FWF Chapter 909: Xiao Chong Extra Story 16_2
Chapter 909: Xiao Chong Extra Story 16_2
Seeing him happy, doing homework together happy, learning martial arts with him happy, having late-night snacks together even happier.
He is the first person in so many years for whom no matter how long she spent time with, it never felt enough.
After silently looking in the mirror for a while, Lin Wanwan returned to her room and dramatically pulled open the curtains that she had closed out of a tiff when she learned about the price.
Opposite her, Xiao Chong looked over in response, his eyes seemingly containing a vast starry sky, instantly illuminating Lin Wanwan.
His study had no curtains, in the freezing weather, the window was even open — everything was in plain view.
As long as Lin Wanwan looked, she could easily see him, with nothing to hide, as if he was always waiting there.
Xiao Chong got up from his desk, walked to the window, and smiled at Lin Wanwan: "It really suits you."
"Seems like it."
Lin Wanwan lowered her head, eyes downcast, flicked the strands of hair by her ear, her snow-white face gradually blushing under Xiao Chong’s gaze, extraordinarily captivating on this first snowy night.
The two didn’t speak further, at this moment, silence was more eloquent than words.
After Christmas Eve, the relationship between Lin and Xiao noticeably grew closer, it could be described as rapidly advancing.
At school, to avoid trouble, they pretended not to know each other well, but back in their neighborhood, not only did they have dinner together, but they also did homework together.
When Lin’s grandfather was home, they did homework at the dining table on the first floor of Lin Wanwan’s house; when he wasn’t, they moved over to Xiao Chong’s study to work.
After all, his home had a spacious desk and chairs, books and a computer convenient for reference, and tasty late-night snacks.
The first time Xiao Chong led her into his master bedroom, Lin Wanwan’s heartbeat shot up to 180, even imagining inappropriate scenes.
But fortunately, the first thing through the door was not a bed, but a clean, simple walk-in closet; the real bedroom was to the south, and to the north were an en suite bathroom and a study with large floor-to-ceiling bookshelves.
Unlike the attic study filled mostly with "wild books," the books in this built-in study were either essential readings of classic and modern literature for middle school students, or various scientific magazines, tool books, textbooks, reference books, even many college-level textbooks.
Xiao Chong said these books were placed here by his parents, but Lin Wanwan always felt he had already studied the college content within them.
The more Lin Wanwan interacted with Xiao Chong, the more mysterious she found him.
Because he was like an encyclopedia, knowing and capable of everything.
Lin Wanwan thought: Did he start reading and learning from the womb, without eating or sleeping, to have so much knowledge and skill?
Sometimes his gaze was like an abyss, sometimes like a clear spring.
Lin Wanwan really couldn’t understand Xiao Chong; she felt pure as a blank sheet in front of him.
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In mid-January, the school’s basketball team was going to Hai City to participate in a one-week national traditional schools basketball league (high school division) men’s competition in 2014.
As the star player of the team, Xiao Chong certainly couldn’t be absent.
Even though the match time was close to final exams, it couldn’t affect his participation.
If the basketball team wasn’t strong, they wouldn’t really have to play back-to-back for a week, because the national competition followed an elimination system, with eight teams being eliminated in the first round.
Among the sixteen participating teams from across the country, only Yongcheng Seventh Middle School had entered this national event for the first time; the others were all traditional strong teams.
Like the hosting team Dan Dan Affiliated Middle School’s basketball team, Shuimu Affiliated Middle School’s basketball team, etc., where players were mostly specially recruited sports students, inevitably heading toward a professional basketball path.
Whereas Yongcheng Seventh Middle School’s basketball team members were purely amateurs, even the coach, who also served as a sports teacher who trained in discus at university.
From top to bottom, the team was notably unprofessional.
Hence, even with Xiao Chong’s astonishing basketball talent as the ace, the school leadership didn’t have high hopes for the team’s future, thinking it would be a short run, after all, basketball is a five-person game!
But unexpectedly, this team, led by one star and carrying four burdens, broke through all obstacles, reaching the semifinals and becoming the biggest dark horse of this competition!
The semifinal opponent was the last champion, a traditional powerhouse, and the host team this time, Dan Dan Affiliated Middle School’s basketball team.
As the team’s core and cerebral command on the court, Xiao Chong became famous overnight.
His exceptional basketball intelligence and elusive passing skills, along with his clutch-time unpredictability, were sharp weapons cutting through obstacles.