Chapter 101: Flamers are so easy to please.
Ding-ge walked downstairs, massaging the space between his eyebrows.
With so many staff right outside of the elevator earlier today, what Lu Boyuan said would probably end up spreading all over Weibo and Tieba in a matter of days. Ding-ge's one saving grace was that at least Lu Boyuan had said "partner" and not "boyfriend," or else how could Ding-ge possibly still be living happily at that current moment.
Upon looking up and seeing the two of them come in from the balcony, Ding-ge, as an ultra-straight man, instantly imagined a bout of Revealing_Balcony_Activities.avi. At the same time his inner world was collapsing, he maintained his cool. "...how come you're still not going upstairs to practice yet? Xiao Bai and the rest want to order coffee, we mentioned you on WeChat but you two didn't answer. What do you want to drink? It's the same coffee shop we ordered from the last two times."
Jian Rong randomly listed off a type of coffee. Lu Boyuan was even more casual about it. "The same as him."
With the support of coffee, everyone collectively practiced until three AM that night.
Ding-ge had requested a long vacation from his wife and was staying overnight in the base these days. Lu Boyuan was about to start another game when Ding-ge stopped him.
Ding-ge whispered, "Enough, stop practicing, how long have you been playing?"
Lu Boyuan checked the time. "Only about four hours or so."
"BS, it's been six hours." Ding-ge said, "The doctor told you not to train for more than three hours every day. Now that you've suddenly doubled that quota, whose fault is it if something happens?"
Lu Boyuan glanced at Jian Rong, who was currently wearing headphones over both ears as he solo queued, and said indifferently, "Well, the doctor also recommended that I retire."
Ding-ge was immediately provoked by the word "retire," and no matter what Lu Boyuan said, Ding-ge didn't allow him to keep practicing anymore.
Lu Boyuan didn't keep pushing the issue either. He turned off his computer and headed back to his room; as he passed by Jian Rong, he patted him on the head and told him not to play till too late.
As usual, Jian Rong was streaming to pass the time. However, he was a little less talkative than normal tonight.
He kept thinking about Xiao Bai and Yuan Qian's conversation from a while ago—since Lu Boyuan came from such a good family, would his parents agree to him being together with a man? Even if they did agree, with Jian Rong's own family circumstances...
But upon remembering that brief kiss, he also felt a little happy.
He spotted yet another person stirring up rumors in the barrage about how "Road was getting special treatment due to his high salary and was the first to leave the practice room every time." Jian Rong minimized the game interface and picked out that dumbass from among the numerous barrage comments before he kicked and blocked that person from his livestream room.
Lu Boyuan returned to his room and locked the door. Then, he pulled out a box of cigarettes and a lighter from underneath the old keyboard sitting in the bottom shelf of his bookcase and sat down next to the bay window.
Lu Boyuan didn't often reminisce about the past, so it was easy for some small, trivial matters to be drowned out in his memories. For example, Jian Rong—Lu Boyuan only remembered that he had once given a kid a ticket for free before, and that it had almost been resold for a profit. He couldn't remember the finer details at all.
