Chapter 328 Who are you?

“Didn’t you want me to resign and come to Jiangcheng?”

“You said that this way, we could be together every day, see each other every day…”

A voice on the verge of breaking down, yet tinged with accusation, came from behind.

“Did you do it just because I told you to? Don’t you have any opinions of your own?”

A shrill female voice rang out.

Following a series of footsteps, just as Yao Beiguo hesitated whether to avoid them, the half-open Room door suddenly swung open.

A tall woman with heavy makeup walked out.

The woman glanced indifferently at Yao Beiguo, then pressed the elevator button. The elevator door opened, and the woman stepped inside.

Yao Beiguo looked at the descending elevator, then at the fully open Room door.

After a moment’s thought,

He walked towards the Room door. Since he was already here.

As he entered the Room, a strong smell of alcohol instantly assailed him.

Yao Beiguo frowned slightly, closed the Room door behind him, and walked further inside.

Soon,

He saw a haggard-looking man on the living Room sofa.

The man’s hair was Ran, and he was leaning back on the sofa. Empty beer bottles littered the floor and surrounded him, and the ashtray on the coffee table was overflowing with cigarette butts.

This person was his former partner, Tao Ze.

“Tao Ze!”

Yao Beiguo called out tentatively.

Hearing the call, Tao Ze, whose eyes had been narrowed, slowly opened them and looked up.

“Who are you? Why are you in my house? Oh, are you here to drink with me?”

“I’m Yao Beiguo. I’m not here to drink, I’m here to…”

Yao Beiguo’s words stopped halfway, then he swallowed them back.

He wanted to say he was here to discuss serious matters, but given the other person’s state, what serious matters could they possibly discuss?

“To drink!”

“I knew you were here to drink.”

Tao Ze pointed a finger at Yao Beiguo, then reached down to grope on the floor, making gurgling sounds as he hit the beer bottles.

“Huh, where’s the beer? Gone again?”

Tao Ze fumbled around, then unsteadily got up and walked towards the balcony.

Yao Beiguo followed him uneasily, and when he reached the balcony, he was completely stunned.

Behind the balcony curtains, there were two whole stacks of beer. Each stack looked like four cases, so two stacks meant 8 cases of beer.

Looking at these 8 cases of beer, Yao Beiguo thought to himself.

This Tao Ze wouldn’t actually drink himself to death in this house, would he?

“Come on, drink!”

Tao Ze seemed to want to lift a case, but he couldn’t, so he simply sat on the floor.

He directly took a bottle of beer from a nearby beer case and handed it to Yao Beiguo.

Yao Beiguo instinctively took it and watched as Tao Ze took out another bottle, opened it with his teeth, and took a big gulp.

Just drinking like this?

Without even a single snack to go with it?

“Oh, you can’t open it?”

Tao Ze suddenly realized, then he took Yao Beiguo’s beer, opened it with his mouth again, and returned it to Yao Beiguo.

Yao Beiguo looked at the beer in his hand and sighed.

After thinking for a moment, he sat down opposite Tao Ze and started drinking as well.

Not long after, a bottle of beer was finished.

Yao Beiguo was about to take a break when he saw Tao Ze take out another bottle of beer, open it, and hand it over.

Yao Beiguo reached out to take it, and Tao Ze took a bottle for himself as well.

As the beer slowly went down, Yao Beiguo finally couldn’t suppress his curiosity and slowly opened his mouth to ask.

“Um, what exactly happened with that woman who just left?”

“Her! An outsider, let’s not talk about her.”

Tao Ze waved his hand indifferently, but the expression on his face didn’t show any indifference at all.

But very quickly, he completely broke down.

“I don’t understand why. I clearly did everything she wanted.”

“She said the distance was too far, so I came over. She said…”

“But in the end, why…”

Yao Beiguo listened to Tao Ze’s words and gradually fell silent. He suddenly thought of his first love.

At that time…

A rush of emotions instantly surged into his heart. He looked down at the beer bottle in his hand, then took a fierce gulp.

“Drink…”

“You don’t need to open it for me, I can open it myself.”

After finishing a bottle of beer, Yao Beiguo saw Tao Ze still trying to help him open another beer, so he snatched it away.

“Drink…”

………

The sky gradually brightened.

Sunlight streamed through the window, spilling onto the balcony.

Two figures lay sprawled on the floor, one clutching a beer bottle, the other holding a beer bottle to his mouth, seemingly drinking in his dream.

Time passed bit by bit.

The two of them turned over, then slowly opened their eyes.

Tao Ze blinked, looking at the man lying opposite him, utterly bewildered.

“Who are you?”

Me?

Yao Beiguo froze at the man’s question.

Who am I?

I’m Yao Beiguo, but why am I here? Why am I here?

After a long while,

The two of them, fully dressed, sat on the sofa. The beer bottles that had been scattered on the floor were now cleaned up.

“So, why did you come to find me?”

Tao Ze turned to look at Yao Beiguo.

After a series of recollections and explanations, the two of them finally understood the current situation.

“I came to invite you to be the Vice Manager of a game Club.”

Yao Beiguo sighed. He had come to invite Tao Ze to be the Manager of a game Club.

But he hadn’t expected to end up getting drunk himself.

“Vice Manager of a game Club? Which game Club? Who’s the Manager?”

Tao Ze was startled. He hadn’t expected Yao Beiguo to come and invite him to be the Vice Manager of a Club.

He hadn’t been involved with game Clubs for a long time!

“BL Game Club, it’s a newly established game Club, and I’m the Manager. We used to be partners, and I know your capabilities. Even though you haven’t been involved with game Clubs for a long time, I believe you’ll quickly re-adapt to the work of a game Club.”

Yao Beiguo slowly spoke.

“Me?”

Tao Ze gave a self-deprecating laugh.

“Do you think someone like me can really serve as the Vice Manager of a game Club?”

“I think your abilities are fine, as long as you adjust your mindset. Are you really going to continue like this, degenerating and drinking every day?”

“This isn’t your fault, why are you torturing yourself?”

Yao Beiguo looked seriously at Tao Ze. He understood Tao Ze’s predicament.

Because he had experienced it before, only at that time, no one helped him; he had to get through it on his own.

Tao Ze paused, listening to Yao Beiguo’s words, then turned to look at the beer piled on the balcony.

That’s right!

I didn’t do anything wrong, why should I torture myself?

Since she thinks I’m not doing well, then I’ll just do even better, better than before.

And this opportunity with the game Club, isn’t it exactly his chance?

Should he refuse this opportunity and continue to wallow in despair?

Tao Ze slowly fell into contemplation. He had been in a slump for many days, and it was time to get out of it.

Yao Beiguo waited quietly by his side. He knew this matter wouldn’t be figured out in a short time.

After a while!

Tao Ze took a deep breath, looked at Yao Beiguo, his expression serious.

“Since that’s the case, then let’s partner up again. I hope the outcome of this Club isn’t like the last one.”

Staying in a rented Room forever isn’t a solution.

He needed to prove himself, and at the same time, he needed to numb himself through work.

“Then, happy cooperation!”

Yao Beiguo smiled slightly.

“Happy cooperation!”

Tao Ze also smiled.

“However, could you first tell me about the Club’s situation?”

“Mm!”

Yao Beiguo nodded, then recounted all of Director Chen’s requirements.

“The difficulty with this Club is with those retired professional players; there might be an issue of insufficient strength. It will probably be very difficult to achieve a good ranking in the competition.”

“That’s true!”

Tao Ze slowly nodded. He understood Yao Beiguo’s statement.

And it was a very difficult problem to solve.

Just like that, both of them fell into thought, and the Room fell silent for a moment.

“There are some ways, but they are a bit opportunistic.”

Tao Ze slowly said.