Chapter 56
Tang Yi-Bai and Yun Duo walked hand in hand into the training base, drawing the eyes of many people along the way . Most of the people in the base knew Tang Yi-Bai . Now seeing him leading a girl in here without any prior warning, they were all surprised . Only team leader Xu looked smug, his face screaming 'I really know so much', when he saw them . He smiled at Tang Yi-Bai . "Yi-Bai, so this is your girlfriend?" As he said this, he visually scanned Yun Duo .
"Yes . " Tang Yi-Bai's response was clear and direct .
"Cough . " Yun Duo did not know how he could so easily adapt to their new relationship . Right now, her emotions were still struggling in the awkwardness caused by shyness, unable to settle . Thus, her face had been red all the way here . To avoid others seeing her red face, she had had to keep her head lowered .
Team Lead Xu scrutinized Yun Duo and said with some doubt, "This little lady looks rather familiar . . . "
Yun Duo introduced herself . "Hello, Team Lead Xu, I'm Yun Duo, a reporter with 'Sports Weekly' . "
"A reporter, eh?" Team Lead Xu coughed and instinctively became a little stern . "Yun Duo, don't take any photos while you're inside . This is a rule . "
"Yes, yes, I know . Don't worry!" Yun Duo nodded emphatically .
After Team Lead Xu let them go, Tang Yi-Bai led Yun Duo into the training hall . The swimming pool was in the middle of the training hall, and around it were individual training rooms . Each respective training room served a different function; there were all kinds of training equipment . Of course, Yun Duo only peeked inside the rooms from the doorways . She wasn't here to sightsee today .
She followed Tang Yi-Bai all the way to his training room .
Wu Yong had more than one athlete under him, so there were currently other people inside the training room as well . When Tang Yi-Bai returned, everyone inside the training room turned to look at Yun Duo .
"Hi, nice to meet you all . " Yun Duo waved at them . She tried to tug her other hand out of Tang Yi-Bai's grasp but did not succeed . . .
Wu Yong knew the truth so he wasn't too surprised, but the others were rather shocked and were staring at Yun Duo curiously .
"My girlfriend . " Tang Yi-Bai explained to his fellow trainee brothers . He had been waiting a long time for this moment, to announce to others that she was his girlfriend . At this moment, actually saying the words gave him an immense sense of satisfaction, even his very walk had an extra flair .
The crowd nodded dumbly, but continued to gawk at them with faces eager for gossip, hoping for more explanations .
Wu Yong frowned and growled, "What're you all staring for? Train! No food unless you finish all your training tasks!"
This threat was met with a chorus of groans but had instant effect — everyone turned back to their tasks and continued their training .
Wu Yong looked at Tang Yi-Bai with a half-smile . "I thought you wouldn't even coome back . "
Tang Yi-Bai smiled . "How could I do that? Even if I wanted to, my Yun Duo wouldn't let me . "
Yun Duo's eyebrows jumped . She really felt like stuffing his mouth shut .
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Wu Yong couldn't bear to listen any more to this . "Showing off so much just because you're dating now!"
In a roomful of bachelors, Tang Yi-Bai merely grinned and said nothing .
He helped Yun Duo find a chair for her to sit on, and then he continued with his afternoon training tasks . In actual fact, he did not have many training tasks left for the afternoon . He was already done with his third set of medicine ball training, and his next task was several sets of balance exercises . Single-leg balance exercises, followed by belly-boarding with his hands behind his head and turning side-to-side, 30 times, 3 sets; hands behind his head, abdomen crunches for his elbow to meet the opposite knee, 30 times, 3 sets . After that, stretches . These exercises that seemed relatively simple to him were not that easy for the average person . Even watching from this side, Yun Duo felt her muscles aching in sympathy . . .
When the day's training menu was done, it was just about time for dinner . Tang Yi-Bai grabbed a white towel and wiped his sweat, then he said to Yun Duo, "I'm going to take a shower and change . Wait here for me . "
Yun Duo nodded .
After Tang Yi-Bai left, Yun Duo sat obediently on her chair, observing the people coming and going outside . The training time of the athletes were all quite standard, so everyone was ending their training around this time . Therefore, there were quite a lot of people passing by outside . Many of whom Yun Duo had met before .
A tall figure walked by, the person glancing idly into the room as he passed . Not long after, the person returned .
Qi Rui-Feng leaned on one hand against the door frame . He stared incredulously at the person in the training room . "Yun Duo?"
"That's me . " Yun Duo nodded .
He entered the room and perched on the training equipment beside Yun Duo . He considered her for a moment then asked, "Are you here looking for Tang Yi-Bai?"
"Mhm . "
"Oh, I'll help you find him then . "
"It's fine," she quickly stopped him . "He'll be back soon . "
Qi Rui-Feng nodded . What a coincidence . Yesterday, Tang Yi-Bai was still fretting over how he should confess, and today, Yun Duo was sitting right here in his training room . Qi Rui-Feng scratched his head and suddenly recalled another thing . So, he rifled through the backpack slung across his shoulder, taking out a mobile phone charm .
The phone charm featured a rubber chibi figurine of Qi Rui-Feng . He tossed the phone charm to Yun Duo . "The TV station held a commemorative event and gave out a lot of these . You're my fan so I kept one for you . "
"Thank you . " Yun Duo took a closer look at it and laughed . "It's cuter than the real person . "
"Hmph . "
She noticed the corner of a book peeking out from his open bag and jolted in surprise . "Qi Rui-Feng, you read?" It was too hard to imagine . . .
"Yup . " Qi Rui-Feng nodded sedately . Yun Duo was so curious she could burst, so he took the book out and handed it to her .
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Yun Duo looked at the cover and was petrified . "The Cute-Moe Wife of a Wolf-Like CEO"? What the hell was this?!
She looked at the cover and then looked at Qi Rui-Feng's face, her gaze shifting back and forth between the two for a good while before finally asking, "You're using this book to hide your private nest egg, aren't you?" As soon as she said this, she wished she could slap herself — Qi Rui-Feng was a rich man who could use hammer boosters all the time when he played Anipop . Would a person like that need to have a private nest egg?
Sure enough, Qi Rui-Feng was giving her a 'you just can't appreciate this' look . He said, "This book is very fun to read . "
"Really?" Yun Duo flipped through a few pages, asking him as she scanned the lines, "What do you like about it?"
"I can identify very strongly with the character . "
"You i-i-i-i-identify with the character?!" Yun Duo was about to piss herself in shock . "Great God, please don't scare me . How do you manage to identify with this . . . little maiden Bing Xue-Er?"
"It's Dongfang Haotian! The one I identify with is Dongfang Haotian!" Qi Rui-Feng stared at her like she was an idiot .
"Oh, right, right . " Yun Duo knocked on her head . "A domineering CEO, yes, that's definitely you," she said soothingly . And then, she focused in on the parts Dongfang Haotian played in the book and she could not help but laugh as she read . "Ahahaha, this person is such a ditz, not like a wolf at all . . . more like a husky . Still, a husky is really the closest planet-woof resident in terms of appearance to a wolf, so that's not actually wrong . Wolf-like CEO . . . can you lend me this book?"
"No can do . This book was borrowed from Xiang Yang-Yang . You can only read it after I'm done . "
"Sis Yang also likes this kind of book?"
"Yep, the one she identifies with is also Dongfang Haotian . "
Yun Duo felt that the world felt a little chaotic right now .
Speaking of Xiang Yang-Yang, Xiang Yang-Yang abruptly appeared . She passed by the doorway, tugging Ming Tian behind her by the ear . Ming Tian was howling at the pain, but his eyesight was as sharp as ever . He caught sight of Qi Rui-Feng and Yun Duo in the training room and yelled, "Big bro feng, help! Big sis Yun Duo, save me! Ow, ow, ow!"
When Xiang Yang-Yang heard Yun Duo's name, she naturally turned to look over, and seeing Yun Duo, she was very happy . "Hey, Yun Duo, why are you here? Looking for Yi-Bai?"
Yun Duo thought, 'Does the whole world know she's here to look for Tang Yi-Bai . . . ?'
Qi Rui-Feng said, "Xiang Yang-Yang, why are you bullying Ming Tian again?"
Xiang Yang-Yang said huffily, "Who's bullying him? You don't know what he's done! See," she said, opening her palm and showing it to them, "I spent over a month braiding this bracelet and he broke it! So much energy even before he has eaten . He's asking for a beating!"
In her hand laid two slender red braids . The pattern was a mess, slightly thicker than an earthworm but as ugly as an earthworm . If Xiang Yang-Yang had not told them, Yun Duo would find it very hard to believe that it was a bracelet .
Qi Rui-Feng said, "Such an ugly looking thing, it's not a shame it's been broken . "
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He said what Yun Duo was thinking but did not dare to say .
And so Xiang Yang-Yang whacked Qi Rui-Feng over the head .
Yun Duo quickly said, "Sis yang-Yang, I can teach you how to braid it prettier . " Using thin threads to braid bracelets had been her pastime in high school — this would be peanuts to her .
Xiang Yang-Yang perked up again when she heard what Yun Duo said . She very quickly brought out some threads for Yun Duo to demonstrate . Yun Duo was rather speechless . Why would two well-known athletes bring things like a CEO novel and craft thread to training? How wilful . She looked at Ming Tian, wondering what this little fellow had brought .
Ming Tian rubbed his ear and then took out a piece of candy from a pocket . He tore open the packaging, threw the candy into his mouth, and began chewing . Pfft — he blew a large bubble .
Yun Duo: -_-
She always felt like she wasn't here visiting the national team but rather the kindergarten attached to the national team . . .
At this same moment, Tang Yi-Bai finished his shower and changed his clothes . He did not hurry to go meet Yun Duo though, instead sneakily going to seek out Wu Yong .
Wu Yong was surprised . "Tell me, what's with your secretive expression like you are going out to steal a melon? Aren't you going out on a date?"
"Coach Wu, can I ask you for a favour?"
Wu Yong rolled his eyes . "Never anything good! I'll hear you out . "
"It's like this . This is the first time Yun Duo and I are going out on a date . I want to give her some flowers as a surprise . "
Wu Yong said huffily, "What does you giving her flowers have to do with me? Are you here just to brag? To torment this bachelor?"
"No, I . . . don't have any flowers . "
"Go buy some then! Asking me such a lame retarded question, did you graduate primary school?"
"It's like this . If I go buy flowers, Yun Duo will see me do it, then it won't be a surprise anymore . "
Wu Yong thought about it and realised what was going on . He glared straight-on at Tang Yi-Bai, grieved anger in his eyes . "This old man has lived for 40 years, and I'm still not as good as you at dating! Damn it!"
Tang Yi-Bai said, "So, Coach Wu . . . "
"Easy," Wu Yong waved a hand, "You want flowers? There are lots of Chinese roses in the flower beds outside . Go cut them youself . If anything goes wrong, you can blame it on me . "
Tang Yi-Bai sweatdropped . What could go wrong in cutting some Chinese roses?! He shook his head and said, "I don't want Chinese roses . "
"Then what do you want?"
"I want regular roses . "
Wu Yong raged, "Bastard, there are no roses!"
"There are . "
"Where?"
"Matron Yuan has a pot of them . They're in bro Feng's training room . "
Wu Yong knew this . Matron Yuan cared for that pot of flowers like it was filled with gold, otherwise the roses would not still be blooming so beautifully in autumn . Wu Yong looked at Tang Yi-Bai with awe . "You've got guts, daring to even covet something of Matron Yuan's . You're not afraid she'll kill you?"
"Of course I am . That's why I want you to help me be a lookout . I'm just going to take just one . "
Wu Yong shook his head . "You're almost about to become a saint of love . "
Tang Yi-Bai had just nabbed a girlfriend today and he was already showing off whenever and wherever he could . "This is why I have a girlfriend and you don't . "
" . . . Fuck!"
Before Matron Yuan even had the chance to hit Tang Yi-Bai, Wu Yong had already given him a beat down . After that, the two of them headed to the training room . Wu Yong stayed outside as a lookout . Tang Yi-Bai entered and cut one of the loveliest blooms . After that, he carefully trimmed the stem to make sure that looked good and that it wouldn't prick Yun Duo's hands . When that was done, he carefully placed the flower into his bag .
Mission accomplished, he went off to look for Yun Duo .
Yun Duo was chatting with Xiang Yang-Yang and the others . Xiang Yang-Yang, Qi Rui-Feng, and Ming Tian still did not know that Tang Yi-Bai and Yun Duo were already a couple — as soon as they heard that the two was going to go out for dinner, the three of them instantly revealed the intention of crashing the dinner .
Yun Duo did not dare to agree, and Tang Yi-Bai finally showed up . Tang Yi-Bai did not even need to look at the trio to know what them fools were plotting . He said with a grin, "Sorry, we're going on a date today . "
The jaws of the three dropped . Their gazes contained shock, realisation, and also a hint of envy .
Tang Yi-Bai walked over to take Yun Duo's hand in his . Under the intent stares of three pairs of eyes, they calmly left .
Holding his girlfriend's hand, bidding farewell to a bunch of singletons . . . In that instant, he felt like a winner in life .