Chapter 49\u00a0<\/p>\n
Vivian finally returned to the living room and sat down on the sofa, feeling that she had gotten her revenge on Kingston for his teasing when she first came in.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a good mood, she sat there admiring the apartment\u2019s decor and furnishings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The last time she\u2019d been here, she\u2019d been far too nervous to pay attention to any of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Only now did she notice that one entire wall was dedicated to displaying game\u2013related\u00a0<\/p>\n
collectibles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It caught her attention, and Vivian unconsciously stood up and walked over. In a corner, she spotted a figurine of a game skin she herself had once submitted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Back then, the skin design she\u2019d submitted hadn\u2019t been adopted by the official team. Because of some circumstances, she\u2019d missed their follow\u2013up. When they couldn\u2019t get in touch with her, they went with someone else\u2019s design instead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Later, the company still sent her some gifts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thinking back, it felt like it had been about ten years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That was when her mother had divorced Derrick and brought her back to Baymoor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That game had accompanied her through one of the most boring and painful periods of\u00a0<\/p>\n
Vivian\u2019s life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If she wasn\u2019t looking at this figurine, she might have forgotten that she\u2019d ever submitted a design for a game at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Vivian took the figurine out of the cabinet and held it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It had truly been made one\u2013to\u2013one according to her original design. Even some tiny details she still clearly remembered had been faithfully reproduced.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This design perfectly captured the naive, carefree, and over\u2013the\u2013top imagination she\u2019d had at\u00a0<\/p>\n
seventeen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kingston emerged from the walk\u2013in closet after changing, and Vivian immediately held up figurine and asked him excitedly, \u201cHow did you get this?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
the\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kingston glanced at the figurine in her hand and replied casually, \u201cI forgot.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Vivian felt a twinge of disappointment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
X CLOSE\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 49.\u00a0<\/p>\n
273\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kingston looked away, lowering his head to adjust his cuffs. Normally, he could fasten them easily with one hand, but today he fumbled several times.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His eyes turned slightly cold, then, in the next second, a slender hand reached up and neatly\u00a0<\/p>\n
fastened the cuff.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kingston looked up to see a placating smile on Vivian\u2019s face. Then, she naturally helped him\u00a0<\/p>\n
fasten the other cuff as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kingston looked at her without saying anything, nor did he thank her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Vivian fell silent for a moment. She\u2019d intended to smoothly ask him to give her the figurine once he thanked her, but he didn\u2019t thank her at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n
How annoying.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Vivian tilted her head up to look at him and hesitated for a moment before she said, \u201cMr. Howard, could you give this figurine to me?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kingston didn\u2019t respond, seemingly considering it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He didn\u2019t answer, but she didn\u2019t look away, continuing to stare at him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She hadn\u2019t realized this before, but Kingston was actually quite a bit taller than she was.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just as Vivian was about to give up, Kingston finally said in a low voice, \u201cWhy?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Vivian replied, \u201cBecause it\u2019s a memory tied to my youth.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kingston said, \u201cIt\u2019s tied to my youth, too.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d Vivian scratched her head, momentarily at a loss.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She had noticed earlier that the display cabinet was filled with figurines covering almost every champion from the game\u2019s initial release. There were even many pre\u2013rework versions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He must have been a longtime player.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A longtime player whose skills weren\u2019t very good, who was terrible at the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She really had no grounds to ask him to give it up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
More importantly, since the design hadn\u2019t been\/officially adopted, Kingston wouldn\u2019t have been able to get her original draft details directly. The only possibility was that this had been made by the official team and gifted to him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Given his status and how much he spent in\u2013game, it wasn\u2019t strange for the developers to send him a figurine.\u00a0<\/p>\n
X CLOSE\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 49\u00a0<\/p>\n
But still.\u00a0<\/p>\n
3\/3\u00a0<\/p>\n
When they made it, they hadn\u2019t even thought to send one to her, the original designer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The more Vivian thought about it, the angrier she got. She had a frustrated look on her face and gave up on asking Kingston for the figurine.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She\u2019d go take it up with the developers themselves. She wouldn\u2019t let it rest until they gave her a figurine.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 49\u00a0 Vivian finally returned to the living room and sat down on the sofa, feeling that she had gotten […]<\/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-356","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\/356","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=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}