A Young Woman's Heart

"Feeling better now?"

"Hmm, there's one more. Should we give it to Wanyan?"

"...Hmm, let her wear it." The mother, who was carrying some boxes out of the fruit shop, hesitated for a moment, then nodded gently.

"Wanyan, Wanyan! Put this on quickly!" Mo Xueyao took out another pair of wool leggings and held them up in front of Li Wanyan. "They're super warm!"

"Okay, I'll put it on later."

After washing up, the two of them went to school wearing very warm wool leggings.

Mo Xueyao, dressed very warmly, even felt that the cold wind today was like a tickle. The white lambskin coat felt very comfortable to the touch, just like touching a real lamb.

"Haha, the wind isn't cold at all today!" She even felt childlike and skipped forward. Suddenly, she felt that this was too childish and that men shouldn't do this, so she stopped. But then she thought, she is a girl now, and what's wrong with girls acting cute?

So she started jumping and hopping again.

The bells on her ankles jingled crisply, making Li Wanyan unable to resist looking at the reindeer stickers pasted on the roadside shops.

To the left of the glass door is a reindeer, and to the right is Santa Claus, with a bell around the neck of each reindeer.

If Mo Xueyao is the reindeer carrying Santa Claus, then who is Santa Claus?

"Um, please, please."

"Ok?"

"Am I being too dramatic?" Mo Xueyao jumped back and asked, getting close to her. "Would a girl act like that?"

"Will do."

"Oh—uh-cough, I was actually just imitating girls' habits and stuff..." she explained, "But, acting cute like this... feels quite fun."

“This is a girl’s privilege,” Li Wanyan said softly, taking a cola candy from Mo Xueyao’s pocket and putting it in her mouth.

"Ah... being a girl is pretty good too." She looked up at the sky and sighed for a while, then hurriedly said, "Oh no, it's not that I want to be a girl, it's just that since I can only be a girl, I might as well enjoy it, right? I can't just throw a tantrum, it won't change anything anyway."

"Mm." Li Wanyan nodded, pursing her lips. "No need to explain."

"Ahem!" Mo Xueyao raised her hands in a French military salute. "Alright, alright, I surrender. I admit, I'm starting to enjoy this a little..."

"It's a good thing."

"Hmm...is that so?"

"Just like a job, you'll only keep doing it and do it better if you like it."

Mo Xueyao nodded somewhat shyly, but Li Wanyan's words did indeed make her feel much more relaxed. In fact, this was the real her. Who dares to say that a boy doesn't have a girl's heart hidden in his heart?

……

"Yinyin, stop for a moment." During morning reading time, Li Wanyan stood behind Hua Yinyin and gently patted her shoulder.

"Oh, wait a minute, Wan... the class monitor is about to give a lecture!" Hua Yinyin said with a hint of teasing.

The sound of morning reading stopped, and he stepped onto the podium: "The video game competition will start promptly at 12:00 noon today. Participating students, please go to the soccer field on the playground."

"Oh—!" Zhou Yong clenched his fist excitedly. "Hehe, Gao Yuan, don't you fail to make it into the top eight this time!"

"Heh, you think I can't get in?" Gao Yuan said coldly. "Today I'll show you my true strength!"

"Tch, you?"

These two best friends started acting silly again, making the girls around them laugh.

Actually, they like to act silly, probably to get the girls' attention.

However, it's difficult for these two lively characters, who always bring joy to others, to have girlfriends.

This is a very strange thing.

Some guys have really bad tempers, yet some women still like them...

And they're not necessarily handsome or rich.

Or perhaps it's because they are both so funny and approachable that the girls feel they have lost their mystery?

"Noon? Then I'll have to eat lunch quickly..." Mo Xueyao muttered, resting her chin on her hand, glancing occasionally at the lambskin coat hanging at the back of the classroom.

There was a row of coat racks there, which Ye Wen put there specifically for students to hang their coats.

After all, it's warm like springtime in the classroom, so those thick coats are completely unnecessary.

However, this also leads to all sorts of funny mishaps, such as wearing the wrong clothes and only realizing it when you get home to do the laundry. This is all too common.

"Xiaoyao, are you going to play a game competition at noon today?" Wang Jiale asked, resting his hand on the back of his hand.

"Yes, of course I should give it a try since I've signed up."

"Can Xiaoyao beat the boys?"

"Tsk, don't worry, I'm much better than them!"

As for whether they are much stronger or much weaker, we'll only know after the match.

Today is the first day, and it's still the preliminary round. After all, boys like games, so there are a lot of people signing up this time.

Many people also took the opportunity to play games, not necessarily to win.

In Class 2 of Grade 11 alone, more than a dozen boys signed up, which is more than half of the total.

However, not many girls signed up. Firstly, most girls didn't find it interesting, and secondly, it was probably due to a traditional view that only boys play this kind of game, and it should be played by boys. If girls played it, it would be as strange as boys playing jump rope.

That morning, almost all the boys in the class were discussing Rain Sky Brawl, a game that had seemed to have been forgotten before, but suddenly became popular again.

And after this, I'm sure I'll become even more popular, right?

I heard that Qiu Yi and his team seem to be planning to sell this game as a commercial product, so maybe it will be available in arcades all over the place...

……

Chapter 228 I'm Super Strong

Noon is the time of day when the sun is at its brightest.

There were many temporary game consoles set up on the playground. I don't know if they were all bought or if some were temporarily rented.

The first round of auditions had the most participants, with over two hundred people. Even with more than fifty machines, it took four or five rounds to complete the initial auditions.

To avoid wasting time, the preliminary rounds consist of only one game, meaning there is no best-of-three format; only one game determines the winner.

When she first sat down, Mo Xueyao was actually a little uneasy, but her opponent was too weak, so she took him down with just the simplest combo.

The competition proceeded so quickly that over two hundred people were soon reduced to just sixty-four.

The bell for the indoor lunch break rang.

As the number of people decreased, the scene immediately became less chaotic. Mo Xueyao was a little excited because she knew that she was about to meet some truly skilled people.

Most of the people I've encountered before were just there to join in the fun.

"Damn it!" Liu Xiaowei was also one of those eliminated. Actually, he could have made it to the main competition, but he ran into Zhou Yong and was eliminated. Right now, he was standing next to Zhou Yong, cursing loudly, "Damn it! Why am I so unlucky to run into a bastard like you!"

"Oh well, what can you do when you're unlucky?" Zhou Yong chuckled. "You know, luck is also a part of ability!"

"Exactly, look at me, I advanced, didn't I?" Gao Yuan put his arm around Zhou Yong's shoulder, deliberately trying to annoy him. "Look at me, I didn't encounter any particularly strong opponents, that's what strength is all about!"

"Your sister!"

Aside from spitting to the side, Liu Xiaowei didn't know what else to say.

This is the first time Yukong High School has held a video game competition. The competition system is still not perfect. It is inevitable that some obviously strong people will be eliminated early, and it is also inevitable that some people will cheat their way into the main competition.

The main problem is the lack of time; even though it's split into two days, it still feels very rushed.

All the preliminary rounds of the competition will have to be kept as simple as possible.

"How many finalists will be selected today?" someone asked Qiu Yi, who was acting as a referee.

“The top 32.” Qiu Yi gestured a number.

"Go for it, Xiaoyao." Wang Jiale, who hadn't gone to the band room today but had come down to watch with Hua Yinyin, winked at her. "Let's see if you can make it into the top 32."

"Hmph, don't worry, I'm very strong!" Mo Xueyao wrinkled her nose. "Unless I run into Zhou Yong and his group, but that doesn't mean I have no chance of winning."

"Little Yaoyao, look, this is the sketch I drew while you were playing the game. How was it?" Hua Yinyin asked excitedly, holding up the sketch paper in her hand. "It's just that there wasn't enough time, so the details aren't finished yet."

"Not bad, not bad... Let's record my heroic figure like this!"

Mo Xueyao hummed softly and sat down in front of the game console arranged by the teacher.

The referee for her was physics teacher Ye Yu.

"OK, we can start now." Ye Yu nodded, put in a game coin, and the title screen of Rain Sky Brawl on the game machine immediately jumped to the character selection screen.

"Hey, Yang Yankai, is that you?" Mo Xueyao looked at the dark-skinned boy who sat down next to her. "Oh dear, what a pity, you've run into me, you definitely can't win."

"I won't go easy on you, haha." Yang Yankai twisted his arm excitedly and nervously, then looked at the game console screen with feigned ease and said.

"Heh, do you think I need you to let me win?" Mo Xueyao raised an eyebrow. "Two rounds to finish the battle!"

In the main tournament, it will be a best-of-three format.

The dice on the character selection screen had stopped rolling, and the system then determined that Mo Xueyao would be the first to select a character.

If she wins this round, then Yang Yan will be the one to choose the team in the next round.

Momentum is very important for winning a game.

Therefore, Mo Xueyao decided to take him down in one fell swoop.

Without hesitation, she chose the versatile role of Ye Yu.

His crowbar has a medium range and can perform some ranged attacks. He also has relatively more health, making him a very useful character.

Many students like to use him, but precisely because of this, it is very difficult to select him unless you are the first person to choose.

The characters in Rain Sky Brawl are all very balanced. Although Ye Yu is a versatile character, he is not invincible. There are many characters or strategies that can counter him.

For example, the character Yang Yan chose as his second move – Yinling.

"Huh, are we using the head teacher? Even if we use her, she's no match for me!" Mo Xueyao tapped the button, trying to concentrate, but Yang Yankai next to her was a little dazed. She didn't react until after the game started and she had already taken two steps.

Wearing gold-rimmed glasses, Yinling looked much more elegant than Ye Yu, who was wielding a crowbar. Her weapon was a silver wind chime, which could emit a pale blue sound wave and a clear ringing sound with a normal attack.