Zhao Xuyu was speechless.

I didn't expect this wave to be self-inflicted.

"I asked you to order food, what prize do you draw..."

Meng Xia's expression was serious: "I can pretend not to know about you being a professional player, but we will go home tomorrow, so please don't mention the game in front of your uncles and aunts."

"I know that."

Zhao Xuyu unconsciously pinched the bread in his hand and smiled wryly.

"Of course I won't mention it in front of them. After so many years, their concept of the game has not changed at all. I am afraid that even if I win the top league championship, it will not be enough. At least I must be a world champion. Let them see me on CCTV. awards ceremony before they admit that I can make a living from it."

With the development and progress of the times, e-sports is no longer a partial industry, especially with the popularity of Freedom in society, related professional leagues have the same status as other sports.

It's a pity that not everyone's thinking can progress with the times, and not all parents can respect the wishes of their children.

Even if it is changed to other sports, his parents may not agree with him to regard "playing" as a career.

·

"Hey, if I didn't want to see you, I would not have come back this time, so what the **** are you doing in Haishi? You haven't shown your face for four years, are you really engaged in pyramid schemes?"

"No, it's just..."

Meng Xia didn't want to hide it from him, but it was hard to explain.

"It's just what? Oh, I'm starving to death after you organize your words. Slow down at night, I'll eat first!"

Zhao Xuyu's stomach screamed one after another, quickly took out a piece of bread, stuffed it into his mouth, and chewed hard, "So, when will your dinner be ready?"

"What dinner?"

Meng Xia glanced at the bread in his hand, indicating that it was what he was eating.

Zhao Xuyu thumped his chest and swallowed the bread, unbelievable: "So, we haven't seen each other for four years, and you let me eat this for the first meal after a long absence? Not even a bottle of water?"

"..." Meng Xia acquiesced.

"My mother stayed up all night to replay the game last night, and I went straight to catch the plane this morning. When I arrived, I came to find you immediately, and I didn't eat anything until now! Are you just fooling me like this?!"

Zhao Xuyu was furious, feeling that his enthusiasm had been deeply let down, he didn't eat the rest of the bread, turned his head and ran out.

"Boss! Where's the boss? I want to complain! This kid's service is not good, bad review bad review!"

The guests who just came back heard the movement and looked this way curiously. Meng Xia was afraid that he would really have some negative effects, so she quickly blocked his mouth with a lollipop.

Zhao Xuyu cursed silently, Meng Xia didn't even peel the candy wrapper for him.

·

Chi Zhenzhen just went to get takeaway milk tea and asked Meng Xia to go downstairs to eat together, only to see Zhao Xuyu rushing towards her.

"Which one is Meng Xia's meal?"

"Hey, this..."

Thinking that he was helping Meng Xia with food, Chi Zhenzhen handed it to him.

"Okay, it's not bad, mine."

Zhao Xuyu confiscated it on the spot.

"?"

Chi Zhenzhen looked up in surprise and saw Meng Xia standing at the stairs, waving at her helplessly.

"Give it to him."

·

In the evening, the three of us ate at the restaurant together.

Zhao Xuyu picked out all the side dishes that he didn't want to eat, and piled them up into a hill on the plate.

Chi Zhenzhen was a little better than him, and the side dishes he selected only spread into a lake.

Meng Xia sat between the two of them, listened to their thoughts, and picked vegetables from their lakes and hills expressionlessly, and slowly ate the bread.

Barely full, Zhao Xuyu expressed emotion: "It's unbelievable, you Baiweizhuang, named a restaurant, and have such a big restaurant, but you can't even prepare a decent meal, and you still want to eat takeaway?"

"...Talk slowly."

Chi Zhenzhen felt pierced and ran away in despair.

After listening to Zhao Xuyu scolding people all afternoon, I feel a little scared of him now.

·

Meng Xia said calmly: "I can only blame you for coming too early, the chef hasn't started work yet."

"Who is the chef, why is it not on?"

"It's me, still learning."

"..."

Zhao Xuyu was dumbfounded.

"What on earth have you... been doing all these years? The scope of business is too broad. This is not only for playing with games, but also for learning how to cook."

"Life forces me to take on several jobs. I'm not like you."

Meng Xia got up to get a rag to wipe the table, Zhao Xuyu silently stepped aside, seeing how proficient he was in doing chores, and imagining the hardships he had to make a living outside, so he held back from complaining to him.

But on second thought, it doesn't seem right.

"According to what you said, you are so busy at work that you don't have time to play games, but you can't be just starting to play this operation, right? There is a limit to genius."

"I just work in the game."

"Ah? Are you actually a professional gamer? Who did you work illegally for? You can still be imprisoned for four years."

"Call for KL, you lift your foot."

After Meng Xia wiped the table and began to sweep the floor, Zhao Xuyu changed his position and raised his feet.

"KL, he is really busy there. It is said that the live broadcast is not interrupted for more than ten hours a day, all year round."

"Well, that's right."

Meng Xia responded casually.

·

Zhao Xuyu suddenly stopped making a sound, and the air froze for a moment.

Meng Xia swept up the scallions that fell under Zhao Xuyu's feet, wiped the floor again, and then arranged the moved chairs neatly.

Doing these trivial things naturally and normally, as if this is everything in his life now.

"etc!"

Zhao Xuyu stood up abruptly and grabbed his shoulders: "Meng Xia, what did you just say?"

Meng Xia frowned, and pushed his hand away: "Why are you suddenly excited?"

"You said, you are KL's substitute, am I right? The KL who is so popular now? You have been acting as his substitute?"

"Yes, keep your voice down."

Meng Xia looked outside, but luckily no one heard him.

"Why are you!?"

"I'm stupid!"

Zhao Xuyu cursed, he was in a very complicated mood now.

What is the concept of substitute playing?

It is that no matter how much effort you put in and how many achievements you have made, it will not belong to you. It is a matter of only giving without real return.

·

In an instant, he thought not only of Meng Xia's four years, but also his own four years.

The forced completion of university studies made him miss the best time to become a professional player. When Guo Siming and the others entered the club early to start training, he was still busy with the meaningless final exam.

Now is the age when he should win the top league championship, but he has just been qualified to enter the top league.

He doesn't know how long his career can last, and whether the remaining time is enough to support his dream.

— These four years are too long and too precious for them.

But Meng Xia wasted such precious time on an even more meaningless thing.

Obviously he has such good college entrance examination results, it is more than enough to go to any top university in China.

They could have had a better future.

·

"You really, I...I can't accept it."

Zhao Xuyu's voice was trembling, he was always an emotional person, he couldn't be a calm machine like Meng Xia.

"Come on, it's over."

Meng Xia didn't have that much feeling at first, but was affected by Zhao Xuyu, and his heart was a little turbulent.

But it's just a little turmoil.

For him, suffering and regret are the normal state of life, the only thing to do is to face, accept, and forget. Move forward.

If he always thinks back on his past experience and is overly immersed in some things that cannot be changed, he will be deeply in pain when his parents abandon him and leave him, and when the creditor comes to the house to take him away. Extricate yourself.

Instead of having to wait until now.

·

Chi Zhenzhen sat on the swing in the yard and played with her mobile phone. If she saw something funny, she would share it in the group.

With a happy smile on her face, she swings her legs carefree, as if all the troubles in this world have nothing to do with her.

Zhao Xuyu suddenly pushed the door open and ran out, startling her.

"Really, what's the matter?"

She complained in a low voice, seeing Zhao Xuyu running out of the gate without looking back, she looked over curiously.

Then I saw Meng Xia also running out, walked around the gate and called, but couldn't get through.

"Hey, what's the matter? What's the matter, what happened?"

Chi Zhenzhen hurried over, her heart of gossip was about to move.

"Are you fighting?"

"No…"

Feeling helpless, Meng Xia called again and got connected.

"Come back, how old are you, and you run away when you have something serious?"

After finishing speaking, Zhao Xuyu came in from the door, "Who ran away, I didn't run away, I just came to see the two stone lions at the door."

"..."

Meng Xia did not expose him, and sighed silently.

The midsummer evening wind gently blows the half-bloomed lotus in the courtyard, setting off a faint fragrance.

The bright moonlight shines on the boulder in the center of the lotus pond, illuminating the scrawled "everything in the world" above~lightnovelpub.net~Look, the moon is so round today! "

Chi Zhenzhen suddenly pointed excitedly at the moon in the sky, took out her phone and tried to take a picture.

Meng Xia looked up.

Zhao Xuyu also looked at it for a while, but he was more concerned about the stones in the opposite lotus pond.

"Every flavor in the world, why are these four words engraved on it?"

"Because I like it."

Chi Zhenzhen replied: "Carving a few words looks very impressive, doesn't it?"

This reason is in line with her personality, there is so much meaning in everything.

"Haha, that's true. I didn't pay attention when I first entered the door. Now it seems that I have a lot of feelings."

Zhao Xuyu smiled.

Chi Zhenzhen touched Meng Xia: "What do you think?"

"I feel fine."

Meng Xia said flatly.

·

The three chatted outside for a while about the moon, then for a while about philosophy, and finally they talked about barbecue.

It hit it off and decided to go out for skewers, and before I knew it, I stayed up until midnight.

When Chi Zhenzhen went back, she immediately washed up and went to bed.

Zhao Xuyu saw Meng Xia walking towards the grocery store, so he couldn't help following.

I wonder what chores he has to do so late.

I saw him go in and take off his clothes, his back was covered with plaster like a patch.

"ah…"

Meng Xia sensed someone behind him, turned around and saw that it was Zhao Xuyu, paused slightly, and quickly continued calmly.

No explanation or cover up.

Zhao Xuyu took a deep breath, originally he wanted to say a lot.

But thinking about it, there is nothing to say, he is already a professional player, and he will get used to these sooner or later.

"Do you need help?"

"No."