But it wasn't a complete loss; she traded her life for Ji Anxi's survival and also secured two kills on the opposing team. Aside from her own less-than-ideal gaming experience, she even came out ahead.
Before he was resurrected, Zhou Huapai began to look at the equipment panel.
She knew Ji Anxi's personality; she wouldn't be satisfied with just one bad experience. Her usual build wouldn't be enough to save her and Ji Anxi, so she had to switch to an unconventional build.
Baozi's chubby figure appeared in the spring. At this time, Ji Anxi had just returned to the spring to replenish her energy and was slowly walking towards the line.
"I'll go ahead of you!" Zhou Huaihuai said worriedly when he saw her small, frail body.
Ji Anxi's pace had indeed slowed down considerably, and Zhou Paihuai had walked ahead of her.
The minion waves from both sides converged in the bottom lane, but no one from the opposing team came out.
This is very abnormal!
Ji Anxi escaped with a sliver of health and naturally needed to go back to replenish her health. However, during the previous battle, the enemy marksman did not dive the tower, so she could have secured a wave of minions.
Now that the minion waves have converged, and neither of us has vision of the enemy, they must be hiding in the bushes.
"Be careful..." Before Zhou could finish speaking, Ji Anxi started unleashing her skills at the bushes.
Alright, Zhou Paihuai resignedly sped up and entered the grass first, even if he died, he would die before Ji Anxi.
The consequence of blindly rushing into the bushes was that both of them ended up back at the fountain, and the bottom lane tower was also lost.
For the rest of the time, the opposing team did nothing but focus on ganking those two. It was as if four out of their five players were permanently stationed in the bottom lane, ignoring the other lanes and sacrificing towers and waves just to kill those two.
Although the two players kept feeding kills, the other teammates were farming comfortably, so no one started arguing, and the atmosphere was very friendly and harmonious.
When the enemy's crystal finally fell, Zhou Paihuai's score was 0-13-7, while Ji Anxi's score was 2-7-2, with one kill secured by the tower...
Although the results were poor and the game experience was bad, Ji Anxi felt quite good as soon as she saw Zhou's 0-13 kill count.
"Are you calmed down?" Zhou asked tentatively, looking at her expression.
Ji Anxi breathed a sigh of relief, nodded, and said, "I didn't expect to win even like this."
"We're playing a suicidal game of two against five, while our three teammates are playing a tower-destroying game. Of course we can win!"
As they talked, the two started another game. Perhaps because she had enjoyed messing with Zhou Peihuai earlier, she actually started playing seriously this time.
One game after another, until they were both so sleepy they could barely keep their eyes open, they finally tossed their phones aside, lay down, and fell asleep.
... ...
The next morning, Ji Anxi was woken up by her alarm clock.
"Awake?" Zhou Paihuai asked when he saw her open her eyes. "Sister Cheng just called. I've also packed your luggage. After breakfast, I'll take you to the airport!"
Ji Anxi looked at the unusually large suitcase with a puzzled expression and asked, "How long am I going to be gone? Why do I need to bring so much stuff?"
"Sister Cheng said she's going to attend a very important event and told me to pack everything for you."
"Then why did you drive me home?" If I remember correctly, I do have an assistant.
"Um, I'm up so early, I shouldn't bother others!" Zhou Huaihuai almost stammered, but managed to smooth things over.
On the way, Ji Anxi still felt something was off, and thought Zhou Huaihuai was unusually proactive today.
I think there's something wrong with you!
"I am an upright and good young man!"
Zhou Huapai's face remained calm, but inside he was extremely panicked. He hoped that at the last moment, the truth would not be revealed and that he could just get on the plane safely!
The preliminary work was kept too secret, so much so that although Ji Anxi felt something was wrong, she couldn't guess what was going on, and Zhou Paihuai even managed to get her into the waiting room ahead of time.
After seeing the person off, Zhou wandered to the car, retrieved his rarely worn clothes, changed in the airport restroom, and then went into the waiting room.
To prepare for this surprise, Zhou Paihuai even changed his seat when buying the plane ticket, just so that the haters wouldn't find out. It was quite a thoughtful move.
... ...
Two hours later, the plane landed in H city.
This event was to be kept relatively private, and Cheng Minxin instructed Ji Anxi to keep a low profile. So, as soon as Ji Anxi got off the plane, she was picked up by Cheng Minxin's people and taken to a hotel.
The person who picked her up handed her a room key and was about to leave when she stopped her: "Sister Cheng said she's going to participate in an activity. What kind of activity is it in the hotel room?"
"I don't know either. My job is to get you here."
Coming to the hotel for an event didn't sound very reliable, but Ji Anxi knew very well that Cheng Minxin wouldn't harm her. In fact, she had already guessed what was going on when things got to this point.
I swiped the room key to open the room, and sure enough, I saw a room full of red roses.
She knew Zhou Huaihuai hadn't forgotten her birthday. Sure enough, he had deliberately avoided the topic for the past few days to make her angry first, so that she would feel even more surprised now.
Ji Anxi really didn't know what to say about this childish behavior, but she had to admit that this trick was very effective and she was in a very good mood now.
But the surprise arrived, but where was Zhou Huaihuai?
According to Zhou Paihuai's original plan, she would arrive at the hotel before Ji Anxi, and the biggest surprise would be her and the flowers.
But as soon as she got off the plane and was about to hail a taxi, she was stopped at the airport by a panicked man.
"What are you doing? Abducting a woman?" Zhou Paihuai seemed relatively calm, mainly because this was an airport with people coming and going, and she didn't think she would be in any danger.
The man said, "Zhou Paihuai, I mean no harm, please save me!"
Huh? Even after all this, he still recognizes me?
Shocked, Zhou looked closely at the man in front of her. He looked somewhat familiar, but she couldn't remember who he was.
It wasn't until she saw the camera hanging around the man's neck that a thought flashed through her mind: "Are you the paparazzi who took pictures of me before?"
The paparazzo was so touched that he felt ashamed for invading someone's private life. He was so moved that he felt a little guilty.
After seeing the person nod, Zhou hesitated and asked her, "What did you mean when you said you'd save me?"
"Someone is trying to kill me!"
Zhou Paihuai was puzzled. Could it be that the rumors circulating outside had now turned out that he had become a policeman after retiring from the entertainment industry? Otherwise, she really couldn't understand why this person would ask her for help.
"What's going on?" Zhou Huaihuai's curiosity was piqued.
"I photographed something I shouldn't have."
Chapter 103 I hope you possess all the good things in the world
"You mean Zhou Chengli is a drug addict?" Zhou Paihuai asked in shock halfway through the conversation, but because it was a serious matter, she automatically muted the last word.
The paparazzo looked distressed and said, "If I hadn't been discovered, I could have deleted the video and pretended nothing happened, and I would have been fine. But unfortunately, Young Master Zhou saw my face."
Not only did they see his face, they even sent people to hunt him down. If none of them were unfamiliar with this place, he might already be a corpse by now.
"Why did you come to H City?" The last time I saw him was in A City. I can understand changing jobs, but there's no reason for him to change cities.
The paparazzi hesitated for a moment, but finally confessed that this time he had followed Zhou to H City.
At the premiere of Ji Anxi's movie, almost all the reporters and paparazzi were busy taking pictures of her, but this person was different because she had dealt with Zhou Paihuai more often, so they recognized her.
Zhou Paihuai didn't even promote her new TV show, but she went to someone else's premiere and pretended to be Ji Anxi's fan. Who would believe that the two of them weren't related?
To get a deeper look into their relationship, the paparazzi staked out the area for a long time and even followed them onto the plane to H City.
After listening to the whole story, Zhou Paihuai asked, "So why did you come to me? You have all the evidence. It's not like you can't expose it. Just hand it over to the police, and they can definitely send Young Master Zhou to jail, right?"
"But the Zhou family is powerful and influential; they will definitely not let me go!"
Zhou Paihuai patted the paparazzi on the shoulder and said, "Young people shouldn't be so dark-hearted. Our country has such a strong anti-drug campaign. Let alone one young master of the Zhou family, even ten young masters of the Zhou family would be in jail!"
"Really?" The paparazzi's eyes seemed to light up. "But Young Master Zhou's men are still watching me. How am I supposed to go to the police station?"
"Isn't the emergency number common knowledge yet?" Zhou looked at him suspiciously. "Anyway, the airport is so big, they won't be able to find you for a while. You have plenty of time."
"But I'm still worried. Do you want to see the video I filmed?"
Zhou Paihuai glanced at the camera he was tightly clutching and said, "You can give the evidence to the police. I have no relation to the Zhou family."
After saying this, Zhou Paihuai left the place.
Judging by the time, the hater should have arrived at the hotel long ago, but I've been wasting so much time here.
... ...
When Zhou arrived at the hotel, travel-worn and exhausted, it was almost 8 p.m., well past dinner time.
It's a good thing she meticulously prepared a romantic candlelight dinner; now it seems more like a moonlight dinner.
It's all that paparazzi's fault! Just thinking about that person made Zhou Paihuai's eyes turn icy cold.
She didn't believe a word of his claim that he had photographed evidence of Zhou Chengli's drug use. According to his story, there simply wasn't time to photograph any evidence. It couldn't be that Zhou Chengli was so audacious as to use drugs on the plane while he was taking pictures everywhere!
While he appeared frightened as he spoke, his gaze was actually fixed on Zhou Paihuai, sizing him up more as a probe than a plea for help...
As Zhou was pondering this, the door was opened from the inside.
"Why don't you come in?" Ji Anxi asked as soon as she opened the door, finding her standing there.
"You've already taken a shower?" Sigh, I wonder if Little Blackie felt any surprise when she came in.
Ji Anxi nodded and said, "Why are you so late?"
Little Black Fan's birthday is coming up soon, and Zhou Paihuai naturally didn't want those trivial matters to affect her, so he said, "It's okay, I'll talk to you later. Have you eaten yet?"
I expected a positive answer, but instead she shook her head: "I was just about to go out and look for you..."
"You haven't eaten anything since you got off the plane?" Zhou Huaihuai felt a pang of sympathy. She had eaten breakfast on the plane and hadn't eaten anything on the plane either. She had been through so much trouble and still hadn't eaten anything.
She hugged Ji Anxi, rested her head on her shoulder, and said, "I'm sorry, I wanted to give you a nice birthday celebration, but I messed things up."
Ji Anxi immediately hugged her back and said, "I'm not hungry, and I really like the gift you gave me!"
A room full of roses might seem tacky to the world, but it was the greatest romance in her heart.
After calming down a bit, Zhou Paihuai said, "I'll take you downstairs to get something to eat."
"good!"
... ...
The hotel was recommended by Cheng Minxin. It had excellent privacy features, so the two of us could go to the restaurant without worrying about being recognized.
Judging from the portion sizes of the dishes Ji Anxi ordered, her statement that she wasn't hungry was definitely just to comfort herself. Indeed, although neither of them had eaten, Zhou Paihuai was truly full from anger, so it was impossible for Ji Anxi not to be hungry.