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Published at 19th of June 2023 07:06:53 AM


Chapter 32

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Upon hearing the stuttering words “investment, investment,” Qin Chunxiao couldn’t help but wonder, do you really desire to meet your soulmate that much?

Intimacy was never lacking in Qin Chunxiao’s life. Family and friendships had built a solid emotional foundation for him. From childhood to adulthood, his emotional world had remained stable, enabling him to weather life’s storms successfully, even during his time playing in Brazil’s league, where care and support were never in short supply.

With his beast-level main attacks, Lao Ma had successfully used his serves and spikes at a speed of 130 kilometers per hour, leaving Qin Chunxiao with no room to think about anything else.

Therefore, Qin Chunxiao had always felt that he and Mei Xuandong were completely different people. Apart from their contrasting life experiences, their personalities were also poles apart.

But didn’t Mei Xuandong still have debts? In order to help his adopted sister avoid their relatives, he had bought a house in a place far away from G province, halfway across China. What a good brother.

Qin Chunxiao hadn’t figured out how the other party had quickly ruled out other possibilities and focused on him, but he did show some flaws, especially during the countdown at the press conference in City G. If the other party was able to narrow down the search area and he happened to be on that list, then perhaps he was indeed worth more suspicion, as he was actively present in City G on a daily basis.

Qin Chunxiao narrowed his eyes, wondering why he was worrying about someone whose income was a thousand times his own.

The recommended barbershop by Meng Yuqing was excellent. The shampoo lady had strong hands, and her scalp massages were incredibly soothing. The barber was also skilled, cutting Qin Chunxiao’s hair to ear-length.

Recalling the life-saving act on the plane, Qin Chunxiao stood up as his hair was being blow-dried. He wanted to remind the other person that buying a house for investment purposes was fine, but buying a house for a soulmate whom you hadn’t even greeted was unwise. Don’t pay too high a price for the longing for intimacy.

Especially since Mei Xuandong didn’t have much himself, putting all his efforts into giving could easily lead to losing everything. Qin Chunxiao, who didn’t frequently use the internet, knew that many children who lacked love from a young age were particularly vulnerable to being manipulated by deceitful individuals.

Images of scammers and villains from the TV series he watched as a child flashed through Qin Chunxiao’s mind several times. He wanted to speak up but couldn’t find the words.

Hidden soulmates were indeed peculiar. Before the countdown ended, they could communicate through texts and gestures, and they could even hear each other’s voices through other channels. However, once they realized they wanted to express something in words, no sound would come out.

As the shadow loomed over Long Zitan, he looked up and saw a tall and slender young man standing beside him. The young man was staring at the mobile phone in his palm with a conflicted expression. His jawline was so sharp and defined that Long Zitan suspected he hadn’t eaten for half a month. Unexpectedly, in order to maintain a defined facial structure, many people would go on diets and engage in dance exercises to control their body shape.

But upon closer examination of the boy’s facial features, he surpassed many “face tyrants” in the entertainment industry. With three-dimensional eyebrows and those unmistakable blue eyes, it was easy to tell he was of mixed race.

Long Zitan instinctively believed that someone with this face wouldn’t need plastic surgery. With some grooming and promotion using

marketing techniques, even if their business acumen wasn’t exceptional, they could still become the kind of traffic that is considered “beautiful.”

He was contemplating whether to ask for contact information from the “exceptional specimen” he had encountered in this barbershop when the young man turned around and left. Mei Xuandong’s voice came through the phone.

“Brother Zitan, I’ve written a new song. Can you help me with the copyright registration first? I have to record a show here, so I can’t leave…”

Training in S Province was both a painful and joyful experience for Qin Chunxiao.

The pain was undeniable. The average height of the S Province team ranked among the top three in the country. The average height of the men’s volleyball team was 1.98 meters, while the women’s volleyball team averaged 1.93 meters. Even their libero was 179.5 cm tall, and that was the most recent addition.

Standing at 174.3 cm amidst this group of towering individuals, Qin Chunxiao felt like Snow White’s seven dwarfs had found their long-lost clan member.

But he had been considered quite tall in high school, and teachers never considered the first three rows when assigning seats to him.

Being surrounded by these tall individuals often reminded Qin Chunxiao of one thing: as an adult, he was only 1.8 meters tall, a good 10 centimeters shorter than the average height of the women’s volleyball team. How disheartening.

However, there was also some joy. When he played against the Provincial Youth Team of J, he was relentlessly targeted. Qin Chunxiao had a challenging time defending against their fast breaks.
If he and Li Ling could also execute this kind of tactic, even if it couldn’t be the core of their offensive strategy, it would still enrich their tactical system.

Qin Chunxiao felt motivated at the thought of growing stronger with his teammates. However, learning and practicing new tactics required grinding, and they hadn’t completed that yet…

In the morning, they had their first practice match against the S Province women’s volleyball team.

Qin Chunxiao gathered his strength, adjusted his breathing, and ran towards the right side of the net. Li Ling received the ball that Zhou Ziming set up, jumped lightly, and made a back pass.

Upon landing, he stared at his setter with cold, intense eyes. “The set was too high.”

Li Ling quickly apologized, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry!”

If it was just Li Ling making mistakes, Qin Chunxiao could tolerate it. After all, he was used to the days when Li Ling had his off days. But if the whole team was struggling together, it was a completely different story.

When the opponents served the ball, Qin Chunxiao didn’t move, assuming Zhou Ziming would receive it.

Zhou Ziming did try to receive it, but as soon as he raised his arm, the ball slipped off and flew to the far side of the court.

Zhou Ziming apologized, “I’m sorry, Captain!”

It seemed that no one on the team could catch the ball today.

When it came to blocking, Qin Chunxiao hated going up against taller opponents because he would often be overpowered. He had initially planned to assign the blocking task to the opposite hitter, Liu Kairui, but Liu Kairui made a pained expression and covered his stomach midway through the match. “I’m sorry, Captain, I need to grow taller.”

Liu Kairui had overeaten the previous day, and now he was experiencing stomach issues. He had gone to the restroom three times during the game, and even the coach decided to let him focus on recovering instead of playing.

During the serving rotation, Mo Lin hit a powerful serve that directly scored a point for the women’s volleyball team.

Volleyball was normally a 6-on-6 game. Occasionally, when their own players were performing poorly, the core of the team would feel like they were playing 1-on-6. But today, Qin Chunxiao felt like he was playing against 11 opponents at once. The whole court seemed to be against him.

After the practice match with the women’s volleyball team in the morning, Qin Chunxiao huddled in a corner, his knees hugged to his chest.

He could truly understand how a former strong team could go on a winning streak in domestic competitions and then suddenly collapse. Once a team relaxed, their performance could plummet, and the burnout was hard to recover from. It was truly frustrating.

He felt exhausted.

Li Ling shouted at the top of his lungs, “Coach, something’s not right! Xiaozi is autistic!”

Chen Aiguo replied, “Losing in a practice match against the women’s volleyball team doesn’t make me autistic.”

Under normal circumstances, the men’s volleyball team, with their physical advantage, shouldn’t lose to the women’s volleyball team. How much muscle did they have? Chen Aiguo also wanted to be frustrated, but the loss made him unable to hold his head high.

Fortunately, Qin Chunxiao quickly snapped out of it and motivated his teammates within less than a minute. He had always had authority, and his expression was even darker than Lao Chen’s.

Li Ling said once again, “Wow, you’re so fierce.”

This time, Liu Kairui, Mo Lin, and others nodded

in agreement.

Qin Chunxiao had no intention of saving face for this group of people. With the women’s volleyball team’s permission, he took a group photo with them and posted it on his Weibo.

Qin Chunxiao:
“I played a practice match with the S Province women’s volleyball team and lost 3-2. They are really strong, with unwavering determination and precise tactics. I hope that I and my teammates (bold ones) can learn from the determination of the women’s volleyball sisters and become stronger in the future.”

@Swordbearer Li Ling
@Unharmed Transmission, Lin
@Flying into Zhou Ziming…

The women’s volleyball team quickly responded with laughing expressions in the comments section. They praised the men’s volleyball team, saying they had expended a lot of energy in the U21 tournament, and one of their key players, Li Xiaoping, was injured and couldn’t play. Winning was a stroke of luck, and they admired the perseverance of the men’s volleyball team, especially Qin Chunxiao.

To fight them to the fifth set with a 1-to-5 disadvantage, you must have incredible perseverance!

The bastards who participated in this practice game were also very active, and they all showed panda-headed and dog-headed emoticons, expressing that they would never dare to slack off and would play hard in the future. The captain gave them some face.

The atmosphere in the comment area was quite harmonious and friendly. The more than 10,000 volleyball fans who followed Qin Chunxiao also actively left messages and gave likes to the strong women’s volleyball girls.

This was also Qin Chunxiao’s intention for posting this post. He knew that the result of this game couldn’t be kept secret forever, and there was no need to hide it. Rather than being exposed later and being scolded as a shame for the men’s volleyball team, it was better for him to be generous first. If it was sent out, and everyone had a friendly interaction, no one would go online to scold the provincial youth team of G for being weak.

He really saw the women’s volleyball team win a city-level men’s volleyball team in a training match, and then that city-level team was incompetent by the Internet. A female volleyball player responded that the city-level team played very seriously. They tried to use various tactics. It was only a narrow victory, but in the end, it was popularized by a group of “senior fans” who were used to gender antagonism. Women should not win men in this life.

It’s one thing to have differences between men and women, it’s quite another to be used to make a fuss about confrontation.

In the afternoon, the exhaust fans seemed to realize that if they didn’t play seriously, they would continue to lose the game, so they finally cheered up and showed the basic provincial men’s volleyball skills in the fast-break teaching match of the girls’ volleyball team in S Province.

At the end of the exchange game in the evening, the big guys ate the dumplings made by the aunt in the cafeteria. Qin Chunxiao took the coal tongs and caught a nest of mice for the aunts, and then they packed up and drove back to G City to celebrate the new year.

Before leaving, Meng Yuqing also gave Qin Chunxiao a pair of wolf claw gloves. Seeing Qin Chunxiao’s strange look, Meng Yuqing explained: “My soulmate opened a handmade shop online, specializing in clothing for small animals.”

Qin Chunxiao: “Have you found your soulmate?!”

Tong Shulan was puzzled: “Yeah, Yuqing has been with her soulmate since she was born, don’t you know?”

“Birth? Then how can you be sure that each other is a soulmate?” Qin Chunxiao gestured: “A baby can’t say that she suddenly changed from black and white vision to color vision, right? Her vision hasn’t developed well yet.”

Moreover, in his memory, Meng Yuqing clearly did not have color vision, and he always thought that the other party had not yet found a soul mate.

Meng Yuqing replied: “My sister and I are twins. There is a countdown timer on our body since we were born. Before we turned one year old, she and I couldn’t even cry to each other.”

Seeing his surprised look, Meng Yuqing couldn’t help laughing: “You don’t think that soulmates only appear in the field of love, like everyone else?”

She explained: “In fact, a soul mate is just a proof of compatibility, which means that two people may develop into an extremely compatible partner. Because of love, there may also be signs of soul mates between blood relatives, such as me and my twin sister, we are destined to be the most compatible since birth.”

Qin Chunxiao wore wolf claws and got on the bus in a daze. Forgive him for being ignorant and not having a deep understanding of the group of soul mates. Today, he was frightened by Meng Yuqing.

She only had black and white vision, and when Qin Chunxiao met Meng Yuqing, she had no color vision. Qin Chunxiao had never met Meng Yuqing’s sister, so Meng Yuqing lost half of her body later?

Leaning on crutches, Tong Shulan leaned against the gate of the provincial team arena, and said lazily, “I’m going to rehabilitate later, so I won’t send you off. Listen to the coach on the way, don’t get lost, and say  what about you, Qin Chunxiao, why are you more of an idiot than Li Ling?”

The two parties said goodbye in an atmosphere of reluctance, and when they got into the car, Zhou Ziming poked Qin Chunxiao’s shoulder hard from the back seat: “Captain, your post this afternoon has been forwarded over a million times, and it’s also on the trending list!”

Qin Chunxiao finally came to his senses, he thought to himself when did volleyball get so much traffic? Could it be that the captain of the women’s volleyball team forwarded his news? But it’s not right, if you don’t buy traffic, how can a mere player interaction scarf climb the hot search list?

Qin Chunxiao opened the app and took a look.

Singing Xuandong V

Forward/Qin Chunxiao

Qin Chunxiao: …

You haven’t confirmed that I’m your soulmate yet, so you’re buying a house and turning my scarf now?

Mr. Xuan Dong, your behavior is really the kind of lack of love since childhood, so you will give your all for intimacy, do you know that?

Qin Chunxiao suddenly began to worry that this guy would be tricked by sharp-eyed scum one day.





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