"So, that's Flowing Cloud," Little Ye craned his neck to look at the tv.

Su Mucheng, who was visiting because she was bored, popped in a melon seed into her mouth, "Hm, that boy brought quite a lot of attention in the chatroom. I have to put it on mute because it was getting annoying with Huang Shaotian. Especially Huang Shaotian."

"He's young," Fifth Ye commented.

"In my days, people had to fake their age to get in. Nowadays, a preteen can join?" Fourth Ye said, amused.

"Your days?" Qiao Yifan blinked.

"I meant, the old days of Xiu-ge. I was there... Right, Xiu-ge?" Fourth Ye smiled brightly at Ye Xiu.

"Indeed," Great, now they had to come up with a vague background story on why Fourth Ye was there.

"How old was he again?" Little Ye asked.

"I don't know, twelve?" Su Mucheng said unsure.

"Thirteen going fourteen," Qiao Yifan replied helpfully. "Yingjie said so," He added.

"Tiny Herb still going around with their stalkerish way?" Second Ye mocked.

Qiao Yifan chuckled awkwardly, "Captain Wang had always been thorough."

"Why are you calling him captain?" Wei Chen asked weirdly.

"I'm fourteen,"Fifteen actually- Damn suspended growth spurt. "So he's younger than me," Little Ye stated.

"Not by much," Qiao Yifan said.

"Younger," Little Ye insisted.

"Perfect match, right?" Big Ye teased.

Su Mucheng giggled, "If our little Xiuliu is our Chaos Theory's little young master, that Lu Hanwen is Blue Rain's baby boy. Technically, yes, you guys are pretty similar."

"Stop that, Little Ye has to be protected," Fifth Ye interjected.

"Wild Boss, everyone," Ye Xiu suddenly announced and they all returned to the game with the exception of Su Mucheng who called off pass because she was waiting for Chu Yunxiu and the other girls to start another of their round of gossips.

"Ah, damn it, Zhang Xinjie again?" Ye Xiu sighed.

"If it wasn't for the fact you aren't using a Cleric, I would have suspected that you have been the one who casted that Wish Prayer," Zhang Xinjie said as they watched Blue Brook's Lu Hanwen celebrated in the wake of Herb Garden's indignation.

"Randomly guessing like that doesn't suit your careful personality." Ye Xiu said.

"If I were more careful, I would ask if you had ordered a Cleric to cast it." Zhang Xinjie asked.

"I think you did it!" Ye Xiu said.

"I didn't." Zhang Xinjie actually gave a proper response.

"If that kid asked for someone to cast it..." Lin Jingyan paused, "I can't help but think of an old friend."

"Old Wei?" Ye Xiu said.

"Yup!" Lin Jingyan said.

"Blue Rain's former captain?" Zhang Xinjie asked.

"Yes. If it's him….." Lin Jingyan paused again as if he were trying to find the appropriate words to say.

"Extremely unscrupulous. Extremely shameless. Extremely underhanded." Ye Xiu didn't hold back.

"Haha….." Lin Jingyan laughed awkwardly.

"What a shameless display!" Every avatar snapped their head to look at One-Inch Love.

"One-Inch Love, I don't think you have the right to say that..." Ye Xiu gently said with a hint of doting.

"Weren't you the one who also pulled that Wish Prayer on him in your last fight?" Soft Mist stopped beside One-Inch Love as Tang Rou asked incredulously.

"It was a fair fight," Little Ye defended.

"The next time, I won't heal you then," The Cleric behind them said.

One-Inch Love looked back to Cloudy Autumn Sky, "Don't be like that, you're the only one who I could trust to know when to heal me!"

As his subordinates bickered in the back, Ye Xiu looked back to Zhang Xinjie and Lin Jingyan, "Yeah, if it's Old Wei. It's certainly possible," He said.

Zhang Xinjie would have latched on their conversation had it not because of Cloudy Autumn Sky's presence. He looked at Cloudy Autumn Sky then looked at One-Inch Love. So the information was right, it seemed like One-Inch Love and Cloudy Autumn Sky were friends in real life.

This might be a problem.

Zhang Xinjie felt a sudden crisis to let Cloudy Autumn Sky being so close to a person like Ye Qiu. Especially a person like Ye Qiu.

There's Soft Mist. Then, there's One-Inch Love. Also a second Lord Grim that was still a painful mystery for people. Not to mention another Battle Mage that had 'Autumn' in his name. Another Sharpshooter that also had 'Autumn' according to the trusted source of Zhang Jiale.

Basically, can't that man retire peacefully? Why should he gather so many people by his side? Not to mention such terrifying people too?

"Cloudy Autumn Sky," Zhang Xinjie called out.

The blonde Cleric expressionlessly looked his way, not saying anything.

"Is he on your side?" Zhang Xinjie decided to ask Ye Xiu.

"My side? Oh, you mean, Little Sky? He's in my team," Ye Xiu answered with delighted smile. "Come, come, he's a very promising Cleric, you know? Let me introduce you to him, he's such a pure and good child, makes us worry all the time. Little Sky, come here! Let me introduce you to the Number One Cleric!" Ye Xiu, taking delight in trolling and ruining Zhang Xinjie's hope, eagerly beckoned.

Knowing his older self's intention, Fifth Ye obediently ran up to Lord Grim, "What is it, ge?"

"Now, meet Zhang Xinjie. Tyranny's Cleric and Vice-Captain, you know him right? Always on tv and all. Zhang Xinjie, this is Little Sky, our main Cleric. I managed to rope him in, it was pretty hard and a hassle to convince him-" to play the Cleric "but it's worth it," Ye Xiu introduced.

"Hello, hello," Fifth Ye typed and said at the same time.

"..." Zhang Xinjie didn't know what to say.

"Such a good child," Ye Xiu praised.

"So that's the case..." Zhang Xinjie expressed. "A pity indeed."

"What's wrong?" Lin Jingyan asked.

"He's my potential successor," Zhang Xinjie whisper-messaged him back.

"Ouch..."

"Go ahead now, Little Sky. Try to accompany Little Lord Grim," Ye Xiu said and Cloudy Autumn Sky obediently departed, beckoning One-Inch Love, Soft Mist and One-Inch Ash along the way.

"Congratulation..." Zhang Xinjie, although feeling wronged, still sincerely congratulated his enemy for snatching that one talent he eyed.

"Ah, thank you. That kid is still such a noob, sometimes made me worried. We set him up to be a Cleric and he fell off so far, almost want to ditch him but we really need a Cleric. So we had no choice but to accept the end meet," Ye Xiu said calmly with a hint of lament.

Bullshit, if that was the end meet then what kind of monstrosity he wanted?!

"Who do you think would replace Deng Fusheng?" Wei Chen asked.

"Xu Bin!" Ye Xiu answered. Big Ye and Second Ye seconded.

"Me," Fourth Ye answered at the same time as he played with his phone.

"..."

"What?" Big Ye looked at Fourth Ye.

"Unrivalled Super Hottie," Fourth Ye answered simply.

"Don't go near them again using any shape or form of a Knight," Second Ye said sternly.

"Ye Qiu took him," Was the first thing Zhang Xinjie said to Han Wenqing that morning after Han Wenqing returned from his morning jog.

Taking off his mask and visor hat, Han Wenqing raised an eyebrow, "Ye Qiu took who?"

"Cloudy Autumn Sky," Zhang Xinjie threw out the name calmly.

"The fierce Cleric who kicked you?"

"Yes," Zhang Xinjie nodded in affirmation.

Han Wenqing was not exactly ready to even hear Ye Qiu's name first thing in the morning, he sighed and wiped his temples with a small towel around his neck, "Leave it then. We'll try once again after he debutted, if he still refuse that means Ye Qiu had convince him thoroughly, better leave it. We still have many Cleric trainees in the camp."

Zhang Xinjie nodded, still feeling regretful, "But he was truly the one who suited to be Song Qiying's partner..."

Han Wenqing emptied his water bottle and tossed it to the nearby trashcan, "Nothing we can do for now. We should just watch how he turns out, if he's truly worth it in the end, I'll talk with Ye Qiu."

Zhang Xinjie looked up to see his captain's usual aloof expression, "Yes."

Brushing his teeth in the bathroom, Ye Xiu suddenly sneezed violently and shivered.

"What the hell, Third Ye!" Little Ye whined as he wiped the toothpaste foam on his cheek, furiously opening the water tap to the maximum to wash his hands afterwards. "I'm not cleaning that," the little one pointed to the mirror.

Ye Xiu rinsed his mouth, "Sorry, I just suddenly felt something foreboding is waiting for me..."

"Come on, what's so wrong about trying to be a pro?" Second Ye coaxed for the nth time as he looked at Deception which was pinned under Starry Sky Laughter's tip.

"Fine!" Mo Fan finally snapped.

"Really?" Second Ye's eyes litted up. Finally! He was fretting that Mo Fan might not be willing to cooperate because the enemies were too many for him to try to confront in real life, but as expected fate is still in their side!

"Yes! Give me the damn address!" Mo Fan snapped.

"Big Ye, he finally said yes!" Second Ye said to the his older self who was sitting beside him.

"The same date, the same day," Big Ye hummed as he glanced at Second Ye. "I was fearing for nothing."

"Okay! I'll give the address to you! If you come, I'll give you back half of your equips!" Second Ye felt that he had been generous enough. So generous that he could move himself to tears.

"Fuck! You think I'm a beggar?!" Mo Fan exploded. Most that had been stolen, or rather scrapped, from him were green equips with some blue equips in between. Those things were like potatoes, they were extremely cheap!

"You don't want it? I'll throw them away then," Second Ye decided.

"Good riddance! They're taking too much space!" Little Lord Grim landed beside Sad Autumn Night and complained. "You should have told us that you don't need those things!" Fourth Ye blamed Deception.

"How is it my fault?!" Mo Fan exclaimed.

"If you just joined us early, we won't have to keep those," Second Ye pointed out.

"I don't even want to join you!"

"It's your fault for not wanting to join us, why did you sound like you're blaming us for it?" Fourth Ye mocked with his 'Steamed Bun' logic that he had heard so much that his world view began to shift.

"How-!" Deception was close to break his keyboard in frustration.

"There! I sent you the address, make sure to come!" Second Ye interjected.

Deception wanted to argue more but decided that he was above that and went offline a while later.

"He agreed?" Wei Chen asked.

"Yup, just as planned," Second Ye nodded, feeling triumphant.

"How do you convince him?" Wei Chen asked.

"He just agreed, like my first round," Second Ye shrugged.

Big Ye put off his cigarette and looked at Second Ye, "Did you tell him to bring necessary supplies?"

Second Ye paused, "No..." he facepalmed. "He'll come with nothing but himself again, right?"

Big Ye shrugged, "It's fine, we have more than enough clothes... Who room with him?" Big Ye asked. Because house management was truly not his problem, he was just here to keep them in line.

"Lone, remember? Gotta keep him isolated, the two new rooms just finished three days ago, we only need to move some furnitures in," Second Ye said. "Unless, of course, you want to toss him into one of the three rooms. Either got bugged by Little Ye and let Qiao Yifan be uncomfortable. Let him room with Steamed Bun to drive him crazy. Or let him with Old Wei and Little Third for worse outcome..."

Big Ye went silent. To be honest he was pretty tempted to choose one of the three rooms... "Okay, just let him have an entire room by himself first."

Mo Fan arrived at 3 in the morning, which wasn't a surprise to the older two but a shock to the others.

Mo Fan stared detachedly at everyone's face, to be honest, he came here to look for a fight in his hot tempered condition. But while on the way here, he realized he might have been too hasty, but the plane ticket had been bought and the plane would take off in two minutes, so Mo Fan could just sit in his seat contemplating about his life's choices.

Seeing the two scary rogue-like men had put a damp on Mo Fan's fury. He didn't want to fight them.

But when they all introduced themselves, he found out those who frequently terrorized him were all one damned family... In this case, it was truly legal and okay for him to curse fuck your entire family!

Just one... He wanted to punch at least one of them... Well, he might be able to leave the kid, he was a kid... But the other four? Please... Just one.

"Mo Fan," Mo Fan spat out his introduction.

"Do you need me to explain our team's situation?" Ye Xiu asked kindly.

"No need."

"Oh?"

"Not interested," Mo Fan spat out.

Ye Xiu showed a disappointed expression, "Ah, you're being emotional. That's not good," He sighed.

Wei Chen shook his head as he already expected that kind of shamelessness. Qiao Yifan ducked his head, declining to comment. Steamed Bun nodded fervently with a wise expression. Big Ye and Second Ye still maintained their aloof and serene airs.

Whereas the younger three of Ye family just shook their heads, looking rather disappointed as they looked at Mo Fan with the same gaze they mimicked from their third brother.

Just one... He really wanted to punch one of them... But Mo Fan refrained himself.

"Real matches will start in September. Experience the team for yourself until then. How about you stay here for a month!" Ye Xiu said.

"..." Mo Fan declined to comment.

"You weren't planning on coming over to say you're not interested and then going back to scrap pick, right?" Ye Xiu said.

Mo Fan didn't reply, but from the looks of it, it seemed like that was indeed what he had planned on doing.

Fourth Ye showed a jeering expression, "You really have no life, don't you?"

Mo Fan's face almost twisted, I don't want to hear that from you!

Wei Chen looked at the young man with a gaze full of pity and a little bit of schadenfreude. It's hard indeed. Dealing with these bastards are really hard, but I'm happy seeing you try and fail anyways!

"Such a waste of money," Fifth Ye said coldly. With that money he used for nothing, Fifth Ye could buy something for Su Mucheng in his own timeline.

Mo Fan almost twitched, 'Who were the ones that forced me to?!'

"Tactless, don't have any plan, reckless, impulsive, you remind me of a certain stupid someone back at home," Little Ye also dissed. Obviously seeing his own little brother's reckless and impulsive 'plan' to run away.

Mo Fan slowly lowered his head. Calm down, calm down, he's just a kid... Obviously spending too much time with bad influences, calm down...

Wei Chen watched to the side, happy to see Mo Fan's internal struggles, slightly wondering if the other man would throw up blood soon.

Qiao Yifan looked at his new prospective teammate and felt a bit sorry.

Steamed Bun nodded, "Tsk, tsk, stupid, no life and wasting money. You should be ashamed!"

Wei Chen and Qiao Yifan stared at Steamed Bun, speechless.

Mo Fan inhaled and exhaled.

"Hey, why are you so silent? Hm, hm, so secretive... Are you a Scorpio?" Steamed Bun guessed. "You're a Scorpio, right?"

Mo Fan glared, particularly at everyone, before he regained back his outward cool and look straight ahead, choosing to stay silent.

"... Is that a yes?" Steamed Bun whispered secretively with a solemn look at Mo Fan.

"Bun, that's enough," Ye Xiu called him off. " You've traveled such a long way to get here. Even if it's cheaper to fly in the early morning, it still isn't convenient! How about you stay here for a few days and then decide?" Ye Xiu arranged, "Pull an all-nighter with us. There's a place for you to live here. You don't need to worry about anything. Did you bring anything with you?"

"My account card." Mo Fan said.

Fourth Ye quietly turned his head to whisper to Fifth Ye, "I like this guy," he approved. Fifth Ye's lips quirked up.

"And who is this...?" Mo Fan heard that question and looked up from his computer's screen to see another beauty with short hair.

"Bad luck bringer," Wei Chen mumbled.

"He's our new addition, just arrived this morning. Mo Fan, otherwise known as Deception," Ye Xiu introduced to the beauty who started to move her things bit by bit into the clubhouse, not to mention always bringing snacks everytime she dropped by.

"Oh?" Tang Rou blinked. Smiling, Tang Rou said, "Hi, nice to meet you."

Mo Fan hesitated for a while, recalling his brief exchange with Su Mucheng where he instantly regretted it, but he cannot let a beauty smiled in vain, he nodded lightly, "Hi..." He said, extremely quiet and distant.

"Tang Rou, you know me as Soft Mist," Tang Rou dropped the name nonchalantly as like she wasn't responsible for some of Deception's (also White Not's and Not White's) deaths.

Mo Fan felt cheated. Beauties are deceitful, he grimly thought.

Having greeted him and introduced herself, Tang Rou turned back to Ye Xiu, "I'm just dropping some pairs today," She said.

"En, I know. You already talk to Mucheng?"

"Already did. We might go out this weekend along with GuoGuo, is that okay?"

"I'm not yours nor Mucheng's father. Just go ahead, stay out of troubles," Ye Xiu nodded.

"Sister Tang."

"Yifan, you looked good. Where's Bun and Little Liu?"

As they conversed, Mo Fan continued to sit still in his seat. Not acknowledging any of them.

Tang Rou flicked him a glance out of the corner of her eyes, she then looked at Ye Xiu and the other who acted like nothing was wrong.

She smiled when Steamed Bun appeared and greeted her like an oversized puppy he was.

Ye Xiu came in to sounds of laughter from Fourth Ye, Fifth Ye and Su Mucheng, "What's wrong?" Ye Xiu asked then.

"Four- no, Xiusi just said Tyranny is like a retirement home!" Su Mucheng giggled.

"He also said that Old Han is like those male leads in dramas who picked up those who are unwanted and helpless!" Fifth Ye collapsed into a fit of snickers after that.

"He's creating a harem," Fourth Ye stated and the other two laughed again.

"Retirement harem!" Su Mucheng tried to control her giggles.

"Not to mention, they're all kinds of drama mixed to one," Fifth Ye wiped off his tears.

Fourth Ye nodded, "We should send Old Wei there, wrapped and ready."

"Brat!" Wei Chen yelled in protest from his corner.

Ye Xiu snorted and Wei Chen glared at him.

"I can't imagine a team with the strict Han Wenqing, the shameless Old Wei, the underhanded Old Lin, the dazzling and clever Zhang Jiale, also the young and overly tactical Zhang Xinjie," Ye Xiu admitted.

"True, Tyranny would destroy itself," Fourth Ye agreed. "Old Wei would bring a lot of troubles."

"Little fucker!" Wei Chen cursed.

"Now, now," Su Mucheng inhaled. "If Han Wenqing truly wanted a retirement harem, he'll include his lifelong rival for sure," Su Mucheng collapsed into another fit of giggles as the other Ye's gave her a unified dirty glare.

"Oh yeah, I also heard that Zhao Yang would transfer," Fourth Ye changed his tone as he said seriously.

"The news said that?" Ye Xiu asked.

"No, I heard it when I was out buying soy sauce earlier," Fourth Ye said.

"So, it's just a rumour," Ye Xiu said disdainfully.

"He will retire, though," They heard someone interjected.

"Qian-ge," Ye Xiu turned around and murmured. "Zhao Yang will?"

"Yup. But, that would be a year from now on," Big Ye smiled.

"So far," Ye Xiu sighed.

"Even if he did now, it won't do us any good. We'll only be there in the tenth," Second Ye came in after that, dropping himself beside Su Mucheng.

"How much do you think people would pay if I put that up in an online betting pool?" Wei Chen solemnly interjected.

"It depends how many stupid people actually gained access on internet," Second Ye said offhandedly.

"That means many."

"That means many," Everyone agreed.

"We're not supposedly taking delight on other people's misery this much, right?" Fifth Ye said.

"That's right, Old Wei, stop being such a shameless bandit," Big Ye agreed and scolded Wei Chen with his serene tone.

*ding dong*

"Coming!" Qiao Yifan, bless him, answered the doorbell as the others were discussing.

"Yifan, if it's another salesman just reject him. No need to show pity!" Big Ye said loudly.

Opening the door, Qiao Yifan was greeted with the sight of a young man with glasses supporting a backpack on his back and a baggage in his hand. Looking at him, he looked like a salesman but Qiao Yifan smiled, "Can I help you?" Qiao Yifan asked gently.

"Is this Chaos Theory clubhouse?" The young man asked.

"Oh! It is," Qiao Yifan delightfully nodded.

"I'm Luo Ji," Luo Ji smiled and introduced himself. "Concealed Light."

"Oh!" Qiao Yifan nodded and opened the door wider, "Welcome! I'm One-Inch Ash, Qiao Yifan, just call me Yifan. Come in, let's introduce you to the others."

Qiao Yifan brought Luo Ji in and led him into the living room where most of them gathered. He introduced him to the others who immediately welcomed the new arrival.

Luo Ji didn't react too grandly when facing Su Mucheng, but he looked really perplexed when he meet the Ye brothers (?).

"You guys are..." Luo Ji tried to find the right words for it. "Quintuplets?" He finished meekly.

"No." The five of them answered.

"Do we look as old as those old men?" Fourth Ye slung his arm over Fifth Ye's shoulders and pulled him close.

"Please," Fifth Ye nodded. "We're more than a decade apart."

"But you guys looked so..." Luo Ji trailed off.

"We're cousins," Big Ye said.

"But cousins can't possibly look so similar, that doesn't make any sense," Luo Ji pushed up his glasses and said.

"Sometimes, siblings don't look like each other too," Ye Xiu said.

"Our fathers are identical triplets," Second Ye added.

"Identical Triplets?" Luo Ji parroted disbelievingly.

"Yup," All five of them nodded.

"We're cousins who are technically, genetically half-brothers," Big Ye smiled serenely.

"The possibility of having twins aren't supposedly that high," Luo Ji said.

"Twins having twins had a high chance by nature," Ye Xiu said.

"But to look so similar..."

"Amazing right?" Second Ye said.

"Well... It is amazing," Luo Ji admitted before nodding in acceptance.

Everyone almost sighed in relieve, good riddance! The logical and genius one is down!

"We still have Soft Mist but she's living separately, she'll move in soon if we could help it. Also, the rest are still in the training room, there's the youngest, One-Inch Love, also Steamed Bun and another freeloader" Ye Xiu explained as he pointed to the hallway towards the training room.

At the mention of Steamed Bun, Luo Ji suddenly had a pinched look on his face as if he suddenly suffered a migraine, "Ugh- anything, please don't let me room with him!" He said in such a passion that he hadn't shown before even after meeting Su Mucheng and the legendary Ye Qiu.

"I don't know about that, just-"

"What's up here?" Everyone turned around to see Little Ye coming in with Steamed Bun trailing behind, curious on what held Qiao Yifan up for so long.

"Who's the new guy? Salesman?" Steamed Bun asked curiously.

One second and Luo Ji instantly knew the bane of his existence, he cursed inwardly. Much like other ninety percent of interaction with Steamed Bun, he sneered, "Obviously not."

"Wha-! The salesman is being so rude! Boss, did you reject his products?!" Steamed Bun's eyes widened and asked Ye Xiu with his disappointing innocence.

"You're rejected! Your sister is rejected!" Luo Ji spat off.

"Bun, he's not a salesman. This is Concealed Light," Ye Xiu introduced.

"Ah, the perfectionist and too-detailed Summoner?" Little Ye's litted up in understanding as he smiled. "Hello! I'm Ye Xiuliu, Ye Qianliyan's son, One-Inch Love!"

Luo Ji pushed up his glasses, nodding curtly at Little Ye, "Hi," he politely greeted back.

"Ah! So you're Little Brother Summoner!" Steamed Bun punched his palm in understanding.

Luo Ji turned away from Little Ye to glare at Steamed Bun. Not saying anything

Su Mucheng giggled in amusement at their interaction, "Well, now we already introduced to each others, do you need any help with your baggages?" Su Mucheng gestured to the baggages beside Luo Ji's legs that he had put down because of exhaustion earlier.

"Ah, no, I'll-"

"I'll do it!" Steamed Bun did not need any prompting for snatching the baggages off from the floor. "It's okay, little brother. Big brother will help you since you're so helpless. I'll put these in our room!" Steamed Bun, in all his excitement, took off.

Luo Ji almost shrieked, "NO! I'm not going to room with you! Return those to me!" Luo Ji took off, chasing after Steamed Bun before it was too late. Sadly, it probably had been too late.

The others peered as they heard Luo Ji's indignant and frustrated screams as well Steamed Bun's laughter down the hallway.

Ye Xiu smiled exasperatedly, "Well, I'll ask him about his progress later after he solved the rooming problem," He murmured.

"Steamed Bun, stop bothering him! Come over here," Ye Xiu sighed as he rescued Luo Ji from Steamed Bun.

"It's hard isn't it? That's how I feel about you all," Big Ye said from Ye Xiu's side.

"How dare you to say that?" Second Ye, who was akin stay-at-home househusband and always in charge of everything, snapped.

Ye Xiu stared at the message from An Wenyi and couldn't help but to feel a bit moved. Out of everyone, the only one who actually told him in advance about his arrival was An Wenyi.

Certainly, this one would be a keeper.

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

The said keeper didn't look entirely convinced about their identities, but he looked like he was too lazy to bother. So Ye Xiu counted that as a success.

That night, Chen Guo and Tang Rou dropped by, Tang Rou officially moved in and Su Mucheng was her temporary roommate for the whole summer until she moved back to Excellent Era.

That night, Chaos Theory gathered and went out for a celebration for the first time.

In the big uproar of Lord Grim being Ye Qiu and will face Excellent Era in the Challenger League, Big Ye couldn't find Fourth Ye in the living room nor in the training room. Entering the front room which is usually isolated, Big Ye found the young man sitting solitarily in one of the couch, the room's lighting was not turned on at all.

"What are you doing here?" Big Ye asked.

Golden eyes met golden eyes and Fourth Ye stared at him with the Look. "Trying to calm myself down after the things," He said blandly. Things about Excellent Era and their desperation to push all the blames towards their old captain who had won them three championships.

Despite the problem already solved itself without them interfering, it still made him upset to know Excellent Era could be that low to go and try to strike him while he's down.

"Ah," Big Ye said nothing else as he sat on the opposite sofa and litted up his cigarette. "Cigarette?" He offered.

Surprisingly, Fourth Ye shook his head, "No..."

"Hm," Big Ye nodded and stored back the pack.

The two of them sat in quietly in the silent front room before Fourth Ye shifted in his seat, leaning down and tilting his head up, "You know... I've always disliked that Cui Li."

"I know," After all they're the same person, how could he didn't know?

"He reminded me of a snake that was secretly put in mine and Ye Qiu's room by the new nanny back when we were six..." Fourth Ye said. "It could kill us..."

Silence fell again for another minute where the two didn't even look at each other, comfortable in their own positions.

"Big Ye, I'm not a businessman, so I don't know what is going on in their head. Can you explain it to me...?" Fourth Ye's eyes shifted as he looked at Big Ye dead in the eyes.

"Si'er," Big Ye started. "Truthfully, I can't explain it the way you want it to be."

Fourth Ye sighed.

"But you're a player, you don't need to know what's going on in their heads. You go and chase your goal, let them chase their own goal. If they think they don't need you, you don't need them," Big Ye smiled.

Fourth Ye sighed and looked out of the window, "Their tricks make me sick."

"Hm, I supposed it did," Big Ye nodded.

"You're right, I don't want to know what they're thinking..." Fourth Ye shook his head. "Tao Xuan had changed too much, business world is scary," Then he looked at Big Ye who had a pleasant smile on. "Don't be like that okay? This is your younger self's wish."

Big Ye chuckled as he stood up, "I'd never abandon a friend if that's what you ask," His gaze softened. The three-times champion, the crowned Battle God, the legend of an era, his young self had always been an empathic and generous person who cared too much about the people he knew of. He still is... Even in the future.

A smile finally bloomed on Fifth Ye's lips, "That's great."

"Cigarette?" Big Ye offered again.

"Yes," Fourth Ye received the thrown pack.

Qiu Fei snatched the flash disk off of the computer, with dark face, he left the game studio and the knocked out Chen Yehui behind. His momentum was too fast and overbearing that no one could react.

He was already in a bad mood when he ran into the Internet Cafe down the street and found no sign of his mentor, hence, cannot confirm whether the rumor about him making a new team was true or not.

To think someone dare to slander him like that...

Qiu Fei wasn't a gossipy person. He was determined and diligent. There are only two kinds of thing that he knew, things that he liked and things he couldn't tolerate. Ye Qiu is in the first category, insulting Ye Qiu is in the second one.

Nonsense...

He glared even harder, when he realized that it might not be good to release his anger around, he repressed his emotion back to the state of detached tranquility and made his way back to the training camp area.

Inwardly, he lamented that he didn't ask for more informations, now the Internet Cafe didn't house his mentor anymore, where did his mentor go? Qiu Fei went silent before recalling someone.

Su Mucheng.

That's right, Su Mucheng might know something, but she wasn't here right now. She usually hung around even if it was summer break, either modeling or tailing Ye Qiu in teaching the camp members.

Weird, where did she go now? She must have known Ye Qiu's whereabouts and most likely is with him now. Qiu Fei would ask her when she came back.

*Crash!*

Fifth Ye, who was the closest to the front door, immediately bolted off and opened the door to see what kind of accident had happened in their front door to find the Internet Cafe pretty boss that Third Ye said as their official Fanclub's president, and another young man he didn't know about.

"What happened?" Fifth Ye immediately plastered his 'virtuous younger brother next-door' attitude as he helped the lady up. "Are you okay?"

"No, no problem. Just slight sore leg, nothing won't heal," Chen Guo gritted her teeth. She should have taken note from how the younger man crashed into her Internet Cafe and not taking his offer to go with his electric bike.

Chang Xian quickly picked up his moped, "I'm so sorry! Are you okay Ms. Chen?!"

"Don't mind, don't mind!" Chen Guo shook her head as it was her fault too for trusting him.

"What's going on?" Fifth Ye felt a hand draped over his shoulder, he looked back to see Big Ye. "Big brother, the lady and that guy crashed here."

"Are you guys hurt?" Big Ye asked in worry.

"No, don't worry," Chen Guo's face flushed in embarrassment. "How's the team going? I brought the reporter after Ye Xiu gave his consent."

Chang Xian hurried to get off his moped and bowed down, "I'm Chang Xian! I'm a reporter from H City's Esports Home news station," He introduced himself.

"Ah, I see. Little Third had told us about it, why don't you two come in? Lady Boss, after you," Big Ye said gently and Chen Guo's impression of him couldn't get any higher. Chen Guo nodded and entered first, instantly knew where to go and meet up with Tang Rou.

When they entered the training room, everyone was there with the exception of An Wenyi who retreated to his room with a laptop, hiding while training. Luo Ji was also not present whereas Su Mucheng had to go back to Excellent Era.

Ye Xiu stood up when he saw Chen Guo and the rest behind her, "Welcome," He said with the responsibility of a captain.

"Hello," Chang Xian greeted back, gaining everyone's attention. "I'm Chang Xian. I'm from City H's Esports Home news station, please take care of me!"

Fourth Ye perked up when the news station's name was mentioned, "Esports Home, weren't I scheduled to have an interview through QQ with them...?" He murmured in uncertainty.

"Eh?"

"Never mind," Fourth Ye shook his head as he also stood up like the rest.

After being introduced to the rest of the team, Chang Xian was thrilled to have the information of them. Two beauties, one was the professional player whereas the other was the official fanclub's president. Twins (He made sure to circle the word three times).

"Do you know why Ye Qiu never appeared on public before?" Wei Chen asked after Chang Xian get to ask him.

"I don't!" Chang Xian was excited! This was one of the great mysteries of Glory; would he be the one to solve it after all these years?

"The reason is…. That guy is very despicable, very shameless, very immoral. If he came under public eye, there's no telling if he'll survive the aftermath." Wei Chen said seriously.

"Um…." Chang Xian paused, "Why do you say that?"

"Because that's the kind of person he is." Wei Chen said.

"Speak for yourself!" Fourth Ye sneered, defending his own honor and virtue.

"Brother, don't listen to him. The reason why Ye Qiu didn't want to appear in public is obviously because he feared people like him," Fifth Ye said from Fourth Ye's side.

"That was too much!" Wei Chen exclaimed. "It should be me who was afraid of him, he's the incarnation of immorality."

"Stop making things up, don't bully the reporter you guys!" Chen Guo scolded as she draped a hand on Chang Xian's shoulder.

"Make…. Make things up?" Chang Xian cried.

"Eheh, I was just trying to make the interview contents more interesting! This way he could write a draft that would become the center of attention. We can let the readers try to figure out what's true and what's not," Wei Chen said.

"How about, we let them decide to keep you or not?" Fourth Ye said with a pleasant tone.

Chang Xian turned away decisively. It was better to interview someone other than them who trashtalked each other.

Turning his attention, Chang Xian's gaze fell onto Qiao Yifan and his eyes lit up. A player originally from Tiny Herb, wasn't that also a great topic? He hurriedly started to chat with Qiao Yifan.

Qiao Yifan was such an honest person! In an interview, he was quite uneasy, but only said what was true. Chang Xian ended up a little disappointed by what information he had obtained. Though Qiao Yifan was from Tiny Herb, his story wasn't that soul-stirring. Moreover, seriously, did he really need to glance to the youngest member every time he wanted to answer?

Not to mention the youngest member nodded every time he received the glance from Qiao Yifan!

What are they? Parent and child? No matter what, Qiao Yifan was the older one right?!

But... "This place is nice..." Chang Xian said as he looked around.

"Thanks, we're planning for more renovation as we advance," Ye Xiu said.

Chang Xian smiled, that wasn't what he meant. This place was nice, yes. But it had some feeling of warmth and familiarity... Very suitable for an upstart team.

"Can I come here to play once in a while?" Chang Xian asked.

"Go ahead, Little Fourth, Little Fifth, Yifan, Bun and even Xiuliu could be your play friends as long as you want it," Second Ye smiled.

"Thanks!" Chang Xian then excused himself, he still had some editing to do.

The big update on Glory had happened and the game was swarmed by everyone who want to know about the change. Big Ye already expected it and decided to divide their team.

In his original life, they only have so much to go on ten people dungeon, but now, with so many people, why don't use them? Big Ye had took Fourth Ye, Second Ye, Fifth Ye and Little Ye to form a five people team to go through five-people dungeons. He didn't believe with their efficiency they won't at least snatched three or four first clear records.

Of course, he left Mo Fan with Ye Xiu.

"Oi, oi, aren't your team too overpowered?" Wei Chen had pointed out.

"That's right, if such a skilled Cleric went with skilled players. Won't it be a waste?" An Wenyi said logically. "The ten-players team need Cloudy Autumn Sky more."

"But if you're in this team, you'll learn nothing, Wenyi," Fifth Ye had pointed out.

"You're the same," Fourth Ye said to Fifth Ye.

"Who said Fifth will be playing Cleric?" Second Ye said blandly.

"I won't?" Fifth Ye blanked before he smiled eagerly, "Can I use Battle Mage?"

"No," Second Ye rejected as he went through the pile of alternative account cards before he found what he wanted, "Ah! Paladin, you're using Paladin." Second Ye said pleasantly as he tossed the card to Fifth Ye.

"Oh..." Fifth Ye looked a bit disappointed but rather than only healing, he get to be the MT now. So it wasn't that bad.

"If you guys couldn't bring home at least four first clear, you ought to be ashamed," Ye Xiu said as he looked at the five men group in the game.

"What's 'ashamed' when they're already so shameless?" Wei Chen said dubiously.

"Better than being shameful like you," Fourth Ye answered eloquently.

"Don't worry, trust your family, we'll bring back many materials, our numbers were so many anyways." Big Ye said happily.

They parted in the game.

Wei Chen looked up as Ye Xiu announced his intention in getting the first clear for the twenty players dungeon. The morning had come, naturally the pro players had all woken up and ready to test out the new update, the competition for the dungeon naturally became even more difficult. Not to mention Tyranny had taken one of the ten-players dungeon first clear, it will just be a matter of time that the rest were overtaken by other teams.

"We don't have enough people," Wei Chen said dubiously. "Though, arguably, if we took the other five, we might manage though at a longer duration... I'm not sure we can manage it if another team came along with full twenty pro players..."

"Obviously no," Ye Xiu shook his head. "Big Ye and the others are currently playing and monopolizing the records they had made," Four first clears had been taken and they couldn't manage the rest, they chose to monopolize the record for more materials instead. There only one thing on every guild leader's mind when they saw how the records changed every several dozen minutes, Stop it! Stop doing that! Do you know the more you set the heavier our hearts are?!

"Then?" Wei Chen asked.

"We're gonna collab with Tiny Herb," Ye Xiu dropped.

"Wh-what?!" Chen Guo, playing in her own Internet Cafe, gasped at the revelation.

"Oh, okay!" Tang Rou nodded.

"Tiny Herb...?" Wu Chen was awestruck.

"Yup, since the younger ones are safe and away with Big Ye and Second Ye, it'll be fine," Ye Xiu nodded, satisfied.

"What? What will be fine?" Little Ye looked up from his monotone activity of setting and resetting their records.

"We're going to a twenty-players dungeon," Ye Xiu replied.

"What? That's not fair, I want some change in environment too," Little Ye furrowed his brows.

"We'll go to another one then," Second Ye said.

"We already did all!" Little Ye complained in frustration.

"Not for the third time, come on," Second Ye urged and Little Ye gave up, huffing a bit as he followed Second Ye's lead.

"Paladin is annoying," Fifth Ye grumbled, not even raising his head and missing his Cloudy Autumn Sky already.

Ye Xiu sighed regretfully as Liu Xiaobie took the Blademaster's equipment, "We also had a Blademaster..." Ye Xiu said.

"But he's not here," Wang Jiexi said, not batting an eyelid at the obvious implication.

"He's a bit busy. But he'll definitely be disappointed on me," Ye Xiu said as he secretly glanced at the bored Little Ye.

"He got a new Blade Master's equipment," Qiao Yifan helpfully informed to make Ye Xiu felt better. "He told me," because Qiao Yifan was sitting right beside Little Ye.

"Oh? Their luck is not bad," Ye Xiu approved.

"Who's rolling next?" Wang Jiexi asked, ignoring their little talk.

As they kept going and splitting up their rewards, they finally exited the dungeon.

"Let's keep going," Ye Xiu told Wang Jiexi as he saw the others were still in high spirits.

"You guys won't rest after being awake for a whole night?" Wang Jiexi raised his brows.

"You know we've been awake for the whole night?" Ye Xiu asked.

"The record board is filled with your names!" Wang Jiexi said.

"As expected, it couldn't be hidden from you!" Ye Xiu sighed. "Let's find another twenty-players dungeon," he proposed.

"This time... it might be a bit hard to get first kill and first clear."

"Why?"

"Look at the chatroom," Wang Jiexi declined to answer.

Ye Xiu immediately checked the pro player chat group. Following his method of forming groups, there were all sorts of messages asking people to press 1 to join their group. From the chat record, several twenty player groups had already been formed. They were probably in the middle of dungeons at this point. Everyone here was a pro player. In-game challenges were a walk in the park for them, so the clear speed between them wouldn't be too far off.

Lord Grim: Have all the twenty-players dungeon been taken?

Sobbing Ghost: Yeah.

Lord Grim: Has anyone formed a fifty players group?

Sobbing Ghost: [Coughing blood]

Ghost Firefly: [Coughing blood]

Windy Rain: [Coughing blood]

Peaceful Hermit: [Coughing blood]

Aweto: [Coughing blood]

Life Extinguisher: [Coughing blood]

Troubling Rain: [Coughing blood]

Firebird Messanger: [Coughing blood]

Demon Subduer: [Coughing blood]

One Autumn Leaf: [Coughing blood]

Total Darkness: [Coughing blood]

Boundless Sea: [Coughing blood]

Scene Killer: [Coughing blood]

Doubtful Demon: [Coughing blood]

Bullet Rain: [Coughing blood]

Blossoming Chaos: [Coughing blood]

Cloud Piercer: [Coughing blood]

Ye Xiu didn't let the usual negative feedback discourage him, he casually typed again.

Lord Grim: Fifty players dungeon! We're receiving early bookings. Anyone? Anyone?

No one answered, Ye Xiu felt helpless. He raised his head to look at everyone in the room, especially his future and past selves.

Meanwhile, everyone was silently mocking him in their mind. Come on, twenty players dungeon only needed two teams to work together. But fifty players? They needed five teams! No one was crazy enough to put up with the idea. But what surprised them was, Ye Xiu sent another message.

Lord Grim: I'm serious.

It was only a mere two words, but somehow they could feel the weight of those words weren't light.

They began to doubt this veteran. Was he really serious? Had he lost his mind finally?

Lord Grim: Anyone? Come on. I'm really serious.

Did he come out a bit too desperate? But Ye Xiu truly needed amanych rewards as possible. He had two Myriad Manifestation Umbrellas to be taken care of, Sharpshooter's equipments and weapons, Blade Master. He needed a bit more than he should be satisfied of.

Even if Big Ye and the others had monopolized four first clears in the five-players dungeon, he didn't think it'd be enough. Not to mention, it was really rare for so many pro players to be really active. If one wanted to ask their help, now was the best time.

Just as Ye Xiu felt like it was truly helpless and they probably should call it a day already, an unexpected answer came.

Desert Dust: Where are you?

The sudden new message dropped like a bomb to everyone, they immediately got blown away when they saw the name, clutching their own chests like they had just received a heart attack.

Lord Grim: Really? See, I know I could count on you, Old Han.

Desert Dust: Where, before I'm changing my mind.

Lord Grim: Let's talk in the game!

Lord Grim: Anyone else?

Troubling Rain: Captain Yu said yes. We're coming too, where's the coordinate? Can I book a PKPKPK too while at it?

Lord Grim: Hm, okay, but just once!

Troubling Rain: On our way!

Windy Rain: Fuck me, Senior Ye just essentially sold his body. I'm seeing this shit! Count me in! We're with Blue Rain!

Dark Forest: Captain! We're short on two people, remember?! They just excused themselves!

Windy Rain: Ah, damn...

Lord Grim: No problem! We have five reserves! You can even leave out three of your players.

Ye Xiu knew he had to grab the chance when it presented itself, even if Misty Rain short on people, it'd be a waste to let them off. Moreover, the others didn't seem like they had an intention to join.

Windy Rain: Whooo!

[In her training room, Misty Rain's queen leaned back, "I'm streaming this," she stated. "For the girls' chatroom," she added. Her whole team can only look at her exasperatedly.]

Lord Grim: Alright! The slots are full! Thank you for attention, everyone! I'll inform further informations inside the game. Good day!

Windy Rain: Don't worry, all the juicy things will be told by me.

Ghost Firefly: Sister Chu, you're a blessing to us all.

Windy Rain: I know.

Everyone stared at the conversation going on and passed on in the chatroom with wide disbelieving eyes.

What the fuck? Did they just witnessed how three big teams basically just agreed to ally themselves to another two teams for the sake of Fifty-players dungeon?!

Ye Qiu. Wang Jiexi. Han Wenqing. Huang Shaotian. Yu Wenzhou. Chu Yunxiu.

They're all god-tier players by their own right! Now, those people, with their own legendary characters and their own teams, were gonna allied with each others?!

Were they running a dungeon or holding a fucking All-Star?!

Is this new year already?!

Sobbing Ghost: FUCK ME SIDEWAYS, IS THIS REAL?! I'M NOT FUCKING DREAMING RIGHT NOW, RIGHT?!

Peaceful Hermit: I'M FUCKING ASKING THAT MYSELF RIGHT NOW!

One Autumn Leaf: What the fuck just happened?!

Doubtful Demon: A fucking historical alliance, that's what.

The chatroom exploded into a more heated discussion even without the drama queen Chu Yunxiu to fan the flame.

"You..." Wang Jiexi was speechless as he looked at Lord Grim.

"Hm?" Ye Xiu said.

"You're going for a fifty-players dungeon?" He asked disbelievingly.

"We are. Are you not coming along?" Ye Xiu asked, hiding his anxiousness.

"No, I'll come," Wang Jiexi said. Are you kidding? He got the chance to observe longer with more teams at that, he won't let go of it. "But still, are you really serious?"

"When have I not been serious, Big-Eyed Wang? I always did, the proof is that three championships of mine," Ye Xiu said. He then turned to face Chasing Haze, "Lady Boss, you can rest early, I'll have the other to come. Misty Rain is short on two. Little An, you too, you don't mind, don't you?

"It's okay," An Wenyi understood that Ye Xiu wanted to bring Cloudy Autumn Sky along. "I'll just go training," he finished.

"Oh, okay! I'll rest early then, good luck!" Chen Guo was also very understanding. Moreover, she already had the chance to play with them all night along and also with Tiny Herb in one dungeon. This thing had crossed the boundary of a fan, she already felt so happy with this alone!

"Thank you," Ye Xiu sincerely thanked her and Chasing Haze disappeared with Little Cold Hands being escorted some distance away by Soft Mist who swiftly returned after that.

"Are you all ready? We're going to stock for a bit before going, are you coming along?" Ye Xiu asked to Tiny Herb.

"Yes," Wang Jiexi answered and Vaccaria followed Lord Grim's lead. He still couldn't shake off the feeling that this would be either really, really good, or really, really bad.

Ye Xiu looked up as he took off his headphones and let it dangle around his neck, "Big Ye, come! We're running fifty-players dungeon!" Ye Xiu exclaimed.

Big Ye and Second Ye looked up and gaped at him. They looked at each other and took off their headphones.

"What did you just say?" Big Ye asked pleasantly.

"We're running a fifty-players dungeon," Ye Xiu said confidently.

"What the fuck?!" Wei Chen looked at Ye Xiu as if he was a madman.

"With whom?" Second Ye asked calmly.

"Tiny Herb, Tyranny, Blue Rain, and Misty Rain," Ye Xiu listed off. "I'm taking you guys along, Misty Rain is short on two, I already told Lady Boss Chen to go rest, Little An was also excused to go rest or train because we'll be using Cloudy Autumn Sky. Misty Rain will leave out one person to make space for you guys," Ye Xiu informed.

Silence answered him.

"Excuse me, what the fuck?" Second Ye asked again. "I thought I heard you saying something about fifty-players dungeon and four big teams willing to be allied to us?"

"Yes, basically."

"..."

"..."

"WHAT?!" Big Ye and Second Ye cried out as they looked at each other with wide disbelieving eyes.

"How?!" Big Ye demanded.

"I asked," pretty desperately at that. Ye Xiu felt like he had done some stupid crimes by the way Big Ye and Second Ye looked at him.

"Finally, some environment change!" Little Ye exclaimed happily. "We'll go duo again," Little Ye nudged Qiao Yifan who smiled and nodded.

"Thank God, I've grown sick of Paladin in just one night," Fifth Ye logged out of Sullen Kitten and logged in with Cloudy Autumn Sky.

"The more the merrier," Fourth Ye unconsciously let out his devious smile that could only mean troubles or more troubles.

"I'll give you the coordinate, we're going there ourselves," Ye Xiu stated and went back to play.

Big Ye and Second Ye looked at each other, noticing the bewilderment and disbelief in each other's eyes.

This could either turned out really, really good. Or really, really bad.