Chapter 5 005 Meeting
It was scorching hot in July, and the summer in Yulin was so hot that it was hard to breathe. Every time Xu Tingwan went out, he would apply three layers of sunscreen inside and outside, and wear a hat on his head.
You must not let yourself get tanned.
Compared to Xu Tingwan's exquisiteness, Xu Tingyan was much more casual. It was impossible for him to wear sun protection. At most, he would wear a hat. So when he came to Xu Tingwan after the exam, she almost kicked him out.
She looked pleasing to the eye when she was white, but now her skin color has been tanned into uneven patches of black, which is ridiculous. Moreover, every time Lin Leqi comes to her house, he brings a loudspeaker and plays phrases like "Monkeys are not allowed to go down the mountain" and "Monkeys, please leave the residential area" in a loop, which makes Xu Tingyan very angry.
Recently she had a meeting that she had to prepare for seriously, so whenever the two of them quarreled, Xu Tingwan would quietly go to her room and put on headphones. Although it couldn't completely isolate them, it was better than not wearing anything at all.
She rubbed her brows at the densely packed words and sentences on the notebook, and looked at her phone to see it was already past six in the afternoon. She closed the notebook and went out of the bedroom to get a cup of water, but found that the living room was empty.
Xu Tingwan looked around with the water cup in her hand, puzzled, and found that the two people were playing games in the room again. Seeing her coming, Lin Leqi smiled and talked to her, "Have you finished studying? Are you hungry? Do you want to go out for dinner?"
Xu Tingwan leaned against the door and watched this harmonious scene. He smiled and blinked, "Sure. What do you want to eat?"
Xu Tingyan was unhappy with her inattention and hit her to signal her to look at the screen. Lin Leqi, of course, would not let him point fingers at her and threw the pillow at her, "What are you doing at the crystal across the street?!"
"Can't you see the murder?"
"Who did you kill? Your teammates?"
“…”
Xu Tingyan touched his nose, knowing that it was his fault, so he rarely continued to argue, and just listened to Lin Leqi scolding him.
"Yes, yes, sister, you are right."
"Who are you calling Big Sister? Xu Tingyan!!"
“…”
Xu Tingwan took out his cell phone and took a picture of the two of them playing around. Looking at the expressions of the two people who seemed to want to kill each other, Xu Tingwan suddenly laughed out loud.
"Wanwan, why don't you invite Polaris to have dinner with you? Isn't his base right next door?"
Xu Tingwan paused, "Is he free?"
Lin Leqi swiped the screen and said, "Why don't you just ask?"
Lin Leqi was simply watching the fire from the other side of the river, not minding the trouble. The last time they chatted was when the game just started. In the past half month, except for a few words when they met and talked on the scene when he went to the referee, Xu Tingwan was busy preparing for meeting-related work. The WeChat messages were still from half a month ago.
Xu Tingwan bit her lower lip. She didn’t know how many layers of messages were covered, and now she had to search to find his chat box.
[Xu Ting Wanwan: Are you free tonight? Can we go out for dinner? Xu Tingyan and Lin Leqi are both here.]
After sending the message, there was no response. Xu Tingwan tapped the phone with his fingertips, and was instantly distraught.
What are you doing? There's no game today. Are you training now? But he told her that the club will have half a day off every Sunday afternoon...
Over there, Lin Leqi and Xu Tingyan had finished playing and were calling her to go out. For some reason, Xu Tingwan suddenly didn't want to move.
Xu Tingyan looked at her and chuckled, "What's wrong, Xu Tingwan? Is your brother ignoring you?"
Xu Tingyan’s response was a pillow.
Several people were about to drive away when Xu Tingwan's phone rang. She unlocked it, but it was not a message from Chi Du.
"So annoying."
Then she threw her cell phone on the back seat, where Xu Tingyan was sitting. The cell phone suddenly hit his legs, which scared him.
"Xu Tingwan, you're going to murder your own brother."
"Shut up."
"?"
Lin Leqi looked at her angry expression curiously, propped up her chin and turned back to say to Xu Tingyan, "I advise you not to speak now."
Xu Tingyan: “?”
Then I leave?
The three of them chose a hot pot restaurant, and Xu Tingyan joked that eating hot pot on a hot day was like taking a sauna in an air-conditioned room.
"What would you like to drink Wanwan? Watermelon juice?"
"All is fine..." Xu Tingwan pouted as he pointed at his phone.
Before the food was served, Lin Leqi snatched her phone, locked the screen for her, and put it aside. He propped his chin up and asked her, "Tell me, what's going on? Are you having trouble memorizing the words? Or did you run into someone weird at the meeting?"
"I have a meeting next week..." Xu Tingwan replied with a deep breath.
"So it's not going well for you to memorize the words?"
"……no……"
Xu Tingyan echoed Lin Leqi's words, "Why didn't Chi Du come?"
Xu Tingwan glanced at him while drinking water and said, "I don't know."
"Did you send him a message?"
"Um."
"Didn't reply you?"
"……Um."
"Then we can just go straight to his base and find him." Lin Leqi suggested with a smile.
Xu Tingwan sighed, "Stop making trouble..."
Seeing that Xu Tingwan seemed really unhappy, Xu Tingyan immediately put away his casual attitude and said, "It's okay, maybe he's just busy."
“…It’s none of my business.”
Xu Tingwan originally wanted to say, "He has a day off today," but when the words were on the tip of his tongue, he suddenly realized why he should care about what he was doing.
"Eat quickly, eat quickly. Whoever ordered it should finish it."
After waking up, Xu Tingwan shouted at them to eat quickly, even though the dishes had not been served yet.
"Tell me, Xu Tingwan, what should I eat now? Unboiled soup? Or your incredibly sweet watermelon juice?"
Xu Tingyan sneered.
“…”
…
Xu Tingwan went to bed early the night before and woke up naturally the next day before the alarm clock rang.
The first thing to do is still to check the news.
Polaris: Sorry, sister, the schedule is tight, so I added a practice match today.
Polaris: I'll treat you guys some other time.
Polaris: Sister, are you asleep?
【……】
Xu Tingwan rubbed her eyes, and suddenly covered her eyes with her hands when she realized what she saw. Her screams were heard from the bedroom.
"Xu Tingwan, what on earth did you do—!"
A strong sense of shame and apology engulfed her.
After struggling for a while, she opened her phone, typed and deleted, and finally replied with a very AI-like sentence:
[Listen to Wanwan talking: It’s okay, there’s plenty of time^^]
The message fell on deaf ears again. Xu Tingwan knew he was very busy and didn't wait for him. After replying to a few people's messages, he stood up, opened the curtains and stretched. The sunlight shining on his face swept away all the unhappiness of yesterday.
*
Xu Tingwan's emotions always came and went quickly. Before he could figure out why he was like that, he found that he had completely forgotten about it.
The meeting was scheduled for mid-week. The partners this time were still Xu Tingwan and Liang Mu. They had worked together many times. Xu Tingwan recognized Liang Mu's professional strength, so they decided to work together again. It's rare to have a colleague at work who doesn't cause you any trouble.
"If there are no further questions, I'd like to bring the meeting to a close. OK, Have a great day!"
(If there are no further questions, I'll declare this meeting closed. Okay, have a nice day everyone!)
Xu Tingwan likes to give the closing remarks the most. Every time he does so, he feels an inexplicable sense of accomplishment and excitement.
After everything was over, it was already past five in the afternoon, just in time for dinner.
Liang Mu packed up his things and asked her, "Do you want to go eat something?"
Usually they would just eat something outside after the party, and this time Xu Tingwan wanted to agree as usual, but changed her mind the moment she opened her phone and saw a message.
[Chi Du: Sister, can we go out for dinner after this? Just as compensation for last time.]
Xu Tingwan's eyes curved, and he packed up his things and was about to run out, "Sorry, Senior Brother, I have something to do later. Let's eat together next time."
Liang Mu: “…”
It was the first time that Liang Mu saw her so anxious. Thinking that something really happened, he didn't ask much, but just looked at her back and sighed.
…
Chi Du’s original WeChat name was Polaris. Xu Tingwan didn’t change it before, but later when he was bored and thinking about something, he felt a little unfamiliar with it, so he changed his note to Chi Du.
【Listen to Wanwan's talk: Where to eat? 】
The reply came back quickly, [Chi Du: Sister, I'm at the door of your meeting place.]
Xu Tingwan stopped jogging for a moment. The gate was right in front of her. She walked slowly to reply to his message.
【Listen to Wanwan: I'm out. 】
After sending this message, Xu Tingwan punched in with her work ID. The moment the sunlight shone on her face, she also saw Chi Du.
Chi Du didn't wear the team uniform today. He wore a casual plaid shirt and black pants. He still had the black baseball cap on his head. His exposed forearms were glowing white, yet strong.
He should exercise regularly.
Xu Tingwan looked him up and down while analyzing, and in a few steps he was in front of him.
Chi Du was sending her a message with his head down and didn't notice the footsteps. A second before he pressed send, a smiling face suddenly appeared in his sight.
His hand trembled and the message was sent directly.
"What are you looking at so seriously?"
Xu Tingwan tilted her head and looked up at him, her eyes sparkling, her face lightly made up, and she wore a blue shirt and black pants. The sleeves of her off-white suit jacket were rolled up to her elbows, revealing her slender white arms.
It’s a very mature outfit, but Chi Du thinks it looks very cute on her.
Thinking of this, his ears began to burn. He coughed, put away his phone and looked at Xu Tingwan, "What do you want to eat, sister?"
Xu Tingwan shook his phone at him and said with a smile, "Didn't you say we were going to eat hot pot?"
…
Chi Du just casually mentioned hot pot. The question of what to eat was originally thrown to Xu Tingwan, but who knew that she would accept everything.
"Why are you free today?"
Xu Tingwan drove the car and navigated to the place Chi Du told him, chatting with him casually.
"There was a game, and it ended around three o'clock."
"So soon? Did you win?"
"Yeah, 3:0."
Xu Tingwan's brows relaxed, and his mood brightened again. "Why didn't you go to the dinner party?"
Chi Du pinched the hem of his shirt and hummed, looking at her, muttering, "I'm getting angry."
Xu Tingwan nodded without thinking much about it.
"How did you know where my meeting was?"
"I added Xu Tingyan's WeChat, and he told me."
There was a red light ahead, Xu Tingwan stepped on the brakes and looked at him.
"How did you find it?"
Chi Du suddenly smiled and said, "The process was a bit tortuous, please don't laugh at me, sister."
After he said that, Xu Tingwan became even more curious, "Don't laugh, don't laugh."
"The intimacy of your game is not related."
After saying this, he lowered his head, his ears red. It was obvious that Xu Tingwan stared at him for two seconds before moving his eyes to the side of his face.
"So that's how you added him?"
"Well, by chance, he was online at that time."
“…”
“What if he’s not online?”
Xu Tingwan started the car and looked forward.
"Then I'll just have to stay with my phone."
“…”
*
Chi Du booked a seat, and when he arrived and saw two familiar people, Xu Tingwan instantly woke up.
It turns out they weren't the only two.
Xu Tingwan closed his eyes, feeling that he had been feeling very confused recently.
Seeing Xu Tingwan standing there, Chi Du looked down at her and asked, "What's wrong?"
"...No, I just thought...your ears wouldn't be idle today."
Xu Tingwan answered casually, but it was exactly as he said. It was very noisy.
"Oh, sister, you're not giving me a signal."
Xu Tingyan put his phone on the table and leaned back. After saying this, he saw Xu Tingwan and Chi Du walking towards him in the distance.
Lin Leqi had a serious expression on his face, and finally he called out helplessly and looked up.
"Wanwan!" Lin Leqi waved at her.
Xu Tingwan smiled at her and walked over, sitting opposite her. Her eyes fell on Xu Tingyan who was sitting diagonally opposite her, and she realized that Chi Du should be sitting next to her in a while.
Thinking of this, Xu Tingwan froze in mid-sentence what she wanted to say. Lin Leqi took a sip of water and looked at her with amusement, "What's wrong? Can't sneeze anymore?"
Xu Tingwan closed his mouth and glared at her, "Why didn't you work overtime today?"
Lin Leqi rested his hands on the chair and nonchalantly pointed his thumb at Xu Tingyan next to him. "My brother told me he'd take me to Glory King today. Without a second thought, I packed my bag and left as soon as the time came. My supervisor didn't even have time to notify me about the overtime."
"? Is it necessary, Lin Leqi..."
Xu Tingwan looked at the two internet-addicted teenagers speechlessly.
"It's necessary! Why not? The most powerful fighters right now are these college students. It's not reliable to find someone else."
"I like this sentence very much, but it doesn't prevent me from really being able to take you with me."
“…”
As they talked, they began to review the overall situation and blame each other again. Xu Tingwan sighed and looked at Chi Du, smiling at him awkwardly, but in fact, his back teeth were about to break -
I'll settle the score with you when I get back.
Chi Du handed her the menu and said, "Just order whatever you want, sister."
Xu Tingwan didn't hesitate, took the menu, checked a few dishes, and handed it to Chi Du, "Have you ordered?"
"Yeah, it's past time."
"Did you add Xu Tingyan using your professional account?" Xu Tingwan asked him with his head down.
"Yeah." Chi Du responded.
"Is that okay? Do you want to delete him?"
“…”
Before Chi Du could answer, Xu Tingyan interrupted, "Xu Tingwan, I heard everything. Polaris added me, please don't mess with me. This is the most important event in my gaming career. I recorded the screen, so I can't get away with it."
Lin Leqi paused, "Did you join Polaris?"
"He added me." Xu Tingyan raised his chin.
Xu Tingwan: “…”
Xu Tingwan suddenly held Chi Du's wrist and said to Xu Tingyan, "Don't talk nonsense when you go out."
Xu Tingyan was a naturally loudmouth, unable to keep secrets. While Chi Du adding him was fine, Xu Tingwan subconsciously thought, "What if?" He always used a professional account for his livestreams. If Xu Tingyan posted something and someone happened to see it, who knows how much trouble it would cause Chi Du. Not to mention something as private as WeChat; if it were to leak out, the consequences would be too much for her to bear.
Her internet speed is very fast, so she is not unaware of what those people are saying online.
Xu Tingyan curled her lips and muttered, "I won't, sister."
“…”
Chi Du's gaze fell on the hand hanging on his wrist. It was slender and slim. She didn't have a manicure, her nails were neatly trimmed, and there was no extra decoration on her wrist. It was just quietly placed on his wrist, very light, and very itchy.
When the hands moved away, Chi Du felt relieved. He raised his eyes and smiled at Xu Tingwan, "It's okay, sister."
Lin Leqi's eyes kept wandering from one of them to another. As if she had discovered something important, she patted Xu Tingyan under the table. Xu Tingyan looked at her with a puzzled expression, but Lin Leqi said to Chi Du, "You have a friend of Wanwan's, right?"
Chi Du paused and nodded.
Lin Leqi suddenly looked at Xu Tingwan and said, "Then I won't add it. It's more convenient for my own brother to use it."
The smile was ambiguous and artificial.
Xu Tingwan, who saw everything, said: "..."
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