by Dragon King
The resistance he had against her suddenly disappeared. Instead, he felt quite moved.
But if that was the case…
“You have to go back before noon,” Hao Ren said to her.
“You nag too much!” Zhao Yanzi twisted her pretty eyebrows. “I had asked for a leave!”
“What is the reason?” Hao Ren continued to ask.
He soon realized that he disciplined her quite a lot. Especially when he didn’t even know this little girl about one or two weeks ago…
“I feel ill!” Zhao Yanzi almost screamed.
Hao Ren didn’t expect her to ask for a leave just to watch his race. Thus, Hao Ren caved. “Fine, but you have to go back after I finish my race.”
He felt that since he wasn’t her elder, there was no need to pester her so much. He also sneaked out of class when he was back in middle school, and he sneaked out, even more, when he got into university. Therefore, he actually wasn’t qualified to give Zhao Yanzi a lesson.
“I got it! You are so annoying.” Zhao Yanzi rolled her eyes at Hao Ren.
Ling, who sat beside her, covered her mouth while laughing. It was probably her first time seeing the fearless Zhao Yanzi being driven nearly crazy by someone.
She was dragged out by Zhao Yanzi today, and the reason she gave to the teacher was to keep Zhao Yanzi company at the hospital. The teachers were aware of how influential and wealthy Zhao Yanzi’s family was, so they didn’t dare to give her a hard time. What surprised Ling was that although Zhao Yanzi couldn’t be considered as an excellent student, this was her first time skipping class.
“Time for the 1600-meter relay race,” Xie Yujia reminded Hao Ren suddenly. Dozens of students on the bleachers started walking towards their specific spots.
Hao Ren switched his attention to the sports field as he saw Huang Xujie would be participating in this race too.
The 1600-meter relay race was the highlight of the Athletic Games at Eastern Ocean University as it wasn’t only a test of endurance and explosive force but also a reflection of teamwork. The 400-meter relay race, by contrast, took such a short amount of time that it finished even before the audience could really enjoy it. Therefore, it could only be seen as a warmup.
Cheers sounded on the spectator stands that were silent a few moments ago as Huang Xujie showed up.
He purposely rolled up his sleeves to show the solid deltoid muscles. Underneath his sports shorts were a pair of thick and strong legs. Those chunky legs didn’t make him look short and chubby because of his 180-centimeter height. Instead, he looked extremely powerful.
The way he showed off his muscles caused another wave of screams from all the girls.
“That guy in golden sportswear looks handsomes,” Staring at the track, Ling who was beside Zhao Yanzi said to her.
“Em, yeah.” Zhao Yanzi looked over and nodded.
“Little kid, what do you know about good looks?” Hao Ren objected vaguely.
Ling turned around and cast a slight glance at Hao Ren; it seemed like he offended them by objecting their taste of beauty.
Zhao Yanzi, however, pretended she didn’t hear Hao Ren’s words. She stared at the track motionlessly as if she was admiring Huang Xujie who was trying to act cool.
Her act made Hao Ren a bit jealous. Although he never thought of marrying Zhao Yanzi, she was still his fiancée by name.
What he didn’t know was that Zhao Yanzi had nearly the same thoughts when she saw Xie Yujia give water to Hao Ren.
After warming up for a few minutes, every athlete got into position
Chants like “Come on, XXX!” or “Come on, XXX Major!” soared through the entire field. However, among all the cheerings, the loudest and most in sync one was definitely “Come on, Huang Xujie!”
“Damn, such a nice Athletic Games is now becoming that guy’s private show.” Hao Ren felt secretly annoyed.
Thanks to the rules of the Athletic Games, each athlete could participate in no more than three games. “Otherwise, who knows how much limelight that guy would get.” Hao Ren thought as he didn’t realize the annoyance he had towards Huang Xujie had evolved into disgust.
However, most of the guys were annoyed by Huang Xujie anyhow. As he always tried to act cool, most of the guys in the school were just choking with silent fury. After all, Huang Xujie’s father was the deputy mayor, and he was the president of the most popular Rock Climbing Club; most of the guys didn’t have the chance to get close to him.
Bang! As soon as the starting pistol fired, the eight athletes who represented the eight majors launched themselves into the race with a burst of acceleration. The whole atmosphere heated up instantly. All kinds of cheerings resonated in the field.
Compared to the Mechatronics Engineering Major, International Business Administration Major didn’t have a lot of male students; that was why they never did very well in sports. As the trump card of their major, Huang Xujie was placed as the fourth runner to boost the performance of the major.
After the third runners finished, the distance between the International Business Administration Major and other majors were getting longer and longer. As the relay baton was handed to Huang Xujie, he was over twenty meters behind the first-place runner from the Mechatronic Engineering Major and over ten meters behind the second-place runner from the Computer Science Major.
“There is probably no chance of overthrowing with such a distance gap,” Following the situation on the field, Hao Ren thought to himself.
However, Huang Xujie who was on the outermost track strived to catch up. His golden sportswear seemed to have created a golden whirlwind around him. He ran the 400-meter distance in a flat-out sprint as if he was doing a 100-meter dash.
Two meters! One meter!
He outran the second-place runner within three hundred meters!
There were only one hundred meters left!
Similar to what happened during the 400-meter relay race, he was about five meters behind the first-place runner!
It was impossible to catch up as he had already run at full speed for the last three hundred meters. How could he still be able to sprint through the last one hundred meters like it was a 100-meter dash?
Hao Ren couldn’t help but to get up and look at the track; he felt like his heart was on tenterhooks.
Actually, it wasn’t only him. Almost all of the people on the spectator stands got up to watch the final dash.
Woosh!
Huang Xujie surprisingly surpassed the first-place runner and reached the finish line with a one-meter gap.
“Wow…”
The entire audience went crazy.
“Is this guy a real human? How could he have such a strong explosive force as well as incredible endurance?” Hao Ren looked at the finish line with a bit of astonishment.
“He runs so fast!” Ling couldn’t help but express her praise when she saw Huang Xujie run for the first time.
Numerous first and second-year students from the International Business Administration Major stood up and cheered vigorously for their third-year senior!
Being a hero again, Huang Xujie took off his golden sports t-shirt immediately and showed off his muscles. Then he held the t-shirt in his hand and waved it around.
“Does he think he’s a world champion?” Seeing the result, the guys around Hao Ren sat down one after another and complained discontentedly.
“Huang Xujie! Huang Xujie!” The name Huang Xujie was called out in sync by over a thousand students from the International Business Administration Major.
Hao Ren sat back down, grabbed a bottle of water, and had a sip.
“This guy has saved his major and snatched victories at the last minute twice already. From this respect, he indeed is worthy of pride. However, he isn’t fighting for the honor of his major; he is just submerging himself in the satisfaction of victory. He just would like to see others cheering for him.”
“This is obvious as Huang Xujie didn’t gather and celebrate the victory with his
team members. Instead, he chose to run around by himself.”
Hao Ren was calmly analyzing Huang Xujie’s behavior after he got his victory.
“It that who you will be competing with this afternoon?” Seeing the serious look on Hao Ren’s face, Zhao Yanzi asked suddenly.
36 Her Sister Is……
“Yeah. Do you have any advice?” Hao Ren asked her.
“No advice. I just hope you won’t lose to him,” Zhao Yanzi answered.
“It might be tough to not to lose to Huang Xujie…” Hearing Zhao Yanzi’s words, Xie Yujia followed up with some doubts.
She would go to the Student Council sometimes to help out, and she learned something about Huang Xujie. Before he became the president of the Rock Climbing Club, he was the provincial long-distance race champion back in high school. Although he fell behind after he got into university, winning a championship on the university level would still be too easy for him.
There would only be a sliver of a chance for Hao Ren to win against Huang Xujie; Huang Xujie would need to make a big mistake. Seeing Zhao Yanzi talk to Hao Ren as if she was giving an order, Xie Yujia felt speechless.
Although she wished that Hao Ren could get a good result, she felt that this little girl thought too highly of him.
After the 1600-meter relay race, there was pole vaulting in the middle of the sports field. It was incredibly eye-opening as Hao Ren realized that Eastern Ocean University had numerous undiscovered talents.
After watching javelin throwing and shot putting, it was time for lunch.
“Hao Ren, let’s go get lunch. You can’t get hungry since you have a race in the afternoon,” Xie Yujia said to Hao Ren.
Hao Ren looked back at Zhao Jiayi and the other guys and found that they were still playing cards with a great passion. He uttered a sigh, nodded, and said, “let’s go.”
He looked back at Zhao Yanzi and Ling, “Let’s go together.” He said.
Zhao Yanzi looked at him and then got up. Obviously, Ling followed her.
“Such a little girl, but she already has the qualities of a leader,” Hao Ren thought in secret as they all walked out of the sports field.
All the cafeterias were open, but they went to Clear Stream Cafeteria which was the closest to the sports field; it also had the best food in the university.
This cafeteria was behind the pink dorm building for female students. Many beautiful female students would come here for food, and there were a lot of male students there who wanted just to come here and admire the girls. Zhou Liren, for example, always went to this cafeteria by himself, hoping that he could meet a pretty girl from first-year and start a relationship…
There weren’t as many people as usual because of the Athletic Games. Xie Yujia brought them to the second floor, turned around, and asked Zhao Yanzi and Ling, “what do you guys want to eat?”
Zhao Yanzi looked at the menu on the wall and answered, “Two orders of sizzling beef.”
“Ok.” Xie Yujia nodded and then asked Hao Ren, “How about you?”
Hao Ren rushed to take out his Prepaid Cafe Card, “Em…I’ll get it myself.”
“Come on, it’s on me today!” Xie Yujia grabbed Hao Ren’s hand and pushed his card back.
Her palm was smooth and soft. She didn’t care much, but she was actually grabbing Hao Ren’s fist.
Hao Ren felt quite embarrassed and quickly retracted his hand; he didn’t want the Class President to think that he was trying to take advantage of her.
“We’ll take four orders of sizzling beef so that we don’t have to be in the lineup again.” Xie Yujia walked up to the ordering window briskly. “Sir, can I have four orders of sizzling beef?”
It was embarrassing for Hao Ren to have a girl to pay for the food. Hao Ren had no choice but to let Xie Yujia pay since she was so straightforward.
Zhao Yanzi and Ling found two empty seats. They just sat down and started enjoying the beautiful view of the university.
Hao Ren and Xie Yujia stood beside the steaming pick-up window as they waited for their sizzling beef.
“That’s so… how can you pay? You had already treated me to Spicy Hot Pot last time,” Hao Ren said to her.
“That only cost a few bucks; it doesn’t count. You are going to represent the entire class in a race this afternoon. This can be a treat for you,” Xie Yujia said with a smile.
She smiled slightly, but it was honest and refreshing.
“You always talk about class’ honor and stuff, but you are buying me food with your own money; they aren’t from the bank account of the class committee,” Hao Ren said.
Xie Yujia suddenly pointed out the window and smiled. “It’s done.”
Seeing her happy face, Hao Ren found that even the serious Class President had times when she was like a gluttonous kitty.
They held two plates of sizzling beef each and walked to the table while enjoying the smell of the delicious food.
Zhao Yanzi and Ling were both at the age when their bodies were growing. Therefore, they were already starving and couldn’t hide the hungry look on their faces when they smelled the food.
Xie Yujia smiled at Hao Ren as she saw Zhao Yanzi eating in a hurry; Zhao Yanzi completely disregarded how hot the beef was. Xie Yujia didn’t believe that this little girl was Hao Ren’s fiancee, and she treated Zhao Yanzi like a little sister as well.
The four of them continued to have their lunch quietly. Xie Yujia didn’t plan to ask this little girl for her name, and neither did Zhao Yanzi.
After finishing their lunch, Xie Yujia looked at Hao Ren and said proactively, “Hao Ren, it is still too early to go back. How about we walk around the campus?”
Hao Ren was about to agree when Zhao Yanzi interrupted and said, “Uncle, didn’t you promise me that you’d show me around?”
Xie Yujia paused for a moment. She quickly thought that Zhao Yanzi was misunderstanding the situation and said. “I meant the four of us could walk around the university.”
“Don’t bother, I’ll just walk around with him,” Zhao Yanzi said decisively.
Xie Yujia received a light blow, but that didn’t make her mad. “Fine, Hao Ren; you can keep them company.”
She suddenly felt that this little girl had such a strong possessive desire. “I can’t erase her hostility even after buying her lunch? Did she really think that I’m going to take away her big sister’s boyfriend?”
Thinking of this, Xie Yujia started wondering again, “Who is the big sister of this little girl? Is she beautiful?”
As she was about to leave, Zhao Yanzi suddenly yelled towards the gate of the cafeteria in excitement, “Big sister!”
Xie Yujia looked back at the gate. Hao Ren also turned around as soon as he heard Zhao Yanzi’s yell.
Su Han showed up at the gate wearing a long striped blue dress.
She walked towards Zhao Yanzi and Hao Ren slowly as if her feet didn’t even touch the ground. Her graceful elegance seemed to block all the grease and smoke of the cafeteria.
Xie Yujia was so shocked that she had to cover her mouth to prevent herself from making any sound.
“Her big sister is Su Han? The teacher who made all the guys lose themselves in reverie? Hao Ren’s girlfriend is Su Han?! No wonder Su Han asked Hao Ren to go to her office a few days ago, the reason was…”
Xie Yujia was so puzzled that she was lost in the mind trap she had set up for herself.
“I was looking for you, but I didn’t expect you to come here,” Su Han walked up to Zhao Yanzi and said to her.
All the students who were having lunch were genuinely shocked as they saw Su Han appearing in the cafeteria. The impression they had of Su Han was that she was so pure and elegant that she would never show up in any cafeteria at the university.
“What do you want from me?” Zhao Yanzi looked at Su Han in confusion.
Su Han took a glance at Hao Ren before slightly holding onto Zhao Yanzi’s arm. “I’ll show you around the university.”
; Like what Hao Ren experienced last time, Su Han’s move seemed slow and elegant, but it didn’t allow Zhao Yanzi to get away. Zhao Yanzi’s wrist was already in Su Han’s hand before she realized it.
Seeing Zhao Yanzi got taken away by Su Han helplessly, Hao Ren paused for a few seconds and then turned around to look at Xie Yujia and Ling. “Em……let’s go back to the sports field,” he said.
37 Definitely No Chance To Win
When Hao Ren, Xie Yujia, and Ling went back to the field, the 400-meter hurdle had just begun. They walked back to the spectator stands while watching the race on the track.
There was, theoretically, two hours set aside for lunch, but only a few students went to the cafeteria for lunch. Most of them were just eating cookies and bread, playing cards, or chatting while watching the games.
Zhao Jiayi and other guys were surprised and excited to see Hao Ren and Xie Yujia come back together. Nobody could have ever predicted that Hao Ren would get so close to the Class President Xie Yujia unknowingly, especially since Hao Ren seemed so honest and shy. “Xie Yujia will probably become his girlfriend if everything continues to go smoothly.” They all thought.
“Hey, last time you have said that if Ren could get a girlfriend within the four years of university, you would give 1000-yuan to me and Cao Ronghua.” Noticing what was going on, Zhou Liren who just lost 30-yuan playing cards yelled at Zhao Jiayi.
Zhao Jiayi used to think that it was absolutely impossible for Hao Ren to find a girlfriend, but he was starting to panic now. However, it wasn’t in his character to break promises. Therefore, he thought for a while and said, “Zhou Liren, how about we have another bet? This time, we will bet on the ranking Ren could get in this race.”
The classmates around them were also excited and ready to join in on the bet when they heard Zhao Jiayi’s suggestion. “Hehe, this is interesting! We are in!”
“Fine, fine, fine! The bet is open!” Throwing away the cards in his hands, Zhao Jiayi picked up a paper and a pen from the ground and began writing down and recording the bets. “The ratio will be one to one if you bet on Hao Ren getting the last place; one to one and a half if you bet Hao Ren will get the second last place… one to fifty if you think Hao Ren will get the second place; and one to one hundred if Hao Ren you think Hao Ren can get the first place!”