Chapter 433-434

Chapter 433: What Was the Price of Pride? 　 The top 50 candidates from the biology competition could enter the training team. Candidates on the training team had the qualifications to be recommended to and choose which prestigious universities they wanted to be admitted to. The entire competition committee was responsible for organizing the test. Two contestants would be selected from the winter camp to represent the country in the International Biology Olympiad, which would be the final contest. The final contest would be held during the first week of school next year, so there was still plenty of time. Although Zhou Chengzhe was one of the 50 people on the training team, it wasn’t certain whether he would be one of the two contestants selected from the winter camp. 　 　 As soon as the competition ended, Yun Xi was surrounded by a group of students from her school who’d come to either watch or compete. When Yun Xi finally emerged from the crowd, Zhou Chengzhe walked over to her. Suddenly, everyone remembered Zhou Chengzhe challenging her and the rumors that had been raging around school recently. Zhao Yumo had even unceremoniously added fuel to the fire by saying, “Zhou Chengzhe, do we still need to apologize to you in front of the teachers and students of the school? If you still doubt our academic strength, then we will see you at the English competition. I have nothing to do right now, so I’d be happy to vie for first place with you. But...” Zhao Yumo turned around and gave Yun Xi a sly look. “To tell you the truth, it is indeed true that I pitied you and purposely allowed you to get first place. Since you’ve been so unappreciative, then we had no choice but to clear our names ourselves. We were never interested in studying abroad in the first place and didn’t plan on participating, but since you yourself came to pick a fight with us, we accepted the challenge. If we snatch the chance to study abroad away from you, don’t blame us.” He had dug his own grave. It was his fault, so he couldn’t blame Yun Xi for being merciless. He’d ruined his future all by himself. However, Li Sinuo also had much credit to claim here, so there was no way they would take the blame for her. The mention of the challenge and the apologies had already made Zhou Chengzhe extremely humiliated. But when they said that it was his own self-destructive actions that had made them compete with him for the opportunity to study abroad, Zhou Chengzhe became even more exasperated and had the urge to rush forward to fight Zhao Yumo. 　 　 So what if they’d humiliated him? What was the price of pride compared to a full-tuition scholarship to study abroad? When he had everything, would he be afraid of them looking down on him? However, everything that had been at his fingertips had been destroyed by both of them. If they had minded their own business, nothing would’ve happened, yet now he’d managed to dig his own grave. “Zhao Yumo, please don’t go too far.” Unable to bear it any longer, Zhou Chengzhe’s veins bulged on his tightly clenched fists. “I’m going too far?” Zhao Yumo sneered. “What did I do? You can’t afford to lose, yet you blamed me?” Zhou Chengzhe wanted to say something else, but Yun Xi interjected airily, “Yumo, the contest is over, so let’s go!” “Okay! Let’s go and celebrate with hot pot.” Yun Xi glanced at Zhou Chengzhe and curled her lips mockingly. “Classmate Zhou, you need to be cautious when issuing your next official challenge, lest you regret it for life.” “Yun Xi, just you wait. There’s still winter camp and the final competition. I won’t lose to you.” “We’ll see then.” Too lazy to talk nonsense with him, Yun Xi dragged Zhao Yumo to talk to her homeroom teacher and biology teacher and then left the venue directly. As soon as they left the competition venue, a black vehicle stopped in front of them. Yun Xi glanced at the one-of-a-kind car and narrowed her eyes at the man who got out of the car. “Ah! Young Marshal Mu.” Zhao Yumo immediately became excited when she saw Mu Feichi. “Get in the car.” Mu Feichi said and pulled them into the car. Zhao Yumo scratched her nose as she watched the PDA. **** Chapter 434: A Couple Walked on the Embankment ... Unable to resist the two girls’ sugar-coated coaxings, Mu Feichi could only bite the bullet and accompany them. No matter how unwilling he was, he couldn’t resist if his little woman liked something. After they’d finished eating, Mu Feichi called Jiang Chenghuan to come to pick up Zhao Yumo and take her home. When they’d left, he took Yun Xi for a walk on the riverbank. Looking at the night scene on the other side of the river, they could see lots of lights burning in all the buildings. Every home had a lamp, but it was extremely sad that no one ever lit a lamp for her in her house. 　 　 After having returned to Jingdu for more than three months now, she’d gradually gotten closer and closer to her goals. Not only had she separated her parents, but her mother had also been driven out of the Yun family. However, this was just the beginning. With all that she had suffered, if everything was returned to her mother, it wouldn’t be gratifying enough. As she was staring dreamily at all the lights on the other side of the river, her neck suddenly got warmer as a man’s refreshingly mint-scented scarf was wrapped around her neck. She could also feel the warmth of his body as he pressed her head against him while wrapping the scarf around her neck. This gesture also warmed her heart. Yun Xi turned her head to look at him, but her eyes still seemed distant, as she was wrapped in her dreams. Unexpectedly making contact with Mu Feichi’s deep eyes, she moved back toward the railing as a natural reflex, but the perceptive man caught hold of her. Her forehead banged into his chest. This domineering man held her with one hand and unbuttoned his coat with the other, as he wrapped her directly in his arms. Yun Xi looked up from his arms, then looked down at herself wrapped in his coat like a cocoon. Her entire body savored the warmth of his body. Such a big human body heater couldn’t be beaten. She lowered her head and couldn’t help laughing. “Young Marshal Mu, are you afraid that I’ll freeze to death?” By wrapping her up in this way, she could feel his body heat through her down jacket. It was warm and sultry. “Yeah! You are such a little softie, and if it snows more heavily, I’d have to worry about you getting buried in the snow.” “I’m a human being, not an ostrich. I will definitely run home when it snows. I’m not so stupid as to stay outside waiting for the snow to bury me.” 　 　 Mu Feichi smiled dotingly, then lowered his head slightly, and put his head on top of hers. He narrowed his eyes helplessly. “Aha! You aren’t clever when you should be clever, and you aren’t stupid when you should act stupid.” “Ignorance is bliss, what would a man as you know?” “Why are you playing dumb? You’re already quite silly, so babe, you don’t need to play dumb.” “You’re the one who’s silly. Your entire family is silly.” “Wait until I abduct you into my family, and we’ll see if you have the guts to say that anymore.” “...” Later, when Yun Xi saw the framed words, “Ignorance is bliss”, in Mu Feichi’s study, she realized that for this young, mature, talented, and resourceful man, being blissfully ignorant wasn’t an easy task. They could all play dumb, but being blissfully ignorant was a luxury for him. This iron-blooded man could become soft and gentle for a woman or become the sharpest weapon to bear the weight of his country on his shoulders. But it seemed that no one had ever asked him what his dreams were. She was also a little curious. After all, he’d followed his father onto the battlefield when he was very young. He must have had passions and dreams when he was young, right? “Young Marshal Mu, do you have dreams?” Yun Xi raised her head and asked him this question. Her dark eyes sparkled like bright stars. They were as dazzling as the night. “I have a lot of dreams, so which one do you mean, babe?” “Your first dream.” “...” At the mention of this, the light in Mu Feichi’s eyes gradually faded, and he raised his eyes to look at the lights in the distance. Yun Xi unexpectedly saw a flash of despondence and loneliness in his eyes and suddenly realized that she seemed to have asked a question that shouldn’t have been asked. She had never seen him like this before. His sharp, cold eyes were always full of calm and wisdom. Even if he was occasionally overbearing and unreasonable, there was always arrogance in his eyes. His pitifully lonely expression unexpectedly made her heart ache a little.