Seizing the Opportunity

Going with the Flow

After the farce, Bei Weiwei took Boss, Second Brother, and Fourth Brother from Wang Yue's dorm as her disciples. Along with Yu Gong Yi Shan's alt account, the five of them went dungeon-running together.

Just Don't Eat: Big Follower? You know Weiwei? Why did you pick a name like that?!

After seeing the message, Boss Huang Tao considered it for a moment and decided to drop a hint to Bei Weiwei.

Weiwei's Big Follower: Oh, there's a beauty named Weiwei in our department. She's our goddess.

Weiwei's Second Follower: That's right, we're going to protect our goddess and keep her from getting tricked!

Reed Weiwei: You're still students?

Second Brother Jia Honghai looked up and said dejectedly to Huang Tao, "Tell me, how did the Campus Belle end up getting married in the game? That Yixiao Naihe gives me this inexplicable sense of danger!"

Just then, Wang Yue happened to return from the library. The moment he walked in and heard Second Brother's words, he casually added, "Isn't it just Xiao Nai? What are you scared of? It's not like he'll come find you and beat you up."

"What did you say?" Boss asked.

"Xiao Nai?" Second Brother echoed.

"How did you know?" Fourth Brother asked.

Wang Yue suddenly realized he had let something slip. He quickly pointed at Jia Honghai and retorted, "Didn't Second Brother say Xiao Nai?"

"I said Yixiao Naihe!" Second Brother blanked out for three seconds before hurriedly explaining.

"Yeah! Huh, Xiao Nai, heh!" Wang Yue re-punctuated Second Brother's words for him.

"That interpretation actually feels airtight!" Boss nodded thoughtfully. It really did seem possible—after all, Yixiao Naihe suited Xiao Nai's pretentious aura perfectly.

"If that's true, then Xiao Nai is quite the schemer!" Second Brother chimed in.

"Senior Bei Weiwei keeps a low profile and rarely shows up outside. It's even harder to learn anything about her game. Could Xiao Nai have been there too on the day Fourth Brother ran into Bei Weiwei?" Boss looked thoughtfully at Fourth Brother, as though hoping to get an answer from him.

"I did see Xiao Nai that day, but it can't be that much of a coincidence!" Fourth Brother still refused to believe their guess.

"You're still just a child, while Xiao Nai is a fox," Second Brother immediately argued.

"A scheming fox who gets lustful at the sight of a pretty face," Boss said with complete certainty.

Something suddenly stirred in Wang Yue's mind. In the TV series, Xiao Nai really had been that scheming, smoothly claiming the whole fish pond step by step. Why not have Boss and the others arrange an offline meeting with Weiwei ahead of time? Then he could see how the fox handled unexpected situations and learn a thing or two himself.

So Wang Yue quietly egged Boss on. "Boss, why don't you tell Bei Weiwei privately that you're her first-year juniors?"

"Third Brother, I never expected you to be this sneakily wicked," Boss said, seeing through Wang Yue's intentions. Even so, he began typing in the game as he spoke.

Private Chat: Weiwei's Big Follower: We're first-year students from Qing University's Computer Science Department. Our Fourth Brother saw you playing this game. So we came into the game to protect you. Didn't expect we were still one step too late.

When Bei Weiwei saw the reply, her face filled with surprise. She seemed to have always played in her dorm room; the only exception had been that one time at an internet café.

Private Chat: Reed Weiwei: You saw me at the internet café, right? That isn't very good of you, junior.

Private Chat: Weiwei's Big Follower: Didn't our Fourth Brother get captivated by your dashing bearing when you dueled someone? He insisted on becoming your disciple. Second Brother and I figured that idiot alone might not be able to protect you, so we hurried over to help.

Private Chat: Reed Weiwei: The three of you, with your alt accounts, are going to protect me?

Private Chat: Weiwei's Big Follower: We're here to protect you from being tricked, but it looks like we're too late! You've already been tricked into getting married.

Private Chat: Reed Weiwei: How was I tricked? I married Naihe in this game for the Couple PK Tournament.

Private Chat: Weiwei's Big Follower: Then do you know Yixiao Naihe's real identity?

Private Chat: Reed Weiwei: You know Great God's identity?!

Private Chat: Weiwei's Big Follower: Based on our dorm's Third Brother's analysis, there's an eighty or ninety percent chance he's Xiao Nai from our department.

Private Chat: Reed Weiwei: Xiao Nai = Yixiao Naihe?

Private Chat: Weiwei's Big Follower: Our Fourth Brother said that when he saw you that day, he also saw Xiao Nai at the internet café.

Private Chat: Reed Weiwei: Such a coincidence?

Private Chat: Weiwei's Big Follower: Don't you feel like you've been targeted by a fox?

Private Chat: Reed Weiwei: Xiao Nai is a Great God. How can you call him a fox?!

Private Chat: Weiwei's Big Follower: He's the public enemy of every guy in the department! No, of the whole university!

Private Chat: Reed Weiwei: That serious?

Private Chat: Weiwei's Big Follower: Absolutely. From seeing you play the game to marrying you, how many days has it even been? And you still say he isn't a fox?

Private Chat: Reed Weiwei: ...

Bei Weiwei's heart was pounding wildly. She was thrilled, yet terrified. That was Xiao Nai, the Great God! Did he really like her? Or...

"Weiwei, why is your face so red?" Sisi asked, munching on her snacks as she scrutinized Weiwei. Weiwei's flushed face really did look like a ripe peach, especially alluring.

"Rosy cheeks, a deer hidden in the heart." Xiaoling patted the face mask on her face and deliberately teased Weiwei. "Come clean. Are you thinking about a man?"

"Tell us, tell us!" Er Xi ran over to join the fun. "Which wild man are you thinking about?"

Seeing that there was no escaping them, Weiwei hurriedly cut off their pestering and requested ten uninterrupted minutes to explain herself.

A few minutes later, Er Xi, Sisi, and Xiaoling all found themselves at a loss for words. On reflection, it did seem normal enough. The only surprise was that even Great God Xiao Nai had fallen for a pretty face at first sight. That really damaged his divine image, okay?

"That kind of Great God feels much more approachable," Sisi suddenly said weakly amid the silence.

"Yeah, a Great God like that is actually human!" Er Xi exclaimed repeatedly.

"Our younger schoolmate was right, that guy is like a scheming fox!" Xiaoling peeled the face mask off her face. "But if he weren't scheming, he wouldn't be a Great God. We should've seen it coming!"

"Mm, one of the Great God's hidden traits! But Weiwei, what do you think? You haven't fallen for him yet, have you?" Sisi asked curiously as she continued eating Three Squirrels pine nuts.

"A Great God like him... it'd be impossible not to be tempted, but I'll just let things take their course!" Weiwei kept encouraging herself. She wasn't bad either.

"Right, Weiwei, you have to hold firm!" Sisi cracked open another pine nut, popped it into her mouth, and mumbled, "But those three younger schoolmates are really cute. Their names are actually Weiwei's Followers One, Two, and Four!"

"Hahaha!" Er Xi laughed like an idiot, then abruptly stopped and asked in confusion, "Then where's their Third Brother?"

"Third Brother again! The Great God is also Third Brother!" Xiaoling hung the towel on the balcony. "Tell me, do you think this Third Brother might fall for Weiwei too, like the Great God did?"

"Maybe he already has a girlfriend? That's why he didn't fool around with his roommates?" Sisi casually chimed in.

"That's impossible. When our Dazhong sees a beauty, he sneaks glances even when there's no reason to!" Xiaoling decisively rejected Sisi's answer before continuing, "Maybe he's a little fox still growing up!"

"That's right, anyone connected to the number three is a fox! They're all transformed vixens." Er Xi seemed to have remembered something and giggled foolishly to herself.

Bei Weiwei suddenly thought of something and asked Er Xi, "Er Xi, isn't your Wang Yue Third Brother in his dorm too? Do you think it could be those guys from his dorm?"

Hearing Weiwei's words, the other girls also looked at Er Xi suspiciously.

Er Xi blinked her adorable eyes a few times and said somewhat embarrassedly, "I don't know. It can't be that much of a coincidence, can it?"

Seeing Er Xi's foolish expression, Xiaoling tossed the face mask in her hand into the trash can before saying, "It's very possible. Didn't Wang Yue's Fourth Brother ask Bei Weiwei out for dinner that time? Maybe he saw the way Weiwei played games and just wanted to get to know her. Doesn't that match what Weiwei just said?"

Watching them make wild guesses, Sisi chewed up the dried fruit in her mouth before delivering the final verdict. "Weiwei, why don't you just ask? Why play this guessing game?"

After Wang Yue saw that Boss and the others had already told Bei Weiwei the truth, he put himself in Xiao Nai's shoes and considered how he would handle things if he were Xiao Nai.

It seemed there was only one path—confess directly! Had he accidentally given him an assist?

Thinking of that possibility, Wang Yue became utterly dejected. Even a salted fish like him could think of it; that fox definitely could too.

Before Wang Yue could mourn for long, Boss and Second Brother surrounded him. "Third Brother, when did you start dating Bei Weiwei's roommate? You even kept it from us?"

Seeing their expressions, Wang Yue knew that Bei Weiwei's side had probably guessed, which was why they were asking.

But looking at the two of them acting so aggressively, Wang Yue wasn't intimidated. He quickly shifted the blame. "You need to blame Fourth Brother for this."

Fourth Brother, who had been watching the show from the side, asked in confusion, "What does you dating someone have to do with me?"

Boss and Second Brother had initially thought Fourth Brother knew Wang Yue was dating someone, but seeing his foolishly adorable expression, they knew that couldn't be the case. Their grip on Wang Yue tightened a little more.

Seeing that he couldn't escape, Wang Yue hurriedly explained, "That day..."

After Boss and Second Brother heard the whole story, they released Wang Yue. Boss said somewhat gloomily, "What kind of luck is that? You managed to pick up a girlfriend like this? Treat us to a meal sometime so we can get to know her."

Second Brother's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly, "Invite the Campus Belle's dorm too. Didn't you say there's another pretty girl in her dorm named Sisi who's still single?"

Boss immediately returned to Wang Yue's side. "Why wait for another day? Let's do lunch today. I'll invite them in your name."

Seeing that Boss had gotten ideas too and was actually planning to make a move on Sisi, Second Brother cursed, "Boss, she's your sister-in-law!"

Boss returned to his seat and typed as he said disdainfully, "Maybe she'll be your sister-in-law!"