Lin Zimao didn’t go back to talk to Qi Jinghe to coax and pester him unceasingly1軟磨破泡 (ruǎn mó pò pào): lit. use soft tactics to worn out and soak T/N: This may or may not be a typo for the idiom, 軟磨硬泡 (ruǎn mó yìng pào), to coax and pester unceasingly; to tiresomely pursue something; to wheedle; to cajole., if the other party doesn’t want to talk, there must be a reason, he can’t force it either.
He and Jiang Xuan spent another day playing in the snowfield, his skiing skills improved by leaps and bounds2突飛猛進 (tū fēi měng jìn): to progress rapidly; to advance by leaps and bounds; advance with seven-league strides; make great/remarkable progress; Describe progress and development is particularly rapid., in just one day, he had already reached the level of experts, playing with various positions alternately, making Jiang Xuan sigh in awe.
The two of them played like crazy, only after their bodies were exhausted did they drove back home.
Along the way, Lin Zimao also commented on his cool posture, this angle is not cool enough, but the height is okay.
The corners of Jiang Xuan’s lips were always curled up, listening to Lin Zimao’s words made him feel happy both physically and mentally.
After arriving home, Jiaoyan meowed at Jiang Xuan, Jiang Xuan brought it a small can, after eating, it stopped calling out, it even wagged its tail at Jiang Xuan, Lin Zimao suspected that it had learned it from some dog outside, it was too dog-like.
The winter vacation is only a month long, and now a week has passed.
Lin Bei didn’t look for him again after he was almost fainted because of Lin Zimao last time, but Jiang mother sent people to bring them food every once in a while3隔三岔五 (gé sān chà wǔ): T/N: same meaning as 隔三差五 (gé sān chà wǔ), every few days (idiom)..
The New Year is approaching, the weather is getting colder and colder, Lin Zimao just hugs Jiaoyan and huddles at home every day, not wanting to go anywhere.
Jiang Xuan is different, he received school reports every day, however, he would set aside time to have breakfast and dinner with Lin Zimao, sometimes Lin Zimao would go to school to have lunch with him.
Qi Jing and the researchers over there clamored for him to invite Lin Zimao as a consultant, Lin Zimao was too lazy to go, so he just video chatted with them at home, if Lin You really wanted to hand over everything in his hands to him, that meant that his arrangements on planet Feige would also be revealed to him one by one, Lin Zimao doesn’t want to know too much now, it’s good to continue to be a carefree child.
Out of boredom, Lin Zimao had no choice but to start drawing his mecha design draft.
Halfway through the drawing, he suddenly remembered Jiang Xuan’s mecha design competition, almost forgot to ask him what the result was.
Jiang Xuan told him that he had entered the finals, he would give an on-site presentation in two days, he gave Lin Zimao an electronic admission ticket.
Of course, Lin Zimao would go to support him.
Jiang Xuan participated in the Alliance-wide mecha design competition, the contestants are all top mecha designers from various planets, and being able to enter the finals meant that his level has already ranked among the top of the Alliance.
On the day of the finals, Lin Zimao went with Jiang Xuan in his car.
It’s about half an hour’s drive from where they live.
It didn’t snow today, but it was colder than snowy day, it’s very windy.
Lin Zimao was wrapped in a white compressed down jacket by Jiang Xuan, and a scarf of the same style as Jiang Xuan was wrapped around his neck, half of his face was buried in the scarf, only a pair of beautiful pure eyes were exposed.
“Brother, you wrap me up like this, which greatly affected my domineering attitude as a space pirate.” Lin Zimao said softly, not like a space pirate at all.
Shortly after he got out of bed, Jiang Xuan stuffed him with a few bites of fried dumplings4煎餃 (jiān jiǎo): Fried dumplings. 
, he still slept for half an hour in the car, after getting off the car, the wind blew, and the whole person is awake, but his voice had not changed yet, just woke up, the whole person is soft and fluffy.
Jiang Xuan held his waist, he was very worried that he would bump into the wall while walking: “There will be many people later, don’t get bumped by anyone.”
The little space pirate still talked a lot: “With Brother’s support, I absolutely will not be bumped into, say, do you think I am pregnant with your child now?” He held his waist, and deliberately pushed his stomach forward.
Brother Jiang Xuan quietly slapped him on the buttocks: “Want to be pregnant with my child?”
Little space pirate: “People say that when a man has a child, he will become more responsible, is Brother like that too?”
Jiang Xuan: “I’ll let you get pregnant tonight.”
Little space pirate: “If you win the championship, I’ll give you two in one pregnancy, how’s that?”
Jiang Xuan stared at him with a deep look: “It’s a deal5一言為定 (yī yán wéi dìng): one word and it’s settled (idiom); that’s settled then; it’s a deal; a promise is a promise., it seems that Jiaoyan will have two more brothers.”
The little space pirate still wanted to continue talking, but then he heard someone calling out to Jiang Xuan next to him.
The two of them looked at the source of the voice at the same time, and it turned out to be Ji Chen.
“I thought I had mistakenly identified the person, why is Zimao wearing so many clothes?” Ji Chen felt that this didn’t look like Lin Zimao’s dressing style.
Lin Zimao gestured to Jiang Xuan with his chin: “He dressed me.”
Now Ji Chen regrets calling the two of them to stop, these casual words are full of dog food.
The three of them entered the venue, as a contestant, Jiang Xuan has his own seat, and he didn’t sit with them.
When Jiang Xuan was about to leave, Lin Zimao quietly pinched the tips of his fingers, Jiang Xuan looked back at him, after shaking his hand, he went to find his seat.
Ji Chen was relatively familiar with the venue, he took Lin Zimao to find a seat, pretending not to see his brother exchange amorous glances6眉來眼去 (méi lái yǎn qù): lit. eyes and eyebrows come and go (idiom); to make eyes at each other; to flirt with each other; to exchange flirting glances with sb; exchange amorous glances; Describe the use of eyebrows to express love. with Lin Zimao.
Practically almost blinding his dog eyes7瞎了狗眼 (xiā le gǒu yǎn): an Internet buzzword, an exaggerated metaphor to describe the content as too exciting, and regretting having eyes to see such a scene..
Although the weather is not too warm today, there are still a lot of people coming to the venue to watch.
In addition to some highly respected8德高望重 (dé gāo wàng zhòng): lit. high level of morals; enjoys fame and prestige; (of an elderly person) be of noble character and high prestige; (of a person) virtuous and esteemed; enjoy high prestige and command universal respect; with noble morality and high repute; a person of virtue and prestige; a person of good moral standing and reputation; High morality and great reputation. seniors in the front row, there were also many high-level executives from mecha manufacturing companies who also came to the venue, waiting to see who would win the prize, to either snap a copy of the design draft, or sign a contract with the designer on the spot, etc.
On everyone’s seat, there was an on-site flow chart, there are also names and related information for the top twenty finalists.
Lin Zimao scanned through the names of the contestants and the brief descriptions of their entries one by one.
In addition to Jiang Xuan, he also saw a familiar person: “Huh? Cheng Chen also made it to the finals?”
“Yeah, his entry was also said to be quite good.” At this time, he also thought about Lin Zimao’s bet with Cheng Chen, “You still made a bet with him, how’s your design coming along? Do you need our help?”
“That’s not necessary.” Lin Zimao took out a piece of chocolate from his pocket, then reluctantly took out another piece and handed it to Ji Chen, “Want some?”
Ji Chen took it: “I’m not picky.”
“If you don’t want to eat, I can have an extra piece, Jiang Xuan made it for me.” His face was full of showing off.
“So I got to eat chocolate made by Jiang Xuan himself?” Ji Chen didn’t know whether to cry or laugh, “I’ve never eaten it since I’ve known him since I was a kid! Oh, he did feed me uncooked carrots when I was a kid, or cooked them for me with toys.”
Lin Zimao could imagine Jiang Xuan feeding Ji Chen unripe carrots with a stern face, he couldn’t help but laugh.
After he finished laughing, he asked Ji Chen: “By the way, Senior, may I ask you something?”
“You ask.” Ji Chen found that the chocolate was not very sweet, it tastes better than the ones sold outside, sure enough, it contained his love for Lin Zimao.
“Why exactly can’t Jiang Xuan ride a mecha?” Last time, he took Jiang Xuan up to the sky for some thrilling fun, he didn’t see anything wrong with him.
“This symptom seems to be innate, he has space phobia, whenever he goes into space, he will have convulsions all over his body, and his face will turn pale with fear, I remember auntie told me that they took Jiang Xuan to travel to other planets for the first time, they didn’t know that Jiang Xuan had space phobia at the time, Jiang Xuan almost frightened them when he went into shock, later, he was given sedatives all the way before he came back.” Ji Chen sighed lightly, “If he didn’t have this symptom, he probably wouldn’t have developed a talent for mecha design.”
“A genius can shine wherever he is.” Lin Zimao said, “Is there there any way to solve the problem of space phobia?”
Ji Chen: “If it’s just a physical reason, then surgery is enough, but if there are psychological reasons, it’s more difficult.”
Lin Zimao: “You mean Jiang Xuan still has some mental obstacles? Did something happen to him?”
Ji Chen sighed and said, “Originally, he should have told you this, but it doesn’t seem to matter if I told you in advance, he may be embarrassed to speak himself. It’s like this, the children of the Jiang family are very gifted in piloting mecha, you should know Jiang Man, there is also a cousin above them, who is very good. When they were young, the Jiang family had prepared small-sized mechas for them in advance that were suitable for children to practice, who knew that after Jiang Xuan’s mecha was activated, there’s something wrong with him, but the mecha is controlled by the backstage personnel, no matter how much he cried and shouted, the elders didn’t let him out, he almost suffocated from fear before the test was over, fortunately, auntie discovered something was wrong with him at that time, this incident should have happened before going to space travel, no one expected that this incident would have such a big impact on him.”
Lin Zimao: “That’s a pretty serious problem.”
Ji Chen: “Anyway, after these two things, his family no longer forced him to learn to control mecha, he actually also liked mechas, and later he changed to researching mecha design, he love whatever job he takes9乾一行愛一行 (gàn yì háng ài yì háng): lit. doing what one do, loving what one do; love whatever job one takes up..”
Lin Zimao said in his heart, Jiang Xuan actually wanted to be a chef, but the Jiang family must have felt that it was not respectable for him to become a chef, so he was not allowed to do this, it can only be cultivated as a hobby.
After Ji Chen solved Lin Zimao’s doubts, he also understood why Jiang Xuan, when he mentioned going to space, he could faintly notice that he was somewhat resistant, perhaps he was afraid of spoiling his own fun, so he never mentioned his space phobia.
When Lin Zimao wanted to ask something else, a man who looked somewhat similar to Cheng Chen sat next to Ji Chen.
Ji Chen asked him: “Why are you here?”
The person who came was Cheng Chen’s elder brother, Cheng Xi, he said: “My brother said today is his highlight moment, he asked me to come over and take a look, even if he couldn’t get first place, getting second place is also fine, he wants to stand side by side with Jiang Xuan.”
Ji Chen actually doesn’t care too much about Cheng Chen now, he will never pull Cheng Chen and Jiang Xuan together again, but he doesn’t understand, how did Cheng Xi do it so naturally.
He didn’t say much, he just said: “I hope so10希望如此 (xī wàng rú cǐ): T/N: Depending on the contex, this can mean positive or negative, in this instance, he implies that he doesn’t believe it will happen or they will not get they want..”
Lin Zimao covered his face with a scarf, Cheng Xi didn’t know Ji Chen was talking to him just now, Cheng Xi had no scruples when chatting with Ji Chen, thinking that Lin Zimao was just an ordinary passerby.
Cheng Xi: “By the way, I heard Chenchen say, there is a person at the same grade who insists on challenging mecha design with him, do you know who that person is?”
Ji Chen: “So what if you know?”
Cheng Xi: “Chenchen is weak, in order to compete with his opponent, he has been designing new mecha without eating or drinking these days, I feel a little distressed, I want to see if I can find that student to have a chat.”
Ji Chen turned to Cheng Xi: “Do you want the other party to admit defeat directly? Cancel their competition?”
Cheng Xi: “Pretty much, I can give the other party a sum of money.”
Ji Chen looks like he’s getting to know his friend for the first time, if he didn’t know Lin Zimao, it seemed that he would also agree to Cheng Xi’s proposal, because he first mentioned Cheng Chen’s physical discomfort, and then sent his opponent away with money.
It seems reasonable and fair11合情合理 (hé qíng hé lǐ): reasonable and fair (idiom); fair and sensible; stand to reason; fair and square; congruous/consonant with reason., but they all want to take advantage of his and Jiang Xuan’s connections, which is terrifying if he think about it carefully.
Cheng Xi is also from the same school, it was impossible for him not to know Lin Zimao, but why did he have to tell him, according to his personality, as long as a friend needs help, he will give them a hand if it’s not too excessive, and then the bad guy will become himself, while Cheng Xi and Cheng Chen didn’t seem to be involved in the matter at all.
This is really taking advantage of others, Ji Chen felt very uncomfortable, and his eyes turned slightly cold when he looked at Cheng Xi.
Ji Chen said coldly: “I don’t think it can be canceled.”
Lin Zimao listened for a while, and thought the Cheng family was very interesting, sitting crookedly, he sent a message to Jiang Xuan, giving him an encouraging cheer!
At the end, also secretly ordered a bouquet of flowers.
At this time, the venue still followed the process step by step.
The official staff made an opening speech first, and then each contestant’s speech begins.
The further to the back, the more exciting it becomes, Jiang Xuan’s speech was arranged last, with Cheng Chen in front of him.
Cheng Chen took a practical design route, which won applause from many audiences, and the judges at the venue also nodded.
But, of course, after Jiang Xuan came on stage, the audience’s applause had nothing to do with him.
A super cool holographic display appeared on the big screen.
A crawling leopard cat12豹貓 (bào māo): Leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis), a small wild cat native to continental South, Southeast, and East Asia. Note: Bengal cat is actually a relatively new hybrid breed of an Asian leopard cat (ALC) crossed with a domestic cat. 
roared lowly at the audience, breaking the glass wall that held it, and flew towards the audience in the auditorium, just when the audience almost thought they would be knocked down by the vivid and realistic13活靈活現 (huó líng huó xiàn): living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life; vivid and realistic; Describes a lifelike expression that makes people feel as if they have seen it with their own eyes. leopard cat, a silver light flashed, and the only thing left in front of the audience was an extremely exquisite silver-white mecha, which stood in the auditorium, dazzling14耀眼奪目 (yào yǎn duó mù): the light or color is so bright that people cannot look directly at it. It is also used to describe the extremely high achievements of certain works of art and artistic images; bright and intense light or color that dazzles people.!
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