Ch69 - The fourth day Li Cheng promised to send breakfast, growl

Although Li Cheng had pigeoned again, this time it was really excusable. Who would have thought that Little Lemon would suddenly have such a crisis?

In order to prove his innocence, Li Cheng specially filmed a video of Little Lemon for Xiao Yiheng, and a long explanation about the emergency at night.

It was just that when he made the video, Little Lemon had regained his former vitality, and was flapping his wings while fighting the wild cats by the roadside.

Xiao Yiheng fell into silence as he watched the lively duck and wild cats in the video: “…” 

“Xiao Yiheng, don’t worry!” Li Cheng who had pigeoned twice in a row, swore to the heavens, “Such a coincidence can only happen once or twice. It is absolutely impossible to happen for the third time! I won’t touch the game, and I’ll have the duck go on a diet… Don’t worry, tomorrow morning, you will definitely see my love bento!”

His tone was so determined, he sounded like a scumbag in a soap opera who cheated on his wife, promising her he’d come home at night.

But love is always blind.

“Okay,” Xiao Yiheng chose to trust this dishonest rhetoric from the omega again. But he felt that letting Li Cheng deliver breakfast to the class had too many variables, so it was better to change the method. “The school cafeteria opens at 6:15. Most students eat breakfast directly in the cafeteria. We can meet directly in the canteen and choose the table in front of the window. It is the most conspicuous place and everyone can see us. ”

If they chatted and laughed at breakfast together in front of all the students in the school, then everyone would guess that they were dating.

Li Cheng also thought this was a good method. It was much simpler than delivering breakfast!

…

Li Cheng took Little Lemon back to the dormitory and set it back on the balcony. The doctor said that it had serious food accumulation, and shouldn’t be given any food except water that day. It could resume normal meals the next day, but the quantity of food must be reduced to half of the previous one. 

Li Cheng cruelly locked the duck. Even when it quacked in hunger, he refused to give it a few grains of duck food.

“Just because you were full of shit, your other father went hungry and didn’t eat breakfast today!” Li Cheng poked its forehead with his fingertips, poked its round little head, and then poked its round body, “Today you can only drink water. Don’t try to sell your misery, it won’t work!”

Little Lemon was aggrieved and turned away its head, resembling a ball. It blinked its black bean-like eyes innocently, completely unaware that it almost caused its two fathers to have a relationship crisis.

Li Cheng caged Little Lemon, changed into clean clothes, and hurried back to class. 

Fortunately, he wasn’t too late. When he arrived in the classroom, the second class had just begun. He was familiar with the back door, and while the math teacher turned to write on the blackboard, he quickly slipped into the class, and on the way, he collected a handful of dry noodles from the girls in the back row.

When the math teacher turned around, Li Cheng was already seated properly, with the lower half of his face covered with a book, moving his mouth non-stop.

We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.

Huang Yelun was at the same table with him. Seeing him arrive, he leaned over and greeted him: “Li-ge, are you here? I was about to send you a message.”

Ol Jtfcu mbmxfv tlr fsfygbk jcv jrxfv ktja kjr kgbcu. 

Lejcu Tfiec: “Ljnfc’a sbe gfjv atf cfkr lc atf Vfj Blcu ugbeq?”

Ktf rjlv ugbeq kjr atf mtja ugbeq bo atf rklwwlcu afjw klat jii fluta wfwyfgr. Ktf ugbeq kjr yelia ys mbjmt Qe We ab cbalos atfw jybea raeoo gfijafv ab rklwwlcu.

Initially, when the group was newly formed, Coach Wu named it “We are Fa Mu Lei“, later renamed “Auspicious Eight Treasures“, and then it was “Family bound by deep emotions”, “Huacheng No. 1 High School’s handsome young men group”… These group names, which were seriously out of touch with the young, made the team members curl up their toes in embarrassment. Later, through a show of hands, they changed the name to “Sea King Group”.

The name “Sea King” was proposed by Li Cheng. At the time, the word “Sea King” was still very pure. Li Cheng thought since all of them were swimming athletes, and Sea King was the king of the water, this name fit their identity perfectly! 

Later, Li Cheng learned that Sea King had another meaning – that is, “a scumbag who is very good at fishing”.

Li Cheng was not a scumbag, but he had indeed baited a handsome and confident beautiful fish, to fall for him hook, line and sinker.

Li Cheng and Huang Yelun talked in whispers: “Sea King group? I blocked it a long time ago. Coach Wu always asks us to vote for his relatives and children in the group. I couldn’t stand it and blocked the notifications. What’s the matter?”

Huang Yelun said: “Oh, it’s a big deal! The principal hired a particularly famous advertising director to shoot a few promotional videos for the school. One of them is exclusively going to feature us!” 

The swimming team of No.1 High school was well-known throughout the city, especially after Li Cheng alone won three provincial medals. It had attracted a lot of attention because it was truly an amazing feat. Naturally, the principal wanted to take the opportunity to publicize the school. He knew that Li Cheng was going to skip senior year and directly register for the university preparatory course, so he planned to make a promotional video before Li Cheng left to advertise the swimming team, which could be used when enrolling students, school celebrations, awards, and applying for funds from the Ministry of Education.

Li Cheng slapped his thigh – he was going to play the protagonist!

At the age of seventeen or eighteen, who didn’t dream of becoming a celebrity? The little flame of vanity in Li Cheng’s heart instantly became a raging fire.

“When will this promotional video be filmed?” 

“Right this afternoon!” Huang Yelun said, “The coach has asked everyone to gather at the pool at three in the afternoon,” He was a little worried, “I heard that this promotional video will have a duration of only three minutes… Damn! I wonder how many seconds of screen time I’ll get.”

Li Cheng calculated in his heart: A three minute promotional video shouldn’t need them to swim more than a couple of laps in the pool. At a guess, the filming should be completed in around half an hour, right?

…

Facts have proved that even for a three-minute promotional video, half an hour was insufficient. 

The filming was not finished at 3:30, the filming was not finished at 4:30, 5:30, 6:30…

Until 9:30 in the evening, the group of sea kings from the swimming team were still soaking in the pool!

Li Cheng was desperate. Who could have imagined that a seemingly ordinary publicity advertisement would require so much manpower and material resources? The same shot had to be filmed many times from different angles – from front to side, from close range to long range…
Not only him, but also the other team members were as tired as dead dogs. Everyone floated on the pool dying, not knowing when work would finish.

Huang Yelun inquired that this famous advertising director used to be an alumnus of No. 1 High School and cooperated with many big-name celebrities. If it weren’t for this relationship, with her status, it would be impossible for her to give them the time of day for a mere high school propaganda film. She was famous and demanding. Li Cheng and the others were just ordinary high school students. How could they stand up to her high standards and strict requirements? 

“What the hell is going on with this filming…” Someone asked in a low voice, “We have been shooting for an entire day but it’s not finished yet?”

They had already been informed in advance about the central theme of the promotional video: They wanted to show how the team members went about their training in the swimming pool. The director asked them to show their vivacious and active side in front of the camera when they were playing around and studying their skills. However, they were unable to relax while facing the dark camera in the beginning, and looked stiff like a bunch of puppets.

As the protagonist, Li Cheng was the center of the entire promotional film. In one of the scenes, they wanted to shoot him jumping off the starting block and plunging into the water like a whizzing arrow. This scene had been shot more than 20 times by varying the brightness of the light, changing the background and acoustics. At the director’s request, Li Cheng enacted diving more than 20 times while maintaining a high degree of tension.

At long last, when the hour hand approached half past ten, the director finally nodded “reluctantly”, her red lips parted, and she spoke the two most beautiful words in the world – “Wrap up.” 

The team members who were originally buoyed in the swimming pool like floating corpses, immediately resurrected, supported each other’s exhausted bodies, and stumbled towards the dressing room. Too tiring, too tiring… Damn, was it so hard to shoot an advertisement? The soreness was comparable to three-days of rigorous training!
“Wait a minute.” The director suddenly stopped them, “The blonde guy is called Li Cheng, right? You will come to the swimming pool tomorrow morning at five o’clock.”

Li Cheng: “???”

The director explained: “The last scene will be filmed at sunrise. I want to shoot the scene of you rushing out of the swimming pool and facing the sun.”

Li Cheng’s scalp was numb. With this director’s nitpicking… Ah, no, with her attitude of excellence, the scene wouldn’t need to be filmed again and again, right? If so, wouldn’t he be tormented for a long time?! 

If he arrived at the swimming pool at five o’clock, could they finish the filming smoothly, letting him catch up with the breakfast date at six thirty?

…

The next day, at 6:25 in the morning, Xiao Yiheng walked into the school cafeteria on time.

The vast majority of students in Huacheng No. 1 High School lived on campus. During peak hours every morning, the cafeteria was overcrowded and it was hard to find a table. Without hesitation, Xiao Yiheng walked towards the most conspicuous dining table by the window. 

No. 1 High School had a long history. The school canteens were all built in the period of the Republic of China. The architecture in that era carried a unique charm. Even if it was an ordinary canteen with gray and red tiles, it was elegant and sophisticated, especially the canteen window. The scenery was unique. You could see the tallest bell tower of the school and the tree-lined winding paths. As a result, many young couples liked to sit at the table by the window, feeding each other morsels of food.

On this day however, there was already another figure at the table – Liu Ke, the monitor of class 3-1. He looked eager as he sat by the window and refused every student who wanted to share the table: “Sorry, someone is sitting here. So you can’t sit, you really can’t sit… Old Xiao, you are finally here!!”

Liu Ke hurriedly gave up his position to Xiao Yiheng. He patted the dining table and said triumphantly: “Well, did I do what you ordered? I was waiting outside the cafeteria since six o’clock in the morning to occupy a seat.”

Xiao Yiheng thanked him, took out an examination question booklet from his school bag, and pushed it to Liu Ke: “I have solved this competition question. You can use it as a reference.” 

“Cool~!” Liu Ke stared at the booklet with bright eyes, even exaggeratedly picked it up, brought it to his mouth, and kissed it. As a nerd, nothing fascinated him more than a difficult question.

Liu Ke put away the exercise book and asked casually: “Aren’t you a day student? You usually eat breakfast at home. Why did you come to the cafeteria this morning?”

The speaker was unintentional, but the other students around the dining table pricked their ears, and their movements slowed down a jot and lightened.

This was Xiao Yiheng! The unanimously voted first place on the list of “The alpha you want to associate with” on the school forum! How could he uncharacteristically appear in the cafeteria during the morning rush hour, and let his classmate occupy a seat in advance, specially choosing this famous “couple table”? 

“It’s nothing,” Xiao Yiheng seemed to have not noticed the gazes of the people around him. The corners of his mouth curved slightly and he replied lightly, “It’s just an appointment with someone.”

An appointment with someone…? The surrounding students ignored their breakfast and began to speculate about whom Xiao Yiheng would meet with.

Xiao Yiheng looked down at his watch and added: “We are meeting at about half past six. He should be here shortly.”

Students around: Ta? Male or female? Ta from the first year of high school or the second year of high school? Omega ta or beta ta! Male god, don’t cover up when you speak. Can’t you just say the name of the person! 

As if echoing their words, at this moment, there was a sound of footsteps behind Xiao Yiheng, and a figure holding a dinner plate appeared behind the couple’s table, only a short step away from Xiao Yiheng.

There was a burst of exclamations from the students.

“Isn’t that a sophomore…?!”

“Isn’t he from the swimming team…?!” 

“I didn’t expect Xiao Yiheng to have an appointment with him…!”

“It’s really unexpected!”

Xiao Yiheng suppressed his smile at the corner of his mouth, thinking that Li Cheng finally kept his promise and didn’t stand him up.

The young alpha got up, turned to the figure behind him, and reached out to take the dinner plate from his lover. But in an instant, the expression on Xiao Yiheng’s face froze. 

Looking at Xiao Yiheng’s extremely cold eyes, the person holding the dinner plate trembled and almost dropped it.

“Sister-in-law…Uh, Xiao, Brother Xiao…” Huang Yelun squeezed out a smile that was uglier than crying, “Li-ge was caught by the coach and went to the swimming pool. He, he was afraid that you would be too lonely eating breakfast by yourself, so let us come to accompany you…”

Behind Huang Yelun were the other members of the swimming team, holding plates piled up with food in their hands as they smiled stiffly and flatteringly.

Ch69 - The fourth day Li Cheng promised to send breakfast, growl

Although Li Cheng had pigeoned again, this time it was really excusable. Who would have thought that Little Lemon would suddenly have such a crisis?

In order to prove his innocence, Li Cheng specially filmed a video of Little Lemon for Xiao Yiheng, and a long explanation about the emergency at night.

It was just that when he made the video, Little Lemon had regained his former vitality, and was flapping his wings while fighting the wild cats by the roadside.

Xiao Yiheng fell into silence as he watched the lively duck and wild cats in the video: “…” 

“Xiao Yiheng, don’t worry!” Li Cheng who had pigeoned twice in a row, swore to the heavens, “Such a coincidence can only happen once or twice. It is absolutely impossible to happen for the third time! I won’t touch the game, and I’ll have the duck go on a diet… Don’t worry, tomorrow morning, you will definitely see my love bento!”

His tone was so determined, he sounded like a scumbag in a soap opera who cheated on his wife, promising her he’d come home at night.

But love is always blind.

“Okay,” Xiao Yiheng chose to trust this dishonest rhetoric from the omega again. But he felt that letting Li Cheng deliver breakfast to the class had too many variables, so it was better to change the method. “The school cafeteria opens at 6:15. Most students eat breakfast directly in the cafeteria. We can meet directly in the canteen and choose the table in front of the window. It is the most conspicuous place and everyone can see us. ”

If they chatted and laughed at breakfast together in front of all the students in the school, then everyone would guess that they were dating.

Li Cheng also thought this was a good method. It was much simpler than delivering breakfast!

…

Li Cheng took Little Lemon back to the dormitory and set it back on the balcony. The doctor said that it had serious food accumulation, and shouldn’t be given any food except water that day. It could resume normal meals the next day, but the quantity of food must be reduced to half of the previous one. 

Li Cheng cruelly locked the duck. Even when it quacked in hunger, he refused to give it a few grains of duck food.

“Just because you were full of shit, your other father went hungry and didn’t eat breakfast today!” Li Cheng poked its forehead with his fingertips, poked its round little head, and then poked its round body, “Today you can only drink water. Don’t try to sell your misery, it won’t work!”

Little Lemon was aggrieved and turned away its head, resembling a ball. It blinked its black bean-like eyes innocently, completely unaware that it almost caused its two fathers to have a relationship crisis.

Li Cheng caged Little Lemon, changed into clean clothes, and hurried back to class. 

Fortunately, he wasn’t too late. When he arrived in the classroom, the second class had just begun. He was familiar with the back door, and while the math teacher turned to write on the blackboard, he quickly slipped into the class, and on the way, he collected a handful of dry noodles from the girls in the back row.

When the math teacher turned around, Li Cheng was already seated properly, with the lower half of his face covered with a book, moving his mouth non-stop.

We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.

Huang Yelun was at the same table with him. Seeing him arrive, he leaned over and greeted him: “Li-ge, are you here? I was about to send you a message.”

Ol Jtfcu mbmxfv tlr fsfygbk jcv jrxfv ktja kjr kgbcu. 

Lejcu Tfiec: “Ljnfc’a sbe gfjv atf cfkr lc atf Vfj Blcu ugbeq?”

Ktf rjlv ugbeq kjr atf mtja ugbeq bo atf rklwwlcu afjw klat jii fluta wfwyfgr. Ktf ugbeq kjr yelia ys mbjmt Qe We ab cbalos atfw jybea raeoo gfijafv ab rklwwlcu.

Initially, when the group was newly formed, Coach Wu named it “We are Fa Mu Lei“, later renamed “Auspicious Eight Treasures“, and then it was “Family bound by deep emotions”, “Huacheng No. 1 High School’s handsome young men group”… These group names, which were seriously out of touch with the young, made the team members curl up their toes in embarrassment. Later, through a show of hands, they changed the name to “Sea King Group”.

The name “Sea King” was proposed by Li Cheng. At the time, the word “Sea King” was still very pure. Li Cheng thought since all of them were swimming athletes, and Sea King was the king of the water, this name fit their identity perfectly! 

Later, Li Cheng learned that Sea King had another meaning – that is, “a scumbag who is very good at fishing”.

Li Cheng was not a scumbag, but he had indeed baited a handsome and confident beautiful fish, to fall for him hook, line and sinker.

Li Cheng and Huang Yelun talked in whispers: “Sea King group? I blocked it a long time ago. Coach Wu always asks us to vote for his relatives and children in the group. I couldn’t stand it and blocked the notifications. What’s the matter?”

Huang Yelun said: “Oh, it’s a big deal! The principal hired a particularly famous advertising director to shoot a few promotional videos for the school. One of them is exclusively going to feature us!” 

The swimming team of No.1 High school was well-known throughout the city, especially after Li Cheng alone won three provincial medals. It had attracted a lot of attention because it was truly an amazing feat. Naturally, the principal wanted to take the opportunity to publicize the school. He knew that Li Cheng was going to skip senior year and directly register for the university preparatory course, so he planned to make a promotional video before Li Cheng left to advertise the swimming team, which could be used when enrolling students, school celebrations, awards, and applying for funds from the Ministry of Education.

Li Cheng slapped his thigh – he was going to play the protagonist!

At the age of seventeen or eighteen, who didn’t dream of becoming a celebrity? The little flame of vanity in Li Cheng’s heart instantly became a raging fire.

“When will this promotional video be filmed?” 

“Right this afternoon!” Huang Yelun said, “The coach has asked everyone to gather at the pool at three in the afternoon,” He was a little worried, “I heard that this promotional video will have a duration of only three minutes… Damn! I wonder how many seconds of screen time I’ll get.”

Li Cheng calculated in his heart: A three minute promotional video shouldn’t need them to swim more than a couple of laps in the pool. At a guess, the filming should be completed in around half an hour, right?

…

Facts have proved that even for a three-minute promotional video, half an hour was insufficient. 

The filming was not finished at 3:30, the filming was not finished at 4:30, 5:30, 6:30…

Until 9:30 in the evening, the group of sea kings from the swimming team were still soaking in the pool!

Li Cheng was desperate. Who could have imagined that a seemingly ordinary publicity advertisement would require so much manpower and material resources? The same shot had to be filmed many times from different angles – from front to side, from close range to long range…Not only him, but also the other team members were as tired as dead dogs. Everyone floated on the pool dying, not knowing when work would finish.

Huang Yelun inquired that this famous advertising director used to be an alumnus of No. 1 High School and cooperated with many big-name celebrities. If it weren’t for this relationship, with her status, it would be impossible for her to give them the time of day for a mere high school propaganda film. She was famous and demanding. Li Cheng and the others were just ordinary high school students. How could they stand up to her high standards and strict requirements? 

“What the hell is going on with this filming…” Someone asked in a low voice, “We have been shooting for an entire day but it’s not finished yet?”

They had already been informed in advance about the central theme of the promotional video: They wanted to show how the team members went about their training in the swimming pool. The director asked them to show their vivacious and active side in front of the camera when they were playing around and studying their skills. However, they were unable to relax while facing the dark camera in the beginning, and looked stiff like a bunch of puppets.

As the protagonist, Li Cheng was the center of the entire promotional film. In one of the scenes, they wanted to shoot him jumping off the starting block and plunging into the water like a whizzing arrow. This scene had been shot more than 20 times by varying the brightness of the light, changing the background and acoustics. At the director’s request, Li Cheng enacted diving more than 20 times while maintaining a high degree of tension.

At long last, when the hour hand approached half past ten, the director finally nodded “reluctantly”, her red lips parted, and she spoke the two most beautiful words in the world – “Wrap up.” 

The team members who were originally buoyed in the swimming pool like floating corpses, immediately resurrected, supported each other’s exhausted bodies, and stumbled towards the dressing room. Too tiring, too tiring… Damn, was it so hard to shoot an advertisement? The soreness was comparable to three-days of rigorous training!“Wait a minute.” The director suddenly stopped them, “The blonde guy is called Li Cheng, right? You will come to the swimming pool tomorrow morning at five o’clock.”

Li Cheng: “???”

The director explained: “The last scene will be filmed at sunrise. I want to shoot the scene of you rushing out of the swimming pool and facing the sun.”

Li Cheng’s scalp was numb. With this director’s nitpicking… Ah, no, with her attitude of excellence, the scene wouldn’t need to be filmed again and again, right? If so, wouldn’t he be tormented for a long time?! 

If he arrived at the swimming pool at five o’clock, could they finish the filming smoothly, letting him catch up with the breakfast date at six thirty?

…

The next day, at 6:25 in the morning, Xiao Yiheng walked into the school cafeteria on time.

The vast majority of students in Huacheng No. 1 High School lived on campus. During peak hours every morning, the cafeteria was overcrowded and it was hard to find a table. Without hesitation, Xiao Yiheng walked towards the most conspicuous dining table by the window. 

No. 1 High School had a long history. The school canteens were all built in the period of the Republic of China. The architecture in that era carried a unique charm. Even if it was an ordinary canteen with gray and red tiles, it was elegant and sophisticated, especially the canteen window. The scenery was unique. You could see the tallest bell tower of the school and the tree-lined winding paths. As a result, many young couples liked to sit at the table by the window, feeding each other morsels of food.

On this day however, there was already another figure at the table – Liu Ke, the monitor of class 3-1. He looked eager as he sat by the window and refused every student who wanted to share the table: “Sorry, someone is sitting here. So you can’t sit, you really can’t sit… Old Xiao, you are finally here!!”

Liu Ke hurriedly gave up his position to Xiao Yiheng. He patted the dining table and said triumphantly: “Well, did I do what you ordered? I was waiting outside the cafeteria since six o’clock in the morning to occupy a seat.”

Xiao Yiheng thanked him, took out an examination question booklet from his school bag, and pushed it to Liu Ke: “I have solved this competition question. You can use it as a reference.” 

“Cool~!” Liu Ke stared at the booklet with bright eyes, even exaggeratedly picked it up, brought it to his mouth, and kissed it. As a nerd, nothing fascinated him more than a difficult question.

Liu Ke put away the exercise book and asked casually: “Aren’t you a day student? You usually eat breakfast at home. Why did you come to the cafeteria this morning?”

The speaker was unintentional, but the other students around the dining table pricked their ears, and their movements slowed down a jot and lightened.

This was Xiao Yiheng! The unanimously voted first place on the list of “The alpha you want to associate with” on the school forum! How could he uncharacteristically appear in the cafeteria during the morning rush hour, and let his classmate occupy a seat in advance, specially choosing this famous “couple table”? 

“It’s nothing,” Xiao Yiheng seemed to have not noticed the gazes of the people around him. The corners of his mouth curved slightly and he replied lightly, “It’s just an appointment with someone.”

An appointment with someone…? The surrounding students ignored their breakfast and began to speculate about whom Xiao Yiheng would meet with.

Xiao Yiheng looked down at his watch and added: “We are meeting at about half past six. He should be here shortly.”

Students around: Ta? Male or female? Ta from the first year of high school or the second year of high school? Omega ta or beta ta! Male god, don’t cover up when you speak. Can’t you just say the name of the person! 

As if echoing their words, at this moment, there was a sound of footsteps behind Xiao Yiheng, and a figure holding a dinner plate appeared behind the couple’s table, only a short step away from Xiao Yiheng.

There was a burst of exclamations from the students.

“Isn’t that a sophomore…?!”

“Isn’t he from the swimming team…?!” 

“I didn’t expect Xiao Yiheng to have an appointment with him…!”

“It’s really unexpected!”

Xiao Yiheng suppressed his smile at the corner of his mouth, thinking that Li Cheng finally kept his promise and didn’t stand him up.

The young alpha got up, turned to the figure behind him, and reached out to take the dinner plate from his lover. But in an instant, the expression on Xiao Yiheng’s face froze. 

Looking at Xiao Yiheng’s extremely cold eyes, the person holding the dinner plate trembled and almost dropped it.

“Sister-in-law…Uh, Xiao, Brother Xiao…” Huang Yelun squeezed out a smile that was uglier than crying, “Li-ge was caught by the coach and went to the swimming pool. He, he was afraid that you would be too lonely eating breakfast by yourself, so let us come to accompany you…”

Behind Huang Yelun were the other members of the swimming team, holding plates piled up with food in their hands as they smiled stiffly and flatteringly.