Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
“Should we bring her along?” Qin Ze asked his teammates for their opinion.
“Nope,” Li Liang rejected in a heartbeat.
The other two classmates, Liu Ziqiang and Zhao Baliang, had no opinion on the matter.
Qin Ze invited her to join the game and jokingly said, “Perhaps she’s really a girl.”
The second round was much more relaxing than the first. After more than half an hour of playing, the mid1 was no longer a blur. At the very least, she listened to commands; she seemed to know that Qin Ze was the core of the team. Once he made a sign, she would listen to him obediently. If Qin Ze told her to play ADC2, she would follow his orders instantly; if she was asked to drag3, she would comply.
Three victories in a row.
Qin Ze looked at the time, and it was already 1:30 in the afternoon; they still had a professional lesson at two.
“We’re going offline. Play on your own.”
“Don’t, don’t please… if I win another round, I’ll level up to silver. Legend, please I beg of you. Muack!” The other party whined and acted cutely.
“I can’t… I need to go for lessons.”
“Hohoho, are you really a primary school student?”
“Change into a bigger font!”
“Where do you legends study at?”
“Shanghai Business School.”
“I’m also from Shanghai, flower-sprinkler.”
“Oh.”
“Shall we play again next time?” The other party tried to sound them out.
Qin Ze replied with an ‘mm’ before he exited the game, paid for his bill, and turned his computer off.
During the two-period professional class, Qin Ze did not dare to daydream like in the open class and let his thoughts run wild. Even if he was in university, his Old Master was still very uptight about his grades and would often repeat a saying, ‘If one does not work hard when they are young, they would regret when they are older’.
The Old Master was filled with hope towards Qin Ze’s future.
However, there was a limitation to Qin Ze’s abilities. Every time he listened to the lessons, he could only understand half of it. He was not the studying tyrant type and would not use time outside of lessons to revise his work. In the past, he was regularly dragged by Qin Baobao to the library; but after Qin Baobao graduated, he immediately bid farewell to the library.
By six in the evening, he finally ended his lessons. Qin Ze followed his roommates back to the hostel and could not escape the messy and dirty nest in the boy’s dormitory. The rubbish bin had not been emptied in a week and was filled with paper balls and litter. On the table, there were takeaway boxes from the day before and a pile of clothes to change into. Thankfully, the air did not have a strange smell.
Qin Ze removed the bed sheets and blankets that he had not slept on for a few months and stuffed it into a plastic bag, so that he could bring it home and throw it into the washing machine.
The four people were chatting in the hostel. Li Liang suggested that they should continue preparing for their battle in the Internet cafe and was agreed on by everyone else. Qin Ze agreed happily; he was very addicted to gaming and had not played in a while.
“Look at the school forum! Hurry, look at the school forum!”
Qin Ze and the rest opened the school forum with much curiosity. There was a highlighted post with an eye-catching headline: “Shocking Appearance of a Face-Slapping King, Hitting School Prince Zhang Mingyu.”
The post talked about the incident during the finance open class in the morning in detail: the amazing process of Zhang Mingyu being humiliated by a nameless nobody. It was written with great literacy skills with criticisms and then praises, lows and then ups. At the end of it, there were even a few photographs attached.
The first picture was an image of a Russian passage; the second was Zhang Mingyu’s fervent recital. The third was Qin Ze’s back view with the marker frantically flying on the blackboard. The fourth picture was Zhang Mingyu’s sulking face.
From morning till now, it had been seven or eight hours; and the post already had more than three thousand views and one thousand over comments.
“There are pictures to back him up. I believe this.”
“What a great job!”
“I admire him.”
“What’s the matter with him? How dare he find fault with my god?”
“Why isn’t there a picture of his face? Everyone, let’s search for him online.”
“His back view is so-so. How can this quality compare with my god?”
“How dare he mock him? ****.”
“Zhang Mingyu has so many mindless fans. I heard about this incident from the classmates present. Apparently, the professor set homework for the students to translate that Russian passage and write their thoughts on the passage. Then, Zhang Mingyu arrogantly stood up and told the professor that there was no need to do that, and it was too easy. In front of everyone, he recited the passage in Russian and acted smart when he did not know what he was saying.
“The classmates all clapped their hands, and that was when the face-slapping king suddenly stood up. He yelled, “I have a different opinion.” He walked towards the podium in big steps and wrote the Chinese translation for the passage on the board while rebutting Zhang Mingyu’s opinion. My classmate said that he and his friends were all stunned.”
“I was upstairs and I almost died from laughter. This was a classic story of someone failing to act smart and was played with!”
“Even I feel the pain from this attack.”
“Zhang Mingyu showed his right face in excitement and said ‘please continue’!”
“There are a lot of capable people in our Business School. That rich second-generation heir should know what it means by ‘there is always someone better’.”
“The person is just being stupid. Long live, Zhang Mingyu! Zhang Mingyu is invincible! Zhang Mingyu’s name will go down in history. Zhang Mingyu smiled. Please put down the gun pointing at my head!”
In the comments section, most of the people were nosy onlookers and many followers of Zhang Mingyu debated intensely, one after another.
“Qin Ze, you’re famous.” While Li Liang was looking at the comments, he bent over in laughter and could not hide his happiness.
Qin Ze said worriedly, “Can I live until tomorrow? Will Zhang Mingyu hire someone to silence me?”
Zhao Baliang patted his shoulders and said in a low voice, “Brother, rest in peace. You can just safely hand me your Xunlei account.”
Liu Ziqiang laughed, “Before you go, let me see your sister’s photo.”
“Get lost!” Qin Ze scolded them while smiling, and he threw his phone on the bed before he began to remove the pillow covers. He had almost forgotten about the pillow covers.
At this point, Qin Ze’s phone rang. He looked down and the incoming call was from ‘Sister’!
Qin Ze answered the call and put his phone on speaker. As he removed the pillow covers, he spoke, “What’s the matter?”
“Where are you?” Qin Baobao’s sexy voice sounded through the speakers; it was kind of hoarse and coquettish.
The three thirsty friends—Liu Ziqiang, Zhao Baliang, and Li Liang—stared straight at the phone with their eyes glowing.
“I’m in school. What’s the matter?” Once he answered the call, he knew that she was troubled; usually, her voice was not coquettish at all.
“Why haven’t you come back?”
“I’ll be back later, or perhaps I’ll stay in the hostel and won’t go back,” said Qin Ze. Once they started to play games, playing through the night was normal.
“If you don’t come back, I’ll jump down the building,” Qin Baobao said with a crying tone.
“What happened?”
“Big Aunt is coming…” Qin Baobao said in a wronged voice.
“I’ll be back straight away.” Qin Ze decisively hung up and carried the plastic bag and his bag before walking to the door in big steps.
Big Aunt was coming… [4. ‘Big Aunt’ also referred to a girl’s period in Chinese.]
He would be right back…
God, there was too much news to take in. This kid really hid a girl up in his sleeves and had even pretended to be a bachelor to stay by their side.
The three roommates went up in an instant: one held his waist, the other held his leg, and the last turned around to close the door.
“Are you guys crazy? What are you doing?” Qin Ze was puzzled.
“You’re dishonest. Like what I said, you didn’t stay in school for three years; how can you not have an affair outside?”
“Who’s the other party? Heck, her voice was so sexy and flirtatious.”
“We’ll go easy on you if you’re honest, and we’ll deal with you strictly if you lie to us.”
“Pfft, I don’t have the time to mess around with you guys.” Qin Ze boomed and shook off the three boys glued to him. He opened the bedroom door and went out in a flash.
He jogged the whole way to the building, and once he reached downstairs, he started running frantically.
Qin Baobao had severe period cramps. He knew this as when they were still living with their parents, she would be in so much pain as though she was going to die during her period with a ghastly look on her face. That time, they had their mother to look after her, and Qin Ze could just watch the commotion from the side. At that point, he was still secretly thankful that she was not a woman.
As she became older, her period pain became less severe. It would still hurt once in a while, and Qin Ze would hurriedly rush to the supermarket to buy brown sugar for her and make brown sugar ginger tea with a few dried dates. This is what his mother had taught Qin Ze. Qin Baobao was ignorant when it came to things like these so she could not depend on herself.
“System, I saw on Points Mall that it was possible to exchange for a surgery. Can it fix period pain?”
“Master, please check yourself.”
“F*ck!” Qin Ze cursed in anger and changed his run into a speedy walk as he opened up the Points Mall. Under living, medication, Chinese medicine…
After checking for half a day in frustration, he finally found a formula to cure women’s period pain and a massaging method. They were worth eighty points in total.
“Master. I recommend you to directly exchange for “Excellence in Chinese Medicine. It only requires one hundred and fifty points. After exchanging it, you can automatically learn the massage method and obtain ten preliminary medicine formulas.”
It was almost two times the points. After a slight hesitation, Qin Ze chose the option to exchange for ‘Excellence in Chinese Medicine’. No one had to teach Qin Ze how to choose between a temporary and a permanent option.
In University Town, pharmacies were everywhere; and there were two hospitals and a third-grade hospital. However, there were not many shops selling Chinese medicine, and this was also because there was a Chinese medicine school nearby. He sat on the train for two stops before zooming over to the Chinese medicine shop to grab the ingredients on the formula. After this, he directly hailed a cab by the road and reached the entrance to a small district in fifteen minutes.
When Qin Ze opened the door and entered the room, Qin Baobao was curled up into a ball on the couch. She did not even remove her heels as she was clutching onto her stomach with her eyebrows knitted together tightly. Her forehead and nose bridge were brimming with sweat.
“Why does it hurt again?” Qin Ze closed the door and threw the things on his hand onto the couch. He asked with his brows knitted, “Does it still hurt?”
Qin Baobao looked at him with kitten-like eyes and did not even have the strength to talk. She panted and spat out one word, “Pain…”
“I’ll bring you to the bed first.” He held Qin Baobao’s long legs in stockings and removed her high heels before holding her waist and carrying her into the room in bridal style.
“Aiyo, be careful, do you want to harm your sister?”
When Qin Baobao placed her on the bed, he used a bit more strength. Qin Baobao felt the impact, and her tears almost fell.
Women were troublesome!
Qin Ze muttered in his heart before raising his hand to undo Qin Baobao’s buttons before her chest. Her 36Ds were exploding out.
“What are you doing?” Qin Baobao was taken aback. Even though she was in immense pain, she instinctively held her chest. “Are you trying to take advantage of your sister? I didn’t expect you to be like this, Qin Ze. Wuwuwu…”
“Wu your head. Take your hand away. Aren’t you wearing another shirt on the inside?” Qin Ze slapped her hand away and unbuttoned her shirt one by one. Her inner white shirt was very tight, and when she lay down, it exposed her flat belly and stomach.
“If your stomach hurts, don’t you know how to take off your clothes? It’s so tight.” Qin Ze lamented and moved to the end of the bed and raised her sister’s legs. Slowly, he pressed on her acupoints, including the Taichong acupoint on the back of her foot. Three minutes later, he changed to Xuehai1 and then Diji2 before repeating his motion.
Qin Baobao squinted her eyes and gasped according to Qin Ze’s presses.
After half an hour, Qin Ze’s fingers began to hurt. He broke out in a sweat, but he could not turn on the air-conditioner. “How do you feel?”
Qin Baobao touched her stomach and blinked, “It doesn’t hurt anymore.”
“It’ll only stop temporarily. I’ll make a bowl of medicine for you now. Lie down and rest. Don’t turn on the air-con and cover yourself with a blanket. Keep yourself warm.”
“Make medicine?” Qin Baobao was stunned. “Oh, yes, what was it with your massage? When did you learn this? Heck, if you did it earlier, then I wouldn’t have suffered so much for so many years.”
“I learned it by watching a video. I specifically went to get the medicine from a Chinese medicine shop. The physician said that it was very useful in curing period pain,” Qin Ze said in frustration. “It’s all because of your stupid sickness. I spent more than half a month learning it.”
Qin Baobao stood up, and the tears welled up in her eyes. She was smiling like a flower, and she suddenly pouted, “Good brother, I’ll give you a kiss.”
“Kiss your head!” Qin Ze turned around to leave the room. He brought the bag of ingredients to the kitchen to wash them in water for ten minutes before boiling them in high heat for fifteen and low heat for ten. The black medicine was ready.
“Wu… it’s so awful.” Qin Baobao tried one mouth and immediately made a sour face.
“Bitter medicine is good for your body.” Qin Ze spoke of a golden saying that had been passed down for centuries.
Under her brother’s threatening gaze, Qin Baobao held her nose and gulped the medicine down before burping inelegantly.