Flash into ultimate.
What a Malphite! Charging in to knock up four enemies, then following up with a keyboard-smashing combo to instantly delete the enemy’s core carry—truly a pillar of the team, saving the day when all seemed lost!
Ai: “Was my ult cool or what?”
Ai: “Say something!”
Gu Yebai stared at the computer screen.
This friend, a fellow author on the same website who made a living writing yandere-themed stories, was currently gloating, his tone brimming with excitement.
Objectively speaking, that team fight really did save the teammates from a dire situation.
As for how the situation got that dire in the first place… it would be rude to ask.
Opening the scoreboard, it clearly read — Shard of the Monolith, 4-18-2.
These numbers were somewhat ridiculous.
To put it bluntly, he was the enemy’s ATM and a big XP pack.
Throughout the entire match, he had only managed to pull off that one highlight-worthy play.
The rest of the time, he was either being schooled by the enemy’s skill or lectured by his teammates’ words.
Most of the game was spent in the fountain, waiting for the respawn timer.
In the end, their defense naturally crumbled, unable to stop their Nexus from exploding.
Baiye Duxing: “Next time I see you play Malphite, I’m dodging the game to go write chapters.”
Ai: “We can play Valorant too. I’m a Super Clove King.”
Baiye Duxing: “I’m a Super Writing King. Don’t ask me to play games with you again.”
Ai: “You jerk.”
Ai: “Fine, let’s call it a day then.”
Ai: “By the way, I wanted to talk to you about something. Are you really dating a female fan lately?”
Baiye Duxing: “I remember you ended up with a female fan too.”
Baiye Duxing: “Do you feel happy?”
Ai: “It depends on how you define happiness.”
Ai: “I’ve read quite a bit of Schopenhauer; he’s a brilliant philosopher.”
Ai: “He said that life is actually like a pendulum, swinging back and forth between emptiness and fulfillment.”
Ai: “When we struggle for survival, we feel pain; once our basic needs are met, we become bored.”
Ai: “I think I’m probably not happy.”
Ai: “But if they weren’t here, I would certainly be even more miserable.”
Ai: “In my view, pain and happiness are two sides of the same coin.”
Baiye Duxing: “You didn’t say ‘her,’ you said ‘them’?”
Ai: “I am a popular man, after all.”
Ai: “I have a girlfriend in Tokyo whose family owns mines; I have a girlfriend in Xinghai who is incredibly good at gaming; I even have a girlfriend in Mumbai who is sweet and obedient…”
Ai: “It’s just that they’re all a bit yandere.”
Baiye Duxing: “Keep bragging. Just keep on bragging.”
Ai: “I wish I were bragging, but the problem is…”
Ai: “Is it possible that I didn’t want this harem, but was forced into it?”
Ai: “Never mind, you wouldn’t believe me even if I said more. Anyway, based on my years of experience, let me give you a warning.”
Ai: “Yi has the potential to be a yandere. I wouldn’t be wrong about that.”
Ai: “Secondly, that Yukino in the group who claims to be studying in Tokyo—I suspect she’s a yandere beauty who has a crush on you and is intentionally posing as a guy online.”
Ai: “And then there’s that ‘Dark Night Silver Party,’ the Genshin Impact expert…”
Ai: “Highly likely to be a yandere beauty too.”
Baiye Duxing: “You write yandere stories, so everyone looks like a yandere to you.”
Baiye Duxing: “Do I look like a yandere to you?”
Ai: “You don’t look like a yandere; you look like a yandere’s prey.”
Ai: “Just a heads-up, buddy.”
Ai: “If she really is a yandere, it’ll be hard to pull away. You’ll feel suffocated, like you have no freedom.”
Ai: “The confinement and brainwashing types are relatively mild.”
Ai: “But if you run into the extreme kind who insists on stabbing you before committing suicide, or the crazy type who just kills and eats you while giggling and saying, ‘This way we can be together forever’ — “
Ai: “You won’t even have a place to cry.”
Ai: “My luck hasn’t been too bad. The ones I’ve met are all the confinement type.”
Baiye Duxing: “And let me say it again, Yi is not a yandere!”
….
Gu Yebai closed the chat window.
He couldn’t help but recall Gao Hongyi’s behavior since they met.
‘She shouldn’t be a yandere, right?’
Aside from being a bit overly clingy and prone to jealousy, everything else seemed normal.
Besides, he wasn’t exactly a “normal person” himself.
When writing or plotting out a story, he was used to being alone.
He liked to keep his phone on silent and let his mind go completely blank.
He needed that undisturbed silence.
For an ordinary person, having a beautiful and clingy girlfriend would probably make them fly with joy, wanting to be sweet and stuck together every day.
‘Some of Gao Hongyi’s behaviors should be considered normal, right?’
As he was thinking, his phone chimed with a message from Gao Hongyi.
Specifically, it was a reminder for Gu Yebai to eat breakfast on time.
“I almost forgot.”
While he was gaming, the servant had already prepared breakfast and quietly set it on the dining table in the living room.
Back in Linchuan, Gu Yebai hardly ever had the habit of eating breakfast.
In the past, to Gu Yebai, sleeping for 1 extra minute every morning was more cost-effective than any food.
There was a breakfast stall on the way to Linchuan Fifth High School.
The oil in the frying pan never seemed to be changed, turning black.
The fried dough sticks were the old-fashioned kind, overly fluffy, clearly containing alum.
The meat buns were made from lymphatic meat.
The stall owner was a pot-bellied woman who looked friendly and was always greeting the neighbors, but in reality, her heart was as black as her oil pan.
Gu Yebai had never bought breakfast there, preferring to stay on an empty stomach.
Now, looking at the breakfast on the table before him…
‘What kind of life was I living before? It’s truly the difference between heaven and earth.’
Hand-poured coffee, made with Panama Red Label Geisha beans.
Slow-cooked steak at low temperature, medium-rare, charred on the outside and tender on the inside.
A French croissant fresh out of the oven, its crust flaking at the slightest touch.
A soft-boiled egg cut open, the yolk looking like flowing amber.
When Gu Yebai wrote novels in the past and described the lives of the wealthy, he didn’t dare to be so specific.
He sat at the table and began to eat quietly.
The Butler had left a note.
He reminded him not to wash the dishes after breakfast, as someone would come to clear the table later.
He was truly living like a young master.
But Gu Yebai hadn’t fully adapted to this identity yet.
Everything had changed too quickly.
His phone suddenly vibrated.
Yi: “Is Brother Bai eating properly?”
Yi: “If you don’t eat your breakfast well, I’ll be angry.”
Gu Yebai replied immediately.
Baiye Duxing: “I ate.”
Yi: “Take a photo. I need to check.”
Gu Yebai pointed the camera at the dining table.
After focusing, he made sure the photo was clear enough.
Click.
Although he felt it was a bit troublesome, being controlled by her at every moment, it was her way of caring after all.
He couldn’t let her feel that he was being perfunctory.
Yi: “Be a good boy at home.”
While Gu Yebai was chatting with Yi, another person also started a conversation with him.
It was the flamboyant young man studying in Tokyo, Yukino.
Whenever he saw him using Yukinoshita Yukino as his QQ avatar despite being a “normie” in real life, it felt very jarring.
[Yukino]: “Were you just playing a game?”
[Yukino]: “Caught you!”
Baiye Duxing: “I’ve been working hard on my chapters. Don’t say such disheartening things to a soldier fighting a hard battle!”
[Yukino]: “Heh, keep pretending! Go ahead!”
[Yukino]: “I follow your League of Legends and Valorant companion accounts. I know the moment you play!”
At the same time, Yi sent another window nudge from the other side.
Yi: “Brother Bai, you haven’t replied to my message for 15 seconds. Are you having an affair?”
Baiye Duxing: “I was just drinking coffee.”