280: The Glorious Curtain Falls

Chapter 280: The Glorious Curtain Falls

Translator: TransNEditor: TransN

In the meeting room of the TV station, the director bent over his body and braced his hands on the table, roaring at the employees.

"The final is over, and you still haven't thought about a good nickname?"

"Do you still want to stay in this area?"

The big wave of his voice and the saliva that was exploding in the air made the young employee shrink his neck. He raised up his hand in a very timid way and said:" Me, I have an idea!"

"So why didn't say it before?", the director said, staring at him.

The meeting just began how could I have time to say that! The young employee silent judged him crazily, but he dared not to say that in public, and then he gave his idea honestly:" Considering that we already had the name of Four Heavenly Sons, we can continue to name the rest in this way, naming them with the Myth creatures' name. Not only it fits very well but also can classify their level."

The director remained silent for a moment and then said:"Well... so give me your opinion, how do we name Lou Cheng?"

The young employee had already expected this question so he replied immediately:

"The Sky Shaking Roar!"

The woman in eyeglasses took a glimpse at him secretively and bent over her head, pretending to write something on the notebook. And the facial expressions of others were different, but the most were holding back their laughter.

"The Sky Shaking Roar?" The director frowned very seriously, but he spoke in doubt with his changing tone.

"The Sky Shaking means Lou Cheng is good at Tremor Punch, and also it means he gave this Youth Match a shocking impression. I think it... fits?" The young employee was so confident before but right now he felt more and more perturbed.

The director nodded slightly:" It's Ok, because you make a pun. But why Roaring? Instead of Chi? Lou Cheng has already achieved Ice Sect Force, and he masters the moves of physical invulnerability also, Ice Chi isn't more suitable?"

"If it's Chi, it's too soft and it doesn't fit with the Sky Shaking... it loses the strong and manly feeling. Plus Lou Cheng just beat Zhang Zhutong in semi-finals, he roared, right?" The young employee tried to explain.

"Then The Sky Shaking Roar it is. We can't lose more time." The director gave the final words. "Since we have set up the nickname for Lou Cheng, I have thought about other's already. Give me some opinions on these names: for Han Zhifei, The Roc of Nothingness; Zhang Zhutong, The Chimaera of Wind and Fire; Liu Xunzhen, The Invisible Vulture. How is that? Any comment?"

The young employee and the woman in eyeglasses looked at each other and replied simultaneously:

"No!"

"Really? I came up with these names just now, so I think they aren't still perfect." The director said it very modestly.

"Indeed not, I think it's better than the nicknames of the last two years." The girl in eyeglasses replied honestly.

At least they're not so bad, nor so weird!

Only... only... they seem like the name of Mountain King, or the names of passersby A, B, C, D...

Anyway, it's a progress!

The director beamed with joy, and he happily announced:

"So it's settled then!"

…

The gentle music sounds were playing for quite a long time, and the tune still lingered in the air. Lou Cheng somehow fell asleep and totally relaxed. He kept dreaming until being woken up by Yan Zheke, and he saw the light from the suspension lamps.

"The award ceremony is about to start in several minutes, you'd better hurry up to get a quick shower," said Yan Zheke in the smile. "It's ok if you don't take the shower, so you can suffocate them to death with your bad odor!"

The short sleep made him even more tired so he didn't care about many details anymore. He turned around and hold up his little fairy and kept on sleeping. But his mind wasn't as empty as before. He sat up with his strong will and started to massage the girl's lap out of instinctive pity, which released her pain from being pressed for 20 minutes.

At the same time, he talked in the laugh: "If so, then tomorrow I will have the nickname of 'Ji Gong Buddha', the real 'being notorious'."

"Aha, notorious... " Yan Zheke was laughing because of his good humor, but her eyes still fixed on his protective behavior in the gentle expression. She pushed him a little bit and said:" So why don't you hurry up!"

Lou Cheng didn't procrastinate and he jumped back a step and stood up. He took on his new boxers and martial arts suit, entering the bathroom.

Yan Zheke took her phone, which was on mute, and looked at the messages that she didn't pay attention.

Among them, Gu Shuang proposed in excitement:

"Ke, does your man recover enough? How about we go out tonight? Take him and celebrate! He is the champion of our province's Youth Match!"

Yan Zheke sipped her lips and chuckled, typing her phone quickly.

"He's rested enough but he still needs to keep a good schedule. How could he have time for a party? He will do his exercises very early in the next morning! Me too!"

After writing down this sentence, she didn't send out but kept it as the script.

After Lou Cheng finished his quick shower, she looked at him while he was drying his hair with the towel and she asked with the smile in her dimples:" Gu Shuang wants to have a party later of tonight to celebrate your victory, do you want to go?"

"Do you want me to go?" Lou Cheng asked in return, smiling.

Yan Zheke smiled as well with her curved eyebrows: "I'm ok with both, you decide."

"Then just forget it. I'm tired enough and I have to keep my schedule. I can't miss the morning training." Lou Cheng resisted the temptation of the party, and he said it very resolutely but in a very gentle way to her.

The victory is temporary, but the training is forever.

Yan Zheke smiled at him immediately and looked at him delightfully. Then she bent over her head and clicked the "send" button to Gu Shuang with the script she had already written down.

I knew he would refuse!

It's not the consonance of hearts, but the mutual affinity and mutual understanding accumulated little by little for a long time!

Of course, even if I knew him would say so but I wouldn't decide for him either. It's necessary to ask his own opinion. It's the basic mutual respect. I just typed it in advance to save more time.

"What's wrong?" Lou Cheng was a little surprised by how she reacted and he added, "I think you don't want to go either, because right now your strongest desire is to become as the profession nine, so you wouldn't want to miss your morning training."

Yan Zheke turned her eyes to him and lifted up her head when she was going to say something, they heard the sound of knocking the door.

"Mr. Lou Cheng, the ceremony is about to begin, you can start to prepare to enter the stage." Fang Siqi reminded him.

"Ok." Lou Cheng answered loudly.

Then, he looked at the girl and asked her in a hurry:" Ke, how about staying at my place tonight? And we can do the exercises together tomorrow morning? Me, I'm not trying to do any bad things, just my head is still in pain and I want my little fairy massage it a little bit."

Suddenly Yan Zheke thought about Dirty Tong's joke, which was about men' "I swear I won't do anything. She felt so shy and rolled her eyes at him. She smiled:" Ok, what a pity. But my parents came to Gao Fen as well. They are watching the game right now. I have to see them tonight."

It's not traveling together, why he always thinks about sleeping together!

"Ok." Lou Cheng forced a smile and sighed, realizing how powerful the Empress Dowager is, because she can always show up at the crucial moment!

Seeing his reaction, Yan Zheke smiled secretively and murmured:

"However, we can have a date tomorrow!"

"Ok!" Lou Cheng felt so refreshing and he turned around to open the door, walking out of the lounge.

Yan Zheke followed him with her eyes and opened her phone again, receiving Gu Shuang's message:

"He had two fights tonight and it's also his victory moment, but he doesn't even take a rest? Still thinking about his morning training? Oh my god, does he know about the balance between work and rest?"

What a crazy man!

Yan Zheke smiled and put back her phone. She left the lounge and walked along the aisle quietly. She went back to her seat until everybody's attention was on the arena.

…

Just after Lou Cheng had appeared on the stage, there was a wave of the sound from vuvuzela and inflatable stick. The atmosphere was so animated.

He walked to the center of the stage slowly and waved to the audiences. The enthusiasm of the audiences was even more lightened up, like the festive atmosphere.

In this situation, he went on to the arena again, and he saw Han Zhifei, whose left arm was in bandage, Zhang Zhutong, who was fully recovered, Liu Xunzhen, whose complexion was so white, and also the previous judge, who had changed his clothes into a white and clean martial arts suit.

"Next, Mr. Yin Huaming, the chairman of Martial Artist Association, and the government of our province will present the prize for the Top 4 winners of this Youth Match!" the voice from the broadcast was enormous.

While the host was speaking, Miss Etiquette entered the stage with four crystal trophies, in the middle of the tray, there was a fist that represented the victory of the champion.

If it was just a competition that wasn't held up by the government, there would probably be a large cheque. But in this case, the experts wouldn't seem so honorable, and the higher management level of Martial Artist Association would deny them.

"For the start, the provincial government will present the award to candidates Zhang Zhutong and Liu Xunzhen." After the broadcast, most of the big screens in the stadium was separated into two kinds, each played the competition process of Zhang Zhutong and Liu Xunzhen respectively. From the fourth and fifth round to the round of double-elimination competition, to Top 32 elimination game, to Top 16, to Top 8, and finally, it played the video of Top 4 elimination game.

When the video stopped, the guest in suit took the trophies and gave them to Zhang Zhutong and Liu Xunzhen respectively.

Then, with the same procedure, Han Zhifei took his award as the second prize winner.

"Finally, Mr. Yin Huaming, the chairman of Martial Artist Association, will present the champion award to the candidate, Lou Cheng!" The voice in the broadcast spoke very aloud to announce.

Lou Cheng saw the kind Yin Huaming, and he also saw how himself won this prize on the big screen.

The first round, beating down Xiong Yu; the fifth round and the two rounds before the double-elimination game ware easily won by Lou Cheng.

The last round before the double-elimination game, he ran into No.9 seed fighter, Liu Xunzhen, and he declared his presence with his 6 explosions in a row.

Top 32 elimination game, he beat off Xing Jingjing, who was a very tough competitor with his resistent ability.

Top 16 elimination game, he repulsed Qiu Lin with his Severe Warning.

Top 8 elimination game, signs of danger appearing everywhere, but finally he defeated Meng Jiefeng with his superior capacity.

The semi-final, he defeated Zhang Zhutong, the first seed fighter, with a hard fight.

The images showed frame-by-frame, summarizing Lou Cheng's excellent fights into several minutes.

Yin Huaming raised up the trophy, gave it to Lou Cheng with his two hands, and smiled:

"You deserve this prize!"

Lou Cheng was still wondering the images just played, and he took the trophy unconsciously.

At this moment, the screen was fixed at how he vanquished Han Zhifei with his unexpected counterattack!

The whole audience cheered altogether the most strongly of tonight:

"Champion!"

Lou Cheng raised his trophy, and he felt like he can only sense the bright light in front of his eyes, surrounded by hundreds and thousands of people and their waves of cheering voice.

…

At ten o'clock in the evening, he returned to the hotel, subconsciously came to the window, once again overlooking the Gao Fen City martial arts arena that brought him so much beautiful memories.

The lighting of the arena had not yet extinguished. Surrounded by darkness, it looked like a brilliant dream.

At this moment, Lou Cheng's phone was ringing so he picked up and gave it a look, and suddenly he couldn't hide his joy anymore.

Yan Zheke sent him a sentence with a smirking face:

"Tell you a good news. Empress Dowager's weight returned to normal, so she won't make me do the morning exercise with her anymore!"

…

In the nightfall, inside the hotel room of Ming Qi International Hotel.

Lou Zhisheng's heart was extremely excited, and it was difficult for him to sleep. At this time, he felt his wife Qi Fang turned over and he heard her muttering something in her dream:

"Cheng's got the Champion!" "Cheng's got the Champion!"