Chapter 37 Jinjiang Novel Reading Exclusive: I'm Not Trying Hard Enough. ...
The lounge exploded.
"Fuck." Jiang Yuan was stunned.
His first reaction was disbelief.
But the person who said this was none other than Lu Zhiye!
Not to mention joking about such a serious matter, Brother Lu has never even seen Lu Zhiye tell jokes in normal times.
"Brother." Jiang Yuan asked again, "When you say 'pursue', is that the kind of pursuit I'm thinking of? The kind...of pursuit that you're after someone else?"
Lu Zhiye: “Yeah.”
"Wow--"
This is indeed huge news.
Even the excitement of participating in a large offline tournament for the first time couldn't compare to the excitement of listening to gossip now. Matt said, "That's not right, Master Lu. The last time my sister asked you, you didn't even mention it!"
Jiang Yuan keenly grasped the key information: "Brother, when did it happen? Recently?"
"It's been a while." Lu Zhiye looked calm, as if what he said was not some random news that would become a hot topic.
"Then, then, then, then... is this someone we know?" Jiang Yuan's face was filled with curiosity. "Brother, tell me in secret. I swear I won't tell anyone else."
Shi Jing's whole body tensed up.
Lu Zhiye said behind him: "You know each other."
Jiang Yuan and the others said in unison: "Who is it!"
Lu Zhiye: "I can't say."
Shi Jing: “…”
Shi Jing released the disposable paper cup that was almost squeezed into a compressed paper cake from his palm.
Before he could relax for a moment, Lu Zhiye said again, "Otherwise he will be angry."
"So...what do you mean by 'still pursuing'?" Jiang Yuan was stunned. "Aren't you officially together yet?"
Lu Zhiye said "hmm".
"Oh my god."
"Haven't you caught up yet?"
"Who does Lu Shen like? He has to chase after them?"
"Then I'm balanced."
The entire SFD lounge was filled with a variety of wonderful expressions.
"Alright, alright, this is my brother's private matter. You guys should just do what you need to do. Otherwise, when the manager comes, he'll scold me for not setting a good example." Jiang Yuan realized that it might be inconvenient to ask for more information in front of so many people, so he quickly sent the customer away.
When most of the kids from Team 2 had left, he leaned closer and said, "Brother, now that they're gone, you can tell me in secret."
Shi Jing: “?”
Lu Zhiye glanced at Jiang Yuan.
"Then you can tell me some details, right?" Jiang Yuan was anxiously thinking, "I definitely won't tell anyone. Brother, is this person from our circle?"
Lu Zhiye: "Yes."
Jiang Yuan took a deep breath: "Is there such an awesome person in our circle??"
Can he let Brother Lu pursue her?
Looks like I've been chasing it for a while, but haven't gotten it yet?
At that moment, Jiang Yuan flashed through his mind all the female anchors, female hosts, female players, female commentators, and even female celebrities who had endorsed products in the entire Apex e-sports circle.
No suspicious persons were identified.
Jiang Yuan: "Isn't this person beautiful?"
Shi Jing was listening nearby and felt that his patience had reached its limit.
Lu Zhiye: "Yeah. Very beautiful."
"Bang."
Shi Jing kicked over the trash can.
But no one noticed this movement.
Jiang Yuan: "Is he the best in our industry?"
Lu Zhiye: "Yes. Very good."
Jiang Yuan took a deep breath.
Are there really such people?
How come he doesn't know?
Jiang Yuan: "Did she reject you?"
Jiang Yuan thought he could use his talents to help his brother Lu find love. Maybe he could even be of some help.
"Yeah." Lu Zhiye lowered his eyelashes.
Jiang Yuan: "Did she say why?"
Lu Zhiye thought about it.
"No," he said.
Jiang Yuan: "Ah? Brother, is this your first time in love? Don't be too enthusiastic. Be careful if this person is an experienced lover. What if he keeps you hanging..."
Shi Jing’s fist hardened.
"No." Lu Zhiye answered confidently, "I just haven't worked hard enough."
Shi Jing: “…”
Jiang Yuan was completely stunned.
no?
Who on earth is this person?
Shi Jing, who was standing next to him, was almost suffocating himself to death. He stood up and glared at Lu Zhiye with an almost murderous look.
Before he could open his mouth to speak, the door of the lounge was pushed open with a clang from outside.
"Xiao Lu." The person who came was Coach Wan.
He waved his hand and saved Lu Zhiye's life without knowing it: "Come out for a moment, I have something to tell you."
Lu Zhiye followed him.
Only then did Jiang Yuan notice Shi Jing standing next to him.
"Sweetheart." He suddenly had an idea. "You've been playing with Brother Lu for a long time recently. Have you noticed anything?"
Shi Jing: “…”
Shi Jing suppressed the rising heat in his ears and said in a hard voice, "No."
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Coach Wan called Lu Zhiye out for no other reason than that the fat manager mentioned the personnel arrangements for the four-person competition to him yesterday.
The two of them discussed it for a few minutes and then let him go.
Lu Zhiye was halfway to the lounge when he was blocked by people at the corner of the corridor.
Shi Jing stood in the dark corridor.
If someone else suddenly saw this person, they would probably be scared by him.
Lu Zhiye raised his eyelids.
Seeing Shi Jing's tightly pursed lips and vicious eyes.
Before he could say anything, the other party tugged hard at his clothes, turned around and kicked the door of the fire escape next to him, and pulled him in.
"Bang."
The heavy fire door isolates all external sounds.
Shi Jing pushed Lu Zhiye against the wall and said almost word by word, "Don't ever tell anyone else...that you like me."
The threat, which should have been delivered in one breath, had its impact reduced significantly due to the half-second hesitation in the middle.
Fortunately, the person who issued the threat kept a straight face.
But Lu Zhiye actually asked: "Why?"
"..." Shi Jing gritted his teeth, "Why else? Who allowed you to tell so many people in public? If they guessed..."
Lu Zhiye: "I just said I like you, they won't know it's you."
“…” Shi Jing’s chest heaved violently twice.
After a few seconds, he seemed to have barely calmed down, and he said coldly: "If they knew it was me, you wouldn't be standing here talking to me so intact."
Lu Zhiye: "But they asked."
Shi Jing: "Can't you just make up some other topics to get away with it?"
Lu Zhiye: "I can't."
Shi Jing: “…”
Shi Jing was almost mad at him.
But then he thought again, it seemed that Lu Zhiye was not really trying to make him angry.
He really can't lie.
Everything is said directly, without any beating around the bush.
Realizing this, Shi Jing's face became even uglier.
"I don't care what you say. That's your own business," he said. "But if you dare mention this to anyone again, I'll—"
"Just let me know how hard your fist is." Lu Zhiye helped him finish the second half of the sentence, "Then I will only tell you from now on."
Shi Jing: “?”
Shi Jing: “…”
Sometimes he really wanted to dig open Lu Zhiye's head to see what was inside, and why he could seriously and unconsciously say such words that made people want to beat him up.
But every time I look at Lu Zhiye's expression, he doesn't seem like someone who is so cunning as to have such a scheme.
These harsh words did not threaten anyone, but instead made him very angry. Shi Jing decided not to speak to Lu Zhiye again during the second half of the game today.
Not a single word.
The two returned to the lounge one after the other. Everyone inside was busy studying various drinks and the big screen, and no one noticed this side.
Shi Jing found a corner at the edge and sat down.
I took out my phone and planned to find a newbie anchor to help him relieve my mood.
As soon as the live broadcast room opened, a sentence came from above my head——
"I can sit with you when I get back later..."
Shi Jing almost crushed the screen: "Get lost."
After getting up very early in the morning, for the SFD group, the novelty of watching the game offline could only sustain them for an hour at most.
What's more, some people don't have any sense of novelty at all.
Team 2 didn't have a match, and Team 1's match was in the afternoon, so there was still a lot of time left. Some of the team went out to explore the venue, and the remaining few were catching up on sleep on the sofa.
Jiang Yuan took Song Jiahang and Zhou Lian'an to visit somewhere else.
The first team's lounge was the quietest.
A person was half-lying on the sofa in the corner.
He supported his face with one hand and rested the other on the pillow in front of him. The live broadcast was still playing on his phone. Because the previous anchor had ended the live broadcast, it had now jumped to some unknown channel.
The owners of mobile phones have become very adept at using every place and time to catch up on sleep.
They were all veteran players, and no one in the first team's locker room turned on the big screen.
For the players' privacy, the windows were covered with blackout curtains, and only a few ceiling lights kept the room bright.
Shi Jing's chestnut hair color, which was not obvious in sunlight, appeared very light under the warm yellow light here.
His face was half turned sideways, with a slight curve on one side due to the pressure from his hand.
He didn't sleep well, his eyebrows were furrowed.
It was a scene Lu Zhiye had never seen before.
In the same lounge.
Sitting on the same sofa.
Quietly watching Shi Jing sleeping.
Being so close, he could even feel the slight body temperature coming from Shi Jing.
His chest rose and fell slightly with his breathing.
Eyelashes under the light.
Shadows under eyelashes.
For a moment, Lu Zhiye was dazed and couldn't tell whether this was another drunken dream or reality.
There were footsteps between the first and second team lounges. It was Matt and a few others returning from a trip.
Someone looked at the door inside out of curiosity.
All I saw was what seemed to be a pair of legs draped in front of the sofa. Before I could see anything clearly, Captain Lu Zhiye came over and blocked all view.
The team members looked up and looked into Lu Zhiye's black pupils.
I was inexplicably frightened.
There was a very light sound.
Lu Zhiye closed the door.
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Shi Jing had no interest in watching the small teams' games in the morning, but in the afternoon, when it was almost time for them to go on stage, SFD could no longer slack off in the locker room.
With an even more exciting competition approaching, almost all the contestants from all clubs have come out, and the spectator seats are many times more lively than the few people there in the morning.
"EVG is here too," Jiang Yuan suddenly said stealthily, "I saw them enter through the emergency exit at the back."
Zhou Lian: "Isn't there no EVG match today?"
"I don't know." Jiang Yuan shrugged. "Maybe he wants to come here to make himself familiar. Didn't they just sign a new penetration player? Doesn't the coach want to develop him into the next world-class penetration player?"
Zhou Li'an: "The one who transferred from South Korea? He's here too?"
"They're here," Jiang Yuan said. "And the head coach who recruited him, they're all here. Look, they're sitting right over there."
Shi Jing's eyes turned colder.
EVG has been unusually quiet recently, but even without Zeit, they still showed obvious hostility when they saw the SFD group.
The two teams were not far away from each other, and Jiang Yuan pointed his finger and their movements were immediately seen.
But Jiang Yuan was not to be outdone and glared at him.
"?" Song Jiahang frowned, "Are you cosplaying as a goldfish?"
Jiang Yuan: "That's called glaring! Please don't interrupt me when I'm destroying my enemy, okay?"
Song Jiahang: "What's the point of glaring at them? I'll film you and post it on Weibo as smear material."
"So what if I just like to glare at them? It's just black material. If they really film me, then maybe they were the ones who reported Xiao Tiantian last time." Jiang Yuan snorted.
Song Jiahang: "EVG didn't even participate in the online competition."
"Who knows?" Jiang Yuan pouted. "Anyway, their new guy doesn't look like a good person at first glance."
Matt said, "Oh my god!" "Why is Frog here too?"
"Who?" Jiang Yuan's attention shifted in an instant, "Wa Zi? He's playing in the game too?"
"No." Zhou Li'an said, "That's the anchor area. They should be representing the popular Apex anchors."
Popular anchor...
Doesn’t that mean…
Matt craned his neck to take a look.
As expected, his sister was found sitting in the anchor area.
Matt: “…”
He was afraid of being discovered by Tao Xiaoman. If she shouted in front of so many people, it would become a laughing stock before his career even began.
Matt quickly sat down.
"Are you hungry?" After the group sat down, the fat manager came over with a few plastic bags. "You guys got up so early this morning, and I don't think you've eaten much. You just had some biscuits in the break room."
"It's still a few hours before our performance. I bought some food for you. Pass it around and share it. If you don't have enough, come back and tell me."
Shi Jing had indeed gotten up early and had almost no appetite to eat, and now he was almost starving.
The fat manager bought fast food, fried chicken and other foods that are easy to eat in your hands.
Shi Jing was given a box of chicken nuggets.
He took a sip of his drink and took a bite of a piece.
not bad.
Hunger was awakened, and Shi Jing prepared to grab a piece -
The fried chicken fillet came close to my mouth.
Without thinking, Shi Jing opened his mouth.
After taking a bite of the chicken nuggets in the box, another bite of other food was passed to his mouth.
I couldn't see clearly in the dark, but they were all delicious.
Shi Jing ate mouthful after mouthful until he was full: "I don't need..."
Suddenly he froze when he realized what was happening.
damn it.
On the right is Lu Zhiye.
He has been eating the food that Lu Zhiye has handed to him.
Before Shi Jing could react, Jiang Yuan's puzzled voice came from the seat next to him: "Huh? Where are the fried chicken, French fries and rice cakes? I clearly remember them being there when they were delivered, how come they disappeared in the blink of an eye! Song Dazhuang, did you steal some?"
"?" Song Jiahang pushed him away. "You're slandering me right away?"
Jiang Yuan: "Where did all the food go?"
Song Jiahang: "How should I know? Aren't all these boxes of duck clavicles and duck necks enough for you?"
"Whether it's enough or not is one thing, but there's no way so much food could just disappear inexplicably!"
The scene is stiff.
Bow your head.
Her eyes met the fried chicken, French fries and empty box of fried rice cakes on Lu Zhiye's lap.
Then I looked at myself, whose stomach was a little bloated.
There was still rice cake sauce on his lips, and he felt a little guilty: "......?"
Jiang Yuan and Song Jiahang fought for three hundred rounds and finally cleared his suspicion, and his searching eyes turned to them.
At a glance, I saw a lot of empty boxes on Lu Zhiye's body that he hadn't hidden at all, the gloves on his hands and the rice cake sauce on the edge of the gloves.
And the scene of being fed from the beginning.
Facing Jiang Yuan's burning gaze, Lu Zhiye paused.
Without changing his expression, he said, "I accidentally fed the wrong one."
Jiang Yuan: “?”
Shi Jing: “…”
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