"Hey! Boss, what happened to your face?"
Shen Ying looked at the obvious redness and swelling on his face, as if he had been beaten.
She glanced at her best friend in the room and teased, "Did you do something naughty in the room just now and get beaten up by the landlady?"
Jiang Xia's face darkened: "Openly discussing the boss's private affairs, it makes me want to punch you too!"
"Waaaaah, Yanwan, the boss is bullying me! You have to stand up for me!" Shen Ying cried.
Lin Yanwan looked at Jiang Xia indifferently: "Go ahead and beat him up, but don't give me any face."
"..."
Shen Ying's expression froze. Her act of playing the victim hadn't worked. What happened to their promise to stand together through thick and thin? It turned out that now that she had a boyfriend, she didn't care about her sister's life or death!
"Hehe, boss, don't be like that! The injury on your face looks like you fell down by accident. If anyone dares to say no in the future, I'll fight them!" Shen Ying's tone changed, and she immediately showed a "fawning" smile.
"You're on the right track!"
Jiang Xia smiled and snapped his fingers: "Please come in, you two. Let's watch the premiere of Tom and Jerry together and see if it can really become this year's dark horse."
The two took their seats one after the other. Jiang Xia originally wanted Shen Ying and Wang Ming to sit side by side, but unexpectedly, she switched seats with Lin Yanwan in advance and sat alone in the corner.
Upon seeing this, the couple instinctively exchanged a glance, both seeing the helplessness in each other's eyes.
Lin Yanwan had no choice but to sit down next to her, with Jiang Xia beside her, while Wang Ming sat alone in a corner on the other side, feeling sad and dejected.
His gaze dimmed. When he saw Shen Ying smile at him just now, his heart melted like ice and snow. He naively thought that his dead love had a chance to turn around, but he didn't expect that he was just being delusional.
It's clear that Shen Ying is deliberately distancing herself from him, treating him only as an ordinary friend or even a colleague.
Ironically, he still harbored illusions.
This time, he vowed never to like Shen Ying again!
At least in the short term, he must let go of this relationship!
Jiang Xia checked the time; it was just past six o'clock, and there were still more than fifty minutes before the Tom and Jerry show started.
"Want to play a round?" Wang Ming opened Meteor Butterfly Sword, looking at Jiang Xia with a provocative gaze. He desperately needed a thrilling PK to numb himself.
"Oh, you're quite confident." He raised an eyebrow slightly. "How about the loser agrees to a truth or dare?"
"Bring it on! Who's afraid of who!"
"One hundred health points, best of five to determine the winner!"
Back in his high school days, Jiang Xia had won the one-on-one championship in a Meteor Butterfly Sword tournament held by an internet cafe, earning him 100 hours of free gameplay as a personal reward.
Wang Ming confidently chose the spear, while Jiang Xia smiled and cleverly countered with a dagger, as this weapon had the ability to instantly kill someone at full health.
Although I haven't played this game for over ten years and my skills aren't what they used to be, I haven't forgotten those combos. Once I get a little more familiar with them, as long as I give him an opportunity, taking him down shouldn't be a problem.
In the first round, Jiang Xia died at a huge disadvantage. Wang Ming jokingly said, "Old Jiang, it's not too late for you to admit defeat now. I won't make things too difficult for you if you have to tell me the truth."
"Heh, keep going. I was just letting you win. You really think you're some kind of expert?" Jiang Xia said disdainfully.
He controlled the mouse with one hand and frantically pressed the keyboard with the other, becoming increasingly skilled at dagger combos.
With a parry, a defense break, and a powerful piercing attack, he instantly killed Wang Ming when he was at low health, even though he was at full health.
Wang Ming was stunned, completely unprepared for this result, and gritted his teeth, saying "Let's try again!"
However, he lost three matches in a row after that. Each time, he was in a great position when Jiang Xia seized the opportunity and killed him in one hit. In this one-on-one match, Jiang Xia won without any pressure.
"The dagger's instant-kill ability is too strong, with a kill threshold of up to 100 HP, and your maximum HP is set to 100, so it's completely countered by me," he said casually.
Wang Ming's face twitched violently: "Fine, a bet's a bet. What do you want to ask me?"
Upon hearing this, the other two girls also looked over curiously.
"Do you still like Shen Ying? I mean now," Jiang Xia said, looking into his eyes.
Lin Yanwan didn't expect him to be so blunt about this. She turned to look at her best friend, only to see that she was completely calm.
Is this considered a swift and decisive solution?
Wang Ming clenched his fingers and then slowly loosened them. His gaze swept across Jiang Xia and Lin Yanwan's faces, finally landing on Shen Ying's face. Her calm expression dashed his last hope.
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, as if bidding a final farewell to his past relationship. Then, looking into Shen Ying's eyes, he slowly spoke, his tone exceptionally serious: "I don't like you anymore. I don't like you anymore."
Her calm expression suddenly broke into a smile: "I'm glad you think that way, Wang Ming. You deserve a better girl."
After saying that, I felt a slight, stinging pain in my heart.
"Alright, forced relationships don't work. From now on, let's all focus on our work and stop thinking about these things all the time. If we can't be lovers, we can still be friends. Look at me and my baby, we never talk about feelings when we're working." Jiang Xia shamelessly changed the subject.
Wang Ming's face twitched. "You bastard, you're always showing off your love to your girlfriend, you're practically looking for an opportunity to be together. Is that what you call not talking about feelings?"
They really went to great lengths to get him to work wholeheartedly.
"Pooh!"
Lin Yanwan blushed. Calling him "baby" in private was one thing, but doing it in front of these two was a bit disgusting, and she felt goosebumps all over her body.
"It's almost seven o'clock, are you still going to watch the premiere of Tom and Jerry?" She glared at Jiang Xia, took off her shoes, and subtly pressed her soft, tender soles against his instep.
"Look! Look right now!"
Jiang Xia chuckled and logged out of the game. Just then, he received a call from Zhou Lu.
"Mr. Jiang, the premiere of Tom and Jerry is about to begin. I wonder if you are in front of your computer?" Zhou Lu's soft laughter came through the microphone.
"Haha, of course, right now I'm at an internet cafe with everyone from the company, waiting to watch," Jiang Xia laughed.
"Oh, you can watch the live broadcast by logging onto our TV station's official website. By the way, I have some good news for you. Since the preview just aired, the viewership of Chongqing TV's children's channel has been steadily increasing, and it has already broken this year's viewership record. Congratulations in advance, Mr. Jiang."
Congratulations to you both!
After hanging up the phone, Jiang Xia entered the website address of Chongqing TV Station and entered the children's channel with ease. The response speed, which usually takes only a few seconds, suddenly froze for a long time, and the same thing happened after several attempts.
"Could the server have crashed?"
Wang Ming asked blankly.
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