Chapter 51: Good Brothers, Fighting at the Head of the Bed, Making Up at the Foot

Even though everyone else on the bus was swaying, and the hand rings above were tilting at quite an angle, Zhou Zhexiao sat upright.

Xia Chiyi felt like he was pressing against a statue, unable to shake it even a bit.

He gritted his teeth, and even secretly pushed off the ground with his feet, yet he still couldn’t budge Zhou Zhexiao.

He was like an anchor sunk into the deep sea, completely calm despite the rising and falling waves.

Xia Chiyi’s annoyance multiplied, and he just wanted to compete with the other guy.

Just as the bus passed the apex of a curve, Zhou Zhexiao suddenly relaxed and leaned back against the seat. Xia Chiyi, completely slanted, fell towards him.

This guy did it on purpose!

Xia Chiyi scrambled for a support point, otherwise he would fall right onto Zhou Zhexiao.

In the confusion, Xia Chiyi grabbed the seat in front with one hand and propped his other hand on Zhou Zhexiao’s leg.

“Mmph…” Zhou Zhexiao let out a muffled groan.

Xia Chiyi looked down. Holy crap— of all places to prop himself up, he landed in such a dangerous spot, less than a centimeter from the forbidden zone!

Cold sweat surged up Xia Chiyi’s back. He hurriedly sat back and quickly glanced at Zhou Zhexiao’s expression.

His brow was furrowed tight enough to crush an ant, and his jaw seemed to be clenched too.

“I… I didn’t touch anything I shouldn’t have… Besides, it’s your fault. Who told you to relax first? You’re the one fouling.” Xia Chiyi accused him righteously.

Zhou Zhexiao didn’t speak, the air pressure around him dropping low. Surprisingly, he stood up.

“Zhou…”

“Don’t turn around.” His voice was low, like a match striking against dry wood.

The sound waves hit Xia Chiyi’s eardrums, sending a rush of heat to his heart.

“Huh?”

“Turn around and we’re done.”

After saying that, Zhou Zhexiao walked towards the last row of the bus.

Xia Chiyi was stunned by this threat. He sat stiffly in place, at a loss.

Could it be… Zhou Zhexiao…

Holy crap? No way? Zhou Zhexiao isn’t a saint either!

It’s just that if he were the one pressed down like that, with such high damage, he might have nightmares about being flattened while sleeping at night. How could Zhou Zhexiao… Does he like danger and excitement?

Xia Chiyi wanted to look at him with admiration, but thinking of the other’s threat to cut ties, he ultimately could only stiffen his neck and look straight ahead.

The female student in the front row was still looking back at them from time to time. When Zhou Zhexiao got up to go to the back row, she showed a somewhat worried expression.

It seems she also saw that Zhou Zhexiao was angry?

The bus continued forward. For the first time, Xia Chiyi felt that the distance of five stops was so far.

Finally, the bus arrived at the stop. The students, some having bought things outside, some still carrying leftover birthday cake, filed off from the back door of the bus.

Xia Chiyi remained stiff in his seat, with only one thought in mind: if Zhou Zhexiao didn’t come over, he wouldn’t get off the bus either.

Worst case scenario, they’d ride together to the terminal station…

Just as this thought appeared in his head, the back of his head was cupped by a palm.

“We’re here. Get off.” Zhou Zhexiao’s voice rang out.

Xia Chiyi’s suspended heart finally relaxed, and he hurriedly followed Zhou Zhexiao.

As the students walked into the school gate, Xia Chiyi heard a girl’s voice from behind.

“Xia Chiyi—Xia Chiyi—”

Xia Chiyi stopped, turned around, and saw the female student from the bus jogging towards him.

“Student Xia Chiyi, sorry to disturb you, I’m Liang Qin from the Student Union!”

“Hello, Student Liang Qin, is something the matter?”

“I’m currently in charge of cheering for the basketball team’s matches. When you go out of province for competitions, I’ll also be part of the logistics staff organizing students to cheer on-site.”

Xia Chiyi was stunned. “Will there really be students going out of province to watch our games?”

“Haha, of course. Other school teams have cheerleading squads, how could we let you fight alone? Don’t worry, everyone is volunteering. But can I add you on WeChat? I promise I won’t disturb you normally, just send you some slogans and such.”

“Oh, sure.” Xia Chiyi took out his phone and scanned the girl’s QR code.

Liang Qin happily made a cheering gesture and suddenly shouted, “You are light—you are electricity—you are the myth of Ningchang University—”

Xia Chiyi almost stumbled on the spot.

This was the slogan Ningchang University shouted when they played against Chengjiang College.

It sounded passionate at the time, but hearing it now in the quiet campus, he just wanted to dig a hole and bury his face in it.

Right, Zhou Zhexiao!

When he turned around and found Zhou Zhexiao standing under a street lamp not far away, hands in pockets, expressionless, not knowing how long he had been watching, Xia Chiyi took a deep breath.

This guy didn’t leave, which meant their friendship boat hadn’t capsized yet.

Xia Chiyi caught up, but Zhou Zhexiao didn’t speak the entire way.

They passed the express lockers, and surprisingly there was only one package, which was very uncharacteristic of Zhou Zhexiao, the King of Shopping.

Back in the dorm, Zhou Zhexiao still didn’t speak to Xia Chiyi. He just opened the package, and it turned out the children’s GPS watch had arrived.

Zhou Zhexiao sat at his desk, opened the manual, and slowly began to study it.

Ye Chaoying had trained with Gao Jinshu today and came back dead tired. seeing the children’s watch, he suddenly perked up like an old lady touching a live wire.

He leaned behind Zhou Zhexiao and shouted, “What is this? What is this thing? Did you and Xia Chiyi have a child behind my back?”

Xia Chiyi sighed and gave Ye Chaoying several looks, but this guy was still acting like a fool.

“This alarm can even be set to Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf! Isn’t that Xia Chiyi’s bath song?”

Bro, can you stop talking? Emperor Zhou is in a bad mood, be careful or you’ll be sentenced to death!

Xia Chiyi’s phone vibrated. It was a WeChat message from Liang Qin: [Hope you don’t think I’m being nosy… I saw Zhou Zhexiao suddenly go sit in the back today. You two should get along well, talk things out if there’s an issue, don’t be angry with him anymore! Rabbit bowing.GIF]

Xia Chiyi tilted his head. Why is she telling me not to be angry with Zhou Zhexiao?

Clearly, Zhou Zhexiao is the one sulking.

Xia Chiyi asked curiously: [Why do you think I’m angry with him?]

Liang Qin: [Because he sat in the back row and kept looking at you? I thought you drove him back there… If I misunderstood anything, I’m really sorry! Hands clasped in apology.GIF]

Xia Chiyi tilted his head, fingers quickly replying: [Are you sure he kept looking at me?]

Normally shouldn’t this guy be aloofly looking out the window, enjoying the back row space alone?

Liang Qin: [I’m sure. Because I was worried you guys were fighting, I looked back several times, and he really kept looking at you.]

So that’s why Liang Qin misunderstood, thinking he was angry at Zhou Zhexiao.

Holy crap, Zhou Zhexiao this guy really says one thing and does another, huh?

Threatening me not to turn back and look at him, but what about him? Who was he looking at hiding in the back row?

This guy wouldn’t be secretly hoping I’d go to the back row to coax him, right? Then don’t make threats about cutting ties.

Oh my god, how old is he, acting like a child.

Xia Chiyi quickly replied to Liang Qin: [Don’t worry, we’ll make up very soon. And thank you, your concern isn’t superfluous at all.]

At this time, Zhou Zhexiao was still silently studying the phone watch, while Ye Chaoying had gone into the bathroom to wash up.

Xia Chiyi slowly wandered over to Zhou Zhexiao, but the other ignored his existence. Xia Chiyi sat directly on the corner of his desk, his dangling toes lightly touching Zhou Zhexiao’s calf. Zhou Zhexiao moved his leg away quickly as if electrocuted.

“Hey, without a sim card, that watch is useless. Your Nokia card probably won’t fit.” Xia Chiyi pretended nothing had happened and chatted with him calmly.

Zhou Zhexiao silently explored the functions inside. It had NFC, as well as Alipay and WeChat functions.

“Your Nokia isn’t a smartphone, so it probably can’t bind with this phone watch.”

Zhou Zhexiao still didn’t speak.

“If you bind it to my phone, then only I can see where you are. I can even see which bus you take and which intersection you pass. Of course, if you get lost, I can find you immediately. Monitoring you just like a parent.”

Xia Chiyi deliberately reached out his hand, making a grabbing motion in mid-air.

Zhou Zhexiao finally looked up at him, with an expression that clearly said he was looking at an idiot.

They stared at each other like this, as if whoever blinked first would lose.

Zhou Zhexiao had beautiful eyes. Usually, he had a “strangers keep away” attitude, but right now his eyes seemed a bit aggrieved.

Xia Chiyi couldn’t stand being looked at like that and spoke up, “You were clearly looking at me from the back row the whole time, don’t know what you’re so mad about.”

“Because you didn’t apologize to me,” Zhou Zhexiao said.

“What? I apologized, didn’t I?”

“You didn’t.”

Zhou Zhexiao’s gaze made Xia Chiyi feel guilty.

“Then… I’m sorry. Besides, I only pressed on your leg, not anywhere else… Don’t be so serious.”

Zhou Zhexiao turned sideways to face Xia Chiyi and slightly opened his legs. “Then do you want to see what you did?”

This pose… Xia Chiyi gulped, thinking, Bro, do you have to be so bold?

“I… what could I have done to you?”

Zhou Zhexiao remained in that pose, implying Xia Chiyi should look for himself.

Xia Chiyi wanted to say that although they were both guys, asking him to roll up his pant leg at night was still embarrassing.

“If you don’t look, forget it. It might heal if you wait a bit longer.”

Saying that, Zhou Zhexiao was about to turn back.

Realizing he might have actually hurt the other person, Xia Chiyi quickly jumped off the desk corner and held him down. “I’ll look! I’ll look! I’ll look!”

He squatted halfway in front of Zhou Zhexiao and gently lifted the cuff of Zhou Zhexiao’s left sweatpants. The skin was slightly red. Lifting it a bit higher, he saw a red scratch mark made by a fingernail. Although there was no bleeding, it must have hurt at that moment.

Xia Chiyi continued to lift it higher, wanting to see how long the mark was, but Zhou Zhexiao grabbed his hand.

“Where do you want to look?”

“No no no… I just wanted to see if… there was any injury…”

“There isn’t.”

“Alright.”

Xia Chiyi knew that such a wound would probably just be a thin line by tomorrow morning. Not to mention pain, it probably wouldn’t even sting in the shower.

But from getting off the bus to walking back to the dorm, it must have hurt when the sweatpants rubbed against the scratch.

Xia Chiyi looked at his own fingernails. He had trimmed them carefully for playing basketball, so they weren’t too long.

It must have been because the scrape was too fast and too forceful.

“Sorry. Maybe put some ointment on it? Isolate the wound from the clothes, otherwise it will still hurt.”

Zhou Zhexiao lowered his eyes and didn’t speak.

Xia Chiyi got up to get cotton balls and ointment, disinfected the area first, then applied the ointment.

He was extremely careful this time, afraid of hurting the other person again.

Zhou Zhexiao’s hands hung by the sides of the chair. What he saw was the top of Xia Chiyi’s head, where there was a hair whorl that looked like soft down under the lamp light.

“Holy crap—” Ye Chaoying’s exclamation suddenly came from behind Zhou Zhexiao.

Xia Chiyi almost lost his balance. Zhou Zhexiao grabbed his arm just in time to steady him, otherwise Xia Chiyi would have touched some dangerous place again.

Ye Chaoying had already leaned over. “What are you doing? What are you doing? Little Fatty is still sleeping! Can you not do such… in our pure dorm room…”

What he saw was Xia Chiyi holding a cotton swab and ointment, looking up at him with condemning eyes.

“What do you think we did in the pure dorm room?” Xia Chiyi asked.

“…Well from my angle it did look… very exciting…” Ye Chaoying muttered as he walked back to his bed. “You guys are making a mountain out of a molehill, right? Such a light scratch… any later and it would have healed.”

Xia Chiyi couldn’t be bothered with him. He spread the medicine evenly, thinking, Didn’t you act like you were dying just from a paper cut by ‘Accounting Basics’?

But they had finally made up.

Xia Chiyi sent a WeChat message to Liang Qin: [Don’t worry, we’re fine now.]

Liang Qin: [Mhm mhm! Good brothers, fighting at the head of the bed, making up at the foot!]

Xia Chiyi was full of black lines: Are you sure that phrase describes good brothers?

To make the newly bought phone watch useful, the next day at noon Xia Chiyi took Zhou Zhexiao to the telecommunications company to get a secondary sim card for his watch, and used the secondary number to register a WeChat account. He never expected that the tiny buttons on the phone watch could send WeChat messages. Xia Chiyi couldn’t imagine Zhou Zhexiao’s fingers typing on such a small watch face.

The sales clerk was amazed seeing Zhou Zhexiao’s Nokia 5230 and earnestly recommended various new smartphones and discount packages.

Zhou Zhexiao just sat there fiddling with his watch interface, his face calm, probably not listening to a word of the clerk’s “keep up with the times” sales pitch.

Xia Chiyi sat beside him, quietly watching his expression. The feeling that Zhou Zhexiao would separate from him once he had his own smartphone came back.

“Actually… with this watch, you don’t really need to buy a smartphone.”

Xia Chiyi felt like he was burying his head in the sand.

Zhou Zhexiao was still swiping the watch face and seemed to nod.

“There’s Wi-Fi in the dorm. Outside… if you want to watch videos, just use mine. I can’t finish my data plan anyway.”

“Mhm.”

“When we go out, it’s mostly for games or the gym, and we listen to similar music.”

Even after looping “Gingerbread Man” a hundred times, it still feels fresh and lovely.

“Mhm.”

“You shop too crazily. If I don’t help watch your shopping cart, our dorm really won’t have space.”

“You deleted my rowing machine,” Zhou Zhexiao suddenly looked up and said.

Mentioning the rowing machine, Xia Chiyi got excited.

“Be reasonable, there’s no room for a rowing machine in the dorm. Are you going to put it in the hallway?” Xia Chiyi said very seriously. “Look, if I hadn’t deleted it, and the rowing machine arrived and you found no place to put it, returning it would cost a lot in shipping! So you absolutely cannot have your own shopping cart.”

Zhou Zhexiao looked at Xia Chiyi for two seconds, then lowered his head. “Alright. Accept my WeChat request.”

Xia Chiyi opened his phone and saw the friend request. His heart beat faster.

He was the first, and currently the only, friend in Zhou Zhexiao’s contacts!

Xia Chiyi accepted immediately.

Then the WeChat call rang. It was from Zhou Zhexiao.

This guy… he was right beside him, why call on WeChat?

But it was probably to test the network signal?

Xia Chiyi got up and deliberately walked a few meters away, putting the phone to his ear.

“Hello, Zhou Zhexiao, can you hear my voice?”

“Yes. Don’t delete the sneakers, Bluetooth earphones, and electronic timer from my cart again.”

“Old iron, several pairs of sneakers in your cart are knockoffs. What if you wear them and the heel slips, or there’s not enough cushioning or friction, and you get injured?”

Zhou Zhexiao on the other end was silent.

“Those Bluetooth earphones were on the trending search because the silicone part easily causes ear canal allergies. You dare buy this batch?”

Zhou Zhexiao continued to be silent.

“And that electronic timer… five figures! I know you have too much allowance to spend, and that thing can indeed automatically track and record your layups and sprint data, but… it doesn’t support 7-day returns without reason! And there’s no after-sales service option! Are you buying a timer or inviting an ancestor home?”

As Xia Chiyi spoke, he couldn’t help putting his hands on his hips.

The sales clerk sitting opposite Zhou Zhexiao sighed deeply after hearing this.

“Handsome young man, a five-figure electronic product with no returns or after-sales service, indeed be cautious.”

Zhou Zhexiao surprisingly hung up the WeChat call willfully.

Xia Chiyi walked back to him, truly amused and exasperated.

This guy didn’t understand the depth of online shopping at all, yet shopped all day long.

“Then you can scan me.” Zhou Zhexiao extended the QR code on his watch in front of Xia Chiyi.

“Huh?”

“This way, whether I’m out running or buying milk tea, you’ll know where I am.”

Xia Chiyi had already downloaded the app bound to the watch. He scanned it, and really could see Zhou Zhexiao’s location.

The sales clerk sat there, momentarily not knowing how to comment.

Giving you the right to supervise my shopping cart.

Giving you the right to control my whereabouts.

You two might as well get married right here.

They finished their business and took the bus back to school.

Because it was noon, catching the end of classes for elementary and middle schools, there were no seats. Zhou Zhexiao held the hand ring, sharing earphones with Xia Chiyi, one in each ear.

Xia Chiyi turned his face and saw an elementary school student sitting on a chair looking at the watch on Zhou Zhexiao’s wrist with assessing eyes. Turns out they had the same model.

Zhou Zhexiao nonchalantly met the elementary student’s gaze for a second, and the other lowered his head first.

Back at school, before the team training in the afternoon, everyone was putting things in the locker room.

When Zhou Zhexiao took off the watch, sharp-eyed Ye Chaoying saw it first.

“Yo, wearing a watch? Got a card for it?”

Chen Shen also leaned over curiously. “This watch… looks like the newest model my nephew wears…”

“Don’t doubt it, it’s your nephew’s newest model.” Ye Chaoying put his arm around Zhou Zhexiao’s shoulder. “This should have WeChat, right? Add me?”

“What? Zhou Zhexiao has WeChat? Pull him into our WeChat group!” Du He showed a surprised expression.

Everyone was previously surprised by Zhou Zhexiao’s Nokia, but later got used to it.

Now hearing Zhou Zhexiao had a phone watch, their first reaction wasn’t to laugh that it was for elementary students, but whether it had WeChat!

When teammates took out their phones to scan, Zhou Zhexiao calmly locked the watch in his locker.

Ye Chaoying laughed and patted the teammates’ shoulders. “Disperse, disperse everyone. If you have any business, whether it’s admiration, envy, jealousy, or asking for wedding gift money someday, you can notify Xia Chiyi.”

“Sigh, so boring. thought I could send Zhou Zhexiao the meme stickers I’ve collected for a long time.” Chen Chuan sighed.

He Bin also smiled. “Wanted to see what it looks like when Zhou Zhexiao types on WeChat.”

“Thought I could see Zhou Zhexiao reply ‘received’ in the WeChat group!”

“Hahaha, every time I see Coach Ling’s notification, I wait for Xia Chiyi’s ‘Zhou Zhexiao and I received it’.”

“Right, if I don’t see that sentence, I’m afraid I can’t sleep!”

Everyone chatted and dispersed.

At the start of training today, Ling Huanzhen said, “On Friday, the Shenghai University players will arrive. We’ve discussed with Coach Guan, and they will stay in the dorms vacated by our first-years. The school has prepared bedding, and Principal Feng has arranged for people to clean up. So we will have several practice matches on Saturday and Sunday. Here I will announce the starting lineup for the first practice match.”

Because Zhou Zhexiao and Xia Chiyi had gone to Qincheng University to observe, Ling Huanzhen didn’t use them.

Point Guard Ye Chaoying, Shooting Guard He Bin, Small Forward Chen Chuan, Power Forward Shuai Bei, Center Du He.

Ling Huanzhen instructed, “Although from our last observation, Shenghai University has a gap in guard reserves due to veteran players graduating, we must not underestimate them. Also, to ensure the practice match isn’t disturbed, besides school leaders coming to watch, there will only be Student Union officers helping with logistics. It’s not open to the public.”

Sure enough, after training ended that day, Xia Chiyi took his phone out of the locker and saw messages in the class group.

[It’s rare for Shenghai University to come for a practice match, why isn’t it open for everyone to watch?]

[Our class even thought of cheering slogans, but we don’t have a chance to shout them!]

[Xia Chiyi, Zhou Zhexiao, and Ye Chaoying are all on the basketball team, can’t they talk to the coach and at least let their own classmates watch?]

…

Xia Chiyi could feel the classmates’ disappointment. After all, when they saw the news on the WeChat official account, everyone genuinely wanted to cheer for them.

Just as he typed comforting words in the dialog box, someone there was already being sarcastic.

[Why else wouldn’t they open it for viewing? For the school team’s face, of course.]

[Exactly, are they going to let everyone watch them lose miserably to Shenghai University, a top 16 national team, under the whole school’s cheering?]

[This is called utilizing home court advantage~]

…

Xia Chiyi took a deep breath and slapped the open locker door next to him. “Hey, Zhou Zhexiao!”

“What?” Zhou Zhexiao was putting his phone in his pocket and adjusting his watch strap.

“I ask you, what should we do if we encounter sour chickens quacking non-stop?”

Zhou Zhexiao leaned back nonchalantly, sitting on the chair to tie his shoelaces. “How do sour chickens quack?”

Mentioning this, Ye Chaoying was also annoyed. He deliberately held his phone and repeated those three people’s words in a pinched voice.

Especially that sentence “This is called utilizing home court advantage” pissed off other teammates in the locker room.

“Holy crap, is the football team done yet? Just because we used the school bus for our finals?”

“If they have the ability, they should make it to the finals too! Can’t make the finals but want to occupy the toilet without pooping?”

“No, Xia Chiyi! Ye Chaoying! You have to roast them back, or I’m going to buy a gunnysack online!”

“One gunnysack isn’t enough, three idiots, need to buy three sacks!”

Xia Chiyi and Ye Chaoying looked at each other.

“What do we do? We are both pacifists, we don’t know how to roast people…” Ye Chaoying said.

Xia Chiyi’s eyes widened. “What are you pretending to be a sick beauty for? During the high school league, you said every day ‘stealing Xia Chiyi’s ball is easier than checking my water meter’!”

“Do you know how hard it is to check my water meter? Behind two pipes, every time checking the meter requires a flashlight and two mirrors! I was complimenting you, understand?”

Seeing the two about to stage a primary school chicken fight in the locker room, Shuai Bei directly took Xia Chiyi’s phone and threw it to Zhou Zhexiao. “Reply to them! Choke them! Let them know if they have ability then step up, if not then shut up!”

Zhou Zhexiao picked up the phone, tapped the voice message button, and said indifferently: “If your glass hearts shattered, remember to sweep them into the trash can. If they prick Xia Chiyi’s feet—our basketball team can shoot the ball into a basket only 45 cm in diameter, and we can also kick your heads into the wide football goal.”

After speaking, whoosh—it was sent.

Xia Chiyi tugged at his ear, suspecting he heard wrong. In his lifetime, Zhou Zhexiao actually said such a long sentence.

After this sentence was sent, for a full fifteen seconds, the class group was silent.

Suddenly, Little Fatty was the first to reply: [Holy crap, first time hearing Zhou Zhexiao’s voice on WeChat, so it sounds like this?]

[Too cool! It’s Zhou Zhexiao! This bro is awesome! I listened three or four times, thought Xia Chiyi used a voice changer!]

[Hahaha, football team don’t be sour. If you want to invite all teachers and students to watch a game, you can invite a strong provincial team to play on our football field!]

[Yeah, our football field’s seating is several times larger than the basketball gym!]

[First time knowing the basket is 45 cm. Compared to that, the football goal is really wide, how come you guys can never kick it in?]

At this time, the class monitor came out to explain: [Not opening the practice match for viewing is out of respect for Shenghai University. They are guests coming from afar, not here to experience the suppression of the away audience. The Student Union also has officers doing logistics on site. Everyone can consult them for the practice match score results.]

Xia Chiyi gave a thumbs up to the monitor in the group, and Ye Chaoying also sent a “Thanks boss for understanding” sticker.

The matter of not allowing spectators for the practice match was finally passed over.

For the first practice match, Guan Qian found both Zhou Zhexiao and Xia Chiyi on the bench. He walked up to Ling Huanzhen with crossed arms to express dissatisfaction.

“Ling Huanzhen, have you gotten arrogant after returning from Qincheng University? Looking down on our Shenghai University, not even sending your main aces?”

Ling Huanzhen immediately clasped his hands together, looking like “Bro keep your voice down.”

“Coach Guan, please don’t say those two first-years are our aces, the team will have infighting. My players all think they are aces.”

“You’re bluffing me.” Guan Qian looked unhappy.

“I’m not, I’m not. Who are we to each other? Only because you brought people did I show my hand. You said your guard line lacks talent, so I pulled out all the elites among my guards to play with you.” Ling Huanzhen patted Guan Qian’s shoulder. “If I win, you have to introduce me to a new partner.”

“You, Ling Huanzhen, lack partners? Are you Versailles-ing me?”

“I mean practice match partners, help a bro out, Old Guan~”

Guan Qian’s fist clenched with a cracking sound.

Other Ningchang University players watched their coach, who usually thought he was the most handsome in the world, smiling fawningly at Guan Qian.

“Ugh, so greasy, my ball is going to slip.” Shuai Bei couldn’t help wiping his palms on the side of his pants.

These days, Shuai Bei had been practicing shooting from the free-throw line. His accuracy was much higher than before, but games were different from practice. There wouldn’t be that much time for him to pose and adjust his breathing, and there would definitely be defensive interference from opponents.

Before the game started, Xia Chiyi, sitting on the sidelines, waved to Shuai Bei, looking like a little cat that stole fish calling another big cat to share the loot.

“What’s up?” Shuai Bei asked.

Xia Chiyi whispered something into Shuai Bei’s ear. Shuai Bei frowned.

“I’m afraid my acting isn’t that good.”

“Just don’t shoot so fast.” Xia Chiyi gave him an OK sign.

Shuai Bei smiled and walked away.

Principal Feng was in high spirits, sitting in the audience seats with his secretary.

“With only me and you in the audience, it feels like the whole game is played for us.”

“Truly super VIP treatment!”

Guan Qian bumped Ling Huanzhen again. “Where’s the referee? Didn’t you say you’d arrange it?”

“No worries, the other party has a referee certificate! I specially invited him out of retirement for you!”

“I’d be a ghost to believe you!” Guan Qian said snappily.

At this moment, a tall figure wearing a gray sports T-shirt and black sweatpants walked in from the passage carrying a sports bag.

“Sorry, got delayed a bit while parking.”

When the person walked into the light, players from both sides exclaimed.

Principal Feng, who was sitting properly, pulled his secretary up. “Let’s go—let’s go over—”

“Principal Feng, who is that?” the secretary asked confusedly.

“Haven’t you watched CBA? That’s Jiao Yingfeng, our men’s basketball’s most proud King of Three-Pointers!”

Whether it was the players or the Student Union officers, everyone was dumbfounded.

“Holy crap—it’s Jiao Yingfeng! Our practice match referee is actually Jiao Yingfeng!”

“Coming to Ningchang University for a practice match is so worth it! Not only seeing Ling Huanzhen, but Jiao Yingfeng is the referee!”

Jiao Yingfeng walked up to Guan Qian and shook hands with him. “I heard from Ling Dazhuang. Thanks for taking care of him at Qincheng University. If not for you, his family fortune would have been emptied by that old fox Coach Ren.”

“Not… not at all…”

Previously, some Shenghai University players disliked the long bus ride to Ningchang University, thinking it was troublesome and face-losing. Now who would think it wasn’t worth it?

Jiao Yingfeng briefly read the game rules and referee team members, and the game started immediately.

Shenghai University showed strong forward line strength. Du He was slightly inferior to Shenghai University in the jump ball. The opponent’s small forward received the ball, broke into the paint, and scored under the double defense of Chen Chuan and Shuai Bei.

This first strike gave Shenghai University imposing momentum.

Guan Qian also showed a trace of a smug expression, thinking, Didn’t you say every one of your Ningchang University players thinks they are an ace?

Let me see your skills!

Shenghai University players on the court had mostly seen Xia Chiyi and Zhou Zhexiao’s skills. After scoring three consecutive goals, they deliberately passed by the bench, hooking fingers and whistling at the two.

Xia Chiyi shouted at Ye Chaoying: “Little Shadow—they already got three goals! Can you do it or not! Do you want me to buy some supplements for you online!”

Ye Chaoying shot a glare at Xia Chiyi, thinking, Your grandpa was just warming up!

In the next round, Shenghai University’s center served from the baseline, about to pass quickly to their point guard to start a fast break. Who knew that just as the point guard passed the ball towards the small forward, someone killed his way into the passing lane, jumped high, and intercepted the ball with his chest—it was Ye Chaoying stealing!

Before this fast break could start, Shenghai University players who had run out had to return to defend.

“Ye Chaoying—Ye Chaoying—Ye Chaoying—” Xia Chiyi shouted excitedly.