Chapter 14: Misunderstanding
When the message was sent, Shen Yanjin’s hand pressing the Enter key was trembling.
[YanGold: Not to blow my own horn, but managers of many teams have sought me out, saying it’s a waste of talent if I don’t go pro haha. Although I can’t compare with you, Brother Moon, I will work hard. Really, I will train properly, striving to promote from youth training to the second team early, then second team to first team…]
Duan Mingyue was probably training at this time and didn’t reply. Shen Yanjin stuttered through this one-man show, racking his brains to market himself.
Before, he had no intention of going pro. Facing invitations from various teams, he only felt proud that his strength was recognized.
Now positions were swapped. Shen Yanjin racked his brains, treading carefully, picky about every word, afraid the other side would feel he wasn’t sincere enough.
However, what he didn’t know was that his messages had already been seen.
But not by Duan Mingyue.
Lu Yuan stood in front of Duan Mingyue’s computer station, her face gloomy and eyes cold.
She knew it.
Just before the training match, Duan Mingyue was called out temporarily. Sharp-eyed Lu Yuan noticed his chat account hadn’t logged out, so she found an excuse to sneak back into the training room.
She couldn’t help it; she really cared too much.
For over half a month, rain or shine, no matter how busy or tired, Duan Mingyue would duo queue with this YanGold for at least two hours. Even in occasional idle moments, she often saw Duan Mingyue holding his phone replying to messages with a smile on his face.
A woman’s intuition told her that even if Duan Mingyue was unaware, the other party definitely had intentions.
What alerted Lu Yuan even more was YanGold’s identity. He was also a Support, but his style and mechanics were completely opposite to hers, even sharper. Countless teams contacted him, but he rejected them all, instead hanging out with Duan Mingyue every day.
Quite a few friends in the circle had secretly asked her if YanGold had already been recruited by KW.
Moreover, knowing clearly that doing this would bring rumors, the team had no intention of dispelling them, even faintly seeming happy to see it happen.
Everything made Lu Yuan feel a crisis.
So, taking advantage of Duan Mingyue’s absence, she secretly opened the chat box that kept notifying new messages.
Looking at the messages sent by YanGold one by one, Lu Yuan smiled coldly.
Women were always keen about rivals in love.
Duan Mingyue couldn’t see clearly, but Lu Yuan understood very well. This YanGold definitely liked Duan Mingyue.
On what basis? A man daring to touch her thing… disgusting!
A swollen hatred twisted in Lu Yuan’s heart. She raised her hand and typed quickly on the keyboard.
[KW-RedMoon: No.]
[KW-RedMoon: If you want to play pro, find another team. KW doesn’t lack a support.]
As the recent hot “King of Passersby,” Shen Yanjin was somewhat floating.
He had lowered his posture very much, his attitude striving to be most sincere, fully thinking he wouldn’t be rejected. Who knew he would wait for such two cold replies. He froze in front of the computer for a moment, somewhat at a loss.
He keenly sensed Duan Mingyue’s attitude was a bit abnormal. Enduring the discomfort, he cautiously asked a follow-up question.
[YanGold: …Brother Moon, is something wrong?]
[KW-RedMoon: Do you like me?]
These two sentences were sent almost simultaneously.
Seeing the content clearly, Shen Yanjin’s brain almost exploded instantly.
His lips trembled, fingers unconsciously curling into his palm. Amidst the chaos, he could barely think normally.
He wanted to explain, wanted to lie, wanted to cover up. But only one sentence kept circling in his mind.
—How did Duan Mingyue know?
The feelings he had resolved to take to the grave were bluntly dissected. Shen Yanjin had no such experience and couldn’t reply at all for a moment.
Seeing the silence on the other end, Lu Yuan scoffed contemptuously.
[KW-RedMoon: I don’t like men.]
[KW-RedMoon: Since you got your silver badge too, let’s not contact each other anymore.]
[KW-RedMoon: Be sensible, let’s end it here.]
Typing the last word, send. Lu Yuan instantly felt the breath that had been stifling her heart for days ease a lot.
She revealed a faint smile and deleted the chat records she sent one by one.
Training match ended. Duan Mingyue returned to his station, only then realizing he forgot to log out of the chat software on the computer.
He didn’t take it to heart, opening the little support’s chat box as usual.
[KW-RedMoon: Training match done, come voice channel quickly.]
(The account you initiated chat with does not exist or has been deleted. Please check and try again.)
Duan Mingyue froze.
He read the small gray system notification below carefully, back and forth, three times.
Clearly, he knew every character, but when combined, why were they so strange?
The account initiated chat with does not exist? How was that possible?
He opened the little support’s profile and searched their chat history, but everything was gone.
YanGold really deleted the account.
Duan Mingyue stared blankly at the blank computer screen for a while. Suddenly remembering something, he opened the game and clicked into the recently settled top 100 leaderboard.
Twenty-eighth, YanGold.
The little silver badge the boy dreamed of hung below his ID, sparkling.
No matter how stupid Duan Mingyue was, he now knew he had been treated as a tool, discarded after use.
Liking transforming into anger seemed to happen in just an instant.
Gritting his teeth, he clicked YanGold’s friend chat.
Full of anger, the sense of betrayal from being used, grievance, and incomprehension were all scrambling to find an outlet to vent.
But at this moment, facing that familiar ID, Duan Mingyue’s myriad words all turned into silence.
He closed his eyes and shut the opened chat box again.
That day, Duan Mingyue had a dispute with someone in public chat, was reported to the alliance, and suspended for four games.
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