Filed to story: Sweetheart Do You Still Love Me
“I’m done. I’m tired.”All of a sudden, she recalled that Callum was waiting for her outside. Her eyes immediately widened in shock.Sh*t! I forgot about Callum waiting outside!She hastily ripped off the headphones and left the training room. It was there where she saw Callum sitting on the couch alone as soon as she stepped out the door. He propped his head against one hand and seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep.Hmm? Why does he look so delectable even when he is sleeping?She shook her head, trying to shake away the naughty thoughts in her head. Then, she leaned over, trying to catch a glimpse of his face.”Callum Winthrop,”
she called out his name softly. Unfortunately, he was in a deep sleep and did not hear her voice.She reached out her hand to poke his cheek, but the man in front of her abruptly snapped his eyes open.In the dark of the night, his black eyes glittered with inexplicable light. It felt as though he was enthralling her by sight alone. She couldn’t help but feel that she seemed to be dragged into the depths of his eyes when she stared into his eyes.Before she could react to the sudden turn of events, she felt something clasping her hands. In the next moment, she fell into his arms.”Callum, weren’t you asleep?”Callum chuckled.
“I slept for a while. You were inside for too long. How would I survive if I didn’t sleep the time away?”His voice was hoarse, indicating that he had indeed fallen asleep for some time.When she heard those words, she couldn’t help feeling guilty.
“I’m sorry. I was in the wrong this time. I forgot about the time when I was playing games.”His gaze softened considerably when he noticed her taking the initiative to admit her mistakes.
“Don’t apologize. Tell me you love me instead.”His response stumped her, and she didn’t know how to react. Finally, all she could do was raise her head in surprise.Regardless, his lips abruptly pressed against hers the next moment. His entire personality did a turnabout, causing the possessiveness and tenderness that belonged to her alone to vanish in that instant.Four men stood trembling in the corner, not daring to make a peep.”Isn’t this a little inappropriate for children?””Shut up! Your voice is so loud that we’ll get caught!”The four of them quarreled between themselves. When they looked up again, the two people who had been kissing affectionately earlier were standing in front of them. Elspeth, in particular, had a sinister smile on her face.”Tell me, should I gouge your eyes out? Hmm?”
The four of them shivered and wanted to explain, but they didn’t know how to start.
“How long have you been watching us?”
Elspeth took a deep breath and asked.Carrot was an honest child, so he said truthfully,
“From the start of the kiss until now.”Elspeth felt her blood pressure rise at once. Nevertheless, the two of them were doing embarrassing things in public, and it was really not the fault of these four people. Elspeth thought about it and let them go.On the next day of training, the four of them simply did not dare to look directly at Elspeth. Elspeth could feel that the training was extra tormenting for them, so she proposed to end the training early, to which the four unanimously agreed. Anyway, the practice was almost done and there was no point in practicing more if they were not learning anything new. The four of them saw Elspeth off with smiles on their faces before releasing big sighs of relief.Soon, the day of the game arrived. Elspeth followed Kenneth and the four of them to the car and headed for the competition venue. As soon as they entered, they were greeted by a stout man with an inch scar at his brow bone. He was a little oily-looking and had a smile that looked unkind.At once, alarm bells sounded in Elspeth’s head. As she watched Kenneth talk pleasantries with the man, she knew that this was their final opponent-the team captain of AD, Jaipor Lass.Today’s match would be broadcasted live, so there were quite a number of fans and news reporters gathered outside. The AD captain, Jaipor, smiled broadly at the reporters, and said,
“I have full confidence in our team. AD will definitely beat team FX.”Kenneth didn’t care about his opponent’s provocation, and when the microphone was passed to him, he just asked in confusion,
“Where is the place to receive the reward after the match?”The crowd was speechless.Soon, it was time for the game to start. Elspeth and Kenneth sat down, put on the headsets, and began to enter the battle state. During the hero selection stage, they encountered a big problem-the opposite side had banned all of Carrot’s best support picks, so Carrot panicked all of a sudden.”It seems that they had planned and learned about the heroes Carrot often uses in advance, and as such, they could strike with precision.”Kenneth frowned, feeling a little unsure.However, Elspeth was not too concerned.
“It’s okay, Carrot. Just pick any hero and follow me.”Birdy tried to dissuade her.
“Elspeth, two heroes tagging with each other would be an easy target for the enemy. Are you not afraid of that?””Not as long as our rapport is good.”Carrot gritted his teeth and chose a hero. When the battle began, Carrot’s hero accidentally got killed, and the opposite side began to taunt Carrot.”Sorry, Elspeth, I…””It’s okay. Take your time.”
Elspeth concentrated on the control of her hero, which had a flexible rolling skill. She quickly dodged all the attacks while sending the opponents to die, landing a double kill.Soon, the round ended with an overwhelming victory for Elspeth and her team.”It’s outrageous! There’s even a girl on their side who only plays a trashy support tag.””Yeah, that hero was disgusting. Many times, it jumped in to strike at the last moment. Just like that, I was killed.”After Elspeth took off the headset, she began to hear such words, and she couldn’t help but snort with laughter. Carrot looked at her, frowning.
“Elspeth, they’re cursing us; why are you not angry?”Elspeth raised her eyebrows with an incredulous look.
“They’re praising you. They’re saying that you played the support hero well and it disgusted them.”When Carrot thought about it differently, he felt it was really like that. So, he grinned and asked,
“They said you only played a trashy support tag. Was that also a compliment to you?”Elspeth rolled her eyes.
“This means they’re big dumb*sses. I’m obviously playing an archer. How could they even end up in competitive gaming if they have such bad knowledge?”
The opponents stood up after hearing this. Just after experiencing defeat, they were in a bad mood. Hence, when they heard they were being taunted, they immediately got upset. At that moment, the intermission was over, and they had to sit down again to continue the game. Elspeth and her team only needed two wins in three games, so as long as they won this round, they no longer had to deal with this group of people.As soon as Elspeth put on the headset and started the game, she suddenly found that there was actually no sound in the headset. Soon everyone else found out about this bug. They looked across the room and saw that the opponent team had normal communication, yet they themselves could not hear each other’s voices. All of a sudden, they began to panic. But with good mental strength, they quickly calmed down and started the game. There was no rule to say that one couldn’t compete well without communication. After all, they had honed their rapport with each other for so long, and it was not something that disappeared even when they couldn’t communicate.It was a difficult game as many situations could not be explained clearly without communication. Soon, the opposite side pushed in hard, reaching the towers on Elspeth’s side. The only hero alive on
Elspeth’s side was her own hero, while the other four people alive were the opponents’, frantically trying to shatter the towers.Elspeth calmed down. She deceived the opponents to use up their skills and then ran as fast as she could to the towers. When the opposite team saw her wounded, they rushed to take her down. Elspeth blinked to the side, cleared the front line, and the towers began to hit the opponents. In the end, Elspeth released all her skills and directly took four kills!Kenneth’s heart was surging with emotions. After his resurrection, he rushed to the opponents’ side of the field and took down the smaller towers on his way to the main towers. Taking advantage of the opponents still in cooldown mode, the five of them cooperated to shatter the main towers.Soon, the game was over with a narrow win for Elspeth’s team. They now had two wins, which meant the opponent team had lost for good.The opponents took off their headsets and all of them looked at Elspeth with resentful faces.”This woman is so disgusting; did she really play that?””I feel like she must have cheated. How do you think she could have played so well?””Yeah, I think there were several times where her hero didn’t take any damage when the skills hit her.”Elspeth couldn’t help but laugh when she heard their thoughts. She raised her eyes with a disdainful look and asked,
“Why are you all looking at me, you bunch of stupid pigs?”Kenneth said,
“Rubbish.”Birdy added,
“Trash.”Susy said,
“Disgraceful!”Carrot held his tongue for a long time before saying,
“Bad people!”Elspeth was speechless. The other team was not happy to hear the taunting curses from this side.”We demand a review of this woman’s record! How can she be the MVP? How can they even win?”Elspeth did not care.
“Feel free to check. If you find out anything about me, I’ll consider this game my loss.””Who is this woman? How can a woman play so well?”Elspeth snorted angrily.
“What’s wrong with being a woman? Can’t a woman play well?”Soon, the review results came. It reported that Elspeth really did not use any cheats.Jaipor’s face fell.
“Impossible! We don’t believe that Elspeth can be so powerful!””What makes that impossible?”Jaipor sneered,
“A gamer who has not been heard of before can suddenly learn to play the game and defeat everyone so quickly? This is definitely not possible!”Elspeth dug her ears and asked,
“What day of the week is today?””Don’t change the topic!”Jaipor was about to continue to argue with Elspeth when the team member behind him suddenly trembled and pulled Jaipor’s hand.
“Jaipor, look!”
Jaipor was annoyed. He turned his head and said impatiently,
“Look at what?!”
“Look at today’s Conqueror’s Pro List! The ID at the very top is actually ‘Elspeth’!”Today happened to be a Monday, and the new list of top players updates every Monday. Last night, they had been training for today’s team competition, so they had not paid attention to the list for several days. They did not expect that it would be Elspeth’s ID at the top of the list… The ID of the woman right in front of them!A trace of unease suddenly crossed Jaipor’s heart, but he still insisted on saying,
“Impossible, this must be the ID of Kenneth, who changed the name beforehand.”But soon, he found that the second ID displayed on the list was ‘CrazyKen’.”My ID did not have this name before, but I was afraid that you would say that this is not my ID, so I just deliberately changed it temporarily.”
Elspeth smiled.She added with a sarcastic face,
“What? Do you need me to personally go online with my ID to show you whether I’m at the top of that list or not?”At that, Jaipor felt a deep humiliation. Now that the live broadcast was still going on, he didn’t want to look bad, so he could only grit his teeth and apologize to Elspeth.
“Sorry, I misunderstood you.”After apologizing, he was ready to lead his teammates back.Elspeth said lightly,
“Don’t rush off yet. Let’s take care of some personal matters first.””What other personal matters do we have to deal with? We don’t even know each other in private.”Elspeth took the headset and threw it in front of Jaipor.
“Mr. Lass, do you want to explain why all the headsets belonging to my team were not working?”Sweat began dripping down Jaipor’s forehead.
“You should ask the organizer this. Why are you asking me?””Because what was captured by the surveillance camera is that you unplugged our headset connection cable, which was why we had to play through the entire game without working headsets. Of course, it also proves that you are indeed useless at the game.”Jaipor was puzzled.
“Surveillance camera? What surveillance camera?”He had not seen any surveillance cameras at this competition venue anywhere. Elspeth replied with a smile,
“Sorry, when I came here just now, I also found no surveillance camera. To avoid unnecessary problems, I specially installed the pinhole cameras I have everywhere.”With that, Elspeth connected the surveillance footage to the big screen using Bluetooth.
“See for yourself. Isn’t that you?”On the screen, Jaipor was looking around. Taking advantage of everyone’s inattention, he secretly came behind them, unplugged the cables for the headsets, and went back unnoticed. He was smart enough to avoid the live broadcast camera and create the impression of going to the restroom, but he didn’t expect Elspeth to have cameras around.”You’re eager to win, but that’s not how the game should be played. Mr. Lass, the character of your team is evident.”Once these words came out, Jaipor knew that he was completely finished. All these things were broadcasted live. Thus, their team was now infamous. Jaipor closed his eyes tightly; for an incomparably tough-looking man like him, it was surprising to see that tears were flowing down his face.After the game, the two teams went out to face the reporters’ questions according to the usual practice, and in front of everyone, Jaipor said brutally,
“I announce that Team AD is henceforth dissolved.”Team AD, which had been in the limelight for a year, was dissolved today.Jaipor left despondently with his team members while Elspeth and the others began receiving reporters’ questions.
“Miss Elspeth, may I ask how you play the game so well?”Elspeth smiled lightly.
“With my own hands.”The reporter still did not give up, throwing Elspeth another question,
“Then can you give some experienced advice to the children who love to play such games?”Elspeth thought about it and said,
“Pay attention in class and play fewer games.”The reporter felt that she could not take it anymore, so she turned her head and asked Kenneth,
“Mr. Joneson, do you have anything to add?”Kenneth saw that it was finally his turn and asked with a smile,
“Where is the place to receive the award?”The reporter completely gave up and left in a hurry, covering her face.This tournament was considered to have come to an end, and Elspeth finally replaced Kenneth as the new top player. She even set off a frenzied trend of playing with archers aptly named
“Elspeth Style”.Even the game’s designers, on seeing the excessive usage of archery heroes, began to significantly weaken the heroes’ archery skills to keep the game balanced. But this all happened afterward.Soon, Elspeth returned to the club. Callum was already there waiting for her. Looking at Elspeth’s face, Callum felt reluctant to leave her, but he still said,
“Elspeth, I have to go back to Damoria in the next two days. The company has run into some problems, but I should be able to come back in a week.”When Elspeth heard this, she was actually a little sad for a moment, but still nodded.
“It’s okay. Just go.”Callum let out a long sigh before walking up to Elspeth and gently hugging her.
“Remember to miss me.”Seeing how arrogant he was even while saying such words, Elspeth looked helpless.
“Then let’s see whether I have time to miss you!”Callum frowned at once.
“No time? I’m only away for a week, not dead. I have ways to check in on you.”Elspeth was speechless.Before Callum left, he insisted that Elspeth send him to the airport. When the two of them left, it was like they were leaving for good. Kenneth and the others were reluctant to let Elspeth leave, especially Carrot who was in tears.Wiping his tears, he looked unhappy as he said,
“Elspeth, can you not leave? If you leave, I will have to listen to your ‘Good Night’ song to sleep well again.”Elspeth tugged her lips.
“That’s called ‘Good Night, ‘Good Night’.”Carrot choked for a moment, while Birdy on the side said,
“Elspeth, will you continue to participate in next year’s battle tournament?”Elspeth said cursorily,
“Sure.”Kenneth stared at Elspeth for a long time and asked,
“How shall I transfer the prize money, of which four million is yours, to you?”Elspeth helplessly but politely refused the money and hurriedly said goodbye. Then, she followed Callum to the airport, and after sending him off, she suddenly received a phone call. It was a call from Michael.”Hello, Elspeth? Today, one of my friends’ grandsons is back in Blaydal. Could you help me go to the airport to pick him up? I’m old, and there is no one else to help me. Um…”Although Elspeth knew that it was a trick from him, she still reluctantly agreed. She was even wondering if the old man had sent someone to monitor her movements.”Great, I have already told him. You can just stand by the exit and wait for him when the time comes.”After saying that, Michael hung up the phone.Elspeth had a premonition in her heart that the person arriving would be somehow related to her.The plane that Michael said the man would soon arrive at the airport in Blaydal, and Elspeth was standing at the exit looking out when she suddenly saw a familiar figure in the crowd. That person slowly walked toward her and smiled.
“Miss Elspeth, long time no see.”
Elspeth froze. Looking at the man in a suit with a refined smile, she was secretly wary.
“Mr. Carr, you’ve come to Blaydal too?”
A trace of surprise crossed Jordan’s eyes.
