Just One Step Away

"What are the club coaches good for? I remember the head coach, Liu Yu, was once a national-level coach. How could the people she trained not even be able to handle Zhou En?"

"Do you know the consequences if Zhou En defeats Li Hui in the official team selection match with this kind of strength?"

"Now, immediately, go have Coach Liu Yu train Li Hui one-on-one. Make sure he defeats Zhou En in the selection match."

The Principal, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, unleashed a barrage of words like a machine gun.

Leng Yanxi couldn't help but let out a wry smile and said with some helplessness, "Daddy, today is the selection match for the official team members."

The Principal's brows furrowed tightly upon hearing this. To be honest, the aging Principal was already struggling to manage these trivial matters.

"Then find a way to stop Zhou En and Li Hui from fighting. Just come up with an excuse, like Li Hui feeling unwell," the Principal said slowly after a moment of thought.

Leng Yanxi's wry smile deepened on her pretty face. She gently tilted her neck, as smooth as white jade.

"Daddy, Zhou En's match against your Li Hui is already over. Zhou En won and became one of the five official team members," Leng Yanxi said very clearly this time, fearing her father would misunderstand her again.

"What?" The Principal kicked the grand tutor's chair behind him to the ground with too much force.

His old face was filled with shock and disbelief.

Seeing the Principal's reaction, Leng Yanxi couldn't help but smile wryly. She herself had been stunned for a long time when she heard the news before recovering.

The last time she met Zhou E and learned that Zhou En had been expelled from school, Leng Yanxi thought Zhou En would have to silently endure his resentment. But today's events had undoubtedly slapped her hard.

Even someone as proud as she had to admit that Zhou En was indeed capable.

After his shock subsided, the Principal slowly calmed down, knowing that any attempt to salvage the situation now was futile. As a Principal of many years, he quickly realized the problems he, or rather the school, would have to face.

The Principal rubbed his temples with some pain and said, "The official team members selected this time are to be announced to the media in a week. We must reinstate Zhou En's student status before the media interview."

The Principal gestured towards Leng Yanxi with his chin and said, "Yanxi, please do me a favor and summon Zhou En to my office."

Leng Yanxi's beautiful eyes widened. She pointed a jade finger, like an onion, at herself and asked in disbelief, "Me?"

The Principal frowned, slightly displeased. "This matter should be resolved as soon as possible. You wouldn't expect your old father to run this errand himself, would you?"

Leng Yanxi stomped her jade foot in anger, saying reluctantly, "I know."

She turned and left in a huff, slamming the door shut with a bang as she exited.

Seeing this, the Principal's mouth twitched. That door of his cost tens of thousands.

In the infirmary, as Zhou En slowly opened his eyes, he saw Chubby looking at him with excitement.

Zhou En touched his head with some pain and looked around.

"No need to look, this is the infirmary," Chubby explained.

"Not bad, Zhou En, you actually beat Li Hui. You don't know, when the medical staff carried Li Hui away, they found he was actually crying. You say a grown man crying, it seems he really resents you," Chubby said, gesticulating wildly.

"Crying?" Zhou En mumbled. He also remembered that when Li Hui fell, there seemed to be a few tears in the corner of his eyes.

Zhou En shook his head and said, "Is this position of official team member really that important to Li Hui? With the Iron Blood Gang backing him, he'd do well even if he wasn't an official member, right?"

Chubby patted Zhou En, causing him to wince in pain.

"I say, Zhou En, how did he treat you back then, and you're still speaking up for him?"

Zhou En immediately raised his hands in surrender and quickly changed the subject, asking, "By the way, did Su Lin become an official team member?"

Upon hearing this, Chubby's expression became much more serious. "Since Li Hui was defeated by you, Su Lin only had to challenge the second weakest, Ling Tian. To my surprise, that guy Su Lin actually won."

"Won? So Su Lin, like me, also became an official team member of the club?"

Zhou En couldn't help but recall when he first met Su Lin. Su Lin had just joined the club, yet he could train Zhou En and Chubby, who knew nothing.

This clearly couldn't be explained by Su Lin's statement that he was just watching others train. Furthermore, when no one else could help Zhou En defeat Li Hui, Su Lin had actually come up with a solution.

This showed that Su Lin had a profound foundation in martial arts. He wasn't the novice he claimed to be.

Since Su Lin was a martial arts expert, his joining the club as a bench trainee already explained a lot.

"Su Lin was also aiming to become an official team member of the club."

Zhou En and Chubby said in unison. At the same time, they both felt some doubt: why did Su Lin specifically choose the club of this school?

As Zhou En was deep in thought, the infirmary door was suddenly pushed open.

Zhou En and Chubby looked intently.

Soft, jade-like arms, graceful and rounded, slender jade legs, slim and smooth calves, paired with delicate, smooth, fair, and tender jade-like skin and bones. She was truly elegant and graceful.

The campus beauty, Leng Yanxi.

Chubby stood there frozen, as if struck by a paralyzing spell, showing no reaction for a long time.

Zhou En's heart pounded like it had been shot by Cupid's arrow. The blood stored in his kidneys flowed entirely to the capillaries in his skin.

He coughed lightly and asked Leng Yanxi opposite him, "May I ask what business this student has with us?"

After speaking, he secretly regretted it. What a cliché way to strike up a conversation! He secretly decided he needed to study up on Baidu, otherwise, he wouldn't know what to do next time he saw her.

Leng Yanxi's delicate brows furrowed. She had come here at the Principal's request to summon him to the Principal's office, but seeing Zhou En still lying in bed, she hesitated to speak.

"Student, is there something you need?" Zhou En could only make small talk.

Leng Yanxi hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Can you get out of bed now?"

Hearing the legendary campus belle speak to him, Zhou En's heart raced even faster. He replied somewhat dismissively, "That's a minor issue. Of course, I can get out of bed and walk."

Leng Yanxi nodded, then said to Zhou En, "Then come with me now." Zhou En could already feel the murderous glare from Chubby beside him.

He coughed lightly, feigning a reserved demeanor as he asked, "May I ask where you're taking me, classmate?"

Leng Yanxi's delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly, a hint of displeasure in her voice. "Are you coming with me or not?" This was also a sign of Leng Yanxi's lack of experience interacting with boys; in the past, she would simply reject anyone who tried to chat her up.

But this time, she had taken the initiative. Now, Leng Yanxi was in a difficult situation, unable to express her frustration.

"I need to know who you are, after all. No one would just go with a stranger," Zhou En said, his mind filled with wicked thoughts, like a creepy uncle abducting a little girl.

Just one step away, only one step away, from getting her phone number, or even her QQ number would be fine.

"Leng Yanxi," she replied indifferently.

"Oh, oh, oh," Zhou En exclaimed, feigning surprise. "So it's classmate Leng Yanxi."

If Chubby were here right now, he would have asked, "What do you need from me?" or "Is there something you need?" and so on.

Then, after the campus belle finished her business, the two would never meet again, and the attempt to chat her up would have failed.