Chapter 110: Night Ou (1/2)

Cheeks red, Lin Yixin punched me angrily in the arm before threatening me in a murderous tone, “If you dare lose this game I’ll make sure you’re dead!”

I gave her a smile and said, “Of course not. I couldn’t even bear to part with you.”

Lin Yixin grumbled for a second before sitting beside me to watch the match.

The red-haired guy’s ID was “Night_Yun”. I didn’t realize that he was a member of the university’s e-sports team. Lin Yixin blinked when she saw the ID and said, “Heavens, you absolutely mustn't lose to him, Lu Chen! I’ve seen this ID before, he’s the current captain of the university’s Starcraft team…”

I nodded. “Relax, Yiyi. If I lose, I swear to practice for 16 years and get you back from his clutches no matter what!”

“Go to hell! Enter your ID already!”

I typed in a familiar ID: Night_chen!

“Eh? He’s a part of our university too? Why haven’t I seen him before?” the red-haired student exclaimed in surprise.

I sneered. When I was the captain of the university team, you were just a kid holding a girl’s hand and eating cotton candy!

I picked the race I was best with, Protoss. While I haven’t played Starcraft 2 in a long time, I did keep an eye on the latest patch updates. That was why the game returned to me as easily as breathing.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find my old rhythm at the beginning, so my opponent was able to defend himself against my rush. Lin Yixin immediately panicked and started choking me. “Aaah, don’t you dare lose dammit…”

I almost lost my breath. “Calm down, Yiyi, I’m still warming up here…”

Lin Yixin dropped back to her seat and grumbled while staring intently at the monitor, “You do this and you call yourself an expert? Candlelight Shadow must’ve consumed half a year of melamine-laced milk powder to lose to the likes of you…”

I had no retort for that...

A short while later, I successfully ambushed my opponent’s attack squad and slaughtered them all. Positively glowing at my success, Lin Yixin slapped my shoulder once and said, “You did well this time…”

I grinned. “Is that a joke? If I had accepted the invitations to join a professional Starcraft team back then, I would’ve become one of the kings of the Starcraft scene already…”

Lin Yixin retorted, “Be careful, if you talk too big you might just sprain your tongue…”

Half an hour later, after an infinite amount of harasses, feints and micromanagement, my opponent finally lost and typed “GG”.

Cheers broke out inside the cyber cafe since dozens of people were watching our duel as well. It was an exciting battle to say the least.

The red-haired student rose to his feet and looked at me. He asked, “Who are you, really?”

I raised my eyebrows and responded curtly, “Who do you think I really am?”

The guy’s girlfriend immediately looked nervous when she heard this. A lot of people started fanning the flames and urging the red-haired student to honor his bet, but I was a shy person at heart. There was no way I could muster the courage to ask for the hand of his girlfriend.

It was at this moment a fatty barged through the door in panic and shouted, “The police are making their rounds! Run while you still can!”

“Rounds?” Lin Yixin stared at me in confusion.

“Yep, rounds.” I nodded before explaining, “Cyber cafes aren’t supposed to do business after midnight, so we have to run before police arrives. Quickly!”

We were in such a hurry that we ran to the backyard without footing our bill. After the gate was unlocked, the students and we scattered into the night like ghosts.

It was a summer night, but the streets were a bit cold without the sun hanging above our heads.

As we walked side by side, Lin Yixin wrapped her arms around herself before asking, “Well, we’re out in the cold again. What do we do now?”

I suggested. “Do you want to go to a 24-hour bar?”

She immediately glared and chided me. “Hey, watch yourself. First, you made me spend the night out. Then, you took me to a cyber cafe after midnight. Now you want me to go gambling with you? Just how many school rules do you want me to break before you’re satisfied?”

I laughed. “In that case, you can come to my place and sleep in my room. I’ll just share a room with Gui Guzi for the night.”

“I don’t wanna!”

Lin Yixin shook her head. “There’s a pervert in your workshop who stares at both men and women with lecherous eyes! There’s no way I’m going there!”

I was one hundred percent certain that she was talking about Thirteen. Poor guy!

A while later, Lin Yixin called out to me quietly, like a cat. “Lu Chen, I want a cold drink…”

“Sure. Give me a minute!”

I went into a convenience shop and bought a cold drink for both of us. But when I returned, I suddenly saw Lin Yixin arguing heatedly with another person!

The troublemaker was a middle-aged man. Sitting inside his black Chevrolet, he beamed at Lin Yixin and asked, “Miss, how much for a night?”

Lin Yixin was confused by the question. “Excuse me?”

“Come on, do you really need me to point out to you that you’re dressed up so pretty and standing next to a road? You get me, I get you, so let’s get straight to the point, shall we? 2000 RMB, what say you?”

Lin Yixin finally understood what he was talking about. She immediately walked up to the middle-aged man and left a high-heel mark on his door, flashing her pale leg for a second.

Then, she started shouting at him and calling him a scum of society, a degenerate, a scoundrel, and other terrible names that didn’t match her sweet voice at all. All the while, the middle-aged man was stunned by the outburst and couldn’t react at all.

I quickly ran up to her and took her arm before she went too far. At the same time, I shot a furious glare at the middle-aged man myself and shouted, “Are you fucking blind, scumbag? This isn’t the street for the likes of you! Fuck off to the spas if you need a woman that much!”

The middle-aged man tried to muster a retort, but I was already raising my fists and threatening to beat down on him if necessary. Frightened, he quickly drove off and vanished into the distance.

Meanwhile, Lin Yixin was still jabbing a finger at the back of the middle-aged man’s car and swearing furiously. She was like a powder keg that exploded at the slightest spark. Scary.

I criticized myself inwardly for leaving a girl alone in the streets during the middle of the night—even if it was just a few minutes—and apologized to her. After I surrendered my portion of the drinks, Lin Yixin finally broke into a smile once more.

“Lu Chen, tell me, am I dressed up like a prostitute?”

“Not at all.”

“Oh?” Lin Yixin cocked her head at me. “It almost sounds like you have experience. How many prostitutes have you seen?”

“Uhh… not many, actually.” My thoughts went into the distant past. “Back in those days, all the guys in my hostel were either dating girls, organizing get-togethers, or chasing skirts outside the school or something. I never joined them though…”

“What did you do while they were gone then?”