Ch80 - "Long time no see."

Edited by kat

It was only after Shen Qi left that a commotion broke out below the stage.

“Shit! Too aggressive! Worthy of God A!”

“I’m dying, I’m dying, that was so hot, I’m done for!”

“Rumormongers need to be held responsible for rumor mongering!”

“AHHHHHH I’LL ALWAYS SUPPORT GOD A! I support QAQ! I despise rumormongers!”

The hostess looked away, sorted out her own expression, and awkwardly but still politely gave the concluding remarks.

……

The competitors’ seats——

The teams who had been originally preparing to leave all stopped by the exit. When they saw Shen Qi coming back as if nothing had happened, they all looked at him with admiration.

Many of the members of these teams were relatively young, as Shen Qi’s peers were all basically at the captain level now.

Basically everyone who played competitively had encountered online abuse.

No matter what the actual strength of your team was, if you lost, someone would curse you out.

They would even curse you out in Weibo private messages, and spread rumors on Weibo about why your playing was off. If they were more serious, then they would even send threats to the team.

However, professional players had to maintain a positive image. They couldn’t burst out in foul language, swear, curse people out, fight, smoke, or drink.

In the face of hurtful words, they could only act as if they didn’t see them.

After all, most of it was online abuse, which didn’t threaten their own security.

But in fact, not many people could really “act as if they didn’t see them,” and being flamed by netizens would seriously affect their emotions.

It might even affect them psychologically.

Many teams were equipped with their own psychologists.

This was also to prevent players from having psychological problems.

Angry had done something that they never dared to do.

“Captain, you…you…”

Xu Leng’s words were even starting to slur together.

Shen Qi raised his eyelids and took a look at him. He grabbed his backpack and said softly, “You’re still not ready to go back? Are you going to spend the night here?”

Lu Tun and Ye Lai looked at Shen Qi with worshipful gazes.

“Shifu, you’re too great.”

Shen Qi let out an “en” and didn’t say much after that.

He wasn’t as calm as he had acted.

In order to clarify the situation, it wasn’t easy at all for him to uncover the scars from many years ago and show them to others.

Xu Leng held back for a long time and finally said, “Captain, you’re too hot.”

The five of them walked out of the venue together without going back to the lounge backstage.

Shen Qi paused, stuck one hand in his pocket, and responded lazily, “Ah, yeah, I’m too hot, but please don’t fall in love with me.”

He threw his bag over his shoulder, and his strides grew a bit longer, walking all the way in the front.

The three children in the back whispered to each other, “Is the captain in a bad mood?”

“He should be ba, what should we do? Male God isn’t here, and we don’t know who did this, they’re really too sick!”

“Calm down a bit ba. Shifu has countermeasures. Let him calm down on his own, it’s not like we can help him.”

Lu Ziye, who was following behind them, pinched his brows.

Although this matter had been resolved, there were still league penalties awaiting.

……

As predicted by Lu Ziye.

Not long after returning to the base, along with the notice issued by the Qi family’s official Weibo, there was a punishment notice for “Player Angry” issued by the official PUBG competition officials.

As soon as the punishment notice came out, the people supporting Angry were ready to start cursing people out. However, when they saw the contents of the announcement, they were immediately happy.

The content of the punishment notice: [Due to the flagrant violation of item 15 of the livestream rules by Player Angry of QAQ, which states that one will not speak or act provocatively in front of the camera. He will be fined 3000 yuan as punishment]

It wasn’t saying he broke the rules as a professional player.

It was that he had broken the livestream rules.

It seemed that even the official organization couldn’t look past a rumormonger.

A punishment had to be given to show to those who thought differently.

[The punishment is right, he should be punished!]

[That’s right! And the fine is actually so high! It really should be!]

[For the first time, I think the officials are very fair and just. Next time, I won’t scold you guys for changing the rules of the competition]

[When it’s time to scold, you still have to scold]

[……]

After everyone was done yelling underneath the official Weibo post, they all moved over to the Qi family official Weibo.

During the livestream, Shen Qi’s words bashing keyboard warriors had drawn everyone’s attention. All the flamers had been drawn to it, all the way until the Qi family’s official Weibo made a post, and everyone reacted then.

Was this the Qi family they were thinking of?

Shen Qi’s mother used to be the Qi family’s largest shareholder! Oh, no, to be exact, Shen Qi’s grandfather was the Qi family’s boss!

Now, Shen Qi was the Qi family’s largest shareholder and the boss!

As everyone knew, the Qi family heiress had married Shen Bozong, the head of Shen Media, and had later died of an illness.

Ordinary people only knew that much.

However, the Qi family’s published medical records clearly stated “depression.” Her death had been because of various physical problems caused by birth and education, as well as depression.

While sighing, netizens finally understood why Angry had retired immediately when he said he would and where the money to revamp a team had come from. At the same time, they began to pick at the relationship between Shen Qi’s mother and Shen Bozong.

Gossipping was human nature.

Picking at it like that would cause something big to happen.

Those with a little networking ability figured out that the largest shareholder of Shen Media had already become Fu Zhen instead of Shen Bozong.

Shen Bozong himself, according to relevant sources, had already disappeared for a long time.

“Is he all right?” Shen Qi leaned against the wall of the hospital, with sparks at his fingertips.

The smell of the hospital’s disinfectant stung, and Shen Qi frowned slightly. The smoke billowed close to the tip of his nose, but he didn’t take a drag.

The light in the corridor was very bright, and there were still people on duty at the nurse station.

Su Ya gathered up the clothes slung around her shoulders, nodded, and smiled gently. “His situation these days is much better than before. Maybe the medicine has kicked in.”

Shen Qi chuckled. The cigarette was burning at his fingertips, and the smell of smoke covered up the smell of disinfectant.

Did he get better these past few days because of that matter?

Su Ya laughed. “Smoking is not allowed here.”

Shen Qi let out an “ah” and was going to put out his cigarette.

“If you want to smoke, then let’s talk in the corridor ba.” Su Ya stopped Shen Qi’s movements.

Shen Qi was stunned. Su Ya’s brows were reminiscent of his mother’s look from all those years ago.

He still put out his cigarette and threw it into the trash can.

“No need, I came for him.” Shen Qi walked to the door of the room and looked inside.

The lights weren’t on, and he couldn’t see anything.

Su Ya was stunned for a few seconds and looked away. “But it’s too late now, why don’t you find a hotel nearby to rest in first? You can come back tomorrow?”

Shen Qi looked tired.

For him to come at this time, he should have rushed here from China overnight.

Not resting at all.

Su Ya knew that Shen Qi had been competing these past few days, but she hadn’t paid much attention to it. She had only learned about the competition from Shen Bozong.

Although Shen Bozong’s mind wasn’t very clear, he was always concerned about his son.

Probably because Shen Qi was already his only blood relative ba.

Su Ya’s eyebrows and eyes curved and grew warmer.

She even really envied Qi Wanyun.

Shen Qi shook his head. “I’ll wait here for him to wake up. You can find a place to rest, I’ll watch tonight.”

Su Ya considered it for a moment and agreed.

She should make some room for them.

After Su Ya left, Shen Qi went directly into the room.

He didn’t turn on the light, and the room was very dark. He could only see a bit of an outline with the moonlight.

Shen Qi squinted and touched the side of the sickbed.

A psychiatric hospital.

It sounded like a really ironic place.

Because it was private, and Shen Bozong’s condition was manageable, family members were allowed to accompany him.

Su Ya had stayed with him here for a long time.

A female star, whose fame had not declined, was willing to give up the career that she loved.

Before, Shen Qi couldn’t understand why Su Ya would do so.

But now, he could understand Su Ya.

However, he still felt that Shen Bozong did not deserve her.

Shen Qi didn’t lie down, but just leaned against the head of the sickbed.

It was only after closing his eyes that his tense mood relaxed. He subconsciously touched his cellphone, and then remembered that his cellphone was out of power.

He had left in a hurry, and he hadn’t brought any chargers or anything with him.

He stroked his own hair, and then Shen Qi turned his head and looked at Shen Bozong’s figure in the moonlight.

He was actually sleeping soundly.

Shen Qi snorted

He wasn’t sleepy at all.

Before long, Shen Bozong moved.

The moment he moved, Shen Qi noticed it and quietly watched him turn on the light.

The lights were too dazzling after suddenly getting turned on and Shen Qi narrowed his eyes, as did Shen Bozong.

He probably didn’t expect Shen Qi to suddenly appear here, and Shen Bozong was obviously startled. He froze for a few seconds before he reacted, and he was a little excited.

“Qiqi, you came to see me?”

He wanted to get out of bed, but didn’t succeed, probably because he didn’t have much strength.

Shen Qi still sat in his original position and didn’t move.

He already hadn’t seen Shen Bozong for a long time.

He had even forgotten the last time he had seen him, and only remembered that Shen Bozong had looked very young at that time. Shen Bozong always attached great importance to his appearance because it was what he used to attract beautiful young women, so he maintained himself well. He never had a hair out of place, he was well-dressed, and he would always apply some mesmerizing cologne.

While the Shen Bozong in front of him now—

He didn’t have his signature smile on his face, and his hair was messy. There were obvious white hairs mixed in with the black hair in front, the wrinkles on his face were clearly visible, and he didn’t look very energetic. He looked so much older than before, and like his peers, he had started to grow old.

Maybe it was because of the medicine, but he had become fatter.

Compared with the good figure he had maintained before, he was obviously plumper.

Shen Qi half squinted at him.

Shen Bozong didn’t seem to notice Shen Qi’s strange and distant eyes. He still looked excited and hated that he couldn’t just rush up and hug his son.

After watching him struggle for a while, Shen Qi stood up and said, “Long time no see.”

Shen Bozong was stunned. “Are you… Are you willing to talk to me? Qiqi?”

He grabbed at the quilt, seeming a little nervous, and his hands were faintly white under the incandescent lights.

Shen Qi didn’t respond to his question, but turned to find the hot water and poured him a cup.

It was like they were normal people communicating with each other as he handed the hot water to Shen Bozong.

The other party’s expression was a little flattered, as if he had never thought that there would be such a day.

He also didn’t care whether the cup of hot water was very hot or not. He didn’t seem to be aware of the heat from the disposable water cup and simply tipped it toward his mouth.

Shen Qi frowned. “Are you crazy? You’re not afraid of getting scalded?”

He still stopped him.

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The author has something to say:

A little distressed for both sides, I……eh

Thank you for the mines and nutrient solution

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Juurensha: SQ’s dad is an asshole but he does seem pretty sad now

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