Chapter 115: Condition Achieved
As expected! His affection level is already at 99!
An Han lowered his head, struggling to support Su Peng’s heavy body while cursing silently in his heart.
Why the hell did he rush forward like that? He had only planned to join the group to run together, nothing more.
Normally, when you’re mixed in with more than a dozen people just accompanying the runner, it wouldn’t make anyone’s affection rise, right?
But when Su Peng was about to fall, for some reason, his heart suddenly tightened, and he rushed forward without even thinking.
Was I scared he’d get hurt and wouldn’t be able to join the afternoon race?
Honestly, the moment he stepped forward, he regretted it…
Now, one of their classmates, someone he didn’t know very well, had come to help support Su Peng’s other side, finally taking some of the weight off An Han. All he wanted now was to leave. He didn’t care what Su Peng would think.
Turning around, he called out, “Junjie, Long Xing! Someone come help me out!”
Long Xing hurried over, helping An Han free himself while praising Su Peng excitedly,
“Su Peng, you’re amazing! If you trained for long-distance running for a while, you’d be as good as the sports students!”
“Heh… hehe…” Su Peng, who just now seemed weak and tired, suddenly had the strength to stand.
Long Xing then looked curiously at An Han, who had stepped aside.
“Xiao Han, he doesn’t seem that heavy.”
“......”
An Han’s face darkened as he turned his head away. That bastard Su Peng must have done it on purpose!
Maybe at first he really did lose his balance, but afterward, when he kept leaning on him, that had to be acting!
Even though he was annoyed, An Han still said to Long Xing, “Brother Long, take him to drink some glucose.”
“I got it! I’ve even got warm water with me,” Long Xing replied.
Just one last bit of affection left…
An Han followed from a distance behind Su Peng, already planning to give up on the race, just as the system required.
He had been so careful, keeping a proper distance and avoiding too much closeness, yet somehow Su Peng’s affection kept rising for no reason.
Last time, when the affection went up by twenty points, it had already given An Han a headache for days. He only completed that mission thanks to the chest binder task.
Now, it seemed impossible to stop it from going up at all…
It’s definitely the system’s fault again! That damn system must be threatening me. If I don’t finish the task, it’ll make Su Peng’s affection hit 100!
[Option 1: Don’t join the sports festival. Reward: Advanced Mind Reading Skill]
After checking the mission again, An Han’s expression became even more lifeless. The next race was only a few hours away, but Su Peng’s affection was about to pass 100…
During the three-legged race, they had to be close together, which meant… no, not maybe, definitely, Su Peng’s affection would reach 100.
If he could, An Han would take the next high-speed train home and never come back to this school, never see Su Peng again.
But even then, as long as he had any kind of social interaction, the system would probably just make another man’s affection go over 100.
Dragging his tired body, An Han walked to the shady spot under a tree where his class was gathered. He stood silently, watching from a distance as Su Peng was surrounded by classmates fussing over him.
Some of the girls were especially enthusiastic, even Lin Yi, who already had a boyfriend, was running around helping Su Peng.
“I wonder if her boyfriend would get jealous seeing that,” An Han muttered under his breath, his eyes shifting toward An Kexin, who was standing a little apart, watching quietly just like him.
Wait— no! Not like me!
He was jealous that Su Peng had girls around him, not like An Kexin, who probably just wanted to join those fangirls herself!
After drinking glucose and eating some bread to recover energy, Su Peng wiped the sweat from his face and neck with a towel.
Finally free, he looked around and soon spotted An Han under the tree, gazing back with what looked like a “concerned” expression.
Was that… jealousy in his eyes?
Su Peng stood up. “Alright, alright, everyone, go watch the other events.”
Without waiting to see if the others listened, he squeezed out of the crowd and walked steadily toward An Han.
An Han’s face darkened immediately. He turned around quickly, trying to walk away.
“Hey! Don’t be mad!”
Su Peng ran up quickly to catch up, but An Han sped up too and sprinted off the field like he was doing a 100-meter dash.
Now there was nothing Su Peng could do. He had just run 3000 meters and was almost out of energy, so he couldn’t chase after him.
“Oh no, An Han looks angry…” Su Peng felt guilty.
An Han had helped support him, and yet he’d basically taken advantage of that closeness… well, not exactly taken advantage, but he had enjoyed the soft feeling of An Han’s body and the scent it gave off, which made his already weak legs feel even weaker.
He left the field and looked around, searching for An Han. Finally he saw that slim, graceful figure.
Su Peng hurried to the small garden between the dorm and the field and reached An Han’s side. He was about to say something when An Han suddenly looked up at him with a very complicated expression. There was both distance and closeness in his eyes at the same time.
“Um, I…” Su Peng scratched his head awkwardly. “I was wrong. I’m really sorry. I almost fell back then… and then… uh.”
Seeing An Han turn his head away and not wanting to hear more, he stopped explaining. He just looked at An Han’s profile, not sure what else to say.
“I’m not joining the afternoon events.”
“Why?” he asked before thinking. An Han had been taking the afternoon events very seriously the last two days, so why would he suddenly give up?
“No reason.”
An Han didn’t want Su Peng’s favorability to reach 100. The unknown things that could happen after that scared him.
It was better to obey the system’s task. At least the system’s strange rewards were predictable, and he could choose not to use any items with bad side effects. A man liking him or confessing to him would be much worse than public embarrassment.
Besides, a favorability of 100 might not only mean a confession. It could also make his sexual feelings change, he might actually start to like Su Peng.
Then it would turn into a full BL story! He felt tired and wanted to give up, destroy everything.
“Um…” Su Peng watched him stare off, biting his lower lip, looking gloomy and fragile, like a little cat hiding from a storm and asking for shelter. “Why don’t you reconsider?”
If only your favorability dropped by two points, then maybe I’d reconsider.
An Han didn’t say more. He stood up and left, afraid that talking more would push the favorability into triple digits. This time he kept some distance, more than half a meter, and they didn’t say anything suggestive or smell each other’s hormones.
Great! Time to slip away!
Watching his back, Su Peng felt a pull in his chest, that urge to protect, like a small flame starting to burn.
“An Han!” he called out impulsively.
“What?”
“No matter what you do or want to do, I’ll support you! So…”
An Han turned back angrily and cut him off. “Are you sick…?”
[Su Peng’s favorability toward you +1]
“Ah?”
[Congratulations, favorability target reached. Condition met…]
An Han didn’t check the system notice. He looked down at a paving brick. Right then, he only wanted to smash Su Peng’s head with it.