The Old Age Love Chapter 7

After moving to Longting No. 1, Emily slept very soundly in her new home. On Monday morning, after waking up, she wrapped herself in the quilt and stayed in bed for another five minutes.

Emily's original rental house was east-west oriented and the sun could not be seen in the morning. This feeling of waking up in the soft and warm morning light is something she hasn't felt for a long time.

So comfortable!

After getting up, she washed and made coffee leisurely, then sat on the terrace eating an avocado salad and a pancake, exclaiming - it was too big.

Her legs were sore from walking from the bedroom to the kitchen, and from the cloakroom to the living room.

Hee hee hee.

Emily closed her eyes and felt the comfort of the sunshine. It was too ideal. She wouldn’t even dare to dream such big things in her daydreams. It was truly an ideal life for a salted fish.

When I went out to take the elevator, I met a female owner of the building who was leaving.
 
The other person was wearing a white high-end suit, eight-centimeter high heels, well-maintained and delicately made-up, with a rare leather platinum bag on her arm. When she spoke on the phone, her voice was crisp and clear, and I thought she was a senior executive of a large company.

Neighbors in cities have a distant relationship, and people may not have seen their neighbors for a year. When the elevator door opened, Emily politely let the female owner go first. She nodded at her and asked, "Do you live here too? I don't think I've seen you before."

"I just moved here not long ago."

After Emily answered, she saw a barely perceptible hint of disdain in the other person's shrewd eyes.

It was not until she walked out of the community that she came to her senses.

A young girl in her early twenties, with good looks, lives in a luxury apartment worth over 100 million yuan. Moreover, Longting No. 1 is not something that can be bought just by having money. What does this show?

What else could that mean? The middle-aged woman treated her like a canary being kept by someone else.

Emily didn't take the stranger's attitude to heart. If you care about everything every day, you will live a very tiring life.

On this day, Emily and her colleagues worked overtime, and the moon was already high in the sky when they walked out of the TV station building.

The bright blue Maserati stopped by the roadside, and the window slowly lowered, revealing Ethan sitting in the driver's seat.

He took off his coat, revealing a colorful shirt, and said loudly: "Xiao Fang, aren't you driving? It's so late, I'll take you there."

Emily looked indifferent, quickened her pace, and refused: "Thank you, Director Ouyang, no need to bother, I'm close."

Tie Niu followed at a snail's pace that insulted the car's performance, "You live in Jiaheyuan, and it takes half an hour to take the subway. I don't charge you."

"Director Ouyang, I have already moved. Also, please leave quickly, this is really blocking traffic."

The TV station is located in the center of Haicheng CBD. At this time, the traffic volume is still huge. Car horns from behind are honking one after another. Drivers whose roads are blocked are giving middle fingers out of the windows and swearing in Chinese to greet Tie Niu's mother.

Ethan opened the car window and yelled at the person behind him: "Are you in a hurry to reincarnate?"

Turning around again, Emily turned into an alley at the intersection ahead where motor vehicles could only go straight, and Ethan hit the steering wheel hard.

The phone rang, Ethan picked up the phone after checking the caller ID, "Yeah, ok, I'll be right there."

Ethan's friends asked him to play cards because they were short of one person. He parked his car in the underground parking lot and took the elevator to the first floor. The metal door opened and Ethan saw a girl holding two large express boxes. Her face was blocked by the boxes, and the skirt that flashed by was almost exactly the same as what Emily was wearing today.

But the next second, Ethan rejected this idea.

impossible.

An ordinary office worker who has just been employed for a year cannot afford one square meter of Longting No. 1 even if he does not eat or drink for two years. Moreover, the houses here are all large flats, starting from at least 300 square meters.

Not to mention Emily, even he can't afford it.

Emily sat at home opening a package.

She searched the Internet for a lot of information about professional injuries in e-sports.

E-sports is a job for young people, it is easy to pick up but hard to put down.

How many people, limited by their talent, have remained unknown for ten years, and are still fighting for the chance to become a starting player in their team until the day before they retire. And the small group of people at the top of the pyramid, who have won victories and enjoyed glory, have to give up their positions. Are they willing to accept this?

The reasons for professional players' retirement are nothing more than age and injuries. The new wave is beaten to death on the beach by the old wave.

When the captain of the veteran powerhouse team QM, Stone, retired last year, he said to the camera with regret: "I really want to not care about my hand injury and play a game to my heart's content."

It is a tradition in the e-sports circle to praise when they win and criticize when they lose. No one cares how many games Stone has won in his many years of service. All people see is that Stone's condition has declined and he is unable to complete the team's skills and tactics in the most efficient way. Many of those who criticize Stone for being a team slacker were once his fans.

Reality is so cruel.

Caleb has not yet announced whether he will retire. Every time Olivia mentions this, she can only sigh helplessly.

Emily knew she couldn't help much, so she could only spend money like crazy online. Thinking that Caleb had a hidden illness besides his hand injury, she not only placed an order for a massager that was highly praised by the merchant, but also bought health products that were praised by customers for being good for men.

The positive reviews are all as high as 100%.

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The TV station has several restaurants, in addition to stir-fry, there are also buffets and Western food. Emily and Ava just received their salary, so they decided to treat themselves better and go to the buffet. At the entrance of the restaurant, they ran into Hannah and Ethan, who looked like conjoined twins. Hannah didn't know why, but she followed Emily and the others with a plate in her hand to choose dishes.

The roasted lamb legs in the buffet restaurant are made from Hailar lamb. The meat is of particularly good quality, with rich fat as white as snowflakes. When you take a bite, it is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and it is so delicious.

Ava felt like his mouth was watering. "Today my main focus is on lamb legs. They are so delicious."

Emily also picked up several pieces.

At this time, Hannah's voice floated into my ears, "I don't eat lamb legs, they are too fat. I want to be on camera, and I won't look good if I get fat."

Tie Niu glanced at the back of Emily's head and said, "I think she's pretty good. A woman should have all the necessary qualities. I'm not interested in a skinny one."

"Oh, why do you say that? It's disgusting!"

"I'm complimenting you."

yue!

Emily was so horny that she wanted to throw the person behind her into the pot. Hannah was indeed amazing, she could even act coquettishly to the man below her.

She quickly picked out several pieces of corn, sweet potato and pumpkin to get rid of the greasiness.

After sitting down, Ava hummed in a low voice: "She was selected for the anniversary promotional video. She really has a double harvest in love and career."

October is the TV station's anniversary celebration, and the station is selecting handsome men and beautiful women to shoot a promotional video. Ava is tall and pretty, and she might have had a place, but was later replaced by Hannah.

Knowing that Ava was upset, Emily picked up the roasted lamb leg and stuffed it into her mouth, "Baby, some things are arranged by God."
 
Ava was very disappointed. "You are so cute and have strong business skills. Why don't you try your best?"

Emily is very self-aware. "They want long-legged beauties who are over 1.7 meters tall. If I squeeze in, I will be stuck in wherever I stand, which is ugly."

Emily is good in every way except that she is short. With shoes on, she is barely 1.6 meters tall.

Ava ate the meat in big mouthfuls. "Forget it, no more talking. Let's eat!"

After eating for a while, she asked curiously, "How much household allowance did Ken give you?"

"One hundred thousand a month."

Ava let out an exaggerated "wow", then manually pulled his surprised mouth back to its original position, and calmly counted on his fingers one by one, "My Ken God has been in service for so many years, and he has so many endorsements, and these household expenses are nothing to him."

Emily nodded, "Well, it's really nice to not have to be so frugal to maintain daily expenses."

Ava sighed: "Very good? Just very good? Sister, do you know how hard it is to sleep with Ken God? How many female commentators, female hosts, female celebrities, and rich female fans have confessed their love to him? I used up all my strength to suppress it and announce to the world that my sister can sleep with Ken God openly!"

Emily: "......"

When chatting with Caleb in the evening, Emily's ears still felt a little burning.

Since there is a cat at home, Emily reinstalled locks on all the windows of the new house and then began to measure the size of the terrace. It would be a waste to leave such a large place empty.

She asked Caleb what his plans were, but he replied half an hour later with two words "whatever". In that case, Emily stopped asking and followed her own ideas.

Emily plans to pick out a new mattress.

She and Caleb were in an arranged marriage without any emotional foundation. After moving, she had been sleeping in the guest bedroom. The guest bedroom was quite large. Emily was most satisfied with the small built-in refrigerator on the wall of the bathroom, which could be used to store facial masks, drinks, and ice cream. It was so comfortable to take a bath. But she felt that the mattress was a little hard.

For salted fish, half of their lives are spent in bed. The bed, mattress, pillow, quilt and bedding must be of good quality.

She has money!

When Caleb heard that his arranged wife wanted to plant flowers and vegetables on the balcony overlooking the river and looking out over the sea, he said he didn't mind.

[The object of my arrangement: The decoration of my house is done randomly, I don’t have time to take care of it. If you don’t like it, you can knock it down and redecorate it according to your preferences.]

The decoration of Longting No. 1 is masculine in style, and the materials used are almost all at the ceiling level in the industry, all of which are real gold and silver.

How much would it cost to tear it down and rebuild it?

Emily quickly replied: [No need]

Caleb has always been generous with money: [You can make up for whatever you need with the money I transferred to you. If it’s not enough, I won’t talk about it.]

Emily: [Um, there is one more thing. Mom asked when we will have the wedding? ]

[The person to be arranged: What do you want to do? ]

Caleb was recovering from surgery, and his cousin registered his marriage on his behalf. Girls are sensitive and pay much attention to rituals, especially in such a major event in their lives as marriage.

I understand.

Caleb has the largest fan base in the gaming industry, including girlfriend fans, mother fans, technical fans, and appearance fans... but he has never had the so-called idol burden. Getting married is his private matter, and if Emily wants it to be public, then it can be public.

"It's like this. Although we got the marriage certificate, we didn't have the time to get to know each other. To be honest, maybe one day in the future we will break up because of personality differences. It doesn't matter to me whether we have a wedding or not. You are the center of attention and have so many fans. It's not good."

Emily really thought so.

One room for two people and three meals a day, four seasons a day, no need to decorate, no need to prepare for a complicated wedding, and no need to lose weight for the wedding, that is her ideal marriage.

Hearing Emily's rational and considerate words, Caleb felt inexplicably unhappy.

not much.

A little bit.

Caleb was too lazy to type, so he clicked on the voice message.

"I'm not a starter this season, but it's hard to go home. Would you... get bored by yourself?"

Emily: "............"

! ! !

As a voice actor, Emily is more sensitive to the human voice. She heard Cheng Guokan's voice in the interview video, which was low-pitched, lazy, warm and s3xy.

In the previous voice chat, Caleb's voice was purer and clearer, reminding people of a young man in a white shirt shining in the sun.

Real and poignant.

Emily put her ear close to the phone receiver and listened over and over again, simply intoxicated by the pleasant sound.

Caleb waited for a long time without getting a reply. He made a surprised sound and a voice call came in.

Emily answered the call blankly.

"I'm Caleb."

Emily felt like her eardrums were being massaged, feeling tingling and numb.

She stammered, "Hello."

"Will you be bored at home alone?"

Emily took a deep breath quietly and said calmly: "No."

She feels so good living alone in a big house.

But that's not the case.

"I am very good at killing time. I watch TV series and variety shows, grow vegetables and flowers, daydream and sleep. The day goes by very quickly... Of course, I will cheer for NSD and follow every game."

Totally expected.

Emily is the kind of person who can live a leisurely life even if she stays at home alone.

Only the last sentence seems fake.

Caleb looked through Emily's circle of friends and found no post about games.

Hearing a small yawn from the other side, he asked, "Are you going to bed, so early?"

It’s not even ten o’clock yet.

Emily's eyes were already filled with tears. "I need to sleep at least ten hours a day."

"Ten hours?"

Caleb, who had never slept for more than ten hours since elementary school, found this incredible.

"Yeah, because I'm lazy."

For e-sports players, touch is very important. For the past eight years, Caleb, who has trained for 15 hours a day to lay a solid foundation, never heard anyone talk about "laziness" so openly and as if it were a matter of course.
 
Strangely, he didn't think it was a derogatory term.

"How tall are you? If you sleep like this, you should be taller than the average girl in China."

This sentence was definitely in Emily's minefield. She was offended, wrinkled her nose, snorted slightly, and said guiltily: "Of course."

A low laugh came from the other side.

The laughter was light, like the morning mist that gradually dissipated with the sunshine.