an inch of light

"Tut tuk, tuk tuk..."

Shen Yuying rubbed her eyes and got out of the bed, and habitually fumbled for the mobile phone in the hanging basket by the bed, but what she touched was the cold wall.

"Tuk tuk tuk..."

The rhythmic sound of chopping vegetables came from the kitchen, and it was this sound that woke her up.Shen Yuying looked around blankly with her eyes half open, and it took her a while to realize that she had fallen asleep in her grandmother's bedroom.She just got off the train in the afternoon, and she just wanted to take a nap before the adults came back, but she didn't expect to sleep in such a dark sleep that it was already dinner time.

The smell of chicken soup is wafting in the room. Grandma must be making delicious food again, but I don’t know if it’s meatloaf with preserved vegetables or stuffed three treasures?Shen Yuying yawned, put on her coat, and walked slowly into the kitchen: "Ah, it's Yifan. Where's grandma?"

The half-grown boy who was tied to the wall and stood in front of the counter turned around and smiled at her a little shyly: "Hi sister Yingying, grandma is out to get cakes."

"Yeah, Yifan, have you grown taller again?" In the absence of grandma, Shen Yuying's attention quickly shifted from the dinner to the other party's height.I haven't seen her for a few months, and the child's size has grown again. Although she is three years younger than her, she is still a lot taller than her. It really makes people look down on her sister's airs.

Qiao Yifan felt embarrassed: "Uh... it's only five centimeters longer..."

Five centimeters is already very enviable, okay?Shen Yuying thought full of resentment, if she knew that she could grow five centimeters taller after going to city B, she should have applied for the R university in city B instead of the current Z university.Seeing Qiao Yifan skillfully mixing minced mushrooms and dried shrimps, Shen Yuying suddenly felt that standing aside with her hands clasped was a bit of an eyesore.In order not to appear too useless, she dug out a handful of coriander from the basket and hurriedly washed it.If my mother came back and saw Qiao Yifan busy walking around, but she was idling by the side, she would definitely scold him again.

The only two times in Shen Yuying's life that she was beaten were related to this good boy named Qiao Yifan.

The first time was when Qiao Yifan first came to this house nine years ago.He took his cousin to fight the League of Braves, smashed the opponent into a mess, and immediately conquered the little guy's heart.She was a stranger one second before, but she was chased by her little follower and called her brother the next second. The little princess Shen Yuying, who was used to the stars holding the moon, couldn't calm down, and rushed to get him off the chair in front of the adults. Push it down: "You are not allowed to call him brother, he is my brother, not your brother!"

Seven -year -old Qiao Yifan fell to the ground, and she didn't cry. The ten -year -old Shen Yuying was run by her mother, Ms. Wang Jiaojiao, running on the house. up.Shen Yuying didn't understand how much trouble she had caused, but being beaten for the first time in her life made her deeply remember that Qiao Yifan should not mess with it.

The second time, she took her cousin to the game carnival, but ran into her little aunt and Qiao Yifan in the venue.The little aunt had to rush back to work overtime, so she entrusted Qiao Yifan to her and left in a hurry.It was summer vacation, and the stadium was crowded with people and it was extremely hot. All three children were dying of thirst, but Shen Yuying's pocket money was only enough to buy two bottles of expensive water.Neither of the siblings wanted to share drinks with this cousin (cousin) who popped up halfway, and each of them drank the water upside down from a bottle, leaving Qiao Yifan aside alone.When Wang Jiaojiao found them, Shen Yuying was shaking the empty bottle at Qiao Yifan with her little fat waist crossed: "My mother bought it for us, not for you, you know?"

Ms. Wang Jiaojiao was furious on the spot, took off her shoes and greeted Shen Yuying's butt.Shen Yuying cried so heartbreakingly that she began to wonder if she was born by her mother.

This is not over yet, when my little aunt called at night, Shen Yuying, who was still hiding in bed and weeping, was dragged out by her ears by her mother, and she scolded her head to face: "Do you know what your aunt just said to me?" How uncomfortable? Yifan’s younger brother is such a good boy, he packed up his things and said he wanted to go back to his own home, so as not to cause trouble for your little uncle and aunt. You are really capable, you can drive people back home, your little one Uncle really loves you for nothing!"

Mother Wang Jiaojiao is aggrieved. She agrees with her younger brother's choice of remarriage, and treats Qiao Yifan like a nephew. However, this stubborn little enemy always hinders her, creating conflicts even if there are no conflicts, forcing The younger siblings all turned the corner to ask her if the elder sister-in-law had a problem with her?

The bear child Shen Yuying was so depressed, from then on she regarded Qiao Yifan as a scourge, and hid as far away as possible.It wasn't until she became sensible later that she realized how inappropriate what she did back then, but the alienation between the two has been irreparable.Qiao Yifan also seemed to be aware of his embarrassing situation in this family. During family gatherings on weekends, he would silently follow behind his little aunt, desperately trying to reduce his sense of existence.The little uncle and the little aunt are busy with work, he often takes care of himself at home alone, he is good at all kinds of housework and cooking, and kills Shen Yuying who knows nothing but reading in seconds.Whenever she saw Qiao Yifan busy in the kitchen, Wang Jiaojiao would snatch Shen Yuying out and scold her. Just thinking about it made people cry.

Washing coriander is an extremely boring job. Shen Yuying chose this job purely to show that she is doing something. God knows when her mother will be home.While picking out the coriander one by one, she tried to find a topic to pass the time: "I heard from my uncle, you are now a professional player? How is it? Is the game going well?"

This topic seemed to embarrass Qiao Yifan, and he even slowed down the movement of mixing minced meat: "Well... I just signed up... I'm a substitute now, and I haven't played yet..." Maybe... by the end of the season, There will be no chance for him to play.

"Ah... I remember your team just won the championship, and it's amazing to be a substitute player for the championship team—by the way, Glory is played by several people, why are there still substitute players?" , Shen Yuying, who finally has a lot of time to squander, is no longer a gamer, but she is still very unfamiliar with Glory.

"Uh..." It was obviously not the first time that Qiao Yifan was asked this way, and he introduced it to her familiarly.

In fact, if Qiao Yifan hadn't insisted on giving up the chance to study for a secondary vocational school after the high school entrance examination last year, she would not have learned about this online game called Glory at all if she had to participate in the selection of the Tiny Herb Club training camp.For the Wang family, who have always believed that studying well is the only way out for children from ordinary families, asking a 15-year-old child to give up his studies to play e-sports is not easy to accept.Fortunately, both my uncle and my aunt have carefree temperaments, and they have always held the training policy of full trust and free development for Qiao Yifan, so they let him go to B city by himself.

"Anyway, he's not good at studying. He has only been good at playing games since he was a child. Maybe he was born to eat this bowl of rice." Shen Yuying remembered what her little aunt had said to her mother, and couldn't help but look up at Qiao Yifan's face. hand.I saw him pinching the hollowed out eggplant section with one hand, and stuffing meat stuffing into it deftly with chopsticks in the other. Those hands were slender and slender, with well-defined knuckles. Compared with her short, round and fleshy hands, it really made people cry. flow all over the face.But such beautiful hands are not used to play the piano, but to play games.

"Is glory really this fun?" Shen Yuying thought in her heart and blurted out.

"Well, it's fun." Qiao Yifan replied without any hesitation.

"Then, can you teach me how to play?" For some reason, she suddenly became curious about this game.

"No problem." As soon as he talked about the things he likes, Qiao Yifan jumped up obviously, raised his wrist and looked at his watch, "I'll go buy an account card after dinner, and it happens that the Glory [-] district will open the server at twelve o'clock tonight. Take you to play from scratch."

Today is grandma's 65th birthday. More than a dozen people from the top and bottom of the Wang family are here to celebrate the old man's birthday. They have been busy until ten o'clock at night.In order to go to a middle school nearby, Qiao Yifan stayed at his grandma's house until last summer, and his room was still reserved here.Shen Yuying strongly expressed that she wanted to sleep with her grandma, so she also stayed.When they sat in front of the computer, there was only half an hour left before leaving the server.

"What profession do you play?" Shen Yuying slowly inserted the account card into the login device, clicked on the client, and asked casually while watching the visually stimulating and dazzling cutscenes.

"Assassin." Qiao Yifan said.

"Is Assassin very good? Then I'll play Assassin too." Shen Yuying quickly found the character template and started to create the character: "Hey, I have to pinch my own face, it's so troublesome...it's too late, I can just scan the photos go in?"

"Okay, look here, click this."

Following Qiao Yifan's instructions, Shen Yuying took a screenshot of the scanned ID card, uploaded it, and automatically generated a character model. The female character on the screen quickly turned into a familiar and unfamiliar face, which was basically the same as the ID card, but she was the same as herself. Far from it.

"Name, name, name... well... let's call it this." Shen Yuying tapped the keyboard, entered two words in the character name column, and pressed Enter to confirm.

A line of words quickly appeared at the bottom of the character login interface: "Glory Tenth District, player: Shen Yu."

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