Chapter 30.2
Xie Shuyun’s attitude made Wang Kai furious.
After taking several deep breaths, he finally gritted his teeth and said,
“This time, I’ll definitely be first place. I absolutely won’t let you take that position.”
“You’re not only competing against me. What’s the point of saying that to me? Shouldn’t you say it to everyone?”
Xie Shuyun looked at him strangely.
She herself did not even know whether she could get into the top three. How was this person so confident that he directly placed the two of them in the positions of fighting for first and second place?
“You!”
Xie Shuyun’s words left Wang Kai speechless.
At the same time, he also felt the faintly mocking gazes around him. It seemed that someone’s deeds had already spread throughout the whole competition venue.
His grip on his pen tightened until it made cracking sounds. Wang Kai gritted his teeth and said,
“No matter what, my ranking will definitely be higher than yours. Just wait and see.”
After saying that, without waiting for Xie Shuyun’s reaction, he turned and quickly left.
He really was baffling…
Shaking her head, Xie Shuyun slowly walked out of the classroom, preparing to look for Cheng Lingxue.
After walking for a while, she saw Cheng Lingxue come out from around a corner. She quickly went forward.
“Lingxue, I’m here. How was it? Everything okay?”
“…Mm… My condition was pretty good.”
Cheng Lingxue was silent for a few seconds before nodding slightly and speaking.
“The first round will eliminate a lot of people. With our ability, getting into the second round definitely won’t be a problem. The results will be announced tonight. Before that, let’s go back to the hotel and relax a little. I already had dinner prepared. We…”
Xie Shuyun chattered beside Cheng Lingxue, but although Cheng Lingxue appeared to be listening, her thoughts had returned to the scene when she had just left the classroom and been stopped by Momo.
It had been a corner with few people. There, Momo finally stopped pretending.
The lively, sweet smile on her face disappeared, replaced by a calculating, mercenary look in her eyes.
Cheng Lingxue was not surprised at all by this change. She merely looked at Momo quietly.
Perhaps knowing that Cheng Lingxue would not give her any reaction, Momo shrugged, crossed her arms, and spoke very directly.
“You and that alpha aren’t dating, right?”
As she spoke, she even touched her chin and snapped her fingers, sounding very certain.
“Although you feel quite close, there’s still a sense of distance.”
Listening to Momo deduce this, Cheng Lingxue felt uncomfortable despite it being the truth. The gaze she used to look at the other girl also grew colder.
“Looks like I was right.”
Although Cheng Lingxue’s gaze made Momo retreat a step in fright, it also confirmed her guess. Joy could not help surfacing in her heart.
As long as that alpha did not have a partner, that meant she had a chance!
Seeing through what Momo was thinking at a glance, Cheng Lingxue did not hold back and spoke bluntly.
“She won’t take a liking to you.”
“That isn’t up to you. You can’t decide things for her, can you?”
As she spoke, Momo shrugged, her brows and eyes full of confidence.
“I’ll prove how outstanding I am in this competition. Then I’ll find a chance to confess to her…”
As she spoke, Momo held her cheeks with both hands, looking entirely shy and bashful. Cheng Lingxue found the sight extremely unpleasant.
But Momo seemed to feel that this was not provoking her enough. She placed her hands behind her back and bent forward slightly.
She was already a head shorter than Cheng Lingxue, and now she deliberately lowered herself, coming directly beneath Cheng Lingxue’s line of sight. Looking up from below, her gaze was full of provocation.
“When the time comes, please don’t come and cause trouble. Ah, if I succeed, I hope you’ll give us your blessing.”
Cheng Lingxue’s gaze darkened. Her lips moved unconsciously.
Her reaction seemed to delight Momo.
Turning around, the girl left with light, cheerful steps.
That figure was still vivid in Cheng Lingxue’s mind even now.
Cheng Lingxue glanced at the person beside her. Xie Shuyun’s brilliant smile and chattering words filled with concern warmed her heart, but also brought with them a trace of irritation.
Although Cheng Lingxue firmly believed that Xie Shuyun would never take a liking to that scheming girl, still…
What was this sourness and increasingly thick displeasure rising within her?
She lowered her eyes and lightly breathed in several times, but it was still ineffective.
As long as those words surfaced in her mind, this feeling grew stronger.
“Lingxue, your complexion doesn’t look too good. Are you okay?”
Xie Shuyun looked at her worriedly. She kept feeling that the other girl’s breathing was somewhat disordered. Could she be unwell?
Looking at Xie Shuyun’s face full of concern, Cheng Lingxue lightly rubbed her fingertips. Her black eyes gradually became deep, like a terrifying black hole that wanted to pull someone inside.
So what if they were not together?
Right now, this person belonged to her. No one could snatch her away.
Since someone wanted to come, then she might as well destroy them completely…!
The thought flashed past.
Cheng Lingxue slowly raised her head. Then she curved the corner of her mouth at Xie Shuyun, like melting snow revealing a hint of warm gentleness.
“I’m fine. I just thought of something interesting.”
Something that could currently be classified as a toy.
“Eh?”
Xie Shuyun blinked, somewhat curious about what could make Cheng Lingxue show such an expression.
But the cold young girl had already stepped forward with light steps. Xie Shuyun could only swallow her question and quickly follow.
After returning to the hotel, the two leisurely took showers and had dinner. Then their teacher sent over their scores and rankings. The results were still paper documents inside a kraft paper envelope.
The efficiency was quite impressive.
Xie Shuyun took out the documents inside. There were actually only two thin sheets of paper. One was the score, and the other was the ranking.
436/600.
There had been 300 questions in total, each worth two points, so Xie Shuyun had answered 218 correctly.
Then she looked at the score in Cheng Lingxue’s hand. Xie Shuyun drew in a slight breath.
498/600.
Just a tiny bit short of breaking 500.
Even the teacher was amazed when she saw such a score.
“I remember this score is almost enough to break the record over the years. It’s definitely first place.”
Sure enough, just as the teacher said, Cheng Lingxue’s ranking was written clearly:
1/3000.
Xie Shuyun pulled out her own ranking.
3/3000.
Also very good.
Seeing this, the teacher was extremely satisfied. These results were absolutely top-tier, and they would enter the second round as the first-ranked team.
Watching the teacher happily leave, planning to call the higher-ups and report the good news, the two people involved did not show too much joy or excitement. They were rather calm.
After all, after finishing the booklet, they had already had a rough idea. Everything was within expectations.
When Cheng Lingxue came out after showering, she saw Xie Shuyun sitting on the sofa. On the table were two exquisite little cakes.
They were not big, about the size of a palm, but both looked very good.
“What are you…”
“Ah, Lingxue, you’re out. I thought we should still celebrate our results a little, so I asked the server to send up two small cakes.”
As Xie Shuyun spoke, she pushed the two little cakes in Cheng Lingxue’s direction and introduced them.
“This is blueberry Black Forest cake, and this is berry cream cake. Which one do you want to eat?”
“…This one.”
Her gaze swept over the two small cakes. In the end, Cheng Lingxue picked up the berry cream cake, which was covered in snow-white cream and topped with strawberry slices.
Using a fork to gently cut it open revealed the vanilla cake body inside. The filling in the middle was strawberry cream mixed with cranberry pulp. It was sweet and tart, and the taste was very good.
“It’s good, right?”
Watching Cheng Lingxue taste it, Xie Shuyun asked softly. Seeing the cold young girl nod lightly, her eyes immediately curved with a smile, knowing she had not chosen wrong.
Suddenly, she remembered something and picked up the remote beside her.
“Right, Teacher sent a message just now saying we don’t need to keep doing problems, but we can watch recordings from previous competitions to familiarize ourselves with the later process.”
As she spoke, Xie Shuyun turned on the television. It began playing the official competition recording she had found earlier.
Cheng Lingxue merely watched Xie Shuyun’s actions quietly.
But in the next second, she saw Xie Shuyun move closer. She stopped about an arm’s length away from Cheng Lingxue, then, under Cheng Lingxue’s gaze, used a fork to gently pick up a small fruit flower made from pale pink-and-white slices of fruit from the cake.
Looking at the fruit flower perfectly intact on the cream, Xie Shuyun nodded in satisfaction. Then she carefully moved it in front of Cheng Lingxue.
“Lingxue, this is for you. It’s a little peach flower. It should taste good.”
Seeing that Cheng Lingxue did not immediately react, Xie Shuyun quickly added,
“Don’t worry. I haven’t used this fork. You can eat it without worry.”
Under Xie Shuyun’s expectant gaze, Cheng Lingxue finally moved.
The cold young girl gently lifted her hair so it would not fall down, then slowly leaned in Xie Shuyun’s direction.
As she moved, her snow-white throat and neck entered Xie Shuyun’s view. The girl’s thin lips parted slightly, and Xie Shuyun seemed able to see the pink little tongue inside. She could not help swallowing.
By the time she reacted, she was so frightened that the hand holding the fork trembled.
She seemed to have…
swallowed a little too loudly.
Cheng Lingxue could not have heard that, right?!
Thinking this, Xie Shuyun could not help feeling uneasy, because she seemed to sense Cheng Lingxue glance at her.
That gaze made her back stiffen.
She had originally thought Cheng Lingxue would get angry, but Cheng Lingxue did nothing. Instead, under Xie Shuyun’s gaze, she ate the little peach flower.
Covering her small chewing mouth lightly with one hand, Cheng Lingxue lowered her eyes slightly, making the emotions inside them impossible to see.
“How… how is it?”
Xie Shuyun quickly asked.
Cheng Lingxue did not answer immediately. Only after swallowing the fruit in her mouth did she slowly speak.
“Not bad.”
Seeing this, Xie Shuyun let out a long breath. Then her gaze moved downward again to Cheng Lingxue’s pink, thin lips, which trembled slightly from chewing.
Her gaze shifted a little to the side, and she immediately let out a soft laugh. She pointed at the right corner of her own mouth and said to Cheng Lingxue,
“Lingxue, you got cream here again.”
Cheng Lingxue lifted her eyes and glanced at Xie Shuyun. She did not lick it away with her pink tongue like last time. Instead, she slowly said,
“Where?”
“Here, here.”
Xie Shuyun pointed to the corner of her own mouth again, but Cheng Lingxue still did not move. Instead, she quietly looked at her. There seemed to be a sense of waiting in her eyes, leaving Xie Shuyun completely confused.
Blinking in slight helplessness, she finally had no choice but to draw out a tissue herself and gently wipe away that tiny bit of cream.
Because of the wiping motion, Xie Shuyun subconsciously moved closer to Cheng Lingxue.
The distance between them was neither close nor far, but her finger lightly touched the corner of Cheng Lingxue’s mouth. She seemed able to feel the warm, delicate breath falling against her slightly curved fingertip.
She did not know whether it was an illusion, but at the instant she touched her, the other girl’s breathing seemed to grow slightly heavier.
But when she came back to herself, it seemed as if nothing had happened.
Only after withdrawing her hand did Xie Shuyun realize what she had done. She could not help tightening her grip on the tissue in her hand.
Why had she touched her again?
She was finished. Cheng Lingxue was going to get angry!
Just as she was about to apologize, the cold young girl had already spoken.
“Thank you.”
Two simple words.
But the impact on Xie Shuyun was not small.
She had been thanked?
Clearly, not long ago, Cheng Lingxue would have gotten angry.
Because of this, Xie Shuyun was truly somewhat confused. She blankly ate the cake in her hand. Although her gaze was on the previous competition recordings playing on the television, she was clearly not very interested. Her thoughts had long since run off somewhere unknown.
The two girls quietly sat on the sofa like this.
Aside from the occasional sound of fork touching plate, only the voices from the television remained. Everything was quite peaceful.
After an unknown amount of time, Xie Shuyun suddenly felt her shoulder sink slightly.
It seemed as if something had leaned against her.
Turning her head to look, the scene before her made her pupils shrink slightly.
The cold young girl’s face carried a trace of sleepiness. Her eyes were lightly closed, hiding those beautiful dark pupils. Her hair fell slightly over her chest, and both hands rested on her knees, making her look like an obedient child.
From Xie Shuyun’s angle, she could see the crown of the girl’s dark hair and her fine lashes gently lowered because her eyes were closed.
She seemed to feel the young girl’s slow, even breathing, mixed with the fragrance of coconut milk as it entered her nose. This made Xie Shuyun’s already restless heart beat even faster, and even her face flushed red.
She…
She…
Cheng Lingxue had actually fallen asleep leaning on her.
Wasn’t she afraid Xie Shuyun would do something improper?
Did this count as another kind of trust?
With a red face, Xie Shuyun revealed a silly smile. But a few seconds later, she froze and lowered her head to look at Cheng Lingxue, then at the clock.
What should she do now?
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