There were 18 major events and 220 minor events in the World Youth Games. There were more than 400 male and female athletes gathered in the training center. After more than a month of internal selection, half of them will be eliminated.
The training camp participants were both teammates and opponents. Until the last minute, no one knew whether they could stand on the final podium.
This group of players were all youngsters. Although there was some estrangement at first, they quickly mixed up.
As an omega, Li Cheng practiced the most explosive racing event. This alone was enough to attract attention. Coupled with his handsome appearance, outgoing personality, and skills displayed in the canteen during meals, most athletes remembered the name of this blond boy.
After the welcome dinner, all the people who came to see the athletes off would leave. Starting the next day, the training center would be under closed management. Unless there were special circumstances, no one was allowed to visit, and none of the team members were allowed to leave the training camp without permission.
Many young athletes left home for the first time and couldn’t help crying. Perhaps sadness was contagious. Soon there were emotional scenes of tearful farewells everywhere outside the dormitory. The omega were sentimental and all of them had burst into tears.
The out of place Li Cheng standing among the “tearful people”: “…”
Coach Wu looked at Li Cheng awkwardly: “……How about you wail loudly a couple of times to prove you are also an omega?”
Li Cheng immediately crossed both hands and rejected this proposal.
Coach Wu persuaded: “Let’s hug as a farewell.”
This proposal was quite satisfactory. Li Cheng immediately opened his arms and gave the coach a tight hug.
Li Cheng had lost his parents as a child, and received little care in the orphanage. In the past two years, Wu Xu had acted as both teacher and father, and trained him from a wild swimming athlete to a provincial champion. He gave him countless strict instructions and silent care.
And now, it was time for Li Cheng to bid him farewell and meet the next challenge of his life.
All of a sudden, Li Cheng felt his jacket become heavy abruptly, as if something had fallen into his pocket.
Li Cheng was taken aback and subconsciously stretched out his hand to touch it.
Wu Xu immediately stopped him, whispering in his ear: “Don’t touch it. Take care and don’t be noticed by the supervisor.”
Li Cheng: “??? Lao Wu, you won’t put any contraband in my pocket, right!”
Wu Xu: “Don’t talk nonsense!… I left you a mobile phone.”
Li Cheng was all the more confused: “I have a mobile phone ah. Why are you giving me a mobile phone? You’re acting so sneaky.”
“I just heard from the other coaches at dinner,” Coach Wu whispered stealthily, “This closed training adopts a militarized management and all players have to hand in their mobile phones!”
Li Cheng was gobsmacked.
Coach Wu: “They are choosing athletes, not idol trainees. Even if it’s a closed training, there is no need to prevent you from contacting your family, right? Besides, if you bunch of teenagers can’t even touch a mobile phone for two months, what will you do if you fall sick? All the coaches discussed it, and planned to take advantage of the loopholes by finding a chance to stuff a cell phone at their seedling.”
Li Cheng was moved to tears. Before he came to the training camp, he hadn’t heard of this rule—he had promised his sister to call once a week! And if he didn’t have his cell phone, how could he send erotic flirty text messages to Xiao Yiheng every night before going to bed?
Li Cheng didn’t want to cry before, but now he really wanted to shed tears: “Lao Wu, you are so kind to me…”
As a result, before he finished speaking, Coach Wu’s next sentence fell into his ears—
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Li Cheng: “…”
Hey! Truly a waste of his gentleness.
Coach Wu finally let go of his arms. He stepped back, looked up at Li Cheng, and told him: “You look smart, but you’re so stupid. When you get to the training team, don’t just treat anyone as a friend. Especially with regard to the mobile phone, don’t tell others. If you meet someone with bad intentions, it would be bad!”
Although Li Cheng felt that Coach Wu was unreasonably worried, he still agreed.
The temperature was getting lower and lower. It was the snowy and windy Northern weather. Li Cheng had not received the down jacket to be distributed by the team yet. He was dressed in autumn clothes which were too light. Coach Wu was afraid that he would freeze, and wanted him to return to the dormitory without further delay.
“Li Cheng, practice hard.” Coach Wu patted him on the shoulder and said the last sentence, “If one of my students is destined to have a world championship, I believe it’s you.”
Perhaps it was just an illusion, but under the streetlamp, Li Cheng seemed to see a tear drop into the wrinkle at the corner of Wu Xu’s eye.
Li Cheng stood on the porch, looking at Wu Xu’s back against the wind and snow, his heart a little bit sour.
Wu Xu was not tall, his height was around 1.75 meters. He was not an excellent swimmer, but he was definitely an excellent swimming coach. Year after year, season after season, he had trained many, many students. Every Teacher’s Day, Wu Xu’s desk would be filled with flowers and gifts sent by his former students. It was proof of how much he was loved by the students.
Wu Xu had been married to his wife for many years, but because of her health, they never had children. In his words, he had long regarded his students as his children.
Looking at Coach Wu’s figure walking further and further away in the snow, a hundred thoughts flashed across Li Cheng’s mind, and he finally understood the touching dialogue in the famous essay《Back View》in the Chinese textbook—
…Er…Er… What was that sentence! …The author’s father sent him to the train station, and then his father went to buy fruit. Before buying the fruit… what… What did he say?
It was something like “You stand here and don’t move, I’ll buy some oranges.”
Li Cheng: “…”
Damn! Didn’t study scumbags deserve to mourn spring and autumn?!
Suddenly, a tall figure appeared beside Li Cheng.
“Li Cheng, what are you thinking?” Zhou Jian approached and asked in a familiar tone.
Li Cheng blurted out: “I’m thinking about Chinese texts!”
Zhou Jian: “…”
Zhou Jian: “Oh, I didn’t expect you to love studying so much.”
With this interruption, Li Cheng’s sad mood was instantly broken. Just then, a cold wind blew by. Li Cheng was a little cold and planned to go back to the dormitory on the third floor.
Before leaving, Li Cheng asked: “Zhou Jian, how should I return your hoodie after I wash it? Should I send it directly to the dormitory?”
Although they were all boys and lived in the same dormitory, athletes of the three ABO genders were not allowed to visit each other’s dormitories. Each floor of the dormitory entrance required a swipe card to enter.
Zhou Jian immediately said: “Don’t bother so much about it. Let’s exchange cell phone numbers. Before you send it down, give me a call and we will meet directly here.”
Li Cheng shook his head, “Did you not hear? This training has closed management, so mobile phones must be handed in uniformly. Even if we exchange phone numbers, we still won’t be able to get in touch at the time.”
“…” Zhou Jian lowered his voice, “I brought two mobile phones—and, just now, when your coach hugged you, didn’t he secretly put another cell phone in your pocket?”
Li Cheng: “!!!”
Li Cheng was shocked.
He immediately gave three consecutive denials: “No, no, no, don’t talk nonsense!”
He didn’t expect Coach Wu to be right. There seemed to be a strong undercurrent raging in the swimming team. Just after he separated from Coach Wu, someone asked him if he had a second mobile phone.
If he hadn’t heard Coach Wu’s advice before, he would have really taken out his new mobile phone and exchanged contact information with Zhou Jian.
This alpha with ulterior motives was truly terrible!
……
Huacheng, a certain upscale neighborhood.
At eleven o’clock in the evening, Xiao Yiheng made the excuse of going for a night run and left home.
This was the time he and Li Cheng had agreed upon to talk on the phone. There were a lot of inconveniences at home—because he had blatantly contradicted his parents a while back, Mother Xiao’s monitoring of him had become more severe, and she’d even installed a camera in his room facing the desk. As soon as he did anything unrelated to study at the desk, Mother Xiao would open the door and come over to “care” for him.
Xiao Yiheng left the depressing space, put on his running shoes, and ran at a constant speed on the jogging track of the community. He had to run because he knew his father was standing in front of the living room window with a telescope watching him.
He put on his headphones pretending to be listening to music, and just after eleven, his cell phone rang on time.
As soon as the call was answered, Li Cheng’s voice came via the radio waves.
It was strange that Li Cheng was clearly in the cold winter while Xiao Yiheng stayed in the summer, but the warmth in Li Cheng’s voice melted the ice around Xiao Yiheng’s heart.
“Xiao Yiheng, did you miss me?”
Xiao Yiheng replied while controlling his running speed: “Of course. I regret now that I promised to miss you only once a day.”
Li Cheng burst out with a “hehehe” and laughed foolishly for a while.
Xiao Yiheng heard the wind howling on the phone and asked Li Cheng, “Are you outside?”
“No, I’m squatting on the balcony,” Li Cheng rubbed his palms, “But it’s really cold here. Every time I take a breath of air, it turns into white mist! I have never seen it happen in Huacheng. Do you know the reason?”
“It’s liquefaction,” Xiao Yiheng replied. “The outdoor temperature is too low, the water vapor emitted by the human body is liquefied into small droplets due to the cold. This is a very basic physical phenomenon.”
Li Cheng: “Liquefaction? The one that makes people thin?”
Xiao Yiheng: “…” Liquefaction can make people thin? What kind of physical phenomenon is this?
This really touched the blind spot of the study god’s knowledge.
The two once again talked without communicating and spoke a ton of bullshit. Anyway, it is fun for young lovers to talk about trivial things.
Xiao Yiheng trembled when he heard Li Cheng’s words and urged him to get into bed in the dorm room.
“No, I can’t go back!” Li Cheng said in a thief-like tone, “I can’t let other people see that I am using a mobile phone.”
Xiao Yiheng asked why.
Li Cheng: “The team is under closed management and everyone has to hand in their phones! Fortunately, Old Wu secretly gave me a spare phone before leaving, otherwise we would not be able to get in touch in the next two months!”
While he spoke, he deliberately added a lot of exaggerated details. It was obviously a very simple thing, but he made it sound as thrilling as a 007 secret mission.
Xiao Yiheng naturally heard how exaggerated he was, but he still followed his words and praised him for his cleverness and wit.
“It’s all thanks to ChengCheng’s cleverness in handing over one phone and keeping another. Otherwise, I won’t be able to hear your voice for the next two full months.” Xiao Yiheng chuckled, “If that were the case, I could only torture you in my dreams, and ask why you ignored me.”
Li Cheng: “… If you need to ‘ask’, just ‘ask’. Why ‘question via torture’?”
Xiao Yiheng didn’t answer, and he didn’t need to answer.
Li Cheng said again: “By the way, do you remember Zhou Jian? He actually asked for my cell phone number!”
Xiao Yiheng’s steps staggered, and he subconsciously stopped running. He stood still on the track and asked vigilantly: “You didn’t give him your cell phone number, did you?”
“Of course not!” Li Cheng said in a tone of seeing the truth, “That guy actually said, ‘Even if you handed in your cell phone, there must be a second cell phone, right? Give me that cell phone number’. Hahaha, does he think Laozi is a fool? He must be lying to me for making me disclose my secret. Then he can use this secret to threaten me!”
Xiao Yiheng: “…”
He discovered that his boyfriend might really be a fool.
Xiao Yiheng: “You’re right. That alpha deliberately asked for your contact information. It must be out of ulterior motives. You must stay away from him.”
… However, this fool was quite adorable.
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PS: The original text of《Back View》is to buy “tangerines” not “oranges”. Li Cheng’s stupid little mistake~
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hahahaha Li Cheng is really an adorable fool~
😂😂😂
I really had to laugh when I read about that farewell event and coach Wu’s comment! 😂😂😂
And Yiheng, wasn’t his lovable sillyness one of the reasons you fell for him? 😅😉
Thanks for the chapter!
Wow another update. So cool! Only Chengcheng can be this adorable while being a fool. Lol
adorable fool +1
the xiao parents are becoming more and more absurd by the day
thank you for the chapter 💖
XYH’s parents are going overboard… this type of monitoring…
Thanks for the chapter € ^ *^)/// ~~ ♡♡♡♡♡
Thank you so much for the updatess ❤️
Btw, li cheng foolness really make me want to smack him in the head 😂😂
Once again LiCheng never fails to make us laugh!!
“This really touched the blind spot of the study god’s knowledge.”
I wonder whether XYH went ack and searched which phenomenon LC was talking about!!
😂😂😂
That double alpha pair of so abusive. Wow.
Li Cheng, you are too cute!!
Thanks for the chapter <3
This is the first time I saw ‘liquefaction’ being used to describe frosty breath. It is usually used to describe unstable soil during earthquakes. The usual physics term for the process of frosty breath is ‘condensation’ because the water vapor in your breath condenses into water droplets that looks like fog. I am open for corrections. ✌🏻
Also, XYH’s parents are frighin’ psychotic. I live in asia, and in our country, sadly, this behavior might still be viewed as normal for strict parents to do. If you have parents like these two, I really really hope someone is around to help you because I think it is borderline abuse.
I utilized liquefaction for two reasons. The first reason is that it was used by the author and even if not commonly used, it is technically correct. I suggest you read about liquefaction on Wikipedia to clear your doubts . The second reason is that if I had interpreted it as “condensation,” Li Cheng’s confusion in the following lines would have made no sense. I suppose Li Cheng mixed up the terms “liquefaction” and “liposuction.” While it may sound radically different to English speakers, it may sound similar to someone like Li Cheng, who is a horrible English speaker.
I just logged in my CG account after 3 months and I have zero recollection of this comment that I posted. You are right! I must have been drunk that day. My brain is a different entity when i’m intoxicated wtf. I even demonstrated science experiments on 5th grade about liquefaction and deposition of gasses and their critical temperature and critical pressure. I don’t even have any background on pedology and edaphology why am I so concerned about unstable soil *face palm
lmao hengheng finally found a reason to make the orange stay away from the potential love rival
Those parents, really. What next, plant a GPS on your child and set an alarm any time they leave the location where they’re supposed to be at according to their schedule? Make them wear a microphone/human dashcam so you can watch over them 24/7? Give them an ankle monitor? Why not just create a robot with your super Alpha genes to ensure you have something that will literally follow all your commands?
Coach Wu Is so precious. So glad he has somebody like a parent to him.🥺🥰
XYH’s parents are really too much! OMG! Installing camera in the room? Seriously? Creepy and hateful lah!
OMG?!?! Wtf is wrong with his parents this is seriously terrifying
Thanks for the chapter <3