Chapter 37: Then I’ll Be Good…

The training grounds were in the wilderness, with mountains, water, and forests, perfect for this kind of game.

However, Ji Shuyi, who had made such confident promises, used up two of her life cards within the first half hour. Each person had three life cards, and once they were used up, they were eliminated.

Grasping her last life card tightly, Ji Shuyi realized with dismay that many people were chasing after her.

She didn’t know that one of the girls was the same one who had said she was cheering for the neighboring school during the football match between Jingda and the medical school at the beginning of the semester, calling her a traitor.

At that time, she and Lu Zhixia had both retorted her, and the girl had held a grudge ever since. Now, she finally found a legitimate opportunity to ‘snipe’ her without fear of being targeted. That girl joined forces with her close friends to catch her, and there were also some who were jealous because of the rumors about her and Jiang Cheng. All of a sudden, it seemed like she had become the target of public criticism.

Hiding under a tree in the bushes, Ji Shuyi adjusted her mindset and was about to rush out to counterattack. However, as soon as her little head popped out, a great force yanked her back by the waist. Before she could even see who it was, several paintballs came whizzing by. If she had run out just now, she would have been turned into a colorful, flowery rabbit.

She was scared to death; she almost got eliminated directly.

Behind her, a voice came from her after she was shocked and frightened:

“Someone has been watching you. You can’t go out from this side.”

Jiang Cheng?

Ji Shuyi quickly turned around and, sure enough, saw it was Jiang Cheng. But he was wearing the same camouflage uniform as them and the same hat.

“What are you doing here?” Ji Shuyi immediately changed her face, pushing him away with a displeased expression: “I don’t need you to help me.”

Seeing the resistance in her eyes, Jiang Cheng frowned slightly and said in a low voice, “I’ll take you to win the training camp and then leave, okay?”

Ji Shuyi directly refused coldly: “No!”

Jiang Cheng’s eyes were full of sorrow, and his voice was even lower: “Can you be good?”

Ji Shuyi said even more resentfully: “I don’t want to be good to you. I hate you!”

“Then I’ll be good. Can I be good, okay?”

Jiang Cheng said urgently, restraining his voice:

“I won’t make you angry, and I won’t touch you without your permission,”

Afraid that she would still refuse, he repeated,

“I’ll help you win and then I’ll leave,”

His voice was terribly low: “Will that work?”

Ji Shuyi couldn’t stand his tone the most. It made her heart beat for no reason, as if it was about to jump out of her throat. She even realized with alarm that seeing him looking so low, her heart felt a little prickly and uncomfortable.

But he was always a rogue, a jerk.

Seeing that she was lost in thought again, Jiang Cheng deliberately provoked her, “Those people took out two of your lives. Don’t you want to get revenge?”

Those words struck Ji Shuyi’s thoughts at that moment, and she blurted out, “Yes!”

Ji Shuyi hurriedly shook off the messy thoughts in her head and directly threw the simulated machine gun in her hand to him. Perhaps to cover up the ambiguous atmosphere, she suddenly spoke with arrogance:

“If you can’t win, I’ll hate you even more!”

Jiang Cheng breathed a sigh of relief: “I’ll definitely take you to win.”

“But wouldn’t that be unfair to the others?” Ji Shuyi asked very seriously.

“No.” Jiang Cheng also said truthfully: “The freshman training camp at Jingda isn’t very strict. Aren’t you guys participating voluntarily? Many people will find helpers, so the whole school gets a holiday when you train.”

Ji Shuyi said “Oh” and didn’t ask any more questions.

“I’ve observed the entire terrain. There’s an optimal sniper spot on the mountain ahead, and no one is there,” Jiang Cheng said softly, “I’ll take you there.”

Ji Shuyi’s expression faltered when she heard that. He had observed the entire terrain? So he had already come long ago?

“You… did you come long ago?” Ji Shuyi suddenly asked him, “Then why did you only show up now?”

Jiang Cheng gently pulled on her sleeve, leading her to the sniper spot, vigilantly observing all the movements around him, and replied calmly,

“If you could handle it, I wouldn’t show up. I was afraid of bothering you, but I showed up when you almost got shot just now.”

Afraid of bothering you…

These simple words, spoken from his mouth, felt inexplicably heavy.

Heavily, they landed directly on her heart, stirring up layers of ripples.

Ji Shuyi suddenly realized that, without knowing when, she would always find herself discovering his strengths, always capturing the words she liked to hear from his words;

She would also feel her heart beating because of a single sentence of his,

Perhaps it was from that night in the bar alley when she saw him losing control after mistaking Song Ning for her,

Or perhaps it was from the first time she saw him that a tiny sprout of affection had grown in her heart,

To this day, she still clearly remembered the corner where she accidentally bumped into him at their first meeting.

The moment she looked up, she was amazed by him. At that time, she felt that this boy was so handsome, the kind of handsome that couldn’t be ignored, very eye-catching, his handsomeness cold, arrogant, and unsurpassed.

But he retorted her as soon as he opened his mouth, making her change from joy to dislike in a second, igniting a kind of unconvinced stubbornness in her heart, so that she wanted to retort him as soon as she saw him later.

While arguing, how did it become like this again? It seemed… a little ambiguous.

He had kissed her twice,

But he had never said he liked her even once…

“Careful.”

In a moment of absentmindedness, Ji Shuyi was suddenly picked up and spun around by Jiang Cheng, dodging bullets. At the same time, Jiang Cheng fired several shots in a row, hitting every shot, and then cleanly and quickly hugged Ji Shuyi and hid under a tree.

The whole action was precise and beautiful.

After they were safe, Ji Shuyi saw Jiang Cheng quickly withdraw his hand from her waist and explain:

“There were bullets coming over. I called you, but you didn’t hear me.”

His eyes really showed that he was afraid she would misunderstand that he was deliberately touching her.

“Oh.”

Ji Shuyi responded with a blank expression, and then turned her head to secretly smile where he couldn’t see.

The competition gradually became exciting and heated, requiring every step to be observed in all directions, and to be careful.

At that time, Ji Shuyi realized that Jiang Cheng had a different kind of charm when he was doing things seriously. He was no longer as frivolous and unruly as he used to be, but rather had a calm and restrained demeanor that defied his age, making people feel very safe.

In the last half hour, they entered the final circle.

Jiang Cheng took Ji Shuyi down from the mountainside. Ji Shuyi, who was a little exhausted, suddenly slipped and was about to fall.

“Ah!”

“Shuyi!”

Jiang Cheng reached out almost instinctively and grabbed her, but they both fell down. In the nick of time, Jiang Cheng pressed her in his arms and protected the back of her head with his hands in time, doing his best not to hurt her in the slightest.

In a dizzying spin, Ji Shuyi faintly heard a muffled groan. The tumbling duo stopped abruptly.

Jiang Cheng, whose back hit a rock, tried his best to restrain himself from showing any abnormality, and asked urgently, “Did I hurt you?”

“No,” Ji Shuyi, who was being cared for in all directions and lying on his chest, asked in a panic, “Are you injured?”

“No injury.”

Jiang Cheng smiled lightly, concealing his injuries, and quickly helped her stand up, enduring the pain, and ran to a secret place next to her.

At the moment of running away, Ji Shuyi turned her head and saw the rock, so he had just hit the rock, and the muffled groan was not her illusion.

“Jiang Cheng…” Ji Shuyi suddenly called him, wanting to end the game and take him to the doctor.

But as soon as she opened her mouth, Jiang Cheng interrupted her, “It’s almost over,”

Seeing her face a little flustered, he couldn’t help but raise his hand and stroked her head, “Don’t be nervous. I said I’d take you to win, and I definitely will win.”

Seeing his expectant look, Ji Shuyi’s words that had reached her mouth turned into one word:

“Okay.”

There were three other people besides them in the final circle.

Jiang Cheng had already seen the positions of two people, but he couldn’t easily make a move, otherwise, exposing his position would turn him into a mantis stalking a cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. (螳螂捕蝉黄雀在后 – A Chinese idiom describing a situation where someone is focused on immediate gains while being unaware of greater dangers.)

Finally, Jiang Cheng found the position of the third person under a tree. He tilted his head and raised his eyebrows at Ji Shuyi, saying lightly,

“Get ready to accept the award.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Ji Shuyi saw Jiang Cheng hit the person under the tree with one shot, then quickly turned over and fired two shots in the opposite direction, and then quickly handed the gun back to Ji Shuyi.

The assembly sound rang, and the training camp ended.

The credits and bonuses would be distributed back at school, and the prizes would be awarded on the spot.

Holding the Monkey King model, Ji Shuyi nervously searched for Jiang Cheng’s figure in the crowd, but everyone had returned to the school bus, ready to return to school, and she still didn’t see Jiang Cheng’s figure. It was as if everything just now was just a hallucination.

Helpless, Ji Shuyi sent a message to Lu Zhixia asking: “Did you see Jiang Cheng?”

Lu Zhixia: “He’s gone. He left when you were getting the award. I just happened to see it.”

Looking at the message, Ji Shuyi’s heart suddenly sank, and she unconsciously pursed her lips. The words he had said suddenly came to her mind,

I’ll help you win and then I’ll leave…