The ones who rush to the very front in a 1,000-meter race are usually just the fourth or fifth place finishers.
True experts like to tail behind others, letting the person in front break the wind for them, and only start accelerating when the frontrunner slows down.
Huang Chen knew this very well. It was quite common for sports students to run at the back initially, then exert their strength in the final lap to steadily take first place.
With Shen Nian running in the front, Huang Chen didn't panic at all; he was just waiting for Shen Nian's stamina to deplete.
Showing off by running in the front, understandable, understandable.
After one lap, when he felt Shen Nian slowing down a bit, he finally started to exert his strength.
Sports are a sports student's strong suit, after all. Why do you think I'm a sports student?
Surpassing Shen Nian would take no effort at all, right?
Huang Chen began to speed up, but just as he was about to overtake Shen Nian, Shen Nian pulled away from him again.
How could he still accelerate?!
As soon as Huang Chen sped up, Shen Nian matched his pace, maintaining his position in first place.
Shen Nian sweatdropped, not knowing why Huang Chen was competing so fiercely with him. Was it that embarrassing for a sports student to lose to an academic student?
Couldn't he just pretend he wasn't running seriously? Now everyone could tell Huang Chen was trying his hardest, and to make matters worse, he still couldn't outrun him...
Shen Nian even had the time to look back at Huang Chen. If he didn't want to put on an act, he could sprint the entire kilometer at top speed without even batting an eye.
Huang Chen tried to overtake him from the side again, but Shen Nian sped up a bit more. Glancing back, he saw that Huang Chen's expression had already turned quite ugly.
But that was none of Shen Nian's business. You couldn't stop me from taking first place, could you?
The one-kilometer race was over in a flash. When Shen Nian crossed the finish line, he still had to pretend to pant heavily.
"Ahhh, I'm so exhausted I could die!"
Chen Dong came over to join the fun, so he leaned his weight onto Chen Dong, taking the opportunity to slap him twice on the back.
"Damn, you're so heavy!" Chen Dong felt half-dead. "I'm just here to see your scores, not to hold you up. Can you get off me?"
"I'm dead tired. You have to support me whether you want to or not."
"You sprinted that fast and now you're telling me you're tired? Ma Mingfan hasn't even finished running."
"Can't help it. I have my reasons and convictions that compel me to run first."
"Fuck off," Chen Dong shuddered in disgust. Who gets why a guy has to press his whole body against yours in P.E. class.
We are just friends, you've crossed the line, you know.
Two girls leaning against each other is cute girls being affectionate, but two guys leaning against each other is easily mistaken for being gay.
Shen Nian pretended for a little while longer before he got too lazy to keep it up, slipping away to check his score.
Hmm... two minutes and forty-eight seconds.
Shen Nian didn't know what kind of score this was, knowing very little about the standards for sports students. However, seeing that Huang Chen couldn't even catch up to him, it should be pretty good.
"Bro, no way, you ran this?" Chen Dong looked at the score, then at Shen Nian, feeling like the world had gone crazy.
With this kind of ability, you didn't sign up for anything at the sports meet, and instead stayed at the camp chatting with girls and playing Naruto?
Bro, seriously.
Chen Dong was scared to tears. He had checked it out before the sports meet; the school's 1,000-meter record was two minutes and fifty-one seconds. You broke the school record wearing a big jacket and long pants for a physical test?
Was this still the Shen Nian who didn't play sports or exercise? He must have turned on cheats!
The P.E. teacher was also a bit dumbfounded. How did a two-minute-and-fifty-second score pop out of a physical test?
Even among so many sports students, there was no one like this.
Two minutes and forty-eight seconds, only eighteen seconds slower than a third-level athlete. If this was his score without any training, what if he was taken and trained for a bit...
Hiss.
Shen Nian squeezed his way in and glanced at Ma Mingfan's score.
He ran it in just over four minutes. Congratulations, congratulations.
Ma Mingfan was genuinely a bit weak. After finishing the 1,000 meters, he still hadn't recovered, and his whole body felt awful.
He had always been physical trash. In the past, he would lazily jog for five or six minutes. Now, even after biting the bullet, he still couldn't break the four-minute mark, and his breathing had become somewhat difficult.
He walked for a while before he dared to go rest. Sitting on the grass panting, he kind of wanted to drink some water, but he no longer had the energy to walk to the tuck shop.
Sigh, willpower could indeed help him fight his way out of a siege, but physical stamina could not be ignored at all.
From now on, he would watch "Super Sweet Candy" while lifting small dumbbells, cultivating both his willpower and stamina.
After checking the scores, Shen Nian deliberately glanced at Huang Chen and his group. Their expressions looked quite uncomfortable, seemingly a mix of confusion and frustration.
A sports student going all out but failing to outrun an academic student was perhaps indeed a bit embarrassing. Shen Nian couldn't be bothered to guess what Huang Chen was thinking at the moment. He only knew that he was in a very good mood right now. If Huang Chen had taken first place, he probably would be feeling the same way Shen Nian was now.
It was fine. Shen Nian had already taken other people's share of happiness and made it his own.
There was still another round of the boys' physical test, so Shen Nian ran straight over to the girls' side.
"Guess what my time was?" Not minding the dirt, he plopped down right next to Xia Yanchun.
"Th-three minutes?"
Xia Yanchun was doubtful. She had watched Shen Nian run the whole race; not only did he not slow down, but he even accelerated, leaving Huang Chen far behind. She felt like Shen Nian could even do five push-ups at the finish line without breaking a sweat.
"Two minutes and forty-eight seconds. Is your Brother Nian awesome or what?"
"Pretty awesome. I'll allow you to be proud."
"That's it? No other rewards?"
"What nonsense are you spouting? Do you want me to treat you to some stinky socks!"
"Ew, I refuse because it's gross. Give me a non-stinky one to collect."
Xia Yanchun shot him a shy, glaring look, then turned to look at Li Shiyan, who was also watching them.
Li Shiyan blinked. Even though she was so close, she decided to pretend she hadn't heard anything. This little girl, who wasn't even 1.6 meters tall, had a depth of shrewdness two stories high.
In her heart, she was already squealing and shipping them so hard.
Shen Nian was actually asking Bestie for a reward? This was way, way, way too sweet to ship!
It was so natural that it clearly wasn't their first time. Bestie and Shen Nian must do this often!
What kind of reward would it be when they were alone in private?
Her imagination ran wild. Li Shiyan's not-so-innocent mind was filled with various scenes, and just thinking about them made her small face flush with a light shade of pink.
She felt so blissful.
Shen Nian and Bestie were much better to ship than Xiong Er and Logger Vick.
Who could understand the thrill of watching two people go from being at each other's throats to having so much romantic tension? Just one taste of this ship was enough to make anyone swoon and drop dead on the spot.
After the physical test came free activity time. Because she had run 800 meters, Xia Yanchun approved Shen Nian's request to go buy drinks this time, since she was also feeling a bit thirsty.
Li Shiyan also wanted Shen Nian to bring her a bottle, but she didn't know how to ask. She absentmindedly tugged at Xia Yanchun's fingers, planning to buy one herself after class.
But when Shen Nian returned, not only did he buy a Nutri-Express for Xia Yanchun, he also brought an extra small bottle of AD Calcium Milk, the kind with a straw.
"Here, take it," Shen Nian said generously.
Agility +3 had brought him stronger observational skills... Of course, the little loli's bashfulness when she had something to say but didn't dare to was also very obvious. He could easily tell just by looking.
He felt that if he asked this little loli for a friendship fee, she would actually pay it.
"Thank you!" Li Shiyan was overjoyed, feeling absolutely wonderful. Even if Shen Nian stepped on her foot right now, she wouldn't get mad.
She wouldn't egg Xiaochun on to hit Shen Nian anymore. Shen Nian was a great guy. Tonight, in her sketchbook, she would treat a little stick-figure Shen Nian to a Manchu-Han Imperial Feast.
Shen Nian didn't pay much attention to Li Shiyan; his attention was on Chunbao drinking.
Watching Chunbao take a small sip of her Nutri-Express, Shen Nian resisted the urge to brush her hair back and instead chugged more than half of the Pepsi he had just bought in one gulp.
This Pepsi hit the spot; Coca-Cola really just lacked that certain something.
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
