Confessing To The School Queen In Front Of The Whole School - Chapter 32

Xia Meng was terrified.

Although she had thought more than once about luring Tao Yun back to her own home, she didn’t want to achieve her goal in a setting like this.

That’s because, in the eyes of Mama Xia, Tao Yun was merely a promising child from another family, not the apple of her precious daughter’s eye. If that were the case, what kind of treatment would Tao Yun receive?

The system was very sure that Xia Meng was overthinking it.

Xia Meng believed she wasn’t.

With her brother’s past experience as a lesson, Xia Meng had to stop this! Her timidness was replaced by a surge of boldness, and she complained aggressively, “No! You promised I could have a double serving! There’s no food left at home!”

Mama Xia: “…”

Tao Yun: “…”

The system prompted.

Are you embarrassed?

Xia Meng: Damn it, a little.

What kind of thing did she blurt out in a moment of crisis? It made her sound like she could eat a lot. Xia Meng felt a bit humiliated, but then she thought: Tao Yun would understand. Having eaten so many lunches together, how could she not know her appetite?

Since Tao Yun could understand, then she wasn’t embarrassed.

If she wasn’t embarrassed, Mama Xia was. Mama Xia patted Xia Meng’s back, producing a loud thwack.

Mama Xia: “…Haha, this child, she’s always talked nonsense since she was little.”

The system.

Is this mother-daughter resentment? When will the cycle of shared embarrassment end?

Ten minutes ago, Mama Xia embarrassed Xia Meng.

Ten minutes later, Xia Meng dutifully paid her back.

Tao Yun witnessed the entire event, which made one want to interview her about her thoughts. On the surface, however, she was very considerate: “I have to go home for dinner tonight, or my mother will worry.”

Nonsense. Ever since she started high school, she rarely ate dinner at home.

Tao Yun’s smile quickly helped Mama Xia recover from her embarrassment.

If only her subordinates were this capable.

Mama Xia thought of her ‘child labor’ and clicked her tongue, glaring irritably at her disappointing daughter—she was really holding things up!

Xia Meng felt wronged.

She was no longer the cherished darling of her mother.

Mama Xia: “That’s a shame. When you have time, please come to our house for a meal again.”

She paused.

“We have plenty of food at my house.”

Xia Meng covered her face.

She secretly messaged Tao Yun, seizing a moment when Mama Xia wasn’t looking, to explain herself.

Orange Cat Is Not Heavy: I can’t eat that much! I was lying!

Tao Yun gave a nod, feeling the vibration of the phone in her pocket, and looked at Xia Meng’s actions, gaining a clue. It wasn’t appropriate to take it out in front of Mama Xia, so she waved, “I’m heading back to the classroom now.”

Feeling that wasn’t enough, Tao Yun socialized, “Auntie Xia, your speech today was excellent.”

Mama Xia: “Oh, it was just off the cuff.”

She had given countless speeches and really did just improvise on stage. However, when Mama Xia thought of Xia Meng raising her hand and what she had said, she felt that Xia Meng’s overall performance today was not bad.

So, Xia Meng was still Mama Xia’s daughter.

Mama Xia: “Then we’ll get going!”

Mama Xia didn’t take Xia Meng home; she drove to a restaurant and ordered a large table of food.

“I have to go to the company later. You can go home after you finish eating.”

As soon as Mama Xia finished speaking, Xia Meng happily started to eat.

When she was full, Mama Xia watched her with a smile.

Xia Meng felt a sudden sense of dread.

Mama Xia: “I promised you a double serving, so eat it. You’re not allowed to leave until you finish!”

Xia Meng: “…”

Can a mother be any less petty?

She gave her a dead-fish-eye stare, but in the end, she packed the leftovers, wondering if Xia Ning had eaten dinner yet.

Xia Ning was eating leftovers downstairs.

Xia Meng was flirting with a cute girl upstairs.

Tao Yun: Is that so? I thought your appetite had grown.

Tao Yun: You’ve grown taller recently.

Xia Meng sprang up from her bed, ran to the wall to measure her height, and found that she had actually grown three centimeters! She was shocked! Although it was indeed possible to grow taller at this age, her height hadn’t changed in two years!

Two years! Did Tao Yun know how she had lived for these two years!

Xia Meng happily ran back to her bed, excited: “I really have grown taller!”

She sent the voice message, hugging her phone and thinking: one day she would grow as tall as Tao Yun, no, even taller than her. Then she wouldn’t be a little sweetheart anymore, and she could naturally—

She covered her face and giggled.

System: This child is full of unhealthy thoughts.

Xia Meng was still cheerful when she went to school.

She looked at everyone with a three-part joy, and everyone assumed she was happy for Class 8, but in reality, it was because of the three centimeters.

Because of those three centimeters, she even drank a large glass of milk this morning. She believed that these three centimeters were just the beginning of her secondary growth spurt, absolutely not the end!

She could grow to… Xia Meng looked for a reference object.

Taller than that pole!

The system.

Snap out of it! That’s the flag pole! No matter how much you grow, you won’t get that tall!

Xia Meng was too ecstatic to listen to anything the system said.

Class 8 was holding a meeting.

This meeting was specifically held to avoid remedial classes.

The topic was the school sports meet.

Su Hui, as the class president, needed to take the lead in showing initiative. So, “At the sports meet, we must win many awards! After all, we exercise outdoors all day, how can we lose to other classes! So, who wants to sign up for the 1,000-meter race?”

No one. Only a fool would sign up for the 1,000-meter race.

Su Hui nodded; he wasn’t that fool either.

Everyone was required to sign up for three events. He had already signed up for the 100-meter, 200-meter, and 400-meter races.

Others gradually signed up for the remaining events like shot put, high jump, and long jump. The hardest and most tiring events were always left until the end, waiting for a scapegoat.

So, who would be the scapegoat in Class 8?

Su Hui looked at Xia Meng.

Xia Meng was spaced out, looking happy about something. Normally, Su Hui would just sweet-talk himself into letting her off, but not today!

Su Hui remembered that Xia Meng had good stamina.

Although she liked to be a loner and didn’t interact with others, presenting herself as a ‘High-Cold Girl,’ Su Hui remembered that in junior high, she had quietly run the 1,000-meter race.

Time: 3:28, taking first place.

Because Xia Meng was so low-key, no one celebrated for her, and she just took her award and left the stage.

Why could Su Hui remember this scene?

Because he watched Xia Meng grit her teeth and run the whole race. She refused to lose, running until the hair on her forehead was matted with sweat, yet her eyes were always fixed on the finish line, giving her all.

Su Hui was impressed at the time.

Because his time was 3:52.

Losing to a girl wasn’t embarrassing. He would surpass her, he would definitely win—no, he had to become good friends with such an amazing person!

He absolutely wasn’t going to run the 1,000-meter race! It was too tiring!

Xia Meng was a god!

She was the god sent to save him! Su Hui cleared his throat twice, pretending to ask, “Xia Meng, do you want to participate in the 1,000-meter race? Xia Meng has no objection, so I’m putting you down.”

Xia Meng hadn’t heard what Su Hui was saying the whole time.

When she snapped back to reality, she noticed the whole class was laughing, and only then did she realize that Su Hui had arbitrarily signed her up for the Men’s 1,000-meter race and the Women’s 1,000-meter race.

Xia Meng: …

The Women’s 1,000-meter race was fine.

What the heck was the Men’s 1,000-meter race!

Su Hui: “Xia Meng is my good friend, and I believe she can do it. Breaking gender barriers is not a problem! This is the progress of the motherland! And she is the future of gender equality!”

Classmates: “To put it simply, you just don’t want to run the 1,000-meter race.”

Su Hui: “I’ve signed up for my maximum! So, classmates, do you want to?”

They didn’t want to either.

They began to look expectantly at Xia Meng.

Xia Meng: This bunch of useless people!

She frowned, looking at the 1,000-meter race, and finally said, “Don’t I have to be the flag bearer?”

“I’m also a member of the Student Union.”

“I don’t have time to participate in the competition.”

Su Hui: “…”

Let him think about how to trick this ‘big clever.’

His mind was screaming “save me,” but then a light bulb went off, and he began his performance: “Student Xia Meng, your thinking is wrong. Being the flag bearer won’t let Tao Yun see your figure; it will only make you a fleeting memory.”

“Don’t you want Tao Yun to cheer for you?”

“Don’t you want Tao Yun to applaud you?”

“Xia Meng, you are destined to be number one, the light walking side-by-side with Tao Yun! You cannot run away! You must seize the opportunity!”

Xia Meng: I’m feeling a little tempted.

She imagined Tao Yun as a cheerleader, dancing on the field, shouting for her, watching her gallop on the track, and her face quietly blushed.

That’s great. Cheerleaders are the best.

Tao Yun is so beautiful.

That’s a major spectacle!

This is a good deal! What’s the Men’s 1,000-meter race? Put her down for sit-ups too!

She can do it!

Su Hui breathed a sigh of relief: “In that case, it is decided that Student Xia Meng will participate in the Women’s 1,000-meter race, the Men’s 1,000-meter race, and—you also want sit-ups, right? Great, no problem!”

He filled Xia Meng’s name on the registration form.

With such good stamina, he wondered if Tao Yun could handle her.

The system watched Xia Meng giggle foolishly.

It let out a long sigh.

In the end, the registration form was returned, and Su Hui was scolded by Old Yang. So, Xia Meng’s registration became the Women’s 1,000-meter race, the relay race, and sit-ups.

And it was also confirmed that Xia Meng would be the flag bearer.

During lunch, Xia Meng told Tao Yun about this.

She gestured with her hand: “After training this month, I will definitely grow several meters taller!”

Lin Ruoruo: “Apparently, excessive training can stunt your growth.”

Xia Meng’s hand froze in mid-air, unable to move.

Tao Yun also asked, “Participating in so many things, do you still have time?”

Only then did Xia Meng discover this fatal problem.

This meant that for the next month, she would have to dedicate her free time to training, which was different from Tao Yun preparing for the physics competition, where Xia Meng could at least stay by her side to study together.

But if she trained, she would have to be fixed to the sports field.

She wouldn’t have time to be close to Tao Yun!

Su Hui, you have done me great harm!

Xia Meng was panicking.

Lin Ruoruo added insult to injury: “The Student Union is starting to get busy with preparations. You still need to find time to help, and even Tao Yun has to help purchase supplies.”

Plus, you signed up for three events, and you’re the flag bearer.

Do you have 48 hours in a day?

If you don’t, don’t be greedy.

Lu Xi: “It’s just signing up; it’s not like you have to win an award. It’s okay.”

Xia Meng felt all her fantasies shatter into pieces—the image of Tao Yun in a cheerleader uniform, dancing, cheering her on, and the scene of her taking the medal and giving it to Tao Yun immediately.

It was all gone!

Everything was lost! There was nothing left!

No, she had to win the award; she had to give the medal to Tao Yun!

Tao Yun had the confidence to win first place in physics, so why couldn’t she! It was only a competition among the same grade level; she could do it!

Xia Meng: “I’ll start training after school!”

She insisted.

Lin Ruoruo scoffed: “I decide to get up early for a morning run every night.”

Lu Xi cooperated and asked, “And then?”

And then? Lin Ruoruo pinched the fat on her belly. That was ‘and then!’ After pinching it, she looked meaningfully at Xia Meng, and then surprisingly discovered…

Xia Meng didn’t seem to have any excess fat…

It was fine if Tao Yun didn’t; she was disciplined, controlled her diet, and found time to exercise.

But she felt like Xia Meng hadn’t been eating less. How could she not have any excess fat, and even have a somewhat attractive body line?

Lin Ruoruo wanted to reach out and give her a pinch.

She was warned by Tao Yun’s gaze.

Then Tao Yun, taking advantage of sitting next to Xia Meng, poked her thigh, receiving an “expression of confusion +1” from Xia Meng.

Tao Yun: “…Xia Meng can do it.”