Die Meng greeted Wei Wei first: “Wei Wei.”
Wei Wei: “Die Meng, you came too?”
Die Meng: “Yeah, it’s so popular that I had to come.”
The two causally talked for a bit more. Even though Wei Wei and Zhan Tian Xia had a few issues between them, that didn’t affect her interactions with Die Meng. Die Meng seemed to think the same.
Since it was a match, they didn’t talk very long. Three minutes later, they formally started the match.
Die Meng wasn’t very fond of PK matches, so she never participated in any of those. She never placed in the PK rankings as a result.
However, her strength previously was above Wei Wei. It was due to the fact that she hadn’t played recently and Wei Wei had better equipment now that their strength matched each other.
Therefore, the match would be decided between Yi Xiao Nai He and Zhan Tian Xia.
And therefore, the result of the PK match was obvious.
After the match, Die Meng sent a private message: “Wei Wei, let’s find a place and chat later.”
Wei Wei sent back a nodding expression.
After the matches for the day were all finished, Wei Wei and Die Meng found a silent place to talk.
In reality, Die Meng didn’t have much to talk about. It was just re-inviting Wei Wei back to the sect. Wei Wei shook her head and refused, citing the fact she had a lot of exams at the moment and didn’t want to focus too much on playing.
Die Meng didn’t try to persuade her any more.
Die Meng hadn’t played online for a long time and they didn’t have much to talk about. After the conversation cooled down, Wei Wei remembered Lei Shen Ni Ni’s gossip and was reluctant to remind Die Meng. After thinking it over, even though meddling in somebody else’s relationship was troublesome, but keeping a friend in the dark was even worse, she said furtively: “There’s a thing, I heard … …”
She only started, but Die Meng already understood: “You mean Xiao Yu Qing Qing?”
Wei Wei was astonished: “You know?”
Die Meng said: “Of course, don’t worry. I can take care of her.”
She sent a smiley face: “My relationship with Tian Xia isn’t something she can damage. I haven’t told you but we actually have a relationship in real life. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have given the sect to him.”
In real life?
Wei Wei had a period of shock, and understood she couldn’t say anything else. She had never had a romantic relationship before. She didn’t know what to say.
Die Men was this confident, it didn’t seem like there would be any problems.
All of the end of May and the beginning of June were consumed by fighting in the game and studying for English. In the game, Nai He and Wei Wei continued their record of unbroken wins into the finals for their server. In real life, Wei Wei threw away her mock exam and took a long sigh ––
“No more practice exams to do, how boring!”
And got hit with a pillow for doing so.
Wei Wei happily hugged Xiao Ling’s large and soft pillow as she logged onto the game. The timing was just right, seven thirty.
Yesterday, Da Shen said he would only be able to get on at seven thirty.
Logging in, Nai He was already there. Because it was so close to eight, they didn’t go do any quests and flew around aimlessly together on their white condor.
Today, was the server finals of the PK Tournament.
Their opponent were ones they had met before in their point matches, Die Meng Wei Xing and Zhan Tian Xia.
It was almost eight so the two traveled back to Chang’an. Just before entering the stadium, they saw the system sent out a notice.
System: “Die Meng Wei Xing” and “Zhan Tian Xia” due to incompatibility of feelings, have announced their divorce. From now on, the two shall not have anything to do with each other.
Wei Wei blanked, and wondered if she had read it wrongly. She read it twice to make sure before falling in a panic and sending a message to Die Meng. But the message wouldn’t go through.
Die Meng had locked down and refused to receive anyone’s messages.
It was Lei Shen Ni Ni who sent over a message agitatedly; “Wei Wei, what happened? Why did I come online just to see that Zhan Tian Xia and Sect Leader Die Meng divorce?!!”
Wei Wei: “I don’t know, I can’t send a message over, she set it to reject.”
Lei Shen Ni Ni: “I’ll go ask some sect members.”
After a while, she sent back a furious message: “I know it, it was Xiao Yu Qing Qing that slut!”
By this moment, the World Channel already started discussing the incident.
Today’s finals could almost qualify as “watched by thousands” and now that one side had this occurring, it was inevitable that everyone would pay attention. Soon, those with insider information started spreading what they knew. They said the reason that Zhan Tian Xia and Die Meng divorced was due to conflict over Xiao Yu Qing Qing.
Die Meng had wanted to eject Xiao Yu Qing Qing out of the sect but Zhan Tian Xia didn’t agree, so they had started to fight and it had led to the divorce.
With insider information, the discussion got even more fierce. Very quickly, people thought of Xiao Yu Yao Yao. One female player said:
“Well, Xiao Yu Yao Yao had stolen Lu Wei Wei Wei’s husband before. *faint* The Xiao Yu Family specializes in this.”
A long-time opponent of the Xiao Yu Family appeared timely.
World [Xiao Yu Yao Yao Bu Yao Lian 277] [1]: Xiao Yu Family! The
“other woman” family! Specializing in cheating with married men!
Xiao Yu Family! The “other woman” family! Specializing in cheating with married men! Xiao Yu Family! The “other woman” family!
Specializing in cheating with married men! … …
… …
… …
A crowd of mayhem.
Without the match, Nai He had other things to do and left. Wei Wei didn’t go offline with him like she normally did and tried to send messages to Die Meng again. It still didn’t go through but Die Meng’s name became gray. She had gone offline.
Wei Wei looked at the grey letters of Die Meng’s name.
Remembering Die Meng’s confidence when they had last met, she felt a bit morose. She heard Xiao Ling chattering beside her that cyberdating wasn’t dependable and very fragile and couldn’t help but say something in agreement: “Yeah, cyberdating is not dependable at all.”
Upon hearing this, Xiao Ling leapt at Wei Wei with tears in her eyes:
“Wei Wei, you finally heard what I am saying!”
Over the last few days, she had taken what she had heard from other people, read online, reported in the newspaper where cyberdating had not turned out well and tried to brainwash Wei Wei.
She repeated it many times, just to give Wei Wei a reminder of not
getting tricked by bad men online. The last few days, Wei Wei hadn’t given any response, but the struggle was worth it now. She finally realized!
Xiao Ling was moved by her own actions. She was such a good friend, such a rare specimen! Who knew that she heard Wei Wei ask her strangely: “Realize what?”
Xiao Ling feel down. It was useless, nothing had an effect. She decided not to retreat and cut to the point, “I said cyberdating.”
“Cyberdating?”
Xiao Ling nodded, looking directly at Wei Wei.
Wei Wei looked at her. They stared directly at each other for a while. Wei Wei returned the pillow in her grasp back to Xiao Ling,
“Here’s your pillow.”
And then under Xiao Ling’s helpless gaze shut down the computer and climbed into bed.
Wei Wei hugged her own pillow on the bed, eyes looking at the ceiling.
Cyberdating~~~
En, cyberdating wasn’t good!
But it was none of her business~~~
Sleep, sleep!
Because of Die Meng and Zhan Tian Xia’s divorce, Wei Wei and Nai He automatically won and went into the elimination rounds.
In the elimination rounds, all the opponents were the best from their individual servers. Their abilities were higher than the opponents that Wei Wei and Nai He had met before. But with Wei Wei and Nai He’s strength there, their professions matching, their impeccable cooperation, they rose steadily into the last round.
The day before the championship match of the tournament, Nai He said before leaving: “There’s a dinner tomorrow, I might be a bit
late.”
Wei Wei nodded: “En (smiling sun), I’ll come on later too.”
Over this last while, Wei Wei had gotten used to a routine. Each day before leaving, she would ask for the time that Da Shen would be online the next day. On the next day, she would log on at precisely that time. Otherwise, if Da Shen wasn’t online, it was very boring.
Nai He: “At the very latest, seven thirty.”
Wei Wei: “Okay.”
But on the second night at seven thirty, Nai He didn’t appear.
Notes
1. Refer back to Chapter Two. At that point, it was Xiao Yu Yao Yao Bu Yao Lian 108. (Xiao Yu Yao Yao is Shameless)
Chapter 19 “Realizations”
At the beginning, Wei Wei didn’t think it was important. Even though Da Shen had never been late before, but occasionally missing the mark by a few minutes was normal. However, when the minutes passed by and it became seven forty-five, Wei Wei started to panic.
Even knowing that he wasn’t there, Wei Wei couldn’t help but sent a message over ––
“Are you there?”
Naturally, there was no response.
After another two minutes, another message. After that, Wei Wei didn’t send anymore but just started refreshing Nai He’s name, and the system repeatedly reminded her – The player is not online, you cannot refresh his status.
The names of Yu Gong and the others were also dark.
Not online.
Seven fifty.
Wei Wei appeared along in front of the NPC. Above her head was the team symbol, but there was only her.
Around the NPC, there were already a lot of people. Starting with the eliminations, it was possible to watch. These people were here to pay money to watch. Seeing Lu Wei Wei Wei standing along, they couldn’t help but be curious and started discussing in front of her.
In Front [ Chong Zi Ken Wo Ju]: Why is there only Lu Wei Wei Wei, where’s Yi Xiao Nai He?
In Front [Xian Yu Zi]: Probably late.
In Front [963]: For such an important match, he can’t be late.
In Front [Bu Chuan Ku Ku Hao Liang Shuan]: There’s still another ten minutes, there’s no rush. The hero always appears last.
Seven fifty-five.
Wei Wei blocked out all the discussion and left Nai He a message;
“I’m waiting for you in front of the NPC, you can just come straight over.”
The bystanders continued their discussion.
In Front [Ding Ding Tao]: Not much time out, still not here?
In Front [Huo Jian Guei 1.0]: Is he not coming?
In Front [Bai Chi Wa Wa]: Kao. Is history repeating? This couple is also divorcing?
In Front [daydreamer]: doesn’t look like it, if Lu Wei Wei Wei is getting divorced, she wouldn’t be standing here.
In Front [Pi Li Jiao Wa]: The way I look at it, Lu Wei Wei Wei is getting dumped again!
Eight o’clock.
Her friends sent over more and more questions. Wei Wei closed them one by one. Lastly, she close Nai He’s window.
The crowd gradually left.
In Front [One Bei Zi Guang Guen]: let’s leave, let’s leave. I’m just discouraged
In Front [☆Ning Che☆]: I thought I would see a great PK match today. Luckily I didn’t buy tickets.
In Front [Gou Wei Ba Cao]: Taking the washroom but not shitting. If you aren’t competing, leave earlier. You gave up the crown to other servers. The other servers are laughing.
In Front [jager]: You can’t say it that way. If it wasn’t Lu Wei Wei Wei and Yi Xiao Nai He, our server probably couldn’t make it into the finals.
In Front [Luo Man Di Ke]: Let’s wait, there’s still three minutes of preparation. If they enter within three minutes, they could still fight.
In Front [Qi Yue]: Probably not coming. Oh, I feel pretty back for Lu Wei.
In Front [Xiao Yu Mian Mian]: Pretty pitiful hoho.
Eight oh two.
Wei Wei clicked the NPC, wanting to enter alone. The NPC sent a reminder: You must enter together with your husband.
Eight oh three.
The system sent out a notice, announcing that due to the fact Yi Xiao Nai He and Lu Wei Wei Wei had forfeited, the winner of this PK Tournament was won by another server.
Eight oh three.
Wei Wei logged out of the game.
“I feel there is something wrong these few days with Wei Wei.”
At night in the dorm, Xiao Ling started at Wei Wei who was wearing headphones looking at the computer. She ruminated at what Wei Wei was doing.
“It’s normal, it’s almost exam time. She always turns into a weird monster during exam time.” Er Xi replied with her head down as she moved her pen rapidly over the page.
“She’s not playing her game.”
“That’s still normal. If she plays now, she won’t get a scholarship.
Without a scholarship, she can’t play next term.” Er Xi kept on going, her pen and her mouth not stopping, “How do you have the presence of mind to think about Wei Wei? A few days ago, you were crying.
How is Da Zhong?”
“He’s fine, he deserved it. The graduating shixiong were going out for dinner, and he unabashedly inserted himself. That’s fine, and then he gets in an accident with them.”
Even thinking about it, Xiao Ling got angry. She pushed thoughts of Wei Wei to one side and started to criticize her boyfriend.
Immersed in her own world, Wei Wei didn’t realize her roommates had been discussing her. She was watching the female bandit video at the moment. She hadn’t gone online the last two days. Other than studying, she was watching the video on repeat. Sometimes she really didn’t want to, but even studying, she would give in to temptation and watch. A heavy weight pushed down on her heart and didn’t leave. It seemed like only the video could make her heart lighter.
Or rather, it was that silhouette.
Yi Xiao Nai He.
Yi Xiao Nai He.
She silently said the name in her heart. Wei Wei looked at the screen in a trance.
On the screen, the white-clothed musician was standing dejectedly on the peak of Sunset Mountains. Under the simple but emotionally-charged music, his back seemed both lonely and bleak. Wei Wei looked and looked and found it was similar to her own figure standing alone in front of the NPC that day. She could imagine the feelings he had inside.
At that time, her heart was probably in shock.
It wasn’t anger at missing the time, nor regrets at not being able to fight and compete. It was a kind of blank shock and panic. In the last few minutes, she couldn’t stop thinking ––
Why wasn’t Nai He here yet?
Was it that, after this time, he won’t ever come again?
In games, there were too many partings without any farewells. Was Nai He also going to perform such a parting?
In these days, she couldn’t stop herself from watching the video. In her head she kept thinking –– would this, this video be in the long days after, be the only evidence she had of Nai He … …
Ugh~~~~~
Wei Wei weakly splayed out on the bed and felt helpless at herself.
Why would she create these strange and unwelcome thoughts? Nai He might only have had an emergency and couldn’t come. She didn’t have to make it so serious. And, to see if Nai He really disappeared, she could just take a look inside the same, she just didn’t go online~~~
Between the mental and emotional struggles that Wei Wei was going though, the story of the female bandit once again finished playing. In the mourning music, the musician and the red-clothed xia turn white once again.
Wei Wei wiped the corners of her eyes. It was so dramatic, she was crying again from watching it. Honestly speaking, watching the video for the first time was very emotionally moving. But after watching it for so many times, she was already dumb.
Now she was once again … …
Dazedly looking at the poised nature and self-assurance embodied by the white-clothed musician, Wei Wei, very slowly, in her heart, found a sliver of understanding … …
And then, “Pia”, Wei Wei closed her computer, threw away her earphones and pushed her head under the pillow.
It was over, over. She was actually hurting and wistful.
It was over … …
She seemed to, almost, maybe, fallen in love with a person.
Chapter 20 “I Know”
Wei Wei had grown to be twenty years old but for the first time found that she was an alien ––
From the Planet of Turtles >o<
For aliens from the Planet of Turtles, whenever they encounter anything, they’ll shrink back. Living example: her. Another two days had passes and she still hadn’t gone online!!!
… …
… …
She definitely was possessed by aliens from the Planet of Awkwardness = =
Ugh~~~
Rationally, she already knew what she thought and felt. She should rush into the game and try everything possible, up to and including trickery and seduction, to get Da Shen into settling down together, especially since she hadn’t married and Da Shen hadn’t jia either [1], there were no problems there. (Wei Wei knew very early on that Da Shen was single. First, he was called by Yu Gong and the others as the “Eternal bachelor”. Secondly, Wei Wei had asked him straight-up before they got married. She didn’t have any nefarious purposes in asking. It was just that Wei Wei always tried to act as honourably as possible from when she was little. Even for a “marriage” that only mattered in a game, she still didn’t want to get entangled up with somebody with a girlfriend or married.)
But, she just procrastinated and didn’t go online, but did some strange things. For example, replaying the words Da Shen said in the video … …
Wei Wei frightened herself with her weird actions, but she thought it through and found her reason –– first time in love. Doing weird things
was normal. Not doing weird things was abnormal in this case.
>_<
So, she kept being strange. She would wake up everything and swear to herself that she will definitely go online today. But before
So, she kept being strange. She would wake up everything and swear to herself that she will definitely go online today. But before