There are too many teammates who are complete losers.

Chapter 18 Lu Ren's Past

Shen Yaoxing was very generous. She took a big gulp of the yellowish-green stuff in her cup, let out a long, comfortable sigh, and said, "I feel so dizzy. Why do I feel so light-headed?"

The young lady looked every bit the alcoholic, but she couldn't possibly be dizzy or feel lightheaded because she was drinking non-alcoholic sparkling fruit juice.

Lu Ren secretly changed it for her when she wasn't paying attention.

Anyway, by evening, the young lady's intelligence had dropped to the level of an elementary school student.

Shen Yaoxing is like Umaru from Himouto! During the day, she is a noble and intellectual young lady, but at night she turns into a hamster-like, lazy woman.

"But why does this wine taste so sweet... It's so strange." She wanted to examine the bottle.

Lu Ren stood up: "Miss, you can't drink anymore, you've already had too much."

"Yada! I'm going to drink it, glug glug glug—"

The young lady raised her glass and drank heartily.

"Okay, okay." Lu Renzhen couldn't do anything about her.

"Why is the wine so delicious!"

"That's because you haven't drunk enough."

Lu Ren downed the tequila in his glass in one gulp; it had been a long time since he had enjoyed a few sips of it so much.

"Lu Ren, are you in a bad mood tonight?"

Why do you say that?

"intuition!"

Lu Ren, convinced by his omnipotent intuition, replied ambiguously, "Maybe a little."

"Huh, why?"

"Missing home?"

Do you miss your sister?

"No, it's something else..."

Lu Ren has been in this world for more than half a month. Although it is already 2078, the technological level is about the same as that of the early 2000s, and entertainment options are extremely limited.

And more importantly, many things he was familiar with were gone.

He'll never hear Jay Chou's new album again, he'll never get the Stardew Valley 1.7 update, he hasn't had time to watch Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Girl, and he's always wanted to earn enough money to go on vacation to the Maldives, but the Maldives in this world has sunk into the Indian Ocean due to global warming... What a joke!

These past few days, he's occasionally had dreams where he realizes that the past two weeks in his world were all just a dream. He's still that corporate slave sitting in the most upscale office building, making the most harassing phone calls, and everything is busy yet reassuring.

However, when he has such dreams, he feels lost in the dream.

She was disappointed that she wouldn't be able to see her cute little sister, and of course, she would also regret not being able to see Shen Yaoxing, since they were friends, right?

He took a swig of his drink, his face contorted with rage: "It was so hard... I, Endless Winter, finally reached 1.4 million combat power."

The thought of never being able to play Endless Winter again made him feel like ants were crawling all over his body!

"So you were just homesick."

Shen Yaoxing asked for a straw, put it in her sparkling water, and sipped it while drinking.

"I thought you had broken up with your boyfriend too."

Heartbroken?

Lu Ren was taken aback: "What does this have to do with being heartbroken?"

"Otherwise, why did you come to drink?"

"Who says you can only drink after a breakup? So many people here are drinking, are they all heartbroken?"

I'm heartbroken.

Although she said that, Lu Ren knew that she wasn't sad at the moment.

She just prefers topics like "adult troubles," breakups, and the feeling of drinking.

Just like children enjoy playing house, she felt that saying adult things would make her seem like an adult.

Lu Ren sighed, filled her glass of juice and sparkling water, and said in a deep voice, "...There's nothing we can do about this kind of thing, right? Don't say anything more, Miss, drink up."

"What are you waiting for? Cheers!" The young lady hugged the cup and took a big gulp.

After finishing her drink, she put down her cup and, mimicking the posture of the group of young men at the next table, draped one arm over the back of her chair and crossed one leg. Looking at Lu Ren with a melancholy expression, she asked:

"Lu Ren, have you ever been hurt by a woman?"

"..." This guy's really into pretending, isn't he? He thought for a moment and said, "I guess so?"

"Really? Who is it?"

"When I was little... my mom beat me every day, sometimes leaving marks." Lu Ren said, sounding nostalgic.

However, his parents died in his previous life, and his only remaining relatives were his eldest brother's family, so he didn't need to worry about having no one to take care of his family after transmigrating.

Shen Yaoxing said with a round face, "That's not it. I meant feelings, being hurt in a woman's feelings."

No, that's not the case.

"Have you never been in a relationship?"

"...No." Blind dates shouldn't count, right?

Why?

"There aren't that many whys. Just say I don't like girls."

"You often secretly look at my chest and feet, and you're a little lecherous."

"Ahem!"

Lu Ren almost choked. He hadn't expected to be discovered, even though it was so well hidden!

You can't blame him for that. He was living and eating with a beautiful young woman every day. Sometimes his eyes would fall on her and he would forget to look away. That's quite reasonable, isn't it?

Moreover, Miss Shen is indeed a beauty, very pleasing to the eye, with fair skin, shoe size should be 36 to 37, Egyptian feet, high arches, and very neat toes... Lu Ren felt that he had drunk a bit too much today, and actually started thinking about... you know.

In his previous life, he was already over forty years old, so how could he possibly be interested in a girl like Shen Yaoxing, who was only seventeen or eighteen years old and about the same age as his niece?

He denied it: "I saw it by accident. After all, we're together every day. You're framing me."

"Then why don't you like women?"

The young lady looked like a curious child, so Lu Ren gave up struggling: "...Because I've been hurt by a woman before."

"Really? How did she hurt you!"

"How did you get hurt, um..."

Lu Ren had never been in a relationship in his previous life, but he had never liked a girl.

She was a very gentle girl who would carry a book with her every day after class. Her school uniform was always clean and white, and she wore a small hair tie on her wrist. Sunlight streamed through the window and fell on her face, giving off a soft glow.

She was Lu Ren's deskmate for a month, and then Lu Ren secretly loved her for three years.

Lu Ren recalled the past, smiled, and said, "It was during my first year of high school. She said she liked listening to 'Seven Mile Fragrance,' so I saved up money to buy a guitar and learned to play it for a long time. When I went on stage to sing and play the guitar at my senior year graduation ceremony, she and her boyfriend applauded enthusiastically for me from below."

Thinking of sad things, he picked up his wine glass and drank it all in one gulp!

This guy is the one who broke up with his girlfriend, so why am I the one who's sad?

From that day on, Lu Ren realized that women only bring harm, and as long as he doesn't get close to women, he won't get hurt... So he remained single until his thirties, until he went on blind dates and then hastily got married.

"Huh? What song is 'Seven Mile Fragrance'? I've never heard of it before?"

"Sing it for the young lady when you have time."

"I want to hear it now!"

But just then, a cheerful but slightly hurried voice interrupted: "It's you two! What a coincidence!"

Lu Ren looked in the direction of the voice and saw An Yourong, the student who had gone with them to find the Yellow Mud Monster today.

The girl has a forthright personality and physical characteristics that perfectly match her name; she is the warrior in the trio.

Today, Lu Ren watched her wrestle with that mud monster with her bare hands, and even knocked it over several times. She was the one who dealt Lu Ren a severe blow.