Chapter 4: The irresistible charm of "younger brother" 1
"I'm hungry, go buy me some bread!"
"I heard that the fried chicken steak shop that just opened next to the school is delicious. Hurry up and buy me a piece. I want it to burst!"
“Why don’t you text me back?”
"You have ten minutes to buy me some chicken."
Buzz buzz buzz...buzz buzz buzz...
My phone kept vibrating on the floor. Yu Muchen's text messages flew over like death warrants, but I didn't want to answer them or read them. I was exhausted from completing the high-intensity training activities assigned to me by Xu Yasha, and I didn't want to do anything else.
What's more, he kicked me on the back with a football. Is that something a human being would do?
I get so angry when I think about this.
"Um...your cell phone seems to be ringing all the time." Jiang Shuang, the girl who was "monitoring" me while I was practicing under Xu Yasha's order, kindly reminded me.
"Don't pay attention to it, let it ring until it runs out of battery." I replied breathlessly, wiping the sweat from my head so that it wouldn't blur my vision, and continued doing pull-ups. I've already done 60 of them. At this rate, I believe I will be able to see the last sunset when I go home today!
"Uh...what if it's something very important?" Jiang Shuang said worriedly. She was one of the few cheerleaders who treated me well.
"No, it's okay, it's not important, let him go." I continued to work hard, almost fainting. I don't want to answer this person's calls and texts anymore. I'm not a masochist. If he keeps ordering me around like this, I will resist.
"Well, well...if you, you really can't do it, I can secretly help you count a few more. Just don't tell the captain." Jiang Shuang probably saw that I was working too hard, so he lowered his voice and told me secretly.
"Thank you. But my basics are not good. I should practice more." I looked at Jiang Shuang gratefully. Even the team members who were not familiar with me could understand me, so why couldn't Yu Muchen do that? Not only did he not care about me, but he also took advantage of me when I was sad. Doesn't he feel guilty for doing these things?
"I'm afraid you'll faint like this." Jiang Shuang blinked, a little puzzled.
"Well, if you faint, remember to wake me up. I must complete the task given to me by Xu Yasha, 100 pull-ups a day. If I can't even do this, what else can I do in the future?" I paused for a moment and bit my lip. Just as I was about to continue to exert force to complete the rest of the exercise, there seemed to be a commotion in the gym .
"Ah——" A girl screamed from somewhere. After all, I worked so hard and was completely blind.
"Senior!"
"So handsome!" But after the first scream, these voices came one after another into my already dizzy head. Ah... who on earth is this? What's wrong with these crazy cheerleaders? And why do I feel that the screams are getting closer and closer to me?
I barely opened my eyes and saw that I almost fell off the horizontal bar and became a cripple!
The person who appeared in the gymnasium was none other than Yu Muchen, whom I had ignored for a long time.
"Tsk, what is this guy doing here..." I said to myself.
Was Yu Muchen coming here to question me why I didn't answer the phone or reply to text messages?
"Hey, why don't you answer my call!" Sure enough, when he was about ten meters away from me, he started his routine questioning.
"Can't you stand closer before talking?" I tried to speak out loud on the horizontal bar.
"Do you think I can get through?" That's right, Yu Muchen couldn't get through. He stood there, tightly surrounded by a group of girls... In this situation, it was indeed difficult to break through the encirclement of the crazy girls.
Yu Muchen looked at me with a complicated expression, and I couldn't guess what he was trying to do. He didn't look angry, nor did he look disgusted, but rather a little admiration and shock.
"You're amazing! I can't do many pull-ups. You're just a womanizer!" Yu Muchen said as the girl screamed. I don't know if he was praising me or what. What does he mean? Do you think I'm the reincarnation of a gorilla? Even if I am, there's no need to shout like that in the gym! Doesn't he understand the modesty of women?
And I don’t know why, but I always feel that the way he looks at me is a little... I’m being self-indulgent, it’s like heartache... right?
No, it's impossible... I shook my head, trying to get rid of all these unrealistic and messy thoughts in my mind. When I glanced to the side, I saw the captain of the cheerleading team, the stunningly beautiful Xu Yasha, running towards Yu Muchen with a graceful figure.
"Darling - how come you have time to come here today? Did you see that I finally came back from Brazil and couldn't wait to see me?" Tsk tsk tsk, Xu Yasha can also speak in a coquettish tone, it's so annoying. Also, what did Xu Yasha call Yu Muchen? "Darling"? I got goose bumps.
"Hehe, stop shouting. You and I are not in that kind of relationship." Yu Muchen remained unmoved by the beauty in front of him. He was like Liu Xiahui reborn.
"How annoying! Do you want me to call you Xiao Chenchen?" Xu Yasha was like an octopus, pressing her soft and curvy body against Yu Muchen.
"Xiao Chenchen? Ugh——" I complained silently.
Yu Muchen looked like he was in great trouble.
"Oh, why are you so unhappy? Don't you even want to ask me if I missed you in Brazil? Oh, by the way, did you miss me? You must have, right?" Xu Yasha kept chattering beside Yu Muchen.
"No, don't block my way, I'm not here to see you..." Yu Muchen pushed Xu Yasha aside mercilessly and walked straight towards me after saying this harshly. He was willing to push away a beauty like Xu Yasha, and I kind of understood why he could "torture" me without any guilt.
"Come with me!" His tone made it impossible for me to refuse.
"B-but..." I haven't finished my pull-ups yet...and where do you want me to go with you?
As expected, I had no choice but to refuse, and he pulled me out.
"Hey, why are you so forceful?" I shouted from behind him.
"Shut up! If you have anything to say, come outside and talk! People in the school say that Xu Yasha is my rumored girlfriend, and I don't want to get entangled in this place any longer." Yu Muchen looked back and whispered.
"Ah? She is your girlfriend?" I was shocked!
"Shh! She's the rumored girlfriend, she's not my girlfriend! Women like this are so annoying, I can't even avoid her, okay?" Yu Muchen quickly covered my mouth with his hand, "Also, you are my girlfriend now, is your head full of glue? Have you forgotten this?" At this time, he still did not forget to warn me.
Suddenly, I felt like I was struck by lightning and everything clicked.
That’s it! So that’s how it is! All my previous doubts have been solved!
"Asshole, it's all because of you!" I wanted to go up and beat Yu Muchen a few times.
"What? Why are you so jumpy?" Yu Muchen glared at me unhappily.
"It's all because of you that I'm so unlucky! Why do the people in the cheerleading team completely ignore me, why does Xu Yasha have such great hostility towards me, why am I so unlucky every day to be assigned so many weird and high-intensity trainings! It's all because Xu Yasha is jealous of me! She likes you!" I roared angrily, full of indignation.
"What does it have to do with me? She likes me, not me who likes her." Yu Muchen still looked confused.
"Alas... it's all my own fault..." I let out a long sigh. This matter cannot be entirely blamed on Yu Muchen. If I hadn't taken a picture of Yu Muchen in the beginning and showed it off saying that he was my boyfriend, there wouldn't have been such a result.
Yu Muchen didn't care at all, he just dragged me out of the gymnasium in front of a group of girls. I think from today on, I will be bullied even more miserably... The setting sun shone on Yu Muchen's dark hair, outlining a circle of dazzling glitter, but I had no intention of appreciating it, only thinking about my own sad life in the future.
God, please save me!
Yu Muchen dragged me, walked silently for a long distance, and stopped only when he reached the flower bed of Shengxi College.
"I..." Turning around, Yu Muchen seemed to want to say something to me. His bottomless eyes were filled with some strange emotions, which made him look even more moving, like a deep spring, hiding deep affection unknown to outsiders.
"You? What?" I was frightened by those burning eyes and didn't dare to look him in the eye.
"You..." He thought for a moment, as if he still didn't know what to say, and closed his mouth again. Those beautiful thin lips, opening and closing, seemed like a rose that bloomed just for me at this moment, making me a little dizzy... It must be because I did too many pull-ups just now, and my brain is lacking blood. We have been together for such a long time, and I still feel dizzy about Yu Muchen's beauty. Am I too useless?
"Me and you, what on earth do you want to say that pulled me out of training for so long?" In order not to be seduced by this enchanting beauty, I decided to strike first.
Yu Muchen frowned, and a beautiful "川" character formed between his brows. For a moment, my heart also tightened.
"Were you doing pull-ups just now?" While maintaining a good posture, Yu Muchen asked a very meaningless question.
"Nonsense, of course! Can't you see with your big eyes that I was doing pull-ups just now?" I rolled my eyes. I thought he didn't want to learn how to do pull-ups from me.
"Do you...usually do those trainings?" For the first time, Yu Muchen didn't notice my huge eye roll. Instead, he lowered his head and asked me like a child who had made a mistake.
"Yeah..." I nodded.
"Can you handle such high-intensity training every day?" There was a hint of emotion in Yu Muchen's voice that was not in his usual tone.
Eh? Is this really caring about me, feeling sorry for me? I suddenly felt at a loss.
"Eat, eat or not, it's none of your business!" I still insisted. It's better than being bossed around by you! I don't want to be treated like this again!
"Of course it's okay! Do you think I will feel sorry for you? I'm just unhappy to find that there's one less servant serving me tea and water! But, you're pretty amazing. You can do so many pull-ups that even boys can't do. You're really a gorilla from the land of gorillas, with a good physique to be a servant." Probably irritated by my attitude, Yu Muchen curled his lips and started to speak ill of me.
"Hey, are you kidding me? Are you trying to laugh at me now, young master?" I was such a fool. I thought he really cared about me. "Also, do you really think that my current condition has nothing to do with you?" I glared at him.
"What does it have to do with me?" He didn't dare to look me in the eye, his eyes were a little vague.
"I tell you, it's all your fault that I'm like this today! If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known that Xu Yasha is your rumored girlfriend. No wonder, no wonder they bully me like this!" I said gritting my teeth.
"Did they bully you? How did they bully you?" Yu Muchen was stunned and asked.
"Yeah, I get bullied so badly every day! You know, I fainted on the first day I did these pull-ups, and I had to wash clothes all night after I got up! No one in the entire cheerleading team paid any attention to me. They only laughed at me and criticized me. All this is thanks to you!" I poured out all my grievances like pouring beans.
Silence... a long silence. After I finished speaking, Yu Muchen was obviously frightened by my sudden outburst and remained silent for a long time.
"Don't you have anything to say? If there's nothing to say, I'll go back and continue training. Today's training content has not been completed yet." Seeing that he was silent, I walked back to the road.
"Wait a minute!" Upon hearing that I wanted to go back, Yu Muchen grabbed my wrist.
"What are you going to do?" I turned around and looked at his and my intertwined hands, my face flushed.
"Ah..." He also noticed this embarrassing action and gently let go of my wrist. "If they all bully you, don't go again." After a short pause, Yu Muchen said.
"What? What did you say?" I asked back.
"I told you not to go to the cheerleading team anymore. You will just be bullied by them if you go anyway." This time, Yu Muchen's voice was louder than before.
"Why? How could you do this? Whether or not to join the cheerleading team is my business. Why do you have to interfere in my affairs?" This voice irritated my nerves even more, causing the anger that I had finally calmed down to erupt again.
"Why? Anyway, I won't let you go! Do you like being tortured? You know you will be bullied again and again, but you still want to go? If you like being tortured so much, I will make it worse!" When has Yu Muchen ever been yelled at? He also yelled at me loudly.
"In short, don't interfere with my freedom of life. I won't listen to you. I want to go!" I said firmly.
"No, you're not allowed to go!" Yu Muchen's tone did not change.
"I want to go, I want to go. You don't understand what I'm thinking at all. People like you are so selfish!" I pushed Yu Muchen away, turned around and ran away.
I'm so pissed off. This guy doesn't understand me at all. He doesn't understand that I want to use this method to regain my self-confidence and build my own social circle. I want to prove that I am capable and that I'm not a small grass that needs to rely on a big tree, nor am I a dodder that can only depend on someone.
As a result, I couldn't run faster than Yu Muchen, who had a good figure and long legs. He took two steps at a time and grabbed my ponytail.
"Ah! It hurts so much! What are you doing?" I was grabbed and tilted, and I squatted on the ground.
"Don't run away. Isn't it enough that I agree?" Yu Muchen also squatted on the ground with me.
"Agree to what?" I looked up at him before I understood what was going on.
"I lose to you. Isn't it enough that I agree to let you join the cheerleading team?" Yu Muchen scratched his head helplessly and said dimly.
"Really?" I couldn't believe it and even forgot the deep hatred for him pulling my ponytail.
"Really, really, when have I ever lied to you? Look, didn't I agree to be your fake boyfriend? Compared to that kind of thing, of course there's no problem with letting you join the cheerleading team." Yu Muchen nodded, his attitude very sincere.
That’s true, but I remember that when he agreed to be my boyfriend, there was a very demanding additional condition. Now... Thinking of this, I looked at him in confusion.
"Yes, as long as you agree to my conditions, you can cheerlead however you want." Yu Muchen gave an insidious smile that could not be ignored, as if his evil plan had succeeded.
"W-what conditions?" I knew he wouldn't agree to me for no reason.
"It's very simple. Just continue to fulfill the agreement and be my 'pet dog', or my pet servant. How about that? Isn't it a good deal? I will agree to your two requests, and you just need to continue to fulfill this agreement. Do you feel like you've made a profit?" Yu Muchen raised his eyebrows.
Earned money? I didn't earn a dime. I don't want to be someone's servant anymore.
"No!" I quickly rejected his request.
"Oh, no... Well, do you really not mind if I make public the things you secretly filmed?" Yu Muchen was sure that I minded this matter.
"I, I don't care, you, you go and tell me!" It was of course a lie to say that I didn't mind. Although I'm a bit desperate now, it's still impossible to say that I don't mind at all. But I just don't want to agree so easily.
"Also, you know, Xu Yasha likes me very much. If she knew about this, or if I exaggerated it, you would not only be bullied, but also be directly kicked out of the cheerleading team." Yu Muchen, who had planned this, looked at me happily.
"Despicable! You are so despicable!" I cursed.
"Yeah, I'm despicable, shameless and vulgar. Do you want to agree to me?" Yu Muchen admitted everything without waiting for me to finish scolding him, leaving me speechless.
"Ah... I got it... I got it! I'd better continue to be your servant!" I said this in a huff. Yu Muchen's goal was achieved. I could never escape from this guy's clutches. I am such a failure!
"Well, since you are still my servant, I am still your boyfriend." After hearing my affirmative answer, Yu Muchen slowly approached me with a smile.
