Forced into a romantic relationship

Chapter 270 Winning with confidence

Even though many years have passed, the girl still cannot forget that bright afternoon.

The afterglow of late summer has not faded, and the sunshine that day was hotter than before. The sunlight shined through the gaps in the branches and leaves on the path outside the playground, forming mottled spots. The September wind gently blew the girl's long hair, blowing away her thoughts. scattered.

The pages of the book made a "clatter" sound in the wind, and a densely written collection of wrong questions was blown to the ground. The girl pushed her hair behind her ears, bent over to pick it up, but happened to bump into a slender fingers...

Combining the plots of TV dramas and novels that are rarely seen, in Ouyang Lianyu's imagination, an unforgettable first acquaintance on campus should be like this.

Then Gu Zheng quickly shook her head to interrupt her idea, and corrected her unsatisfiedly: "Teacher Ouyang, I have always had short hair since high school, and I don't have a dense collection of wrong questions."

"Feel sorry……"

Ouyang Lianyu smiled awkwardly, realizing that he had just been overthinking, cleared his throat, and said with a smile: "Is it convenient to tell the teacher what happened that day?"

Gu Zheng said while sweeping the floor: "It's pretty much the same as what you said before. The time is September, and the location is indeed the playground. I was sitting under the shade of a tree studying, and Han Zhou suddenly came over to me."

She looked reminiscing, "Han Zhou was in poor health at that time and rarely participated in sports activities. Everyone said he was sick, but do you know what he wanted to do with me that day?"

"doing what?"

"He wants to compete with me in running."

Perhaps in order to let Ouyang Lianyu understand what this concept is, Gu Zheng added, "At that time, I was ranked first in almost all sports in the class and even the whole level, but Han Zhou was struggling to even run. So his challenge doesn't make any sense to me, it's not an exaggeration to say it's an egg against a rock."

"So you refused?" Ouyang Lianyu asked curiously.

"No, I agree."

Ouyang Lianyu was stunned, but she had heard Han Zhou talk about Gu Zheng's character, so she was not too surprised, "Because you are not afraid of any challenge and are willing to give every challenger a chance?"

"Of course not." Gu Zheng pouted, looking very resentful, "It's because he insisted on provoking me and asking me if I was scared."

Isn't this an obvious way to provoke generals...

Ouyang Lianyu smiled bitterly: "He must have a crush on you. I heard that many boys like to attract girls' attention like this."

"is that so……"

Gu Zheng blushed a little, "I was talking to him nicely, but he suddenly said he wanted to challenge me. Later I asked him why and he didn't tell me the reason."

In fact, the situation that day was like this -

Although Han Zhou, who was dying, got a status bar, the ability of the first-level status bar was too single and did not help his terminally ill situation. And he still didn’t know where to get the information needed to upgrade the status bar. Points until I saw the words "unlockable" on Gu Zheng's head in school.

The distinctive suffix naturally attracted his attention, and he planned to take advantage of the physical education class to have a chat with the monitor who made him the second-largest student in ten thousand years, to see what was special about him.

At that time, Gu Zheng was doing English reading comprehension exercises, and she was not bothered when he came over to her. She responded sentence by sentence, and from time to time she would silently recite the content of the answer options.

By coincidence, she happened to say "I want to fall in love (I want to fall in love)", and the status bar responded immediately. The three words "Unlockable" on Gu Zheng's head changed to "Already." Unlocked", followed by a series of words——

[The keyword is triggered, the target character Guzheng has been unlocked, and 10 points are obtained]

[Daily Task 1 (Guzheng): Make the target fall into a state of accelerated heartbeat ten times, and you will get point]

[Daily Task 1 (Guzheng): Get the target ten sentences of 'I'm afraid' and get point]

[Side mission has been opened: The target character Gu Zheng has a strong desire to win and lose, and has a deep desire for any form of victory. Please choose any one of the talents that the target character is good at, and complete at least one gorgeous victory under fair competition. , after completing the task, you can get 20 points and extract an enhanced skill from the target]

Seeing this scene, Han Zhou was ecstatic at that time. However, the points were not enough to complete the upgrade of the status bar. He had to consider completing the side mission as soon as possible, so he immediately challenged Gu Zheng. The speed of his face change made Gu Zheng unable to help himself. Look at him one more time.

Gu Zheng only mentioned running because she was only impressed by this one thing. In fact, Han Zhou raised many challenges that day, including but not limited to English listening, cloze filling, and solving math final questions in advance, but without exception, they all Ended with failure. There is no way, the side mission has requirements. You must defeat Gu Zheng in the field where she is good at, and it must be a gorgeous victory. Only in this way can you meet the requirements of the side mission and obtain the mission reward.

At that time, he had limited knowledge of guzheng. He only knew that she was good at learning and sports. He was too lazy to answer other questions, so he could only bite the bullet and think of solutions in these two fields.

Fortunately, he quickly came up with a crooked idea and proposed running with the guzheng.

Compared to others, Gu Zheng had a pretty good impression of her second-year-old son who also worked very hard. She couldn't bear to bully him, so she declined his challenge. Unexpectedly, the other person kicked her nose in the face and said she was scared. , so she sneered and accepted the challenge, determined to chop off this guy's head.

Listening to Gu Zheng's resentful description, Ouyang Lianyu had already vaguely guessed that Gu Zheng should have lost to Han Zhou in that game, but she was curious, if it was like what Gu Zheng said, how did Han Zhou win? What about hers?

Could it be cheating?

"It's not cheating." Gu Zheng sighed. She was still depressed when she thought about it, and said dissatisfiedly, "I was too careless. I didn't expect that guy to cheat on the rules."

"What do you mean?"

"We started at the same starting line. He said that the rule is whoever returns to the starting line first wins. I subconsciously understood that whoever completes a lap first wins."

Ouyang Lianyu was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses and said, "Isn't this just cheating?"

"No, he told me the rule twice just to remind me that there was something wrong with the rule, but I didn't listen carefully."

Guzheng pulled the ball up and dumped it into the trash can, and said funnyly, "He was probably afraid that I would beat him. At first, he didn't dare to turn around and return to the starting point. He even pretended to run a few steps, but he fell down before he could run very far."

"I turned around and wanted to help him up, but he also advised me righteously not to look back and to run forward quickly. The game is a game and the rules are the rules. There is no room for letting go. He must compete with me in my heyday to feel at ease. "

Ouyang Lianyu covered her mouth and smiled: "He deliberately emphasized that 'the rules are the rules'. He should be afraid that you will be angry."

"Who says it isn't?"

Thinking of Han Zhou's disgraced look at that time, Gu Zheng rolled his eyes and said, "I didn't realize that I had been teased until I ran as far away as I could and saw him running towards the starting line. But it was also because I underestimated him. , I did lose that time."

Looking at Gu Zheng's expression, Ouyang Lianyu suddenly remembered what Han Zhou had said before -

"Guzheng is very competitive, but she only pursues a victory that is clear to her heart. She is obviously a tough-talking person, but when she loses, she loses, and she won't make any excuses. This is something that many people can't do."

Win with confidence, lose with magnanimity... Ouyang Lianyu seems to suddenly understand Han Zhou's concerns. It's not that such a girl doesn't dare to compete in relationships, but that she thinks she will lose once the competition starts.

As long as the person you like doesn't firmly choose you, even victory is meaningless.

Who knew that such a victory would be mixed with nostalgia and compulsion?

Such a victory is unfair, and unfair means that the victory is false.

But... I understand, but can Han Zhou really make Gu Zheng accept Noila Mo's existence?

Ouyang Lianyu was full of worry.

She was worried that Gu Zheng would notice something strange, so she forced a smile and asked, "Is it because Han Zhou defeated you that you are deeply impressed by what happened that day?"

Gu Zheng shook his head and smiled.

"It's more than that."

(End of this chapter)