Quadruple split.

Chapter 2309 I'll Admit It

"Chenchen is not allowed to participate. Let's have a fair 4v4 match."

In front of all the members of the Haunted Church and Ji Xiaoge, Lucy made the above remarks with a calm expression, staring at Mo Tan without blinking, without a trace of joking in her tone.

She... Yuying was the first to widen her eyes and asked in shock: "What?"

Yi Dong shook his head in confusion and commented succinctly: "This is outrageous."

Gu Xiaole, who had a good personal relationship with Lucy, raised his eyebrows slightly and said with a smile: "Yareyare~"

"..."

Because he was not a member of either team, Ji Xiaoge didn't say anything, but he also put on a very serious look and jumped down from the chandelier with flapping wings.

Cassena, Mika and Christina who came with Lucia did not speak either. It was obvious that they did not support Lucia's remarks, but because they were sisters, they could only use silence to hint to the other party that "she could just refuse at will."

"no!"

As for Yu Chen, he stood up angrily and protested in a relatively loud voice (equivalent to the decibel of Cordoba's daily speech): "Yi Dong is right! This is outrageous!"

It can be seen that although this girl is gentle and introverted, she can still stand up straight when facing her best friend.

However, Lucy only glanced at her and asked lightly, "Chenchen, are you the captain of the [Haunted Church]?"

"Eh? Me?"

Yu Chen was stunned at first, then immediately shook his head like a rattle, repeatedly saying: "I'm not, I'm not, Hei Fan is the captain."

"In that case, you useless little shrimp, please stop interrupting me. I'm talking to your captain."

Lucy said the text in a tone that gave people a rather impatient feeling. She waved to Yuchen and said to Motan, "What do you think? After all, Chenchen is our most important and closest sister. The culprit who prevented her from fighting side by side with us is you bad guys who stole her love."

Upon hearing this, Yu Chen pouted her lips and waved her fist vigorously, and (in the eyes of people outside her group of girlfriends) she rarely bared her teeth and claws at Lucy, "Just last sentence you said I was a 'useless little shrimp'! But the next moment I became your most important and closest sister! And, Xiao Qian, you don't seem to be the captain either! The big brother is!"

But Lucy turned a deaf ear to her words and ignored her.

Yu Chen: "..."

Mo Tan pulled the embarrassed and angry Yu Chen behind him and said to Lucy with a smile: "Let's not talk about whether the word 'stealing someone' should appear in this context. As the nominal captain of the [Haunted Church], I don't think your reasons are sufficient, and--"

Lucy was about to speak when she noticed that the other party had raised his voice. She shrugged and said, "You go ahead."

Mo Tan: "And even if your reasons are sufficient, Chen Wangyu must participate in the competition."

"Oh?"

Lucy nodded slightly, and immediately understood what Mo Tan meant: "You mean 'public opinion'?"

"That's it."

Mo Tan nodded vigorously and said seriously, "Given the special nature of the [Confrontation], it is difficult for people to find excuses for a contestant who played a decisive role in the semi-finals but missed the finals. It is foreseeable that as long as Yu Chen does not participate in the competition, whether [Haunted Church] wins or loses, the Internet will definitely be full of attacks on her. I think this situation is something no one wants to see."

Kasena, who realized this after being reminded by Mo Tan, immediately became serious and said in a deep voice: "This won't do!"

"I see. This was my oversight."

Lucy had no intention of persisting and immediately said, "If that's the case, just ignore what I said just now. It's better for Chenchen to participate in the competition."

Yu Chen: “…Huh?!”

Obviously, as Lucia's best friend, Yu Chen never expected that the former would give up her plan so easily. You know, in her impression, although Lucia rarely needs others to do anything, as long as she has the idea, almost no one can refuse her.

It's not that she has the ability to make people obey her will unconditionally, but Lucia has the means to implement her will and make others cooperate with her willingly or unwillingly.

As for Mo Tan, although he said that he couldn't empathize with a beautiful girl like Lucy whose personality was rather fickle, he seemed to have anticipated this scene and asked in a very casual tone: "Okay, now that we have finished the proposal of 'lifting the roof', should we talk about the content of 'opening the window' next?"

"Lift the roof? Open the window?"

Gu Xiaole blinked and asked Yi Dong beside him curiously, "What do you mean?"

Although Yi Dong seemed to dislike Gu Xiaole, he was still very close to her. He sighed and said to his cousin who grew up abroad, "The house demolition effect... Master Lu wrote about it in Silent China. It means that if you want to open a window, you should first propose to tear down the roof. Although others will definitely not agree, when you change your mind and say you want to open a window, they will easily agree to it."

Gu Xiaole immediately realized what was going on and exclaimed, "I didn't expect you to be so cultured."

"thank you."

Yi Dong pulled the corner of his mouth and whispered, "Okay, shut up. Let's hear what that girl wants to open."

"I hope Yuchen won't do anything and just be a spectator the whole time."

Lucy made her request to Mo Tan in a serious tone.

Gu Xiaole turned to look at Yi Dong: "Isn't this still lifting the roof!?"

Yi Dong: "..."

It is obvious from this silence that the clever young master is also confused.

But Yi Dong was confused, but Mo Tan was not. He just asked curiously, "What's the reason?"

"I just told you the reason."

Lucy raised her index finger and shook it gently, and said seriously: "You five against us four, it's not fair."

"I know that, but what I mean is..."

Mo Tan, who didn't want to continue beating around the bush, sat back on the sofa and looked at the Little Smart Ghost advertisement on the screen. He asked without turning his head, "What is the real reason you want to use to convince us?"

"no problem."

Lucy nodded decisively and said, "First of all, I think everyone on your team should be willing to give up the championship for you. After all, without you, [Haunted Church] won't even make it to the finals, just like without me, there will only be warriors left on the [Sailor Moon] team, and no pretty girls."

The last vague mumbling was because Kasena and Mika pinched his left and right cheeks respectively and started rubbing them.

During this process, Lucy, whose face was being rubbed, turned her attention to the other four members of the Haunted Church.

"I don't care."

Yuying, who felt that she was an 'outsider', shrugged her shoulders and spread her hands, saying: "You are our own people, you have the final say."

"Sakura-chan is one of us too!"

Gu Xiaole put his arm around Yuying's shoulders and said with a smile, "Sister, I said I wanted to marry Tanjiang back then. It's definitely okay to give up a small competition."

As a result, Lucy immediately turned to Yu Chen and reminded her, "Look at Sister Xiao Le. If you say you don't want to give up, you lose."

Yu Chen: "..."

Yi Dong: “I…”

"You listen to him."

Lucy interrupted him directly and said kindly, "I understand."

Yi Dong: "..."

"Ahem, Xiaoqian, you should hold back." Although he knew that Lucy was just like that, Mo Tan still didn't want to sit back and watch his friend being led by the nose, so he said helplessly, "So what do you mean?"

"What it means is that as long as you nod, the matter will be settled."

Lucy gave Mo Tan the same business smile she gave Xiao Bing Bing, and said quickly: "So, let's do this, I'll sell three of Chen Chen's original flavors..."

"No, stop it."

"Then I'll help you throw two boys who have a crush on Chenchen into the river?"

"No, there's too much to throw away."

"I promise that I know more about Chenchen's interests and hobbies than you do. If you agree to my terms, I guarantee that you won't have to worry about giving gifts and finding topics to talk about in the future."

"Can I just say thank you verbally?"

"Then, what are Chenchen's mother's hobbies? They are very useful in situations where you need to visit her. This should be a blind spot for you, right?"

"……Need not."

"You are such a troublesome person."

“Okay!!”

But at this moment, Yu Chen interrupted Lucy Ai, lowered his head and whispered: "Hei Fan is not going to pursue me! Don't say nonsense to embarrass me! Xiao Qian, you will make the atmosphere very awkward if you keep doing this!"

"I agree."

Mick rubbed his forehead gently and said helplessly: "It will be disgraceful if we continue to make trouble."

"That's all, Xiao Qian."

Kasena patted Lucia's shoulder and grinned, "There are five of them, and I'm the equivalent of two. It's fair."

Christina also came over to Lucy and pulled her, whispering, "Let's go back."

Just as they expressed their opinions together because they knew that Lucy was very difficult to convince, Lucy was indeed very difficult to convince, so she did not react to her friends' dissuasion, and just stared at Mo Tan with burning eyes.

"Are you upset?"

To put it nicely, it was the girl with a weird personality who asked the question.

"..."

Mo Tan shrugged and said nothing.

"I don't know whether I can't explain it clearly or not, but Chenchen doesn't admit it, and you don't admit it either."

Lucy did not stop talking, and continued without any emotion: "You must be very unhappy."

Gu Xiaole and the others all looked a little dazed, while Yi Dong narrowed his eyes, with a hint of vigilance in his eyes.

In his opinion, if it wasn't Yu Chen who said anything to Lucy, but Lucy drew the above conclusion through her own observation, then her vision was quite amazing! And this "amazing" was definitely not a good thing for Mo Tan.

As for Mo Tan, he shook his head after a brief pause and said, "This has nothing to do with you, Xiao Qian."

"I'm here to acknowledge you. I'm here to acknowledge that you are qualified to stay with Chenchen."

Lucy took a step forward and looked down at Mo Tan who was sitting on the sofa. "It doesn't matter if you two are willing to maintain a pure relationship at the level of reproductive isolation. Don't rely on Chenchen to win the championship. I can represent her family except her mother, that is, myself and my eldest brother (Casena, Mika, and Christina exchanged glances in astonishment) to admit that you are the most suitable person to be with her at this stage."

For the first time, Mo Tan was visibly stunned for a moment. It took him two full seconds to react before he shook his head and smiled bitterly, "What the hell is going on here?"

Yu Chen, who had raised her head at some point, now pursed her lips and remained silent.

"As for what happens next..."

Lucy continued her lobbying at her own pace and said to Mo Tan in a serious tone, "If you are willing, I can find a way to help you."

"I understand."

Mo Tan sighed and said tiredly but sincerely: "I don't even know what I can ask you to help with."

Lucy raised her eyebrows slightly and said leisurely, "I know what's going on. Anyway, I won't help you make Chenchen fall in love with someone else and forget your 'black history'."

Gu Xiaole tilted his head and looked at Yi Dong again, and asked in a low voice: "What are they talking about?"

Yi Dong: "...Don't ask me, I don't know."

Gu Xiaole said "Oh", then shut up and stopped talking.

Apart from her, Yuying, Ji Xiaoge, Kasena, Mika and Christina were also in a subtle state of silence. To put it simply, although their gossip radars had been alerted, they cared more about the feelings of the parties involved than curiosity, so they tried to reduce their own presence when it seemed inappropriate to say anything.

As for the two parties involved——

Yu Chen was currently sitting a little further away from Mo Tan than usual, looking a little listless.

Mo Tan showed a subtle expression that was much more tired than when he was playing the game, and sighed for the umpteenth time: "Xiao Qian, if you insist on making trouble..."

"I'm not messing around."

"Then I'll keep you company."

"Oh, then just treat it as me joking, thank you."

Just like that, both of them showed relieved expressions on their faces.

Then, the others went crazy!

"Fuck you promised!?"

"Tan-chan are you serious?"

"Are you stupid? Do you dare to agree to Xiao Qian's request?"

"It's not too late to say it was a joke now."

"It doesn't matter to me. I'm making a lot of money anyway."

"Xiao Qian, you are making things difficult for me..."

"Hei Fan."

Yu Chen pursed her lips and muttered softly, "You didn't agree to this just because you cared about my feelings, did you?"

"Of course, I agreed to this based on the 'unhappiness' that Akane-san had pointed out before, and my complete inability to change this 'unhappiness' situation."

Mo Tan smiled, then stood up, turned around and shrugged at his companions.

"I'm sorry everyone, but my chances of winning the finals are probably only about 80% now."

Chapter 2300: The End