Forced into a romantic relationship

Chapter 432 Thank you for your hard work

It is already very cold in Lincheng in November.

The sun was high overhead, and although it was bright, the heat it emitted seemed to have been squandered during the summer, and the temperature it brought was quite limited.

The temperature has reached around five degrees. After finishing the race, the athletes wiped off the sweat on their bodies and quickly put on their coats to prevent catching a cold after the race.

If it wasn't for the competition, no one would be willing to take off their thick coat in such temperature and feel the biting cold wind with their skin.

But there seems to be one exception.

She could have chosen to leave the stadium and put on her coat long ago, but she insisted on staying where she was.

They knew this girl. Some of them had competed with her in a long-distance running race a few days ago and were quite impressed by this pretty and tenacious girl with short hair.

Even though several days have passed, the image of the girl dragging her bruised body and gritting her teeth as she sprinted on the track that day is still engraved in many people's minds, and has been a hot topic of discussion in the track and field club in the past few days.

Frankly speaking, even as opponents, it is hard for them not to respect such a strong person.

As for some people who said after the game that she only cared about the game and not the children, and that she didn't even stop to check on the children even after they fell down, and that she had no humanity at all...this is simply a statement that only a pig would make.

As members of the track and field club, they knew very well the significance of practicing tirelessly every day. Wasn't it just to win first place and applause in a competition someday in the future?
Although it is not clear whether this is also the motivation for the girl to persist, at least from the moment she started running, no one has the right to make her stop.

This is a classic line from a very popular sports anime ten years ago. The reason why a university like Linda, which obviously focuses more on academic performance, has a large number of sports clubs and can recruit a lot of members every year is that it has been influenced by this anime to a certain extent.

To be honest, the girl was very soft-hearted. She was willing to get hurt herself to avoid hurting the child. If she were a cruel person, she might not only not let him go, but also take the opportunity to kick the child hard.

Who makes these naughty kids never learn their lessons?

You have to know that for people who love running, an injury may mean lifelong "disability" and even a completely bleak future. This is not something that can be overcome with a simple excuse like "he's just a child."

Back to the topic.

Everyone naturally admired the girl for enduring the pain and taking first place a few days ago. But now the competition is over. Although they all know that their victory was unfair and the opponent just had bad luck this time, accidents are a common occurrence in competitions after all. The fact that the girl came in last has been confirmed. They don’t understand why she insisted on staying in front of the starting line and not leaving, even though people around her were already scolding her.

The situation a few days ago seemed to be repeated today, with the same people injured, the same people persisting, the same people praising, and the same people cursing.

The only difference is that the first place who was leading the way has become the last place that no one cares about today.

Maybe... she just didn't want to accept it?

Everyone couldn't help but think.

A gust of cold wind blew, ruffling the girl's hair and blowing away the white mist from her mouth.

No miracles happened.

The moment she saw the last person running past her with the baton, Guzheng knew that she was no longer first.

She lost.

The reason why she was still standing there was not because she was unwilling... Well, she was somewhat unwilling. No one would be willing to accept this situation, not to mention that she had already regarded this game as a clarion call to confess her feelings to Han Zhou.

But now that even the charge has failed, do I still have the face to confess my feelings to Han Zhou?
Guzheng was a little confused.

We just said we would keep winning...

The reason why she was still standing in front of the starting line was just to express her support for her senior's determination to persevere and wait to take over the baton and run the remaining 400 meters.

Not only for the senior, but also for myself.

Losing is losing, and Guzheng will not make any excuses for this failure. However, even though she is already last, the word "give up" will never appear in her dictionary.

She will run her own 400 meters.

……

Guzheng has her own persistence, but obviously not everyone can understand her and don't understand what she means by standing in front of the starting line and not moving.

The student union had already said that the competition could only end if the injured athlete gave up, and then be sent to the school hospital for treatment as soon as possible. But now this injured athlete named Liu Xueyi refused to give up no matter what, and kept saying that she could not let down the expectations of her teammates and the college, and that she would insist on running the entire course. This determination is certainly touching, but it is too irresponsible for her body.

Liu Xueyi's friends and classmates kept persuading her to give up on both sides of the track. Even the counselor who happened to be nearby rushed over after hearing the news, but her attitude remained very firm. She insisted on handing the baton to her teammates.

So everyone had to find another way and ran over to ask Liu Xueyi's teammates to persuade her to give up the competition and go to the hospital for treatment.

The other two team members were quite cooperative. They were friends with Liu Xueyi and had long wanted to go over to see the other party's situation. They didn't care whether the game was over or not, and just left the spot and persuaded the other party to give up the game.

Anyway, I'm already the last one, so there's no need to keep running.

Only the short-haired girl named Guzheng pretended to be deaf and dumb, standing there without saying a word.

But Liu Xueyi seemed to value the opinion of this last teammate. Her eyes were full of guilt and self-blame, as if she would have to finish the race as long as the other party didn't speak.

So someone came to beg Gu Zheng again, including her two teammates, but the latter remained silent for a long time, and just said indifferently, "It's less than a hundred meters away, let the senior sister finish the run." The tone was so indifferent, as if she didn't care about the other person's injuries at all.

"Gu Zheng! Do you still have any conscience? You were already the last one, did you really have to let Xue Yi finish? It's just a race, if we lose, we lose. Don't you think she caused us to lose the race, so you want to take revenge on her in this way?"

One teammate couldn't help but curse out loud.

Such an inflammatory statement immediately pushed Gu Zheng to the forefront of public opinion. Some people immediately followed suit and started to curse, but many people also laughed at her. "No, you guys are kidding me, this is the first time I've heard of someone taking out their anger on someone else. If you want to send someone to the hospital so badly, why don't you just take the blame? Why do you have to let someone else take the blame?"

"I'm also confused. If we have to decide who is right and who is wrong, then this girl is still the victim. How can you have the nerve to put the blame on someone else?"

"Exactly. I watched this junior compete a few days ago. She fell down but still managed to come in first. She went to the hospital without a word afterwards. She just rested for two days and now she's competing again. Why doesn't she have as much drama as you guys?"

"Haha, you're talking about the game where a little kid ran onto the track, right? You still have the nerve to say that. At that time, I thought that this girl was heartless. She didn't even help the kid when he was knocked down..."

"You're talking nonsense to your mother, aren't you? You're so biased, could that naughty kid be your illegitimate child?" Lin Anyu, who dared to squeeze into the crowd and tried to pretend to be a passerby, couldn't help but curse.

The speaker's expression darkened: "Watch your mouth!"

"I think this guy has a point." Another person agreed, "You do look a lot like that naughty kid."

Many people watched the Guzheng competition that day. Most people have a good idea of ​​what was right and wrong that day, and the few who didn’t have a clue were criticized so badly that they didn’t even recognize their mothers.

Even for Linyi University, which has a very high admission score, the students who enter are not elegant gentlemen or dignified ladies, but a group of passionate young men and women. They will not be led by the nose by a few words of incitement.

Therefore, everyone is very curious: when did not persuading others to give up become a sin?
What's more, the person being blamed is the one who refuses to give up.

"What we are discussing now is not the question of persistence or not, but the issue of victory or defeat and life. It is this girl's obsession with victory or defeat that puts pressure on the injured, and she dares not go directly to the hospital for treatment..."

"You're already in last place, why are you still obsessed with winning? Isn't it okay for others to just want to finish the race? Do you understand sportsmanship?"

Chen Long, a passerby, appeared out of nowhere and said, "You're picking on such a trivial matter. Hurry up and scold me. If you don't hurry up, others will come here soon."

"Can you please not distort my meaning? I clearly meant to say that life is more important than anything else. Why should we make something so complicated when it is so simple?"

"You know it's a simple thing. Can't you just sit there and wait for others to finish running? Why do you have to come out and act like a clown?"

"..."

I don't know what went wrong, but the original accountability against Guzheng gradually turned into a large-scale debate, and gradually no one paid attention to Guzheng. But in general, there were many more people standing on Guzheng's side, not to mention the troll king Chen Long who was debating with the scholars. The playground was very lively for a while, and those who were not aware of the situation thought that a new competition had started.

Not far away, Liu Xueyi, who was "moving forward with difficulty", had a slightly changed expression. She realized that something seemed to have gone wrong. She didn't dare to drag it on for a moment, and reluctantly sped up, running tremblingly behind Guzheng.

Right in front, the short-haired girl in a thin sportswear seemed not to care about the voices around her at all. Be it insults or support, it seemed that none of these could change her determination to complete the race.

It seems that just as Chen Fei said, this girl is really obsessed with winning or losing, and refuses to admit defeat... Liu Xueyi thought.

She took a deep breath, tried to sound guilty, and said bitterly, "I'm sorry, I..."

Before she could finish her words, the girl in front of her suddenly snatched the baton with astonishing force, as if she wanted to vent her anger and unwillingness in this way.

Are you really angry?

Just as this thought came into her mind, the next second, she saw the girl in front of her turned her head and looked at her.

"Thanks for your hard work, senior."

Under the sunlight, the girl's hair seemed to be covered with a layer of golden sand. There was no trace of anger or dissatisfaction on her face. Instead, she curved her eyes and revealed an incomparably brilliant smile.

"Leave the rest to me."

Liu Xueyi was stunned.

She suddenly realized that the other party seemed to have misunderstood her, and she also misunderstood the girl.

She opened her mouth, but in the end said nothing.

Even if I wanted to say anything, it was too late.

In just a moment of distraction, the girl had already run very far away, and the golden glow that was originally only sprinkled on her hair gradually covered her entire body.

With the help of classmates and friends who rushed over, Liu Xueyi put on her coat woodenly and was supported to walk towards the school hospital. But for some reason, she couldn't help but look back.

The figures in my sight became increasingly slimmer, and at the end of the runway there was only a high-hanging sun.

She rubbed her eyes subconsciously.

"Xueyi, what's wrong with you?" The friends around her looked concerned.

"nothing."

She shook her head and looked away.

The sun is too bright today.

It makes people dare not look directly...

Yet I couldn't bear to look away.

……

(End of this chapter)