Chapter 304: Basketball Game
“A basketball game?”
As soon as she sat down, An Han quickly asked Su Peng.
“Yeah. We have it once every year. I joined in the past two years. This year the team captain graduated, and that girl said she wanted me to be the new captain.” Su Peng smiled gently. “But I’m not planning to join this year.”
The school loved to hold all kinds of competitions. The basketball game was usually held in the second half of every school year, with each department sending a team.
People said the event was big and quite official, with sponsors and even girls performing dances.
An Han wasn’t interested in basketball, but because Long Xing joined every year, and because the dancing girls were pretty, she had become a “loyal” basketball fan. At least, whenever the girls danced, Chen Junjie and Wu Dongming would drag her to watch.
“Then why aren’t you joining? There are girls dancing to cheer for you~”
An Han lowered her head and looked at Su Peng’s feet wearing the same white shoes as hers. She teased, “Your foot really hurts? I can’t see anything wrong~”
Su Peng smiled softly. When he smiled, the little dimples under his eyes looked like curved moons, very gentle. “My foot doesn’t hurt. I just want to stay with you. If I join, I won’t have time after class.”
Even though it was only an internal school competition, people took it seriously. There were two or three training sessions every week.
“At least you still have some conscience,” An Han muttered.
Sitting on Su Peng’s other side, Long Xing raised his head. He clearly heard everything they said and felt he couldn’t sit still anymore. He should have changed seats during the break instead of sitting here eating dog food.
“So, Brother Long, are you joining this year?”
“Yeah.”
He answered a bit stiffly after being force-fed romance.
But when he turned around, he saw that Chen Junjie’s girlfriend had somehow come to sit in on the class too. The two of them were now cuddling sweetly and whispering. Wang Sheng was also holding his phone, typing fast, clearly chatting happily with his girlfriend.
There was nowhere to escape…
He simply turned his eyes toward the teacher, trying to let the lesson fill the emptiness in his heart.
The morning classes lasted four full hours. Four periods, each forty-five minutes, plus fifteen-minute breaks. From 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
An Han still held her strong sense of possession over Su Peng. As soon as class ended, she grabbed his arm and looked around carefully like she was guarding something.
“Don’t be like this.” Su Peng looked helpless, still not quite used to how she acted.
“It’s fine! I don’t mind.”
Since they were wearing winter clothes, the thick layers made them barely feel anything. But because she was so close to Su Peng, his strong masculine smell made An Han’s cheeks turn bright red.
Ever since that sports event, anytime she had close contact with Su Peng, she would feel a dizzy, overwhelming kind of joy. She used to hate this feeling, but now she enjoyed it.
Holding Su Peng’s arm, they walked to the school cafeteria.
Food outside school was okay once in a while, but eating it every day was too much for An Han. It was expensive, not tastier than the cafeteria, and the hygiene was worrying. The only advantage was delivery service.
Now that she had a boyfriend, she didn’t even need to line up for food. She found a seat, rested her chin on her hands, and watched Su Peng walk into the long line of people.
She noticed that the more time she spent with Su Peng, the more her independence felt like it was slowly fading. She was getting used to relying on him for everything. Whenever she thought about doing something, she wanted to ask for his opinion and get his help.
But before, she had never relied on anyone like this.
Su Peng was still waiting in line, but Lin Yi had already sat down next to her with a bright smile.
“What do you want?”
An Han immediately became alert. This girl didn’t have a boyfriend right now, and just like An Kexin, she also had her eyes on Su Peng!
“It’s about the basketball game~”
“What does that have to do with me?”
“The cheerleading team! We’re short of people!”
Almost the moment she heard that word, An Han shook her head fast and refused without hesitation, not giving the system any chance to pop up choices.
“I’m not going! Don’t ask me! It’s impossible!”
But Lin Yi kept trying to persuade her.
“It’s 300 yuan a day~ You just have to cheer on the side, and sometimes go on the court to dance a little~”
“No way!”
Back then, An Han had been one of the many people watching the cheerleaders dance. Now she didn’t need money and definitely didn’t want to become the one being watched.
“The clothes are too revealing. It’s so cold!” An Han gave her reason for refusing.
But Lin Yi wouldn’t give up.
“When the competition starts, it’ll already be April. It won’t be cold anymore. And the clothes won’t be shorter than the cheongsam dress you wore at the convention! This is for the school competition!”
Please stop! Don’t say another word!
If she keeps talking, the system will definitely jump in!
[Option 1: Become the cheerleading leader and cheer for Su Peng to win! Reward: “Close Friend” trait.]
[Option 2: Strongly refuse. Reward: Beautiful clothing.]
[Option 3: Join the cheerleading team. Reward: Random attribute point.]
As expected!
An Han didn’t even look at the rewards. She just covered her face and sighed.
The scary thing was that “refuse” had become Option 2, not Option 3. This meant refusing was considered harder than joining the team, or the reward might be a trap.
After dealing with the system for half a year, she knew very well how annoying it was. Whenever something embarrassing could happen, the system would definitely make it worse. And when something could go wrong, the system always added fuel to the fire.
The task difficulty wasn’t based on the task description, but the option number!
“What are you looking at?” Lin Yi looked behind her in confusion. She saw Su Peng walking toward them with two trays of food, and teased with a laugh, “Wow, your relationship is so good. You can’t even stay apart for a little while? You were staring at him the whole time.”
“Are you jealous?” An Han rolled her eyes at her.
“……”
“Anyway, I’m not joining the cheerleading team. I’m not interested.”
She looked again at the task rewards but couldn’t figure out where the trap was. It was just a set of clothes. If the clothes had a problem, she simply wouldn’t wear them.
But joining the cheerleading team might mean training. And in the past, when she didn’t have a boyfriend, she could wear short, fitted cheongsam dresses at conventions and show off her charm freely.
Now she had to think about Su Peng’s feelings. She herself didn’t want other men looking at her body with dirty thoughts.
Just the idea disgusted her.
“What are you talking about?”
Su Peng came to the table, put the tray in front of An Han, sat down close to her, and asked with a smile.
“No, nothing.”