People had all kinds of thoughts, but no matter how they thought.
Or what they did!
Life would keep moving forward. Even if you wanted to stop, you couldn't, and it wouldn't even wait for you. That was why Su Nuan, who usually didn't get up until noon,
had risen early.
When she boarded the train, she let out a deep yawn and was already beginning to regret it. If she had known this would happen, she should have booked an afternoon train.
But there was nothing she could do!
The morning tickets were a little cheaper, so she had no choice.
Just then, her phone rang.
[Chen Yi: On the train yet?]
[Su Nuan: I am! It's almost four-thirty in the afternoon. I'll talk to you later. I'm exhausted!]
With that,
Su Nuan immediately went offline.
Seeing this, Chen Yi laughed. He didn't need to guess to know she had overslept. After all, he knew what Su Nuan was like. If she could get up at noon, she absolutely wouldn't wake up in the morning.
Her schedule was terribly irregular, which wasn't good for her health. Even so, Chen Yi would rather Su Nuan sleep until noon than see her go out to work at four in the morning again.
Chen Yi stretched and went to make other preparations. Su Nuan, meanwhile, soon fell asleep. In her dreams, she recalled how the two of them had first met. It could only be called fate.
They happened to meet in a Public Match.
They happened to play together in the bottom lane, and it felt pretty good.
But they hadn't added each other as friends.
They had merely met by chance. Who would pay much attention?
Yet who could have expected them to meet again in the second match? This time, however, they weren't teammates but opponents. Naturally, Su Nuan's side lost, but she felt that it wasn't her fault.
It was her teammates' fault. Their ADC was simply too terrible.
Without comparison, there was no sense of harm.
The same thing happened for several matches in a row, which made Su Nuan think of Chen Yi. She felt that having a gaming partner who played ADC wouldn't be bad, so the two of them added each other as friends.
Of course!
She liked playing games, but that didn't mean she trusted people she met online.
So they were only gaming friends.
They had no other contact. The reason they took things further was that, about a month later, Su Nuan's headset broke while they were playing a promotion match.
Without voice chat, it might affect their performance.
They could only use another method for voice communication, namely... QQ chat. For that reason, they added each other as QQ friends. Even so, Su Nuan's QQ messages to Chen Yi consisted of only three types.
Get online, I'm off, and go go go!
They truly began chatting two months later.
It was Chen Yi's birthday.
That was a good thing!
But when Su Nuan learned that he was actually celebrating his own birthday, she found it somewhat unbelievable. Because of that, she began asking about Chen Yi's family situation.
Every relationship began with curiosity, and this one was no different.
They still played games as usual!
It was just that they talked about more things, and Su Nuan had already gotten to know Chen Yi fairly well.
His parents had been abroad for years and rarely came home. Apparently, they had even had a second child. He had lived with his elders when he was young, but after they passed away, he had lived alone in the old house.
He was 175 centimeters tall, wore size-43 shoes, was fairly handsome, and even had a little abdominal definition.
He liked eating grapes.
And...
Don't ask why she knew so much.
It was perfectly normal for a father to understand his son.
Su Nuan understood Chen Yi, but Chen Yi didn't understand Su Nuan.
That was because she didn't reveal most things about herself while chatting. Chen Yi didn't ask much either, so Su Nuan's impression of him was pretty good.
He was a little foolish and didn't seem very scheming.
He should be easy to fool, so he was a safe person.
That was why Su Nuan agreed to meet him. She was even a little expectant. Yesterday, she had called him "brother" and "Dad" at every turn. After they met, would she have to call him Mom?
The more she thought about it, the better it seemed.
Thus, a faint smile appeared on Su Nuan's face.
She was looking forward to it.
Chen Yi was the same.
His train was at four-thirty in the afternoon, but Chen Yi arrived at the train station at three. He began chatting with the people around him. Train stations were full of all kinds of people. There were those soliciting passengers...
There were those running power-bank scams.
There were also people asking whether you wanted to watch ethnic dances—the kind where they didn't wear clothes.
And there was someone like Chen Yi, who had come to pick someone up.
His name was Zhou Qing, a young man around twenty years old. He held a bouquet of roses and was dressed extremely formally. Anyone could tell what he had come to do.
"You're meeting an online friend too?"
"You are too?"
Once they confirmed that they had the same purpose, the two began chatting.
Then... Chen Yi got lectured.
"Bro! Don't take this the wrong way, but how can you meet an online friend without dressing more formally? And what's with coming on an electric scooter? If it were me and I saw that, I'd leave immediately."
"And another thing... You're saying you've never video-chatted, and you don't even have a photo? What if the other person is a huge, burly man? Getting your kidneys harvested is bad enough, but what if your chastity is ruined? You're being way too reckless."
The corner of Chen Yi's mouth twitched. "I've learned my lesson. But what if she's a beauty?"
"You met through a game? How many beauties are there? If she were really good-looking, she would've sent you photos and video-chatted with you already. Look at the girl I'm meeting. Apparently, she's even a campus belle."
As he spoke, he showed Chen Yi the photo. She did indeed look good.
Her looks were at least a nine out of ten.
But that was only in the photo.
What about reality?
Who knew?
"Forget it, my campus belle is here. Apparently, she's already come out. She's holding a Pleasant Goat plushie, wearing a black top, and even has black stockings..."
Was he looking forward to it?
At first, he was. Zhou Qing stared fixedly at the exit. Finally, when he saw the person in question, he immediately changed his attitude and deleted and blocked her.
The photo had indeed shown a campus belle, but reality had absolutely nothing in common with the photo.
Those legs were probably twice as thick as Chen Yi's. This wasn't something he should have laughed at, but in the end, he couldn't hold it in. Zhou Qing also experienced what true social death felt like.
After lecturing Chen Yi for half a day, it turned out that he was the clown. He couldn't help coughing awkwardly before saying, "Don't laugh. It's normal for things to go wrong like this. You'll probably end up like me. I refuse to believe... you can actually meet a long-legged cutie. If you can, I'll wash my hair while standing on my head right here. You..."
Zhou Qing was saying this!
However, before he could finish, something caught his attention.
It was a girl!
She wore a red felt hat and was wrapped in a pink scarf.
Her face couldn't be seen clearly, but even her eyes were exceptionally bright and clear, enough to attract many people's attention. She wore a knitted jacket on her upper body. It was somewhat loose, so it was impossible to tell much.
Her lower body, however, demonstrated what it meant to have legs worth admiring for years. Her legs were at least a meter long, and paired with skin-tight blue jeans, they were enough to attract most people's attention.
"Holy crap! What a top-tier beauty! Look..."
Chen Yi smiled faintly. "I see her. What if I told you she was my wife? Would you believe me?"
"????"
After hearing this, he looked at Chen Yi as if he were an idiot.
What was he thinking?
A top-tier beauty like this could meet someone through a game? He watched as... after she came out, she looked around, seemingly searching for someone. After confirming that she hadn't found them,
she took out her phone and began making a call.
"I wonder who she's calling. Whoever gets such good fortune is truly enviable..."
But as soon as he finished speaking, a phone ringtone
echoed in his ears.
Chen Yi's phone rang.
At that moment, he froze completely.
Wait?
Bro, you're actually serious?
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