Chapter 99   - Your gift for no longer being single.

The chat with Yi Ran in the morning directly affected Yu Yan’s mood for the rest of the day.

For example, currently, he was manipulating the character in his hands with a serious expression on his face, as he hid on the bridge to collect the bridge-crossing toll. A car roared forward, and he stuck out his head to clearly determine the other party’s position. Then he immediately pointed a red dot scope at it——

[yanxyan eliminated WHOAMI007 by detonating the vehicle.]

His actions caused this notification to pop up on the upper-right corner of the screen, and then he collected the guns and loaded them. He simply told his teammates, “They’re all dead.”

His playing was still strong, but he just wasn’t interacting with his stream followers and teammates. From the beginning of the match to now, he had only said three sentences, and they had only been spoken when he had seen good things and had turned on his mic to ask his teammates if they wanted them or not.

Leaving this sentence behind, he got on his motorcycle, took the lead in rushing over to the other end of the bridge to loot, and then returned to the safe zone.

[After watching so many anchors, I haven’t seen anyone sweep cars away as beautifully as you do.]

[With these kinds of skills, why be an anchor ? Someone wrote a request with their own blood, asking you to enter their team, consider CN7 a bit??]

[CN7 starters are so strong, are you just letting my Xiao Yan enter to become a substitute player? Son, I think QM is pretty good. QM had several players leave recently, so if you go, you can definitely start directly!]

[Isn’t the previous poster annoying ? Don’t mention matters about teams in front of Xiao Yan, okay? Was whatever that happened before not distressing enough ?]

His livestream had more stream followers now, so naturally, there were more quarrels taking place as well. As soon as any jarring noise appeared in the conversation, a quarrel would start. The administrator had assigned an extra stream moderator to help him recently, but it was obviously not enough.

Feeling that the lines in the barrage assistant in the upper left corner of the screen were flashing by faster and faster, Yu Yan took the time to glance at it, and only then did he sort of snap out of his silent state and open his mouth.

“How did you guys start quarreling over even this subject?” Yu Yan said, “I’m not planning on joining any teams. Besides, those teams would turn their noses up at me . Everyone, don’t talk about such meaningless topics.”

After he had streamed for a while, Yi Ran, who was sitting beside him, stood up.

“Xiao Yan, I’m not playing anymore. My friend and I made plans to go get a foot massage.” Yi Ran turned off his computer and asked him, “Want to go? Sitting in front of the computer all day, you must have a lot of problems in and around the waist. Let’s go, I’ll treat you to a massage.”

“I’m not going.” Seeing that Yi Ran wasn’t joining him in playing anymore, Yu Yan directly queued up for a solo match. “Do you want auntie to leave you some dinner in the microwave?”

“No need, I won’t be back for dinner,” Yi Ran said, then suddenly pointed to Yu Yan’s microphone with his finger, and mouthed, “Turn off the mic.”

Yu Yan froze, before turning off the mic in accordance with his words.

“Everything I told you this morning was just me talking randomly. Don’t take it to heart, it’s actually nothing serious.” Yi Ran had noticed that Yu Yan’s spirits were low and so comforted him.

“My Ge is a very independent person. Maybe he doesn’t even want my uncle and aunt to care for him. Besides, all that gossip that those awful relatives indulge in, my Ge also doesn’t take it to heart at all.”

Yu Yan’s mood wasn’t soothed by these words.

Yes, no one wanted to be controlled by their parents. However, parents weren’t there to just supervise their children, but were also a harbor and a pair of supporting arms.

Yu Yan had already lost this, so he was very clear about what it was like to be without a parents’ love and company.

And no one was a saint, so how could there be someone who would completely ignore the gossip of people around them? Even more so when those people were Yi Chen’s relatives.

“I know,” Yu Yan just replied with that. He laughed and said, “You go ahead .”

At the end of the meeting in the afternoon, just as Yi Chen walked out of the meeting room, his assistant came up with him and whispered, “President Yi, Haiming Group’s President Chen just called and said that he wanted to ask you to have dinner and reminisce about old days.”

“Not going.” Yi Chen said, “I have plans tonight.”

“Alright.” His assistant thought of something. “Driver Liu asked for leave at noon, so I will send you over in the evening ? Then after you’re done, I can send you back.”

Yi Chen said, “No need, I’ll drive by myself.” Yi Chen had originally been teased into a good mood by the barrage. By the time he suddenly saw those words in the barrage, it was too late to retract the smile on his lips.

Yu Yan was playing in the final circle and didn’t realize that the expression of the person next to him had changed.

Their entire team made it into the final circle and even looted two airdrops along the way. Yu Yan now had an M249 in his hand, and relying on a hundred bullets, had overturned the last three Voldemorts, successfully gathering 16 kills to win the match.

In the barrage, the viewers began to sigh emotionally again. Talking back and forth, they couldn’t go two sentences without mentioning the idea of playing professionally.

He had seen these kinds of words too many times now, and Yu Yan didn’t have such a fragile heart made of glass, especially more so when sitting next to Yi Chen.

It hadn’t been difficult for Yu Yan to eat chicken and gather 16 kills, but even then, he couldn’t help but turn his head like a child waiting for praise and say, “Yi Chen, I ate chicken.”

Yi Chen met his eyes and let out an unclear laugh. “…Then you’re pretty strong.”

He got his praise.

But to Yu Yan’s ears, he kept feeling like these words didn’t seem to be earnest praise.

Sure enough, after Yi Chen said that, he suddenly asked, “Heard you got a girlfriend?”

“?”

Yu Yan froze, not sure how to react. “I…what girlfriend?”

Yi Chen raised his hand, bent his finger, and gently scratched at the computer screen. “They said it.”

[Boss 1 still doesn’t know yet?? Xiao Yan said in the stream that day that he has a girlfriend now.]

“Oh?” Yi Chen said. “I really didn’t know about that.”

Yu Yan quickly explained, “No. What I said was, I’m not single anymore.”

As soon as these words were uttered, everyone was left stunned.

Only Yi Chen, who was sitting at his side, smiled.

[？？？ ]

[So you’re not single, how does that conflict with you having a girlfriend???]

[Wait a moment, I suddenly have a bold idea…]

“Alright.” Yi Chen opened his mouth and cut off the topic. He said, “Yanyan, let me show you something.”

Yu Yan asked, “What?”

“Reach your hands out and take it.”

Yu Yan followed his instructions and held out his hands under the table.

His hands were then tightly grasped by Yi Chen, who raised his thumb and scratched it gently against Yu Yan’s palm.

“Do you like it?” Yi Chen, who had nothing in his hands, continued, “Just in time, it can be your gift for no longer being single.”

“……”

The barrage filled with lines about the same topic, with everyone urging him to take the gift out and bring it in front of the camera so that they could also take a look. There were even some people guessing what the gift was.

Yu Yan really felt as if the two of them were having a clandestine love affair right now.

His ears were red, and he let out an “en” sound. He grasped the other person’s hand under the table and held it for a long time as he said, “…I like it.”

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Juurensha: Awwww Yanyan earnestly lecturing about the finer points of PUBG to Yi Chen while Yi Chen dotes on him and praises him is so cute.

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