NOVEL WEB
Chapter 26
"Zhou Zhou is getting ready to start the hula hoop competition!"
"What good news! Let's go watch it quickly!"
"Hurry up or there won't be any spots left. Help me save a seat!"
"Zhou Zhou is awesome! Ranked first grade-wide!"
The atmosphere was fiery hot as people kept pouring in.
Over here, Yan Xi pulled Tu Qingluan through the bustling crowd, wanting to get to the sports and recreation area where the competition had already started.
"Xi Xi... I didn't expect you to take the initiative today."
Tu Qingluan suggestively squeezed her hand tighter.
"Sorry." Yan Xi was about to let go.
"Were you trying to protect me just now, Xi Xi?" Tu Qingluan grabbed her hand instead, controlling his strength perfectly - not letting Yan Xi shake him off but also not hurting her one bit.
"Having another episode?" Yan Xi said, unamused.
"Tu Qingluan, I was starting to have a better impression of you. Don't get ahead of yourself."
Her beauty-given arrogance did not diminish one bit, but was now mixed with some cute petulance.
Tu Qingluan sensed the subtle meaning behind her words.
"Why did you dislike me at first then?" Tu Qingluan stopped and asked seriously.
"The way you treated me initially was no different from those other people. I've seen too many like that, so I find it annoying," Yan Xi answered nonchalantly, as if she wasn't worried at all about hurting anyone with her words. Or rather, with such astounding beauty, she didn't care about hurting anyone.
No different?
"....It's not the same."
"What?"
"At least compared to them, I'm still more handsome, Xi Xi," Tu Qingluan said lightly into her ear as he hugged her waist.
Desire mixed with indescribable depth. He was so close, just a little more and the prey would be his.
No hurry, Tu Qingluan kept reminding himself.
【He really is a pick up artist... Impressive, he almost got me to fall for him...】
It really is quite difficult to perfectly play the role of a beautiful lamb...
But...
The girl pinched Tu Qingluan's waist from behind.
Tu Qingluan yelped in pain.
"I told you not to touch!"
"Did you get it?"
"Wait..." Yan Xi tiptoed on Tu Qingluan's shoulders to reach higher.
"Young lady, horns are $30 each! I'll give you 50% off, so $15 each!"
"Boss, I'll WeChat Pay you later!"
"Sounds good!" The stall owner was quite capable, having helped Yan Xi yesterday to bring a horn to the other side of the school's perimeter wall. And now he actually set up shop selling things on the other side of the wall, with not a few students making over-the-wall purchases.
"Got it!"
Tu Qingluan quickly let her down. Yan Xi looked very satisfied holding the horn.
With the crowd crazily spectating Zhou Zhou, she and Tu Qingluan had squeezed halfway in but still couldn't get through.
Looks like they'd have to find another way.
"What should I record?" Yan Xi looked at the horn in her hand, her pretty fox eyes blinking.
"How about this..." Yan Xi said with an evil grin as she fiddled with it.
【I'm Zhou Zhou's number one fan. My enthusiasm for cheering him on simply leaves others in awe.】
【You really... Oh goodness I'm dying of laughter...】 Upon hearing what Yan Xi recorded, Pandora truly lamented for Zhou Zhou.
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Zhou Zhou was surrounded by spectators, especially Gao Jian and Guan Yongyan with their loud voices. In just a morning, the news had spread all over.
On the rec area side, it was extremely crowded from the beginning!
Needless to say, there were hordes of his fangirls.
Not a few male classmates showed up too, especially those who had friction with him in the past!
Most terrifying were the male and female onlookers that completely swarmed and blocked off the venue!
The scale was even crazier than when he first enrolled!
He didn't have this many people even at the peak of his popularity. Everyone's anticipating gaze seemed to want to burn a hole right through him!
Phones and cameras were shoved right in his face, and Zhou Zhou could already envision videos of him making a fool of himself circulating everywhere after this competition!
And in high definition and uncensored too!
This was just freaking perfect!
"Ready? Let's begin..." The female referee giggled a little.
After all Zhou Zhou was the only guy among girls in the hula hoop competition, standing out incredibly.
"Here are your hula hoops." The referee distributed them one by one.
As it was a girls' competition, hula hoops had gone through years of innovation and came in all colors.
The one that ended up in Zhou Zhou's hands happened to be...
Pink!
Pink!
PINK!
F*ck!
At this moment Zhou Zhou truly wanted to perish together with Yan Xi!
But he had to compete since withdrawing after losing two rounds would be losing all face!
Just when Zhou Zhou gritted his teeth and steeled his resolve to embarrass himself either way, an object suddenly came flying in a beautiful parabolic trajectory and landed right by Zhou Zhou's feet as he was fuming over the hula hoop.
In that instant, the horn's volume was shockingly loud. "Welcome to my world, my delicate princess. Let everyone witness today what is called a waist-shaking prince~"
......
Yan Xi said those four words "waist-shaking prince" slowly in the sweetest, teeth-rottingly syrupy tone while pinching her voice.
This scene was just freaking adorable, as if Zhou Zhou would be dancing to "Xin Bao Dao" in a princess dress next second!
The entire venue fell deathly silent for 3 seconds.
Then the crowd exploded into earth-shatteringly loud, sky-shocking laughter!!!
So many people just lost it.
Laughing till they couldn't stand straight.
"Waist-shaking Prince Zhou Zhou! Hahahaha f*ck hahaha what a talent!"
"Delicate... little princess... ahahaha princess Zhou Zhou give us a demonstration of your... waist shaking..."
"Ahahahaha f*ck... can't take it anymore, laughing to death..."
The ground nearly cracked from everyone's uproarious laughter.
Zhou Zhou was instantly socially dead on the spot, his face twitching.
And that damned horn kept playing, repeatedly, continuously, persistently, playing over and over again!
"Perfect." From afar, Yan Xi looked at Zhou Zhou's twitching face and lightly covered part of her own face, unable to fully contain her smile.
Beside her, Tu Qingluan simply looked at her smiling face as he stood by her side.
"Xi Xi, does this make us accomplices?" Tu Qingluan asked rather calculatingly.
After all Tu Qingluan was the one who threw the horn in that perfect arc for her.
"Nope." Yan Xi chuckled lightly.
"Because you were the one who threw the horn. I didn't do anything." Yan Xi tilted her head a little cunningly.
Indeed... he did it voluntarily.
So consequences were something he had already prepared to handle...