Chapter 25. His WeChat Moments exploded.
Nan Zhiyi searched for a long time before finally finding the unopened bag of tea. After finally brewing it, she realized for the first time that she had put the packaging bag into the cup, and for the second time that she had poured in cold water.
By the time he finally brewed a normal cup of tea, You Xin had been sitting obediently on the sofa waiting for him for almost fifteen minutes.
In fact, You Xin doesn't drink tea much on ordinary days, but Nan Zhiyi urgently needs to find something to do.
He placed the cup on the coffee table: "Be careful, it's hot."
"Thank you," You Xin said, looking at him.
With her hands suddenly empty, Nan Zhiyi was at a loss for what to do next.
So much happened in just one day: You Xin insisted on playing the Juxing Cup with him, he got drunk and "slept" with him all night, they finally talked things out but then the other person suggested they engage in some bromance... As a result, as he stood there, he felt that the atmosphere between the two of them was a bit off.
Just then, his phone rang.
Nan Zhiyi glanced at the incoming call; it was Sister Li. She immediately felt a sense of relief, as if she had seen a savior: "I'll take this call."
He turned and went upstairs, leaving You Xin alone in the living room.
As if by some kind of coincidence, at the same time, the sound of a combination lock opening came from the doorway.
You Xin turned her head and met the gaze of a man with a buzz cut who looked a bit haggard, as if he had stayed up all night, standing by the door.
The other person was clearly taken aback when they saw him.
It is Qiu Cheng.
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Qiu Cheng thought he was seeing things.
He saw Yux, the player who won two league titles and two FMVP awards last year, who was rumored to be aloof and unapproachable and who would disappear during the off-season, sitting indifferently on his sofa at home.
Qiu Cheng was taken aback, and subconsciously began to calculate in his mind.
It's obvious that Yux's presence here is related to his roommate, Nan Zhiyi.
At this moment, the other party looked extremely displeased—it seemed that, although he didn't know what they had talked about before he returned, the two of them hadn't had a pleasant conversation.
Qiu Cheng immediately put on a fawning smile and closed the door behind him: "Little wanderer? Hello, hello. Did I disturb you?"
You Xin glanced at him, then silently looked away and started playing on her phone.
Qiu Cheng: "…………"
Qiu Cheng had long been aware of this man's wretched nature.
He first heard the name "You Xin" many years ago during a casual conversation. Nan Zhiyi and a mutual friend mentioned that Nan Zhiyi had recently lost her appetite and was determined to get to know someone named "You Xin" in their school's international department.
Qiu Cheng's first reaction was that his friend was in a relationship. He wondered what kind of girl would make his friend, who was so dense, take the initiative to pursue her. But after asking around, he found out that the girl was also a guy.
"That junior is quite handsome, and he's great in every way, but he just doesn't like to talk to people," a friend described. "Xiao Yi is quite persistent. I saw him take his bowl over to sit with that person every time he ran into them in the cafeteria, which meant we hadn't had lunch together much lately. When I asked him later, it had been two or three weeks, and he still hadn't gotten their contact information."
These words struck Qiu Cheng as somewhat odd, but he didn't dwell on them. The next time he encountered Nan Zhiyi, he casually inquired about it.
Unexpectedly, Nan Zhiyi looked profound and said, "He's a very mysterious person."
Qiu Cheng: "...What's with all this mystery? Isn't it just showing off?"
“It’s different, you wouldn’t understand.” Nan Zhiyi waved her hand at him. “He’s a very interesting person.”
She paused for a moment, then continued, "And you know what? He's incredibly handsome. I've never seen anyone so good-looking."
As he was about to take out his phone to show Qiu Cheng the other person's photo, Qiu Cheng blocked his phone with a look of disgust: "Don't show it to me, I'm not interested in men."
"If the other person were a girl, I'd think you'd switched careers and become a simp. Why are you so interested in a guy?"
"No way, he'll teach me how to play games." Nan Zhiyi seemed not to have heard the second half of his sentence, and said happily, "He's extremely good at playing games."
Qiu Cheng scoffed: "Can you be as good as me?"
Nan Zhiyi shook her finger mysteriously: "Next time I'll get him to play with me, and you'll understand once you play with him for a bit."
Qiu Cheng couldn't understand where the pride in his tone came from. He had always been exceptionally confident in his gaming skills: most of his friends were at the Gold or Silver rank, not to mention their ladder rankings. Those friends who scored hundreds of points higher than him on exams would still cling to him after school, begging him to carry them to higher ranks.
That weekend, he received a game invitation from Nan Zhiyi.
Upon entering the room, there was indeed another unfamiliar ID, "yux".
In that game, Qiu Cheng and Nan Zhiyi both turned on their microphones, but Yux remained silent throughout, focusing solely on killing.
The game ended, and yux, playing the secondary carry role, secured 12 kills, accounting for 41% of the team's damage output. Qiu Cheng tried his best but couldn't become the one who carried the game.
Then he saw yux type in the chat box: 【Something came up at home, I'm logging off now.】
Nan Zhiyi seemed a little surprised. He seemed to sense something and asked over the voice message, "What's wrong?"
But yux had already quickly left the room.
Nan Zhiyi also exited the voice chat. Only Qiu Cheng's character remained in the room, sitting alone in standby mode.
"That's baffling," Qiu Cheng commented, taking off his headphones.
He grabbed some snacks, scrolled through his phone for a while, and then noticed that "yux" was still listed as "online" in the "Recent Games" section.
As if by some strange twist of fate, Qiu Cheng sent a private message: "[Bro, wanna play solo? I heard you're really good at games]"
The person who had just claimed to have family matters to attend to and had to log off quickly replied: 【Okay】
...After that day, Qiu Cheng was reluctant to recall what had happened. He only remembered that his opponent had gone all out and he had suffered a crushing defeat in all five of his solo matches.
For a moment, he felt as if he had returned to the time when he was still in the HYG youth training camp, standing at the bottom of the ravine, looking up at those geniuses who were out of his reach.
Later, when the ID CG.Yux entered the league, made it to the World Championship, and won the Spring and Summer Championships and the FMVP the following year, Qiu Chengcai finally felt relieved.
Those five solo matches that almost destroyed his dignity were, as time passed, beautified in his words as "I played games with Yux before he debuted."
Qiu Cheng sat down on the sofa.
"You're here to see Xiaoyi?" he said. "Why did I leave you here all alone? That's just how he is, always jumping around and easily neglecting people."
You Xin glanced at him, but still didn't say anything.
Qiu Cheng seemed to be encouraged by something: "Hey, actually I'm Xiao Yi's friend, we grew up together, we even played games together before. You carried the whole game, Xiao Youshen. Do you remember?"
silence.
You Xin seemed to ignore his flattery.
Qiu Cheng took a deep breath. He forced himself to continue, "Well, I was out hanging out with some friends and just got back. Do you know HYG's Soso? He's the one who organized the party, karaoke and card games. I was thinking of bringing Xiaoyi along, but he absolutely refused, which made us short-handed, and it'll take forever to find more people. Don't you think that's pretty pointless?"
You Xin's brows were already slightly furrowed. But Qiu Cheng was still immersed in his fantasy of getting closer to Yux, oblivious to his surroundings: "Actually, I used to play in HYG's youth training program, and I'm really familiar with some of their starters. Little You, if you'd like, we can team up sometime—"
"Have you said enough?"
You Xin spoke coldly.
His words carried undisguised disgust, so much so that Qiu Cheng was momentarily stunned, his smile still stiff and comical on his face: "Huh? What did you say..."
You Xin stood up from the sofa and patted the hem of his clothes, which were not actually dusty.
His expression looked as if he had something dirty stuck to him: "Do we know each other that well?"
Qiu Cheng was completely stunned.
Nan Zhiyi had just finished her call with Sister Li and stepped down to the first floor when this was the scene she saw.
He was taken aback, then quickly walked to You Xin's side and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong? Is everything alright?"
You Xin remained silent. He was tense, staring at Qiu Cheng on the sofa with hostility.
Nan Zhiyi then turned to Qiu Cheng, who looked completely bewildered.
"Move out next month," he said bluntly to Qiu Cheng.
Qiu Cheng was taken aback: "What?"
"My lease is up, and I need to move," Nan Zhiyi stated as calmly as possible. "Of course, you can continue living here if you wish. I'll give you the landlady's contact information later."
He had always been responsible for paying the rent and handling all sorts of matters, big and small. To this day, Qiu Cheng doesn't even have the landlord as a WeChat friend.
"You're living here so comfortably, why do you suddenly want to move out?" Qiu Cheng looked quite surprised and stood up from the sofa.
"..." Nan Zhiyi closed his eyes. Now that things had come to this, he didn't want to say another word to the other party.
Should we praise him as a talented actor?
At that moment, he felt his fingers, which were hanging by his side, being gently touched.
Turning his head to the side, he met Shang Youxin's questioning gaze, as if asking him, "Are you leaving?"
Qiu Cheng also noticed the two's subtle actions.
He couldn't understand it before, but he should understand it now—the two of them had parted on bad terms before, and Nan Zhiyi had never mentioned the specific reason to him. He had preconceived that Nan Zhiyi must have done something wrong and offended the other party, which was why she said those things earlier.
Unexpectedly, Yux's relationship with Nan Zhiyi was not the hostile one he had imagined.
He intended to flatter the other party, but ended up patting a tiger's backside instead.
"Let's go."
Seeing that Nan Zhiyi did not make any further move, You Xin simply reached out and grabbed Nan Zhiyi's wrist.
He didn't even glance at Qiu Cheng, and said, "Seeing someone like you before dinner is really disgusting."
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It wasn't until they reached the parking lot that You Xin released his grip on Nan Zhiyi's hand.
He got into the car through the front left door, while Nan Zhiyi sat in the passenger seat.
The car door closed, and he looked at You Xin with concern: "He didn't do anything to you just now, did he?"
You Xin leaned back in his seat with his arms crossed, the air pressure around him several degrees lower than usual.
After a long pause, he uttered a few words: "Nothing much."
Nan Zhiyi: "Do you look like nothing's wrong? If he said anything to you, tell me."
Pedestrians were coming and going in the parking lot. You Xin stared out the window at a child playing with a balloon: "Nan Zhiyi."
"Um?"
"Can you please stop being such a pushover?"
Oh, so that's what it is.
Nan Zhiyi leaned against the car window with a hint of helplessness: "This matter is very complicated..."
He glanced at You Xin's expression and continued to explain, "Aunt Zhao is Qiu Cheng's mother. She has always been very good to me and my mother. At that time, I was young and my mother was all alone. She had to run the shop and take care of me, so she was too busy to manage everything. Whenever she had free time, Aunt Zhao would pick me up and take me to her home for a meal."
"Later, Qiu Cheng's grades didn't go well, and he didn't finish high school. She knew that he and I were in the same city, so she asked me to take care of Qiu Cheng. I agreed, and I have to keep my word," Nan Zhiyi sighed.
After he finished speaking, he noticed that You Xin's expression was still unpleasant, so he quickly added, "Okay, I know you're worried about me. Don't be angry, okay?"
To show his loyalty, he added, "Look, I'm even planning to move out. Even severing ties has to be done step by step, right? Putting aside everything else, we'll have some professional interactions. Being a streamer is different from being a player. Just because you're good at a game doesn't mean everyone will support you. We can't afford to make things too ugly. Otherwise, if you're constantly arguing with this person and having conflicts with that person, your fans will think, 'Wow, why is this streamer so troublesome? I'm unfollowing!'"
“I think that Tangyuan doesn’t think that way,” You Xin pointed out.
Nan Zhiyi said helplessly, "This is a type of rabies, let's just ignore it."
You Xin seemed to be in a better mood.
"Are you really moving out?" He glanced at Nan Zhiyi.
"Yeah, in the next couple of days, I guess," Nan Zhiyi said absentmindedly, fiddling with a loose thread on the cushion. "So much going on lately. I have to find teammates, move houses, set up a new workspace, and..."
And that damn thing, he still has no clue about selling bromance.
Is there really no other way? Nan Zhiyi racked her brains, trying to think of a solution.
Suddenly, a brilliant idea flashed into his mind: "I've suddenly thought of a great idea."
"—What do you think about finding someone skilled at account theft to steal your Stars account back from the club?"
“The account’s real-name authentication is also your own. Taking it back from them is at most returning it to its rightful owner, and it has nothing to do with breaking the law.” Nan Zhiyi thought about it more and more and felt that this was a brilliant idea. “And in this way, we don’t have to sell, um, sell BL... Don’t you think this method is great?”
You Xin: "?"
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Nan Zhiyi quickly posted two notices on her WeChat Moments.
[Xiaoyi Xiaoyi: Looking for a roommate (high budget). Requirements: 1. No disturbance (the apartment is large, so you won't be bothered unless someone specifically comes to your door). 2. Accepts that I have a pet bird (not particularly noisy, but it occasionally squawks loudly with a very penetrating sound. It's usually kept in a separate room, and it likes to bite, not very painfully, but it will bite people it doesn't like, so it's best not to go into its room unnecessarily). Can cover the majority of the rent. 3. ...]
After posting her message, Nan Zhiyi checked it carefully and realized her requirements were too demanding, making it unlikely she would find a job. So, in the comments section, she added, somewhat hopelessly, "If I can't find one, so be it, I can live on my own TT"
The second notice is: [Recruiting teammates for the Stars Cup. We already have main DPS/support players. Requirements: 1. Have a Stars account with over 500,000 followers (not required, I'll help you find one). 2. Top 100 ranked in the ladder, preferably with a ranking badge. If you're interested, DM me to apply (there will be a trial period). My teammates are extremely skilled and can carry me!!]
He posted it, and soon there were replies in the comments section.
[WD.Pigeon: Extremely tall? How tall?]
[Xiaoyi Xiaoyi replied to WD.Pigeon: Taller than you]
[WD.Monster: Registration open. Are you still recruiting tanks? I have exactly 500,000 Stars followers]
This guy is the tank for the WD team. Nan Zhiyi chuckled and replied: 【Yes, yes, welcome, welcome!】
[WD.Monster: I see you're still looking for a place to live. How about this, you come and stay at our base, kick the pigeons out, kill two birds with one stone! [thumbs up]]
[WD.Pigeon replied to WD.Monster: ?]
[WD.Pigeon replies to WD.Monster: Not a buddy]
[HYG. Lao Xu: Xiao Yi, have you considered coming to HYG? [Evil grin]]
Lao Xu was CG's former youth training manager, but later switched to HYG and is now in charge of the starting first team.
[Xiaoyi Xiaoyi replied to HYG. Lao Xu: I'll come if Mr. Xu sends me an offer [penguin spinning]]
[WD.Pigeon replied to HYG.LaoXu: Mr. Xu, I'd like to come too [shy]]
[HYG.LaoXu replied to WD.Pigeon: ...Is WD the manager here? This person posted this himself, I really didn't intend to make any unauthorized contact [surrender][surrender]]
[HYG.Milk: Are you still recruiting a secondary DPS? I can play secondary.]
[WD.Pigeon replied to HYG.Milk: Damn Pei, Pei is awesome, go easy on us next week!]
[Xiaoyi replies to HYG.Milk: Brother Pei, you dare to come, but I dare not recruit you [facepalm]]
Soon, the comment section of this post on WeChat Moments turned into a professional networking event.
One person seemed even more enthusiastic about this than him—Song Baiyu relentlessly spammed the comments section for half an hour.
[WD.Pigeon: Who did you recruit as your main DPS? How skilled are they? Can they easily beat me?]
[WD.Pigeon: Could it be some trash that can't even get past me?]
[WD.Pigeon: Why don't you beg me? I'll skip tomorrow's scrims! I'll go through fire and water for you! I'll be your carry!]
[WD.Coach Ash replied to WD.Pigeon: ?]
A while later, a picture of a white puppy smiling at the camera appeared in Nan Zhiyi's WeChat Moments notification.
[yux replied to WD.Pigeon: 1]
Nan Zhiyi: "…………"
No more than one minute.
His WeChat Moments exploded.
[WD.Pigeon replied to yux: ?]
[HYG.LaoXu replied to yux: ?]
[WD.Monster replied to yux: ?]
[WD.Pigeon replied to yux: ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ? ]
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