CH 18

editor: Storm

Seeing the fierce battle happening over there, An Qi silently put the basketball on the ground and sat side by side with Lin Dongyang as an audience member. If there was a plate of melon seeds or watermelons in front of him, there would be a spectator’s anticipation of waiting for the opening of the show. 

Melon eater Lin Dongyang shook his head and sighed, “No hope.”

Melon eater An Qi shook his head and agreed. “It’s not that I’m boasting about it. It’s good if he can like someone. I thought he was going to die alone because of his bad temper. Which girl can stand it? I’m really worried about the senior sister.”

Lin Dongyang was speechless…. Thank you, he himself was also worried.

As if in order to verify An Qi’s words, Qiao Yichen once again let Lin Dongyang, who was watching the play silently, see what being aloof meant. He didn’t care at all whether he would make others face embarrassed by doing so, and he walked towards them calmly and unhurried. Wang Xiaomeng, who was still gesturing and asking for his mobile phone number, slammed into the steel and iron dead end, rolled her eyes, stuck her tongue out at him, and made a distorted grimace. She couldn't eat the grapes and therefore could only say that the grapes were sour. She silently complained in her heart: What a pain! I have never seen such a drag. Normally it’s easy for any woman to chase a man, as though they are simply separated by only a thin layer of muslin. But even though she is already actively taking the initiative, it seems this muslin is as thick as a city wall! 

Lin Dongyang, who had watched the play silently, thought with astonishment: Is it over? He’s waiting to see a ‘clash that leaves both sides shattered’, but this is smaller than the ripples caused by throwing a stone into the water…

Sure enough, Qiao Yichen is a master who can’t be teased or provoked.

Seeing Qiao Yichen coming towards them calmly, An Qi thought that he was coming to play basketball, so he immediately picked up the basketball sitting under his bottom and smiled, saying, “Senior, I’m going to play basketball first. See you later.”

Lin Dongyang nodded, and looked at Qiao Yichen at the same time. He kept silent with a smile, only two people could understand the profound meaning. Qiao Yichen faintly glanced at how he was sitting on the ground with a complete lack of image, and then he was dragged to the basketball court by An Qi.

Shortly after the beginning of the third class, the sun was still high in the sky. Although the weather was pleasant in early April, Lin Dongyang felt hot and dry after sitting in the sun for a long time, so he struggled to get up from the track. He had been sitting for a long time, and now he felt as if hundreds of millions of ants were biting his legs at the slightest movement. He couldn’t help twitching the corners of his mouth and inhaling a breath of cold air.

He really didn’t understand how Qiao Yichen, who had also run 3,000 meters, could jump and play basketball like it was nothing. Was it true that he exercised too little and looked too weak? Lin Dongyang reflected on himself, but he had to admit that Qiao Yichen’s strong muscle lines couldn’t be possessed if you were thin.

He kicked his leg to circulate the blood that had been oppressed just now. Right as he was about to go to the lounge, a football rolled slowly in front of him. Lin Dongyang blocked its path with his foot and looked up at the people coming in his direction.

Li Wei trotted to him, looking very energetic. Before he even started playing, his face already shined with sweat, but this didn’t affect his enthusiasm for running. He asked loudly, “Will you come play or not?” 

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Clicking into WeChat, he unexpectedly found that there were no people to talk to. After several years of friendship, he had less and less topics in common with his former high school classmates and good friends. Their different experiences resulted in them having different topics they were interested in, so there would be no exchange of greetings, outside of holidays. There was Qiao Yichen before, but since their meeting, the other party had become stingy sending just a punctuation mark.

Bored, he opened his photo album. He looked through the previous saved pictures one by one, and deleted everything he didn’t want to keep. 

When he turned to the secretly photographed photo from his part-time job in the Athena Shopping City, he couldn’t help but stop, carefully appreciating himself. Although he had a photogenic face, he rarely took selfies, whereas his roommates had many ugly photos of themselves in their phones.

“It’s good to be a wallpaper.” Narcissistic Lin Dongyang set that photo as his mobile phone wallpaper, and then went back to appreciate the results. But he was surprised to find that the passer-by behind him looked a little familiar.

Unable to zoom in on the screen, Lin Dongyang reopened the photo in the album. He then zoomed in as far as he could, looked carefully at the side of the person’s face from nose to eye, and then looked up at Qiao Yichen, who was competing fiercely on the basketball court.

Lin Dongyang couldn’t help sighing. It turned out that when Qiao Yichen had said he was also in the Athena Shopping City, he was really there and just right behind him! 

He immediately replaced the mobile phone wallpaper. Before, he had always felt that it was a good photo, the person looked good and the background looked good. Now, after noticing the existence of this awkwardness, he instantly felt that the aesthetic feeling of this photo had been destroyed because of Qiao Yichen’s intrusion, so he replaced it with a landscape photo as his wallpaper again. He hesitated on whether to delete the photo or not, but finally didn’t, because he looked good in this photo…

‘Go back and photoshop it! Don’t be in the same frame as him!’ With this in mind, Lin Dongyang jumped over this ideological hurdle satisfactorily.

The third years occupied the lawn, the second years occupied the basketball court. The boys in these two classes didn’t know whether they shared the same feelings or repelled each other like two positive sides of a magnet. But either way they stayed out of each other’s business, and the boundaries were clearly drawn. Only the girls in the two classes had no barriers, and they kicked shuttlecocks and played volleyball happily together.

Lin Dongyang put his mobile phone in his pocket, leaned back in his chair, crossed one leg over another, closed his eyes and waited for school to be over. 

“Are you thirsty?” A soft, sweet voice sounded in his ear. Lin Dongyang opened his newly closed eyes and saw Liu Yiyi standing in front of him with a bottle of Nongfu Spring, maintaining the posture of offering water.

“Thank you.” Lin Dongyang was not polite. He uncrossed his legs, unscrewed the cap of the bottle and drank a few sips. After running two laps and sitting in the sun for so long, he did have a dry throat.

Wearing jeans and a skimpy chiffon shirt, Liu Yiyi looked like a pure and charming person who was not in tune with the world. She sat in a seat beside Lin Dongyang and asked, “Aren’t you going to play?”

Lin Dongyang: “I want to rest.” 

Liu Yiyi blushed slightly, whether it was because it was hot or she was nervous, no one knew. She didn’t speak and Lin Dongyang was also drinking water in silence so the two stayed in the corner undisturbed. In the eyes of others this scene was full of sweet pink filters.

Liu Yiyi blushed and stammered, “A-Yang… Do you have a girlfriend?”

After listening to Wang Xiaomeng’s resounding, coarse voice, hearing Liu Yiyi’s soft voice at this moment was like a song, simply washing his hearing. She was originally very lustrous, a natural beauty. At the moment, she was shy and made a kitten-like voice. If it was changed to another man, it would make them itch and unable to bear, but Lin Dongyang just silently supported his forehead. Liu Yiyi had hinted at him from time to time since his freshman year. At that time, he was addicted to games, achieving records and practicing skills every day. There was no time to date.

When dating, he should not only accompany her to eat, go shopping and watch movies, but also spend money on her and buy gifts for her birthday, 520 and Valentine’s day or other messy festivals. His daily homework would be to coax her to be happy, which not only took up time but also money. If he had time and money, it was better to finish more dungeons and buy many Godly costumes. 

Dating? Was the game not fun or was there too much money in his pocket?

Lin Dongyang looked at Liu Yiyi and said seriously. “I have ah.”

Liu Yiyi’s slim body stiffened. “Eh… Really? Very good, are they from school?”

“Yes, a second year.” Lin Dongyang unconsciously pulled Qiao Yichen out as a shield. If Liu Yiyi asked how they knew each other again, he could answer immediately, completely eliminating her little hope. After all, apart from gender, he and Qiao Yichen did go through the process from acquaintance to face-to-face, and the story was based on real evidence, not random fabrication. 

The disappointment visible to the naked eye shrouded Liu Yiyi, but she was still smiling. Coupled with the lingering fog in her round eyes, she looked very pitiful. But she pretended to be firm.

On the basketball court, Qiao Yichen exerted his skill. The basketball entered the hoop with a perfect parabola to announce the end of the game. He rubbed off the hot sweat on his face with his arm, then waved at An Qi and left the court, walking directly to the lounge.

Liu Yiyi saw Qiao Yichen. This person was born with an unforgettable personality. Even if he didn’t speak he could be powerful enough to draw other people’s attention away with a single glance, so after she saw Qiao Yichen enter the lounge, she immediately got up and walked away.

Qiao Yichen stared closely at Liu Yiyi’s back, until she left the lounge and disappeared around the corner. Lin Dongyang was surprised, and could not help but start jumping on the edge of death. He raised his eyebrows and asked playfully, “Do you like our class flower?” 

Qiao Yichen retracted his gaze, sat in the empty seat two seats away from Lin Dongyang, and hummed, “I thought you were wearing a hat.”

“???” Are you here to pick a fight?

Qiao Yichen didn’t explain the meaning of his words, but said lightly, “After school, don’t leave.”

Hearing this, Lin Dongyang frowned. How could it feel so much like an offer? “What’s the matter?” He still asked although he knew the answer. 

“If you have forgotten, I can help you remember it for free.”

“Hehehe … No, I have a good memory. So, I really don’t have to pay back the money if I listen to you?” Lin Dongyang wanted to confirm the other party’s purpose again. Who knew if Qiao Yichen had a bad character and couldn’t keep his word? One yard at a time. He made a mistake originally so he had agreed, yet only if his safety wouldn’t be threatened. But Qiao Yichen always bullied him with the words ‘hospitalization fee, help you remember for free’, and relied on being taller and stronger than him in order to act just as unreasonable as a crab.

Qiao Yichen: “I’m not short of money.”

Lin Dongyang: “…” Evil capitalist rich man. 

Each class lasted only 40 minutes. When the bell rang, the PE teacher, who had been chatting enthusiastically with the guards in the equipment room, had long since disappeared. Fang Zheng stood on the sports ground and shouted, “Send all the equipment to me to check!”

Lin Dongyang didn’t register in the beginning so naturally he didn’t have to return anything. He wanted to take advantage of Qiao Yichen organizing the class, to run away. He was also clever enough to sneak around behind Qiao Yichen. But as a result, he heard two coughs with serious warnings behind them before his raised foot was even put down.

In Lin Dongyang’s heart, ten thousand curses of ‘F*ck your mother’ rushed through: F*ck, do you have eyes behind your back? My feet are lighter than ghosts!