Chapter 4 Domineering School Prince's Wet Love 04 It looks... good...
[Host, take a look at your spoils!] 778 urged excitedly.
After turning two corners, Ye Ling dared to stop, leaned against the cold wall, and took out his cell phone.
The shutter button I pressed in a hurry just now only captured a shaky and blurry afterimage, nothing was clear.
"This won't do!!" 778, frustrated, pulled out a holographic projection of the rental house. "Look! Right now, all four walls of your house are still empty! You have to secretly take enough photos to cover them all. That way, when the male protagonist exposes you later, you'll appear completely perverted and hopeless!"
Ye Ling sighed: [...I understand.]
The school bell sounded like a starting gun.
As 778 said before, Jiang Lian picked up his sports bag and walked straight towards the swimming pool to go for training again.
Ye Ling immediately fell behind like a little tail, not too far away.
In the swimming pool, the water splashed against the pool wall, making a splashing sound.
The coach blew his whistle and urged the swimmers on. Captain Jiang Lian had already changed into his swimming trunks and was standing by the pool, slowly stretching and warming up.
The skin, which has been soaked in pool water for many years, has a cool white tone, and the muscle lines are firm and smooth.
Ye Ling found a seat in the back row of the auditorium, shaded by a huge potted plant.
Very hidden!
After confirmation, he took out his mobile phone and tried to capture every handsome moment of Jiang Lian's training.
But he underestimated the sharpness and boredom of the over-energized swimmers. Several members who had just finished a training session were stalking this out-of-place figure like hyenas.
"Hey, look over there!" A shaved-head boy nudged his companion with his elbow. "Is that... that weirdo in Brother Jiang's class? The one who always hides in the corner... the one named Ye Ling?"
"Huh? It's him?" Another team member squinted his eyes to identify him. "Tsk, he seems... different? He's so white."
Ye Ling knew nothing about this. He leaned forward slightly and stared intently at the screen of his mobile phone, trying to frame Jiang Lian by the pool.
The setting sun shone through the high windows, falling right on him. His short, light-blonde hair shone softly in the light, his fair cheeks a faint pink from nervousness, and his focused hazel eyes were clear and bright.
How could he still be the gloomy shadow he once was?
Jiang Lian was still immersed in extra training, and only managed to glance at him a few times out of the corner of his eye.
"Hey, kid! Yes, it's you!" The guy with a crew cut and nothing to do took the initiative to attack, and walked towards the stands with big strides, covered in water vapor.
Several other team members followed with laughter, like a group of large dogs who had discovered a new toy.
[Me...?]
Ye Ling was so frightened by the sudden noise that she almost dropped her phone.
Several tall and strong boys wearing only swimming trunks gathered around, and Ye Ling, curled up in the chair, looked like a lamb that had strayed into a pack of wolves.
[7, 778!] Ye Ling screamed in her mind, [What should I do? This part isn't in the script! What are they trying to do?!]
[Hmm…?] 778's data stream also experienced a brief hiccup. [According to the original plot, being harassed by those hormonal guys on the swimming team should have been triggered when the heroine transferred in and her charm first became apparent…]
As it spoke, it "scanned" its host up and down. It had to admit that its host was indeed quite attractive...
And this overly naive look makes it seem like... it's easy to bully.
In a blink of an eye, the man with the buzz cut had walked up to Ye Ling and deliberately patted his shoulder with his wet hands: "Hey, little classmate, what are you hiding here for? Watching the training?"
He winked deliberately, "Who on our team do you like? Can I introduce you to someone?"
There was a burst of laughter from the side immediately.
Ye Ling didn't know what to do and could only purse her lips and shake her head.
...It seems that he is easier to bully.
[It shouldn't be a big deal...] 778 tried to comfort the terrified new human host. [To put it bluntly, the male protagonist, Jiang Lian, is the core NPC of this swimming pool! Anyone who comes here will likely trigger a plot involving him...]
Jiang Lian, who had just finished a set of high-intensity interval training and was leaning against the pool to catch his breath, happened to turn his sharp gaze.
He saw those familiar teammates surrounding the golden figure.
He saw Ye Ling huddled together, a look of helplessness written all over his fair face. Surrounded by his teammates' teasing, he looked even more pitiful. Or rather, it was more likely to... arouse some dark thoughts.
Jiang Lian's brows furrowed slightly. Why hadn't he noticed before that this guy was so...recruiting? Why were they all suddenly trying to "bully" him?
Jiang Lian's eyes suddenly darkened.
I haven't bullied anyone yet.
"Splash!" There was a loud sound of water.
Jiang Lian suddenly stretched out his arms and jumped out of the swimming pool, and large strings of water droplets rolled down his tight back muscles.
He casually grabbed the towel on the chair next to him, wiped himself a few times, and then walked straight to the corner of the audience with a biting steam and low pressure on his body.
"Brother Jiang!"
"team leader!"
The originally playful swimming team members saw Jiang Lian walking towards them with an expressionless face, and the smiles on their faces froze, replaced by obvious respect and a hint of fear.
They subconsciously made way for a passage.
The man with the buzz cut scratched the back of his head and tried to explain: "Brother Jiang, we...just saw this guy acting suspiciously and didn't know what he was doing here, so we asked him a few questions..."
He pointed at Ye Ling, who was curled up in the chair and whose face had turned even paler.
"Yeah..." Jiang Lian's lips curled up slightly, and he actually responded to his words, "Sneaky."
Ye Ling's heart almost jumped out of his chest when he was swept by that tangible scrutiny.
[Host!] 778 sounded the alarm, [Quickly find a way to cover this up! You absolutely cannot admit that you were stalking and secretly filming! !]
Ye Ling's mind was in a mess. In a hurry, he blurted out the words without thinking: "I... I'm not sneaking around. I came... to give you something!"
"...Hmm?" Jiang Lian raised an eyebrow slightly. Giving him something? For him? So thoughtful?
Ye Ling seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw. She no longer cared about logic and continued to make up stories. Her voice became increasingly quiet. "You... you have to go to school every day and train for such a long time. It must be very hard, right?"
He raised his wet eyes, glanced at Jiang Lian quickly, and then quickly dropped them. The tips of his ears turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye. "So... I came to bring you some food."
Send food? Give it to him? Jiang Lian's doubts not only did not resolve, but instead grew bigger like a snowball.
As everyone watched with bated breath, Ye Ling reached into the pocket of his washed-out school uniform with trembling hands.
He fished around, clumsily and eagerly, until he finally pulled out… half a chocolate energy bar wrapped in a transparent plastic bag. This was what he had saved for lunch and was planning to take home for dinner.
"This..." He paused, as if he had used up all his strength, holding it in both hands and handing it over, "This is for you."
Time seemed to stop.
Drops of water dripped from Jiang Lian's hair, hitting the tiles with a slight sound.
The swim team members were stunned, looking at the pitiful half of the energy bar, then looking at their usually stern and serious captain Jiang Lian, their expressions were wonderful. Some wanted to laugh, but they had a hard time holding it back.
Jiang Lian: “…”
However, he did not refuse immediately, nor did he show any contempt or disgust.
He just said coldly to the players who were watching the show: "Continue training."
The team members looked at each other in bewilderment. The captain's reaction was even more confusing than his outright anger. But no one dared to tease Ye Ling anymore, and they jumped back into the pool like dumplings.
After everyone left, Jiang Lian took the half energy bar, stuffed it into his sports bag with an expressionless face, and turned away.
ah?
Ye Ling was completely confused.
[…Host,] 778's voice also sounded a little dazed. [Although the process was thrilling and tortuous, the result…seems… logical? Giving away half an energy bar… Hmm, this is simply too perverted, too perverted!! Host, you are a perverted genius!!!]
Ye Ling wanted to cry but couldn't, and buried her face in her palms: [...Then what should I eat tonight? ]
778: [……]
The evening breeze, with a slightly cool autumn feel, blows over the teenagers returning home from school.
Jiang Lian, carrying a sports bag, walked alone on the tree-lined avenue leading to a high-end apartment.
He felt it again.
That familiar, self-concealed gaze lingered behind him, neither too far nor too close. Just like last time, he felt no offense. Instead, he felt a surge of indescribable interest, in addition to curiosity.
He even deliberately slowed down his pace to match the clumsy stalker.
On the quiet street, the noises made by the other person's reckless behavior were amplified infinitely: the crisp sound of fallen leaves being stepped on, the rustling of clothes rubbing against the bushes...
These clumsy flaws, however, brought gusts of fresh breeze on this long and boring journey home.
The wind pulled the corners of Jiang Lian's mouth upwards, and he didn't even notice it.
Until the familiar, modern apartment building with cold lines appeared before my eyes.
The heavy glass door isolates the world behind it, which is full of clumsy vitality.
The elevator rose steadily, and the mirror-smooth metal wall reflected his expressionless face.
In the high-rise apartment, the smart sensor lights light up silently, illuminating this open, clean, yet empty space without a trace of life.
Jiang Lian stood alone in the middle of the living room, lost in thought. After a long time, he reached into his sports bag.
My fingertips touched a slightly cool plastic object.
He took it out.
It was the half-empty energy bar in a clear plastic bag, the edges of the wrapper wrinkled from repeated handling.
Jiang Lian lowered his eyes, not understanding why he hadn't thrown it away like garbage along the way.
Holding the half energy bar, he walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling window and pulled open the heavy blackout curtains with a "swish".
The vision suddenly became clear.
Across the street lay a world completely different from this side—an old, somewhat aged residential area. There were no neat geometric lines, no cold metallic sheen, only uneven balconies where colorful clothes were hung out to dry.
It is the time when lights are on in every house, and warm dim light shines through every window.
He seemed to hear the sizzling sound of the spatula stirring in the iron pan; the exaggerated laughter on the variety show on TV; and the screams of children chasing and playing in the small garden downstairs...
These are the "noises" that are deliberately isolated in the high-end apartments, and they are the presence that Jiang Lian habitually frowns at and feels annoyed about.
But at this moment, his eyes involuntarily wandered among the densely packed windows with lights on.
Could it be behind a window? Was that guy with light blond hair and hazelnut-like, round, bright, clear eyes sitting in some small, perhaps messy room?
Could he be... looking out the window too? Those eyes, always tinged with timidity and curiosity, were they gazing towards the cold, high-rise buildings?
As he thought about it, he was inexplicably led to slowly bring the half of the energy bar, which had become soft and had teeth marks on it, to his mouth.
He took a small bite.
The taste... is just average.
Jiang Lian chewed with an expressionless face.
However, he never stopped, one bite after another.
Until that half of the energy bar completely disappeared between the lips and teeth.
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