Lin Jing looked at the two notifications, unsure of how to describe her feelings at that moment.
This was truly a story of mixed emotions.
The joy was that her intimacy level with him had skyrocketed to 1067. If she sent him another bouquet of roses tomorrow, their intimacy could break through level two, and then they would be able to display a small icon on the ten-hero buffer interface when playing games together.
The sorrow was that the game, Honor of Kings, allowed for sixteen intimacy relationships: five confidantes, five buddies, five sworn friends, and one lover. And she didn't deserve to hold a place among these sixteen.
He had said he wasn't familiar with Qin Dandan.
Yet, the unfamiliar Qin Dandan could become a confidante among his intimate relationships, while she herself didn't have that qualification.
Thinking that she had lost to Qin Dandan in this aspect, Lin Jing instantly felt that this story of mixed emotions had become solely sorrowful.
She had finally made a bold, proactive move, only to be rejected.
She had actually been quite confident when she applied.
She felt that Sheng Kuang knew her quite well, especially in front of Qin Dandan, she felt he had defended her.
But why had he rejected her?
This was just an in-game intimacy relationship. Many people who didn't know each other in reality could establish intimacy relationships after playing games together online for a while and finding they got along. How could it be that he was so different with her when they knew each other in reality?
When he was streaming, he didn't want to offend Qin Dandan and had accepted her application. Why was it that with her, he had no such scruples?
Did she not even have the right to save face in front of him?
Lin Jing couldn't help but start overthinking, and the more she thought, the worse she felt.
In the end, she even started regretting her impulsive application for an in-game intimacy relationship with him on the way home.
When he was eating, regarding Qin Dandan, he had told her he didn't mind. Was it possible that he actually did mind a little?
After all, they were both members of the Alliance.
After all, they had known each other for such a long time.
Lin Jing subconsciously picked up her phone and found Sheng Kuang's WeChat, wanting to explain something further, but then she worried she was overthinking.
Seeing she had no idea what to do, she watched her phone screen go black.
Her heart, along with the screen, sank.
...
The KPL Autumn Season was still half a month away. After a day of slacking off, the group of young men were all called up by Lan Bowen first thing the next morning to begin intensive training.
It wasn't until ten o'clock in the evening that they finally had some free time to play games.
During training, Sheng Kuang barely looked at his phone.
When he was free, he took out his phone and found a pile of unread messages.
More than half of them were from Li Ran.
There were too many messages, and they were all voice messages. Too lazy to listen, Sheng Kuang perfunctorily replied with a question mark.
Less than three seconds later, his phone rang.
It was Li Ran calling.
Sheng Kuang found his earphones, put them in, and answered the call without speaking.
"What are you busy with? You haven't replied to messages all day." Li Ran seemed to be chatting with someone else, his keyboard clattering.
Sheng Kuang: "What else could I be busy with? Training."
"Alright, I thought you went to a hotel with someone and still haven't finished."
"If you're sick, go take your medicine."
"Tsk, such a temper. I'm not joking with you, I'm serious. Are you dating someone?"
"I'm dating your mom."
Li Ran calmly said, "...I thought you'd say dating my dad."
"Get lost." Before Li Ran could speak, Sheng Kuang added, "If you have something to say, say it. If not, I'm hanging up."
"No, no, no," Li Ran finally finished his chat, and the sound of the keyboard disappeared. "Speaking of which, what's going on between you and Qin Dandan? She suddenly called me crying early this morning, saying you didn't reply to her messages all night. Are you angry with her? She said she really didn't mean to post on Weibo, and she really didn't expect things to get so unpleasant. But honestly, your friend's words were really unpleasant. How could someone curse so directly?"
Sheng Kuang frowned. "How did you know my friend cursed someone?"
"Huh? Didn't you see the message I sent you? Qin Dandan sent it to me."
Sheng Kuang clicked back into Li Ran's WeChat, scrolled through the chat history, and found the screenshots Li Ran had sent.
The content of the screenshots wasn't complete, only showing two messages from Lin Jing calling Qin Dandan a "tea" and sending a green tea emoji.
"Anyway, when Qin Dandan called me, she was crying pitifully. So I came to find you. Qin Dandan might have just not paid attention and hurt your friend, but you've known Qin Dandan for so long, and you're all members of the Alliance. There's really no need to make things so awkward over an outsider. Besides, you're all adults. Even if you really don't like Qin Dandan, you could at least reply to a message to maintain appearances..."
"I do need to reply to a message." Sheng Kuang said, as he found Qin Dandan's WeChat and, without a word, blocked and deleted her. "But I'll have to trouble you to reply for me."
"Don't you have her as a friend?"
"Yeah, I don't anymore. Deleted her a second ago."
"..."
"And it was a blocked deletion."
"..."
Li Ran on the other end of the phone was speechless for a few seconds. "Alright, tell me what you want me to convey to her."
"I've sent it to your phone, just screenshot it and send it to her," Sheng Kuang typed three words expressionlessly and sent them to Li Ran.
miracle: Tell her to get lost.