Surprise ... Lou Cheng felt darkness came over his eyes as if the palm of Empress Dowager pressed him down. At that time, he was like the monkey king (Sun Wukong) who was pressed beneath the Five Elements Mountain by Buddha, no matter how hard he tried, he just could not jump out of it.
While the priest climbs a post, the devil climbs ten. I can never win the mothers!
No matter how perfect my plan is, I never imagine that Ke's mother would come to Songcheng directly to celebrate Ke's birthday!
Hearing Ke's response on the phone, Ji Mingyu seemed to find nothing weird and she continued to say with a smile, "Last year because your dad and I were busy in working, we didn't celebrate your birthday by your side. This time, we'll make you up. We are in the Songya Hotel now, you can just come here by taxi. Anyway, skip the class tonight. It's only a class meeting, isn't it? You can ask your counselor for a leave."
"Okay, I know." Yan Zheke agreed with her, feeling warm but depressed.
Songcheng University has a custom which is to fix the class on Sunday night as a class meeting. Certainly, on the curriculum, it has to be substituted for the other names such as "situation and policy" ...
It is the only lesson that students can not change in the cultivating scheme.
Because both Lou Cheng and Yan Zheke have matches which are held away ground on Sunday from time to time, they usually come back very late. They directly ask the counselor for a long leave through the school management department. The long leave means that they need not take this class for a long time.
After hanging up the phone, Yan Zheke pursed her lips and looked at Lou Cheng with a complex expression. She opened her mouth several times, but at last, she still failed to say any words.
Lou Cheng exhaled a breath quietly and smiled again,
"Now I really want to ask you a question, how big the shadow of sadness in my heart is... Well, that's okay. Actually, your official birthday is tomorrow. I will invite you to dinner tomorrow night!"
He tried to defuse Ke's guilty by his self-deprecating humor, but his own loss and pity were not so easy to be eliminated.
It's her first birthday since they were in a romantic relationship. But they could not hold hands to celebrate it together...
What's more, Lou Cheng also lost the excuse to persuade her to sleep outside with him...
Yen Zheke looked up and bit her cute teeth lightly. Suddenly, she turned around to avoid Lou Cheng's eyesights and slightly lifted up her chin,
"You, you can also go to the hotel with me..."
"What? To visit your parents now? Will it be too hasty?" Lou Cheng was shocked by her words. He at first was startled, but after a few seconds, he quickly calmed down and stopped being panic.
I have made progress. I can guarantee Ke a stable future life. Now I can be confident to visit Empress Dowager and my father-in-law, I have nothing to be afraid of.
This is based on my ability, confidence, and faith in our love relationship.
Ah, certainly it'll be impolite for me to visit her parents without any gifts. I have to take the time to buy some gifts. What kind of gifts should the son-in-law bring when he first visit his parents-in-law?
Seeing Lou Cheng showing a surprising but thoughtful look, Yan Zheke definitely realized that he was planning for the future and was concerning "too much", so she at that moment said in a hurry, "What you are thinking now! What I mean is that you can live in the Songya Hotel this night. After my mom and dad fall asleep, I will come to your room and wait for the coming of my birthday together with you. Emm, if my mother came here by herself, she will certainly ask me to sleep with her. However, my dad also comes here this time. They are too romantic and intimate to sleep separately..."
"Like us." Lou Cheng smiled and consented to her suggestion. He stopped thinking about how to visit parents-in-law but again he began to look forward to this night.
Yan Zheke glanced at him fiercely and suddenly felt like having made some mistakes.
She also saw the luggage carried by Lou Cheng and suddenly awakened, so she blurted out,
"You have hidden the birthday cake in your backpack, haven't you?"
Just now she was still wondering why Cheng deliberately brought the big backpack with him today?
"More than a birthday cake." Lou Cheng smiled and left her some expectations.
With his current ability for controlling the power and body, even if he ran around with a small cake in his backpack, he was able to do none damage to it.
"You also bring me gifts?" Yan Zheke asked him curiously and delightfully.
I really want to know what it is now!
"Hey, you will know it this night." Lou Cheng still kept it as a secret, even while Ke was keeping asking him with her cute look.
Ke finally united with her parents. They had a good dinner and a warm conversation. Her parents gave her surprising gifts. But all these things had nothing to do with Lou Cheng. He stayed in the Room1218 and was busy in preparing for the surprising event. After he finished the preparations, he began to surf the internet and chat with Yan Zheke online. He was patient to wait for her.
In the Room 1912, Yan Zheke sat on the sofa and held Ji Mingyu's arm while chatting with her parents casually. She told them something about her major. There was an eaten cake and some burned candles on the end of the table which was set in front of the sofa.
She checked the time on the phone and deliberately yawned covering her mouth, "I have to get up early tomorrow to go back to school to participate the special training..."
"Oh, yes. It's too late. You should take a bath quickly and go to bed now." Yan Kai checked the time on his wristwatch and consciously understood what his daughter implied by saying this.
"Okay, then." Yan Zheke nodded and asked them one more question for feeling a little guilty, "Dad, Mom. When will do you go back home? I want to see you off."
"It's tomorrow morning's plane. We are families, so why do us bother to send off each other? You should go back to school and study hard." Holding the hands of Ji Mingyu, Yan Kai answered her generously and gently.
"Well, okay. I love you~" Yan Zheke let out a smile and behaved very cutely for she had a good mood.
Watching her entering the bathroom and hearing the sound of water, Yan Kai seemed to notice something, "Ke seemed to care about other things and she was occasionally absent-minded. Is it because this is the first time for her to ask for a leave for this reason?"
Ji Mingyu glanced at him with a funny look. "Whether should I praise him for being so careful or should I ridicule his sluggish mind." She exhaled a breath and leisurely said, "Girls, at this age, will inevitably have a variety of thoughts."
She gave her husband a hint.
Yan Kai gently nodded and sighed, "Unconsciously, Ke has grown up and became a big girl. Oh, I always think she still was the little girl in my memory... In the future, while the future is not far away."
Time flies. It has been twenty years since his daughter was born. As he has come to this age, he inevitably would have such a feeling.
"Yes, she has become a big girl ..." Ji Mingyu also sighed silently.
Turning off the lights and tumbling on the bed, Yan Zheke tried her best to stop herself falling asleep because she has already developed a living clock to sleep at that point. While chatting with Lou Cheng aimlessly, she also listened to the sound in the living room.
At eleven o'clock, she heard that her parents began to take a bath. At eleven twenty, she heard that the door of the other bedroom was closed. She held the patience to wait until eleven forty, she changed her clothes, shoes and cautiously open the door to go out with careful and light movements.
She at first closed the door of her own bedroom and put away the spare room card. She then walked toward the door silently and wrenched the doorknob more carefully than the moment when she was fighting in a Challenge Tournament. At last, she opened the door with a very low sound.
After she walked out of the room, she closed the door without making any sound. At that moment, she finally relieved, so she took out the phone and sent a message to Lou Cheng:
"Your sister is coming! Be ready to welcome me!"
Her footsteps became light. She seemed to jump into the elevator excitedly. She swept the room card to let the elevator take her down to the 12th floor. In the end, she found the Room 18.
While stopping in front of the door, she inexplicably became nervous. She took a breath and knocked the door slightly.
Creak. The door immediately opened like a magic show. Yan Zheke looked into the room subconsciously and just found the whole room was in a darkness with no light on.
But there were bright stars highlighting in the darkness as if the vast and fantastic sky in the prairies has been moved here.
The stars slowly moved to form various beautiful and meaningful constellations. While below the Sagittarius, there was a cake surrounded by 19 candles which was putting on the bed. The candles flickered warmly and reflected the crimson characters on the white cream,
"Happy nineteen birthday to my fairy."
"These are so beautiful ..." Yan Zhe Zhe silently sighed and walked into the room. She even was moved to tears and tried to remember what she was seeing now.
At this moment, she heard a familiar male sound,
"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you..."
Lou Cheng closed the door and sang the birthday song while walking behind Yan Zheke. He then took out of a silver clavicle necklace from the pocket. This necklace did not have a complicated design and only had a round shining pearl on it, very simple and elegant.
"Let me help you put it on," he whispered in her ear tenderly.
"Ok." Yan Zheke stood there quietly and looked at the beautiful scene in front of her. She seemed to lose herself in it.
Lou Cheng at first circled the necklace around her neck, and then he buckled it with his flexible fingers.
The length of this necklace just fitted. The pearl exactly was set in the middle of Yan Zheke's two beautiful and delicate clavicle like a water droplet.
"Is this necklace beautiful?" Lou Cheng kissed the side of her neck.
All the gifts he prepared was selected out basing on his daily observations of what she liked and disliked, on her daily conversations and on her voluntary sharing information.
"Yes." Yan Zheke answered him in a low voice. There were many emotions in her heart and many words that she wanted to express. But until the moment she was about to say, what she said has become an inexplicable thing, "You, how can you put candles on the bed. Be careful, they may burn the bed!"
She only felt that she was about to cry and her face was a little bit blushed.
"You have forgotten that I am the walking refrigerator now?" Lou Cheng laughed in the girl's ear and pulled her to the bed, "Let's wait for the coming of the new day so that you can make a wish."
"Ok." It was the third time for Yan Zheke to answer like this tonight. She looked around and tried to look for a topic which would not make her feel more excited and moved, "Did this clavicle necklace have any special meaning?"
Lou Cheng has prepared for this question, so he laughed, "A pearl means your first birthday since we fell in love. What's more, it means that I will dedicate to you the first champion I won this year."
"Hmm, if you sent me a clavicle necklace with one pearl on it at my first birthday, then when it comes to my second birthday, you will send me the necklace with two pearls on it? And in the future, do you plan to give me a pearl necklace?" Yan Zheke was a little shocked for she was touched by Lou Cheng's words. She worried that she would cry out, so she subconsciously talk him back in a cute way.
"Great idea!" Lou Cheng smiled and gave her the thump-up.
Yan Zheke touched the pearl and looked around. She said:
"You even prepared some stage properties?"
"Yes, the Star Projector. I was stupid before. At first I bought a normal one charged hundreds of Yuan while the effect was as bad as the slide in our class which only can cheat children. So I quickly bought this one. Although this is rather expensive, the effect is actually much more excellent. "Lou Cheng shared this story with her happily.
"When do you stop being stupid?" Yan Zheke lifted her chin, smiling beautifully.
Time went by. While they were chatting, the new day also came quickly. Lou Cheng looked at the girl who looked more beautiful under the dim candlelight and said tenderly,
"Honey, happy birthday."
"Make a wish now."
"Ok." Yan Zheke knelt beside the cake and closed her eyes.
After a while, she opened her eyes and leaned over. She then exhaled a breath to blow out the candle and to leave the Star Projector shimmering in the room.
"What kind of wish do you make?" Lou Cheng smiled.
Yan Zheke pursed her lips and chuckled, "I made three wishes. The first one is that all the people I love can in good health and go well. The second one is that I can do well in my own martial arts and my study. The third one, the third one, I will not tell you ~ It won't work if I told you!"
"Well, okay then. You can tell me when it worked." Lou Cheng picked up the knife and began to divide the cake. He took a slice of cake and shared it with Yan Zheke.
At first, they were just eating, but later they began to kiss unconsciously, from the light kiss to the French kiss.
When Yan Zheke threw her head back and her lips became tender and delicate. Lou Cheng said in a low voice, "Ke, tonight, you shouldn't come back to your room to wake your parents up. I will wake you up tomorrow morning before I do the morning exercise. I promise I will not do anything you don't like. "
Yan Zheke felt like living in a dream since she walked into the room. She felt like stepping on the clouds with a happy mood. Watching her boyfriend's yearning eyes, her heart suddenly was softened by his eyesight, so she said, "Okay, I'll stay. I believe you.."
Until she finished her words, she was held tight by Lou Cheng again. They kissed so intensely.
Both of them put off their clothes and shoes. And Lou Cheng grasped the edge of the rest of the cake on the bed and threw it to the roundtable. In the end, the cake fell on the table steadily.
Witnessing by the vast sky and shining stars, he kissed the girl from head to toe while Yan Zheke at that time bit her lips tightly because she has never tried such a raging sensual desire. She sometimes grasped the sheet tightly and sometimes loosely for she did not want to let out the happy groan.
Watching this erogenous scene, Lou Cheng became a little impulsive to move to the next step because he has endured his desire for almost half a semester. But Yan Zheke did not forget her bottom line, so she stopped him and showed her attitude clearly.
Lou Cheng respected her will and kept his promises. He stopped to move to the next step and went into the bathroom.
When he came out, the girl has already put on her underwear. She covered herself with the quilt and lay on her side with her flushing face and muttered, "You did not follow the steps!"
"What steps?" Lou Cheng was confused.
These are normal steps!
Wearing a red face, Yan Zheke laughed in a low voice and did not answer him.
No, Cheng did not follow the script. He did such sexual things not as what Dirty Tong told me!
He, he did not say anything, but just started!
After Yan Zheke took a bath again, she lay on the bed and shrank herself into Lou Cheng's arms. At that moment, she completely trusted him.
Lou Cheng hugged her and lowered his head to give her a deep kiss which was not so hot nor so intense, but warm and gentle.
While their lips separated, they smiled at each other. They opened their mouth almost simultaneously,
"Good night."
This was no longer a QQ message they sent to each other online, but a truly beautiful sentence happened in reality.
At the half past five in the next morning, Lou Cheng got up to begin his morning exercise, again he understood the kind of eternal feeling which men usually had after they got married, that was, every morning became so warm and beautiful while seeing their lovers. He ran out of the hotel filled with energy.
However, Yan Zheke stayed in bed for a while. After she cleaned up, she quietly went back to the 19th floor and opened the door of the suite room.
Just when she was going to slip into her own bedroom quietly, she suddenly saw a person sitting on the sofa. Empress Dowager wore the nightgown and sat there with her legs elegantly crossed!
All became black before her eyes, and Yan Zheke blurted out,
"Mom…"
"Does Lou also live here?" Although Ji Mingyu was asking her, her tone was very assured.
"Yes, but we, we did not do anything." Yan Zheke answered her even before she asked more because Yan Zheke was very guilty.
Ji Mingyu stared at her eyes for a while, finally feeling relieved, so she sighed,
"My daughter has grown up and has become a good girl..."
She patted the sofa and said in a soft voice: "Come here and sit. Let mom tell you something."
The match between the final eight quickly came. Because their opponent was not so powerful, Song Cheng University Martial Arts Club still took the way to play in turn. Sun Jian, Yan Zheke and Lin Que cooperated with each other and defeated Yueyang University. On Saturday, December 14th, Lou Cheng's club entered the semi-finals.
On Sunday afternoon, the team which entered the semi-finals has settled. The Committee announced the battle team in the first round,
Sanjiang College VS. Haiyuan School;
Shanbei University VS. Songcheng University!
Coming events always cast their shadows before their arrival.
"Shanbei?" When Li Mao saw the battle team, he blurted out in the office of the Martial Arts Club, forgetting that Shu Rui was still leading her team to shoot material here.
As long as they entered the semi-finals, they would certainly confront with Shanbei. This was a fact that both Lou Cheng and he had known before. But they still have never expected to confront this team in the first round for it had won the last two national Champions!
Shouldn't it be the same as games, people always fight according to the rank, from the weak opponent to the strong one? So we should at first fight with the Haiyuan, and then confront with Sanjiang. Only waiting for us having accumulated a great momentum, we then can challenge the ultimate BOSS?
How can we confront he Powerful Monster in the beginning?
Lou Cheng and Yan Zheke looked at each other for a while. Lou Cheng then glanced at Lin Que. He had a complicated mood for he not only felt excited but also nervous.
Because their first match was with Shanbei, which meant that it not only involved the result of this match but also involved the influence that the result would have on their following matches!
If their fighting momentum was disrupted, it would result in the low morale. Maybe they would also lose in the following two matches!
"Shanbei..." In the Sanjiang College, Qu Hui took off his top hat and learned the Western gentleman to make a slight bow toward the computer screen with a smile.
What a perfect draw!
If the first match for Songcheng University is with Shanbei, they will certainly lose all their energy in the first round and gradually become exhausted. It obviously is beneficial for our Martial Arts Club!
Except him, the other present members of Sanjiang Martial Arts Club were also happy and excited.
"Shanbei!" Sitting in front of desk in the dormitory, Yan Xiaoling almost jumped up and quickly updated a post in the forum to help her relieve the pressure,
"@ Unparalleled Dragon King, what should we do? Lou Cheng's club has to fight with Shanbei in the first round!"
"Unparalleled Dragon King" sent a "funny" emoji and said: "What to do? They certainly will not give up! Huh, this must be a wonderful match!"
"The reign of terror and the fierce long knives seem to come in my eyes." Okamoto's Fan, who always pretended to be an old hand at sex, said some literary words. But he then also added, "If Songcheng University win this match, I will share all my collections of porns with you. "
"Then you will at least be detained!" Bull Demon King responded to this poser.
While Brahman screamed excitedly, "Oh my god, I really want to watch the match at the scene! Little Changye, you must watch the show as carefully as you can so that to make up my part!"
"May I ask a question? What should I bring to the away ground to cheer for Lou Cheng? the banners? the big photos?" Yan Xiaoling stopped being frightened and gradually became excited, mixing with worries.
"You don't need to take anything. Remember this sentence, 'Take care of yourself, in case other students beat you' !" Unparalleled Dragon King poked fun at her.
As the people was having a hot debate in Lou Cheng's fans forum, the battle table also became one of the most discussed topics on Weibo.
Since it was a match between several Heavenly sons of the age, it was normal for this match to attract so many attentions.
Or, to be more specific, ever since He Xiaowei, the famous commentator selected out who were the four Heavenly sons of this age, many people started to look forward to this match.
National University Martial Arts Competitions, the official Weibo account also took the initiative to update some pre-match predictions and wrote a long and detailed Weibo with a short but striking topic, as followed:
"This is the most eye-catching match among all divisions. This is a match between heavenly sons! Will Peng Leyun who is an established fighter win the match? Or Lou Cheng and Lin Que who are still fresh now try their best to beat this powerful tiger down? "
"3:00 pm, December 21, let's meet at the Flying Bird Stadium of Shanbei University!"
"Here's the newest introduction to the leading players and the main bench fighters of these two teams. "
"It's said that Peng Leyun has achieved the Professional Sixth Pin during the summer vacation. With more than four months of hard work, with his great pace of progress, and with his daily performance, we absolutely can look forward to his current strength. Whether he is a strong fighter of Professional Sixth Pin, a top fighter of Six Pin, or he even has already crossed the threshold of the inhuman stage?"
"As for Xu Wannian, his Corvine Mouth has improved a lot. But he seems to indulge in practicing his supernatural abilities, so his martial arts doesn't make any progress. He is still a top fighter of Professional Ninth Pin and fails to step over the threshold of the Dan stage. This time, his opponent, Lou Cheng, seems to be able to restain his abilities, which is not a good news for him. So let us see, whether his Corvine Mouth is much more powerful or he will be terribly hurt by the fierce boomerang?"
"As for Fang Zhirong, he at first attended a martial arts school and participated in Haiyuan where he also got cultivation. But then he chose to enter the Shanbei and he was in the same grade as Lin Que. He was more famous than Lin Que before and he also entered the Dan stage as early as him. He succeeded in mastering the Dan stage in August. As we know, because the fighters would contact with different people and practiced different Kungfu, they will go through a period during which their martial arts would advance by leaps and bounds after they achieved a new level. So, four months have gone by, which level Fang Zhirong has achieved now?"
"In addition, back when Fang Zhirong was studied in Haiyuan, he mainly practiced the Kungfu derivated from Dark Sect and mastered kungfu related to Plague Sect and Magnetism Sect as his assistant movements. He was so arrogant and stubborn, so people usually called him "Bad Boy". However, after he entered Shanbei, he became much gentler under Peng Leyun's threat. "
"Mao Chengjun who is in the same grade as Peng Leyun is one of the bench fighters and become a top fighter of Professional Ninth Pin in his Martial Arts Club."
"Bernhard, a freshman from Northern Europe, has his own supernatural ability and is good at making air explosion, so his nickname is 'Nobel.' But because he is still weaker than the fighter of Professional Ninth Pin, he is unable to become a leading player for now."
"Then let's talk about Lou Cheng. He is the most talented disciple of Ice God Sect in this age. In August, even when he just entered the Dan Stage, he has shown his strength which was as powerful as the fighters of Professional Seventh Pin. Now, four months have passed, he never presented his ability in public. Like what we had talked about Fang Zhirong, Lou Cheng is also in the period during which he will advance by leaps and bounds. So what kind of surprise he will bring to us? What kind of magic will this Magical boy again create for us?"
"Lin Que, the freshest family disciple of Shushan Study, mastered Dan stage in June. Now six months have passed, we don't know how many movements in Fighting Sect have already been mastered by him. However, in the previous matches, it's said that he had astonishing performance after he showed a little of his current strength. So let's look forward to Lin Que, the boy who is still in the period during which fighters can advance by leaps and bounds!"
"As for Yan Zheke, we shouldn't only focus on her beautiful looking but also should know her great improvements in martial arts. Within one year, she has grown up from a normal person with no rank to a fighter of Professional Ninth Pin. Certainly, she is different from Lou Cheng. Because one year ago, she actually was as strong as the fighter of Amateur Sixth or Seventh Pin, but she never attended any Ranking Event. No matter what, she made an astonishing improvement to advance to Professional Ninth Pin. She is the leading bench fighter."
"Li Mao, who improved from the normal Amateur Third Pin to the Professional Ninth Pin in one year, is a fighter that most people can imitate."
"As for Cai Zongming, it is said he at first was a fighter of Amateur Fifth Pin, but he achieved the top Amateur First Pin in only six months."
"Sun Jian, the old qualified member of their Martial Arts Club. He is a fighter of top Amateur First Pin."
"Lin Hua, she is expected to achieve the Amateur First Pin this month."
"Okay, now we have finished the introduction part. Let us interview a few leading players about their views to this match. @ Pengleiyun of Shang Qing @ The iron mouth has been broken for million years @ Fang Zhirong 001 @ Lou Cheng 129, as for Lin Que, I think he possibly doesn't have a Weibo Account..."
In the classroom, Lou Cheng also saw this Weibo because a lot of people has transmitted it and addressed him. He suddenly had many thoughts moving ups and downs in his heart, at that moment, he did not know how to reply to these comments, with what kind of attitude or tone.
At this moment, he saw "Peng Leyun of Shang Qing" updated a Weibo,
"I am looking forward to fighting with Lou Cheng and Lin Que."
This actually was a normal and polite sentence. But after different people interpreted it, it had completely different meanings.
"Does Le mean that whether Lou Cheng or Lin Que cannot defeat him on their own?"
"Does he mean that he is looking forward to fighting an attrition warfare with both Lou Cheng and Lin Que?"
"He is so confident!"
After for a while, "The iron mouth has been broken for million years" showed his attitude,
"Songcheng University is powerful. Also, we are very admirable for the big progress of Lou Cheng and Lin Que. But what I want to say is that the ultimate victory belongs to us!"
"Fang Zhirong 001" said concisely. "We are waiting for them!"
Lou Cheng held his phone and hesitated to reply to them because he has already felt the strong momentum and confidence held by his opponents in Shanbei who were the national champion.
"What's wrong?" Just after Yan Zheke has learned a tough point, she was aware of the abnormal behavior of her boyfriend.
Lou Cheng handed her the phone and showed her the Weibo he read. He told her the whole story in a low voice.
"You do not know how to reply these comments?" Yan Zheke looked at Lou Cheng with concern and asked him straight to the point.
Lou Cheng nodded and sighed, "I really want to win. But I clearly know that we own small possibility to win the match. If I behave very confidently and show a firm attitude for winning the game, after the match the result may make me lose my face. But to yield in the beginning of the match isn't my style, I just can't!"
Yan Zheke looked up and purse her lips slightly while thinking. The corners of her mouth lifted,
"Cheng, I thought of a sentence I read several days ago. It is a little vulgar but still is reasonable which also is suitable for your current situation."
"Which sentence?" Lou Cheng asked curiously.
Yan Zheke's smile was as beautiful as fresh flowers. She whispered quickly:
"Care less about the life and death, fight if you don't want to say uncle!"
"Now you can change this sentence. For example, care less about the victory and failure, fight if you don't want to say uncle!"
"Care less about the life and death, fight if you don't want to say Uncle! Care less about the victory and failure, fight if you don't want to say uncle!" Lou Cheng repeated her words again in his heart and just felt that his blood was burning. He already knew how to reply those comments.
He considered his tone and did not use the blunt words. After all, people had to be polite in the public talk.
He typed the sentence fastly on his phone and read it again before he updated it,
"As a fighter, you can lose the game, but never yield!"
"Now since you never admit defeat, let's fight!"
Let's fight!