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Rock Sugar And Pear Stew - Chapter 103

Published at 30th of March 2020 12:56:24 PM


Chapter 103

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Chapter 103 (Censored) – Unique logo (Translated and edited by Xing)

Li Yubing’s bright and clear eyes showed Tang Xue’s reflection. His eyes were sincere with nothing to hide. This made Tang Xue wonder if she had mistaken him. She raised her hand and use her index finger to tap his temple softly. She said, “Maybe you’re too stressed out. Rest well.” As she spoke, she turned to leave.

Li Yubing suddenly embraced her from behind, twining his long arms around her body like vines.

He leaned next to her ear and whispered, “Tang Xue, I want—”

“Don’t even think about it! Rogue!”

“I want to pass you your New Year present.” Here, Li Yubing paused. His voice was a little puzzled. “That’s roguish?”

“Cough.”

Li Yubing grinned. He asked deliberately, “What did you think I meant? What weird ideas are you holding towards me? You rogue.”

Tang Xue stretched her arm behind and rubbed his dog head gently. “Getting bolder, are we? Heh.” Her laugh was sinister.

Li Yubing did not take the joke too far. He released her, walked over to the wardrobe and fished out a black, palm-sized box from it. The box was slim and the right size to fit into an overcoat’s pocket.

“New Year’s present.” He held the box out to Tang Xue. As he did so, a faint smile lingered softly his eyes like willow branches swayed in the spring breeze.

Tang Xue could not help acknowledging how perfect the current lighting and atmosphere was. Standing there like this, Li Yubing looked kind of delicious. She hurriedly took her eyes off him, took the box and opened it with fast fingers.

The exterior of the stiff, black paper box was embossed with a silver logo that she did not recognize. She did not think much of it and when she opened the box, she saw a pair of gloves lying inside.

It was not an ordinary pair of gloves. Rather, it was a pair of gloves meant for speed skating. The gloves were pure-white and made of cut-resistant materials. On the back of the gloves was a somewhat familiar-looking pattern drawn in pink lines.

Eh?

Tang Xue held up the gloves and scrutinized it. After she did that, she took a second look at the gift box and discovered that the two patterns were the same.

“What is this brand? I don’t think I’ve seen it before?” Tang Xue was puzzled.

Li Yubing rubbed her head. “Idiot. Take a closer look.”

Thus, she looked at the pattern again. The lines of the pattern were clean and elegant. She looked at it with the same focus as when doing her assignments. After a while, she finally realized something.

“A letter ‘L’ and a letter ‘T’. And here, is this a heart?”

“Mm.”

“L, Li. T, Tang…” Tang Xue halted and twisted her head to look at him.

The smile still in his eyes, Li Yubing nodded. This chapter is a labour of love that should not be found outside of teafragrance[dot]wordpress[dot]com.

Tang Xue was deeply moved. She felt her eyes dampened and using her fingers to trace the pattern carefully, she asked. “Did you design this?”

“I asked someone majoring in art at our school to design this.” After saying this, he added, “A guy.”

Tang Xue was originally so moved that she was about to cry. However, when she heard this, she burst into laughter. “No one asked about his gender.”

“I want to clarify even if you didn’t ask.” Li Yubing pointed to the pattern. “From now on, this is our unique logo.”

“Oh?”

“Both of us will wear the same logo to compete. As the saying goes, ‘as long as both husband and wife are of the same heart, there’s nothing that they can’t overcome’.”

Tang Xue’s face reddened. “Scram, who wants to be your wife.”

——

The next day, Tang Xue gave Li Yubing a present as well.

The New Year present that she prepared for him was a scarf. In front of the logo that Li Yubing specially customized, she suddenly felt that her scarf pales greatly in comparison.

What should she do?

Got it.

Tang Xue told Li Yubing, “Li Yubing, I’ll take this scarf back first. I’ll let Liao Zhenyu help to stitch a logo on it.”

Li Yubing picked out a piece of key information from her words. “What does it has to do with Liao Zhenyu?”

“Liao Zhenyu has really skilful hands and he likes to do art and craft. He has made countless little bears, rabbits, cats and frogs. The little rabbit hanging from my bag was made by him.”

Li Yubing’s imagination was limited. He was unable to piece together the idea of Liao Zhenyu, a guy with thick eyebrows and large eyes, with handcrafted rabbits. That image was simply too out of place.

Tang Xue continued explaining, “So Liao Zhenyu would definitely be more successful at stitching the logo than me.”

“There’s no need.” Li Yubing did not want to receive a piece of clothing with something that had been carefully stitched on by a man. It felt a little odd to him. He raised one corner of the scarf and pressed it against Tang Xue’s lips. “Just imprinting a kiss is enough.”

Tang Xue looked at him with blinking eyes. The uncensored version of this chapter can be found at teafragrance[dot]wordpress[dot]com.

After keeping the scarf, Li Yubing saw that she was still looking at him without saying a word. “What’s wrong?”

“Little devil.”

Li Yubing: = =

——

On 15 January, the World University Winter Games welcomed its opening ceremony.

The competition was held in Yun City, a city located in the central of China. Tang Xue and Li Yubing headed there together with the other ice sports athletes from RCU. When they reached Yun City, it began snowing gently. The city became pristine white under a blanket of snow and looked extremely lovely.

Perhaps due to the fact that her name had the word “snow (xue)”, Tang Xue found snow something impossible for her to grow tired of. Sitting on the bus, she sprawled in front of the glass window and watched the snow scenery with a bright smile.

Li Yubing sat beside her. Taking advantage of his long limbs, he placed one hand on top of her head restlessly. Whenever the bus jolted, his hand would immediately slip to her forehead and stopped her from bumping into the window. After the jolting stopped, his hand would shift back to the top of her head. He would then ruffle her hair before continuing to rest his hand there.

Those actions were secretly filmed by someone and uploaded onto the internet. Their fans scoffed the dog food down, greatly entertained.

……

The ice hockey competition began on the second day of the opening ceremony and would last all the way until the last competition date of the World University Winter Games. As for the speed skating competition, it would officially begin on 18 January but Tang Xue’s 500 metres event was on the 19th. Subsequently, her next competition was the women’s 3000 metres relay

On the 18th, Tang Xue did not have any competition. After notifying the RCU team leader, Tang Xue dashed over to the stadium that held the ice hockey event to watch Li Yubing.

When Li Yubing appeared, he was expectedly using a hockey stick taped in pink. However, this time, there was a strange pattern on the tape. Many people noticed this and discussed it curiously.

For this competition, the Chinese team was up against the Swiss team. The Chinese team had the home ground advantage and played sharply from the start. Li Yubing’s performance was aggressive and he managed to score not even five minutes into the game.

16 minutes into the competition, Jiang Shijia passed the puck to Li Yubing and Li Yubing raised his hockey stick to shoot the puck. He had got into an excellent position that was able to take advantage of the gap in their competitors’ defence. Tang Xue felt that this score was in the bag for the Chinese Team.

However, Li Yubing’s slightly raised hockey stick did not swing down. It halted in the air for a split second before abruptly slipping from Li Yubing’s fingers and landing on the ice with a clatter.

The next moment, Li Yubing’s body swayed and he toppled onto the ice.

 





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