Strong Offense and Defense

"Okay, Nie Chuan, let's go—go to the restaurant to eat! I don't know if the school's Asian restaurant has shrimp dumplings and siu mai!"

Probably feeling that the atmosphere was a bit stiff, Carlot made a loud voice to enliven the atmosphere.

"Well, Reese, let's go have breakfast together?"

"Well, let's go."

The three of them walked into the Asian restaurant unhurriedly. Nie Chuan knew that Carlo, like Ewing, likes to eat barbecued pork buns and siu mai, so he specially chose Cantonese style.

Nie Chuan specially ordered milk this time, and took a sip from the cup, the milk frothed around his upper lip.

Carlo laughed: "Are you playing Santa or Grandpa KFC?"

Nie Chuan ignored him and looked in his pocket, only to find that he didn't bring a napkin, so he stretched out his tongue and licked it around.

Carlo laughed even happier: "I think Allen is very suitable to be the mascot of our basketball team!"

Nie Chuan glared at him, but Rees, who was sitting opposite him, stretched out his arms, and gently pressed a napkin to Nie Chuan's mouth.

"Thank you." Nie Chuan showed a big smile.

Although occasionally I am a little afraid of Reese, but there are also many times when Reese is very...friendly to him, probably...

Nie Chuan looked over Reese's shoulder and saw Celine.She was sitting right behind Reese, and turned around to look at Reese's back expectantly.Such gaze made Nie Chuan inexplicably ache.

Nie Chuan didn't know why Celine chose to come to the Asian restaurant for breakfast, but when his eyes met Celine, Celine turned her head away, as if the two didn't know each other at all.

Nie Chuan sighed inwardly.Although he was angry that Celine always wanted to use him to invite or approach Reese, Celine did nothing wrong, she just liked Reese.

"Hey, Alan." Carlo suddenly bumped Nie Chuan with his shoulder.

"What's wrong? The pork bun almost fell off."

"When I was running with you today, I realized that your legs are quite long in terms of body proportions."

"Of course."

Nie Chuan thought to himself that I am not Wu Dalang.

"If you are a girl, you must be a long-legged oriental beauty." Carlo raised his head halfway, falling into fantasy.

Nie Chuan had a chill down his spine, but someone had already knocked on Carlo's forehead first.

"Don't waste time thinking about unrealistic fantasies." Reese said coldly.

Carlo covered his forehead and said, "You hit me on the head too! Have everyone been led by Ewing?"

"It deserves it." Nie Chuan lowered his head and whispered in Chinese.

"Ah! Alan is saying something I don't understand again! But I know Reese must understand!" Carlo leaned towards Reese, "Hey, hey, what did Alan say?"

"Youdeserve." Rees said these words coldly and without any emotion, which made Nie Chuan feel very refreshed.

"Ah, it seems that the senior coach's packing contact has made the two of you become more and more in harmony! No, I will also ask Coach Gordon to join in this weekend!"

"You are too redundant." Rees replied lightly.

Carlo immediately showed an ambiguous expression, pointed at Rees and said, "Ah, ah, I see, you don't want me to be a light bulb, do you? Today is your massage for Alan! You actually enjoy holding him How does your calf feel?"

Nie Chuan was dumbfounded, and quickly covered Carlo's mouth: "You want to die! Talk nonsense!"

Watch out Reece breaks your arm!idiot!

Carlo showed a smug expression, this guy just wanted to see Rees angry.

But Rees was not angry, he just swallowed the last mouthful of siu mai leisurely, stood up, leaning towards Carlo with one hand on the edge of the dining table.

There was a heart-pounding smile on the corner of his lips, but the coldness in his eyes made Carlo retreat subconsciously.

"Yeah, I really enjoy the feeling of supporting Nie Chuan's calf."

Carlo opened his mouth halfway, but couldn't speak.

"So if anyone other than me touches him, I'll break his arm. Would you like to try?"

"No...no need...hahaha...haha..."

"That's right." Reese tapped Carlo's brow with his fingers, like a warning, but also like a joke.

Then he straightened up and smiled playfully with his pockets in his pocket.

"Go ahead and eat, I'm going back to the shower."

After saying that, he left.

Carlo patted his chest and let out a long breath: "My mother——Reese made a joke...it's really not funny at all."

"Tell you to talk nonsense! If someone says you like other men's legs, why don't you beat him up?" Nie Chuan smacked Carlo's chest seriously, "If you compare me with a woman next time, I will beat you too."

"I see! But Alan, the muscle lines of your calf are really beautiful..."

"You still say!" Nie Chuan was angry.

"I'm not talking nonsense! When you ran this morning, several girls stared at your calves for a long time!"

"……real?"

"Really!" Carlo nodded, "As long as you continue to play basketball, the lines of your legs will become longer and longer, and your muscles will become more and more beautiful! And it's not the kind of muscles that you can see but can't use in the gym. Really explosive muscles!"

Nie Chuan felt a little joy in his heart.

This afternoon's class ended, Nie Chuan didn't give up practice because of the muscle spasm in the morning, and followed Rees to catch the ball as usual.

Reese adjusted the speed of the machine's serve, and also reduced the intensity of Nie Chuan's other training.

At eight o'clock in the evening, Nie Chuan sat on the ground beside the basketball court to rest, his whole body's nerves became lazy.

I really want to lie down and sleep like this!

But Nie Chuan knew that Reese would definitely ask him to clean up the basketball court, so he felt so cheated!

But what Nie Chuan didn't expect at all was that Reese would clean up the court himself and put the serving machine back in place, but he didn't have any intention of calling Nie Chuan up.

Nie Chuan had no expression on his face, but he was overjoyed in his heart: Hahahaha!You also feel that the recent training to me is too inhumane, so feel guilty.

At this moment, Nie Chuan's cell phone rang, and it was Nie's mother calling.

"Hello, Mom." Nie Chuan remembered that he hadn't called home this week after hearing his mother's voice.

The two chatted about family matters, such as Nie's father's job, such as whose children are coming to the United States to study.

"Mom, what delicious food did you cook tonight?"

"Boiled noodles in bone soup, your favorite."

"Ah... tube bone soup! Even thinking about it, it smells so delicious!"

Nie Chuan thought of his cramped calf, and subconsciously pressed it twice.

I really want to drink tube bone soup, it is delicious and can supplement calcium.

Nie Chuan swallowed, and Rees had already cleaned the court.

"Let's go."

"okay."

Reese drove Nie Chuan to the school gate, but Nie Chuan suddenly called out: "Reese, wait! I want to go down!"

Reese stopped the car, and Nie Chuan walked towards a flower shop next to the school, where the clerk was packing up and preparing to close.

"Hey, good evening, I'd like to order a bouquet of flowers, can you deliver them for me on Friday?"

"Then what kind of flowers do you want to wrap? Roses? Our red roses are very fresh."

"I don't want roses anymore." Nie Chuan lowered his head and smiled helplessly.

Roses are too eye-catching.

"Are there goldfish flowers and hydrangeas?"

"Of course there is."

"Then these flowers."

The clerk wrote down Nie Chuan's order.

As soon as Nie Chuan turned around, he saw Reese standing by the door of the flower shop with his arms folded.

Isn't he in the car? Why did he come to the flower shop?

"Is it for the girl named Celine?"

"Yeah, didn't I tell you that Friday night is her birthday party?"

"Will you go?" Reese's voice was chilled by the icy white streetlight behind him.

"I won't go. I'm already hated by him." Nie Chuan shrugged helplessly.

"If you send her flowers, she will like you?"

"How is it possible?" Nie Chuan sighed amusedly.

"I'll deliver the flowers for you." Rees raised his chin.

"Ah?" Nie Chuan wondered if he heard it wrong.

"Do you like goldfish flowers?"

Reese walked over and glanced at Nie Chuan's order.

"Yes, I do. But Celine would prefer roses."

"Then why don't you send her roses?"

"Because... I didn't expect her to like me." Nie Chuan lowered his head and walked towards the door with his pockets in his pocket.

Maybe what Zhou Bin said was right, those blond girls didn't belong to his world at all.

"You won't really send flowers for me, will you?"

"If I go to send you flowers, can you stop liking her from now on?"

"I... how could I possibly do it!"

Nie Chuan found that Reese tonight was completely incomprehensible.

Of course, usually he can't understand him.

Moreover, what does it matter to Rees whether he likes or doesn't like Celine?

Reese didn't speak, and stepped onto the Land Rover.

"Wait, will you still send flowers?" Nie Chuan asked uncertainly.

"I will go."

"Ah, thank you so much!"

If Rhys had gone, perhaps Celine would have forgiven him.

Reese pressed his arm against the car window, looking at Nie Chuan, the smile on his lips slowly raised a hint of danger.

"Because I can ask her not to like you."

"Huh? What?"

Before Nie Chuan had time to digest Reese's meaning, the other party drove away in the car.

Does Reese like Celine?

Impossible, depending on his attitude towards Serin as nothing, Serin should not be his cup of tea...

Or, was Reese playing him?Like responding to Carlo's jokes in a restaurant?

Nie Chuan went back to the apartment like this.

In the afternoon of the next day, when Nie Chuan returned to his room from the library, he found a thermos bucket.

He opened the thermos and found that there was thick bone broth inside!Nie Chuan swallowed hard as the scent hit his face.

Holding the thermos, he gulped a few swigs.

"Wow, it's really delicious!"

At this time Zhou Bin came out of the bathroom, and Nie Chuan hurriedly asked, "Abin, has my mother been here?"

"No, why do you ask that?"

"Then... why is there bone soup here?"

"Reese sent it." Zhou Bin replied.

"Reese..." Nie Chuan was dumbfounded. He picked up the thermos and looked left and right, "But this thermos belongs to our family no matter what."

"Reese really sent it to you. Didn't you have calf cramps yesterday? It should be because you've been exercising a lot these past two days, and you're growing taller. So you need calcium supplements."

Nie Chuan thought about it, how did Reese know that he wanted to drink bone soup?

Ah, I remembered, when I was sitting by the basketball court and talking on the phone with my mother yesterday, maybe Reese heard it?

Nie Chuan called his mother.

"Mom, did you stew bone soup for me?"

"Yes. This morning, your classmate named Rees passed by our house and told me that you really wanted to drink the bone soup I stewed. I said that I would stew it for you and send it to you in the afternoon. He said that he I will pass by our house again, just take the soup away."

Nie Chuan was stunned. He really didn't expect Reese to bring himself a tube of bone soup.

"Your classmate is so kind to you, mom, don't worry! You have to get along well with Reese, and ask him to have dinner at home during the holidays!"

"Got it, Mom."

Nie Chuan suddenly felt that his understanding of Rees had been completely overturned.

"Hey, Zhou Bin... Reese really brought me bone soup from my house!"

Zhou Bin wears glasses, draws lines in the book, and flips through the electronic dictionary from time to time.

"It was, didn't I tell you?"

"But that's Reese, why did he bring me bone soup?" Nie Chuan came to Zhou Bin and kicked him.

Zhou Bin frowned and moved Nie Chuan's feet away: "Did you change your socks after playing the ball? You're so fuzzy."

"I'm talking to you about Reese!"

Zhou Bin put the book aside helplessly: "I said Nie Chuan, some people are good to the whole world, so no one is special to him. Some people are only good to those who are important to them. Now Reese is good to you , it means that your existence is meaningful to him."

Nie Chuan thought for two seconds, showed a big smile, and lay down on Zhou Bin's bed.

In other words, did Rees recognize the efforts he put in as a teammate?

Did I get one step closer to that guy?

"Hey, is there any more soup? It smells so good, give me a couple of sips." Zhou Bin was also a little greedy.

"No, I just finished drinking."

"Have you finished drinking so much? Are you a bucket?" Zhou Bin reached out and pressed Nie Chuan's abdomen, and found that it was hard there. "Hey, A Chuan, do you have abs?"

"Really?" Nie Chuan happily rushed to the bathroom and lifted up his t-shirt in front of the mirror.

Although not as obvious as Rees and Carlo, they are really abdominal muscles, really, really abdominal muscles!

It seems that the recent exercise with Reese in the gym has worked!

"A Chuan, don't giggle in the mirror. It's too tasteless." Zhou Bin knew Nie Chuan like the back of his hand, and Zhou Bin knew how many times he farted.

"You're just smirking in the mirror!"

He is smiling smugly!

"Remember to say thank you to Reese."

"Got it, I'm going to talk to him now!"

It just so happened that two international students from the same department asked Nie Chuan to help Rees solve a few advanced math problems.

He put on a sports coat and headed out to Reese's apartment.

It was only when he knocked on the door that he became nervous.Although Reese would bring him soup, it didn't mean they were particularly familiar.

"Who?" Nie Chuan swallowed involuntarily when Reese's voice sounded emotionless.

Before he could speak, Reese asked again, "Is it Nie Chuan?"

"You... how do you know I'm Nie Chuan?"

The door opened, Reese was wearing khaki pajamas, and the look on his face was much softer than on the court.

"Shadows in the crack of the door."

"How is that possible!" Nie Chuan thought to himself that his shadow was nothing special!

"Is there a problem?"

Reese walked into the kitchen as he spoke, and heated a glass of milk for Nie Chuan in a mug.

"Thank you for bringing me the soup." Nie Chuan said with a smile.

"It's just on the way. Originally, milk can supplement calcium, but you don't seem to like it."

Reese's voice was flat, but he responded to every word of Nie Chuan, which made Nie Chuan very happy.

This is a necessary step for a good teammate relationship!

"Because I always feel that milk is a bit fishy."

"Like a child."

Reese chuckled.

Although the depression at the corner of his mouth was very shallow, Nie Chuan followed him subconsciously.He knew why so many girls fell in love with Reese, not just because of his handsome appearance or unique stern temperament, but because he would make people want to see the real him.

With all the appearance of alienation and indifference gone, what kind of expression will he show.

But at this moment, Nie Chuan saw it.

It is a delicate softness that needs to be experienced carefully.

"Why do you keep looking at me?" Sitting opposite Nie Chuan, Reese looked over with his chin propped up.

Nie Chuan couldn't react at all to Nie Chuan's leisurely posture, which carried a hint of ridicule.

"because……"

"Because of what?" Reese's posture did not change, but his sideways gaze seemed to catch Nie Chuan's sight, and the world around him became twisted.

"No reason! You are more handsome than me, okay?"

Nie Chuan would rather show a cold expression than Reese laughing and teasing himself.

"Oh—although such a compliment doesn't have any skills directly, it's still quite flattering."

Reese's lip line is more pronounced than before.

"Well, I have two classmates who are about to take the mid-term test of high mathematics. Can you help them find out how to solve these two problems?"

Nie Chuan handed the paper with the title copied in front of him.

Reese didn't raise his hand to take it, but asked another question: "How is your leg? Are you still having cramps?"

"No. That day must have been just an accident."

"Nothing is accidental. After athletes complete high-intensity training, they usually have assistant coaches or specialized technicians to massage them to help their muscles relax."

"Oh, I'm not a professional athlete."

"Lie down, and I will press it for you. Starting tomorrow, we will gradually resume training intensity."

Reese got up and walked to the bathroom without giving Nie Chuan a chance to refuse.

ah?Reese wants to give him a massage?

Think about it, this is really a god-level treatment!

Wait, does that mean training tomorrow will be hard?

Reese came out with a towel, and frowned when he saw Nie Chuan sitting on the sofa foolishly: "Why haven't you got down yet?"

"Oh……"

Nie Chuan quickly turned over and lay down on the sofa.

Reese covered Nie Chuan's calf with a hot towel, and Nie Chuan felt the sofa sinking around him, and it was Reese sitting beside him.When his palm was completely covered by the towel, the blood in Nie Chuan's whole body seemed to rush from the top of his head to his calf, and he subconsciously kicked slightly.

"What's wrong? Are you having cramps again?"

Rees leaned down and leaned towards Nie Chuan's ear. The heat when he spoke seemed to bypass Nie Chuan's ear.

"No! No! I'm just a little nervous."

"What are you nervous about?"

Of course it was Reese Reddington who massaged my calf nervously!

"Well, this is the first time someone gave me a massage...haha..." Nie Chuan really wanted to hug his head with both hands.

Reese's fingers went all the way up from Nie Chuan's ankle, and his palm slid up to his calf through the towel. Nie Chuan didn't know what kind of massage technique it was, but he really felt very comfortable.

Then, remembering Carlo's joke in the restaurant, he couldn't help laughing sullenly.

"what are you laughing at?"

"I just remembered Carlo said..."

It's better not to mention Carlo's joke in front of Reese, okay?

"Carol is right."

"what?"

"Your calves have beautiful lines."

"What? Are you even making fun of me with Carlo?" Nie Chuan turned his face and looked back at Rees.

When he found Reese's expression, it was a kind of cold strength that seemed to lock everything in front of him firmly.

Nie Chuan subconsciously wanted to retract his leg, but the other party clasped his ankle even harder.

Reese's eyelids drooped, and his fingers slid slightly on Nie Chuan's ankle: "From here, the lines become slender and smooth."

Reese's fingers reached under the towel covering his calf, and slowly moved upwards.

"The muscle lines here are very powerful, and people can't help but imagine, how high can you jump? How fast can your instant acceleration be?"

Nie Chuan didn't dare to look at Reese's expression anymore, even though he didn't know why.

Reese's palm covered Nie Chuan's calf and moved upwards, but the picture that Nie Chuan imagined in his mind was particularly charming.

Until Reese's fingertips touched Nie Chuan's back knee: "And here, when you stop suddenly, how strong can you control the inertia."

Nie Chuan felt as if his breath was being choked by Rees.

"The towel is cold." Rees took the towel away from Nie Chuan's calf. At that moment, the air and skin were released, and the coldness brought by the evaporation of water made Nie Chuan put his leg away sideways.

"Remember next time, don't walk around at night in such short sweatpants."

"Huh?" Nie Chuan wondered.

Reese raised his eyebrows, and there was a hint of playfulness on the corners of his lips: "Because it will make bad people think about you."