GTRSH Chapter 42

 Yu Xinche wanted to go back and change his clothes immediately, but despite his thoughts, he still stood upright next to He Ci. Gu Zhui said this to He Ci, so he just needed to wait for He Ci’s response, and he could pretend that he didn’t hear it.

  However, He Ci didn’t react at all after hearing this, as if Gu Zhui was just talking about the weather.

He was calm and composed, just smiled faintly, and said to Yu Xinche: “See, your friend’s favorite player is like this.”

Gu Zhui also smiled, skipped the topic, and introduced himself to Yu Xinche.

The two teams’ base were very similar in structure, even the cafeteria layout was exactly the same.

He Ci explained that it was because they knew each other before they started playing professionally, and when they were building TZ, they simply borrowed the CQ blueprints from Gu Zhui to save trouble.

During the meal, CQ’s other main attacker was also there, SEEK, Pei Yimi.

Yu Xinche had also heard this name from his roommate, and it seemed that his roommate was also shipping these two as a couple.

Pei Shenhua rarely spoke and didn’t like to smile, but he was a nice person. When signing the poster, he even asked Gu Zhui to write a “to” signature for his roommate.

Gu Zhui also obeyed and did as he was told.

After getting the signed poster, it’s time to go to school.

When walking back to the TZ building, Yu Xinche paused. He was wondering whether he should go back and change his clothes.

But He Ci’s reaction just now clearly showed that he didn’t take it seriously, so it wouldn’t be a good idea for him to act too concerned.

They are all teammates, so there was nothing wrong with wearing the same team uniforms in daily games. And what’s wrong with occasionally wearing the same colors in their private life? As long as they have nothing to hide, that’s fine.

Yu Xinche quickly convinced himself and got into the car with He Ci.

The last time he rode in He Ci’s car was when He Ci accompanied him to school to go through the procedures for taking a leave of absence. He was in a bad mood at the time, and the two didn’t talk much after getting in the car.

Today he was in a very good mood, just like every Friday when he was a child and he got out of school, it would be a relaxing holiday where he could spend it freely.

But He Ci was driving, so Yu Xinche didn’t talk much to not distract him. He looked at the not-so-nice scenery along the way for a while, and gradually smelled the fragrance in the car again.

Now he was already very familiar with He Ci. After asking, he directly picked up the car fragrance in front of him and took a look.

It was indeed tea-scented, and it was also a luxury brand.

Rich people even use fragrances so carefully, Yu Xinche sighed in his heart, and suddenly he remembered the plush lamb that He Ci had given him when he first joined the team.

He asked, “Why did you give me the stuffed toy?”

He Ci: “No reason, I just thought you might like it.”

Yu Xinche didn’t quite believe it. How could anyone think that an adult boy likes plush? He asked, “I still don’t understand. Did I give you this information somewhere?”

He Ci: “Think for yourself.”

It seems that there was a clue.

“Did you see the dolls hanging on our balcony when you went to my dormitory?”

“En.”

“Then how do you know that it’s mine and not someone else’s?”

The car stopped at a red light. He Ci turned his head and looked over, imitating his tone: “Excuse me, are you asking a hundred thousand whys?”

“…” Yu Xinche touched his nose, “No.”

He Ci looked at him for a while, then he looked away when the green light came on and the car started again. After a few seconds he said, “It’s just a feeling, there’s no basis for it.”

Yu Xinche responded, but he still didn’t quite understand. He had never presented himself as cute to others, so He Ci felt that this was strange.

When he arrived, his three roommates were already waiting for him.

The gift from Yu Xinche was a commemorative basketball, which was sent to the dormitory in advance. Han Ji was very happy when he received it and said he had wanted it for a long time.

Now seeing the signed poster of CQ team, he was so excited that he wanted to hug Yu Xinche.

“Love you, Xinche. I also got Chase’s autograph, so cool.”

Today they watched a newly released science fiction movie and finished it at around five o’clock.

The cinema was on the 9th floor of the shopping mall, and the 6th to 8th floors below were all restaurants. They had originally wanted to eat nearby in the mall, but when they were watching a movie in the afternoon, messages kept ringing in the online group chat. After knowing that Yu Xinche was coming to the school, Qi Han and several other roommates also said they wanted to have a meal together.

Yu Xinche’s three roommates rarely played HIT, but fortunately they were all in the same class, so it was lively with more people, so they finally decided to eat at a Northeastern restaurant near the west gate of the school.

When they got off the car at noon, He Ci said that he could pick him up and go back to the base in the evening, and Yu Xinche didn’t refuse.

After all the dishes were served, he sent a message to He Ci, saying that it would probably be over in an hour and a half.

He Ci replied with a “OK”.

During the meal, Yu Xinche’s recent situation was inevitably mentioned.

“Xin Che is good, he’s getting better and better.”

“Although I didn’t go to the scene, we watched the livestream of the last three games. It was awesome!”

“I read the penalty announcement this morning and it made me laugh to death, hahahaha.”

“That new rule is so damn ridiculous. Is there a trick on the teammate’s face or a tactic? We are not allowed to see it.”

“Indeed, it’s ridiculous.”

“But you two are also a little funny. No one else who did it was punished, but you two were.”

“Don’t mention it, what the netizens said really makes sense.”

Yu Xinche: “What?”

“A perfect match!”

Yu Xinche: “…Talk about something else.”

They changed to human language: “Among all the supports that He Ci has served, you are the one he admires the most.”

Qi Han was a die-hard fan of He Ci, and he nodded frequently: “Yes. I have never seen him treat any teammate so well… Well, it’s not that he is not good to others. He was also very patient in teaching Xiao Ou during his rookie period, but they are not the same, you know, he treats you and others in two different ways.”

Yu Xinche had never seen Xiao Ou’s rookie period, so he didn’t know what He Ci was like before, so he asked out of curiosity.

“It’s hard to describe it specifically, you can only understand it intuitively.”

It’s as good as saying nothing.

“Oh, right.” Qi Han thought of something else, “Have you seen your couple posts?”

Yu Xinche immediately shook his head: “No. Why are you looking at that?”

“You are my brother, I can’t ship you with others, but what is written in those posts is really true. If you look at a few posts, you may understand what I mean.”

“Forget it, I don’t want to understand it.” Yu Xinche refused without hesitation.

“What are you looking at, you straight man?” Someone tried to smooth things over, “Let’s talk about something else. Speaking of which, did CONTROL and BURN really quarrel during the review?”

Yu Xinche: “It’s still okay, we occasionally say a few words to each other, but we don’t quarrel.”

Changing the topic, Yu Xinche also diverted his attention and stopped worrying about whether He Ci treated him differently as Qi Han said.

After dinner, when the show was over, He Ci hadn’t arrived yet. His friend asked Yu Xinche what happened, and he told the truth: “He Ci’s route is this way, so he will take me back with him.”

“Damn, what kind of treatment is this?”

“In just half a month, my brother Che has become the top of the TZ food chain.”

“Xiao He, open the car door.”

“Hahahahahaha.”

“Is he coming soon?”

Yu Xinche: “Yeah. I just said there are two more traffic lights.”

“Okay, let’s go first then.”

They were all very sensible. Although they wanted to see He Ci, they also knew it was inappropriate for a group of people to watch the fun here, so they said goodbye and went back through the small door.

“Come on Breeze, strive to win the championship!”

Yu Xinche nodded and waved at them again.

After only two or three minutes of waiting, He Ci arrived.

The car stopped next to Yu Xinche, but before Yu Xinche got in, He Ci got out first with a paper bag in his hand.

“I’m going to deliver something to my brother. Do you want to wait for me in the car or come with me?”

“Your brother?”

“Yeah, my younger brother, he’s also from your school, he’s a sophomore.”

Yu Xinche heard about this for the first time and was surprised for a moment, then asked, “Do you know the way?”

“There is map navigation.” He Ci said.

Yu Xinche laughed and said, “Then let’s go together. I’m better than the navigation system.”

“OK.”

The two entered the school together. Yu Xinche asked him where he was going, and He Ci said, “To your dormitory building.”

“There are only students from our department and the finance department in our building. Your brother is from the finance department?”

As soon as he said this, he figured it out. For a kid from He Ci’s family, it would be unorthodox to play e-sports, and it was reasonable for his brother to study finance.

“Yes, his name is He Xiao.”

“Ah?” Yu Xinche was stunned again.

“Do you know him?”

Yu Xinche shook his head: “No, I just heard about him before.”

Most of the students in the Finance Department are second-generation rich students, and many of them are so arrogant. In the words of the friends who just had dinner, “He Xiao is the most successful one in pretending to be cool among this group of people.”

Yu Xinche recalled the few times he had accidentally met He Xiao. He looked very similar to He Ci, they were indeed a family.

Then he suddenly remembered the last time he brought He Ci back to his dormitory: “Then it was him we bumped into in the stairwell last time, right?”

He Ci hummed, “His overreaction would attract more attention, so I pretended not to know him at the time.”

“He knows you, too.” He Ci added, “He said you are very good and I led you astray.”

After drinking two glasses of beer in the evening, Yu Xinche felt a sudden headache when the wind blew. He didn’t want to talk much anymore: “No, it was my own decision.”

When they got to the dormitory, He Ci called his brother again. He had called him twice in the car but the call didn’t go through. Otherwise, he would have let him go out of the school gate to get it himself.

This time he waited for half a minute and finally it got through.

“I’m downstairs in your dorm. Mother asked me to drop off something.”

“She did, stop talking nonsense and get down quickly.”

Two minutes later, He Xiao came down.

He was stunned for a moment when he saw Yu Xinche, and then the two of them nodded in greeting.

Yu Xinche originally wanted to walk a few steps away to give them space to talk, but He Ci handed him the paper bag and turned to leave.

Yu Xinche’s eyes moved between the two brothers, seeming to want to say something but stopping himself.

He Ci might have seen something, and took the initiative to say: “We have a bad relationship and are fighting over property.”

Yu Xinche said “Oh”, and then remained silent for a long time before carefully asking: “Will you be sad because of this?”

“No.” He Ci answered quickly.

Yu Xinche was silent for a moment. Reason told him that this was He Ci’s family affair and he shouldn’t ask, but he still couldn’t help but asked, “Why?”

He Ci stopped when he reached the car. The street lights made his newly dyed black hair look a little yellow. His hair might have been shortened to make it look neater.

After Yu Xinche asked again, he spoke with a hint of smile in his eyes: “Because I was lying to you.”

“We didn’t fight over the family property. He didn’t want it and neither did I, so we compromised and each took half.”

“Shit.”

Yu Xinche was so angry that he cursed and glared at him.

“I was afraid of touching your sore spot and didn’t dare to ask. You are really…”

Yu Xinche was well-mannered and would not say anything too extreme. But he was indeed angry at this moment. The two looked at each other for a while, and he stretched out his fist and hit He Ci on the shoulder with a little force.

He Ci said it for him: “I really deserve to die.”

Yu Xinche rolled his eyes slightly, and said with a blank expression, “I didn’t say that, pui pui pui [footnote]spitting sounds, like touch wood[/footnote].”

He Ci stared at him and smiled for a while, then took out another paper bag from the car, which was similar to the previous one.

He took something out and handed it to Yu Xinche.

Yu Xinche took it. It was a dessert in the shape of a little rabbit, and looked like a shortbread.

“My mom made it, and she asked me to give some to my teammates as well.”

“This rabbit is very difficult to make, so she didn’t make many. I just took one, try it.”

 

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