Chapter 70: Seizing the Initiative

  Mu Yu Xin and Qiu Nian Wei both disagreed to compete against each other, so they decided to form pairs and compete. Mu Yu Xin paired up with Duan Liu Yun and competed against the Qiu siblings. Each person threw twice, and the winner was determined by who won two rounds first. In the end, Mu Yu Xin and Duan Liu Yun won.

  Qiu Nianwei loudly protested, Qiu Nianbai smiled and said "let's do it again", then they agreed to play two more rounds, the losing team would treat the others to dinner, and the four of them plunged into another intense competition.

  Tian Nuoyu sat in the rest area, quietly observing everything around her. Her mood had not come out of the distress and depression from just now, still feeling heavy.

  She looked around and found that most of the people in the hall were young, next to her was a young father teaching his five or six-year-old son how to throw a ball.

  After the little boy mastered the throwing ball skills, he started to throw the ball independently. Every time he threw the ball, his father would keep cheering and encouraging him. After finishing throwing the balls, even if not a single bottle was hit, his father would loudly shout "My son is awesome!"

  The little boy heard his father's encouragement and went forward to give his father a big hug, then continued to throw the ball. After throwing five or six times, the little boy's level of throwing gradually improved, and the number of bottles he knocked down also increased.

  Every time they see a bowling pin being knocked down, the father and son would both shout out loud.

  Tian Nuoyu's mouth curved into a faint smile, and from the father and son, she felt a vibrant breath of life.

  She shifted her gaze, focusing on the figure of Lan Shengyuan not far in front of her. He stood with his arms crossed by the side of the ball court, watching Duan Liuyun and others play ball. Most of the time he just smiled as he watched, occasionally commenting a sentence or two. A faint smile remained on his face, looking carefree yet somewhat distant.

  She didn't know why Lan Sheng brought her here, he didn't ask for her opinion and just took charge, she didn't object or ask the reason, and he didn't explain anything to her either.

  In the afternoon on the bridge, she felt that the distance between her and Lan Shengyan was so close, but at this moment, Lan Shengyan was standing one meter away from her, yet she felt as if there were thousands of mountains between them.

  She and he were ultimately people from two different worlds!

  Perhaps sensing Tian Nuoyu's gaze, Lan Shengyan turned his head to look at Tian Nuoyu, who panicked and quickly turned her face away.

  Suddenly, Tian Nuoyu heard someone shouting not far away, possibly using too much force and severely deviating from the ball path. A ball flew towards the direction of the father-son duo's ball path, while the father was walking towards the rest area to drink water. The little boy had just thrown a ball and looked at the ball rolling forward along the ball path, with one foot stepping into the ball path.

  Tian Nuoyu suddenly stood up and sprinted to the little boy's side in one swift motion, embracing him tightly and pulling him into a nearby rest area.

  Then came a "ding" sound from behind, the ball that flew over landed on the boy's lane, less than 10 centimeters away from the foul line.

  Tian Nuoyu let out a breath and released the little boy. The little boy suddenly flashed a pair of big eyes looking at Tian Nuoyu.

  The boy's father held a mineral water bottle and gazed at Tian Nuoyu in a strange way.

  Tian Nuoyu gently stroked the little boy's head and said softly, "You can't go into the ball track to chase after the ball, it's very dangerous, do you understand?"

  "Oh!" The little boy nodded obediently.

  The boy's father looked at the track, then turned back to his son, suddenly he understood, his face changed: "Kid, are you going to run into the track to chase the ball?"

  "Hmm, I want to follow the ball I threw and see if it will run off course!" The little boy said in a soft voice.

  "How can you run onto the track? That's a serious foul, you know?" The boy's father said sternly with a straight face.

  "Oh, I see!" The little boy lowered his head as if he had committed a great mistake.

  "It's okay now, just remember for next time, you're a great little pitcher!" Tian Nuoyu gently rubbed the little boy's hair and smiled softly.

  "Thank you, sister!" The little boy lifted his head and smiled sweetly.

  "Miss, thank you so much! If it wasn't for you just now, my son might have been hit by the ball. I was too careless, thank you so much!"

  "It's okay, he's really great! Isn't he?" Tian Nuoyu smiled at the little boy.

  The little boy ran quickly to his father's side, hugged his father's leg, looked up at his father with a sweet voice and said: "Dad, my sister says I'm great!" After that, he stuck his face on his father's leg and gave Tian Nuan Yu a naive and innocent big smile.

  The boy's father stretched out his hand and held his son, rubbing his head with his hand, then looked at Tian Nanyu and smiled: "Thanks a lot!"

  "Don't be polite, you guys go ahead and play!" Tian Nuanyu said as she turned around and walked back to the rest area where she was just at.

  Mu Yu Xin and the others stopped throwing balls and returned to the rest area, where they saw Tian Nuan Yu. The eyes of several people were a bit strange, and Duan Liu Yun's eyes were even more strangely abnormal.

  "Your skills seem pretty good?" Duan Liuyun's face was full of inquiring color.

  "Of course, dragonfly is a fourth-degree black belt in Taekwondo!" Mu Yu Xing proudly raised Tian Nuan Yu's arm.

  Last night she had already "experienced" Tian Nanyu's "godly speed" movements, but she was still very surprised by Tian Nanyu's rapid reaction just now. At this moment, she felt very proud, as if it wasn't Tian Nanyu who had just stopped the little boy from getting hurt, but herself.

  "Huh?" Duan Liuyun's face showed a hint of surprise, and the others' faces also had similar expressions of astonishment. Qiu Nianbai's complexion changed slightly, but quickly returned to normal.

  "Miss Tian, may I have the pleasure of exchanging blows with you?" Duan Liu Yun suddenly spoke up.

  Tian Nu Yu was taken aback.