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“I’ll fight you!” Sheng Renxing stood in the center of the court and pointed his finger condescendingly at the student who was half-sitting on the ground. After dropping this sentence, he turned on his heel and strode away.
They were currently at a timeout, with an intermission soon to follow.
The opposite group watched the situation unfold with shocked expressions, unsure if they should continue playing as if nothing was amiss or chase after that guy to beat him up.
In the end, the big boss sitting on the sidelines called out to them and waved the bunch over.
The atmosphere outside the arena was also growing increasingly heated.
The entire audience was in an uproar.
The accompanying cheers and whistles reached ear-piercing volumes.
At first, they had come to watch the excitement.
And now, it has doubled!
Some spectators who were displeased at the lack of further brawling called out mournfully, “Beat him up more!”
On the side of the court, Huang Mao yelled, “Fuck, that was so fucking handsome!” Raising his hand, he gave Sheng Renxing a high five, “How come you stopped at one kick? Punch that stupid idiot to death!”
Sheng Renxing wasn’t in a good mood, and he was worried about Xing Ye’s injury. The reason why he came down was that he saw that fool hit Xing Ye’s ribs.
And it must have hit his wound.
The people in front of him—Xing Ye’s good friends—didn’t say anything, like they didn’t know he had this injury. However, those who had soon realized that something was wrong didn’t speak out either.
Sheng Renxing replied to the audience with some snark, “Settling this matter with just one fight? Dream on.”
He reached out and high-fived Huang Mao, a sharp noise ringing out.
“Don’t be stupid! If he doesn’t fight back, it’ll look like we’re the ones at fault, and by then, the situation might escalate to unknown heights.” Jiang Jing took a sip of water and turned towards Sheng Renxing, “However, that really was handsome. And it would not have been entirely bad if you had continued.”
After all, regardless of the consequences, at least he would’ve had a chance to vent his anger.
Huang Mao froze for a moment, “Oh, I didn’t realize that. At this rate, just beat them up! They play too fucking dirty!” As he spoke, he lifted his clothes and saw a red patch of skin on his waist, “If they dare provoke this grandpa any further, laozi will catch them later!”
Some classmates on the sidelines saw this action and created a bunch of hollering noises in return.
Huang Mao simply turned around and flexed his abdominal muscles to show off his figure.
The guys who were close to the court laughed, “If you reveal what’s on top, laozi will look down instead!”
Huang Mao quirked a corner of his mouth, “I’ll see you all tonight then! If you don’t dare show your faces, I’ll go to your class tomorrow to fuck you!”
Sheng Renxing promptly withdrew his eyes.
Several people ignored Huang Mao.
Dong Qiu asked, “How are we going to resolve the situation?”
In reality, they also played dirty. However, combined with the opponent’s even dirtier tricks, and the blind referee, they were bound to lose sooner than later.
The group turned towards Sheng Renxing. He had looked so domineering just now as if he held the key to them winning.
The person in question thought for a moment, “In a while, we will go up.”
His hand drew a circle in the air.
“Huh, huh?” Jiang Jing frowned in confusion, “Xing Ye won’t play?”
Out of the five original teammates, Xing Ye was one of the few who played rather well. Or at least, he was a lot better than Jiang Jing.
“No.” Sheng Renxing didn’t even glance at him but gazed at Jiang Jing with certainty.
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They continued to discuss war tactics.
Xing Ye tensed his body and waited for the pain to pass.
The hit he had taken early was rather harsh. His outward reaction had only seemed like a moment of shock instead of anything serious. After his ribs had been fractured for a second time, Xing Ye could still dribble, throw, and pass the ball to his teammates as if he was alright.
This is a reaction that he had honed after a long time.
Even if it was broken, he didn’t want anyone to realize the extent of it.
After all, injuries were weaknesses, and one’s reaction following it was nothing more than a shortcoming.
If you were found out, you’d be torn up without hesitation.
Xing Ye studied Sheng Renxing.
He didn’t know when exactly the other party came down, but it was obvious that he had rushed after seeing the scene just now.
Sheng Renxing seemed like a furious tiger getting revenge against that student as if he was the one that had been injured.
As if he was angry on Xing Ye’s behalf.
With this line of thought, the pain Xing Ye originally felt he could endure suddenly flared up and become unbearable.
Trying to calm down his breathing in the face of his malfunctioning pain tolerance, he used up all of his remaining strength to appear unaffected.
Sheng Renxing had wrapped up discussions with the group.
“…It’s pretty much like that.”
Among the opposing idiots, none of the teammates were swapped, including the student who got kicked.
So it seems that the substitutes simply came to watch the show instead of joining in on the action.
The trash referee didn’t even dare utter a word and stayed far away from them.
Several people continued to chat, Sheng Renxing turned his head and looked at Xing Ye quietly.
After that sudden burst of anger, some embarrassment now bled through in retrospect.
Avoiding the gaze of the other, he stared at his collarbone and whispered quietly, “Are you okay?”
Xing Ye stood silently and said nothing.
One couldn’t tell anything from his expression, but his face was pale. He seemed to be like this for a while now, doubting his own psychological state.
After waiting for a while, Xing Ye still didn’t answer.
Sheng Renxing looked up suspiciously and saw the other staring at him.
“What is it?”
On the opposite side, that group of idiots shouted at them: “How much longer will it take?!”
“Fuck,” Huang Mao let go of his shirt hem, rolled up his sleeves, and rushed towards them.
“Let’s go.” Jiang Jing patted his shoulder.
Sheng Renxing turned his head towards Xing Ye again.
The other quickly avoided his gaze and asked, “Is there any water?”
“I didn’t bring any.” Sheng Renxing glanced at the chair, where there were only four water bottles placed on it.
Xing Ye nodded and raised his hand: “Jiayou.”
Sheng Renxing glanced at his waist, “Piece of cake.”
“Hah.” Following that sound, Sheng Renxing walked onto the court.
At the beginning of the jump ball, the student with the middle-parted hairstyle who stood on the opposite side sneered arrogantly, “Xing Ye isn’t coming? Don’t tell me he got scared after getting beaten up?”
Sheng Renxing laughed coldly: “You’ll find out later.”
“Beep—” A whistle sounded.
The student with the middle-parted hairstyle jumped, and his height advantage allowed him to grab the ball first, and the bespectacled student soon caught it with a bang.
“Then I will…” He wanted to turn his head to say something cruel to Sheng Renxing, but the other had already run off.
“Fuck!”
Lu Zhaohua, who was currently defending, ran behind the student with glasses to try and grab the ball.
However, immediately after he was successful, the bespectacled student turned halfway around, pushing onto the ball with one arm, and slamming his other elbow against Lu Zhaohua.
He snatched the ball away, feeling no resistance from the other end.
Lu Zhaohua was already lying on the ground, hand clutching his stomach with a pained expression.
Huang Mao slid over from the other side and yelled, “What’s the matter! What’s the matter!!!”
The student with glasses, “?”
Sheng Renxing: “…”
Jiang Jing quickly reacted and shouted to the referee, “That was a foul, didn’t you see it!?”
The referee, “…”
That fucker really is too fake.
The student with his hair parted down the middle also came up and shouted, “Can your mother’s reaction be anymore exaggerated!”
Sheng Renxing quickly found a workaround: “I just clapped my hands for a foul.” He demonstrated the situation to the other, “So you can’t say that you haven’t seen it now, can you?”
Sheng Renxing stood on the line to make a free throw.
A clean shot.
The game restarted.
Huang Mao began with the ball.
After Sheng Renxing caught it, he backed up and threw it between the gap in the opponent’s defense.
It went in.
Grabbing rebounds, the team fiercely obtained point after point as they fell into a frenzy under the basket. Jiang Jing threw it up, as it twisted into an arc in the air.
Cooperating well, Sheng Renxing quickly grabbed the ball.
Another clean shot, three points.
…
In less than a minute, they were already 20 points ahead.
The opposing group called a time out.
Sheng Renxing tugged on his collar when he passed by the boy, and smiled at him, “Want to give up?”
“…” The student in glasses pushed the middle-parted student away, squinting his eyes to glare at Sheng Renxing, “Heh, you…”
Before he finished speaking, Sheng Renxing left without even looking back.
Bespectacled student, “…”
Outside the court, Huang Mao clapped his hands nonstop, “Fuck, why are you so fucking awesome! Fuck! Fuck!”
Lu Zhaohua smiled and said, “It seems we don’t need to play dirty anymore.”
Sheng Renxing slapped the other’s shoulder: “Mn, who were the guys who came up with the fake fall idea?”
Huang Mao, “Me! Me! Me!”
“…” Jiang Jing looked at Lu Zhaohua, “Why did you cooperate? I almost thought you contracted food poisoning or something!”
“It was funny ah,” Lu Zhaohua smiled, face full of mirth.
Sheng Renxing laughed, “Let’s do the same thing next time.”
“There’s no need,” Dong Qiu said.
“?” Sheng Renxing looked at him and found that everyone agreed.
After five minutes.
A boy on the opposite side suddenly fell down while holding his stomach.
Sheng Renxing, “?”
After understanding the situation, the referee came over with a look of “I don’t know anything, I’m just spreading the message”: “A team member on the other side has food poisoning. There are no substitute players. The game is suspended.”
Sheng Renxing, “…”
Glancing over at their opponents, they had already taken that person with them and walked off with sad expressions.
Jiang Jing, “Then we look forward to playing with them again next time, though I hope no one suffers from food poisoning next time.”
The referee laughed dryly.
The onlookers from the sidelines didn’t know what was going on, as they were all focused on Sheng Renxing’s amazing basketball skills just now.
Only after everyone saw that the other party left did they finally react and scream noisily in protest.
The bespectacled student patted the student with the middle-part on the head, “Let’s go!”
Sheng Renxing put on his jacket that he had taken off before playing and said speechlessly, “He was coerced.”
Jiang Jing smiled, “Our score is too high, no matter how dirty they played, they wouldn’t be able to catch up. If they run away now, at least they’ll be able to keep a little face.”
Sheng Renxing also laughed, “I didn’t expect it to go so well.” He turned towards the sitting Xing Ye, “How was it? Is this substitute still satisfactory?”
This had overshadowed the quarrel at noon.
It meant, “Although I’m still upset, I forgive you.”
Xing Ye beckoned at him with a smile.
Sheng Renxing raised his eyebrows and bent down, “What’s the matter?”
Xing Ye suddenly hooked an arm around his neck and pulled him closer. With the momentum, Sheng Renxing stepped forward unexpectedly and almost touched the tip of his nose.
He could even hear the other breathing.
Sheng Renxing was taken aback, and for an instant, his mind went entirely blank, the heat rushing up from his neck to the base of his ears.
What is he doing! There are so many people here!
He struggled to move back.
However, Xing Ye’s hands were extremely strong and pinched the back of his neck.
Then, he tilted his head and whispered in Sheng Renxing’s ear,
“Come with me to the hospital.”
how handsome ah~
Oh damn. You should have gone to the hospital sooner, my child. Now look, making your future boyfriend and me worried.
Thanks for the chapter!
screeches ah
xing ye seems to be really in a pain 😭
Haha I like how he was worried about how there were so many people around and not the fact that they were close enough to kiss. Piàoliang😏
Sheng Renxing is especially A today~ but he turns soft and adorable in front of Xing ye haha
Thanks for the chapter!
Shuai shuai!!
thanks for the chapter <3
I thought they would kiss!! Why didn’t they kiss!!!!!! Then again, they’re in public with many people there so it kight not be that great of an idea-
Xingxing too handsome!!!!
Ty for the chapter!💜💜💜
There’s many of us smiling now ah~
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