The Flower of Youth Blooms when He Smiles

Chapter 16.1

On the day of the sports meet, it was very hot.

Meng Shengnan wore something different to others; short-sleeves and tracksuit pants. Qi Qiao’s long jump competition was on the second day, so she said that she would be around to support her anytime. Meng Shengnan laughed, and the two were on the stands looking down while chatting. Qi Qiao tugged at her school tracksuit pants in disgust, “It’s as wide as a sack, why don’t you wear shorts?”

She looked down, thought about it, and said, “I’m afraid of getting sunburned.”

“Che.”

Meng Shengnan smiled, her eyes swept across the sports field and turned back aronnd, scanning the stands from left and right.

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Qi Qiao patted her: “Who are you looking for?”

“No one, just taking a look.”

Qi Qiao said earnestly: “Don’t over-exert yourself in the competition later, okay?”

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Rv vssj Yldt Fbldtdyd y obkzl vs alynv, “Pslp uswa xswvb byhl ydu hkavwl?”

Ck Ckys blze cynj y zywtb: “Fsaau.”

 Meng Shengnan laughed and looked at Qi Qiao.

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“Are you envious?”

 “A little bit, almost all boys like girls with big mounds.”

“Song Jiashu is different.” Meng Shengnan was serious.

“Screw you.”

Meng Shengnan laughed, and Qi Qiao looked at her carefully after speaking.

“What’s wrong?”

“Nan Nan, in fact, I think you look better than her even without makeup.”

“You think I’m beautiful because you love me,” Meng Shengnan said.

“No, you’re the type to look better the more I look.”

“Why are you suddenly praising me like this?”

“I have a pure heart and spirit.”

Meng Shengnan: “…”

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The two were chatting, the timekeeper had already shot the gun, and the 100-meter relay had started. All the students were shouting, and the sports field was filled with voices. Meng Shengnan rested her chin with her arm on the crook of her leg, slowly getting tired. Sweat was dripping from her forehead. The sun was burning hot like a fire, and there was no wind at all.

She had no energy to compete, but tried her best to persist.

The 3000m long distance run was after the relay, the teacher walked off the stage to greet them. Meng Shengnan stumbled a bit when she got up, and Qi Qiao quickly supported her and asked, “Are you okay?”

She shook her head.

“You scared me to death.” Qi Qiao patted her chest.

Meng Shengnan smiled and walked to the competition track.

The 29 girls arrived after a while, everyone was a little nervous, comforting each other that friendship was more important than the competition. Meng Shengnan glanced at everyone, they all had beautiful ponytails and bright sportswear. It seems that she was the only one with short hair and school tracksuit pants.

“Yourong, won’t your boyfriend come to watch you?”

The girl smiled, “He said he would come.”

Meng Shengnan’s heart suddenly tightened.

After a few minutes, they had to get ready in position. With the sound of a gunshot, everyone around her was like a mighty current, overwhelming her to the point of being unable to breathe. She ran very, very slowly. In the stands, Qi Qiao shouted piercingly. Meng Shengnan kept running at the end of the pack, and she looked ahead with her eyes half-open. Zhao Yourong had maintained the first place position the whole time, with a valiant and mighty appearance.

Her stomach was already beginning to ache.

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Under the hot sun, even her breathing was scalding. She kept panting, and the wind was blowing close to her ears. She couldn’t even open her eyes, her shoes seemed to be filled with lead, and they got heavier as she ran more. There were already girls behind surpassing her, slowly, she got farther and farther away.

After running almost 2000 meters, many people could no longer run anymore. Meng Shengnan was still behind the pack.

She was one round away from Zhao Yourong. In the stands, the shouting continued to grow, and even from a long distance away, she could still hear Qi Qiao’s voice. She moved slowly, looking like she was walking.

After running past Science (10), she heard someone shouting.

“Chi Zheng, here!”

There was sweat flowing, Meng Shengnan blinked, her eyes hurt, and so did her stomach. She didn’t dare to turn her head to look, just lowered her head and slowly moved forward like a snail. There was a loud voice over there, “Zhao Yourong has been number one all this time, not bad.”

“Love is powerful~.” A person echoed beside him.

The broadcast was reporting the current 3000m race, but she was too far behind. The sounds were getting farther and farther away, she couldn’t hear them properly. Finally, she couldn’t hear any more sound and kept running forward.

Afterwards, Qi Qiao told her that she looked like she had suddenly been possessed, desperately running forward without a care.

Sweat flowed into her eyes, and she felt like she could see the wind. There were voices from all directions cheering and screaming, and she kept running. Until she got to the end, just before she could finally breathe, she fell down powerlessly. The moment she closed her eyes, she saw Qi Qiao running towards her.

She seemed to have slept for a long time, but at the same time, she didn’t seem to have either.

When she opened her eyes, Qi Qiao was about to cry: “She’s awake, she’s awake.”

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Only then did she find that only the two of them were in the school infirmary.

Meng Shengnan twitched the corners of her mouth and laughed.

“You still laugh?” Qi Qiao pretended to be angry.

Meng Shengnan pursed her dry lips, “I’m fine.”

“I really want to hit you, don’t you know your period is here?”

Meng Shengnan: “I know.”

“Then why’d you still run?”

“I’d already started.”

“I remember your period always comes around the end of the month, why did it come so early this time?”

Meng Shengnan smiled: “It’s just a few days difference, it’s not always that accurate.”

Qi Qiao sighed, “But don’t worry, a female doctor checked you.”

Meng Shengnan was a little sunburned.

“It was good enough to run as you had been from the beginning, but you had to get first place, are you satisfied now?”

She didn’t react for a while.

“What did you just say?”

“Are you satisfied now?”

“No, the sentence before.”

“It was good enough to run as you had been from the beginning, but you had to get—”

Halfway through Qi Qiao’s sentence, Meng Shengnan interrupted: “I got first place?”

“Yeah, did you forget?”

Meng Shengnan sat up, half trying to support herself and muttered, “Really?”

“You’re already in this state, would I be so heartless?”

“Then what happened afterwards?”

“Then the gym teacher carried you here on his back.”

“Oh, by the way, you know the person who was in the first place from the beginning, the one you talked about earlier- she’s called Zhao Yourong right?”

A sentence, spoken with so many pauses.

“She, I heard that she couldn’t run in the end, and was directly carried away by her boyfriend, that Chi Zheng. Just now your class leader and classmates came to see you, the girl in your class is called Xue Lin, right? She said that at the time everything exploded on the stands, everyone wished they were Zhao Yourong.”

After Qi Qiao finished speaking, she spread out her hands, “I only know this.”

“Oh.” Meng Shengnan slowly eased her breath.

She thought that there might be a glimmer of hope that he would notice her like this, even if it was only a little bit. But no. She didn’t win an award for her essay in the competition, fine, she could try again next time. But what about liking someone? It seemed like there was no such thing as an order. If he didn’t like her, then he simply didn’t like her. If he didn’t care, then he simply didn’t care; there weren’t that many twists and turns.

“What time is it?” she asked.

Qi Qiao looked at her watch, “Five o’clock, you slept for more than an hour.”


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