The match would be held at 3pm in the afternoon. Exiting a restaurant after lunch, Xu Tingsheng spotted Lu Zhixin and one of her roommates at the entrance. Lu Zhixin stood looking at Xu Tingsheng from a distance away. Whilst not smiling, she also did not appear resentful.
Walking over, her roommate handed Xu Tingsheng a black plastic bag.
The girl shoved the plastic bag into Xu Tingshengâs hands, shooting him a threatening glance before turning and leaving without so much as saying a word.
Returning to his dormitory room, Xu Tingsheng opened the plastic bag. Inside wasâŚa single rose.
Even the props had been prepared for him. Their âdrama divisionâ really was diligent.
Although he was just a substitute and might not actually get to play, Xu Tingsheng still began feeling troubled: Where should he put the rose?
Xu Tingsheng remembered that âcrazy exoticâ striker who had hidden a rose in his pants back at his senior high farewell match. ThisâŚXu Tingsheng pulled at his pants, thought for a moment and then perished the thought. This wasnât something that anyone could do, not even a rebirtheeâŚeven a rebirthee would be afraid of pain!
Xu Tingsheng arrived at the match location a little earlier. Making use of when the coach had yet to arrive, he held onto the plastic bag as he searched all around the area in front of the stands. Really unable to find anyplace suitable for hiding something there, he could only go a little further away, stuffing the plastic bag amidst some green shrubbery.
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Yanzhou Universityâs opponent would be Jianhai Technological University of the same academy city, which was the university that Huang Yaming was in. The two would be competing for a place in the preliminaries. It was sad, as even having obtained victory in this match, the winning side would still be far from securing a place in the main competition.
The Yanzhou University team was inferior to their Jianhai Technological University counterparts. Ever since this competition had begun in the year 2000, they had never been able to obtain a victory over them before. For the two previous matches, they had lost 1:4 once and fallen pathetically 2:11 in the other. Hearing this second score, everyone would have thought it to be that of a table tennis match.
Usually, Yanzhou University would unquestionably refuse all offers by Jianhai Technological University for a friendly match between them.
Yanzhou University would instead seek out the Textile Specialisation Institute to play with. Yanzhou Textile was good! Even finding 11 guys to play in a match would be a little difficult for them.
âPrepare for it a little, bros! Letâs concede as few as possible today; concede less and itâll already be a victory. A convent of nuns canât beat a temple of monks; thatâs not an embarrassing thing. At least our cheerleading squad stably winsâŚah, what a pity that it isnât summer. Those short skirts, those high kicksâŚâ
The vice-captain was a doltish senior in his fourth year of university. Originally having been out on an internship, he had specifically rushed back to participate in the match.
Before he had finished speaking, the doltish vice-captain had been sent sprawling towards the ground by the coach with a firm kick on his backside.
While using the doltish vice-captain as a footrest, the coach encouraged his team, âDonât listen to him spouting nonsense. WeâŚactually do have a chance. Everyoneâs seen the formation weâll be using. This setup of mine is very targeted.â
âThis formation, 6-3-1, is a little risky. The forward at the front, take note. You should pay more attention to helping out with defenceâŚLetâs not consider scoring. Whatever the means, whatever the schemes, we just have one goal, which is to drag the match into a penalty shootout.â
âTo hell with it! This old manâs been training for penalties for the entire past year. Thereâs no way we canât drag them the hell down!â
Xu Tingsheng and the other first years all exchanged looks. This kind of encouragementâŚNot having experienced those tragic defeats in person, they werenât really able to immediately adjust to it.
Still, they could understand the rationale behind this.
A university comprised seventy percent of girls and a university comprised eighty percent of guys-these really werenât on the same level. Perhaps what that doltish vice-captain said was true, and Yanzhou University only stably won in terms of its cheerleading squad.
Not even considering the stands that were chock full of Yanzhou University chicks, Xu Tingsheng estimated that just their cheerleading squad alone must already number into the seventies or eighties. Also, the chicks were really too enthusiastic, garbed in raiments that exposed their navels in the middle of winter as well as short skirts coupled with silk leggings.
Those were a full ensemble of 160 long legs, their view unobstructed even by the leggings! As someone with a bit of leg fetish, Uncle Xu could not help but open his eyes wide at this sight for a bit. Within his mind inadvertently surfaced Appleâs tiny shorts and long legs. He sighedâŚ
The starting lineup took to the field. As Xu Tingsheng prepared to head to the substitutesâ bench, he was yelled out to by Huang Yaming from the stands.
âThe hell, whyâre you here? Itâs not like you watch football,â Xu Tingsheng said.
âTo watch you guys being humiliated and trampled over by us! Oh, and to look at chicks as well, of course.â
These two priorities might really be reversed in Huang Yamingâs mind. Huang Yaming also knew about the matter of the âconfession showâ, but whilst having already understood the situation, he did not think that Xu Tingsheng would be able to play, much less score. Therefore, he had mentally omitted this matter.
âEnvious?â
Xu Tingsheng cocked his head, indicating with his gaze at those beautiful long legs. Like Xu Tingsheng, Huang Yaming was also of the beautiful leg faction. In such matters, let alone a nineteen-year-old and one with a mental age of 31, even if the two were eighty, just being men, their thoughts would already be more or less the same in this regard.
Still, Huang Yaming was more extreme than Xu Tingsheng in his fetish. Amongst his previous entourage of chicks, there had been two who, other than their legs being niceâŚless should be said about their faces and chests.
Xu Tingsheng had raised an objection with Huang Yaming, who had retorted at the time, âArenât the legs enough? Canât you just learn to be satisfied with what there is?â
âWho asked you to look at the faceâŚIf you really canât stand it, take off your jacket and drape it over her head, and then you would be blissfulâŚBlissfulness is not given by others, it can only be created by oneself, get it?âŚâ
âGo on, cover her face. Create blissfulness.â
Xu Tingsheng had clutched his jacket, feeling that blissfulness really wasnât so easily created.
His eyes on Yanzhou Universityâs cheerleading squad, Huang Yaming said to Xu Tingsheng, âYour universityâs greatest mistake was forming a cheerleading squad such as this. While the chicks appear on the surface to be here to cheer your team on, it should instead be these untamed lifestock of our university who have truly been injected and hormone-boosted by this.â
âEven if you turned our university completely inside out, it would still be impossible to find three chicks of such quality there. You guys already brought out close to a hundred just like thatâŚâ
âTell me, wonât these untamed lifestock from our university be especially frenzied? Wonât they go all out in giving a splendid performance? Wonât they want to bash you guys up even more?â
Xu Tingsheng could not but admit that Huang Yamingâs words were true. However, he could not simply run over and mention this to the school leadership. All he could do was listen and merely that.
On the way to the substitutesâ bench, Xu Tingsheng heard some unfamiliar voice calling out to him. Turning, he saw that it was a place at the frontmost area of the stands that was filled completely with girls from the English course.
It was perhaps Lu Zhixinâs roommate who had called out to him. Currently, the whole crowd of them was staring at him as if he were some exotic exhibit in a zoo.
Lu Zhixin sat right in the centre, right at the front. She wore a pure-white, high-collared sweater that reached all the way up to her chin. Her exquisite face was dabbed with light makeup, her head of long jet-black hair flowing behind her.
Lu Zhixin appeared neutral. As Xu Tingsheng awkwardly greeted her, she responded with a nod, but still remained expressionless, looking all businesslike as she sat there.
Okay, Xu Tingsheng thought. Since it was just a show, businesslike was the best. It was just that like this, there would be no way for him to explain to her that he might not be playing in this match at all.
Whatever. A posse of girls having come here to watch him compete, he would instead just be sitting on the substitutesâ bench. While this was a pretty embarrassing and awkward thing, Xu Tingsheng instead just felt great about it. It was best that he just sit out the entire match like this.
The referee blew the whistle. The match began.
Jianhai Technological Universityâs forward passed the ball to the midfielder behind him, himself running forwardâŚwhat the heck, what kind of formation was this? Without even having yet received the ball, there were already three Yanzhou University players surrounding him.
Seeing that the striker was blocked with there being no way of passing the ball to him, Jianhai Technological Universityâs midfielders began playing the ball right by their side of the midfield, this just persisting on and on. The members of their team vaguely had such an impression: Even when the world had aged and universe was about to implode, the members of Yanzhou Universityâs team still wouldnât go forward to apply pressure and fight for the ball.
Jostled amidst several others, the No. 9 and forward of Jianhai Technological University complained in an anguished tone, âBros, you just donât intend on playing properly, is that it?â
Yanzhou Universityâs No. 5 and centre-back told him, âHa! This old manâs been practising penalties for the entire past year to the point of near vomiting. If we donât drag you people to a penalty shootout today, this old man is quitting!â
Jianhai Technological Universityâs striker understood as he turned and yelled to the midfielders, âThe heck youâre passing? Stop it with that, just donât care about anything anymore. Throw your legs over and scram your bodies over here as well!â