Why are the Protagonist Gong and Shou Fighting Because of Me? - CH 63

Day 2.

“This is a classic battle of the First Star Regiment, the Battle of Moran Sea, which of you would like to come up and challenge it?” The tactics teacher asked.

Gu Tunan rose to his feet and when he did, the cadets, who had been eager to try, hesitated, as no one wanted to be the one to be abused.

” Xie Ruhang, you do it.” The tactics teacher called out by name.

Gu Tunan and Xie Ruhang are standing in front of a simulated sand table, Gu Tunan holding an imperial chess piece and Xie Ruhang holding a federation chess piece.

The Battle of the Moran Sea was a classic battle in the early days of the Confederation’s repulsion of the Imperial forces, a battle in which the Imperial forces, despite their strength, were unfamiliar with the terrain and climate, and suffered greatly from their underestimation of the Confederation, whose disadvantage lay in their weaponry.

The imperial army under Gu Tunan’s command was steady and steady, while the Federation army under Xie Ruhang’s leadership was dangerous and on the edge, with the two going back and forth, before the tactics teacher called a halt to them due to time constraints.

“You are both very good.” The tactics teacher commented with satisfaction, “You two have a complementary style, one offensive and one defensive, so why don’t you be study partners from now on, learning from each other and promoting each other.”

Xie Ruhang: “……?”

Wait, does this sound familiar?

Gu Tunan nodded coldly and said to Xie Ruhang, who seemed to have fallen into a state of stillness: “Let’s finish the unfinished game later.”

No, no, how did you just accept the teacher’s arrangement so naturally and think about our future?

The pupils in the phoenix’s eyes vibrated wildly, and the words of Tang Bai Fa last night came to mind.

“Gu Tunan is outwardly cold and even dismissive of Xie Ruhang, but in reality Gu Tunan cares about Xie Ruhang.”

Grey-blue eyes stared at him lazily, Gu Tunan’s indifferent look more akin to greeting a future partner than to surveying an insignificant piece of grass on the side of the road.

That look can’t be the look of a place you care deeply about in your heart by any stretch of the imagination!!!

Calm down, trust your eyes! Gu Tunan is just being cold and dismissive, don’t be brainwashed by Tang Bai!

When Gu Tunan saw that Xie Ruhang did not respond for half a day, he simply stopped waiting and walked to his seat with the coldness of a man who does not see eye to eye with unruly people like you.

It was this arrogance that made Xie Ruhang feel affectionate: yes, that was it, he must have just been infected by Tang Bai to have the terrible illusion that Gu Tunan didn’t like me.

Xie Ruhang wipes away a drop of cold sweat from the corner of his forehead and returns to his seat.

This study partner is just a coincidence too, yes, it’s a terrible coincidence!

*

“Let’s analyse yesterday’s lunchtime test paper, yesterday’s full mark papers were Bai Li and Mo Zheng, these two students did very well ……”

Tang Bai browsed through his papers and he missed marks on some proprietary courses at the military academy, which were written by the academy teachers themselves and not for sale, and were not part of Tang Bai’s self-study.

With just over a week to go before the specialist examination, Tang Bai wondered if he would be able to master the material in a short time.

Cheng Wenhui stood on the podium and quoted from the scriptures with ease, making a simple lesson on exam paper analysis a fascinating one.

Tang Bai listened with great interest, not realising that Mr Cheng, who seemed so soft and deceptive yesterday, was so charming on the podium.

Soon after the lesson, Cheng Wenhui called out to Tang Bai, “I’ve read your paper, and the points you missed are all related to the school’s exclusive textbook, I can’t help you in other classes, but I can usually help you with this one, what do you think?”

Tang Bai nodded happily of course, he was worried about how he was going to revise, Cheng Wenhui was the one who wrote the textbook for the course and no one knew more about teaching than him!

Tang Bai followed Cheng Wenhui to the office. Cheng Wenhui was a very responsible teacher, helping Tang Bai to highlight and explain the topics patiently and meticulously, and with Cheng Wenhui’s help, Tang Bai’s study efficiency was so high.

A glass of water was placed in front of Tang Bai, ” Tang Bai, do you have plans to run for Chief?” Cheng Wenhui pushed his glasses and asked in a warm voice.

Tang Bai looks up from his sea of questions as he graciously admits, “Yes.”

Cheng Wenhui nodded and encouraged, “Although it is difficult to master these materials in a short period of time, I believe that with your intelligence and hard work, you will be able to make up for the shortcomings.”

Tang Bai heard that Cheng Yangbin and Cheng Wenhui were half-brothers, but Cheng Wenhui was the son of a concubine and was not valued in the Cheng family.

In the novel, it is mentioned that Cheng Yangbin’s two high scores in the competition for the chief position were the votes and the results of his major course. The votes were understandably high for Tang Bai, and in the timeline of the novel at the time, Cheng Yangbin happened to win the mech building competition, and his persona as a mech building genius was deeply rooted in people’s hearts, making him the idol of the mechanical department.

But it’s a bit strange that Cheng Yangbin also scored almost perfect marks in his major.

But the relationship between Cheng Yangbin and Cheng Wenhui does not look good.

Did the Cheng Family put pressure on Cheng Wenhui to give Cheng Yangbin a pass?

Tang Bai held up her cup and took a few sips, “Mr Cheng, would you like to eat the excellent dishes from the culinary department of the Etiquette College? My friends came to bring me lunch at noon today, but they made a lot again and I couldn’t finish it all by myself.”

Cheng Wenhui froze for a moment, her eyes falling on the desk that was full of things, “Then I’ll tidy up the desk, it’s just right for a dining table.”

After ordering a bento for Cheng Wenhui, Tang Bai messaged Xiao Cheng, “Are you out of class now?”

Career: “Class is almost over, what’s wrong?”

Not in a relationship for a career: “Trying to bribe you.”

Career:”?”

Not in love and in business: “Bribe our Commander Xiao with a love lunch to find a quality alpha in our department ~ no lunch in the cafeteria, come to my place to get your box lunch!”

When Xie Ruhang saw that the location was the office of a professor in the Department of Mechanics, his first reaction was to refuse. Although the Command Department is secretive at the Federal Military Academy and the list of commanders is not published, the professors of each department have the right to check the internal list of students.

If he goes to the office under a false identity, if the professor bites the bullet and recognizes his identity ……

Career: “I have a secret base at school, it’s very secluded, would you like to go and see it?”

Is this an invitation to the world for two?

Tang Bai was impressed, and since Xiao Cheng was still in class, he was prepared to finish his lunch and then go to Xiao Cheng to see the secret base he was talking about.

Xie Ruhang was relieved to see Tang Bai say yes when he received another message from Tang Bai on his large number: ” Brother Xie, I remember you don’t have class for 3 or 4 periods in the morning, are you in the dorm now? My classmate has made a lot of summer dishes for lunch today ……”

Xie Ruhang: “……”

Ten minutes later, Xie Ruhang is sitting in front of Tang Bai, eating a hearty lunch.

Twenty minutes later, Xie Ruhang, who had eaten until he was eight minutes full, said goodbye to Tang Bai and quickly went to the showers to change and wash off the smell of lunch, then skillfully put on his human skin mask, not forgetting the mechanical button.

Tang Bai, carrying a drawing board and a lunchbox, happily joins Xie Ruhang.

Tang Bai knows that cadets have a lot of training, plus alpha eaters are amazing, so he brought a super generous lunch this time, and the bento was a bit tiring to carry, “Look! I brought you a giant lunch!”

Xie Ruhang’s dark eyes are frozen for a moment as he looks at the generous portion of bento and squeezes out a hard smile.

“You must be starving, right?” Tang Bai said, “Have some more later.”

The alpha beside her did not speak, and Tang Bai looked up to see those dark eyes gazing away in a slightly melancholy manner.

It is said that the eyes are the windows to the soul. Tang Bai seems to be able to see the untouchable inner world of Xiao Cheng through his eyes.

Tang Bai, whose head was full of pink bubbles, thought with a slight shyness.

At the moment, Xie Ruhang is thinking: No, I’m full, I want to burp.

The secret base discovered by Xie Ruhang is a secluded pavilion on the water, where you can sit and watch the fish swimming in the water.

“Wow, this is a beautiful koi, but unfortunately I didn’t bring any fish food.” Tang Bai looks on with slight regret at the schools of carp swaying, but with the thought of having a feeder right next to her, Tang Bai is motivated to open her lunch box and get ready to feed.

“This soup is really super good, come and have a sip, it has beauty and skin care benefits ~” “This seafood mango january sounds dark but it’s delicious, unfortunately I can’t eat it because I’m allergic to mangoes, here, you can have more!” “And this dish too ……”

No, it’s too much, you’ll probably burp if you force it down!

Xie Ruhang’s mind raced as he tried to salvage his stomach sac.

“Since my mother died, no one but you has ever given me this warm feeling.” Xie Ruhang said softly to Tang Bai, who kept giving him food.

Tang Bai pauses in his chopping motion and looks at the alpha in front of him, who is in a state of reminiscence.

“She was very pretty, with her eyes and long hair.” The conversation was meant to be a diversion, but when it came to the person in her memory, Xie Ruhang’s box was suddenly opened.

“She cooks very well because she spares the oil when she fries and she told me that she doesn’t like meat and told me to eat more.”

Xie Ruhang looked down at the vegetables Tang Bai had piled up into a small mountain and whispered, “She had a lot to ask of me, that I study hard and work as a servant in a noble house later, which was a good future in her eyes.”

Tang Bai doesn’t know what to say, so she can only listen quietly while drawing with her drawing board.

“My father worked in the underground arena, so my mother always told me that our family’s money was my father’s hard-earned money, which my father fought for one ring at a time.”

“When I was very young she would sit in the audience with me in her arms and watch the ring shows, her voice was so loud that sometimes I felt the arena was full of her cheering and when my father won and everyone was cheering, only my mother was in tears over my father’s bruised body.”

“We had some savings in the family at that time, but she said she didn’t want any more children, she wanted to leave all her love to me. Because she didn’t have a good time when she was a kid at home, she was an omega and the family just wanted to squeeze her and raise another alpha child.”

“She never went to school as a child, she most often ate potatoes, even rice was a luxury, she had to contract all the chores, and when she was a little older she was driven to work in the mines, where the family would make her pay every penny of her wages, but would not confiscate the pretty little stones she picked up from the mines.”

“One of the little stones I keep in my lucky charm is one she picked up, silver and glows with colour in the sun.”

“She’s actually a very artistic person, and if she’d had a good education as a child, maybe she could have turned into a musician.”

Xie Ruhang laughs a little, “But she probably didn’t even know what a musician was at that time, she didn’t listen to musicals, she didn’t take music lessons, she just liked to sing, anytime she could, my father said the first time he saw my mother was when she was holding a vegetable basket and humming on a rainy day ‘ditty ditty ditty ditty ‘ such a tune that she made up herself ……”

“Then she got sick.”

Xie Ruhang suddenly fell silent, and in the silence he whispered, “She was so sick that she spent almost all the family’s savings, but it wasn’t enough, and her father died in the ring trying to raise the money to go over the top.”

“When she learned of her father’s death, her condition worsened and she soon passed away as well.”

“But I always thought it shouldn’t be like that.”

“If I could, I would want her to be happy singing in another world free of discrimination and prejudice, to be able to go to the school she wants to go to, and to have her biggest dream not to be a servant in a noble house, but to be a musician or some other profession related to the music she loves ……”

Tang Bai showed Xie Ruhang the unfinished drawing on the board, “Is that so?”

The painting shows a woman sitting on a cloud singing, with long, silky black hair, her hands covering a silver stone with a coloured sheen, and her hands folded over her chest.

The sky was blue, the daylight penetrated the clouds in bright, gentle tones, and she was supposedly singing a very beautiful song, moving to hear the birds all around her.

Xie Ruhang stared at the painting in awe, and he looked at it for a long time before saying, ” This is better than all my imagination.”