Summary:
Li Chunhua and Ye Xiu in one room? How about that?
Notes:
Includes exact dialogue from the original work.
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
At the hotel near the Samsara Stadium, a girl walked over to the window and then to outside of the room. Seeing that it was getting late and the guy still wasn’t back, she was finally beginning to worry: “Don’t tell me……that after his revealing his identity, he won’t be coming back?”
Chen Guo was full of sadness. She suddenly discovered that, even though she still wasn’t able to equate Ye Xiu with Ye Qiu, whether it was that lazy and irritating guy or that God that she respected greatly, him leaving so quietly left a bad taste in her mouth.
“He’ll come back. He’s with Senior Li, maybe they were now having a reunion with the other pro-players. Look, senior Li even posted a photo on weibo.” Tang Rou walked over to comfort the older girl. She showed her phone in front of Chen Guo.
Just as she said this, they heard a movement from outside their door. It was just that with Chen Guo’s mood, she only let out a sigh, but didn’t move.
Except this time, the movements got closer and then stopped outside of their door.
“Is he back?” Chen Guo was still lost in thought. This time, Tang Rou said this and checked. When she opened the door, sure enough, Ye Xiu was fiddling with his door while a beautiful girl was tugging the hem of his sleeves.
“I told you, I can go there on my own.” The girl looked like she was complaining.
At this time, Li Chunhua was really frustrated. Butler Wang was suddenly called back by her father. Ye Xiu as a big brother figure wanted to walk her to the hotel but she didn’t want to let the guy go back to his hotel alone at this hour. In the end, Ye Xiu jokingly offered her to stay with him. She didn’t know what had gotten into her that time but she agreed with the joke. Ye Xiu, as shameless as he was immediately grabbed the opportunity. Li Chunhua was confident that the guy wouldn’t do anything to her. But how was she supposed to act normal when the guy was in the same room with her?
In the end, Ye Xiu was really innocent. The accident gave him a deep scar. This time that he was finally with the girl, he didn’t want to let her alone just like how he did in the past. Thinking that if only he chose to accompany the girl to the airport or if he only didn’t permit the girl to visit him that time, maybe the girl wouldn’t be asleep for two years, maybe she was now a famous pro-player. Playing GLORY was important to him. So it was to her. He knew that the girl had many regrets.
“Oh? Hi Xiao Tang!” Li Chunhua noticed the little sister that opened the door in front of Ye Xiu’s suite.
“Hello Senior Li!” Tang Rou smiled politely though she was shocked to see the girl here. Had they gotten to that point?
“You’re still not asleep?” Ye Xiu turned his head and greeted. Chen Guo had already rushed out from the room like the wind. When she saw the girl beside Ye Xiu, she was more shocked than Tang Rou. She knew that the two have some ambiguous relationship, but this was so fast, no? But she rethink again. Ye Xiu was Ye Qiu and Li Chunhua was Spring Night. The two already knew each other for so long and many gossips from the past assumed that the two were together in real life so there’s nothing abnormal if they go that far. Chen Guo nodded her head as she thought to herself.
If only Ye Xiu and Li Chunhua could hear her, then they would be embarrassed to death.
“Hello, Sister Chen! Oh yeah, perfect! Lemme go and sleep with them!” She greeted Cheng Guo and looked at Ye Xiu.
“If you want to.” Ye Xiu really didn’t care. What’s important for him was that the girl was safe.
Chen Guo and Tang Rou who heard the two looked at each other knowingly. This two? They still have no idea, do they?
“Senior Li, Guo-guo and I have bad habits in sleeping and you might feel crowded with the three of us together, it’s okay for us but we’re a little embarrassed.” Tang Rou didn’t directly refused but she tactfully let Li Chunhua rethink. Chen Guo who was watching on the sideline secretly gave her a thumbs up.
“That…” Li Chunhua was really starting to feel unsure. If it was her then she would really felt embarrassed to show others her bad habits. Especially to someone like her who they hadn’t known for so long.
“Then I should go and let Ye-ge take the couch!” She said with a little unwillingness.
“Okay, then. Try to sleep early.” Ye Xiu finally opened his door and went to his room with Li Chunhua.
“Wait, did I forget something?” Chen Guo suddenly asked. She was so absorbed with shipping the two Gods that she had forgotten her real purpose.
“You forgot to ask him about his identity.” Tang Rou answered.
“And how did he treated us?” Chen Guo was now getting things and she was really feeling irritated.
“It’s as if……nothing ever happened……” Tang Rou forced a smile. She reckoned that Chen Guo was about to set off.
Sure enough, after a short pause, Chen Guo immediately rushed over and madly hammered at Ye Xiu’s door. But the one who opened it was Li Chunhua. Chen Guo became really embarrassed. Right, the Goddess was also inside.
Li Chunhua’s face was filled with puzzlement. She really didn’t know what was going on. Did the two sisters finally decided to take her in?
“Hello, Goddess Spring…I’m sorry, I just want to ask Ye Xiu some things…”
“Oh? Come in then.”
Li Chunhua led the two inside the room and made them sit in the couch. Ye Xiu was lying on the bed. Not long ago, the two were fighting about who would take the bed and who would sleep on the couch.
“Stand up! They wanted to ask you questions.” Li Chunhua bossed around and the guy did stood up. This made Chen Guo speechless. It seemed to her that if it was Li Chunhua, Ye Xiu would never complain and will just follow any order.
“Okay.” Ye Xiu calmly said and nodded his head: “What do you want me to explain?”
“What is exactly is up with you?” After Chen Guo embarrassed herself in front of Li Chunhua, her tone became much calmer.
“I’m Ye Qiu. Didn’t I already tell you that long time ago?” Ye Xiu spoked and Li Chunhua rolled her eyes. This guy really have the talent to irritate people. No doubt. No doubt.
“That counts?!” Chen Guo turned angry.
“Then how am I supposed to make it count?” Ye Xiu countered back.
Li Chunhua wanted to clapped. What a logic? No wonder Uncle Ye wanted his first son to be the successor. Ye Xiu was really capable.
“If you’re Ye Qiu, then what’s up with Ye Xiu?” Chen Go immediately questioned. Her demeanor showed that she had forgotten that there were other people in the room.
“Ye Xiu is me as well!”
“Why do you have two names?”
The atmosphere suddenly became heavy. Tang Rou silently turned her head to look out the window. While Li Chunhua observed the guy. The reason for having two names was something that she knew about. Will Ye Xiu answer the question?
“I can’t tell you that.” Ye Xiu finally said.
“Why?”
“Because……it’s a secret.” Ye Xiu said helplessly.
A reply without any substance, which hid everything of importance, anyone who heard this would understand that Ye Xiu didn’t want to reveal it. Li Chunhua looked at Chen Guo, sure enough, the older girl did understood the circumstances.
“Then which one is your real name?”
“Guess?” Ye Xiu asked back. Li Chunhua wanted to punch the guy. The older sister was seriously asking a question and he had to answer with that? Even she who knew how despicable Ye Xiu was still affected. What more to his new boss?
“Ye Xiu!” Li Chunhua warned.
“Okay, sorry. You’re correct. Ye Xiu. I’m Ye Xiu.” Ye Xiu nodded his head. He was also baffled. Why was he becoming more and more of an obedient puppy in front of Li Chunhua?
“Why do you need to use a fake name? Why don’t you want to reveal your identity? What are you hiding for?” Chen Guo was beginning to ask more deeply but she was disturbed by the laughing girl beside her. Li Chunhua couldn’t stop herself from laughing. Ye Xiu was probably embarrassed to answer those questions.
“You!” Ye Xiu looked at Li Chunhua seemingly warning her.
“What? You’re just embarrassed, no?” Li Chunhua instead teased him.
“Uh…..” Ye Xiu turned around. His face now held a self-ridiculing smile: “The reason is indeed very embarrassing.”
“Oh?” The two girl’s ears perked up. Was he actually going to say it just because Li Chunhua teased him?
“It’s because I ran away from home.” Ye Xiu said.
“You……ran away from home?” Chen Guo repeated stupidly.
“Indeed! He ran away from home.” Li Chunhua laughed.
“Why did he ran away?” Chen Guo turned to Li Chunhua and asked. She felt that the girl would be much willing to answer.
“What else? He wanted to play games!”
Ye Xiu smiled bitterly. Li Chunhua really love to talk about his dark past the most.
“When did he runaway?”
Knowing that Ye Xiu already didn’t want it to be a secret, Li Chunhua decided to be his spoke person to lessen the guy’s embarrassment: “Ten years! Imagine that?”
“Oh? The time when glory came out. Did he ran away just to play GLORY?”
“Not exactly. I played other games before that, as well.” Ye Xiu who was listening on the sidelines answered for himself.
“Then what about now? You’ve never gone back home to visit?” Chen Guo asked.
“I have.” Ye Xiu said.
“Oh?”
“We parted in bad terms.”
“How?”
“Because in their eyes, playing games for a living will never be seen as an honest profession.” Ye Xiu calmy said. But Li Chunhua knew that he wasn’t really calm.
How can someone be okay if his own family didn’t want to support his passion? Li Chunhua was really sad for Ye Xiu. Seeing Tang Rou and her who were supported by their family might really made the guy bitter. Tang Rou chose to be a cafe manager and Tang Shusen seemed like someone who wouldn’t care. Her father on the other hand supported her dream of being a pro-player since her brother was the one that would managing the company. Li Chunhua thought about it. Maybe that’s it. Maybe because they're not the successors so their family chose not to pressure them. Ye Xiu on the other hand was in the opposite situation.
At the time Li Chunhua finished contemplating, the two girls were already gone and what left her was the man that once again shamelessly laid at the bed.
“Are you okay?” Li Chunhua asked.
“What do you think?” Ye Xiu asked back.
“I think…no.” She seriously answered instead of fighting with the guy.
“What made you think so?” Ye Xiu sat on the bed and curiously questioned the girl. He wanted the feeling it gave him when the girl was only focused to him. He was really not someone who loves attention but if it was her…then he would be more than willing.
“Mmmm…I know you. No matter how big the misunderstanding is, you will still love them.” The girl smiled and Ye Xiu also unconsciously smiled back.
“Untie Ye, she wanted me to ask you…you’re now retired so why aren’t you coming back?”
Li Chunhua stared at Ye Xiu for half a day but still didn’t hear his reply. Ye Xiu was really a mama’s boy. Uncle Ye doted him more than Ye Qiu but Ye Xiu was still more attached to his mother. Li Chunhua couldn’t help but to remember how beautiful it was to look at when the mother and her sons laughed together.
“Ye-ge…Old Han said on his interview that he will wait for you. Will you really comeback? Will you bring the party to the pro-scene and create your own team?” Li Chunhua suddenly asked.
“...that’s a good idea. Will you join me?”
“Mmmmn. I was waiting for you to decide long long ago.” Li Chunhua happily nodded.
“Then how about Misty Rain?” It was really Ye Xiu’s biggest concern. Li Chunhua was so attached with Chu Yunxiu. She also almost signed with Misty Rain before her accident. What if the girl chose to join them again? Ye Xiu couldn’t stop the girl if she wanted to.
“Eh? I was really planning to do that…” The girl said that made Ye Xiu nervous.
“But I realized that Misty Rain doesn’t need a long range attacker right now. Li Hua is a ninja, Xiao Chu is an elementalist, Lu Ying is a sharpshooter. There were already an ample amount of low vitality class in their main roster. Should I add myself so that they will have more loop holes? What Xiao Chu need is fighting spirit, not me…” Li Chunhua explained.
“You had been paying attention to them?” Ye Xiu ridiculed but he was quite happy. What’s GLORY? GLORY is when you were with the person you wanted to share your GLORY with. Lord Grim and Li Chunhua, those were the ones for him.
“Of course! I’m the founder!” Not many might knew this but Li Chunhua was indeed the former guild leader of Misty Rain. It’s just that she couldn’t show herself before so she decided to pass the leadership to someone else for everyone’s convenience. Now that Ye Xiu think about it, she was the one who influenced the guild to be filled with girls.
“You’re like Old Wei, the founder that went missing all of a sudden.” Ye Xiu teased.
“Yes, but I’m not old. So count me in! I must do this. I must pay HIM for making my Light Frost Bloom (A/N: Spring Night’s weapon)
“Aren’t you also doing this for him?” Li Chunhua said as she smiled at the guy.
“So it is settled…”
Notes:
Includes exact dialogue from the original work.
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