Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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After class, Yan Han leaned over the registration form posted next to the blackboard, carefully examining the events listed, and muttered hesitantly, “Sprinting, long-distance running, high jump, long jump, and shot put are all my strong points, but it says everyone can only register for two…”
[Oh, then just register for whatever you want. Anyway, there are no points awarded for winning in this sports meet.]
“What? What?!”
Yan Han’s eyes widened in disbelief. “Why?!”
Xiao Wu, wearing a miniskirt, appeared out of nowhere, hands on her hips, and said, “[Because although you look exactly the same, your strength is many times greater than that of an average woman. It’s not fair for you to win.]”
“…”
[…Why are you glaring at me so fiercely?] Xiao Wu subconsciously took a step back: “[Even your Olympic Games have men’s and women’s groups. We’re doing this to ensure fairness and impartiality.]”
“…”
“It’s not about fairness, I agree with what you said about the Olympic groupings.” Yan Han tried to smile at it: “So the question is, when can I finally be a man openly and honestly?!”
The smile failed, and the older brother still raised his fist in a fit of rage.
[…]
The girl in the miniskirt disappeared instantly, and the baby voice continued to appear in Yan Han’s mind: [This is unavoidable, host, please try to bear it, bear it…]
“I can’t bear it.” Yan Han put down the pen he was filling out the registration form, squeezing the plastic-cased ballpoint pen so hard it cracked. “I was planning to open another treasure chest at this sports meet, and now you suddenly say it doesn’t count as a result, who will compensate for this mental distress? And who will give me my treasure chest?”
[…]
Xiao Wu hesitated for a second before its timid voice sounded again: [Isn’t there a cultural performance? According to the sportsmanship of your school’s sports meet, as long as you participate, no matter what role you play, it’s all equally important… I’ll apply for it for you, and if you perform well in the cultural performance, you’ll get extra points!]”
“A good performance in the arts performance?” Yan Han sneered. “So being selected for the performance group and having to dance in a short skirt wasn’t enough of a blow, are you going to stab me in the wound again?”
[Hey, everyone has their own troubles. You should know, life isn’t easy for anyone these days.]
Despite saying that, his light, childlike voice didn’t betray any sadness or hardship.
Yan Han: “…”
He could forget about getting extra points through sports, but his older brother wasn’t one to take a loss lying down. He agreed to participate in the arts performance rehearsals diligently and planned to perform well, but in return, he demanded a very high reward.
[How many points?]
“Enough to open a treasure chest in one go.” Yan Han grinned.
[That’s probably impossible…] Xiao Wu said tentatively, [You’re still twenty points short in ‘physical’!]
“Then you should know that future sports meets will be like this one, where I can’t participate to my heart’s content, right?” Yan Han complained with a smile, “Your brother is such a good athlete, and you won’t let me participate in the sports meet? What’s the difference between that and clipping an eagle’s wings? You’ve clipped my wings, how can you expect me to achieve anything in sports? Can you be any more unreasonable?”
[Hmm.]
Xiao Wu’s voice paused again, feeling that Yan Han’s words made some sense.
[Should I go and discuss it with the higher-ups?] The baby voice revealed a slight hesitation.
“Go ahead, I’ll wait for your good news.” Yan Han continued to smile.
After dismissing Xiao Wu, he turned to Big Brother Lin and began to complain.
“I was originally a black rice flour bun, and I was inexplicably disguised as a white flour bun, which is bad enough. Now they’re saying my core is black and I can’t rub against the white buns, what the hell… who did I offend?”
Yan Han spread his hands, getting angrier and angrier as he spoke.
Lin Jianlu listened silently, and only asked after he finished complaining, “After you graduate from high school, will you be able to return to your normal identity?”
“That’s what Xiao Wu said,” Yan Han replied, resting his chin on his hand.
“So how does your system plan to handle this? The other classmates don’t know your identity yet, so…”
“This…”
Yan Han was stunned. He hadn’t really thought about this.
Although the system would restore his freedom after all the tasks were completed, and he wouldn’t have to hide his gender anymore, all his classmates except Lin Jianlu thought he was a girl.
So how would he handle it after returning to his original identity?
Not to mention anything else, he couldn’t just lose contact with Wen Juerong and Qin Siyu after graduation.
Was he supposed to tell Wen Juerong and the others that he was actually a boy? What would the others think?
Or would he have to pretend for the rest of his life, maintaining a girl’s image wherever his high school classmates were?!
Actually, Yan Han had indeed thought about this problem at first.
However, being a newcomer at the time, he was in a mess and didn’t even think he could complete the task, so he didn’t think much of it.
His life was filled with studying and Lin Jianlu, and although he gradually gained confidence in his future, he completely forgot about this.
Stunned, Yan Han thought, “No, I have to ask Xiao Wu.”
So he started frantically calling out Xiao Wu’s name in his mind.
Lin Jianlu remained silent, his lips slightly pursed, also lost in thought.
However, whether Xiao Wu was feeling guilty or still consulting with its superiors, it was busy and didn’t appear no matter how Yan Han called it.
Of course, Yan Han leaned towards the first possibility.
Xiao Wu used to be always available, but this time it simply wouldn’t appear. It was very likely that the little guy knew he was angry, and the answer to the question he was about to ask wasn’t pleasant, so it didn’t dare show up.
Yan Han’s premonitions were often accurate, though good ones weren’t always right.
He didn’t have a good premonition at the moment, feeling that the system hadn’t fully considered the cleanup work after the task was completed.
“Perhaps there’s another way to handle this,” Lin Jianlu said.
“Hmm? What way?”
“There’s still time.” Lin Jianlu lowered his eyelids slightly. “There will always be a way.”
After all, there was still more than a year and a half. Who knows what will happen then? He really didn’t need to worry about this too early.
Yan Han thought he made sense; he already had enough to worry about. Since the sports meet events didn’t add points, Yan Han wasn’t very interested and simply didn’t fill out the registration form for that event.
The class as a whole didn’t seem to care much about signing up for sports events, and there was no mandatory participation. However, the “energetic dance full of youthful spirit” that he was selected to participate in required daily rehearsals.
This was really tough on the older brother.
…He didn’t know who chose the music, but the dance was incredibly hot, requiring him to twist his waist, hips, and shoulders throughout, and he also had to jump around and move around, coordinating with other students to strike poses. After learning this series of exercises, the older brother was exhausted every day.
But Xiao Wu had already made a deal for him; if he performed exceptionally well in the group gymnastics performance and added enough energy to the sports meet, he could get 20 points in one go.
Not seizing this opportunity would be a waste of his life.
Since he acquired the “bang bang bang” skill, he didn’t actually need to exercise specifically to maintain his health. After the sports meet, he planned to increase his study intensity again and sacrifice exercise time for it. He didn’t know when he would ever reach 100 points in “physical education”…
Based on the principle that he might be able to develop another amazing skill, and the sooner he got one, the sooner he would benefit, Yan Han still decided to give it his all.
With this mental preparation, although he always felt a bit awkward when he started dancing, he was still the most dazzling of the 24 selected students.
“I hope you can all learn more from Yan Han,” said the class monitor who led the rehearsal.
This class monitor from Class 10 resembled Wen Juerong in build and spoke in a gentle voice. He even demonstrated a couple of moves in front of him.
“Just start dancing like that, what’s there to be embarrassed about? Let me tell you, you all look great when you move. It’s when your arms aren’t straight and your legs can’t jump that you look really bad.”
“Come on, Yan Han, come to the front and give us a demonstration.”
Yan Han: “…”
Well, maybe that’s life— there’s no limit to how awkward things can get.
At first, he thought he couldn’t dance to this kind of music and with this kind of range of motion, but he clearly forgot that he had already unlocked his musical expertise, and these days he had maintained his diligent work habits, his musical expertise skill had even inadvertently leveled up!
Now, not only could he automatically sway his body to the music, but with the added advantage of his supple and agile physique, his movements were also remarkably graceful…
Thinking this, the music started, and Yan Han began to dance the moves he had learned before.
His movements were precise, even powerful, with every gesture exuding a sense of force, yet somehow they didn’t give off any feeling of ferocity— his body was completely integrated with the upbeat, energetic music in the background, making him even more impressive than when he led the school’s morning exercises.
That’s right, since the start of this semester, when the upperclassmen who had led the exercises with him moved up to their third year and no longer had time to lead, the school had automatically replaced them with a new batch of instructors.
Originally, the instructors for each year’s exercises were selected from the second-year students, but Yan Han had only taken on the exercises a semester early due to special circumstances. However, regardless, he was now the most senior instructor, and the teachers organizing the exercises no longer allowed him to face away from the students, but strongly insisted that he turn around and lead the exercises face-to-face.
Therefore, every time there was a break in the exercises, Yan Han would stand face-to-face with all the students in the school.
Besides the flag-raising ceremony on Mondays, the opportunity to admire the school beauty’s looks every morning between the second and third periods from Tuesday to Friday had unintentionally become a new interest and motivation for some students to do their exercises.
According to the PE teacher who organized the exercises, since Yan Han took the lead, the rate of students skipping exercises has decreased significantly.
Previously, many students were careless and perfunctory in their exercises, but because Yan Han set a positive example, many students were now willing to follow along and do the exercises properly, raising the overall level of the exercises considerably.
….
Although Yan Han felt that the teacher was exaggerating.
He also thought he was good-looking, but the platform was so high and so far from the crowd, what could he possibly see…
However, it was true that many people liked watching him jump around.
This story began with the rehearsals for the hot dance.
Before the sports meet, each class would find a spot in the gymnasium or the main playground to rehearse.
Since everyone there had been on TV, the school beauty’s amazing dancing skills had already spread throughout the school. So, when they heard that Yan Han was in Class 10’s performance team, many people specifically inquired about where Class 10 was rehearsing today.
Every time news broke, a large crowd would flock over to watch the spectacle. Before Yan Han could even voice his opinion, his current class monitor was nearly driven mad.
—The class monitor wasn’t afraid of people seeing their class’s school beauty, it was just… in his own words, “Our class’s program before the sports meet officially begins is a secret! A secret! This is our trump card!”
But unfortunately, because of Yan Han’s involvement, he had never managed to keep the secret.
….
It was quite miserable.
Besides rehearsing the dance, because of his outstanding appearance, Yan Han was also chosen as the class’s placard bearer, which meant he was frequently called to meetings and had to practice marching with the class every day…
So, for the first time in history, his older brother disliked the sports meet so much.
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