Gao Jing found himself in a difficult situation.
What was supposed to be a glorious, stress-free afternoon had now turned into a nightmare he did not sign up for.
Everything had gone smoothly that morning. The math teacher didn't show up, the chemistry teacher was half-asleep and forgot about the quiz, and best of all, their homeroom teacher let them off after third period. A miracle.
He and Lu Mingxuan practically skipped out of school and went straight to the internet café two streets down. As ADCs[1] on League of Legends, they were unmatched—two kings destined for digital glory.
But Lu Mingxuan, this bastard who refused to take anything lying down, somehow ended up quarreling with others when he was playing games at the internet cafe.
It started when some loud-mouthed kid from another school criticized his play. Lu Mingxuan was never the type to turn the other cheek—he'd rather slap someone with it.
"Who the f*ck flashed backward?" the other kid yelled across the rows of computers. "Do you even know how to play ADC?"
Lu Mingxuan calmly took off his headphones, cracked his knuckles, and replied with a smirk, "And yet I still carried your sorry support main ass, didn't I?"
Gao Jing groaned internally. It was always like this.
When the two sides were about to fight, the internet cafe's supervisor arrived.
The supervisor wore a large black t-shirt with a dazzling print on the back. The whole person appeared lax.
When he walked over, he bent his index finger and closed the network host. He glanced coldly at the two groups of people who were facing each other, and with an impatient tone said, "If you want to fight, do it outside."
When Gao Jing saw the supervisor, he thought he was bleary-eyed or recognized the wrong person.
Otherwise, why would this person be working here as a supervisor rather than be at school?
Next, he saw a young man with red sneakers and ash-gray hair scattered across his forehead walking up to the supervisor, "Brother Jing, what's the matter?"
Gao Jing was startled and turned his head to look at Lu Mingxuan who was beside him. Unsurprisingly, his facial expression had changed.
He never thought that they would meet Wang Jingyuan and Han Ming here.
It was common for Han Ming to come here to play games, but why was Wang Jingyuan here?
And as the supervisor? How did that happen?
Is this world an illusion?
If there was one person at their school that Lu Mingxuan disliked, Gao Jing had a clear idea of who it was.
It was undoubtedly Wang Jingyuan of Special Class.
Gao Jing was also the clearest on why Lu Mingxuan disliked Wang Jingyuan so much.
It all began during the first week of high school.
Lu Mingxuan had a crush on a girl in their class and went on the offensive to pursue her, the girl was sweet, long-haired, the type who doodled hearts in her notebooks.
Wang Jingyuan had the audacity to be polite to her. Just that.
But when Lu Mingxuan finally worked up the courage to confess, the girl smiled apologetically and said, "I'm sorry, I like someone else... it's Wang Jingyuan."
Lu Mingxuan: mentally obliterated.
At that time, Lu Mingxuan believed that the eyesights of the girls in their school couldn't be saved.
So he gave up on his classmates and looked for romance outside school. That's when he started dating a local female gangster with eyeliner sharper than his mouth.
Later Lu Mingxuan brought her to their school to hangout.
And then she saw Wang Jingyuan shooting hoops on the basketball court.
She dumped Lu Mingxuan on the spot.
Asked him—him—for Wang Jingyuan's WeChat.
Gao Jing remembered it clearly.
That day, Lu Mingxuan stared into the distance like a man who had witnessed his own funeral.
At that moment, Lu Mingxuan hated Wang Jingyuan very much, but he was too lazy to argue with Wang Jingyuan, this little white face[2] that could only study.
The battlefield for real men was outside of school.
But the grudge didn't end there.
Months later, Lu Mingxuan brought a group of people to help his sworn brother in a turf war outside a rival school.
His chest puffed up with pride, confidence oozing from every pore.
On that day, he was beaten black and blue by the little white face that he looked down on. He almost mentally collapsed.
Guess who?
Wang. Freaking. Jingyuan.
Then, Young Master Lu Mingxuan believed that he would never forget that day—
This matter was not allowed to be talked about and fortunately, very few at school knew about it.
It turned out the "study nerd" was built different outside of school. He fought like someone who'd been trained in a back alley dojo run by ex-yakuza.
That day, Lu Mingxuan went home with a bruised eye, a dislocated shoulder, and a new mortal enemy.
As a good friend of Lu Mingxuan, Gao Jing knew him very well. Lu Mingxuan probably thought he lost too much face.
In addition, Lu Mingxuan often complained about him because Wang Jingyuan really knew how to act. He pretended to be a good student at school, but outside, he revealed his true nature, a male green tea b*tch[3].
Gao Jing would add a few words casually, but thought in his heart, he's still better than you, you can't pretend even if you tried.
AUTHOR'S NOTES:
1. ACD- ADC's were players that primarily dealt damage in a team.
2. Little white face- a pretty boy
3. Green tea bitch- someone who pretend to be sweet and innocent but are dishonest.: