SWNOVELXO 23: It's Gone Too Far
In the afternoon, Yuan Xiaoning decided not to attend class. She covered herself with a small blanket and went to sleep comfortably.
The teacher for this class was a young woman. Before starting the lesson, she looked around and noticed that a big-chested girl was absent.
“Why isn’t she in class… Oh right, she can’t come.”
The young teacher was also internet-savvy and quickly understood the reason: “Those in her dormitory, remember to take notes back for her.”
It was quite normal to be unable to attend afternoon classes after being suddenly raided in the dormitory at midday.
On the contrary, in the Sports Department, people were surprised to see Bai Ling fully dressed and ready for PE class on the field.
Even the class monitor gave her an approving look:
“This is how we sports students are.”
This PE class was shared with the Business Administration Department. Compared to the sports students, the liberal arts girls found it even more incredible.
“Is her stamina really that good? Even though she’s a sports student, she looks so frail.”
“Looking at her… emmmm, don’t you think Bai Ling seems much prettier than before?”
“Now that you mention it, it’s true. I remember there was a photo on the forum, taken from the news, titled ‘The Unfortunate Young Lady Who Lost Her Entire Family’.”
“Yes, I remember too. In that photo, her hair was a mess, her eyes were bloodshot, and she had dark circles.”
“She used to look like that, but she’s different since coming back from the holiday.”
“Hehe, maybe this is the glow of being in love.”
“To be honest, why do I find her a bit handsome now? Even with long hair, she has such a cool vibe…”
“Hey hey, don’t tell me you’re into girls too.”
Listening to her classmates’ playful banter, Zhang Shanshan clenched her fists.
Why was it like this? The Bai girl should have been disgraced, how could this…
Moreover, because of her post, many people’s attention was drawn to Bai Ling, discovering that this formerly gloomy, ordinary girl was different from before. After cleaning up, she became very attractive, even more popular now.
Why! Why!
A basketball rolled to her feet, and a boy from the nearby basketball court waved:
“Hey, beautiful, could you throw that over?”
He called her beautiful, but his gaze was fixed on the prettier girl next to her.
That was her classmate, who had made it to the top eight in the campus beauty contest. Somehow, Zhang Shanshan was reminded of what Yuan Xiaoning had said before, about not even remembering her opponents in the top 64, saying you’d need to at least reach the top eight or four to be worth remembering.
In that moment, Zhang Shanshan’s eyes were blinded by anger. She saw Bai Ling walking in front of her, with her back turned. She picked up the ball and threw it forcefully at the back of Bai Ling’s head.
“Ah!!”
“Watch out!”
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“Huff huff, mmm, hmm.”
Yuan Xiaoning woke up, looked at the sky outside the window, and it was about class dismissal time, just right.
Not wanting to get up, she took out her phone to play, but as soon as she connected to the internet, notifications from the forum kept popping up in the background.
“Why are so many people tagging me,” the blonde girl was confused, “What’s going on.”
She opened the forum and saw many posts from this afternoon on the homepage, all seemingly related to Bai Ling.
Among the dense post titles, Yuan Xiaoning seemed to see the words “she’s so cool”.
Strange, what did Bai Ling do? Did she use Flash to jump over a wall and gank top lane or something?
She clicked on the post with the most replies, which contained a video.
During PE class, Zhang Shanshan suddenly picked up a basketball from the ground, her face contorted, and threw it with all her might at the back of Bai Ling’s head.
The person filming let out a cry of alarm, and surrounding girls screamed. Just as a tragedy seemed about to unfold, Bai Ling suddenly caught the basketball with her hand behind her back.
Well, from the filmer’s perspective, Bai Ling just slightly raised her hand in the opposite direction, and the basketball was caught.
She turned around, her gaze as cold as if looking at a dead person.
Zhang Shanshan was scared, but her mouth was still defiant: “What are you going to…”
Whoosh—!
Bai Ling flicked her hand, and the basketball flew past Zhang Shanshan’s face at a lethal speed, the air pressure cutting off a strand of her hair. Zhang Shanshan was terrified, standing motionless.
After doing this, Bai Ling turned and walked away as if nothing had happened.
Finally, the camera gave a close-up of the basketball she threw hitting the wall behind, directly punching a hole in it.
“Yuan Xiaoning! Yuan Xiaoning!”
Her roommates Gu Hui and Qiao Lili had returned. As soon as she entered, Gu Hui excitedly said: “Do you know what happened this afternoon…”
“I know, I know,” Yuan Xiaoning interrupted her, “I just saw it on the forum.”
The usually quiet Qiao Lili also said: “Wow, it’s too exaggerated. She just raised her hand like that, then threw it, how can she have so much strength?”
Yuan Xiaoning thought to herself, what does it have to do with her hand? It’s just telekinesis. Raising her hand was just for show; she didn’t actually catch it with her hand.
“By the way, I understand you now,” Gu Hui said to Yuan Xiaoning, “With her having such strength in her hands, your condition, also…”
“You being able to last that long is already very strong,” Qiao Lili blurted out frankly.
Gu Hui silently glanced at her, meaning ‘you really have no tact, doesn’t our roommate need to save face?’
Sure enough, Yuan Xiaoning was stunned for a moment, realizing that the “battle situation” from noon today must have been overheard by these two at the door.
The blonde girl’s face couldn’t hold up for a moment.
“Well, actually, I wasn’t in good condition today, I didn’t eat enough lunch.”
“Yes, that’s right,” Gu Hui agreed.
“If I had eaten a banana before returning to the dorm, my condition would have been different.”
“You’re right, bananas are nutritious,” Qiao Lili chimed in.
She wanted to learn emotional intelligence too.
Yuan Xiaoning: “Moreover, the competition format doesn’t suit me. You can tell from our physiques, she has strong explosive power, but I excel in endurance battles.”
Gu Hui: “That’s right, bo1 is too rushed.”
Qiao Lili: “In a bo5, she’d definitely be crying.”
“Who would be crying?”
The three girls looked towards the door to see the frail-looking white-haired girl standing quietly at the doorway, holding a bag.
“We were saying…”
Qiao Lili was about to speak when Gu Hui, quick-witted, covered her mouth: “Nothing, we were just discussing a match.”
“That’s right, we were talking about G2 playing matches,” Qiao Lili broke free and said seriously, “Winning a bo1 in the major is too rushed, come to MSI and get destroyed in a bo5.”
After saying this, she glared at Gu Hui, what did you think I was going to say? She has emotional intelligence, okay?
“Yes, yes, we were talking about matches. If you go back now, you can still catch the live stream,” Yuan Xiaoning also spoke up, “By the way, what are you doing here?”
Bai Ling put the bag she was carrying next to Yuan Xiaoning’s bed. Steam was still rising from it.
“I heard you asked for leave and hadn’t gotten up in the dorm, so I brought you some dinner.”