They've encountered very few female streamers who are good at gaming so far.

"I did a great job!" Yu Mengmeng put the menu back, put the broccoli in her mouth, chewed it, rolled her eyes, and giggled.

Bai Weiran even said I'm a gaming genius!

"How about we play a match online another day?"

The two chubby brothers were stunned. They looked at each other, not expecting the little girl with white hair and red eyes to take the initiative to invite them to play the game.

"You can choose any game, I'm open to it!"

Well, what an arrogant tone!

Xx

There will be another update later, making this the third update today.

Chapter Thirty-Three: Bearing the Burden for a Scumbag

Bai Weiran was unaware of this incident involving Yu Mengmeng and the two fat brothers.

He was only surprised to find that Mengmeng was becoming increasingly well-behaved when it came to studying and doing practice problems.

Now, when she sees the questions on the safe, she no longer cries and curses him as a devil, and she gradually stops arguing with him about the amount of homework she has each day.

Indeed, people need to be beaten down by difficult problems. After being beaten down a lot, they get used to it.

Sure enough, this age is all about doing practice problems. Look, the more problems you do, the better your personality becomes, and you sleep better too.

Bai Weiran was very pleased and used the money he saved from the scumbag Qin Yun to take Yu Mengmeng out for crab every week.

Crabs are plump in late autumn, it's the perfect time of year, but it's almost over, so let's seize the last bit of the season.

Yu Mengmeng's well-behaved and sensible nature saved Bai Weiran a lot of trouble, allowing him to focus more on his work.

He plans to show the leaders a new version of the demo by the end of December.

I work overtime every day, and I don't leave the company until 11 or 12 o'clock at night.

At the same time, he was also having a great time battling with Xia Yanle.

That night, Qin Yun sat waiting by the deserted school pool. He had received an invitation from one of his harem members to a late-night date by the pool.

A melancholy young man, with a youthful air about him, stood by the pool under the moonlight, gently kicking his feet in the water, shattering the crescent moon in the middle of the pool with each ripple.

He didn't notice that a thick cable was extending into the pool from one corner.

Xia Yanle stood indoors, looking at Qin Yun through the window, and pressed the light switch without hesitation.

—No response.

"Electrocution is a new idea today."

Xia Yanle looked toward the source of the sound and, unsurprisingly, saw the masked man emerge from the darkness.

She pressed the switch again.

"I've turned off the main power switch, so you don't need to press it anymore. There's no power no matter how you press it."

As Bai Weiran spoke, he glanced at Qin Yun by the pool.

This scumbag was coldly locked in a dark room for more than a month, and the effects of the drug developed by Yang Wei were also lost.

Bai Weiran couldn't help but beat his chest and stamp his feet when he thought about it, realizing that he had lost money again.

If I knew I was going to lock him up in a dark room, why did I give him the medicine?

This medicine was a complete waste; it made me feel numb. I really wanted to make him spit it out and give it back to me, since it's a rare reward that you can only get by completing the game perfectly.

Bai Weiran stroked his chin and squinted at the young man by the pool.

"Hey student! Don't you even think about your studies and future?"

This melancholy young man used to love navigating the harem, spending his thoughts and energy on romance and frivolous affairs. He spent his days pondering who he truly loved and how to escape Xia Yanle's genius aura. He had no interest in the right path, and his studies and internships were like clay bodhisattvas crossing a river, barely able to protect themselves. He relied entirely on Xia Yanle, whom he claimed to have "isolated and controlled," for protection.

Now that he's out of the dark room, Xia Yanle no longer cares about controlling him; she only wants him dead and thinks of all sorts of ways to kill him every day. If it weren't for Bai Weiran protecting him, Qin Yun would have died at least forty times since he came out.

Indeed, there is no such thing as a peaceful and carefree life in this world; it is only others who are bearing the burden for you.

Xia Yanle is trying so hard to kill Qin Yun, and Bai Weiran is trying so hard to save Qin Yun's life, so what is Qin Yun doing?

#Checking Qin Yun's Status#

Oh, it's so annoying, he's indulging in his harem again.

Bai Weiran just couldn't understand it. With final exams fast approaching, and being a student, shouldn't he have some sense of urgency? Instead of studying properly late at night, he was out by the pool on this chilly autumn night, waiting for someone to go on a date, wearing only swim trunks and a towel, striking a melancholic pose for a photoshoot.

He knew the water in the pool must be very cold without even touching it.

Because the scumbag's lips were so cold they turned white.

Even so, he remained depressed and distressed, becoming a poet and murmuring verses.

"The late autumn night, the icy water, is like your eyes—"

Bai Weiran: ...Are you sick? If you're cold, put on some clothes!

"Are you attracted to his weakness?" Bai Weiran asked Xia Yanle.

He no longer appears by Xia Yanle's side regularly; he only intervenes when Xia Yanle is about to commit murder, and then has a brief conversation with her during that time.

Xia Yanle leaned against the wall, not denying it.

No matter what she did, the masked man would appear to stop her.

No matter how ingenious the plan or how outrageous the way of dying, he treated it like a child's game, turning it to ashes with a wave of his hand. After more than forty plans, she now felt a strange sense of absurdity.

He couldn't figure out whether his efforts were to kill Qin Yun or to have this brief conversation with him after the plan failed.

He is a special person.

It doesn't belong anywhere here; it's like an online friend.

But they are much closer to each other than netizens.

There are things we can't tell our loved ones, but we can tell complete strangers.

"Yes, because it's very common. Common cases always have precedents to refer to and data to track. I don't like unusual cases."

"Indeed. Researchers tend to trust data and dislike exceptional cases."

Not to mention researchers, he was one of them. Whether it was game operation or development, whenever there was a problem with the data or a server error, it was the time to work overtime.

“I think the book you gave me is very good. Are there any others?” she asked.

Has she finished reading the Analects?

It's true that top students are always eager to learn, no matter what world they're in.

"How about I bring you a copy of 'Zhuangzi'?"

Is there anything interesting about that book?

Bai Weiran then chose a familiar example to tell her.

Question: There is a tortoise that is three thousand years old. Do you think it would rather be wrapped in brocade and placed in a temple to be worshipped, leaving behind its bones to show its nobility after death, or live and drag its tail in the mud?

The answer was: Of course, it's like dragging your tail in the mud.

Xia Yanle smiled with her lips pursed as she listened.

"Then bring me this book, it's quite interesting."

Bai Weiran was very touched and decided to bring her the copy of "Zhuangzi" that Yu Mengmeng had trampled on at least a dozen times. Finally, a yandere girl discovered its beauty.

Xia Yanle turned to leave, but Bai Weiran called her back.

"Aren't you going to retract the cable? Be careful, other innocent people might get electrocuted when the power is restored during the day."

Xia Yanle turned to glance at him.

"It's like packing things up," she said playfully.

"In the same place, whoever can't stand the dirt and mess first will be the first to clean it up."

“And between you and me, whoever cares more about human lives will be the one to retrieve this cable.” She paused.

"Obviously, that person wasn't me, right?"

They walked away leisurely.

Bai Weiran: ...Oh no, she really knows how to manipulate people.

Well, it was just a small favor anyway. He reached out, and the cable immediately disappeared from the edge of the pool, restoring everything to its original state.

He glanced at Qin Yun one last time, shook his head, took a step back, and disappeared into the darkness.

The chilly autumn winds that heralded winter's approaching makes Qin Yun shiver by the pool, clinging to the false invitation, waiting for someone who will never come, her mind conjuring up one erotic scene after another of poolside trysts—

**

Wei Ran, GieGie actually carried the burden for that scumbag.

He really made me cry with his warmth, I want to vote for him!

. :?(.ノω\.)??.

Chapter Thirty-Four: I hate you, thank you!

Bai Weiran and Guoguo were in a meeting, looking at the work schedule projected onto the screen in a small conference room.

"The schedule for the first half of November is too tight. Let's move the data testing for all five characters to the second half of the month, giving the animation team more time to polish it," Bai Weiran instructed.

Guoguo hesitated for a moment.

"This means there'll be so much work in the second half of November, and your portion is so large... Are you okay? Are you planning to go without sleep for two weeks?"

Bai Weiran replied that it was nothing, but Guoguo was still worried.

“My dear son, projects are all just empty promises. In the end, the projects belong to the company. Even if we work hard and the project makes a lot of money, the boss will only give us a few more months' bonus at most. Life in this industry isn't as good as it used to be, and the bosses are getting stingier and stingier. If you really ruin your health, how much can medical insurance help? A few months' bonus won't even be enough.”

Guoguo always felt that Bai Weiran's working hours were excessively unreasonable.

Recently, he's been working longer and longer hours overtime. We never see him leave work, and he arrives at work early every day. There are even rumors in the team that no matter what time you send him a message in the middle of the night, he will reply very quickly.

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