Falling Dreams, Rising Hopes: Saving Mr. Boyfriend

"Good job cousin! That was great. You made the strongest of our vice-captains to submit to you.", Su Lang came forward to ruffle her hair while smiling brilliantly, only to blind all the people present on the scene.

The gym was closed to the outside people but there had gathered quite some crowd outside the windows to see what was happening. Everyone was in shock how this girl had defeated that big guy and made him withdraw from the match.

And now this further never before scenery of the two legends showering warm smiles to that one lowly commoner was eliciting jealousy towards the girl while they were also thanking their stars that they got to see them.

"Are you okay?", Yu Tian handed her a towel to dry off the sweat. She nodded to assure him that she was alright. Even if she wasn't, she could not really tell him that. She would never hear an end of scolding otherwise.

"It was a great match.", Yu Tian patted her head expressionlessly. And hurriedly withdrew his hand in embarrassment. He turned around and went to sit on his seat once again.

Su Lang understood what was happening but Mei Qingyang was really confused. She touched her head in a daze, not knowing why he left in such a hurry without saying much. He was okay hugging her earlier at his home, now he didn't want to even put his hand on her head. Was it because she was all sweaty and dirty? No one could understand this guy, seriously!

"I will go to washroom to wash a bit.", Mei Qingyang left with the towel. She needed to examine the extent of damage to her body. The two girls who were part of the almost non-existent girls' team, followed her into the bathroom.

"What? You can't even bear to hold your feelings now that you had to leave her hanging like that?", Su Lang teased Yu Tian when he returned to his seat. The ears of other vice captains perked up. Xu Yang had been taken to the locker room by his teammates to rest. He could not watch the remaining matches.

"Hmm… I don't think just patting her head or stroking her cheek is enough. I just want to hold her all the time. I don't know what to do about these feelings of mine.", Yu Tian looked at his right hand which he had used to pat her head earlier. What had happened to him? Why was he becoming so… l.u.s.ty?

His kitty was spreading her wings and getting acknowledged by influential people in the college with her own strength. The day did not seem far away when she would have her own circle. He sighed thinking how she would get to spend even less time with him then.

"You have really fallen for her, eh? I have never seen you so smitten with anyone.", Su Lang had a smug on his face. He was seeing a very interesting side of his friend and both Feng Yue and Fan Ruyi were missing out on so much. He suddenly started missing his two friends. This guy, who shunned even the presence of girls with his whole body, had fallen in love with a girl so hopelessly.

"Don't become too obsessed Tian. It won't be beneficial for either of you. Do remember to give her space, she is a prideful woman.", Su Lang gave him a reminder. Both Yu Tian and Mei Qingyang were dear to him and he wanted best for both of them.

"When I start going out of my line, I will count on you to smack me back on track.", Yu Tian looked at his best friend and grinned, earning a very surprised look from everyone around, including the girls outside.

What were the two talking about to evoke such a beautiful smile out of their God? His perfect set of teeth was like pearls from the ocean, in the girls' eyes anyway. Mei Qingyang would have called everyone crazy.

But the world needed an answer! They would hound those three vice-captains later. The three vice-captains already started feeling the chills in their body from the stares of the girls outside.

"Uhh… Captain Yu and captain Su.", two of the three remaining vice captains approached the two guys, breaking the harmonious moment between the two. The two friends went back to being all serious and aloof.

"Yes?", Yu Tian spoke.

"We would like to forfeit our matched too.", the two spoke in unison, shaking.

Yu Tian and Su Lang were looking to reduce her number of matches anyway. They agreed as soon as the request was raised.

However, they were a little disappointed in the two guys. They were doing quite good all along, had participated quite well in their last competition too. Were they afraid to be beaten by a girl, that too a commoner? It seemed that they needed to pick the leaders of their teams more carefully next time.

They both looked at the third vice-captain, vice-captain Xuan who was staring at the mat with his fists tightly clenched and a sinister expression. They had an ominous feeling about this guy.

"Do you still want to continue with your match vice-captain Xuan?", Su Lang inquired in a threatening voice.

"Yes? Ah, yes, I would like to participate.", vice-captain Xuan replied in confusion. These guys did not know his plan, did they? He had not discussed it with anyone. Then why was captain Su's tone like this?

He knew these two guys to the core, he had followed them for years. Their expectations for their underlings was beyond anyone's comprehension. He had already heard the other two who were planning on withdrawing from their respective matches once they saw how ruthless the girl's moves were. Those scaredy cats!

But from what he knew about these two captains, those cowards would now fall out of favor of the captains because they got scared.

Huh! Serves them right. If they could not understand their own classmates even after so many years, are they even worthy of being called men? And did they not think about their own underlings even once before making the decision?

Furthermore, he could not disappoint that person, could he? She had promised him something he could not refuse. It would be nice to hear the screams of this girl on the mat.

Later, later I will go and thank that Xu Yang too. He did do much damage to her already injured body. This will be a piece of cake.

"Okay then, we both will let you both have a similar match as previous. But since we are running out of time, we will make it five minutes match. If none of you is able to get three hits, whoever has more hits at the end of the match, will win. If there is draw, we will increase the duration by one minute every time.", Su Lang wanted to finish this as soon as possible. His heart could not put a finger to it but there was something really wrong here. His gut feeling was saying that this guy was going to be bad news.

But they had already announced that she was to fight the four vice-captains. That was the easiest assignment they could give her given the circ.u.mstances. If she passed, they would directly let her replace Feng Yue.

They had been looking to make an all-girls team anyway. Those two girls were rather okay in terms of skill and every time a competition came around, they had one or other excuse prepared to not participate.

Other girls were busy with their beauty regimes the whole day, so even if someone had any prior training, they would never step into the gym for training. And other few did not want to develop muscles for 'no one would marry them afterwards'. Like what kind of concerns were these?

So, the three guys had really given up on the girls' team. Those two girls would just click pictures of the guys and that was their only work. They also belonged to higher status houses in the country, so no one really dared to drive them out, no matter how irritating they were.

Which reminded Su Lang, he had seen them entering the gym after the match had ended but where were they now? Did they follow Mei Qingyang to the washroom?

Su Lang apologized to Mei Qingyang in his heart for the two girls would be more nuisance to her before her last match started.