γ51γ Of Course I Choose Boyfriend
When Wen Ran returned to the hotel in the afternoon, Four Leaf Clover and the others were still out having fun. Only Ivan was in the room.
An old movie was playing on the TV.
“I called Four Leaf Clover and the others, but they wouldn’t watch with me,” Ivan said. “Dawn, did your partner come over?”
Wen Ran looked at Ivan with horror. He had only said yesterday that he wouldn’t be back; he hadn’t mentioned Jiang Yan coming at all!
How did Ivan know?
“Why are you so surprised?” Ivan looked at Wen Ran strangely. “Back at the base, you were too lazy to go out, yet yesterday you stayed out all night. Andβ”
Ivan said, “You went out last night wearing the team uniform. Now you’re wearing a turtleneck.”
Wen Ran: “…”
This outfit was indeed bought by Jiang Yan, who took him to a store specifically to cover the hickeys on his neck.
As it turned out, in front of Ivan, he was like transparent glass.
Damn Jiang Yan, big and tall, but actually a manipulative ‘Green Tea’ male who plays the victim to deceive people!
Wen Ran angrily tapped his wristband once. Let him bully me; I’m going to annoy him too.
As a result, almost immediately, his own wristband vibrated once.
Wen Ran: “…”
“By the way, Dawn, Nan Xi came looking for you this morning.”
Ivan didn’t notice his small movements and told him.
Wen Ran was bewildered. “What?”
Ivan took out an envelope. “Feiyu Team’s Jungler, Nan Xi.”
“You have no idea. Nan Xi came up and asked us if you were in, then put this envelope here.” Remembering the cold look of that cool guy this morning, Ivan couldn’t help but shiver. “Said it’s for you.”
“He couldn’t be holding a grudge against you because we beat them, right?” Ivan said. “Luckily you weren’t here. We all suspected he came to issue a letter of challenge.”
He handed the envelope to Wen Ran. “Here, your challenge letter.”
“I find it strange. We only targeted him for two games. Isn’t that normal tactics?”
Wen Ran tried hard to recall and confirmed he had no enmity with Nan Xi.
This guy… lost online so he wants to battle offline?
With a very strange feeling, Wen Ran opened the envelope. Inside was only a card.
[May I add your WeChat?]
[Or you can add me.]
Below was his phone number, signed Nan Xi.
Wen Ran: “…”
Ivan immediately leaned over. “Let me see what the challenge letter says?”
His gaze swept over it, and he fell silent.
Ivan: “…”
Where is the challenge letter? Where is the offline battle?
So you came all the way here aggressively just to add Dawn on WeChat?
What kind of operation is this?
Ivan tentatively asked, “Will you add him?”
“Add,” Wen Ran frowned, his eyes scanning the number. “If he specifically wants to add WeChat to scold me, then today Daddy will teach him how to be a human being!”
Feeling that aura, Ivan sensibly shut his mouth quickly.
He knew Wen Ranβs combat power better than anyone. After all, this was someone who chased netizens to scold them, pressed the senior Night Heart onto the bench, and in his previous online videos, sprayed fans and influencers with insults that never repeated. If it weren’t for the rule that animals couldn’t become spirits after the founding of the PRC, he wouldn’t doubt Wen Ran was the reincarnation of a keyboard.
Wen Ran sent the friend request, writing “Dawn” in the note.
It was approved very quickly. Wen Ran saw “Typing…” appear. Starting the output already?
Not to be outdone, Wen Ran tapped a large block of text into the chat box. Ivan took a peek; the “Daddy concentration” was extremely high.
But there wasn’t a single word calling him “noob” (vegetable).
Wen Ran was very particular about this point. For people whose skills he acknowledged, he would never use the word “noob.”
Once, he had the privilege of duo-queueing with Wen Ran and met a particularly terrible Jungler who swore constantly and called Wen Ran a noob. Wen Ran, who usually had “Daddy” on his lips, spent the whole game calling the other guy a noob in varying ways.
It was simply “looking for a Daddy among the noobs.”
After Wen Ran furiously typed a pile of text, he immediately hit send.
This is called striking first to gain the upper hand!
As a result, Nan Xiβs message was sent simultaneously.
Nan Xi: [Wen Ran, do you still remember me?]
Wen Ran: [No way, no way. Just because I targeted you a few times in the game? Didn’t you guys target our Jungler too? Do battlefield tactics warrant chasing someone offline? Your Daddy isn’t a soft persimmon. At worst, you come over today, and Daddy will work hard to teach you what the rules of the arena are?]
Nan Xi: [??]
“Wen Ran recalled a message.”
Wen Ran: [???]
What’s the situation? Nan Xi actually asked if I remember him?
Wen Ran had absolutely no impression. Although he had been in the WK youth training camp before, he was absolutely certain he had never seen Nan Xi there.
He also frequently watched SPL matches. If he knew a pro player, he would definitely recognize them.
Especially someone like Nan Xi who was handsome and distinctive.
But Wen Ran was sure that yesterday was the first day he had seen him.
Wen Ran: [Don’t you think this pickup line is weird?]
Nan Xi: [Little Fatty Internet Cafe]
When Nan Xi said this, Wen Ran suddenly remembered. This was the name of the shady internet cafe where he used to work as a network administrator.
The owner was a chubby man, so it was named “Little Fatty Internet Cafe.”
Nan Xi: [Fifth row, last seat]
Wen Ran felt as if enlightenedβ
Wen Ran: [You are Nineteen?]
Nan Xi: [Mn]
Because this internet cafe was in a small alley and wasn’t strictly managed, no ID was required, so minors could enter. The internet fee was very cheap; only ten or twenty yuan to book an all-nighter.
The mice were greasy, the keyboards weren’t great, and the cafe wasn’t big. Everywhere was filled with the smell of cigarettes, instant noodles, and the sweat of some people.
Wen Ran worked there for a few months. He didn’t have an ID card at the time and was a minor. Many bosses saw he was thin and small and didn’t want to hire him. Only this fat boss agreed to let him work there.
He gave him food and cleared a storage room for him to live in.
He could also play games.
However, the salary was only 450 a month.
Wen Ran saw many people in this mixed bag of a place. “Nineteen” wasn’t the boy’s name; it was just that he always sat in the fifth row, the last seat, on machine number 19, and stayed in the internet cafe for a whole month.
Guest Nineteen was strange. His hair was very long, and he always wore a mask.
Although the clothes on his body looked dirty, one could tell they were expensive. The boy’s hands were also clean and beautiful.
There was a sense of incongruity, like he didn’t belong.
He sat there without saying a word and didn’t play computer games. The most he said in a day was asking the network admin to bring him water or instant noodles.
At night, he would curl up in the chair alone.
A week passed like this. Looking at this boy who was about the same age as himself, Wen Ran proactively sat in the chair next to him and opened “Ling Xiao.”
He played three games. Seeing the boy’s head seem to turn his way, he spoke the first sentence to him: “Want me to teach you how to play?”
Because of this, the relationship between the two became much closer, though the boy still seemed very guarded and spoke very little.
“My name is Wen Ran. Since you don’t want to tell me your name, I’ll call you Nineteen.”
Nineteen stayed there for about a month and a half. Although he spoke little, Wen Ran was quite happy to have a friend of similar age to keep him company.
After running away from that home, he hadn’t met a friend close to his age for a long time.
After Nineteen accidentally cut his finger, Wen Ran anxiously grabbed him to rinse it under the tap and put a band-aid on his finger.
Nineteen quietly gazed at this boy who was even shorter than himself. Sunlight shone in from the windowsill, falling into his eyes like twinkling stars.
Not only that, Wen Ran would let him go to his room to rest during the day. “How long has it been since you slept on a bed? I have a bed there.”
Wen Ran would also lend him his own clothes to wear so he could take off that outfit and wash it.
He also really wanted to do something for Wen Ran.
The money he had on him wasn’t much to begin with, and now it was almost spent. Last time, Wen Ran mentioned seeing a small handheld game console that looked interesting.
Nineteen took the money on him, wanting to buy it back for Wen Ran, but he ran into his father’s people.
Before he left, he didn’t even have time to tell Wen Ran.
Regarding this “friend” who existed briefly in his life, if Nan Xi hadn’t brought it up, Wen Ran wouldn’t even have thought of him first.
Nan Xi: [You can also call me Jian Yu]
Jian Yu later went to that internet cafe, but Wen Ran was long gone. That very cheap game console in his hand had never been given out, even until now.
Fortunately, there was still “Ling Xiao.” He knew Wen Ran was so skilled that one day they would meet in the arena.
Wen Ran: [You used to cover yourself up strictly every day and disappeared without a word. Now you ask if I remember you?]
Nan Xi: [Sorry]
Wen Ran hadn’t exchanged many words with Jian Yu before. Meeting in the arena and this “reunion of old friends” over the past two days gave him some strange emotions.
Wen Ran: [Alright, alright. I didn’t see you being this polite to Daddy back then.]
Seeing that message, Jian Yu thought Wen Ran seemed to still like being other people’s Daddy even after a few years.
Wen Ran: [I didn’t expect you to go pro too. I taught you how to play the game back then. Do I count as half your mentor?]
More than count.
I play professionally because of you.
So that one day, I could meet you.
Jian Yu closed his eyes. He really wanted to ask if Wen Ran had been living well and if he occasionally thought of him.
But he felt unworthy to ask such questions. He could only try to find a way to ask Wen Ran out.
Nan Xi: [When are you leaving? Are you free to have a meal together?]
Wen Ran: [Can’t this time. Train tonight.]
Nan Xi replied with a very disappointed “Mn.”
Wen Ran naturally didn’t know what the other person was thinking. He told a small lie.
His train was actually tomorrow, but tonight he was going to the night market with Jiang Yan!
Between a friend who suddenly disappeared and reappeared, and his own partner, Wen Ran chose his partner without hesitation.
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