Chapter 44 Competition
The location was a famous scenic spot with rugged and difficult terrain. Lin Qingxu was exhausted and had severe abdominal pain.
"What's wrong?" He Jia supported her and asked, then thought of something and mouthed something to Lin Qingxu.
Lin Qingxu nodded, her face pale.
"Then you even ate so much ice cream yesterday!"
Lin Qingxu also felt regretful. She had only just discovered her period had arrived early that morning. She had taken some painkillers, but she hadn't expected them to wear off so quickly; they usually lasted all day.
Qu Wen noticed the movement here and walked towards them.
"Senior, Qingxu is feeling unwell. I'll help her go to the school bus to rest." He Jia said.
Qu Wen glanced at Lin Qingxu's face and asked her, "Can you still walk?"
Lin Qingxu was in so much pain that he couldn't speak. His lower abdomen felt as if it was being hit hard by a needle.
Qu Wen apologized and picked her up by the waist. He asked He Jia to go sketch first, and he sent Lin Qingxu to the school bus to rest.
Lin Qingxu took some painkillers before slowly recovering.
"Thanks."
Qu Wen took off his coat and piled it on the bus seat. The cushions were hard and it was uncomfortable to sit for a long time.
Lin Qingxu leaned on it and gradually fell asleep.
When I woke up again, the sunset was in the sky.
The afterglow fell on Qu Wen's profile. Noticing the movement, he stopped what he was doing.
"Awake? How are you?"
He handed her a thermos filled with hot water.
"There are no hot packs on the mountain, and the old lady next door only has brown sugar at her house. I borrowed some from her, and drinking it should make you feel better."
He actually didn't know much about these things about girls. He learned how to prepare the hot packs and brown sugar water by temporarily searching for information online.
Lin Qingxu took it and said, "Thank you, Senior."
She noticed the sketchbook in his hand, with lines drawn on it.
Qu Wen noticed Lin Qingxu's gaze and handed the notebook back to her. "I heard you were going to hand in your sketches tomorrow. I figured you might still be feeling uncomfortable after you woke up, so I took it upon myself to do your homework."
"Thanks."
Lin Qingxu flipped through a few of the pictures. Qu Wen's basic skills were very good. The flowers, plants, rivers, and building tiles on them all looked lifelike.
Her eyes stopped at one of the paintings, and her hand paused turning the pages.
The girl inside closed her eyes and leaned against the car window. The afterglow of the setting sun shone on her face, and her eyelashes shone with golden light.
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In order to thank Qu Wen for taking care of her all the time and to fulfill her promise to treat him to milk tea, Lin Qingxu said she would treat him to a meal as a thank you.
Qu Wen had set the time. He said he had a basketball game that day and invited Lin Qingxu to watch it with him.
The game is in the afternoon.
Qu Wen taught the sketching class again in the morning.
Lin Qingxu remembered that it seemed like he hadn't seen his former teacher for a long time. The last time he saw her, she was still wearing only a mask and left in a hurry after class.
When the bell rang for lunch, He Jia offered to help Lin Qingxu take her things back. She pushed her next to Qu Wen and winked at her: "We'll reserve a spot for you at the afternoon game. You guys go first."
There is a popular internet-famous restaurant in the university town that has always been very popular. However, after waiting in line and going in, I found that the food was actually not very satisfactory.
Lin Qingxu had forgotten to charge her phone the night before, and it was running low. The restaurant she was staying at didn't have any power banks, so she paid the bill in advance and ordered milk tea for her roommates.
While waiting for the meal, my phone battery was completely exhausted.
The conversation with Qu Wen was very pleasant. Lin Qingxu and he had similar majors and they had a lot in common.
For example, at this moment, they all agreed that the food in this internet-famous restaurant was really bad.
Lin Qingxu borrowed Qu Wen's cell phone to contact He Jia and asked about their current location.
Before entering the basketball stadium, Lin Qingxu and Qu Wen separated. Qu Wen went to the lounge to change clothes, and Lin Qingxu entered the stadium.
When she was at the door, she glanced around for He Jia and the others, but she seemed to vaguely see Kan Zhao's figure.
The venue was packed with people, and the figure disappeared again. Lin Qingxu thought it was an illusion.
I guess I was overthinking it.
Kan Zhao had not told her before that he was coming to South America.
He Jia waved at her.
Lin Qingxu stopped thinking about it and handed the milk tea in his hand to them.
He Jia nudged Youyou and moved two seats. She winked at Lin Qingxu, "The middle seat is reserved for you and Senior Qu."
Youyou took the milk tea and said, "Wow," "Bai Cha's Strawberry Coconut Milk, Qingxu, how did you know I like that?" He turned sideways and handed the other cup to Zhan Han.
Youyou took a sip of milk tea and chewed it.
The competition began. Qu Wen and his team were competing against the mathematics department of Nanchuan University. Judging by their attire, they had the Nanchuan University logo printed on their backs.
"People from Nanchuan University are here too?" Lin Qingxu was a little surprised. She hadn't paid much attention to sports like football before, so she didn't know much about this.
"I heard that it was a friendly match held between schools in Nanchuan, but the venue was set at our school," said He Jia.
That just now...
Before Lin Qingxu's eyes fell on the contestant seats, Youyou grabbed him and said, "Qingxu, look!"
On the basketball court, Qu Wen made a three-pointer.
The ball drew a perfect parabola in the air, passed the net and went into the basket.
The final whistle blew and the South American Oil Painting Department won.
There was a lot of noise all around, and soon another competition between schools and colleges began.
"I heard that the school hunk next door is also participating in the competition." Youyou said while sucking on the milk tea straw.
"School hunk?" He Jia raised an eyebrow.
"I heard a girl took a candid photo and then went to the confession wall to rescue him. The boy must be quite famous in his department. He was recognized even with a mask on. At that time, some people even questioned whether someone was ugly or handsome with a mask on."
"Then what?"
Youyou continued to explain, "Someone in the comments said I was super handsome and even attached a candid photo. Then the computer science department came over to join in the fun and created a list of the most popular male and female idols on campus, and that guy was number one by a landslide."
As he spoke, there was a commotion in the audience.
Lin Qingxu was engrossed in listening to Youyou's gossip when He Jia gently pushed him to remind him.
She looked up and saw Qu Wen, who had taken off his competition suit and changed into his original clothes, walking towards her.
She met Qu Wen's smiling eyes.
"Is there any water?" he asked.
Lin Qingxu handed Qu Wen the cup of milk tea.
He Jia and the other three quickly invited Qu Wen to sit down, and the seat was next to Lin Qingxu who had specially left it empty.
Whispers spread like ripples through the stands, and some eyes focused on the two of them.
Because of the South American competition, there were many students from our school. Qu Wen was quite famous in school because of his family background, talent, and appearance.
They had never heard of any romantic scandals involving Qu Wen, but when they saw that Senior Wenrou had deliberately gone to the audience and sat with a girl, and that they looked quite compatible, their hearts were instantly overwhelmed with gossip. They whispered to each other, chatted on social media, and secretly took a picture of the two of them and posted it on the forum, where the discussion quickly grew in volume.
Suddenly there was a cry of surprise from the stadium.
Lin Qingxu's heart suddenly trembled, and he looked towards the center of the front as if he had sensed something.
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