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 Gossip is always humanity's primary productive force for progress.

Qi Dong swore he only asked casually, but unexpectedly, it led to a pleasant surprise.

"And then?"

"And then there’s nothing more; he rejected the girl, so what else is there?"

"I see he’s just about ready to hold up his phone with the screen saver featuring the three giants and introduce himself: ‘I'm taken, please do not disturb!’"

Qi Dong imagined that scene and surprisingly felt that Xiang Ran could actually do that.

"Actually, if it were Mai Yi, it could work too."

Xiang Ran suddenly chimed in, and even though he said that, he remembered what Liu Shuyao had said about their shocking statements during their trio meeting, and his ears inexplicably turned a bit red.

What exactly was the problem here?

"Don't just look at Mai Yi, look at others too?"

The fat guy began counting his phone's stock one by one.

Xiang Ran didn't react much, but Qi Dong stretched his neck to look along, getting excited whenever he found something he liked.

"Fat Bro! Find someone! Please!"

"You know what to do!"

"There will be no day when the flowers wither, love remains eternal, and violets will last forever!"

In the end, Qi Dong snagged quite a bit from the fat guy before calling it quits.

"Ran, are you not coming? The world could use a miracle from you!"

Before Xiang Ran could react, the fat guy's big mouth started again.

"I estimate that love has already blacklisted Brother Ran. Today, seeing the school goddess—so many opportunities! This guy is like his heels are glued to the ground, unwilling to take a single step. The school goddess had to take the initiative to greet him, and he looked like he stepped on an electric fence, running away in a hurry."

"Hahaha."

Now even the dorm supervisor felt it was ridiculous.

"Ran, did you see the school goddess get shy?"

Xiang Ran heard the teasing and didn’t know how to retort; he could only awkwardly stay silent, banging his mechanical keyboard loudly, even feeling that this red switch wasn’t cutting it—he needed a blue switch!

"By the way, the school goddess’s best friend is also there."

"Brother Dong, you should know her; she’s from your debate club."

When Qi Dong heard this, he had just been laughing loudly, but immediately seemed to recall something, pouting his lips.

"You mean Zhao Ying? Our debate club president, she’s good at one against five—definitely a tough girl."

After Qi Dong said this, he sighed again without knowing why.

"Girls should still be a bit softer and cuter."

After a round of teasing, the boys' dorm activities began again. The fat guy was urging everyone to log on. Qi Dong, feeling physically and mentally exhausted, just wanted to lie down, so he switched projects, and soon a clear TIMI sound echoed from the dorm.

"Ran, are you coming?" Qi Dong was busy pulling people on WeChat, hoping to find a support.

"Not playing."

"Then help the fat guy scan the code and log into your account. This guy lost his reputation points the other day after arguing with someone."

Xiang Ran was focused on comparing data errors in Navicat and casually passed his phone over, urging, "I have a rough idea of the data visualization content; let’s discuss the technical feasibility later."

The fat guy was only thinking about how Qi Dong found him a schoolmate for support, barely heard what Xiang Ran said, and simply responded with a few casual sounds.

Then he turned to Qi Dong, urging him to create the game room.

"Brother Dong! Hurry up!"

"Don’t keep the schoolmate waiting! It’s impolite!"

Xiang Ran's account mostly featured jungler heroes, and the fat guy, wanting to stay connected with the schoolmate, didn’t want to play any standard three-body game. Under pressure, he chose the "Wild Area Xiao Yan," which was a bit over the top.

However, just as they started the game, they were spotted by the school goddess, who had logged on to do tasks and collect items.

Her skills in the PC game weren’t that great, so she worked hard to keep up with Xiang Ran’s level in mobile gaming. She had previously watched videos on how a girlfriend’s poor skills negatively affected the gaming experience, so to avoid dragging her boyfriend down, she put in extra effort.

Liu Shuyao hadn’t seen Xiang Ran online for a while, and now seeing him in the friend list engaged in a five-man squad, she dropped her tasks and smoothly clicked to spectate.

Not watching was fine, but once she did, her mind buzzed, as if her carefully maintained garden was being invaded by other bees.

?????

Liu Shuyao was completely stunned...

Her pale fingers tightly gripped the side of her phone, lips pressed together, and her eyes widened with anger, possessiveness nearly spilling out of the screen!

From Zhao Ying's perspective, she looked like a pitiful little kitten trying to act fierce.

“What happened?”

Zhao Ying, hearing the school goddess, leaned over to look.

“This is...”

“Xiang Ran is playing a game with a girl?”

Zhao Ying watched the scene of the jungle king guiding a support girl around the canyon, and even the red armored crab was gone; they were practically glued together.

Well, that was hard to judge...

"Maybe Qi Dong is slacking off and wants to play support? I know this guy, he’s quite unreliable, and his best hero is the support!"

Zhao Ying only recognized Qi Dong in their dorm, so she tried to shift the blame.

The school goddess’s social circle was indeed shallow, but she wasn’t stupid. Without saying a word, she simply pointed at the game ID:

Ningzhou Little Sweetheart~

"Is that name Qi Dong?"

Emmm...

There was really no more struggle left, as Qi Dong’s game name was too recognizable; that lonely “Qi Le Dong Dong Qiang” sitting in the bottom lane was definitely him.

Meanwhile, Zhao Ying was still thinking about how to explain, and she saw the jungler Zhao Huai zhen already giving the support blue buffs...

Liu Shuyao, seeing all this, couldn’t bear it any longer, exited the game, and tossed her phone onto the bed.

Then, burying her head in the blanket, she tried to calm down for a moment, but still couldn’t hold back.

Suddenly lifting her head in anger, her little nose crinkled as she grabbed her phone and began flipping through her contacts.

“No, I need to call him!”

On the other side, Qi Dong had been stuck in the lane for a while and finally couldn’t help but mute his mic, tossing a pillow at the fat guy.

“Can you be more serious?!”

“Has the bottom lane come to support after ten minutes?”

“Did you seriously give the support a blue buff?”

“......”

Wang Hao was also speechless.

“Bottom lane is stuck, top lane is stuck, are you farming in the jungle and building a tower in mid lane?”

Though the fat guy got scolded, he was actually quite pleased and happily typed a dragon.

“Here they come, here they come, watch me unleash the Buddha’s Wrath...”

Triple kill!

This time, they directly blacked out three people's screens.

In this match, under the fat guy's chaotic play, they lost quickly, and then Qi Dong stripped him of his jungler rights, forcing him back to the lonely top lane...

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