Part 42: Swim……trunks

The afternoon sun shines through the floor to ceiling windows, illuminating the two of them sitting on the hardwood floor beside the bed.

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Part 41: His World

The QA (quality assurance) department is the least technical department in the company compared to others.  The minimal requirement for a position here is to have experience and passion for gaming.  Wei Wei is an expert in online gaming nonetheless, therefore, she is more than qualified for the job.

The job of a QA is rather dull; you may need to converse with the same NPC continuously to see if there are any bugs, or you may need to traverse the same map over and over again……it’s definitely not what outsiders think where you only need to play the game casually and that’s it.

The QA department is scheduled to run a few tests on a major quest today.  Since the department has always been low in manpower, they’re more than happy to accept a helping hand.  The members of the team were originally worried that their Boss’s rumored beautiful girlfriend was only here to pass the time.  Who knew that she only needed to learn the new controls for Dream Voyage 2 and she was off to be a pro?

The manager of the QA department can’t help but feel that he has struck gold; he immediately feels approval towards Wei Wei, his boss’s future wife. Read more

Part 40: The Little Intern

 

It doesn’t matter whether Wei Wei did use her lovely charm or not, or what the process was. In short, on Monday morning, Xiao Nai punctually appears at the foot of Xiao Ling’s building to take Wei Wei to the company together.

Today, Wei Wei is wearing a white blouse paired with a black skirt bottom. The description makes it seem very professional, but that’s not actually the case. The blouse is a bit childish in style. The two sides of the skirt are sewed with folds with a bow strapped around her slender waist. She looks both cute and classy.

By chance, Xiao Nai, also, actually has on a simple white shirt with black pants. With the two of them walking side by side, they look as if they had deliberately wore a couple’s outfit. They look both energetic and relaxed, continuously drawing the gaze of those passing by. Read more

Part 39: I’m too embarrassed >0<

He fixes his shirt and goes outside.

The door closes.  Wei Wei doesn’t even have the strength to go back and sit on the sofa; she slides down with her back against the door and sits on the floor.  With her arms wrapped around her legs, her ears and face are red as she feels restless yet vexed and annoyed at the same time……

It’s a long while later when Wei Wei finally regains her strength and clears her mind from all the mixed emotions.

Wei Wei gets up in a second.  After all, how can she just squat here waiting for him?  That’s too absurd!  No way!  It’s best to hurry and run away.

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Part 38: Time to return little by little

The flowers are blooming, it is time to return little by little. (ref: Emperor Qian Liu quote in letter to wife)

Translated into vernacular language — My wife, you’ve been back at your parents’ home long enough, you should return.

Therefore, 7 days later, using an internship as the reason, Wei Wei sets out onto the return path.

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Part 37: Flowers Blooming

The heatwave in City B has gone on for a few days now.  Even when it’s nighttime, the temperature does not go down a degree.

The conference finally ends at 6pm.  YuGong follows Xiao Nai to the office, wanting to tag along for dinner.  After taking a seat on the sofa leisurely, YuGong asks frivolously, “Hey, so you and our department’s beauty are just going to live in two different cities?”

Xiao Nai walks behind to his desk, leans over slightly, and starts typing on his keyboard, “Our relationship is not to that degree yet.  It’s unjustified. What do you want me to do?”

Would you listen to that?!

Those words!  That tone!

It’s finally your turn to be in pain!

YuGong is elated and can’t suppress the joyous feeling, but he carefully restrains himself from revealing it.  The fellow in front of him is too smart, and he still owes him a couple hundred bucks.

“Sigh, this is quite depressing.” YuGong shows his sympathy.  Just as he is about to say “let us two unfortunate people have dinner together,” he sees Xiao Nai shut down his computer and looking like he is about to leave.  YuGong suddenly panics.

“You’re leaving so soon today?”

“Mm.”

“Where are you going?”

“Getting married and having kids.”

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Part 36: Bon voyage

It is silent at the top Sunset Summit for a period of time.

The white-robed musician who normally has accurate and fast APM (actions per minute) doesn’t actually click on accept until after a few seconds.

 

Category: Hairpin

Name: FaWei (lit. hair Wei) (named by creator, can be edited)

Item Class: Rare Mortal Item

Level Requirement: 90

Stats: +15% Musical Skill, +12% MP (Mana) Regen Speed, +38 Speed, +1000 HP (Health)

Durability: 500/500

Profession: Musician

Creator: ReedWeiWei

 

“Actually, besides the four spirit animals, I also got two types of rare materials from Feng Teng last time — White Jade of Tianshan and Fire Quencher of the Ninth Heaven (highest in Buddhism.) I made this from those along with some things I collected before.”

“The hairpin that you had is one of the best, but I wanted to see if I could make one even better.”

She really did end up making one that was extremely valuable.

In “Dream Voyage in Rivers and Lakes,” the high level equipment offered by the System Bot are called Divine Immortal Weapons, while the ones that are made by players themselves are called Mortal Weapons. But that doesn’t mean that the stats on a Mortal Weapon can’t surpass Immortal Weapons. The hairpin Wei Wei made is one of those that have better stats than general Immortal Weapons. However, it’s extremely difficult for a player to create a Rare Mortal Weapon; besides requiring precious materials and the player having high stats, it’s also based on probability.

 

“^_^, my luck’s not bad, right?”

Wei Wei nervously types over. There’s a lot more things she wants to say now. It’s as if the more she talks, the less she feels pressured. But as embarrassed as she is, if she had to do it again, she would still say those words again.

 

Her fingers pause as the white-robed musician says, “It’s me with the good luck.”

Wei Wei’s face becomes scalding hot. Maybe it’s just her with ulterior thoughts, but it seems like those extremely ordinary words of his seems to hold a deeper meaning.

“…eh, we are both lucky then.” What is she saying…

As if he can feel her embarrassment through the computer, Xiao Nai slightly smiles, “What does FaWei mean?”

“It means hairpin (Fa Zan) by Wei Wei.” Wei Wei, being a sciences student without a single romantic brain cell, feels that this is very easily understood, “If you don’t like it, you can change it. I don’t have a literary brain.”

“No need to change it. I really like it.”

 

Tying hair (the knot) with Wei.

Why wouldn’t he like it?

 

“Oh.”

Wei Wei answers without figuring out the “deeper meaning” to it. After uttering a sound, she wants to run away, “I’ll head off now. I’m tired from all the playing today and want to sleep early.”

The white-robed musician doesn’t try to stop her, “All right, thank you for your hard work, my wife.”

“……”

This person…seems to always say things with double meanings. She doesn’t know whether he’s saying that she’s been hard working from playing or from making the equipment. Awkwardly, Wei Wei leaves behind a string of dot dot dots and quickly disconnects.

 

The red figure disappears from the cliff. The seconds tick by. Only after quite a few minutes do the slender fingers on the laptop gently tap on the right mouse button to put on the new hairpin.

The white jade hairpin trickling with light, shines with translucence/sparkles and shines clearly on his pitch black hair. Xiao Nai gazes at it, mesmerized.

He suddenly really wants to see her.

At this moment, her eyebrows would be slightly raised, her eyes will be brighter than normal; she would pretend to be completely indifferent despite clearly being very embarrassed; and she would have a slight young and innocent look; she would definitely be incomparably beautiful.

 

“You haven’t wasted all that time on reading the proverbs’ dictionary.” His fingers move away from the laptop. After taking one more glance at the scene in the game, Xiao Nai closes his laptop and throws it on the bed, “Play mahjong?”

The door of the dorm room is violently kicked open with a bang, breaking the bewildered looks of those in the room. After this, YuGong’s surprised loud voice is heard, “No way. Third brother, with such a beautiful scenery underneath the moonlight accompanied by such a flower, how come you got back earlier than us!”

Wow!

After his bewildered cries, YuGong rushes over to drag out the mahjong from underneath the bed, “What’s wrong with you? You actually want to play mahjong?”

“Nothing,” Xiao Nai says matter-of-factly, “I’m in a good mood and want to let it out a bit.”

“Hoho, let me first say that I’ve recently been having good luck and getting good hands. You better pay up when the time comes.” YuGong dumps out the mahjong tiles with a crash.

Xiao Nai sits down by the table without comment.

……

……

An hour later.

Xiao Nai pushes the tiles in front of him down, “Same suit, consecutive chain. You better pay up.”

YuGong is brimming with tears.

MonkeyWine pats him sympathetically, “So sad, I didn’t think that third brother treating guests today has become you paying the bill in the end.”

“Who said I’m paying the bill? The night is still young.” YuGong pats down on the table, “Again! I’m going to turn this around.”

 

The night is indeed young.

This night is a night forever engraved in their memory, the last night for the seniors at this school. The younger classmen have just been freed from exams and the entire school is stirring restlessly with happiness. The lights of many dorm rooms stay on for the entire night.

However, the night still passes in the end and the next morning arrives. Classmate YuGong has still not turned things around and sadly steps into the workforce with a couple hundred dollars of debt on hisshoulders.

As for Wei Wei, she also leaves City B at dusk to go home for summer vacation.

 

“Wei Wei, your train ticket is so early.”

Xiao Ling and Er Xi carry Wei Wei’s luggage together to walk with Wei Wei downstairs.

“That’s right.”

Replying absentmindedly, Wei Wei looks down from the window in the staircase. Between the trees, she can see that Xiao Nai’s car is already waiting downstairs.

Xiao Ling also sticks out her head and giggles happily, “It is nice having a boyfriend whose parents are professors. His car can be driven in the school. Otherwise, you’d have to ride the bus to the school gates. So inconvenient.”

“Otherwise, how can he be called the ever capable Great Master? But, Wei Wei,” Er Xi says, “you’re leaving so early. Your (family’s) Great Master isn’t upset about it?”

 

He shouldn’t be upset…right?

In the car, Wei Wei secretly observes him. No matter how you look at him, the Great Master looks concentrated on driving. The side profile of his refreshing and handsome face doesn’t have any expression on it, but he obviously doesn’t look happy either.

Embarrassed, Wei Wei offers up the little plastic bag she has been holding in her hands the entire time; inside is a small cactus in a pot, “This is for you.”

Xiao Nai glances at it, “New dowry?”

= =

As expected, the Great Master isn’t going to let the word dowry go. He was probably too late about expressing it yesterday. “It’s the cactus that I’ve been growing. I can’t take care of it over summer vacation, so I wanted to give it to you to take care of.”

“Oh,” Xiao Nai quietly says, “so that I will think of you whenever I see it?”

 

Hey, don’t make this awkward!

She knows that only telling him during lunch that she was leaving that night was a bit abrupt, but it’s not her fault either. Wei Wei whispers, “I didn’t purposely book it this early. When the school booked tickets as a group, I didn’t know you then.”

Facing the facts, Xiao Nai doesn’t have anything to say about it either.

 

When they get to North Station, Xiao Nai goes to buy a platform ticket. Wei Wei follows him. When Xiao Nai takes the change and ticket from the counter, Wei Wei suddenly leans over to ask the ticket seller, “Are there still tickets to go to City W for tomorrow or the day after?”

The ticket seller doesn’t even check before saying, “No, all tickets in the next five days are gone.”

It is the expected response, but the Great Master’s sudden expression when looking at her makes her feel depressed.

 

Eventually, there is a trace of a smile at the corners of Xiao Nai’s lips. He pulls her out of the crowd, takes out his cellphone, and starts dialing.

“How’s a plane ticket for the day after tomorrow?”

Wei Wei is startled for a bit before understanding what he means. She quickly stops him, “There’s no need.”

Even if it’s just one more day, she still has to leave in the end. Asking earlier was just an impulsive move. Now that she’s calmed down, she feels that it’s improper. Wei Wei says with her head hanging, “I already told my dad that I’ll be home tomorrow morning.”

With the mood a bit down, she watches him put the cellphone back into his pocket, depressed.

But…

“Forget it.”

He sighs, pulls her hand and walks towards the waiting hall. Xiao Nai compromises, “Give me a call immediately once you get home.”

Wei Wei relaxes and quickly nods.

“Buy a cellphone soon.”

She continues to nod and makes a solemn vow, “I’ll buy one as soon as I get home.”

Wei Wei suddenly recalls the talk last night with her dorm mates. Er Xi asked why the Great Master didn’t buy a cellphone for her. At the time, how did she reply — the Great Master wouldn’t do such inappropriate things.

Her heart suddenly feels a kind of happiness from having connected minds.

 

Xiao Nai goes with her onto the train. Just as he puts the luggage in place, the conductor makes a reminder that the train is leaving soon.

“You should go quickly.” Wei Wei doesn’t know what to say at this time either and only knows to urge him, “remember to take care of the cactus.”

Actually, the cactus would be all right even if it isn’t watered for a few months. But when she was packing up last night, the first thing that flashed through her mind was to give it to the Great Master. The first reason is that she had noticed that the Great Master’s office didn’t even have a pot of cactus to absorb the radiation. However, the deeper meaning was something that she didn’t even dig into. The general idea was probably those words.

Seeing an object makes one miss its owner. (idiom)

Summer vacation is two months.

 

“Place it next to your computer in your office when you go back…”

It’s best if you look at it every day.

 

Xiao Nai raises his eyebrows.

So, she’s going to continuously talk about her cactus before she leaves? If he lets her leave just like this, he will be quite a failure.

 

A light and graceful kiss.

Another kiss, controlled yet with a hint of repressed emotions, softly lands on her eyelids.

With much reluctance, he pulls away. Xiao Nai gazes into her eyes.

“Wei Wei, have a good trip.”

 

Wei Wei does indeed have a “good trip (go with the wind)” home.

Because she goes home floating (light headed) >o<

Part 35: Making up for the dowry

The buzz of the forum topic gradually fades from everyone’s scrutiny after the last two gossip items.

 

First gossip item.

It is said that on a certain day, a certain male student ran into the rumored male lead at the bottom of the dorm building. Being so excited, he tried to get to the bottom of the matter, braving the risk to his life, “What are your thoughts about the topic on the forum?”

It is said that Xiao Nai glanced at him and dropped these words, “It’s better to have, than not have.”

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Part 34: The Truth

Wei Wei looks at him, unable to shift her gaze, and suddenly feels a bit of uneasiness.

She doesn’t like this at all.  It’s as if he has become an object for fighting back and showing off; and also in a circumstance that he isn’t even aware of.

Er Xi observes her expression and says nervously, “Wei Wei, you’re not backing out last minute now, are you?!”

What do you mean backing out last minute?  When did she ever say she wanted to fight?!

Wei Wei glares at her while feeling depressed inside.  They’re supposed to be going out for dinner, but with this going on, a simple dinner gathering has become complicated.

Forget it.  She’ll just pretend that those people are not there.  They just happen to be eating at the same restaurant.  With that in mind, Wei Wei reminds her roommates, “You guys better focus on eating and talk less.”

She realizes that that isn’t right since French cuisine is expensive, so she quickly adds, “Don’t eat too much either!”

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Part 33: The path only wide enough for one

Actually, in retrospect, Wei Wei also feels that her own line was very terrifying. But to pick a fight at the door, being imposing was very important. Well, afterwards, it was Wei Wei, using the excuse of being busy, asking Cao Guang to substitute for her and teach a session of basic English to the little boy.

With that, she didn’t have to explain anything else; everything became completely clear.

 

Since the truth of these kinds of things can easily become distorted, Wei Wei didn’t even tell those in her dorm room about it. The affair had happened so long ago that Wei Wei has pretty much almost forgotten all about it. She simply tells her dorm mates. Xiao Ling exclaims in admiration, “It’s so like a drama. Did Cao Guang have feelings towards you? Why didn’t you guys develop a relationship?”

“Intuition, “ Wei Wei says in contemplation, “Eh?! Perhaps I knew that there would be someone even better later on?”

Everyone is shocked.

Si Si asks, “Then why does the talented Liang girl also speak up for you?”

Wei Wei isn’t too certain about it either, “This person, does she have a very pointy chin, is a bit shorter than me, and has curly waist-length hair?”

Wei Wei describes her based on the remnants of her impression of her.

Si Si nods, “That’s right, that’s her.”

Wei Wei makes an “oh” sound and then her face has an awkward expression on it.

Er Xi shakes her, “Stop keeping us in suspense. Hurry and speak, how do you know her?”

Wei Wei says, “I…think I helped her bargain for a price.”

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