【36】 Truly a Bastard
Wen Ran panted with a red face, the tears forced out from the corners of his eyes making him look even more like a wet little kitten.
It made Jiang Yan look on in a daze—how could Ran Ran be so cute?
As a result, just as he wanted to lean in to kiss away the tears on the other’s face, Wen Ran turned his head away and pushed him away forcefully.
Jiang Yan: “?”
Wen Ran raised one hand to block himself: “Jiang Yan, I think we need to keep our distance.”
Jiang Yan’s expression instantly fell: “What do you mean?”
“I don’t mean anything,” Wen Ran was too guilty to look at Jiang Yan. He bit his lip and said through gritted teeth: “I think we’re not that familiar.”
Jiang Yan was in disbelief. He reached out and grabbed Wen Ran’s wrist, saying word-by-word, almost through gritted teeth: “Not that familiar?”
The space inside the Ferris wheel was far too cramped, leaving Wen Ran with nowhere to hide.
“Then why did your face turn red when I kissed you?”
“I’d turn red no matter who kissed me!” Wen Ran tried hard to lower his voice to make himself look like he had some momentum: “Li Hao would be the same, and you’re the same.”
“It would be the same if anyone else came.”
The speed of the Ferris wheel gradually slowed down; it had already reached the ground.
A second before the door opened, Wen Ran stood up and left Jiang Yan with a back view:
“Jiang Yan, I don’t like you. Don’t bother me anymore.”
That pink rose was thrown onto the ground by him.
Jiang Yan lowered his eyes and silently picked up the rose. Because of the force with which it was thrown, several petals had already fallen off.
It looked broken and pitiful.
Wen Ran ran very fast; his figure could no longer be found.
Wen Ran returned to the base.
He really had no way to return home now; he didn’t know how to face it.
The base provided dorms—double rooms. Wen Ran’s roommate was the team’s Support, Ai Fan.
Ai Fan was also promoted from the second team. The original Support had already transferred. Although he arrived earlier than Wen Ran, he almost never integrated with the first team.
His presence in the team wasn’t high either.
The team atmosphere at DS was very strange. After Wen Ran came to the team, only Ai Fan would speak to him, take him to the cafeteria, and tell him things he needed to pay attention to.
“You’re back?” Ai Fan was surprised when he saw Wen Ran’s pink hair: “You dyed it?”
Wen Ran was currently in a bad mood, and his answer was also indifferent: “Yeah.”
Was he too much today?
Furthermore, to escape, Wen Ran had kept his phone on silent all the time. He didn’t dare to open it to see if Jiang Yan had sent him any messages.
“I’ve never seen anyone dye this color in reality before,” Ai Fan said. “Only on the idol stages my sister likes.”
“But Dawn, you look very handsome with it.”
After Ai Fan finished speaking, he sat down at the computer desk: “Dawn, want to duo-queue?”
Wen Ran nodded. Right now his mood was also very complicated, and his mind was messy. He reached out and touched his lips. The sensation of Jiang Yan kissing him seemed to still exist, making Wen Ran unable to resist licking his own lips.
Wen Ran, realizing what he was doing, quickly shook his head. Truly crazy.
Wen Ran hadn’t returned to the dorm; he went directly to the training room.
The keyboard Jiang Yan sent him was placed right on the desk.
He planned to find a chance to secretly send it back to him later.
Ai Fan saw it at a glance: “A Yueying keyboard. Wow, Dawn, was this a gift from someone?”
Wen Ran hadn’t mentioned his family situation to anyone except Jiang Yan. He wondered if the fact that he was very poor was already written on his face?
Ai Fan thought he couldn’t afford it?
But there was no need to lie about such a thing: “Yeah.”
Ai Fan immediately showed a profound smile: “Are you together?”
Wen Ran: “???”
Wen Ran almost sprayed a mouthful of water. He didn’t understand why the topic jumped so fast.
“The person who sent you the keyboard,” Ai Fan said. “Is it an ambiguous partner or a girlfriend?”
Wen Ran struggled: “Does… does this have anything to do with it?”
“You don’t know?” Ai Fan was very surprised, but he still patiently explained to Wen Ran: “Yueying has many series of keyboards. This one of yours is the RM series—to put it colloquially, it’s the ‘Courtship’ series.”
Wen Ran took a look at the packaging and indeed saw an RM logo.
“The RM series uses top-of-the-line specs, and you can also customize it according to the customer’s needs with engraving. It’s the most expensive among Yueying keyboards. If you add theme design, it starts at least at seventy thousand, more than twice as expensive as a regular Yueying keyboard.”
Wen Ran struggled to keep himself calm. Because he was poor, he hadn’t bothered to look into them before; he only knew that Yueying keyboards were famous for being expensive but good to use, starting from eight thousand up to over ten thousand. But he never imagined there were actually different series. Seventy thousand… for him, it was simply an astronomical figure.
Then he definitely couldn’t keep it!
Wen Ran’s face turned uncharacteristically red. Is Jiang Yan an idiot? How could he be so willing to spend?
Was he worth such a valuable gift?
Ai Fan looked at him with a smile: “Dawn, you’re really blessed.”
Wen Ran coughed a few times to hide his embarrassment. Ai Fan also thought he was shy and didn’t say anything more.
Originally thought the shock of the keyboard was big enough, but when they reached the opening interface, Wen Ran felt he was experiencing a even greater impact.
Unlike Peak Tournament where IDs weren’t displayed, in ranked matches, the IDs of both sides would be shown on the opening screen. The opposing Support’s ID for Sage’er was glaringly displayed: Pro HG.Twilight.
Ai Fan was almost speechless with shock and only managed to stammer after a long time: “We actually… actually crashed into Senior Twilight!”
Among the Supports in the League, there wasn’t one who didn’t admire Twilight.
Generally speaking, Support players had the most difficult situation in the game—they had to protect the ADC, help the Mid Laner with vision, and help the Jungler guard the jungle. Moreover, if they sacrificed themselves to protect a teammate, they’d be cursed at by teammates for feeding. If they didn’t protect, they’d also be cursed. Skills couldn’t have a cooldown—they were caught in the middle.
It also wasn’t like Junglers and rhythm-type Mid Laners who could easily rank up. Even professional Supports often duo-queued with teammates.
But Twilight, relying on excellent tactics and command, truly mastered the Support role as the brain that devised strategies and controlled the overall situation. He was the core.
Wen Ran didn’t care about Twilight; his attention was entirely on that Jungler.
ID: wrsxhd
It really was Wind!
Wen Ran had been pulled into the match by Ai Fan the moment he came online and hadn’t seen if anyone was online in his friends list. As a result, how could he crash into Wind!
Wen Ran hadn’t recognized that Twilight was the teammate Wind had called to practice with him last time, but Qiao Yu recognized him at a glance.
Naturally, he wouldn’t miss the chance to mock Jiang Yan: “Tsk, Wind, why didn’t your family’s little friend wait for you to play together?”
“I asked you just now, and you even said you were having a falling out.”
“Look at this person’s mindset—still in the mood to open a game.” Qiao Yu said: “I just saw it, DS’s Ai Fan. He’s duo-queueing with the Support.”
“Duo-queueing, oh.”
Qiao Yu had mysteriously received a message from Jiang Yan today inquiring about relationship problems, asking how to coax a little friend who was having a falling out with him.
Qiao Yu naturally wouldn’t work for free. Since his rank hadn’t been pushed much yet, he used the reason of “helping him analyze in the game voice chat” to get Wind to log on and duo-queue.
He had white-poured his entire team as sparring partners; it wasn’t too much to use him to rank up, right?
“Can Qiao Second shut up,” Jiang Yan’s voice was a bit angry: “Duo-queueing with the Support—it might be a team mission for synergy.”
“Ah, right, right, right,” Qiao Yu was extremely perfunctory, clearly not believing it: “Coincidentally practicing synergy on a holiday night at ten o’clock.”
“So hard-working it’s dying.”
Qiao Yu: “Also, don’t call me Qiao Second!”
Jiang Yan: “…”
Jiang Yan was playing Ling this game, constantly dragging the vision to look at the opposing Ah Ji.
The more he looked, the angrier he got.
Still daring to keep your distance, still daring to say you don’t like me?
You don’t even know how to breathe when I kiss you, yet you still want to put on an act as if you’re battle-hardened.
Needs a lesson.
Jiang Yan maneuvered his hero. After killing the river crab in the mid lane, he gave a fake vision of heading to the bottom lane.
Then he squatted on Wen Ran’s necessary path.
As soon as Ah Ji showed her head, he immediately controlled and followed with his ultimate, interspersed with basic attacks to take him away directly.
Wen Ran had played so many games, yet he rarely gave away First Blood.
He didn’t expect to be taken for an ‘one-kill’ by his idol.
However, he didn’t take it too seriously and cautiously maneuvered his hero to farm and develop.
But Ling seemed to have moved into the mid lane, ganking him frequently and even bringing the Support to dive the tower.
No matter how strong Wen Ran was, there was no way out when being targeted, especially since these two were top-tier players in the League and he wasn’t playing a Mage Assassin hero that could show off mechanics.
Qiao Yu was stunned: “Domestic violence, domestic violence. Your little friend has committed a sin—you’re killing him like this.”
“Wind, tell me the truth. Did he cheat on you? I’ve never seen you target a person like this.”
“Don’t worry, your brother won’t laugh at you.”
“Don’t talk nonsense,” Jiang Yan’s tone was calm: “Just a normal match.”
Leaving a low-health ADC alone to chase down a full-health Ah Ji—this was also a normal match?
When the Crystal was pushed down, Wen Ran’s score was 2-11-7.
He was almost dying of frustration. He simply couldn’t figure out why his idol was so fierce today, killing him eleven times. His screen had barely even been lit up.
The game experience was very poor.
Although the strategy of killing a Mid Laner with team-control before a team fight started was normal, Wind seemed to be intentionally targeting him.
Furthermore, after Ling killed Ah Ji, a voice line would trigger: “Little cats who do bad things will be punished~”
Inexplicably, it made him think of Jiang Yan, who also liked calling him ‘little cat.’
Wen Ran shook his hair, clearing out those messy thoughts.
Then he privately poked Wind: Is your mood bad today?
Jiang Yan almost choked with anger looking at that message.
He hadn’t replied to a single one of the messages he sent, nor picked up a single phone call.
And then he was here caring about Wind?
Even after being targeted and killed eleven times.
Fine, Wen Ran, you’re really fine.
He gritted his teeth, tapped the keyboard, and replied.
wrsxhd: Yeah, was ambiguous for quite a while, even kissed, but then got rejected
Rejected—is it the ‘rejected’ he was thinking of?
Wen Ran was stunned. That was Wind—the strongest Jungler in the League. So many people were lining up wanting to marry him, yet someone was so blind as to reject him?
Being ambiguous for a long time and then rejecting—isn’t that just a typical ‘scum girl’?!
Wen Ran indignantly stood up for his idol—
My Mechanics Are Better Than Yours: Then she’s truly a bastard!
Translator’s Note: Hi everyone! Poor Wen Ran has no idea he just called himself a “bastard” to his crush’s face (well, phone). And Jiang Yan is definitely the “scumbag” type to keep that screenshot forever. Also, the “RM” keyboard series… Jiang Yan is not subtle at all. Hope you enjoyed this double-dose of drama and misunderstanding! See you in the next chapter!
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