Mr. Warner, Your Wife is Running Away Again!-Chapter 123: I’ll Carry You

The hotel room was spacious, with a meter gap between the two beds.

Audrey Sutton slept on the bed near the window, so Shane naturally chose the one closer to the door.

Each leaning against their own headboards, Shane applied an egg mask to his face while Audrey was summoned by Barry Barrett to game together.

Connected via microphone, Audrey worried about disturbing Shane, so she purposely wore headphones and spoke in a lowered voice.

But when the game got exciting, she couldn’t care less about noise, totally immersed in her own gaming world.

Sitting on the bed, Shane swiped his phone out of boredom, pretending to be occupied.

From time to time, he heard her yell, "Push the tower, push the tower!"

"Be careful! The enemy jungler is coming to catch you!"

"This monkey on the other team is so strong! One hit and I’m dead."

"Ah, looks like we’re going to lose again."

"Ahhhh lost again! My stars dropped..."

Audrey drowned in her sorrow over losing, complaining to Barry Barrett about how one teammate was so bad, while the other didn’t know how to play, completely unaware of the pair of eyes watching her nearby.

"You can’t win even a kids’ game?"

Hearing the voice outside her headphones, Audrey turned her head to see Shane standing by her bed.

She removed one side of her headphones and said, "So maddening, my teammates are too useless!"

As Audrey vented, Barry Barrett initiated matchmaking again. She was ready to complain more to Shane, wanting to tell him it’s her teammates’ fault, not hers.

Before she could speak, she saw his hand reach over, tapping the little cross icon at the top of the page to cancel matchmaking: "I’ll carry you."

Having lost three rounds in a row, Audrey felt like she had found a savior. It was as if she was a newbie finding a reliable mentor.

She even doubted if she heard him wrong—did he play games too?

After the initial surprise, she wondered if he really knew how to play, worrying if he’d seem easy but actually never played before, and he might end up dragging her down.

Seeing him open his phone, and immediately launch the game relieved Audrey; it seemed he did have the game installed.

"What’s your rank?" he asked.

Audrey replied promptly, "Diamond."

He nodded.

Audrey paused briefly and added, "I’m on the QQ server."

He paused his fingertips a bit, then slid them and said to his phone, "Give me your game ID."

Faye Xavier sent it over immediately, followed by several voice messages; Shane didn’t open any, using the account and password to return to the game screen.

The two added each other as friends, and Audrey smoothly pulled him into the room.

Seeing his rank was also Diamond, during the matchmaking Audrey secretly checked his profile page, only to find the account owner was a pro.

Badges weren’t missed for any season, all heroes and skins unlocked, with hero win rates mostly above seventy percent, the highest at ninety percent.

Audrey’s mind was filled with two words: Awesome.

Matched into the room, Audrey turned her head and asked him, "Which hero are you playing?"

Shane replied, "Filling role."

Audrey felt particularly reassured at hearing this; players who can fill various roles always seem so warm.

However, looking at this account owner’s frequently used heroes, almost all were jungler heroes; junglers were quite popular in the game and often attracted girl gamers.

Audrey mainly played mage-type heroes.

She wasn’t the kind who played poorly but talked a lot, acting cute, calling "big brother hiccup-hiccup"; nor was she the type who played exceptionally well, spoke less, but said something like "nmsl" when opening her mouth.

She was more like a middle-tier gap-filling passive player.

The first player picked jungler, Barry Barrett picked shooter on the second floor, Audrey picked mage, and fourth floor was side lane, leaving a support role. Shane chose a capable, tanky, controllable Chester Bishop. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

Initially, Audrey thought he would play a highly agile hero or one who jumps across the map because those heroes are classic, stylish, and have loads of fangirls in the game.

When the game started, Audrey and Barry Barrett chatted continuously in the mic, while Shane stayed silent.

Yet he always managed to skillfully ambush enemies, and within a few minutes early game he helped Audrey secure three kills, zero deaths, and two assists.

The jungler wasn’t strong but could sneakily sneak in the wild and the tower with a score of 2-7-0.

Even if Audrey was caught by the enemy jungler, Shane would certainly take out the one who killed her.

Though he didn’t say a word, Audrey could tell he was avenging her.

Even the enemy commented: Your Chester Bishop’s got some skills.

With a good rhythm early on, tower-pushing moved smoothly, by ten minutes the enemy’s base was down.

In the last wave of team fights, he flashed skillfully to initiate the team fight, leading to enemy annihilation, secured three kills.

At that moment, the female archer from the enemy team popped a message, "Chester Bishop, big brother, shall we duo after this?"

Without thinking, Audrey replied, "No."

Opponent archer: Didn’t ask you.

Audrey: I said "no," so he wouldn’t dare say "yes."

The opponent archer pretended not to see her, continued saying, "Chester Bishop, big brother, let’s add friends later."

As the crystal’s health depleted, he finally responded, "Don’t play with noobs."

Right after, the opponent’s crystal exploded.

Audrey secretly rejoiced, first because they won the game; second, because Shane helping her to retaliate felt quite invigorating.

After playing three more rounds consecutively, he played jungler twice and side lane once, scoring impressively each time.

He managed to kill three enemies single-handedly and escape with low health.

Once Audrey attempted to save him, but he swiftly escaped using two-stage displacement, leaving her to be pursued by the enemy’s hopping jungler; he returned with low health to use skills for her, resulting in a mutual homecoming.

Fortunately, his set of skills took down the opponent jungler too.

After four consecutive wins, Audrey’s mood was fantastic, playing more energetically, finally clinging onto a pro and unwilling to let go; Shane exited the game, telling her, "You should sleep now."

Audrey checked the time and realized it was already past midnight, quickly told Barry Barrett before logging off the game, hurriedly went to the bathroom, returned to bed, turned her head and smiled, asking him, "Did you used to play often?"

"Played a few seasons."

Audrey glanced at him, then asked, "Was it also with girl gamers?"

He looked at her, replied, "No one I played with needed carrying, you’re the first."

Audrey: "..."

Is he subtly saying she’s bad at gaming?

"Did you play on WhatsApp server?"

"Shut up and sleep."

After a brief silence, Audrey asked again, "Who did you use to play with?"

"Were they all really skilled girls?"

"By the way, did those girls who wanted to add you after the game really add you?"

Shane sighed in frustration, saying, "You’re noisy."

Audrey paused, quietly closed her mouth, flat on the bed, eyes wide open staring at the ceiling, clearly not sleepy.