Ti Yusheng had thought her reputation among the girls was already completely ruined.
After all, she had made that big talk about how boys were no match for girls, only to be shut out in humiliating fashion, and even the position of Sports Commissioner had been yielded to her by classmate Siji.
Aside from losing face, it seemed she had not done a single other thing.
Yet what greeted her was almost heroic treatment.
The girls silently formed two lines.
When she walked past, they solemnly raised their arms in her startled and suspicious gaze and hammered their fists against their left chests, their eyes full of reverence for her.
“What the…”
Before she could finish the sentence, her good sister Yu Liulin came up and embraced her.
“Don’t blame yourself. We know you did your best. That final all-out sprint just to salvage the girls’ dignity—we all saw it. Today, we don’t judge heroes by success or failure! Everyone! Offer our highest respects to our hero!”
“Salute the hero!” the girls lined up and shouted.
Although she had no idea what was going on, and the scene was so awkward her toes were curling into the floor, at least she was not being cursed as a kidney-deficient woman who could not even outrun a boy.
That was always a plus.
“I’m ashamed, I’m ashamed. I’ve lost face for everyone. How could I possibly deserve such praise?”
“Hey! How could you not deserve it? Everyone saw your effort, especially that final sprint carrying a dream. It truly moved the rest of us! You will definitely get what you wish for and become an outstanding runner!”
What?
Becoming an athlete counts as what kind of lousy dream?
Doing all sorts of embarrassing things with a top-tier fake girl like classmate Siji is my real dream, okay?
“Ahem! No, no! Oh, right! Classmate Siji gave the Sports Commissioner position to me.”
Where on earth did this bunch learn such greasy lines?
If I don’t change the subject I’m going to be disgusted to death.
“Huh? Really? Then what was he after by competing in that race?”
“He said he only wanted to win some face for the boys and didn’t mean anything else. As for Sports Commissioner, a girl was more suitable after all.”
The girls fell silent for an instant, then sighed in unison.
“Then what else is there to say? If he’s that upstanding, I’ll just become his girlfriend already.”
“What kind of crap are you thinking?”
“Aah! I’ll never call him a high-and-mighty XX again.”
“Holy crap, that’s going way too far.”
“Ahem, that was because I didn’t understand him yet. Now I know he’s a good boy.”
The girls all talked at once, most of it praise for Zhong Siji.
Someone in the crowd suddenly seemed to remember something and shouted, “He Yiwei, stop peeking already, you’re ruining the reputation of us Class 5 girls!”
Feeling everyone’s gazes land on her, He Yiwei broke out in an anxious sweat.
“Don’t talk nonsense! When did I ever say I was going to peek?”
“Didn’t you say in the classroom you were waiting for classmate Siji to give out some fanservice? And you still claim you weren’t trying to peek?”
“I said I was waiting for the right moment to look openly and aboveboard!”
“That’s still peeking! If you aren’t secretly staring, how are you supposed to catch a fleeting moment?”
He Yiwei was so angry she could spit blood.
Isn’t this just twisting my words?
“No! Weren’t you the one who was sorry you didn’t get to see classmate Siji’s abs while we were in the classroom? And now you’re turning it around on me!”
“I deliberately didn’t look. Don’t you understand gentlemanly demeanor? You’re the one who was already peeking in the classroom!”
“You!” He Yiwei’s face flushed bright red with anger.
It wasn’t as if I went out of my way to look in the classroom.
Besides, what’s wrong with taking a couple extra glances at a good-looking boy from the same class during PE?
It’s not like the rest of you weren’t looking!
And now you jump up to play the upright gentlewomen?
But this kind of thing only got worse the more you tried to explain it.
Feeling more and more contemptuous looks around her, she ultimately said nothing more in her defense.
Ti Yusheng actually also felt, What’s the big deal about looking a couple of times?
I was staring while I was running too.
Classmate Siji himself didn’t say anything, so what are you bitches getting so worked up about?
But at this moment she did not dare go against the crowd and could only smooth things over.
“Don’t say it like that. Yiwei was only joking. How about we go play ball?”
The girls likewise did not want to go against the new Sports Commissioner’s wishes.
Otherwise how were they supposed to fake illness during morning runs?
“The Sports Commissioner is right. Break it up, break it up. Let’s go play ball.”
“A big-chested girl like that definitely won’t have any boys liking her, so just let her look a couple of times, okay?” someone still could not let it go with her mouth.
Hearing that, He Yiwei could only silently clench both fists.
“Enough already! What does this have to do with whether her chest is big or not! Yiwei, don’t take it to heart. Come play ball with us, okay?”
Don’t take it to heart, meaning they think I will take it to heart.
“…No thanks, Sports Commissioner. I’m a little tired. I want to go rest over there.”
Ti Yusheng opened her mouth, but in the end said nothing more to her.
“We’re all classmates. Why make things so awkward?”
“Got it, got it. It was just a joke with her.”
Just a joke?
Haha…
He Yiwei gave two self-mocking laughs.
This isn’t funny at all.
Heh, women.
Just a little scrap of kindness from a handsome boy and they forget how they were humiliated before, wagging their tails like dogs, even running their mouths for him when he is not around, as if that will make him look at them more highly.
He Yiwei clenched her fists tightly.
“All they ever do is talk about chests. It’s not like I asked to grow them this big.”
She suddenly thought of Xu Runhui.
Hers are even bigger than mine, yet she can still be friends with that many boys…
Hmph!
What use is fake friendship bought by throwing away your dignity and kneeling to lick?
The moment he gets a flat-chested girlfriend he’ll still kick her away, won’t he?
Not allowing peeking, is it?
Then I insist on looking!
Classmate Siji, don’t blame me.
If you have to blame someone, blame that inexplicable ‘breast-pain gland’ of yours!
***
“Classmate Runhui? Classmate Runhui?”
“…Ah! Classmate Siji! Wh…what is it?”
“I said I need to go see Teacher Wu Di first. If you have something to do, you don’t have to wait…”
“No no no no no no! I don’t have anything! I don’t have a single thing! I can wait the whole time to walk home with you, classmate Siji!”
“…Mm, I see. Then wait for me a little.”
As I thought.
Classmate Runhui is definitely acting strange today.
Did something happen?
After he finished talking with Teacher Wu Di, the students without club activities would have mostly left.
Even if they were seen then, it would not matter much.
He would wait until he had parted with classmate Yanyan and then ask her.
And today…
Zhong Siji thought of everything that had happened today and could not help clenching his fist.
Before long I’ll be able to walk together with my friends freely, won’t I?
“What’s with you today?” After Zhong Siji had walked far away, Yan Yanyan asked Xu Runhui.
“Isn’t this what you wanted to see?”
Yan Yanyan raised an eyebrow.
“Didn’t I just say you aren’t as handsome as me?”
“And you mocked me for having big breasts too?”
“You could hear that layer of meaning as well? Though that shouldn’t be anything to you, right?”
Anyway, her face is that thick.
Of course it was more than that.
“Aah!” Xu Runhui sighed and said nothing more.
Only then was Yan Yanyan certain that Xu Runhui really had something on her mind.
But this was someone who could pick food off a boy’s chopsticks with a completely straight face.
What kind of worries could a person like that possibly have?