Translator: Chipoholic
Editor: Decembery
Long chapter…
This competition was destined to be a showdown full of legends.
The whistle sounded and ten backstroke athletes kicked into the water at the same time. After snorkeling for a short distance under the water, they immediately surfaced and swam towards the turning point.
Huang Yelun stood on the starting block, his whole body stiff with tension.
They all heard Ji Xun’s insult to them just now. If murder wasn’t considered as breaking the law, Ji Xun would not be able to get out of the swimming pool today! Everyone was feeling suffocated in their hearts and couldn’t wait to prove their strength.
On the contrary, Li Cheng was the coolest performer among the four, because he knew that in the field, performance was more important than fists.
Among the four athletes sent by Huacheng No. 1 High School, the first was an alpha senior who specialized in backstroke and won the bronze medal in the 100-meter backstroke that morning; second was Huang Yelun, beta, who had won the silver medal in the 50-meter breaststroke; third was an alpha senior, with average butterfly performance and only won a bronze medal, and the fourth was Li Cheng.
Looking at the lineup alone, Huacheng No. 1 High School could only be regarded as a failure. Except for Li Cheng, there was no gold medal player in the team. But who made Ji Xun’s mouth too mean? His speech before the game aroused the fighting spirit in everyone’s hearts.
Thus, when the backstroke players came back from the turning point, the athlete from Huacheng No. 1 High School was already ranked second! This result was even better than his own individual score!
As long as this advantage was maintained, why would they worry about not getting a medal?
Huang Yelun made a good take-off posture and waited for the relay. His heart was thumping, and his mind was chaotic. First, it was the smiling face of his girlfriend, in another second it was the college acceptance letter beckoning him, then it was Ji Xun’s vicious remarks, and then it became Li-ge’s encouragement… All kinds of distracting thoughts came in a rush. Huang Yelun looked at the sparkling pool water, and for the first time had the thought of not wanting to enter the water.
Before he could calm down, the figure of the backstroke senior quickly approached. Seeing the back of the senior’s hand draw the last arc in the air, Huang Yelun hurriedly jumped into the water—
—but! Made a mistake!
Obviously, he had practiced thousands of jumps and he had already formed muscle memory, but Huang Yelun didn’t know what was going on. He sank like a cannonball to the bottom of the pool as soon as he entered the water, and almost collided with the teammate who had just returned from the last sprint.
When he struggled to the surface and found the rhythm to catch up, the team’s advantage had long since disappeared. Huacheng No. 1 High School fell from second place to third from the bottom!
No one thought he would make this sudden mistake. On the coach’s bench, Wu Xu’s face was as dark as ink and he decided to go back and let Huang Yelun take extra training.
There was also a lot of discussion in the audience. Huang Yelun’s little girlfriend was about to cry tears. She clenched her hands and kept praying for her boyfriend in her heart.
Seeing Huang Yelun making a mistake, Ji Xun laughed and asked Li Cheng mockingly: “Where did you pick him from? I don’t think he’s doing breaststroke, but toad magic skills. As soon as he entered the water, he sank to the bottom!”
Li Cheng’s face was solemn, and he ignored Ji Xun’s provocation. Huang Yelun was not only his teammate, but also his classmate. He had followed his ass right from the beginning of enrollment. Li Cheng knew that Huang Yelun’s psychological quality had always been poor, and he would be nervous when encountering such a big competition. But he did not expect him to be so nervous and make such a big mistake.
Fortunately, Huang Yelun was not the kind of person who abandoned himself after making a mistake. After realizing that he had been left behind by others, he immediately tried to catch up, struggling to paddle with both hands and feet, sacrificing his breathing frequency to ensure the efficiency of his paddling.
Third from the bottom, fourth from the bottom, fifth from the bottom…
When Huang Yelun returned to the edge, he had already raised the rank of the team to sixth!
After going ashore, he sat on the ground with his legs soft and drained of all his energy. He breathed in big mouthfuls of air, his chest rising and falling rapidly. He seemed deprived of all oxygen.
“I’m sorry…I’m sorry…” Huang Yelun lowered his head guiltily, his face covered with tears and snot. He didn’t dare to look at Li Cheng’s expression, “Li-ge I’m sorry to you, I’m sorry to the coach, I’m sorry to everyone…”
“Okay,” Li Cheng grabbed his arm and threw him into the rest area in the back row and asked the backstroke senior to take care of him. “If you make a mistake, you will get yelled at. Now wipe your tears. Don’t let the juniors look at a joke. Besides, I would like to thank you for your mistakes.”
“…Huh?”
“If you don’t make a mistake, how can I show off my skills?”
Li Cheng’s back was as tall as a crane as he turned and stepped onto the starting block.
Beside him, Ji Xun, who was also standing on the starting block, gave him a nasty smile. Ji Xun’s team had a lot of advantages—they currently ranked first, and the butterfly swimmer in their group even threw off the second place by a full body position!
And the Huacheng No. 1 High School barely struggled from sixth to fifth.
Ji Xun entered the water first. He was a veteran player and an alpha. He was much better than the average person in all aspects, but it was a pity that he was willing to fall, and he had degenerated to the present situation.
Li Cheng retracted his gaze from him and looked at the senior brother who was swimming towards him intently. When the senior brother was about to hit the wall, Li Cheng jumped off and plunged into the water!
At this time, Li Cheng ranked fifth.
In front of him, there were four others.
…The stadium was filled with cheering.
The supporters of the ten teams were calling out the names of the players. Medley swimming was the best occasion to test the team’s tacit understanding and personal ability. Each player did not represent himself, but the honor of the team.
Ten teams, forty players, but only three schools were able to win the trophy in the end.
In a sports competition, the only person whose name would be remembered was the champion.
Who didn’t want to be a champion?
Freestyle was the fastest of the four styles. It was more suitable for sprinting, so it was listed as the last in the medley. At that moment, the ten players on the ten lanes sprinted with all their strength, leaving no room for mistakes.
Ten water splashes spread out in the swimming pool, and in between, a honey-colored figure became the focus of the audience!
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“Look—big brother has overtaken one more person!” Youyou stood on the seat of the stands in a hurry, with one hand supported by Xiao Yiheng’s shoulder, her small face was full of tension.
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When he reversed at the turning point, Li Cheng once again played to his advantage, with a surprisingly fast speed, like an arrow lurking under the water, overtaking one more person with a slight advantage. Now he ranked second!!
There was only one goal in his mind—and that was overtaking Ji Xun who was in the next track!
He wanted to throw the medal on Ji Xun’s face, hit him till he had a bruised nose and swollen face, hit him on his knees and make him admit his mistake, hit him until he never dared to look down on the omegas again!
The competition under the water was extremely fierce. All the spectators in the stands couldn’t help standing up, craning their necks, wanting to see more clearly.
Who would win the final championship? Could they witness the miracle of a counterattack today?
Youyou cried in frustration. She was short, and when the people in the front stood up, she couldn’t see anything.
Suddenly, a pair of big hands stretched out beside her, picking her up and raising her above the head.
Youyou only felt light. After she sat down, she realized that Xiao Yiheng actually put her on his left shoulder. She was now the tallest person in the audience!
Although her elder brother would also hug her, at most he let her sit in his arms, while Xiao Yiheng let her sit directly on one of his shoulders and raised his arm to protect her.
“Is it clearer now?”
“I can see clearly! I can see clearly!” Youyou shouted excitedly, “I can see my brother!”
“Okay,” Xiao Yiheng said, “Let’s watch your brother win the championship together.”
In the swimming pool, all the athletes were swimming desperately.
Now there was only the last leg left. The 50-meter track was so far away that it seemed like he could never swim to the end.
Li Cheng was really tired, he had never been so tired. The first three matches had drained his stamina, and now he was supporting himself with a belief. He even felt that what he was driving was not his own body, but an old and aging machine.
His chest seemed to be pressed with a large stone, and his lungs and heart felt twisted together. With his arms moving forward alternately, his feet repeatedly beating and kicking, Li Cheng didn’t want to lose, let alone lose to a straight A cancer!
But… but he was really tired.
At the moment he was about to succumb, a voice suddenly penetrated the surface of the water and exploded in his ears.
“—Li Cheng, Li Cheng, Li Cheng!”
The voice sounded so familiar. Like ice cracking and a spring surging, it was as if endless power was injected into Li Cheng’s body with that shout.
The owner of that voice was Xiao Yiheng.
This name came with a kind of magic. When Li Cheng remembered the alpha, his hands and feet suddenly gained strength.
The blurred vision became solid and clear again, and the finish line was right in front of him!
The distracting thoughts disappeared, and he could no longer see the athletes on the other tracks around him, only a golden stream of water was left leading straight to the front.
He slammed his legs on the surface of the water, and his body leaped forward with strength –
—the electronic timer rang! Li Cheng was the first to hit the wall!
Ji Xun, who was on the side track, was 0.04 seconds late and ranked second!
This round-Li Cheng won again.
On the coach’s bench, coaches from other schools gathered around Wu Xu and congratulated him sourly.
“Awesome, Old Wu. For bringing out such a good apprentice, won’t you get the bonus?”
“The quota for the national team training camp this time must be his. I look forward to Li Cheng winning honor for the country.”
“In fact, I also liked how Li Cheng was at the beginning. But I was not as bold as you, so I didn’t dare to accept an omega. Now it seems that you had the correct foresight.”
In the audience…
Youyou hugged Xiao Yiheng’s arm tightly and wept with joy. The orange cat heard the little owner’s cry and poked his head out of the backpack curiously, but was caught by Youyou. The soft fur became a good place for her tears.
Xiao Yiheng really didn’t expect that she would be a bottle of tears. He bent over and handed her a tissue: “Look at you crying. If Li Cheng knew you were crying like this, he would definitely laugh at you.”
“I’m a girl, girls can cry!” Youyou said while blowing her nose, “Moreover, even if my brother wants to laugh, he must laugh at you first.”
“Why would he laugh at me?”
Youyou suddenly stretched out her hand and touched the corner of Xiao Yiheng’s eye.
“Look, Brother Xiao, didn’t you cry too?”
Xiao Yiheng was slightly startled, looking at the sparkle on the girl’s fingertips, he raised his hand and touched his eyes.
In the field…
Li Cheng was pulled out of the swimming pool by his teammates, so tired that he couldn’t even stand.
“Fuck, Li-ge, you’re so awesome! The last sprint was so powerful, it overtook the four people in the swimming pool!” Huang Yelun supported his arm and babbled with his mouth. “You didn’t even see Ji Xun’s, that grandson’s expression. When he got ashore, he smashed his swimming cap and goggles and threw them off. What a fool, he swam slowly, and he still had a face to shout at his teammates.”
“It’s okay, I don’t want to hear about the defeat of my competitors,” Li Cheng couldn’t feel the existence of his legs, every step seemed to be like walking on cotton, “I am tired to death now, you be quiet. My head is buzzing.”
He swam four matches in a day and won the championship in three matches. It was estimated that in the next week, his muscles would hurt so much that he couldn’t move.
The swimming team of Huacheng No. 1 High School could win the team championship, and Li Cheng was an absolute hero. If he hadn’t had his legendary performance in the last sprint, they would not even have won the bronze medal.
Huang Yelun, as a sinner dragging his legs, was now full of guilt. Seeing Li Cheng’s tired legs trembling, he hurriedly bent over, squatted down, and said diligently: “Li-ge, I’ll carry you!”
Li Cheng really couldn’t move. He was not polite, and climbed directly on Huang Yelun’s back, patted his head, and ordered him: “DaHuang, give Laozi a steady back. If you make Laozi fall, you don’t want your dog life.”
As a result, he didn’t finish speaking, his back suddenly went stiff, as a cold gaze shot at him from the outside of the field.
Li Cheng subconsciously turned his head to look—he didn’t know when Xiao Yiheng had walked there-from the VIP area to the ground floor stand, separated by a billboard from the stadium. He held Youyou in his arms, holding the orange cat and duck in his other hand. He looked at Li Cheng with a calm face.
Li Cheng: “…”
Xiao Yiheng: “…”
Huang Yelun: “…”
Fuck! How could he forget that Li-ge was already a marked O and had a master!
Huang Yelun looked down at himself: emmmm…only wearing a pair of swimming trunks.
Huang Yelun looked at Li Cheng again: emmmm…also only wearing a pair of swimming trunks.
Li-ge’s arms were still hanging around his neck and his hands were still wrapped around Li-ge’s knees.
—This seemed like a scene from a classic drama of “the wife dragged their children to the capital to find the husband who got the top score, only to find that the husband is cuddling with other people in disheveled clothes.”
Huang Yelun would be sent to the execution ground as soon as he left the field. If Xiao Yiheng’s eyes could kill people, his dog claws would have fallen to the ground by then.
At the critical moment, the crisp voice of Youyou calmed everyone’s mind.
“Brother, you are amazing!” Youyou kissed Li Cheng, “You have won three championships, and Youyou wants to give you a big kiss!” Her voice was soft, like cotton candy.
Li Cheng was worried that there was no place for her to step down, so he hurriedly jumped off Huang Yelun’s back and limped towards Youyou, trying to hug her.
Seeing that he was struggling to walk, Xiao Yiheng shook his head: “Forget it, you don’t see how tired you are now, you go back to rest.”
“It’s okay, Youyou is very light, I can hold her.” Li Cheng insisted on reaching out.
Couldn’t Xiao Yiheng see that he was doing his best to show off? Youyou weighed tens of kilograms. No matter how light she was, Li Cheng was struggling to stand without help now, let alone holding a child.
Seeing that he stretched out his arms and held on, Xiao Yiheng could only retreat and handed him the little lemon.
Little Lemon had not yet reached the moulting period and couldn’t enter the water, but it had long been too excited to see the heroic figure of its owner swimming in the pool. It was not honest in Li Cheng’s arms and the two duck webs kept pedaling, imitating the action of paddling.
Li Cheng was amused by him. He touched its short neck, and said, “I will take you to swim next time.”
He looked up at Xiao Yiheng again, straightening his shoulders somewhat proudly, and asked, “How did I swim just now?”
“Of course you swim very well.” Xiao Yiheng whispered, “I didn’t expect you to perform so well. The audience around me was talking about you. Just now I also received our class monitor’s-you saw him in the fried chicken shop before-call. He watched the live broadcast at home and wanted to ask you for an autograph.”
Li Cheng lifted his chin and snorted: “My autograph is not so easy to get.” He paused. After a few seconds, he said, “But I think Liu Yi is a pretty good person. For his face, I can sign a few more.”
Xiao Yiheng: “His name is Liu Ke.”
“…”
“But I still have to thank you. It would be great if you can give a few more signatures. After all, there are others who want your signature.”
Li Cheng’s eyebrows moved. He dragged his voice and asked pretentiously: “Who else is there?”
Xiao Yiheng replied: “There are also our class’s academic committee, sports committee, league party secretary, and…”
In other words, the entire class of grade 3-1 wanted it. Everyone wanted it, but Xiao Yiheng, who was also in grade 3-1, didn’t want it.
Li Cheng became more and more angry as he listened, and said angrily: “Won’t give! Won’t give! Do you think anyone can get Laozi’s autograph casually? Please, I won’t give it!”
After speaking, Li Cheng snorted. He turned around and left, and didn’t forget to throw the duck back into Xiao Yiheng’s arms before leaving.
The duck: “Gah?”
Youyou looked at the back of her elder brother leaving in anger, and asked in confusion: “What’s wrong with my brother, why is he angry?”
If she was a few years older, she would have understood that this was not called anger. This was called fun.
Seeing Li Cheng walk into the lounge from the back, Xiao Yiheng turned around and handed Youyou to the other family members of the team, asking them to help take care of her.
Youyou asked: “Are you going home?”
“No.” Xiao Yiheng replied, “I have a very important thing to do, so I want to leave for a while.”
…
The sky was dark, save the back door of the swimming pool. There was silence in the small garden.
Ji Xun looked gloomy, pushed open the door, and walked towards the small garden in the night breeze.
Many trees were planted in the small garden, which was a good place for tourists to enjoy the coolness during the day, but at night there were many mosquitoes, so there were no people there.
He randomly found a tree to hide his figure, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, and lit it with a lighter.
He leaned against the trunk of the tree, took a hard smoke, and then slowly exhaled it.
Ji Xun was addicted to cigarettes. The cigarettes he smoked even had a heavier taste than ordinary cigarettes. While smoking, he kept fanning the air with his hand to dissipate the smell of smoke around him.
For swimmers like him, smoking was definitely a taboo. Because cigarettes could damage lung function and affect the state of holding breath in the water.
But cigarettes were easy to get rid of, and they could be bought at any convenience store on the side of the road. They were cheap and good. Every time he and his brothers went to the bar to play, everyone smoked, drank and picked up girls. He was arrogant and didn’t want to be left behind, so naturally he smoked more fiercely than everyone else.
In order to prepare for the game recently, he forced himself not to touch cigarettes for nearly half a month. He wanted to quit, but Li Cheng’s performance on the field severely destroyed his psychological defense.
He lost time and time again to an omega that he didn’t like. He was so anxious that he had nowhere to vent, so he couldn’t help it, and sneaked out to smoke again.
He smoked fiercely and quickly. A cigarette was inhaled deeply into his lungs, and thick nicotine wandered around the lungs, and then spit out quickly.
He finished one cigarette in three puffs, then the second, third, fourth…
After a while, a bunch of smoking cigarette butts gathered under his feet.
“Fuck!” He cursed while smoking, “That idiot Li Cheng, a crazy omega has the smell of an alpha on his body. Damn it! He should have been ruined at first glance. Damn, didn’t you get a few gold medals? What to show off in front of Laozi, it’s really…”
Before he finished his words, a slight noise suddenly sounded not far away.
It was the sound of a tree branch fallen on the ground being trampled.
Ji Xun immediately stood up vigilantly, squeezing out the cigarette butt in his hand.
“Who is it? Who is there?” Ji Xun raised his voice, “Come out, I see you!”
After he shouted, a string of footsteps sounded behind him.
He turned around abruptly, and saw a tall young man behind him.
Because the sky was dark, Ji Xun couldn’t see his appearance, and could only vaguely see that he was wearing a school uniform.
It’s just that, in today’s game, students from many schools had teamed up to cheer for their school. There were no less than eight hundred people in school uniforms.
“Are you an audience?” Ji Xun asked.
The boy nodded.
“Do you know me?”
The boy nodded again.
Ji Xun felt annoyed in his heart. He took out his wallet and counted a thousand yuan: “Don’t think you can threaten me with this when you see me smoking. Take the money and shut up and fuck off!”
He threw the money. The young man in front of him did not accept it, letting the money fall on the ground.
“Isn’t it enough money?” Ji Xun frowned. “Don’t be too greedy. I will give you another thousand at most. How hard is it for Laozi?!”
“You made a mistake.” The boy finally said. His voice was extremely cold, like ice hitting his ears, “I don’t think you have too little money.”
“What?”
“I think you talk too much.”
“???”
The next second, it radiated from the boy. There was a particularly terrifying aura, and the top alpha pheromone was like a giant net, pouring out overwhelmingly.
The smell of alpine cedar quickly permeated, and it was icy.
Ji Xun’s eyes widened in horror-isn’t this pheromone the alpha pheromone on Li Cheng’s body??
A strong sense of crisis rushed to his mind, and before Ji Xun could make any response, the young alpha raised a fist and punched him hard in the face.
The author has something to say:
The scum was defeated by Orange on the field, and was defeated by Xiao Yiheng outside the field.
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