Chapter 41

<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 had the sudden thought of coming to T University for a stroll.

It was true that his appointment with Gua Gua was approaching, but he just couldn’t sit still. Sometimes, he felt that he’d become childish and naive.

After sending a message, he waited for a while and didn’t receive the other party’s response. Qi Xun ‘clattered’ in his heart— wouldn’t Gua Gua be scared like this?

He knitted his eyebrows, stopped in fear, and sent another message: “Gua Gua?”

Still no response.

But there was a weak voice coming from the front.

“You, hello, ah …”

Qi Xun was taken aback and looked up.

A figure stood under the streetlamp.

The boy looked a little thin, and his face was a little cramped. The tear mole under his right eye made Qi Xun quickly recognize him. “Are you… Qiao Rui’s roommate?”

Was he called Le Han?

Qi Xun didn’t care much about people who had nothing to do with him. It was good he could still remember Le Han’s name. A large part of the reason was that he remembered having offended this boy because of Gua Gua, and feeling annoyed for a long time.

Le Han smiled stiffly, but he still bit the bullet and said, “Yes, yes, ah . What a coincidence, haha… Er , are you here to see Qiao Rui?”

Qi Xun noticed his embarrassment. The boy was obviously uncomfortable with him.

…It was all because of what had happened that night.

Qi Xun wasn’t the kind of person who cared about the views of the outside world, but this matter was obviously different, and it was caused by his mistake. Even if he didn’t contact this boy named Le Han much in the future, Qi Xun didn’t want to cause him any… psychological shadow.

So after thinking about it, he walked over and said naturally, “No, just strolling around. Have you just finished class?”

Although Qi Xun’s tone was already very gentle, Le Han still remembered the man’s cold appearance in the bar that day. “Well, yes. I’m planning to have dinner with Qiao Rui.”

“Really…” Qi Xun just said, and Le Han’s phone rang.

Seeing it was Qiao Rui, Le Han picked it up and listened as Qiao Rui asked, “Han Han, where have you been? I’m in Building No. 10 now.”

Building No. 10 was at the exit of the forest trail, only a dozen meters away from their current position.

Le Han said, “ Ah , I’m almost there—”

Looking at the man under the streetlight, Le Han said, “Well, I met Qi— Brother Qi…”

Hearing the name ‘Brother Qi’, Qi Xun paused, and his eyes met Le Han’s, who just gave him a nervous look.

Le Han quickly lowered his head.

Qi Xun: “…” Don’t be so obvious.

Qiao Rui was obviously stunned and said, “Brother Qi is with you? How did you two meet?”

Le Han: “…It happened by chance.”

“Well,” Qiao Rui said, “Then you can ask if Brother Qi has eaten. If he hasn’t, let’s eat together.”

Le Han didn’t want to.

Le Han was a little sad. Qi Xun was beside him, and when Qiao Rui called him, he couldn’t help mentioning it. He was afraid that things would turn out like this.

He opened his mouth resignedly, but before he could ask, Qiao Rui’s voice sounded from behind them, “ Ah , here you are!”

Qi Xun turned around and saw Qiao Rui running over with his cell phone in hand.

Qiao Rui said excitedly, “Brother Qi, I’m just about to have dinner with Han Han. Let’s have hot pot together!”

Qi Xun took a look at Le Han and said with a smile, “It’s okay. You two can eat. I’ll go shopping for a while.”

“ Ah , but…” Qiao Rui seemed to remember that Le Han and Qi Xun had a conflict. He awkwardly scratched his head and fell silent.

Silence.

Le Han was embarrassed. Why did he feel like he was pushing Qi Xun out?

He hastened to say, “Let’s go together. It’s better to eat hot pot with more people.”

Qi Xun looked at Le Han hesitantly and asked with his eyes, ‘Are you sure you want me to come with you?’

When Qi Xun saw Le Han, he could clearly see that the other party felt uncomfortable around him. However, Le Han could only nod his head desperately. He didn’t want to be an unfriendly person!

That being the case— Qi Xun looked at his phone and saw that Gua Gua still didn’t reply. After thinking about it, he said, “Okay, let’s go. It’s my treat today.”

Qiao Rui looked at Le Han and Qi Xun, and breathed a sigh of relief.

They were very close to the school gate, so they didn’t go that far to get where Qi Xun wanted to.

On the way, Qiao Rui casually asked, “Brother Qi, why did you come to school today? Did you come to see Professor He?”

Professor He was their math teacher.

Le Han was stunned, thinking that Qi Xun still knew Professor He?

Qi Xun touched his head and said, “Well, just came to have a look. Idling around is boring.”

…So far, he hadn’t told anyone about his online dating except for Zhou Yao, a compatriot on the front line, so it was hard for him to explain why he came to the university. Let’s pretend as if he came to see his mother cough .

When they arrived at the hot pot restaurant, the three found a place to sit down. Theyhurriedly lit the bottom of the pot to prepare the dishes while Qiao Rui and Qi Xun chatted.

Qiao Rui had gone to the bar almost every night this week. Le Han had heard that their band was finally going to hold a fan meeting there. The limited-edition invitation with a limit of 200 copies had been sold out, and the price was not high. After the fans entered the bar with the limited edition invitation, they could order drinks and refreshments at will while listening to the songs. The bar might still lose money.

Qiao Rui said that they didn’t intend to make money from this kind of Song Festival. It could only be regarded as feedback to their fans.

Having made public the address of the bar, every band member clearly wrote on Weibo that they hoped the fans who didn’t get the invitation wouldn’t gather around the place. Only those with an invitation would be allowed entrance. They didn’t want to affect the business of the surrounding shops. This kind of fan meeting would be held again in the future, and those who didn’t get an invitation could wait until the next time.

As soon as the members of the band made this post, several fans shared the post. Many of them were obedient and told each other to not disturb the progress of the fans’ meeting. It was very orderly.

After that—

“Last time, I said that the bar would be flooded with fans every day. I was joking. We are not there every day, so the bar isn’t full of fans. There may be more customers, but it shouldn’t affect the usual business,” Qiao Rui said, and Le Han thought it was reasonable.

The date of their fan meeting was October 2nd.

It was the same date as his meeting with Zhan Ge!

On that day, Le Han chose to meet with someone instead of listening to Qiao Rui’s singing. Zhan Ge had yet to say where they would meet. However, Le Han naturally thought that he wouldn’t get to see Qiao Rui sing. Qiao Rui was very sour, accusing him of forgetting his friends!

Le Han could only ‘hehe’ to express his apology.

Qiao Rui and Qi Xun talked for a while before Qiao Rui left to get the hot pot seasoning. Only Qi Xun and Le Han were left at the table.

Qi Xun wanted to ease his relationship with Le Han, so he took the initiative to say, “I’m sorry about that day.”

Le Han didn’t expect Qi Xun to apologize to him face to face again. He hurriedly said, “It’s okay. I don’t mind anymore.”

Qi Xun laughed and asked, “That woman didn’t harass you anymore, right?”

“No, I don’t normally have much contact with her.” After some hesitation, Le Han said, “But, it’s in your bar…”

“I also said it last time; if she dares to come again, I’ll really admire her determination.” Qi Xun sneered.

Although he was mocking Yu Manman, Qi Xun’s cold tone still made Le Han swallow.

The two were silent.

Ah, how embarrassing.

Le Han felt that the air had become a little thinner.

Although Qi Xun looked like a fairy, Le Han was really afraid of him. He liked good-looking people, but he couldn’t appreciate the beauty of this person. He just felt like he was being tortured.

Qi Xun uncomfortably looked at the person on the other side of the table, thinking that Qiao Rui’s roommate was too timid. As for being so afraid of him? He didn’t eat people… Originally, he wanted to invite him to eat hot pot to let the original contradiction disappear completely. It seemed that there was no way to solve it?

Both of them were uncomfortable. Fortunately, Qiao Rui came back soon. Le Han quickly got up and said that he was going to get hot pot seasoning as well.

After coming back, Le Han breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Qiao Rui and Qi Xun chatting again. He finally had the mood to pay attention to his mobile phone.

Seeing the two messages sent by Zhan Ge just now, Le Han replied helplessly: “…I have already left school. I was just talking with someone, so I couldn’t reply to you.”

Qi Xun was listening to Qiao Rui talk about his new song when the screen of his mobile phone lit up. As soon as he saw that it was a message from Gua Gua, he quickly opened it.

It turned out that Gua Gua was not scared away by him.

He curled his lips slightly up, feeling very helpless: “…I have also left school.”

They had been chatting through the game app, and there was no vibration when a message arrived.

Seeing the message from Zhan Ge, Le Han smiled, took a peek at the man opposite him, and complained: “I met some acquaintances, and I’m having dinner with them orz.”

Qi Xun listened to Qiao Rui’s words absentmindedly. His mouth answered casually but his hands typed decisively: “What’s the matter?”

Gua Gua’s tone didn’t seem to be very happy?

Le Han didn’t know how to tell Zhan Ge. After thinking about it, he said: “When we were at odds before, I had a little conflict with one of them.”

Qi Xun remembered that Gua Gua did mention something happening in real life during that time. He raised his eyebrows and asked: “Did someone bully you?”

Le Han: “He didn’t bully me… He was in a bad mood that day, but he was really fierce. I’m a little scared of him QAQ.”

Qi Xun raised his eyebrows even higher, so that person was rather fierce?

Qi Xun: “Who is it? Why are you eating with this man if he’s so fierce?”

Le Han: “Because he and my roommate are good friends… He didn’t mean it that day. It’s just that I have a little psychological shadow.”

Qi Xun felt soft in his heart. Gua Gua was so timid and cute.

He asked gently: “Did he apologize to you?”

Le Han: “He apologized. He just apologized…”

Qi Xun smiled and replied: “Okay, but there is no need to wrong yourself. If you really don’t want to eat with this person, you will refuse it decisively in the future.”

Anyway, it was a good thing not to go out with wild men.

After thinking about it for a while, Le Han felt there was no need to force himself so much. He shouldn’t be such a good person, so with Zhan Ge’s encouragement, he replied seriously: “ En !”

Qi Xun was pleased. “Good.”

Really obedient.

While chatting, Le Han raised his eyes again.

Opposite him, Qi Xun was looking at his mobile phone as he listened to Qiao Rui’s words. From Le Han’s perspective, he felt that the man’s expression was cold and indifferent.

Le Han carefully described the man’s appearance. Suddenly, there was a flash of inspiration, and he said to Zhan Ge: “Speaking of which, the man in front of me also seems to be 1.85 meters tall!”

Qi Xun didn’t take it seriously. “Not every 1.85 meters is my 1.85 meters.”

What’s more, how could someone who’d been so fierce to Gua Gua be compared to him, silly!

Le Han imagined Zhan Ge’s complaining tone and said with a smile: “But he’s also quite good-looking, and it seems that he has muscles.”

After sending this message, Le Han thought of Zhan Ge describing his appearance carefully for the past few days. It was as if every cell in his body wanted to let Le Han know how handsome he was. If those descriptions were put against Qi Xun, they seemed to fit well…

—But how could Qi Xun be Zhan Ge? Hahahaha!

Le Han quickly put the idea behind him.

But Qi Xun was very unhappy when he saw Gua Gua’s message. Did he look good? Did he look as good as him?

He said uncomfortably: “You take a picture to show me!”

Le Han: “…That’s not good.”

Qi Xun: “What’s the matter? Just be careful not to let the person on the other side find out.”

Le Han: “…”

Le Han thought about it and quietly lifted his mobile phone a little bit.

Naturally, the camera’s flash was turned off, and there was no sound when he took pictures.

He quickly pressed the shutter at Qi Xun and put down his mobile phone. When he looked at the picture, he saw that he had only photographed Qi Xun’s beautiful chin and lips because of his nervousness. Le Han didn’t think much about it. His heart beat fast, and he sent the picture to Zhan Ge.

Qi Xun impatiently tapped the table with his finger. After the photo sent by Gua Gua finally arrived, he aggressively looked at it.

Qi Xun: “…”

How come that sweater, clavicle, Adam’s apple, chin, and mouth seemed a bit familiar?

Qiao Rui was boasting about the song he had recently written. “…What do you think? Is there anything else to change? Brother Qi? Brother Qi?”

Seeing the man fixedly looking at his mobile phone’s screen, Qiao Rui was upset. “Brother Qi!”

Qi Xun was called by Qiao Rui, and then bit by bit, he stiffly raised his head to look at the person in front of him.

The boy had his head lowered, with his cute face slightly illuminated. Obviously, he was also using his mobile phone.

The tear mole under the corner of his right eye seemed to shine brightly.

Translator’s Note: Haha, our silly Han Han exposed himself without knowing it 🤣 Qi Xun’s mental activity is… cough