Damn it, I'm surrounded by childhood sweethearts

"I declare, the 11th Autumn School Sports Day officially begins!"

"Everyone please disperse in an orderly fashion, and referees and athletes quickly assemble at the competition venue."

After Song Dongsheng finished the announcement, the students clapped as they dispersed.

Xu Qingfan followed his class back to their base camp when from afar, Xiao Ruawen waved to him.

"Brother Fan, over here, come and take a photo for me first!" Xiao Ruawen had grabbed a girl from the next class cosplaying as Pikachu and motioned for him to come over and help take a photo.

Xu Qingfan turned on the camera and walked over, raising the camera when he was at an appropriate distance.

Seeing Brother Fan put down the camera, Xiao Ruawen quickly thanked the girl before running over to him.

"Hold these for me, I'm off to compete." Xu Qingfan hung two cameras around her neck.

"Okay, let's go together, I'll take pictures for you!" Xiao Ruawen lifted the camera to gesture, as the girls' 100-meter race was scheduled after the boys', so today she could just follow Xu Qingfan's lead.

"Thanks, Brother Fan."

"Brother Fan, good luck in the race!"

In the blink of an eye while she was talking with Brother Fan, several girls had already run over to Xu Qingfan asking for photos.

Xiao Ruawen had a forehead full of black lines, feeling like Brother Chou Fan had just betrayed her in front of her face.

"The announcement is urging for the 100 meters to assemble, let's take photos after the race!" Seeing the endless stream of girls coming for photographs, Xiao Ruawen didn't say another word and briskly pulled his hand, striding off.

"Sorry, I've got to go race. Ha." Xu Qingfan turned his head with a wave, expressing his apologies with a sheepish smile.

"Hmph~" Xiao Ruawen glanced at him with huffed anger when she saw this.

.....

When they arrived at the starting point of the 100 meters, four girls were already waiting for him.

Little White was surrounded by a group of girls patting its head, while Lin Wanning was still dealing with classmates coming to ask her for photos.

"Brother Qing Fan!"

"Woof woof!"

Seeing Xu Qingfan and Xiao Ruawen approaching, both the girl and the dog broke free from their ongoing engagements and joyfully rushed towards him.

Xu Qingfan opened his arms and embraced Lin Wanning, and blatantly kicked aside Little White, who kept nipping at his feet.

Numerous boys who had mustered the courage to ask Lin Wanning for photos watched this scene, their hearts shattering.

[No! This can't be true!]

[Siblings, for the love of God, please be siblings!]

[The dog is so cute, why would you kick the dog!]

Xu Qingfan slowly let go of Lin Wanning, not so much concerned about public perception but because the four girls were still watching, and the scoundrel's will to survive was strong.

"I'm going to check in first, then wait for Wanning at the finish line." He patted the girl's head.

"Okay!"

Lin Wanning obediently followed Xu Qingfan, her tilting head and charming smile reminiscent of romance, and when Little White tried to worm its way between them, she pulled it back out.

Seeing this, the hearts of numerous young men sank, and the courage they had pumped up now seemed to dissipate completely.

After Xu Qingfan registered with the teacher, they quickly formed a group of eight to start the race.

He stood in the third lane and as soon as the starting gun fired, he bolted off.

"Brother Qing Fan, come on!"

"Brother Fan, go for it!"

"Woof!"

"Ah... Little White, come back!"

Since it wasn't the final, Xu Qingfan slowed down a bit after running 50 meters and securing a sizable lead.

But not much later, he felt a shadow at his side catching up, running shoulder to shoulder with him.

"Damn~ huh..."

Xu Qingfan couldn't help but let out a curse as he was sprinting, inevitably catching a mouthful of wind.

Little White took advantage of this and sped up, crossing the finish line ahead of him by a body's length.

After crossing the finish line, Xu Qingfan continued to run for another seven or eight meters before the third and fourth places staggered past the finish line.

"Hahaha!"

"It's the dog in first place!"

"Team Woof, rally up!"

The crowd that was already watching the 100-meter race instantly erupted.

"You damn dog, why are you running wild?" Xu Qingfan scolded as he pulled the dog's face into a giant pancake shape after reeling it back in with the leash.

"Huff huff~ Brother Qing Fan... I'm... I'm sorry, Little White ran away when I wasn't paying attention."

"Hahaha, Brother Fan, I saw it, Little White crossed the finish line before you!"

Soon, five girls also ran over, and the six of them took the dog to apologize to the referee teacher, but they didn't receive the expected criticism.

"Make sure to hold the leash tight; tripping people is very dangerous." The physical education teacher's gaze was fixated on the dog, and after a brief admonishment, he took out his phone and started snapping various photos of Little White.

"That's the good thing about a mongrel's genes, just look at those plump pink ears."

"Round head, round nose..."

Xu Qingfan and the five girls exchanged smiles and had no choice but to temporarily leave Little White there.

...

Although Xu Qingfan only ran 11.46 seconds in the 100-meter preliminaries, since it was only a first year of high school level race, he easily made it to the finals with that result.

During the finals, without the distraction of Little White on the sideline, Xu Qingfan sprinted with full power for the first time.

"?"

"Ten point four?"

"Sss!"

When the physical education teacher saw the time on his stopwatch, it was the first time he doubted its accuracy.

"No, what's the name of that student just now? Someone quickly find his preliminary results!" The teacher became unsettled; if he hadn't read the stopwatch wrong, then this was like discovering an incredibly rare talent.

Apart from a few alien species in the big review area, a 16-year-old high school student running 10.40 is an astonishing feat, considering that Su Shen's record at 17 years old was only 10.66 in the 100 meters.

"Teacher, I know, he's Xu Qingfan from class 16, his preliminary time... was eleven point forty-six." Quickly, a member of the student council reported his preliminary results.

"Only eleven point forty-six?"

"Then it must be that I read the stopwatch wrong, never mind, add 20... no, add 30 hundredths of a second to the result." The teacher shook his head in disappointment, reasoning that if Xu Qingfan could suddenly go from 11.46 to 10.40, then the only possibility was that he had misread the stopwatch.

"Oh oh, okay!" The student council member behind him upon receiving the instruction, crossed out Xu Qingfan's original time of 10.40 and changed it to 10.70 on the side.

...

When Xu Qingfan and the girls came to check the results after resting, what they saw was the score sheet in its current state.

"Why was the original result crossed out?" Xu Qingfan pointed at the scribbles on the paper and asked a student council member who was available.

"Oh oh, the teacher said he misread the stopwatch and asked us to add thirty hundredths of a second," the student patiently explained because of Xu Qingfan's status as the vice president of the student council.

"Alright, thank you." Xu Qingfan put the results sheet back on the table and returned to the girls to regroup.

"It looks like I ran 10.40, but the physical education teacher probably thought it was too unbelievable and may have suspected he misread the stopwatch, so he changed the result to 10.70," he said, laughing.

"Is ten point four fast, Brother Qing Fan?" Lin Wanning curiously asked.

"Of course, I remember the national record for the 100 meters at the college sports meeting is 10.26, so is ten point four fast?" Xu Qingfan replied as he reeled in Little White and walked with them.

"But that's not very fast, Brother Qing Fan, you didn't break the college record," Lin Wanning said with a tilt of her head and a blink of her eyes.

Just as she finished speaking, the announcement came on overhead.

"Class 1 of Year 16, Xu Qingfan's final result for the 100 meters race is 10.70 seconds, breaking the school's 100-meter dash record." The announcement repeated three times in a row.

Perhaps because the students admitted to Licheng Middle School were highly intelligent, even though the physical education teacher added thirty hundredths of a second, Xu Qingfan's result still broke the school record.

"See, even at ten point seven I broke the record, am I fast or not?" Xu Qingfan said with a proud arch of his eyebrow.

"Wow!"

"Then Brother Qing Fan is a 'Fast Man'!" Lin Wanning clapped excitedly.

"Pfft... What Fast Man, I'm not, Wanning, you're talking nonsense!" The man nearly choked.

"Hahaha!"

The five girls laughed heartily; they all understood what 'Fast Man' implied.

"Exactly, Brother Fan, the real man in three seconds!"

"One second!"

"0.1 second!"

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