Sean, a teenage boy addicted to the internet, snuck out to play games at an internet cafe again last night.
In his freshman year of high school, he became obsessed with a game called "Arena of Valor" and even formed a team with some fun buddies called "Shit under the turret". As the founder of the team, he rightfully became their captain. Two years had passed since then and he had grown from a small Bronze player to now being a prestigious 125-star player. He excelled in playing jungle position.
The internet-addicted teenager had his own idol, not one of those fair-skinned beauties in showbiz or muscular football stars but rather an unknown legend in gaming named PeachThief.
In middle school, Sean stumbled upon an interview video featuring this talented player and was amazed by her skills so much that when he entered high school, he began idolizing PeachThief as well.
She was best at playing jungle champions, so Sean started playing these types of champions too.
The Season 17 was coming to an end, and the second half of the year marked the start of the annual professional player competition for the Season 18.
Sean's team would participate in this competition where next week was just preliminary selection at school level.
As their captain, Sean naturally could not be absent so he spent all night practicing with his teammates until dawn.
Malaya was supposed to accompany Nora for this national art competition but she received a last-minute invitation from her friends who wanted to go mountain climbing today.
It angered Malaya that she was the last one being told.
To teach her friends a lesson, Malaya let Sean escort Nora instead.
Coincidentally, Sean's girlfriend, Mikaela, was receiving art training at a studio outside of school, a studio run by Xzavier and his friends.
Today, they also brought their students to watch the competition.
"I just woke up, why aren't we there yet?" yawned Sean while checking messages on his phone only realizing that Cheyenne topped trending news which instantly woke him up.
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In the villa, Cheyenne had just got up.
Last night, that girl Kate had given her resources for a BL drama series, and in order to binge-watch it, she had stayed up until around 2:00 AM.
While brushing her teeth this morning, she happened to notice that today's date was circled on the calendar.
She stood in front of the calendar, looking utterly perplexed, thinking for a while with her toothbrush almost frozen in her mouth. She tilted her head, trying to remember what important thing was supposed to happen today. Generally, anything circled in red meant it was her main task for the day.
Then Layne called her. "Cheyenne, hurry up and come to the City Cultural Center. The competition starts in half an hour and participants need to be there fifteen minutes early. Where are you?"
"What competition?" Cheyenne asked as she spat out toothpaste foam into the sink.
Layne nearly lost his temper on the other end of the line. "You forgot? The bet you made with Nora at the beginning of this month... it starts today."
"I... I forgot," Cheyenne admitted.
With only half an hour left, even if she skipped makeup and changing clothes, it seemed like she might not make it in time, because her car had been destroyed in a previous accident.
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