Jiang Shi, on a whim, negotiated a huge deal. He carried a large sum of silver coins straight to the currency exchange center in the main city of the ninth district.
Here, it was possible to convert virtual in-game currency into real-world assets by submitting orders.
Since he didn’t lack money in his treasury in the Genesis Continent for the time being, he might as well exchange it. When he has time, he can also take Sister Jiang out for a good meal.
The staff at the currency exchange center clearly hadn’t dealt with such a large client for a long time. Seeing millions of silver coins, their eyes widened.
The receptionist immediately called the on-duty manager for the evening and provided Jiang Shi with a special VIP service channel to ensure long-term service in the future.
Jiang Shi found a sofa to sit on, waiting for the staff to complete the currency exchange process. During this time, he also had a moment to pay attention to the guild channel’s discussions. He noticed that someone who had been very active in the past was now strangely silent.
However, even though Han Yuze had gone quiet in the guild channel, it didn’t mean he was idle. It seemed that there were no secrets in this world, just as in the gaming world.
Within an hour, the news of Yu Weize leaving the Crusaders and joining the Seven Silver Coins had spread like wildfire. Not only within the game but also on forums and even trending topics, discussions about the event were thriving. In a short amount of time, several versions of the story had emerged, magnifying its impact.
After waiting patiently for so long, Return to Spring’s Skillful Hands couldn’t hold back any longer. When he saw that Han Yuze’s main account was online, he directly initiated a conversation.
[Return to Spring’s Skillful Hands: I just want to ask out of curiosity, is it fun to steal the first kill achievement from your former boss?]
[Return to Spring’s Skillful Hands: I have to say, you really live up to your reputation. It’s clear now that you’ve completely fallen out with the Crusaders.]
Han Yuze glanced at the message. Originally, he had wondered where Rejuvenating Master had obtained the information about the competition for the first kill in the adjacent map. But when he recalled the events of that day, he immediately understood.
[Yu Weize: Is Imprisoned Wen a mole from your Blood Rose?]
[Return to Spring’s Skillful Hands: It’s so harsh to call someone a mole. It’s just that the guild members occasionally practice on a small account for fun.]
[Return to Spring’s Skillful Hands: You also just joined a guild with a Material Main Account, right?]
From a certain perspective, Return to Spring’s Skillful Hands was quite a clever person. Just like now, he openly admitted to it, but within that honesty, one could still sense a faint sense of deviousness.
Han Yuze had dealt with this “Spring God” for many years and had no intention of playing word games with him.
[Yu Weize: Just cut to the chase, what’s the purpose of looking for me?]
[Yu Weize: Don’t tell me you want me to mock the Crusaders together with you?]
[Return to Spring’s Skillful Hands: Of course not. I came to ask when you’re planning to leave the guild.]
[Return to Spring’s Skillful Hands: When the time comes, be sure to give us a heads up, and I’ll make room for you in Blood Rose. As long as you can come over, winning the next Century Cup is guaranteed, and the treatment will be no less than what you have in the Crusaders.]
The use of “us” in this context was quite subtle. Han Yuze raised an eyebrow and pretended to act clueless.
[Yu Weize: “Us”? What, besides me, caught your eye among the team that snatched the first kill that day?]
[Return to Spring’s Skillful Hands: I came to Seven Silver Coins because of who you found. :)]
[Return to Spring’s Skillful Hands: Coordinating with a High Elf to that extent, what do you think?]
[Yu Weize: High Elf? Seriously? You’re even targeting a returning player?]
[Return to Spring’s Skillful Hands: Backwards, don’t you mean you’re not letting him go?]
[Return to Spring’s Skillful Hands: Back then, you deliberately created that touching confession story where “those who hear it are sad, and those who see it cry,” just to let your disciple release it. It was so carefully crafted, as if you wanted people to see your message after he quits and lure him back to play.]
[Yu Weize: …]
[Yu Weize: What do you mean, “created”? How can you call that luring?]
[Yu Weize: So, you guys see it that way?]
[Return to Spring’s Skillful Hands: I can’t speak for others, but I can’t find any other interpretation from my end.]
[Return to Spring’s Skillful Hands: Otherwise, do you think a few pictures of fireworks can pass as real?]
Han Yuze: “…” You know nothing!
Those images weren’t edited, okay!
However, Return to Spring’s Skillful Hands’s words suddenly made Han Yuze realize something. He had wondered why Return to Spring’s Skillful Hands had removed him from his friends’ list as soon as he returned. Could it be that their thought processes had become strangely synchronized?
Han Yuze’s lips twitched slightly. Just as he was about to self-assertively confirm his online romance, he suddenly noticed a message in the guild channel, which immediately captured his attention.
[[Guild] Material Main Account: Level 75 difficult speed run, need a DPS with high damage. 4=1, anyone available?]
[[Guild] Yu Weize: Take me along~^_^~]
Originally, the guild channel was quite harmonious, but with just this one line of dialogue, it instantly exploded.
He replied quickly, then swiftly sent an application to join the team.
Then, Han Yuze ignored the barrage of question marks that erupted in the guild channel and leisurely replied toReturn to Spring’s Skillful Hands with two final sentences.
[Yu Weize: Don’t talk about things you don’t know. How can you be so sure that we will definitely leave the guild?]
[Yu Weize: Alright, I’m doing a dungeon now. Goodbye.]
[Return to Spring’s Skillful Hands: ?]
[Return to Spring’s Skillful Hands: Don’t run, let’s have a proper chat!]
Just at that moment, the team leader sent a raid invitation, and Han Yuze glanced at the last messages before closing the chat box.
Subsequently, like the others in his team, he directly entered the dungeon.
Return to Spring’s Skillful Hands didn’t receive a response and sent several question marks, but once again, they fell on deaf ears.
He could only watch the last received messages and ponder.
What was Old Yu thinking? Could it be that he was planning to make this leisurely retirement guild his permanent home? Was he really giving up on participating in the next Century Cup season?
Could Yu Weize endure this!?
Return to Spring’s Skillful Hands pondered for a long time, and his final conclusion was—definitely not!
As Spring God contemplated, at the same time, there was another person in the dungeon team who was deep in thought. That person was none other than the team leader of this dungeon run, What Pen Carries Fragrance.
As the deputy guild leader, What Pen Carries Fragrance often led guild members on dungeon runs, displaying a dedicated attitude. This time, he had invited Jiang Shi to the team to make use of his returning player buff for additional loot drops.
However, what he never expected was that Yu Weize would show interest in a level 75 dungeon.
Although they had been in a team together before, it was for a 25-player raid, which was completely different from the current 5-player team situation. Especially now, as they entered the dungeon, What Pen Carries Fragrance felt like every move he made was under the scrutiny of a master. He became increasingly nervous, and during the early phase when they were clearing trash mobs, he even missed several taunts in a row.
Fortunately, Han Yuze didn’t seem to have any intention of commenting on his incompetence, or perhaps, he simply wasn’t paying attention to him.
Jiang Shi, on the other hand, seemed puzzled by Han Yuze’s sudden interest. “Why are you here to run a level 75 dungeon? Do you need these materials?”
“Not really,” Han Yuze replied with a smile. “Do you need them?”
Jiang Shi thought for a moment. “Not really.”
Originally, Jiang Shi had been holding back from leveling up to make the most of the returning player buff, collecting rare high-level materials to research the new runestone recipes introduced during this time. However, now he had already developed two new types of runestones with healing and spatial effects, so he had no plans to continue collecting materials for research.
Barring any unexpected situations, Jiang Shi would complete his third job advancement quest in the next few days and then make a big push in levels.
The two of them chatted while the rest of the team, including What Pen Carries Fragrance, were running a dungeon with a professional legend, the whole atmosphere was tense. But even so, today’s dungeon run was smoother than any they had done before.
On one side, Jiang Shi’s precise control and status management were exceptional, and on the other side, Yu Weize’s insane burst damage was on full display.
Despite being a dungeon on the hard mode, they completed it without much effort, even with What Pen Carries Fragrance, the main tank, hardly doing anything throughout the run. They ran three consecutive dungeons without a hitch.
What Pen Carries Fragrance had originally intended to run one dungeon before going to bed, but he ended up completing all his dungeon runs. When they finished, he still had over half an hour of free time before his intended bedtime.
So this is what it feels like to be carried!
What Pen Carries Fragrance was so moved that he and the other two guild members left the team.
The team leader was now in Jiang Shi’s hands.
He saw that Han Yuze had no intention of leaving and reminded him, “We’re done.”
“I know,” Han Yuze replied, but he remained in place.
Jiang Shi asked, “Do you have something to say?”
Han Yuze smiled and said, “Now that we’re in Seven Silver Coins, can we consider ourselves ‘on the same side‘? Whether it was the previous first kill or today’s dungeon run, it was all very enjoyable. So, about those friends you removed from your list, when are you planning to add them back?”
Jiang Shi initially thought that Han Yuze was feeling wronged due to the termination of his contract with the Crusaders, so he was surprised by the question. After hearing it, he blinked and said, “I’ve already sent a friend request.”
Han Yuze was momentarily taken aback and asked, “When did you do that? Why didn’t I receive it?”
Jiang Shi replied with a question, “You have ‘reject friend requests‘ enabled, how would you receive it?”
Han Yuze said, “Oh.”
He had been careless!
However, his reaction was swift. A few seconds later, he quickly made the necessary changes and said, “It’s done, you can receive it now.”
Jiang Shi didn’t hesitate and immediately sent a friend request.
Han Yuze scrolled through the flood of friend requests that had appeared, cleared several batches of applications, and finally found Jiang Shi’s in-game ID in the middle of the list. He added him as a friend.
Satisfied, he watched the count of friends in the separate group change from 0/0 to 1/1 and closed the friends list.
When he looked back at Jiang Shi, he thought about the new perspective he had gained from the conversation with Return to Spring’s Skillful Hands today. He decided to bring up a question that had been on his mind: “I have one more small question. Why did you suddenly remove me from your friends list when you returned? So, what do you want to say about what happened five years ago?”
This question was quite direct.
Jiang Shi cleared his throat lowly. The last time he had impulsively sent a friend request to Han Yuze, it was mainly to observe the entire process of him driving the Crusaders’ guild leader crazy.
Since Han Yuze had brought it up now, he decided to add him back casually. Even so, with Han Yuze’s unpredictable behavior, Jiang Shi wasn’t entirely sure whether their past issues had truly been put behind them.
At best, he had no intention of bringing up old matters recently.
Jiang Shi preferred to handle things neatly, and now that they had reached this point, to ensure a pleasant gaming experience in the future, he felt it was appropriate to address the issue.
So, he cleared his throat and put on a very sincere attitude. he said half-truths: “That’s right. About the fact that I stood you up five years ago, I was wrong. So, after I came back and found out that you were still playing this game, I was ashamed for a moment and felt that I had no face to see you. So, I impulsively chose to delete you as a friend as a way to avoid it. Now that I think about it, it’s indeed a bit irrational. But if you put yourself in my shoes, you should be able to understand it, right?”
Han Yuze replied, “Yes, I understand. So, regarding what happened five years ago, is there anything you want to say to me now?”
Jiang Shi thought for a moment: “Now that we’re in the same guild, we’re family. Since we’ve already added each other back as friends, why don’t we just let the past be the past?
Han Yuze asked, ” Let the past be the past?”
Jiang Shi noticed the subtle change in Han Yuze’s expression and quickly adjusted his words, “Of course, if you want compensation for what happened five years ago, I’m open to considering it.”
If he knows how to make amends, he shouldn’t have completely misinterpreted his love story like Return to Spring’s Skillful Hands, right?
With these thoughts in mind, Han Yuze’s expression cleared slightly, and he straightened his back a little, asking, “Compensation for what?”
Jiang Shi pondered for a moment and, during the proposal, kept a close eye on Han Yuze’s expression, “How about fulfilling the agreement we made back then and having a match?”
Han Yuze’s expression froze, “?”
Seeing that Han Yuze didn’t respond, Jiang Shi furrowed his brow slightly.
Uncertain about what this guy really wanted, Jiang Shi thought it over and reluctantly spoke again, “Well, it has been five years… If you want to calculate interest, we can have three matches.”
Han Yuze: “…”
Han Yuze resisted the urge to rub his temples, and suddenly felt a little tired and didn’t want to talk.
Okay, now we can confirm the most real reason for deleting him as a friend
I can only say that this person really thought that the appointment at Santingpo five years ago was a fight, right?
But he put out so many series of century confessions, shouldn’t it be possible for people to notice his thoughts at the first time?
It’s fine for an outsider like Return to Spring’s Skillful Hands, but how come even the attitudes of the people involved in these matters seem to be completely different from what he imagined?
You know, those posts were all written by a professional online dating confession team that he paid a lot of money for.
So, which step went wrong in this?
Realmente no dio pistas de que quería confesarse, yo también tendría este malentendido.
Por otro lado, cuando tuvieron un encuentro presencial fue más visible su interés por Jiang Shi
lmao the misunderstanding i’m crying 🤣
if i was JS, I would think that HY want to settle the scores too
Had to make an account to comment on this, but if I was in JS (Jiang shi)’s shoes and having fought 3-4 days in a row and immediately set a request to meet on the last day of the event with even loses and wins, I’d think HY (Han Yuze) would be asking to settle scores than a confession even with the clarification post afterwards, that’s the step you took wrong 🤣