Rebirth: Slice-of-life Cultivation-Chapter 1617 - 883: Competition (2)

Yao Yiyao noticed the predatory look in Li Qingyang’s eyes, she took two steps forward and blocked their line of sight.

After all, Jiang Ning was her savior, and she was now repaying with her life.

Li Qingyang’s mouth curled even more smugly.

Yao Yiyao shouted to the few boys behind her: "Hey, which of you is the shampoo’s boyfriend? Quickly cover her up."

Li Han hurriedly said: "Not here, not here."

Li Qingyang: "Sorry, I don’t have a boyfriend."

Li Han: "Isn’t that sports student from our high school..."

Li Qingyang remained calm and said: "I now announce, we’re breaking up."

Li Han: "Sister Qing, awesome."

Li Qingyang stepped to the side, avoiding Yao Yiyao, and appeared once again in front of Jiang Ning: "Hello, I’m Li Qingyang, want to be friends?"

Jiang Ning looked down at her; Li Qingyang was quite pretty and had a lot of personality. His Divine Sense scanned her, and although Yao Yiyao said she was up to no good, he identified that she was actually clean.

So, he said: "Jiang Ning."

Yao Yiyao exaggeratedly said from the side: "Jiang Ning, she just thinks you’re handsome."

Li Qingyang, not at all embarrassed for her intentions being exposed, still said cheerfully: "Whether you’re handsome or not really doesn’t matter; the main thing is you seem polite, I want to be friends with you."

Yao Yiyao: ’Thick-skinned!’

Li Qingyang was very bold, not shy at all, and soon began asking all sorts of questions. Jiang Ning responded sporadically.

Yao Yiyao wasn’t worried about Jiang Ning being taken away by Li Qingyang, jokingly; Xue Chuchu at his home could beat Li Qingyang in looks any day, plus she was good at cooking!

However, to be absolutely sure, Yao Yiyao stayed by the side to guard.

Li Han saw Jiang Ning surrounded by two girls, he tried to interject a few words, but Yao Yiyao ignored him.

Li Han’s face turned red, extremely embarrassed.

Jiang Ning glanced at Li Han’s awkward state and found it quite unfamiliar.

In his past life, when he joined that private company in Yuzhou as a junior employee, Li Han, two years older than him, was already a department manager. He had just gotten engaged to the boss’s daughter, with the future of inheriting a billion-dollar company, and a bright future ahead, with a huge gap between their standings, so much so that Li Han always looked at him with a superior gaze.

Remember once, when the company hired an ’excellent’ female colleague, a graduate of Ancheng University, very attractive, with eight units of return assets valued at millions in Yuzhou, which to ordinary people is already a lot.

Many male colleagues in the department made excuses to give her snacks and yogurt, but she never looked at them directly, except in front of Li Han, where she greatly admired him for his national grid family background, yet he was willing to forgo family support to venture out into the world alone...

At the peak of his life, Li Han publicly mocked those male subordinates: "Before you chase someone, check your family’s background; she has seven houses, while you have just one or two. I admire your courage?"

Many male classmates felt embarrassed by his words.

Jiang Ning wasn’t at all embarrassed, because he didn’t even have a house.

Now, the situation is reversed.

Jiang Ning thought to himself: ’Fine.’

Li Han, frustrated, picked up a stone by the river and threw it hard towards the water, as if to vent his inner frustration.

His skill in skipping stones wasn’t great, managing just two skips.

The noise was somewhat loud; a fishing uncle in the distance turned his head to look, frowned slightly, then relaxed, comforting himself: ’I found the reason I can’t catch any fish today—someone’s skipping stones nearby.’

Thinking this way, the fishing uncle’s mood unexpectedly improved. Fishermen always maintain a calm mentality.

Li Han played at skipping stones for a while, and surprisingly, the more he played, the more fun it was, and the more his frustration gradually faded.

He began looking for stones along the riverbank; as everyone knows, the choice of stones for skipping matters – the flatter and smoother the stone, the more likely it is to create more skips.

The splashes Li Han made progressed from two to three, four, and five skips.

Xue Yuantong sat primly, activating his summoning Skill: "Jiang Ning, help me find some stones, and I’ll put on a show for you!"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Ning gestured to the two girls and started walking towards the riverbank.

Li Qingyang glanced over and blurted out: "Who’s that mascot?"

"?" Yao Yiyao stared at her, slightly dazed, and solemnly said: "Mascot? That’s Jiang Ning’s close friend, a top chef, city-wide top exam scorer, and a recipient of the Valor Award!"

Unfortunately, Yao Yiyao still didn’t know her well enough. If it were Chen Siyu, she’d definitely add titles like ’professional e-sports player’ ’world-class fishing master’ ’universe-class sleeping champion,’ and so on.

Li Qingyang saw her exaggerated expression and thought she was joking, so she paid no mind: "Just a little kid, right?"

...

"Where’s the stone?" Xue Yuantong’s little face looked hopeful.

Jiang Ning said nothing, just stood quietly by the shore.

In the next second, Xue Yuantong’s fishing rod suddenly vibrated, and she shouted with delight: "I’ve caught something!"

Upon hearing this, everyone present turned to look, and Yao Yiyao wondered: ’Is it real? Can she really catch a fish?’

The Fishing Man roughly ten meters away was inwardly shocked: ’You’re kidding me!’

Then, in everyone’s view, Xue Yuantong lifted the fishing rod, and a round brown creature broke the water’s surface, dangling on the fishing line, swinging nonstop.

After the swaying diminished, everyone had run up close, and lo and behold, it was a little turtle!

Yao Yiyao was the first to question: "Don’t turtles hibernate in winter? How could it be caught?"

Li Qingyang had one big word in her mind: ’Fake!’

It turned out the turtle really was hibernating, its eyes tightly shut, motionless like it was dead.

The Fishing Man approached to examine closer, relieved inside: ’Luckily it wasn’t a fish catch!’

Seeing the group of youngsters overreacting, he couldn’t help but add: "We fish for anything, wild ducks, relics, big snakes, grenades, even corpses..."

He didn’t continue, but everyone understood what he meant.

Xue Yuantong said: "So basically can’t catch fish, right?"

The Fishing Man scolded: "Nonsense!"

He wanted to show off today’s catch and strongly argue against the little girl with the toy rod, but he lacked confidence!

Xue Yuantong looked at the turtle, then at Jiang Ning: "I don’t eat turtles, what should I do?"

Jiang Ning said: "Use it as a skipping stone?"

Xue Yuantong thought it was a great idea, grabbed the hibernating turtle, ran two steps to the shore, and swung it forcefully, shouting: "Let your turtle grandpa go free!"

The little turtle spun through the air, its shape was perfect for skipping stones; simply ideal. Tongtong had been good at skipping stones since childhood. This toss created a dazzling string of splashes on the calm, wide, shimmering water surface, stunningly beautiful.

Jiang Ning applauded: "Amazing!"

Yao Yiyao felt it was unbelievably odd, yet she looked at her with newfound respect.

Li Qingyang didn’t know how to assess this bizarre scene.

And Li Han, who was originally having fun on his own, felt his Dao Heart strain a bit under this skipping stone mastery.

Young river friends mock my inadequacy!

Li Han bow down looking for stones, searching for the perfect one, then discovered a broken phone with a shattered screen in the grass by the river, thinking it was someone else’s trash!

He picked up the phone, walked to the crowd, showed it off first, then "whoosh" threw it out, "splash splash splash" made several water splashes, even better than before.

The Fishing Man saw that and clicked his tongue in amazement: "Little guy is cool, using his own phone to skip stones!"

He hadn’t met such a unique little guy in years.

Li Han smiled and waved it off: "Hey, how could it be mine? I just picked it up randomly by the river."

The Fishing Man froze for a moment, hurriedly ran to his fishing spot, looked down, and was aghast to find his phone missing.

He shouted: "Damn! That’s my phone!"