KMYB | Chapter 65

After dinner, Lan Lan took the initiative to wash the dishes. Xi Shui paced around the living room for a while before going back to the room, where he扑进周泽期怀里, "Give me kisses."

Zhou Zeqi rolled over and pinned him beneath him. "Kiss you for the next few months?"

Xi Shui's hair was a mess from rubbing against the bedsheets. He looked blankly at him and asked, "Aren't you coming to see me for New Year?"

"Oh, right. I have a performance during New Year, and if you came to see me, I wouldn't have time to keep you company anyway, so you shouldn't come." Xi Shui kept talking to himself. After he finished, he tilted his head up and kissed Zhou Zeqi's chin once. "Then let's kiss the amount for a few months."

Zhou Zeqi smoothed the stray hair at Xi Shui's forehead. "I won't have time either. At the end of the year the company has a lot of meetings, business has to be summarized, accounts need to be settled too. There’s a lot to do."

Xi Shui: "President Zhou?"

"What are you calling me that for?" Zhou Zeqi pinched him. "President Zhou is my dad."

"Then what are you?"

Zhou Zeqi let go of Xi Shui and lay down on his back beside him. "Xiao Zhou."

"Hahaha, Xiao Zhou." Xi Shui took the initiative to lie on Zhou Zeqi's shoulder. "Xiao Zhou, what are we going to do tomorrow?"

"Go see a musical? Or I can take you to our opera house to watch a performance. Or we can go eat something good, but I don't think anything here tastes that good. Oh, right, how is Zhizi at home?"

Zhou Zeqi squeezed Xi Shui's fingers. "Six jin[[1]] heavy."

"That's pretty good."

"By the way, I watched your previous performance, the one with the little swan." Zhou Zeqi said.

Xi Shui suddenly sat up. "You watched it? How did you watch it? That ticket was really hard to get."

"Your mom sent it to me. The opera house doesn't allow the audience to record video, and no one in the audience would have filmed it anyway." Seeing how shocked and delighted Xi Shui looked, Zhou Zeqi found it amusing. "What is it?"

"Didn't I say that every performance after I met you, I was your audience?"

Xi Shui quietly said thank you.

Li Wanzhi had a great reputation in the ballet world, not just domestically but overseas too. The official recording of the performance was copied and sent to Li Wanzhi by email, and Li Wanzhi clipped Xi Shui's part and sent it to Zhou Zeqi.

Xi Shui jumped out of bed, put on his shoes, then went rummaging through his huge wardrobe. From inside he pulled out a long black leather overcoat, a very large one that was clearly not his size, still covered with a dust sheet.

"I bought it for you. The model looked especially handsome in it, and I think you'd look even better than him." Xi Shui pulled Zhou Zeqi up. "I bought one too, matching outfits."

Zhou Zeqi took it and put it straight on over his pajamas, then asked Xi Shui, "If they're exactly the same, that's a matching outfit? Why don't you just call it a parent-child outfit?"

Xi Shui stood in front of Zhou Zeqi, looking a little awkward. "Do you want to be my son?"

Zhou Zeqi paused while tying his belt. "Say that again if you dare."

Xi Shui grinned and looked Zhou Zeqi over. "As expected, it looks great!"

After his teacher Xi Shui had approved it, Zhou Zeqi took the coat off again. Xi Shui hung it up, and Zhou Zeqi came up from behind to wrap his arms around him and set him on the desk. Then a soft, dense kiss fell over him. "You're off today?"

"Of course," Xi Shui was kissed so thoroughly his waist went soft. He swung his calves a little. "I'm so tired."

He kept asking Zhou Zeqi, "Don't you think my voice is a little hoarse?"

Amusement surfaced in Zhou Zeqi's eyes. "I don't think so."

"Ah, no, it is. I called out way too hard." Xi Shui tried his best to get Zhou Zeqi to agree with him.

"Mm, then it is." Zhou Zeqi peeled off Xi Shui's outer coat and spoke against his ear. "Anyway, we're not going out until tomorrow. There are still more than ten hours."

Xi Shui never refused, and even less did he refuse Zhou Zeqi. "You're such a sai mi[[2]]."

Zhou Zeqi frowned and stopped. "Who taught you all this nonsense?"

"Online." In the time Xi Shui had been here, besides dancing and studying, the free time he had without Zhou Zeqi playing with him was spent going online and surfing the net. He'd learned a lot of internet slang, and he finally understood Wu Fengyi. If he chatted with Wu Fengyi now, they would definitely have common ground.

Xi Shui pressed Zhou Zeqi's hand. "Want to play a game? Senior taught me how to play Chicken Dinner. Do you know how?"

Zhou Zeqi was silent for a moment. His eyes were pitch-black, as if he wanted nothing more than to tear Xi Shui apart and swallow him whole. "What's the bet?"

Xi Shui thought for a long time.

He got out of bed, crouched by the bedside table, and placed that ball on the bed. "This."

Zhou Zeqi looked at the ball for a while, then shifted his gaze to Xi Shui's confident face and raised a brow. "How do we bet?"

"If I get more kills, you help me stuff it. If you get more kills, I'll stuff it myself." Xi Shui took his phone from the cabinet, sat cross-legged on the carpet, and patted the spot beside him. "Come on, come on!"

Zhou Zeqi: "…"

To make the game more fun, they also called in Lin Xiaojin and Wu Fengyi. Wu Fengyi was called by Zhou Zeqi, while Lin Xiaojin was called by Xi Shui.

Xi Shui watched Lin Xiaojin and Wu Fengyi enter the room together and turned on his mic. "Zhou Zeqi and I are together. We can just use one mic, so pay attention and tell us apart."

Wu Fengyi blurted out, "Lin Xiaojin and I are using one too."

?

Xi Shui asked carefully, "Are you together too? If you're not together, how are you using one mic?"

The atmosphere instantly became awkward.

Lin Xiaojin stammered, "It's daytime in China right now. Wu Wings and I ran into each other at the mall."

Xi Shui wasn't stupid, he was actually very smart. He glanced at the time. "It's not even ten o'clock in Neu York right now, so it's night. In China it's at most seven in the morning. You ran into each other at the mall at seven in the morning? Malls usually don't open until ten."

Wu Fengyi said, "Are we playing or what? How easy do you think it is for us to play games with you two at seven in the morning?"

Zhou Zeqi clicked his tongue. "Who are you talking back to?"

Wu Fengyi: "…"

The game began. Since it was National Day, even though it was early morning, there were still plenty of people playing. After all, a lot of night owls stayed up all night.

Xi Shui and Zhou Zeqi had a bet, so as soon as the match started, Xi Shui played especially hard and jumped straight into P City. Wu Fengyi couldn't even stop him with his shouting.

"Grow stealthily! Grow stealthily!" Wu Fengyi screamed at the top of his lungs. "Is P City somewhere we can jump to? Old Zhou, control your wife!"

After he finished yelling, he realized Zhou Zeqi was already no longer on the plane. Wu Fengyi glanced at the map and found that Zhou Zeqi had already jumped. He was at the airport.

"Damn, what are these two doing? Why did they split up?" Wu Fengyi nudged Lin Xiaojin with his knee and said softly, "Baby, let's grow stealthily."

Lin Xiaojin huddled in his chair and jumped straight for G港. "Grow stealthily on your own. I'm jumping."

Xi Shui was a very serious person. Whether it was dancing, studying, or, at this moment, playing games, he treated everything with an extremely serious attitude.

After playing a few rounds with Senior, he thought it was pretty interesting, so he specially went online to learn how to use all kinds of guns, the best attachment combinations, where to place the various control keys, and tactical responses. He watched professional streamers play while taking notes, filling several pages.

Zhou Zeqi looked at Xi Shui and saw that he was staring intently at his phone, even tilting his own body along with the character. He couldn't help laughing and reached out to push him straight. "What are you doing?"

Xi Shui gave Zhou Zeqi a side glance and kept playing.

Zhou Zeqi: "…"

This time P City had the most people. Xi Shui's phone map was full of red footprints. Xi Shui crouched on the second floor for a while, found the right chance, and jumped straight to the first floor. His judgment was accurate. He landed right behind two people and without hesitation sprayed them down. After reloading, he slung the gun on his back, jumped out the window, and immediately ran into people head-on again. Another burst of fire.

The loudspeaker kept showing Xi Shui knocking people down and eliminating them. Lin Xiaojin, holding a shotgun, was dumbfounded. "No, my dear Xiao Xi, are you sure you went abroad to further your dance training?"

The usually serious Xi Shui finally showed a bit of embarrassed expression. "It's just, playing casually."

Knowing Lin Xiaojin was bad at the game, he took the initiative to say, "Xiaojin, get behind me. I'll protect you."

"Okay! Coming right away." Lin Xiaojin picked up a level-one helmet from the ground and put it on his head, then turned and ran out of the container.

The moment he ran out, he collided with a level-three helmet, level-three armor opponent. Both sides froze for a second, then the other person immediately sprayed Lin Xiaojin down without hesitation. Before Lin Xiaojin could even crawl twice on the ground, his screen had turned gray.

Xi Shui: "Oh no, you're dead."

Wu Fengyi: "I told you to grow stealthily."

Zhou Zeqi: "Tch."

When the poison circle started shrinking, Xi Shui was in the very center. He could calmly keep looking for people to fight.

But Zhou Zeqi and Wu Fengyi both had to run from the circle, especially Zhou Zeqi, who also had to cross the bridge.

Wu Fengyi was a bit closer to Xi Shui. He found a tricycle and went to latch onto Xi Shui's thigh. On the way to the circle, he turned off his mic and asked Lin Xiaojin, "You're spectating? Who are you watching?"

Lin Xiaojin: "Xiao Xi."

"Watch me, I don't believe your eyes are empty."

"Are you sick?"

Wu Fengyi watched the distance between himself and Xi Shui grow farther and farther. No, that wasn't right. He was clearly driving toward Xi Shui, but after looking closely, Xi Shui was also driving, just toward Zhou Zeqi's direction.

Wu Fengyi turned his mic back on. "Xi Shui, where are you going? Let's grow stealthily together."

Xi Shui liked cool-looking outfits. His character had been custom-built, wearing a pair of sunglasses, and the level-three helmet made him look especially rich. "Grow stealthily by yourself. I'm going to pick up Zhou Zeqi."

After the game was updated, a lot of experts pretended to be newbies. Their ranks were all pretty high, and in this kind of circle, the bridge was the easiest place to get blocked.

Sure enough, before Xi Shui even reached the bridgehead, he already heard the bridgehead exploding into a crackling mess.

While driving, Xi Shui moved closer to Zhou Zeqi and said, "If you beg me, I'll help you."

Zhou Zeqi glanced at him. "I don't need your help."

"I want to help you anyway," Xi Shui said.

"Let me see your health bar." Xi Shui looked at Zhou Zeqi's phone screen. Zhou Zeqi was crouching behind a broken truck while healing. He was a lone wolf, while almost everyone else had teammates. Two squads were blocking him from the front, and one squad was behind him. "Oh no, do you really not need my help?"

Zhou Zeqi's health bar had gone back up to seventy percent. Half-crouched, he sprayed the nearest person who kept peeking out. "If you help me, what's your condition?"

Xi Shui thought for a moment. "I stuff you."

"Oh, then forget it."

"Why forget it?" Xi Shui jumped off the vehicle and found a great spot to use the sniper rifle. With an eight-times scope, he headshotted one of them and said softly, "I'm happy, you're happy, we're all happy."

"You should just wait for me to win. I've already gotten ten kills," Zhou Zeqi said, glancing at Xi Shui's phone screen. "You only have nine."

One sentence from Zhou Zeqi immediately dragged Xi Shui's attention back to the game. "There are a lot of people over there. I'm coming."

And so, on the screen, Xi Shui and Zhou Zeqi's game IDs appeared frequently, with nonstop knockdowns, knockdowns, knockdowns, eliminations, eliminations, eliminations.

Their kill counts stayed neck and neck the whole time.

Wu Fengyi, slowly crawling through the grass, muttered, "They're crazy. They're all crazy."

After clearing everyone around them, Xi Shui's car was driven away by someone who was left with a sliver of health, while the others were blown up wrecks. Xi Shui jumped out of the second-floor window and circled around several times, but he still couldn't find a vehicle. Just as he was getting worried, Zhou Zeqi drove a motorcycle up and stopped in front of him.

Xi Shui immediately moved to jump on.

Zhou Zeqi drove forward a few meters, leaving Xi Shui behind. The poison circle was gradually shrinking toward the center, and Xi Shui grew a little anxious. "Let me get on the bike!"

Zhou Zeqi leaned close to Xi Shui's ear. "Beg me."

At this moment, Xi Shui only wanted to win. "Qiqi, I beg you, let me get on the bike, mua-mua-mua-mua."

Zhou Zeqi said, "But you lost. You only have thirteen, I have seventeen. Excluding Wu Fengyi, there are only two people left now. Even if they all get handed to you, you still lose."

Xi Shui hopped onto the bike, looking serious. "Participation is what matters. It’s fine if I stuff myself too."