Death Spiral [Infinite Flow] - Chapter 87

Chapter 87 – Qixi

Chinese Valentine’s Day was approaching and major businesses were starting to engage in festive activities. Lian Qiao hadn’t yet figured out how to celebrate that day when he  suddenly received an invitation from the live broadcast platform to invite him to go to City B. {Most likely Beijing}.

“…It’s this game.” Lian Qiao clicked on a mobile game, pointed at the handsome male portrait on the screen and said a little embarrassedly, “I have dubbed this game before.  This Qixi Festival, the website will mainly be promoting this game, so they want me to go to B city to participate in a live event. I have asked the platform and they said I can bring my family members as long as we pay our own expenses, so do you…”

Before Lian Qiao finished speaking, Xu RenDong touched the screen curiously and the game voice played immediately.

“Why am I so infatuated with you and can’t stop falling for you…”

Xu RenDong found it very interesting as the affectionate and familiar voice sounded in the game. Lian Qiao became shy, covered his face and grabbed the phone: “Don’t listen, I’m so ashamed…”

Xu RenDong smiled and said, “Then why don’t you say it to me now?”

“How can I say it?”

“You can say it to a recording but you can’t say it to me?”

“That’s different, I don’t care about the microphone, I just…” Lian Qiao blushed as he spoke and his voice dropped.

Xu RenDong suddenly had a bad intention and wanted to bully him a little, so he approached and asked him: “What did you say? I can’t hear clearly.”

Lian Qiao simply broke the jar, raised his head and said aggressively: “If I say it to you I will get hard!”

Xu RenDong: “…”

He didn’t expect to get such an answer and his face suddenly turned red to the base of his ears. Lian Qiao couldn’t help laughing when he saw the cute blush on Xu RenDong’s  fair neck.

“You want to tease but you’re shy after being teased. How can you be so cute.”

As he spoke, he put his arms around Xu RenDong and gave him a kiss on his neck.

Xu RenDong blushed and pushed him away: “Let’s talk business. How many days are we going to go to City B?”

Lian Qiao said: “The event is only for one day, it’s on the night of Qixi Festival. But I plan to stay for a few more days and take you to play around B City. It’ll be like a vacation.”

“Okay. I’ll ask for leave.”

The next day Xu RenDong went to the leader to ask for leave but was told that there was a project to be completed ahead of schedule. Not only could he not ask for leave but he even had to work overtime. Xu RenDong told Lian Qiao about it. Although Lian Qiao was depressed, he still told Xu RenDong to focus on work. Anyway, City B is not far away so he could come back the same night after participating in the event and the two people could still spend the Qixi Festival together.

So, on the night of the Qixi Festival.

The colleagues complained about having to work overtime. Fortunately, the company gave them a late-night snack benefit, which just barely comforted everyone’s hearts.

Xu RenDong looked at the time and Lian Qiao was almost on stage. He put on his headphones and turned on the live broadcast platform. On the homepage of the platform was the entrance to the Qixi Festival live broadcast. When Xu RenDong clicked in, the screen was instantly filled with barrages. It was so colorful that he was almost blinded. He barely recognizes a few sentences:

“Hahahahaha sexy Ah-Qiao is online and almost caused a crash, so exciting!”

“It’s over! It’s over! There was a live accident! They actually didn’t trigger the product after a 100 streak, how low is this probability!”

“This game is so fun. I want to charge one billion! (Fifty cents per line, deleted in parentheses)”

 “Ah-Qiao, don’t cry, it’s almost at the bottom, it will definitely trigger soon!”

“What kind of experience is it when you can’t draw yourself hahahahaha!”

In the room, two hosts, a man and a woman, were already laughing and lying on the table. On the electronic screen on the side was a mobile game card drawing interface, and on the home page was the five-star card dubbed by Lian Qiao. And Lian Qiao himself had a bitter face and muttered in his mouth: “I don’t believe it, I don’t believe it, you must have adjusted the explosion rate for me, how could I be so unlucky!”

“I can’t believe I can’t even draw myself!” He said after another ten rounds. There was a flash of light on the screen: Three stars, three stars, three stars… The whole screen was full of three star cards. Don’t mention five stars, there were not even any four stars.

Although Xu RenDong didn’t understand the rules of the game very well, looking at the barrages full of “hahahaha”, he could tell how miserable Lian Qiao was.

“Last shot!” Lian Qiao thumped the table angrily. “If it doesn’t trigger, I’ll eat it live—”

Before he finished speaking, a row of three stars flashed across the card draw interface. At the same time, 10,000 words of “shit” floated across the barrage. Lian Qiao was embarrassed and the two hosts next to him couldn’t help laughing.

Male host: “It’s over, it’s really going to be a live broadcast of the accident, we can’t broadcast this, hahahahaha!” 

The female host covered her mouth: “I want to make a solemn statement here, we really didn’t secretly change the explosion rate for the effect of the show. Ah-Qiao is really a bit unlucky today…”

Lian Qiao’s embarrassment filled the whole live broadcast room with a happy air. The popularity of the live broadcast room was getting higher and higher and many people came here just to see how many times Lian Qiao has to draw to get himself. Xu RenDong couldn’t help laughing when he saw it and when he thought about it, he also went to download the game.

 After a brief novice guide, he opened the card drawing interface and pressed the ten consecutive button. Just listening to BlingBling twice, two bright five-star cards popped up on the screen.

One is Lian Qiao, and the other is Lian Qiao.

…are we playing the same game?

Xu RenDong couldn’t help but chuckle.

Colleague Liu JiaQi happened to be passing by and, attracted by the laughter, she  subconsciously glanced at Xu RenDong’s mobile phone screen. The sight shocked her – what did she see! Isn’t this the most popular girl’s pure love game recently!

Liu JiaQi looked at Xu RenDong in a neat and meticulous suit and couldn’t imagine that he would smirk at the paper man. The beauty of the iceberg man collapsed instantly and Liu JiaQi sighed in despair: “So you actually like this…”

Xu RenDong was startled, took off his headphones and turned around. Seeing Liu JiaQi’s expression, he knew that she had misunderstood. Xu RenDong was quite embarrassed but he couldn’t explain it, so he had to cough: “I saw it by chance and just wanted to try playing it…”

He shook his mouse and wanted to work immediately to show that he was still a mature person in society. But he forgot that what was on the screen was half of the novel he had just read.

“Dong Zhuo’s life is very hard. He was born with the back of a tiger and a mountain of flesh, but in this chaotic world, he is like a small flower. It has been beaten by wind and rain, and its petals fall off piece by piece

 I hate this kind of self.

Temptation? Have you ever thought of tempting someone? The Confucian scholars who ranted were everywhere. Dong Zhuo was harassed since he was a child. He still couldn’t escape the pursuit and destruction of the Confucian scholars…”

 Liu JiaQi: “…”

Who would have thought that Xu RenDong, the flower of the high mountains, was secretly reading this kind of thing!

Liu JiaQi only felt that her three views had collapsed and five thunders hit the top. Thousands of words were condensed into one sentence: “So you also like this…”

Xu RenDong held his forehead: “You may not believe it but my friend likes this so that’s why I read it.”

At the exhibition, Lian Qiao cosplayed Sun Quan, sat on his lap in a circle, and read to him the classic lines from “Brother Quan Mei”. Afterwards, he checked the information and found that “Brother Quan Mei” is a famous online novel set in the Three Kingdoms era. He bit the bullet and finished reading the book but he still didn’t quite understand why Lian Qiao liked this kind of thing.

So, he also downloaded other books recommended by netizens. In addition to this “Dong JiaoHua”, there are also “Daddy Pi Nuan”, “Liang QiRan” and so on (see author’s note). He didn’t even have time to look through them all.

Liu JiaQi was speechless at this. In fact, it doesn’t matter if you are addicted to girl games. After all, Xu RenDong looks so good-looking, these little hobbies will not detract from him but instead make him look more cute. But it’s different if you like to read thunder texts of the Three Kingdoms. This is an aesthetic flaw! 

{Um… so ‘stepping on thunder’ means basically touching someone’s bottom line/or something they are really sensitive about, when a text has ‘thunder’ it means that there are some things inside the text that really may bother people. I think in this case because Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a serious and respected work, and Three Kingdoms is a genuine historical time with actual historical figures, popular online novels which ship characters together, change the gender of characters, or basically distort history are called ‘thunder texts’ because they contain a lot of ‘thunder’ XD.}

And it’s still Qixi! Whilst working overtime! Openly reading it on the company computer! What is this picture! Was it in order to let others discover his hobby and publicly execute him!

It’s simply perverted!

Liu JiaQi secretly clenched the small gift in her pocket. She thought that it’s fortunate that she didn’t confess otherwise it would be too painful.

What kind of ‘thing’ do I have a crush on…

She secretly sighed that it is no wonder that Xu RenDong is so good-looking but has no girlfriend. It turned out that there was a problem with his brain. She left while shaking her head.

When other colleagues saw Liu JiaQi’s reaction, they came over curiously and asked her what was wrong. Liu JiaQi shook her head and sighed, saying forget it, everyone has their own hobbies. As a result, everyone was more curious and they all ran to Xu RenDong to ask him what happened just now.

No matter how slow Xu RenDong was, he still felt embarrassed. He quickly turned off the computer, got up and said, “I’m done, I’ll go first.”

Then, ignoring everyone’s surprise, he quickly packed up and left.

When he went downstairs, his phone vibrated in my pocket. Xu RenDong saw that it was Lian Qiao and the corner of his mouth raised a smile involuntarily. Lian Qiao called to tell him that the event was over.

Xu RenDong responded and told him what happened just now. Lian Qiao was shocked: “What! You actually went to see it!”

Xu RenDong: “Isn’t it because you like it?”

Lian Qiao immediately denied three times in a row: “I don’t, it’s not! Don’t talk nonsense!”

Xu RenDong: “…Well, I misunderstood.” 

On the phone, Lian Qiao was silent for a moment and then suddenly laughed.

“Brother RenDong, why are you so cute…”

Xu RenDong is standing at the door of the underground garage. Hearing this, his face became slightly hot and he changed the subject: “When will you be coming home?”

Lian Qiao: “I just got on the high-speed rail and it will get back to City A in half an hour. Then I’ll take a taxi back…another ten or twenty minutes.”

Xu RenDong said: “I’ll pick you up at the station.”

Lian Qiao: “No need, it’s too far to go from your company to the station. You’re tired from overtime, go home and wait for me first. I’ve prepared a little surprise for you, guess what it is?”

Xu RenDong: “Can’t guess, give me a hint?”

Lian Qiao smiled meaningfully: “Ear or tail, which one do you like?”

 Xu RenDong seriously thought about it. After thinking for a while: “I like both.”

Lian Qiao: “…hs.” He took a deep breath and suddenly laughed in a low voice, “You are so greedy.”

Xu RenDong: “???” Weren’t you the one who asked me? Can’t I like both?

Lian Qiao refused to give any more hints so Xu RenDong didn’t ask any more questions. He honestly went home and waited for him. At the same time, the anticipation and curiosity in his heart grew stronger.

Ears and tail? What could it be?

***

The author has something to say:

{MTL translation below} Dong Jiaohua’s passage is quoted from. . . . In fact, I don’t know the title of the book, but there is such an article anyway.

Note: Lei Wen of the Three Kingdoms, there are poems as proof:

Jia Guose, Yu Tianxiang, heroic mother Cao Prime Minister.

Dad Pi Nuan, Yi climbed the wall, and smiled shyly.

Liang was sad, prepared for Xiaoxiang, and gave birth to a child like Jiang as a substitute.

Super wild, the cloud is sad, and the beard below is long.

Brother Quanmei, She Lu busy, and Zi Jingzi rolled out of bed together.

Good family policy, abused yellow, Gongjin’s hip waves illuminate the river.

Jiao Hua Dong, Wen Hou tasted, tears and tears were flowing from the original mother.

In terms of Lei Wen, whoever is stronger will be the king except for the Three Kingdoms.

Do not go to Baidu. {/MTL translation end.}