Chapter 36 – SenLan Technological University"s Swimming Complex
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SenLan Technological University was the newest addition to the college town, their facilities were of course the newest ones as well, and the modern design of places like the swimming complex was also the most luxurious out of all five schools.
Compared to SenLan"s indoor standard eight-lane pool, YanShan"s swimming pool looked like it was a random hole outdoors.
Even LuoMing Sport Inst.i.tution"s open-air swimming complex was slightly better than YanShan"s, in this matter, YanShan with a hundred years of history was the loser.
Therefore, most of the inter-school compet.i.tions were mostly held in SenLan, occasionally in the sports school as well.
Today was SenLan"s internal swimming qualifiers for the college town"s compet.i.tion.
The qualifiers were not open to public, there was only a notice that the swimming pool was not available for use, there were not many people watching the compet.i.tion, most of them were friends and family like XuXian.
When XuXian and the others arrived at the swimming complex, the compet.i.tion had yet to start, the compet.i.tors were all warming up.
Upon entering, LingYang suddenly felt that this trip was very fruitful.
Such a beautiful place, why did he always refuse to enter?
Swimmers" physiques were the best out of all athletes… At least this was LingYang"s opinion.
Broad shoulders, muscular biceps, supple pecs, perfect abs, firm thighs and smooth calf lines, they all called out to LingYang.
Also, as they were often submerged in water, their skin tended to be very good, looking at them really gave people the urge to touch them.
LingYang felt that if he continued looking, he was about to get a nosebleed.
XuXian silently tugged BaiLong to stand at a slight distance from the boy-crazy LingYang, he was determined to not let people think that they were there together.
He confidently brought them to the spot where YeLang usually used, as expected, YeLang"s bag was there.
This childhood friend of his, because of his family background, tend to be quite particular about his clothes and dressing. He was pretty fashionable, but it was a little low-key, most people would not be able to identify it.
But his external appearance did not match his inner self, single-minded and conservative, once he chose a spot, he would only sit there, nothing could move him.
His first love was Little Dragon Girl, nothing could be said about this. Placing Little Dragon Girl stickers on his pencil case when he was young and things like that, such words were forbidden, if you mentioned any of these, you would die.
In college when everyone else was dating, he had an online relationship instead, one that lasted for half a year, and they had even not met each other…
XuXian did not oppose LingYang"s interest in his own childhood friend out of selfishness, but because he doubted that such a person who was so resistant to change, having been straight for twenty years, how could he become gay so easily?
Although XuXian had not known LingYang for a very long time, but their friendship was close as though they had known each other for ever. His feelings for LingYang were no less than that for YeLang, so he did not want to see his good friend walking into this dead-end.
LingYang looked around, he finally found YeLang, as he was wearing a swimming cap and swimming goggles, he was not easily recognisable.
YeLang was wearing speedos, LingYang cried internally, upon entering he discovered that most people were wearing full-suit sharkskins– You might as well go skiing if you"re wearing so much, why are you still swimming?
Luckily his YeLang did not disappoint him.
After seeing him, he suddenly felt that all those handsome guys he saw just now were just clouds pa.s.sing in the sky.
That figure, he clicked his tongue.
He did not know which stroke was YeLang focused on, it would be the best if it was the b.u.t.terfly stroke, people who trained in b.u.t.terfly had great strength in their waists.
BaiLong appeared next to him ominously, “You"ve been talking out loud.”
“What?!”
“I"m lying.”
“…”
“One look and people would know that you"re having filthy thoughts.”
“f.u.c.k!”
“YangYang, BaiLong said that you used to swim.”
“Yes, I"m very good at swimming, did he tell you that I looked like a mermaid when I swim?”
“Then why would you start fainting when you get close to water?”
“Because I accidentally ate a devil fruit!”
“… So what special ability did you get?”
LingYang covered his face mournfully, “I ate a human-human fruit, other than becoming unable to swim, there"s nothing else thankfully.”
XuXian: =_,=
(T/N: Human-Human fruit is a One Piece reference.)
YeLang"s compet.i.tion was about to start, as this was an internal compet.i.tion, everyone had to partic.i.p.ate in many events, then selecting the most suitable events, they would enter the later compet.i.tions. YeLang"s main event was freestyle, together with a relay and a mixed compet.i.tion.
Since young, XuXian felt that YeLang looked the best while swimming, especially during the freestyle, his movements were smooth and elegant, a combination of hard and soft, indescribably pleasant to the eyes.
He thought that LingYang would definitely take to opportunity to go crazy over him, but instead he was only watching silently, surprisingly quiet.
XuXian nearly thought LingYang had a personality change, until…
“Why must the design of the swimming trunks be briefs instead of thongs?” LingYang pondered seriously.
He was a little loud when asking this question, the swimming complex was huge, the crowd was small, LingYang"s voice was pretty much amplified, even the echo could be heard clearly. Many people around them heard him, causing laughter around them.
BaiLong pulled a card out of somewhere, there were five words on it: We"re unfamiliar with each other. This was clearly written for the crowd.
XuXian looked at him, startled, “Where did you get this card from?”
BaiLong threw the card behind him, “Personal dimension.”
YeLang was always in the water talking to his coach, after noticing the disturbance, he swam towards them, diving into the water from a distance of over ten metres, he quickly came up near them, his arms resting on the wall.
Lifting his goggles onto his forehead, “Little Xian, pa.s.s me the key in the bag.”
XuXian groped around YeLang"s waterproof bag, he pulled out a key attached to a rubber band, “This one?”
“Yes.”
XuXian was about to move forward, his hand was caught by BaiLong, the key was s.n.a.t.c.hed away as well and thrown to LingYang, “You go.”
LingYang stared at him, unhappy.
“Just admit it if you"re scared.”
LingYang grabbed the key and headed to the pool.
“Thanks.”
YeLang took the key and placed it around his wrist, swimming towards the changing room. LingYang continued standing there, looking down at the pool, thinking about something.
He suddenly felt someone pushing him from the back, without any preparation LingYang fell into the water.
YeLang heard the noise behind him, turning around he saw LingYang falling into the water.
Weirder was, whether a person knew how to swim or not, when falling into the water they would struggle out of reflex, but LingYang strangely was motionless, his still body sinking.
YeLang quickly headed back, lifting LingYang who had already curled up into a ball at the bottom of the pool up. BaiLong and XuXian were already standing by the pool, helping YeLang to lift him out.
The rescue was very fast, in principle, LingYang should not have any symptoms of drowning, at most he would have just choked on water, but at that moment his face was white, his eyes tightly closed, his breathing almost non-existent.
YeLang had never seen this situation before, but with so much training he was still able to react immediately.
He first clasped his hands and pressed against LingYang"s chest, pumping three times, then bent down ready to provide the kiss of life.
Just as he was about to come in contact with him, LingYang suddenly lifted his hand up placing it between the two of them, YeLang"s lips landing on the other person"s palm.
LingYang"s eyes slowly opened, water droplets still trapped between his eyelashes.
The two of them looked at each other for a long time in such a close distance, YeLang then realised something was not right, and hurriedly straightened his body.
“I didn"t choke on water,” LingYang placed his hand down, speaking slowly, without even a sign of a cough.
“You only wanted to suffocate,” BaiLong replied next to him.
LingYang closed his eyes, ignoring him, he was trying to overcome the sudden overwhelming nausea, he did not even want to say a single word.
“You get dizzy near water?” YeLang"s voice drifted down, there was even a change in his tone.
LingYang yelled oh no internally, struggling to open his eyes, as expected, he saw YeLang studying him with a complex look.
He suppressed his nausea, sitting up with a lot of effort, looking at YeLang directly.
“Is it very embarra.s.sing to get dizzy near water?”
“That"s not what I meant…”
“Science has shown that there"s 1 out of 98 people who would feel a sense of dizziness when near water. This has something to do with a person"s retinal sensitivity, I know many people like this.”
“… Really?”
YeLang"s expression clearly showed that he did not believe him, but LingYang no longer had the energy to explain any further, he only wanted to leave quickly, keeping as much of a distance away from water as possible, it no longer mattered to him if his ident.i.ty was exposed.
“Where are you going?” YeLang called out to him.
LingYang looked back, “Going back to change my clothes.”
“You"re going back like this?” YeLang frowned, looking at him dripping with water.
LingYang also looked down at himself, “If not?”
YeLang walked to his bag, taking a set of keys out and throwing them to XuXian, “Go to my dorm room and grab a set of clothes.”
Then he turned back to LingYang, “Go and take a shower, there"s chlorine in the water, it"s no good if your hair dries like this.”
“Public bathroom?” LingYang shook his head. “I"m not going.”
“Why?”
LingYang looked at his two a.s.sociates helplessly, but their faces had an expression of “We understand, we want to help you but we"re unable to do anything.”
“It"s our internal qualifiers today, there shouldn"t be anyone in the bathroom now.” Although YeLang did not understand, but he still tried to explain.
“Aren"t you somebody?” Just now when YeLang took the key he was clearly about to leave.
YeLang thought, why is this person so bashful?
“I"m also not an outsider.”
Finally LingYang still obediently followed YeLang, XuXian then glared at BaiLong unhappily.
“You know that he faints near water, but you still pushed him in?”
BaiLong maintained his indifferent att.i.tude, “This illness of his, it has to be cured.”
LingYang chose a shower that was the furthest away from YeLang.
YeLang studied him from afar, the last time they met each other, this person still held onto his hand without letting go. Now he was hiding from him, it really baffled him.
However, the thing that YeLang was paying the most attention to, was that LingYang and Bell, these two people both injured their fingers, and both of them get dizzy near water, this could no longer be explained by saying it was a coincidence.
At this moment, YeLang could nearly confirm his speculation…
After YeLang was done showering, he grabbed a towel to dry his hair and walked towards LingYang.
He had only brought a set of toiletries, just now LingYang requested for his towel, now LingYang saw that YeLang had shut off his water, he also quickly finished showering, grabbing the towel and wrapping it around his shoulder.
“Little Xian should be waiting in the changing room,” YeLang spoke.
LingYang nodded, he took the opportunity and headed out first. He did not want to have any awkward surprise waiting for him.
Too bad it backfired, YeLang who was following behind him accidentally stepped on the bubbles on the floor, he slipped, and happened to fall onto LingYang.
Luckily LingYang"s reaction was fast enough, he managed to grab the tap closest to him, the both of them did not fall onto the floor, preventing the cliche of an accidental contact.
But with this accident, the towel on LingYang"s back was yanked down by YeLang, his back completely exposed to him.
YeLang was stunned for a moment, unconsciously, he reached his hand out to touch it.
LingYang turned around and slapped YeLang"s wolf paw, “What are you touching.”
“What"s up with your scar?” YeLang could not help but ask.
“My dad hit me.”
“So harsh?” YeLang was shocked.
Also, that injury did not look like it was from a beating, but looked like cuts from something sharp.
YeLang did not believe that any father was fierce enough to use a knife on a son"s back, unless they were not blood-related.
“Does it have anything to do with you?”
“Is this why you refuse to enter public bathrooms?”
LingYang did not say anymore, he picked up the towel and wrapped it around himself tightly again.
XuXian and BaiLong were already waiting in the changing room, they took a few sets of YeLang"s clothes for LingYang to choose room, not forgetting to bring a pair of flip-flops. LingYang stopped upon seeing one of the shirts, hesitating for a bit, he grabbed it.
XuXian was also quite surprised, the other clothes were selected by him, that was the only one that was chosen by BaiLong, but that shirt did not look like it was special, it was an ordinary black long-sleeve shirt, a gold eagle was st.i.tched on the left, a few lines of english words that he did not understand at the bottom, and finally there were four big digits: 1923. YeLang bought this shirt in high school, he had seen YeLang wore it a few times.
YeLang was only slightly taller than LingYang, but he was more muscular than him, especially his upper body, so LingYang could not fill out his clothes.
“If I continued swimming, I could also have this figure now.” LingYang spoke in front of the mirror, dissatisfied.
“So you"re going to swim?” BaiLong provoked him.
“I"ll return it to you when I get back,” LingYang pointed at the clothes, telling YeLang.
“Up to you.”
LingYang ignored the other two, he stored his wet clothes in a bag and left immediately.
YeLang could not help but ask XuXian, “LingYang is part of the underworld?”
XuXian was unsure why he would suddenly ask this question and got a fright, “It can"t be, isn"t he from a military family?”
“So why is there a scar on his back, this length,” YeLang used his thumb and index finger to show the size. “It looked like a cut?”
XuXian had lived with LingYang for a few months and also did not discover this. Bewildered, he turned towards BaiLong, “There"s a scar on YangYang"s back?”
BaiLong nodded, “In our second year of high school, we went to the beach to swim during the school break. The weather changed suddenly and waves appeared, he was cut by something unknown then.”
XuXian suddenly realised, “This is the reason for his dizziness when he"s near water?”
“Correct.”
XuXian then thought of something else, “And also the reason he faints when seeing blood?”
This BaiLong had never heard about it, “Maybe, when he was rescued he was bleeding a lot.”
“Then why does he faint on planes?”
BaiLong raised his brow, “Faint on planes? What else did he say he faint on seeing? I"ve told you already, you can"t believe everything LingYang says.”
“Right, little Xian,” YeLang suddenly spoke. “The last time you told me LingYang"s finger was broken, which finger was it?”
“Why are you asking this?”
“Curious.”
“Let me think, the one he injured was…” XuXian raised his left hand, slowly kneading his fingers and recalling. “The left hand"s…”
The author has something to say:
Thank you everyone for your messages and support, many of them are very interesting, but because I"ve been taking care of a patient so I didn"t have time to reply to everyone of them, please excuse me.
Everyone seem to be paying attention to the same thing, I"ll take this opportunity to reply:
XiaoGe: This is a new supporting character, QiFeng"s 3V3 partner, just a slightly more important pa.s.serby, there"s no need to pay attention to him.
BaiLong: He"s a playboy on the outside, a loyal dog on the inside, LingYang had also mentioned this before. Actually there"s many people like this in real life, guys full of dirty jokes tend to be more decent on the inside, so there"s no need to feel that he"s of a poor character because of his flirtatious words online. You cannot judge a book by it"s cover, Little White Dragon is also not a Paperman.
YeLang: According to YeLang"s character, once he falls in love he would definitely fall deeply, no matter what the other person says he would believe it, that"s right, what I"m implying is, I know that you all think he"s stupid enough already, but there"s more room for him to be even more stupid.
LingYang: To readers he might be starting from zero, but to LingYang, he"s a loser whose confession to his childhood friend of 16 years was just rejected, how much courage do you think he has to once again confess to a straight guy that he is his wife? He"s currently somewhat tangled in this web, but I think that this entanglement is reasonable. If he directly confessed his ident.i.ty this would then be out of character, because he cannot afford to lose this gamble again. It"s fun to remove the antelope skin, but even with the antelope skin on he can still enjoy some romance.
If you don"t want to see two idiots falling in love, and only want to see two crazies rolling on the bed, why don"t you come back later? The author doesn"t draw RMB, so there"s no way of satisfying everybody (You think everyone would be satisfied with the RMB you draw!)
[Battle] throws landmine x5… Aborted, 4 are dummies, only one scored a hit.
[Battle] has a landmine in the left, a landmine in the right, a hand grenade in the mouth, yelling “Fire at me!”
(Yelling with a hand grenade, this high difficulty move, how was it accomplished…)
[Battle] There"s still a mine backstage, there"s no indication in front, the ID indicated is different, looking at the account name it seems like Today"s Loot:
Recently chances of double chapters dropping is higher, it"s actually the author"s inner anguish, the result of waking up early everyday due to insomnia, did you guys see the sorrow between the lines of words?