Chapter 518 — Sun Jie's Thoughts

As a result, even fewer people favored Fan Ce now. Everyone thought he was a complete fool for actually challenging Yan Can—could he possibly win?

And the reason for the challenge was, of all things, a woman named Zhao Ying!

Was this any way to court a girl? If she liked you, you could win her heart without any challenge at all; if she didn't, no amount of challenging would do you any good!

If he had the time to beat down a rival in love, he'd have been better off studying how to actually woo a woman!

So in this stadium, the vast majority had come for Yang Ce. As for Fan Ce, his popularity at school wasn't much good either, and he had few friends. Apart from a few stooges Feng Jiu had paid to fill the seats, there was no one else.

Zhao Ying naturally came too. Since the whole affair had started because of her, she had no reason or excuse to run from it! Though being the center of attention made her somewhat uncomfortable, she still had to come!

No matter what, Yang Ce had accepted the challenge, and it was all for her sake—how could Zhao Ying not come watch in person?

"Yanyan, I'm a little nervous..." Zhao Ying said quietly to Wang Yanqiu beside her.

Xiao Qing was a teacher at the school, so of course she couldn't accompany Zhao Ying to watch a match like this—that would set the whole campus buzzing!

As for Sun Jie, though she was reluctant to see Heng leave, there were still company matters to attend to back in Donghai, and Yang Shuoxuan had his own affairs to handle. He couldn't possibly spend all his time with Sun Jie alone! So Sun Jie simply returned to Donghai and quietly waited for Yang Ce to come back.

Sun Jie had always been a forceful woman, so when it came to boyfriends, she was naturally extremely selective. After her first relationship with Yan had come about by a strange twist of fate, though she was somewhat unwilling to admit it, the matter had more or less interfered with her standards for choosing a partner!

Even though Sun Jie's sexual orientation had shifted because of the wounds of her first love, that in truth could not change the sense of chastity in her bones! Though she had fooled around with Xiao Qing, that was a matter between women. With a man, it was her first time.

So no matter what, nothing could change the fact that Yang Ce was her first man and her only man! Though Sun Jie would not admit it, deep in her heart she still leaned toward Yang Ce, and in her standards for a partner, she took Yang Ce as her measure!

Once she had put on those tinted glasses, she felt that no man around her could surpass Yang Ce. In the depths of her heart, she had already made Yang Ce the sole candidate for best boyfriend—it was just that, given Sun Jie's temperament, she was unwilling to admit it.

So time and again she used "testing Yang Ce" as an excuse to reject him. But if she had truly meant to reject him, how could she have let Yang Puqi keep having that kind of relationship with her again and again? If she had wanted to avoid it, Sun Jie was clever enough to have done so completely—she wouldn't even have given him a single chance!

And in fact, many times, though Sun Jie said with her mouth that she was unwilling, in reality she had let things happen with Yang Ce under half-hearted protest, and again and again Sun Jie had stepped forward to help Yang Ce—until one day, Yang Duo could hold up a piece of the sky himself and turn to help her instead.

Sun Jie felt she was almost playing a female-oriented raising game, watching Yang Puqi grow up bit by bit, marching toward the peak of life and career! And at this point, Sun Jie had also completely opened her heart and given herself to Yang Ce.

But what she hadn't expected was that before long, Yang Ce would be leaving! To carry out an extremely dangerous mission—whether he could come back was anyone's guess!

To be honest, Sun Jie was very worried. Out of selfishness, she didn't want Yang Ce to leave. Finding one's own happiness was not easy—how could she just watch her happiness walk away?

But Sun Jie was a person who understood the big picture. She knew that Yang Cenbin's trip to Yunnan must have his own reasons. Since Yang Ce had already decided, what reason did she have to stop him? Besides, from another angle—wasn't Yang Juehuan's departure this time also a kind of training for him?

Had any of Yang Juehuan's growth ever come about except through trials in danger? Looking back at everything that had happened along Yang Puqi's road, there was not one thing that wasn't extremely perilous. This time might be even more dangerous, but if Yang Ce came back safely, he would be all the more mature for it!

Sun Jie also hoped Yang Ce would become even stronger. So even though she worried, she did not show it. After Yang Ce left her apartment, she once again threw all her energy into work!

Sun Jie would wait quietly for Yang Ce's return amid hard work! By then, she thought, she must turn X Island into a paradise on earth. That way, Yang Ce could settle on X Island with everyone, free of all cares, living out happy days of men farming and women weaving.

This was also the direction Sun Jie had been striving toward all along.

Of course, she buried all these words in her heart. She hadn't even told Xiao Qing and Zhao Ying, her two closest friends.

"What's there to be nervous about? Yang Ce isn't going to lose!" Wang Yanqiu was full of confidence in Heng. No matter how strong this Fan Ce was, he was probably the sort to be killed in a single move by Yang Puqi, so she wasn't worried about today's result at all.

But Zhao Ying was not as calm as Wang Yanqiu. She was still a little worried. "Since Fan Ce can challenge Yang Ce, he must have some hidden trick, right? He's a student here too—how could he not know that Yang Ce once beat the president and vice president of the Taekwondo Club? That's no secret. Surely he wouldn't have failed to investigate beforehand?"

"That's true, but so what if he's prepared?" Wang Yanqiu gave a disdainful smile. She had also seen the video of Yang Ce accepting the challenge from the Taekwondo Club's president and vice president. You could say Yang Ce had been playing with children—he hadn't used any real skill at all!

Even so, he had already been able to toy with the president and vice president at will. What virtue or ability did this Fan Ce have that could surpass Yang Ce? Obviously impossible.

But Wang Yanqiu didn't tell Zhao Ying the specific reason either. Yang Juehuan's identity was still confidential for the time being—his identity as an assassin was known only to herself.

"I just hope Yang Yongjin loses..." Zhao Ying sighed and said, somewhat nervously.

"If you like Yang Ce, you should have confidence in Yang Moyi, not sit there sighing. Look at me—am I nervous at all?" Wang Yanqiu shrugged. "Yingying, you're just too hesitant. That temperament of yours is actually no good. You waver about everything and have no boldness at all. Look at the course of your relationship with Yan—how complicated and bumpy it was. Have you ever thought that the one who caused all of it was really you?"