Chapter 7: Left Eye Friendship, Right Eye Power

  After school, Wen Chen met Ning Xiao Ning again at the same restaurant as yesterday. Xu Yao pulled Wen Chen aside and whispered: "It's finally settled, Xiao Ning agreed to be your coach. You silly boy, you're really lucky, with me, a noble person, helping you, haha."

  Unfazed, he calmly said: "All of you have set what conditions for me, speak up!"

  Xu Ya smiled awkwardly and revealed a few hints of embarrassment: "Actually, it's not that much..."

  Wen Cheng knew he was in trouble, took a deep breath, found a chair to support himself and stood firmly, "Go ahead, I can take it!"

  "Which means you have to be at my beck and call, bring me breakfast in the morning, line up to buy lunch for me at noon, escort me home at night, buy me drinks when it's hot, hold an umbrella for me when it rains, greet me three times a day, oh and when I'm in a good mood you have to learn how to bark like a dog, and when I'm in a bad mood you have to volunteer to be scolded..."

  "Halt! STOP!" He looked at Ning Xiaoqing in the distance with a puzzled expression, her beautiful eyebrows still cold and unfeeling, not looking like someone who had a secret crush on him. How could she propose such a condition? A thought occurred to him, and he asked another question: "Specifically, who is my service object..."

  Xu Yao blushed and pointed at her own nose, saying in a soft voice: "Of course it's me!"

  "Wen's body swayed slightly, fortunately her basic skills were solid so she didn't fall over: 'Huh, so that means I'm just looking for a basketball coach, but the price I pay is my entire life?'"

  "Not that many, at most 1/3..."

  "Get out!"

  Sitting at the dinner table, Ning Xiaocong spoke concisely: "I agreed to help, but whether it succeeds or not depends on your talent. I only have three conditions. First, Mu Shanshan and his group are stupid and clumsy, but they're tall and strong, and their coordination is tacit. You'd better find two stronger teammates, otherwise you'll definitely die in a very ugly way."

  He scratched his head, unashamedly saying: "I can't meet this condition... Don't be angry, I absolutely obey the leadership, but really, from childhood to adulthood, I don't have a single friend, let alone a strong one..."

  Xu Yao blinked her eyes on the side, with both hands supporting her cheeks: "Wow, so pitiful!"

  Ning Xiao's expressionless face glanced at her and said: "The second condition, there are too many people in school, I need a quiet place to practice, you solve it yourself."

  Xu Yao was about to pat her chest in response, but Ning Xiaoqing looked at her again with a expressionless face. Xu Yao's small hand that was patted on her chest moved to her forehead, and she exclaimed: "Ah, my head is so dizzy!"

  Wen Qian and Ning Xiao Ning's mouth corners twitched at the same time, both of them were not light about this lively atmosphere. Wen Qian thought for a moment and said: "This condition can be met, the small basketball court in our house is just available, the environment is 100 points, absolutely OK."

  Xu Yao crawled to Ning Xiao Ning's ear and whispered something, their two delicate and beautiful faces were close together. Xu Yao's light red lips lingered on Ning Xiao Ning's crystal clear ear, lightly moving with an indescribable temptation that was mesmerizing. Warmly smiling and watching the two girls, his mind suddenly recalled Si Ya Jing's extremely seductive figure, and for a moment he was lost in thought.

  Ning Xiaoyin listened to Xu Yao's confession and snorted coldly from her nose: "Pure sandy land, 45-degree inclined frame, no net on the ball rack is nothing, but it's still missing half of it. This environment scores 100 points, is it okay?"

  Wen Cheng didn't expect Xu Yao to sell herself out so thoroughly, saying: "Actually, it's still usable if you make do with it..."

  Ning Xiao Ning suddenly stood up, her tall figure immediately making Wen Chen need to look up.

  "Alright, just kidding, I've got the venue covered, and it's top-notch."

  Wen Cheng raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, and Xu Yao saw that the two were about to get into a fight, so he immediately followed Wen Cheng's lead and also raised his hands. Ning Xiao Ying couldn't help but giggle and pointed at Xu Yao's forehead with her finger: "You..."

  This smile is like the return of spring to the earth, tender willows sprouting, the hard ice covering the earth cracked open a gap, clever and charming smile, beauty beyond description.

  "The third condition," Ning Xiao Ning sat down and said lightly: "I hope that after the competition, regardless of whether you win or lose, you will not have any more contact with Yaoyao!"

  Wen Qian was stunned for a moment, then suddenly lost her smile. Before she could speak, Xu Yao stood up abruptly, pointing at Ning Xiao's nose and angrily saying: "Ning Xiao, don't use your Ning family's tricks on me! Who I befriend is none of your business!"

  Ning Xiaoyin didn't even glance at her, but stared into Wen Qian's eyes and said quietly: "Even if it's for Yaoyao's sake, you shouldn't be so intimate with her."

  Xu Yao slammed her palm on the table and shouted: "Whoever is intimate with him, Ning Xiao Ying, I'm telling you..."

  The words were left unspoken as Wen Ze pulled her down to sit, Xu Yao looked at him wanting to explain, the boy's dark and shiny eyes were clear like water, seemingly with layers of ripples shimmering, slightly moving with an inexplicable mystery. She suddenly understood that from their first meeting to sharing hardships, there was a trust and tacit understanding between them that had never existed before, no need for her to explain anything, everything was in the unspoken.

  Xu Yao's heart skipped a beat, her face flushed with shame, and she lowered her head without saying a word.

  Ning Xiaoyin saw it in her eyes, lightly sighed, knowing that this little girl was already deeply trapped. She coldly said to Wen Qian: "You have offended Gu Wenyuan, if you offend me again, you will definitely not be able to stay at Qingyi Middle School. If you agree to my request, I can guarantee that Gu Wenyuan will not come to harass you again!"

  Wen Cheng's face was smiling as he asked Xiu Yao with his eyes, Xiu Yao was a bit flustered, stretched out her hand to pull Ning Xiao Ying's hand and shook it, turned her head to say to Wen Cheng: "She can... but don't worry, I won't let them bully you!"

  She warmed her hands in the empty air and pressed them down, signaling the two girls to be quiet. "Alright, I'll make my stance clear - I refuse!"

  Ning Xiao Ning's eyes converged, and a faint cold light flickered in them. At such a young age, she already possessed a few parts of the aura that only great figures had. Xu Yao jumped up, her mouth full of praise: "I knew you were the best." She smiled complacently at Ning Xiao Ning, but before she could say anything else, she was interrupted by her.

  "Let me guess, I know you. Your father is Wen Huaiming, the deputy director of the Municipal Party Committee's Policy Research Office, and your mother is Ding Mei, an accountant at the Agricultural Machinery Factory. You were a nobody from elementary school to junior high school, always timid and weak by nature. Even your classmates from three years ago in junior high school don't remember you existed after just one summer... With someone like you, I really don't think you can be friends with Xu Ya!" Ning Xiaoning paused for a moment, her slender fingers pressed against the table, her upper body leaning forward, her delicate and charming face inches away. As she spoke, a faint scent of fragrance wafted out from between her lips. "Or is it that you're getting close to her just because her father is going to be the Municipal Party Secretary?"

  Xu Yao let out a cry of surprise, her hands and feet were at a loss as she stared at Wen Chen, before she could say anything, her face had already turned red.

  Wen Cheng was taken aback, but his face remained expressionless. Having lived two lifetimes, his temperament had long been tempered to be exceptionally resilient, so he naturally wouldn't let the two of them notice any cracks. But this also further confirmed Ning Xiaoyin's conjecture - this guy must have known a long time ago that Xu Ya's father was Xu Fuyan. She looked at Xu Ya, her eyes seeming to say: How about it?

  Xu Yao stared blankly at Wen Qian for a while before asking: "You knew all along, didn't you? You've been deceiving me all this time, haven't you?"

  Xu Yao, who had always been spoiled and invincible, with a quirky personality, now had a slightly trembling voice.

  Wen Cheng wasn't a fool, and the fact that Xu Yao could freely enter and exit the municipal party committee's residential compound, and even move things in and out, naturally meant she wasn't an ordinary person's child. Especially when her father mentioned the change in the top ten nominees, it was clearly related to Xu Yao. Furthermore, connecting this to the "Phoenix Jewelry Store" Hong Kong businessman who insisted on rewarding a bravery fund of 2,000 yuan, which was not unrelated to Xu Yao's identity. But honestly, Wen Cheng had never thought that Xu Yao would be Xu Fuyan's daughter; in his impression, Xu Yao was always the clever and lovely, spoiled yet devoted woman from his past life.

  He let out a sigh and said softly, "My friend's name is Xu Yao, it has nothing to do with her father. I like the carefree little girl, the mischievous little imp who can shout loudly with me without worrying about getting angry... My heart may be cheap, but even a municipal party secretary isn't worth it!"

  Xu Yao gazed at Wen Qian with a daze, listening to his gentle words, and felt her heart racing wildly, her entire body feeling soft and numb, from her chest to her cheeks burning hot. She was overjoyed and tears of joy streamed down, "I believe you, really! I'm sorry!"

  Wen Qian patted Xu Yao's hand twice, then turned to look at Ning Xiao Nong. Her face was pale, as if the person in front of her didn't exist. For someone like Ning Xiao Nong who was born with a proud nature, what could be more humiliating than this kind of disdainful attitude?

  "Ning, you look very pretty and may have a higher social status than me, but I think you're really pitiful. Your looks were given by your parents, and your background is the accumulation of many generations of your family. As for you personally, at such a young age, all you know how to do is use benefits to distinguish right from wrong, wearing big colored glasses, with one eye seeing money and the other seeing power. Tell me, are you going to use your nostrils to look at friendship and love? Of course, for someone like you, maybe friendship and love are just pawns in the game of power, and you don't care about that. But please remember, I, Xu Yao, and many others like me, we see friendship with one eye and love with the other, as for power... sorry, I look at it with my butt!"

  Xu Yao burst out laughing, looking at Ning Xiao's pale face, and immediately held it in, her body still shaking: Stupid warm bed, stinky warm bed, speaking so crudely, however... Hehe, this is really fun!

  In Ning Xiaoyi's seventeen years of life, this was the only time she had been angered to the point of vomiting blood. She was naturally calm and gentle, and having grown up in a wealthy family, no one had ever dared to speak to her like that before. She rarely got angry for others, but didn't expect that by trying to help Yao Yao test this person with good intentions, she would actually be angered to such an extent, especially after what he said last time about his nose being able to hang a bottle of soy sauce.

  I really dislike this guy!

  "Hey! You're still smiling..." Ning Xiaocong slapped Xu Yao with a blush, and only in front of this unique best friend would she show such a childish side. As for Wen Chen, he was already being ignored.

  Xu Yao hugged Ning Xiao Ning's waist, gave her a peck on the cheek, and before she could get angry, stood up and bowed to Wen Qing with a rare sincere tone: "Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!"

  Wen Qian still didn't know that today's matter was a bit fishy, and quietly waited for Xu Yao to give herself an explanation.

  "I privately told Ningning about you, but Ningning secretly investigated your past and came back to tell me that your personality and character are completely different from what I said. I was very surprised, can a person's personality change so much in just over ten days? So when Ningning suggested trying you out, I didn't firmly stop her, sorry! But I really didn't know, her test was actually to make you not associate with me... If I had known, I absolutely would not have agreed to let her do this, Wenlian, believe me..."

  As she watched Wen Qiang's eyes grow colder, Xu Yao's voice weakened, and she lowered her head, rubbing the hem of her clothes like a child who had done something wrong. The beautiful and heroic young girl seemed to be from yesterday.

  "Alright, I'll explain the rest. The results of my investigation and what Yaoyao said about you are completely different people, Wen Chuan. If your good friend were in this situation, wouldn't you worry that she would be deceived? Yaoyao is my only friend, and her identity is very sensitive, but she herself has always been oblivious to this point. So I wanted to try you out, see how this former timid and fearful boy suddenly became brave enough to fight thugs, dare to humiliate Gu Wenyan, and challenge Mu Shanshan..."

  Wen Jie took over the conversation and said: "Not bad, you must think I know Xu Ya's identity, so you're fearless. When fighting with the bandits, she was there; when humiliating Gu Wen Yuan, she was also there; even this time, publicly competing with Mu Shan Shan, it was her who helped me find coaches everywhere... Not bad, what you said is right. Since that's the case, then goodbye, let's not see each other again, and dispel your worries!"

  Finished speaking in a cold and detached tone, he ignored Xu Yao's shouting from behind him and turned to leave.

  As he walked around the corner, Wen Da Shu suddenly ducked to one side and stealthily poked his head out to glance at the restaurant. The look of being misunderstood and wrongly accused had vanished from his face, replaced by a sly grin as he whispered, "You two little girls still want to play tricks on me? This time I'll teach you a lesson, let's see if you dare to play with me again in the future, haha!"

  How could Wen Qian be really angry with two little girls, and besides, what they were worried about was not wrong. However, after being scolded by Ning Xiao Bing like that, it's hard to vent one's anger. It would be better this way, I wonder who will come to apologize first tomorrow, should I accept with dignity or reject with dignity?

  It's really embarrassing!

  But Xu Yao is actually the daughter of Xu Fuyan, what a treasure! In fact, I have an amendment to what I said earlier: my left eye sees friendship and love, but my right eye sees power, great power!

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