Hearing Luo Qingshan's voice, Pei Ran's first reaction was to quit the game.

A few seconds later, he canceled the interface, opened the map and randomly marked a spot himself.

Luo Qingshan was very emotional. It took him a long time to organize his words: "These past few days... I've been at home, I haven't gone anywhere. My mom said a really good Japanese restaurant opened nearby, do you want to..."

Pei Ran calmly asked him: "Did you see what I sent you?"

Luo Qingshan paused. In the past few days, Pei Ran had only sent him one thing, a list, which recorded the gifts he had given Pei Ran since they got together.

"I didn't look," Luo Qingshan's voice was very low, "There were many things I wanted to buy for you as soon as I saw them. It's been so long, how could I remember them all."

Pei Ran landed in a rural area and began to slowly loot for items: "I don't think I missed anything. There are also two pairs of shoes, both are out of production, so I can't find their prices."

"Babe," Luo Qingshan choked up, silently correcting himself, "Pei Ran, do you have to be like this?"

Pei Ran said: "It's not that I want to be like this."

"I know, I know, I said it was my fault." Luo Qingshan said, "But there's really nothing between me and Su Nian. At least, I have absolutely no feelings for him in that way. Don't you know me? I've always seen him as a brother, I just didn't expect..."

Pei Ran stood silently in the room for a few seconds, before bending down to pick up an item: "Don't say any more."

"You won't even give me a chance to explain myself?" Luo Qingshan said hoarsely, "Pei Ran, I've been thinking these past few days. I was thinking, do you even care about this? Why aren't you angry at all? You're just silent, giving me the cold shoulder, like back in high school when I was chasing you, ignoring me, disregarding me."

How could he explain? And what would count as being angry? Pei Ran thought.

Was he supposed to interrogate him, asking how many times he and Su Nian had kissed, or whether he had actually deleted Su Nian.

Or was he supposed to have a huge fight with Su Nian in front of everyone, making a complete mess of things?

Pei Ran was silent for a very, very long time, so long that Luo Qingshan thought he had muted his mic or quit the game.

"I just don't want it to end too uglily." Pei Ran said very softly.

This was the first time since the incident that Luo Qingshan had heard such a desolate tone in Pei Ran's voice.

Pei Ran didn't say many words, but it was as if Luo Qingshan understood everything.

Pei Ran's parents were both artists, and Pei Ran was born with an artist's pride, pursuing perfection, pursuing romance. This was also what Luo Qingshan liked most about him.

Luo Qingshan's nose tingled: "I'm sorry."

He rubbed his eyes, feeling that he wanted to see Pei Ran even more. After a long while, he said: "After this, can we still be friends?"

Pei Ran: "..."

"Don't say no, I'm begging you." Luo Qingshan said, "At least give me some time."

Pei Ran's instinct was to refuse. If it weren't for the unsettled accounts, he might have blocked Luo Qingshan long ago.

Luo Qingshan bit his lip, forced a laugh, and decided to play his trump card: "Right... the temperature has been dropping and it's been raining lately, my finger always hurts. Can fingers get rheumatism? You should wear more, you catch colds easily."

Pei Ran was most susceptible to this. While Luo Qingshan felt despicable, he was also very glad.

Sure enough, Pei Ran was quiet for a moment: "Have you gone to the hospital to get it checked?"

"No, it doesn't hurt that much." Knowing he had softened, Luo Qingshan secretly breathed a sigh of relief and quickly changed the subject, "Found a gun yet? Here, don't move, I'll drop you an M24, it has a 6x Scope on it."

Pei Ran didn't stop, walking past Luo Qingshan: "Thanks, I don't use snipers."

-

"Enemy in the north, thanks Boss Biscuit for the rocket, mwah..." Lin Xuhuan was passionately interacting with a boss from his stream. When he saw where his teammate was going, he immediately sat up straight, "Fuck, Number Two, calm down! Number Two, wait for me to go with you! Number Two... Yan Zhun, don't fucking rush, there are four people over there!!!"

Yan Zhun was driving a motorcycle. Even if Lin Xuhuan added four more wheels to his crappy little pickup truck, he wouldn't be able to catch up. He could only watch helplessly as Yan Zhun rushed towards the enemy without looking back.

"Damn it, duo vs. squads is already hard to play, and you're just feeding like this!" Lin Xuhuan was furious. "No wonder you suddenly decided to play with me today, turns out you wanted to drag me down in ranks..."

[111GOD knocked down TIKERX with an AKM]

[111GOD knocked down HUMI2B with an AKM]

[111GOD knocked down JEONG with a Frag Grenade]

[111GOD eliminated MRxu with a Frag Grenade]

Yan Zhun: "All dead."

"Haha, I told you, my brother definitely knew what he was doing when he rushed in." Lin Xuhuan smiled. "Everyone, look at my brother's play, wasn't that amazing? If you like him, just send me gifts directly."

Lin Xuhuan said while looting the death boxes: "Bro, what's up? You don't seem to be in a good mood?"

Yan Zhun asked: "Would I be playing with you if I were in a good mood?"

"Fuck." Lin Xuhuan laughed in anger. "Fine, then tell me what's wrong, let me help you sort it out."

"You can't sort it out." Yan Zhun quickly looted the attachments he needed, jumped onto the roof and started aiming at people. "Just be quiet, I can't even hear footsteps."

Lin Xuhuan was used to it. He looked at the bullet comments and said: "No, no, no, he's not cheating... How do I know? We've played countless games together in real life. I'll show you his perspective later if I get the chance. You can tell it's real skill with just one look."

"He's not a Youth Trainee from our team. If a Youth Trainee had these skills, I might as well just retire."

"I've always been self-aware. The main thing is that he's really strong. If you don't believe me, go ask in the streams of other PUBG team streamers, ask them who doesn't know 111GOD."

Yan Zhun listened to him brag on his behalf with a blank expression, thinking to himself that he should have played solo.

The game ended. Yan Zhun got 21 kills and successfully got a chicken dinner.

"Damn, you're a real beast." Lin Xuhuan exclaimed.

Yan Zhun was taken aback by his choice of words, lit a cigarette, and ignored him.

He lowered his eyes, looking at the phone placed in front of his keyboard, and opened the pinned chat two or three times.

"Bro, everyone in my stream is asking about your game companion platform, tell me what it is, I'll advertise for you." Lin Xuhuan said, "I guarantee you'll be flooded with orders. Go raise your price a bit first."

Yan Zhun exhaled a puff of smoke: "No need, I'm not doing it anymore."

"..." Lin Xuhuan had a complicated expression, "You're giving up way too quickly. Young people have no perseverance at all."

Yan Zhun said: "Yeah. Work in a trade, grow to hate that trade."

Lin Xuhuan turned on his stream's mic: "Stop spamming, you guys. He's not taking orders anymore. Why? There's no why, experts are just that willful. Bro, wait a sec, the pigs on the team are awake, they said they want to play squads."

Yan Zhun didn't answer him. He raised his hand to flick the ash from his cigarette. The phone on the table suddenly vibrated. He lowered his gaze, almost flicking the entire cigarette into the ashtray.

[Pei Ran: I'm ready. Are you still playing?]

The team was full in less than two minutes. Just as Lin Xuhuan was about to click start, the system prompted that a teammate was not ready.

He looked, and the checkmark in front of 111GOD had disappeared.

"I'm leaving, you guys play." Yan Zhun said.

"Fuck," a man's voice came through, it was the team's Assaulter, "I climbed out of my warm bed just to play with you, and now you're telling me you're leaving? What for?"

Yan Zhun tossed out a sentence: "What else? Accompanying my boss."

Yan Zhun left, leaving the stream chat full of question marks. Fans questioned, "Didn't you fucking say he wasn't taking orders, are you messing with me?"

Lin Xuhuan looked unperturbed: "Like I said, experts are just that willful."

Pei Ran had just sent the message when he remembered that Yan Zhun's status was still 'in-game', so he quickly added another sentence.