Chapter 25
“I knew it…” Ji Yanhan sat down in anger and murmured, “I knew it… you were never willing to room with anyone. Everyone more or less knows your preference already. It’s just an unspoken agreement. These past few years, no one rooms with you during trainings or compet.i.tions. That’s why I found it strange when we were at Shi Luo’s hometown that day. Why were you suddenly indifferent? Why were you suddenly willing to share a room with me… ”
The more Ji Yanhan thought, the angrier he got. “Why? At that time, were you afraid that something would happen if you roomed with him?”
Since he had admitted it already, Yu Sui threw out his sense of shame. “Yes, because I was afraid something might happen too soon, so I let him have a room to himself and squeezed in with you. Anyway, you’re straighter than straight, what’s the big deal?”
“You’ve already set your sights on him and you didn’t tell me. I tried to sound you out so many times, short of just asking you straight to your face. But you kept going around in circles…”
“You were even acting so high and mighty…saying it’s to return a debt of grat.i.tude, saying you didn’t want it weighing on your conscience. You even said it was for the sake of the team. Throughout this entire thing, you’ve just been tossing me about. You made Laozi spend so much energy to register him for the college entrance exams!” Ji Yanhan ground his teeth, “Was all that just me helping you to get a little boyfriend? Whisper, how conscientious of you! You’ve really treated me fairly, huh! You’re all grown up now. You now know how to play with your Ge, using him like a handy tool!! ! ”
“Why would I tell you anything when nothing has even happened yet?” Yu Sui hadn’t wanted to talk about this at all. If Ji Yanhan hadn’t provoked him into anger, he definitely wouldn’t have been so impulsive. He regretted it now. “Just forget about this. Don’t mention it again.”
Ji Yanhan said angrily, “What do you mean? Watch your tone! I haven’t even gotten angry enough yet and you dare give me orders?!”
Ji Yanhan was going to anger Yu Sui to death. “Shout it louder why don’t you! How about I open a live broadcast for you and you can tell this to everyone for me?”
Ji Yanhan froze, his lips moved and his voice quieted, “This … This…n.o.body else knows.”
Ji Yanhan thought about it and felt that something wasn’t right here. He said angrily once again, “Aren’t you going to say something about this sooner or later? Why are you afraid of me doing it?”
“As if I’d say anything!” Yu Sui felt jittery. He stood up and took a cigarette. He lit it up and took a puff, “I’m not arguing about this with you. I was going to bury this matter, thank you.”
Ji Yanhan looked at Yu Sui in disbelief. He looked Yu Sui up and down, “Why? Have you already confessed? Did you get rejected? Awesome, serves you right!!!”
“I haven’t confessed and I have no plans of telling him.” Yu Sui said while smoking, “I can’t tell whether he’s straight or bent. He doesn’t seem straight, doesn’t seem bent either … I don’t know what thing this is. Maybe I don’t know him well enough yet. I’ll have to wait a bit more.”
Ji Yanhan raised his eyebrows, “Can’t you … can’t you people tell at a glance?”
“It’s not that accurate, okay.” Yu Sui, said irritated, “Just stop asking, will you?”
He wasn’t just giving Ji Yanhan a perfunctory answer to get him to drop it, Yu Sui really wasn’t sure yet.
The only thing he could say was…he was 80% sure that Shi Luo was.
Ji Yanhan said impatiently, “If you’re not sure, then make sure. Isn’t there any other way to tell? Right, doesn’t he have pierced ears? That’s like 80% sure!”
Yu Sui sneered, “His left ear is pierced, but he’s gone and had three holes pierced all in one go. He also has two on his right ear. What does this mean? Nothing save for that he used to ‘bury love‘ before! It doesn’t prove anything! ”
Ji Yanhan remembered Shi Luo’s fierce row of ear piercings and said uncertainly, “In any case, there’s a bit of hope. From a different perspective, maybe it just means that he’s very “shou“. Then doesn’t that make him totally your type?”
“Stop.” Ji Yanhan didn’t understand anything at all, and Yu Sui wasn’t interested in discussing this with him. He bowed his head and took a smoke. “I don’t want to talk to you about k2018;types’ at all.”
Ji Yanhan said impatiently, “So what do you want to do? Why don’t you just ask him directly? If he’s straight or isn’t the least bit interested, then we can just sell him. You don’t have to feel sorry for him anymore.”
“Whether I have him stay or not has absolutely nothing to do with if he’s straight or not. Can we not talk about this?” Yu Sui and Ji Yanhan have inherently different understandings of compet.i.tion and Yu Sui really didn’t want to quarrel with Ji Yanhan, “When you walk out that door, just forget about this matter. How many times do I need to say it?”
Ji Yanhan didn’t understand, “Why can’t you tell him?!”
“Because we’re on the same team! Because we can’t avoid seeing each other!” Ji Yanhan was going to drive him mad. “Don’t you think it’s embarra.s.sing? If back then, you had fallen in love with Old Qiao and Old Qiao rejected you, would you two still be able to play on the same team? Do you really have such sadom.a.s.o.c.h.i.s.tic feelings to pa.s.s your days that miserably?! ”
Ji Yanhan’s eyes lit up and grasped the key point. “All the more reason to sell him! Once he leaves, you can confess and if he rejects you, then he rejects you! In any case, you no longer live together.”
Yu Sui was sure Ji Yanhan had gone mad from all the torment he’d been receiving lately from business dealings. He looked at Ji Yanhan like he was looking at an idiot. He asked him pityingly, “And what if he accepts?”
Ji Yanhan froze.
Yu Sui put the cigarette b.u.t.t out and said coolly, “And then when we get matched up against his team, whether we win or lose, you’ll probably all say that I didn’t play seriously.”
Ji Yanhan’s brain was hurting. “Well, what were you planning on doing?”
“I’m going to let nature take its course. He’s a little young anyway, and I don’t have the time right now.” Yu Sui leaned against the window and looked out. “I’ve still got a lot of time so I’ll take it easy… I’ll tell him when he’s an adult. If he doesn’t agree, he will definitely begin to avoid me. No one needs to say anything. What should happen will happen. It won’t interfere with anything.”
Ji Yanhan raised his eyes, “What if he agrees?”
Yu Sui paused and smiled with his head down.
“If he returns my feelings …” Yu Sui’s eyes shone brightly, looking out of the window, he slowly said, “FS will have a pair of medic stars.”
Disagreement was written all across Ji Yanhan’s face, but he has never been able to dissuade Yu Sui once he had already decided on something. Ji Yanhan stood up, his face dark, “Do what you want. But I’m warning you now. Keep an eye on your little friend. If he causes trouble again, he won’t just have no future, he won’t even have a present. I don’t care if he gets suspended by the league or not. If he gets you involved again, I won’t even discuss it with you, I’ll just drop him.”
Yu Sui nodded. “Don’t worry. Hurry up and draw up a contract for him. Find some time to do it, won’t you? This has dragged on for long enough.”
Ji Yanhan frowned, “Got it, I’ll send it to you tonight.”
Ji Yanhan really had no time to hang around. He pushed open the door and left.
When he went through the hospital doors, he ran into Shi Luo, carrying some take out.
Ji Yan glanced coldly at this white-haired, short-haired, misfortune-bringing beauty and got into the car.
Shi Luo looked baffled. He figured that Ji Yanhan blamed him for getting Yu Sui involved. Since he was in the wrong, he didn’t even glare back.
Outside the hospital room, Shi Luo knocked carefully on the door.
Yu Sui had just come out of the bathroom, he wiped his hands and opened the door.
Outside the door, Shi Luo mumbled carefully, “Would you…like to eat some wontons?”
Yu Sui sighed, “Come in.”
After arguing with Ji Yanhan for so long, Yu Sui was indeed hungry. He opened the take out box without saying a word and started eating the wontons. After a while, he finished it off.
Shi Luo stood by the side, at a loss as to what to do.
After eating all the wontons, Yu Sui also drank all the soup. He looked at Shi Luo, “Did Chen Huo explain everything to you?”
Shi Luo nodded honestly.
“As an e-sports player, you should …” Yu Sui began but stopped. He waved his hand. “Whatever. As long as you keep it in mind from now on.”
Shi Luo hesitated, “Will…will I be punished? Chen Huo told me that Violent Shu was suspended, and was even fined. I …”
Yu Sui looked at Shi Luo, heart weary, “If you were also penalized like he was, then what the h.e.l.l did I get hospitalized for?”
Inwardly, Yu Sui clicked his tongue. Is this really someone who feels secure in the knowledge that he is favored? He’s even asking for himself to be penalized.
“I…” Shi Luo whispered, “I really was the one who started the fight, last night …”
“Don’t ever mention it again and don’t ever tell it to others. Don’t let me eat this hidden loss in vain.” Yu Sui frowned, “Do you hear me?”
Shi Luo knew that Yu Sui just wanted to bury this whole matter completely. He pursed his lips and nodded, “I know, but …”
Shi Luo frowned, “I should be penalized something, like Violent Shu…”
“Penalize? What penalty? Should we also ban you from the playoffs?” Yu Sui smiled, followed with the pain on his back. He could only bear it. “Luo Luo, I’m sorry to remind you that you’re a subst.i.tute. You were never going to play in the playoffs. So what would be the difference? ”
Shi Luo paused, “You …can still play?”
“If my hands can move, I can play,” Yu Sui said without even thinking about it, “If this was the regular season I’d let you sub for me, but this is the semifinals and finals, we can’t take risks.”
Shi Luo bit his lip. He has practically no compet.i.tion experience. If he were to subst.i.tute for Yu Sui, he was indeed unsure of winning even the semi-finals best of five.
“Don’t think about it too much. Our team has always been like this. For outsiders the penalty is fifty lashings, for our people, it’s three shots.” Yu Sui reluctantly sat back on the bed, “Can we move on?”
Lying on the bed actually didn’t look so cool and Yu Sui’s habit of maintaining his image was ingrained f*ckingly deep. He gritted his teeth and lay flat. “It’s fine already. It’s nothing.”
Shi Luo stood ramrod straight beside Yu Sui’s bed, his eyes were red and he was doing his utmost to hold back tears.
Puppy went out and took a walk around. He watched the grandpa and grandmas dance in the public square and he then went to buy some rice porridge. When Puppy returned, he pushed open the door to the hospital room and it was this scene that he saw.
Yu Sui’s face was pale, and he was lying flat on the hospital bed, at a loss as to what was going on.
Shi Luo’s eyes were filled with tears. He was choked with sobs, trying to suppress his emotions.
Puppy narrowed his eyes and tried to tactfully probe out, “Yu Sui, I guess…you couldn’t wait for me to come back?”
Shi Luo hurriedly turned around and wiped his face.
Puppy entered the room. After asking a few things, he said indifferently, “Sigh, just give him some kind of punishment. Otherwise, our little Luo Luo will keep feeling guilty.”
Yu Sui also didn’t want Shi Luo to feel guilty. He thought about it and said, “Well, it’s my birthday on the day of the semi-finals. As punishment, you can order a cake for me.”
Puppy slapped his forehead, “Oh yeah. It’s going to be your birthday. I forget every year. We can’t have a half-a.s.sed celebration this year. I’ll talk to the manager when I go back. We’re gonna celebrate in style.”
Shi Luo still felt that it wasn’t enough. “Just … that’s it?”
Yu Sui looked at Shi Luo and laughed in spite of himself, “Then how do you want me to punish you?”
For some unknown reason, Shi Luo’s ears suddenly turned a bit red. He scratched his ears and stammered, “Tha-that day … I’ll give you another gift.”
“Okay, I’ll be waiting for it.” Yu Sui looked at Puppy. “Has Bison said anything? Or has this been completely suppressed?”
“It has, finally.” Puppy said. “Bison definitely won’t dare say anything. They’re already scared to death. They’re afraid the league would punish their team if word gets out. They’re also scared your fans would lay siege on their base. But……”
Yu Sui frowned, “But?”
“One of the guests in the hotpot restaurant yesterday found out. Fortunately, he was so anxious to watch the excitement that he hadn’t taken any pictures. He has no evidence to show. He was so excited, he made a forum post late last night. But it became just gossip. He hadn’t attached a single photo. The post was already deleted this morning.” Puppy said calmly. “It took a while to get it deleted, but it doesn’t matter. The fans reacted pretty much the same way the boss did. They thought it was impossible. ”
Puppy looked coldly at the two of them, imitating a fan’s voice, he said, “They only wild thing about our little Ge Violent Shu is his ID. He’s actually really gentle. He’s never even dyed his hair.”
“And Shi Luo might look like a rave-going teenager, but who hasn’t gone through a wild phase in their youth? He’s actually really good-tempered, alright? And since he joined FS, our Luo Luo took off all his earrings. The moment he removed his studs and hoops, it meant he was renouncing his old self! ”
“For our Whisper to be involved is even more impossible. I’m not trying to shield his shortcomings here. Anyone who has managed to persist in playing a medic for three long years has basically lost the human ability to lose control. If Whisper still had the tiniest bit of the most basic human emotions and desires, he would have already murdered Chen Huo, Old Qiao and Puppy.”
“These young men who play medic have long since reached enlightenment. I doubt they can even hurt a fly. How could they have been involved in a fight?”
“That’s right. That’s right. These young men who willingly play medic are simply mankind’s treasures. Having a hot-blooded fight in a hotpot restaurant in the middle of the night. Ha ha ha ha ha. I’m gonna die from laughing. The person who posted this has probably never played this game at all. ROFL… ”
Puppy looked at the two expressionlessly, “How can your fans have such a deep misconception about you two?”