That's right. He Changkong looked calm and resourceful, and it didn't sound like anything was wrong on the phone. Shen Yanming felt that he was overthinking.
After talking for a few more words, the two decided to go straight back to the hot pot restaurant where they had eaten. The shopping mall was not small, and instead of causing trouble by looking for each other, it would be better to go directly to the restaurant.
The meal was interrupted several times and it was difficult to eat.
After returning to the private room, He Changkong met the inquiring gazes of several people and repeated what had just happened in a few words.
Lan is actually quite rational. He just wanted to hit someone because he lost control. After calming down, he pretended to be wronged. He approached the girl who slapped him and coaxed her softly, "I was so angry and said nonsense just now. It was because you were too close to your classmate before that I got jealous and thought too much. I like you too much, so I am like this... Can you go home today? I will have a baby in the future. I still have to play the game now. It would be irresponsible to give birth to a baby..."
But the girl was obviously frightened. When Lan walked towards her, she subconsciously hid behind him.
Lan said this, and the other girl's face was full of disbelief: "Then what am I?"
It can be seen that Ian was a little anxious, but he still reacted quickly. If he wanted to keep one, he had to give up the other. After coaxing the first one, he could not coax this one anymore, so he turned cold and said, "I have no other relationship with you from the beginning to the end. I just drank too much last time and accidentally did something wrong. We are all adults, and we agreed not to take each other too seriously. I am easy to talk to you, but I am just polite to people. I hope you don't think too much and don't let the person I really like misunderstand."
Even though He Changkong thought he didn't have too many emotions, he started to get angry when he saw this scene.
He Changkong thought, if the two girls hadn't run into each other, maybe Lan would have gone to comfort them in private, and the girls would have foolishly believed in the people they liked, and these things would have been over. But now that they had run into each other, Lan's move was really not a smart way to comfort them.
But I tried very hard.
A few months ago, He Changkong was inexplicably reborn and returned to this world line. During this period of time, he observed silently for a long time and found that most of the things he knew were still following the trajectory of his memory, and only some minor random events might change.
Of course, things related to Shen Yanming seemed to be different from what he remembered. This person's line was like a derailed train, and no one knew where it would go.
But apart from him, everyone else is still the same as they were before.
He Changkong watched for a while and quickly came to the conclusion that the fact that Lan didn't get into any trouble because of these things in his previous life didn't necessarily mean that he didn't do these things. It was most likely that he had comforted the girls who had been cheated on, so they didn't get exposed.
This time the situation has become like this, it is very likely the butterfly effect brought about by his rebirth.
In his previous life, he didn't come here to eat with the other team members and Shen Yanming at this time, so naturally he wouldn't run into any fans, and there wouldn't be any subsequent plot where the fans who were cheated on rushed to Lan to ask for an explanation.
You never know what’s going on.
He Changkong really couldn't stand his nonsense, so he interrupted him and said, "If you have anything to explain, just explain it to the people in the club directly. There's no need to talk so much nonsense here."
Lan was provoked by him: "You!"
He Changkong looked at him expressionlessly: "What about me? If it's as you said, it's all just a misunderstanding, and you haven't done anything wrong, then you won't be in trouble even if you're investigated."
Lan didn't want to appear guilty, so he held back his words: "Of course."
He Changkong ignored him and motioned the two girls who looked to be in poor condition to follow him.
Before stepping out of the stairwell, He Changkong heard Lan trying to throw the blame away again: "Of course I won't have any problem. Don't think you can finally squeeze me out. Everyone knows that you just want to get that anchor you like into the team. Why don't you squeeze Meng Yan out? Isn't it because you and him are childhood friends?"
He Changkong: “…”
I was so lazy that I didn't even bother to give him a glance.
He Changkong had intended to pull Shen Yanming over before, of course he also wanted him to replace Lan's vacant position - but that was because he had the prophet's script and knew that Lan was about to transfer to another team, not because he wanted to target Lan himself.
After hearing what Lan said, it seemed as if He Changkong had planned this for a long time and was deliberately doing this to him.
He Changkong guessed that Lan said this not only for himself, but also for the two girls. He pushed the responsibility onto others, and he must be innocent.
Fortunately, He Changkong took a look and saw that the two girls showed some disgust after hearing this.
One of them even said: "I was really blinded by his fame before, thinking that this person can play games, has a good personality and can coax people. Fuck, now I think about it, it really makes me sick..."
The other girl was still in grief. She didn't say anything harsh, but she sighed and tears fell again.
He Changkong was not very good at comforting people, especially the opposite sex, so he didn't say much. He just called a taxi for them respectively and told them to be careful during this period of time. If they had any evidence of other Lan's mischief, they could give it to him.
After this incident, everyone's happy mood of eating hotpot was affected a little, but the crosstalk artist Meng Yan was still very professional and livened up the atmosphere at the dinner table.
Meng Yan had just finished his porridge when he tried to pick up something from the spicy pot. As soon as he stretched out his chopsticks, he was hit by Pudding: "Don't touch spicy food again. If you fail in the competition, I will stuff three pounds of chili peppers into your mouth."
Meng Yan: "...Baby, you are the hottest."
Pudding glared at him and said, "Climb."
Meng Yan sighed leisurely: "We are all human beings, but some people are the kings of girls with girls on both sides... Of course, I didn't say that this behavior is right, I just sighed that I can only be scolded by a pseudo-girl like Ding Jiang."
"I just like wearing skirts, just like you like wearing aprons. I'm not a transvestite, so don't talk nonsense." Pudding suddenly remembered something and said, "Didn't you just start dating a while ago?"
At this point, Meng Yan was even more sad. "Yes, that little sister is indeed cute. Mainly because I played a few games with her and she was so bad at it. I was too embarrassed to scold her, so I could only help her silently and take care of her. But she became addicted to the game? She pestered me every day to play with her... How could I tolerate it? She was so bad at it that I wanted to commit suicide every day. I was afraid that I would have psychological problems, so I broke up with her immediately."
"Is this what they call e-sports without love?" Shen Yanming joked, "Why don't you give me the little sister's contact information so that I can warm her heart that you have hurt..."
Meng Yan smiled and said, "Okay, I'll give you the business card."
"I was just kidding... Did you really push it?!" Shen Yanming saw the message reminder on his phone and clicked it. His expression froze instantly, "Why didn't you push Kong Ge's WeChat to me..."
He Changkong, who was cueed for no reason again, did not respond to their words. He just looked at Shen Yanming, who had already stopped eating, and asked, "Are you full?"
Shen Yanming nodded.
He Changkong asked again: "Is there anything else later?"
Shen Yanming: “No.”
He Changkong threw the car keys to Meng Yan: "Help me drive the car back later."
Meng Yan didn't react for a moment: "You're not opening it? You didn't drink."
He Changkong stood up, walked around behind Shen Yanming, and put both his hands on his shoulders: "Come with me?"
"Where are we going?" Shen Yanming was confused, but finally went out with He Changkong first.
The two walked out of the mall and walked to a nearby park. The rain had stopped, but there was still a bit of sticky humidity in the air, which just happened to dispel the sultry heat of the previous period. When passing by the tree, a few drops of water occasionally fell and dripped onto his head. Shen Yanming let out an "ow" and put his hands together like a small umbrella to cover his head.
He Changkong calmly changed sides with him and walked under the tree.
There were people walking in twos and threes on the road, all out for a walk.
Shen Yanming didn't know why He Changkong suddenly called him out to hang out. He blinked and asked, "Brother, aren't you going back with them?"
He Changkong seemed to be organizing his words, and after a while he said, "You just asked me if you could pick up your dream again if you lost it because of something."
Shen Yanming was stunned. He was just asked about going back, and he was full of emotion. After he finished speaking, he actually felt a little embarrassed. Most boys of their age just do whatever they want to do. Why would they have so many strange worries? Besides, he is not really eighteen years old. Counting the extra years he lived before, he is already twenty-one, the same age as He Changkong now... But why does He Changkong still look so much more mature than him
And he thought He Changkong had given him an answer, He Changkong said "OK".
Now it looks like he was specifically pulled out for a heart-to-heart talk.
Shen Yanming pursed his lips and said, "Well... it's not an important matter."
He Changkong thought that every worry of a teenager should not be underestimated, it can be big or small, but it is important. He also had a lot of worries before, but no one was willing to listen to him. However, he did not say so much nonsense, just asked: "Will you tell me?"
The two walked side by side in silence for a while.
Just when He Changkong thought Shen Yanming would not say anything, he heard Shen Yanming whisper: "I like playing games and want to go to the world stage."
It is true.
Shen Yanming continued, his words sounded somewhat illogical: "But anyway, I encountered some things that are hard to explain, maybe my will is not very strong, so I didn't want to play anymore, I wanted to give up. You may think that how can I give up when I haven't even started? But it's like this, just treat it as a dream I had? In the dream, I played for a long time but got no results, and the teammates I thought I could trust with my back were not very reliable, and they also slandered me for beating people. Oh, I feel so tired... Hahaha, is this dream a bit paranoid? Just treat me as a coward and useless... But I saw Brother Xu Yin said he wanted to retire after the game this afternoon, and finally kissed the keyboard..."
He Changkong suddenly froze.
If he had not been reborn, he would probably think that the child thought so much because he saw the messy and dirty things in the circle. Then he would comfort him that those were just shadows accompanying the light. Shadows will always exist, but as long as you run towards the sun with all your strength, you will not be afraid of being swallowed by the darkness.
But the so-called dream that Shen Yanming talked about was so specific... Was it a precognitive dream? Or...
If he can be reborn, why can't Shen Yanming
If Shen Yanming was not given a chance to start over, then what reason was there for him to not do anything according to the previous trajectory
He Changkong took a deep breath, and finally made up his mind to ask: "What you said is not a dream, right?"