Chapter 17 Part 1

How can there be a person as boring as Chi Yao in this world???

So bored that he changed his username to humiliate her.

At noon the next day, Lin Zhexia went to Chi Yao’s house after dinner to denounce, “Change your username, right now, immediately, do it now.”

Chi Yao was getting water in the kitchen. The youth held the glass and said casually, “Sure.”

Just as she was wondering why Chi Yao was being so nice today, she heard him say the second half:

“The name change card is 5 yuan each. I will change it immediately after you pay me.”

“Why aren’t you talking anymore?”

In a faint voice, he continued to ask, “WeChat or Alipay?”

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Ubk Zys, “Jlt xl.”

“R’x clttkdt usw.”

“Zsw?”

“No, I mean, I’m begging this most handsome guy in the world.”

“My mom’s birthday is coming soon,” She continued. “I want to give her a surprise gift, but if I reveal it in advance, it wouldn’t be a surprise anymore.”

Lin He’s birthday is next week.

Every year, Lin Zhexia would prepare a small gift for her, so Chi Yao didn’t probe further.

Since Lin Zhexia’s novel feeling to the game has not yet worn off, the two would occasionally duo queue together for some days while waiting for the delivery.

After a few days, Lin Zhexia understood more about this game. Occasionally, she’ll perform well and wasn’t technically Chi Yao’s deadweight anymore.

During this period, a girl from the same class whom Lin Zhexia wasn’t too familiar with sent a request to join the team: You also play this game? Let’s play together next game~

“One of my classmates wants to play together,” Lin Zhexia said, lying on the sofa in Chi Yao’s house. “I’m inviting her, kay?”

Chi Yao didn’t show any objection.

Lin Zhexia tapped “Agree”.

It’s pretty normal to see your classmates online and play together.

That girl’s voice came from the team, “Hi~ Xiaxia.”

Lin Zhexia also greeted her.

Chi Yao didn’t turn on his mic. He kept silent the entire time like a paid booster¹someone who carries people up the ranks.

Classmate, “Why isn’t the other person speaking?”

Lin Zhexia, “Don’t mind him, he’s mute.”

“Ah?”

In any case, Chi Yao wouldn’t turn on his mic so Lin Zhexia casually put labels on him, “His phone broke and his family is poor. It’ll take a while for him to switch to a phone that he could talk with.”

The first round ended very quickly.

After also getting carried, the girl examined before she left, “Your friend’s so strong.”

Then she asked, “Is this someone in our class? I don’t seem to have them as a friend.”

Lin Zhexia was silent for a moment, she didn’t know how to tell her that the person who was playing with her was Chi Yao from Class 1.

Finally, she could only say, “…Not from our class.”

–

A few days later, the courier delivered the package to the door, “Are you Chi Yao Big Stupid Pig? Sign for it here.”

The package wasn’t big, and it was quite light.

Chi Yao had just woken up, he took the pen from the courier expressionlessly.

When the courier left, he closed the door, the corners of his mouth lifted and he said under his breath, “So childish”.

In order to prepare a gift for Lin He, Lin Zhexia kept an eye on the logistics.

She ran to Chi Yao’s house in slippers, “Is my stuff here—?”

“It’s here,” Chi Yao said, ready to go back to his room to catch some sleep. Before turning around, he stood at the door and warned her, “Next time you pick such a stupid recipient name, don’t blame me for throwing your things out.”

Lin Zhexia, “You’re the one who changed your name first to cuss me.”

Chi Yao, “How did I cuss you.”

“Your cussing style isn’t as straightforward as mine,” Lin Zhexia said. “Although you didn’t use a dirty word, you still cussed me.”

Chi Yao sneered, “Should I compliment you on your straightforwardness?”

“Nah,” Lin Zhexia flapped her hand. “I’m just such a straightforward person.”

After saying that, she squatted at the entrance of Chi Yao’s house to unbox her package, then very seriously, she took out…

A ball of yarn.

In addition to the yarn, there were several very thin wooden needles and a booklet with “Guide to Knitting a Scarf” written on the cover.

–

In order to hide it from Lin He, Lin Zhexia could secretly knit it at Chi Yao’s house.

At first, she shouted with great enthusiasm, “My gift isn’t bad right? It’s practical and innovative. I’m so considerate. When I finish it, it will warm her all winter.”

The enthusiasm dissipated in less than three days.

Because scarves are really.

Really, hard to, knit.

She has had poor abilities with her hands since she was a kid. There was a time in the past when she had to hand in plaster homework for her technical education class. After working hard for a week, in the end, she still begged Chi Yao to help her finish it.

Not to mention the delicate work of knitting scarves.

She watched the video tutorial. While the person in the video could finish knitting in three or two moves, her hands were like a malfunctioning mechanical arm, they simply wouldn’t listen.

The video tutorial played in a loop, “Let’s start… ​​The first stitch is a slip knit-stitch. Place the yarn on the right needle, and move the yarn from the left needle to the right needle. Then, using the right needle, pick up the second stitch from the left needle and purl it over….”

Even math problems seemed simpler than this.

After listening to it once, Lin Zhexia silently pulled back the progress bar and started again, “Let’s start…”

She sat on the carpet, with balls of yarn beside her feet.

Chi Yao was lying on the sofa taking a nap, covered with Lin Zhexia’s little throw.

The youth’s black sweater and her little throw with floral patterns formed a unique collision. It was abrupt, yet also somewhat subtly natural.

The heater was on and it was very warm.

When the person on the sofa heard “Let’s start” for the fifth time, he slowly opened his eyes.

“Lin Zhexia.”

Lin Zhexia was so overwhelmed by the tutorial that she didn’t have time to pay attention to him, “What?”

Chi Yao raised a hand, covered his eyebrows and eyes, and asked, feeling unbelievable, “You still don’t know how to do it?”

Lin Zhexia replied angrily, “I’m only watching it for the fifth time. It’s very difficult, okay?”

“It’s difficult?”

He said, “Five times, I already know how to do it just by hearing it that many times.”

Lin Zhexia put down her needle and yarn, looked at him, and asked in the same tone, “Did you not wake up yet?”

“If you’re not awake, I suggest you continue to sleep. You’re not in a dream right now, stop pretending to be such a know-it-all, you’ll get struck by lightning.”

Chi Yao scratched his hair and sat up.

He sat on the sofa, and Lin Zhexia sat cross-legged on the floor.

Lin Zhexia raised her head. This angle of view made his legs longer. She looked up and saw his thin jaw and his Adam’s apple that moved slightly when he talked.

The youth said with a sleepy voice, “Give me the needle and yarn.”

…

Is he really going to keep pretending?

Lin Zhexia bit her teeth.

She didn’t believe that he could do it just by hearing it while he was sleeping.

“If you’re so good, you do it,” She handed over the tangled yarn in her hand. “I’ll see how you’ll knit.”

Chi Yao took the yarn and dismantled all the parts she knitted.

After taking apart the needle and yarn, he hooked his finger on the thin yarn, and adjusted the gesture of his hands. Then, those few fingers moved at random with cooperation and actually succeeded in starting to knit.

He figured things out as he knitted. In the process, there were two times he messed up in the middle since he wasn’t very familiar with it, but after he unraveled it and redid it, he soon finished a row of knitting.

The beige yarn was wrapped in a neat and orderly manner, almost indistinguishable from that shown in the tutorial.

Chi Yao raised his eyelids slightly, “Do you see?”

After a long time, Lin Zhexia didn’t want to admit it and said, “I can’t see. I’m blind.”