Sheng Kuang glanced at the training device in his hand. Not only was the blue buff stolen, but the enemy support was taunting him with a dancing emote and a dialogue box above their head that read: Sorry.
Sheng Kuang: ...
Three seconds later, Sheng Kuang turned and headed for the nearby small jungle camp.
Ten seconds later, Sheng Kuang appeared in the mid lane, took down the mid and jungle, casually leeched a wave of mid lane minions from Li Ran, and then swaggered to the red buff jungle area.
The support, perhaps feeling overconfident after stealing the blue buff, got bold and entered the red buff area again. However, this time, they didn't even get to touch Sheng Kuang's hero before Sheng Kuang had already shifted to mid lane, leeched another wave from Li Ran, and then entered the dragon pit.
After securing the first major dragon of the game, the enemy support was killed by Sheng Kuang.
One minute later, the enemy support was killed by Sheng Kuang again.
Three minutes later, the enemy support was killed by Sheng Kuang yet again.
...
The game ended thirteen minutes in, with the enemy support dying eight times.
Under Sheng Kuang's aggressive tempo, Li Ran had an exceptionally comfortable early game and was in high spirits. "As expected of you, still so protective of your jungle. Mess with your jungle, and it's like messing with your wife, you go instantly crazy."
Back in the room, Sheng Kuang saw that Li Ran hadn't started the game yet. "Start."
Li Ran paused. "Uh? Aren't you waiting for your little boss?"
"Mhm, the little boss..." Sheng Kuang glanced at Xiao Jing Jing Jing Jiang, who had just re-opened a game, and paused for two seconds. "She doesn't need me today."
...
Before they played games together, Lin Jing and Lan Tingting's chat went like this:
Early Bird: Xiao Jing Jiang, wanna duo queue?
Xiao Jing Jiang: Coming! Get online!
After five consecutive losses, the two loving sisters, in perfect synchronicity, exited the room upon returning and sent each other a message on WeChat.
Early Bird: Goodbye [smile].
Xiao Jing Jiang: [smile] Goodbye.
After some mutual, albeit gentle, complaining, one went to shower, and the other went to binge-watch dramas.
Lin Jing finished showering and checked her phone for WeChat.
After she had tactfully declined Sheng Kuang's invitation to play together, Sheng Kuang hadn't replied to her messages since.
Lin Jing stared at the screen for a while but still couldn't resist logging into the game.
There was a red notification in her game mailbox again. Upon clicking it, she saw the same caring message from her close friend.
Just like yesterday, Sheng Kuang had sent her 50 Passionate Roses.
Her intimacy level with him had suddenly soared to nearly 1600.
Lin Jing: ...
He didn't want to set up a close relationship with her, so why did he keep sending her roses?
Lin Jing paused for three seconds, went into her inventory, and looked at the Passionate Roses she had saved up. After a moment of hesitation, she didn't send any and exited the game.
Before logging off, she glanced at Sheng Kuang's ID. He was still online.
It was still relatively early, but Lin Jing was already running out of things to do.
She looked at the calculus textbook on her desk, pondered for two seconds, and finally decided to turn off the lights and go to sleep.
As soon as she closed her eyes, her phone rang.
...
Before Sheng Kuang and Li Ran started their third game, he noticed Lin Jing had gone offline.
The marksman matched in this game was a bit of a noob, and the game dragged on a bit. Upon returning to the room, Li Ran quickly clicked to match again. Sheng Kuang noticed an avatar identical to Lin Jing's in the top left corner of his screen inviting him, and without a second thought, he clicked to cancel matching.
Li Ran: What's up?
Sheng Kuang: My little boss invited me.
Li Ran: Bring her...
Before Li Ran could finish his sentence, Sheng Kuang had already vanished from his room.
Entering the new room, Sheng Kuang took a look. It was a five-player lobby, and the owner was Chen Jing, but the person speaking through Chen Jing's account was Jiang Zui: "Ku Ge."
Besides "Lin Jing" and Jiang Zui, Qin Yu, who was speaking right after Jiang Zui, added: "We only have four people. We still need one more."
Just then, Li Ran sent an invite.
Sheng Kuang accepted. Li Ran entered the room.
Jiang Zui quickly clicked to start, and within ten seconds, everyone was matched.
Sheng Kuang was in the fourth position, and "Lin Jing" was in the second.
After banning heroes, Sheng Kuang sent a message: "I'll play support."
"Xiao Jing Jing Jing Jiang": You're playing support again?
"Xiao Jing Jing Jing Jiang": Then can I play mid lane?
...Can.
Sheng Kuang looked at the screen. Just after typing these two words, he heard a voice from his phone: "Then I'll pick Xiao Daji too, and enjoy the treatment of our Sister Lin."
It was Chen Jing's voice.
He was using Lin Jing's account.
Sheng Kuang: ...
Without hesitation, Sheng Kuang picked Jing and then clicked to help ban.
Jiang Zui, who had just finished selecting his hero and hadn't confirmed yet, saw Sheng Kuang's help ban and also helped ban without a second thought.
"Xiao Jing Jing Jing Jiang": ?
Chen Jing: Didn't you say you were playing support? Why did you change?
Sheng Kuang deleted the "Can" he had typed and re-typed a message: How did you log into her account.