Deer in the forest in early autumn

It was already dawn when I turned off the computer.
Shen Yanqiu looked at the several empty cups piled up in front of him, still smelling the aroma of coffee.

She pursed her lips, hoping that her dry lips wouldn't crack.
Looking out the window at the hazy world, she rubbed her eyes.

Dawn is my guiding star.
Mail sent successfully.

This time, the landscape painting that the customer ordered was finally delivered on time.
After a sleepless night, Shen Yanqiu felt drowsy.

It was as if the person in front of me was the handsome Lin Sen'an who bought me milk tea at the age of 20. No, it was the smiling Lin Sen'an who gave me a deer bracelet at the age of 21. It was the Lin Sen'an who shot a three-pointer in a chic way. In the dim light, there were five or six Lin Sen'ans in front of me.

"Lin Sen... An, there are so many of you."
She could no longer hold on, closed her hazy eyes, lowered her head, and fell asleep on the white computer desk.
In her sleep, someone covered her with a warm, fluffy blanket.

evening.
The bubbling sound of the cell phone alarm woke Shen Yanqiu up.

In a daze, she felt her face was furry, and Mochi's clingy voice rang in her ears.
Meow, meow, meow. One after another.

This guy jumped on me again!
Open your eyes.
Eyes wide open.

The round little eyes are like two shiny light green grapes.
The cat's fur is orange-yellow and fluffy.

"Mochi." Shen Yanqiu whispered softly and touched its fur with his hand. In an instant, a few strands of orange fur appeared in the air.

Mochi, the new favorite for hair loss?
The eyes that were round just now blinked.
Mochi took the flying hair in the air as a matter of course.

Shen Yanqiu reached out to turn off the bubble sound of the alarm clock. Then her eyes stopped at the reminder event on her phone.
【Eight o'clock forest team】
At eight o'clock this evening, Fang Cheng and I made an appointment to go to the Sen team's live broadcast room to watch the game together.

The orange message at the top of the interface popped up:
[Qiuqiu, live broadcast room number 6666]
[Okay. Cute fox emoji]
[Qiuqiu, I'm so excited. Team Mori's second team is officially having its first match! ]
[Pour orange juice for the boss. Expression picture]
[Qiuqiu, will the Island God also be present? 】
[I think so~]

Shen Yanqiu looked at the fluffy blanket covering him.
Lin Sen'an should be in the team now.
[Come on, Team Mori.] The Didi message was sent successfully.

Is this the second team's first official match? It should be the right thing to do to cheer for Team Mori out of goodwill, right?
After sending the message, Shen Yanqiu didn't dare to look at Lin Sen'an's reply. He turned around, turned on the computer, and put on his white cat headphones.

As if she had thought of something, she pushed her wheelchair to the kitchen, took out three cans of Sprite from the refrigerator, and searched for five or six bags of potato chips of different flavors from the snack cabinet, and then returned to the computer contentedly. Next to the computer was a green succulent plant, very cute and chubby.
She touched the plump leaves with her hand and the feel was completely different from mochi.

Sen team base.
In the official competition hall.
Because Xiaoyou from Team 2 suddenly injured his hand a few days ago, the morale of Team 2 has been a little low.

Substitute Leng Feng looked anxious and had cold sweat on his head.
"It's okay, come on! I believe in you." A strong and deep voice.
Lin Sen'an walked up to Leng Feng and patted him on the shoulder.

The members of Team 2 felt relieved when they heard what Yushen said. After encouraging each other, they entered the competition server on time.

The live broadcast officially starts.
The number of online users continues to break through and has quietly exceeded 100 million.

[Orange, is the Mori team so popular? ]
[Qiuqiu, yes, and this is only the second team in China. The first team has countless fans internationally.]
【Ahhh, that's Xiao Cang. The new captain of Team 2.】

Shen Yanqiu seemed to hear Chengzi's scream in his ear.
The kid Xiao Cang saw at the Sen team base last time? He looked no more than eighteen or nineteen years old, wearing a black team uniform, full of vigor and vitality, with a gleaming gaze.

Was Lin Sen'an also so high-spirited and ambitious when he first played e-sports abroad three years ago?
Shen Yanqiu was thinking when the live broadcast camera turned to the team seat. Lin Sen'an was wearing a black mask. The superior features on his face were like sculptures under the light and shadow. His slender and pale hands were constantly holding a pen to sketch and record. He sat there quietly, his eyes deep and focused. He was like a god descending into the night.

The God of Islet, he truly is worthy of being called the God of Islet.
It was the first time that Shen Yanqiu saw Lin Sen'an working so attentively and meticulously.

Come on, Team Sen! Shen Yanqiu muttered to himself.
The game officially begins.

In the first game, Team Mori was constantly suppressed by their opponent, God's Song.
Until the three towers were destroyed, the economic gap was close to 1W.

In the end, they could only watch the opponent climb up the high ground. Team Sen fought to the death, but their members were constantly killed. In the end, they still failed to stop the opponent's powerful attack.
The crystal was pushed step by step.

1/0 Loss
In the live broadcast room of Team Mori.
All kinds of black fans poured in.
#Team Two is just not good enough, even if Yushen is there. #
#Team Mori is just a name. #
#God's Song is mighty and domineering, worthy of being the defending king#
[Qiuqiu, I'm so pissed off, those anti-fans of Team Mori are really omnipresent. ]
[Orange, don't panic. Don't be led by the anti-fans.]
【Crying Face】

Shen Yanqiu looked at the four or five bags of potato chips she usually loved on the table, and she lost her appetite. She quickly drank a sip of Sprite and continued to stare at the live broadcast room.

The race continues.
Lost another game 2/0.
The comments in the live broadcast room were horrible.

"Come on! Team Mori." The second team is like a newcomer standing on the field under the attention of thousands of people. Perhaps in addition to the difference in experience between them and their opponents, self-confidence is the key to victory or defeat. At least, don't give up easily.

Shen Yanqiu knew that Lin Sen'an was a man who never admitted defeat.
It has been like this since I was young.
She believed that the second team was the same today. The third game.
Score 2/1
Team Mori won a game with great difficulty. Xiao Cang turned the tide in adversity and defeated three opponents with one.

Lin Sen'an, who was sitting in the team seat, looked at the players on the field and gave them an encouraging look.

Team Mori never retreats or becomes timid.
The members of Team 2 will enter a new world from today on, regardless of whether they win or lose.

Fourth game
2/2 draw
[Qiuqiu, ahhhhh, it's a draw! ]
[Yes, that’s great.]
Tonight was also the first time that Shen Yanqiu felt the excitement of an e-sports competition. Maybe, just maybe a miracle would happen?

The last one.
God's Song did not give the opponent any chance and immediately seized the initiative.
The battle was over in 10 minutes.
In the end, 3/2 won the game.

There was dead silence in the Sen Team base.
The golden rain in the dream seemed very far away.

Lin Sen'an left the team's competition hall in silence.
When he arrived at the gate of the base, he lit a cigarette.

The cigarette slowly burned out, and the slender fingers were already feeling the cold wind.
Outside the team base, the few street lights made his shadow look particularly lonely.

Lin Sen'an seemed to have returned to a foreign country, into his own lonely world.
His eyes were gloomy, like a statue in the cold wind, without purpose and without the other side.

"Lin... Sen'an, are you okay?" The girl's voice was soft and timid.
When Shen Yanqiu rushed over from Beiyuan, he saw Lin Sen'an alone outside the base, looking so lonely.

Lin Sen'an heard the familiar voice and looked at Shen Yanqiu not far away. The thin girl looked like an angel under the street light.

"Qiuqiu." There was moisture in the corners of his eyes.
It turns out that in this world, there is someone waiting for him in the distance.

Shen Yanqiu saw Lin Sen'an's eyes staring at him.
She took a deep breath and buttoned up her camel-colored coat again, having forgotten to do so in her haste to leave the house.

She slowly pushed the wheelchair towards the tall Lin Sen'an, and then hugged him tightly.
If you are too lonely in this world.
Lin Sen'an, let me accompany you.

The light flickered, and the shadows of the two people overlapped.
It was particularly lonely outside the Mori team base.

The leaves of the paulownia tree fluttered down and landed on the heads and shoulders of the two people.
But neither of them moved, as if time had stood still until the end of time.

"It's okay, Lin Sen'an, everything will be fine. This is just the beginning."
The comforting words sounded warm in Lin Sen'an's ears.

"Qiuqiu, I will take you to see a golden rain in the future." Lin Sen'an lowered his head and his eyes trembled slightly.
"it is good."

After returning to the base, Shen Yanqiu was arranged by Lin Sen'an in his own lounge. He hurried to the review meeting.

Bored, Shen Yanqiu saw Lin Sen'an's computer desktop light up.
A photo of myself in my freshman year wearing a cheerleading uniform and Lin Sen'an in a basketball uniform standing together appeared on the desktop. There was a gleam in the girl's eyes, and the boy looked arrogant and unruly.

It seemed like time hadn’t been away for too long.
When Shen Yanqiu decided to pursue Lin Sen'an in her freshman year, her roommate Xiaoxi looked at her with sympathy. "Xiaoqiu, is that the sophomore finance department hunk Lin Sen'an? He is indeed handsome, but he is too arrogant and cold. You are really courageous!"

Shen Yanqiu didn't know why he fell in love with Lin Sen'an when he was young. It might be that this boy started treating him differently a long time ago.

Although before he was eighteen, Lin Sen'an always liked to bully himself.
But whenever someone wanted to bully her, it was Lin Sen'an who came to her rescue.

During that basketball game, Shen Yanqiu wore cheerleading clothes and cheered for Lin Sen'an.
The cheerleaders and basketball team took photos after the game.

Shen Yanqiu cautiously approached Lin Sen'an. Fortunately, Lin Sen'an just glanced at him and didn't say much.

Then this photo remains.
I didn’t expect that Lin Sen’an still kept it after so many years.

During the three years that Lin Sen'an disappeared, he kept a rare basketball that he bought to celebrate Lin Sen'an's first victory in a basketball game.

It just has the words of giving up written on it countless times.
Now, look at this picture of a basketball court on your desktop.
Thinking about what I did to Lin Sen'an today, it seems that I can't just ignore it this time.

Shen Yanqiu, do you still love Lin Sen'an?
Love. Shen Yanqiu silently thought in his heart.
It turns out that I still love you, Lin Sen'an.

(End of this chapter)