Chapter 257 : Forget It, May Chen Tianming Live a Long Life.

"Is this fucking an idea a human could come up with? If we really do this, when it gets dark, I'll still be sticking my big butt up, lying on the track calculating!" Just thinking about that scene made Wang Ze sweat profusely.

Running and doing math problems?

Then sorry, Coach, I want to switch to liberal arts.

Sports students are just sports students, not Japanese. 

(Translator's Note: A reference to the stereotype of Japanese people being good at math).

Hearing this, Lin Li's eyes lit up: "Good opportunity!"

"How is this a good opportunity? The boomerang came back too fast, fuck!" Wang Ze completely lost it, laughed out loud, then restrained his smile and said indignantly:

"No, this is really too much. I'm saying it's not easy for us sports students either. Out of 365 days a year, we train for 360 days, and spend the remaining 5 days thinking about how to train.

"We don't have much to look forward to every year, just hoping to show off at the school sports meeting, then scroll through the confession wall at night to see if we're on it, and then pick a lucky little fangirl or big sister to fall in love with, and start degenerating into an indiscreet sports student. You can't deprive us of even this little hope, right?"

Lin Li just blinked and raised an eyebrow.

"Funny, do you think only you sports students are miserable? Have you ever considered the pain of us liberal arts students!" Hearing this, Bai Bufan's eyes turned red. He grabbed Wang Ze's collar and responded sorrowfully:

"When I was very young, I was abused and soaked in liquid for several months. During that time, my family didn't give me food. I could only curl up my body and couldn't see anything. Later, I was finally rescued, but I was hung upside down and beaten.

"And the doctor said I suffer from severe oxygen addiction. If I don't inhale it for a minute, there will be problems. And this gas is a slow poison. Generally, as long as a person inhales it once, it's hard for their lifespan to reach three digits.

"For two years after being rescued, I couldn't even walk. I could only crawl to get where I wanted to go every day. I couldn't even sleep while walking, and when inhaling, I couldn't even exhale. Even so, I insisted on living.

"Every day I have to sleep before dawn, get up before dark, eat when I'm hungry, drink when I'm thirsty, and I can't even stand up to poop. Every time I don't breathe, I can't catch my breath. The doctor said my heart has to beat at a frequency of dozens of times per minute for a lifetime, and I can't even rest when sleeping.

"If yours counts as pain, what does mine count as?"

Wang Ze: "(；゜○゜)?"

"..."

"I'll count you as an idiot." After reacting, the corners of Wang Ze's mouth twitched.

"Wang Ze, this sports student, really has no manners. Hearing the pain of others, he actually treats it with insults and mockery, completely lacking empathy. Are all you sports students like this?"

Bai Bufan mumbled, first looking at Lin Li's face and saying sadly, then turning his head to look at Wang Ze's fist.

Wait.

Why is it a fist.

"Sports students use their mouths, not their hands! Wang Ze, stop!" Bai Bufan turned and ran.

"Using my mouth, right? Bai Bufan, open your fucking mouth for me, I have an urgent matter."

"Then let's use hands!"

The two started a chase. It seemed the 400-meter run didn't consume much energy.

"Stop chasing." Lin Li interrupted the two's chase at this time, his pupils quaking, looking at his phone in disbelief, his expression exceptionally ferocious: "Wang Ze, you really got on the confession wall."

"What?" Wang Ze immediately dropped the dying Bai Bufan and jogged over.

Bai Bufan didn't care if he was dying or not, and crawled over.

Three heads gathered in front of Lin Li's phone.

They saw that the Nansang campus confession wall had just updated a post, and one of the pictures was—

[Wall, I want to confess to Wang Ze from Senior One Class 4 who just ran the 400 meters.]

[I want to ask if he has a partner.]

[Anonymous to death.]

"Fuck! Woohoo!!" Three sentences made Wang Ze completely revert to his ancestors, starting to howl like a gorilla, and even running around the two excitedly.

"No, he really got one!?" Bai Bufan was so angry he completely revived, blushing and taking out his own phone to confirm.

Fuck, it's true.

"No, I have to quickly comment that I don't... No, I can't comment myself, that's too unreserved. Fuck, fuck, she might be watching me right now, I have to maintain my persona. Lin Li, Bufan, you two hurry up, help me reply and say I don't have a partner."

Wang Ze suddenly became serious, although the corners of his mouth were still grinning to the base of his ears. He immediately signaled Bai Bufan and Lin Li to be good wingmen.

"Right, right, you two can also act as enthusiastic bros, directly post my QQ number in the comments section, and then tease a few words." Wang Ze had already arranged everything.

Lin Li, Bai Bufan: "..."

Very experienced.

Bai Bufan smiled: "Wang Ze, I've already commented that you're GAY and have a boyfriend."

Wang Ze: "?"

"Stop!" Wang Ze pounced and snatched Bai Bufan's phone. Finding that he hadn't really posted it, he breathed a sigh of relief, then started operating Bai Bufan's phone.

Bai Bufan just let him operate it.

Seeing a bro being liked, Bai Bufan was also genuinely happy for him, not sour at all, fucking! Not! Sour! At! All!

It was just that for some unknown reason, his back molars suddenly pressed tightly together.

"I'm going to prepare for the 200-meter preliminaries later. I have a premonition that this is just the beginning! Fuck, sports meeting, awesome! I'm off, I'm off!" Wang Ze left as if injected with chicken blood, leaving Bai Bufan holding his own phone, looking at those disgusting comments posted by "himself."

The sour yellow dog Bai Bufan started studying this post.

Wait.

Bai Bufan suddenly frowned.

He exited Qzone, searched for "Son" in his contact list, and clicked on it.

"Lin Li, why is your QQ chat bubble the same as the bubble of that fangirl who just confessed to Wang Ze." Bai Bufan suddenly looked up and narrowed his eyes.

"My bad, this is indeed a flaw. I'd better take off the bubble, changing it to the QQ default is more appropriate." Lin Li nodded calmly upon hearing this, holding his phone and starting to operate.

Bai Bufan: "(；゜○゜)?"

Eh?

Wait.

Oh my, why did my back molars suddenly separate?

Bai Bufan tried to hold back his laughter, but he really couldn't. He pointed at Lin Li and cursed: "Animal! Lin Li! You animal!"

"This is a white lie. Look how happy he is. Even if he knows the truth, he won't blame me." Lin Li, who had found the confession wall to confess and got an instant reply while Wang Ze and Bai Bufan were chasing each other, responded with a gentle smile.

Doing good deeds without leaving a trace, hiding merit and fame.

The red scarf worn for six years in elementary school materialized on Lin Li at this moment.

"Did you learn it?" Lin Li asked, trying to pass on this spark to illuminate the future.

"Learned it," Bai Bufan nodded, moved. "I will use it."

When the Senior Two men's 400 meters started running, the broadcast had already started notifying the women's 400-meter athletes to go to the roll call area for roll call.

Roll call had to be nearly half an hour in advance, so that when the Senior Three group finished running, the girls' group could seamlessly connect.

When Chen Yuying returned to the inside of the field, her number tag was already pinned to her top.

Number 4011, no special meaning. The numbers for each class were randomly distributed by the school, at most they could exchange for a preferred number within the class.

"A bit nervous?" Lin Li turned his head to look at the girl beside him. Seeing her lips constantly pursed, he asked with a smile.

"Mhm, they all look so formidable," Chen Yuying nodded, her gaze on the track, but without much focus, her thoughts wandering.

"It's the participation that counts," Lin Li comforted.

"But I still want to try my best to get a good ranking," Chen Yuying smiled.

"You can do it! Then good luck, I think you'll be fine. Class Rep, you will definitely have a tailwind all the way later, run faster than usual, and take first place," Lin Li encouraged.

"Okay," Chen Yuying smiled very happily.

After the first group of Senior One finished running, it was immediately the turn of the second group where Chen Yuying was.

Chen Yuying took off her jacket and handed it to Qu Wanqiu—Ding Sihan was at roll call.

Qu Wanqiu then handed the jacket and the water she had prepared to Lin Li: "You hold this. When she crosses the line later, I have to have my hands free to support Yingbao."

"Sure," Lin Li didn't mind, looking at Chen Yuying standing on the track.

Perhaps the appreciative gaze was too hot and disturbed the corner of the girl's clothes. Chen Yuying turned her head and met his gaze.

Lin Li then smiled weirdly and raised his eyebrows continuously, almost doing an eyebrow dance like Zeng Xiaoxian.

(Translator's Note: A character from the Chinese sitcom iPartment).

Then he looked down at the clothes hanging on his arm, winking and making faces, signaling that he was going to be a pervert.

Chen Yuying then laughed out loud, her nervousness dissipating a bit.

Then a strong autumn wind suddenly blew. The wind blowing from behind blew the girl's high ponytail and clothes forward.

The clothes clung tightly to her back, making her curves even more graceful. Her hair drew beautiful arcs in the air. The wind swept past her cheeks, bringing up a few stray hairs that gently stuck to her ears.

Chen Yuying's eyes narrowed slightly, hiding a hint of surprise. The corners of her mouth curled up slightly, and she subconsciously turned her head to look at the inside of the field, looking for the boy who had just wished her a tailwind.

His words are law, he always has this kind of magic.

The sunlight shone through her hair onto her face, reflecting her delicate contours, plating a soft halo, so beautiful that people couldn't take their eyes off her.

"This junior is so pretty!"

"Which one? Damn, no need to point, I see her. Is she that exquisite?"

"Is it my illusion? Why does it feel like this wind is only blowing on her? No, does the wind discriminate these days too, only being nice to good-looking people?"

"..."

Lin Li could hear the surrounding boys and girls praising Chen Yuying, and smiled lightly.

The wind listens to me now, so it discriminates, discriminates, discriminates, hehe.

"On your marks—Set—Bang!"

"Come on! Class Rep! Come on! Chen Yuying! Come on!"

The wind galloping under the girl's feet should theoretically be more precious than gold, but in reality, it was a cheap thing that could accumulate ten minutes in eight hours.

"The Class Rep's speed isn't slow either." After watching Chen Yuying run far away, Bai Bufan stopped cheering, turned around, and said to Lin Li.

Where's the person next to me?

Bai Bufan turned his head fiercely, watching Lin Li and Qu Wanqiu running to the opposite side, preparing to continue cheering.

"Poor Wang Ze."

Now even if he ran, he couldn't catch up. Bai Bufan stayed where he was and sighed.

Lin Li's differential treatment was too obvious.

...

"You both made it to the finals, you're all very formidable. Good luck tomorrow too." At Class 4's sun umbrella base, Lin Li leaned against the pillar and praised Chen Yuying and Ding Sihan, who were sitting on chairs, their faces still showing the afterglow of exercise.

"Give me the water." Ding Sihan reached out, caught the water Lin Li threw over, took a big gulp, and sighed, "Hmph, the weather is good today, the wind was very sensible. I felt like I ran so fast during the final sprint."

"I also felt like I ran faster than usual," Chen Yuying held the mineral water on the table with both hands, smiled, and nodded.

Lin Li controlled the natural wind on the field, making them fully assist when they sprinted, and lightly assist on the other side.

After all, a strong tailwind the whole way would inevitably make people feel strange. This was just right, making people feel that when it should have been a headwind, the wind just happened to stop.

"I looked at all the specific results of the preliminaries. If you can maintain this tomorrow, you can be in the top three, which is very impressive," Xie Wenjing walked over and said.

"No problem, I'm confident," Ding Sihan nodded.

"Don't be so proud, getting cocky just because you made it to the finals. You must know, your finish line is sometimes just someone else's starting line. Qu Wanqiu and I were guaranteed a spot in the finals and we didn't say anything," Lin Li poured cold water on Ding Sihan at this time.

"Guaranteed a spot in the finals? Why?" Ding Sihan was stunned upon hearing this.

Are they that formidable?

"Because the 1500-meter and 3000-meter events don't have preliminaries, the first race is the final," Chen Yuying explained for Lin Li.

Ding Sihan: "..."

"Then you'd be shameless if you said anything because of making it to this final!" Ding Sihan said speechlessly.

If she wasn't too tired after running, Ding Sihan would definitely get up and kick Lin Li.

"Alright, you guys rest well. I'm going to cheer for Tianming, who's running the 100 meters." Glancing at the event athlete list on the whiteboard, Chen Tianming's event was about to start, and Bai Bufan was already waving at him from not far away, so Lin Li said.

Although Chen Tianming was Class 17's dog, he was raised in Class 4 after all, so he still had to go cheer for him.

"Okay."

"Yiling, who is this Chengfeng? Why did he suddenly add me? It shows here that you shared the contact card."

And Chen Yuying, who glanced at her phone, suddenly looked up and asked a girl not far away.

"Oh, oh, Yuying, this is a senior from the calligraphy club. He suddenly asked me about you just now, saying he wanted your contact information, so I gave him your WeChat."

Fang Yiling walked over upon hearing this, winking and making faces, with a smile full of hints: "Seems like he likes you."

"Captivated by Yingbao running just now?" Ding Sihan asked in surprise upon hearing this.

"Definitely. I hadn't really talked to him before. He suddenly approached me to chat just now, and even asked me if Yuying was dating anyone," Fang Yiling blinked rapidly, then nodded.

Ding Sihan looked up towards the direction Lin Li left. He was already gone, seemingly having reached the track.

Of all the times to leave, you leave now.

Useless thing, hurry the fuck back.

Ding Sihan hurriedly took out her phone, preparing to contact Lin Li.

"What kind of crappy screen name is this? If the wind agrees to let him ride, does he just ride?" A voice sounded from behind.

Startled by the voice suddenly appearing by her ear, Ding Sihan trembled all over, turned around, suppressed the urge to punch that figure, and cursed angrily: "Ahhhh Lin Li, are you a ghost? Walking without making a sound, go die!!"

Lin Li, who was scolded, only felt innocent.

Ding Sihan patted her chest a few times, then narrowed her eyes: "Why are you back? Weren't you going to cheer for Chen Tianming?"

"A person who helps Class 17 move tables but won't move them for our Class 4, I should cheer for him? It's already good enough that I don't break his legs. Does he deserve it? This guy..." Lin Li sneered upon hearing this. He was very angry right now, so his tone was unkind.

An unnamed fire, and not the unnamed fire in the lower abdomen.

It's all fucking Chen Tianming's fault.

"Accept it, Yuying, see what the senior says," Fang Yiling looked forward to eating melons.

Lin Li continued to sneer.

Now there were two unnamed fires.

It's all fucking Chen Tianming and Fang Yiling's fault.

What the hell is a senior? Is he even eighteen? Is he an old geezer? He's probably not even older than me, and he's called a senior?

Chen Yuying was secretly listening to Lin Li's voice behind her listing to Ding Sihan how many anger-inducing things Chen Tianming had done. Hearing Fang Yiling say this, she smiled and shook her head:

"Forget it, I don't really want to add people I don't know."

"Maybe it's something serious," Fang Yiling was still instigating.

Seeing Fang Yiling say this, Chen Yuying frowned slightly, hesitated, and then nodded: "Alright."

[Chen Yuying: I have accepted your friend request. Now we can start chatting.]

"Lin Li, keep talking, what else did Chen Tianming do?" Ding Sihan was listening to Lin Li make up stories. Seeing Lin Li suddenly stop talking, she deliberately urged.

"You shut up first, let me eat the melon here first." Lin Li's gaze was locked on the screen, and he reached out to press Ding Sihan's mouth.

Almost pressing it directly on her face, Ding Sihan swatted Lin Li's hand away, blinked, then clicked her tongue and shook her head. But then she also leaned her head over to look at Chen Yuying's screen.

Chen Yuying didn't mind everyone watching and didn't hide anything.

[Chengfeng: Hello.]

[Chengfeng: My name is Tao Qiyuan, Senior Two, Class 11.]

[Chengfeng: I want to confirm, do you not have a boyfriend yet?]

"How can there be such an excessive person in this world?!"

Everyone looked up at Lin Li, who was suddenly very angry, somewhat confused.

Facing everyone's gaze, Lin Li pointed at the phone and responded: "Don't you see what he's doing? Why would someone do such a thing? This is even more of an animal than me!"

"Ah?" Ding Sihan was a bit dazed. She didn't see what this had to do with being an animal.

But she seemed to see that someone was really anxious.

"What's wrong?" Chen Yuying was also somewhat confused.

"Class Rep, don't you see what he's doing? Can you give me the phone? I must question him," Lin Li reached out his hand.

Chen Yuying looked up, blinked, and then placed her phone in Lin Li's hand: "You ask."

"Eh? I'm really asking?" Not expecting to actually get the phone, Lin Li also blinked, and for a moment didn't make a move, just asked.

"Mhm," Chen Yuying nodded.

"Class Rep, I'm Lin Li," Lin Li still didn't make a move, but made a final confirmation.

"Of course I know you're Lin Li," Chen Yuying chuckled and nodded vigorously.

Then Lin Li didn't hold back. He didn't even pick up the phone to reply, just kept it at a height where the girls could also see, and his fingers started typing rapidly.

[Chen Yuying: So what if I don't have a boyfriend?]

[Chen Yuying: Is it necessary to specially add my WeChat to mock me?]

[Chen Yuying: Is it interesting? Did it get in your way?]

[Chen Yuying: Deleted.]

Chen Yuying, Ding Sihan, Qu Wanqiu, Fang Yiling: "?"

"Hahahahahaha!! Lin Li, you're a fucking genius hahaha!" Ding Sihan was the first to react, then held her stomach and started laughing.

Then Qu Wanqiu and Chen Yuying also laughed out loud.

"Phew—" The fire in Lin Li's heart was finally vented a bit.

Really, he couldn't even do something like adding a single woman and then mocking her for not having a boyfriend.

This damn Tao Qiyuan actually did such a thing.

It was indeed a bit intolerable.

"Class Rep, this kind of in-your-face mocking is really too much. Saying one more word to this kind of person is bad luck, he must be deleted, don't you think?"

Although he sent the word "Deleted," if Lin Li really wanted to do it, he definitely still had to ask for Chen Yuying's opinion.

At this time.

[Chengfeng]

[The other party is typing...]

[Chengfeng]

[The other party is typing...]

[Chengfeng]

[The other party is typing...]

The other party's nickname showed he was typing countless times, but not a single message was sent.

After about half a minute.

[Chengfeng: Ah?]

[Chengfeng: No no no, don't delete me yet!!]

[Chengfeng: No, Junior, that's not what I meant...]

"Deleting directly is too impolite, wait a moment." Regarding Lin Li's request, Chen Yuying shook her head, then took back her phone and started replying herself.

[Chen Yuying: Sorry, my friend was using my WeChat to reply just now.]

[Chengfeng: [Sticker]]

[Chengfeng: I see, I was wondering. Scared me to death, I thought you were really going to delete me.]

[Chen Yuying: Senior, is there anything you need?]

[Chengfeng: It's just, I want to get to know you [Sticker]]

[Chen Yuying: Sorry, I'm not used to having strangers in my contact list. Since there's no serious business, I'll delete you now.]

Then Chen Yuying looked up, put the phone back in Lin Li's hand, smiled, and nodded: "You can delete him now."

"He sent you another message," Lin Li glanced at the phone screen and said.

"No need to look," Chen Yuying shook her head, not caring.

So, with a whoosh, the phone disappeared from Chen Yuying's hand, and with another whoosh, it returned to her hand.

In the coming and going, there was just one more sad person in the world.

But his sadness came with a price, because there was one less person in the world venting an unnamed fire.

"The Class Rep is still polite, it's right to go through the process, yes, mhm, yes," Lin Li nodded in relief.

Hey, speaking of this unnamed fire, it really comes without a name and goes without a name.

Comes namelessly, goes namelessly.

"Yiling, don't casually give my contact information to others anymore. At least ask me first, I don't really like adding people I don't know," Chen Yuying smiled at Lin Li, turned her head, and said to Fang Yiling.

"Oh, oh, sorry, I won't do it next time," Fang Yiling was completely satisfied.

Awesome.

Being able to see chat records with such enterprise-level comprehension.

And seemingly eating an even more delicious melon.

It's really worth dying for.

"Wanqiu, your cooking skills are good. Smell it, is there some seasoning smell in the air? It seems a bit sour, my stomach is getting hungry from smelling it." At this time, Ding Sihan stretched and said to Qu Wanqiu in front of the table.

Hearing this, Qu Wanqiu seriously closed her eyes and smelled, then opened her eyes, looking slightly shocked, and nodded: "There seems to be."

Then Ding Sihan and Qu Wanqiu both turned to look at Lin Li: "Lin Li, do you have a clue?"

"No? What is it?" Lin Li smelled it, completely unaware of what these two daughters were talking about.

If your nose is blind, you can donate it to a deaf person in need.

"...Lane two, Senior One Class 20, Xu Feng; Lane three, Senior One Class 4, Chen Tianming; Lane four..."

No time to pay attention to the two daughters' game, Lin Li had very important things to do now, so he turned and ran towards the 100-meter track:

"I'm going to cheer for Chen Tianming first, we'll talk later!"

"Ah?" Ding Sihan was very "confused" and shouted in the direction Lin Li left: "Lin Li, didn't you say Chen Tianming is Class 17's running dog, completely unworthy of being a Class 4 person, and completely unworthy of you cheering for him?"

"Ding Sihan, if you say such things again, even if we have a good relationship, I will scold you! Chen Tianming is my best brother! I absolutely will not allow you to slander him like this!" Lin Li ran while turning his head to scold angrily.

["Chen Tianming is a cheapskate."]

["Forget it, may Chen Tianming live a long life."]

[—"There is a Little Lin Li by the Clouds"]

(Translator's Note: A parody of the novel title "There is a Little Shop by the Clouds").

(End of Chapter)