yournovel Chapter 1 The Girl Embroiled in Scandals
Chapter 1 The Girl Embroiled in Scandals
"Use your Flash!"
"Holy crap, my pentakill was stolen four times by the AD carry!"
"Why did AD quit the game!?"
A cacophony of shouts and noise filled my ears.
The pungent smell of smoke and instant noodles mingled together, causing Lin Ran to frown.
Opening her sleepy eyes, Lin Ran felt a moment of disorientation.
Wasn't I enjoying the good fortune at the company? I was working overtime until late at night and felt a bit of chest tightness, so I rested at my workstation... When I opened my eyes, where did I end up?
Is this...an internet cafe?
"Ran-ge, are you starting to act?"
The fat guy sitting next to him shouted urgently, "You've respawned and you're still spectating in the fountain, huh? Hurry up and come out to defend the inhibitor tower!"
My high school classmate, Fatty Sun?
Wasn't he tricked into going abroad to work illegally and then turned mentally disabled by electrocution?
Lin Ran was still in a daze.
Unconsciously, Riven walked out of the fountain, used three reverse Qs at lightning speed, and was immediately taken down by the enemy Renekton with low health.
"Holy crap, even Q can go wrong!"
As the crystal exploded, the word "Failure" appeared on the screen.
"We lost the Silver promotion match again! Ran, you've screwed me over! I can't carry you, I'm going to watch the game."
Sun Pangzi, who is 2-9-1, puts on a mask of pain.
After the game ended, Lin Ran saw the date June 12, 2015, displayed in the lower right corner of the desktop.
I was reborn?
It feels like I'm back to the summer after graduating from high school!
After a brief moment of stunned silence.
Lin Ran suddenly felt an immense sense of relief.
No more endless overtime, no more seemingly endless mortgage payments...
I don't want to live such a tiring life again.
"Ran-ge, EDG is really strong! This year's S-series championship will definitely belong to our LPL." Fatty Sun Kai said while watching the game.
"Making it to the semi-finals would be a success."
Lin Ran said casually.
Although more than ten years have passed, Lin Ran still vaguely remembers that LPL was crushed that year.
"Bullshit, we're the MSI champions, even SKT is no match for us!" Fatty Sun clearly didn't believe it.
Lin Ran did not dwell on the topic.
After being a corporate slave for so many years, I've long since become addicted to electronic games and have lost all interest in them.
Hearing faint breathing beside him, Lin Ran glanced to the side and saw a little dumpling curled up on the gaming sofa next to him, wrapped in a blue and white school uniform, with a pair of fair and delicate feet half exposed.
The dumpling shifted, and an ID card fell out of the pocket and onto the ground.
Lin Ran bent down and picked it up.
The ID photo shows a fair-skinned and pretty girl with a simple low ponytail. A beauty mark at the corner of her eye adds a touch of natural charm to the cool and aloof girl.
"Su Peixue..."
That name sounds familiar.
Her youthful face looked somewhat familiar.
Lin Ran suddenly remembered that a top female anchor he had followed in his previous life was named Su Peixue.
With her stunning looks and superb gaming skills, Su Peixue quickly rose to become one of the top streamers on the entire internet.
However, soon after, a barrage of negative information about her came flooding in.
The top guy on the "sleep-for-hire" list has had multiple abortions. He dated many hoodlums while in school and was kept by his boss during college...
Various explosive and scandalous stories are circulating wildly across the internet.
Then, news of Su Peixue's suicide became a trending topic.
No one felt sorry for her; there was only cheering and cursing.
Good riddance!
Serves you right for having ripped crotches!
Even if they die, they'll just be wasting land!
Then, the name Su Peixue was gradually forgotten on the Internet.
In the age of information explosion, everyone is like a fish with only a very short memory, constantly being fed one hot topic after another, until in the end only emptiness remains in their mind.
The curled-up dumpling stirred again, and the school uniform covering its head slipped down a little, revealing its delicate face. Its pure and quiet sleeping face was eye-catching.
Lin Ran casually put the ID card back into her pocket.
But just as he reached into her pocket, Su Peixue suddenly opened her peach blossom eyes and looked at Lin Ran with a deep gaze, her hands under her school uniform clenching slightly.
"You lost your ID card, we're putting it back for you."
Lin Ran's expression remained calm.
After two seconds of eye contact.
"Thanks."
Su Peixue's voice was slightly hoarse, yet strangely pleasant to listen to.
She gave a curt thank you, turned her face away, and quickly logged into League of Legends to start her live stream.
Welcome, player #7, the ultimate Challenger from Ionia! Have a great game!
The internet cafe's announcement then began.
Immediately, many people's eyes turned to the machine where Su Peixue was sitting.
"A top-ranked player in the first server? And a girl?"
"Did you hire a professional booster to get there to show off?"
"Hehe, girls are just trying to rank up, those who know, know."
The girl put on her headphones expressionlessly and started playing ranked matches.
Lin Ran glanced at the name of the live stream room, which was simply two characters: "Xuexue".
Su Peixue didn't turn on her camera, and the number of viewers in the live stream gradually increased to around a hundred.
She's not only a top-ranked female player, but also a formidable top laner.
Whenever she makes a brilliant play with Fiora, the chat is filled with "666".
Occasionally, when someone signs up for a membership card and gives her a gift, Su Peixue will quietly express her gratitude.
It was getting dark when Fatty Sun got up and got off the plane.
"Ran-ge, my mom's calling me home for dinner. Tomorrow's the first day back to school. Ran-ge, do you want to confess to Ye Shixuan one more time, and make a last-ditch effort?" Fatty Sun raised an eyebrow and smiled.
Ye Shixuan?
A name from a long time ago.
Hearing this name again, Lin Ran still sighs, realizing how incredibly stupid he was in his youth in his past life.
I had a crush on Ye Shixuan for several years in high school, and after the college entrance examination, I confessed my feelings but was rejected. Up to this point, it was all a normal process.
Lin Ran had read many online novels, and they all had this kind of clichéd plot.
But to act like myself, getting carried away by Ye Shixuan's tearful complaints about failing her exam and applying to the same second-tier university as her, thus giving up a 211 university, is the kind of idiotic behavior that's hard to even find in novels.
The end result was that Ye Shixuan started dating a senior who could drive a Porsche with one hand during her university military training.
Life's causes and effects are interconnected. If it weren't for that foolish choice back then, Lin Ran might not have become a corporate slave who died suddenly.
"They deserve to die. They're so stupid it's disgusting."
Lin Ran chuckled.
I was quite hungry at lunchtime, but now I feel nauseous and full.
Another meal saved.
Lin Ran wasn't in a hurry to go home. His father was probably fishing, and his mother was definitely playing mahjong. There was probably no one at home.
After the college entrance examination, Lin Ran's parents were even more carefree than Lin Ran herself.
Lin Ran simply opened a movie at random.
Stephen Chow's movies are endlessly watchable. After watching King of Destruction, it was already 10 p.m., and the machine next to me was empty.
Lin Ran took off her headphones, ready to grab a late-night snack before heading home.
As soon as I stepped out of the internet cafe, I saw a few shady-looking thugs across the street, smoking cigarettes, chatting and laughing with a pretty, innocent-looking girl in a school uniform.
Lin Ran thought of what the scandalous information said: Su Peixue had dated many hooligans during her teenage years.
However, he doesn't spend any money while watching the live stream and doesn't really get emotionally involved.
The moment their eyes met across the street, Lin Ran nodded slightly as a greeting before heading straight for the food street.
Su Peixue opened her mouth, watched Lin Ran's figure walk away, but ultimately remained silent.