Chapter 257: A Life’s Request!

The early March sun rose high into the sky, heat waves rolling fallen leaves in a lazy spiral between two adjacent club recruitment booths.

With the increase in onlookers, Song Qiuyu felt the pressure mounting, a thin sweat breaking out on her back.

She took a deep breath. In theory, the act of taking secret photos was their offense first, so she should at least politely apologize first.

So, she gathered her courage, looked directly into the fierce eyes of the Swimming Club president, and bowed politely, saying, “I’m really sorry about what happened today!”

“You think that just by apologizing, we’ll say, ‘Okay, then we’ll forgive you’ or something like that?”

The Swimming Club president’s gaze grew even more fierce.

Song Qiuyu froze. Of course she hadn’t thought that.

Seeing this, the Drama Club recruitment booth’s faces turned grim.

Judging by the Swimming Club president’s attitude, he seemed ready to deal with this seriously!

And of all times, their own president wasn’t here.

Moreover, for some reason, despite the crowd, the Swimming Club president had directly targeted Song Qiuyu, as if intentionally.

At this rate, wasn’t something bad going to happen?

Xie Zhuran watched their dorm leader’s tense expression, breaking into a cold sweat for her. He couldn’t help glancing at Lin An, who was sitting in the enemy camp, feeling something was off.

Even though Lin An now looked like he was truly in a dangerous situation, like he was really anxious, he still felt the scene was off somehow.

He rubbed his chin, feeling that his roommate seemed nervous on the surface, but actually wasn’t that nervous at all!

This sly, scheming guy was definitely plotting something.

But no matter what Lao Lin was thinking, the Swimming Club president had directly targeted Lao Song now, and the pressure on her was really too great.

Thinking this, he shot Song Qiuyu a trusting look—their dorm leader had always been very reliable!

Just then, the female vice president of the Drama Club recruitment booth couldn’t sit still anymore and stood up.

With some awe towards the Swimming Club president, she frowned and spoke in a tone that mixed pleading and probing, “Senior Liu Qing, I know this incident has made you angry, but they are first-time offenders. Could you please, for the sake of me and our president, handle it leniently?”

The Swimming Club president was named Liu Qing.

At Nanxi, he was notoriously not to be trifled with. Anyone he disliked or who angered him would end up badly.

More importantly, he was fiercely protective of his own. Bullying his club members was the same as bullying him.

She slowly turned to look at the four, feeling helpless that they had provoked such a troublesome person.

If only their president were here at a time like this. Having the two presidents negotiate would be the best way to resolve things.

“This sneaky photo business—can we just brush it off for the sake of a few people’s faces?”

The Swimming Club president gave a cold snort through his nose, his expression extremely displeased, eyes contemptuous. “If I did that, what about my club members? As president, I can’t let my members be secretly photographed and then just stay silent. I have to take responsibility and make the secret photographers pay the price!”

With those words, everyone at the Swimming Club recruitment booth except Lin An shot their president an admiring look.

“Senior Liu, rest assured, whether it’s me, or Lin An, or Xie Zhuran, none of us intended to shirk responsibility!”

Song Qiuyu took a deep breath. She really felt that if she said one wrong word, he’d grab her by the collar and lift her off the ground.

The power gap between them was too vast.

The onlookers murmured among themselves. They didn’t know much about what happened—they were just here for the gossip, a show, and to admire the Swimming Club members’ bodies.

Some even took out their phones, ready to film the scene and upload it to the campus forum or some group chats, but the next moment, a sweep of the Swimming Club president’s gaze scared them so much their phones nearly dropped, and they immediately dropped the idea.

Knowing the person didn’t matter; the key was that the Swimming Club president’s muscular, fierce appearance made him look very strong.

Everyone would have to step back a bit when facing him.

“It seems you are deeply trusted by everyone.”

The Swimming Club president looked around at the gazes directed at Song Qiuyu—some hopeful, some worried, but mostly trusting—and couldn’t help narrowing his eyes.

He snorted again, looking back at the “pretty as a girl” junior in front of him, a little potato who could easily be picked up and spun around, and said, “In that case, today’s matter, we’ll—”

“—Senior, although we did wrong by having Lao Lin secretly photograph you guys, but…”

Song Qiuyu, always good at reading people, instantly saw through the fierce exterior of the Swimming Club president’s true nature and immediately said:

“We’re all because you seniors are just too handsome, absolutely stunningly handsome! And the senior sisters are so beautiful, so beautiful they make us almost unable to breathe, so our Drama Club couldn’t help but want to secretly photograph you all!”

With these words, both recruitment booths’ people were stunned, and the onlookers were stunned too.

The Swimming Club president immediately frowned deeply, his overly strong and powerful pectoral muscles heaving up and down with greater force.

Even from two steps away, Song Qiuyu could clearly hear his heartbeat—as loud as a king’s engine!

Then, the Swimming Club president slightly lifted his chin, striking a pose that particularly showcased his masculine strength and muscles, looking down sideways at Song Qiuyu, who was more than a head shorter than him, and said with a half-smile:

“Oh, really?”

“…”

Song Qiuyu’s eyes widened. She could no longer tear her gaze away from his muscles.

No boy could resist the charm of such powerful muscles, even if this boy had transformed from the inside out into a girl.

If there was, it must be because those muscles were used by someone to shake you to death.

And also because someone was staring at you, not allowing you to look too much.

Noticing that Jiang Xiao’s gaze was a bit jealous, Song Qiuyu withdrew some of her look, then stared at the Swimming Club president and continued even more seriously:

“President Liu, our Drama Club needs talents like you!”

“Handsome people like you, beautiful people like you—they are exactly the actors our Drama Club has been longing for!”

“If you seniors don’t mind, can we cooperate more in the future and perform dramas together? Please, this is this junior’s lifelong request!”

“…”

The Swimming Club president’s frown deepened a notch.

The air was silent for a long time, finally broken by a snort of laughter from a senior sister in the Swimming Club who couldn’t hold it in anymore.

“Awesome, too awesome! Who apologizes like that?”

She collapsed onto the table, laughing tears, unable to stop: “Are you trying to poach our president and the entire Swimming Club including the president himself to the Drama Club?”

“President, what do you say?”

The vice president of the Swimming Club, the only short-haired senior sister Xiao Lei, also chuckled.

It was the first time she saw a junior who could speak so much in front of their president and even try to poach him to his face.

Not bad guts.

The Swimming Club president only lifted his chin higher, looking down at Song Qiuyu in a way that was almost an upward look, his expression odd, and said again: “Oh, really?”

Only three words, but each weighed a thousand pounds, making Song Qiuyu’s body ache and hurt somatically.

Strictly speaking, the four of them were at fault for today’s incident, but wasn’t the Swimming Club itself at fault for wearing only swimsuits on campus and exposing their bodies?

However, if she said this outright, it would only make things more troublesome.

The best way to handle it now was to give the Swimming Club members some compensation!

But she didn’t bring it up directly. Instead, she continued, “Yes, yes, Senior Liu, every word I just said came from the heart!”

“Not to mention anything else, just looking at your bodies—where in all of Nanxi can you find people with bodies as good as yours? They must all be concentrated in your Swimming Club!”

These words were actually true. In her half year since enrollment, she had never seen anyone more muscular than them.

Of course, it was entirely possible that it was because everyone else was properly dressed, making it hard to notice, but these Swimming Club people were too exposed.

Song Qiuyu even suspected they had an exhibitionist streak!

“Since you’ve come this far in your speech.”

The Swimming Club president turned his head, looked at the “hostage” Lin An at the recruitment booth, and couldn’t help humming lightly.

“Then do it quickly.”

Jiang Xiao held his breath, looked at his super manly girlfriend, then moved his gaze down to see her legs trembling slightly but holding steady, and his gaze darkened.

Even though he couldn’t help wanting to protect his girlfriend by putting her behind him, he still chose to respect her thoughts and support her.

After all, this girlfriend of his was different. She wasn’t weak at all; she was very brave and strong.

The current Xi’er was not just his girlfriend; she was also the dorm leader of their 602 dormitory, and a trusted good brother to them.

Song Qiuyu took a deep breath, clenched her small fists tightly, looking ready for battle, still facing the might of the Swimming Club president.

Right now, she seemed to shine like gold, dazzling.

The Swimming Club president hadn’t yet finished his follow-up words.

“Brother?”

At that moment, a familiar figure squeezed out from the crowd.

It was Xiao He’s girlfriend, Liu Qingqing.

“What are you all doing?”

Liu Qingqing looked at the tense atmosphere, at the Swimming Club members in only swimsuits, and finally looked at Lin An, who had messaged her early in the morning to come, and froze slightly.

“Huh?”

Not only Song Qiuyu was stunned, but the other two members of Dorm 602 were also stunned.

The Swimming Club president was even more shocked—he had never expected his own sister to appear at this critical moment.

Only Lin An had a smile on his face, as if he had been waiting for this.

After the Swimming Club president briefly explained what happened to his sister, Liu Qingqing, as a mediator, began to help ease the relationship between them.

Soon, the sister-complex president sighed.

He had originally been somewhat persuaded by Song Qiuyu, but as president, he couldn’t just disregard his other members for personal reasons.

Now that an opportunity had presented itself, he directly seized it.

So, he looked at Song Qiuyu with a challenging gaze and said, “Since things have come to this, then—you will go all out and make us a promotional video for the Swimming Club, and it has to be better than your Drama Club’s promotional video. Otherwise, this secret photo business won’t end!”

The people at the Swimming Club recruitment booth all looked surprised but not too surprised.

Regarding the secret photos, although they were angry, they didn’t want to blow things out of proportion either.

After all, from the moment they left the dorm building until now, there had been more than just one or two people secretly photographing them along the way.

Moreover, they didn’t actually dislike being secretly photographed—they even enjoyed it.

Exhibitionist jpg!

Song Qiuyu was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at the figure who had stood up from the Swimming Club booth and was walking back to the Drama Club booth.

Her lips moved slightly.

Xie Zhuran pointed at the returning roommate and said, “I knew it! You, Lao Lin, had already arranged a backup plan.”

“Just luck.”

Lin An said, “I was just scrolling through the campus forum at random when I saw someone post that the Swimming Club president had a very beautiful sister.”

“Heh…”

Song Qiuyu closed her eyes and let out a long sigh.

She didn’t bother to argue with Lin An too much.

As long as everyone was safe and the conflict with the Swimming Club was resolved smoothly, that was fine.

She regained her composure, opened her beautiful almond-shaped eyes, and looked at the sister-complex president in front of her: “Alright then, Senior Liu, it’s settled!”

“I object!”

At that moment, the tardy Drama Club president raised his hand from among the onlookers and said so.