Remember, if a handsome guy is crazy, he's a mad beauty; if an ugly guy is crazy, he's a plague goblin.

"So, can you give me your contact info, you know, to get to know each other better?" the girl continued.

Lin Li: "Sorry, I don't think that's possible."

"Why not?"

Lin Li: "Do you want the low EQ or high EQ version?"

The girl, already anticipating the outcome, still wished to hear a more comforting rejection: "…High EQ."

"I'm gay."

Wang Ze's welling emotion got stuck again, and Chen Yu Ying didn't feel much better.

"…Sorry to bother you." The girl understood Lin Li's meaning and left apologetically and disappointedly.

"Sorry." Lin Li also personably shouted at her retreating figure after she left.

"Lin Li, aren't you afraid of your being gay appearing on the confession wall in a bit?" Wang Ze, with past experiences, smiled at Lin Li.

"That would just prove she's not high EQ. Any normal person should understand it's a gentle rejection. If I get posted, I'll just clarify. Come on, let's go to the check-in."

...

In the afternoon.

As expected, we advanced from the morning's prelims. After looking at the specific scores of the 20 classes, even with Lin Li holding back, Class 4 ranked fourth, but it wasn't far from first. The scores of the four classes were very close.

Short distance racing isn't like long distance; you can't control the results precisely. Plus, there's always someone recording the races, and with one wrong move, you might get clipped out, so Lin Li couldn't go all out.

And there's good news: in the morning, Lin Li specifically paid attention to the senior year's prelims, and that formidable sports student imagined to break two school records, his class didn't even make it to the finals.

Thus, the extra task reward should be a sure thing. However, it hasn't settled itself yet; probably have to wait until after the finals or the school sports festival ends.

Lin Li returned to the class base.

"Another confession?" Wang Ze looked up and asked.

——Lin Li had been called away just now, not just arrived.

Moreover, several girls or their friends had already come looking for Lin Li since this morning.

"Yeah." Lin Li nodded.

"How did you answer this time?"

"She chose the low EQ version, so I said, 'Got it, have her go back and wait for notification.'

"Damn, are you becoming the HR now?" Wang Ze laughed and cursed.

"Damn, some die of thirst while others drown in water. That girl just now was pretty good-looking, and you just rejected her outright like that? Lin Li, how could you!" Wang Ze then felt heartbroken, "If my senior looked like that, I'd be more than satisfied."

"Well, look on the bright side, maybe she is your senior." Lin Li comforted him.

Wang Ze: "?"

"How is that looking on the bright side? If she really is, she'd be an overlord of the seas, and I'd just be a spare tire among spare tires, right?"

"Lin Li, rejected another one?" Ding Sihan teased at this moment too.

"That's right."

"How many have you turned down today alone?"

"Four."

In the span of a day, having four girls daring enough to reach out was quite a lot already.

"Why reject them? Wang Ze's right, weren't some of them pretty cute?" Ding Sihan elongated his tone, slowly smiling and asking.

Lin Li chuckled lightly, then looked at Ding Sihan with deep affection in his eyes: "Because I'm waiting for you."

Ding Sihan: "?"

"I'm waiting for the day you confess to me, Xiaodingding." Lin Li reinforced.

Ding Sihan snapped out of his stupor, then somewhat bashfully hid behind Chen Yu Ying beside him, 'shyly' saying to Lin Li: "Lin Li, I, I... I like you..."

"Alright! That's the fifth one now."

Lin Li snapped his fingers, his gaze turning from deep affection to that of a hunter, contentedly heading to his seat, giving a nod of satisfaction: "This number just feels so much nicer, thank you, Xiaodingding."

The class base was silent at first, then burst into laughter.

Though speculated, Ding Sihan still angrily stood up and started chasing after Lin Li: "So all this waiting was just to reject me!"

"Actually not rejecting you, just purely insulting you," Lin Li teased.

"Ying Bao, when I take my prison photo, do you think it looks better if I'm holding my ID information board like this, or like this?" Ding Sihan stopped his pursuit, consulting Chen Yu Ying on his photography choices.

Lin Li: "?"

Bu Hao, Dingsihan is ready to become a prison girl, so Lin Li ran even faster.

After running in a circle, ditching Ding Sihan who confessed to him, Lin Li came back to sit in Ding Sihan's seat.

"Class leader, I'm requisitioning this seat; you sit next to me. If anyone else wants to find me, they probably won't have the courage now." Lin Li leaned back lazily and said.

"Then go ahead and sit," said Chen Yu Ying with a chuckle, while looking at her variety show.

Lin Li glanced at the phone screen on the table, so he reached out his hand, and Chen Yu Ying knowingly placed one of her earphones into his hand.

The finally arrived Ding Sihan: "?"

"What about me?"

Wang Yuezhi walked by at this moment, with a bulging round object in his left pocket, inexplicably attracting Ding Sihan.

It felt like... something was calling him.

...

"Go! Go! Go!"

"Charge!"

Amidst the cheering and shouting on both sides of the track, Wang Ze as the fourth runner crossed the finish line, clinching first place.

[Do your best... at least two qualified races (3/1; 3/2)]

"Whoa!"

Wang Ze pounded his chest, charged towards Lin Li, who ran the first leg, already back at the finish line, and gave a strong high-five.

Lin Li still didn't give it his all, his speed was only half a second faster than in the morning.

But after finishing his leg, Lin Li manipulated the wind to boost everyone's speed. Plus, the gap with first place wasn't big, and they seemed to have exploded with potential. Winning first place was no surprise.

The task still wasn't completed; it seems they indeed need to wait for the school sports festival to fully conclude.

"Seems like we're overall first too? Even if the second-place girls' 4x100 won first place, they wouldn't surpass us." said Wang Ze excitedly after gulping down half a bottle of water.

Class 4's girls' relay didn't make it to the finals, so Class 4 has completed all its events in this year's sports day.

But after clinching first, the gap with the second widened to a point where even breaking records couldn't surpass us.

"Seems so." So Lin Li smiled and nodded.

"Class 4, Class 4——" Wang Ze raised a hand and shouted loudly.

Silence.

The girls initially didn't react, while among the boys, Lin Li, Bai Bufan, and the others didn't respond; Zhou Baowei, who was about to speak, was silenced by Bai Bufan covering his mouth.

"..."

"..."

Wang Ze: "..."

Damn, it's embarrassing with no response.

These animals.

"Please, someone respond! Bro, just one response! Let's be a bit more youthful and spirited, don't leave me hanging like this…" Wang Ze gritted his teeth and pleaded with those around him.

"Let's do it again." Looking at Wang Ze's awkward expression, everyone laughed heartily, and Lin Li said.

"Class 4, Class 4——" Wang Ze raised his left hand again.

"Class 4, Class 4! Class 4, Class 4! Class 4, Class 4! Class 4, Class 4!" The gathered boys finally laughed and cheered, and the girls followed suit.

At this moment, the youthful spirit and passion Wang Ze longed for resonated, echoing across the playground.

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