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Tan Lingyun watched as he walked away Suddenly, she shouted after him “Give me a chance to pursue you!”
Lan Jue very nearly fell on his face He recovered, and nearly ran to the dorhter All of the pressure fled fro breaths This , Zeus – he was a coward!
With her chest puffed out pridefully, Tan Lingyun sneered
“You have no chance” The soft, eyun jumped She’d never heard someone approach When she turned, she saw only a woman with fiery red hair and a silver mask
She knew this to be one of the other assistants Lei Feng had brought with him No one kneho she was – they simply called her ‘assistant instructor’
The red- haired one, and the black-haired one That was how the students referred to Mika and Xiuxiu
“Why do you say that?” Tan Lingyun was not affected by the negative coh-handedness
“You’re back of the line,” she said “He’s had a healthy following for a while So if you think you’re just gunna juyun blinked at her “You two?” Tan Lingyun took a minute to size up her sudden competition Mika, she discovered, was no less a catch than she She looked back at the two eyun knew that look This ar
‘Tiyun had had in her vocabulary She bulled through every challenge she’d ever faced The harder the task, the o Learn and overcome – that was principle
She had always had an idol in her heart, like any woer a young girl It was time for her to find a boyfriend and settle down, 1 but she had some pretty lofty standards In her mind, her future man would be perfect; he would be possessed of herculean strength and sage-like wisdom Prooal Had her parents not expressly forbidden it, she’d have joined the Iron Aro
She’d been blessed with the opportunity, through this training, to see Prometheus with her own eyes However, when she finally met him that fervent sense of puppy love had calmed
When she’d approached Lan Jue with her conjecture before, she was going to ask him to introduce her She couldn’t slip fro that night did she dreareen-masked man No, the scene that played in her mind over and over was an experience she’d re as hehiainst her, surrounded by his masculinity That hat she remembered
The next day she woke up red-faced and flustered Throughout the ht from her one But the ione, just replaced It was Zeus
He was a cold, cold man – but heroic! For the last two months he had been ruthless to everyone he cah more than a feeak moments
But in the end this terrible experience had lifted thehts The ARC classes were unprecedented, and through the in more than just coh she hadn’t seen how, the victory was enough After that, Lei Feng completely usurped Prometheus from his spot in her heart That’s why she’d confronted him like she had – she sure was backhen it ca it reduced to a joke was more than she could handle
“Just because he doesn’t like you doesn’t mean he won’t find interest in me Let’s just see who he picks!” Her hands were clenched in to fists, and her voice rose to a challenging crescendo
Mika just laughed “Sure! At the very least we’ll see how novel you make the situation” With the final words hers, Mika turned and walked away She didn’t see Tan Lingyun as any sort of competition She kneho her real co field in a confounded daze She certainly was cute…
But curiosity was all there was She was a good girl He could still remember hisStill, he had a very good iruood heart That’s why he’d risked his identity to help her out – and ended up so himself exposed anyway
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1 This is the single greatest Chinese trope you’ll coet relationships in China A woood man, and provide They are expected to do this immediately – I mean, immediately after university Re any relationships prior to college, and even then it should never go beyond a few stolen kisses This means there are slews of 25 year-old parents, and every year you don’t have a husband and a child, you’re less and less desirable So ood irl herself that school can often be an afterthought This is, however, thankfully changing