CHAPTER 54: CHAPTER 54: BROTHER CHENG IS HERE~

Mu Qiu and Li Yang’s standoff lasted half a minute. She calmed her breathing and said earnestly without struggling, "I was almost moved by your brotherly bond. But you need to think clearly. Losing a sticker for no reason puts you at risk when the second round of bells begins. If you get robbed again, you’ll be downgraded to a roaming NPC, becoming nothing but a lamb to the slaughter."

Li Yang: "What brotherly bond?"

"?"

"Willingly using your own sticker to exchange for his, isn’t that brotherly bond?"

"I just felt," Li Yang looked innocent, "The main characters in costume dramas definitely live longer than me."

Mu Qiu: "......Huh?"

[......Yangyang went rogue]

[That was moving for half a minute]

[I almost believed this cult]

[I misspoke, this isn’t some absolute cutie, this is clearly a scumbag playing with my feelings]

[The face slap came just in time, I was still shouting about brotherhood moving heaven and earth]

[This newly formed CP... let’s just call it fake CP]

Mu Qiu felt speechless.

After feeling speechless, she thought Li Yang probably won’t make the trade, and maybe in the end, the Shi Yuhuai sticker she had might get snatched while his sticker wouldn’t even be given to her.

Mu Qiu looked around the situation, sighing and dismissing the option of escape, her gaze circled back to Li Yang silently.

"Since you insist on this..."

"Before I die, I still want to know one thing, what movie is yours?"

Li Yang thought answering this question before snatching the sticker wouldn’t hurt, so he kindly answered, "New Police Story."

"You’re the villain, right? The protagonist is very righteous." she said quietly.

Li Yang didn’t mind: "You guessed it, impressive. Hand it over?"

Mu Qiu sighed, just about to loosen her tightly gripped hand when the abrupt end bell sounded loudly through the nearby loudspeaker, causing a figure outside the photographers’ crowd to pause at the sound.

The bell startled the two who were about to "trade off one for the other," and Mu Qiu reacted quicker than Li Yang, immediately gripping her hand again, retreating a step back, her face lit up with joy.

"The first round is over! No more snatching!"

"......"

Li Yang felt such frustration, so close yet so far.

Over there, Guan Yu was finally able to let go of Shi Yuhuai, lying on the ground and gasping for breath. In the middle, Shi Yuhuai still stood straight, fixing his clothes, a dignified posture of refusing to be humiliated. Mu Qiu simply sat on the ground as well, hands on her knees, taking a break at halftime.

"So you all were here."

A clear and pleasant voice rang from the perimeter.

The sprawled, crouched, and standing people all looked up at the newcomer.

Cheng Zhirang walked in leisurely with a suit jacket draped over his arm, exuding the image of a gentle and refined gentleman.

Completely different from the few panting with sweat-soaked foreheads on the scene.

Shu Ran: "Brother Cheng!? Brother Cheng, you finally came, we’re exhausted."

Guan Yu lay on the ground, trying to look at him sideways, "Brother Cheng, did you just finish a meeting in the city and come back to see us or something?"

"Pfft—"

Hearing her say this, others looked at Cheng Zhirang and indeed felt the same. That’s the difference between a high-class elite and manual laborers.

Cheng Zhirang helplessly smiled, "I couldn’t find you all earlier. What’s this, who snatched from whom?"

Shu Ran quickly answered, pointing at Mu Qiu across, "Mu Qiu snatched Shi Yuhuai’s. Li Yang was about to snatch too, but then the bell rang."

Mu Qiu said nothing while Guan Yu joked, "Alas, it’s our temporary alliance that’s too fragile, otherwise we could’ve snatched Li Yang too."

Alliance shattered, isn’t it just that some people are too brittle-skinned?

Li Yang, in his depressed phase, glanced miserably at Guan Yu.

Cheng Zhirang seemed oblivious to the implied meaning in their words, turned to look at Mu Qiu sitting on the ground.

"Can you scratch it to see how much it is?"

Mu Qiu thought, the main character of an immortal drama, with a life span of over ten thousand years, hers should be tens of thousands, right? If the revealed value is too large, maybe they’d compare her and Shi Yuhuai and focus their efforts on snatching from her.

Don’t flaunt wealth, she’s no fool.

After clear thinking, she propped her elbow on her knee, looked up at Cheng Zhirang, and said, "Can I not show it?"

Even when refusing, she couldn’t help but use a questioning tone, all because he looks too good.

Cheng Zhirang’s dazzling eyes gazed at her, still smiling warmly, "But I agreed to your request earlier and showed it to you. You should reciprocate."

"......Oh."

With eyes as beautiful as those fixed on you, who can resist? She’s willing to be a fool who flaunts wealth.

Tears flowing in her heart, Mu Qiu scratched open the sticker tightly wrinkled in her palm and spread it to show him.

The action was very swift.

[I seem to hear her words from the promo standing behind Brother Cheng again]

[My Brother Cheng’s godly face is a great weapon, going anywhere without rejection]

[Mu Qiu, have some backbone! You’ve fallen for him twice already! (I also want to fall for him)]

[The mind’s unwilling but the body is very honest]

[The heart aches unbearably, yet couldn’t resist agreeing, it’s just like when I raise a cat]

["Trade life for his smile," suddenly feels so tragic]

[A story that must be told between infatuated humans and elegant noble white cats]

[I’m willing too! Brother Cheng, look at me! I’m willing to do anything!]

[To the one in front, if you’re willing to do anything, start with some peanuts and cephalosporin, you should be willing to do that too]

The sticker was raised, everyone squinted to look upwards.

"Ten years." Cheng Zhirang recited after seeing it.

Mu Qiu, a second ago, was lost in his godly visage, hearing the number the next second, shouted out like Guan Yu.

"How much?! Only ten years?!"

She didn’t even look at the number before foolishly showing it to Cheng Zhirang, now taking it back to look at it, staring at Shi Yuhuai unbelievingly.

"Brother Huai! A character from an immortal drama lives such a short time?!"

Shi Yuhuai didn’t want to talk much with someone who had just robbed him, replied stiffly, "I can’t decide the number on the sticker."

"The data is randomly distributed, right? Maybe the life value on the other sticker is bigger," Li Yang analyzed, in the strict crackdown period after an unsuccessful robbery.

However, "It’s true, but isn’t this randomness too excessive?"

"So after all our hard teamwork for so long, only Mu Qiu got ten years?" Shu Ran, unable to stand being ignored, joined the conversation.

Mu Qiu gave her a soulless side-glance, recalling when she was searching Shi Yuhuai’s body just now, the position of that sticker, along with the other two stickers she couldn’t find whatsoever, eyes shifting.

"Brother Huai, did you know this sticker’s life value was the smallest? So you hid it in an easier-to-find place?"

"What are you talking about? I don’t know," Shi Yuhuai felt his sacrifice was too much this episode, "The coating isn’t transparent."

The tone was still sulky, Mu Qiu couldn’t help but glance at him more.

A bit naturally adorable.