Su Ze tilted his head while answering Shen Qingsheng's phone call, casually saying his usual catchphrase, "Moshi moshi."
"Moshi?" For some reason, Uesugi Akizuki, who was seriously playing a game, turned around and responded, her eyes filled with confusion.
Su Ze was also taken aback.
Uesugi Akizuki gave Su Ze a puzzled look, then turned back to continue struggling with her game.
"Are you home?" Shen Qingsheng asked.
"Yeah."
Although Shen Qingsheng had lost an arm, another ability user had already helped him regenerate it at the hospital.
It wasn't a difficult matter, and he could probably move it by now.
"You value romance over friendship!"
Su Ze was stunned, "Who?"
"You!"
"(O_o)?? ... What did I do?"
"You value romance over friendship!"
Su Ze was bewildered, "I value romance?"
"Yes!"
"And neglect friendship?"
"Exactly!"
"Where did that come from?"
"We were in the same hospital room, but you went straight home to find Uesugi instead of taking care of me."
Su Ze paused, "I didn't take care of you?"
"I've been lying here all this time, and you haven't checked on me at all!"
Su Ze suddenly realized, "Ah, why should I take care of you? I needed to go home for dinner."
"I wanted to go home with you for dinner too! I can't cook for myself."
Su Ze was speechless, "If you want food, just come over. I'll heat up some leftovers for you."
"Get lost... *beep beep beep*"
The phone went dead, leaving Su Ze confused.
He suddenly realized - wait, if we can make calls, does that mean we have internet!?
Ding dong.
Shen Qingsheng, who had just hung up, sent a message, "LOL?"
Su Ze: "Let's play."
He patted Uesugi Akizuki's head, "Why don't you go to sleep? I'll play for a while, and tomorrow I'll play with you."
Uesugi Akizuki was so angry she almost threw the controller. Hearing this, she turned and walked away, jumping onto the bed and burying her face in the blanket to sulk.
The game would be fun if only her teammates were human.
Su Ze's real-life gentleness couldn't be experienced in the game.
After a few minutes of tossing and turning, Uesugi Akizuki grew tired from her anger. She wanted to sleep but couldn't. Watching Su Ze's fingers flying over the keyboard, she got up barefoot and nudged him.
Su Ze understood immediately, "Can't sleep?"
Uesugi Akizuki nodded. She wanted Su Ze to sing, anything except "Grandma's Bridge" from last night.
Grandma's Bridge had been sung so much she was sick of it - even the bridge would collapse.
Su Ze was helpless, as he was in the middle of a game. "How about I tell you a story?"
Hearing there would be a story, Uesugi Akizuki immediately nodded and flopped onto the bed like a fish, her red hair spread across the bed. She closed her eyes, waiting for the story.
Su Ze narrated stories while battling in the Rift. After telling several fragmented fairy tales, Uesugi Akizuki was quite satisfied with the Grimm's fairy tales. Combined with Su Ze's gentle, magnetic voice, a beautiful fairy tale world was grandly constructed in her mind, until:
"Little Red Riding Hood quietly approached the bush, and the Big Bad Wolf went Auto-attack into W! Then outer Q! Then Auto! Then E! Then Noxian Guillotine... damn, I lagged just now, without that lag I would've gotten a pentakill, damn it."
Uesugi Akizuki: ??????
The innocent girl was jolted from her half-asleep state of listening to stories, having hazily dreamed of Little Red Riding Hood being beheaded on her way to grandmother's house.
Looking at his exploded crystal, Su Ze apologetically showed his usual gentle smile and said, "Got carried away, got carried away."
The little innocent had fallen asleep, so Su Ze closed the glass door between the rest room and the game room to avoid disturbing the little shrine maiden.
Su Ze and Shen Qingsheng switched to another game.
"CSGO."
They were playing on international servers.
As soon as they entered the game, crackling mic sounds came through their headphones. Su Ze and Shen Qingsheng immediately realized they had been matched with players from the industrially developed Russian nation.
A very masculine voice greeted them in Russian, "Hello, hello."
"Hello," Su Ze replied.
As geniuses who could enter Huaxia University, Shen Qingsheng and Su Ze spoke eight languages, so communication wasn't an issue. They played on international servers to strengthen their foreign language communication skills.
"Where are you from?" the Russian asked.
"We're from Huaxia," Su Ze said.
"Baka!" Shen Qingsheng said.
Within the first few rounds, Su Ze conquered the Russian player with his precise sniping. In the fifth round's 1v3 clutch, after Su Ze took out three CT players guarding the bomb with precise flick shots, everyone cheered excitedly.
Suddenly, the Russian shouted in Chinese: "Papa, hit me!"
Su Ze: ????
Shen Qingsheng: ????
Teammates: ????
"Who taught him Chinese? That's so mischievous," Shen Qingsheng remarked.
The sides switched.
11:4
This time Su Ze and his partner were CTs. After the Russian's shocking statement earlier, the conversation between Su Ze, Shen Qingsheng, and the Russian became even more animated.
"We Russians really like Huaxia people, why do so few Huaxia tourists come to Russia?"
*Poof*
"They're rushing A," Shen Qingsheng casually mentioned as his screen went dark, then continued the conversation, "Huaxia people probably don't travel to Russia mainly because of the language barrier. Not everyone knows eight languages like we do."
The Russian pondered, "But we've made Chinese a subject in our college entrance exams, so communication shouldn't be a big problem."
Su Ze said quietly, "You've seen how we include English in our college entrance exams, but how many people actually master it?"
Everyone: "..."
Su Ze had a point. English is taught from elementary school, and while many people know English - they can read it and barely speak it - if you ask them to understand native speakers talking at normal speed and engage in conversation, it would stump many who've studied English for five or six years.
After studying English for several years, without experience talking to foreigners, those who claim they know English mostly know broken English and can't speak fluently. Most of these people are also timid, afraid of making mistakes.
After all, studying something doesn't mean mastering it.
When foreigners ask for directions, they respond in broken English, "Sorry, I don't know English."
The situation in Russia is even worse. If you ask for directions in Chinese in Russia, maybe one in dozens of Russians might know Chinese, and it's likely to be broken Chinese.
At this point, instead of racking their brains for vocabulary, they open their phone's translation app.
A girl's urgent voice speaking English broke the silence, "They're rushing B! Terrorists in B tunnel!"
Shen Qingsheng was stunned, "In whose tunnel?"
Su Ze: ??
They enjoyed playing until three in the morning.
Su Ze's tall figure rose from the gaming chair in the dim, blue-purple neon ambiance. Tired, he covered his neck, opened the rest room's glass door, and lay down beside Uesugi Akizuki.
Suddenly his hand was held. Su Ze turned his head to find the little shrine maiden hadn't been sleeping, but was staring at the iridescent ceiling with her amber eyes.
"What are you thinking about?" Su Ze asked.
The little shrine maiden looked over and stared at Su Ze's black eyes for a long time. Su Ze noticed growing confusion in the girl's eyes.
The girl reached out and touched Su Ze's head, and just as Su Ze was wondering what she was doing, snap! The girl plucked out one of his hairs.
"Are you asking for trouble?" Su Ze's face darkened. Being young and having such black hair despite staying up late every night wasn't easy. How dare you silently pluck out one of my hairs? Are you itching for punishment?
Uesugi Akizuki didn't respond, but placed Su Ze's hair between them.
They saw that the hair was actually white. Su Ze was stunned - premature graying? Had the pressure of fighting against the blood moon recently been too much?
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
