Young master, please give your orders

  The whole audience was in an uproar.

  But Ye Chenyi remained silent.

  Neither nodding in agreement nor shaking his head in refusal. With a serious face staring at me, I was intimidated by this attitude of his, gripping the hilt of my sword tightly. Well, since you neither agree nor disagree, then I'll just take it as your consent. As soon as the thought dropped, my body had already taken action on its own accord.

  Ye Chenyi's movements I had seen before, were simply good to the extreme, but today for some reason his reaction was slightly slower - in fact he still easily dodged my attacks, but I just felt that his movements were slow. Even his attacks seemed fragile, of course this was just an illusion, it all seemed like a teacher and student sparring match, he could suppress me without hurting me.

  However, what Cheng Xiaofei lacked the least was that kind of desperate and unyielding spirit. This ability to endure made me even angrier.

  And so my next actions were almost desperate.

  It's almost as if it was a matter of course that I lost. No matter how hard I tried, no matter how seriously I took it to the point of risking my life, not only did I lose miserably, but I didn't even get hurt. For some reason, I feel like this is even more unbearable than being beaten to the ground. My skills are absolutely flawless, and you could even say that I'm an absolute master, but Ye Chenyi's movements are ridiculously agile, to the point where he doesn't even seem like someone who has received top-notch training from a young age as a member of the underworld.

  For example, me, for example, Cheng Yiran.

  I furrowed my brow in confusion after the referee's decision, and I couldn't help but feel suspicious about Ye Chenyi's background. As a young nobleman, he would have received some training from a young age, but it was all for self-preservation - how could he be so incredibly powerful?

  "Xiao Fei, are you really that unwilling to be with me?" Ye Chenyi took off his helmet and changed clothes in the rest area before asking me as I prepared to leave the competition venue. I was a bit puzzled, what's going on?

  "Are you not willing to risk your own life?" He suddenly broke into an exceptionally warm smile, and my heart skipped a beat - when was the last time I saw such a beautiful smile? But at this moment, I would rather he remained expressionless. I awkwardly forced a smile, wanting to change the subject: "Huh? Why haven't you seen Xiaoshi, isn't she stuck to you like glue?" Stupid Cheng Xiaofei! What are you saying?! Don't you think your words sound like those of a jealous wife?! What's wrong with you?!

  Ye Chenyi was taken aback, his good-looking eyebrows slightly furrowed, and I felt a little guilty, turning my head away, trying to stubbornly resist: "Ah, I just...just feel a bit unaccustomed." Feeling that what he said was indeed somewhat lacking in confidence, he finally left with a simple goodbye and ran far away.

  ……

  "Damn it." I cursed under my breath, helplessly watching the heavy rain. What can I do now? Just wait.

  It was just a clear sky, but then it started raining in the blink of an eye, and it's getting heavier by the minute. Honestly, everything has been going wrong lately!

  No matter how much I scolded, the rain still didn't stop, so I had no choice but to stand at the entrance of the teaching building and wait.

  I thought I was just waiting for the rain to stop, but my gaze involuntarily swept towards every passerby. It's already past school hours, and most students have left. There are few passersby to begin with, and even fewer who slow down their pace. I feel inexplicably disheartened, lowering my head to stare at the ground as I let out a sorrowful sigh.

  Suddenly, a rapid footsteps broke the slightly quiet air, and before I could turn my head to look, my wrist was grasped and pulled under the rain. Fortunately, the person used an umbrella to open up a small world, so I didn't instantly become a drowned rat.

  He pulled me along at a quick pace, and I could even hear his slightly hurried breathing. It wasn't until we had walked for some distance that I came back to my senses and took stock of the person. Black long hair was tied up with a white silk ribbon, a white shirt and black trousers, a clean uniform attire, although I couldn't see his face, just from this figure I could determine who the person was.

  "How did you end up here?" I suddenly felt an urge to cry.

  "Aren't you afraid that Cheng Yiran will worry?" He said something that didn't make sense, and I really wanted to ask, aren't you worried?

  "Yi Ran would believe that I am safe." I never thought he would worry, because for the past four years, in the ten years we lived together, we always trusted each other's abilities.

  "If you believed, you wouldn't have called to ask me." He suddenly stopped in his tracks, turned around and looked at me. This serious Ye Chenyi is really handsome. "Do you know how worried I was when I heard that you hadn't gone home yet?!"

  I smiled slightly and said, "Thank you." My heart almost burst after hearing Ye Chenyi's words. I felt the atmosphere was so awkward, so I took the lead in stepping forward. Ye Chenyi saw that I was about to get rained on, and hastily held up an umbrella to cover me. I felt a pang of sympathy for his shoulders getting wet from the raindrops.