Ch17 - They say a daughter is a father’s little lover from his previous life, so sons also count, right :)

Having finished saying that, Shen Qi felt a rare moment of regret. 

They had just become online acquaintances by chance. If they unplugged their cables and turned off their cellphones, neither would recognize the other.

Even if he passed by him on the roadside, he wouldn’t know that this person was the one that he constantly called “Gege.” 

Shen Qi laughed mockingly at himself.

As soon as he put down his cellphone, it vibrated and a new message appeared on the screen.

fmy: Just a moment

Shen Qi tugged at the quilt with his right hand. 

Your Qi Ge: Okay Gege, ShyRabbitWithDroopingEars.jpg

While he was waiting, Shen Qi again picked up the information that had fallen onto the side of his bed after he fell asleep. 

The rain stopped outside, and the house was too quiet.

This time, he didn’t have to wait too long. 

After the WeChat call connected, the sound of cloth rubbing against something could be heard from the other side. It was probably because he was very close to the phone, but he could hear the shallow breaths of the other party.

Shen Qi tapped his cellphone case. “Gege?” 

It seemed to get quiet for a bit on the other side.

Before, the two people’s vocal communications had been limited to within the game. This was the first time for the two of them to chat alone like this. 

Shen Qi heard the sound of paper rustling, mixed with the other party’s slightly low voice.

“En, here.” 

Shen Qi rubbed the papers with his fingers. “The autographed photos, did you like them?”

Fu Mingyuan closed his eyes. “Thank you very much, I liked them a lot.” 

The other side’s voice seemed to be clearer than usual. Shen Qi’s heart that was originally chaotic due to that dream now calmed down a bit.

It stopped his idea of wanting to turn on the computer to play a game to vent. 

“In a bad mood?” It was silent for a while, and then there was the sound of the other party turning something on, accompanied by a deep voiced inquiry.

His voice was really too seductive. 

Shen Qi let out an “ah,” scratched his still damp hair, and asked with a teasing tone, “Gege, you’re worried about me?”

His tone dragged up a bit on the last syllable, which sounded very improper. 

The other side responded affirmatively without hesitation.

Shen Qi was stupefied for a moment, and then quickly reacted. He leaned against the back of the bed and raised his head. The water dripped from his hair and flowed down his neck, and the cold feeling spread. 

“I had a dream,” he whispered.

“En,” the other party said. 

“I dreamt about some bad things, and I can’t quite get past them even after waking up.” He was in a rare calm state, different than usual.

It seemed that the other party thought for a moment, then mused, “Everything in dreams is fake. 

“There’s no need to believe in things in dreams.”

Shen Qi laughed. 

“Then next time if I dream of you, it’ll also be fake?” He seemed troubled. “I can’t believe in you?

“What to do then, Gege?” 

He was answered with silence.

Just when Shen Qi thought he wouldn’t get a reply, the other party suddenly spoke. 

“No.

“It’s not the same.” 

Shen Qi grinned.

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“Then if God A comes back, will you support him?”

“Yes.” 

Shen Qi seemed to have long since expected that he would say so, and he immediately replied, “En, that’s right, God A is so powerful.”

Fu Mingyuan listened to him praise himself without any shame, rubbed the texture of the quilt, and chuckled. 

He would come back.

Their first voice chat ended with Shen Qi’s shallow breathing after he fell asleep. 

……

The next day, Shen Qi took a day off from livestreaming. 

He made an appointment with a real estate agent to look at houses.

He didn’t get much out of the materials that he had read last night. 

When he went out, he put on a hat and a mask for fear of being recognized.

When he arrived at the appointed place, Xu Nuo saw Shen Qi wearing clothes without any name brands. Looking at his face, he didn’t seem that old, so there was a trace of disappointment in his heart, but he didn’t show it on his face. 

After all, he still got money for making this trip.

It was just that people who wanted to look at villas were generally wealthy and rich. This was the first time he had met this kind of person who didn’t go out in a luxury car, wasn’t wearing famous brands, and was even wearing a hat and mask. 

“Um… Boss, how are we going to get over there?” Xu Nuo hesitated for a while. He had come over on a bus, but they couldn’t take the bus again to go look at houses, right?

Shen Qi let out an “ah” and seemed to be a bit annoyed. 

Looking around, he suggested, “How about using a bike-share?”

Xu Nuo: “…..” 

Shen Qi, of course, was just casually saying that. Xu Nuo was a big uncle in his thirties. If he really made him ride a bike to do his business, he didn’t think he’d have the strength to introduce all the houses to him.

The villa Shen Qi was looking at was right near M1G’s base. 

When they rode the bus over there, they saw a billboard with M1G.

Xu Nuo sighed. “Today’s young people are really terrifying, winning glory for the country while so young.” 

Shen Qi glanced where he was looking. “Tch, Uncle, what glory have they won?”

“It’s not them, it’s the former captain of their team. He was amazing. My son used to always chatter about him.” 

Xu Nuo shook his head.

Shen Qi laughed and drew closer. “Uncle, did you look at your customer’s information before you came here?” 

“Do you know what this villa will be used for in the future?”

…… 

After this “hint” from Shen Qi, Xu Nuo basically acted as though he had been injected with chicken blood for the entire afternoon.

All of his initial bias or whatever was now all gone. 

After they finished looking at houses, he warmly invited Shen Qi to his own home for dinner.

Shen Qi sent a message to Ye Lai, thanking him for Xu Nuo’s kindness. 

……

Ye Lai had just finished today’s training when he received his Shifu’s message. 

Rong Jing and the manager were in a closed-door meeting in the meeting room, and who knew what they were discussing. Everyone else went back to their own rooms, but Ye Lai scoped out the current situation and then snuck out.

Shen Qi sat in front of a barbecue stand with a pile of freshly roasted kebabs and beer in front of him. 

Before competitions, the team had been strictly forbidden to drink. He had been retired for so long, but he hadn’t touched any alcohol, so today was a rare opportunity.

Shen Qi had just been about to take a picture when Ye Lai rushed over in a down jacket. 

“Shifu!”

Shen Qi took the picture, posted it in his Moments, and turned his head to glance at him. His eyes couldn’t hide his disdain. “It’s just autumn, yet you’re wrapped up like this?” 

“It’s cold!” Ye Lai’s eyes turned red when he saw Shen Qi.

Shen Qi raised his hand and rubbed his head. “Tch, with this look, people who didn’t know better would think you were here to see a little lover.” 

Ye Lai: “…..”

Ye Lai stuffed a mutton kebab into his mouth. 

“It’s really delicious.” Because their food was strictly controlled in the base, Ye Lai hadn’t had barbecue for a long time.

When Shen Qi was still there, he used to sneak out all the time, and Ye Lai could free-load off of him. 

Shen Qi rubbed his head again. “You’re not asking why I came here?”

Ye Lai had thought that he had specially come to see himself. 

Hearing him say this, he very obediently asked that.

Shen Qi took a bite of a mutton kebab, and the corners of his mouth rose. “Little apprentice.” 

He fluttered his eyelashes.

Ye Lai: “….” 

Oh no, Shifu was being flirty again. 

The barbeque stand that Shen Qi had picked wasn’t that close to the villa neighborhood, and the snack street here was crowded at night. 

Two girls who were eating passed by behind them. Seeing their present positions, they quickly took pictures secretly, then pretended nothing had happened and walked off.

It was only after leaving that they shared them with their sisters. 

Sisters, I saw a really cute pair! Ah, a cute shou and a flirty gong!

Attached a picture! 

Forwarded again!

Before long, this Weibo post was forwarded to thousands of people. 

Although the faces in the photo weren’t very clear, the cute shou was wearing a M1G uniform underneath the jacket.

The detective ability of netizens wasn’t just hot air. The photo was quickly analyzed, and it was determined that one of them was LAND, an active member of M1G. 

What about the other one?

Although there was only a blurry profile, even a blurry photo couldn’t stop God A’s flourishing beauty. 

When the original poster saw how popular it was getting, she was so scared that she deleted her post.

…… 

The two parties involved had no idea.

“Has M1G been particularly boring recently?” Shen Qi raised his eyebrows. 

Ye Lai replied, “Not really ba… We’ve been busy with playoffs, and there’s just a week left before the competition starts.”

Shen Qi was a little bit regretful. “So it’s like that ah…” 

“En… Originally, I bought a villa across the street to surprise M1G.”

Ye Lai let out an “oh” and then realized what he had just said. “??? Shifu, what are you talking about?” 

Shen Qi rubbed his head and then simply left his hand on his head. “Ah… Not happy? In the future…you can bump into me if you just come outside.”

He said that, but it would take some time for the villa to be renovated. 

“Or, we could live together, why don’t you consider it?

“It’s just, how much is it to buy you out? I still need to consider it some more if you’re expensive.” 

……

When he went back, Ye Lai was completely confused. 

He didn’t come back to his senses until Rong Jing blocked his way at the door with a dark expression on his face.

“Ye Lai, you’re very capable. 

“Sneaking out before the start of the competition, and for what, to play nice and get closer to your Shifu?” Rong Jing looked very angry.

Ye Lai was startled by him, and he immediately lowered his head and said nothing. 

Rong Jing dragged him into the room by the collar. Thinking of the photo at the end of Weibo’s Hot Search list, the hatred in his eyes grew even heavier.

Why? He worked harder than Shen Qi, and he was more outstanding than Shen Qi, but no matter what he did, he couldn’t surpass him. 

It was just a picture, and yet there were so many people forwarding that the “legend” was coming back.

Coming back, coming back to where? 

…..

It was only after Shen Qi got home that he saw a message from his “Gege.” It was from three hours ago, a little bit after he had made that post in his Moments. 

fmy: Barbecue isn’t good for your health, eat less

fmy：…… 

fmy: Who are you with?

Shen Qi put down the express mail that he brought home so his hands were free to type. 

Your Qi Ge: Ah  a little lover ya

The other party replied in a second: ….. 

Fu Mingyuan stared at the photo on the Hot Search list, and his lips had flattened into a straight line.

Although the original Weibo post had already been deleted, the photos had circulated. Fans were reveling in speculation about Angry’s return, while anti-fans were spreading rumors that LAND and Angry were having an affair, and neither side could get away from the other. 

“Has the Hot Search entry been taken down?” Fu Mingyuan gave Du Jing a call.

After a moment’s silence, Du Jing replied, “It’s been taken down.” 

“You….does this count as you being of two minds?”

This wasn’t him randomly guessing. Fu Mingyuan was normally so proper, but how come as soon as it came to his feelings, he…. 

He wasn’t quite right when dealing with that little anchor.

He also wasn’t quite right when dealing with this Angry. 

This was the first time since he met Fu Mingyuan that he had seen him so…angry.

Fu Mingyuan: “….” 

“Don’t overthink it.”

Du Jing: ??? 

Every time, he was so perfunctory! I’m your agent ah!

It was only after hanging up the call that Fu Mingyuan saw Shen Qi’s new message. 

Your Qi Ge: They say a daughter is a father’s little lover from his previous life, so sons also count, right 

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The author has something to say: 

Ye Lai: ??? You think of me like a son

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Juurensha: Hahahaha, poor Du Jing. 

Du Jing: Not only is my previously serious hardworking actor gay, but he’s maybe cheating????

Also yay SQ, build your club!

kat: I love the part of esports novels where they go around poaching players and uncovering hidden gems