I don't want to fall in love, I just want to get rewards

Chapter 162 Billiards, Ambiguity

After dinner, the group of four took the elevator in the mall to the billiard court on the sixth floor.

Chen Che had never been to such a place before, and this was the first time he knew that there were such things as private rooms in a billiard hall.

The room is about 40 square meters, with a pool table on one side and a sofa, coffee table and TV on the other.

"You guys play first, I have something to talk to Xiaoxiao." Qin Nan said with a smile, then pulled Han Xiao towards the small balcony.

Although Han Xiao's face was cold, he did not resist and was half-pushed and half-pushed by Qin Nan.

As for Chen Che...

Perhaps because I drank too much water while eating, I felt the urge to urinate, so I went to the small toilet in the private room and relieved myself quickly.

After washing his hands, he pushed the door open and went out. Looking at the scene outside the door, Chen Che couldn't help laughing.

At this moment, Gu Qingyao was the only one at the table, and her batting movements were really funny.

He was clearly hitting the ball, but Chen Che somehow thought of Runtu stabbing the wild boar...

Gu Qingyao's movements were so awkward and stiff, and coupled with the serious expression on her face, she looked particularly funny.

Chen Che paused for a moment, then couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"What are you laughing at?"

Hearing the laughter, Gu Qingyao couldn't help but turned her head and looked at Chen Che with eyes as sharp as small knives. But within two seconds she started laughing too.

"Come on, come on, you are smiling so happily, you must be very good at playing." Gu Qingyao smiled and handed the club to Chen Che, saying with a smile: "Play a few balls to open my eyes."

"Okay, then I'll let you open your eyes." Chen Che took the pole with a swagger, not at all nervous.

Although it was his first time in a billiard hall, and even his first time touching a cue, he still got a master-level billiard when he raised Wen Ning's favorability to 80.

As soon as he gripped the club, Chen Che's body produced a muscle reaction. After taking a deep breath, he bent down and got into position.

At this moment, the balls on the table had been scattered by Gu Qingyao, but none of them went in, and there were still 16 balls on the table.

The rules of Chinese eight-ball are very simple. There are 16 balls on the table, one cue ball, seven fancy balls, seven solid color balls and one number eight ball.

After you have hit all the fancy or solid-color balls into the hole by hitting the cue ball, you can hit the eight ball.

Chen Che took a quick look and found that the distribution of colored balls and solid color balls was similar, so he didn't think much about it and directly chose the solid color balls.

"boom."

Chen Che hit the ball very cleanly, and every time he hit the ball, a pure-colored ball would fall into the hole.

After seven strokes, there are no pure-colored balls left on the table.

Chen Che aimed at the last ball, number eight, and without hesitation, he hit the club based on his body's instinctive feeling.

"boom."

Without any accidents, the eight ball fell steadily.

"How is it?" Chen Che straightened up and blinked at Gu Qingyao.

"It's OK, just average." Gu Qingyao turned her head away, pretending to be reluctant, "You're just a little bit better than me, there's no need to pretend."

"What do you mean I'm just a little bit better than you? I remember you took four or five shots and didn't make a single goal, but I can clear the table with one shot." Chen Che teased with a smile.

"Oh, what's there to talk about in the past?" Gu Qingyao picked up another club, leaned down excitedly, and urged: "Quick, quick, Teacher Chen, teach me how to play."

"Teacher Chen is just Teacher Chen. Why call him Little Teacher Chen?" Chen Che muttered, then walked behind Gu Qingyao.

"Bend the back of your hand, spread your fingers apart, don't stick them together, and then place your thumb against your index finger."

Gu Qingyao made the hand support according to Chen Che's instructions, but there was a problem at the last step where the thumb touched the index finger.

Every time she did this movement, her five fingers would stick together and she didn't know what was going on.

"Separate your fingers and don't move." Chen Che didn't say much. He just went straight to work and put Gu Qingyao's thumb on his index finger.

Gu Qingyao was still waving her hands, but she didn't expect Chen Che to take action directly. The moment that warm big hand touched her palm, a special feeling instantly surged into her body.

This feeling is very strange, like a cold drink in the hot summer, or like a bonfire in the winter, giving people an inexplicable feeling of nostalgia and dependence.

Gu Qingyao said nothing and just pretended nothing happened.

When a girl does not show any resistance to physical contact, a guy with some experience will try to move the relationship forward, but only a virgin will pull his hand back as if he had been electrocuted.

In order to prevent Gu Qingyao's left hand from moving around, Chen Che gently held her hand down, while holding the club with his right hand, he raised the club and said:
"Then lift the pole and place it on the V-groove of the hand stand." Chen Che helped Gu Qingyao get into position and said softly.

The postures of the two people were very ambiguous at the moment. Although only their hands were touching each other, if you stood a little further away, you could see that Chen Che was almost pressing on Gu Qingyao.

Even the hot breath he exhaled when he spoke could brush against her earlobes.

A stream of moist hot air blew on Gu Qingyao's earlobes. She felt her face slightly hot and her thoughts were in a mess. She didn't even know what she was thinking about.

……

On the balcony.

"I was really wrong this time. I won't do this again next time." Qin Nan coaxed Han Xiao gently, trying to resolve the few dissatisfactions in her heart. "I'll go back and buy you your favorite cake. Don't be angry, okay?"

Han Xiao had been almost coaxed by now, and was thinking about what to say, when his peripheral vision suddenly caught a glimpse of the scene on the pool table.

"Oh shit." She couldn't help but let out a soft cry, then subconsciously raised her phone to take a picture.

Qin Nan was stunned by her reaction, and turned his head as well, and then...

"Fuck." He also raised his phone.

……

After helping Gu Qingyao score three goals, Chen Che took the initiative to let go of her hand, straightened his body, and took two steps back.

"Come on, you play alone from now on and see if you can get in."

Feeling the warm touch leaving her body, Gu Qingyao felt a little disappointed. She took a deep breath, stopped herself from thinking about other things, and then hit the ball.

"boom."

I don’t know what happened, but this ball was quite disappointing and was still quite a distance away from the solid-colored ball that was her original target.

"I..." Gu Qingyao straightened up and was about to say something, but saw Han Xiao walking towards her excitedly, waving his cell phone as he walked, his lips opening and closing silently, and no one knew what he was saying.

Before Gu Qingyao could react, Han Xiao had already pulled her to the balcony, his eyes full of eagerness, as if the word "gossip" was written in his eyes.

"What's wrong? You're so startled." Gu Qingyao looked at Han Xiao who was organizing his words and said with a smile, "Are you reconciled?"

"We've made up... No, we haven't made up yet." Han Xiao waved his hand, grabbed Gu Qingyao's sleeve, and said, "My relationship with Qin Nan is not important now. When did you two get together? You did a great job keeping it a secret. I've been eating and living with you for the past two days, and I didn't notice anything unusual."

Gu Qingyao: “?”

After a moment of silence...

"What are you talking about?" Gu Qingyao opened her eyes wide, as if she didn't hear clearly what Han Xiao had just said.

"Don't play dumb, you can't fool me." Han Xiao snorted and laughed, "I knew you would deny it, so I even took a picture of the evidence."

After saying that, she picked up her phone, opened the album, and showed the first photo in it to Gu Qingyao.

Gu Qingyao looked relaxed and unconcerned at first, but when she saw the photo, she was stunned.

In the photo, the boy is holding the girl's left hand and holding the golf club with his right hand, and the two of them are almost stuck together.

The angle and composition of the photo are quite exquisite, showing the ambiguous and charming atmosphere between men and women vividly.

Especially the appearance and temperament of the male and female protagonists in the photo are quite rare, which makes this photo more polished. Anyone who looks at it will think that the two people in the photo are a perfect match.

"My photos are really good. If there is a photography competition with an ambiguous theme and I submit this photo, I will suspect there is something fishy going on if I don't win first prize."

Han Xiao sighed twice, then looked at Gu Qingyao with an expression that said "what excuses do you have?"

"I...how could this happen?" Gu Qingyao herself was a little confused.

Although she had noticed that the atmosphere between the two was a little strange when they were learning billiards just now, she didn't expect that from a third-party perspective, the level of ambiguity between them had reached this point.

Could it be that those involved are often confused, while those who are watching can see things more clearly... Gu Qingyao thought so in her heart, but looking at Han Xiao's expression, she felt a little embarrassed to admit it, so she said stubbornly:
"For someone like you who only thinks about love, you can only see ambiguity in this photo. But what I see in this photo is me studying hard."

"Huh?" Han Xiao turned over his phone and looked at it carefully several times, but he couldn't see how this photo had any study atmosphere.

Gu Qingyao had calmed down by now and was no longer at a loss as before. She continued, "You really think too much. I just didn't know how to play billiards, so Chen Che helped me teach it."

"Come on, it's only been a few minutes. How can you teach billiards like this? If you play it for a few hours today, you will end up on the sheets." Han Xiao curled his lips and said unhappily.

"Se Se, da Mei." Gu Qingyao crossed her hands in front of her chest, made a "forbidden" gesture, and then changed the subject.

"Okay, okay, don't worry about me and Chen Che. Everything will work out when the time comes. Today's main task is about you and Qin Nan. How is it going? Have you reconciled?"

"That's about right." Now it was Han Xiao's turn to feel embarrassed. She pulled Gu Qingyao forward and said as she walked, "Let's not talk about this anymore. They seem to be going to fight. Let's go over and take a look."

"A fight between the two of them?" Gu Qingyao nodded calmly as if she had thought of something, then took out her cell phone and started recording.

"Why did you start recording?" Han Xiao was puzzled.

"You don't understand. Chen Che is very good at billiards." After Gu Qingyao answered, she added, "By the way, send me the photo you just took."

Han Xiao: “…”

……

"Tsk tsk tsk, that's great, a very capable person." Qin Nan gave Chen Che a thumbs up and said with emotion: "They got together without making any noise. If Han Xiao and I were not here today, tsk tsk tsk tsk..."

"Stop tut-tutting." Chen Che handed the pole over and asked, "Want a try?"

"Okay, let me tell you in advance that I've been hanging out in the billiard hall a lot this month, so be careful." Qin Nan took the cue and continued, "You want to tee off?"

"Okay, I'll shoot." Chen Che nodded, then leaned down, checked the angle, and hit the ball out.

"boom."

Chen Che's touch on this ball was quite good. Even from the perspective of master-level billiards, this ball could be considered an exceptional performance.

Sure enough, accompanied by several dull sounds, the billiard balls scattered in different directions, and some of them fell directly into the hole.

"Fuck." Qin Nan couldn't help but swear. While swallowing his saliva, he carefully counted how many billiard balls had been hit into the hole.

It would have been fine if he hadn't counted, but when he did, Qin Nan was shocked.

With one tee shot, he actually hit six balls into the hole...

"Awesome, awesome." Qin Nan gave a thumbs up and exclaimed, "You didn't spend all three years of high school in the billiard hall, did you? With this level of tee shot, you can become a professional. No, you are the best among all the professionals."

"Not bad, not bad." Chen Che said politely, but the smile on his face didn't show any humility at all.

After taking a quick look, he found that four pure-color balls had been scored and two fancy-color balls had been scored. Chen Che was not going to increase the difficulty for himself and said, "I'll choose the pure-color balls."

After saying that, he bent down, adjusted the angle, and hit the ball with a "bang".

After finishing the stroke, stand up and find the right position again.

After repeating this four times, there were no pure-colored balls left on the table, and even the eight ball had been hit into the hole.

"Clear the table with one shot, I give in." Qin Nan originally wanted to have a competition, but now...

This is more like a hammer...

Qin Nan was quite clear about the gap between the two. He was at most a good player among ordinary people, but with Chen Che's level, playing Chinese eight-ball was a waste of talent...

The two of them played a few more games together. Qin Nan also wanted to try to clear the table with one shot, but due to his limited strength and bad luck, he failed to clear a single game after playing three games.

Just as the two were planning to play the next round, Han Xiao trotted over excitedly, snatched the club from Qin Nan's hand, and said excitedly: "Let me play a few rounds."

"Okay, okay, go ahead and play." Qin Nan nodded, then took out a cigarette and walked to the balcony, ready to satisfy his craving for a cigarette.
"I'll come with you?" Chen Che looked at Han Xiao who was in high spirits, then pointed at Gu Qingyao and asked, "Or should she come with you?"

"It must be Yaoyao who plays with me. What other experience can I have if I play with you?" Han Xiao said confidently, then looked at Gu Qingyao and urged: "Yaoyao, come here quickly, let's play chicken fight."

"I'm not a rookie!" Gu Qingyao smiled and took the golf club handed to her by Chen Che.

"Come on, don't think I haven't seen you hit the ball at first. It's no different from Runtu hitting the ball."

……

Chen Che originally planned to watch the billiards match between two girls, but after watching for a while, he started to feel sleepy.

It's so boring...

To summarize the match between these two people, it can be said that...

Han Xiao hit the ball but missed, so Gu Qingyao took over.

Gu Qingyao hit the ball but missed, so Han Xiao took over.

It's just a bunch of noobs fighting each other...

Chen Che felt that if he continued to watch, his eyes would be polluted, so he sat down on the sofa and leisurely played with his phone.

Time passed by unknowingly. It was getting late and everyone had had enough fun, so they left the billiard hall and prepared to go home.

Han Xiao and Gu Qingyao took a Didi. Chen Che and Qin Nan's home was not far away, so they simply walked home.

……

Gu Qingyao lay on the bed, her fingers casually flipping through the photos in the album, finally stopping at the one that was taken in the billiard hall today.

For some reason, the more she looked at the photo, the more satisfied she felt. She even felt a little bit of joy in her heart that she was not aware of.

"He's so good at billiards, he must have gone to the billiard hall a lot in high school." She murmured softly as she looked at the photo.

Gu Qingyao also has a stereotype. In her opinion, nine out of ten high school students who go to the billiard hall every day are little hooligans.

Gu Qingyao was somewhat annoyed with those hooligans who acted like hooligans, did nothing every day, and would fight and harass girls from time to time, and she always ignored this group of people.

But when she thought that Chen Che might have been a little hooligan in high school, Gu Qingyao not only couldn't feel disgust, but she couldn't help but imagine what he looked like in high school...

Dyed yellow hair, earrings, tight pants, riding a will-o'-the-wisp every day...

Adding the above factors to Chen Che, Gu Qingyao pondered for a moment, and then she couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Yaoyao, what are you laughing at?" Han Xiao, who had just finished taking a shower, walked into the bedroom while drying his hair, and just happened to see Gu Qingyao smiling.

Gu Qingyao was thinking about what Chen Che would look like if he was a gangster. Besides, she was already very familiar with Han Xiao, so she was not too wary. So she blurted out:
"I see Chen Che is such a good billiard player. Maybe he was a gangster in high school. I wonder what he was like as a gangster?"

"Oh..." Han Xiao stretched out his tone and said in an ambiguous tone: "So you are thinking about men."

"Go away, go away. Everything you say has a different taste." Gu Qingyao slapped Han Xiao's thigh in annoyance.

"That's obviously what you think... You're angry because of shame, right?... Don't, don't pinch my face... I was wrong."

After laughing and playing for a while, Han Xiao was defeated and begged for mercy.

only……

Han Xiao lay down on the bed, looked at Gu Qingyao, and said meaningfully:
"Yaoyao, haven't you noticed that when you chat with me, you mention Chen Che more and more frequently?"

(End of this chapter)