Chapter 3: Kiss kiss me, I love you

translator: xiin

editors: apricot & juurensha

Ning Zhehan’s heated blood cooled down a lot. There were many legends about the god level accompanying player, about how he was the ‘One Lamp Grandmaster’ of the e-sports world, a godly player who’d broken through the professional player world, and how winning him was the same as winning against the Great Demon King…

There was no mention of money in the legends.

However, from another perspective, an accompanying player was good too, or even a trainer. They all needed to be able to feed themselves, and charging a fee was normal!

Ning Zhehan’s awe of the ‘grandmaster’ became a little more personal and cordial, “That’s fine!”

It was good to have the bill settled for goods that were delivered. Nobody would owe anyone!

Bai Cai: “200 a match refers to solo (1v1).”

Ning Zhehan: “Of course!”

Professional players sought out One Lamp Grandmaster in order to hone their personal strength. There were more things that needed to be considered in team competitions, but the Grandmaster was only one person. There was no way for him to do those.

Bai Cai smiled slightly, “Okay. I’ll contact him for you.”

At this time, Ning Zhehan only felt that Brother Cai was smiling like an old fox, but he hadn’t yet realized how much his wallet would suffer.

After the first game…

Ning Zhehan was baffled, “This, this is so…”

He couldn’t even use any strong words. This was simply too abnormal!

A 1v1 confrontation was different from 5v5. After the game began, both players would enter a long map, each guarding their own resurrection crystal, and start fighting as soon as they left their base.

In common solo matches, the players would give each other a little opportunity to develop, build up their talent points and equipment, and wait until they reached over level 10 before fighting. Ning Zhehan was already mutilated by level 1, and was forced to return to the resurrection crystal by level 2. By level 4…

Game over.

In just five short minutes, Ning Zhehan, who stood out amongst countless players, a newcomer who’d been signed into the top team FTW with a contract worth 3 million, had been hammered into a melon peel!

“Again!” Ning Zhehan didn’t think twice before clicking to return to the game room.

Bai Cai was very calm, “Pay first?”

Ning Zhehan took out his cell phone, “I’ll transfer it to you.”

Bai Cai: “’Kay.”

There was a ding as one thousand yuan entered the account.

One hour later…

Ning Zhehan was sweating profusely, and his head of granny grey hair was sticking out everywhere.

Five minutes a game, for a full twelve games. Not only had he not won, he hadn’t even killed the other party once!

For an entire hour, he’d been toyed with until his scalp was numb. What made him doubt life even more was that he’d chosen all of the mid-lane heroes he was good at, and the other side had used the same heroes as him. He’d been defeated by the very heroes he was proudest of being good at!

“A, again…” Ning Zhehan’s hands were starting to shake.

Bai Cai reminded him kindly, “You’ve already spent 2400, hey.”

Two hundred a game, five minutes per game. One hour was 2400.

Ning Zhehan was stunned for a moment.

He suddenly thought of the sentence Bai Cai had said before.

Two hundred per game, accompanying you until dawn.

He’d scoffed at the time, thinking that it was just two hundred yuan.

Now…

F*ck, was this highway robbery?!

Bai Cai counselled him, “Don’t be in a hurry and take your time, for tonight, first…”

Teenagers hated hearing these kinds of words the most, “Again! I’ll transfer you five thousand!”

“’Kay.”

Bai Cai clicked to accept the money and transferred it to Wei Xiao at a thirty-seventy split. At the same time, he also cursed, “Can’t you f*cking hold back a little? This is a child that God Lu looks favorably on. Are you going to take responsibility if you ruin him?!”

Wei Xiao: “Close likes him?”

Bai Cai’s heart thudded: Oh shit, I said the wrong thing.

Wei Xiao sent a kind and loving smiley face, “Don’t worry. How can one see the rainbow if they don’t experience the wind and rain?”

Bai Cai: “………”

He began to feel sorry for Ning Zhehan. The 18 year old with the granny gray hair experienced a level of cruelty that he should not have experienced at his age that night.

One o’clock in the morning.

After spending ten thousand yuan and losing fifty games, the granny gray kid burst out in tears.

It wasn’t an adjective.

It was true…

He really cried!

Bai Cai, who was experienced and knowledgeable, also felt a strange sense of heartache, “About that…”

Ning Zhehan probably hadn’t ever cried like this even from childhood, “He… He…”

Bai Cai helped him curse, “That person is a cruel, heartless beast. You…”

“He is really too strong.” Ning Zhehan whimpered and sobbed, “There are people beyond people, and heavens beyond heaven. It’s my skill that is inferior. I’m going to apply for an extension in training time tomorrow. I need to work harder; I’m going to improve my personal strength. Only like this will I be able to keep up…”

Bai Cai: “………”

Was this a motherf*cking ‘overcoming mental blocks’ after going into seclusion from losing in the training matches and getting hammered by Wei Xiao?!

Ning Zhehan left, and Bai Cai directly sent over a voice message to roar at Wei Xiao, “Is bullying children really amusing?! He cried! He wailed and cried! Laozi is most afraid of people crying, you know?!”

Wei Xiao’s voice was lazy, “Ning Zhehan, right? He’s quite talented.”

Bai Cai was almost choked to death by his words: He’d lost every fight. He was really too f*cking talented.

Wei Xiao was in a pretty good mood, “Close’s eye for talent wasn’t bad this time. I almost lost in the last few games.”

Bai Cai didn’t believe a damn word, “You didn’t use assassins all night!”

Wei Xiao’s weakest heroes were mid-lane heroes. Tonight, he’d beaten Ning Zhehan’s strengths with his own weakness, and even hammered him to the point of crying.

Wei Xiao laughed and said, “Wouldn’t it be like bullying children if I used assassins?”

Bai Cai: “………”

You’ve already been bullying them all night. How can you have the cheek to say that!

“It’s late.” Wei Xiao yawned. “I’m logging off.”

Bai Cai: “Get lost, get lost, get lost!”

At one in the morning, Bai Cai wasn’t about to go to sleep. He’d spent the day making up for his live broadcast hours and hadn’t finished his quota of matches that day. He planned to charge up the rankings at this time.

He didn’t stop till 5AM once he started playing.

Bai Cai quit the game and was about to shut down the computer when he saw an unread email.

It was sent at 3AM, and the sender was Wei Xiao. The subject––10000 Yuan Customer Exclusive: Sweet and Love-Filled After-Sales Service.

Bai Cai’s mouth twitched, “Going wild won’t kill you.”

He clicked open the email, and there were two videos inside. He opened up the first one, and Wei Xiao’s voice, which was a little lazy from fatigue, flowed out, “… positioning is too far forward, the essence of a poison user is to control the casting distance. Having a short reach doesn’t mean you have to be close. Only when you can control the character at the maximum distance will you be able to play out the strongest DPS…”

This was a replay and evaluation video that was nearly thirty minutes long.

Wei Xiao had cut clips of twenty mistakes from the fifty solo games that evening and gave each a very pertinent evaluation, the standard of which was comparable to that of professional coaches.

Bai Cai saved it and sneered, “Little Ning, your ten thousand yuan really wasn’t spent at a loss.”

The second video was much larger and contained a full hour’s worth of material.

Bai Cai’s instincts told him that he shouldn’t click it open, but he couldn’t stop his cheap hands. He clicked it open––

“Just now was the reverse teaching material. Now, please enjoy the mid-lane grandmaster’s highlights!”

Bai Cai only watched for half a minute, “F*ck!”

This one hour compilation was full of how Wei Xiao toyed with Ning Zhehan. They used the same heroes and the same talent points, but one was good enough to fly up to heaven while the other lay there on the ground. Such a sharp contrast made even an onlooker like him want to go into seclusion.

He even called it a sweet and love-filled after-sales service!

If Ning Zhehan received this second video, he would probably end up jumping off the top of the training base building!

Bai Cai was just about to turn off the video when a low inquiring voice came out from behind him, “This is Wei Xiao?”

Bai Cai: “!”

He used an entire lifetime of hand speed to turn off the video!

Unfortunately, it was too late.

Lu Feng held a cup of hot tea and looked down at him from above, “Wei Xiao knows Ning Zhehan?”

Bai Cai’s back was stiff. He slowly turned his head back, “Captain… You… still remember Old Wei…?”

Not only did he remember him, he could even tell who it was by listening to his voice. This wasn’t just remembering, right!

Lu Feng’s gaze turned chilly, and his voice was even colder, “Open the video.”

Bai Cai: “………”

Lu Feng looked down at him.

Bai Cai shuddered and clicked open the second video.

The video picked up where it left off. Wei Xiao’s lazy but arrogant voice came out––

“… How can I be so amazing? Look at the gap between casting spells, there isn’t even 0.1 seconds of error time. Old Bai, I really don’t understand, how could there be such an excellent person in this world…”

Bai Cai covered his face. He wanted to drill under the table and hide.

What made him collapse even further was…

This long video lasted for a full hour. Lu Feng watched the whole thing without stopping at all. He didn’t fast forward, didn’t pause, and didn’t say a word!

Bai Cai seemed like he’d just been punished in public. His dignity had already been tossed away, “About that… Wei Xiao is working as an accompanying player.”

Lu Feng’s eyes were fixed on the screen, which currently displayed the last frame after the video finished playing. There was a line of big, black words––Please call me the King of Casters.

“Accompanying player?”

Bai Cai really wanted to close this stupid video. “Yes… he accompanies others to play games.”

Lu Feng knew a bit about this kind of thing, “Which platform?”

Bai Cai thought about his ‘business deal’ with Wei Xiao––forget it, forget it, he wasn’t able to save himself, let alone anyone else.

Bai Cai sold his good brother just like that, “Memeda Platform.”

Lu Feng paused, then asked, “ID.”

Bai Cai’s face felt like it was burning, “7758521…” Kiss kiss me, I love you; Wei Xiaoxiao, can you have a bit of moral integrity!

Lu Feng: “……”

Bai Cai, who wanted to survive, tried to save himself, “He, he also made a replay video for Little Ning. It’s this one…”

He hurriedly opened it up for Lu Feng.

After Lu Feng expressionlessly finished watching the video, the hot tea he’d made earlier had long cooled.

Bai Cai couldn’t guess what the Great Demon King was thinking and could only try to lighten his breathing. It was so light that he was barely able to breathe!

“Not bad.” Lu Feng spoke two words after the video ended.

Bai Cai was a little relieved, “Little Ning didn’t lose out this time. There’s…”

Even before he finished speaking, he heard Lu Feng continue, “Wei Xiao’s mid-lane heroes aren’t bad.”

Bai Cai: “???”

He’d thought that Lu Feng was saying that the replay analysis was good, but it felt like he was saying that the Beast Wei had played well?

“Send me the video.” Lu Feng set down his cup and took out his phone.

Bai Cai was stunned. He couldn’t help it and asked, “Which one?”

Lu Feng: “The second one.”

Bai Cai: “………………”

There was a perfectly good replay video, yet you don’t want it. What do you want to do with Wei Xiao’s stupid one-man show video?!

Returning back to the present––

In the few short hours of the early morning, Brother Cai’s hair was about to be boiled white! He calmed down his heart and listened to Wei Xiao’s WeChat message again.

His attention had previously been completely caught up with the phrases ‘little cutie’, ‘sugar baby’, ‘for a lifetime’, and ‘propose’, and he hadn’t paid any attention to the other content in the message.

He caught on to the key point after listening to it again.

Ten thousand games? Two million?

God Lu bought ten thousand games with Wei Xiao as an accompanying player?!

He felt that the captain might have been on his phone placing an order earlier!

Bai Cai thought about the matter of the video once again…

He couldn’t reveal the truth. He sent a WeChat message to Wei Xiao, “Tell me honestly, did anything happen between you and God Lu two years ago?!”

Wei Xiao’s reply was very quick, “You haven’t gone to bed yet?”

Bai Cai was fierce, “Speak!”

Wei Xiao sent over a shy expression, “There’s nothing much between me and Close, we just slept together.”

Juurensha: Huhuhuhu, although probably platonically?

xiin: i laugh so much translating this novel~ love it love it love it to bits