Awesome!’
‘Even better than that!’
Chen Tang’s eye sockets were a little dark, but she was in a very happy mood.
In one night, she actually tricked people into giving her a full twenty skins! And her win rate was as high as 70%!
‘At this rate, reaching the Silver throne is just around the corner!’
‘Sigh!’
‘The hidden MMR system in this damn game is too crazy! Winning gives 12 points, losing deducts 22—what’s the meaning of this?’
‘Do they really want me to stay in Bronze and Iron forever?!’
“Sleep!”
She fell asleep right away.
Over the next two days of vacation, she basically didn’t interact much with Liu Yan, spending all her time behind closed doors playing games and tricking people into giving her skins.
Good news—she reached Gold rank and obtained over a hundred skins.
Bad news was—
She herself was getting completely wrecked.
“Damn! Gold-rank players are terrifying!”
She finally shut down her computer.
“Girl, you’ve been playing games for three days! Weren’t you hanging out with Xiao Yan just two days ago?!” Li Hui’s face showed dissatisfaction.
“Hey~ Mom, you don’t get it! With men, you have to be hot and cold! I went on a date with him! He must be thrilled right now! But do I let him have it too easily? Obviously not. The night before last, you left me alone with him—that was already a losing move! Back in the day, you let Dad win too easily, you know?!”
“!”
“Girl, you’re asking for a spanking again, aren’t you?”
Chen Tang’s expression shifted as she saw her angry father.
“! Haha~ Old Chen, look at you, getting worked up! Mom and I were just joking! Haha~ I’m going to school!”
She grabbed her bag and ran out of the house, heading to the designated bicycle parking spot in the neighborhood.
There she saw Liu Yan sitting on his bike, playing with his phone.
“You punk! Been busy being a lick dog these past few days, huh? I asked you to play games and you didn’t come! Bro is already a Gold expert!”
“!”
Liu Yan looked up sharply: “What? You finally broke through Silver and became a Gold master? Now you’re barely qualified to duo queue with me!”
“Aren’t you just a lousy Platinum?! Acting all high and mighty! Busy being a lick dog lately?”
“What did you say?! Lick dog?! That’s true love! Let me tell you, soon you might have to call her sister-in-law!”
Chen Tang couldn’t hold it in and burst out laughing.
“Let’s go. Off to school. What’s today? Advanced math, computer science…”
Liu Yan nodded: “All classes you hate.”
“Sigh, isn’t class just for catching up on sleep?”
“Keep messing around like that! Don’t actually fail!”
“Only scrubs say that!”
Chatting like this, they biked all the way to school.
Chen Tang’s outfit today was actually quite stylish.
She had put together a relatively androgynous set from her wardrobe, but in truth, androgynous clothes need an androgynous face to pull off.
To Liu Yan…
At this moment, the jeans Chen Tang wore actually emphasized her long, rounded legs, while her white T-shirt made her look very youthful.
Right now, her long hair reached her waist, giving off a vibrant campus vibe.
Though they were indeed in that youthful campus setting after all.
Let’s not mention that if Chen Tang didn’t show her true nature, she was actually a pretty girl.
College students, in reality, are a very indifferent group.
In extreme cases, some people go through four years without even recognizing everyone in their class—just knowing their dorm mates is already good enough.
Liu Yan and Chen Tang, who lived locally, were an even more extreme case.
Neither of them lived in the dorms, so they had no roommates—essentially, they had no friends.
And university classes were large lectures, so the two naturally sat together.
Liu Yan watched as Chen Tang covered her face with a textbook and sprawled out to sleep.
‘She must have been playing games all night.’
But games were a good thing; he couldn’t imagine what kind of trouble Demon Pill Chen Tang would stir up without them.
Thinking that, Liu Yan couldn’t help but smile.
But his smile soon faded.
The trigger was last year’s baseball tournament…
Well, actually, it was the school sports day.
University sports days tended to be about “assignments.” If you signed up for an event, you didn’t have to perform; if you didn’t, you either performed or joined the cheerleading.
Performances were group activities like tai chi, tai chi sword, or long fist.
These events required a month of group practice beforehand. If you were in cheerleading, you didn’t practice much, but during the actual sports day, it was exhausting.
Back then, Liu Yan and Chen Tang both chose to participate in events.
And both achieved decent results.
But what’s being talked about here isn’t about Liu Yan and Chen Tang.
It’s about Liu Yan’s girlfriend.
Her name was “Xia You.”
During the first-semester sports day, she participated in the cheerleading event with a classmate named “Gu Zhou,” and they got to know each other.
However, since she was dating Liu Yan, their relationship was just ordinary classmates—pretty friendly.
But this Mid-Autumn Festival—when Xia You went home, she was arranged to go on a blind date. The other party happened to be that classmate Gu Zhou.
Suddenly, they felt a sense of “fate” between them.
There’s no need to elaborate on how things went between those two. In short, after a short Mid-Autumn holiday—
Liu Yan got dumped.
Chen Tang found out about this when they were done with classes and about to head home.
She bent down and looked up at Liu Yan: “Did you really cry?”
There was no trace of sympathy or pity on her face, only schadenfreude: “You didn’t actually cry, did you?! Sigh~ I told you not to be a lick dog! Look at you! You even brought her lunch at noon, did she ever treat you like a human? Haha, hilarious.”
“Hey, don’t be too sad. Maybe she’s just confused for now, and after a while she’ll realize you’re the one who truly treats her well? Maybe she’ll even come back to you.”
Liu Yan looked up: “Really?”
“No! Do you need to be shown a cream puff before you realize you’ve been cuckolded? Clown, get back to Gotham! Batman says he won’t hit you anymore!”
“!”
“Chen Tang!”
Liu Yan wanted to strangle her.
It was clear that even though Chen Tang had become a pretty girl, she was still that Demon Pill.
Even when faced with his childhood friend and good brother suffering such a blow, she wouldn’t give him any comfort; instead, she’d twist the knife.
“Hey~ I’m serious. If you go back right now and lick her hard, maybe she’ll change her mind?”
“You’re still at it?”
“Ah~ I mean well! It’s just a woman, really. As they say, out with the old, in with the new, the next one will be better!”
Chen Tang pretended to comfort him without a care: “But some people have been dating for almost half a year and haven’t even gotten to first base… Who knows how someone else spent the Dragon Boat Festival? Maybe they were already at it full throttle.”
“Damn it, I’m gonna fight you today!”
He grabbed Chen Tang by the neck and shook her.
“Keep going! You bastard! Even if you choke me to death, she won’t come back!”
“! You egg!”
Liu Yan felt like he was about to cry.
“Sigh, forget it. Who says we’re not bros? If you go back like this, my parents will pressure me.”
Chen Tang sighed: “Let’s go! All-night internet cafe! My treat, we’ll get a double booth! Sigh—a double booth all night costs a whole forty bucks! I’m treating you! What do you say?”
“Playing games again?!”
“What else? Go home and text Xia You saying, ‘I beg you on my knees, don’t leave me’?”
“…”
Liu Yan fell completely silent.
Chen Tang pushed her bike: “Let’s go! If we don’t go, there won’t be any spots! Lucky for us we only have one class this afternoon. Near University Town, okay?!”
Liu Yan could only go play games with her.
As for their families—
Just mention it briefly.
Even if it sounded like they were a bit excited.
“Is this what you call Gold-level skill? A 0-12 Soraka, are you even human?! I’m begging you, stop feeding! Please, I’m on my knees!”
Chen Tang’s expression was a bit awkward: “It’s because you’re too bad! You said you’re a Platinum expert, but you can’t even carry me! Did you steal that Platinum rank?!”
“You should play Malphite and just go full tank! The art of being carried is the way to gain free elo…”
“Malphite is so ugly. Don’t you know I only play pretty girl characters?”
“Then I guess you becoming a pretty girl now is your retribution!”
“!”
Chen Tang was speechless: “Your trash-talking is pretty strong now that you’ve been dumped…”
Dumped?
Oh crap, I forgot I was dumped.
“Playing games really is a great way to calm down! I feel a lot better!” Liu Yan said honestly. “I feel like my anger disappeared when I was flaming my teammates and you.”
Liu Yan looked at the game screen: “By the way, aren’t there several people inviting you to play? Why don’t you accept?”
“Sigh~ just turtles, not worth paying attention to. I’ll play games with them when I want a new skin.”
“…”
‘Has this girl lost all shame since becoming a pretty girl?’
“Is your Gold rank…”
“Don’t you know that the moment I say ‘big bro,’ these guys get more hyped than if they injected adrenaline? It’s just an equal exchange! I provide emotional value, and I get ranked points. Perfectly reasonable.”
At this point, Chen Tang glanced at Liu Yan: “Since I’m comforting you like this, shouldn’t you at least buy me a soda as repayment?”
“Fine, fine! I’ll even get you a chicken steak.”
“That would be great.”
To be fair, even though Chen Tang was a Demon Pill and tricked people online into buying her skins, she never accepted money transfers or anything like that. She wasn’t that greedy.
But neither family was super wealthy or short on cash either.
“Seriously, that Xia You is pretty good-looking, but she’s clearly a fool. If you stayed with her, your kid’s IQ would probably be a concern. She actually thought meeting on a blind date was fate—if that’s the case, then what about me living right across from you? A hundred years of cultivation to share a boat, a thousand years to share a bed, you know?”
She finally said something serious: “That woman is definitely an idiot. I never thought you two would work out from the start, but you insisted on being a simp. I guess you were just too horny.”
“…” As the one who got dumped, Liu Yan had no rebuttal.
Then Chen Tang continued: “If you really want to find someone, I think that junior-year senior is pretty good, you know? The famous school beauty of our school, a real precious daughter, she even drives a Maybach to school. If you’re going to chase someone, chase her.”
“Are you crazy?! Someone I could chase?”
“It doesn’t hurt to try. If you succeed, that’s thirty years less struggle—no, eight lifetimes less struggle. You couldn’t earn as much money in eight lifetimes as she has.”
Chen Tang said with an expectant face: “Even if you fail, no one will laugh at you. She’s a precious daughter after all. But if you succeed, you’ll take off—no matter how you look at it, it’s a good deal.”
“You make a good point, but what if an invisible hand makes me disappear off the face of the earth one day?”
“Your top priority should be uninstalling Bilibili. That girl band stuff is poison.”
Liu Yan was silent for a moment: “What if I actually went for it…”
“Just go for it! You just got dumped! If you chase the precious daughter, people will think you dumped Xia You—even if Xia You explains that she dumped you, others will think she’s saving face. That way, your pride is saved too.”
“Damn! You actually have useful advice sometimes! By the way, what’s that senior’s name?”
“I don’t know either. Wait, I’ll check on the school forum.”
She immediately opened the website and searched: “Her name is Bai Mengling. Ooh, that name sounds so dreamy!”
“Yeah, unlike your name, which sounds like a Tang dynasty relic.”
“I think you want to lose elo.”
“…”
The two huddled together, looking at the forum introduction.
“Bai Mengling, precious daughter of the Bai family, daughter of the chairman of the Bai Group in the city…”
“Just looking at this photo, she gives off a serious vibe.” Liu Yan observed the person in the photo.
She was very good-looking, with glasses, giving an even more gentle and quiet impression.
Chen Tang immediately said: “The quiet ones are the wildest. So, what do you say? Why don’t you just go ahead and… you know, maybe she’ll become your personal toy.”
“Your first priority should be uninstalling some pink app. Otherwise, I think your brain is going to rot. You’ll get me thrown into the river one day.”
“Then I’ll remember to burn paper money and pretty girls for you.”
“F* off…”
After a few more insults back and forth, Chen Tang continued: “Anyway, how about just confessing directly? In a crowded place, so everyone knows. If I remember correctly, both Xia You and she are in the student council. That way, you can also mention that you and Xia You broke up—saves your face, right?”
“Huh? You mean confess in public, in front of the student council members? Is that appropriate?”
“What’s wrong with it? You won’t know anyone after graduation anyway. At worst, you skip class—can’t you just self-study for these college courses?”
“Is that a good idea?”
“Are you a man or not? Just say you don’t have the balls!”
“Damn… you don’t have balls either, and you’re calling me out!”
“Go f* yourself…”
After a few more exchanges, Liu Yan made up his mind.
“Fine! F* it! That bitch Xia You dumps me just like that? I’m not swallowing this!”
“That’s the spirit!”
Chen Tang’s smile was impossible to suppress. She pretended to be cute and waved at Liu Yan: “Brother Liu Yan~ good luck~”
Liu Yan’s scalp tingled.