The Beautiful Time With You

While reading through the messages one by one, Shi Yao couldn’t help but think what drama queens Juice and Expert were. Sending a 囧 expression over, she hurriedly ate her breakfast before tossing aside her phone and rushing to the bathroom.

Squeezing out some toothpaste, she stood in front of the bathroom mirror and began brushing her teeth. All of a sudden, her movements paused, and her face became scalding red. An entire night had already passed, but why couldn’t she forget that unreal scene from yesterday?

…

It was as if Shi Yao had sleepwalked the entire day. She was unable to focus on whatever she was doing.

It was only later in the night, when [Expert of the Monkeys] and [Juice] woke up and @’d her in the group to play, that she finally recovered from her hazy state.

Nevertheless, it took a round before Shi Yao’s muddled mind realized that there were only three of them in the room—[Juice], [Expert of the Monkeys], and her—even though they were playing Squad mode ¹ .

[111111] wasn’t around…

At the same time, she also suddenly realized that Mister Numbers hadn’t responded to the messages she had sent yesterday in the hospital.

Those were two consecutive messages…

It didn’t seem too possible for Mister Numbers to have not seen the messages. Putting that together with the fact that he was absent from the game, was he really angered by what she’d said the other day?

Shi Yao was tempted to ask Juice and Expert about the matter, but on second thought, she wondered if it would sound too abrupt if she suddenly brought it up.

After all, she wasn’t close with Mister Numbers in the first place.

Shi Yao pondered for a moment before eventually deciding to put aside the matter for now.

On the second day, nine o’clock, as usual, [Expert of the Monkeys] @’d [Yao Loves Ice Cream] in the WeChat group. [111111] wasn’t around again, so they played Squad mode with three players.

On the third day, they began playing at eight-thirty, but [111111] was still nowhere to be seen.

The same pattern went on for the fourth day, fifth day, and sixth day…

On the seventh day, noting that [111111] had already been gone for a week now, Shi Yao couldn’t hold herself back any longer. Thus, before their session ended that day, she asked with seeming casualness, “Why has it only been the three of us playing in the past few days? Where’s your boss?”

[Expert of the Monkeys] quickly responded, “Our boss didn’t come to school this week. He applied for a leave of absence.”

[Juice] sighed deeply. With a voice full of nostalgia, he lamented, “I really miss our boss. Over the past week that he wasn’t around, I didn’t get to eat any delicacies.”

[Expert of the Monkeys] also sighed as well as he said deeply, “Me too.”

Provoked by their sighs, Shi Yao couldn’t help but chuckle softly.

So, the reason why Mister Numbers wasn’t playing with them was because he had something to do, not because he was angry with her…

Knowing this, the heaviness in Shi Yao’s heart was finally alleviated.

…

Another day passed, and it was Sunday once more.

This Sunday, however, held a special significance to Shi Yao.

This was because today was the fifth day of March, the day which her Adonis, Legend, would be playing a friendly match in Beijing.

The very next day after hearing the news, she rushed to purchase the tickets online. And so, after eating her lunch at noon, she set forth and took the train to head to the event venue.

The match would commence at three o’clock, and Shi Yao arrived at two.

Despite being an hour early, the entrance to the event venue was still completely packed with people. Many young ladies were carrying fan boards with familiar names on them: L God, Legend…

By the time Shi Yao entered the premises and got into her seat, it was already two-fifty.