BVAHEDLA[W Chapter 7
by VolareChapter 7 E-sports 7 “I’m not a kid anymore.”
The interview location was in an open space not far from the competition venue, and it was also broadcast live.
Chu Li-fei saw a man holding a microphone waiting there from afar, presumably he was the host for this time. He turned his head and signaled Lu Mo-chen to quietly quicken his pace.
The host first asked a few routine questions about the MU team’s internal changes and the competition, Chu Li-fei answered very officially, revealing some information but without any key points, he was truly a slippery old fox.
Seeing that the hope of prying some news from Chu Li-fei’s mouth was dashed, the host had no choice but to smile and steer the conversation towards Lu Mo-chen, who was standing beside him.
Chu Li-fei wasn’t too worried about this.
The host’s questions might be tricky, but he wouldn’t deliberately make things difficult for a newcomer. Otherwise, if he found fun today, he would be the one getting flamed on the internet tomorrow.
However, Chu Li-fei still turned his gaze to Lu Mo-chen, preparing to answer a few questions for him if he couldn’t handle it.
However, it was obvious that he had worried unnecessarily. Lu Mo-chen under the camera was poised and generous, looking very talkative, chatting back and forth with the host.
So the host immediately realized that he had encountered two tough nuts today, and didn’t plan to entangle too much, directly entering the final segment – fan Q&A.
That is, randomly draw a question from the live broadcast room’s barrage and ask the players, and the players can’t refuse, except for those that can’t be broadcast.
“Let’s see what today’s fan question is! 10! 9! 8! …3! 2! 1! Hmm…” The host looked at the top question in the mobile phone screenshot and seemed a little surprised. He hesitated for a moment, then couldn’t help but smile and look at Chu Li-fei and Lu Mo-chen: “This fan’s question is–”
The host drew out the end of the sentence.
“T God and Guan Dong Zhu, what did you chat about during the BP of the first game?”
Lu Mo-chen widened his eyes slightly, seeming as if he didn’t expect fans to be able to ask such a question at all. He subconsciously looked at Chu Li-fei, the meaning in his eyes clearly asking for his opinion, whether or not to say it.
The host looked at the interaction between Chu Li-fei and Lu Mo-chen amusingly: “No lying, you two.”
Bearing Lu Mo-chen’s embarrassed gaze, Chu Li-fei looked at him with a helpless and amused expression, pushed Lu Mo-chen, and switched places with him. Chu Li-fei took the microphone from the host’s hand: “A little kid was making a wish to me.”
He chuckled lightly, and continued, facing the host’s expectant gaze: “As for the content of the wish…”
“It won’t come true if you say it. So, it’s a secret.”
Hearing this answer, the host had no choice but to put on a very regretful look to wrap up the live broadcast.
The sound of the host reciting the advertisements of sponsors was in his ears, but he focused his attention on Lu Mo-chen.
Without looking, Chu Li-fei could guess what Lu Mo-chen looked like now.
But the term “little kid” was indeed his spur-of-the-moment idea.
Even in this world, Chu Li-fei was a few years older than him. Not to mention the hundreds of years he had spent in the cultivation world, being so much older, wasn’t Lu Mo-chen just a little kid in his eyes?
Moreover, when Lu Mo-chen looked at him with a pleading look just now, he didn’t know why, but he uncontrollably had the thought of teasing him for a moment, and blurted it out subconsciously, which led to this title.
What’s more…
Thoughts returned to the BP stage of the first game.
Chu Li-fei leaned close to Lu Mo-chen, and naturally heard the boy’s cautious probing.
The voice was barely audible, if it weren’t for the scorching breath that actually came to his ear, he would have suspected that he had heard it wrong.
“Captain, if I win this game, can you promise me something?”
Seeing that Chu Li-fei didn’t answer, Lu Mo-chen continued: “Please? Just consider it a reward for me?”
He turned his head, met the boy’s sincere gaze, his throat tightened, and the words he was about to say were swallowed back.
He was a cultivator, bound by the laws of heaven and earth.
A promise was too heavy for him, he didn’t plan to bet himself on it.
But if it was a wish, he thought, he would help him realize it.
He heard his own voice.
“Okay.”
The interview ended, Chu Li-fei led Lu Mo-chen back.
There was nothing different from when they came, if you ignored Lu Mo-chen’s earlobes that were as red as if they were cooked.
Before they reached the lounge, Chu Li-fei heard lively voices coming from inside.
He pushed the door open, and the “Cold-Blooded Shark” who was closest to the door was startled. Seeing that it was him, he immediately coughed twice and pretended to be serious: “Captain, you see we won, shouldn’t we show something? Like, treat us to a meal or something?”
“Cold-Blooded Shark” rubbed his hands together expectantly.
Chu Li-fei saw Lu Mo-chen following in, and closed the door: “Oh, this is what you mean?”
“Cold-Blooded Shark” looked around, and as a result, he found that the teammates who had been chatting enthusiastically with him just now were all silent, either playing with their mobile phones or looking up at the ceiling.
He finally placed his hopes on Lu Mo-chen, who had been following behind Chu Li-fei.
“Guan Dong Zhu, why don’t you say something too?”
Chu Li-fei crossed his arms and also shifted his gaze to Lu Mo-chen: “You want to go too?”
Lu Mo-chen raised his head, on one side was “Cold-Blooded Shark” with his hands clasped together, constantly making begging gestures, looking at him with a pleading expression; on the other side was Chu Li-fei’s interested gaze, his narrow eyes as warm and bright as the spring breeze.
He nodded blankly.
Seeing Lu Mo-chen’s rare blank look, Chu Li-fei felt a little novelty. However, he felt that he should go out for a while now, and let the little kid calm down alone.
He curved his eyes, as if thinking of some interesting picture, and turned his back to Lu Mo-chen, showing a smile.
Chu Li-fei took out his mobile phone and waved it, the interface on it was clearly the notification of a successful reservation for a private room in a certain restaurant. He opened the door: “You guys hurry up and pack up, I’ll go get a taxi first.”
The restaurant wasn’t too far from the competition venue, and it took about a quarter of an hour to get there by taxi.
The competition started in the afternoon, and it was now less than 8 o’clock, the few of them were indeed a little hungry, and they ordered several plates of dishes and several bottles of wine as soon as they went up.
Amidst the clinking of glasses, after a few drinks, led by Old Wang and “Cold-Blooded Shark”, the few people began to talk and laugh, chatting about everything, and in the end, there were even a few who were talking nonsense, obviously drunk.
Just then, Lu Mo-chen blurted out: “Captain, I’ve never heard you mention your family.”
Chu Li-fei’s hand holding the wine glass paused.
His cheeks were a little flushed, and he already looked slightly drunk.
His thoughts began to become confused, and for a moment, he seemed to blur the reality and the past, and everything that happened before him was like a dream.
Family?
How long has it been since he heard that word?
His biological parents were family, his brothers and sisters were family, his master was family, and his fellow disciples could also be family.
But in the end, they all betrayed him.
So he no longer had family, and he no longer had a home.
He kept company with demons and slumbered in a dark dream. If he could wake up from the dream, he would use his anger to burn everything until the end of revenge.
Thinking of this, Chu Li-fei’s eyes flickered, he put down his wine glass and replied: “Dead.”
“Ah?” Lu Mo-chen was startled, he didn’t expect things to be like this. He regretted that he was a little talkative and shouldn’t have brought up this question, and apologized repeatedly.
“Don’t listen to his nonsense. His parents are doing well, how did he start making up lies to deceive you?” Old Wang got up and shook Chu Li-fei, he didn’t expect this situation either, and asked doubtfully: “Drunk?…He didn’t used to get drunk so easily. Forget it, you watch him, I’ll go pay the bill first.”
He’s drunk?
Chu Li-fei was a little puzzled, was it because he hadn’t drunk for too long?
He remembered that he didn’t used to get drunk so easily, so it must be because of this body.
He tried his best to convince himself.
Wang Jian-guo: “Luo Qi, you and I will carry the remaining two people out first, Guan Dong Zhu, you wait and watch him, and carry him down when he’s better.”
Luo Qi immediately responded and carried “Cold-Blooded Shark” and “Bodhi Seed” out with Old Wang, one person each.
Before leaving, Old Wang didn’t forget to turn back and tell Guan Dong Zhu: “Oh right, if he wakes up, remember to let him pay me back. You guys hurry down later too.”
With a loud bang, the door was closed. Only the two of them remained in the private room, a silence.
Under the dim yellow light, Chu Li-fei’s eyes were slightly closed, and the redness on his cheeks became more and more obvious.
Lu Mo-chen stared at the exquisite eyebrows and eyes of the person in front of him, and fell into deep thought.
When talking about family just now, Wang Jian-guo said that Chu Li-fei was making up lies to deceive him, but he didn’t think so.
What Chu Li-fei said was true, he could feel it.
So what led to this difference.
Who exactly was Chu Li-fei deceiving?
Lu Mo-chen stretched out his hand, as if bewitched, and brushed away the strands of hair that hung over Chu Li-fei’s nose. He trembled his hand and continued downwards, tracing his features in the air, until those beautiful lips.
He had dreamed of these lips countless times, and the beautiful curve was already engraved in his heart.
But now, this work of art was exceptionally crystal clear and rosy due to the soaking of the wine, like the most intense red rose in the world, exuding a faint fragrance, waiting for him to pick it.
The silence in the private room was finally broken, Lu Mo-chen heard his own heartbeat.
He slowly leaned over, a dark color gradually welled up in his eyes.
The distance between the two became closer and closer, so close that he could even smell a faint cold fragrance from Chu Li-fei’s body, which was constantly warming up because of their closeness.
However, just as he was about to touch Chu Li-fei, he barely stopped.
He maintained this posture for a few seconds before standing up and taking a deep breath.
“I’m not a kid anymore.”
In the end, he couldn’t bear to move him.
Lu Mo-chen took a big gulp from Chu Li-fei’s leftover wine glass on the table, then helped Chu Li-fei up, put one of his arms on his shoulder, and slowly led him out the door.
And Chu Li-fei behind him slowly opened his eyes, with no drunkenness in his eyes.