CH 14

editor: Storm

The flooding on the screen extinguished and he thought this matter was finally over. But then, his private message lit up. It was a message from the rich newbie who had never said anything and silently endured the dissing: [Thank you] 

As a hardcore player of this Xianxia game, Lin Dongyang had also encountered a lot of strange things, large and small, so he kindly advised: [It was just a slight effort. Don’t take things to heart, lest you be unhappy]

The other party was very quiet, and there was no other private message after a thank you, but Lin Dongyang did receive a game friend application. He thought that the other side just wanted to rub his thigh. But, after all, the newbie had capital, so he agreed. Anyway, he didn’t care about having a lot of dead weights on his friends list.

As for how this newbie became a game partner? Lin Dongyang admitted that the in-game purchase godfather was too charming! Lin Dongyang liked this game, and naturally he liked all kinds of costumes in the game. He didn’t spend much money in the game, but he still had a yearning heart. When he saw what he liked, he couldn’t help but try the water shallowly. Unfortunately, his financial resources didn’t allow him to behave like this, but this in-game purchase godfather satisfied his wish for all costumes.

Lin Dongyang wavered, the dazzling martial god’s orange costume made him waver. He became more and more close to the newbie he had picked up. He successfully accepted him as his last apprentice, brought him to a difficult dungeon everyday, and successfully promoted him to become a game partner. 

To everyone’s delight and satisfaction!

Every time, he could see the dazzling effect of the martial god’s orange costume for the first time, which was enough for his eye addiction. But in any case, he didn’t accept the gifts sent by the other party no matter what. You will not receive reward without merit, and a gentleman who loves money must also seek it in a good way.

Lin Dongyang, who was originally fascinated by the equipment, later slowly discovered that the in-app purchase godfather had become more and more attached to him since they had become partners in-game. From never opening his mouth at first, to barely opening his mouth later. Then he said such words as ‘Yingyingying seeking for a hug. Wuwuwu I can’t beat’. Lin Dongyang didn’t know when the relationship became closer and closer, scratching his heart and causing ripples. He couldn’t help sending the gender-changed WeChat to his puppy-like partner. For this reason, he also deeply reflected on whether he had been subtly bent.

Later… Later, it became the awkward situation it was now.

He couldn’t bear to look back on the past ah.

As for why the gender was changed, Lin Dongyang explained, “First of all, I play the female character as my own preference. It doesn’t hurt anyone. Secondly, I have made many friends after playing the game for so long. But after some of them found out my gender, they felt as though I had deliberately deceived them and began cursing at me, calling me a ‘ladyboy’. The key point is that I had a particularly complicated entanglement with them. That’s why I can not simply explain to someone: I am a man. Do you still want to make friends with me?”

Before Lin Dongyang retired from the game, he had a game friend who he used to finish dungeons together with. They met in a cooperative competition, and they gradually became good friends after boasting about each other’s skills. At first, he also felt that it might be bad to deceive others, so he found a time to explain that he played a female character.

But the other party suddenly became hostile, cursing him as a transvestite, and dissing him in the guild for a long time. Fortunately, he was still quite famous at that time, and the people who supported him completely crushed the people who dissed him. Lin Dongyang couldn’t understand why it was such a big deal to this person? Indeed someone might know a person for a long time without understanding their true nature. After that incident he thought there was no need to try to do more than was required again. 

“They cursed at you?” Maybe Qiao Yichen didn’t understand but it was obviously too late to find out now. How could someone scold him?

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Therefore, after receiving the rose flower confession from his junior brother, Lin Dongyang, who had experienced the cruelty of the game, decided to pull him, who had also misstepped, along with him out of the game pit.

Hearing this, Qiao Yichen lowered his eyes, frowning slightly. The old scar on his waist and abdomen that was covered by clothes, began to ache again. 

Then the waiter brought over two drinks on a delicate tray, placed them carefully in front of the two, and said ‘please take your time’, before leaving. After the waiter’s interruption, the conversation was cut off, and Qiao Yichen drank his sugar-free latte in silence.

The atmosphere felt awkward again…

Lin Dongyang mulled over his expression, his own gaze mixed with regret and flattery, and tentatively said the closing words, “We have also met now, how about… we leave after drinking?”

Qiao Yichen sipped his bitter latte, and said faintly, “You think it’s enough to sell a tragic story?” 

Lin Dongyang was stunned. Otherwise what else would he do? Aren’t we just going to meet each other? Are there any other orders?

Looking at Lin Dongyang’s unintelligible dull expression, Qiao Yichen gave a very ‘considerate’ hint. “Our account has not been settled yet.”

Lin Dongyang: “…” He thought it was over, but in fact it had just started. He took his cappuccino and drank it shamefully, and suddenly his face became distorted: so bitter! Unexpectedly, they didn’t even add a grain of sugar.

“You say it.” Lin Dongyang was all ears and took a sip from time to time to hide his embarrassment. 

“The clothes are 108,000, and the bag is 32,000, totaling 140,000 yuan.” Qiao Yichen began to turn over the old account in a faint tone, and then said, “For the sake of both of us attending the same school, I’ll give you a discount. The friendship price is 130,000 yuan, I’m giving you a discount and you need to pay it back.”

“Puft…” Lin Dongyang had just taken a sip of cappuccino and spat it all on the table in front of him. He hurriedly pulled out the tissue placed next to him to wipe off the stain and asked a series of questions from his soul: Who am I? Where am I?

After meeting at the competition at noon, he began to doubt life for the second time.

This is too much! 

Lin Dongyang couldn’t hold his smiling expression, and said with disapproval, “I will return the clothes to you. I can’t wear women’s clothes. The labels haven’t been removed. You can still use them to send to your girlfriend in the future.”

“That won’t do, it’s out of date.” Qiao Yichen was un-negotiable, he was like ‘I just want to find fault’.

Lin Dongyang: “… it’s not what I want to receive, and now I’m asked to pay back the money at a discount?! Forcing me to buy?”

If he remembered correctly, that sky-high priced dress was a specific new style for this spring model. This spring hasn’t passed yet, but you just told me it was out of date? Do all rich people know how to play like this?! 

Facing his agitated words, Qiao Yichen showed indifference. “It’s your business how you pay back the money, I only need to receive the money.”

Since Qiao Yichen played a rogue, Lin Dongyang also planned to break the pot and directly spread his hands on the armchair. “I can’t. I can’t afford it even if you demand for money.”

“That’s fine. Then consider the 130,000 yuan as your hospitalization fee.” As Qiao Yichen stood up slowly, the momentum of oppression blew away the little bit of backbone that Lin Dongyang had accumulated. He smiled and hurriedly waved his hand. “Don’t, don’t, don’t… Don’t be like this, if you have something to say, just say it, a gentleman doesn’t use his fist.”

Qiao Yichen looked down at Lin Dongyang. “Can you pay or not?” 

Lin Dongyang, with an aggrieved face, said in a low voice, “Chen-ge, I really can’t afford it. My family is very poor.”

Unfortunately, the tragic story still didn’t have the desired effect. Qiao Yichen walked around the table to Lin Dongyang’s side, and then bent down, almost sticking his face to his, in an extremely ambiguous posture. If someone caught this scene from the outside, there would be a YY’s mosaic shame scene in their mind.

“Since you can’t afford the money you just want to get away? Then I’ll give you another way. Before the summer vacation, if I need you, you must come.” The faint coffee smell from Qiao Yichen’s mouth lingered on the tip of Lin Dongyang’s nose. This oppressive posture made his face flush, his eyes flickered in avoidance, and he stammered, “I…I don’t sell my body…”

Qiao Yichen glanced down, then stood up with a mocking expression, “Tsk, not interested.” 

‘Hah’ Lin Dongyang breathed a sigh of relief, then straightened out his messy collar and his thoughts, and said with some uncertainty, “Is it not negotiable?”

“No, either pay the money back, listen to me, or consider the money as your hospitalization fee.”

This problem was the same as selling his body to pay back the money, but paying back the money… It really exceeded the scope of all his belongings. The second generation of migrant workers couldn’t afford a huge sum of 130,000 yuan but if he listened to him, this was a decision with a very high risk factor. He and Qiao Yichen formed a deep dispute virtually, so it could be seen that their eight characters didn’t match each other. If he agreed to this, he could choose a graveyard for himself in advance as he might be able to use it in the near future.

There was no way out from the beginning to the end. Lin Dongyang visually measured Qiao Yichen’s height and the bulging muscle lines under the white shirt, comforting himself that he was a ‘wise man that submits to circumstances’. He smiled and said, “… You can’t make it too excessive.” 

“What do you think I’m going to do, top you?” Qiao Yichen had already reached the point of having too much disdain; he refused to take another look.

“Then, Chen-ge, take care of me in the future ah.”

At this point the negotiation had come to an end. Qiao Yichen finished his latte with satisfaction, and said, “Pay the bill yourself.” Then the villain left triumphantly!

Lin Dongyang watched him walk out of the store and whispered BB in his heart: when chasing me, there were roses and also a famous brand, and he was as attentive as a lackey. I was your online girlfriend ah. I was also the senior sister you kept talking about ah. How could you turn around and not recognize people? 

Qiao Yichen had originally kept Lin Dongyang’s mobile phone on his seat, so it wasn’t until he left that Lin Dongyang could bypass his seat and take the phone back. He headed to the counter to settle the bill and walked out of the cafe with his unfinished cappuccino. After all, he bought it with his own money, and he had to drink the bitterness.

Just like the seed he had planted at the beginning when he first met Qiao Yichen, it had finally bore this bitter fruit, and he tasted it.

Qiao Yichen, who was out of the cafe, threw a fragrant pink note into the nearby trash can. On it was a string of mobile phone numbers.

Liu Yiyi, who had left by car, went back to the dormitory to take what she had left behind. Qiao Yichen had directly blocked her in the dormitory door, and opened his mouth to introduce himself. However, the other person’s reaction wasn’t the same as what he thought. She didn’t panic when she was blocked, and she was completely shy. Even the numbers she gave when she left were different from those he saved. Sure enough, they weren’t the same person. Qiao Yichen had breathed a sigh of relief and blamed himself for being too cold and hard just now. 

But then when he had turned on his mobile phone again, he found that his senior sister actually told him frankly: I am a man! This wooden club knocked him confused for a long time. He had been very careful to approach that strand of faint warmth, and had never asked for one more word if she didn’t want to speak it.

He was covering his left waist and hip bone with his three fingers, where there was an old scar about ten centimeters long, which crawled on the skin like a centipede.

Qiao Yichen thought: The initial heartbeat only stemmed from acquaintance, but it will end after this meeting.

This is not the end, this is the beginning of fate.