Chapter 3: Broken Heart is a Little Thing That Happens Over and Over Again
"Achuan, do you feel a little embarrassed? I just heard Mark and the others say that Reese Reddington is the small forward of the DK University basketball team! You know small forwards, right? They are good at scoring! And the DK University basketball team is a strong team in the NCAA basketball league and has reached the semi-finals more than ten times! Although DK has been declining in the league in recent years, it is said that it entered the top eight again last year!" Zhou Bin comforted.
"Yeah! Yeah! And Reese Reddington was very famous in high school. He entered DK because of his expertise in basketball! So it's normal to lose to this guy!"
"Hey... I'm fine! Don't worry!" Nie Chuan put his arms around his two friends, turned his head and looked in the direction of Serin.
At this time, Serin was watching the video recorded on her phone with great interest. Several girls gathered together and couldn't hide their excitement. Serin pursed her lips, her eyes full of longing.
Nie Chuan's face suddenly fell.
Zhou Bin and Mao Xian sighed at the same time, patted Nie Chuan on the shoulder and said, "This is just idol worship, you don't need to mind it!"
"Yes, yes! Reese Reddington's appearance is more in line with the aesthetic tastes of European and American girls!" Mao Xian's last sentence deeply touched Nie Chuan.
"Selin is a European and American girl..." Nie Chuan lowered his head.
Zhou Bin glared at Mao Xian, meaning "If you don't know how to speak, don't talk nonsense."
Although Nie Chuan was hit hard by Reese Reddington's basketball skills, he recovered quickly. After all, basketball is not his field. If it was really an online game, Nie Chuan guaranteed that he could beat Reese severely!
He forced a smile and walked towards Serin, mustering up the courage to ignore the failure just now: "Hey! Serin, do you want to go eat Chinese teppanyaki with us?"
Serin smiled at Nie Chuan: "I really want to go, but..."
In the past few months since coming to the United States, Nie Chuan has also learned to ignore the nice first half of Americans' words and focus on what comes after the "but".
"But my friends and I have made an appointment to practice cheerleading dance together."
"Huh? What cheerleading team are you guys joining?"
"Of course it's the cheerleaders of the DK basketball team!" Speaking of the DK basketball team, Seren's face was full of joy, even a little shy, "But I really didn't expect to see Reese Reddington and Carlo Brandon today! They are so handsome! I knew nothing about basketball, but after seeing Reese's dunk, I fell in love with basketball!"
Nie Chuan's smile froze on his face. A cold wind blew through his heart, and a few dead leaves floated by.
After Serin and her classmates left, Zhou Bin and Mao Xian patted Nie Chuan on the shoulder.
"Achuan, it will be better next time." Mao Xian thought for a long time and finally squeezed out these words which had no comforting effect.
"It will be better next time? How will it be better! Who lied to me and told me that I could find a blonde girlfriend with big breasts and a big butt when I arrived in America!" Nie Chuan turned around and glared at Mao Xian.
Mao Xian took two steps back, smiled and said, "Cerin isn't blonde, her breasts are barely okay, and her butt isn't big either..."
Nie Chuan looked up to the sky, and really felt that it was enough.
Half a year ago, he came to the United States with his parents. He was looking forward to having a blonde girlfriend, but ideals are full of plumpness, and in reality there is no meat to eat!
The first girl he had a crush on was named Lily, whom he met while jogging in the morning.
Lily was very enthusiastic and patient in listening to Nie Chuan speaking English. With her help, Nie Chuan's spoken English improved rapidly. But two weeks later, when Nie Chuan confessed his love, Lily regretfully told him that she liked the captain of the school's rugby team!
Nie Chuan, who was unwilling to give up, wanted to continue pursuing Lily, so he came to the door of the coffee shop that Lily often visited with a bunch of roses.
It turned out to be a stupid decision.
When Lily appeared in front of him with her tall and strong boyfriend, he glared at Nie Chuan fiercely as a warning. Nie Chuan was so scared that he felt sick and almost vomited on the rose he was holding.
From then on, Nie Chuan never did morning exercises again.
The second girl he liked was named Lucy. They met in the library. Lucy's profile was very beautiful when she sat by the window of the library reading a book. Whenever Nie Chuan passed by the library, he would unconsciously sing that song in his mind when he looked up and saw Lucy's figure. Nie Chuan, who never went to the library to read, borrowed a bunch of messy books for the first time and sat next to Lucy.
After a week, he finally passed a note to Lucy: Your profile is so beautiful when you sit by the windowsill, can I be friends with you?
A minute later, Lucy passed the note back. When Nie Chuan unfolded the note with trepidation, he felt an urge to spurt blood: I have been practicing this pose by the window for a long time, so that Wade from the swimming team can see me when he passes by the library after training.
That night, Nie Chuan hugged his two brothers and ate three big bowls of rice until he was full and burst into tears.
Mao Xian asked helplessly, "Hey, buddy, do you like textbooks so much? Why are there only Lily and Lucy? Could the next one be Pola?"
"What is Bola?" Nie Chuan couldn't remember the character Bola in the textbook at all.
Zhou Bin replied coldly: "Pola is the bird that Lily and Lucy raised."
Nie Chuan: “…”
The third girl that Nie Chuan liked was Pola...well, no, it was Lydia, a girl with beautiful features, short hair and a pretty face.
Once, Nie Chuan's bicycle broke down, and he struggled for a long time on the small road in the school but couldn't fix it. Lydia passed by him on her bicycle, stopped, and fixed Nie Chuan's bicycle in two or three minutes. This touched Nie Chuan greatly, and he joined Lydia's bicycle club.
Nie Chuan investigated carefully and found that Lydia had no boyfriend. She didn't seem to be interested in any members of the football team or swimming team, so Nie Chuan confessed his feelings boldly.
Lydia punched Nie Chuan on the chest with her fist: "What are you doing! I treat you as a sister! And I have someone I like!"
What? Sisters? How could Nie Chuan look like a woman? How could they be considered sisters? This was such a shame!
"I don't believe it! Who do you like?" Nie Chuan asked persistently.
You can say you don’t like me, but don’t use others as an excuse to reject me!
Lydia pressed her forehead and said helplessly: “My girlfriend is on the school fencing team…”
"Wait? Your 'girlfriend'?" Nie Chuan felt that he had heard wrongly.
"Yeah, my girlfriend... I'm only interested in girls, don't you know?"
Nie Chuan's worldview was shattered.
"Hey... this is America! Why do you look so surprised?"
All of Nie Chuan's beautiful expectations for love were shattered. He ate chocolates while hugging his quilt at night and hurt his stomach. He never rode his bicycle again until it rusted and was sold by Nie's mother at a low price.
Until Celine showed up.
Serin had beautiful long hair. When he first moved upstairs in Nie Chuan's house, he once rushed past Nie Chuan while answering a phone call. Her long hair brushed against Nie Chuan's cheek. The feeling at that moment was... indescribable. What surprised Nie Chuan even more was that Serin and he went to the same university, DK.
Judging from Serin's performance today, her interest in Reese Reddington is far beyond the ordinary. She even wants to join the cheerleading team? Nie Chuan can already imagine that the probability of failure of his confession is as high as 100%.
He hates these sports!
What about the football team! Screw the swimming team and the basketball team!
Nie Chuan was walking home with a desolate heart, Zhou Bin and Mao Xian following behind him.
Zhou Bin felt around in his backpack, found a piece of soft chocolate, and stuffed it into Nie Chuan's hand.
"Achuan! Eat a bar of chocolate to replenish your energy! We must challenge this unfair world to the end!" Zhou Bin's voice was full of positive energy.
"Yeah." Nie Chuan nodded and tore open the bag of chocolate. Before he put it in his mouth, it bent and fell on Nie Chuan's T-shirt. "Oh my god! If I stain my T-shirt, my mom will kill me!"
Mao Xian reached out and caught the falling chocolate: "Achuan! What should I do?"
"What should I do? Of course I have to eat it!" Nie Chuan lowered his head and was about to lick it.
"Wait, don't lick me! It's disgusting!" Maoxian threw away the chocolate in his hand.
Nie Chuan showed a disappointed expression and could only unwrap the wrapping paper and lick the inside clean.
Zhou Bin breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, Nie Chuan didn't think about being completely defeated and Seren's obsession with Reese Reddington, so he didn't have to eat ten big barbecued pork buns or anything.
"Nie Chuan, I have some fruit candies here, do you want some?" Mao Xian took out a candy from his pocket.
"Yes, yes, yes! Give it to me!" Nie Chuan unwrapped the candy wrapper, threw it into his mouth, and continued walking forward with the candy in his pocket.
Zhou Bin shook his head helplessly: "This guy is really flooded with beauty and becomes brilliant when given a bar of chocolate. Once the scar heals, he will never remember the pain."
"Are you scolding him?"
"No, I'm praising him."
At this time, Carlo was driving, and Reese was holding his chin and looking out the window quietly.
It was already dark, and the street lights swept across Reese's mysterious eyes again and again.
"Hey, I say, were you too serious with that kid today?" Carlo glanced at Reese and asked casually.
"I don't."
"You didn't? What happened to the last ball? Was it because he almost got past you?"
"He can't get past me."
"But he did great the last time, didn't he? You took it seriously because he almost passed you at that moment! Even I wasn't sure I could succeed."
"So he failed." Reese's answer sounded like it was only natural.
"Hey...he's still a kid. Your dunk made him fall to the ground! It would be such a pity if he had a psychological trauma and never played basketball again!" Carlo said worriedly.
"Do you really want him to join our basketball team?"
"…Forget it. He looks so young, he probably hasn't even grown all the hair there yet! By the time he's able to join the basketball team, we should have graduated for many years, right?"
"Then you can rest assured that the college students who can enter DK are probably not children."
"What? A college student? Are you kidding? He's from DK too?"
Carlo gave a look that said "are you kidding me?"