Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

What happened to Chapter 624? (Part 2)

"First place!"

Liu Miaomiao crossed the finish line and slowly slowed down at the end of the track, placing her hands on her knees to regulate her breathing.

Deng Zhuoyi, who was standing next to her, handed her a towel with a smile: "Miaomiao, you're awesome! Our class has advanced to the next round as the first in our group."

Liu Miaomiao took the towel to wipe her sweat and said with a smile, "I'm not a fast runner. By the time I took the baton, you and Qiangqiang and Wenwen had already lapped the other classes ahead of me. I usually come in first as long as I run."

In addition to Liu Miaomiao, Su Xiaoqiang, and Chen Wenwen, the three people who signed up for the women's 4x800m relay also included Deng Zhuoyi in their team. The four of them represented Class 2 of Grade 11 in signing up for this event.

Although Erii could have easily signed up for the event as a fourth person along with Liu Miaomiao and the others, Lu Mingfei thought about it and decided against having Erii participate in the 4x800m relay with them.

As the "Empress" of the Snake-Headed Eight Families, Erii's physical abilities were almost on par with those of a third-generation dragon, placing her on a completely different level from ordinary people. Lu Mingfei was worried that Erii might lose control while running and break the world record.

However, seeing that Erii seemed to be looking forward to the sports meet, and considering that this might be the only middle school sports meet that Erii could participate in, Lu Mingfei reluctantly allowed Erii to sign up for the girls' pole vault event.

However, the condition was that Erii had to promise Lu Mingfei that she would control her strength and not jump several stories high at once, and that she would refer to the high jump results of her classmates. Erii obediently nodded and agreed to Lu Mingfei's words.

Deng Zhuoyi said, "I really didn't expect Wenwen, who looks so quiet, to run so fast! In the first lap, she even pulled ahead of that PE student from Class 3! And Qiangqiang, she lapped the last-place student."

“Wenwen actually trained in track and field when she was little.”

Deng Zhuoyi nodded: "Is that so? I was wondering why Wenwen ran so fast."

"The semifinals are tomorrow, right?"

"That's right, the group stage is over, so we don't have any more races today. Oh, right, Squad Leader Lu bought us bottled water, I'll go get you a bottle."

Upon hearing Lu Mingfei's name, Liu Miaomiao's expression clearly froze for a moment, and her little head instinctively turned towards the stands by the track and field. The moment her eyes met Lu Mingfei's, Liu Miaomiao's little head instantly turned back, and she muttered, "...I don't want his water, Zhuo Yi, come with me to the convenience store to buy a bottle."

Lu Mingfei's hand, which he had raised to greet someone, froze in mid-air.

Liu Miaomiao and Deng Zhuoyi walked towards the playground convenience store. Su Xiaoqiang, wearing a track and field uniform and draped in a towel, gently bumped Lu Mingfei's shoulder and asked curiously, "What did you do to make Miaomiao angry again? She was fine this morning, and even went backstage to pick her up."

Lu Mingfei rested his arm on the railing and said with a frustrated look, "A little accident happened."

Lu Mingfei recalled what had happened that morning: backstage after the opening ceremony performance, Miao Miao, after his teasing, had half-heartedly offered him a kiss. At the time, he had wanted to hold Miao Miao tighter, but he hadn't expected her old shoulders to be so slippery; his hand had accidentally slid down her bare back and into her dress.

Then, realizing what was happening, Liu Miaomiao, her face flushed, pushed her away...

After hearing the whole story, Su Xiaoqiang blinked and revealed a gloating smile: "Who told you to be so handsy with Miaomiao and make her angry?"

"I already said it was an accident," Lu Mingfei said helplessly.

"Well... since Mingfei is not your prior record, I can only say it's hard to say whether it was an accident or not."

Su Xiaoqiang had just made a sarcastic remark about her boyfriend when she saw Lu Mingfei suddenly turn around, his gaze fixed on her. His eyes were like a big bad wolf sizing up its prey, a little white rabbit, plotting how to devour her later.

Su Xiaoqiang subconsciously took a step back.

Lu Mingfei said, "Whether it's an accident or not, Little Fairy, you'll know once you experience it yourself."

Su Xiaoqiang looked flustered: "I, I was just joking... and I just finished running, I'm covered in sweat!"

"It's okay. I don't mind."

Su Xiaoqiang thought to herself, "But I do mind!"
Just thinking about Lu Mingfei's lingering kisses made her legs, which could run 800 meters without any problem, suddenly feel weak.

"And, moreover, there are too many people on the playground."

"Let's go back to the literature club activity room. Wenwen should be there too."

Su Xiaoqiang: "..."

Wenwen, I'm so sorry. Su Xiaoqiang silently clasped her hands together in apology to her best friend.

However, Su Xiaoqiang ultimately escaped a disaster for the time being, not because she had just finished running and was covered in sweat, but because Erii's pole vault competition was about to begin.

Pole vaulting and running both fall under the category of track and field events, so the pole vaulting competition venue wasn't far from where Lu Mingfei and his team were.

However, Lu Mingfei did not expect that when he, Su Xiaoqiang, and Liu Miaomiao and Deng Zhuoyi, who had gone to buy water and arrived late, arrived at the pole vault venue, they found that the pole vault competition, which did not usually receive much attention, was already surrounded by people.

"What's going on?"

Lu Mingfei clicked his tongue in amazement. Wasn't pole vaulting always a relatively unknown event in track and field? When did it become so popular? Did China produce another athlete like Xiang Ge who broke the world record in pole vaulting?

At this moment, Lu Mingfei saw Chen Wenwen and Xia Mi waving at him from the athletes' passage that was cordoned off on the other side. The Olympic five-ring logo on their sports uniforms was eye-catching.

"Mingfei, over here, over here."

Lu Mingfei and his group walked over, and Chen Wenwen smiled and pulled off the security tape: "We are the contestants' family and friends, you can come to the family and friends section to watch."

Looking at his large group of people, Lu Mingfei thought to himself, "Aren't there a lot of relatives and friends of these contestants?"

"What's going on today?"

Looking at the dense crowd in front of him, Lu Mingfei asked, "Why are so many people here to watch the pole vault competition?"

“They’ve come to see Erii.” Xia Mi shrugged and said, “Senior, didn’t you see that most of the onlookers are boys? A lot of boys heard that the legendary ‘new school beauty transfer student’ is participating in the pole vault competition here, so they all came to join in the fun.”

After hearing Xia Mi's explanation, Lu Mingfei immediately understood the reason. No wonder there were so many people watching when Miao Miao and the other girls were running earlier; it was probably for this reason. But Lu Mingfei remembered that there were quite a few girls gathered around the playground earlier too. Why was that? Anyone who didn't know better would have thought that Chu Zihang had also come to participate in the track and field competition.

"The world is really going downhill."

Lu Mingfei shook his head and sighed: "High school students should have the awareness of high school students. They should focus their attention on studying. How can they pay attention to such boring things all day long?"

"Senior, you just don't want other boys to see Erii in her track and field uniform, right?"

Xia Mi said, "Don't worry, Erii is wearing the same long tracksuit as us."

Hearing Xia Mi say that, Lu Mingfei suddenly felt relieved and realized that his little quirk was actually quite farsighted. When Xia Mi and the others bought their track and field uniforms, it was Lu Mingfei who specifically chose this particular style with the Olympic rings logo printed on the chest.

Chen Wenwen was very curious and asked Lu Mingfei why he insisted on buying this particular model. Lu Mingfei said it was to respond to the call of the 2008 Olympic Games, and that the Olympic five-ring logo looked so spirited.

Chen Wenwen was unaware of Lu Mingfei's hidden thoughts. The reason Lu Mingfei wanted to see his girlfriend, especially Chen Wenwen wearing a tracksuit with the Olympic rings, was because of some small memories from his past life.

Back in my second year of high school, Chen Wenwen and I participated in a mixed 5,000-meter race. Chen Wenwen, who looked frail, won second place in the girls' group, while Lu Mingfei fell to the back after being pushed over at the start.

The 5,000-meter race was the last event, and he was the only one left on the track at that time; everyone else had left after watching the race.

As Lu Mingfei was contemplating whether to change direction and run towards the track exit, Chen Wenwen ran across the entire track towards him and joined him. "Come on, come on, none of us in the literature club can fall behind!" Chen Wenwen exclaimed.

At that time, she was wearing a white T-shirt with the Olympic five-ring symbol on her chest.

Lu Mingfei glanced at Chen Wenwen beside him. The mountains under the Olympic rings were so beautiful that it made him feel happy and wanted to snuggle up to her right away... How about snuggling up tonight?
Oh, it seems like tonight won't work. They have to participate in the relay semi-finals and finals tomorrow. The earliest they can do it is tomorrow night.

"By the way, Wenwen, after school tomorrow..."

Lu Mingfei was about to ask Chen Wenwen if she wanted to go "eat ice cream" together after school tomorrow.

Then she saw Liu Miaomiao, who was one seat away from her, glance at her, then immediately took Chen Wenwen's arm and pulled her a little further away from Lu Mingfei, whispering to her best friend, "Wenwen, you have to be careful of Mingfei."

Chen Wenwen didn't quite react for a moment: "Huh?"

...I heard everything. And Miaomiao, it's a bit late for you to remind Wenwen now. Wenwen and I have already done most of what needed to be done... Although she was whispering in his ear, Liu Miaomiao didn't deliberately lower her voice. Instead, she spoke at a normal volume, just like usual, clearly intending for Lu Mingfei to hear her.

Lu Mingfei sighed inwardly, thinking about the accident that had happened that morning.

Although he often did some bold and inappropriate things when kissing Liu Miaomiao before, Lu Mingfei always paid attention to the limits, and his restless hands basically only stayed in some places behind Liu Miaomiao.

It seems like there haven't been many times like this morning.

After all, Liu Miaomiao is an introverted girl, and her level of conservatism regarding this kind of thing is not much lower than Chen Wenwen's.

Even a casual pat on the buttocks by Lu Mingfei was enough to make Liu Miaomiao blush for a long time. And this morning, without any warning or preparation, her boyfriend did it to her… No wonder Liu Miaomiao reacted so strongly.

However, based on Lu Mingfei's long experience dating Liu Miaomiao, he estimated that Liu Miaomiao would calm down on her own in a couple of days. He knew that Liu Miaomiao's temper was short-lived and would only last for a short while.

At this moment, Xia Mi lowered her voice and asked, "Senior brother, did you do something to make Senior Sister Miao Miao angry again?"

Su Xiaoqiang whispered to Xia Mi, "That's right, Ming Fei, he..."

Pole vaulting isn't a particularly eye-catching track and field event. Apart from a group of boys who had come to join the fun around the competition field, there weren't many people in the family and friends section. The only outsider, Deng Zhuoyi, stood to Liu Miaomiao's right, several people away from them. Su Xiaoqiang didn't seem to care about what they were saying.

As Xia Mi listened, her smile grew wider. After Su Xiaoqiang finished speaking, Xia Mi gave Lu Mingfei a mischievous grin and whispered, "No wonder Senior Sister Miaomiao looked like she didn't want to talk to you. Senior Brother, aren't you being a little too repressed? You should at least be more mindful at school..."

Lu Mingfei suddenly asked, "Isn't there a big box of Häagen-Dazs at home?"

Su Xiaoqiang didn't react for a moment, and nodded blankly: "Yes."

But a moment later, she realized that Häagen-Dazs was just ice cream...

"Let's eat together in my room after we get home tonight. Let Wenwen come too."

Su Xiaoqiang immediately chose to abandon her all responsibilities when disaster struck: "Wait a minute, what does this have to do with me? It was Xiao Mi who spoke ill of you, I clearly didn't say anything!"

Xia Mi immediately retorted, "Senior Sister Qiangqiang, you betrayed your teammates!"

Su Xiaoqiang said, "I... I had no choice."

Lu Mingfei snorted: "Who asked you to tell your junior sister about Miaomiao? You're an accomplice too, no doubt about it."

"..."

Caught red-handed, Su Xiaoqiang knew she was in the wrong and immediately switched tactics: she took Lu Mingfei's hand, bit her pink lips, and looked up at him coquettishly, saying, "Mingfei, I know I was wrong. Please reconsider... Wenwen and I both have to participate in the competition tomorrow!"

If someone had told Lu Mingfei six months ago that Su Xiaoqiang, that arrogant and haughty little fairy, would one day hold his hand like this and use such a voice that could melt a person's bones to act coquettishly towards him... he would have definitely scoffed and thought the other person was joking.

Just look at the present...

What have you done to my little fairy?

However, this contrast between being arrogant and aloof on the surface, but occasionally lowering her pride and speaking softly and coquettishly, is quite endearing to Lu Mingfei... There are probably very few guys who can resist this kind of contrast, right?
Of course, Lu Mingfei was just trying to scare Su Xiaoqiang. After all, the little fairy was right; she and Wenwen would be participating in the 4x800m semi-finals and finals tomorrow.

If I take them out for ice cream tonight, their class will probably have to forfeit their competition tomorrow. The "punishment" for the little fairy won't start until at least tomorrow night.

But Lu Mingfei certainly wouldn't let the little fairy off so easily... He needed to think of a way to let her know the price of making jokes about him.

As he was thinking this, his gaze inadvertently swept over the audience on the sidelines and he noticed that everyone's eyes were focused on him and the little fairy. He realized that the scene of the little fairy acting cute towards him had been seen by everyone.

He thought about it for a moment, and an even worse idea popped into his mind. He turned to look at the little fairy.

"I'll think about it... It's not impossible. But you have to kiss me, little fairy."

"Huh?" Su Xiaoqiang was clearly taken aback.

If it's just a simple act of affection towards Lu Mingfei, then it's not a big deal.

After all, the two of them are now living under the same roof. Every day is filled with morning kisses and evening... cough cough. Good morning kisses and good night kisses have long been a daily routine for them.

But the problem is... in front of so many people?

If Su Xiaoqiang remembered correctly, the last time she kissed Lu Mingfei in public was on Christmas Eve, when she, Lu Mingfei, and Liu Miaomiao were on a date.

But that time it was outside the school, and it was Christmas Eve with an ambiguous atmosphere. There were couples like them on the street, and no one knew them, so they kissed.

But now they are at the sports meet of Shilan Middle School, surrounded by classmates! Although they are not acquaintances, they are all people who know them! The situation is completely different!

Su Xiaoqiang timidly looked around... Why were all those eyes still fixed on her?

She felt her cheeks start to burn.

"or……"

Su Xiaoqiang gently bit her lip, trying to compromise with Lu Mingfei's previous suggestion, "Mingfei, let's go back to the literary society first..."

Although Lu Mingfei's passionate kisses always made her legs weak, at least the literary club was a private space where outsiders wouldn't see them!
Lu Mingfei shook his head and pointed to the pole vault competition area: "No, Erii is about to go on stage. If you really don't want to, little fairy... then forget it."

"Wait!" Su Xiaoqiang exclaimed immediately, "I didn't say I didn't want to! Then, how about just a kiss on the cheek...?"

Lu Mingfei grinned mischievously: "No way! A kiss on the cheek shows no sincerity at all."

"Ahhh!"

Knowing she was doomed, Su Xiaoqiang steeled her resolve, gritted her teeth, and said, "I understand! Mingfei, turn around! Don't move your hands!"

After saying this, the little fairy turned around, closed her eyes, stood on tiptoe, and wrapped her arms around Lu Mingfei's neck. Then, amidst countless gazes around them, she kissed Lu Mingfei with overwhelming momentum and disregard for everyone else.

……

The boys watching nearby had no idea what had happened to Lu Mingfei.

Just watching Lu Mingfei and Su Xiaoqiang chatting happily, Su Xiaoqiang shyly took Lu Mingfei's hand and snuggled up to him, acting coquettishly.

The Little Fairy's reputation was already well-known. Back in junior high, boys who tried to pursue her knew she was not someone to be trifled with. There was even a popular post on the Shilan Middle School forum titled "Is Su Xiaoqiang in her first year really that arrogant? She never looks people in the eye when she walks."

Su Xiaoqiang is the most beautiful school beauty, that's a given; but she's also not as easy to get along with as Liu Miaomiao and Chen Wenwen, that's also a given.

But now, they actually saw this legendary, arrogant and haughty young lady of heaven being pleading with Lu Mingfei with tears in her eyes... Is this still the little celestial maiden Su Xiaoqiang they know?

Everyone says love has the power to change people. But Su Xiaoqiang and Lu Mingfei have only been together for a short time, how could they have changed so much?
Although everyone had already heard the news that Lu Mingfei had broken up with Liu Miaomiao and was now with Su Xiaoqiang, seeing the adorable Su Xiaoqiang acting all cute and charming towards Lu Mingfei still made everyone grit their teeth with envy, jealousy, and hatred… They all thought, "What makes Lu Mingfei so special?!"
Even Su Xiaoqiang's best friend and Lu Mingfei's ex-girlfriend, Liu Miaomiao, were right next to them. Didn't these two even plan to avoid them?
Before they could even process the shock of the previous round, they saw Su Xiaoqiang release Lu Mingfei's hand, and then the two of them turned around together to face each other.

Everyone was stunned for a moment.
The same thought spontaneously arose in their minds.

Wait a minute, could it be... no, I shouldn't do this?!

The thought had barely formed in their minds when they saw the little fairy Su Xiaoqiang close her eyes tightly, shyly standing on tiptoe and wrapping her arms tightly around Lu Mingfei's neck.

……

With a soft "thud," pole vaulter Li Xiaoxi landed gently on the mat after clearing the obstacle.

Amidst a chorus of heartbroken screams, the referee raised his hand and declared, "Student, you've crossed the line! You need to try again."

……

(End of this chapter)