Chapter 8: Savouring it Slowly?

“Right? I told you before, but you doubted me. Now do you believe me?” Ji Shuyi said quickly, as if she’d found a comrade-in-arms.

“I believe you, I believe you, but…” Lu Zhixia suddenly grinned mischievously. “He’s really handsome! He looks different in his sports uniform today than he did that night at the bar. That night he was pure, wicked aloofness, but today, in these clothes, you can even see a sense of youthful passion.”

Ji Shuyi: “……”

She strongly disagreed.

Seeing Ji Shuyi’s lifeless expression, Lu Zhixia chuckled and patted her lightly, changing the subject. “On the way here, I heard a lot of people talking about how a new girl confronted Jiang Cheng today. They said she was almost dragged back by the neck and beaten up. Wouldn’t that be you?”

“It spread that fast?” Ji Shuyi asked, astonished. “And they added a plot where I was going to get beaten up?”

The beauty helplessly rubbed her forehead. “People really don’t need to use their imaginations so much.”

“It really is you?! Luckily, I already knew about you two, otherwise I would have worried that you were going to get beaten up at any moment,” Lu Zhixia laughed louder and louder, then patted Ji Shuyi’s shoulder with a sympathetic look. “Everyone feels sorry and pities you.”

“Hehe… well, thank you, everyone,” Ji Shuyi said with a forced smile.

Meeting Ji Shuyi’s awkward smile, Lu Zhixia sighed in a dispirited manner, “What a pity, such a handsome guy is now removed from my roster. Successfully becomes the fastest to be abandoned from my love-at-first-sight list.”

Ji Shuyi was used to her ‘female playboy’ ways, only smiling and casually asking, “What? Giving up already? Weren’t you just saying he was super handsome?”

Lu Zhixia: “I must resolutely abandon those who ignore me upon first meeting. Isn’t it better for this young lady to spend the time of pleasing him on picking up a few more handsome guys?”

Saying that, she suddenly let go of Ji Shuyi’s arm and walked forward a few steps quickly. Then, giggling, she turned her head back to tease Ji Shuyi, “So, this handsome Jiang is left for you to savour slowly…hehe….”

Ji Shuyi was used to Lu Zhixia’s love of joking around, so she didn’t take it seriously. She just chased after Lu Zhixia resentfully, wanting to hit her. “You little troublemaker, you’re so good to me, cursing me?”

Savour slowly that guy?

Then how miserable would her life be!

And on this day, the thing Ji Shuyi worried about still happened. She ultimately became famous at school on the first day of school because of Jiang Cheng.

The schoolmates’ discussions were basically divided into two camps.

One camp was waiting to see how the Great Devil King Jiang Cheng would deal with Ji Shuyi in the future, adding some fun to their boring campus life.

One camp was betting that Jiang Cheng would be reluctant to do anything to Ji Shuyi, because Ji Shuyi occupied the forum’s homepage with an innocent and lively face and was crowned with the title of ‘Nation’s First Love Face’.

Ji Shuyi didn’t have the dazzling, radiant beauty that shines brightly; rather, she possessed the delicate and sweet charm of a Jiangnan woman. With moon-like features and flower-like beauty, and a graceful figure, her every move exuded the pampered and spoiled air of a daughter from a wealthy and powerful family.

With light brown pupils, her almond-shaped eyes sparkled as brightly and moistly as if soaked in a spring, her lips curved upward slightly, her lip petals were bright and delicate, and her white dress, with soft, long hair draped behind her head and one side tucked behind her ear, instantly stirred the hearts of every boy in their prime. She was the face of every boy’s youthful first love fantasy.

Military training was probably a nightmare for many students, at least it was for Ji Shuyi. By the second day of military training, Ji Shuyi felt that her life was bleak and without end.

It always felt like the sun was exclusively favouring her, and she applied sunscreen again and again.

But just as she was sweating profusely and standing at attention, Jiang Cheng strolled past her slowly, eating an ice cream in one hand and holding a bottle of ice-cold drink in the other. Even as he passed right by her, the corner of his mouth curled into an almost imperceptible teasing smile as he glanced at her, acting extremely smug.

How could this person be so annoying?

Ji Shuyi threw him a glare that she thought was fierce, a big eye-roll.

Whether her expression wasn’t fierce enough or something else, the dog thing’s smile actually became even more unrestrained. He must be gloating!

She must look extremely dishevelled right now, covered in sweat from the sun, with a few stray hairs on her forehead sticking to her face. In the face of his teasing smile, a mixture of shame and annoyance surged up, but mindful of the instructor, Ji Shuyi could only angrily turn her face away, no longer looking at him.

At this moment, she truly hated Jiang Cheng.

Seeing this scene, Chen Xingyi lowered his head and stifled a laugh. He felt that something was wrong with his brother. He was so bored that he bought an ice cream and went around in a circle to Ji Shuyi’s place, and deliberately attracted the attention of the girl.

After Chen Xingyi walked away, he took a bite of the ice cream, and suddenly said: “Cheng-ge, when you get married in the future, I want to sit at the kids’ table.”

Jiang Cheng, still walking with great strides and unaware, only replied lazily and coldly: “Marry you? You want me to top you?”

“Dream on!” Chen Xingyi didn’t care about his crude words, only replied with a sly smile: “It must be with Ji Shuyi, you even…”

The remaining words were suddenly interrupted by a chilling gaze that struck his soul.

“Hehe…” Chen Xingyi met Jiang Cheng’s cold and deep eyes with an awkward smile and immediately changed his words: “I said something wrong, I said something wrong, you will definitely not marry Ji Shuyi, if you marry her, you will broadcast yourself eating sh*t… Ow! That hurts!”

Jiang Cheng, who was listening to more and more outrageous things, raised his hand and slapped Chen Xingyi on the head, his voice instantly chilling several degrees:

“Have I been too nice lately? Need to be trained?”

“No, no…”

In the end, Chen Xingyi was dragged by Jiang Cheng to the school boxing room for more than an hour of “training,” making it a day Chen Xingyi would never forget.

In the evening, the day’s military training ended.

Still wearing her military uniform, Ji Shuyi was too tired to move. She prepared to rest for a while under a tree before heading back.

“Shuyi.”

She heard Lu Zhixia’s voice from afar.

Ji Shuyi wearily lifted her eyelids and looked over. Lu Zhixia, wearing her own clothes, was running excitedly towards her, holding two ice creams.

“Here, your favorite ice cream,” Lu Zhixia handed Ji Shuyi an ice cream.

“Didn’t you have military training today?” Ji Shuyi took the ice cream and took a bite. The coolness seeped into her heart, instantly relieving much of the heat.

“Nope.” Lu Zhixia also sat down next to Ji Shuyi, leaning in mysteriously and saying, “Went to do something big.”

Ji Shuyi turned her head weakly. “What big thing?”

Lu Zhixia raised her eyebrows smugly, answering with a question, “Is military training comfortable? Fun?”

Ji Shuyi, losing her temper, gave her a big eye-roll. “What do you think?”

Lu Zhixia laughed, unbothered, and nudged Ji Shuyi with her elbow, continuing, “There’s a way to skip military training, and you don’t even need your parents to ask for leave.”

Ji Shuyi’s listless eyes instantly brightened. “What way?”

Lu Zhixia: “I learned from a senior that next week Jing University and the neighboring medical school have a football league, a social event that both schools attach great importance to. They also arranged cheerleading squads. I signed you up, so we can rehearse, train, and successfully avoid military training, right? Besides, you can dance, and, more importantly, see handsome guys…”

As Lu Zhixia spoke, she was already lost in her fantasies, her eyes full of infatuation. “Just imagine the scene: green grass, handsome guys running, hot-blooded excitement…”

“Okay, I’ll go too!” Ji Shuyi, who was already on the verge of tears from being ‘ravaged’ by military training for only two days, felt her world brighten up again when she heard that she didn’t have to do military training. Not even bothering to ask anything else, she hugged Lu Zhixia’s arm, deeply moved, and rubbed against her. “Zhizhi is the best, always thinking of me for good things.”