Chapter 27 Late Night Musings

The two girls stayed up late, chatting away. However, Tang Rou's deductions could only go so far, as her understanding of the Glory scene was still quite new. Even after she started playing, she focused more on improving her personal skills. She wasn't like Chen Guo, a true Glory fanatic who followed the scene's news and gossip.

After some discussion, they concluded that while they had deduced various possibilities, it would be impolite and disrespectful to use Ye Xiu's ID card to investigate his background.

"Let's find an opportunity to ask him! If he doesn't want to talk about it, then we'll leave it at that," Tang Rou said.

"Mm..." Chen Guo's gossip soul was burning brightly, but she was always a person who knew where to draw the line.

"What I really want to know is what his future plans are. Is he just going to get through this year-long retirement period and then return with the unspecialized Lord Grim? With his abilities, he certainly wouldn't have to worry about not finding a team, but which team would he join? It's probably impossible for Excellent Era, right?" Chen Guo said.

"Let's find opportunities to ask about these things later..." Tang Rou said.

"Mm..."

The two girls chatted idly, and eventually fell asleep.

The next morning, sunlight streamed into the room, and they both woke up around the same time. After exchanging good mornings, they went to wash up together. When they were done, they looked at each other and tiptoed to the door across the hall.

After hearing Ye Xiu reveal some things last night, and after they analyzed things further, they realized that Ye Xiu actually had many conflicting thoughts. They couldn't help but treat him with extra care, as if afraid of breaking a glass heart.

The two of them leaned against the door, listening intently. After a while, a cleaning service worker came out of the room next door, pushing a cart, and eyed them suspiciously.

"Ahem!" Tang Rou coughed and winked.

Chen Guo immediately straightened up and looked back at the service worker, speaking in a serious tone, "Our room doesn't need to be cleaned."

"Okay, ladies..." the service worker replied and pushed the cart away, looking back several times. The two of them were too embarrassed to act so suspiciously any longer and also needed to explain their behavior, so they knocked on the door.

After a long time, Ye Xiu finally opened the door, bleary-eyed, and looked at them, "So early, what's up? Going shopping again? I refuse to go today, even if you kill me."

"Oh, you're not awake yet? Then sleep a little longer!" Chen Guo said. Before yesterday, she wouldn't have believed that she could speak so gently to Ye Xiu.

Tang Rou shivered, and Ye Xiu immediately snapped awake. He looked at Chen Guo for a long while, and asked, "How long is 'a little longer'?"

"However long you want!" Chen Guo said.

Ye Xiu continued to stare in surprise, looking at Tang Rou and pointing at Chen Guo, "What happened?"

Tang Rou looked up at the ceiling, "Probably the power of idols!"

"Is that so! Cough!" Ye Xiu coughed and struck a cool pose that professional players made for the camera when they won, "Buy breakfast and bring it to my room."

Bang!

Ye Xiu slammed the door shut, almost hitting Chen Guo's nose.

Tang Rou watched as Chen Guo's carefully maintained gentle expression gradually disappeared. After a few twitches, she was about to kick the door when Tang Rou quickly stopped her, "Forget it, can't you see he's teasing you on purpose? Why do you always fall for it?"

Whether it was Tang Rou's persuasion or the sudden influence of her idol's identity, Chen Guo finally didn't kick the door. She grabbed Tang Rou and strode away, "Hmph, let's go eat."

In the restaurant, Chen Guo was venting her anger by munching on a steamed bun. This attracted a lot of attention, as everyone was surprised that this seemingly pure girl could eat so boisterously. For a moment, Tang Rou, who was usually a beautiful sight no matter what she did, was completely overshadowed.

After Chen Guo finished her breakfast, she looked at the menu with a hesitant expression. Tang Rou smiled and asked as she wiped her mouth, "Should we bring him one?"

"No way, bring it to a ghost!" Before Tang Rou said that, Chen Guo had been hesitant, but after Tang Rou's words, Chen Guo immediately discarded her hesitation and resolutely got up to leave. Tang Rou smiled again and followed behind Chen Guo, asking the server to send a breakfast to Ye Xiu's room. Chen Guo saw everything in the reflection of the glass display case, but pretended not to notice.

Back in their room, Chen Guo continued to take her anger out on the TV like she was bullying a steamed bun, frantically changing channels with lightning-fast hand speed. Tang Rou didn't say anything to her, but opened the computer and logged into the game. When she went in, she was surprised to find that Ye Xiu was online.

"Why aren't you sleeping?" Tang Rou asked, puzzled.

"Got woken up, so I don't want to sleep anymore," Ye Xiu replied.

"Breakfast will be delivered to your room in a bit."

"Oh, thanks."

They had only said four sentences when Chen Guo saw that she had started playing Glory and floated over. She happened to see their conversation and flew into a rage, "Wasn't he very tired?" After saying that, she stormed out and rushed across the hall.

She slammed on the door, and Ye Xiu came to open it. Chen Guo wanted to say something, but didn't know where to start.

Ye Xiu suspiciously looked down at her hands, "Where's the breakfast?"

"A fist as big as a steamed bun, want one?" Chen Guo roared, waving her fist, looking like a Brawler using the Collapsing Fist skill, a move that Ye Xiu's longtime Glory rival Han Wenqing excelled at.

"Little Tang, didn't you say you were sending breakfast? You set me up?" Ye Xiu cried out in misery.

"Misunderstanding..." Tang Rou's voice drifted over lightly.

...

The shopping trip from yesterday was only half finished, but today Ye Xiu refused to participate even if he was beaten to death. After Chen Guo and Tang Rou briefly discussed it, they also didn't want to go out again.

So the 1500 room became two internet cafes, and Glory was underway. Ye Xiu, on the other hand, was watching TV alone.

Each room had a TV, and Tang Rou and Chen Guo each occupied one. Ye Xiu had been eliminated, and the reasons were all so irrefutable: Your skill is already so high, what are you still practicing for?

"Leveling..." Ye Xiu said.

"That's easy, I'll help you..." Chen Guo said.

So at this moment, Chen Guo was playing, playing with Ye Xiu's Lord Grim account. How often did ordinary players get to use a Silver weapon? Especially one as versatile and interesting as the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella. After Ye Xiu taught her how to use it, Chen Guo started playing with constant gasps of surprise, almost constantly changing its form. She wasn't leveling at all, she was clearly playing with a Transformer toy!

Seeing that she was having fun and completely ignoring him, Ye Xiu reluctantly went across the hall to find Tang Rou, intending to give her some pointers on Battle Mage techniques.

Dragon Raises Its Head.

This high-end technique was of course extremely unfamiliar to Tang Rou, whose account was not even at level 40. Even though she had watched yesterday's match, she didn't feel much about the Dragon Raises Its Head attack. She didn't know how terrifying that attack was.

However, Chen Guo had talked about the imposing power of Dragon Raises Its Head countless times last night, finally making Tang Rou feel a little fascinated and longing for that moment of shocking brilliance.

Now that the main character of that impressive scene was here, Tang Rou really wanted to ask about it. But thinking about it, it was still too early. Her account level hadn't been raised yet, so there was no point in knowing these techniques if she couldn't practice them.

However, her motivation to level up had become even stronger.

"How did you feel about last night?" After Ye Xiu came in, he asked Tang Rou about her feelings about last night's match.

"It was good." Tang Rou recalled last night, and her mood was quite complicated. For a moment, she couldn't find the right words to describe it. She only felt that something seemed to be sprouting in her heart, making her feel a little itchy.

"Do you want to go to the pro league with me and make a name for yourself?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Go with you?"

"Yeah! I'm definitely going back. And you, you're definitely capable of reaching a professional level. The real Glory peak isn't just one person, it's the championship of the pro league! Occasionally defeating someone isn't worth praising. Being able to constantly complete challenges throughout an entire season and ultimately defeat all competitors, that's what it means to climb to the true throne," Ye Xiu said.

"Then what are three-time champions considered?" Tang Rou asked with a smile.

"There's no highest, only higher," Ye Xiu said.

"So, surpassing you is really difficult. You wouldn't be satisfied with just being defeated in a PK, right?" Tang Rou said.

"Why do you always like to compete with me?" Ye Xiu said.

"No matter what, you're at the peak of Glory! Even if we measure it by league championships, like you said, your three championships, even if they weren't consecutive, are still the most in Glory, right?" Tang Rou said.

"Hmm, now that you mention it, I realize I'm quite amazing," Ye Xiu said, standing by the window and gazing into the distance.

"Who will be the one to reach the peak this year?" Tang Rou suddenly asked.

"This year?" Ye Xiu was startled. Tang Rou suddenly cared about this question, and he wasn't quite prepared.

"No one will know the answer to that question until the very last day. That's what makes it interesting!" Ye Xiu said.

"Yeah... The unpredictable is the most interesting," Tang Rou said.

"Keep going, you can completely be a participant, not just an observer," Ye Xiu said.

"Mm, I've decided to seriously consider it," Tang Rou nodded.

"If you make up your mind, you have to learn from me!" Ye Xiu said.

Tang Rou seemed to understand what he meant, glanced back at Ye Xiu, and smiled, "I'm not 15 years old."

"I haven't been that for a long time either," Ye Xiu smiled.

Nothing more was said that day, but when it was time to go to the final day of the All-Star Weekend in the evening, the three of them were in a bind.

The three of them had been heavily exposed yesterday, especially Ye Xiu. In the post-match interviews, many professional players directly said that this guy was Ye Qiu.

So today, their seats were probably surrounded by paparazzi, right?