Chapter 62 Jinjiang Novel Reading Exclusive Next time I will try harder. ...
It was not the first time Lu Zhiye touched him, nor was it the first time he touched his head, but it was the first time he was caught off guard and not expecting it.
Countless moments of malice and the thought of attacking the person in front of him flashed through Shi Jing's mind. He touched the back of his head soothingly and pressed his hair into his hair.
Shi Jing's movements of leaning back and avoiding have become a conditioned reflex to other people's touch over the years.
But Lu Zhiye didn't let him escape.
He extended his hand with a little more force when Shi Jing tried to dodge, not too much force, just enough so that it would not make people feel uncomfortable, but so that Shi Jing could not break free.
They were in the SFD's communal dining room.
The aunt behind him went to make the dry noodles he ordered and might be back at any time.
Someone could pass through the door on the left at any time and see the two of them in a posture that was hard to tell whether it was ambiguous or not, but it was definitely more than just a gesture of friendship.
Shi Jing's brain stopped working for a few seconds, and then he suddenly came to his senses and raised his hand to block Lu Zhiye's arm.
"Who said I..." He said something without any friendliness on his lips.
He raised his eyes and met Lu Zhiye's black pupils again.
Pay close attention to his expression.
"..." Shi Jing swallowed back the words "Who the hell said I was scared?"
wrong.
Who needs you to deal with?
Does EVG's old Deng really need help? He can be pinned down by just one finger.
All the harsh words and curse words went through his mind. Shi Jing half-drooped his emotionless eyelids and spoke coldly and murderously, "Who allowed you to touch my head?"
After saying this, he and Lu Zhiye were both stunned for a moment.
?
How did he say this?
Before Shi Jing could figure it out, Lu Zhiye apologized first: "I'm sorry, I was a little anxious just now."
Shi Jing: “…”
"The noodles are ready." The aunt behind him called Shi Jing back to life with a shout, "Add any seasoning you want here. The chili is also here."
Shi Jing's stiff body slowly returned to normal. He turned around and took the bowl of noodles: "Thank you."
The two of them sat back at a table in the corner of the restaurant, their faces tingled with the steam rising from their bowls. Shi Jing remembered that Lu Zhiye must have seen the trending search on Weibo as well. He'd probably seen it before him, and perhaps understood the whole story in greater detail.
Sure enough, within a few seconds, Lu Zhiye spoke up, "Coach EVG posted a video while drunk and later deleted it, but someone saved it, and it's trending again now."
After saying this, he checked Shi Jing's expression. This sentence did not cause him any discomfort, so he drooped his eyelids.
He continued, "How do you want to deal with this?"
How could he handle it?
If Lu Zhiye hadn't suddenly rushed over and rubbed his head, making his mind a mess, Shi Jing might have already arrived downstairs at the EVG Club.
"It's my own business, I don't need your help." Shi Jing calmed down and opened his phone to look at the trending search. The uncomfortable feeling in his heart had eased a lot.
And Lu Zhiye couldn't help either.
He couldn't possibly ask SFD to investigate the trending search, nor could he ask the fat manager and the rest of the team to investigate EVG's internal conflicts. The two clubs were merely former rivals, with no other connection.
No matter how you explain it, it feels weird to just hand it over to a team.
Looking at the bowl of noodles now, Shi Jing no longer had any appetite. He just ate two or three bites to satisfy the little hunger in his stomach.
He was about to stand up when Lu Zhiye suddenly said, "I won't let the club investigate."
Shi Jing looked up at him in confusion.
As if he could guess what he was thinking, Lu Zhiye glanced at the noodles he had barely touched and said, "I have another way. This matter can be solved more easily."
"Can you come upstairs with me?" he asked. "I want to show you something."
When Shi Jing reacted, he was already standing at the door of Lu Zhiye's room.
"When you say go upstairs, do you mean go to your room?" He looked at the person who opened the door in front of him and narrowed his eyes.
Lu Zhiye didn't answer. He opened the door, moved aside to make room for him to enter, and stood aside watching him.
Shi Jing: “…”
never mind.
Anyway, I'm here.
In the base, an entire floor is occupied by the players' bedrooms, so I don't think Lu Zhiye would have the courage to do anything inappropriate.
Lu Zhiye's room was as tidy as he was, which made Shi Jing wonder if he was not only a germaphobe, but also had a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
After entering the room, the former closed the door. The sound of locking was very crisp, but Shi Jing's attention was all on Lu Zhiye's computer.
"Have a seat." Lu Zhiye pulled the gaming chair over to him.
The computer screen was on, and there were already a lot of unfolded files on it, all related to the trending search on Weibo. Shi Jing sat down and took a quick glance at it, and he could see the words "EVG" and "EVG head coach".
He frowned: "Have you finished checking?"
"No." Lu Zhiye also pulled another chair over and sat down. "Do you want to see it? I have others that I haven't opened yet."
Shi Jing: “?”
Is this the “thing” that Lu Zhiye asked him to come upstairs to see with such a cautious expression?
Lu Zhiye promptly explained: "I checked after seeing the trending search. If you don't agree, I won't investigate your past privately."
"..." Shi Jing randomly clicked on a few of them and saw some extremely detailed background checks. "It's only been a few hours since the trending search came out? You even have Coach EVG's birth date and horoscope?"
Lu Zhiye paused for two seconds and said hesitantly, "It went on the trending search list early yesterday morning."
Shi Jing: “?”
Lu Zhiye: "But you were sleeping, I didn't disturb you."
Shi Jing: “…”
Doesn’t this person usually follow the fat manager’s health regimen?
Wait, that's not why he checked on people so carefully, right?
Before Shi Jing could speak again, Lu Zhiye said, "I was trying to find a way to reduce the trending search, but you still saw it."
The sound sounded muffled.
"I don't want you to be unhappy."
Shi Jing: “…”
It's not that he's unhappy.
I just saw those old scenes again without any expectations, and I felt sick. It had nothing to do with that old Deng from EVG.
If he could influence Shi Jing's mood with just a few words, he would have been angry to death a few years ago.
The last time Lu Zhiye’s father came to see him, Shi Jing said that he was not a good person either, but it was not all to comfort him.
He is telling the truth.
From playing e-sports to winning the title of the world's best breakthrough player, the Internet and fans praised him as much as his journey in EVG was bumpy.
EVG's head coach was a scoundrel in disguise, and the EVG management was a bunch of leeches. The shady contracts, the exorbitant break fees, the intra-team bullying... Shi Jing had seen so much, so much that these tangled messes had become ingrained in him, leaving him with no desire to talk to anyone. The mere thought of them gave him a headache, a sour stomach, and nausea.
So when Lu Zhiye suddenly appeared behind him, Shi Jing's first reaction was to hide his phone.
He doesn't want others to see it.
I don't want anyone else to get close to me, and I don't want to hear anyone's concern or greetings.
The knowledge that worse things will happen if you let others see your vulnerable side has been ingrained in Shi Jing's mind.
If anyone asked him "Are you okay?" at this time, Shi Jing would probably just throw a bowl of noodles on that person's head.
It's hard to say what it feels like.
It's like a festering wound that has nothing to do with anyone else is suddenly discovered one day, and the person who sees it still deliberately turns over the wound and asks the person if he is okay.
But Lu Zhiye didn't ask.
Very strange.
Although he was also involved in his past, Shi Jing did not feel disgusted this time.
Something poked the palm of my hand.
?
Shi Jing raised his eyelids and saw the small boss seaweed handed to him by Lu Zhiye.
"Do you want to eat?" The warmth from his fingertips warmed the packaging. "You didn't touch much of that bowl of noodles just now."
“…” Shi Jing stared at Lu Zhiye’s hands and the cartoon old man with a big grin on the bag of snacks.
I did realize later that I was quite hungry. I hadn't moved my chopsticks much before because I had no appetite.
After a while, he took out the bag of snacks.
He leaned back in his chair, tore open the seaweed roll and took a bite, then clicked the mouse to open the web version of Weibo.
The video titled "EVG-Zeit and coach fight" was played again.
Lu Zhiye was using headphones, and Shi Jing had no intention of wearing them, so the video was replayed silently.
In the picture, EVG's former training room and Shi Jing himself wearing the most original team uniform clearly appeared in his eyes.
The video was short, covering an incident that happened during Shi Jing's breakout tournament in Canada. The first clip he released showed him opening the glass door, grabbing a nearby chair, and attempting to throw it at EVG's head coach before being stopped by two teammates.
Someone later posted another full version. Shi Jing was training on camera, with the head coach standing behind him, pointing at him, talking, and patting his arm repeatedly.
Shi Jingxian looked back and ignored him.
The head coach tugged on his right elbow again.
Finally, someone stood up from the camera seat and rushed outside the base, but the door was locked due to the icy and snowy weather.
The account that posted the full video wrote a short essay.
I was one of the same breakout players who trained with EVG back then. I've been out of the scene for over two years now, but I couldn't help but feel this way when I saw the video EVG released today. The other players from that time probably know that their coach seems to have a problem, constantly targeting Zeit and causing trouble.
Zeit wasn't as famous back then as he is now, but he was a truly gifted slasher. Any coach with even a little bit of insight could see that. EVG's head coach definitely knew how good he was, but he just couldn't get along with Zeit. I don't know why.
I happened to be livestreaming this video at the time, so I recorded the entire process. I never expected to have the opportunity to use it again. It's nothing like what Coach EVG posted. He started by repeatedly making disrespectful remarks during Zeit's practice. Zeit ignored him, so he tried to pull Zeit away and even locked him outside in -10°C... Even after Zeit came inside, Coach continued to swear, leading to the scene in the first video.
Shi Jing didn't need to guess how wonderful the following comments would be.
The country's top club coach was exposed for bullying players in the workplace. Not only his career, but his entire life was ruined.
Shi Jing let the video finish playing by itself without moving his eyes.
In fact, the EVG head coach did not deliberately target him.
If you have to say, Shi Jing has some similarities with him.
They all came from humble backgrounds and worked their way up through the ranks. EVG's head coach is one of the oldest players in the Apex scene, having competed extensively overseas and achieved impressive results.
The only bad luck was that the e-sports industry in that era was not as complete and developed as it is now.
But the EVG head coach is a completely different person from him.
At the beginning, Shi Jing also questioned himself, why did this person hate him so much?
He relied on him to gain fame, and after getting the title of world champion head coach, he looked at him with even more harsh hatred.
Later he gradually understood.
It has nothing to do with him, it's just the selfishness and arrogance of the EVG head coach.
He felt that he had worked hard to reach his current position, but he could not accept that Shi Jing, a rising star, would follow the same path and stand at a higher position than him.
A person's jealousy is as boundless as their insatiable desires. The more successful the team becomes, the more the coach feels that all this should have been his own achievement. This distorted and unbalanced mentality drowns him in resentment day after day.
He was afraid that Shi Jing, this cash cow, would one day run out of money, that he would really become the number one in this circle, that he would see the light of day in his dreams that he was unable to realize back then, and that all his despicable mentality would be exposed.
Therefore, from the moment the contract trap was set for him from the very beginning, there was no chance of peaceful coexistence between Shi Jing and the EVG head coach.
After a long time, Shi Jing came back to his senses and suddenly realized that the touch of his hand was not right.
The temperature is also wrong.
Shi Jing lowered his head.
It met Lu Zhiye's other big hand that was holding his.
Shi Jing: “?”
Lu Zhiye hadn't known when he sat so close to her, and his hand was held in an unusually natural way.
Noticing his gaze, Lu Zhiye paused for a moment and said, "Don't be upset, it's all in the past."
Shi Jing: “…”
There is no other intention.
Just pure comfort.
I was afraid that watching the video would bring back bad memories for him.
Lu Zhiye's palm was dry and warm, resting quietly on it. If you didn't pay much attention, it actually had no sense of presence.
never mind.
Shi Jing turned his face away.
Because of his sincerity, I'll let go of his previous remarks that crossed the line.
The door knocked twice.
Shi Jing pulled his hand back in a flash.
Lu Zhiye hadn't reacted yet. He blinked and was still a little dazed.
Then he glanced at his phone screen: "I ordered takeout."
Shi Jing: “.”
Shi Jing: "What did you order for delivery so early in the morning? You don't want to eat at the restaurant opened by your own base?"
"The restaurant's breakfast today doesn't suit your taste." Lu Zhiye said, "I ordered food for you."
Shi Jing: "Can you give me some... private dishes?"
Is this Lu Zhiye's super expensive private chef again?
"No." Lu Zhiye stood up and opened the door. "The one you used to eat at."
He brought the bag in and it was indeed not a private chef.
It was the same small restaurant run by a couple that Shi Jing had taken Lu Zhiye to last time. They ordered the same dishes they had ordered last time, along with a bowl of steaming hot rice, even with the pickled vegetables the owner had given them.
Didn’t he remember that the shop owner was closed in the morning?
And it can be delivered to such a far place?
Although he was surprised, people really need something familiar when they are in a bad mood. When he smelled the aroma of the fireworks dishes in his memory, he felt a lot more energetic without even picking up his chopsticks to eat.
Shi Jing thought it was quite thoughtful and wondered how to express his gratitude. Suddenly, he discovered that there was something different about Lu Zhiye.
His face was still the same as usual, without much expression or emotion, and his facial features were still the same as they would not change even if the sky was falling.
But the ears hidden in the short hair made Shi Jing notice something strange.
Became famous.
In stark contrast to the overly white skin around Lu Zhiye, the area around his ear is very noticeable and rosy.
Shi Jing held the chopsticks for a long time without moving, and his action of staring at people was too obvious, and Lu Zhiye also noticed where his gaze was.
He looked at the scene.
He raised his hand and wiped the right ear that was being stared at.
What could make Lu Zhiye's ears red?
It can't be that he was scalded by these dishes, right?
Shi Jing's eyes rolled and he traced the source back to himself.
That was the only place Lu Zhiye touched in these few minutes.
"So you're shy?" Shi Jing raised his eyebrows and deliberately prolonged his tone, "Just a few touches and your ears are red like this?"
Lu Zhiye raised his eyes, his black pupils met Shi Jing's, and he looked at him quietly for a few seconds.
"Yeah," he said, "I'm not used to holding the hand of someone I like."
Shi Jing: “…”
Shi Jing almost dropped the disposable chopsticks in his hand.
Sooner or later, Lu Zhiye would tell him without hesitation that he liked to give him a heart attack anytime and anywhere.
"You said you wanted to kiss me before," he said, "You're not even used to holding hands. If we do something else, you won't faint, right?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Zhiye suddenly looked up at him.
Realizing what he had said, Shi Jing froze.
damn it.
What else to do?
What else can I do?
What is he talking about?
"What I mean is..." When the pressure came, he raised his voice, "If I touch the back of your hand, your ears will turn red. If I let you touch the palm of your hand, or shake the whole hand, you will..."
The more he explained, the weirder it became, and Shi Jing couldn't go on.
Lu Zhiye never took his eyes off him.
When Shi Jing made himself blush, he lowered his eyelashes and said, "I've never tried it before. Can you let me hold it and try?"
Shi Jing: “?”
Shi Jing: “……?”
Shi Jing unilaterally read the message but did not reply, refusing to pay attention to Lu Zhiye.
The young man pulled the chair over with his back to it. After a few minutes, Lu Zhiye blinked.
Another five minutes.
Shi Jing felt someone poking his sleeve.
"Don't be angry." Lu Zhiye said, "I'll try harder next time. I'll touch the palm of my hand and try not to faint."
Shi Jing: “…”
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The author has something to say: I’m here, I’ve been waiting for you.
I haven't been home for a few days for New Year's greetings, and it seems that I'm owing more and more. TT Thanks for waiting, and thanks everyone for the nutrient solution and overlord tickets!
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