Things with rankings and lists always stir up competition, which is why the Christmas event became a battleground for the major guilds to contend. The Spring Festival event, however, didn't have that kind of nature. Players quietly did their tasks, and the system quietly handed out rewards. Players could team up to do quests, but it wasn't mandatory. Even solo players could smoothly complete the entire quest process.

It could be said that the Spring Festival event temporarily turned Glory into a single-player game, where everyone could play their own way without getting in each other's hair. Of course, it was unavoidable to feel envious and jealous when seeing others receive gorgeous rewards. But the event quests were right there. If you were envious, then just do them! That was the profound meaning behind announcing all the rewards in the system, to attract more players to participate!

However, no matter how tempting the event rewards were, the later it got, the fewer people were online. Close to six o'clock, Ye Xiu took one last look at his friends list before logging off. It was a mass of gray, with not a single person online, including the active members of those big guilds.

The three of them then went out to the dinner that Chen Guo had booked, where they had a New Year's Eve dinner. Facing these two guests, Chen Guo suddenly felt like she was in a dream. Before, she never would have imagined that she would have the chance to eat with these two people, let alone a New Year's Eve dinner, and just the three of them at that.

Chen Guo's excitement was naturally very high, but she also knew that Ye Xiu and his brother both had terrible alcohol tolerances. So, although she poured wine for Ye Xiu, it was just for show, and she didn't try to get him to drink much. Ye Xiu spent most of the time drinking random things to get by.

The three of them talked mainly about Glory.

Ye Xiu and Su Mu Cheng, two top-tier professional players, knew countless insider secrets that outsiders couldn't know. Chen Guo felt like her eyes were opened just listening to them gossip.

However, when it came to gossip, the top-tier大神 (*dashen* - expert) Ye Xiu finally lost to Su Mu Cheng. Su Mu Cheng was indeed a girl, and her ability in gossip was even stronger than Ye Xiu's.

That night, no one said anything serious or heavy, and the atmosphere was even more harmonious than during the Spring Festival event. Until the end, both girls were clearly drunk. They repeated the same piece of gossip five times, and they were still laughing so hard they were bending over. Ye Xiu drank very little alcohol and was completely sober. He watched them having fun and didn't stop them, just quietly watching over them.

"Oh, there's no more wine." Su Mu Cheng picked up the wine bottle and shook it for a long time, only shaking out two drops. Then, she held it up to her eyes and looked inside before announcing to everyone, "There's nothing left."

"Then let's go back?" Ye Xiu said.

"Okay!" Su Mu Cheng immediately stood up.

"Hey..." Chen Guo originally wanted to say that they could order more, but when she saw that her idol also wanted to leave, she immediately swallowed back what she was going to say, supported herself on the table, and got up unsteadily.

"Slow down..." When Ye Xiu saw that both girls were unsteady, he didn't know which one to help. As a result, the two girls helped each other up and swayed towards the door. Ye Xiu quickly followed behind, ready to rescue them at any time.

Pay the bill and leave.

It was getting late, and the winter nights were quite cold, but the two girls, who were excited from drinking, didn't notice it at all. They didn't rush to take a taxi after leaving the door, but started walking along the road. All the way they were laughing and joking, and Ye Xiu, who was following behind them, couldn't hear what they were saying.

"Is it far to walk back from here?" Ye Xiu finally heard a sentence that Su Mu Cheng said and broke out in a cold sweat.

"Well, it's quite far. Let's just walk for a while and then take a taxi!" Fortunately, Chen Guo still had some sense.

"Oh oh, then let's walk around." Su Mu Cheng said.

The two girls continued to stride forward, and Ye Xiu didn't try to stop them, just followed closely behind, in case they tripped or something.

Looking at both sides of the road, there were lights in every house, which were much brighter than the stars in the night sky. Suddenly, there was a "bang", and a string of fireworks shot up into the sky from some window. The fireworks exploded, making the stars look even dimmer.

And this string of fireworks seemed to be a signal. One after another, all kinds of strange fireworks were set off from the windows. Then the sound of firecrackers also started, and it was instantly a roaring sound, in which you could vaguely hear the sound of bells. Midnight had finally arrived!!

The two girls were close at hand, and Ye Xiu could see that they were both opening their mouths wide and shouting something, but he couldn't hear anything over the sound of the firecrackers. Even more tragic was that after these various fireworks and firecrackers had exploded, they immediately fell down like raindrops, and Chen Guo's head was the first to be hit.

"Ouch!" Ye Xiu, who was closer, finally heard Chen Guo shout after being hit.

"Run!!" The two girls called out to Ye Xiu, and they had already run out first. But the problem was that along this road, except for a few commercial buildings, the residents rarely didn't set off some fireworks and firecrackers to celebrate at this time. This "rain" was falling all the way down the street, so where could they run to?

The two girls didn't seem to understand this principle. They were running, dodging, and having a great time. Ye Xiu followed behind and watched, and finally understood that these two were simply treating this as a game!

Ye Xiu paid attention to the road, and during this special time, there were very few taxis. Even if he tried to hail a cab, a long time passed without seeing an empty one pass by.

"Tired, tired, let's rest!!" After running for a while, the two girls finally ducked under a bus stop in front of them for cover, and then looked up together at the endless fireworks.

"Look over there, that one's pretty."

"Yeah, yeah, over there!"

The two pointed and continued to laugh unsteadily. Ye Xiu also squeezed over and looked up. The sky was full of colorful fireworks, which were indeed very beautiful. It was just a pity that no matter how beautiful the fireworks were, they wouldn't burn for long, and they all disappeared in an instant.

The three, huddled under the bus stop, watched the fireworks show put together by each household. After the noise and splendor, the silence seemed particularly noticeable. Occasional sporadic sounds of fireworks seemed to highlight the desolation after the gorgeousness.

"It's over..." Su Mu Cheng muttered, looking at the sky.

"It's not over! We still have fireworks at home. Let's go back and set ours off!" Chen Guo said.

"Really!" Su Mu Cheng immediately became interested.

"Hurry up and hail a cab." The two girls' desire to go back became urgent at this moment.

But it wasn't easy to hail a cab, and the three waited for a long time before they finally got one. By the time they got back to the internet cafe, some families who weren't particular about staying up all night were already resting.

But the two excited girls didn't care about that. As soon as they got back to the internet cafe, Chen Guo moved out all kinds of fireworks she had bought yesterday. When Chen Guo bought these fireworks, she just liked the sound of the names and the appearance. She didn't know what they were really like. At this time, she pushed them all out the door, and the two girls lined up to ask Ye Xiu for fire.

They lit two cigarettes, gave one to each girl, and the two girls immediately started playing with the fireworks. One by one, they set them off while making comments. Before, they were the audience, and now they were participating. When there was almost no one else playing, the two still wanted to find the fun of competing for beauty, and they all said that the fireworks they set off were more beautiful than any of the ones that those people had randomly thrown before.

"Not bad, not bad." Ye Xiu said, agreeing, while acting as a lighter. When the cigarettes in the two girls' hands went out, they all ran back to him.

Chen Guo had bought a lot of fireworks, and the two of them set them off for more than half an hour. The two of them were finally satisfied and willing to go back inside to rest for a while.

"What should we do next?" They had had enough fun with the fireworks, but they were obviously still not satisfied.

"We can go to a dungeon..." Ye Xiu suggested.

The two looked at each other, thought about it, and couldn't think of anything else to do for the moment. In the end, they both accepted Ye Xiu's suggestion.

When they went online, there were more names lit up on their friends list than when they had logged off, but Tang Rou was not there.

"Well, it's just the two of us." Ye Xiu said to Su Mu Cheng.

"Then let's just do it with two people!" Su Mu Cheng said indifferently.

"You're not going to fall asleep halfway through, are you?" Ye Xiu suspected. These two girls had been playing a bit crazy, and they might be able to stay excited if they kept doing that, but now that they had calmed down, the alcohol might make them sleepy.

"Then you can do it alone, right?" Su Mu Cheng said.

"Okay, let's go!"

The two of them went into the dungeon together, and Chen Guo only regretted not having this kind of character, so she could only play her own Chasing Haze alone.

Ye Xiu's worries were obviously very reliable. Not long after the game started, Chen Guo, who was playing alone in the Realm of Gods, first felt tired, and soon her eyelids started to droop. She insisted on not going to rest, and finally fell asleep in her chair.

Su Mu Cheng's side was a little better than Chen Guo's because it was a two-person cooperation. But when the dungeon was halfway through, she also started closing her eyes and messing around.

"Hey hey!"

"Hey!"

"Hey hey hey!" Ye Xiu kept reminding her. At this time, Su Mu Cheng was no longer his most tacit partner, but a spy sent by the dungeon Boss, creating trouble for Ye Xiu at all times.

"Go to sleep." Ye Xiu said.

"I'm not sleepy!" Su Mu Cheng struggled, raised her hand and fired a shot to aggro a monster. Ye Xiu directed his character to turn around and run. He hadn't finished clearing the monsters he already had, and now he was aggroing a whole bunch more...

Using all kinds of techniques like carding the terrain, positioning, kiting, and pulling trains (*la huoche* - kiting monsters in a line like a train), Ye Xiu finally managed to get rid of this pile of monsters. When he turned around to persuade Su Mu Cheng to go to sleep again, he found that Su Mu Cheng had already fallen asleep in her chair.