The large-scale cold wave that had been predicted in the weather forecast for the past few days had finally arrived. The sudden drop in temperature was not without reason. The crystal clear hexagonal snowflakes quickly grew from small to large, becoming more and more numerous, densely covering the night sky outside the window.
Xia Tong was stunned. He jumped off the sofa excitedly, as if he had discovered a new world. He didn't even bother to put on his slippers and ran to the window. He stood on tiptoe and pressed against it, blowing a cloud of mist on the window: "It's so beautiful! It's snowing!!!"
Shi Ya followed the sound and came out, closing the bedroom door and said with a smile: "You look like Cupid in our family."
"Who is Cupid?" Xia Tong asked.
"It's his Shiba Inu." Zhou Yanjun ran down from upstairs and commented, "Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk!" "It's just snowing, no big deal! He looks like a big kid from the south."
"Then I haven't seen it!" Xia Tong pouted.
At this time, He Youjin walked in from outside while answering the phone: "Yes, yes, yes, go straight in and then turn left. You will see the brightest sign. It's right."
"What are you doing, Manager He?" Shi Ya asked.
"Today is Christmas Eve, I specially ordered some Western food for you, including roast turkey!!!" He Youjin said mysteriously.
"What? Today is Christmas Eve?" Zhou Yanjun said in surprise, "How come I didn't know anything about it!"
"Don't you see how intense our training has been these past few days?" Lin Mingfei interrupted unhappily, "We've barely even eaten, drunk, and defecated in the arena."
"Yeah, the Royal Mausoleum has officially launched a lot of special holiday events." Shi Ya flipped through the update announcements on Weibo and sighed, "It's a shame we can't do anything else besides playing in the arena. If it were any other time, I'd have called an Omega to go and complete the pendant quests together."
"I see you're all so tense today, you didn't even dare mention it. Look, we can only wait until your training matches are over before we ask them to deliver food." He Youjin shook his head. "We really are in this together."
"Manager He, why don't you care about the outcome of our game at all?" Zhou Yanjun said with narrowed eyes.
He Youjin snorted and said, "What's the result of the match? I can tell from your faces. We lost 2-3, right?"
Zhou Yanjun immediately gave a thumbs-up: "Holy crap, that's amazing."
"You lost the game and still ordered us a feast. Your value orientation is wrong." Shi Ya said with a smile.
"Do you think I'm the Zhao Xin of Sabretooth?" He Youjin rolled his eyes. "My realm is much higher than his. I know the value of a training match isn't winning or losing, but how much experience can be gained from it."
"That's right, Manager He is right!" Xia Tong was sniffing and clapping hard at the same time.
"What's right?" Lin Mingfei came over and rubbed his head: "Finish your ginger soup before you talk! Look at your snot bubbles!"
The waiter quickly brought in the freshly prepared meals, including pan-fried scallops and sturgeon roe, Australian baby back, steak Wellington, and oxtail broth with wine. The raspberry cake was shaped like an unaffordable Christmas tree, looking incredibly lifelike. The highlight was the charcoal-grilled turkey, glistening with oil, its skin crispy and golden. Xia Tong leaned over the table eagerly, pursing her lips and swallowing saliva. "Um... um... can I have a chicken drumstick?"
"Then you may have to fight with Zhou Yanjun first." Shi Ya said with a smile, holding her chin with one hand.
Xia Tong turned her head pitifully and sent a signal of peace to Zhou Yanjun: "Fatty, I want to eat a big chicken leg..."
Zhou Yanjun has always been a master at eating: "...Let's fight!"
So, the two of them——
"Rock, Paper, Scissors!"
"Rock, Paper, Scissors!"
"Rock, Paper, Scissors!!"
"Aha! I win!" Zhou Yanjun danced with joy, turned around and prepared to break the chicken legs, but then he found that both legs were missing.
"Fuck, where are my legs!!" Zhou Yanjun roared angrily.
"Aren't your legs on your body?" Bo Yu said.
"I said chicken!!! Chicken!!" Zhou Yanjun jumped up and down.
"Here it is." Lin Mingfei's lazy laughter suddenly sounded from behind. Zhou Yanjun turned around and saw that their captain was holding a golden and crispy chicken leg in one hand. He shook it in the air as if asking for credit, and then stuffed one of them into the hands of the little omega beside him who was staring at him greedily and swallowing his saliva.
"Ah, my leg!!!" Zhou Yanjun screamed, as if he had broken his own leg. "Lin Mingfei, I'm going to fight you!! Give me back my chicken leg!!"
He pounced on Lin Mingfei with his teeth bared, trying to snatch back the big chicken leg that symbolized his dignity as the master of rock-paper-scissors, but he saw that Lin Mingfei's dog alpha calmly opened his mouth and took a bite of the chicken thigh.
The skin and meat were included, and it was juicy and fragrant, and it went into Lin Mingfei's mouth.
Zhou Yanjun froze in place, his eyes moist.
"I've touched it, do you still want to eat it?" Lin Mingfei shook the broken chicken thigh proudly.
Zhou Yanjun choked up: "I won the game of rock, paper, scissors..."
Lin Mingfei's reaction was so annoying: "So what?"
Zhou Yanjun: “…”
Then, the fat man took a deep breath and started yelling without any manner at all.
He had just shouted twice when Xia Tong poked him in the lower back.
"Fatty." Xia Tong stared at him with bright eyes, handed the intact chicken drumstick in his hand to Zhou Yanjun, and said sincerely: "Here, eat it."
Zhou Yanjun was stunned.
"and you--"
"I'm fine. Isn't there still one in Zero?" Xia Tong said with a smile.
"Oh my god!" Zhou Yanjun looked at Xia Tong as if she were a fairy radiating holy light. "You are so great, Xia Xiaotong." After a pause, he said with worry and contempt, "But his thing has been taken away by him-"
"Oh, I don't mind Zero!" Xia Tong stuffed the chicken leg into Zhou Yanjun's hand, and then took a bite of the chicken leg from Lin Mingfei's hand, eating it with great pleasure. Then she emphasized, "I haven't touched this one, Fatty!"
Lin Mingfei raised her eyebrows, a smile appeared in the corner of her eyes, and she handed the chicken leg directly to Xia Tong: "Take it and eat it, it's all yours."
Xia Tong smiled so hard that her teeth were visible and her eyes were invisible: "I love you the most, Zero!"
Zhou Yanjun: “!!!”
What's with this feeling of being blinded by light?
"You don't actually dislike him!" Zhou Yanjun pointed at Lin Mingfei and asked Xia Tong tremblingly.
"Why should I dislike him?" Xia Tong said happily while eating chicken legs.
"Yeah, I don't have the habit of not washing my underwear. I'm very clean." Lin Mingfei smiled wryly.
Zhou Yanjun: “…”
Bo Yu sighed sincerely: "In ancient times, Kong Rong gave up his pears, and now there is Xia Tong giving up his chicken."
Shi Ya commented more sharply: "Mr. Zhou won the chicken leg but lost his dignity."
He Youjin: "Tsk tsk tsk, I don't know what they're trying to achieve."
Zhou Yanjun was so angry that he threw the chicken leg onto the plate and said, "I'm not eating this anymore! I'm so angry, don't I have any dignity?" He paused, and under the disbelieving gazes of the crowd, he stretched out his fat paw towards the steak and said, "Let me try the legendary Wellington..."
"Tsk..." Everyone uttered a sound of contempt at the same time.
"You are probably the only ones who are so happy after losing the training match." He Youjin shook his head and laughed. He turned to look out the window. The snow was falling like a dream, making the room warmer like spring and brighter like day.
"But I feel that you will always win in the future." He Youjin suddenly felt in a very good mood and whispered to himself.
"Can we go out and play in the snow later?" Xia Tong asked crisply.
"Go if you're not afraid of catching a cold," said Lin Mingfei.
"I'm not afraid." Xia Tong said.
"Even if you have a cold, you can't delay training." Lin Mingfei said seriously.
Xia Tong: "Emm...but I still want to go. I want to build a snowman and have a snowball fight. Zero, just let me go." He grabbed Lin Mingfei's sleeve and shook it vigorously, acting like a spoiled child. Suddenly, an idea came to him. He lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "Zero, if you accompany me to play in the snow, I will tell you a little secret."
"Hmm?" This little thing had actually progressed to the point of playing tricks on her. Lin Mingfei didn't know whether to laugh or feel proud, so she raised her eyebrows. "What kind of secret is it? I need to make sure I'm interested first."
"Emmm, it's about the details of today's last training match! The details of the Sabretooth Tiger team!" Xia Tong's little secret was immediately revealed by Lin Mingfei.
Lin Mingfei suddenly became serious, and her lazy eyes narrowed and became focused.
He originally thought that the last training match was a sure loss. Even if Xia Tong had extraordinary abilities, with a full team of Sabertooth Tigers, the chances of a comeback were almost zero.
The time he went out to cover for Xia Tong was simply to give Xia Tong a chance to try his hand, without thinking about the final outcome.
But Xia Tong unexpectedly took away Sabertooth Tiger's nurse Yoyo and the center Dylan at once, and finally turned the situation around with great force. In his opinion, this was a miracle at best, and a strange thing at worst.
Now that Xia Tong brought it up, Lin Mingfei became even more curious.
"You say." He said softly.
"Then you have to agree to accompany me to play in the snow later." Xia Tong said.
"Um."
Xia Tong tilted her head and thought for a while, then organized her words.
"I don't think Dylan's last wave was targeting me. He tricked Yoyo into using all his big skills before dying. It was like he was bringing Yoyo to... to..." He racked his brains for a long time and finally found an adjective that he felt was accurate: "- to commit suicide for love!"
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