“Those two are unbelievably fast,” Ye Shuang remarked from the stands after seeing the speed of the two fish just now. They were practically superhumans on land, weren’t they?
Or was it true that the real experts were all hiding among ordinary people?
For the moment, though, Xiaoyi was still in the lead. After all, she had used a magical attack (?), although Ye Shuang could already guess that this girl definitely hadn’t played fair.
He just hadn’t expected it to actually work on Little Yu.
Soon, the two girls returned. Unlike Anshi Yi, who was still suppressing a smile, An Shiyu remained expressionless as ever, though the murderous aura emanating from her was faintly palpable.
She really was angry…
“The relay race is about to start too, right?” Ye Shuang said with a smile, deliberately changing the subject. Otherwise, things would get troublesome if the two fish started fighting.
“Mm.” An Shiyu came back to her senses.
Neither of the two fish had signed up for the relay race. One reason was that they needed to determine who was superior, and the relay race wasn’t a suitable choice for that. The other was that they felt having both of them participate would be a little too unfair to everyone else.
That was what they thought, anyway.
“Shouldn’t we go get ready?” Keke glanced at the time and saw that their relay race was about to begin. If they left now, they should arrive just in time.
“Let’s go.” Bai Yuyou stood up as well.
A few seconds later, she silently sat back down.
“What’s wrong?” Ye Shuang asked curiously. But in the next moment, a soft, warm body had already slipped into his arms. Bai Yuyou hugged him, rubbed her cheek against his chest, and took a deep breath.
Seeing this, Ye Shuang reached out and rubbed her head.
Then he quietly said, “Good luck.”
“Mm.” The girl nodded.
Watching them from the side, Tang Keke couldn’t help saying, “How nice. Is this what they call a pre-race hug? Does it give you a Strength buff?”
When Bai Yuyou heard that, she simply said, “You can hug him too, Keke.”
“Huh?” Keke froze.
“It gives you strength,” Bai Yuyou explained.
“Ah, well…” Tang Keke scratched her head and looked toward Ye Shuang. Ye Shuang smiled faintly. “There’s nothing wrong with a hug.”
Ye Shuang didn’t have any romantic feelings toward Keke. He saw her more as a younger sister. In fact, it had even taken him quite some time to change the way he viewed Bai Yuyou in the beginning.
“Then here I go. Brother, give me strength!” Tang Keke felt that hesitating would only make things seem strange, so she stepped forward and gave Ye Shuang a hug.
“Fully charged!” After a brief hug, Keke struck a strongman pose.
Just as Ye Shuang was about to wish her luck, Peach suddenly spoke from beside him. “Brother Ye, can I hug you too?”
“Hm? Sure.” Ye Shuang was startled for a moment, then smiled without any objection.
“Thank you. I’ve wanted to do that for a long time.”
“For a long time…”
“N-No, I didn’t mean it like that.” Peach also reached out and hugged Ye Shuang. Compared with Keke’s overflowing energy, Peach’s body felt very slight; with his hands on her back, he could almost feel her bones.
“You’re very warm.” Peach smiled, her expression quite mature. “I can understand why Yu You likes hugging you so much now.”
“Is that so?”
Nearby, An Shiyu and Anshi Yi watched the scene, both feeling that something about it seemed off.
“What about me?” Anshi Yi asked.
“You already hug him plenty,” An Shiyu said flatly.
…
Soon, the relay race Bai Yuyou and the others had entered was about to begin.
Ye Shuang stood in the stands. There were four legs in total, and as luck would have it, Yu You, Keke, and Peach were all participating.
“Let me see… Yu You is running the fourth leg, and Keke is second?”
Peach was third, while the first runner was a girl Ye Shuang didn’t recognize.
“All right, up next is the women’s 4×200-meter relay for the Business Administration division,” the announcer declared over the loudspeaker.
After the girls took their positions one after another, Ye Shuang reached into his pocket. With a rustle, he pulled out a flag.
[❤Bai Yuyou❤]
He hadn’t expected the flag he’d made earlier to come in handy again.
Ye Shuang felt extremely pleased with his own foresight.
He then pulled out several more flags, labeled with Tang Keke’s and Peach’s names. Those had been specially ordered for the occasion.
“Come on—!”
Soon, the starting pistol rang out, and all the first-leg runners took off.
The first runner from Yu You’s class wasn’t particularly fast. For some reason, she also ran with her arms raised, swinging them from side to side in time with her steps.
“That running form probably isn’t helping her put any strength into it,” Ye Shuang muttered as he watched.
Still, the girl’s face had gone bright red, and even if her form was awkward, she was at least giving it everything she had.
“Class Three is off to a fast start, followed closely by Classes Two and One. Oh, someone from Class Five has fallen!”
“They’re almost at the second leg!”
On the track, Tang Keke watched the first runner approaching and anxiously hopped in place. She had prepared herself to win the championship this time, but the first runner was much slower than she had imagined.
“Here!” When the runners from Classes Three and Two reached the second leg, Keke finally took the baton!
“Oh, oh! Burn, burn, burn, all the meat on my body! Ura, ura, ura!” Tang Keke pumped her short legs as fast as she could. Despite her small stature, she quickly began closing the gap with Classes Three and Two.
Although she was still in third place, the attention of the entire crowd fell on the girl.
“Whoa…”
“She’s wearing a sports bra, and she’s still that bouncy?” Ye Shuang silently committed the sight to memory. But just as Keke had said, she was determined to reclaim everything that belonged to her. She had performed brilliantly during her leg and had even drawn level with Class Two.
“Come on, Keke! Just a little more!” Peach was waiting at the third leg. When she saw Keke racing toward her, she straightened her posture and began taking quick little steps in place.
“Peach!”
“Got it!”
“Chaaaarge—!”
This time, Keke handed over the baton before suddenly losing her balance and crashing to the ground with a thud. Even after falling, she still raised her hand and shouted, “Go!”
Peach was incredibly fast. She received the baton two or three seconds after Class Two, but within just a few seconds, she had overtaken them, even pulling level with Class Three.
“Come on!”
“Go, go, go!”
The students in the stands shouted encouragement, and Ye Shuang waved his flag with all his might.
Just then, he noticed that the giant display screen beside him seemed to flicker. A moment later, it switched to another image.
The person on the screen looked somewhat familiar. He was holding a flag and staring blankly upward.
“Hm?” Ye Shuang watched for a few seconds before suddenly realizing.
Isn’t that me?!
Why are they filming me?
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
nto another world, I bought a slave for the first time, never expecting the silver wolf girl to be so cute... Lin Feng: I know it's cold, but you don't have to sneak into my bed! Yuna: Just sharing body warmth, if you dare do anything naughty, I'll definitely...
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
