Chapter 36

<details><summary>Characters List</summary></details>

<details>Le Han – Main Character</details>

<details>Gua Gua Gu – In-game main character’s name Daji / Enchanting Imperial Concubine – In-game alternate character’s name</details>

<details>Qi Xun – Male Lead</details>

<details>Mu Yi Cheng Zhou / Mu God – In-game main character Zhan Ge – In-game trumpet’s name Spark’s singer</details>

<details>Zhou Yao – Qi Xun’s best friend</details>

<details>Meng Bu Meng – In-game main character’s name Spark’s member</details>

<details>Luo Yan – Zhou Yao’s husband</details>

<details>Lu Jiao (Emperor of Qi) – In-game main character’s name Spark’s drummer</details>

<details>Qin Yuyuan (Princess Qin) – Qi Xun’s pursuer</details>

<details>Axue – In-game main character’s name</details>

<details>Zhang Yang (Prince Tang) – Le Han’s pursuer</details>

<details>Qiao Rui – Le Han’s roommate and friend</details>

<details>Spark’s bassist</details>

<details>He Yiming – Le Han’s previous crush and senior student</details>

<details>Zhao Yifei – Le Han’s high school classmate</details>

<details>Yu Manman – Le Han’s high school classmate and He Yiming’s ex-girlfriend</details>

Edited by Bubbles

Qi Xun didn’t know what Le Han was thinking about.

He took Le Han’s hand and asked, “Why don’t you walk with me?”

He had long wanted to use Mu Yi Cheng Zhou’s account to be with Gua Gua.

Zhou was only established the day before. Before this, the relationship between Le Han and Mu Yi Cheng Zhou wasn’t very good, and thus Le Han had never been into the territory of the Mu Meng Army. Therefore, he wasn’t very familiar with the newly established country.

Now that Qi Xun had invited him, Le Han nodded.

Crane City was very lively. Regarding the fact that the emperor had made the whole city red for his wedding, everyone had no opinion. After all, they were all people who liked to eat melons; they couldn’t hate this kind of gossip.

Le Han remembered that there were people in the forum discussing the Mu Meng Army’s road to establishing a country.

Mu Yi Cheng Zhou was unquestionably adored in the game, and naturally, many people wanted to follow him.

Some people didn’t like fighting and killing, so they just played the lifestyle route. Therefore, they said that if one day God Mu successfully founded a country, they would immediately change their nationality and go to his territory.

Le Han didn’t know whether these players were joking at that time or whether they had already acted.

He only knew that the Zhou he was seeing was so prosperous and bustling. It was truly a flourishing age.

—Although all this was just a game, people couldn’t help admiring the man who did all of this.

Qi Xun showed the prosperity of Zhou quietly and triumphantly. When he saw the admiration of the people around him, he felt relieved and happy.

He interlocked his fingers with Gua Gua’s and strolled around the street with him. They bought sugar candy shaped into little men figures, listened to music, watched jugglers, and Qi Xun occasionally boasted about his previous siege history.

Le Han licked the sugar man and sighed. “The world in the game is wonderful, ah !”

Qi Xun pointed out, “It’s really wonderful, but real life is also good.”

He turned the topic rather bluntly, but Le Han was slow and didn’t notice it. Thinking of Yu Manman and his previous high school classmates, he had a subtle look on his face.

Qi Xun thought for a moment and said, “When we quarreled that day, I said those words without hesitation. Did… someone say that to you before?”

When Qi Xun went back last night and thought about their fight, his intuition told him that it might be like this.

Gua Gua’s reaction that day was like being hit by a bolt from the blue.

Qi Xun had said such things impulsively, and regretted it. Thinking about Gua Gua being told the same by others in real life, Qi Xun’s heart felt uncomfortable.

Le Han froze.

After walking a few steps, he lowered his eyes.

Qi Xun asked in a low voice, “Are you still not willing to tell me? It’s okay if you don’t want to say it.”

Le Han glanced at him.

He could see that Zhan Ge really cared about him and wanted to understand him.

After a pause, Le Han said in a low voice, “When I was in my third year of high school, my deskmate stole my mobile phone.”

Qi Xun was stunned.

Gua Gua’s phone was stolen?

Le Han continued, “I lost it after physical education class. I’m sure that I had left my phone in the classroom, but it had disappeared when I came back. I thought there was a thief, but I was the only one who lost something in the class. When the teacher checked the school security cameras, it didn’t show that any stranger had entered the classroom. He thought I had made a mistake and should have lost it by myself. Even I doubted whether it would be like this, so there was no follow-up on the matter. My parents said they would buy me a new mobile phone on National Day. For the time being, I could only use a used phone with a different number.”

Qi Xun frowned. His reaction was quick. The similar cases that had been reported in the news were enough to provide him with the answer. “Did your classmate steal it?”

Le Han said indifferently, “My deskmate stole it, and he revealed it after a week. I didn’t know what to think. He had been hiding my phone in his bag. Once someone asked him to borrow something, he went straight to his bag to get it. When he took out what he wanted, he also took my phone out and accidentally dropped it on the ground.”

At that time, they were the only people there, so only Le Han and his deskmate, Yao Lingyu, saw the phone lying on the ground. When Yao Lingyu noticed, his whole body stiffened.

The laughter of other students could be heard in the background, but there was a moment of silence between them.

Le Han and Yao Lingyu had become deskmates at the beginning of their third year of high school. Before that, he wasn’t familiar with Yao Lingyu. Yao Lingyu was a taciturn person, and the two hadn’t communicated much since the beginning of the school year. They were very unfamiliar.

For the sake of this mobile phone, Le Han was scolded by his parents for a long time, saying that he was careless, which made him a little depressed. In addition, Yao Lingyu was very strange to him, so he directly asked, “Did you take my mobile phone?”

This sentence was clearly heard by the students around them at the time.

Therefore, their surroundings became quiet in an instant.

In fact, even if this incident had triggered a series of dark things for Le Han, Le Han still felt that there was nothing wrong with asking about it at the time.

The thief was Yao Lingyu.

No matter what difficulties he had, he was a thief.

Le Han had no obligation. He didn’t need to consider what would happen to Yao Lingyu when he was exposed in public. He also didn’t need to cover up for him.

Was this called having no EQ?

Later, his parents scolded him like that.

Le Han didn’t think so.

Having EQ or not, it wasn’t used for this kind of thing.

As Qi Xun listened, his face was already ugly. “What did he do afterwards?”

Le Han felt that Zhan Ge’s intuition was accurate and smiled at the man’s cleverness.

Qi Xun became unhappy. He flicked Le Han’s forehead with his finger. “You can still laugh when you talk about this kind of thing?”

“Because it’s over, ah .” Le Han touched his forehead.

Qi Xun paused and asked, “What happened after that?”

Le Han continued.

Yao Lingyu was exposed in public. The matter was known by the teacher thanks to the classmates who were unafraid of the consequences. Their teacher in charge, Mr. Lu, had immediately called Yao Lingyu and Le Han into the office. Because the incident had happened during lunch break, all classes were playing around in the hallway. When their group talked about it loudly, the next class heard it and then spread it further. In a short time, the whole school knew about it. Even the principal came after hearing the news.

A student stole something, and the trouble was so big. It was naturally a bad situation.

The principal asked Teacher Lu to contact Yao Lingyu’s parents. When Yao Lingyu’s parents rushed to the school after putting down their work, they scolded Yao Lingyu and apologized to Le Han.

Yao Lingyu’s family environment was ordinary. His parents seemed to have suffered the vicissitudes of life, and they were quite frightened when facing Le Han and the teachers.

Le Han found it hard to bear the bow of Yao Lingyu’s parents.

However, the matter was fermented and ended soon. The school soon gave the result and recorded Yao Lingyu’s punishment. Le Han also felt that, no matter what, the problem had been solved. Even if he felt a bit embarrassed because of Yao Lingyu’s parents, there shouldn’t be any follow-up.

But he was wrong.

That evening, Yao Lingyu should have been taken home by his parents.

Their school had self-study in the evening. All students had to participate in it unless there was an unusual incident. But Yao Lingyu’s matter had just happened, and they probably needed to have a family talk. Therefore, when Yao Lingyu’s parents wanted to take him away, the teacher didn’t stop them.

It was a calm night after such a big event, but there seemed to be a dark undercurrent surging under the calm.

The seat beside Le Han was empty. Although he was a little absent-minded, he still forced himself to focus on his homework.

At the end of the first night of self-study, Yao Lingyu suddenly broke into the quiet classroom.

Everyone was surprised and immediately began to make noise.

Among the group of boys close to Yu Manman, one of them asked loudly, “What are you doing back? Were you kicked out by your parents?”

Some of his friends laughed.

Yu Manman and her deskmate also laughed.

Yao Lingyu’s face was pale. He stood on the podium, supported the desk with both hands, and stared at Le Han with a cold smile.

At that time, Le Han had put down his pen, straightened his back, and stared at Yao Lingyu.

Yao Lingyu raised his hand, shook his mobile phone, and said hoarsely, “Don’t laugh at me. There’s some good material here, don’t you want to listen to it?”

At that moment, Le Han suddenly remembered something.

His mobile phone was unlocked with a password. When he used his phone with Yao Lingyu sitting beside him, he didn’t hide from the other party and put his four-digit password several times. When his parents gave him another phone to log in to Alipay, WeChat, and other apps, it was already the night after he lost his mobile phone. The money in Le Han’s Alipay and WeChat wasn’t lost. But Le Han wasn’t sure whether Yao Lingyu had logged into his apps and did other things.

Le Han’s usual security and privacy awareness wasn’t strong, which he regretted the most later.

Back then, Yao Lingyu also used this loophole and severely retaliated against Le Han—

Le Han was gay.

Le Han had told his friends in private that he liked the monitor of their class.

His friend ridiculed Le Han that he really saw one and loved the other.

Le Han didn’t deny it and replied with a grinning expression.

Le Han had said that he thought another boy in his class was also very handsome.

……

…

There was evidence for everything. Yao Lingyu had already sent those WeChat screenshots to his mailbox and transferred them to his mobile phone.

At that time, the attention of everyone had shifted from Yao Lingyu on the podium to Le Han instead.

Le Han suddenly became the focus of the entire class.

From surprise, disbelief, astonishment, and shock to embarrassment and sympathy, some people shook their heads and looked at Yao Lingyu with reproach.

Meanwhile, the rest had their eyes glowing. They looked at each other with eyes full of excitement about this latest gossip.

Right then, two completely different groups of humans were distinguished.

Qi Xun’s face was already livid when he heard Le Han’s understatement of this event.

“So some people in your school spent a whole year—” Qi Xun didn’t go on. He thought that even he had said these kind of words that day, and he immediately regretted it and wanted to kill himself. “Gua Gua, I’m sorry. I only impulsively said those words that day. I’m not like your classmates—”

“I know you aren’t like them.” Le Han sighed. “What I want you to know is that after I heard your words that day, I thought of those things in high school and became angry.”

Qi Xun whispered, “You should be angry.”

After a pause, he added, “You should beat me up.”

Le Han whispered, “…I just can’t do it.”

Qi Xun: “…”

He let go of Le Han’s hand, embraced the man’s waist, and the two became closer.

Le Han’s ears were red.

Qi Xun was still angry.

If he’d known Gua Gua earlier, if he saw Gua Gua being bullied like that, let’s not talk about how he would clean up the trash…

But he had to meet Gua Gua as early as possible. In which high school did Gua Gua study? To say the least, which city was Gua Gua from?

This was what he wanted to know the most now.

Qi Xun twisted his fingers, pondered, and said, “Which school is it?”

Le Han said, “You won’t know even if I say it!”

There were so many high schools across the country. Although Le Han had studied in a key high school in the city, it was only famous in C City, and no one would know it when it came to the whole country.

Qi Xun disagreed, “That’s not necessarily true. Anyway, my high school is the Second Middle School in C City. You should have heard of it?”

Le Han was stunned by Qi Xun exposing real-life information so naturally, and then was stunned again by Qi Xun’s high school alma mater.

The Second Middle School of C City?

That was the best high school in C City!!

Damn, Zhan Ge turned out to be a big boss!

Wait, Zhan Ge was also from C City!?

Le Han blurted out, “I’m from the high school affiliated to C University!”

Qi Xun was stunned, and then his breathing became heavy. He stared at Le Han and said, “Are you from C City too? Where are you now?”