Chapter 2449 — Another Embarrassment
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Kang Jinglong's words made Wang Xinyan glance sideways at Wei Zhao. She didn't like Kang Jinglong and wanted nothing to do with him, but he was, after all, her fiancé in name and had propriety on his side. Since she didn't want to be with him, she naturally didn't want any major clash between Wei Zhao and him either—no need to stir up trouble ahead of time.
"What did I do?" Wei Zhao blinked, then realized what Kang Jinglong meant by the broken ski in his hand. Half amused, half exasperated, he said, "You mean the ski?"
"Hmph! Good, so you admit it!" Kang Jinglong snorted coldly.
"Admit what? You bought a ski made of inferior steel plate. In cold like this, steel turns hard and brittle. Skis have to be made of aluminum alloy—something with flexibility. Don't tell me you didn't know that?" Wei Zhao said tauntingly. "You paid a high price for a piece of junk, and now you're blaming others for breaking it?"
"Is... is that so?" Kang Jinglong was taken aback, then said, "Impossible. I bought Mermaid brand skis—the best skis there are. How could there be a problem?"
"A knockoff, maybe?" Wei Zhao smiled.
Kang Jinglong's gaze slid to the ski in his hand. When he made out the three large characters reading "Entertainment Brand," the muscles in his face twitched. This was no Mermaid brand at all—it was a counterfeit with a homophone name!
Looking more closely at the workmanship, the quality was atrocious—nothing but shoddy junk passed off as the real thing! At the sight, Kang Jinglong's face flushed red. He hadn't noticed any of these details before, yet Wei Zhao had spotted them long ago.
"You... why didn't you tell me earlier?" Kang Jinglong felt a pang of guilt, though he was still somewhat indignant that Wei Zhao hadn't warned him—otherwise he wouldn't have made a fool of himself and taken such a hard fall.
"I did tell you—buy it and don't regret it. You didn't listen," Wei Zhao said.
"Damn it!" Kang Jinglong thought back. Wei Zhao really had said something like that earlier, but at the time he had assumed Wei Zhao was just being contrary. He hadn't expected it to be true—he had only himself to blame for not taking it seriously!
Wang Xinyan, however, saw it differently. She thought to herself that Wei Zhao was truly magnanimous—before a rival in love, he kept his composure and even warned Kang Jinglong in advance. But Kang Jinglong wouldn't listen. Self-inflicted misfortune leaves no one to blame.
At the words "rival in love," Wang Xinyan blushed and silently chided herself. How could she think such a thing? At the very least, she should wait until after graduation in four years to think about such matters.
"Xinyan, Jingjing, did you two understand Kang Jinglong's demonstration just now? Of course, I mean the part before—you don't need to learn the forward somersaults at the end," Wei Zhao asked.
"Jingjing has picked up some of it." Han Jingyi nodded. "Though I'm sure I won't ski as well as Brother Wei Zhao!"
Kang Jinglong silently despised Han Jingyi. This girl's flattery was far too blatant. But Right Panhu, standing to one side, knitted his brows—Wei Zhao and Han Jingyi seemed to be getting closer and closer, which did not bode well for his own chances with her. RQ