Chapter 104
Yu Sui had only been following Shi Luo's alt account for less than half an hour when the account—full of psychedelic, carefree posts and months of being cyberbullied—shot to the top ten trending topics.
After the finals, Shi Luo had posted exactly three Weibo updates.
The most recent one was posted over twenty hours ago, with rather flirtatious content:
【Want to sleep, but he won't let me... I'm dying from exhaustion.】
Yu Sui recalled that he'd been at it with Shi Luo for over three hours straight. At the time, Yu Sui was actually quite energetic, but he let Shi Luo go because the young god had been so adorably pitiful, speaking through his nose and gritting his teeth as he helplessly whispered to Yu Sui, "Bro, can I go outside for a cigarette to wake up before we continue..."
Yu Sui had laughed out loud at that, letting Shi Luo sleep while he killed time playing mobile games.
The second-to-last post wasn't as flirtatious but quite bold:
【Never paid attention before, but Whisper's collarbone is really nice.】
Yu Sui still had a bite mark on his collarbone at that moment—Shi Luo's doing.
The little wolf pup had bitten down quite hard. Yu Sui hadn't moved an inch, telling Shi Luo that if he had the guts, he should bite harder—leave a permanent mark. He'd be happy with that.
Too bad the young god had a soft heart. He never actually drew blood, and later gently kissed the spot instead, feeling sorry for himself.
The earliest post was quite touching. Yu Sui judged it was posted after his interview. Shi Luo had been too emotional and wrote a long stream:
【When I was young, I met you. When I lost you, I found you again. There's no regret left in my heart. Throughout my life, there's never been anything I could proudly say belonged to me. Until now, there are only two things.
One is the honor in my hands.
The other is you, by my side.
I don't need you to make me happy this way.
I'd rather stay in the dark forever than have you carry all the pressure alone.】
After reading this post, Yu Sui felt a pang in his heart. He thought for a moment and pulled off a brilliant move to dispel the gloomy atmosphere.
He replied to this post using his main account: [Don't be sad. You've already come into the light.]
After Yu Sui followed the alt account, many players still couldn't believe it. Opening the trending topics, most people were still questioning. Free fans who didn't know the truth were blindly defending, saying that Yu God must have finally learned about that crazy sasaeng fan and was just curious, so he went to observe. Then he accidentally tapped the follow button.
Yu Sui's single comment reply sealed his fate and directly confirmed that this alt account was his romantic partner.
After commenting, Yu Sui was quite satisfied. All his social media accounts were exploding, but he couldn't be bothered to explain one by one. He set all social media to Do Not Disturb mode and continued playing mobile games.
An hour later, Shi Luo woke up.
Yu Sui called a restaurant to deliver food. Shi Luo had no idea if it was day or night. He sat on the bed with a sleep mark on his cheek, expression blank. After发呆了一会儿, he rested his head on Yu Sui's shoulder.
They lingered tenderly for十几 minutes. Yu Sui handed Shi Luo his charged phone, saying, "I'll go wait for the delivery downstairs. Go back to sleep if you're tired."
"I'm not sleeping anymore." Shi Luo sniffled, taking his phone. "So many messages?"
Yu Sui didn't say much. He picked up his jacket and went downstairs.
Shi Luo held his phone in a daze. He unlocked it and checked his messages.
Shi Luo: "..."
Ten minutes later, Shi Luo's head was buzzing.
Yu Sui had known about his alt account all along...
He had been posting all sorts of sappy relationship updates daily without knowing Yu Sui was following...
His alt account had already been reported to the club long ago...
Yu Sui had followed his alt account an hour ago and admitted it was the romantic partner he had publicly acknowledged...
The fans' heads hurt even more than Shi Luo's...
There were too many problems. Shi Luo's scalp went numb. He didn't know which one to deal with first.
Back when Ji Yanhan had cornered him, it hadn't been this bad.
Shi Luo took a deep breath. After struggling, he opened the Weibo comments on his alt account—
Yu Sui's fans, after the initial shock, were first confused. They followed the link to the alt account and left some congratulatory messages. People who hadn't known about the account scrolled through from the beginning. Most fans actually thought it was pretty sweet, but some weren't too pleased about Yu Sui bringing his romantic partner to the base. Looking more carefully at the posts—like "Yu Sui always finds ways to corner me," "Without consulting Yu Sui, I told my dad about us privately," "He was worried I'd be cold, so he undid his clothes and held me while we slept," "He blamed me for getting sick without telling him"—they thought this romantic partner was definitely not an easy one to handle. The more they scrolled, the more dissatisfied they became.
Yu God's romantic partner was an outsider who had been openly living long-term at the Free base. Setting aside the rule violations, they were seducing a player and severely affecting the player's normal schedule. This person walked around the base flirting with people—how were the other players supposed to feel? Chen Huo only had his little princess; watching others show off their love, would he not get upset? Would he still be able to train properly? Our Shi Zi was so young—wouldn't someone be responsible for the damage to his young mind and body from seeing all these images?
This person's dad wasn't great either. Finding a perfect son-in-law like Yu God and still not being satisfied—Yu God would have to endure his father-in-law's bad temper in the future. How could that be allowed? We raised this player in the palm of our hands!
And this person was also somewhat interfering with brotherly bonds. "Chen Huo looks terrible in everything"—what kind of bullshit was that? Free's players could only be criticized by insiders. What right did an outsider have to look down on Chen Huo? This personality was definitely questionable!
Shi Luo was reading in chronological order, and the more he saw, the more his temples throbbed.
Scrolling further down, the Yu Sui and Shi Luo CP fans, after their initial shock, gathered their courage and tentatively proposed a possibility... If, just if, this alt account was actually Shi God's?
Yu Sui's fangirls were furious but said if it was Shi God, that would be great, but how could that be possible? Little Shi God had been iron-willed for so many years—a person who would bleed from his head but never shed tears—would he write this kind of whiny stuff? Don't even think about it. Don't drag another precious player into this. Can someone delete this post? I'm worried Shi Zi will have a fit if he sees it.
Humble CP fans got scolded and deleted a few posts, but within ten minutes, the CP fans had, at lightning speed, compiled a timeline of Shi Luo's entire season.
A pro player's official account—how many hours they played each day, what time they logged on and off—could all be found through official channels. Plus, Free had Puppy, who streamed regularly. Wanting to know Shi Luo's daily schedule was a piece of cake.
Extracting the posting times of each alt account update, the posts had been made at mornings, noons, evenings, late nights, and dawns. Tracing each posting time back to Shi Luo's training schedule and rest times that day, a miracle appeared:
Every single one was during Shi Luo's break times. Without exception.
This might not mean much for an ordinary person, but for a pro player, it was terrifying. A player didn't have much personal time in a day. For all posts to be perfectly timed within Shi Luo's free hours—if it were coincidence, the probability was far too small.
Not to mention Yu Sui's various favoritism toward Shi Luo. Not to mention Shi Luo's various obsessions with Yu Sui.
Not to mention the other teammates had long said there were no outsiders at the base.
Not to mention Yu Sui and Shi Luo disappearing together on the Hangzhou trip.
The truth could only be one thing. By this point, Shi Luo's fans, who had come to eat the Yu Sui romantic partner drama, finally felt a hint of panic.
Fans who had followed Shi Luo for years still knew him quite well.
Looking more carefully, that weird punctuation, those baffling exclamations... they really did have Shi Luo's style.
At this point, the entire Free team fandom couldn't stay out of it.
Everyone wanted an answer.
Had Yu Sui found a troublesome little vixen?
Or had years of "what could have been" finally become a happy ending?
Now Shi Luo also faced these two questions.
Abandoning his precious alt account—setting aside the heartbreak, everyone in the scene would think Yu Sui had found a relationship-wrecking vixen who could destroy the team at any moment.
Or, be brave and admit that this little vixen was himself.
Shi Luo closed his eyes, dying of embarrassment.
"Should we eat now?"
It was raining outside. Yu Sui had a few water droplets on him. He set down the takeout containers. "Hmm?"
Shi Luo turned to look at Yu Sui, his eyes red and glowing, his canine teeth practically growing out.
Yu Sui walked over to Shi Luo, smiled, and said, "Want to bite me? The kind that draws blood."
Shi Luo stared at the red bite mark on Yu Sui's collarbone but didn't move.
"You know your alt account's about to get reported into oblivion, right? You said it yourself—no matter what, you wanted to keep that account." Yu Sui sat beside Shi Luo. "Wasn't it you who said you wanted to keep some memories? I followed it, so nobody will report it anymore... Happy?"
"Take your anger out on me." Yu Sui grabbed Shi Luo's wrist, preparing to let him swing at his own face. "Come on, I won't fight back."
"Don't mess around!" Shi Luo was ready to jump out the window just looking at Yu Sui now. The thought of Yu Sui having seen everything on his alt account made him want to blow up the base and end them all together. His face flushed red as he乱七八糟 shouted, "Why did you even look at my alt account?!"
"Not only did I look, I looked at it constantly. Every day." Yu Sui held Shi Luo's hand and swayed it gently, his voice very soft. "Making a record, today, Yu Sui and I are together..."
Shi Luo ground his teeth. "I'm going to delete it right now—"
Yu Sui smiled faintly. "Will deleting it help?"
"You need to remember this person well... you can forget everything, but you must never forget this person."
Shi Luo froze.
"You treat me so well, smoothing over all my 'what could have beens.'"
"The cold is already better..." Yu Sui recited like he was reading from a textbook, continuing softly, "...I like him so much, I never want to break up with Yu Sui in my whole life."
"Throughout my life, there's never been anything I could proudly say belonged to me. Until now, there are only two things." Yu Sui stroked Shi Luo's cheek, word for word. "One is the honor in my hands. The other is you, by my side."
"Go ahead and delete it." Yu Sui said轻松ly. "I can recite from your first post to your last. Want to hear?"
Shi Luo choked, his eyes inexplicably stinging.
He was clearly in the right, yet with Yu Sui doing all this... how was he supposed to feel touched?
"You..." Shi Luo paused, murmuring, "Why did you memorize all that cheesy stuff?"
"Didn't memorize it on purpose. Just looked at it too many times." Yu Sui flicked Shi Luo's ear. "What's there to be upset about? Has anyone actually forced you to admit that account is yours?"
Shi Luo愣了一下. "I..."
"Keep posting on the alt account. Others can think it's a little vixen, or think it's you—either way." Yu Sui truly didn't care at all what others said, and couldn't understand why Shi Luo was so worked up. "If people say I have a little vixen, let them. If they say we're together, that's fine too. It's others' business to be curious. Why are you rushing to find the truth for them?"
Shi Luo was dazed.
Maybe it was because these past few days had been不分昼夜. For a moment, Shi Luo actually thought Yu Sui made a lot of sense.
"Then..." Shi Luo bit his lip, hesitating. "I can still post on my alt account? As long as I don't admit it's mine?"
"Of course." Yu Sui comforted. "If you don't admit it, nobody can say it's you. You're so cool—who would dare ask you face-to-face if it's yours?"
Of course, the most likely scenario was that the fans had already recognized it was Shi Luo, but would pretend to be blind and not notice for the sake of Shi Luo's thin skin. But there was no need to say that to Shi Luo right now.
Shi Luo was truly so hungry his brain was hypoxic. He believed Yu Sui's nonsense. After thinking, he闷声道: "That's true... let's eat, then."