When Zhao Xun regained consciousness, it was already close to noon.
His usual "slow start" characteristic caused him to freeze up in bed for about ten minutes.
Then, with his messy, blackened hair sticking up, he looked somewhat bewildered at the rather empty dormitory room.
Only Fatty Hao was there.
He was wearing headphones and playing Nioh 2 with a game controller.
"—Fatty."
“…”
"Fatty!!"
"…ah?"
Zhao Xun raised his voice a bit, and Fatty Hao finally heard him and turned around.
He paused the game:
"What?"
"Where's my son? Why are you all alone?"
“Our youngest son accompanied Chen Dan to the East Station to catch the train. Our daughter-in-law took the bus back to Baling this morning—as for our eldest son, didn’t he tell you about him yesterday?”
Zhao Xun recalled for a moment.
"…oh."
He remembered that Lao Bei seemed to have mentioned accompanying the student council president to Pear Brother's house for dinner.
Although it sounds like we're talking about dinner, I think I spent the rest of the day playing with my uncle somewhere.
"When did Brother Jie get his car?" Zhao Sun asked.
"We don't know what tomorrow will bring," said Fatty Hao.
"And you?" Zhao Xun asked again.
"We don't know what tomorrow will bring," Fatty Hao said again.
Zhao Xun nodded; everyone was the same.
It all happened in the last two days.
He lives very close to Laobei; he can easily take a taxi home, so there's no need to rush.
Zhao Xun slowly picked up the thermal underwear and put it on her head.
Fatty Hao glanced at him and asked, "Don't you want to lie down for a while longer? I saw you went to bed very late last night."
"…Um."
Having just woken up, Zhao Xun spoke slowly and somewhat indistinctly: "Playing games—it's so fucking tiring. Ah—"
As he spoke, he yawned:
"Luigi's Haunted House Adventure - I stayed up until 4 a.m. and finally finished the game."
It's a Nintendo Switch game, so you can play it in bed.
The main appeal is the feeling of satisfaction.
Zhao Xun herself doesn't have a NS, but Lu Yibei does—to be precise, Lu Yibei's father does.
The year Nintendo released the Switch, Lao Bei's father exclaimed, "I may not have such a good thing, but my son must have it," and then went and bought a Japanese version.
—Of course, it is said that on the very day the machine arrived, Lao Bei's father lay on the sofa and played Breath of the Wild for more than ten hours straight.
—Lu Yibei bought the NS because "my son must have it," but in the first month after receiving it, he didn't touch it even once.
—Some friends might ask, since the NS is a console primarily for family entertainment, multiplayer games are naturally a given. Didn't Dad play with Lu Yibei?
—Answer: Nobody wants to play games with Lu Yibei. Except for Ji Qingqian's great-uncle, but including her own father.
—Ha!
Lao Bei's Nintendo Switch had always been kept at Yu Hang's house, but he went back for some time recently and brought back the game console along with his camera.
But the one who benefited was not Lu Yibei, but Zhao Xun.
—Wait a minute, Lao Bei's dad bought the machine and passed it on to his son, and now Lao Bei has passed it on to me, so I can't…
—I can't think about it too much, I can't think about it too much. My head is still a little foggy from just waking up.
While pondering various things, Zhao Xun climbed out of bed:
"I have to go out for a while."
Fatty Hao immediately became interested: "Oh!?"
Could it be?!
Zhao Sun: "Return the cassette tape—I rented it."
Fatty Hao immediately lost interest: "Oh..."
turn out to be.
Hao Zhangwen's brilliant face-changing performance left Zhao Xun speechless: "Tsk, I really don't know what you're thinking all day long."
Hao Zhangwen laughed shamelessly: "I miss you."
Zhao Sun: “…”
Fatty Hao: "—With Junior Sister Ma, I thought you two were going out together."
Zhao Xun said disdainfully, "You can keep this kind of thought to yourself, there's no need to fucking say it out loud."
Hao Zhangwen shrugged: "You asked that yourself."
"Your junior sister Ma is out with her parents today," Zhao Xun said casually.
"Oh? Her parents came to Hangzhou too?"
"Yes, her home is in Huizhou, which is not far from Hangzhou. But her parents have never been to West Lake, so they took the opportunity of picking her up to come here and have some fun."
Zhao Xun curled her lip: "I really don't know what's so fun about this crappy West Lake..."
"It's a good thing Lao Bei wasn't here, otherwise he would have just given you a German takedown and that would have been the end of it," Fatty Hao said.
Lao Bei is quite fond of West Lake.
Zhao Sun smiled radiantly:
"You'd better help your father then, and don't let your unfilial brother plot against me."
Fatty Hao's faint smile lingered:
"Come on, call me 'Good Dad,' and I'll help you."
"You've plotted to seize power! Get out!!"
When Zhao Xun said this, he was already squeezing toothpaste outside on the balcony.
The door wasn't closed, and a gust of wind blew through, chilling Fatty Hao to the bone.
"—I didn't realize you cared so much about Junior Sister Ma, Sun'er. You seem to know quite a lot about her."
"Your junior, Ma, talks like a machine gun, blah blah blah, and I can't understand it unless I go deaf."
Zhao Sun began rinsing her mouth with water.
Fatty Hao glanced at the balcony and saw that Sun'er already had the electric toothbrush in her mouth, her mouth full of foam, before he teased her in a sarcastic tone:
"Why did some people go to bed so early yesterday? They're usually still playing games on the computer close to midnight, but yesterday they were in bed before eight. It seems they had something to do today and needed to go to bed early, so they didn't have time to play with me, and I'm left alone in my room."
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