Chapter 2
Cheng Yansheng arrived at the XY base with ease, greeted the security guard, and drove in.
On the phone, Su Zheye suddenly asked him to drive over to pick him up, but he couldn't get the reason. Cheng Yansheng was used to serving this young master, and he happened to be free, so he came immediately.
He stopped in front of the base building and sent a message to Su Zheye: [We've arrived.]
Then he opened the window a little, put his arm on the window frame and waited for the latter.
Although he has been to XY Base many times, Cheng Yansheng would always sigh that they are so rich.
No wonder they were able to keep Su Zheye. Cheng Yansheng remembered that when XY missed the World Championship last year due to the mistakes of the bottom lane duo, all the fans in the e-sports circle thought that Su Zheye would leave. Cheng Yansheng thought so too, but he didn't.
XY made it to the semi-finals in this year's world championship, but Cheng Yansheng knew that Su Zheye was not satisfied with that - there is no professional player whose dream is not to reach the top of the world.
The boss of XY has already said that the team will be strengthened with Su Zheye as the core during the transfer period which is about to begin. Furthermore, the team needs cooperation and tacit understanding. The current XY has been running in for a whole year. Cheng Yansheng can't understand why Su Zheye suddenly wants to go to SEA, which is also one of the top four in the world championship.
Just ask later.
In the past, Su Zheye was always punctual, but today Cheng Yansheng waited for twenty minutes but didn't see him reply.
Maybe he didn’t check his phone.
Cheng Yansheng thought for a moment and called Su Zheye.
After a while, the phone was picked up. Just as Cheng Yansheng was about to speak, the other end hung up.
Cheng Yansheng was stunned for a moment.
Why is this person so abnormal today?
He turned on the screen and was about to call Su Zheye again when the passenger door was suddenly opened from the outside.
A gust of cold air blew in his face, and Cheng Yansheng couldn't help but shiver.
"Here I am, brother. I was just saying... - Damn, why are you wearing so little?"
Cheng Yansheng looked up and what caught his eye was the silk shirt on Su Zheye. It was so thin that it couldn't even block the wind.
No wonder the temperature in the car seemed to drop several degrees as soon as he came in. Cheng Yansheng opened his eyes wide: "Don't tell me that you have been waiting for me outside like this since you called me just now?"
"Um."
Su Zheye responded indifferently, fastened his seat belt with one hand, and placed his other hand in front of Cheng Yansheng with his palm facing up.
Cheng Yansheng looked at the white wrist and the purple veins on the fingertips that were frozen and exposed when the sleeve slipped off. He was stunned: "Ah?"
"cigarette."
"ah?"
Cheng Yansheng was even more confused: "You didn't smoke just now and stayed outside for so long?"
Su Zheye didn't say anything, but turned his wrist impatiently.
Cheng Yansheng had no choice but to take out a lighter and cigarettes from the armrest box and hand them to him: "Smoke less."
Su Zheye opened the window a little and lit a cigarette.
"Where are you going?"
As Cheng Yansheng asked, he silently turned on the heated passenger seat and turned the car's heater to maximum.
"casual."
Su Zheye leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes after saying this.
The boy's satin collar was slightly open, revealing his delicate neckline and collarbone. His long hair, just past his shoulders, fell softly on the sides of his face, making his face look particularly attractive in the mist.
However, her skin was extremely pale, her lips were bloodless, and even the thin blood vessels in her thin eyelids were visible.
Cheng Yansheng was stunned for a while.
He and Su Zheye have known each other for a long time, and he has some understanding of this man's family background and childhood experiences. No matter how difficult the times were before, he had never seen Su Zheye become so... fragile and fragile as he is today.
"Zhe Ye."
Cheng Yansheng asked cautiously: "Are you okay?"
Su Zheye still didn't speak.
Cheng Yansheng moved closer and stared at Su Zheye from close range. Before he had looked at her for two seconds, the Sleeping Beauty in his sight suddenly opened her eyes, opened her lips, and spit smoke in his face.
Cheng Yansheng exclaimed, "Fuck!"
"What will happen to me?"
Su Zheye raised his eyes: "Are you going to feel uncomfortable if I don't choke you today?"
"Tsk. As long as you're okay..."
Cheng Yansheng muttered and started the car: "Seeing you get in the car without saying a word, I was startled and thought you were hurt by love."
"Can I be emotionally hurt?"
Su Zheye took a puff of cigarette and half-lying down to look at him: "Have you ever heard of a saying that a wise man does not fall in love?"
“Yes.”
Cheng Yansheng answered seriously: "We will not be held responsible if the innocent people repeat the same mistakes and drown."
"Stupid."
Su Zheye cursed with a smile.
Cheng Yansheng drove the car out of the XY base: "You really scared me."
His tone was serious: "I was stunned when you said you wanted to go to SEA for a tryout. What's the matter? Don't you hate Gu Yuan? Why do you want to be his dog?"
"Um?"
Su Zheye stretched out his tone: "Do I hate him?"
"?"
Cheng Yansheng was stunned and turned around: "Didn't you say he was pretentious? I even joked that Gu Yuan's figure and looks were both your cup of tea, and asked if you wanted to give it a try, but you said you didn't like his personality."
Su Zheye leaned his arms on the car window and thought seriously for a while. Suddenly, he remembered that he seemed to have said something similar before this time in his previous life.
——Which boy who plays e-sports doesn’t have a foul mouth? Even if he doesn’t know how to curse at first, he will become irritable after being betrayed by his teammates in the ranking. However, Gu Yuan didn’t do that. Before Su Zheye was reborn, Gu Yuan played professionally for three years without cursing anyone. In the post-match interview, he was calm, dignified, polite and gentlemanly. It is not an exaggeration to call him the pinnacle of quality and culture of the entire DPL league.
This boy, who obviously comes from a scholarly family, is naturally different from me who was born by a mother but not raised by her.
So at this time in his previous life, Su Zheye had such an evaluation of him.
but……
Su Zheye chuckled and leaned lazily on the back of his chair: "It's not that I hate him, but he hates me."
"ah?"
Cheng Yansheng opened his eyes wide, almost stepping on the brake instead of the accelerator, shocked: "Why...why? Don't you two have nothing in common? And Gu Yuan is so polite to everyone, how could he hate you?"
Su Zheye also wanted to know why.
In their previous lives, both of them were core players of two top DPL teams. Ever since Gu Yuan debuted, fans, commentators, and officials have loved to compare them.
He and Gu Yuan indeed had no private interactions, but when they met for the first time backstage during S6, he nodded politely to Gu Yuan, but Gu Yuan said to him with a cold face: Su Zheye, don't go too far.
Su Zheye was completely confused at the time, and he still feels puzzled when he thinks back on it now.
Who knows? There are so many people who don’t like me. It would be so tiring to find out the reasons one by one.
During the entire S6 season, Gu Yuan was not in a good mood whenever he saw him, and it was only as time went by that he became normal.
etc.
S6.
2023.
Not right now.
The smile on Su Zheye's lips faded a little.
Just like himself in XY, Gu Yuan also has absolute say in SEA.
He hated what he said, and the SEA tryouts...
Cheng Yansheng was still nagging questions in his ear. Su Zheye took a puff of cigarette, looked out the window, and said nothing more.
-
However, that evening, Cheng Yansheng received a reply from SEA and could go for a tryout the next day.
Cheng Yansheng was very proud and said that Su Zheye was very capable and famous, and no team would disagree if Night wanted to take the initiative to arrange a tryout.
So the next afternoon, he drove Su Zheye to the SEA base.
"Ah Huang was so excited when he found out you agreed to come for the tryout that he gave me three 'F*ck's'."
Cheng Yansheng held a cigarette in his mouth, lit it as he got out of the car, and threw the lighter on the seat: "I told Ah Huang, he's here to pick you up. I probably can't go in, I'll wait for you outside with Ah Huang while smoking."
Su Zheye took a moment to react and realized that the "Ah Huang" Cheng Yansheng was talking about was SEA's manager Huang Heran.
He said "hmm" and got out of the car.
"Oh, by the way, Ah Huang asked me yesterday if XY was willing to put you on the list."
Cheng Yansheng touched Su Zheye's arm: "What do you mean? Can it be done?"
——As DTW and its events become more and more popular, the intervention of capital has caused some teams to hold contracts in order to retain players and traffic. In order to resist this tactic, the official has acquiesced to direct contact between teams and players through "informants".
Of course, specific transfers still require communication between teams.
Su Zheye yawned lazily: "As long as SEA's price is high enough, XY will not refuse to sell it."
He added nonchalantly: "After all, those people are crazy about money."
Cheng Yansheng glanced at him.
Cheng Yansheng rarely heard Su Zheye talk about his team, so he was a little surprised.
Although he didn't understand the specific meaning, he believed whatever Su Zheye said, so he said "Oh".
The two stood at the gate of the base. Cheng Yansheng looked down at his phone and said, "Ah Huang said something happened suddenly, so let's wait a moment. He will find someone to pick us up."
Su Zheye: "Okay."
Before his rebirth, he was overwhelmed by various things and was only thinking about winning the championship. Apart from training and competitions, he paid no attention to anything else. He had vaguely heard that SEA was an old and wealthy club, and XY's own teammates envied their base, but Su Zheye had never cared about it.
At this time, he raised his eyes and observed the SEA base.
Being able to occupy such a large piece of land by the Huangpu River is naturally worthy of the word "rich". In order to have good lighting, the intervals between all the buildings are large and the architectural style is quite luxurious.
The main building for the SEA team has only three floors and is located in the middle of the base. The floor-to-ceiling windows and bay windows complement each other, and the blue and white color combination gives it a full sense of technology.
After looking for a while, Su Zheye turned to Cheng Yansheng and said, "Cigarette."
Cheng Yansheng responded, took out a cigarette box from his pocket and handed it to Su Zheye, then reached for his lighter.
After Su Zheye put it in his mouth, Cheng Yansheng said, "Fuck!" and said, "I threw the lighter into the car."
"You smoke it yourself and don't let others smoke it, right?"
Su Zheye held a cigarette in his mouth and said something to him in a sticky tone, then raised his chin and said, "Come here."
Cheng Yansheng understood immediately and moved over with a half-smoked cigarette in his mouth, placing the butt against the cigarette in Su Zheye's mouth.
Suddenly, they heard the sound of a door opening behind them, but the two thought it was Huang Heran, and it was not easy to light cigarettes one against another, so they did not look up at first.
Su Zheye held the cigarette between his fingertips and took a deep breath when he touched the dark red butt of Cheng Yansheng's cigarette that was almost burned out.
After the familiar aroma of tobacco entered his lungs, he slowly raised his eyes.
——He met a pair of eyes as black as ink.
Probably because it was cold, Gu Yuan wore a pure black coat when he came out, and jeans outlined his slender legs. At first glance, he looked like a cold and aloof military officer from the Republic of China era.
His facial features were sharp, his nose was high and straight, his lips were thin and slightly pursed, but his eyebrows and eyes were somewhat indifferent, which made him look more distant.
The real person is more elegant than in the video.
However, Su Zheye did not miss the slight frown on his brows just now.
Tsk.
The already bad impression was made worse.
“Fuck.”
Su Zheye heard Cheng Yansheng curse softly, then turned around and said, "Hello, Gu Shen, hello, um... I came to the tryout with Night, and I just contacted Manager Huang. I didn't expect you to come out to pick us up."
At this time, you can’t call the manager Ah Huang anymore.
Su Zheye thought of the big yellow dog named Ah Huang who used to guard the downstairs of his house, and couldn't help laughing.
Gu Yuan looked over.
The boy was born good-looking, with his eyelids drooping lazily and long hair draped over his shoulders. At this moment, the corners of his lips suddenly curled up, and there was an indescribable charm in the smoke.
However, the smile after Cheng Yansheng said, "I didn't expect you to come out to pick us up", seemed to have no other meaning except sarcasm.
Considering his understanding of Su Zheye, Gu Yuan resisted the urge to frown and said, "The manager is arranging a training match with the coaching staff. I'll take Night to the tryout. There is a reception room in the base. Do you want to go?"
"No, no, no need to go through so much trouble."
Cheng Yansheng quickly shook his head: "Thank you, God Gu."
"fine."
Gu Yuan said calmly, turned around and opened the door.
Su Zheye took a step forward, but suddenly heard Gu Yuan say, "Sorry, smoking is not allowed in the base."
“…”
Su Zheye opened the cigarette between his fingertips and threw it away out of habit.
As soon as the cigarette butt fell to the ground, he heard Gu Yuan say again: "There is a trash can over there."
Su Zheye: “?”
But Gu Yuan just stood there and didn't move forward, making it clear that he wanted Su Zheye to throw the cigarette into the trash can.
This is the disciplinary committee member.
Su Zheye had smoked so many cigarettes in his two lifetimes combined, but he had never condescended to bend down for a cigarette butt.
The two of them just stared at each other for a few seconds. Cheng Yansheng, who was standing next to them, realized something belatedly and immediately came over to help Su Zheye pick it up.
Su Zheye raised his hand to block him.
Then he lowered his eyes, smiled as if at himself, squatted down, picked up the cigarette butt and threw it into the trash can.
“Hey.”
Cheng Yansheng suddenly stopped him and lowered his voice: "He will be your captain soon. What if he doesn't like you and doesn't let you pass the tryout? You still need to have a good relationship with him, don't be so fierce."
"Esports' strength speaks volumes."
Su Zheye sneered: "Whether he likes me or not is none of my business."
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