Chapter 21: Xiao Jin Really Likes It

The reason why Jin Zhuo and his roommates were collectively punished was because they were late for evening training.

The four of them rushed from the dormitory building to the playground and were caught by the chief instructor who was on patrol.

After they finished fifty push-ups, the chief instructor finally let them go. Yu Zhizhi got off Xie Chi’s back, “So even the student union president has no face in front of the chief instructor!”

Xie Chi stretched his sore arms, “This is called treating everyone equally, learn from it!”

He had a deep impression of Yu Zhizhi. This girl was as lively as a bird on the first day she joined the student union, chattering endlessly.

Plus, she was beautiful and had a warm and generous personality, making her likable everywhere.

In a day, she became familiar with all the departments of the student union.

Yu Zhizhi looked at him, sweating profusely, “President, you’re not doing well either, you’re too weak.”

She wasn’t even a hundred pounds!

“Me weak?” Xie Chi couldn’t believe it, eager to show off his biceps, but it was not convenient to do so in his military training uniform, “I’ll take you to the gym later and let you see what a real man is!”

Yu Zhizhi teased, “Get out of here…”

Qin Yingxia stood there with a worried look on her face, her eyes fixed on Jin Zhuo.

He and Pei Lanhe had no one on their backs, and they did fifty push-ups effortlessly.

On the other hand, Jiang Yinghuai’s forehead was damp with sweat.

However, he didn’t have the time to care about himself, urging Qin Yingxia to go to Jin Zhuo.

Qin Yingxia was a little afraid.

But in order to coax him, she still mustered up her courage and rushed to Jin Zhuo’s side, smiling extra sweetly, “Jin Xuechang…”

The meaning of flattery was obvious.

Jin Zhuo raised his eyelids and looked over, without saying anything, just raised an eyebrow at her.

Qin Yingxia instantly understood, her eyes lit up, “Jin Zhuo!”

“Hmm, were you scared by the chief instructor just now?”

She nodded honestly, softly coaxing him, “Hmm hmm, I didn’t go to your side, don’t be angry, I didn’t sit on your back so you could relax a lot, you wouldn’t be as tired as Senior Jiang and the others.”

Jiang Yinghuai: SO?

Jin Zhuo smiled, “Xiao Qin Xuemei is even thinking for me.”

He lowered his eyes, his eyes filled with an imperceptible tenderness, “Xiao Qin Xuemei is so good～”

Qin Yingxia’s ears turned red, her breathing became cautious, “Xiao Jin likes… it’s good.”

“Hmm, Xiao Jin really likes it…” Jin Zhuo licked his lips, deliberately following her words.

Unexpectedly, Qin Yingxia didn’t dare to continue.

“Then, why were all of you in your dormitory late?” She hurriedly changed the subject.

“Ah,” Jin Zhuo straightened up, his voice dragging, “I was playing games with headphones on, I was too engrossed and forgot the time…”

“What game is so fun?”

Qin Yingxia’s eyes lit up, and she had already planned how to use the game to bring her closer to Jin Zhuo.

“Interested?”

She nodded quickly, her tea-colored eyes were beautiful beyond words.

Jin Zhuo pushed down her cap, blocking those bright eyes, his voice tinged with laughter, “I’ll take you to play tonight.”

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Evening training was easy, and they were dismissed at nine o’clock sharp.

The first thing Qin Yingxia did when she returned to the dormitory was to download the game Jin Zhuo mentioned.

Yu Zhizhi came over and took a look, “You’ve also fallen for this game?”

Two seconds later, she understood.

“Oh～ Jin Zhuo pulled you in to play, right?”

Qin Yingxia smiled with a slight pursed lip, “Zhizhi, do you know how to play?”

She wanted to let Yu Zhizhi teach her first, so that she wouldn’t be embarrassed in front of Jin Zhuo if she didn’t even know the basic operations.

Yu Zhizhi proudly said, “You’ve asked the right person!”

She played two rounds with Qin Yingxia, teaching her how to set up the operation page and some basic operations.

Share Later, Yu Zhizhi answered a phone call and rushed out, without saying what it was about.

Qin Yingxia had never seen her so anxious before. Afraid of intruding on her private matters, she didn’t ask much, “Then Zhizhi, come back early, the curfew is at 10:30.”

“I will.”

When Qin Yingxia came out after taking a shower, Xu Siwan and Yang Dai had also returned.

Xu Siwan couldn’t help but complain as soon as she entered the door, “Oh my God, you guys know how crazy my formation’s instructor is, we were the only formation running 1000 meters on the whole field!”

Qin Yingxia looked over while wiping her hair, “How can you stand it running in such hot weather?”

“Exactly! I can’t believe I survived without getting heatstroke. I thought I was going to die out there!”

“I’m a college student, during military training, I felt like I was an animal!”

Her words made the two laugh.

Yang Dai took her toiletries and was about to go take a shower, she was amused by Xu Siwan’s words, “You said that so perfectly!”

“How about your formation, Dai Dai?”

“Our formation…” Yang Dai couldn’t help but glance in Qin Yingxia’s direction, “It’s pretty good, the instructor is funny, and the guys in the formation are very considerate of me.”

Xu Siwan: “That’s great, no crazy instructor making you run 1000 meters is just wonderful!”

“I heard that Jin Zhuo and you are in the same formation, they were collectively punished by their dorm during evening training, right?”

Yang Dai’s face changed, she mumbled a response and went to the bathroom, clearly unwilling to discuss this topic further.

Because the female protagonist of the topic was Qin Yingxia.

Xu Siwan stared at the closed bathroom door and sighed softly.

“Xiaoxia, there’s something you need to pay attention to…”

Her earnest look made Qin Yingxia pause her hair-drying motion, “Hmm?”

Xu Siwan asked her, “Did you have time to check your account videos today?”

Qin Yingxia hadn’t logged into her account for a few days due to preparing for military training.

“There are a lot of secretly taken photos of you in the comments section of your latest video. If it was just simple pictures of your beauty, it would be fine, but this person…” Xu Siwan didn’t continue speaking, she directly showed her the photos from the comments section.

Qin Yingxia looked at a few of them. These secretly taken photos were all of her with different boys.

These photos were not edited, they were taken from when she was in the same frame as many passersby.

The person taking the photos would capture the whole picture, then crop out the surrounding people, leaving only Qin Yingxia and the boy next to her.

She was very beautiful, and the boys who passed by would also take a second look at her.

Therefore, in these photos, the boys’ eyes were all on Qin Yingxia.

Qin Yingxia remained calm and composed, calmly flipping through a few more photos.

The boys next to her were different, but there wasn’t a single photo of her with Jin Zhuo.

This was too strange.

The students of Imperial University all knew that they had been close these past few days. If the person taking the photos was intentional, they would have taken the most photos of her with Jin Zhuo.

Yet, there wasn’t a single one.

“What are these people trying to do? Create the illusion that you’re flirting with different boys? But their tactics are a bit low-grade…” Xu Siwan reminded her, “Xiao Xia, fame brings gossip, are they trying to monitor you?”

Qin Yingxia chuckled lightly, “It doesn’t seem like they’re willing to spend time monitoring me, it’s more like they want to label me as a…slut?”

Xu Siwan: “What’s their goal? To slander you?”

“I don’t know…” Qin Yingxia wasn’t affected by this at all, although she had a vague guess in her heart, “Thanks for reminding me, I’ll go deal with those photos now…”