Chapter 42

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Translator: Cheese

Voided

He’ll just get out, then. Who was afraid of whom?!

Tang Qifeng swung open the car door, got out, and smoothly swung it closed again. The hem of his suit rose up in a ‘cool’ arc.

There were girls nearby who couldn’t help but gasp in a low voice. Regardless of the rumors that Tang Qifeng was a stupid second gen, this scene still made this group of teenage girls watch with gleaming eyes.

This was the charm of the Chinese Yuan.

Liu Kaiyan held the basketball, standing still as he watched Tang Qifeng stride towards him.

Tang Qifeng was 21 this year, at least 3 or 4 years older than this group of high school students, and could just barely be considered their peer. Standing in front of Liu Kaiyan, their heights were about the same, and their lofty manners were also about the same.

Love rivals faced off, eyes burning with jealousy, and the air seemed to carry the scent of smoking gunpowder. This was the sense of males competing for a mate, the male instinct buried in a man’s oldest, most primitive gene.

For the rights to a spouse and procreation, they could risk everything.

Of course, only Tang Qifeng could perceive this sort of feeling; Liu Kaiyan and the others were all dumbfounded.

Tang Qifeng glanced at the basketball in Liu Kaiyan’s hand and sneered, “You like playing basketball?”

Liu Kaiyan: “… It’s okay.”

Tang Qifeng: “Play a game?”

Liu Kaiyan: “…”

This wasn’t a fool; it was a mental case ba.

Liu Kaiyan silently swerved around him and said to Su Tian and Wang Haoxue, “Let’s go.”

The two people nodded, both with a dumbfounded expression like Liu Kaiyan.

Could it be this person wasn’t here to ask for the money?

“Wait!”

Tang Qifeng reached out and grabbed Liu Kaiyan’s shoulders from behind, his tone provocative. “Don’t dare? Scared?”

Liu Kaiyan stopped. He softly brushed away the hand on his shoulder, turned back, and said with a stony face, “To the court.”

Then he turned back to Su Tian and said, “Tiantian, you guys go back and eat without me ba.”

Saying this, he turned and went back to school.

Tang Qifeng sneered and followed after him.

Su Tian and Wang Haoxue exchanged glances. Without any hesitation, they took out their phones.

[Mom, I won’t be going back home to eat lunch.]

[Dad, I won’t be going back home to eat lunch.]

The two text messages were sent, and they hurriedly followed.

On the court, Tang Qifeng took off his suit jacket, revealing his slender waist and long legs. With a vest, he looked like a young master from a manhua, and the onlooking group of girls lowered their heads to silently wipe away their nosebleeds.

This outfit was so good-looking. It was just too bad… it wasn’t suitable for sports.

When Liu Kaiyan dribbled the ball, Tang Qifeng hurried to intercept. He spread his legs, and there came a faint sound of threads tearing from the crotch area.

Tang Qifeng: “…”

With this delay, Liu Kaiyan had already broken through his defense and made a clean shot.

The surrounding girls screamed.

There was no way about it. The most popular male classmate in school may not necessarily be the best student, but he must be the best basketball player.

Otherwise, why would they still risk playing basketball with him, even when they clearly knew his mother was a lunatic? Of course, it was because of Liu Kaiyan’s excellent skills ah.

As his only source of entertainment since he was young, Bigshot Liu’s accomplishments in basketball were no less than in his studies.

Su Tian and Wang Haoxue bought chow mein packed in disposable lunch boxes and mineral water. They sat on the grass as they ate lunch and cheered for Liu Kaiyan.

The bigshot was truly a bigshot. This level of motor nerve development wasn’t normal ah.

After suffering the first defeat, Tang Qifeng no longer struggled to keep his image. In, in any case, his fiancée wasn’t here. If he lost face then he lost face ba.

The next moment, Young Master Tang finally began to unleash his true strength.

Since he dared to propose a game of basketball with Liu Kayian, Young Master’s ability was definitely outstanding. After casting aside the burden of his image, he could actually tie with Liu Kaiyan. Swish shots, three pointers–he pulled out all kinds of dazzling techniques one after another, and the students watching screamed again and again.

Someone also kept score, and no matter who scored a point, a group of people shouted, “You can do it rich guy, almost X points!”

The score between the two remained stuck, a fierce match. Shouts of “You can do it, rich guy!” echoed throughout the field.

Finally, at the end of the first half, Tang Qifeng was 5 points behind.

Su Tian hurried over with the water she had prepared and handed it to Liu Kaiyan.

Liu Kaiyan smiled and accepted. The two of them stepped to the side, and Su Tian asked in a low voice, “Why does he want to play basketball with you?”

Liu Kaiyan: “I don’t know, but his skills aren’t bad. I’ll ask him in the second half.”

Su Tian smiled. “Okay.”

Liu Kaiyan took the water and left. Poor Tang Qifeng stood on the court, the scorching hot October sun shining above his head. The soles of his feet were about to melt, and he was sweating all over.

He looked around incredulously and found that the girls who were shrieking over him just now weren’t even paying him any mind.

Where was the so-called love?!

Could it be that the girls in little country towns had even stranger aesthetics?

In fact, everyone felt apologetic, but Su Tian was so popular in school that everyone, male or female, liked her a lot. Knowing that he had come here to give Su Tian trouble, who would care for him?

In the end, it was Wang Haoxue who saw he looked so miserable and gave him the extra bottle of mineral water she had bought earlier. If he had heatstroke, trouble would come find them again.

Tang Qifeng held the 1-yuan bottle of mineral water, tears almost falling down.

Sure enough, the more beautiful the girl, the more wicked she was. Little chubby girls truly had beautiful souls ah.

Wang Haoxue was frightened by the look in his eyes and promptly scurried away.

After a short break, the second half began.

Although the both of them had depleted most of their strength, the atmosphere was even more tense, more charged than the first half.

The sun, the sweat, the arc of the basketball, the screams of the surrounding girls…

This was the sincerity and passion belonging uniquely to student days.

As the whistle blew, Liu Kaiyan caught the basketball, eyebrows raised. The usually taciturn youngster now sported an unrestrained and free spiritedness.

He said, “You lost.”

Tang Qifeng: “Next time.”

Next time he definitely wouldn’t put on airs1 and play basketball in a suit and leather shoes yingyingying2.

Liu Kaiyan: “Anytime.”

It was rare to have such an evenly-matched opponent. Liu Kaiyan quite liked it.

Wang Haoxue’s previous act of delivering water made it clear to everyone; oh, so it turns out she wasn’t Su Tian’s enemy ah. And so the girls scampered over with various water bottles.

Tang Qifeng finally felt complacent. That’s right, how could this young master’s charm be ineffective in this little country town.

What a joke!

Liu Kaiyan thumped his basketball, asking, “Why look for me?”

Seeing that his opponent in basketball played well, he didn’t use the words “making trouble.”

Tang Qifeng’s heart stirred. He recovered from his smugness, re-asserted his superiority as a noble young master, and gave a humph. “I just hope you can understand that Xiao Yan is my fiancée. She became part of the Tang family when she was ten years old…”

Before he could finish, Liu Kaiyan cut in. “What does that have to do with me?”

Tang Qifeng: “…!?”

W-what?!

“You’re really saying it has nothing to do with you?!” He pointed at the younger boy, his face full of incredulity.

Liu Kaiyan asked back with an expression of bafflement, “Why should it have anything to do with me?”

“Don’t you know that Xiao Yan likes…”

Tang Qifeng realized as he spoke halfway, fuck, was he just fooled by that stinky boy?!

Damn it, damn it, damn it!

Tang Qifeng stood petrified among the crowd.

Liu Kaiyan gave him a baffled look, then turned and returned to the classroom with Su Tian.

School lunch time was limited, and he still hadn’t eaten yet. He didn’t want to spend the entire afternoon on an empty stomach.

Tang Qifeng stood there stupidly for a long while. When he finally gave a reaction, he picked up his phone to call his driver:

“Ask the bank to check for me. Has the cheque for five million been withdrawn?”

The procedure for withdrawing cheques was very complicated. Moreover, in this small country town, he surmised that there wasn’t even five million in cash in the bank. One would need to make an appointment, and the money likely couldn’t be withdrawn within the next two days.

But he still needed to confirm.

Soon, the driver called back. “The bank said it hasn’t.”

Tang Qifeng gritted his teeth, spitting out one word at a time. “Inform the bank, the cheque is void!”

A ten-year-old boy wanted to play him, hmph!

[1] 装逼: to show off or be pompous/pretentious

[2] 嘤嘤嘤: the sound of crying, but apparently it’s a cutesy way of crying as opposed to genuine bawling

Cheese: ah, yes, the classic basketball game between love rivals trope

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