Guide on How to Fail at Online Dating

Edited by Divetus

Xiang Huaizhi hadn't drunk any alcohol, but at this moment, he felt a little drunk.

The apartment windows weren't tightly closed, so a gust of wind blew in and cooled Xiang Huaizhi's chin, as if to remind him that he had just been kissed.

The initiator of this act laid on the sofa, his body was still wrapped in his coat, his legs were spread wide apart with one actually stuck against Xiang Huaizhi's calf, his eyes opening and closing, and he looked at him vaguely.

"What?" Jing Huan's voice was very low. "If you have a debt, you have to pay it back, that's only right and proper. Even if you're reluctant, you still must…"

Xiang Huaizhi responded, "No. I just wanted to ask if you wanted me to pay it all off at once."

Jing Huan fell silent.

He looked at Xiang Huaizhi for a long time and thought very hard about it. Finally, he said, "Forget it… Still have one more time, I'll save it."

Xiang Huaizhi lowered his head and took a deep breath. His heart felt a bit soft. "Do you have a headache?"

"No, but my eyelids hurt." Jing Huan said.

"Then go to sleep."

"No," Jing Huan turned to look at the computer and said whatever came to his head. "I haven't done my dailies today."

"It's fine if you don't do it once in a while," Xiang Huaizhi said.

Jing Huan calmed down. Xiang Huaizhi was just about to go hang up the towel when he opened his mouth again, "Xiao Xiangjing hasn't been fed yet."

Xiang Huaizhi paused. "I'll feed her when I get back."

Jing Huan looked at him in shock. "How can you be like this ah?"

Xiang Huaizhi asked, "… Like what?"

"You're already going to take her away but in these past two days, you've still been fighting with me to feed the child!"

Xiang Huaizhi finally understood that it wasn't that Jing Huan didn't go crazy when he was drunk, it was just a delayed effect.

Ten minutes later, Jing Huan sat in front of the computer and logged into his account. He entered the wrong password several times before he got into the game.

Then the system prompt appeared right in front of their faces.

[Yuelao: Your divorce application with Yearning For has been processed. Please team up together to go to Yuelao to cut off your red line within three days. After the expiration date, the application will be invalid. ]

Xiang Huaizhi heard the sitting person vent his anger by cursing, "Garbage game."

After feeding the child, Xiang Huaizhi said, "Okay, turn off the computer and go to sleep."

"No, I'm going to do my dailies." Jing Huan said.

Standing behind him, Xiang Huaizhi frowned, put his hand on Jing Huan's hair, and gently rubbed it twice. "Go to sleep."

Drunk people were slow to do anything, so Xiang Huaizhi helped him take off his coat and found that Jing Huan only had a very thin long-sleeved shirt underneath.

Jing Huan didn't like wearing clothes when he slept, so when his coat was taken off, he subconsciously raised his hand to take off his pants.

Xiang Huaizhi had just turned around to hang the coat. When he looked back, there was only a set of black briefs left on the boy's body.

Xiang Huaizhi: "…"

Jing Huan rubbed his eyes, curled up his long legs, and got into bed. As soon as he covered himself with his quilt, he went to sleep.

Xiang Huaizhi's throat tightened. He stared at Jing Huan's pale shoulders and clavicle for a while, and then finally pursed his lips and went to help him pull up the bedding. He then went to the living room to pick up the glass of water and drank down the remainder.

When Jing Huan woke up, the room was dark, and the curtains were tightly pulled shut. He opened his eyes; his brain was blank, and his head was aching.

His cellphone vibrated twice on the computer desk. Jing Huan reached out from under the quilt and then squinted at the cellphone's bright light.

A closer look revealed several cracks on the screen.

It had been almost a year since he had bought the cellphone so Jing Huan didn't feel bad about it and just clicked the message open.

Lu Wenhao: @Xiao Jing ya, are you awake yet? Going to the library or not?

Jing Huan looked at it and saw that the message had been sent two hours ago.

Xiao Jing ya: @Lu Wenhao, not a filial son. Taking advantage of me being sick, to snuff my life out like a wick?

Lu Wenhao: ?

Xiao Jing ya: Did you or did you not smash my cellphone, tell the truth and you'll receive a lighter sentence.

Gao Zixiang: Yes, I will testify.

Lu Wenhao: You motherfucker, scram!! Laozi’s not crazy! If I smashed your cellphone, I’d still have to get you a new one, and in the end I’m still the loser.

Jing Huan laughed.

Lu Wenhao: But, when I helped you out of the restaurant last night, your cellphone was still good ah. Otherwise, you can ask Xiang Ge.

Jing Huan stopped laughing.

Xiao Jing ya: What do you mean?

Lu Wenhao: Xiang Ge was the one who sent you back yesterday ah. Maybe he accidentally dropped your cellphone on the way.

Xiao Jing ya: …

Lu Wenhao: You didn't forget again ba?

Of course, Jing Huan didn’t forget.

He had just thought it was a dream. A dream where Xiang Huaizhi helped him enter the door and then wiped his face&#k2026; He had also kissed Xiang Huaizhi.

Lu Wenhao: Tch, you called someone "Gege" yesterday and asked him to take you home… Hey ah, unlocked a new drunk pose?

Xiao Jing ya: And then what, did he beat me?

Lu Wenhao: ?

Lu Wenhao: No, he just supported you and left.

Jing Huan let out a sigh of relief, threw his cellphone aside, lifted the quilt, and found that he was only wearing a pair of briefs, which made all his drowsiness immediately disappear.

In fact, his drunken shenanigans were rare. When he took a bath, he vaguely remembered last night's events. Although he couldn't precisely recollect every sentence of last night's conversation, he had still restored most of the scene.

After a long time, Jing Huan bit his toothbrush, wrinkled his face, and said to himself in the mirror, "You're such a fucking disappointment."

Why just kiss the chin?!

At this point, Jing Huan no longer felt embarrassed or ashamed.

He had showed all his cards; he just liked Xiang Huaizhi.

If there was a mistake, correct it. If you like something, pursue it. As long as Xiang Huaizhi didn't clearly reject him, he would still have a chance.

After taking a bath, Jing Huan dried his hair and nimbly turned on the computer.

No one on his friends list was online. Jing Huan moved his hand to fly back to the sect, wanting to complete today's dailies. However, the system notified him that the dailies had already been done, so he could come back tomorrow.

Jing Huan was stunned for a moment, opened the quest list and looked at it, only to find that he had finished his dailies for today.

He certainly didn't do them himself.

[Friend] Love is For You to Eat: Xiao Jingjing, good morning. New Year's Day is coming, and there are some new apparel. Did you see them?

[Friend] Xiao Tianjing: Haven't had time to look at them yet.

[Friend] Love is For You to Eat: Come to the Unknown Realm and help me choose. I'm only going to buy one color but I'm struggling to death.

When Xiang Huaizhi went online, a system message appeared.

[Unknown Realm Businessman: Congratulations, young hero! Xiao Tianjing has gifted you a set of "New Year's Day dolls (white)". Please go to Unknown Realm (118, 29) to collect your new clothes! ]

[Unknown Realm Businessman: Congratulations, young hero! Xiao Tianjing has gifted you a set of "New Year's Day dolls (red)". Please go to Unknown Realm (118, 29) to collect your new clothes! ]

….

Jing Huan sent the same set of apparel to him, in all seven colors.

[Couple] Xiao Tianjing: Morning Gege.

Xiang Huaizhi absentmindedly recalled half a month ago.

[Couple] Yearning For: En, did you buy the wrong apparel?

[Couple] Xiao Tianjing: No ah, you should change into it.

[Couple] Yearning For: ….

[Couple] Xiao Tianjing: It's to thank you for sending me back yesterday.

[Couple] Yearning For: No problem.

[Couple] Xiao Tianjing: Was it you who helped me with my dailies yesterday?

[Couple]: Yearning For: You said that if you didn't finish your dailies, you wouldn't go to sleep.

Jing Huan really couldn't recall this.

But since it was Xiang Huaizhi who said it, that was what really happened.

[Couple] Xiao Tianjing: Can you talk?

The two of them never used YY so they just directly connected using the in-game voice channel.

Jing Huan didn't turn on the voice changer. He shook his mouse casually and calmly said, "Although I was drunk last night… I still remember probably everything."

The boy's clean voice was more pleasant than the sound that came out of the voice changer. Xiang Huaizhi raised his hand and wore the other side of his earphones as well.

He thought that Jing Huan was going to mention the chin kiss.

Jing Huan stopped for a moment and then asked, "So, when you went back last night, did you think about what I said?"

Xiang Huaizhi raised his eyebrows. "What you said?"

"Just… The thing with boosters and divorce," Jing Huan said.

Xiang Huaizhi hadn't thought about anything like that last night.

When he had first gone back to his dorm, he turned on the computer to finish the two accounts' dailies and then he flopped onto the bed with his entire mind just dazed, thinking entirely of the boy's pale, sexy shoulders, the dips in his throat and his flat and strong abdomen.

Xiang Huaizhi closed his eyes and after a while said, "No."

Jing Huan let out a very long, "Oh."

Xiang Huaizhi's heart itched, and he had just wanted to say something when Jing Huan said, "Why don't you try it out first and see?"

"What?" Xiang Huaizhi asked.

"My boosting services." Jing Huan boasted, "I'm very considerate."

Xiang Huaizhi silently smiled. "How considerate?"

Jing Huan replied, "When you're not online, I'll be your intimate housekeeper. I'll help you farm experience, improve your beast summoning ability, maintain your house, feed your children, and replenish your durability."

"What about when I'm online?" Xiang Huaizhi asked.

"When you're online," Jing Huan cleared his throat. "I'll be your little attendant. Wherever you point, I'll heal… This isn't a service that other boosters would provide."

"Indeed," Xiang Huaizhi nodded.

Jing Huan crossed his legs and planned to order breakfast takeout to give Xiang Huaizhi enough time to think about it.

Sadly, he couldn't help asking again before he had finished his takeout order, "Gege, have you thought about it? I'm in a bit of a hurry."

Xiang Huaizhi raised his head from the book and asked him, "Have you finished eating breakfast?"

"No, I haven't ordered it yet."

"Order first."

"Answer first."

Xiang Huaizhi sighed, pressed the mouse button, and turned on his coordinate display. "After eating, come to the Temple of Heaven to pick me up. We'll go do instances."

-

Although they said he was a booster, Xiang Huaizhi didn't let him do anything. However, Jing Huan was still dedicated to his job and devoted to his role. Early in the morning, he stealthily logged in to do all of Xiang Huaizhi's dailies.

The next day, Xiang Huaizhi changed his account password.

Xiang: How many pages of the key points have you memorized?

Xiao Jing ya: ….

Xiao Jing ya: Two pages T▽T

Xiang: There are seven pages in total. Finals are the day after tomorrow, and you've only memorized two pages?

Xiao Jing ya: It's too hard to memorize.

Xiang: Memorize three pages today.

Xiao Jing ya: Right now I'm just your booster, you can't care about my studies! [pounding table]

Xiang: ?

Xiao Jing ya: I'll memorize it.

Lu Hang had his head buried in his book. Hearing the chuckle from behind him, he couldn't help turning his head around to look back.

"What are you laughing at…?" Lu Hang stretched out his lower body. "Oh right, do you want to come over to my house for the new year? My mother has asked me several times."

Xiang Huaizhi put down his cellphone. "Not going."

"That's right, next year's New Year's day is pretty early and is very close to your birthday—have you thought about how you're going to spend it?"

"Just as usual," Xiang Huaizhi said lightly. "Have a meal with my family."

"I just knew it."

Lu Hang clicked his tongue and had just wanted to say something when there was a knock on their dorm room door.

A boy stood outside with a few drinks in his hand. "Hello, here is the coffee you guys ordered."

There were many students in the school's work study program, and many of them were part-time delivery people.

Lu Hang was stunned. "We didn't order takeout, did you make a mistake?"

"No mistake ah…" The boy glanced at his list. "It should be someone else's order for you, right?"

Lu Hang was mystified as he took the order. After closing the door, he looked at the words on the order and read out, "Good luck Gege?"

Xiang Huaizhi's eyelids twitched, and he subconsciously turned his head.

Lu Hang wondered, "Hey, which Gege is that ah? This person even bought four cups…"

Before Lu Hang finished speaking, his roommate got up and took the coffee away, leaving him with only one cup.

Lu Hang was stunned. "Bought for you?"

The coffee was his favorite flavor, and Xiang Huaizhi replied, "En."

"Which Meimei is so considerate…?" Lu Hang couldn't help laughing and shook the cup in his hand. "There's still a cup left."

"For you."

Xiang Huaizhi put the three cups of coffee on the table, thinking that it was just Jing Huan's sudden impulse while ordering his own takeout where he ended up adding a coffee to be delivered to him.

But the next day, he received not only coffee, but also several desserts. The order said, "Gege, please return my messages."

Ignoring the delivery person's strange look, Xiang Huaizhi put the things aside and took out his cellphone.

Xiang: Accidentally muted my phone.

Xiang: What's all this for?

Xiao Jing ya: Huh?

Xiang: The takeout.

Xiao Jing ya: What do you think? >.<

Xiang: Expanding the boosting service?

Xiao Jing ya: …

Xiao Jing ya: What does that have to do with being a booster?!

Xiao Jing ya: [voice]

Somehow, Xiang Huaizhi's intuition told him that this voice message couldn't just be played out in the open. He connected his earphones, and only then clicked on the message.

Jing Huan seemed to be outdoors, with a little wind in the background.

He said, "I'm pursuing you ah, Gege."

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