CH 52

Translator: Rin (Editors not with me today, please bear with it or tell me if you see any grammar mistakes TAT, I tried my best.)

After leaving the veterinary clinic, Jiang Li and Chi Fang took Jiang Nuomi back to Chi Fang’s home.

The old man had learned from Chi Fang that the two had saved a kitten, and today he urged the two to bring the cat back. He cooked a delicious meal at home to celebrate the little guy’s discharge from the hospital.

Jiang Li went to pick up Jiang Nuomi after work, and when the two returned to Chi Fang’s house, the old man had already prepared dinner, he was just waiting for them to return and then they could start eating.

When he saw Jiang Nuomi in the cage that Chi Fang was carrying, the old man happily went up and took it. “This is the little guy, right? He’s so pretty, what’s his name.”

“Grandpa, his name is Jiang Nuomi.” Jiang Li who was at the side laughed.

“Jiang Nuomi, aiyo, so cute.” The old man complimented him and asked, “Has he eaten anything yet? Do you want to feed it some milk? Or some fish? I just happened to cook fish today.”

“Meow~” Jiang Nuomi meowed at the old man obediently.

Jiang Li said, “He has eaten cat food.”

“That’s good then.” The old man put Jiang Nuomi aside and said to the two of them, “Go wash your hands and eat, don’t let the food get cold.”

After the three of them ate, Jiang Li and the old man cleaned up the dishes, Chi Fang was idle, he turned around and saw Jiang Nuomi squatting in the cage looking at them eagerly, he then simply walked over to carry it out and put it on the sofa to play with it.

For some reason, Jiang Nuomi was not on good terms with him. When it saw him reaching out to tease itself, it fiercely raised its little paws and started scratching, it was clearly so docile in front of Jiang Li and the old man earlier.

“What an ungrateful little thing.” Chi Fang scolded as he laughed. He took a small wooden stick used by the old man to scratch his back from the side to tease it, “Do you know how much money I spent on you? It won’t even be enough to pay back even if I sell you, and you dare to pull a long face.”

Jiang Nuomi’s eyes unconsciously followed the stick in his hand, it became dizzy after following it two to three times, and it looked up at Chi Fang aggrievedly.

“Little bastard.”

Chi Fang laughed lightly, gave it the small wooden stick, the little guy hugged and did not let go of it anymore, pressing the stick in its arms with its two paws to bite it.

Chi Fang thought that he should prepare a cat bed in the house, so the next time Jiang Li brought Jiang Nuomi over, the little guy would have a place to sleep.

After cleaning up the dishes, Jiang Li and Chi Fang went back to their rooms to make up for the lessons, while the old man went downstairs to find a neighbour to play chess.

Just as the old man said, Chi Fang’s foundation was too poor. Jiang Li had been helping Chi Fang to catch up on phonetic symbols these days.

But Chi Fang was indeed also really smart, Jiang Li found that his grades were so bad because he was too lazy. If he was willing to learn, not to mention passing, scoring more than a hundred points was not difficult.

However, the point was, he was really not willing to learn.

Looking at Chi Fang once again lost in thought, Jiang Li put down the pen in his hand and knocked on his table. “Chi Fang, do you know what I just said?”

“Said what?” Chi Fang looked blank.

Jiang Li: “……”

Chi Fang looked at him glaring at himself, he innocently spread his hands. “I really can’t understand, don’t you feel annoyed talking to me about these messy letters, A, B, C every day, I’m tired of listening to it.”

“Then tell me something that you think is not annoying?” Jiang Li asked.

“Let’s put it this way.” Chi Fang lay on the table, tilting his head to look at Jiang Li, “Let’s play games, didn’t the teacher also say? One should strike a balance between work and rest for studying.”

“I don’t know how.” Jiang Li shook his head.

Chi Fang: “I will teach you ah!”

Jiang Li frowned and felt like resisting, Chi Fang struck while the iron was hot, “Then how about this, if you win, I will listen to you and study, how about it?”

“Are you serious?” Jiang Li looked at him sceptically.

“What’s the reason for lying to you?” Chi Fang thought, you can’t beat me anyway, “But if you lose, I want to rest these three days, don’t make up classes for me anymore, it’s really annoying.”

Jiang Li: “…”

Chi Fang had two computers, both top of the line in configuration, they were specially equipped to play games.

Chi Fang liked to play games, whether it was online games, shooting, or fighting-related games, he liked them all. The game he said he wanted to play with Jiang Li was a fighting game called “Invincible”, and he always played two matches during break time when he was taking extra classes.

“These four keys are to control the front, back, right, left movement of the character, this is to jump, this is to punch…”

Chi Fang carefully taught Jiang Li how to use the keyboard to control the character, and after finishing, he himself operated it once more to show Jiang Li, and then asked, “That’s it, got it?”

Jiang Li nodded and pressed his fingers on the keyboard for a few tries, “It doesn’t seem that hard.”

Chi Fang’s gaze fell on his hands on the keyboard, and found that his hands were slender and long, his skin was really fair with the contrast of the black keyboard, he couldn’t help but stare for a while.

“What’s wrong with you?” Jiang Li saw him staring at the keyboard in a trance, reached out to him and shook in front of him twice, “Why are you in a…”

Chi Fang subconsciously grabbed his fingers and held them in his hand.

The two froze at the same time, looking at each other’s eyes.

It was really small, he could probably wrap Jiang Li’s whole hand with only his one hand.

This was the first thing Chi Fang felt, Jiang Li had broken free from his hands before had time to think about it more.

“Aren’t we going to play the game?” Jiang Li asked.

“Oh, yeah.” Chi Fang nodded and pulled out a stool to sit down next to him at the computer, “You choose your character, I’ll practice a few matches with you first to let you get a feel for it, and when you feel that you’re almost ready, we’ll start the game.”

“Practice a few matches…” Jiang Li looked at him sceptically, “Are you really not doing this to play a few more matches?”

“… What kind of bullshit are you talking about, believe it or not I’ll kill you in one match.”

“……”

The first match began, Chi Fang slowed down the control speed, taught Jiang Li how to control while battling against him. The game lasted for ten minutes before he knocked over Jiang Li to the ground and won the game.

The second match was also the same, Chi Fang teased Jiang Li as if he was a cat teasing a mouse, teasing him for ten minutes before beating him.

Looking at Jiang Li who was pursing his lips while glaring at the little character who died on the screen, Chi Fang felt very complacent in his heart. The dispirited mood of being forced to study by Jiang Li these days was swept away. He placed one hand on Jiang Li’s back of the chair and said generously, “Seeing how noob you are, let me teach you a few more matches.”

“No need.”

“Hmm?”

Jiang Li pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose and looked up at him, “I’ve almost mastered it, let’s start the match officially.”

“Are you sure?” Chi Fang asked, “If you lose, I’m going to take three days off.”

“I’m sure.” Jiang Li nodded, “If you lose, you’ll seriously listen to the class starting tomorrow.”

“What a joke, how can I lose.” Chi Fang snorted, feeling very disdainful of Jiang Li’s words. He withdrew his hand from the back of the chair, selected a game character he was best at, and raised his chin towards Jiang Li, “Pick yours.”

Jiang Li gave him a deep look, his gaze returned to the computer screen and began to select his game character.

Somehow, Chi Fang actually felt a chill running down his spine with that one glance, he also seemed to see the corners of Jiang Li’s lips imperceptibly twitch a little.

… Afraid my ass, he’s just a rookie who’s playing games for the first time.

Chi Fang thought in his mind, he was a pro who ranked top three in the game, beating a rookie would take only a few minutes.

However, he was soon slapped in the face.

The person who was moving slowly and rustily just now suddenly seemed to have cheated, his control was sharp, his fingertips were flying so fast on the keyboard as if shadows were almost appearing. In less than three minutes, he knocked him down on the ground.

Chi Fang: “?”

Watching his computer screen turn grey, Chi Fang’s eyes slowly widened and turned his head to look at Jiang Li next to him, saying incredulously, “What did you do?”

“Nothing.” Jiang Li imitated his action of spreading his hands earlier and said innocently, “Beating you ah.”

“… No.” Chi Fang was a little confused, he looked at the computer screen, and then looked at Jiang Li. “Isn’t this your first time playing the game? Your control was clearly still trashy earlier.”

“I was, didn’t you just teach me a few times?” Jiang Li rightfully said, “But you can’t just play this with control, you’ll also need to rely on your brain.”

Chi Fang: “……” Why do I feel like I’ve been mocked again.

Chi Fang was unconvinced and simply wanted Jiang Li to play another two matches. He said that it was only counted if it was a best two out of three, in the end, he lost all three matches.

Jiang Li turned off the computer he was using, stood up and patted the shoulder of Chi Fang, who was sitting in front of the computer doubting his life, and said in a sincere and very understanding tone, “I know you may not believe in reality in a short time, you can calm down for a while.”

Chi Fang: “……” Not only do I not fucking believe in reality, I’m even doubting my life.

Although Chi Fang was upset that Jiang Li could beat himself, he also did what he promised and started listening to Jiang Li’s lecture seriously.

Just after the lecture, he was unwilling to give up and pested Jiang Li to play a few more matches, thinking that it must have been Jiang Li’s luck to win himself earlier. It was not until Jiang Li won three games in a row again that he realised that Jiang Li was relying on true strength, not luck.

After sitting in front of the computer for a while, Chi Fang looked up at Jiang Li who was putting away his books and asked once more, “How about we play another match?”

Jiang Li looked up at him. “No, you can’t win.”

In fact, it was not the first time for Jiang Li to play the game “Invincible”, he had played it in the previous world. He hadn’t only played it, but he had even endorsed the game before/was a spokesperson for the game before. He had played all the game’s characters and was ranked first in the game with his record.

The reason why he said he hadn’t played was because the original host didn’t have the opportunity to play in his growing environment, and losing the first and second match to Chi Fang was to cover it up, and the second reason was to test Chi Fang’s operational ability. Chi Fang was indeed very good, but he was still one little step away from him.

His straightforward and clear words left Chi Fang speechless, he chose to go to the living room to stroke the cat and calm down.

When Jiang Li came out from the room, he saw the person and the cat interacting with each other for a while and handed the IOU he had written earlier to Chi Fang.

Chi Fang was playing with Jiang Nuomi happily as he was squatting, when he saw Jiang Li handing him a note, he went nearer to see curiously. “What is this…”

The three big alphabets “IOU” on the paper made him freeze, and the smile at the corner of his mouth slowly converged, looking up at Jiang Li. “What do you mean?”