Chapter 314
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In the blink of an eye, it was already Friday .
After finishing her morning classes and having a meal in the canteen, Shi Yao took a look at the blinding sunlight outside and decided to wait until evening, when the sun had set, before heading back home .
As soon as she returned to her dormitory room, a new message arrived on her phone .
It was an invitation from asking her to play .
Shi Yao wasn't tired, and she didn't feel an urge to take an afternoon nap . Seeing that there were still a few good hours before the weather was good enough for her to make the long journey back home, she decided to accept Mister Numbers' request . She logged into the game and entered the room he had shared with her .
Juice and Expert weren't around .
This was also something peculiar Shi Yao had noticed . Recently, when they were playing, the two of them would often not be around . When she asked them about this in the group chat, they replied that they were busy revising for their exams .
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So, when Shi Yao plugged in her earphones, she casually asked, "Are Juice and Expert still busy revising?"
Mister Numbers replied with an "Un" before falling silent .
Even though the time they spent playing together had increased substantially as compared to before, Mister Numbers' reticent personality still remained the same as ever .
Nevertheless, there was still a significant improvement when compared to his completely shut-off attitude stage in the past . At the very least, whenever he played with her nowadays, his microphone would be switched on . Even if they didn't chat with each other, they could still hear vague sounds from the other party's side .
When they were playing the third round, a feminine voice suddenly sounded from Mister Numbers' side, "I'll place the fruits here . "
Mister Numbers didn't respond to the remark, and the feminine voice didn't speak anymore either .
Solely because the word 'fruits' were spoken, Shi Yao asked: "You're at home?"
: "Un . "
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Shi Yao: "Is the person who brought you fruits your mother?"
: "She's a maid in my house . "
Shi Yao replied with an "Oh", and roughly five seconds later, she asked once more, "You live in Beijing?"
first replied with an "Un" before following up with a "Yeah, that's right" . As he spoke, he managed to kill a player in the game .
Shi Yao casually remarked, "What a coincidence, I live in Beijing too, though my house is in the suburbs . What about you?"
reported a rough location .
Shi Yao's eyebrows shot up in astonishment . Mister Numbers' house was actually in the vicinity of where Lin Jiage stayed too . . .
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At roughly five o'clock, Shi Yao went offline, and Lin Jiage didn't continue playing either .
He closed his eyes and rested for a while before getting on his laptop to continue his incomplete project .
At roughly seven o'clock, when the maid called for him to head down for dinner, he closed his laptop . As he headed down the stairs, he casually sent a message to Shi Yao, asking: [Have you arrived home yet?]
There was no response from Shi Yao, and he didn't pay any mind to it either .
After dinner, Lin Jiage went to the courtyard to take a quick stroll, and when he returned, he sent another message to Shi Yao: [Have you finished eating yet? Play?]
There was still no response from Shi Yao .
So, he switched on the TV and surfed through the channels in boredom for a while before whipping out his phone to send Shi Yao another WeChat message: [Remember to call me to play after you're done with your work . ]
Still, there was no response from Shi Yao's part .
At this point, Lin Jiage wasn't in the mood to find activities to fill in his time anymore . Thus, he logged onto the game, and he realized that Shi Yao was actually online as well!
So, he sent Shi Yao a message: [Pull me into your squad after you're done . ]
He didn't back out of the game but waited patiently until Shi Yao was done with her game, and he proactively applied to join her squad .
It was a while before Shi Yao finally accepted his request . He quickly put on his earpiece and greeted her with a casual "Hey" .
Following which, the microphone symbol lit up next to Shi Yao's name, but what reached his ears was a male's voice instead: "Hey . "
-The university is in Beijing, but when Shi Yao asked the question, what she meant was whether he was a local in Beijing, or to be more exact, whether he had a hukou in Beijing . To give a very rough idea of what a hukou is, it's something like further citizenship within a country divided by your province . Those who have a hukou in Beijing will be able to reside permanently in Beijing and will be able to buy a house here, so on and so forth . On the other hand, those who don't have a hukou in Beijing are still able to enter Beijing, but they wouldn't be able to stay there for too long, and they might face problems getting a job, buying a house, and such .