Chapter 17\u00a0<\/p>\n
When his teammates voted to surrender, Kingston didn\u2019t even respond.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For a brief moment, the room was silent.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After rejecting the surrender, he glanced at Vivian standing at the door. His voice was low and\u00a0<\/p>\n
serious. \u201cCome in.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kingston walked further into the room, still gripping his phone as if he couldn\u2019t bear to put it down. Settling onto the couch, his face tense and shadowed with frustration, as if he had just lost a major deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His character respawned, and he charged forward again with renewed confidence. But within seconds, the screen dimmed again.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This time, the enemy pushed straight to their base tower. Instead of finishing the match, they lingered outside, spamming recall and taunting him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kingston\u2019s irritation was plain to see. Another team wipe followed, and each death added to his growing frustration.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Vivian glanced away awkwardly. But when his character respawned again, she couldn\u2019t resist watching, quietly criticizing him. His awareness was decent, but his execution left much to be desired.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The enemy continued to taunt, deliberately stalling instead of ending the game. Watching it unfold, her patience thinned.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After yet another death, Kingston looked up sharply. His gaze collided with Vivian\u2019s, full of exasperation and something like silent reproach.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She blinked at him. After a moment\u2019s hesitation, she finally spoke up. \u201cWant me to give it a try?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re good at this?\u201d he asked.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Vivian pressed her lips together. Years ago, she had been obsessed with this game, climbing the regional ranks with multiple heroes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But Logan had never been a fan of gaming, dismissing it as a waste of time. Under his\u00a0<\/p>\n
influence, she had gradually stopped.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Judging by the enemy team\u2019s mistakes, she guessed Kingston\u2019s rank wasn\u2019t particularly high. Even after a long hiatus, a match like this didn\u2019t intimidate her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fun Merge fo\u00a0<\/p>\n
E\u00a0<\/p>\n
Harbor\u00a0<\/p>\n
Relaxing\u00a0<\/p>\n
FREE\u00a0<\/p>\n
Play now\u00a0<\/p>\n
X CLOSE\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 17\u00a0<\/p>\n
212\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got this,\u201d she said confidently.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kingston handed her the phone, looking skeptical.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Vivian\u2019s hands wrapped around it just as his character respawned near the fountain. Her fingers moved over the screen with practiced precision. The character barely left the spawn point before the enemy destroyed their nexus.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She stared at the bold \u201cDefeat\u201d that flashed across the screen and tugged the corner of her mouth into a small smirk. All that effort and no battlefield to show for it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kingston said nothing, just watched from the couch, unreadable as ever.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Vivian looked\u00a0<\/p>\n
After a few seconds of silence, she tried to defend herself. \u201cThis isn\u2019t my fault.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kingston nodded slightly, his tone flat. \u201cRight. Even if the game ended while you were in control, it\u2019s not your fault.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
She was rendered speechless. His words didn\u2019t sound like an accusation, yet each one landed like a quiet rebuke, leaving her face burning with humiliation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 17\u00a0 When his teammates voted to surrender, Kingston didn\u2019t even respond.\u00a0 For a brief moment, the room was silent.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-cancel-the-engagement-and-level-way-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}