Chapter 389 - THE RIGHT TIME TO GIVE UP (2/2)
He looked down again at the forum post. He remembered Noctis still owed him a favor. He wondered when would be the good time to let him pay up.
Maybe he should wait until the end of the Rookie Carnival.
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Zhu Lian stared at the screenshots on the game forum. She looked at YUN and then at the white-haired moon elf. Then, she stared once again at YUN.
She woke up this morning with the messages of people asking her on WeChat if she had seen the current top post on the game forum of Arcadia. Curious, she went and checked it. When she saw the title, all her sleepiness disappeared. She thought YUN was seen on a date with some female player. She quickly opened the post but what she saw next was something she didn't expect.
It was not some female player but some white-haired moon elf. She immediately remembered the guy. He was with YUN in that private box at Yuexing Pavilion. And then she remembered another important thing, that threat that YUN made when she became aggressive towards the moon elf.
[Don't barge into someone's territory as if you have every right to do so and then proceed on talking down to people like some entitled brat. Next time you do, don't do it front of me. Especially not in front of my important companion. Because if you do, I will slice you.]
'My important companion'. That's what he said. She didn't notice it then because she was so shocked that Shen Ji Yun would tell her that he would slice her right at her face. But now, she remembered it quite clearly. YUN said those words. And it was pertaining to the moon elf.
She stared more closely at the screenshots. And she could see it. The way Shen Ji Yun was looking at the moon elf. It was full of gentleness. And something else – another emotion she couldn't recognize. Just that was enough to show how important the moon elf was to him.
In more than three years that she had watched Shen Ji Yun, this was the first time she had seen him looking at someone like this. Even his closest friend, Bai Ze, had never received this kind of gaze. She knew. Because she had always been looking his way.
Always.
Her phone fell on her bed. Zhu Lian stood up and walked out of her room. It just so happened that her younger sister also just walked out of her own room which was just in front of hers.
So, the two sisters just ended up facing each other.
”Sister?” Zhu Jingyi asked.
Just one look and she could immediately tell that something was wrong. But before she could ask what it was, her sister suddenly flung herself towards her.
”Jingyi…”
”Sister?” she asked again and then her whole body stiffened when she heard the other's silent sobs. She started to panic. ”Sister, what's wrong?”
Zhu Lian didn't answer and just shook her head. She continued to sob, tears flowing down her eyes. Because at this moment, she suddenly understood one thing.
That she had already lost.
And the most pathetic thing was, she lost without even trying to fight. She once again remembered the way Shen Ji Yun looked at that moon elf.
”Jingyi… maybe I should just give up.”