Chapter 61: Legends of the Three Kingdoms

"Are you that... that 'Cover Brother' who's been really popular lately?"

"Cover Brother? For real?"

"Seems like it's true."

A girl immediately leaned in close to the shadows to observe Xu Heng, discovering that he looked very similar to the Cover Brother in the videos.

The girl asked with some excitement: "Is your name Xu Heng? The Heng with the heart radical?"

Cover Brother is currently very popular at Jin Da; after all, he is Jin Da's first internet celebrity. Everyone praises him more than they disparage him, and with Xu Heng looking a bit handsome in the videos, many Jin Da girls have taken Cover Brother as their standard for a partner.

Xu Heng did not deny this, smiling and nodding: "Yes."

"Holy crap!"

"Damn!"

"Fuck!"

"￥@……％*&"

Facts prove that even girls can use foul language; several girls were dumbfounded, one after another blurting out their hometown versions of national profanity.

"Cover Brother, you should have told us your name earlier. Xiao Ning, fold a corner and make room for Cover Brother!" the freckled senior urged.

"Don't rush, let me take a few photos first. I didn't expect Cover Brother to look even better in person than in the videos. Cover Brother, can I take a picture with you?" the girl called Xiao Ning said, pulling out her phone.

"No problem." Xu Heng naturally wouldn't refuse such a small request.

After taking the photos, the remaining few girls also asked to take pictures with Xu Heng one by one. It was true that they loved the two-dimensional, but there was no rule saying one couldn't like three-dimensional handsome guys while liking the two-dimensional.

Watching Xu Heng surrounded by girls from the Anime Club, Cheng Huaiyu felt slightly surprised: "Old Xu is this popular with girls?"

"You bet, Old Xu is 'this' among the girls in our school now." Zhao Gaoyang held up his thumb, made a gesture, and then said, "If you ask me, Cheng Ge, you fancy yourself a ladies' man, but compared to Old Xu, you're still lacking. Our school's Modu identity doesn't work that well!"

"Go, go, go, what do you know? Only little girls who haven't left school would worship someone who can sing. Once they leave school, they'll know the value of money. No matter how impressive Old Xu is, he can only be impressive in this little patch of the school. Once he's out of school, won't he still be working for someone else?"

"Old Xu knows how to compose music. He can write songs for people in the future. Maybe he can even become a big star by composing and singing his own songs."

Cheng Huaiyu was stunned for a moment, then stubbornly argued: "That's still working for someone else. The entertainment industry is deep as hell. You think those big stars aren't working for someone else?"

To this, Zhao Gaoyang did not refute, but instead said with a cheeky grin: "Cheng Ge is right."

Li Xu and Zheng Yang were left confused, not understanding what the two of them were talking about.

While the four were chatting, Xu Heng had already finished dealing with the few girls. Two of them had asked for his QQ number, implicitly expressing their desire for further contact with him.

Xu Heng smiled and gave it to them on the surface, but in reality, whether they could actually add him was another matter, because these girls weren't very pretty. Being able to cosplay counted as a merit, but it couldn't make up for the gap in looks.

Having had Ying Ziyun and Liu Yiyan first, Xu Heng felt that if he were to find a girlfriend, he had to find someone at their level. At the very least, someone like Dan Yuyue would be barely acceptable. These girls with a comprehensive appearance score of fifty or sixty really couldn't catch his eye.

"Old Xu is awesome! Getting a spot as soon as he steps out, worthy of being the face of Dormitory 525." After flattering Cheng Huaiyu, Zhao Gaoyang ran over to flatter Xu Heng.

Recently, his attitude toward Xu Heng had improved significantly, probably because Xu Heng's status had risen after the last class building activity.

Because Xu Heng was now the male god in the hearts of Jin Da girls, Zhao Gaoyang naturally felt that it was impossible for him to fancy Fan Xi, so it would be better to get closer to Xu Heng. Isn't there an old saying: one who stays near vermilion gets stained red, one who stays near ink gets stained black.

Xu Heng is so popular, it wouldn't be too much to ask him to bring his roommates along, right?

"If you have the energy to gossip, you might as well help us find a sunshade," Xu Heng said speechlessly.

"That's easy, I'll get it done for the brothers right away." After saying that, Zhao Gaoyang ran off happily.

After Zhao Gaoyang left, Zheng Yang walked up to Xu Heng to thank him, saying he was grateful for his help, otherwise it would have been really hard for him to be stuck between Cheng Huaiyu and his acquaintances in the Anime Club.

Somehow, Cheng Huaiyu heard this. Cheng Huaiyu was already feeling agitated by the Anime Club matter, and hearing Zheng Yang say this, he immediately snorted: "What do you mean it's hard to be stuck between me and them? You mean I don't know how to handle people? You were being roasted by those girls and standing in the sun like a stinky rack of sun-dried salted fish; didn't I speak up for you?"

"No, Cheng Ge, that's not what I meant."

Zheng Yang hurriedly explained, yet Cheng Huaiyu had a short temper and slammed a stack of registration forms onto the table.

"I'm leaving, you guys handle it slowly. Who do you think you are? There aren't even many people in the Esports Club. If I hadn't paid the Student Union for the club quota last semester, it would have been disbanded long ago. Damn it, like a dog biting Lü Dongbin, failing to recognize a good heart."

"Cheng Ge! Don't go, Cheng Ge!"

It was impossible for Zheng Yang to keep Cheng Huaiyu; after all, Cheng Huaiyu was in a fit of anger at the moment.

Xu Heng didn't even speak up to keep Cheng Huaiyu; he knew this was Cheng Huaiyu's pride acting up.

Cheng Huaiyu had always considered himself the leader of their small group. As a leader, he certainly had to step up to help group members solve difficulties, but today, not only were the difficulties not solved, but he also ended up in a mess. Finally, seeing that both Zheng Yang and Zhao Gaoyang had a tendency to curry favor with Xu Heng, he completely lost his composure.

Where is he, Cheng Huaiyu, a Modu native, inferior to Xu Heng? Just because Xu Heng can sing two songs? Can write 'The Wind Rises'? What bullshit. If he really wanted to show off, his dad's company has a market value of tens of millions; saying that would scare these country bumpkins to death!

Cheng Huaiyu has a typical childish personality, very impulsive, and thinks highly of himself. Usually, if you leave him alone for two days, he'll be fine on his own. Xu Heng knew this clearly, so he didn't stop Cheng Huaiyu when he slammed the forms and left.

Watching Cheng Huaiyu leave, Zheng Yang turned to look at Xu Heng and whispered, "Old Xu, are we still recruiting?"

He didn't have many friends he could get along with at school and was a bit afraid that Cheng Huaiyu would fall out with him over the recruitment matter.

"Recruit, why wouldn't we? Don't worry, don't you know Cheng Ge's temper? It's just a small spat. Once his anger subsides, just treat him to a bottle of Coke and it'll be fine." Xu Heng smiled and patted Zheng Yang on the back.

Zheng Yang nodded and said that was true.

It wasn't like they hadn't had conflicts when playing games in the past, and usually, they didn't hold grudges overnight.

However, after Cheng Huaiyu left, there were only four people left in their club recruitment, which was still eighty percent of the Esports Club's members, looking a bit pathetic.

Zhao Gaoyang didn't know where he found a sunshade. After setting it up, no one came to ask, so the four of them borrowed two decks of cards from the Card Game Club and played Fight the Landlord out of boredom.

While playing, Xu Heng suddenly remembered a very famous card game from later generations.

That card game even had a meme: while other games on the Steam platform compete for positive reviews, its players compete to give it negative reviews on the Steam platform.

Every time a new piece of trash comes out, players go to its page to leave negative reviews, striving to maintain its status as the worst-ranked game.

This card game is called Legends of the Three Kingdoms. According to the timeline, it should have already been designed by a Huachuan student, but it hadn't been bought by Yoka to be developed into a tabletop game with a systematic set of rules.

Xu Heng considered whether he could buy the copyright to this card game. After all, objectively speaking, although Legends of the Three Kingdoms was trash in its later stages, it really made a fortune for Yoka...