'm big!"

Wow. Isn't this the one who loves to sleep the most among DL?

"Nice little Yinyin! Kill kill kill kill kill!" Jiang Lin's screen turned gray.

Qu Xing said nothing, but moved the mouse quickly. After quickly dealing full damage, he gave the kill to Ling Yin, who needed to be killed the most, and calmly pressed the return to city button.

They played in the same style they have done this season and quickly ended the training match.

After seeing the five people take off their headphones, Zhou Si reminded them, "It's over."

"Oh oh oh oh oh oh." The manager hurriedly straightened his clothes, and when he saw Qu Xing turning around, he called out very solemnly: "Dazzling."

"Ah?" Qu Xing turned around and looked at the stranger in confusion.

The manager faced Qu Xing, bent down, and bowed ninety degrees.

Qu Xing knew why he came.

"I'm the manager from yesterday's brand." The manager straightened up and said, "I'm truly, truly sorry that someone like this appeared among the crew responsible for photographing you. I've brought some gifts down here, and I hope you'll accept them."

Qu Xing smiled and calmly accepted his apology: "Thank you."

The manager looked at him and couldn't help but sigh, "Oh, young people nowadays are really... not as foolish as we were back then."

Zhou Si was quite proud: "There are some stupid ones too, but our children are all top-notch."

"Yes, yes," the manager nodded with a smile. "I've always heard Dazzling is that... what? That... Demon King, hahahaha." He clearly didn't understand the game, but he still praised what he had just seen. "So calm, so composed in a crisis. Absolutely amazing."

Qu Xing smiled.

After praising Qu Xing, the manager turned to the famous Wind God in the middle, "Oh, this is the Wind, so elegant, and he plays really well, with really quick reactions."

Ling Yin had a faint smile on his lips, but his eyes held no real smile. He glanced at him lightly and uttered an ambiguous chuckle. It was unclear whether he was still angry about yesterday's incident or simply disdained such childish compliments.

manager:"……"

"Ahem, um," the manager turned to Zhou Si and said, "Do you guys still need to review the game? I won't bother you anymore."

He then said to Qu Xing, "I'm truly, truly sorry. We've already dealt with the person, but you must accept the gift."

Qu Xing smiled and nodded.

Manager: “Then I’ll leave first.”

Zhou Si turned around and said, "Let's go. I'll take you there."

After everyone left, Qu Xing laughed and moved over to hug Ling Yin's neck: "Why are you so unique? I love you so much!"

"You call this having personality?" Le Anyi couldn't help but complain, "It's just rude!"

Ling Yin snorted again.

Le Anyi: "I'm telling you, Xingxing, you were too hasty in being with Ling Yin. You didn't even see this person's true face."

This guy was so anxious when his team leader seemed to be heartbroken, and now he's trying to sow discord when they're actually dating: "You can't just look at the face. When Ling Yin first joined the team at 17, he was so quiet that I thought he was a quiet and well-behaved kid. But I found out he's a tyrant with a lot of problems."

Qu Xing's eyes lit up and he asked, "How do you do it so domineeringly?"

Le Anyi immediately became excited: "I'm telling you! I can talk about this for three days and three nights! Back then, I really hated Ling Yin so much that my teeth itched every day..."

Qu Xing felt Ling Yin tap his palm. Turning around, he saw Ling Yin looking at him intently, his eyes slightly innocent. "Why should I listen to him say bad things about me?"

"Hey! I just want to say it!" Le Anyi said, "You know the Fourth Master. He treats good players like ancestors, and he's Ling Yin's nephew..."

"Nephew?" Qu Xing asked in surprise.

"Yes." Le Anyi said: "He is of a very high generation, otherwise the Fourth Master would not dare to say anything about him. It is purely suppressed by his bloodline."

Qu Xing turned to look at Ling Yin: "Wow——"

"Hey, hey, hey," Le Anyi turned Qu Xing's face and said, "Anyway, that's the relationship. It's due to many factors, the most important of which is his personality. He's arrogant and annoying."

Ling Yin took a piece of paper and wiped the place on Qu Xing's face where Le Anyi had touched him.

As soon as Zhou Si came in, he heard Le Anyi's complaints:

"Before he even entered the base, the Fourth Master installed a suite with a living room for him. Tell me, why? Vki was still living in a regular room at the time."

"Why are you still thinking about this?" Zhou Si said speechlessly: "He signed a contract for so many years, giving him a suite is not too much, right? He had so much stuff at the time, and the room was too small to put it all in."

Le Anyi ignored him and slammed the table, saying, "I had some opinions about this guy back then! But after coming in, he was very quiet and sometimes even smiled at you. I think maybe I'm biased, who knows!"

"I once accidentally knocked something off his desk, and he smiled and told me to wash it!" Le Anyi was so engrossed in his story, his anger rising: "I was so f*cking shocked, just f*cking touched it! I said, 'Okay, I'll wash it for you.' But after I finished, he didn't want it anymore!"

Qu Xing smiled and looked at Ling Yin in surprise: "Why, Brother Ling?"

Ling Yin lowered his head and smiled: "I just saw him scratching his head with his hands. I really just wanted him to wash it for me, but he was so angry, who knows how he would wash it."

Le Anyi: “Haha.”

Le Anyi: "Anyway, I was so angry that I didn't talk to him for a few days. At first, he wouldn't let me touch this or that, but later, I guess because we got to know each other better, his true colors began to show. If your hair wasn't washed, he would definitely stay away from you no matter what, and he would also openly mock you. I once asked him to help me adjust something, and he insisted that I wipe the entire desk, including the computer mouse, from top to bottom before he would touch it. It wasn't just me, everyone else was like this too, even the coach. Anyway, wherever he set foot, there couldn't be any dirt or mess. There were so many problems."

"Oh~" Qu Xing suddenly realized, "I was wondering why everyone seemed to be paying extra attention to hygiene. Could it be because of this?"

"No one paid any attention to him at first, but after he won several championships, including the world championship, we gradually gave in to him. I said, forget it, he's just a domestically produced No. 1 Middle School, so let's just spoil him."

"What's so annoying about this?" Qu Xing said with a smile, "It's very likable."

Ling Yin tugged at Qu Xing's finger and said with a hint of grievance, "If I wasn't playing professionally, how could I have endured the smell they created for so long?"

Qu Xing touched Ling Yin's face lovingly: "Thank you for your hard work."

Le Anyi: “…”

"If he was just being hygienic, would I hate him so much?!" Le Anyi sat up straight, raised his eyes with a feigned wickedness, and said slowly, his voice pinched, "Your actions are as confusing as you are."

Qu Xing burst out laughing.

Le Anyi hadn't finished his performance yet, and then he leaned back in his chair in a pretentious manner: "You broke your hand because of that moldy poisonous mouse of yours, right?"

Qu Xing: "Hahahahahahahahahahaha."

Jiang Lin slumped in his seat, then suddenly said, "Why did your second personality, born from the knockout drug, show up again today?"

He Weichen also added: "Oh, anyway, this is how your life will be. The brain link is not connected well. If it doesn't work, you can have a craniotomy to fix it. If it works, it's better. If it doesn't, it won't be much different from now."

Le Anyi: "Can you believe these words came out of the mouth of a child who is not even an adult yet? I think you should avoid kissing him, or he might be poisoned to death one day."

Ling Yin turned sideways, slightly supporting his chin, and stared at Qu Xing intently.

Qu Xing glanced at him with a smile, then turned and asked, "Anything else?"

Ling Yin: “…”

He gently turned Qu Xing's face back: "Is it that fun?"

"That's funny!" Qu Xing nodded. "My boyfriend is actually a venomous person with a gentle exterior?"

Ling Yin's lips curled up at the word "boyfriend": "I'm not as gentle as I appear."

Le Anyi muddied the waters: "Yes, yes, actually, he's not gentle on the surface either."

Ling Yin: "Get lost."

"Look at him!" Le Anyi pointed at Ling Yin and complained to Qu Xing, "He keeps telling us to get out. You were just too hasty with Ling Yin and got scammed by him! He might reveal his true colors to you one day, and you'll be ridiculed to death by him. And he'll want to control you in every way."

Ling Yin chuckled, "There's nothing about the stars worth mocking."

"How can you be sure?" Le Anyi asked back, "What if? Everyone has flaws, right?"

"Really?" Ling Yin looked away with disdain.

"Yes!" Qu Xing said excitedly, "Wind God, please mock me."

Le Anyi: "...What's your hobby?"

Ling Yin laughed and looked at Qu Xing carefully: "No, it's too perfect, without any flaws. Otherwise, you can tell me one."

Qu Xing: “Hmm…”

"Impossible." Jiang Lin sat up straight. "The stars are perfect."

He Weichen: "That's right."

Le Anyi: "You guys..."

"Didn't we agree on tomorrow?!"

Everyone turned their heads to look.

Zhao Hui came in holding a cell phone, his face obviously not looking good.

"Your team members have such poor psychological endurance. How did we bully you? How could you tell me you'd cancel something before the fact?" Zhao Hui said.

"Oh... forget it, then let your team members adjust themselves and come back to meet us after they're done."

Le Anyi watched him hang up the phone, staring: "What's wrong?"

Zhao Hui: "Tomorrow's training match has been cancelled."

"ah?"

"Besides them, everyone else who had plans for the next few days has said they're canceling." Zhao Hui's brows knitted tightly. "Currently, only UNG hasn't canceled their plans, but they've also said they won't be canceling any plans for the time being."

Oh my god...