Hwaseong University, indoor training ground.
Meng Yufan, who had just finished five sets of the 100-meter round trip, took off his sweaty T-shirt and lay down on the ground in a large font.
He was hot and sweating, as if he had just been fished out of the water.
The assistant coach stood by, holding the watch in his left hand and writing down his sprint data in the notebook with a pen in his right.
"Okay, the grades are quite stable." The teaching assistant raised the corner of his mouth rarely, "Not bad, it seems that I haven't been lazy recently."
Meng Yufan hurriedly asked, "Assistant, can I be on the starting roster this season?"
The assistant coach didn't answer directly, only replied: "I can't make the starting list, I have to see what Coach Wu says."
Meng Yufan sighed in frustration, but he also knew that this matter really couldn't be rushed.
Each fall, the high-profile CUBA—aka the College Basketball League—plays its regional qualifiers.
Hwaseong University, as a super-first-class comprehensive institution in China, has ambitious leaders who aim at the basketball league championship every year. The championship team not only has huge bonuses, but also the best platform for players to show their abilities. If they perform well enough, they may get the CBA draft card, and they can play on the professional basketball team in the future!
Going a step further, you can even represent your country in the World Cup!
Which basketball teenager doesn't have a dream? Meng Yufan is only 22 years old, the golden age for a basketball player to make his debut on the court. The closer the game got, the more nervous he became.
But Hwaseong University has too many basketball talents in reserve. There are two or three places for a single-entry sports student like him every year. There are a total of ten people in their basketball team, but there are only five people in the starting lineup!
In the years since he entered the school, he has been a starter twice and a substitute twice - and according to the current league rules, each player can only participate in the league for a maximum of five years.
In other words, this year is his last chance.
Thinking of this, Meng Yufan sat up dejectedly, like a big dog that couldn't eat bones, with its tail and ears drooping, looking very pitiful.
…
At the end of today's training, the players scattered in a hurry and rushed into the locker room noisily.
A dozen or so stinky and sweaty big boys huddled in a small confined space, the smell was really terrible. It is said that the cleaning aunt who was newly employed this semester came to clean the locker room and was directly fainted by the smoke, thinking that the durian was broken in the cabinet.
When Meng Yufan was getting dressed, the phone in her schoolbag kept ringing.
He dug out his mobile phone from his bag and found that the person who contacted him was actually... Mom and Dad Yang.
They circled him in the [weather forecast] group and asked him when he was free to go eat crabs. Seeing that he didn't reply for a long time, they changed to private chat and knocked him directly.
Feng He Rili (Dad Yang): Xiao Meng, is your training camp over
Feng He Rili (Dad Yang): If you're done, come to Uncle's house to eat crabs. The crabs are getting fat now.
Meng Yufan swallowed shamefully. He had just finished exercising when he was the most hungry, and his stomach was growling.
But... Meng Yufan thought of the prompt displayed on the app "Your service has ended, the employer will light up five stars for you", and the greed that rose in his heart was suppressed again.
He and Yang Xiao originally had the simplest employment and employment relationship. After an order is over, there should be no more ties. But he accidentally added the WeChat account of Yang's father and Yang's mother. The old couple often greeted him with greetings, and he didn't know how to refuse this kindness.
At the same time, Yang's mother's private chat also arrived at the same time.
Yun Danfengqing (Mother Yang): Xiao Meng, you haven't spoken in the group for a long time.
Yun Danfengqing (Mother Yang): To be honest with your aunt, did you quarrel with Xiaoxiao
Yun Danfengqing (Mother Yang): She has a quick temper and speaks straight. Sometimes she is too busy with work to care about anything.
Yun Danfengqing (Mother Yang): Don't get her wrong.
Yun Danfengqing (Mother Yang): If you two have a conflict, you must speak slowly, don't worry.
Meng Yufan looked at the words of concern on the screen, and didn't know how to answer.
In fact, he could have told her mother Yang that he had quarreled with Yang Xiao, decided to break up, and then left the family group along the way, so that the trouble could be solved once and for all.
But the best answer was stuck in his throat, and he couldn't say it anyway.
A single-celled creature like him really couldn't make such a complicated calculation of pros and cons. He thought about it for a long time, but he still couldn't figure out how to answer it.
Just as he was thinking hard about his phone, a figure suddenly appeared from behind him.
"Fanzi! What are you doing?" The team's forward Xu Dong approached with a smile on his face and tried to grab his mobile phone, "I see, how about chatting with the little girl on WeChat? Let me guess, was it to you last week? The elementary school girl from the foreign language college who wants WeChat?"
Meng Yufan blocked his body and avoided the claws of his teammates.
"Don't talk nonsense." Meng Yufan proved his innocence, "I didn't give her the WeChat ID at all."
"Damn it! That's this year's first-class flower! You don't like to be so beautiful?" Xu Dong said in shock, "Look at our team, you have never been in love, so it's possible that you really intend to To be a monk?"
What little girl doesn't love a basketball boy galloping on the court? The boys on the basketball team are tall and good-looking. No matter where they go, they are the focus of attention, attracting the attention of countless girls. Take their team as an example. More than half of the players changed girlfriends faster than when they changed clothes, and the rest of the players had talked to at least two or three objects.
Only Meng Yufan was a single dog from beginning to end.
Xu Dong sighed: "I really don't understand, no matter how good basketball is, it's good to have two 'basketballs' on girls?"
Meng Yufan could not wait to cover his ears and refuse the spread of such obscene thoughts.
He protested: "Xu Dong, dating is to find a soul mate, not a bed mate!"
"Fart." Xu Dong laughed loudly at him, "This kind of thing is only said by an inexperienced virgin like you—when you really meet that person, believe it or not, she just smiles at you. , all you can think about is the animal world?"
Meng Yufan didn't understand: "The animal world?"
"That's it - 'Spring is here, and it's time for animals to mate'~~~~~~"
Meng Yufan's pure virgin heart will be defiled by him.
…
The two changed their clothes, picked up their bags and walked towards the dormitory building.
The new season is coming, both of them are forwards, one power forward and one small forward, and they can just play together. They are enrolled in the same year, which means that this year is the last time they attend CUBA. If they fail to be selected for the league camp, then they will forever lose the opportunity to stand in the professional arena.
The relationship between the two is somewhat delicate, both rivals and close partners.
Xu Dong said: "I don't know if Lao Wu can choose both of us. In addition to the two of us, there are three forwards in the team. I really can't let me play center this year. I really don't want to leave the game now. ."
Lao Wu is their head coach, an old man with a stubborn temper. He has brought out several MVP players of professional teams in the past, and then retired. He was specially hired by Huacheng University to bring them.
Meng Yufan, however, was different from him. He said very firmly: "I just want to play as a striker. If I were to play as a center, then I would rather not play."
Forwards and centers play different roles in a game, and there is no difference between who is better and who is worse. Many players switch between roles in order to get the chance to play.
But Meng Yufan only wants to be a forward - a forward who moves forward bravely, has no way out, and can only score, score, score.
When he spoke, there was an innocent yet mature look on his face, which made one involuntarily believe that even if the road ahead was rough, he could still achieve his dream.
Xu Dong looked at him with a complicated expression, was silent for a while, and suddenly changed the subject bluntly.
"By the way, who were you chatting with on WeChat just now?"
"...No one, it's my boss." Meng Yufan said with a guilty conscience, "Didn't I do odd jobs recently? The last boss added me on WeChat and said he would find me if he had work in the future."
He's not lying - Yang Xiao is his rightful employer, right? Isn't Yang Xiao's parents also his employers? If Yang Xiao wanted to hire him to go home in the future, wouldn't it be possible to meet again
After listening to his explanation, Xu Dong made a "cut" and persuaded: "Little Master, what's the use of keeping your head down if you want me to tell you? Hurry back and apologize to your parents and say a few good words. Don't you still have a lot of money to spend, and still use the bitter odd jobs?"
"No!" Meng Yufan immediately shook his head, "I don't want them to take money to insult my basketball dream!"
"..." Xu Dong thought, why didn't he have a couple who would take money to insult his parents
…
The school gave preferential treatment to students with physical education, and arranged a single dormitory for each of them. Xu Dong and Meng Yufan happened to live in the opposite door.
The dormitory has a large space, and the beds and cabinets are specially made according to their stature. If a smaller person enters their room, it will definitely feel like breaking into the kingdom of giants.
In Meng Yufan's room, the most eye-catching place is the shoe cabinet - his shoe cabinet has five floors. Except for the usual training shoes, the remaining layers are filled with AJ.
Various color schemes, various limited editions, various joint names... This is not a shoe cabinet at all, this is obviously a mobile gold mine!
No one knows that looking at the tall and mighty Meng Yufan, he actually has a special hobby, which is shoe shine.
Whenever he wants to think about a problem, he will move a small stool and sit in front of the shoe cabinet, hold the small brush in his big hand, apply shoe polish, and wipe his AJ bit by bit.
He is like a little girl who strikes a match. He gets peace of mind and sublimation of soul in the process of shining shoes.
And today, Meng Yufan sat in front of the shoe cabinet again and started to shine.
The question he pondered when he was shining his shoes today was—he is out of money again, what should I do
Meng Yufan stepped into the front of the university and agreed with his parents that these four years would be his last "indulgence". After graduating from university, he would obediently take off his basketball jersey and go back to inherit the family business.
After all, the income from playing basketball is limited, and the annual salary of a CBA professional player is not enough for his father to buy a car. Moreover, basketball is a sport that attaches great importance to physical confrontation. Athletes have occupational diseases all over their bodies. If you are unfortunate, if you encounter a torn meniscus, a fractured ankle, or the root cause of the disease, it will be a lifetime regret.
But Meng Yufan was stubborn. When he was a senior, he secretly submitted an application for postgraduate study behind his family's back, and decided to stay on the court and move on to his dream.
- So after school started, all his financial resources were cut off by his parents.
Meng Yufan refused to bow his head to his parents. He was bored in the dormitory and polished his shoes for two days, and finally decided to use the spare time of training to find a part-time job.
Coincidentally, the first part-time job he found was "Cloud Sharing Boyfriend".
With short hours, good pay, and paychecks, what job could be better for him
But since taking Yang Xiao's order, he has never opened the app again.
He didn't even know what spell he was under. Recently, he kept recalling the short four hours in the Yang family.
He remembered that she held his hand, and her exquisite body was tightly pressed against his arm; he remembered the steaming dumplings, which seemed to taste better from her bowl; he also remembered that after he was drunk, he fainted He almost got up from her bed, still covered with her thin quilt; he even remembered how hard she stood on tiptoe and lightly stroked his hair...
Sometimes he couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, and he was so dry that he had no choice but to get up and continue to polish his shoes.
... As for the real reason behind this, he didn't think deeply.
Just as he was shining his shoes, the phone beside him buzzed, and a new message popped up on the "Cloud Sharing Boyfriend" app.
—[Dear boyfriend, your girlfriend 'new user ASG23561' asked you to go out to meet! Please love her well in the next month~!]
Meng Yufan: "…"
Which rich lady is this, she didn't communicate by private message before placing the order, and directly took a monthly package
Meng Yufan hurriedly put down his half-cleaned sneakers, wiped his trouser legs with his big hands, picked up his phone and entered the software page.
Sure enough, there was an extra order in his background - a user ordered his commute service for the next month!
The user has just registered, the avatar is gray and white by default, and the ID is also a piece of random code randomly generated by the system.
… this is too strange.
Leasing a boyfriend is a very rare project, so every employer has to ask a lot of questions before placing an order.
For example, "Is the person in the photo really you?" "Are you really that tall?" This kind of question is easier to answer.
He also met "Uncle, can you help me with my homework? Can you help me hold a parent-teacher meeting?"
The most terrifying employer, sent a "chest photo" without saying a word, and Jiao Di Di asked him: "Little brother, do you agree?"
But today's employer is different from the previous one. Without a word of nonsense, directly spend money to buy him a month.
The monthly package is expensive, and after deducting the company's share, the remaining money is enough for his living expenses for two months.
But... Does he really want to "take orders"
Meng Yufan hesitated, the screen stayed on the private message page, and he didn't type a word for a long time.
And his new employer seems to be impatient.
New user ASG23561: In
New user ASG23561: I go to work at 9:30 every day. If I don’t work overtime, I will get off work at 6:30. If I work overtime, I will inform you in advance.
New user ASG23561: If there is no problem, I will be working tomorrow.
Meng Yufan: "…"
Do not! something wrong! Big problem!
Xiao Meng (real-name authentication): Hello, sorry, I don't accept orders now.
Xiao Meng (real-name authentication): Please refund your money.
New user ASG23561: ...
New user ASG23561: Meng Yufan, you have applied for the scholarship, but you don't earn living expenses
Meng Yufan was shocked.
Why does this employer know his real name and the fact that he is short of money when he fails to apply for a scholarship
—Wait, he only told one person about this from beginning to end!
Xiao Meng (real-name authentication): Are you…
Xiao Meng (real-name authentication): Miss Yang
New user ASG23561: Hmm. it's me.
New user ASG23561: If you don't take orders, then I'll change someone.
Meng Yufan: "!!!"
Yang Xiao's hands were quick, and almost as soon as he finished speaking, he clicked the option to apply for a refund.
The system prompts biu to pop up—
[Dear boyfriend, your girlfriend 'new user ASG23561' canceled the date! Countdown to trade closing, ten... nine... eight...]
Seeing that the numbers were getting smaller and smaller, Meng Yufan didn't have time to think about it, and immediately dialed the phone number stored in his mobile phone that he never wanted to delete.
beep.
beep.
beep.
The phone rang for three seconds and was quickly picked up.
"Hello, who is it?"
The girl's crisp and clear voice came.
It seemed that Yang Xiao didn't save the boy's phone number at all.
Meng Yufan couldn't take care of the flash of depression in his heart, and roared out in a race against time: "I'll take the order!!!"
"… what?"
He cleared his throat and said the least serious words in the most serious tone of his life - "Hello, Dear Miss Yang Xiao, your boyfriend Meng Yufan is ready and will ship it for you soon!"