Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Fortunately, although life was tough, it wasn’t without end.
The day of the sports meet arrived quickly.
The first day’s sports meet started promptly at 8:00 AM with the marching formations, so Yan Han and the others were required to be on the main playground by 7:20 AM.
After assembling, the teacher explained the requirements and arrangements. This was their young homeroom teacher’s first time organizing a sports meet, and Teacher Wang was both excited and a little nervous: “Our class is right after Class 9, the second class of the second grade to perform. Everyone, do your best, shout your slogans loudly when you pass the podium…”
“After the marching formations are finished and the start of the event is announced, don’t disperse on your own. Maintain your formation, and let the class monitor lead you back to your seats. Do you all understand?”
“Understood.”
Scattered voices came. Everyone was still half asleep in the morning, and to be honest, they had participated in sports meets since elementary school and were already fed up with them. Almost no one was excited about the upcoming ceremony.
Yan Han was no exception.
The mere thought of the clothes he’d have to change into that day dampened his enthusiasm.
Each class’s sign-holder had to wear the school-issued uniform: short-sleeved shirts, cropped pencil skirts, and berets. From a distance, they certainly looked more presentable.
The only downside was that it was October, and the weather had turned cold. Teacher Wang, worried he’d get chilly in the morning, had specifically told him to wear pants or long socks.
Yan Han had seen many other sign-holders do this, but he hadn’t expected it to be so cold today, so even after being reminded, he only wore ordinary socks.
The pure white socks barely reached his ankles, framing his slender, incredibly sexy ankles against his low-cut canvas shoes. Standing there in the morning sunlight and breeze, his long, slender white legs were exposed, and he occasionally stamped his feet impatiently under the stares of others.
“Damn, it’s so cold.”
It had rained last night, causing a sudden drop in temperature, but Yan Han didn’t seem to care.
Relying on his good health and belief that he wouldn’t easily get cold, he never paid attention to the weather or put any effort into his clothing. He was even too lazy to spend a second in the dressing room choosing leggings in the morning, and would simply come out in a short-sleeved shirt without a jacket.
If he had known it would be this cold, why would he have been so stubborn? Shivering in the chilly morning light, Yan Han thought to himself, “I should have worn leggings and socks long ago, at least to block out some wind.”
Now that so many people were crammed together waiting for the opening ceremony, he couldn’t just conjure up some clothes out of thin air in the dressing room.
…So he could only endure it.
But even though this older brother was freezing like this, his classmates still had the nerve to make fun of him.
A boy next to him said, “The school beauty is really going all out to hold up the sign for our class. I saw that the guy from Class 9 next door was even wearing leggings, and then there’s Yan Han. She’s something else.” The tall girl next to him said, “That’s because Yan Han has nice legs! Besides, it’s only early autumn, how cold can it be? Look at me, I’m not wearing socks or leggings either, and I don’t feel cold…”
“But our school beauty is skinny, she’s not windproof. Look at your build… um, I mean, fat is more resistant to the cold…”
This girl was indeed tall and strong, and when she heard him say that, she punched him twice, making two loud “duang duang” sounds.
The classmates behind him burst into laughter, and Yan Han gave the cheeky boy a pitying look.
Just then, a large coat was suddenly draped over him. Caught off guard, Yan Han turned his head and saw that Lin Jianlu, who had been arranging things on the stage, had returned at some point.
He even took off his always-properly-dressed school uniform.
His school uniform jacket was now draped over his shoulders… um, the jacket, still warm from Lin Jianlu’s body heat, was incredibly cozy. So Yan Han automatically pulled the two flaps of the jacket closer to his body and asked, “Are you all done?”
Contrasting with his calm reaction were the stares of the surrounding students who happened to witness this scene.
Just that one moment, many people subconsciously held their breath.
Not for any particular reason, but mainly because Lin Jianlu, who always wore his complete school uniform, had simply taken off his jacket and draped it over someone’s shoulders… and the school beauty accepted it with an incredibly natural expression?
Their interaction… Only someone very familiar with each other would react this way, right?
Although they knew the school beauty and the academic star were close, and that the “school bully” couple had long been the most popular couple on anonymous forums, these two… should at least be a little more discreet!
At this moment, Lin Jianlu, who had taken off his coat and was only wearing a white shirt, nodded, “Finished with work.”
After answering the question, he frowned again, “Why are you dressed so lightly? Didn’t I tell you to wear more?”
“Hey, who would have thought the temperature would drop so suddenly?”
As he spoke, right under everyone’s eyes, the school beauty sniffed rather unceremoniously.
Lin Jianlu calmly took out a pack of tissues from his pocket and handed it to him, saying, “After our class finishes marching, we’ll have to stand on the lawn for a long time. We have to wait until all the marching teams have entered and the school leaders have finished speaking before we can be dismissed. Are you sure you can hold out until then?”
Yan Han: “…”
Just thinking about the empty playground, drafty from all sides, and him holding the class sign and not being able to huddle with everyone for warmth, the scene was really a bit bleak.
So, Yan Han thought, it’s already late autumn, why hold a sports meet? Wouldn’t it be better to just sit in the classroom and study!
However, Lin Jianlu’s purpose was obviously not simply to ask him if he could withstand the cold.
Brother Lin quickly added, “There’s still time. Do you want to go put on a pair of pants?”
Yan Han: “…This…”
He quickly realized what Lin Jianlu meant and said, “I actually brought a pair of leggings. They’re at my seat…”
“Hmm.” Lin Jianlu’s narrow eyes smiled slightly. “Go ahead then. Hurry up, there are only ten minutes left.”
“Oh, okay!”
Yan Han said, handing his class name tag to him, then turned and ran.
Almost all the students were to participate in the marching formation. Only a very few remained at their class seats to watch over everyone’s bags and belongings.
With Lin Jianlu’s help, Yan Han said he had brought a pair of pants, but that was just for the students around him to hear. He only symbolically ran a lap around the main playground. He didn’t go back to Class 10’s base to get any pants. Instead, he ran directly into the small door leading to the upper floor of the podium by the playground, found a random room, and quickly went into his dressing room when no one was around.
As autumn approached, the clothes in the dressing room were gradually being updated. All those fancy dresses were taken off the shelves, replaced by various autumn garments, mostly dresses, but at least there were more trousers and thick coats than before.
Having exposed his legs all summer, Yan Han was extremely reluctant to wear those tight women’s leggings again.
But perhaps because he was genuinely cold, his nose was a little sore, and considering he would have to continue studying after the sports meet and wouldn’t have time to be sick, Yan Han found a pair of flesh-colored leggings that were supposedly very invisible when worn and put them on.
Well, he’d have to wear thick leggings in winter anyway, so he might as well get used to it in advance.
The older brother was really too lazy to care too much now.
Before leaving the dressing room, he didn’t forget to bring out Big Brother Lin’s school uniform jacket. Back in the real world, the small room was still empty, but outside the door, Lin Jianlu, who had somehow produced another school uniform jacket and was already neatly wearing it, was leaning against the wall waiting for him.
“Why are you here?” Yan Han asked, handing him the school uniform jacket. “Here, take it back.”
Lin Jianlu took it, looked him up and down, and asked uncertainly, “You’re wearing pants?”
“Yes, I am.” Yan Han looked down at his leggings. They looked great on him; they were almost the same color as his skin and had no wrinkles. From a distance, you couldn’t tell the difference.
To convince Lin Jianlu that he was really wearing them, this time Yan Han didn’t show off; instead, he deliberately pulled the leggings up a little.
The leggings immediately separated from his legs. Yan Han said, “Look, I’m really wearing them.”
“Hmm.” Lin Jianlu nodded in satisfaction. “It definitely looks much better now that it’s on.”
“…”
Wait a minute, you clearly didn’t notice I was wearing leggings before, how come it looks better now?!
Yan Han was shocked by Lin Jianlu’s sanctimonious act, but Lin Jianlu didn’t seem to care. Instead, he explained seriously, “This skirt looks too short on you, it looks awkward.”
Yan Han shrugged helplessly, then chuckled mischievously, teasing him, “I’ll change into a longer one later.”
Lin Jianlu: “…”
The “longer one” he was referring to was the outfit for the upcoming performance.
After all, it was an energetic and youthful modern dance piece, so the costumes the class chose for the performers were modern and student-like… school uniforms.
Hmm, similar to their usual outfits, just with different styles and colors, and they looked more fashionable.
But no matter how it changed, in Yan Han’s eyes, it was still a school uniform.
It’s said that the class specially paid for and rented these authentic uniforms.
Yan Han didn’t understand the difference between the two sets of school uniforms, but during rehearsals, other girls in the class naturally explained it to him: “How can our conservative, blindly trendy school uniforms compare to JK uniforms[1]? These authentic JK uniforms are so expensive online! I never thought I’d be able to wear one thanks to the class, I’m so lucky!”
Yan Han: “…”
He didn’t know what a JK uniform was, and he didn’t know if it was because these skirts were all one-size-fits-all, or if the rented batch was just very short. The tops were fine on him, but the skirts… only covered half of his thigh above his knees…
Although the drape was good, and it wouldn’t look out of place, but…
“Is my skirt too short?” Yan Han asked as soon as he got the clothes, and awkwardly tugged at the back of the skirt.
The girls next to him swarmed around him the moment they saw him in the uniform—
“Not short at all, it’s just that your legs are so long, hahaha!”
“Waaah, you look like a character from an anime, Yan Han, I’m going to blow you away!”
“I used to think those animation effects were just the artists making things up, but I never thought someone could actually wear a uniform like this!”
Yan Han: “…”
It’s no wonder the others reacted so dramatically. With Yan Han’s height and his usually fierce, unapproachable face, when he put on such a uniquely charming uniform, a sense of asceticism and eroticism instantly combined, making people’s imaginations run wild.
Coupled with his stunningly beautiful face, the effect was simply amazing!
Not all the girls originally wanted to wear this uniform for a performance, but after seeing Yan Han in it, perhaps influenced by his ascetic “mature woman” aura, the others also responded enthusiastically and changed into the uniform, resulting in the dazzling debut of the Class 10 dance troupe today.
At sports meets, classes usually performed first in front of the main stage, then again in their designated area, and that was it.
However, those performances that received a particularly good response were required to perform a full lap around the stadium, and Yan Han’s class naturally became the most outstanding.
It must be said that the class monitor of Class 10 had quite a talent for choosing programs.
At sports meets, no one wanted to watch group performances like aerobics or cheerleading; only programs with unique songs and dances, and whose performers were inherently captivating, were welcomed and attracted attention.
Their dance was a fusion of modern hot dance and robotic dance, and what’s more, their team included a school beauty who was absolutely eye-catching. Due to her amazing dance skills, the class monitor even created a short, cool solo performance for Yan Han, letting him dance the robotic routine alone.
Yan Han was a natural-born dancer, especially in robotic dance. His body was naturally powerful, and combined with his musical expertise, his robotic movements were like those of a professional dancer, adding a highlight and attraction to the performance. As a result, the Class 10 performance team received cheers wherever they went.
After their performance in front of the podium, they were immediately asked to perform a lap around the field. With the sports meet already underway and planned events in progress, the entire stadium was bustling with activity. Many people took advantage of the chaos to leave their seats just to catch a glimpse of their performance.
This resulted in people following them wherever they danced, causing some minor chaos at the event. Each class’s homeroom teacher had to personally oversee the attendance and prevent anyone from leaving their seats to observe Class 10’s performance.
However, due to this positive reception and praise, Class 10 was guaranteed first place in the arts competition.
It was tough on the classmates who had spent the entire morning performing the dance countless times.
The group returned breathless after their final performance, taking numerous group photos. Yan Han, now the lead dancer, was naturally surrounded.
He had felt cold that morning, but after performing at least five shows, he was drenched in sweat and no longer felt cold.
However, he maintained his smile until the very end, resulting in his stunningly radiant smile being captured in the photos.
In any case, they had weathered this storm.
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A “JK uniform” refers to casual clothing or cosplay outfits modeled after Japanese high school uniforms. “JK” is an abbreviation of the Romanized Japanese term joshi kousei, meaning “female high school student.”
