Poker face

Upon hearing someone actually praise Ouyang Qianyu, Shangguan Xiao expressed her disagreement. She curled her lips and sneered coldly, "In my opinion, it’s not that he’s fine, but because he naturally has a poker face, you just can’t see any problems!"

In truth, Shangguan Xiao was right. Although Ouyang Qianyu said nothing and showed no expression on his face, if you observed him closely, you would notice the unusual twitching of the muscles in his calves.

Perhaps, as Shangguan Xiao said, he had indeed been born with a poker face, which made it impossible to discern any abnormalities. Coupled with his stubborn personality that never showed weakness to anyone, he became all the more inscrutable.

In fact, he was no superhuman. He possessed no supernatural powers, nor did he have a four-dimensional pocket like Doraemon’s. He couldn’t pull out any gadgets to help him overcome difficulties. He relied solely on years of accumulated experience and extraordinary willpower.

So, the person who probably understood him best in the world was none other than Shangguan Xiao herself. Yet, she was completely unaware of this fact—a real pity.

Unbeknownst to her, she had slowly come to understand everything about Ouyang Qianyu without realizing it. A girl who heard Shangguan Xiao’s words vehemently objected, "That’s impossible! Ouyang is a genius!"

Look at that! Shangguan Xiao listened coldly to her words and almost burst out laughing. A genius! What a joke! Would a genius be the one always dragging down the computer exam results?

She spoke so casually, as if she wasn’t afraid of choking on her own words! If being a genius were so easy, how could there still be so many fools in the world? They would all be geniuses by now!

Besides, would a genius fail to improve their computer exam scores no matter how hard they studied? If that were the case, then what kind of genius would that be? Shangguan Xiao curled her lips, unwilling to waste any more breath on a clueless person.

Since the other party wouldn’t listen anyway, why bother?

Sitting quietly to the side, she massaged her own feet in silence. The girl, seeing Shangguan Xiao ignore her, said no more but gazed at Ouyang Qianyu’s back with eyes full of fascination.

At that moment, Ouyang Qianyu’s forehead was streaked with countless dark lines, and the corner of his eye twitched slightly. Damn it! It really hurt!

He exercised every day without fail, yet he still couldn’t withstand such excessive training. What on earth were those cursed instructors thinking? Didn't they know that overtraining would halve the effectiveness of the training?

It was far too reckless! Ugh! My feet hurt so much!

He sat down on the ground, stretched out his long legs, and sat there motionless with his eyes closed, resting.

Seeing him like this, the girls’ eyes filled with hearts! They wished they could rush to his side and embrace him, showering him with passionate kisses! Alas, unrequited affection and indifferent currents.

After resting for a while, his muscles finally returned to normal.

Ouyang Qianyu kept his eyes closed, but even so, he could clearly feel the breeze brushing against his cheeks.

In the very center of the sandy training ground stood a kapok tree, the only green plant in the area, now blooming profusely with kapok flowers.

As the wind blew continuously, a few kapok blossoms fell down.

Almost at the moment the flowers touched the ground, Ouyang Qianyu opened his eyes.

His brows furrowed tightly as he scanned his surroundings. He had just sensed an unusual flash of light sweep past!

Yet, upon careful inspection, there was no trace of anything suspicious.

What could it have been?

Instinctively, he glanced toward the observation tower located at the highest point of the training area. There stood only one guard.

Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Could it have been his imagination?

But his years of experience told him otherwise. That was the reflection from the lens of a gun!

Though it was now under the blazing sun, the sensation of ultraviolet rays sweeping over his face left no room for doubt.