Chapter 6: Love Across Lifetimes

  Yan Lingfeng, who had been reborn once, cherished his ordinary yet tense high school life. Every day, he would watch Han Dengyun's silly antics and Fu Zijun's narcissistic boasts, feeling that this kind of life was very fulfilling. In class, he would occasionally listen to a lecture that interested him, but most of the time, he would bury himself in martial arts and sports magazines. This life underwent a huge change after just one week.

  "Wow! Our day has finally arrived! Wow, I'm so excited!" Han Dengyun walked into the classroom with a big grin on his face, attracting a lot of attention. Fu Zijun shook his head and said, "This guy, when will he ever really grow up?"

  Sun Feiyang was his best partner, and he added: "Heaven gives a person one thing, it will take away another. Obviously, he gave Deng Yun height and weight, but took away his IQ."

  Ignoring everyone's white eyes, Han Dengyun walked directly to the last row with a big smile on his face and said: "Brothers! Good news ah, for us this is absolutely good news under heaven."

  Zhao Senming directly rolled his eyes and said: "If you have fart, let it out quickly!"

  Han Dengyun, who was hit, gave Zhao Senming a resentful glance, hummed, and turned his head to whisper to Yan Lingfeng, who had an expression of seeing nothing unusual: "The school is going to organize the school team to participate in the city-wide basketball tournament."

  "What?" Rong was startled by the news, even though he had been away for ten years. Yan Lingfeng clearly remembered that during his three years at Yizhong, which was renowned for its high academic standards, the school had never organized a basketball team. The reason was simple: they were afraid that unnecessary things would affect everyone's enthusiasm for learning. Every time there was a basketball game, they would invite professional players from the sports school to replace them, and then brutally defeat other schools, leaving them on the verge of collapse. This was how Yizhong earned its reputation for emphasizing both culture and sports.

  As for the news brought by Handeng Yun, Yan Lingfeng's first reaction was suspicion, and his second reaction was to establish suspicion. So he disdainfully pushed away Handeng Yun and said lightly: "Do you think I can be deceived by a moron like you who is stuck at the 3-year-old stage with my IQ?"

  "What did he say?" Ling Feng asked curiously by Sun Feiyang.

  "He said the school is going to set up a basketball team." Yan Lingfeng couldn't help but laugh at himself after saying that, but he managed to hold it in.

  "Hahaha……" The other three people didn't have Yan Lingfeng's good heart, even Zhao Senming, who always had a cold expression, was laughing uncontrollably with his head on the table, not to mention Sun Feiyang and Fu Zijun, who were almost laughing to tears.

  Han Dengyun rubbed his big head in confusion and asked: "What are you laughing at? Are you excited?"

  Yan Lingfeng smiled and shook his head, saying: "Next time, change to a lie with some technical content. Look at this, the lie has become a joke. I don't know if your logical thinking is too loose or you were born with comedic cells."

  Han Dengyun sat down gloomily and muttered: "Believe it or not..."

  This lesson was a self-study class, unexpectedly, when the three pigs were laughing non-stop, the Pig Demon God suddenly appeared at the classroom door, staring fiercely at the three of them, walked to the podium and clapped his hands, saying: "Excuse me for interrupting everyone, I have something to say. The school will organize a basketball tournament starting from September 25th, all 62 classes in the school will participate in the knockout competition regardless of grade level, I hope students can actively sign up and strive to get a good ranking back for their class, students who want to sign up please go to Song De Ming's place after class to register.

  He finished speaking and walked out of the classroom, Lei Li Feng Xing was never a demon's style, but today he was an exception.

  The classroom immediately boiled over, and only four people, Yan Lingfeng, were stunned. Han Dengyun looked at the four people who had been petrified for a moment with a pleased expression, smiling as if he had just learned of the success of the Normandy landing like Eisenhower. At this time, Zhu Yao suddenly flashed back into the classroom, looking at the boiling classroom only frowned and patted his hand to stop the noise, saying: "Also, there is another thing, several physical education teachers in our school will watch all the games throughout, and finally select 12 students with excellent ball skills to form the Water Cloud No. 1 Middle School basketball team. We are freshmen, although the hope is not great, but the principal emphasized this point at the meeting just now, so I'll tell you again."

  Han Dengyun's words were actually true! Yan Lingfeng was full of incredulity, and the first major change around him after his rebirth had finally occurred! The school team, this was once a dream of Yan Lingfeng's! In high school, he didn't have the opportunity or space to achieve it, and in college, his physical fitness ultimately led to him being washed out in the selection competition. This was once Yan Lingfeng's dream, but wasn't it also one of his pains?

  Now, the opportunity to realize dreams is right in front of us. Although I don't know what reason prompted this change, it doesn't matter anymore. Because from today on, Yan Lingfeng's fate will be vastly different from his past life!

  "My god! This is actually true, tonight at Jufu Building, I'll treat you to dinner! Not drunk not return, I'm too excited! Thought that when we got to high school it would be all studying and no fun, didn't expect there'd still be basketball games, and a school team too! I'm in, school team!" Sun Feiying was the first to wake up, excitedly shouting.

  "You're thinking too far ahead. Do you think the school team is your family home? You can just enter if you want to." Han Dengyun said ruthlessly.

  "Just cut, as long as the five of us work together, our strength will be enough to break through gold. At that time, as long as we get this championship in hand, hehe, won't everything become simple?" Sun Feiyang indulged in endless fantasy.

  The pig demon who walked out of the classroom gritted his teeth and sighed, "If it weren't for the year-end class director's evaluation, could I have let you jump around so happily? Forget it, I endured."

  Song De-ming stood up and walked to the podium, took a eraser board and patted it, saying: "Since everyone's enthusiasm is so high, let's set the list now. Those who want to sign up now, please stand up and say something. Tomorrow in physical education class, everyone will try their hand, and then we can also determine the main lineup."

  Xiang Qingyun muttered in a low voice: "What's the point of deciding on the main lineup! With those five freaks there, who else has a chance?"

  "I'm signing up! Class Monitor."

  Yan Lingfeng looked at the first person to stand up and sneered, it was him again, Pangong Liang.

  If there's anyone in the school who has a bad relationship with Yan Lingfeng, it's this Pang Guang. This person is arrogant and thick-skinned, which isn't something Yan Lingfeng made up about him, it's just the truth. One second he can be cursing at the teacher with everyone else, even more viciously than anyone else, and the next second he'll be fawning all over the teacher, practically licking their face.

  However, it is said that after graduation, this person mixed quite well, at least much better than the fallen and disheveled Yan Lingfeng.

  At almost the same time, the last five Golden Arhats stood up simultaneously. Xiang Qingyun hesitated for a moment before standing up as well, looking at the five of them with a pitiful expression and asking: "Do you need substitutes? If not, I'll sit back down."

  Sun Feiying smiled and said: "Class leader, we six have signed up."

  Xiang Qingyun immediately smiled and said: "That's exactly what I need. Hehe."

  Yan Lingfeng stretched out a big thumb to him and said: "I'll cover you as the main force, only you can receive my pass best."

  Pangong Liang said with disdain: "Confidence is a good thing, but don't be arrogant."

  Sun Feiying's face darkened, just as she was about to speak, Xiang Qingyun couldn't help but shout: "I'll tell you, on the basketball court you're not bad at all! Want to go out and practice now? Not satisfied with your studies? Oh, that's easy, leave it to my sister."

  The whole class burst into laughter, Xiangzi Smoke fiercely gave her younger brother a white eye, Pangong Liang's face turned pale, lowered his head and didn't speak, don't know what he was thinking.

  Song De-ming was only responsible for registering the names, and what happened next seemed to have nothing to do with him. He put down his pen, picked up a piece of paper, and read out loud: "Pang Gong-liang, Han Deng-yun, Sun Fei-ying, Yan Ling-feng, Zhao Sen-ming, Fu Zi-jun, Xiang Qing-yun. Is that all? There are only 7 people, which is a bit too few. Sigh... I'll add my own name to the list as well. First of all, let me declare that I don't know anything about basketball and am just here to make up the numbers."

  Another burst of laughter erupted, as if it was going to blow off the classroom ceiling.

  Sun Feiyang laughed for a while, then said loudly: "Fellow students, this is a matter of great importance to our class honor! As the saying goes, 'the rise and fall of the country, every ordinary person has a responsibility.' If you're a man, let's go fight together!"

  "Well then I'll report my name too, at least I can go up and be a meat shield." Liu Zhuofan said with difficulty as he stood up.

  "I'm signing up too!"

  "Count me in!"

  "I'm signing up!"

  ……

  Sun Feiyang's words of incitement sparked a huge reaction, and regardless of whether they were interested or not, and regardless of how well they could fight, every boy in the class signed up with their name on the list.

  "This is a collective effort! If the boys are going to play ball, we girls can't just sit around doing nothing, right? When the time comes, we must use our most enthusiastic applause and our most sincere cheers to cheer on our male classmates. What do you think?" Tian Hui said with a smile.

  "Our school is the best in Water Cloud City in terms of academic performance, it's not some music academy, if you want to go then go, I'm not going. What a waste of time, I'd rather do two more math problems!"

  Tian Hui's face turned awkward, Yan Lingfeng looked in the direction of the voice and saw that the speaker was Qin Xuedan, Zhao Senming's girlfriend.

  Of course, this is the view of Yan Lingfeng who has come back to life. At this time, he still doesn't know that the Zhao Senming who is looking at Qin Xuedan with a serious and respectful expression is actually the one who ruined the mood.

  Yan Lingfeng remembered very clearly that Zhao Senming and Qin Xuedan were good friends who had known each other online for two years. At first, they didn't know each other's names, but later Zhao Senming casually asked and found out that they were actually alumni of the same school. After further inquiry, it turned out that the two people were even in the same class, which was probably what people meant by "having a destined encounter without knowing each other". As for what happened afterwards, it just naturally fell into place.

  Can't let this unexpected basketball game separate the loving couple that everyone envied at that time! If because of this matter, Zhao Senming's impression of Qin Xuedan is reduced to the lowest point, it would be terrible.

  "Sen Meng, what's your QQ username again?" Yan Lingfeng asked loudly.

  Zhao Senming stared at Yan Lingfeng with a look of astonishment, as if his IQ had suddenly dropped to negative numbers. However, seeing the determination in his eyes, he whispered: "Rain falls silently, what's wrong? Are you okay?"

  Yan Lingfeng didn't care and said: "What? You're called Yu Luosuo? I'm called Hua Kai Bu Bai!"

  Qin Xuedan was disturbed by Yan Lingfeng's noisy voice, turned her head and thoughtfully looked at Zhao Senming for a moment, then stared coldly at Yan Lingfeng: "This name is not something you boys can call."

  Yan Lingfeng shrugged indifferently and said, "How did you know I couldn't call? I just like feminine names, can't I?"

  Qin Xuedan said disdainfully: "Sorry, I've already registered this name."

  Goal achieved, Yan Lingfeng sat down comfortably, Zhao Senming looked at Qin Xuedan with a surprised face, muttering to himself as if wanting to say something, but fearing that he would be too abrupt and offend the beauty, his face turned bright red.

  "Is Tian Hui the only one who supports the boys in our class? Alright, I'll be one too. Brother, sister must support you." Xiang Ziyuan, the top scorer of the city's middle school entrance exam, made a statement, and then a large group of girls followed suit to express their support.

  Zhao Senming looked at Yan Lingfeng, who had a faint smile on his face. At this moment, Yan Lingfeng seemed so profound and mysterious in Zhao's eyes. He gritted his teeth, raised his head, and walked up to the podium. With a forced smile, he said to Song Deming, "Class monitor, may I borrow this place to say something?"

  Song De-ming nodded and walked down from the stage, being a good role model is a quality that an excellent class leader must possess.

  Zhao Senming looked at the surprised eyes of his classmates below, but his gaze was fixed on one person. After a moment's thought, he began to speak: "I am a lonely girl..."

  As soon as he opened his mouth, the audience below was already laughing wildly, especially Han Dengyun, who was so overwhelmed that he directly covered his stomach and fell to the ground, while Fu Zijun and Sun Feiyang supported each other, almost crying from laughter.

  Yan Lingfeng smiled but didn't speak, pulling Han Dengyun up and whispering: "Don't laugh, Sen Ming is chasing after a girl! Be serious, if you three ruin his good fortune, heh heh, you'll be in for it!"

  Zhao Senming directly ignored the laughter from the audience, looking at Qin Xuedan's slightly changed expression, and continued: "No one cares, no one loves, day after day, year after year, who will accompany me to pick the blooming flowers? I am a melancholic girl, always sighing, always sad, winter, summer, spring, autumn, rain, snow, cloudy, quiet alleys, leaving only my footprints! I used to be like you, I was also lonely, maybe we two are like two lonely stars, because of our shared sorrow, we know each other, pour out our loneliness to each other, and then become lonelier together! But now I am not lonely anymore, because I have four brothers who share the same aspirations, because I saw you! Only by putting oneself in a group will loneliness disappear. Only by opening one's heart can flowers bloom without withering, in the rainy alley, even an oil-paper umbrella is no longer your solitary sorrow!"

  Zhao Senming paused for a moment, and Fu Zijun immediately stood up with a smile and shouted: "Good poem, good poem! Brother Senming is really reciting a great poem! However, we need to study now, please don't affect us, come down!"

  Zhao Senming nodded gloomily, because he saw that Qin Xuedan, except for the initial change in facial expression, was completely expressionless at other times, as if Zhao Senming was talking about someone else.

  With a heavy gait, Zhao Senming walked down from the stage with a dejected face.

  "I'd like to join the class cheerleading squad. My previous words were a bit too self-centered, Tian Hui don't mind it."

  It's Qin Xuedan's voice.

  Yan Lingfeng smiled, still so profound and unpredictable. Two people in love, whether in the past or present life, will eventually come together! Like Zhao Senming and Qin Xuedan, but where is the figure she deeply loves now?