Lin Xiaomian paused for a moment, then slowly said, “Or else, you can also participate in the 1,500-meter race. I work in the call area, and I can help you cover it up. If you run with Qin Chu, it will be easier to manage. If the other party comes to give Qin Chu water first, you can just stop him.”
Qin Shiwu exclaimed “oh” in amazement and said, “You are right. Then what about Lu Tong?”
Lin Xiaomian said, “Lu Tong and them aren’t running in the same group.”
Qin Shiwu’s eyes lit up, “Then hurry up and get me in!”
Lin Xiaomian nodded, rolled up the sleeves of her school uniform, and said firmly, “I’ll take care of it.”
At this time, Lu Tong, who was unaware of this, had just returned to the audience’s stands.
He Nian asked, “Why did you take this long to buy a candy?”
Lu Tong, “I met Qin Chu when I was coming back.”
He Nian raised his eyebrows, “Why does he keep pestering you?”
Lu Tong, “He isn’t pestering me. I just met him by chance.”
He Nian said, “You listen to what you said. Do you think I will believe it? He didn’t pester you, and he only met you by chance? I didn’t see him meeting others by chance.”
Lu Tong’s secondary gender was omega, but it was still not changed from alpha in his ID card and the campus database. Except for He Nian, no one else in his class knew his secondary gender.
Otherwise, with Qin Chu’s attitude of spinning around him, eight hundred sex scandals would have already been spread.
He Nian stretched his neck and looked in the direction of the high school first years, “Who is the one next to Qin Chu who is not wearing a school uniform?”
Lu Tong, “I don’t know.”
He looked at where Huang Nian was looking just now, and he didn’t remember the other party no matter what. He just understood that he was Qin Chu’s friend from abroad.
But what did it have to do with him?
He Nian, “Why is that guy walking so close to Qin Chu?”
Lu Tong glanced at it without leaving a trace and thought to himself: He is indeed quite close.
Judging from the past behaviours of this flower peacock1Narcissistic and self-indulgent person who is very flirtatious. Qin Chu, who randomly spread his tail, this Huang Nian was probably also an admirer.
He Nian said, “Damn it! Why is that man still getting started!”
Lu Tong was taken aback for a moment.
He Nian opened his mouth to say, “Why aren’t you reacting?”
Lu Tong, “How should I react?”
He Nian, “Can’t you take out your status as the main chick!”
Lu Tong：……
“Do you resent the fact that your demise is arriving too late?”
He Nian said, “Hey, I am feeling worried for you when I see this.”
Lu Tong didn’t speak. He just leaned on his seat, sitting in the audience stand, and unscrewed a bottle of water in silence.
With a ”click”, the cap of the bottle was twisted open, making an extremely tragic sound.
The radio station responsibly and diligently broadcasted: Please join the men’s class 1500, Lin Xiao from class 11, Qin Chu from class 12, Xu Xiangchu from class 12…… And go to the roll-call office for roll-call.
As soon as Qin Chu’s name came out, there was a commotion in the spectator’s stand.
He Nian was still observing the other party, and upon seeing this, he said, “What’s so good about Qin Chu? Our sophomore girls are also drugged by him.”
As he said this, someone walked in front of him, “Excuse me!”
He Nian went back to looking and saw that more than half of the girls in the audience had gone down to watch the 1,500-meter long-distance race.
“I remember that you had also signed up for this event. Aren’t you in the same group as them?”
Lu Tong had finished drinking, “No.”
He glanced at the audience stand. Apart from the girls from department one who were more active with half of them gone, the female students in the second department were also not to be outdone. There were very few in the audience on the opposite side. People from the student union stood under the stage and intercepted them several times, but it didn’t work.
At the starting point of the 1,500-meter long-distance run, there were already a few circles of people with three inside and three outside.
He Nian asked, “You really don’t want to go see?”
Lu Tong, “I am not going. I’ll be squeezed to death.”
He Nian dragged out a long “oh” and suddenly said, “Isn’t that Qin Shiwu? Why did he also sign up for a long-distance race of 1,500?”
Lu Tong took a glance and indeed saw Qin Shiwu.
He sat up straight.
He Nian said, “Isn’t this kid very clingy to you? Why didn’t he tell you?”
Lu Tong put down the bottle of water, “I’ll go take a look.”
Qin Shiwu was standing in the crowd and interacting with Qin Chu.
In addition to the crowds filling the starting point for the 1,500-meter long-distance race, there was also a group of girls waiting near the finish line.
Among them, Huang Nian was also standing in the sports field.
The members of the disciplinary inspection department of the student union drove away people several times. But they couldn’t drive people completely away. In the end, they could only compromise, take a step back, and warn, “Don’t run along with them!”
He walked slowly to the finish line. Some people saw him coming and kept whispering.
He wandered down unherridely to the finishing line, and people who saw him coming started to whisper incessantly.
Chen Anqi had been standing at the finishing line for a while, and when she saw Lu Tong, she said, feeling strange, “The sun is coming out from the west? Lu Tong!”
She called out to Lu Tong as she walked towards him.
Chen Anqi’s posts with him were still floating on the campus forum.
The fabricated past between the two was spread out in a fantastic way. Now that the male and female protagonists met, the eyes of those who loved to gossip and those who didn’t love to gossip fell on Lu Tong.
“I thought you had no interest in the long-distance running of these Earthlings.”
Lu Tong said, “I came for the roll-call.”
Chen Anqi asked him, “Are you also taking part in the long-distance running?” She paused, “Is your body fine?”
It seemed that his hypoglycemia was not a secret.
Qin Shiwu was halfway through the race when he caught up and grabbed Qin Chu, “Dad! Look who that is!”
Next to the finish line, Lu Tong and Chen Anqi stood side by side, looking very well matched. The two chatted with each other, and it couldn’t be said that they were having a good time, but the scene was very annoying.
So Qin Chu didn’t run very smoothly.
Lu Tong chatted absent-mindedly, and his eyes always drifted onto the racetrack.
After three laps, they entered the home stretch.
The one who took the lead in the race was Qin Chu, and the screams of the female classmates on the playground were about to overturn the roof.
Huang Nian held the water and waited for Qin Chu at the finishing line.
Qin Shiwu saw him with sharp eyes and immediately forced Qin Chu away.
Qin Chu crossed the finishing line and slowly slowed down.
Huang Nian was about to step forward to help Qin Chu, but suddenly, Qin Shiwu hugged him tightly. Huang Nian was pushed aside, and there was at least a distance of ten meters between him and Qin Chu.
Huang Nian: ???
He looked on helplessly as Qin Chu walked past him.
Qin Shiwu hurriedly said, “Thank you very much! How did you know that I like to drink mineral water!”
Huang Nian, “This is — —”
Qin Shiwu, “You prepared it for me? You are really hospitable. I take back what I said just before. I didn’t expect you to be quite loyal to friends!”
Huang Nian wanted to push him away, “I was looking for Qin Chu……”
Being so disturbed by Qin Shiwu, Qin Chu’s shadow was nowhere to be seen now.
Qin Shiwu asked innocently, “Huh? Who are you looking for?”
Huang Nian：……
He must have done it on purpose!
Chen Anqi said, “No more chatting. I’m going to find Qin Chu. You won’t be jealous, right?”
Lu Tong said, “Feeling jealous for whom? You?”
Chen Anqi smiled, “At any rate, I also liked you. How are you so heartless? By the way, it’s my birthday party tonight. So you should come and have a meal.”
Lu Tong, “I have something to do at night.”
Chen Anqi waved her hand, “What can you do at night? Forget about reading. Are your grades still not good enough? It won’t matter if you read two pages less. Just think of our friendship. Please give me some face.”
Lu Tong is not good at attending this kind of party. He intended to refuse, but Chen Anqi continued to say, “Call Qin Shiwu. I see he has been very close to you recently.”
In the end, he didn’t say no.
“Still watching?” Qin Chu suddenly butted in.
Lu Tong was startled by him and turned around quickly.
Qin Chu said with a venomous tongue2harshly, “What are you doing? Here to play unforgettable old love?”
Lu Tong thought of Huang Nian, and was somehow angered a little by Qin Chu, “Like you.”
Qin Chu glanced at the mineral water in his hand, “For me?”
Lu Tong gave a tiny smile with a hint of brilliance. He unscrewed the lid in front of Qin Chu and took a few sips from it, “Keep on dreaming. This is for myself.”
Qin Chu didn’t hear what he said. Seeing that Lu Tong had finished taking a drink, he seized the water bottle without even thinking, saying, “Leave some for me.”
And then the water in the bottle entered Qin Chu’s stomach just like that.
The other party didn’t even wipe clean the top of the bottle and downed it directly to his mouth.
Lu Tong’s body stiffened for a moment. He wanted to reach out to grab the water, but it would seem hypocritical. If he didn’t grab it, it would be very strange: What is this? He emphasised in his heart: I am very mysophobic!
Qin Chu asked, “Why did Chen Anqi look for you?”
He stuffed the water back into Lu Tong’s arms.
“You don’t have to worry about why she looked for me.” Lu Tong screwed on the cap of the bottle, and there was still half a bottle of water left.
He was standing where he was originally standing, but he suddenly felt like it was too difficult to keep standing.
This was not the first time this feeling had appeared when he was by Qin Chu’s side. He was not very good at dealing with unfamiliar feelings, so he just wanted to leave quickly.
“I’ll go first.”
Qin Shiwu pushed through the crowds, climbed over the mountain ridges3fig. hardships of the journey and by the time he arrived by Qin Chu’s side, Lu Tong was nowhere to be seen.
His face paled, “Where is Lu Tong!”
Qin Chu, “You are late. He left a long time ago.”
Qin Shiwu asked, “Why didn’t you urge him to stay!”
Qin Chu, “Why should I urge him to stay? Won’t I see him when I get to the dormitory at night.”
In the end, he returned to the dormitory at night and did not see Lu Tong.
Huang Nian called, saying that Zhong Yubing and the others had arrived at the airport and were now waiting for Qin Chu to welcome them and help wash off their dusts4to treat sb. to a dinner on arriving.
Qin Chu didn’t see Lu Tong, and he didn’t want to go to the evening self-study. And in addition, Zhong Yubing had a good relationship with him. So after thinking about it, he decided to skip the evening self-study and go directly to the hotel.
Huang Nian had made a reservation at the hotel in advance. He had deliberately catered to Qin Chu and chose the Kaiyuan hotel next to Provincial No. 1 High School.
Provincial No. 1 High School itself was located in the city center. So no matter which hotel you choose, it would not be much different.
As soon as Zhong Yubing returned to his home country, his group of dog friends5a pack of rogues (idiom); a gang of scoundrels arrived as if smelling a tasty bone and embraced him like a swarm of bees.
As soon as he arrived downstairs at the Kaiyuan hotel, several expensive luxury cars drove into the garage together.
Zhong Yubing got out of the car, and his friend said, “Ah Bing, finally you have returned to your home country!”
He knows how to have fun. Unlike Qin Chu, Zhong Yubing knew how to pick girls when he was fourteen or fifteen years old. He went to various nightclubs and clubs frequently. Now he was only nineteen years old, but he was already a playboy who had seen countless women.
His friend hooked his shoulder and said, “How does it feel to be back home? Are there more beauties in China or abroad?”
“Of course, it’s abroad. What kind of beauty has Ah Bing not seen before!”
The group of people chatted and laughed and walked up to the hotel according to the location sent by Huang Nian.
Qin Chu stood in the hall and had been waiting for a while. When Zhong Yubing saw him, he was obviously more enthusiastic than when he saw his dog friends.
“Qin Chu, were you waiting for me?” Zhong Yubing greeted him.
Qin Chu was actually cold to him, “En. But I didn’t wait for long.”
Seeing Qin Chu, his group of friends also started wittingly or unwittingly flattering him.
Qin Chu felt very bored.
One person continued the previous topic and said, “I just saw a beauty, wearing a school uniform, taking the elevator. I just ran into him in the underground garage. Fuck, that face is really beyond words.”
“Why didn’t you squeak when you saw something good?”
“There was not enough time! I was just focused on looking at his face. He should have come to the hotel too. If I see him later, I will definitely tell you guys.”
Zhong Yubing followed up on this topic and said, “Don’t you have great expectations over people? Before you came here, didn’t you say that men and women in China would not be able to catch your eye?”
“That’s different.” The man thought for a moment and said, “He is really beautiful.”
With that being said, everyone became a little curious.
Qin Chu, “I don’t care about her.”
Zhong Yubing said, “How’s it going? How does it feel to be back in China to study? I heard Huang Nian say that you are very popular in school? But with your face, you become quite popular wherever you go.”
Qin Chu entered the elevator, and when it reached the fifth floor, the group of people came out.
As soon as he stepped out of the elevator on the left, the elevator on the right opened with a “ding”.
Qin Shiwu’s chirping voice came, “Correction. I didn’t force them to let me follow here; I was invited over! I asked Chen Anqi, and she wanted me to come to the birthday party.”
Then, Lu Tong’s voice also came, “I don’t blame you for following.”
Qin Shiwu was aggrieved, “That’s different! It was Qin Chu, the old bastard, who abandoned me first! Forget it; it’s not fun to be with him anyway. So let him stay with his little white flower to the end of the world!”
Lu Tong walked out of the elevator and asked, “He went to do what at night?”
Qin Chu answered and said, “To eat.”
Lu Tong was suddenly stunned.
He looked up, and the two of them met face to face on the narrow path.
Zhong Yubing was taken aback for a moment when he saw Lu Tong.
His friend whispered “fuck” in a low voice and then whispered to the others, “It’s the guy I saw just then! Fuck, I didn’t lie to you, right? Isn’t he really good-looking?”
“What’s the use of looking good.” Someone replied, “Didn’t you see that he knows Qin Chu? Then will such a good thing end up on your head, or do you want to fight over someone with Qin Chu?”
“What do you mean, fighting over for someone? The two of them just know each other at most. But I see no sign of anything happening yet.”
Qin Shiwu popped his small head from behind Lu Tong, “Wow, what a coincidence.”
Qin Chu stared at Qin Shiwu coldly, and Qin Shiwu smiled slyly.
— — You did it on purpose.
Qin Chu’s eyes were filled with these words.
Qin Shiwu smiled and thought, not to be outdone: Doing what on purpose? This is called — — Catching an adulterer!
If you dare to go outside to eat on the sly, why can’t this handsome guy bring your wife over to arrest you?
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