Hints and Confessions

After the game ended, Zhao Chenchen, Bai Hui, and Miao Yingying were still a little unsatisfied. Miao Yingying thought Sona looked great and wanted to buy a skin to try it out. Bai Hui felt that Liu Chang'an's Yasuo was the main problem, preventing her Lux from showing her true potential. Zhao Chenchen, on the other hand, believed that the person she was laning against should pick a melee champion, not one that could keep shooting.

The saying "the less skilled you are, the more you enjoy playing" is a universally applicable truth.

After playing a few more rounds, Xu Xue quit and switched to Lei Hong, a game she had never played before. Zhao Chenchen then began to teach her boyfriend how to play the game step by step.

Their plan was to play games here all night. The beds in the e-sports hotel room weren't designed for a good night's sleep; there were several bunk beds so they could rest when they got tired.

After playing for a while, everyone got a little hungry. Originally, Gao Dewei and Tao Peiyuan were supposed to go buy some late-night snacks, but Miao Yingying kept asking Gao Dewei for salsa, so Liu Chang'an and Bai Hui were sent instead.

"This game is quite fun. I played it a few times in high school, but I didn't find it interesting." Bai Hui's eyes were still sparkling. People's energy and spirit are always at their peak when they encounter interesting things or are happy.

"What's interesting isn't the game itself, but playing it with friends," Liu Chang'an said with a smile. "I only played it in high school, and haven't played in a long time, so my skills are a bit rusty."

"How come you killed me so swiftly?" This is called a slight lapse in reflexes? Bai Hui died seven times that time; if his reflexes were as good as his reflexes, wouldn't I have been killed the moment I saw him?

Actually, it's pretty much the same. Bai Hui thought about it and realized that in most cases, if she went to fight him, she would die.

"I just casually finished you off as a minor enemy. It took four hits to kill one small puncture wound. You usually die in one or two hits. Once I ran out of money after killing you, I couldn't be bothered with you anymore," Liu Chang'an explained, hoping she would understand that he didn't mean to target her.

"I was just saying that when I chased after you to beat you, you just ran off to hunt hairy crabs." Bai Hui said with a sudden realization. At the time, she thought he had taken pity on her and couldn't bear to kill her, so Bai Hui would chase after Liu Chang'an even more excitedly to beat him.

"Yeah, you don't do any damage when you hit someone, I can heal back up with a Doran's Blade."

"When we get back, I want to have a sala with you too. I want to play Teemo. Miao Yingying said Teemo is both cute and powerful, the best ADC," Bai Hui said confidently.

Liu Chang'an sensed that she was genuinely confident and believed that she could win by switching to a different hero, so he nodded without saying anything.

"Speaking of which..." Bai Hui hesitated, as if she wanted to say something but then stopped herself.

"Explain."

"When I was browsing my social media, I accidentally saw An Nuan showing off her love again. You finally finished that dress... Haha." Bai Hui remembered that a long time ago Liu Chang'an asked her to borrow a dress for reference, and she even asked him to take pictures for her. She never expected that a dress would take so long to design and make.

An Nuan posted many detailed pictures, and Bai Hui compared them with the dresses in her wardrobe; none of them could compare in terms of workmanship.

There's no way around it. I buy a lot of AP and BABY products, and even their limited editions are mass-produced. They can't compare to the meticulous craftsmanship of a custom-made version like An Nuan, where only one exists in the world.

"Actually, I didn't spend much time actually starting it. I spent a lot of time on the initial design and preparation, but I wasn't particularly satisfied with any of them. It was only later, when I happened to get my hands on 'Along the River Along the River During the Qingming Festival,' that I felt like I could finish it in one go." Liu Chang'an turned to look at Bai Hui, who was also wearing a Lolita dress with a shawl today.

The original design concept of such outfits was probably to express a gorgeous and elegant formal dress style, but in reality, these dresses are too complicated in terms of details and the materials are very different from those of a real custom-made dress. Therefore, wearing these dresses makes one look more like a doll dressed up in finery than an elegant lady.

Moreover, she was dressed like a young girl, so it would be more appropriate to say she looked like a doll. Especially with Bai Hui's colored contact lenses today, her eyes looked particularly big. Her delicate face was covered with a soft glow in the night, and her cherry lips, which were pouting slightly under her small nose, made her look like a doll that had run out of a shop window.

The most important factor is the height difference. From a top-down perspective, a short but cute girl looks as petite as a doll.

"You mean... many things can't be forced, and trying your best is often not as good as getting the timing right?" Bai Hui asked softly.

"I didn't say that... Many things in this world don't have absolute rules. Often, it's just about finding a reason to try or give up." Even though her voice was soft, he could hear her. Liu Chang'an gave an example, "Like Tao Peiyuan and Miao Yingying, Tao Peiyuan's success wasn't necessarily due to luck, and Miao Yingying's success wasn't necessarily due to unfulfilled potential. Ultimately, it depends on who continues to try and who wants to give up."

"Then who do you think is more promising?" Bai Hui's voice suddenly rose a lot, her ears twitched, and she looked at Liu Chang'an expectantly with her neck stiff.

"Gossip." Liu Chang'an smiled when he saw her immediately become excited by the gossip.

"Tell me quickly." Bai Hui didn't mind him calling her a gossip. Did calling her a gossip mean she was some kind of vulgar old woman? She was still the cute little fairy she always was.

"I don't think Miao Yingying and Tao Peiyuan have confessed to Gao Dewei... because they both know that Gao Dewei considers everyone just friends. If they confessed, he would realize that they were being pursued, not just hanging out as friends." Liu Chang'an understands Gao Dewei well. "They're not confident either, afraid that if they confessed, they wouldn't even be able to stay friends and would be ruined."

"How could Gao Dewei be so stupid? He couldn't even see that?" Bai Hui said with some resentment, feeling sorry for Miao Yingying.

"It's not that he's stupid, it's just that he never even considered that aspect. He's never thinking about romance, so how could he notice a girl's many small details and hints?" Liu Chang'an glanced at Bai Hui. "For example, you never considered that when integer n>2, the equation x^n+y^n=z^n has no positive integer solutions. So even if someone writes out the proof in front of you every day, when someone asks you how to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, you still won't know who Andrew Wiles is."

Bai Hui opened her mouth slightly, standing there blankly. She understood the first part of what he said, but weren't examples meant to help people understand better? What kind of ridiculous examples were those?!

"Ugh, I know Fermat's Last Theorem. I read it in the short stories about mathematicians at the back of my textbook." Bai Hui nudged Liu Chang'an, calmly looking at the restaurant in front of her, and complained, "They wouldn't let us order takeout on our phones, insisting we do it ourselves. This restaurant is really something, they don't even offer takeout."

Bai Hui realized that the key issue wasn't who Andrew Wiles was; Liu Chang'an was talking about Tao Peiyuan, Miao Yingying, and Gao Dewei. Could he be implying that An Nuan had a connection with her?

Probably not... If it was a hint, then he realized... What did he realize? Did he realize he liked him? He clearly didn't have any such thoughts, and he wasn't like Tao Peiyuan and Miao Yingying. Gao Dewei was also single, unlike this taken "broken flower."

But... why does it still feel like he's saying he hopes she won't confess her feelings, otherwise they won't even be able to be friends?

Bai Hui clenched her fists, her fingernails digging lightly and heavily into her palms... No way, don't worry, we're just friends.