Playoffs

The players who finally quit the game slowly walk out next to the big black screen.

The entire audience was silent as they looked at the two teams that came out, their expressions basically in a trance, as if they hadn't regained their senses from the stalemated battle.

The host standing on top of the high platform took a deep breath as he waved his hand down, pointing to the side Liu Jiayi had walked out on, "Game over."

"The winner of the challenge is--"

"Wandering Circus!!!"

"Let's congratulate this freshman team for successfully defeating the second-ranked King's Guild team, and advancing to the playoffs!"

After a brief moment of silence, the crowd cheered and applauded fiercely, but no matter how exciting a match is, it's not going to make everyone cheer - one side's victory naturally means the other side's defeat as well.

Qi Yifang, who was sitting on the seat, covered his red eyes and tried his best to hold back the tears that were about to fall from his eyes, but after Liu Ji, who was next to him, hugged him in silence and hammered him on the shoulder, Qi Yifang finally couldn't hold himself back and embraced Liu Ji, bawling his eyes out:

"We all gave it our best shot! "

"Why did we still lose!"

Liu Ji clumsily reassures him, "Maybe we're not good enough."

Qi Yifang was even more upset: "You might as well stop talking, woo-woo-woo."

"It's okay." Liu Ji's face is all dirty and burned, but his eyes are bright, "We'll be better next year, we'll win next year for sure!"

"Don't cry so weakly." Phoebe squinted at Qi Yifang, who was hugging Liu Ji and crying her heart out, "It's just that it stops here and now, and it doesn't stop here and now for eternity."

"Train well."

Phoebe clenched her fists, "Even if there's no Heart, next year, I'm sure I can take you guys to beat the Little Witch."

"What do you mean ......" Qi Yifang looked up in surprise, "there is no queen?!"

Phoebe paused for a moment as a loud system beep sounded behind her:

[System alert: The King's Guild is changing authority. The former president, Queen Heart, is transferring all authority to the new president, Sister Phoebe.]

[System alert: After the successful handover, player Heart Queen has paid the default fee and applied for withdrawal from the guild.]

[The new president agrees to the resignation request, and player Heart Queen resigns successfully.

Qi Yifang's expression went completely blank: "What does it mean for the Empress ...... to withdraw?"

"It means what you see." Heart followed Phoebe out, his tone was casual and natural, he didn't seem to know what he had just done would make waves in the game, he even answered Qi Yifang's words with a smile on his face, "Players like me who sell their souls to other people don't deserve to be your president, there's too much uncertainty. "

"Bai Liu that greedy person already got my soul, I don't want him to get my hard-earned guild again through my panel, and I've been the president for so long, it's time for me to retire and give myself a long vacation."

"Phoebe has grown to be a better person to run this guild than I am." Heart spreads his hands lazily and smiles, "The position of president is for those who can do it, so he quit the guild."

The King's Guild, the second largest guild in the entire game, with an uncountable chain of points behind it, the guild that countless people dreamed of joining, was handed over so lightly by its founders.

Qi Yifang was completely unresponsive, and equally unresponsive was the rest of the audience.

These viewers quickly snapped out of their game-ending euphoria and began discussing Heart's withdrawal in shock.

Heart handed over the guild thing they already knew about in the game semi-central, but, quit the guild?

This is not a transfer of guilds, it means Heart will never compete as a member of the King's Guild again.

The last time something so stirred up such an uproar was the Reverse God transfer.

The host was shocked as well, but the match was over, and this was gossip outside of the game and outside of his commentary, so he respectfully did his job and wrapped it up, "Will the tacticians from both teams please come to the front and do ......."

After saying this, the host stuck his shell for a rare moment, "Due to the fact that there was a tactician change for both teams in this match, I would like to ask the four tacticians from both sides before and after the change to come to the stage and do a post-match exchange."

Front of the stage.

Liu Jiayi and Phoebe walked in front of us and the two girls shook hands in a natural manner.

"Someday." Phoebe looked up at Liu Jiayi, "I'll catch up with you."

Liu Jiayi replied seriously, "I'm waiting for this day."

"But until then, I won't lose to you."

The two girls shook hands and bowed before turning to leave, Bai Liu and Heart, who were walking behind them, stepped forward and looked at each other.

"You bought my soul with a point coin in the game." Heart held a points coin between two fingers as he lifted his eyes to look levelly at Bai Liu, "Accordingly, you will fulfill one of my demands."

"Any requests?"

Bai Liu calmly agreed, "Anything you want."

[Can.]

Heart closed his eyes, at the moment Bai Liu's smiling voice overlapped with Bai Liu's again in his mind, he took a deep breath before opening his eyes again, "Meet me at the same storefront where you first met me tomorrow at 6pm."

"At that time, I will tell you what I want."

"I won't wait long for you."

6 p.m. the following day.

Bai Liu sits in an empty storefront.

He arrived here ten minutes early, the store was obviously Heart bagged, directly closed, he are knocking on the door before coming in, the boss gave opened the door, directly handed him the key, Bai Liu slightly surprised raised his eyebrows, "The key to the store directly to me?"

"Yes." The owner's attitude was respectful, "Our store is actually the one that Mr. Zhao funded to open in the first place, it's considered to be a big store owner, it's just that the people below don't know about it, and Mr. Zhao didn't let us say it deliberately."

"He said that a valued customer would be coming to see him at six o'clock this afternoon, and that he would just give you the keys to the store directly then."

Bai Liu took the key and looked subtle, "...... Okay, please."

Heart This guy, surprisingly rich ......

Not far.

Mu Sicheng, wearing binoculars, had a solemn gaze and a cold tone, "Bai Liu went into the store, are you still following?"

Tang Er, who was hiding his body by the big tree, was still hesitant: "It's not good for us to follow Bai Liu's private date like this, is it?"

"Securing Bai Liu's safety is something that we, the team members, should do." Mu Ke pushed the gold glasses on his face with a smirk on his face, "Not to mention meeting with a high-risk person like Heart, what if he has some strange designs on Bai Liu?"

Lu Yizhan, who was holding a twig and cowering next to Mu Sicheng, nodded his head in agreement, "That's right! What if something happens?"

Liu Jiayi beside her breathlessly rolled her eyes and spat, "Why did you, the killer sequence guy, come along too?"

"Ahem... ...... Well... ......" Lu Yizhan clenched his fists and choked out a couple of coughs, seriously pulling Spades, who was crouching expressionlessly and gazing at the store, over to him, "Of course it's not for gossip! He came over, "It's not out of gossip, of course! It's just that my team member is coming with me, and I'm his half-guardian, so it's only natural that I come along, right?"

Liu Jiayi : "...... ==."

It's all about the gossip, right?

"But now Bai Liu into the store, the store is still locked, how we can not follow, right?" Tang Er fought helplessly to dissuade, "How about going back? Bai Liu will be angry if he finds out that we're following his private invitation."

"...... Uh-huh, okay, won't do anything, just dropped something in the store the last time I was here for styling and went back to get it." Mu Ke calls in a gentle tone, making a shushing gesture to a couple people next to him, "Just open the door for me please."

Mu Ke put down the phone and smiled a harmless smile, "It's done, a clerk will come and open the door for us later."

Mu Sicheng cheered, "Mu Ke is awesome!"

Spades seriously seconded, "Mu Ke Niu ......"

Lu Yizhan was quick to interrupt with a stern, "Don't learn dirty words."

Tang Er hit the forehead.

They went around to the side door and waited until the clerk opened it and tried to follow them in, Mu Ke easily fooled the clerk and managed to sneak into the store.

A group of people sneakily hid behind the make-up models in the changing room, looking through the half-open barrier at Bai Liu sitting in the center of the hall, reading magazines with his head down. Spades was about to walk over to Bai Liu as soon as he saw him, but was held down by Lu Yizhan.

Shortly afterward, the front door opened again.

Bai Liu looked up and saw Heart, who had reverted to male clothing, standing in the doorway.

He wasn't wearing the same flashy attire he had worn the first time, much more casual, with some curly long red hair braided and thrown back behind his head, dressed in a very simple and plain white top and jeans, looking like a college student playing a musical instrument, looking very different from the first time they had met, with that aggressiveness in his body that seemed to have been washed away into something natural and casual.

"Right on time?" Heart sat down across from Bai Liu, naturally pouring herself a glass of water and smiling at him with a slightly flirtatious smile, "I thought you'd keep me waiting for a while."

"I'm always on time." Bai Liu put down the magazine and replied lightly.

"Yeah?" Heart dragged her jaw back and sipped her water, smirking at him, "Then maybe I'm misremembering."

"I've always waited for another person before, so I thought you'd make me wait too, and I'm kinda surprised that you're the one who waited for me."

"Quite happy too."

"I never let traders wait for me." Bai Liu explains, "It's not very polite."

--This atmosphere, watching Tang Er fight all frowned a little.

It's too harmonious.

These two didn't even look like rivals who had been fighting on the field yesterday, but instead looked like two old friends who had agreed to come out and have fun, making small talk with such a calm and friendly attitude.

"You are somewhat the same as him." Heart looked down at her reflection in the glass, her fingers rubbing the rim of the glass one at a time, "But still more different."

"You didn't come to me to find out if I'm the same or different from him, did you?" Bai Liu looked at Heart levelly, "What is your request?"

"You wouldn't agree to do it with me if I asked you to do it once, would you?" Heart dropped a bomb in a flat tone.

Mu Sicheng, who was hiding behind the curtains, gasped in shock, which was swiftly covered by the grim-faced Mu Ke. Lu Yizhan's hand holding down Spades was bursting with veins, and he frantically waved his hand for Tang Er to come and help hold down Spades, who was on the verge of going berserk.

Only Liu Jiayi watched quietly.

"But what if it's just a kiss?" Heart lifted his eyelids, his violet eyes refracting dazzlingly in the fluorescent light, and his tone took on a strange sense of compulsion, "Can you give it to me?"

"As I recall, your skills are put in paper money if you don't meet the other party's requirements after trading them, right?"

Heart had taken on a dangerous edge by the end of her sentence, "So if I do ask for your kiss and you won't give it to me, you'll be put in the bill?"

"Why the kiss?" Bai Liu inquired slowly, having the leisure to raise his glass for a sip of water at this point in time.

"Why?" Heart looked at Bai Liu with a smirk, "Probably because Salome, the siren who danced the Dance of the Seven Veils, also asked for a kiss from John, the saint she loved."

"That's the story." Bai Liu stroked his chin thoughtfully, "If I remember correctly, the saintly John would rather die than give Salome this kiss, right?"

"Yes." Heart's eyes move to land on Bai Liu's lips, his fingers curling and moving away, his tone still lazy, "So in the end, Salome killed Saint John, cut off his head, and ended up kissing the lips on the dead head."

"- She finally got the kiss she wanted, just in a tragic way."

"Are you threatening me?" Bai Liu raised his eyes and calmly countered, "Not that you need to threaten, I'm a man who keeps his deals, so if you really want the kiss, come over here."

Heart froze in place almost as if frozen in place after receiving Bai Liu's promise, then very slowly stood up with his desktop propped up, turned his head to Bai Liu, and looked at him stoically for a moment before slowly bending his body down.

He was slightly taller than Bai Liu, and when he stood up the shadow was just enough to cover Bai Liu's face, and the braid slipped off Heart's shoulder and landed in Bai Liu's glass of water, the droplets of which fell on the back of his hand, which was propped up on the tabletop and clutched the edge, so cool that his palms tightened for a moment.

The faces of the two men, viewed from behind the curtain, appeared to be gradually overlapping and were on the verge of fitting together.

Even Lu Yizhan let out a cold breath, but he quickly covered his mouth and looked at the scene in horror.

But by this time, Spades was strangely quiet, he just stared at Bai Liu, Mu Sicheng looked at this man who was so agitated, and asked strangely, "Aren't you going to stop Heart?"

"No need." Spades' icy voice came out almost simultaneously with Bai Liu's, "Heart kisses don't go down."

"Why did you stop." Bai Liu calmly tilted his head and looked at Heart, which was less than ten centimeters in front of his face, "Didn't you want my kiss?"

"What are you trembling about?"

Heart's shoulders, his hands on the tabletop, and even his breath were shaking.

"Or I'll ask it another way." Bai Liu lifts her eyes, her tone calm, "Why are you asking me for something, something you fear I will do to you?"

"So is the bed, so is the kiss."

"...... I have no fear!" Heart lowered her head and clenched her fists, almost a little annoyed, and retorted to Bai Liu in a sarcastic tone, "I thought you said I liked you? Why should I fear kissing the person I like?"

"There is no law that says that." Bai Liu said in a calm tone, "One may not fear the kiss of the one one one likes."

"I get scared too, why can't you?"

Heart's breathing slowly calmed as he collapsed onto the desktop, face down, his face buried in the table, his entire being radiating a somber feeling, "...... Forget it, I don't want it."

Bai Liu, as if he had anticipated this, picked up another clean cup and took another sip of water, "Well, you change your request."

"I landed that island and turned it into a sea island." Heart was quiet for a moment, then suddenly spoke, her voice soft, "It became beautiful."

"Go see the island, Bai Liu."

"Yes." Bai Liu ponders for a moment, he smiles, "I haven't been to a private island in reality, it should be beautiful."

"But beyond that, there's a small problem."

Bai Liu asked seriously, "Do you reimburse the cost of going?"

Heart : "...... reimbursement."

"And then--" Bai Liu smirked as he held his teacup in his hands, leisurely sweeping his afterglow at the curtain behind him that moved with every movement, "-- -Can I bring my family and friends along to visit your island?"

Heart looked up as he stared at Bai Liu's innocent face for a moment, finally releasing a soft smile as well and saying, "Yes."