Chapter 547: Playoffs

Slowly, the last players to exit the game walked out beside the large dark screen.

The crowd looked on in silence as the two teams emerged, largely in a trance, as if they hadn't recovered from the stalemate of the battle.

The MC, standing on top of the platform, took a deep breath as he waved his hand down and pointed to the side Liu Jiayi had stepped out from: "Game over."

"The winning side of the challenge is -"

"The Wandering Circus!!!"

"Let's congratulate the new team for beating the second-placed King's Guild team to advance to the playoffs!

After a brief silence, the crowd erupted in cheers and applause, but no match, no matter how exciting, can be cheered by everyone - a victory for one side naturally means a defeat for the other.

Qi Yifang, sitting in his seat, covered his red eyes, trying his best to hold back the tears that were falling, but after Liu Ji silently hugged him again and hammered him on the shoulder, Qi Yifang finally couldn't hold back and hugged Liu Ji and bawled.

"We all gave it our best shot! "

"Why did we still lose!"

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

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

"It's okay." Liu Ji's face was covered in dirty burn marks, but his eyes were bright, "We'll be better next year, we'll win next year for sure!"

"Don't cry so weakly." Phoebe gave a sidelong glance to Qi Yifang, who was hugging Liu Ji and crying her heart out, "It's just for now, not forever."

"Train well."

Phoebe clenched her fist: "Even without Hearts, next year, I will take you all to beat the little witch."

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

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

[System Alert: The King's Guild has changed its authority, with the former president, Queen Hearts, transferring all authority to the new president, Sister Phoebe].

[System Alert: After a successful handover, player Queen Hearts has paid the default fee and requested to leave the guild.

[The new president agrees to the withdrawal request and the player, Queen Hearts, has successfully withdrawn from the club.

Qi Yifang's expression went completely blank: "What does it mean when the Queen ...... withdraws from the club?"

"It means what you see." Hearts walked out after Phoebe, his tone casual and natural, seemingly unaware of how much of a stir he had just made in the game, he even replied to Qi Yifang with a smile, "A player like me who sells souls to others is not worthy of being your president, there's too much uncertainty. "

" Bai Liu That greedy man has got my soul, I don't want him to get my hard-earned guild again through my panel and it's time for me to retire and give myself a long vacation after being president for so long."

" Phoebe has grown up to be a better manager of this guild than I am." Hearts spreads her hands lazily and smiles, "The position of president is for those who can, so it's out of the way."

The King's Guild, the second largest guild in the entire game, with an uncountable chain of points behind it, a guild that countless people dreamed of joining, was handed over by its founding fathers in such a flippant manner.

Qi Yifang was completely overwhelmed, as were the rest of the audience.

The crowd quickly snapped out of their end-of-game euphoria and began to discuss Hearts' withdrawal in shock.

Hearts handed over the guild something they already knew about in the semi-central part of the game, but, quit?!

This is not a transfer of guilds and means that Hearts will never compete as a member of the King's Guild again.

The last time something like this made such a big splash was when the Reverse God was transferred.

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

After that sentence, the host stuck his shell in a rare moment: "Since there was a tactician change for both teams in this match, we would like to ask the four tacticians 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 ahead and the two girls shook hands in a natural manner.

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

Liu Jiayi replies earnestly, "I'm waiting for this day."

"But until then, I will not lose to you."

After shaking hands and bowing, the two girls turned to leave, and Bai Liu and Hearts, who were walking behind them, stepped forward and looked at each other.

"You bought my soul for one point coin in the game." Hearts clasped a point coin between two fingers as he raised his eyes to look levelly at Bai Liu, "In return, you will fulfil one of my demands."

"Anything you ask for?"

Bai Liu calmly agrees, "Anything you want."

[Yes.]

Hearts closed his eyes, and now Bai Liu's smiling voice overlapped with Bai Liu's in his head, and he took a deep breath before opening his eyes again, "Meet me at the shop 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."

6pm the following day.

Bai Liu sits in an empty shop.

He arrived ten minutes early, the shop had obviously been contracted by Hearts and was closed straight away, he knocked on the door before entering, the owner handed him the key straight after opening it for him, Bai Liu raised his eyebrows in slight surprise, "The key to the shop is straight to me?"

"Yes." The owner's attitude was respectful, "Our shop was actually funded by Mr. Zhao in the first place, it's considered a big shop owner, it's just that the people below don't know about it, and Mr. Zhao didn't ask us to deliberately say anything about it."

"He said a valued customer would be coming to see him at six o'clock this afternoon, so just give you the keys to the shop straight away then."

Bai Liu took the key with a subtle look, "...... Okay, please."

Hearts This guy, surprisingly rich ......

Not far away.

Mu Sicheng, wearing binoculars, had a stern gaze and a cold tone of voice: " Bai Liu has entered the shop, are you still following?"

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

"Keeping Bai Liu safe is what we as a team are supposed to do." Muke's face smirked as he pushed the gold-rimmed glasses on his face, "Not to mention meeting with a high-risk individual like Hearts, just in case he has some strange designs on Bai Liu."

Lu Yizhan, cowering next to Mu Sicheng with a small branch, nodded in agreement: "Yes! What if something goes wrong?"

Liu Jiayi, next to her, rolled her eyes and spat, "Why are you here too, you killer?"

"Ahem ...... this ......" Lu Yizhan choked out a couple of coughs with clenched fists, and pulled Spades, who was crouched next to him staring at the storefront with a blank expression, over to him with a straight face. "Not out of gossip, of course! It's just that my team member is coming with me, and I'm half his guardian, so it's only natural that I come with him, right?"

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

It's all about the gossip, right?

"But now that Bai Liu is in the shop and it's locked, we can't follow it, can we?" Tang Erda reluctantly discouraged, "What about going back? Bai Liu will be angry if he finds out we followed him on a personal invitation."

"...... Mmmmmm, yeah, won't do anything, just dropped something in the shop the last time I came in for a styling session and went back to get it." Muke called in a gentle tone, making a shushing gesture to the few people next to him, "Just hold the door open for me please."

Muke put the phone down and smiled harmlessly, "It's done, a clerk will be here later to open the door for us."

Mu Sicheng cheered up, " Muke is awesome!"

Spades seriously seconded: " Muke cattle ......"

Lu Yizhan interrupted quickly and seriously, "No swearing."

Tang Erda, on her forehead.

They went around to the side door and waited for the clerk to open it and then tried to follow them in, but Muke managed to sneak into the shop by easily fobbing the clerk off.

A group of people sneak around behind the dressing models in the changing room, looking through the half-open barrier at Bai Liu, who is sitting in the middle of the hall, reading a magazine.

Shortly afterwards, the main door opened again.

Bai Liu looked up to see Hearts, who had reverted to male attire, standing in the doorway.

He didn't wear the same flashy outfit as the first time, much more casual, his somewhat curly long red hair was braided and thrown behind his head, dressed in a very simple plain white top and jeans, looking like a college student playing an instrument, looking very different from the first time we met, as if the aggressiveness in his body had been washed away, becoming natural and leisurely.

"Right on time?" Hearts sat down opposite Bai Liu and naturally poured himself a glass of water, smiling at him slightly teasingly, "I thought you'd keep me waiting for a while."

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

"Is that so?" Hearts dragged his jaw on his water and smirked at him, "Then maybe I'm remembering wrong."

"I've always waited for another person before so I thought you'd make me wait too, I wasn't expecting it to be you waiting for me, I was quite surprised."

"Quite happy too."

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

--Tang Erda frowned a little at the atmosphere.

It's too harmonious.

These two didn't even look like rivals who were battling it out on the field yesterday, instead they looked like two old friends who had agreed to hang out and had such a calm and friendly attitude making small talk.

"You are somewhat the same as him." Hearts looked down at his reflection in the glass and rubbed his fingers over the rim with a little movement, "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 levelly at Hearts, "What is your request?"

"If I asked you to do it with me once, you wouldn't agree to it, would you?" Hearts dropped a bombshell in a flat tone.

Mu Sicheng, hiding behind the curtain, gasped in shock and was swiftly covered by a grim-faced Muke, while Lu Yizhan's hands were bursting with veins as he held Spades down, frantically waving for Tang Erda to help hold him down.

Only Liu Jiayi looks on quietly.

"But what if it's just a kiss?" Hearts lifted his eyelids, his purple eyes reflecting a dazzling light in the fluorescent light, his tone carrying a strange sense of compulsion, "Will you give it to me?"

"As I recall, your skills are subject to paper money if you don't meet the other person's requirements after you've traded them, right?"

Hearts had taken on a dangerous undertone by the end: "So if I do ask for your kiss and you won't give it to me, you'll be put in the paper money?"

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

"Why?" Hearts looked at Bai Liu with a smile, "Maybe because Salome, the siren who danced the dance of the seven veils, also asked for a kiss from her beloved saint John."

"That's the story." Bai Liu rubbed his chin thoughtfully, "If I remember correctly, John the Saint would rather die than give Salome that kiss."

"Yes." Hearts' eyes moved to land on Bai Liu's lips, fingers curling for a moment before moving away again, his tone still lazy, "So in the end Salome just killed Saint John, cut off his head, and eventually kissed the lips on the dead head."

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

"Are you threatening me?" Bai Liu raised his eyes and asked calmly in return, "There's no need to threaten, I'm a man who keeps his end of the bargain, so if you really want the kiss, come on over."

Hearts almost seemed to freeze in place when Bai Liu agreed, then very slowly propped himself up on the table and turned his head towards Bai Liu, looking at him stoically for a moment before slowly leaning down.

The braid slid off Hearts' shoulder and landed in Bai Liu's glass of water, droplets of water falling on the back of his hand, which was propped up on the table and clutching the edge, so cold that his palm clenched for a moment.

The faces of the two men, as seen from behind the curtain, appear to be gradually overlapping and just about to fit together.

Even Lu Yizhan winced at this, but he quickly covered his mouth in death and stared in horror at the sight over there.

But by this time, Spades was strangely quiet, just staring at Bai Liu without moving, and Mu Sicheng looked at the man who was so agitated all the way and asked, bizarrely, "Aren't you going to go and stop Hearts?"

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

"Why did it stop." Bai Liu tilted his head calmly and looked at Hearts, which stopped less than ten centimetres in front of his face, "Don't you want my kiss?"

"What are you trembling about?"

Hearts' shoulders, his hands propped on the table, and even his breath trembled.

"Or maybe I'll ask it another way." Bai Liu raised his eyes and spoke in a calm tone, "Why are you asking me for the kind of thing that you fear I will do to you?"

"So is going to bed, so is kissing."

"...... I have no fear!" Hearts lowered his head, fists clenched, and retorted Bai Liu, almost with some annoyance, 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 so." Bai Liu said in a calm tone, "One must not fear the kiss of one whom one likes."

"I can be afraid too, so why can't you be afraid?"

Hearts' breathing slowly calmed as he collapsed onto the tabletop, face down, face buried in the table, his whole being radiating a sombre feeling, "...... Forget it, I don't want it."

As if anticipating this, Bai Liu picked up another clean glass and took another sip of water, "Well, you can change your request."

"I dropped that island and turned it into an island of the sea." Hearts was quiet for a moment, then suddenly spoke, his voice soft, "It has become beautiful."

"Go and see the island, Bai Liu ."

"Yes." Bai Liu pondered for a moment and he smiled up, "I've never been to a private island in reality, it should be beautiful."

"But apart from that, there's a small problem."

Bai Liu asks seriously, "Do you reimburse the costs of going?"

Hearts: "...... reimbursement."

"And then--" Bai Liu smirked, holding his cup of tea and lazily sweeping a glance behind him at the flickering curtains, "-- -Can I bring my family and friends with me to visit your island?"

Hearts looked up and he stared at Bai Liu's innocent face for a moment before finally smiling lightly in relief and saying, "Yes."