“An Ling, An Ling?”
Li Yang looked at her dozing against the tree trunk and softly called her name twice.
She didn’t wake.
It seemed she really was tired.
The 1000-meter final had already ended.
Li Yang had taken third place.
There was no helping it.
Almost everyone who made it to the finals was a professional sports student.
Him getting into the top three was already an overperformance.
After the race, he had noticed An Ling seemed listless, so he had brought her to sit and rest under the same tree they had used yesterday.
He hadn’t expected that in the short time he went to buy snacks, An Ling would fall asleep against the trunk.
Yesterday he had fallen asleep lying here and so many things had happened.
Today An Ling was sitting here asleep instead.
But An Ling slept very quietly.
She probably wouldn’t sleepwalk and pull someone into her arms the way he had.
Li Yang couldn’t help squatting down in front of her, looking at that peacefully sleeping, cute little face.
Her eyelashes were very long, casting a small fan-shaped shadow under her eyes.
Her skin was delicate, almost no pores visible.
Her nose bridge was small and straight.
Her lips were slightly pursed, the corners seeming to carry a faint, almost invisible curve.
Was she having some sweet dream?
This guy.
No wonder he suspected her so much.
She didn’t look like a boy at all.
Ignoring those fluffy ears and tail that made one unable to resist excitement, just looking at this face, absolutely no one would take her for a boy.
Her features were too delicate.
Her skin was too white and fine.
The shape of her lips was too soft.
Her frame was also small.
Narrow shoulders.
And that slender waist he had felt when he held her during training these past few days, so thin it could be grasped in one hand.
Thinking of this, his throat couldn’t help rolling up and down.
He forcibly pushed those messy thoughts down.
Looking at her ears and tail, Li Yang also wondered whether he would be discovered if he touched them while she was asleep.
Forget it.
With the way she is today, if she woke up it would scare her.
He sat down beside An Ling, twisted open a bottle of iced cola, and gulp gulp drank it to release his restlessness.
His gaze still flicked over from time to time, checking whether An Ling had woken.
The playground broadcast occasionally carried the announcer’s voice, mixed with cheers and shouts of encouragement.
It was extremely lively.
An Ling slept very deeply, completely unaffected.
After about thirty minutes, her eyelashes trembled, then she slowly opened her eyes.
“Awake?”
Li Yang’s voice came from beside her.
An Ling groggily turned her head and saw Li Yang sitting next to her.
“I… seem to have fallen asleep.”
She rubbed her eyes.
“What do you mean ‘seem’? You were sleeping like a little pig. I called you and you wouldn’t wake up.”
Li Yang said.
“Mm…”
An Ling was still groggy and hadn’t realized Li Yang was teasing her.
“Is it time for the competition?”
An Ling asked.
“It’s not afternoon yet. You can sleep a little more if you want.”
An Ling shook her head. “No more sleeping. Sleeping here is uncomfortable.”
The tree trunk was hard.
After waking, An Ling felt the shoulder that had been against the trunk was a little sore.
“Then want to take a walk?”
Li Yang invited An Ling for a stroll. “Wander around a bit and wake up.”
During the sports meet most students would be on the playground.
Occasionally some would rest in the teaching building.
There were patrol teachers, and you couldn’t play on your phone in the teaching building, so most students participated in the activities on the field.
Outside of holiday time, a quiet school was rare.
“Alright.”
An Ling grabbed the hand Li Yang held out and stood up.
“I’ll wander around with this boring guy for a bit. Cherish it well. My time is very precious. One minute is a full zero yuan, give or take.”
“Then thank you, Boss An, for giving us face. This humble one will take you on a tour of our school.”
“Alright, Little Yang-zi, lead the way.”
An Ling said with a smile, her eyes curving into cute crescents.
“Okay~, Grand Eunuch An.”
Li Yang deliberately raised his voice, imitating a eunuch’s tone to play along with her.
The haze left from yesterday scattered under this joke.
An Ling snatched the snacks from Li Yang’s hand and ran out.
“Hehe, they’re mine now. The small one offers tribute to the big one. Little Yang-zi can just honestly watch me eat.”
“Damn, there’s a thief.”
An Ling ran out with the snacks.
Li Yang pretended to be furious and chased after her, but he didn’t run fast.
He gave her a Pacific Ocean of a head start.
Anyway, he had bought them for her to eat.
An Ling ran two steps and then stopped.
She opened the pack of dried strawberries and crunch crunch started eating.
Li Yang slowly ran over and stood beside her. “Tasty?”
“Tasty.”
An Ling stuffed another piece into her mouth, chewing with a crisp sound. “Just a bit dry.”
Li Yang pulled a bottle of water from his pocket and handed it to her.
An Ling took it, unscrewed the cap, drank a sip, then continued eating.
The two of them walked through the teaching building.
When they saw a patrol teacher they still couldn’t help lowering their heads and speeding up, even though they weren’t doing anything bad.
“Look at you, stealing food while hiding. Don’t you look like a mouse?”
“You’re the mouse!”
An Ling elbowed him, then jumped away to dodge his counterattack.
After playing around for a while, An Ling was truly tired.
The exercise these past two days had still improved her stamina a little.
If it had been before, running that short distance would have already tired her out.
Now she could keep elbowing back and forth with Li Yang a bit longer.
Run a little, jump a little, play a little, and her mood improved.