Prologue 003: Liu Chuan

When Liu Chuan walked out of the airport, he saw a girl with long hair and big eyes standing there looking around. Liu Chuan walked behind her and gently tapped the back of her head. The girl immediately turned around and saw him. Her eyes lit up and she pounced on him like an octopus: "Brother!"

Liu Chuan reluctantly peeled off the octopus on his body: "...How old are you? Is this normal?"

Liu Xiaomeng smiled, let go of her hand, and looked up at Liu Chuan.

This girl's personality is a bit off-line. When she was a child, she especially liked to pester him and ask why: Brother, why is this, why is that, why? A typical "hundred thousand whys" problem child.

However, girls change a lot when they grow up. The little slug has now become a beautiful girl with fair skin, beautiful eyes, and long black hair that can kill countless people from behind. Only those who know her know that this girl is a ghost and a freak, and she will kill people without paying for it.

I haven't seen you for a few months. You seem to have grown taller?

Liu Chuan looked at his sister, smiled and rubbed her head: "Where are our parents?"

Liu Xiaomeng said: "Dad is waiting for you at home, Mom will be back late due to a meeting, so I am here to greet you in person as a representative of the Liu family.”

Liu Chuan walked out with his luggage and asked: "Did you drive here?"

Liu Xiaomeng nodded: "Yes, I just got my driver's license."

The brother and sister went to the parking lot together and took the car. Liu Xiaomeng was about to sit in the driver's seat when she was stopped by Liu Chuan. Liu Chuan pushed his sister to the passenger seat and sat in the driver's seat himself, saying: "I'll drive, you rookie, get out of the way."

Liu Xiaomeng stuck out her tongue and didn't argue with him. She just fastened her seat belt obediently.

The car drove out of the airport and headed home along the highway.

Liu Chuan is very familiar with the capital city where he grew up, and he doesn't even need to turn on the navigation system to know how to get around.

The car stopped at a red light halfway along the road. The phone rang with a text message. Liu Chuan picked it up and saw that it was a reply from Yese: I have a flight to Xi'an at 8 o'clock tomorrow night, so I need to change my dinner time.

Liu Chuan replied: "Then let's change it to 5 o'clock. There will be more people during the rush hour. I will reserve a seat in advance and drive you directly to the airport after dinner."

The other party replied: OK.

Liu Xiaomeng opened her eyes wide and looked at her brother's mobile phone curiously. Liu Chuan glanced at her and put the phone back.

Liu Xiaomeng smiled slyly: "So mysterious? Is she your girlfriend?"

Liu Chuan said: "It was Qin Ye."

Liu Xiaomeng understood now and immediately sat up straight: "Oh! Is it Qin Ye, the vice-captain of the Chang'an team?"

Liu Chuan raised the corner of his lips slightly: "Girl, you have a good memory. Do you still remember Qin Ye?"

Liu Xiaomeng said: "Of course I remember, he was awesome at cursing people!"

Liu Xiaomeng doesn't play games, nor does she understand what e-sports competitions are, but her eldest brother is a top player in the professional circle. Through his influence, she naturally also learned some things about the professional martial arts circle.

To put it simply, the professional e-sports league is actually similar to competitive sports such as basketball and football. There are also various star teams and star players. The winning team will receive bonuses, businesses will also sponsor the team, and professional players will also receive revenue from various advertising endorsements. Top players have a lot of fans, and some players are even treated like celebrities in the entertainment industry.

As one of the top players in the league, Liu Chuan once led the Chinese team to win the annual grand slam. The so-called annual grand slam means that within the same year, the professional league spring league, T, G, A summer grand prix, professional league autumn league, and T, G, A winter grand prix, all four consecutive events are won, and the special trophy of the "year-end grand slam" will be awarded.

So far, only the Chinese team led by Liu Chuan has achieved such a brilliant record.

The league is full of powerful teams, and the Grand Slam record is hard to surpass, which also established Liu Chuan's top position in the league. He has many mortal enemies and friends in the league. Liu Xiaomeng can never tell the names of those people apart, but she still has a deep impression of Qin Ye.

On the day Liu Chuan retired, the man named Qin Ye called him and scolded him. Liu Xiaomeng and Liu Chuan were at the airport at the time. In the noisy crowd, the man's voice through the phone was clear and calm, and every word was sharp and heartbreaking. Liu Chuan just listened silently with a smile, and after listening, he simply said: "I have made up my mind, it is useless for you to persuade me. "

…The person on the other end was so angry that he hung up the phone.

Liu Chuan put away his phone, turned around and walked into the security checkpoint.

Liu Xiaomeng looked at her brother's tall back as he turned and left, and felt inexplicably sad.

Time flies so fast, and now she personally picked up her brother from the airport.

Liu Xiaomeng was in a very conflicted mood and asked anxiously: "Brother, you contacted Qin Ye, don't you want to go back to play in the game?"

Liu Chuan's face was expressionless, and he said calmly: "Let's talk about it later."

Liu Xiaomeng whispered: "Don't make mom angry anymore. It's not good for anyone if you confront her head-on..."

Liu Chuan smiled and said, "I know."

The car soon stopped at the Liu family compound.

Liu Chuan's father, Liu Boyuan, is a leading figure in the domestic academic community, a well-known history professor, knowledgeable, gentle, and also a very nostalgic person. The Liu family's decoration style is similar to that of the scholarly families of the Republic of China period. The house is filled with all kinds of precious antiques and jades. In Liu Chuan's words: "As soon as you enter the door, you feel the atmosphere is particularly solemn."

No one would believe it if I told them that Liu Chuan, this shameless guy, actually came from a scholarly family...

When Liu Chuan entered the room, his father was practicing calligraphy in the study.

Professor Liu is an excellent calligrapher and the nominal president of the Calligraphy and Painting Association. He is a master who can auction off any piece of calligraphy he writes. Many people specially ask him to write inscriptions. Many of the calligraphy and paintings in the home are from his father's hand. When Liu Chuan was a child, he was forced by his father to practice calligraphy. He wrote dozens of calligraphy books and eventually developed a beautiful cursive script.

Liu Chuan's handwriting is very unrestrained, casual and unrestrained, just like his personality.

Liu Xiaomeng's case is more tragic. Her father and brother both have good handwriting, but this girl's handwriting has always been that of a kindergartener and she can't improve no matter how hard she tries.

Liu Chuan glanced at the writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone on his father's desk, smiled and said, "Dad, are you practicing calligraphy?"

When Liu Boyuan saw his son coming in, he didn't even bother to raise his head.

He uttered a word, then picked up the pen, dipped it in ink, and continued to write slowly.

Liu Chuanhan: "Dad, I'll go upstairs to put my luggage first. "

Liu Boyuan snorted again.

Liu Xiaomeng said enthusiastically: "Dad, I'll go to the kitchen to make food! We'll have dinner when Mom comes back!"

Liu Boyuan said "hmm" again.

The brother and sister slipped away from the study in silence.

Liu Chuan quickly packed his luggage in his room. His father, who was writing in the study, was like a Taoist priest practicing Tai Chi. Every step was slow and meticulous. He required so much effort to practice a single character. There couldn't be any mistakes in the horizontal, vertical, left, and right strokes. He was really impressed...

After taking a shower in the bathroom, changing clothes and going downstairs, Liu Chuan's mother just came back.

My parents have completely different personalities. My father, Professor Liu, is a slow-tempered, gentle and steady person, and always speaks with sincerity; my mother, Yang Qiuning, is an impatient person, who is swift and decisive, and her words are as loud as popping beans, hitting people on the head.

Yang Qiuning was wearing a suit skirt, with her hair tied up in a neat bun at the back of her head. She looked like a professional strongwoman. When she saw her son coming down from upstairs, she didn't show any emotion. She just glanced at him calmly and said, "You're back?"

Liu Chuan smiled: "Well, Mom, did you just finish the meeting?"

Yang Qiuning nodded.

Liu Chuan walked over, took the bag from her hand, and helped her hang up her suit jacket.

Yang Qiuning put on slippers and walked into the study. Seeing Liu Boyuan still writing, she couldn't help but frowned: "Aren't you tired of practicing calligraphy every day?"

Professor Liu, who was lying down and shot, said:"…"

Liu Chuan, who accidentally heard it, said:"…"

The couple quarreled every day, and the impatient mother was definitely more combative than the slow-tempered father.

In order to avoid being left out, Liu Chuan consciously went to the kitchen to prepare dinner with his sister.

The brother and sister quickly brought up a table of dishes, most of which were prepared in advance by Professor Liu, and a small portion was made by Liu Xiaomeng.

Liu Chuan's parents were typical of the rich lady falling for the poor boy. As the daughter of the Yang family, Yang Qiuning had never done housework since she was a child. After marriage, Liu Boyuan took care of the housework. Yang Qiuning was also very courageous when she was young. In an era when business marriages were popular and parents decided their children's marriages, she ignored the strong opposition of Liu Chuan's grandfather and resolutely married Liu Boyuan, who had no car, no house, and no money at the time.

It is said that because of this, Yang Qiuning almost broke up with the Yang family and completely severed ties. It was not until Liu Chuan was born that the Yang family gradually relented. With the secret help of Liu Chuan's grandmother, Yang Qiuning finally got her father's approval and returned home with her husband and one-year-old Liu Chuan.

Liu Boyuan was a talented man when he was young and became a well-known professor at the age of 30. When Liu Chuan could remember, his father was already a celebrity in the academic world. His current status... In short, he has disciples all over the country, to the extent that his home is overwhelmed with flowers every Teacher's Day.

Although my parents often quarreled, they loved each other very much and had been like this for decades.

Yang Qiuning is a sharp-tongued person, but in fact, he is cold on the outside but warm on the inside. Liu Boyuan is gentle and tolerant, but he is very principled when it comes to key issues. The two of them usually bicker and quarrel, but Liu Chuan and Liu Xiaomeng are not worried that they will divorce. When they were young, children would usually cry when their parents quarreled, but Liu Chuan and Liu Xiaomeng thought: Mom and Dad are quarreling again, great, we can go out and play...

The family of four sat around the table to eat the reunion dinner. Liu Xiaomeng was obviously very happy and kept putting food into Liu Chuan's bowl: "Brother, try this, I made this myself."

"This was made by my dad..."

"And this, I just learned it yesterday..."

The brother and sister have a very good relationship, but the two elders don't talk much at the dinner table.

After finishing the meal with mixed feelings, Yang Qiuning stood up and said, "Liu Chuan, come with me to the study."

Liu Xiaomeng looked at him sympathetically.

When I was a child, my mother's words "follow me to the study" meant that I would be beaten. When I grew up, my mother's words "follow me to the study" meant that I would be scolded. The Liu brothers and sisters have long been accustomed to the meaning of this sentence.

But to Liu Chuan's surprise, this time she didn't scold him, but asked seriously: "How many bank cards do you have on you now? "

Liu Chuan said: "A savings card."

Yang Qiuning said: "How much is it? Let me see."

Liu Chuan took out a card from his wallet and handed it to her: "There is one million in this card, which I saved over the past few years without spending it all."

Yang Qiuning said: "You, as a student, don't need so much money to go to school. I will keep this money for you first, and return it to you intact when you graduate from university." Then he calmly took Liu Chuan's card.

Liu Chuan was surprised: "...Are you going to confiscate my personal savings?"

"It's just for temporary safekeeping to prevent you from spending money recklessly." Yang Qiuning took out a brand new ICBC card from her wallet and handed it to Liu Chuan: "This is the new card I opened for you. There is 5,000 yuan in it. I will transfer living expenses to this card on the 1st of every month. When you go back to college, you should act like a college student. There is no need to carry so much money on you."

Liu Chuan:"…”

Liu Chuan looked back at his father, who pretended that it was none of his business.

Liu Chuan said helplessly: "Mom, I'm already so old, I won't spend money recklessly..."

Yang Qiuning stuffed the new card into his son's hand and said seriously: "What else can you do with so much money at school? You must be flying around, watching various games, and meeting various old friends. Do you think I don't know?"

Liu Chuan:"…”

"Since you are going back to school, you should focus on your studies. Your dad has also informed the school that you will live with your classmates, and your dormitory is..." Yang Qiuning looked at the man next to him.

Liu Boyuan immediately came online from invisible mode and answered: "The school has arranged everything for the boys' dormitory, Building 301."

Yang Qiuning nodded and looked back at her son: "Dormitory 301, remember. Go back and study hard, and don't play that game again... Did you hear me?"

Liu Chuan was helpless: “I heard it.”

Yang Qiuning went to take a shower contentedly. Liu Chuan was about to go back to his room when his father, who was used to being invisible and silent, suddenly called him, "Liu Chuan."

Liu Chuan looked back in confusion: "Dad, do you have anything else to say?"

Liu Boyuan took out a piece of paper from the drawer and handed it to him, then turned around and went upstairs with a calm expression.

Liu Chuan unfolded the paper in his hand. The paper his father used for writing was of excellent quality. It felt very thick in his hand. On it, an idiom was neatly written in regular script with a sophisticated brushstroke:

Take it easy.

It turned out that he wrote these four words in his study today and gave them to his son.

——Treat unfavorable situations and negative comments with a normal attitude, don’t hear them, don’t ask questions, just listen and let them go.

——Be calm and at ease.

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