Chapter 949: Chapter 947: A Mom Who Dreams of Striking It Rich Every Day 49

The people at the venue all burst out laughing; they were amused that he only dared fight for second place.

The barrage was flying by at high speed.

[Can we have it so that when they win the championship in a game, Xiao Leng looks all certain and says the title can only be theirs.]

[Haha, but when it comes to grades, he can only wish for second place.]

[Hahaha, I’m going to die laughing here today.]

[The current county-wide second, third, and fourth are all trembling.]

[Can’t be helped, Coach Chen is inhuman! The first in our class placed second in the county this time. It looks like the gap is less than ten points, but to reach that level is about as hard as crossing an ocean.]

[Our class’s first place is the county’s third this time. She even told us that Coach Chen being able to maintain this level definitely doesn’t mean this is her ceiling.]

[If she wanted, she could probably get full marks, it’s just that normally there’s no need.]

[After all, to write an essay that a teacher will give full marks to, you have to pour in a lot of effort. Plus there are so many exams; are you going to do one of those every single time? When you think about it, it’s really unnecessary.]

Far away across the screen, Pei Chen was quietly watching all this.

This time his grades still weren’t bad: third in class, fourth in the grade, tenth in the county.

Anyone else would definitely be grinning from ear to ear.

But seeing An Chen and Jian Mo pressed on top of his head, he was unwilling.

"Standing up there that high, acting all arrogant and pleased with themselves—they’ll fall down sooner or later, and that’s when it’ll be fun to watch. Getting these results now is only because they’re still in Year One. Soon they’ll be in Year Two; it won’t be so easy. How can you split your focus and still study well? They’ll crash and burn sooner or later," Wei Lilan said. She no longer flew into a rage at her son for losing to An Chen and Jian Mo. As long as it involved An Chen, she just felt this fear rise up from inside and couldn’t help shrinking back.

She didn’t know what was going on and didn’t think too hard about it.

Although she didn’t lay hands on Pei Chen over his grades this time, his pressure was no less. To get his marks up, Wei Lilan had come up with who knows how many methods, even asking around for various folk remedies, as if possessed.

Lately, Pei Chen had been eating all kinds of weird things, supposedly to "boost his brain."

Wei Lilan even watched over him as he ate; he couldn’t throw anything away even if he wanted to. And with her going on and on about how it could help his brain, he couldn’t help feeling a bit hopeful too.

In this tournament, apart from facing Wuji, Canglan still hadn’t 3–0’d any other team. This basically confirmed that there was bad blood between Canglan and Wuji.

No matter how suffocated Wuji Team felt, their strength was what it was; there was nothing they could do about it. If they wanted to swallow this anger, the only way was to beat Canglan.

And Canglan wasn’t their only opponent—Star Moon, Tianhe, and Wuji were all on the same level.

It was said that Star Moon and Tianhe would even train with Canglan in private. After running into them this time, they really did find both teams had improved.

It might not be entirely because of joint training, but they’d definitely learned a lot from Canglan’s usual match experience.

Because of past grudges, there was no way Canglan would proactively make friends with Wuji.

As for Wuji, they couldn’t swallow their pride enough to reach out either.

Their fanbases were also somewhat like oil and water. This kind of thing is unavoidable; most of the time it’s just flame wars online, and as long as the main parties don’t fan the flames in a bad way, it’s fine.

Time flew by, and Canglan took the championship again; nobody felt surprised.

Because it was the holidays, the commercial events they took on obviously increased.

This time, An Miao didn’t go do a summer job. Just so happened the main event was in the same city as his school, so he went over to Ah Chen’s side, finally met all the members of Canglan, and even got autographs for his roommates.

He hadn’t expected that during Canglan Team’s fan meeting, his roommate would actually come, so running into each other was pretty much inevitable.

Only then did An Miao’s roommates find out that this "Coach Chen" was actually their roommate’s younger sister, and they all went, "Damn."

Once the matches and all sorts of events wrapped up, Ah Chen and the others went back to their usual routine of studying, training, and occasionally streaming for fun.

Fame really did bring a lot of changes to their lives.

When you’re reaping fame and fortune, temptations multiply; plenty of people want to find all kinds of ways to profit off them.

Some people came to borrow money, to hang out, or to pitch "investments."

After what happened with Xu Yue from Ah Chen’s village, now whenever they heard the word "investment," everyone couldn’t help shaking their heads and turning it down flat.

Besides, with Ah Chen watching over them, she didn’t want any of them to slip up, and those with bad intentions never got their way.

The members of Canglan were basically kids who became famous young. To keep them from getting cocky and forgetting their own weight, Ah Chen had already given them plenty of "society lessons." She’d also reminded them that even if they had money, if they needed to make some big purchase, it was best to let her know and get a second opinion.

If they didn’t listen, she actually wouldn’t meddle too much.

They were Jian Mo’s teammates—she didn’t want anything to happen to them. As long as they behaved themselves a bit, she’d also help them stay on this path longer and smoother. For example, that set of exercises she’d taught them and had them do at set times every day could effectively prevent tenosynovitis from playing games too long.

It was just that no one else noticed.

In this line of work, after a long enough time, most people developed tenosynovitis; Ah Chen had thought of this long ago.

If they really didn’t listen and something happened because of their own choices later on, and if Jian Mo still wanted to stay on stage and chase his dreams, she could always pick suitable teammates for him to continue with.

Luckily, everyone in Canglan had immense respect for Ah Chen. Whatever she said, they just followed without thinking, each one behaving like a model child.

There were also those who tried to exploit their youthful crushes, hoping to profit off them that way.

But they practically lived and ate together; any stir would be noticed, so nothing major was likely to happen.

Ma Xuan really had almost started dating an obscure little internet celeb. While they were chatting, she kept coaxing him into sending red packets, ordering takeout for her, and buying gifts. At first, he felt that if you’re dating a girl, sending some red packets wasn’t a big deal. But the other side only took benefits and said nothing else—she didn’t send a single gift back, not even pay for one takeout. That sobered him up quickly.

Then he looked at how their boss and coach interacted, shivered, and inexplicably thought of Teacher Xiao Qi’s terrifying side. So he asked Teacher Xiao Qi to help dig up this little internet celeb’s online history. One search and, sure enough, they found out she was a professional at stringing guys along and farming gold. She’d even complained in a big group chat that he was stupid, rich, and easy to fleece.

Ma Xuan, who had thought he was about to start a relationship, instantly deflated.

"Spending money when dating a girl is fine. If she’s here for your money and you can accept that, it’s still your call—after all, you’re after something too. But when someone’s sole aim is to scam money, you have to be on your guard," Shen Xiaoju said. "Anyway, I still suggest you not be so casual about relationships. If you’ll date just anyone, then at least pick someone decent. Both sides taking it seriously is the only way it’s not a waste. If it’s half-hearted, insincere, just messing around, toying with people—sooner or later, that’s going to come back to bite you."

"Being promiscuous isn’t fun."

Like that little internet celeb—for 997 to find out she specialized in scamming money, it meant that some of the people she’d scammed in the past had already gone to cause trouble for her. Right now she was too busy looking after her own mess.

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