Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 619 The Sports Meet Begins

Lu Mingfei didn't know why, as soon as Xia Mi mentioned the other Senior Sister Chen, all the girls immediately looked at him... even though he hadn't said anything!

Honestly! He didn't know... no... there was actually a senior sister surnamed Chen!

The image of the red-haired little witch involuntarily popped into his mind again. But the unfortunate thing is, he and his senior sister haven't even had a chance to interact in this lifetime!
All I did was let my senior sister stay overnight at my house, that's all.

Fortunately, although Su Xiaoqiang and Liu Miaomiao had both met Nuonuo, neither of them knew the specifics of the relationship between Nuonuo and Lu Mingfei... In fact, Nuonuo herself didn't know either.

Su Xiaoqiang and Nuonuo had actually met in Monza, Italy. However, Nuonuo and Lu Mingfei presented themselves as elementary school classmates to Su Xiaoqiang, and they parted ways after a brief meeting. Su Xiaoqiang didn't even know Nuonuo's real name.

Although Liu Miaomiao knew that Nuonuo's real name was Chen Motong, when she brought Lu Mingfei to meet Nuonuo, Nuonuo cooperated by not exposing Lu Mingfei's identity and pretending not to know him. Therefore, Liu Miaomiao did not know that Nuonuo was Lu Mingfei's "senior sister".

Actually, the day before Nuonuo left the city, she had a brief encounter with Chen Wenwen while strolling on the pedestrian street near Shilan Middle School. However, even Lu Mingfei was unaware of this, and naturally Chen Wenwen was also unaware that the beautiful girl she met was Lu Mingfei's senior.

In the end, only Xia Mi knew about the relationship between Nuonuo and Lu Mingfei.

The information gap saved me...

Lu Mingfei was somewhat relieved that although Liu Miaomiao and Xiaotiannv had both met Nuonuo, neither of them knew that Nuonuo was his senior sister. If they didn't know, it meant she wasn't there, so Lu Mingfei didn't have any other senior sisters. He didn't even know who the other Senior Sister Chen that Xia Mi mentioned was!

Having finished deceiving himself, Lu Mingfei faced his girlfriends' gazes and said innocently, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Liu Miaomiao pouted: "Who told someone to have so many criminal records? Mingfei, it's not too late to confess now."

Is there really enough time? It feels like a sting operation.

However, given Lu Mingfei's past record, even if he confessed to Liu Miaomiao and Su Xiaoqiang that he really had a senior sister surnamed Chen whom they had all met, namely Chen Motong (Nuonuo).

However, he only let Nono stay overnight and gave her artificial respiration—no, I can't say that—other than that, he had no other interaction with Nono.

It seems unlikely that Liu Miaomiao and the others would believe it.

Moreover, when Liu Miaomiao, Lu Mingfei, and Nuonuo met before, Nuonuo and Lu Mingfei pretended not to know each other. Now that Nuonuo is his senior sister, his behavior seems suspicious and hard to explain.

"...Now that you mention it, I remember, I do indeed have a senior sister surnamed Chen," Lu Mingfei suddenly said. He chose not to continue feigning ignorance, but instead opted for a strategic retreat!

The three girls exchanged glances instinctively, their faces showing an expression of surprise but also understanding. They thought to themselves, "Just as I thought... Mingfei is still the same old Mingfei!"
Before they could even ask who this "Senior Sister Chen" was, Lu Mingfei continued calmly, "But that was six or seven years ago. Back then, there was a senior sister in school who always looked after me, but we lost contact after she graduated."

What Lu Mingfei said was absolutely correct. Even considering the years he transmigrated to the world of Japanese light novels, it had indeed been six or seven years since he recognized Nuonuo as his senior sister.

"Six or seven years ago..."

Chen Wenwen muttered to herself, "We were still in elementary school six or seven years ago, right?"

Lu Mingfei thought to himself, "Back then, Wenwen and the others were indeed still in elementary school, but I was already in college... Hmm, the more I talk about it, the more I feel like I'm an old cow eating young grass?"
However, Lu Mingfei continued, repeating Chen Wenwen's words: "Yes."

Sometimes, telling only half the truth is more effective than telling a complete lie. Seeing Lu Mingfei's honest expression, and not seeming to be lying, the girls believed him.

The senior sister I met six or seven years ago, that's the senior sister Mingfei knew when he was in elementary school, right?
Su Xiaoqiang suddenly felt a little embarrassed. No matter what, it would be too petty for them to be jealous of a senior from elementary school... But what about Xiao Mi saying there were other senior sisters?
At this moment, Xia Mi suddenly spoke up, "Senior Sister Miaomiao, you've misunderstood. The Senior Sister Chen I'm talking about is the head of the school's dance troupe, someone you don't know. Senior Sisters, have you forgotten that I'm a member of the school's dance troupe?"

If Lu Mingfei's words had initially left Liu Miaomiao and the others somewhat skeptical, now that Xia Mi had said this, they realized they might have truly misunderstood Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei was now certain... Xia Mi's sudden mention of Senior Sister Chen was indeed a deliberate ploy to mess with him.

However, Su Xiaoqiang still said arrogantly, "Hmph...it's inevitable that we'd misunderstand each other because someone has such a bad record." "Little Heavenly Maiden," Lu Mingfei suddenly said.

A sense of unease crept into Su Xiaoqiang's heart: "Wh-what?"

"Can I do my homework in your room tonight? This morning, the physics teacher talked about the interaction and motion between objects, and there were some parts that I didn't understand. Could you explain them to me tonight?"

Su Xiaoqiang: "???"

Su Xiaoqiang blinked blankly, realizing that Lu Mingfei definitely wasn't there to do his physics homework; he was probably there to practice real physics movements! Couldn't he just let her rest for a day...?

Xia Mi, who was standing next to her, was feeling a bit smug. She had originally thought that she would be locked up and given a good talking-to by her senior brother tonight... She was inwardly grateful to the proud and arrogant senior sister Su for saving her from disaster!
Then Lu Mingfei spoke up again, saying, "Junior sister, come along too. You're in the process of getting into your next degree, which is a time when you need to work hard. Tonight, your senior sister Su and I will help you catch up on your studies."

Xia Mi: "???"

The incident involving the senior sister, which was unclear whether it was a crisis or not, was somehow managed to be swept under the rug by Lu Mingfei.

However, the gossip circulating at school, which seemed to have no smoke without fire, did not seem to be as easy to quell as Lu Mingfei had imagined. Two weeks had passed, and the topic remained a hot one.

Lu Mingfei and his friends returned to their normal daily routines, eating lunch together in the school cafeteria and going home together after school.

Then, after the May Day holiday ended and the summer solstice arrived, the Shilan Middle School sports meet came as scheduled.

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If there were a list of things middle school students dislike, the sports meet would definitely be on it. This grand middle school event, which is quite classic in many Japanese anime, light novels, and even domestic youth literature, is actually not so popular in real life.

The reason is simple: high school life is already boring and tedious, and each class has to take time to select students to participate in student council activities, which is like making trouble for themselves. It would be better to give them a couple more days off.

However, at Shilan Secondary School, students' resistance to the school sports meet is not as high as in other schools.

One reason, of course, is that the academic workload at Sze Lan Secondary School is not as heavy as that of public schools. Many students may choose to pursue higher education abroad in the future, and many students at the school have been involved in aristocratic sports such as tennis, figure skating, curling, skiing, and equestrianism since childhood. The sports meet is not only an opportunity to test whether they are developing well in all five aspects of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor, but also a time to show off their family background.

Qiao Yiran, a rising tennis star in the province, is a student who graduated from Shilan Middle School.

The second reason is that the sports meet of Sze Lan Secondary School is not held on Saturday or Sunday (this is very important), but a week is specially selected for the whole school to suspend classes to participate in the sports meet.

The third reason is that the quality of both boys and girls at Shilan Middle School is quite good. Even if we exclude Xia Mi, Su Xiaoqiang, Liu Miaomiao, and Chen Wenwen, there are still quite a few girls who are good-looking and come from wealthy families.

Take Lin Huihui, for example. She could easily be the top choice for school beauty in any school other than Shilan High School. Not to mention, there's also a handsome guy like Chu Zihang among the boys. Everyone harbors the simple dream of competing for the right to choose their partner at the sports meet.

Because Shilan High School's sports meet is completely open to the public, many students from other schools would sneak out to visit. It was essentially a large-scale event on par with a school festival.

Although Lu Mingfei had never been particularly interested in school sports meets, he could understand why these students had come all the way from other schools... After all, what normal school sports meet includes curling and equestrian events? And some students had actually brought horses from home, and the school actually had a venue for them to compete.

Although there aren't many families with such top-tier wealth at Shilan Middle School... apart from Zhao Menghua, only three or four students in the school signed up for the equestrian competition, which is nothing compared to the grand spectacle of hundreds of horses galloping together at the Kassel College Games.

However, competing in equestrian events at a high school sports meet sounds a bit exaggerated. No wonder so many students from other schools come to watch during each sports meet.

What...evil capitalists!
Looking at the rows of aristocratic sports teams—such as the equestrian team, figure skating team, and curling team—lined up on the playground, waiting for the opening ceremony of the sports meet, Lu Mingfei felt a surge of resentment.

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(End of this chapter)