Strictly Bromance

Table of Content | Character Guide Chapter 20: Kitchen Knife Gang When Tang Cuo enlisted at the age of 18, the first instructor he met was Jin Cheng. At the time, he was like a weed growing against the wind, with thorns all over its leaves. Instructor Jin was said to have made a mistake and was sent to train the new recruits as punishment. Within 24 hours, he was given the title of ‘Devil Instructor’. Thinking about it carefully, the situation back then was a bit like today. The two times Tang Cuo met him, he was both under some sort of punishment. During that time, Jin Cheng especially…

Table of Content | Character Guide Chapter 19: You Whom I Used To Know Opening his eyes again, Tang Cuo found himself back at the room on East Cross Street, with his Character panel hanging in front of him. [Character] No. K27216: Tang Cuo Character score: 18 Strength: -8 Intelligence: 0 Charm: 0 Rating: A-  HP: 16 Li Ying Jun’s Curse: Defence against fire is reduced by 80. [Survival is not easy, please never stop trying.] Tang Cuo saw the description of the curse and didn’t care much. He immediately added 8 character points to his Strength to clear the negative score, but didn’t touch the remaining 10 points. As…

Table of Content | Character Guide Chapter 18: On A Snowy Night, He Returns (12) While Mr. Crow was violently screaming at the sky, Jin Cheng sneezed in the backyard of the hostel. He touched his nose and looked up at the sky, expecting that some bastard must be cursing him again. Who is it? As an elite of Zone A, Jin Cheng understood how the system worked around here. Method one: he must earnestly find the truth before Li Ying Jun killed all players, by which time Li Ying Jun’s strength would be greatly reduced, or method two: he must unleash a critical hit and take Li Ying Jun…

Table of Content | Character Guide Chapter 17: On A Snowy Night, He Returns (11) When it came to killing, it was better to get done sooner than later. It almost seemed that the moment their eyes met, Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng could instantly understand what was going on in each other’s mind. At such a close distance, Jin Cheng would employ this weapon ―  a gun. Which could shoot as fast as lightning. “Bang!” The bullet was aimed straight at Xiao Yuan’s face but was blocked by the kitchen knife. She tilted her head to look at the bullet hole on the knife and asked suspiciously: “Why are…

Table of Content | Character Guide Chapter 16: On A Snowy Night, He Returns (10) At 6 o’clock in the morning, the six of them woke up one after another even without the sound of Li Ying Jun knocking on the door. Qian Wei sneezed as soon as he opened his eyes and turned around to see the bonfire completely extinguished. He shivered and wanted to burn another fire but found that his whole body was almost frozen, so he struggled for some time before finally being able to move. Zhao Ping was closest to the bonfire and took on the task of relighting it. When the warmth came back,…

Table of Content | Character Guide Chapter 15: On A Snowy Night, He Returns (9) The body was eventually dug up, but it was an unfamiliar man buried upright in a deep pit. The man had been dead but his hair continued to grow upward and upward, until it pierced the ground and turned into a sapling. This strange and creepy scene sent everyone into silence. Tang Cuo didn’t participate in digging up the corpse and just stayed by one side in his military coat: “The corpse has begun to rot, it should have been buried for a while.” Jin Cheng also didn’t lift a finger and just stood there…

Table of Contents | Character Guide Chapter 14: On A Snowy Night, He Returns (8) Half an hour later, the six-member team stopped in the forest. By this time, it had only been a bit more than 1 kilometer from the hostel. The cold slowed them down, and the search for the glowing dust made them walk around quite a distance. Luckily for them, the trees in the forest were blocking a lot of wind and snow, so they could at least locate some traces of the dust along the way. But everyone had been straining their eyes so hard they felt like they could go blind soon. After a…

Table of Contents | Character Guide Chapter 13: On A Snowy Night, He Returns (7) “Slam!” A silver knife suddenly slammed into the floor in front of Li Ying Jun, its blade continuing to vibrate while blocking his path. The familiar scene made everyone turn their head to look at Jin Cheng. The man was sitting lazily in his armchair, his face looking like he had just woken up. The other man opposite him, Tang Cuo, stood up, his lips pale and his expression cold as always: “Everyone, stand still.” For two days in a row, he was woken up barely before 6 in the morning, and he didn’t feel…

Table of Contents | Character Guide Chapter 12: On A Snowy Night, He Returns (6) As they had lunch, each of the eight players harboured their own motive they needed to achieve. Their lunch was beef potato stew, which was poisoned by Li Shuangshuang earlier. After the food was served, the whole room was filled with its fragrance, but everyone could only smell it and eat pickles instead. This was what people called a self-inflicted crime. Jin Cheng was not at all interested in such a lunch, so he turned to a slightly less undesirable cup of instant coffee. He put his slender legs on the chair’s armrest, his smiling…

Table of Contents | Character Guide Chapter 11: On A Snowy Night, He Returns (5) Li Shuangshuang felt a little nervous at the moment. She had come to Yong Ye City for a month and a half, done several missions and met many people, but she had never seen people like Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng. Their aura was so strong that even if they just stood by the side and didn’t say a word, people still wouldn’t miss their presence. When she hid in the kitchen just now and saw Jin Cheng’s arrow pointing at Zhang Zhiqiu through the window, she became even more certain of this thought. She…

Table of Contents | Character Guide Chapter 10: On A Snowy Night, He Returns (4) Tang Cuo, the man who jumped repeatedly on the verge of death, stubbornly survived today. Qian Wei, Zhao Ping and An Ning got up from the ground and watched the other black bear desperately running away, their jaws dropped. They turned around and looked at the scene ― crimson flesh scattered all over the white snow. From a distance, they looked like plum blossoms, yet coming closer, they actually looked like streaks of pork belly. There was even half a paw at their feet. They just needed a barbeque bit and the party could already…

Table of Contents | Character Guide Chapter 9: On A Snowy Night, He Returns (3) Ying Jun was dead, then he was alive again. He smiled so honestly, but he was mute. Everyone stared as the staff greeted him as if nothing was wrong, then watched Li Ying Jun giving them a friendly nod before heading to the backyard to lay out the firewood. They waited until the staff ran into the kitchen to boil some noodles for Li Ying Jun before finally exploding. Qian Wei expressed his surprise with a series of “holy shit”. Everyone just looked at each other. At this moment, Tang Cuo suddenly said: “The body.”…