"You should be angry with me. You can vent your anger on me now."
"Who am I supposed to vent my anger on?" Xingxing seemed to have opened the floodgates of words. He stood up, stared at Ji Siyue and said, "How long have you been back in the country? You could find others, but not me, right? I got into your school, but you've never come to find me. Even on the day you returned to the country, when you were photographed on the school road... I also came looking for someone. But do you know what I saw? I saw Brother Qin frantically searching there. In the end, he left empty - handed. And you walked out from another corner, as calm as a spectator, just like your heartless look now."
Ji Siyue waved her hand expressionlessly. "Come here."
Xingxing was also intimidated by Ji Siyue's calmness. He timidly bent down and got closer to Ji Siyue.
The next second, Ji Siyue directly reached out her hand, grabbed Xingxing's ear and pulled hard.
This made him yelp in pain.
"Ouch! Sister Siyue! Give me some face. We're at school! I'm the school hunk! Ouch!"
Just now he was calling her by her full name. Now that he was being punished, he called her sister instead.
"I told you to scold me, and you really got carried away?"
"You told me to scold you... And what I said is all the truth!"
Ji Siyue let go of Xingxing's ear and motioned him to sit down. Then she asked, "You should know why I'm here to find you, right?"
"To ask me to go back and play the game?"
"Yes. I'm asking you to go back and play the game. There are already two people now, Qin Chengyao and Zhu Zhiyao."
"What about the other two?"
"One is still thinking, and the other hasn't replied yet."
Xingxing thought for a while. He put away the youthful arrogance on his face and said seriously, "Brother Zhu and Brother Qin, no matter what the reason is, they both care about you. There's no denying that. But what about the others? When you left without a word, you extinguished all our enthusiasm. Now if we go back to play the game again, we not only have to get out of the shadow of the past, but also face the risks of the future. We also have to worry about you. I'm worried. What if I'm no longer the support you want? What if I play badly and disappoint you? It's easier said than done..."
In the office of the Qin Group.
Qin Chengyao looked at his Weibo name with a dark and unfathomable look in his eyes. Then he found Ji Siyue's Weibo. Looking at her name, he finally curved his lips as if the clouds had dispersed and the sun had come out.
In the villa area.
Zhu Zhiyao was sitting on the sofa, dealing with work. He took a moment to look at the screensaver of his phone - a photo of Ji Siyue. She was smiling brightly in the sun. He gave a bitter smile through the phone screen and changed the screensaver back to the default one.
At the Nangong family's place.
Nangong Qi was sitting on the edge of the bed, looking at the WeChat message from his fiancée urging him to set the wedding date as soon as possible. He pursed his lips slightly. The private doctor beside him said that the condition of his hand was not optimistic. If he continued to play the game, his hand might be ruined.
Abroad.
Bai Yu had an unsigned resignation letter on the table in front of him. He was sitting in a coffee shop, looking at a Moments post he had made a few days ago, which was only visible to one person. He returned to the main page and saw the invitation from Ji Siyue to return to the team. The sounds around him were in a foreign language, and he was all alone.
The world of adults is like this. There is less enthusiasm and more hesitation. But the longing for something will gradually become stronger as time goes by.
That something is the past, or nostalgia.
The days when they played games in the base might be the most passionate time in their memories.
Whenever they recalled those days, they could only use one adjective - youth.
Those days full of laughter and tears were youth.
...
Five days later, Ji Siyue was sitting in a coffee shop.
On the table in front of her, there were six cups of coffee.
These coffees were all different. There was vanilla latte, black coffee, iced Americano...
Ji Siyue remembered these six flavors clearly.
Two women beside were secretly pointing their phones at Ji Siyue's position.
She was sitting in a wheelchair, playing with a ring in her hand. The coffee in front of her had already cooled down, but no one had come yet.
She didn't know that the two women beside were secretly live - streaming her. The title of the live - stream was [The Scene of Ji Siyue Waiting for Her Teammates to Return], and it had already been pushed to the top of the Weibo live - stream ranking list.
Many people had come in to watch.
[I bet none of them will come back.]
[Didn't two of them change their names?]
[Those two both like Ji Siyue. Maybe it's just to comfort her. Besides, how is that possible... I don't believe it.]
[I'm about to cry. This woman really looks tough.]
[You guys are just hyping up a slag woman! I don't think anyone will come. This live - stream has been going on for half an hour. It's so boring! She doesn't move at all. If I didn't see the steam from the coffee disappearing little by little, I would have thought it was frozen!]
[I'm crying. This is my youth. Even if those people don't come, the coffee is ordered. Let's toast to our youth.]
[Toast to our youth!]
[Toast to our youth!]
[Toast to our youth! Toast to "Sanction"! Toast to AKM! Toast to GH! Toast to you guys!]
"Ding - dong!"
The doorbell of the coffee shop rang.
A man walked in from outside and sat down beside Ji Siyue.
"I'm here."
Ji Siyue looked up. The corners of her tightly pursed lips finally curved into a slight smile.
"Welcome back. Get your own coffee." Ji Siyue said.
Zhu Zhiyao picked up his favorite cappuccino. Although it was already cold, he still held it in his hands as if it could warm his body!
[Ahhh! I'm about to cry! Amber! This gentle and transparent man like amber!]
[I can't take it anymore. I'm getting a tissue. I'm not a fan, but I'm still crying!]
[Is this a tear - jerking live - stream? Isn't this supposed to be a joke - watching scene? (crying)]
A few minutes later, with a clear ringing of the bell, a young man in a white shirt walked in.
He was still holding a book in his hand, looking as if he had just finished school.
"Yo! I thought I'd be the first one here! If I hadn't had this class that I couldn't skip, I would have come earlier!" Xingxing sat down beside Ji Siyue and picked up the vanilla latte. "Thanks, Sister Siyue! Yeah! The temperature of this coffee is just right! Not too cold, not too hot!"
"Okay." Ji Siyue nodded.
[Wuwuwu. My little angel Xingxing is here!]
[Xingxing has grown up. It's been a few years since we last saw him...]
[He has really grown up!]
"Ding - dong!"
A man with a bandage around his wrist walked in. He was wearing glasses and looked like a full - fledged intellectual.
"Brother Nangong!" Xingxing called out.
Nangong Qi nodded, motioning for Xingxing to sit down. After exchanging glances with Ji Siyue, he found a seat and sat down.
He also picked up his favorite coffee and put it in front of him.
By now, the audience had noticed that none of them were drinking the coffee. They just held it in their hands and put it in front of them. Although they didn't look at the door, they all seemed a bit nervous?
It seemed... It seemed like they were waiting for all their friends to arrive so they could clink their cups together!