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Fu Mingyuan rubbed his sore temples.

He hadn’t slept well for several consecutive nights. His daily schedule was extremely regular, so when he arrived, he couldn’t get over his jet lag. He never got enough sleep because he slept poorly at night, and he had to film during the day.

Upon seeing the message sent by Shen Qi, his expression grew listless, his eyebrows furrowed, and he pursed his lips.

He closed his eyes and remembered Qin Yan’s message.

Only authorized staff could apply to view a registrant’s information on the platform.

In the message that Qin Yan sent, the teenager in the document’s photo ID was slightly frowning, and he looked at the camera with an expression of reluctance.

It was the youth from his memory.

That youth who had stood on the competition stage, shining brightly.

His throat suddenly tightened, and he scrolled up to enlarge the photo.

What came into view was, astonishingly, a naked baby picture.

It was also the kind of picture from a photo album, with very poor and grainy quality.

Fu Mingyuan: “….”

He pressed a hand against his forehead.

fmy: Satisfied

fmy: Focus on livestreaming

He looked at the livestream’s results screen that just popped up and couldn’t help laughing. What had he been thinking just now?

……

Shen Qi regained his composure and started another match.

If he didn’t start playing seriously, the barrage was going to start fighting.

After two more matches, he ended the livestream.

After looking at the time in the lower right corner of the computer, he ordered some takeout and probingly sent a message to Gege before replying to Lu Tun.

Lu Tun: Idol, are you and that Gege dating online now?!

Lu Tun: Online relationships are too unreliable! You’ve only heard his voice, and you don’t even know what he looks like!

Lu Tun: Although he poured money onto you, you can’t be sure that he hadn’t scrimped and saved to put it together. He might not even be a rich guy!

Shen Qi rubbed his cellphone case.

Your Qi Ge: Ah 

Your Qi Ge: What are you saying? We’re just friendly bros

Your Qi Ge: Don’t you see me calling him Gege?

Lu Tun replied in seconds: Don’t try to deceive me! Even love tokens have already appeared!

Your Qi Ge: Ah, yeah 

Your Qi Ge: Does the new skirt look good?

Lu Tun: …

Lu Tun: Idol, I’m not against you dating la, but you need to find out whether this person is the right one or not

Shen Qi’s typing speed slowed down.

After a long time, he replied: Behave

How could it ever be that easy to just fall for someone?

……

Shen Qi only received Gege’s reply after checking into Fu Mingyuan supertopic.

It was already 5 p.m. here, so it was 1 a.m. in Los Angeles.

We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.

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Tbeg Hl Xf: Xfuf~ Glv sbe yes atf rxlga? Lbk vlv sbe xcbk P kjcafv la~

After thinking about it, he felt that his tone wasn’t sincere enough, and added a [cutie kneeling and thanking you] animated emoticon.

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He couldn’t sleep at night, so he watched some VODs and collected a pile of crates to open all night long.

Your Qi Ge: How many did you open?

He wasn’t actually that partial to this skirt. After all, he wasn’t a girl. It was simply a spur of the moment thing for him to compliment the skirt as good-looking.

Even so, he had never thought that someone would specifically open up crates to get the skirt for him.

His finger paused on the money transfering interface for a while, but in the end, Shen Qi still pulled his finger away.

After waiting for a moment, the other party replied: Not many.

His concept of not many must mean too many.

Shen Qi placed his chopsticks down and typed with both hands: Gege, do you like God A? I have some of his autographed photos, do you want some?

Your Qi Ge: They’re exclusive 

Fu Mingyuan only thought about it for a moment before typing his home address. However, after thinking a bit more, he deleted it and replaced it with an apartment address in H city.

Your Qi Ge: What kind do you want~ Gege~ Standing, sitting, or lying down~

Your Qi Ge: Anyway, I don’t have any R18 ones.

Your Qi Ge: Do you want one signed with his name or one that’s brimming with love~?

Your Qi Ge: Anyways, besides the ones signed with his name, there aren’t any other ones 

Fu Mingyuan almost couldn’t keep a straight face while seeing what Shen Qi was saying.

He leaned against the bed’s headboard and closed his eyes for a bit.

The bitter taste of the black coffee still hadn’t dissipated yet. He didn’t usually drink coffee, but right now he felt fatigued so he had no choice but to rely on coffee to revitalize himself.

fmy: A proper one.

Your Qi Ge: I don’t have any improper ones either 

Shen Qi clicked his tongue. All the photos he had were the ones he had snatched from the manager before he left the team. They had all been candid shots that were sold to fans.

However, none of the ones that were sold to the fans were autographed. Only the ones that he was giving Gege would be.

After thinking about it, he simply flipped through the photos and picked one of each.

Then, he autographed each one, preparing to mail all of them over.

He took a picture of the pile of photos for the other party.

Your Qi Ge: Carefully cherish the man who is more handsome than Fu Mingyuan [HappilyTwirlingAround.jpg]

fmy：……

He was a youth at best.

A youth in high spirits.

Fu Mingyuan’s gaze remained on the backdrop of the photo.

The photos were thrown on top of the sky blue carpet, and one of the youth’s bare feet had also appeared in the picture.

Pale and thin.

He frowned and typed word by word: You’re not wearing slippers?

Shen Qi threw the photos into a box. When he saw that message, he raised his eyebrows and reflexively glanced at his bare feet, which were only bare due to him getting up to go to the cabinet.

Your Qi Ge: Where are you looking, Gege? 

Your Qi Ge: Gege, you’re peeping at me~

fmy：…

fmy: I’m not, don’t catch a cold.

Shen Qi licked the corner of his lip and threw away the takeout container. After thinking about it, he put on his slippers.

Your Qi Ge: Are you worried about me?

Your Qi Ge: Shy.jpg

Your Qi Ge: HappilyTwirlingAround.jpg

The “Typing” indicator stayed displayed on the screen.

It wasn’t until five minutes later that Shen Qi received a one word reply——

fmy: En.

After they chatted for a while, Fu Mingyuan gradually got sleepy.

That night, he had a rare good night’s sleep.

……

A few days later, Dog Ge asked Shen Qi again if he wanted to participate in youth training.

Most professional players had all emerged from youth training divisions.

Every professional team recruited a large number of youth trainees every year, and the standards that young trainees needed to pass weren’t especially strict.

Shen Qi had added Dog Ge’s WeChat two days ago.

He only realized that Dog Ge was just 18 years old after talking for a bit. He had just started livestreaming early on, and with his mature sounding voice, people had mistaken him for being older.

Your Qi Ge: You want to play professionally?

Dog Ge seemed to think about it for a while before replying: Yes, I’m just livestreaming to earn money. This way, I can have a peace of mind when going all out for training.

Shen Qi glanced at the Weibo notification. Fu Mingyuan was returning to China today so the airports were packed, and there were photos of the scene.

He clicked on the notification.

In the photos, Fu Mingyuan was wearing a black coat. He was tall and had long legs, his lips were compressed into a flat line, and his face obviously looked tired. He stood as straight as usual in the middle of a crowd of enthusiastic fans, and his gaze seemed to fall on all the fans nearby.

In the next picture, he was slightly bent over, holding a pen in his right hand. As he had stretched out to write, he showed a bit of his wrist.

This side-profile picture perfectly illustrated the concept of a “beauty with no bad angles.”

Shen Qi expressionlessly clicked to save the photo. He intended to go take a look at the super topic later, since there must be other photos there.

Then, he replied to Dog Ge.

Your Qi Ge: Doing youth training for a few years doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll make it through 

Your Qi Ge: Dog Di, can you endure it? Smile.jpg

Dog Ge was silent for a moment.

Dog Ge: …What kind of name is Dog Di…

Your Qi Ge: You’re younger than me, so I’m calling you Didi. Dog Ge Didi, or Dog Di for short.

Dog Ge: …

A good tempered person could also have a rare moment of feeling helpless.

Seeing that he didn’t say anything, Shen Qi began to tease him again.

Your Qi Ge: What’s wrong Dog Di? 

Dog Ge probably got over it, and after a while, replied: I’ve thought it through. Even if I can’t make it to a professional team, it would still count as fulfilling my e-sports dream.

Shen Qi pondered for a while, and his expression carried a rare hint of seriousness.

Your Qi Ge: Which team are you trying for?

Dog Ge had probably planned it out a long time ago and replied very quickly: HUOJ.

Seeing his reply, Shen Qi laughed.

The turkey team seemed to have been constantly recruiting young trainees recently, including the now demoted Lu Tun. Currently, none of the youth trainees were good, so when the contract period expired, they’d be ushered out. Isn’t that why they needed to recruit again?

After thinking about it, he directly pulled both Lu Tun and Dog Ge into a WeChat group chat.

Your Qi Ge: Dog Di, this is a current HUOJ youth division trainee 

Lu Tun: ?????

Dog Ge: …

The two people who were pulled into a discussion group were both confused and continued to just privately message Shen Qi.

Shen Qi yawned, muted WeChat, and scrolled through Fu Mingyuan’s super topic.

By the time he finished saving the photos from the passers-by, the group chat had 99+ new messages.

He roughly glanced at it, and it was Lu Tun describing the tragic and miserable life of the youth trainees.

Shen Qi sneered.

Despite this, Dog Ge’s desire to participate in the youth training division still hadn’t been broken.

Although Dog Ge’s skills weren’t top-level, he actually would be comparable to an average professional player.

Playing competitively didn’t only rely on personal skills, but also on team coordination and luck.

In games like PUBG, how the circles spawned was also especially important.

Shen Qi comforted Lu Tun and sent a message to the group chat.

Your Qi Ge: Dog Di, do you have any professional players you like? 

Dog Ge hesitated for a moment then replied: Angry

Dog Ge: You play very similar to him.

The onlooker Lu Tun: …It’s not very similar to him, it’s the original person!

However, he couldn’t say that.

Your Qi Ge: Oh Smile.jpg

Young Lu Tun and Dog Ge didn’t understand the meaning of this “oh.”

……

After dealing with these two little brothers, Shen Qi saw that Gege had replied to his messages from last night.

Although they had been keeping in touch these past few days, the other party seemed to be very busy. Often, it would take him several hours or longer to reply.

fmy: En, I’m back.

He shared his location, and it was H City’s airport.

Shen Qi recalled that Fu Mingyuan also seemed to have landed at H City.

Your Qi Ge: Gege, where in H city are you? Are you far from Wansheng shopping center? BunnyRunningInCircles.jpg

It took a while for the other party to reply: Not far

Your Qi Ge: Gege~ Do you have time~? Go to Wansheng shopping center for a walk~ Then conveniently see if you can take any photos of Fu Mingyuan in the flesh~

Your Qi Ge: I want to see what the man, who looks only a little worse than God A, looks like in real life.

Your Qi Ge: Gege~ MwahMwah.jpg

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The author has something to say:

Fu Mingyuan: My boyfriend asked me to take a picture of myself, so rounding up, I’m going to take a selfie.

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Juurensha: Hahahaha, FMY will have to figure out selfie settings now, and I’m sure SQ will love the picture! So a head’s up: our lovely editor Divi will have to take a break due to a family emergency. Please wish her and her family all the best!

Divi: Will he send a selfie? Will SQ questioning it? Will he pretend to be his manager?