Going to the cafeteria, Lin Yifei was holding the plate by himself. At this time, Catherine and Ivy should have eaten.
Someone walked across from him and put down the plate.
"It's strange that Chris isn't with you."
"Rex?" Lin Yifei raised his head.
"What? You don't want to have dinner with me?" Rex deliberately put his head in front of Lin Yifei, and whispered, "If you don't even want to eat dinner with me, I'll tell everyone that you were kissed by me."
Lin Yifei supported the fork and sighed, "It doesn't matter, Chris already knows."
"That's not surprising." Rex seemed to think of something, "It's a good thing he can't use his palms these days. If he comes to me for a one-on-one match every afternoon for practice, I will be too busy."
"Don't worry, Chris won't do such boring things." Lin Yifei was very hungry at first, but when he mentioned Chris, he lost his appetite, so he ate two casual bites, leaving Rex to leave.
In the evening, Lin Yifei turned off the computer early and went to bed with his back to Chris looking at the wall, while Chris read a book with the bedside lamp on as always.
"...can you stop being angry with me?"
In the end, Lin Yifei couldn't help but speak first, their cold war hadn't lasted for three hours.
"I'm not angry." Chris said lightly.
"Then your appearance this afternoon is very scary."
"Not next time."
Lin Yifei lifted the quilt and walked to Chris's bed, and lay down on his side.
"Now do you know what's in your head?"
"Huh? Why did you ask me this?" Lin Yifei was stunned before realizing that he thought Rex liked Chris.
"Well, I have coconut milk in my head..." Lin Yifei stretched his neck, kissed Chris's ear, and leaned on his shoulder to look at the book in his hand.
Chris snorted softly, but still had one hand free to wrap his arms around him.
"You're not going to trouble Rex, are you?" Lin Yifei knew that Chris was no longer angry, so he dared to ask him with a smile.
"No, I'll only make him look good in the Washington finals, if he can make it to the finals." Chris turned the book.
"I'm actually grateful that Rex kissed me."
Sure enough, the brows of Chris raised high, "Rex has affirmed your charm, so now he is very proud."
"That's not true." Lin Yifei curled his lips, "I was startled when he kissed me. But I don't like him kissing me at all."
Chris is still just looking at the book.
"It's not that kissing anyone will make my heart flutter." After Lin Yifei finished speaking, he was about to get out of bed, but Chris turned sideways to hug him, and put the book on the bedside.
Lin Yifei was pushed over by Chris, and the two faced each other. When Chris' kiss fell, Lin Yifei was already ready. He kissed Lin Yifei's lips, and the tip of his tongue slipped across his lips, he didn't rush to penetrate deeply, but asked him in the current posture: "Do you feel your heart move?"
"are you an idiot?"
"That's not exciting enough." Chris rolled over and bit Lin Yifei's nose.
"I just want to say, just looking at you makes my heart flutter."
Two seconds later, Chris twitched the corners of his mouth, which was Lin Yifei's favorite expression.
"Yifei, grow up quickly." Chris lay on Lin Yifei's body and looked at him, his eyes were soft and wanted to overwhelm him.
Of course Lin Yifei understood what Chris meant, his neck was red when he turned his head away.
"I don't want to grow old so soon!"
Girls' Day is just over.
Lin Yifei accompanied Chris to the school infirmary and took off the bandage. The doctor told him not to scratch the wound even if it was itchy. There was a scab on Chris' palm, and he could feel the pain when he was injured.
The next two weeks of games were nothing short of shocking. Chris and Rex are about to meet in the final to compete for the first and second places in the Washington division, while the men's saber team of Ghosn Middle School defeated last year's runner-up and entered the final, and will soon face their old rival Griffith. The club time of the Saber team is a bit sluggish. Whenever Chris meets Rex, his whole body will freeze.
Only Rex, as if he didn't feel anything, came over and put his arm on Lin Yifei's shoulder and said, "Hey, do you want to practice a duel later?"
"Ah, good."
Rex is playing at a high level and sparring with him is something to look forward to. Just from the time he stood on the preparation line, Chris's eyes stayed on his back. It wasn't cold jealousy, he just followed Lin Yifei with his eyes.
Mr. Smith is also very interested in personally refereeing. The two were very nervous at the beginning, the attack power was transferred from Lin Yifei to Rex, and Lin Yifei defended and counterattacked as the rhythm changed.
At a certain point, Lin Yifei stepped on his shoelace when he stepped back, and he fell backwards.
Rex's sword was about to slash his shoulder, but he stopped temporarily, and stretched out his hand to grab him. Because of too much strength, Lin Yifei crashed into Rex's arms.
"Ah, thank you!"
Although the two were separated by masks, Lin Yifei could still feel that Rex seemed to be smiling.
At the end of this round, Lin Yifei won by one point.
"Lin, I think you are getting better and better." Pan gave him a high five, and then praised him sincerely.
Rex, who had already walked to the opposite side, was talking with Nova and Lily, and when he was talking about something, he turned his head and smiled slightly at Lin Yifei.
Lin Yifei turned his head hastily, and was about to take off his gloves, but Chris said while arranging his protective gear, "Since you're all warmed up, play a round with me."
When Chris said this, the members who were about to go to practice on their own gathered around again, and even Catherine from the women's team came over.
"Okay." Lin Yifei put on the mask again.
"Tie your shoelaces." Chris reminded lightly, and walked across from Lin Yifei.
Lin Yifei knew that this guy was probably upset that Rex took the opportunity to give him a hug. When the game started, Chris showed more than just a practice attitude, it was like a game. In the first minute, Lin Yifei lost two swords in a row.
Back on the line, Chris looked him in the eye and said, "Focus."
Lin Yifei took a deep breath, sure enough, no matter where he was, Chris would give people the atmosphere of the game.
In the next minute, Lin Yifei regained his rhythm, continued to attack quickly, changed lines and made surprise attacks, and every time the sword fell, he would unfold the second sword without delay. There can be no half-moment relaxation in front of Chris.
At the end of the game, Lin Yifei lost two swords to Chris. Everyone is still around, and it seems that they haven't realized that the game is over.
"Ha—" Lin Yifei took off his mask, took a deep breath, and just about to say something to Chris, a girl's voice came from the crowd with some pride.
"Chris! I finally found you!"
Lin Yifei turned around, and it took him a long time to realize that the girl was actually Elizabeth.
Haven't seen her for a long time, and Mr. Osborne has sent her to a girls' high school since the kidnapping. She may not even now understand why she was alienated by the Ozbornes.
She was wearing a slightly low-cut suspenders, a miniskirt on her lower body, and her face was a bit thickly dressed, but it could be seen that she had been well-dressed. It's only been a year, and this girl has changed a lot.
Chris looked at her coldly, and the first thing he said was: "Do you know that you have to wear sneakers in the fencing gym, your high heels will scratch the floor."
Elizabeth froze for a moment, then looked down at her high-heeled shoes with crystals on them. It was obvious that she put on these shiny shoes just to meet Chris, but instead of attracting more glances from Chris, she made indifferent comments instead. The corners of her mouth trembled, "I came to see you specially, can't you be a little more pleasant to me?"
"You don't belong to Ghosn, it's club activity time, did you get permission when you came in?"
This is Chris's character, he won't waste any patience with people he doesn't feel.
"You..." Elizabeth took another step forward, she was stuck there but didn't know what to say.
"Take off your shoes, or I'll have someone carry you out." Chris sat on the side seat.
The atmosphere was a bit awkward, everyone went to practice separately, of course they still looked at Elizabeth standing there alone from time to time.
"Liz, are you okay? Shall I find a girl to lend you a pair of sneakers?" Lin Yifei stepped forward.
Elizabeth pushed him away abruptly, "Don't worry about it!"
Two seconds later, the always proud young lady took off her high heels and walked on the floor barefoot.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but Lin Yifei felt that Elizabeth pushed him just now with hatred. He could understand this kind of hatred, after all, Chris had never said no to Lin Yifei, not even a serious word. Elizabeth spent a lot of time pestering Chris, while Lin Yifei didn't have to do anything but stayed with Chris all the time.
Elizabeth walked up to Chris, took a breath and asked with a smile, "Are you going home for the holiday?"
"Maybe." Chris sat there, surrounded by the crisp sound of swords touching, and everyone gradually ignored the two of them.
"That means maybe you won't come back? If not, where are you going?"
"It's none of your business."
Lin Yifei looked at them and couldn't help but sighed.
Rex walked behind Lin Yifei at some point, and said in a joking tone: "That girl likes Chris very much."
"... Liz is Chris's cousin."
"Oh... Actually, I quite admire Chris' character."
"You admire him? Aren't you at odds with him?"