Match successful, everyone chose their heroes and entered the ten-hero waiting interface.
Lin Jing had Sheng Kuang on her left and Lan Tingting on her right.
She and Lan Tingting had long established a best friend relationship, and their best friend icon always showed priority.
After she and Sheng Kuang created a romantic relationship, she hadn't changed it back, so Sheng Kuang's avatar had a lonely level 11 heart next to it, while she and Lan Tingting had a level 12 best friend mark.
This scene was quite awkward.
She and Lan Tingting were a mutual attraction, while Sheng Kuang seemed like unrequited love.
Lin Jing wasn't sure if it was her guilty conscience, but she felt that the atmosphere in the private room was stagnant for a moment. She quietly looked up and stole a glance at Sheng Kuang, thinking he looked quite normal. Then, pretending she hadn't noticed anything amiss, she calmly waited for the cache to finish and entered the game. She controlled the screen and followed Sheng Kuang towards the jungle.
Just then, Chen Jing opened the voice chat: "What the hell? Sheng Kuang and Lin Meimei, what's going on with you two?"
Lan Tingting also opened voice chat: "Yeah, Xiao Jing Jiang, when did you guys bind as a Cp?"
Yu Zhou: "Wow, are you together?"
Lin Jing was a bit unsure how to answer.
She glanced at Sheng Kuang opposite her. Seeing him with his eyes lowered, focused on taking the blue buff, and showing no intention of responding, she opened voice chat: "No, we're not together."
"If you're not together, why bind as a Cp?" Chen Jing asked, and then a second later, he exclaimed as if he had an epiphany, "I get it, is it for that couple avatar frame?"
Lin Jing pulled at her lips, almost blurting out "what a joke about couple avatar frames."
But she thought about it, and it seemed like there was no better excuse than this, so she suppressed the words at the tip of her tongue and gave a vague "mm" to brush it off.
"Damn, Sheng Kuang, I've known you for so many years. I wanted to bind as a Cp with you to get that couple avatar frame, and you didn't agree, but now you agree with Lin Meimei?"
Amidst Chen Jing's dissatisfied questioning, Lin Jing was tapped twice in the game by Sheng Kuang.
Lin Jing looked across at him.
Sheng Kuang wasn't looking at her at all, but she could vaguely sense the dissatisfaction emanating from the boy opposite her.
The other three couldn't see Sheng Kuang's reaction, especially Chen Jing, who seemed stimulated. He shouted into the voice chat at Lan Tingting: "Hey, that girl called Lan Lan Bu Chi Lan, want to bind as a Cp?"
Lan Tingting responded without hesitation: "No, ugly and rejected."
"C..." Chen Jing probably wanted to swear, but as the word reached his lips, he remembered Lan Tingting was Lin Jing's friend and swallowed it back. "Yu Zhou, Yu Zhou Zhou, let's bind as a couple."
Yu Zhou got goosebumps at his call: "Get lost, who the hell wants to bind as a Cp with a guy like you?"
Chen Jing: "What the hell, what's wrong with being a guy? Why can't guys bind as a Cp? Besides, I just want to get the avatar frame, and I'll unbind after I get it."
Yu Zhou: "Then get lost. I don't lack avatar frames. Don't you know I have a bunch of ex-Cps? I had them ages ago."
A moment later, Chen Jing extended his evil influence to Lin Jing: "Lin Meimei, after you and Sheng Kuang finish getting the avatar frame and unbind your Cp, bind with me, help me get one too, okay?"
Before Lin Jing could even reply, Sheng Kuang started tapping her frantically.
Although he was very quiet and his expression wasn't very pronounced, Lin Jing sensed a warning from his reaction.
She pursed her lips, thought for two seconds, and said evasively, "Let's talk about it later."
Sheng Kuang let out a light scoff and tapped her madly in the game again.
Lin Jing happened to be by his side. She used her ultimate skill and flew above his head. As Yao's voice line "Look, I can fly too" sounded, a dialogue box appeared above Sheng Kuang's head: "Heh, playing well~"
Chen Jing: "What do you mean 'let's talk about it later'?"
Lin Jing felt that what she said was not unreasonable, but she was inexplicably made to feel guilty by Sheng Kuang. "Later, means later."
Sheng Kuang stopped tapping her and directly sent a message in the game: Well played.
Then, while returning to base to replenish health, Sheng Kuang pulled out his earphones, plugged them in, and muted both the earpiece and microphone for game voice chat.
Even though she and Lan Tingting, two girls, were lagging behind, Sheng Kuang and Chen Jing were professionals, and Yu Zhou was a powerful carry in casual games. Even if she was now a Glorious King, they could still easily dominate these matches.
The game ended in about twelve minutes.
Back in the room, Sheng Kuang was like a boosting machine, clicking start as soon as everyone was ready.
Lin Jing looked at the muted speaker icon on Sheng Kuang's avatar in the game, then at Sheng Kuang, who was wearing headphones and refusing to listen to her phone's voice chat. She involuntarily thought of a word: withdrawn.
She felt that Sheng Kuang at this moment was like he was withdrawing into himself.
She called out "Sheng Kuang," and he ignored her. She sent a text message "Sheng Kuang" in the game, and he remained unresponsive.
It's over, he's really withdrawn.
Lin Jing paused and clicked to cancel the matchmaking.
Chen Jing: "What's wrong?"
Lin Jing: "Wait for me."
Saying that, she stayed in the room and went back to the settings.
A moment later, she returned and didn't speak, but sent a message.
Xiao Jing Jing Jing Jiang: "Okay, you can start now."
Sheng Kuang, with a blank expression, clicked start.
Match successful, heroes chosen, and they entered the ten-hero waiting interface again.
Next to Sheng Kuang's and Lin Jing's avatars, small red hearts of level 11 appeared.
Lin Jing looked up at Sheng Kuang opposite her. The boy seemed not to have seen it, his expression still blank.
Lin Jing still took the support role. After playing half a game with Sheng Kuang, she saw that Sheng Kuang was still in the same state and sent a message.
Xiao Jing Jing Jing Jiang: "What hero do you like the most?"
Chen Jing: "Me?"
Lin Jing: "Not you."
Xiao Jing Jing Jing Jiang: "Sheng Kuang."
Sheng Kuang didn't reply to her.
Lin Jing thought for a few seconds and sent the sentence again.
Xiao Jing Jing Jing Jiang: "What hero do you like the most?"
Xiao Jing Jing Jing Jiang: "Cp."
Three seconds later, a line of text appeared on the screen.
yLs·miracle: Luna.
The game ended. Back in the room, Lin Jing didn't click ready and went to the settings page again.
When she returned, she continued typing.
Xiao Jing Jing Jing Jiang: "Cp."
Xiao Jing Jing Jing Jiang: "Go check my profile."
The profile allowed setting heroes. Lin Jing had always used her favorite hero, Yao, but just now she had changed it to Luna.
Although Sheng Kuang hadn't responded to her in the game, she had secretly seen that Sheng Kuang had indeed gone to her profile.
She saw Sheng Kuang's lips curve upwards almost imperceptibly, and then saw him go into settings.
Immediately after, his profile background hero changed from Luna to Yao.
Lin Jing pursed her lips that were turning upwards, closed the game's microphone, and reached out to knock on the table.
Three seconds later, Sheng Kuang, with a stiff face, reluctantly took off his headphones.
Lin Jing leaned her body close to the table and moved her head towards Sheng Kuang: "Are you still angry?"
Sheng Kuang glanced at her and selected a hero.
Lin Jing also selected a hero. "Still angry?"
"..."
"Ah, don't be angry anymore."
Sheng Kuang couldn't help but laugh.
Two seconds later, he said, "Look at the screen."
Lin Jing looked down at the screen, not seeing anything wrong: "What is it?"
Sheng Kuang pointed with his fingertip at the hero he had chosen on her screen: "Luna."
Lin Jing was still a bit slow to react: "Ah?"
Sheng Kuang, impatient, flicked her forehead. "When I chose Luna, I wasn't angry anymore."