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?
saw a female celebrity tied up and stuffed in the trunk! Little did he know, countless cameras were aimed at him at this moment - this was a new type of reality show. The first randomly selected passerby was caught in less than an hour. But when Xu Moru was selected, things started to take an unexpected turn. "Damn, this isn't how the script goes. This Xu Moru is too bold, he's not following the rules at all." "Crap, is this guy taking it seriously?" "The female celebrity has been scared to tears!"
end. Thus one must continue to cultivate, and become a saint or great emperor, in order to prolong one's life. Chen Xia, however, completely reversed this. Since his transmigration, he has gained immortality, and also a system that awards him with attribute points for every year he lives. Thus between the myriad worlds, the legend of an unparalleled senior appeared. "A gentleman takes revenge; it is never too late even after ten thousand years." "When you were at your peak I yielded, now in your old age I shall trample on you." - Chen Xia
d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"