The last team members to quit the game walked out slowly beside the dark big screen.

The entire audience stared at the two teams walking out in silence. They all looked dazed, as if they had not yet recovered from the intense battle.

The host standing on the podium took a deep breath, waved his hand, and pointed to the direction where Liu Jiayi walked out: "The game is over."

"The winner of the challenge is——"

"Wandering Circus!!"

"Let us congratulate this new team for successfully defeating the second-ranked King Guild Team and advancing to the playoffs!"

After a brief silence, there was a burst of enthusiastic cheers and applause from the audience. However, no matter how exciting a game is, it is not possible for everyone to cheer and jump for joy - the victory of one side naturally also means the defeat of the other side.

Qi Yifang, who was sitting in his seat, covered his red eyes, trying his best to hold back the tears that were about to fall, but Liu Ji, who was standing beside him, hugged him tightly again. After punching his shoulder, Qi Yifang finally couldn't hold back and hugged Liu Ji and burst into tears:

“We all tried our best!”

"Why did we still lose?"

Liu Ji comforted him awkwardly: "Maybe we are not good enough."

Qi Yifang was even sadder: "You'd better stop talking, wuwuwu."

"It's okay." Liu Ji's face was covered with dirty burn marks, but his eyes were bright. "We will be better next year. We will definitely win next year!"

"Don't cry so weakly." Phoebe glanced at Qi Yifang who was crying heartbrokenly while holding Liu Ji. "It's just that we have to stop here for now, but we don't have to stop here forever."

"Train well."

Phoebe clenched her fists and said, "Even if there is no red heart, I will definitely lead you to defeat the little witch next year."

"What do you mean..." Qi Yifang raised his head in surprise, "No queen?!"

Phoebe paused, and a loud system notification sounded behind her:

[System prompt: The authority of the King's Guild has been superimposed. The former president, the Queen of Hearts, has transferred all authority to the new president, Sister Phoebe.]

[System prompt: After the transfer was successful, the player Queen of Hearts paid the penalty and applied to withdraw from the guild.]

[The new president agrees to the withdrawal application, and the player Queen of Hearts successfully withdraws from the club. ]

Qi Yifang's expression was completely blank: "Empress...what do you mean by withdrawing from the club?"

"That's what you saw." Hong Tao followed Phoebe out. He spoke in a casual and natural tone, as if he didn't know how big a storm his actions would cause in the game. He even answered Qi Yifang's words with a smile, "A player like me who sells souls to others is not worthy of being your president. There are too many uncertainties."

"That greedy man Bai Liu has already obtained my soul. I don't want him to use my dashboard to get the guild I worked so hard to build. Besides, I have been the guild leader for so long, it's time for me to retire and take a long vacation."

"Phoebe has grown to be more suitable for managing this guild than me." Hong Tao spread her hands lazily and smiled, "The position of president should be filled by the most capable, so I'm resigning."

The King's Guild, the second largest guild in the entire game, with countless points chains behind it, and the guild that countless people dreamed of joining, was handed over to others so casually by its founder.

Qi Yifang was completely unable to react, and neither were the other audience members.

The audience quickly recovered from their excitement over the end of the game and began discussing in shock the fact that Red Heart had quit the club.

They already knew about Red Heart's transfer to the guild halfway through the game, but, quitting the guild?!

This transfer to the guild is not a matter of one nature, it means that from now on, Heart will no longer participate in competitions as a member of the King's Guild.

The last time something caused such a stir was the transfer of the God-defying team.

Although the host was also shocked, the game was over. This was gossip outside the game and was not within the scope of his commentary, so he still concluded the speech respectfully: "Please ask the tacticians of both teams to come to the front and do..."

After saying this, the host paused for a rare moment: "Since both teams have replaced their tacticians in this match, please ask the four tacticians before and after the replacement to come to the stage for a post-match discussion."

in front of the stage.

Liu Jiayi and Phoebe walked in front, and the two little girls shook hands naturally.

"One day." Phoebe looked up at Liu Jiayi, "I will catch up with you."

Liu Jiayi answered seriously: "I've been waiting for this day."

"But before that, I won't lose to you."

After the two girls shook hands and bowed, they turned and left. Bai Liu and Hong Tao, who were walking behind them, took a step forward and looked at each other.

"You bought my soul in the game with a points coin." Hongtao held a points coin between his two fingers, raised his eyes and looked at Bai Liu, "In return, you have to fulfill one of my requests."

"Can you ask for anything?"

Bai Liu calmly agreed: "Any request is fine."

【Can.】

Hong Tao closed his eyes. At this moment, Bai Liu's smiling voice overlapped with Bai Liu's in his mind. He took a deep breath and then opened his eyes again: "Tomorrow at 6 o'clock in the afternoon, come to see me at the store where you first met me."

"I will tell you my requirements then."

"I won't wait for you long."

The next day at six o'clock in the afternoon.

Bai Liu sat in the empty store.

He arrived here ten minutes early. The store was obviously booked by Hong Tao and was closed. He knocked on the door before entering. After the boss opened the door, he handed him the key. Bai Liu raised his eyebrows slightly in surprise: "Are you going to give me the key to the store directly?"

"Yes." The boss's attitude was very respectful. "Our store was actually funded by Mr. Zhao. He is considered a big store owner, but the people below don't know about it, and Mr. Zhao didn't ask us to tell him deliberately."

"He said that a distinguished customer will come to see him at six o'clock this afternoon. He will just give you the store key then."

Bai Liu took the key with a subtle look on his face: "...Okay, thank you for that."

The Hongtao family is unexpectedly rich...

not far away.

Mu Sicheng, wearing binoculars, stared intently and said in a cold tone, "Bai Liu has entered the store, are you still following?"

Tang Erda, who was hiding himself by the tree, was still hesitant: "It's not a good idea for us to follow Bai Liu's private date like this, right?"

"It is our responsibility to ensure Bai Liu's safety." Mu Ke pushed his gold-rimmed glasses with a smile on his face. "Not to mention meeting a high-risk person like Hong Tao. What if he has some strange plans for Bai Liu?"

Holding a small branch, Lu Yizhan, who was huddled next to Mu Sicheng, nodded in agreement: "Yes! What if something goes wrong?"

Liu Jiayi, who was standing next to him, rolled her eyes and said, "How come a killer like you came along?"

"Ahem... well..." Lu Yizhan clenched his fist and coughed twice, then seriously pulled Heitao, who was squatting next to him and staring at the store with an expressionless face, over to him, "Of course it's not out of gossip! It's just that my team member wants to come with us, and I'm half his guardian, so it's natural for him to come with us, right?"

Liu Jiayi: “……= =.”

Just for gossip!

"But now Bai Liu has entered the store, and the store is locked. We can't follow him anyway, right?" Tang Erda advised helplessly, "How about going back? Bai Liu will be angry if he finds out that we followed his private invitation."

"...Yeah, okay, I won't do anything. I just dropped something in the store when I came to get my hair done last time, so I'm going to go get it." Mu Ke spoke on the phone in a gentle tone, and made a snoring gesture to the people next to him, "Please just open the door for me."

Mu Ke put down the phone and smiled harmlessly: "It's done, a clerk will come to help us open the door later."

Mu Sicheng cheered: "Mu Ke is awesome!"

Heitao agreed earnestly: "Mu Ke Niu..."

Lu Yizhan quickly interrupted and sternly said, "Don't learn dirty words."

Tang Er hits Fu'e.

They went around to the side door and waited for the clerk to open the door, then wanted to follow them in. However, Mu Ke easily fooled the clerk away and successfully sneaked into the store.

A group of people were stealthily hiding behind the makeup mannequin in the dressing room, and were looking through the half-open barrier at Bai Liu, who was sitting in the middle of the main hall and reading a magazine. When Hei Tao saw Bai Liu, he was about to walk over, but was held down by Lu Yizhan.

After a while, the main door opened again.

Bai Liu raised her eyes and saw Hong Tao, dressed in men's clothes, standing at the door.

He didn't wear the same extravagant clothes as the first time. He looked more casual. His long curly red hair was braided and thrown behind his head. He wore a simple white shirt and jeans. He looked like a college student playing with musical instruments. He looked completely different from when they first met. The aggressiveness in him seemed to have been washed away, and he became natural and casual.

"You're here so punctually?" Hong Tao sat down opposite Bai Liu, poured herself a glass of water naturally, and smiled at him with a hint of sarcasm, "I thought you would let me wait for a while."

"I'm always on time." Bai Liu put down the magazine and replied calmly.

"Really?" Hong Tao drank water with her chin in her hand and looked at him with a smile, "Maybe I remembered it wrong."

"I was always waiting for someone else before, so I thought you would make me wait too. I didn't expect that you would wait for me. I was quite surprised."

“I’m very happy too.”

“I never make traders wait for me,” Bai Liu explained. “It’s not polite.”

——This atmosphere made Tang Erda frown.

So harmonious.

The two men didn't look like the rivals who were competing against each other on the court yesterday. Instead, they looked like two old friends who had agreed to hang out and were chatting in such a peaceful and friendly manner.

"You are somewhat similar to him." Hong Tao lowered her eyes and looked at her reflection in the cup, her fingers stroking the edge of the cup from time to time, "but there are still more differences."

"You asked me to come here, not to find out whether I am the same as him or different from him, right?" Bai Liu looked at Hong Tao, "What is your request?"

"If I asked you to do it with me once, you wouldn't agree, right?" Hong Tao dropped a bomb in a calm tone.

Mu Sicheng, who was hiding behind the curtain, gasped in shock, which was quickly covered by the gloomy-faced Mu Ke. Lu Yizhan's hand holding down Hei Tao was so swollen that veins were almost popping out. He waved his hands frantically and asked Tang Er to come and help hold down Hei Tao who was about to go berserk.

Only Liu Jiayi watched quietly.

"But what if it's just a kiss?" Hong Tao opened his eyelids. His purple eyes reflected dazzling light under the fluorescent light, and his tone brought out a strange sense of temptation. "Can you give it to me?"

"I remember that if your skills don't meet the other party's requirements after the transaction, you will be locked up in paper money, right?"

Hongtao's words had already hinted at danger: "So if I really want your kiss and you don't want to give it to me, will you be locked up in paper money?"

"Why a kiss?" Bai Liu asked slowly, still having the leisure to raise the cup and take a sip of water at this time.

"Why?" Hong Tao looked at Bai Liu with a half-smile, "Maybe it's because Salome, the enchantress who danced the Dance of the Seven Veils, also wanted a kiss from the saint she loved, John."

"That's the story." Bai Liu stroked his chin thoughtfully. "If I remember correctly, Saint John would rather die than give Salome this kiss."

"Yes." Hong Tao's eyes moved to Bai Liu's lips, her fingers curled up, then moved away, her tone still lazy, "So in the end Salome killed Saint John, cut off his head, and finally kissed the lips on the dead head."

"——She finally got the kiss she wanted, but in a more brutal way."

"Are you threatening me?" Bai Liu raised his eyes and asked calmly, "Not really, I'm a man who abides by my deals. If you really want this kiss, come here."

After getting Bai Liu's consent, Hong Tao almost froze in place, then stood up very slowly by holding on to the table, turned her head to look at Bai Liu, stared at Bai Liu quietly for a while, then slowly bent down.

He was slightly taller than Bai Liu, and when he stood up, his shadow just covered Bai Liu's face. The braid slipped from Hong Tao's shoulders and fell into Bai Liu's water cup. The water droplets fell on the back of his hand, which was resting on the table and tightly grasping the edge of the table. His palm tightened due to the cold.

Looking from behind the curtain, the faces of the two people seemed to be gradually overlapping and about to stick together.

Lian Lu Yizhan gasped, but he quickly covered his mouth tightly and looked at the scene over there in horror.

But at this time, Heitao was strangely quiet. He just stared at Bai Liu motionlessly. Mu Sicheng looked at this agitated man strangely and asked strangely, "Aren't you going to stop Hongtao?"

"No need." Black Spade's cold voice came out almost at the same time as White Willow's voice, "Red Heart can't kiss anymore."

"Why did you stop?" Bai Liu raised his head calmly, looking at the red peach that was less than ten centimeters away from his face, "Don't you want my kiss?"

"What are you shaking about?"

Hong Tao's shoulders, her hands resting on the table, and even her breathing were shaking.

"Or let me ask it another way." Bai Liu raised his eyes and said calmly, "Why do you ask me for something that you are afraid I will do to you?"

"Same for sex and kissing."

"...I'm not afraid!" Hong Tao lowered her head, clenched her fists, and retorted to Bai Liu in anger, saying sarcastically, "Didn't you say I like you? Why should I be afraid to kiss someone I like?"

"There is no law that states," Bai Liu said calmly, "that one should not be afraid of the kiss of someone they like."

"I am afraid too, why can't you be afraid?"

Hong Tao's breathing gradually calmed down. He fell on the table, face down, with his face buried in the table. He exuded a gloomy feeling: "...Forget it, I don't want it anymore."

Bai Liu seemed to have expected this. He picked up another clean cup and took another sip of water: "Well, change your request."

"I dropped that island and it became an island in the sea." Peach was silent for a moment, then suddenly spoke in a very soft voice, "It became very beautiful."

"Go check out that island, Bai Liu."

"Okay." Bai Liu pondered for a while, then smiled. "I haven't been to a private island in real life, but it should be very beautiful."

"But there is a small problem."

Bai Liu asked seriously, "Will you reimburse me for the expenses?"

Hong Tao: "… reimbursed."

"Then..." Bai Liu held the teacup with a half-smile, and glanced at the moving curtain behind him leisurely with his eyes, "--Can I bring my family and friends to visit your island?"

Hong Tao raised his head and stared at Bai Liu's innocent face for a while, then he smiled with relief and said, "Okay."