After the sweetness of the past two episodes, I’m proud to declare that I’m mostly dead from sugar overdose.

But heeyyyy, mostly dead is still slightly alive. Right?

Here goes another suicide round.

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1. Don’t try this at school.

She’s supposed to study but where does Nai bring her? His brand-new office. Of course, what guy doesn’t want to brag to his girlfriend that he has a promising job after college, a cavernous office, and enough money to feed and clothe her and their 4 kids (Whoops. One-child policy remember, packmule3!) in their happily-ever-after future?

This reminds me of the moment in Pride and Prejudice when Lizzie Bennet saw Pemberley, Mr. Darcy’s country estate.

But if she’s too distracted to study, then so is he.

He’s supposed to work but the first thing he does is to call her over to show his character designs for the game he’s designing.

He lets her fiddle around with his computer while he got them both something to drink. He smiles at her looking so absorbed with the character designs.

She declares that she likes the game.

XN: But you’ve only seen the characters.
WW: I know. But characters can tell you a lot about a game. In order to attract more male players, the majority of online games use female characters with extremely sexy costumes. Some of them are unbearably revealing. The reason I chose Heroine in Red was because of her skills as well as the fact that her costume was the least revealing. But your game is different. All of your female characters are dressed properly. That means the game developer is fully confident in his game and has lots of respect for the game. That’s why he doesn’t need to use cheap gimmicks to sell it.
XN: Thanks for the compliment. The work is my pleasure.
WW: (thinking) He seems to be in a good mood. Maybe he’s flattered by my compliment.

Who wouldn’t be flattered? She told he had integrity.

But hmmm…I wonder whether Weiwei thinks her boyfriend Nai doesn’t want to see her in sexy clothes. That would be hysterical because Nai is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

She asks for a trial login for the test game.

XN: Well…It will depend on our affection level at the time.

This is another OMG moment.

WW: (thinking) What did he just say? I can’t believe how strict he is. No, the cat cannot have my tongue.

lol. She knows she needs to counter that. She can’t always have him get the upper hand in a conversation.

WW: So how will you measure our affection level, then?
XN: I’ll develop a model for calculating it.

She’s once again dumbfounded so she simply changes topic and starts talking about the video sales.

Ugghhh. Darn it! I hate it when my “Team Girl” loses in comebacks.

She could have said, “Ha! You’re going to be stuck in a loop. Logic: While (girlfriend = Weiwei, say “yes dear”).”
Or joked, “Save yourself the trouble. Whatever algorithms you’re going to develop, the right answer is always You + Me.”
Or proposed, “I may not know how to level up in your new math, but I do know how to ignite our chemistry.”

2. Wedding gifts

Since Nai already knew Feng Teng and he was the one to set up the video, Weiwei suggests that he deals with them too with the sale of their video. They can also refuse Feng Teng’s offer if case Nai’s deal with them doesn’t work out. But Nai urges her not to worry; she can sign the contract herself.

WW: Okay, then I’ll sign it. The five of us can share the copyright earnings.
XN: You don’t have to share with Old Man Yu and the other guys.
WW: But they’re a part of it, too.
XN: Consider it their gift for meeting you for the first time. Just keep it to yourself.

To herself, Weiwei says, “I was going to ask him about his shares, too. Just forget it. What if he says consider to be our wedding gift?”

hahaha. She’s beginning to understand his dark sense of humor.

If you want to know what grooms are supposed to give the bride and her family, here’s an excerpt from Bride and Breakfast 

Giving and Acceptance of Betrothal Gifts

About two to three months before the actual wedding, the groom will go to the bride’s home to present the betrothal gifts. This betrothal ceremony serves as the groom’s formal proposal to the bride’s parents. The gifts that the groom presents to the bride and her parents symbolize prosperity and good fortune. Alongside the gifts, the groom also gives the bride price, a payment by the groom and his family to the bride’s parents that is handed in a red envelope. Upon receiving the gifts, the bride’s parents formally accept the proposal and agree to leave their daughter in the groom’s care. During this ceremony, the bride’s parents also bestow a dowry to the bride which means that she is given property from her parents to start her new life as a married woman. Finally, the bride’s family give “return gifts”, a gesture that says they wish to maintain a good relationship with the groom’s family.

Gifts of the Groom

• Laisee (it’s the red envelope) with betrothal gift money
• 2 pairs of Double Happiness candles (2 dragon, 2 phoenix)
• Roast Pork (Gift for Mother-In-law)
• Hard liquor or red/white wine (Gift for Father-in-Law)
• Traditional wedding cakes (For bride’s family to distribute to relatives)
• 4, 6 or 8 kinds of dried seafoods
• Fruits
• Jewelry (Gift for the Bride)

source: https://brideandbreakfast.hk/2017/03/16/7-chinese-wedding-traditions-every-couple-should-be-aware-of/

3. Captain seat

As he leaves her at his desk and returns to her chair, she realizes that she’s usurped his spot. She startles when she touches his mouse (lol. Sounds lewd, right?)

and his armchair rest (lol. Looks like a phallic object to me, too).

Kidding aside, I don’t understand the big deal. Weiwei’s reaction reminded me of Victorian times when young ladies weren’t supposed to touch something that had been heated by a man’s body because they would get pregnant. lol.

4. He’s thirsty. Super thirsty.

lol. Either that or he’s trying to make her notice the couple mugs that he got from them.

He probably took a sip 8 times.

One, after he evinced surprise that she liked the game after seeing only the character designed

Two, as she was explaining why she picked the Heroine in Red

Three, he said thank you for her compliment and took a sip

She thought he was in a good mood because she flattered him but it would be funny if he was smiling at her because of HER excitement and enthusiasm for his game. Remember? He liked to see her happy.

Four, when she demanded to be a trial tester and he said it would depend on their affection level

Five, then he took another quick sip while she was trying to figure out what he meant by that joke

How much water or tea did he put in the cup anyway? 

Six, then another sip after he said that he’d develop a model for calculating the affection levels

Seven, he walked over to her side while explaining about the Feng Teng’s collaboration with them to produce the “New Ghost Story” and took another sip

Possible eight, he was studying the mug so I assumed that he was going to raise it to his lips and take an “air-sip”

Definitely eight times.

Finally he exposed the design on the coffee mug! He was holding the mug differently.  Previously, he held the mug by the ear. This time, he was gripping the mug itself with the handle facing down.

So it’s up to you how to interpret this:

A. the director didn’t notice that Yang Yang was fidgeting with the mug.
B. Xiao Nai was super thirsty.
C. Xiao Nai was waiting for her to notice their couple mugs.
D. Xiao Nai was super-duper thirsty.

But Weiwei’s happy again to know that Nai has two matching mugs from the limited collector’s set of the Chinese Ghost Story: his and hers

XN: That’s yours.
WW: There are 20 characters in the game, so there should be twenty total, right?
XN: Feng Ten gave me a complete set, but I only took these two. Old Man yu has the other ones.
WW: (wondering) Does that mean that he prepared this mug for me? Did he know that I would come to his office one day?

And so the moment of truth begins…

5. Confession time

WW: Xiao Nai?

WW: That day…how did you know it was me?

XN: (smiling) Xiao Nai?

This reminds me of that time when she first called him Naihe in the game. She was never on a first name basis with her previous husband so calling him Naihe was meant to be significant.  But I also know at their first meeting on the bridge, she called him “Mr. Xiao” per netflix or “Upperclassman Xiao” on the another site.

So I’m going out on a limb here that there’s an inside joke about his name. Xiao means “little” or “insignificant” so perhaps calling him Xiao Nai (with the emphasis on “Xiao”) is to tease him that he was unimportant in her life.

Anyway, I’ll let the Chinese speakers figure this one out. lol.

To continue, Nai confesses that he met her back in March at a computer café. As he was leaving the café, he saw her battling someone. Weiwei is surprised that he’s known for a long time now.

He continues, “You played very well. You had really quick fingers.” She  that she had plenty of practice playing but her APM isn’t exactly high; she hasn’t reached 150 yet.

I googled this. APM means actions per minute. Gamers can increase their APM scores by practicing but they can also customize their keyboard keys to perform certain often-repeated and routine tasks.

XN: APM is only a frame of reference.
WW: True, I guess that compared to APM, level of skill is more important. Master…What’s your APM?

Now she’s back to calling him by that ridiculous “Master.” Is this like a title, like “Big brother?” or “Oppa”?  She stopped calling him “Xiao” Nai.

XN: I never measure it. The concept of APM didn’t exist when I began to play online games.
WW: APM didn’t exist?! (thinking to herself) That must have been a long time ago. I bet he’ll look really hot while he’s playing.

He keeps drinking his tea. What’s up with him? Just finish it in one gulp, wilya? You’re beginning to remind me of Kermit sipping tea. 

WW: Let’s have a one-on-one battle sometime.
XN: Sure. But my dear… Please go easy on me.

WW: (thinking) If I didn’t hear him wrong, he was about about to call me “dear wife” just now. I think I’m getting too carried away. I better keep studying.

But you know what they say, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. She knows she needs to study but her curiosity is getting the better of her. She wonders, “Since he already knows who I was, why didn’t he say anything about it during the game?”

She realizes that they were seatmates in one class.

She remembers what Nai said yesterday when she told him that they were sat together in his father’s Archaeology class.

A laconic “I know.”

She finally understands what he meant then.

Studiously avoiding her eyes, he says, “Weiwei. If you keep staring at me like this, I’m going to get embarrassed.”

Don’t you just love it when he calls her name? Weiwei…Weiwei… Weiwei..

It’s like Mr. Darcy calling Elizabeth Bennet, “Mrs. Darcy.”

5. Gobbling down the salad

At lunch, he serves her first. I like that. I like that he attends to her needs first.

Weiwei realizes that she needs to go back to her dorm to study as she isn’t going anywhere with Nai around. She hurries up with her lunch.

Nai frowns at her gobbling up her salad but he doesn’t comment.

He simply asks her if she really wants to duel him and she nods.

It probably doesn’t register with her every time she has lunch with Nai, she proves to be an odd eater. The previous day, she was absent-mindedly spooning soup from an already empty bowl. And today, she’s rushing through her salad as if she hasn’t eaten in days.

6. Weiwei’s jealousy

For their graduation, Weiwei gives the guys their own guardian beasts from the sales of the “Bandit and the Musician” video. Mozart or Friend #3 gets his beast first. He extols his Nai for marrying well since the guys all benefited from the union.

In exchange for the gift, he snitches on Nai. He informs Weiwei that someone called their dorm that day and confessed to Nai. He was the one who answered the call so he knew it was from a girl. He avows however that Nai rejected the girl so Weiwei has nothing to worry about. He’ll never let Nai cheat on her.

On her end, Weiwei wonders, “A confession of love?” then she types, “Dude, chill out. It doesn’t mean anything. Boys have asked me out all my life.”

Note: according to kissasian, she texts, “I can’t remember the number of guys who have told me that they like me.”  In this instance, I think the netflix subs work better because of the emphasis on “all my life.” Weiwei is boasting here

She thinks that Mozart is too thin-skinned and wonders how he survives the teasing of the other guys.

But just then, Mozart texts her, “Nai walked past behind me. Just when you said that boys have asked you out all your life.” He reports that Nai is logging on as they text.  In a panic to avoid Nai, Weiwei logs off.

But then, she changes her mind. “Hang on, why did I have to log off? It was just a joke, wasn’t it? It’s not like a I did anything wrong. I shouldn’t lie. I should be totally honest with him.”

hahaha. So much for honesty! That first thing she does when she logs back online is is to lie. “I lost the internet for a second,” she explains.

She doesn’t fool anyone of course. Even Mozart finds her excuse funny. He says, “Nai, your wife is a genius!” Nai simply thanks him and pretends to believe Weiwei’s excuse. He’s humoring her. “The campus internet connection can be pretty terrible at times.”

WW: (thinking) Master’s got great memory. He isn’t going to remember what I just said forever, is he? Wait! As the old saying goes, “Attack is the best form of defense.”

Why does she feel that she has to attack him? 

I think there are at least two reasons. One, she’s defensive about her boast that she’s received a lot of confessions from guys. Since she cannot retract it without looking silly, she’s going to distract him from the truth.

And two, she expects Nai to tease her about it or worse! believe that she’s a campus heartthrob/heartbreaker.

WW: (texting) I heard that someone called and told you that she likes you today.

Nai side-eyes Mozart, the tattle-tale.

Edited — Aha! I found a gif for this moment!

XN: (clarifying) Someone called and invited me to play the guzheng at the graduation ceremony.

lol. His remark forces to Mozart to decamp, leaving Weiwei to fume that she was given false information.

XN: (continuing) Don’t worry missus, (“my dear” in kissasian). I never get asked out in all of my life.
WW: (thinking) So what if you never get asked out? Must you emphasize “all my life”? He must’ve done that on purpose. Wait a second, he said he’s never been asked out?
WW: (texting) No way, I’ve seen someone confess her love to you.
XN: When?
WW: Just this semester. Once, walking by our dorm, I saw a girl hand you a love letter.
XN: That seems to ring a bell.
WW: See? How can you say no one’s ever asked out?
XN: She was probably just handing out a flier.
WW: No way!
XN: Why not? Who would confess her love on the street? Has the missus had that experience? The missus sure is popular.
WW: No, when it becomes too frequent, it can be troublesome. No…I mean, for these things, it’s quality over quantity. (noooo, stop it Weiwei, you’re digging yourself a bigger hole.) I’m all you need.

I think he loses his wifi connection for real here so he exits the room to call Weiwei.

The guys tease him but he ignores them as he goes out to the balcony for privacy. According to the guys, he’s lost his cold, aloof and expressionless face and traded it for a “lovey-dovey” one.

Meanwhile Weiwei is feeling guilty for being mean and nagging. Then the phone rings.

WW: Hello?
XN: It’s me.
WW: You logged off, too?

hahaha. She gives herself away. She let it slip that she logged off earlier.

XN: No. The campus internet is awful today. I got kicked off, too.

lol. He’s either sticking with the “lie” or he’s telling the truth. I think he’s telling the truth that he got disconnected. But now he and Weiwei knew now that Weiwei liked earlier.

WW: (thinking) Does it keep you up at night, Master, if you don’t tease me a few times a day?

Here, she’s grumbling that he always gains the upper hand in these cat-and-mouse games. She just can’t win against him when it comes to a battle of wits.

XN: (continuing) Weiwei, I’m happy.
WW: (thinking) Is he happy because of what I said? (She changes topic and talks about the video.)

To me, Nai is simply continuing off where they left off. Weiwei was protesting the attention that Nai gets from the girls. She was saying that if HE received too much love confessions, he could find the situation troublesome. It’s the quality of the feelings (or the sincerity of the affection offered) and not the quantity of confessions that matters. And besides, SHE’s all HE needs.

That’s why Nai replies that he’s happy. He’s answering her that she’s TRULY all that he needs and he’s content. This is something he feels was important enough to tell Weiwei right there and then. Hence, he walks out and calls her up.

lol. This reminds me of their wedding when he told her that she didn’t have to give him anything because she was all that he needed. In Netflix subs, he says, “You’re all I need.”

And I like how everything comes full circle. It’s now Weiwei telling him that she’s all that he needs.

Awwww…

7.  The baby tigers

Weiwei says that she got all of them rare monsters as payment for the video licensing. She tells him that she’s getting a little tiger and so will he.

WW: But they’re the opposite sex.
XN: So…
WW: So, we’ll raise them. Let them breed. They might produce a sixth rare monster.
XN: Okay, I’ll ask my tiger next time, if he’s willing.

Huh? He does know that these are game things?

WW: Why do you have to ask? There’s only one female tiger in the entire game. Why would he refuse? (pouting.)
XN: That makes sense. I’m sure he will.

Again, he’s humoring her here. She likes to have imaginary pets as “babies” so why not?

9. Helping Nini

I like that Nai is willing to help Nini. I guess he owes her one after that accident of his. Weiwei tells Nini, “Fighting with him is a thrill. Let him take command.” Awww…

(will edit and add pictures later. So sleepy.)