CHAPTER 73

[The rounded fat: Why did I have to see it?]

[The rounded fat: Why is it me again?]

[The rounded fat: I only get up early less than 5 days out of the 365 days in the year. Why do you have to choose those days to burn my eyes-- --...........Wait a minute… maybe you're just like this everyday............]

[The rounded fat: I'm going to call the police.]

The cell phone kept ringing in Tong Yao's hand and she watched the string of messages grow further and further distorted. Finally, she couldn't stand it anymore, threw the cell phone down, and pulled the hand on her head to the side-- --

In his dream, Lu Sicheng dreamt a sinister looking woman ghost was dragging him by the hand onto some railway tracks. Startled, he violently turned his hand and gripped the chilly ghost hand-- --At the same time, he woke up from his dream and opened his eyes wide. The first thing he saw was a big cat staring at him on the coffee table with its big bright eyes, then he noticed who the hand he had firmly grasped belonged to...

It was the hand of his team's mid.

She was using one of her hands to support herself on the edge of the couch. Her body was tilting to one side and her hair was in a mess, as if she had just been mistreated somehow. Her wrist was firmly encompassed by his hand; her fair skin was turning red in the shape of fingers-- --

Tong Yao leaned forward, closing the distance between the two.

Lu Sicheng: "..."

Lu Sicheng: "Hey, whoa!"

There was a rare panicked expression on Lu Sicheng's normally expressionless handsome face. In great alarm, he threw her wrist away and jumped up into the corner of the couch as if he was freaking out.

Tong Yao: "? ? ? ? ? ? "

Lu Sicheng: "What are you doing? What are doing getting this close when someone is sleeping?"

Tong Yao lifted her hand up to check the red marks on her wrist, then took a glance at her captain who was acting as if he had just been violated... She suppressed the urge to give him a good slap on his face and pointed upstairs while speaking with a stone face: "This morning, I came down to check to see if my cat was still alive..."

Lu Sicheng's dark brown pupils slightly tightened, but acted as if he didn't trust her: "Why do you need to check to see whether your cat is alive or not? What kind of excuse is that? How can a healthy cat die suddenly?"

Tong Yao nodded and thought maybe she hadn't explained herself clearly, so she added: "Oh. I came down this morning to check to see if my cat had been strangled to death and was about to be flushed down the toilet-- --"

Lu Sicheng: "..."

Tong Yao: "Then I found out that you had fallen asleep while still queue for a ranked game. Your stream was also on for several hours; the stream was full of questions marks and fans who were playing card games to pass the time. I turned it all off for you-- --Then based on my kindheartedness, I was afraid that you would catch a cold and found a blanket for you."

Tong Yao pointed to the blanket on Lu Sicheng's knees.

Tong Yao: "As I was putting the blanket on you, you pushed my face onto your tummy."

Tong Yao pointed her own head: "And messed up my hair."

Lu Sicheng: "How is that possible?"

Tong Yao: "You thought I was Dabing."

Lu Sicheng: "...How could-- --"

Tong Yao: "Finally, the ending is that Little Fatty happened to see it."

Tong Yao picked up Lu Sicheng's cell phone and threw it at him-- --He caught it and checked his WeChat. His facial expression changed from being at a loss to surprise, before he calmed down again. Tong Yao looked at him with a serious look on her face. Lu Sicheng dialed a number on his phone. The phone rang a couple of times before the other side picked up. Lu Sicheng said: "Hello, Little Fatty? You're mistaken, we didn't do anything-- --Who would do that in the living room? You don't have a brain, but I do."

He hung up right afterwards.

Tong Yao: "It would be more believable if you hadn't spoken so harshly-- --Even I think you sound like you're harassing him."

"Oh." Lu Sicheng said: "What do think Little Fatty thought we were doing?"

Tong Yao: "..."

Lu Sicheng: "Still think I'm harassing him?"

Tong Yao: "..."

Tong Yao lowered her head and stayed quiet.

Lu Sicheng yawned, lifted the blanket off himself as he stood up. He went over to the refrigerator to take out a can of cold cola. After taking a sip, noticing that Tong Yao was turned sideways looking at him with a serious look on her face, he paused and asked as if he had just remembered something: "What were you looking at me for?"

Tong Yao: "...Today's Tuesday."

Lu Sicheng: "En."

Tong Yao: "There's no training session."

Lu Sicheng: "En?"

Tong Yao lifted her hand, with a little unease, and pulled her hair behind her ear. The sunlight shone through the window on her and Lu Sicheng could see from his angle the side of her fair colored cheek-- --And he could see that her earlobe was turning pink...

Lu Sicheng mover his eyes away, poured the cola down his mouth as his Adam's apple moved up and down.

After a long while, he heard his team's mid slowly started talking: "I was thinking that since we don't have much to do today, I can go with you to the market to buy a goldfish-- --But you hadn't slept last night because you were playing ranked games. I think perhaps-- --"

Lu Sicheng: "..."

Lu Sicheng threw the empty can into the trash, making a crisp clunk that interrupted Tong Yao. He took a glance at Tong Yao who was sitting on the floor next to the couch. After a long while, he flatly said: "Yeah, ok. Give me half an hour, I need to shower and change."

Tong Yao: "..."

Lu Sicheng looked down at his own hands and rubbed his fingers together. Then he said heartlessly: "Please wash your hair as well before we go out."

Tong Yao: "...."

Lu Sicheng then went upstairs, opened the door, and shut the door close.

With the thud of the closing door, Tong Yao suddenly shivered as if she had just realized something-- --Her brain slowly began to function again until she realized:..........Lu Sicheng had agreed to go out with her to the market.

Tong Yao: "............."

It felt like something exploded in her brain. She even forgot to retort back that her hair wasn't greasy at all. Her brain was occupied by the fact that "he agreed to go to the market with her." Tong Yao stood up in a daze and floated upstairs as if there were multi-colored clouds under her feet-- --

...

She went upstairs, took a shower, put on facial cream, blew dry her hair, put on body lotion, and put on some makeup.

Tong Yao opened her closet to check, all she had inside the closet were t-shirts and pants. She closed the closet in despair-- --After a few seconds, she came to the realization that was her entire collection of clothes. She quietly opened the closet again and began searching for clothing which weren't black and white, didn't have strange words at the front, didn't have ugly cartoon characters on it, weren't team uniforms, and didn't look like men's clothing. Finally all she had left on the bed was a bunch of shirts that even a high schooler would find boring. She stared at them in thought.

She didn't know that she had so few shirts.

She regretted never buying some skirts before.

She kicked all the clothes on the bed off then rolled onto the bed. She took out her cell phone and sent a message to Jinyang on WeChat: "Am I a woman after all." She stopped moving the moment she pressed the button to send the message-- --

Both her eyes brightened.

Tong Yao jumped out of bed, pulled her suitcase out from the closet, opened it, and dug out a blue striped white dress shirt and a darker colored pleated skirt-- --They were birthday gifts from Jinyang last year-- --The two were a matching pair, with a small cartoon bear head on each of them. That was the only childish thing Jinyang could stand to have on the clothes she gave to Tong Yao.

Tong Yao quickly put on the shirt and skirt, rushed in front of the mirror to stuff the shirt into the skirt, and spun in a circle after smoothing out the shirt. She had a narrow waist line, straight legs, and a flat tummy since she hadn't had any breakfast yet…...

Satisfied with what she saw in the mirror, she checked the time and hurriedly grabbed the black chain bag she seldom used and went for the door. Right before she touched the door handle, she suddenly stopped and went back to the mirror.

In front of the mirror, she checked to make sure that her mascara didn't have any clumps, the color on her cheek was perfect, and the lipstick color was just right on her lips. She grabbed the hair conditioning oil on her dresser and applied some to the ends of her fuzzy hair-- --

She could smell the fresh fragrance of the oil.

Tong Yao picked up the bag, then pulled out a brand new yellow shoe box from under her bed-- --She opened the box, revealing a pair of black platform sandals with black strings that wrapped around the ankles, perfectly outlining the contour of the wearer's feet...

This was also a gift from Jinyang when Tong Yao's sandal broke in an earlier incident. Jinyang couldn't stand Tong Yao's incessant complaints and sent another pair to her.

Tong Yao rushed to put on one of the sandals. She was very satisfied with the additional 5 mm longer the platforms added to her legs. As a plus, she found the platform shoes to be comfortable and rather friendly to someone like her who couldn't handle high heels-- --She took off the sandal and carried the pair in her hand, then opened the door and ran downstairs...

Her heart was pounding.

She was looking forward to how she would look in front of that man-- --

There were a few people on the first floor by now.

Xiao Rui saw Tong Yao coming down and hastily stuffed Dabing, who was halfway out of the cage already, back into the cage while hiding the can food behind him-- --He was about to say something when he noticed the skirt and Tong Yao's fair skinned straight legs.

Xiao Rui: "? ? ? What's this? ? When did we have a girl in our base? ? ?"

Tong Yao didn't have the time to answer and simply raised her hand like she was going to throw the shoes at Xiao Rui. At that moment, Xiao Rui noticed the logo on her shoes-- --

Lu Sicheng happened to open his door at the same time.

He was wearing a black t-shirt and dark jeans that showed off his broad shoulders and narrow waist line. The well tailored jeans made his long legs stand out-- --His hair looked a little damp, having just come out of the shower. The stubble on his face was now all gone. He leaned against the railing and looked down at Tong Yao: "Did you wait for long?"

Tong Yao: "I just came down."

Tong Yao put her sandals down and bent over to put them on.

Lu Sicheng walked down stairs and glanced at the sandals in Tong Yao's hand. He turned around and pulled a pair of black casual shoes that had a pair of yellow triangle monster eyes on them, instead of sneakers or flip-flops. He lowered his head and began putting on his shoes.

Xiao Rui: "? ? ? ? ? ?"

What's going on? Why would they choose the same brand of shoes to put on?

Xiao Ru's head was filled with question marks.

Until the two of them walked out the front door of the base after they had their shoes on, Xiao Rui was still standing at the same location, his posture frozen: "What's going on here?"

Behind him, a large butt wearing Ultraman underwear was protruding past the open refrigerator door. Little Fatty stopped searching for food and looked up at Xiao Rui: "What are you talking about?"

Xiao Rui: "Where are our team's two Cs going?"

Little Fatty: "They said they're going to the market to buy goldfish."

Xiao Rui: "What?"

Little Fatty: "Going to the market to buy goldfish."

Xiao Rui: "Is it the market next to the Civil Affairs Bureau or the Civil Affairs Bureau right next to the market?"

Little Fatty: "..."

Xiao Rui: "It's summer, that's when all the little animals become restless....... It's a date, silly, it's a date! These two are so blatant, though our club hasn't disallowed it…...But…...damn, why do I feel so irritated? Nowadays, even a retard and a grade school kid can go on a date, but me, a normal person like me, is still single! ! !"