VRMMORPG: The Other World Online

Gu Shu ran out of the room and bumped into San Zhe who was returning from his call with someone outside.

"Senior San," Gu Shu said, bowing her head a bit. "I am going to get A'Xiu some congee from the cafeteria. Do you want something?"

San Zhe looked at her for a moment. "Actually…can we have a few words?"

Cheng Xiu looked at him in suspicion. She gave him a nod, curious about what he would have to say to her considering they did not have anything in common other than Cheng Xiu.

"Sister Xiu is good to you," San Zhe said.

Gu Shu tilted her head.

"And I hope that feeling is at least a bit there from your side as well?"

Gu Shu glared. "Yes. And this is not something we need your opinion in."

"It is not an opinion…do you care about Sister Xiu's future?"

Gu Shu raised an eyebrow. "Where is this going?"

"There was an expert in the game who wanted her to join his guild," San Zhe said to her, "She refused because she has to join some low-level guild with you."

Gu Shu remembered the battle Cheng Xiu had with the experts of the game. One of them had offered her such a thing?

Gu Shu smiled. "A'Xiu and I are going to join Brother Dao's guild!"

"Why?"

"Huh?"

"Why are so obsessed with that man when it is clear that he is interested in your best friend instead?"

Gu Shu smiled. "A'Xiu is not interested in him. And as long as she is not, I have a chance!"

San Zhe sighed. It would seem that Cheng Xiu's friend was too self-centred to see what he was trying to say. Forget it then.

"Then…I suppose I should go inside. Please be on your way too. Take care, Ms Gu."

Gu Shu stared at him for a few moments.

"Wait!" she said to him, grabbing his shoulder.

San Zhe looked at the hand and then at Gu Shu. He frowned in confusion. "Yes?"

"Why are you not scolding me for not checking up on Cheng Xiu then, if you care about her this much?"

San Zhe looked at her with a gaze filled with pity. "That…is your matter. I don't know your personal life and can not comment on why you did not visit your best friend, or call her."

Gu Shu frowned at the words he used and the tone of his voice. She was not sure what to make of his words though.

Before she could formulate a response, San Zhe walked away.

Gu Shu watched him enter their dormitory room and then left. She would think about why his words agitated her later.

Inside the room, Cheng Xiu was eating her medicine.

"How are you? Really?" San Zhe asked as he entered the room without a preamble.

Cheng Xiu gave him a sweet smile. "I am fine."

"Do you need me to do anything?" San Zhe asked.

Cheng Xiu shook her head. "I am fine."

San Zhe nodded.

Cheng Xiu looked at him, wanting to ask about who had called him and if everything was okay. But she couldn't. If it was something that she should know about then he would tell her, right?

San Zhe suddenly bowed his head towards her, bending his waist completely forward.

Cheng Xiu almost fell off the edge of the bed from scrambling away from him in surprise.

"Brother San?"

"Please forgive me," San Zhe said, "I am a pig teammate!"

Cheng Xiu frowned. "Pig teammate? How did you betray me?"

"Lord Yaksha asked me to report to him your health conditions," San Zhe said, "And I didn't…resist."

Cheng Xiu frowned. "Why does he want to know about my health condition?"

San Zhe shrugged. "Because he cares about you?"

"So can I?"

"Can you what?"

"Can I report your health details to him?"

"Didn't you already do that though? Isn't that why you said you have betrayed me?"

San Zhe shook his head. "No! I mean…I did betray you for today because he asked you to log out and he was very worried about your mental state. I meant, in the future. Can I?"

Cheng Xiu pursed her lips. "I am not sure…no. You can't."

San Zhe sighed. "So now I have to say to an expert of the game that he can not get the information he wants."

Cheng Xiu blinked. "You are not going to try to convince me that I am in the wrong?"

San Zhe frowned. "It is your health status, you have the right to deny anyone you don't want to know what your health is like unless you are a criminal or you are facing a doctor. Then you don't have the right to withhold information of that sort."

Cheng Xiu smiled. "Thank you."

"Don't be such a pushover all the time," San Zhe said, "And you know it is serious when I am the one telling you that you are being a pushover."

Cheng Xiu let out a small laugh. "I don't let everyone push me over. I just have a few people in my life whose words I cannot ignore even if I wanted to."

San Zhe looked at her with complicated eyes. "Even if it is your best friend you should not easily give in."

"What brought this on?"

"I just feel like I should say this much to you," San Zhe said, and then he looked at his fold device when it rang.

[Lord Yaksha.]

San Zhe's eyes widened and then he handed the device over to Cheng Xiu quickly.

Cheng Xiu looked at San Zhe in confusion and then at the screen. When she saw a familiar on the screen she was surprised.

She then looked at San Zhe's panicked expression.

"Pick it up quickly!" San Zhe said.

Cheng Xiu nodded and pressed the green button.

"Hello?" Cheng Xiu said.

"Hello, Miss Sela," a divine male voice said from the other side. Cheng Xiu felt her scalp tingle in delight. "How are you now? San Zhe said to me that you were fine, but I still wanted to make sure."

"Are you bullying my friends?" Cheng Xiu asked instead of answering his question.

San Zhe looked at her in confusion.

"What?" the voice on the other side asked. She heard the light sound of papers being flipped and the sound of pen scratching against paper was audible. "I am not. Why would you think such things?"

"Then why would Brother San be so nervous?" Cheng Xiu asked.

There was a slight chuckle.

Cheng Xiu blushed as she heard it. She was not sure if it was because he laughed at her or because of his laugh itself. She felt her ears heat up as well.

San Zhe wondered what the great Male God was telling Cheng Xiu that she would blush so much. His mind couldn't help going over some terrible thoughts.

"I think he was starstruck."

Cheng Xiu was surprised by the words for a moment. She looked at San Zhe, whose warm brown eyes looked at her curiously. He did not seem coerced to do anything or that he was threatened.

Was she thinking too much?

She was probably thinking too much.

"I see…then yes, I am doing well," Cheng Xiu said. "It was just a small headache. Anyway, thank you for your help. IF you hadn't helped when you did, my new costume and mask would have been a waste of effort. And thank you for saving Brother San. I know he must have already said this, but still…thank you."

"Mm," the voice at the other end said. "You take some more rest. We can do the Quest when you are ready."

Cheng Xiu smiled. "Thank you for the care."

"You are welcome. Goodbye."

"Goodbye."

The connection was cut off.

Cheng Xiu looked at the device's dark screen for some time and then returned it to San Zhe. "There are some dimsums in that yellow box over there. Would you like one?"

San Zhe smiled and shook his head. "I just came to check on you. Nothing more. So no thank you! I will have it some other time."

"Suit yourself."

They sat in silence as Cheng Xiu took up her Fold.

Cheng Xiu stilled as she remembered something that she had wanted to ask him at that moment. "How did you get into the Girls dorm anyway? I mean, Ren Dao…I mean Senior Ren Dao has a sister here and Miss Bo also permitted him. How did you? It can't be Miss Bo. That woman hates our kind too much."

San Zhe scratched his cheek in embarrassment. "I asked the head nurse in the college clinic to permit me. I told her about your situation. She was very curious about you."

"You are on good terms with her then?"

San Zhe nodded. "I often get into fights. So she sees me too often."

Cheng Xiu could guess how he got into those fights but decided not to say anything so that she did not embarrass him if he felt like that.