Chapter 67: Do You Want To Win?

  Shaking off Tang Gongzi, the two people's speed indeed increased a lot, but they had fallen behind by too much earlier, and it wasn't easy to catch up with the main team in a short while.

  Xi Xi closely followed Chen Yan's footsteps, and when he accelerated, she also sped up, not willing to show any weakness. After all, there is a big difference in physical strength between men and women. They walked on the mountain road for a while, and Chen Yan was still walking with quick steps and didn't seem out of breath at all, but Xia Xi had already begun to feel that her physical strength was somewhat insufficient, and her feet felt as heavy as if they were filled with lead.

  Fortunately, Chen Yan slowed down at this time, and she barely kept up. This mountain road was not difficult to walk, but the continuous climbing of stairs, slopes, and then stairs made her feel quite laborious. She had already been sweating profusely, and the tank top worn under her long-sleeved jacket was tightly stuck to her body, with a sticky feeling like a small paw scratching lightly in her heart.

  She realized she was wearing too much, and it was embarrassing to take off her jacket in front of Chen Yan, so she just rolled up her sleeves, but accidentally got several branch-like scratches on her snow-white arm.

  Chen Yan seemed to have guessed that Xia Xi's physical strength was failing, and he no longer rushed forward with a single mind like before. His footsteps slowed down, and Xi looked at his tall figure, the slender but not weak back of the young man seemed like a mountain blocking her way. To get ahead of him, it seemed more difficult than winning the competition by a hundred times.

  That figure suddenly stopped, turned around, and Xia Xi was caught off guard, colliding with him. She retreated repeatedly, and before she could voice her complaints, Chen Yan asked: Do you want to win?

  "Of course," Xi Xi blurted out without thinking.

  Chen Yan smiled, her answer was as expected. They were all competitive people who didn't like to compromise with others, and they were good at competing with each other. Whether it was this competition or other things, they had always been like that. He asked: "Do you want to win the game or do you want to win over me?"

  Of course I want to win over you, XiXi thought in her heart, but she absolutely refused to say it out loud like that. "You're overestimating yourself, what do you have that's worth competing with?"

  "Is that so?" Chen Yan's eyebrows slightly raised, and he smiled with his head bowed. His ink-colored eyes shone in the sunlight, as if they were filled with gold dust. "If you want to win, follow me." He changed direction, no longer walking along the neatly paved stone mountain road, but instead entering a dense thicket of trees nearby.

  "How to go?" Although somewhat puzzled, XiXi still followed up. She knew that his desire to win wouldn't be weaker than hers. To arrive at the agreed place as soon as possible, on this point, the two people had a rare consensus.

  "It's more than twice as fast to climb up the steep slope in front of us than to walk along the mountain road," Chen Yan skillfully parted the weeds in front of him, broke off two long branches and used them as walking sticks, handing the thinner one to Xi Xi, "Be careful, there are snakes coming and going in the grass thicket."

  As soon as she heard the word "snake", Xi Xi's whole body turned cold, and without hesitation, she took over the branch handed to her by Chen Yan. With both hands tightly gripping the thing she feared most, which was hairless, when it came to snakes and lizards, she would lose all courage, and unconsciously took a few steps forward, narrowing the distance between the two people.

  She stepped into the grass thicket, one foot deep and one shallow, with birds chirping and cicadas buzzing in her ears. Xia Xi felt that the rustling sound in the grass thicket was expanding infinitely around her ears, as if a snake would suddenly pop out and bite her calf in the next second. She began to regret taking the shortcut with Chen Yan, muttering to herself, "Xia Xi, your competitiveness will get you killed one day." She was really afraid of those hidden mosquitoes, snakes, and rats in the dark. To distract herself, she started chatting with Chen Yan: "Have you climbed this mountain before?"

  "There's a guy who comes to climb every week" Chen Yan was somewhat surprised by this sudden approach, and a subtle joy spread from the bottom of his heart. His footsteps didn't hesitate for a moment, and each step still walked firmly. "I don't even remember how many times I've climbed it, I can go up this mountain with my eyes closed." He said confidently

  "You'd better close your eyes and climb then." Xi Xi retorted, her words laced with disdain. Her eyebrows rose, her eyes sparkled, and her red lips curled into a sweet smile as she spoke the biting words with a hint of softness, "So now it's trendy to pick up girls by climbing mountains?"

  Chen Yan heard this and smiled, turning his head to look at her: "In other words, you're saying I'm hitting on you?"

  She was so embarrassed, she had successfully dug a hole for herself and jumped in with great fanfare. "You're a family man, spare yourself" He lightly opened his vermilion lips, his tone carrying ridicule, only someone as frivolous as him would have such an absurd understanding.

  "Your news is already in the past tense," Chen Yan said with a hint of sarcasm, implying something without directly saying it.

  The scorching sun has begun to shine, the swaying tree shadows fall on the lush branches and leaves, with varying shades of green, Xia Xi's thoughts also become mottled at this moment, fluttering and disorderly, refracting different lights under the sun.

  "You deserve to be dumped," she muttered, mechanically repeating a phrase in her mind: "So they're not together anymore, so they're not together anymore." What did they have to do with her? Such deliberate emphasis was impossible to suppress, and the turmoil in her heart began to grow wildly.

  "So concerned about me, do you want to..." He trailed off, his eyes flashing with a hint of distraction, and he held out one hand in front of her, palm up, smiling unrestrainedly.

  "Get out!" Xi Xi pushed him away, using such a fierce reaction to cover up her own nervousness. His emotions came and went, so shallow, who would be willing to entrust their true heart to someone like that?

  Chen Yan still didn't withdraw his hand, and the playful expression on his face turned serious. He pointed to the steep cliff in front of them with his other hand. "We'll climb up from here. The rock wall is difficult to navigate, so hold onto me more." His palm had a light callus from frequent basketball practice, and his fingers were long and clean, placed quietly in front of her eyes, making a silent invitation.

  Xia Xi suddenly realized that they had already emerged from the forest and reached a nearly vertical slope of about 20 meters. The top of the slope was still a dense forest, but it seemed not too far from their destination.

  This steep slope is different from the small path that was just walked, with **bare rocks** coming out, and only a few tree roots and vines can be grasped. Fortunately, those **bare rocks** are enough to step on.

  She had never climbed such an uncharted mountain before, and her heart was filled with apprehension. Looking at Chen Yan again, he still seemed completely nonchalant, as if the steep slope in front of them was just flat ground.

  He tossed the crutch aside, "I'll do it myself, isn't rock climbing just a game? Who hasn't played it before?" and started to climb up with a rubbing of his fists.

  Chen Yan looked at Xi Xi's clumsy climbing posture and shook his head helplessly, "Hold onto the rocks, don't grab those vines, come step by step." Seeing her almost slipping down, Chen Yan hurried forward, "If it doesn't work, go around to the stairs instead."

  "You're no good either!" The more he said this, the more vigorously Xia Xi climbed.

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