Rookie Lin Yu.

Put down his phone.

Lin Yu rested it on his chest and silently stared at the gray-and-white striped ceiling.

In the end, he had accepted Zhao Dahu’s kindness.

He had no choice.

Even if he didn’t think about himself, he still had to think about Tang Manman—and the little family they would have in the future.

Money was something they definitely needed.

The phone on his chest suddenly began to vibrate.

Lin Yu picked it up and saw a notification from his mobile banking app informing him that a transfer had arrived.

When he saw the seven-figure sum in the message, his eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. He hurriedly grabbed his phone and sent Zhao Dahu a message.

Long Aotian: Why is it so much?

Long Aotian: Did you send it to the wrong person?

Zhao Dahu: It’s not that much.

Zhao Dahu: That’s your entire share from the past six months.

Zhao Dahu: I just rounded it up for you.

Rounded it up?

A question mark appeared above Lin Yu’s head.

Was there such a thing as rounding a million up?

I love rich people!

Long Aotian: All right, thanks.

Zhao Dahu: Brother Long, you really don’t have to thank me for this...

Lin Yu put down his phone. With his wallet suddenly much fatter, he happily bounced out of bed.

After being struck by this windfall, his first instinct was to share his joy with Tang Manman.

But after searching the house for quite a while like a walking loudspeaker, Lin Yu still couldn’t find her anywhere.

With no other choice, the excited Lin Yu could only go and grind out a couple of games.

He turned on his computer, then called and yelled at his four good-for-nothing buddies to get out of bed at once so they could team up and slaughter their way through Summoner’s Rift.

However, the moment they picked up the phone, none of them had the slightest interest in playing. Instead, they all started shouting.

Some demanded to know why Lin Yu was allowed to find such a beautiful girlfriend.

Some condemned Lin Yu’s blond-haired ways with righteous fury, wishing they could tear him apart and drink his blood.

Others adopted a humble, obsequious attitude, begging Big Blondie Lin Yu to teach them even the slightest bit of his expertise.

They wanted to experience the sour stench of love for themselves, instead of remaining forever single like eighteen-year-old virgins...

After Lin Yu had been dragged home by his wife last night, it should have been an exhilarating night of climbing the ranks for everyone in the dorm.

Especially without Lin Yu, the burden, they could simply find another expert to fill his spot. Let alone 2,300 points, they might even have had a shot at breaking through 2,500.

But after that beautiful, delicate girl had taken Lin Yu away, it was as if their souls had followed the soft, lovely girl in the white dress onto that moonlit path, vanishing straight into the distance.

All that remained were hollow corpses, walking around without souls. One by one, they sat dejectedly on their beds, filling the empty ashtrays with cigarette butts.

Damn it!

Why him?!

They had thought they were all just gaming shut-ins.

Then Lin Yu had somehow gotten a girl that beautiful pregnant.

So jealous... (Strike that.)

You’re seriously not human!

Lin Yu moved the phone away from his ear to keep their anguished voices from drowning him out.

Only after they had ranted on and on did Lin Yu finally explain everything clearly.

He told them that their sister-in-law wasn’t pregnant at all. She had merely used that excuse to drag her husband back to her mountain stronghold.

After the people on the other end learned the whole story, none of them felt particularly happy anymore.

It was truly a case of being afraid that your brother would suffer from being single, yet also afraid that he would manage to win over a goddess!

But things had already come to this.

They might as well play some games first.

They had been so distracted last night that they hadn’t felt like playing at all. They had barely broken through 2,000 points, let alone reached 2,200.

They had to take advantage of the weekend and hurry to climb higher, or they wouldn’t qualify for the competition.

Putting on his headset, Lin Yu joined the same battle as his four teammates, despite being dozens of kilometers apart...

...

“Click.”

The door lock gave a soft click, and Tang Manman entered carrying a bag of breakfast.

She raised a hand to cover her lips and gave a small yawn.

Since she had gone to bed late the night before, she had also gotten up somewhat late that morning.

After waking, she hadn’t even had time to wash and properly fix herself up. She had hurried downstairs to buy the breakfast Lin Yu had mentioned wanting before bed the previous night.

Now that she had returned with the food, Tang Manman hummed a little tune as she changed into her adorable bear slippers in the entryway.

With the breakfast in hand, she planned to return to the bedroom and feed Lin Yu like a beloved little pet.

She had only made it halfway there when her delicate brows suddenly knitted together. She lifted her eyes toward the computer room beside the kitchen.

A terribly smug laugh was coming from inside—the kind of laugh someone made only after successfully acting like a complete pain in the neck.

Tang Manman walked over and pushed open the door.

Inside, she saw a certain someone sitting proudly at the computer, his teeth unbrushed and his face unwashed.

His eyes were fixed so intently on the screen that they looked ready to fall into it.

Seeing Lin Yu playing games again the moment he woke up, Tang Manman felt somewhat helpless.

Still, she was already very satisfied that she had managed to drag him home from the dorm.

At least for now, she was satisfied.

Holding up the breakfast, Tang Manman waved it beside the monitor without disturbing Lin Yu’s view and said softly:

“Breakfast is ready.”

Lin Yu turned his head at the sound, glanced at the food, then immediately turned back and continued devoting himself wholeheartedly to the computer.

He answered perfunctorily, “Yeah.”

Yeah?

Tang Manman’s peach-colored eyes widened slightly.

Lin Yu’s completely unconcerned attitude was truly infuriating.

She had gotten up at nine-thirty that morning.

The moment she saw the time, she hadn’t even had the chance to wash her face properly with cleanser before rushing downstairs to buy breakfast for this guy.

She had been afraid that the buns he liked would sell out.

And now that she had finally brought the food back...

All she got in return was his utterly indifferent “Yeah”?

Tang Manman secretly ground her teeth.

She could tolerate Lin Yu playing games.

But she absolutely could not tolerate him ignoring her like this!

Looking at Lin Yu, who was completely absorbed in the game, Tang Manman decided to launch her revenge.

She couldn’t let him play so comfortably. She had to cause him a little trouble.

A considerable amount of trouble!

She placed the breakfast on the floor beside her, crouched down, and let the white hem of her dress spread across the ground.

Then, still seething, she crawled beneath Lin Yu’s computer desk...

...

“Holy crap!”

“Lin Yu, are you even capable of playing?”

“How could you miss that hook?!”

“Even if I sent the guard dog from my hometown over here, that hook would have landed one hundred percent of the time, all right?”

The ADC laning alongside Lin Yu was reaching the limit of his patience after being repeatedly sabotaged.

The game had gone quite well during the first few minutes. Lin Yu’s hooks had been astonishingly accurate, and before three minutes had passed, he had led the team to a successful level-one team fight.

He had contributed a huge advantage of four kills to the team.

So why was he playing so terribly now?

A game they had been certain to win was being thrown away by Lin Yu’s awful plays!

Listening to the furious voice coming through his headset, Lin Yu could only suffer in silence.

Anyone would have had trouble playing under these circumstances, right?

Hey, hey, hey!

Don’t use your teeth to scrape it!