Brave Hero (1)
Chapter Courtesy: Wang Mei
In front of the vending machine, Huo Cheng was still holding the cup of pickled pepper beef-flavored instant noodles. “Why did you come down and buy water by yourself?”
Shen Wanying controlled her facial muscles well as she looked at him. “I may have sprained my foot, but it’s not good to trouble the others to help me with everything. The hotel has an elevator so I don’t need to walk that much.”
Huo Cheng nodded slightly as he looked at her and said, “We will have dinner in a while. Don’t go back to your room. Just sit here for a bit.”
“Sure.” She was too lazy to return to her room anyways so she easily agreed.
He helped her to a pavilion outside to sit down and rest. As they sat leisurely at the edge, they could see all kinds of kites flying high up in the air.
Despite the beauty of them dancing about in the sky, Shen Wanying couldn’t spare much thought towards watching them now. She was only eyeing the instant noodles that Huo Cheng had put aside.
Her heart was disturbed.
She didn’t know why Huo Cheng had said that earlier. Does he really have a friend who likes to eat instant noodles while shaking his leg, moreover he also eats beef flavored with pickled peppers? How can there be such a coincidence in the world?
But if not, then why does he know this?
It was the biggest secret in Shen Wanying’s life: she liked to eat instant noodles while shaking her leg.
Thinking of this, she remembered the BL novel that Huo Cheng glimpsed last time.
He accepted it so calmly. Isn’t that strange in itself?
However, these things weren’t what she worried about the most. Her biggest dilemma now was that she felt that her image in front of Huo Cheng had been completely ruined… As if she was standing in front of him bare…without any clothes.
…Wait, what yellow1*pornographic garbage am I thinking about?
“What’s the matter?” noticing her silence, Huo Cheng asked her.
“Nothing.” She reflexively denied, picking up the water bottle with the intention of taking a sip.
The bottle cap was unscrewed easily.
She was taken aback for a moment. Then she realized that when Huo Cheng handed her the bottle of water, he had also helped unscrew the cap.
Something subtle was growing in Shen Wanying’s heart. Speaking of which, the bottle of water he’d given her was also the bottle she originally wanted to buy.
Huo Cheng knew her tastes well. But that seemed to be of little importance. He knew some of her secrets which nobody knew, but he didn’t ridicule her or mention it to others. She felt that he cared about her very much.
Though, this might be due to their childhood.
“When my foot is better, I also want to find some time to fly a kite.” Shen Wanying raised her head, looking at the kites in the sky, a smile forming on her lips.
Huo Cheng also followed her gaze and looked at the kites. “En, I’ll accompany you.”
“Okay.” She pointed to a kite in the distance. “Look, that dragon kite seems to be Ji Yao’s. This kind of kite is not easy to fly. I didn’t expect he could fly it so well.”
Huo Cheng knitted his brows and asked, “You seem to really care about Ji Yao?”
Shen Wanying chuckled twice. “Yes, a little bit.”
The corner of Huo Cheng’s mouth straightened a little. He wanted to ask her if she liked Ji Yao, but in the end, he swallowed the question.
Not long after, it was time for dinner. The students eventually gathered in the dining room one after another where the evening show was arranged to be performed. The ones who were participating would take turns going up. After they finished their performance, they would step down for dinner.
For this type of event, most of the students chose to sing a song. Although the students had different levels of singing ability, everyone cheered them on. When it came to pushing the whole audiences’ mood to the pinnacle, it was thanks to the joint skit presented by Zhao Yimeng and other Grade II class members.
The story was very clichéd, but the students who performed it were very funny. In addition, the identity of their class members made such a contrast that even the teacher smiled from ear to ear.
After Zhao Yimeng finished her performance and came back down, she appeared gloomy. “I’m done. From today on, my legendary reputation has been ruined!”
Why did I agree to participate in this skit in the first place!
Shen Wanying smiled and looked at her. “Why? I think you performed well just now. Even Ji Yao laughed.”
“Really?” After all, Ji Yao was Zhao Yimeng’s first male god. Hearing that her male god laughed, she was happy for two seconds, then became even more depressed than before. “It doesn’t seem to be a good thing, right?”
In the end, the skit she disliked so much was voted as the winner in tonight’s performance by everyone.
After returning to the room, Shen Wanying thought back to it and found it funny. Zhao Yimeng had turned her grief and anger into appetite. She took apart all the snacks she had brought and called out to Shen Wanying to eat and catch up on some drama together.
While the two of them stayed in the room, there were other students who were still wandering outside.
Fang Yichang called over Wang Tingting and Qiu Ziqing who were about to return to the hotel. He looked at them and commented, “There were too many people during the day, and I couldn’t find a chance to ask you. Today, Shen Wanying was injured. Did you do it on purpose?”
Qiu Ziqing didn’t say a word. Wang Tingting took the lead in lashing out with indignance. “Fang Yichang, why are you asking that? We have heaven watching. Is it even possible to plan out whether she will be injured or not?”
A smiling Fang Yichang said to her, “Was it on purpose or not? You know it in your own heart. I don’t want to say anything, but I hope you will stay away from Shen Wanying in the future, otherwise don’t blame me for being impolite.” With that, he turned and left.
Wang Tingting choked back her words for a while before ordering him to stop. “Fang Yichang, are you stupid? Can’t you see that Shen Wanying and Huo Cheng have a good relationship?”
Fang Yichang stopped and looked back at her. “What do you mean?”
Wang Tingting said, “I don’t mean anything. I just want to tell you. You like Shen Wanying and Ziqing likes Huo Cheng. Shouldn’t we work together?”
“Work together?” Fang Yichang took a step back. “You want to cooperate?” He laughed. “Sorry, I won’t stoop as low as you.”
“You…!”
“When I, Fang Yichang, like someone, I will chase her openly instead of plotting in secret.” He followed up with a warning. “You’d better put away those dirty little tricks of yours.”
Wang Tingting’s heart really couldn’t accept it. What the hell happened, did I suddenly take the vicious female supporting role in a drama?
Right now, the vicious female side character had been counterattacked. Even though she had suffered so much anger in a single day, she wasn’t even the vicious female support at all!
Right between her musing, an ear-piercing shriek suddenly erupted in the dark night.
Both Wang Tingting and Qiu Ziqing were startled, reflexively shrinking against the wall.
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NO NOT A CLIFF NOOO IT’S GETTING GOOD 😭😭😭
IT’S NOT JUST YOU THE BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN ZYM AND FYC IS LIKE A CHEMICAL REACTION
ay? wait? i got something?
HE NICKNAMED HER AH WAN AAAAA
Alright I’m somehow more convinced that he believed himself to be the “killer” because he blamed himself for Fang Ke’s death without being actually the cause of it? What if it’s like a suicidal pact situation? where fang ke is the one who’s a bit loco in the head and initiated the accident, planning to die with both the guy and he just has a survivor’s guilt after?
THE WAY YOU DESCRIBED HIS SECOND LIFE AS NG+ PLUS I’M CRYINGG
ughh now i feel like it’s really a huge red herring instead. It’s too clear and obvious
made an account for commenting here, but my current leading theory, considering the premise of the painted veil that was hinted before, his mom had cheated, his dad knew about and gave her a choice. Something to do with her disease and forced her to live in the mountain villa or to divorce, and for the sake of Huo Cheng she just rather go to the villa. They fixed their relationship and either his mom ended up cheating again or her lover is a yandere.
Also another thought is that daisies represent “innocence” which may suggest that his mom is innocent and she was wrongly blamed, either for the cheating or for something else that we don’t have enough information on. Or if still in line with the ‘cheating’ and the painted veil plot, it may suggest that His mom is someone who’s shallow/gullible like the main character of that novel is.
Watch as I’m embarrassingly wrong/this is a red herring thrown in by the author to kick us off guard. This is honestly such an interesting subplot to the fluffy and light-hearted high school romance
um what o.0
p.s. tho its a bottom line, im glad he dont have impure intention toward her
hey! thanks for all the comments c:
i know, he’s so full of nonsense. but i’m glad too!! the ML we all deserve,,
thanks for reading!
when he keep looking at her as if she gonna disappear 😉
you both said whats on my mind. there many possibility for mysteries and im invested
this too cute, i got diabetes 😭
backstory! that explains a lot
AHAHAHAHAH why she is so fixated to maintain image, isnt it tiring
ah ah so sweet
i like how natural he taking care of her .. as if theyre married
Definitely shipping the silly puppy boy and the spunky cat girl!
Being able to deduce the ship-status by what brand of water he buys! She should be detective!
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From this chapter onwards on NU the chapters are incorrectly numbered (10 chapters ahead).
Thank you for the chapter! (*^^*)
this site won’t let me see which chapter it is, but i’ll defs get that checked out, thanks for bringing it to my attention!
thank you for reading! ♡
I think I know why he got stabbed now
Thank you for the chapter!
Gah! I caught up again! Σ( ̄□ ̄lll)
How does one aquire these *shifty eyes* “advance chapters”? Groveling? I can grovel! ┬┴┬┴┤(✧w✧├┬┴┬┴
Also, can we talk about what a smooth criminal Hup Cheng is?! That quiet hug made me blush! (⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)⁄
HELLO!! i am SO SORRY, i am apparently dinosaur/boomer/dumb dumb and never checked the comments until now, so i am just seeing this! thank you for all your kind comments, they really made my day 🥺 about the advance chapters, if you’re still interested, the best way would be to enquire via the discord server! there is a channel specifically for this book, the link is right up in the header (: if you have any issues, yell @ me! i’ll defs be checking back ;; <3
and oh my god YEAH tell me about it, the amount of squealing that has happened on my end of the computer. embarrassing to say the least. 🙈🙈🙈 there will finally be an update on tuesday, sorry for the wait! i hope you enjoy <3
I’m crying, why he is so sweet? I also want a boyfriend like that…
oh my good lord i am so sorry, like the comment after yours, i also, only just saw this T_T thank you for reading and interacting! i agree, where to find a man like this?!?
there will be an update on tuesday, so sorry for the wait as well!
Waiting for new chapter,😘😘
I finally figured out how to make an account in order to post comments! 😂
I was so confused!
This story is so good! Im totally hooked! 💕
I love your translations! They’re very smooth and comfortable to read even if you don’t read many Chinese novels.
Would this advance release you mentioned be more premium chapters that we’d have to pay for or would it be an early release on Novel Updates?
Most obvious thing is that his mother had an affair, and he ended up dead from something related to it.
Hello, I am new reader. I am loving the novel. Thank you so much for your hard work! And thanks for the new chapter.
About your note, since this novel is short and as far as I can see, is more on the fluffy than anything else, I don’t think the Huo family has anything to do with the ML mother’s death. Maybe one of then did something that stimulated her and thus lead to the cause of her death? But I think must of the reason is because she probably really betrayed ML father… The flowers ML saw are probably from the other man, and maybe he also did something that end up causing the ML mother’s death? Everything about that is very strange. Let’s observe more…
Not related but I just want to say: I really don’t believe the FL was the one who killed Huo Cheng. There must be something fish about his death as well. I trust FL.
Sorry my bad english.
Hey!! Not to be rude or anything but I don’t see any link to a discord server… Can someone please send it to me? Thank you so much!!
Don’t worry you weren’t rude at all. We’re still working on setting up the discord server link though. Thanks for being patient.
Here’s a temporary invite to the server:
https://discord.gg/j77SgVky