093 The Widow
“Sigh!”
Zhou Chi sat down with a bitter sigh, pressed the power button, and then patted his potbelly, looking up at the ceiling at a 45-degree angle.
“Brother Ren, this time I’m really numb.”
“When are you not numb?”
Qin Ren sat over and took a Yuxi cigarette from his pocket, sticking it in his mouth.
“Go on, what’s the matter? Tell us and make everyone happy.”
“Get lost.”
Smoking was not allowed in the office. Zhou Chi threw the cigarette at Qin Ren’s face.
“I feel like I can’t stay on this planet anymore.”
“It’s not that same old crap about peeing with the boss again, is it…”
“No, this time it’s because of you guys.”
The “you guys” Zhou Chi was referring to were the brothers in the [Fatherly Love, Filial Piety 213] group chat.
“Damn it, wasn’t it the red moon on Saturday? Wasn’t I driving the car for you guys in the group chat? Remember?”
“Ah, ah, I remember.”
Qin Ren thought for a moment.
“That little paper-man movie called Blood Moon Brothel?”
Anyway, Qin Ren hadn’t watched it. He hadn’t watched any movies in a long time, neither 2D nor 3D. On the one hand, he didn’t have the time. On the other, he was highly self-disciplined, conserving his energy for his future wedding night with Cheng Siyun.
…
Admittedly, self-discipline did not equal celibacy. Qin Ren sometimes wondered if he was conserving too much. After marriage, it would just be the two of them. After having a child, there wasn’t much point in saving up too much of that stuff, right?
…
But that was for later. As for Zhou Chi, he had always been unrestrained, taking what he could. So after driving the car on the day of the blood moon, he, as the driver, also tried to get on the car that night, but failed to download the resource because the seed was invalid.
As everyone knows, when it comes to finding resources, boys always maintain a spirit of exploration that grows stronger with each setback and a positive spirit of innovation.
Even though they only watch a little bit, and the release only lasts for a moment, they are always willing to spend a hundred times the energy and time to find resources. Zhou Chi was the same. He immediately copied the Japanese title of the file and searched the web.
Of course, there were also tricks to this, such as removing spaces, clearing some unnecessary numerical subtitles, and deleting things like [Chinese subtitles]. This way, the scope could be expanded to the maximum extent.
And after a patient search, Zhou Chi really did find a small website that had slipped through the net, where he could watch it online.
But the prerequisite was that he had to use a computer to watch it.
Because the mobile version of the page had so many ads that it was impossible to watch normally. Randomly pressing fast forward or pause would bring up several ad pages, things like an adult version of Douyin or a live streaming box.
So Zhou Chi, for the first time in a long while, brought out his laptop, opened the browser, and finally succeeded in his guidance.
However, as the saying goes, man is born to trouble. The day after his guidance, Zhou Chi’s relatives came to visit.
The kind with a child.
As soon as they entered the house, they greeted him sweetly, looking very likable. But not long after, their ape form was revealed, and they wanted to play on Zhou Chi’s computer.
…
“And you gave it to them?”
“What else could I do? My parents both said to give it to them. Sigh! I’ll have to move out and rent a place sooner or later!”
“Don’t say that too soon. When the rent starts to burn you, you’ll know regret.”
Hearing this, Qin Ren could also roughly guess the following plot.
“I’ve already seen the ending. To put it bluntly, the brat exposed your movie-watching, right?”
“It was more than just exposed!”
Zhou Chi covered his big, fat face, unable to bear the memory.
“My damn Bluetooth headphones were turned off at the time, so the laptop automatically connected to the Bluetooth speaker…”
“…”
At that time, Zhou Chi’s parents and relatives were all there. The whole room was suddenly filled with a low “Onē-sama—,” followed by all sorts of indecent sounds, which made Zhou Chi wish he could immediately move to Mars.
…
“But you’re also stupid, Brother Chi.”
While expressing his sympathy, Qin Ren was also amazed at Zhou Chi’s stupidity.
“So you didn’t even close your browser after watching the movie online?”
“Of course I did! I even shut down the computer!”
“Oh, he went through your history?”
Then this brat was very targeted.
Maybe he was the kind who had matured early, had experienced some storms on his own parents’ computer, had already grown up, and that was why he would specifically go through the browser history when playing on a relative’s computer.
But in fact, Zhou Chi was also an experienced old hand. He said that he had two browsers, one of which was always in incognito mode. He had never been caught watching online.
“Damn, you were so careful. Then how did he find that movie you were watching?”
Could it be that children these days are all self-taught in Python?
“Damn it, that’s why I said I lost so unfairly.”
Zhou Chi held his forehead, his expression almost crying.
“My computer is too crappy. The browser process hadn’t ended when I shut it down. So when that brat turned it on, it prompted [Do you want to restore the last crashed page?], and then he clicked [Yes]…”
“…”
So that was it.
If that was the case, then Qin Ren felt that Brother Chi had indeed died a bit unjustly. And after hearing this living example, the face of a certain Sect Master who was currently playing games at home began to appear in his mind…
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Indeed, Qin Ren hadn’t watched any movies in a long time.
But that didn’t mean he had never been a teenager.
He still remembered back in his freshman and sophomore years, when he had just started dating Cheng Siyun, the young Qin Ren had also downloaded many “teaching cases” online. They were all 1v1 solo, mostly with a stocking theme, both anime and live-action, including a few with a beautiful style, with the intention of watching them with Cheng Siyun one day, to learn and at the same time, to subtly hint at his own xp to his girlfriend.
And to this day, many masterpieces were still sealed in Qin Ren’s hard drive.
Although Qin Ren didn’t watch them, he had never been willing to delete them.
It wasn’t that he had a great desire for the movies, but it was due to the influence of his collector’s obsession.
After all, in order to be able to watch them with his girlfriend, many of the resources he had found were particularly precious.
Just to satisfy the condition of 1v1 pure love, he had treated Zhou Chi, who was known as the [Living Resource Library], to many meals. In the end, Zhou Chi had also sifted through a lot of garbage to find gold, and had carefully selected the [Top 10 Little Movies to Watch with a Pure and Innocent Little Girlfriend], and had thoughtfully divided them into two major sections, [Live-Action] and [Anime], just like Bilibili.
The value of such things could be said to be not just the content itself, but also a memory of a youthful time, which was undeniably precious.
So, Qin Ren still had these resources on his computer. After hearing Zhou Chi’s experience, he couldn’t help but think, what if the Yu Ling’er at home also found something she shouldn’t see…
After all, Yu Ling’er had shown a talent for using computers. So as soon as he got home from work, Qin Ren planned to check his computer to confirm if those hidden [New Folders] were safe.
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“I’m back.”
“Qin Ren, Qin Ren~”
After getting home from work in the evening and having his routine affectionate moment with the little Pixiu, Qin Ren, as expected, saw Yu Ling’er sitting at the computer again, not playing a game, but checking the stats of her last match.
“Qin Ren…”
After seeing Qin Ren return, Yu Ling’er finally stood up and came over with some resentment. Her pretty face was full of frustration, looking a bit pitiful.
“Are there any other games…”
“?”
Qin Ren was stunned. She hadn’t even figured out the bot games in League of Legends. Why did she suddenly want to switch games?
“What genre do you want to play, Master Yu?”
“Genre… the genre is… a genre I can win.”
Yu Ling’er’s big eyes looked up at Qin Ren.
“Is there one?”
“…”
No wonder she suddenly wants to switch games. She’s been losing all afternoon and is tilted.
If she had been losing to bots all afternoon, Qin Ren might have been ready to introduce her to Minesweeper or Spider Solitaire. Fortunately, that wasn’t the case. Master Yu had been secretly playing matches. As an otherworldly person who had just been introduced to computers, Qin Ren completely understood her losing all afternoon.
While Yu Yourong was cooking in the kitchen, the two of them sat down on the sofa. Qin Ren comforted Yu Ling’er. Yu Ling’er felt a little better, and she started to talk more, gently pulling on Qin Ren’s shirt and starting to complain aggrievedly.
“Qin Ren, why does my Cassiopeia get question marks from my teammates every time I buy a sword…”
“A sword? What sword did you buy?”
“All of them.”
Yu Ling’er herself used a sword and was not picky.
“Doran’s Blade, Long Sword, Dagger…”
“Master Yu, um… those are for physical attack. Cassiopeia, she’s a magic damage hero…”
…
Whether she fully understood or not, Qin Ren still taught Yu Ling’er some solid knowledge and suggested that she go back to bot games to practice. He had forgotten about the matter of checking his hard drive. It wasn’t until he was lying in bed that the just-showered Pixiu came pattering in from the living room. The moment she burrowed into his arms, she started to ask a strange question.
“Qin Ren, Qin Ren~ What’s a widow?”
“???”
Qin Ren’s face instantly turned green.
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Tilted (破防): Gaming slang, “pòfáng,” literally “defense broken,” meaning to be mentally frustrated or angered to the point of playing poorly.
