At night, the evening breeze with a hint of coolness blew into the room through the screen window and through the cracks in the curtains. Qiao Yanzhou lay on the bed wrapped in a quilt and rubbed against Gu Zixing's arms.
"Does it hurt?" Gu Zixing turned sideways and asked in a low voice, hooking his fingers around Qiao Yanzhou's waist.
Qiao Yanzhou shook his head, fell silent for a while, and then said frankly: "Actually, it's still a little..."
Gu Zixing clicked his tongue, smiled, and kissed Qiao Yanzhou's forehead.
"You went back to the club, didn't auntie tell you?"
"You really spoil the fun." Qiao Yanzhou looked at Gu Zixing, frowned and sighed, "My mother must still not be able to figure it out, but my father... hey, you know?"
Qiao Yanzhou suddenly changed the subject in the middle of speaking, and couldn't help leaning closer to Gu Zixing: "You remember that when I went to eat with you, I called my sister, and my sister said that my brother in the opposite building passed away. "
"I have a little impression," Gu Zixing nodded, "You said the one that grows flowers is particularly beautiful?"
"That's right, that's right." Qiao Yanzhou nodded, "The day my mother and I got angry, she told me that in fact, that brother Xiao Wang also liked boys before, but I didn't realize it at all."
"Really?" Gu Zixing froze for a moment.
"But... I heard that he died with AIDS..." When Qiao Yanzhou said this, his tone suddenly weakened, and his eyes instantly became dull.
In Qiao Yanzhou's mind, for some reason, the last time he saw Brother Xiao Wang suddenly appeared. In the backyard of the community, next to the flower bed, the bright sunshine shrouded a weak to somewhat sickly back, and the white shirt was as monotonous as a hospital gown...
"Little Qiao?" Gu Zixing's gentle voice pulled Qiao Yanzhou's thoughts back from this nightmare-like memory, "What are you thinking?"
"No..." Qiao Yanzhou replied subconsciously and took Gu Zixing's hand, "I just remembered that my mother said something to me before I left."
"What did you say?"
"She said... There must be times when I regret it in the future." Qiao Yanzhou said, trying to pull out a smile that looked like Qingsong, "Do you think I will?"
Gu Zixing froze for a moment.
"Little Qiao..." Gu Zixing lowered his eyes to look at Qiao Yanzhou, his long eyelashes covered his deep pupils, and his delicate face was illuminated by the light, which made people feel indescribably fascinated.
Gu Zixing stretched out his hand to gently touch Qiao Yanzhou's cheek, and finally lowered his head to kiss Qiao Yanzhou's mouth.
"You won't," Gu Zixing said, and kissed Qiao Yanzhou's earlobe again, "I won't let you go..."
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Since returning to the team, Qiao Yanzhou's life rhythm seems to have changed from a state of just lying on the bed every day to a state of sitting in the training room for a day, staring at the screen with eyes wide open and almost blind from beginning to end.
If you have to describe this feeling, it is as if you were playing games with the children in kindergarten yesterday, and when you opened your eyes the next day, you were informed that the college entrance examination is two months away.
Qiao Yanzhou felt like dying, but he had no choice but to choose to adjust his state hard so that he could keep up with the rhythm of his teammates as soon as possible.
The invitational match is coming soon, and I feel that Qiao Yanzhou's starting this time should be hopeless, but now Qiao Yanzhou must win a place for himself as a substitute.
It's not because of anything else, it's just to make my mother agree to release me so that my father, who has worn out his lips, won't be so disappointed.
Although Qiao Yanzhou knew in his heart that his father knew very well about young people in the e-sports and professional circles, but he could feel from his father's tone that Qiao Yanzhou still had hope for him, and perhaps because of this slight I hope that my mother will gradually accept Gu Zixing as a person.
"Student Qiao Yanzhou, where is your position!? I told you that you want to play tricks, and the robots are giving birth to little robots in the grass. What are you doing?! Seeing their children and grandchildren all over the house?!"
During training in the afternoon, Coach Chen arranged for Tang Xuan and Qiao Yanzhou to go down the road. The opposite side was Gu Zixing and his assistant He Xin.
However, it may be because the day of the competition is getting closer, so Tang Xuan's temper is a little more irritable than usual, and his voice is much louder. As a result, Qiao Yanzhou, who was already a little nervous, jumped.
Because today's training was in the small training room in the club, Tang Xuan's voice was heard clearly by Gu Zixing and the others.
"Tsk," Gu Zixing sat on the seat and frowned, "We're going back as an assistant, why are you so fierce, why don't you come over and show me a little robot?"
"Hey? Boss Gu?"
Gu Zixing's assistant, He Xin, was stunned after hearing what Gu Zixing said. There is also your own ADC to inform the opponent's bot lane? What is this operation
"Gu Zixing, just get used to it. You'll spoil a good child sooner or later." Tang Xuan sighed helplessly, as if he hated iron for being weak.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry brother... I'll get my eyesight when I get back."
Although Gu Zixing said indifferently over there, Qiao Yanzhou obediently took the pot from Tang Xuan and took it on his back, and actively admitted his mistake.
"You don't need to pay, you can just ask Gu Zixing where all his people are." Tang Xuan laughed, "We can save two thousand yuan on equipment, and we can earn a lot of money."
"..." Qiao Yanzhou was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a while, he said, "Let's make one, then what if he cheats us?"
"Hey..." Qi Chen on the side couldn't help laughing out loud after listening to Qiao Yanzhou's words. As a result, his smile didn't matter, which directly caused his skills to miss the wild monster, and he was almost slapped to death by the wild monster, so he quickly adjusted. After looking at the angle of the skills, Qi Chen couldn't help but add with a smile after adjusting, "Xiao Zhou, you've been really good at talking lately."
"What can I do with this silly boy." Tang Xuan also dragged his head and smiled while unpacking equipment, "I feel like I saw Xiaohai a year ago?"
"Ah?" Fu Xiaohai glanced at Tang Xuan in a daze, then turned his head back in an instant, "Oh, shit! My cannon! Tang Xuan blames you!"
"A cannon carriage, or if you come down the road, all the cannon carriages will be given to you."
"You just get used to it, you'll spoil a good child sooner or later." Gu Zixing imitated Tang Xuan's tone and said in a strange tone.
"Anyway, I'm going to retire, and I'm going to go with me when I'm spoiled." Tang Xuan smiled, "Retire in the mountains and forests, and love each other."
"I'm sorry I refused." Fu Xiaohai said without thinking, with an extremely indifferent expression.
Hearing that other people in the team were talking and laughing during the training, and the operations in their hands were still within their controllable range, Qiao Yanzhou instantly felt an invisible pressure weighing heavily on him. on the shoulders.
From Qiao Yanzhou's point of view, according to the rhythm of the team's training, let alone interacting with teammates, he doesn't even have a brain to say a word, and his eyes can't do anything except staring at the screen. Dare to see more.
Sometimes Qiao Yanzhou even felt that it would be great if people didn't have to blink...
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After training all afternoon, Qiao Yanzhou felt a little silly when he returned to his room. I wanted to lie on the bed and rest for a while, but I found that my mind was full of the few words that Coach Chen earnestly instructed in the afternoon: grab the small cannon first, ban the incense burner to assist, use vision, prevent single belt on the road, don't abuse the spring and lose character.
And, forget it, what made Qiao Yanzhou's mentality explode was that Qi Yanzhi also came to the team to participate in formal training with the players this afternoon. And even if Coach Chen doesn't say it now, Qiao Yanzhou can understand the meaning in his heart.
Qi Yanzhi is Zhao Qin's substitute mid laner, and he is He Xin's substitute support. On the surface, there is nothing strange about it, but according to regulations, each team in the World Invitational Tournament can only bring one substitute, so before departure, Coach Chen It must be to choose a more confident candidate between Qiao Yanzhou and Qi Yan.
Qiao Yanzhou felt his head hurt.
When he was worrying, Qiao Yanzhou suddenly heard the door of the living room being opened. It seemed that Gu Zixing had returned.
After the training just now, Gu Zixing was called by Coach Chen to talk alone. Qiao Yanzhou thought about it, and they were most likely talking about the selection of substitutes for the invitational match.
After Gu Zixing came in, he pushed open the door of Qiao Yanzhou's room.
"What's the matter? The lights are not on."
"What did Coach Chen ask you to say?" Qiao Yanzhou jumped up from the bed and asked, completely ignoring Gu Zixing's question.
"It's nothing." Gu Zixing turned on the light and sat next to Qiao Yanzhou, "Let's just say you performed well today."
"You're fooling me, why do you ask me for my good performance?" Qiao Yanzhou smiled wryly, "And today Tang Xuan almost put me in a computer to relieve his anger."
"Tang Xuan treats everyone like this." Gu Zixing put his arm around Qiao Yanzhou's shoulder, and kissed her face, "You have to be considerate of the feelings of the elderly who are approaching menopause."
"It's as if you are much younger than others." Qiao Yanzhou smiled directly, and leaned his head on Gu Zixing's shoulder sideways, "I'm tired."
To be honest, Qiao Yanzhou is really tired recently.
Heart tired, body tired, I feel like I'm going to fall ill if I can't last the invitational game.