Chapter 251: Sneak Attack
During the afternoon gym class, Wang Jie looked utterly drained, making the gym teacher frown deeply.
After roll call, as usual, they did two laps of slow jogging. He followed the crowd for a lap but soon found himself struggling to even walk, leaning against Wen Yang’s shoulder, his lips pale and his calves shaky, as if he might drop dead at any moment.
“Is your girlfriend… a bit too fierce?”
Wen Yang wasn’t sure if he should feel sympathy for Wang Jie or envy him. He just patted Wang Jie’s shoulder and advised, “Seriously, you need to exercise, not just stay cooped up in the dorm.”
Otherwise, he might get completely drained someday, right?
Wang Jie weakly nodded, “Yeah.”
“You need to regain your confidence ~” Wen Yang shook his head, “Don’t let your girlfriend look down on you.”
“I’ll take a break for a couple of days…”
After managing to finish two laps with the group, Wang Jie plopped down on the ground.
Gasping heavily, he sounded truly drained but still managed to ask Wen Yang, “So, what’s the progress with your girlfriend?”
“Just one final step left. Teach me, how did you get her?”
Wen Yang sat beside Wang Jie, earnestly asking for advice.
His gaze stayed fixed on Ning Chu, who was playfully messing around with Yan Xinya and Lily in the distance.
He wasn’t in a rush; after all, he hadn’t been dating Ning Chu for long. Plus, his girlfriend was a little succubus, and who knows, she might just pin him down one day without any warning — knocking him out in the process.
But what if Ning Chu really was holding on to that last line?
“Well…” Wang Jie’s pale face blushed slightly as he awkwardly muttered, “It just happened naturally.”
“What do you mean?”
“She got on top of me…”
Wen Yang was struck silent, thinking, “Your girlfriend is also a succubus?”
Wang Jie sighed, slightly pained. “Who knew she was so fierce? She’s usually pretty quiet.”
“……”
“Now she’s saying after college we should get married, and this New Year, I guess I’ll have to meet her parents.”
He looked a bit worried, “I just wonder if her parents will like me.”
Wen Yang patted his shoulder reassuringly, “It’s fine, you’re not that bad; don’t be too nervous or you might mess it up.”
Wang Jie might not be a total heartthrob, but he was decent-looking and had a good, honest personality. As long as his family was stable, meeting the parents shouldn’t be too much of an issue.
After a short break, the gym teacher called everyone to gather again to continue with the fitness tests.
“Today, the long-distance run: boys 1000 meters, girls 800 meters.”
“Boys pass at 4 minutes 33 seconds, girls at 4 minutes 23 seconds.”
As the students began to assemble, the teacher organized them: “Boys, you go first; come over here.”
Ning Chu sighed wistfully among the crowd.
While her physical fitness hadn’t declined much since becoming female, she was still roughly at the average level for girls.
Now she had to run 1000 meters based on boys’ standards.
Feeling like passing was probably out of reach.
Sure enough, after two and a half laps, Ning Chu used all her strength to clock in around five minutes.
But the person in charge of filling in the scores? Yep, her boyfriend…
She could barely catch her breath when she trotted over to Wen Yang to check on her score.
“How did I do?”
Wen Yang glanced at the teacher not far away and whispered, “You passed.”
“Mm~” Ning Chu nodded, satisfied, before glancing at the remaining students on the track.
Some students who never exercised, like the chubby guys or the die-hard couch potatoes, had even worse stamina than her, with several still slow jogging or walking on the track.
Including Wang Jie.
That guy fell behind, looking as white as a ghost, swaying unsteadily like he could break out in headlines any moment.
“Such a mess~”
After being drained by his girlfriend for two days straight, now he had to run the kilometer.
Ning Chu didn’t pay much attention to Wang Jie and turned to Wen Yang to ask, “What are we eating tonight?”
“How about you and Hei Dou? I’m not picky.”
“I’m not picky either.”
Wen Yang shot her a disbelieving look and murmured, “Right, you are not picky.”
“By the way, in a couple of days my mom will come by to take Hei Dou away…”
“Do you want to casually meet her?”
Seeing Wen Yang’s suddenly tense expression, she added teasingly, “After all, you’ll have to meet her sooner or later; what are you afraid of?”
Wen Yang didn’t expect this; earlier, he had been comforting Wang Jie about meeting his in-laws without worry, but now he found himself facing the same issue.
He instantly understood Wang Jie’s anxious state, feeling jittery and flustered. “Well… let’s see when that time comes? I need to prepare a gift or something.”
“You really don’t have to; my mom doesn’t even know I’m dating.”
Ning Chu wasn’t keen on letting her mom know about her personal love life, especially since to her mother, she had only become a girl recently. If she suddenly had a boyfriend, her mom might take it a bit too fast.
It really was quite fast…
Just two months ago, she was still a boy.
Now, she had practically “fallen” into this situation.
If this continued, even if she didn’t end up in a sticky situation, she’d be drinking milk every day.
Wen Yang felt a twinge of inferiority bubble up from deep inside him because of his family’s circumstances, and he worriedly asked, “What if she thinks I’m not good enough for you…?”
Seeing Ning Chu frown, he quickly raised his spirits, “University is still over three years; I’ll work hard.”
“Exactly~” Ning Chu finally nodded in approval, “And it’s not like my mom is dating you; why do you care so much?”
“My family isn’t that well off either; my family relies on my brother’s salary. He only makes a few thousand a month, so you shouldn’t have any problems.”
But apparently, Ning Chu’s maternal grandfather was quite wealthy. It was said that the house her family lived in was a dowry provided by him.
If her mother weren’t so high-strung, she wouldn’t be working herself to the bone for her kids for half her life.
In the afternoon, there was just one gym class, and around four, after roll call, the day’s classes came to an end.
Ning Chu rushed to the cafeteria to buy two cups of milk tea, handing one to Wen Yang, and they laughed and chatted as they headed out of school.
She had to hurry back and keep an eye on Hei Dou, just to ensure that silly cat didn’t get into trouble.
“That group assignment needs to be started soon; it’s due next week.”
“It’s fine, I’m almost done by myself.”
“So fast?”
Wen Yang was pretty confident in his studies and nodded, “I’ve already finished the PTT; I’ll show you when we get back.”
“You solved the work of four people by yourself…?”
If only she’d had such a classmate on her team in her previous life, she wouldn’t have hated group assignments so much.
As they exited the school gate, she glanced around but didn’t see any classmates, then delightfully hooked her arm around Wen Yang’s. “Perfect timing~ my novel’s internal signing went through!”
“As long as I keep updating steadily once it’s on the shelves, I can earn at least a few hundred a month!”
“A big author now, huh~”
“Of course!”
Ning Chu proudly nodded, “If it gets popular, I could sell the copyright! Soon, I’ll be free from worries about food and drink…”
Her smile suddenly froze.
“Free from worries about food and drink?”
Wen Yang noticed Ning Chu suddenly rooted to the spot, confusedly looking down.
“Mom…”
He too suddenly jolted, following Ning Chu’s gaze, and saw a beautiful, elegant woman on the roadside smiling and staring at them.
Didn’t she say she was coming over in a couple of days?
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