The business of the food stall was good, and the nearby tables were full of people. Chu Qiaoyu was very moved when he saw a large bottle of ice-cold cola that was steaming on the next table.

There is a special joy in drinking iced Coke in winter.Moreover, they sat in a relatively inner position, and the wind was not blown too much. The temperature sitting here was much more comfortable than when they were walking by the river, and drinking ice would not be too cold.

So after he asked Yu Lan, he asked the passing waiter to bring a can of iced Coke and a can of room temperature Coke.

The little girl in the store quickly brought the drinks they needed, he pushed the normal temperature can to Yu Lan, and fell silent while holding the ice can.

The food stalls are noisy and very lively.At the table on the left, there were four or five middle-aged men chatting loudly. Several uncles opened a few bottles of beer, chatted about current affairs and stocks, and drank while talking, blushing and excited.The table on the right is a young couple, they are close to each other, talking intimately as if no one else is around.

And they are out of place in the food stall, which is the only low point in the lively atmosphere.

The two sat at the same table without interacting with each other. Compared with acquainted friends who came out to eat together, they looked more like strangers who had to share a table due to lack of space in the store.

Yu Lan has been swiping his phone silently since he finished ordering, with a serious expression on his face.

Although Chu Qiaoyu wanted to say a few words to brighten the atmosphere, on the one hand, he really didn't know what to say to Yu Lan in the current relationship.He took out his phone and wandered aimlessly among the various apps.

He clicked back and forth, and clicked into the Lemon Live app.Speaking of it, he didn't explain too much to the audience, he just said that something happened and he quit the live broadcast room before the broadcast, not knowing what they would think.

He entered his circle of water friends out of curiosity.Most of his fans are night owls, not to mention the special time of New Year's Eve, when most of them will choose to stay up late.Therefore, the circle of water friends is very hot, and the number of posts and replies continue to increase.

The first one that was pinned to the top was the guess of the water friends about the labor model anchor Liu Mian's New Year's Eve look that was hurriedly downloaded in advance. The person who posted the post was a male room manager in the live broadcast room.

Most of the housekeepers in Chu Qiaoyu are girls, and the male housekeeper is easy to remember as a little green among the red bushes.Not to mention that this guy wears the head portrait of a two-dimensional soft girl, and he is the most ruthless in blocking illegal barrage and controlling discipline, which is in great contrast to his sad id "It's not easy to forget you", and is affectionately called by the majority of water friends."Nurse Rong".

"Could it be that Mianbao went out with his sister for the New Year's Eve? Your other mother hasn't been seen yet. How could the son get out of the order before his mother (biting the handkerchief)"

"Occupy the front row first! Madam Rong is late at night, I'm afraid."

"Where is the girl from?"

When Chu Qiaoyu saw this article, he just wanted to express his approval, so he nodded his approval, and then clicked on the folded content, and the purpose was "The anchor Lemon is a well-known male ketone anchor, and he must go out with men♂ during the New Year's Eve".

This reply and its rippling symbols have won the unanimous approval of water friends.

"+1"

"I ordered it for you, you know the anchor."

"I've ordered it for you, you know about male ketones."

Although he went out with a man for New Year's Eve, but...

hehe.Chu Qiaoyu sneered, canceled the praise, and stepped down hard.

Netizens have extremely rich imaginations. Some say that he can’t go to the national server to buy points late at night, and some say that he always loses in the lemon coin quiz and is suspected of laundering coins and being taken away by the lemon official... He is watching it vigorously, Yu LanCall him suddenly: "Chu Qiaoyu."

"Well, what's the matter?" Chu Qiaoyu looked up and saw the other party put down the phone and looked over, "Are you done? It's not easy to work after the Chinese New Year."

Yu Lan was silent for a while, not intending to explain that what he was looking at just now wasn't work at all, but the new "Ten Tips for the New Year! Make progress in your relationship with your crush!" tweet sent to him by the Emotional Official Account.

He said vaguely, "Fortunately, I'm not very busy with work."

It's better to chat casually than to say nothing, and the topics they talk about are very routine, like the usual pleasantries between friends who don't see each other often and nod to each other.

Chu Qiaoyu continued: "Oh... I see that you haven't played games for a long time, and I thought you were always busy with work."

Yu Lan's online time is displayed as seven days ago. Seven days ago does not mean that his last login time was seven days ago, but that the longest time he has not logged in is seven days, regardless of whether the player has not logged in for a month, a year orBack off completely.

At the beginning, he could occasionally see the other party's game online in the canyon in the afternoon, and then he didn't even see the other party during the day.

"I'm not too busy to play a game... The main reason is," Yu Lan paused, looking away from him, "it's boring to play alone."

Chu Qiaoyu: ...

He opened his mouth and couldn't speak, and it happened that the little girl in the store came over with a plate to serve, and rescued him by falling from the sky.

At this time, the slightly more natural atmosphere fell into a maltose-like viscosity.Both of them silently stopped talking, bringing the point of "eating without speaking" to the extreme.

The dishes on the table were steaming, and the aroma of the food came out, making people very appetizing.

What's more, Chu Qiaoyu had an early and small dinner, so he was really hungry in the middle of the night.In the beginning, he ate his head in order to avoid embarrassment, but the more he ate, the more he devoted himself to eating, and he only focused on the scallion oil clams in front of him.

When Chu Qiaoyu felt a little full, he looked up and found that the person opposite him had finished eating the fried rice with eggs in front of him and was slowly peeling the shrimp.

Chu Qiaoyu also wanted to eat shrimp, but the plate of shrimp in front of him was deep-fried shrimp, and his hand would be sticky with oil after peeling it off.to the end of the meal.

The golden, peeled shrimp piled up in the bowl to form a small mountain of shrimp.

If this was the shrimp peeled by his teammates or Chen Zihao, he would have started plundering it before the shrimp piled up.In the past when they went out to eat together, everyone was too lazy to peel the shrimp, and whoever peeled it would grab it. A group of people snatched it from each other. Anyway, the fruits of other people's labor are better than their own hard work.

Then the bowl of shrimp mountain he coveted was placed in front of Chu Qiaoyu.

Chu Qiaoyu:?

Seeing him hesitate, Yu Lan said, "I've washed my hands."

Chu Qiaoyu quickly said: "It's not for this reason! Don't you want to eat?"

Yu Lan said, "I'm full, don't waste it."

Peeled shrimp, peeled pomelo and portioned crab should be included in this category.Putting them in front of others after handling them can double their deliciousness.

Chu Qiaoyu comforted himself with the excuse that he couldn't waste food, and half-rejected the small bowl of shrimp.

Yu Lan sat across from him. This time, she was not "busy with work" and did not stare at her mobile phone, but she did not keep looking at Chu Qiaoyu.he.

He felt the joy of feeding someone he likes, and felt that this emotional official account is not useless, such as the tweet he just read about clasp the Buddha’s feet when danger arises.

Yu Lan read that post with the same mood as those students who were still looking at the test center a few minutes before the exam.

In fact, candidates also know that their death is imminent. After going to the examination room, they will do what they should, and they will not. It is very likely that watching these few minutes will not have a big impact on their grades.

But what if.

What if happen to see the test site, what if it happens to be useful.

But this time it seems to be useful.

This tweet mentions the need to "follow what one likes".In fact, it was all corny clichés, correct but useless nonsense.

But this reminded Yu Lan that Chu Qiaoyu mentioned during a live broadcast that he likes to eat shrimp, but he is too lazy to peel it.

So far it looks good?Whether or not Chu Qiaoyu has increased his affection for him is not the most important thing. Being able to feed him is enough to make him happy.

It turned out that he was blind before.

Boss Yu, who is rich and powerful, was very happy, and decided to reward the emotional official account when he went back.

After the two of them finished their supper and walked out of the food stall, it was already one or two o'clock in the middle of the night.

Ever since Chu Qiaoyu agreed to come out to watch the fireworks with Yu Lan, he had been thinking about the same thing all the way: Is he the kind of person who won't reject others?

Chu Qiaoyu breathed out, and then slowly said, "Yu Lan, I have something to tell you."

"What is it?" Yu Lan was originally smiling, but Chu Qiaoyu seldom called him by name, so he turned his head to see the expression on Chu Qiaoyu's face.

Chu Qiaoyu often had a smile on his face, and it was rare for him to have no expression on his face, and it was such a rare situation at this moment.

Yu Lan understood a little bit, and the smile on the corner of her mouth slowly flattened.Then he heard the other say, "I think I still don't like men."

Yu Lan bowed her head: "Okay, I see."

This sentence is already a gentle and firm refusal.But he wasn't too upset because he didn't expect much from the beginning.This time came out just to watch the New Year's fireworks with Chu Qiaoyu.

"Wait! Wait!" Chu Qiaoyu was afraid that he would say "excuse me" and "sorry" again, so he interrupted the casting of the spell quickly: "But I don't hate getting along with you, um, you should know how to get along with you."practical meaning."

Yu Lan was stunned, his brain didn't have time to think about the deep meaning behind this sentence, but his face started to get hot first.

He probably still had some clear consciousness, and he didn't want Chu Qiaoyu to see it, so he quickly covered his face: "Don't say such things again!"

Although it was late at night, he blamed the street lamps for being too bright, so Chu Qiaoyu could clearly see the blushing of the people around him, and he was at a loss by the actions of the other party: "No! You shouldn't be like this!"

Could it be that shyness, like yawning, can infect those around you... He whispered more and more: "I'm embarrassed by your behavior, obviously what I'm telling is the truth..."

Chu Qiaoyu said seriously: "So, please give me a little more time? I will definitely give you an answer when I think it through."

There was a smile in Yu Lan's voice: "Thank you!"

What's all this... Yu Lan said "sorry" when he was rejected in his confession before, as if being liked is something that would be disturbing or even disgusting to people. It is clear that usually he, the person who rejects others, should say this sentence out of politeness.

There is nothing to say thank you for this complicated situation, and more importantly, he himself has not clearly clarified his thoughts.

Chu Qiaoyu sighed, "Don't say thank you in this situation..."

Yu Lan realized that saying thank you was a bit weird. After calming down and thinking about it carefully, she wanted to laugh, but after laughing, she admitted frankly: "Well, I'm so happy, so I don't know what to say."

Now Chu Qiaoyu didn't know what to say.

Yu Lan glanced at the time, but took the initiative to ask him: "Are you sleepy?"

Chu Qiaoyu shook his head: "It's okay." In order to prove that he was not sleepy, he gave an example: "I am sober enough to play ten games in a row."

Yu Lan smiled briefly: "You still play games when you go back."

"Let's play." After all, he wants to play Phoenix's national server, and his score may not be stable based on the fixed time open peak match, so he still has to work overtime to make up for the score bonus of the ranking.

"Are you coming?" He asked subconsciously, remembering that Yu Lan's schedule was comparable to his own schedule in the underworld, which could be called an old age schedule.

I didn't feel sleepy after going out for a trip, and I guess I can sleep all night when I go back.But with Yu Lan's schedule, he should have fallen asleep by this point, right?

Going out to watch the fireworks in the early hours of this morning is already a special case of the New Year, and I will go out to eat supper later... Chu Qiaoyu thought about it and said: "Go back and go to bed early, don't fight anymore."

"If you ask me to come, of course I will."

Chu Qiaoyu was stunned for a moment by his attitude of "giving up to sleep with a gentleman", and within a few seconds, he was already thinking honestly that the next few games he was waiting for would of course be playing Phoenix.Then he heard Yu Lan ask him solemnly, "Have you brought your ID card?"

Chu Qiaoyu didn't adapt to the huge topic jump between the two sentences: "Huh?"

So, after eating and drinking, the two school-age men searched for Internet cafes on the street late at night with their ID cards in hand on this special New Year's Eve.

Yes, purely for playing games.

The sound insulation of the house in the country is not very good. A group of elders downstairs are playing mahjong with great joy. Chen Zihao, who is sleeping upstairs, can’t sleep because of the “touch!”Put on the cotton pajamas, got up from the bed, took out the computer and went to fight in the canyon.

There are quite a few night owls among his friends. Even in the dead of night like two or three o'clock in the morning, the status of a bunch of people still shows that the game is online.

On the first day of the new year, it seemed strange and lonely to be beaten alone in the canyon alone.Chen Zihao rubbed his chin, wanting to grab a few lucky ones from his friends list and form a group together.

However, when he saw that the first few friends were all in the game, he made the next best move to find the one who was about to end the game.

Successful people in January, game duration: 27 minutes.

Ha, he knew that his good brother Chu Qiaoyu, who was lonely and rested in the underworld, was still playing games alone in the middle of the night, and judging by the duration of the game, he estimated that this game was about to end, so Chen Zihao decided to wait for Chu Qiaoyu to finish playing.

He scrolled down a few more pages to see if there were others.

always1111, in game, game duration: 28 minutes.

Ok?Does his brother also play games in the middle of the night?It's so abnormal!But his brother still doesn't pull it...

Chen Zihao looked at a few more, and felt that Chu Qiaoyu was the most suitable. The others either waited too long for the game to end, or were not that close.

So he pulled the page back to the page where Chu Qiaoyu was, and waited for the opponent's game time to end.

Successful people in January, game duration: 28 minutes.

He thought that the other party might not be able to finish it for the time being, so after sending Chu Qiaoyu an appointment message, he ran downstairs to the refrigerator to find Coke.

When he returned to the computer with a bubbling Ice Coke, he found that Chu Qiaoyu ignored his appointment invitation and entered a new game.

Successful people in January, in the game, game duration: 1 minute.

Why didn't this guy wait for me!Chen Zihao was planning to denounce the other party in the small window of WeChat, but before opening WeChat, he saw a friend under Chu Qiaoyu in the game list.

always1111, in game, game duration: 1 minute.

Chen Zihao: ...

He has a terrible guess.

It can't be such a coincidence...

If earlier, during the time when Chu Qiaoyu and Yu Lan were in double row every day, he would not have suspected that these two were playing games together.And he definitely would not want to join this double row team, he would avoid it.

But for some reason, the relationship between the two became so cold that not only did they not play games together, they didn't even talk.

During that time, Chen Zihao, as an intermediary who was related to both parties and had a good relationship, could suffocate him.

He didn't dare to ask his cousin, and asked Chu Qiaoyu, who was so rare that he kept silent. He didn't say a word about it, and Chen Zihao, who was caught in the middle, was curious and anxious, scratching his head and wanting to know.the truth.

He murmured to himself: almost thought that the two of them had a complete quarrel, but now it seems that there is no such thing?

At this time, the changes in Yishiyi caused Chen Zihao to wish to join when he met a team where the two might play games together.

Chen Zihao scratched his gossip cat's claws, and he didn't want to play games anymore. He bombarded Chu Qiaoyu with n consecutive WeChat messages saying that he wanted to play games together.

If it weren't for the fear of affecting Chu Qiaoyu's game play and being assassinated, he would have wished to make a series of life-threatening calls directly.

After a difficult and long twenty minutes, Chen Zihao finally received a WeChat reply from Chu Qiaoyu: "What are you doing, kid?"

Chen Zihao couldn't wait to say: "Brother Chu, take me!!!"

Chu Qiaoyu: "..."

Chu Qiaoyu: "Don't affect the efficiency of our late-night dispatch team."

Chen Zihao: "Damn! The team! What kind of thigh is there! Brother Qiuqiu, poor little brother, take me to the top!"

Chu Qiaoyu got goosebumps all over from Chen Zihao's overly attentive attitude, and replied unbearably, "I'll ask."

So Chu Qiaoyu returned to the platoon room: "Chen Zihao went crazy, and sent me a dozen WeChat messages, saying that he wants to form a platoon with us, let him come?"

Chu Qiaoyu did not open the next one after finishing the one just now, and told Yu Lan that he would reply to WeChat and ask him to wait.

Chu Qiaoyu seldom replied to others during the game time, and the person who allowed him to reply at the end of the game was probably someone who was important to him.He didn't want to think too much, and he resisted thinking too much, and he didn't want to turn his head to look at the person who made Chu Qiaoyu bow his head and reply seriously.

After learning that the person was Chen Zihao, Yu Lan heaved a sigh of relief, and he didn't dislike Chen Zihao who tried to join and destroy the solitude: "...It's up to you, that's fine."

Chu Qiaoyu thought for a long time that the three of them hadn't played three rows together: "I can do it, how about pulling him?"

After getting a positive reply, he sent Chen Zihao a game invitation link.

Chen Zihao entered the team room with excitement, saw the expected game screen name, and excitedly turned on the mic and shouted: "Brother, Happy New Year!"

Yu Lan replied Happy New Year, and Chu Qiaoyu sneered "hehe".

Chen Zihao hurriedly said, "Brother Chu, Happy New Year!"

Chu Qiaoyu also replied "Happy New Year".

Chen Zihao wanted to ask them what's going on: at first they were like conjoined twins who were "glue like paint", but then they didn't talk to each other, their names and relationships disappeared suddenly, and finally they played games secretly together in the middle of the new year's night?

He first asked a less sensitive question that was suitable as an opening question: "Brother, are you in Ning City by yourself?"

Yu Lan didn't give a clear answer, and said "huh".

Chen Zihao thought his answer was affirmative, and continued to ask endlessly: "Why don't you come to our house for Chinese New Year this year, my mother has been talking non-stop at home..."

Yu Lan waited until his long conversation was over before saying, "No."

Didn't you live in Ning City?Or not alone?

Chen Zihao wanted to ask a few more questions, but Yu Lan didn't wait for his doubts to pour out like a river, and said, "Open."

Being interrupted by this sentence, Chen Zihao would ask questions unnaturally for a while.

Although they played games together, why is the atmosphere still so weird...

And it's a completely different monster from before.

In the past, it was the communication between them that prevented him from interjecting, but now it was the lack of communication between them that prevented him from speaking.

His brother can still understand without talking, why doesn't he even talk about Chu Qiaoyu.

The three of them played most of the game as if they were performing a pantomime, and the team of the three people they knew played more silently than the game of strangers.

After all, Chen Zihao couldn't hold back his inner curiosity, and asked fearlessly: "So what's the situation with you two now?"

Of course, the main object of his question was Chu Qiaoyu, not Yu Lan.

Unexpectedly, Yu Lan, who was not expected to respond, replied very flatly: "What's the situation? Oh, I'm chasing him."

Chu Qiaoyu couldn't bear to look directly and turned his head: "..."

Chen Zihao almost sprayed the Coke back into his cup.

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A little strange shrimp peeling aftermarket

The three eat together.

After Yu Lan peeled the prawns and put them in the bowl, Chu Qiaoyu naturally picked them up.

Chen Zihao:?Still like this (then snatched the shrimp from his brother's bowl)

Yu Lan:?

Chu Qiaoyu:?

(that weird look)

Chen Zihao (later aware): ...

It’s still Friday if I don’t fall asleep!(...)

Yes on Saturday night, and also on Sunday night, there should be no overtime on Monday.A few days ago, I got off work too fast, and the leader has already criticized me () but it will be over soon, I feel that it will be done next week