Chapter 15: Appearance Has Nothing to Do with Weight

After Qin Tian arrived at Shidai Internet Cafe, he discovered that Xu Hao and Zhang Peng were still there.

The two were already sitting together, playing a game while sabotaging each other, muttering complaints about how trash the other was.

"You two didn't play from yesterday until now, did you?"

Walking behind the two, Qin Tian spoke up.

The two turned their heads to look at him, both of their faces lighting up with joy.

"Brother Tian, you're here! Quick, quick, sit down and play with us. This grandson Zhang Peng is such a drag; we've already lost five games in a row."

"Get lost, will you? You have the nerve to say that? If you had even one-tenth of Brother Tian's Blind Monk skill, would we have lost so miserably? You should have just picked Garen for the jungle!"

"Damn, what kind of jungle Garen is that? My Blind Monk is my signature hero, okay!"

"Heh!"

The two bickered unconvinced, spit almost flying onto each other's faces.

It seemed that a night of gaming had already made the two quite close.

Qin Tian couldn't help but chuckle; he sat down in the empty seat next to Xu Hao and said, "Log into yesterday's account; I'll get you to a thousand points."

"You got it!"

Xu Hao grinned and nodded, controlling his Blind Monk to help Zhang Peng's Stone Man gank the opponent.

As a result, the opposing Sword Fiora used the defensive tower to successfully execute both of them, escaping with a sliver of health.

"Damn, Zhang Peng, do you even know how to play? You should have used your ultimate on him first!"

"They had Flash, what was I supposed to do if they dodged it?"

"Then did your ultimate even land?"

"Get lost, you have the nerve to talk to me? What was that stinking kick of yours, sending them right under the enemy tower?"

"That was a mistake; I was trying to kick them back."

"Heh, how many times have you made that 'mistake'?"

"Damn, stop the nonsense, just vote to surrender."

"I'll vote, only an idiot wouldn't."

The two cursed and swore, directly initiating a surrender.

Their teammates had long since had their mentalities shattered by these two, turning into "canyon pianists" and frantically typing to greet the two.

Four votes passed, the game ended.

Qin Tian watched this scene with a speechless expression.

"Not playing anymore, not playing anymore. I'm going to learn some techniques from Brother Tian; you can go play in the mud by yourself!"

Xu Hao waved his hand and said.

"Great, I'll rank up solo, easy peasy."

Zhang Peng said, immediately starting the queue for the next game.

After Qin Tian opened the computer, he let Xu Hao log into his game account.

"Brother Tian, after you left yesterday, a few more people paid their deposits. I wrote them all down, and the money is all here."

Xu Hao pulled a stack of hundred-yuan bills from his pocket and handed them to Qin Tian.

"This much?"

Qin Tian took it with a surprised look.

Judging by the feel of it, there had to be three or four thousand yuan.

"There are even more players who stay overnight. I edited the recordings of those games you played and made a highlight reel to show them, and quite a few people paid on the spot."

Xu Hao explained with a smile.

"Impressive!"

Qin Tian offered a bit of flattery, counted out twenty bills, handed them to him, and said, "Senior, take this money back. I'll just consider your account a freebie."

Xu Hao was stunned for a moment, then said with displeasure, "Master, are you insulting me?"

"Not at all. I collected so much without doing anything; it's all your hard work. If you don't take this, I'll feel really bad."

Qin Tian said with a serious expression.

"This was my own choice. You're my master, okay? I don't want it, I don't want it. You hurry up and take the money back."

"Enough nonsense, I'm entering the game."

Qin Tian didn't say another word and placed the money directly on the table in front of him.

"This guy..."

Xu Hao scratched his head in distress.

"Just keep it. I'll still need your help in the future, and I have something I want to collaborate with you on."

Qin Tian said with a smile while selecting the hero Blind Monk.

He had originally intended to observe for a few more days, but what happened just now made him change his mind.

He hadn't asked Xu Hao to make any video highlights, yet Xu Hao did it anyway, and gave him every cent of the money without holding anything back.

This person was worth getting to know better.

"What is it?"

Xu Hao's eyes lit up, and he asked hurriedly.

Qin Tian adjusted his runes and talents, turned his head to look at him, and asked with a smile, "It's about this boosting business. I think now is the perfect time. Are you interested in collaborating and pulling off something big?"

"What do you mean? How?"

Xu Hao was instantly energized, asking with great excitement.

"The two of us together, open a Taobao boosting shop. We'll use those video highlights you made as a gimmick for advertising, and then recruit some skilled random players as boosters. I'll also play when I have time."

"How about this, I'll use this account of yours to see if I can reach first place on the Ladder Ranking, and then we can change the name to promote it."

"What do you think?"

Qin Tian stated his idea concisely and clearly.

Xu Hao's eyes grew brighter and brighter as he listened.

Since graduating from high school, he had been idling away his time.

His family was certainly not short on money, and the old man had always wanted to take him along to do business.

But Xu Hao had absolutely no interest in selling electric scooters or anything of the sort.

He had also thought about doing something himself to make the old man, who had always looked down on him, see him in a new light, but he struggled because he could never find the right path.

Now, this proposal from Qin Tian pointed him directly toward a path.

"That works, Master, I think it has a lot of potential."

Xu Hao nodded in agreement with an excited expression.

He was very interested in the business of game power-leveling.

Plus, with a super expert like Qin Tian holding down the fort, he was very confident.

"Then it's settled. Look it up online to see how much it costs; we'll each pay half, and we'll split the income fifty-fifty."

"No, no."

Xu Hao immediately objected and said solemnly, "Master, there are quite a few power-leveling shops online now. Without a great expert like you, it would definitely be hard to get it off the ground. It wouldn't be right for me to take half. Let's do seventy-thirty; you get seventy, I get thirty."

"Senior, you know I'm still in school and don't have much time. You'll have to manage all the trivial matters of the shop while I'll just be an absentee owner; I wouldn't feel right taking too much. How about sixty-forty!"

Qin Tian thought for a moment and felt it was necessary to hold the controlling interest.

Although it was just a small, insignificant business, it was better to be safe.

"Master..."

"Don't say anything more, that's how it's decided."

Qin Tian didn't give him a chance to say anything else and made the final decision.

Opening this power-leveling shop was only to accumulate his first pot of gold.

As someone who had been reborn, there were plenty of ways to make money.

There was no need to be too stingy about this, and there was indeed very little he could do himself.

"Alright then, I'll look into how to open this shop right now."

Xu Hao nodded in agreement and, acting immediately on his words, opened his browser to start searching on Baidu for the process of opening a shop.

As for Qin Tian, he had already entered the game.

After interlacing his fingers and stretching, he began his journey of slaughter in the canyon once again.

After being strengthened by the Physique Potion, his neural reaction speed even exceeded that of some professional players.

Combined with some strategies and techniques that hadn't appeared in this game yet, playing was even more relaxed and effortless than yesterday.

Before twenty minutes had passed, the opposing side had already given up resistance and typed in the all-chat channel for them to push mid.

The chat area was full of messages from teammates on both sides wanting to add Qin Tian as a friend and ride his coattails.

"Qin Tian."

As he exited the game's result page, a soft and pleasant voice reached him.

Qin Tian looked in the direction of the voice.

He saw Xia Nuannuan, dressed in a sky-blue dress and carrying a small bag, walking quickly toward him with a sweet smile.

She looked much more cheerful and lively than before.

On her cute, chubby face hung a pair of shallow dimples, and her eyebrows were curved like crescent moons.

Seeing Xia Nuannuan now, Qin Tian finally understood that the saying "looks have nothing to do with being fat or thin" made sense.