You're Beautiful When You Smile (Falling Into Your Smile)

Chapter 50

"He has some guts looking at Tieba after losing the match?" Xiao Rui was
surprised: "When we lost the finals at the spring competition, I personally
uninstalled Tieba on everyone's cell phone before I gave them back to your
teammates."

"He's new to all this. I heard that King was doing very well in the minor league,
probably never heard anything ill." Tong Yao sat back down on her own seat.

"But what the hell were you comforting him for, he's the enemy."

"Oh."

"What if his skills get a boost because you reassured him------"

"He still won't be able to beat us." Tong Yao laughed: "We're getting better as
well."

Xiao Rui didn't respond right away, but fixed his eyes on Tong Yao for a while
then said: "Your head's also quite swollen." He then turned to sit back in his
seat. The van drove out of the parking lot with most of the team dozing off......
Tong Yao was looking at Weibo on her phone. She happened to see a video
clip, posted by a fan, of the interview with Lu Sicheng just now--------

Though she had already heard it in the arena, she mindlessly clicked on it and
listen to it again. She rolled her eyes again as she listened and made a face at
the poker faced captain on the screen. When she was ready to close the video,
she found that she'd only listened to half the video--------

Tong Yao: "Hmm."

So there was something after that?

Tong Yao hovered over the pause button and saw the man in the video pause
for a while as if he had thought of something. The aloofness in his eyes faded
a little and he looked somewhat more gentle. He looked down and continued
to say something.

Tong Yao: "......................................"

Tong Yao bit her own middle finger.

The knuckle in her mouth hurt ever so slightly-------

So she wasn't dreaming.

She went blank for a moment. Amid the shouting and cheering of fans in the
video, she blinked in confusion and raised her head to look towards the back.
Lu Sicheng was leaning against the window, eyes closed......After a few seconds,
she quickly turned her head back. She didn't catch whatever the host was saying
afterwards------

She turned to look at the comments under the video and saw a particular one
that had the most likes------

Tong Yao mumbled something then couldn't stop her fingers to retract the video
to------to where Lu Sicheng had said that they didn't know each other that well
and paused the video right there. She bit her lower lip and fixed her eyes on the
corner of his lips......

At 3'11" of the video, when Lu Sicheng said: "As a captain, I'm glad we can have
a teammate like that," his head moved a bit and then the corner of his lips......
almost undetectably curved up a little, then quickly flattened again.

....................So he did smile.

Tong Yao put down her cell phone and could feel her cheeks heating up. She
stood up from her seat, cell phone in hand, twirled around and grabbed the team
manager who was happily watching a Korean drama: "Rui Ge! Rui Ge!"

"What, what's happening?" Xiao Rui was startled to find a blushing Tong Yao
with glistening eyes. "Do you need to go to the bathroom?"

"Bathroom? No, look at this." Tong Yao held the cell phone to show Xiao Rui."What the hell?" Xiao Rui gave up his Korean drama and stretched his neck to
look over------

As Tong Yao and Xaio Rui crowded over her cell phone, a long arm reached out
from behind and took Tong Yao's cell phone away. Tong Yao gave a shout and
turned her head in annoyance, where she met a pair of expressionless, dark brown
eyes......Lu Sicheng looked down to check the screen on the phone, then sneered:
"The interview I just did? What's there to watch?"

Tong Yao stood on her tiptoes trying to retrieve her own phone-----

Lu Sicheng raised his arm higher.

Tong Yao angrily hit his elbow: "Aren't you taking a nap? !"

Lu Sicheng: "I woke up."

Tong Yao: "Give me back my phone!"

Lu Sicheng: "Why?"

Tong Yao: "You just praised me in the interview! ! ! I want to show it to Rui Ge! ! !"

Lu Sicheng: "......So what if I praised you, that was a prepared statement by the
staff. I just read it out-----Didn't you notice that they passed a slip of paper to me
before the interview?"

Stunned, Tong Yao lowered her arm. She turned to ask Xiao Rui: "Is that true? !"

Xiao Rui: "It's not true. There were only interview questions on that slip of paper."

Lu Sicheng: "......"

Tong Yao's eyes began to glisten again. She took off her shoes and jumped onto
the seat, attempting to recover her phone: "Give me back my phone! I want to
share the video with my friends-----"

Just then, the van made a sharp turn.

Tong Yao staggered on her seat, then tilted sideways, falling into the body right
next to her. She held onto his wide shoulder out of reflex and in the same moment
could feel his hand on her waist, trying to steady her: "What are you doing jumping
around in the car? Why don't you just stay on top of the roof of the van?"

The man's voice was right next to her ear.

They were so close to each other that Tong Yao could almost feel the vibration
inside his chest as he spoke.

When the drive became smooth again, she hurriedly pulled herself away from
Lu Sicheng's shoulder: "Why didn't you let me see the interview?"

"I'm right here, why do you need to see the interview."

"You won't praise me to my face." Tong Yao stared at that pair of dark brown eyes:
"Then praise me right now."

Lu Sicheng: "......"

Tong Yao: "......"As Lu Sicheng kept his silence, Tong Yao felt something had fell into her pocket.
Her cell phone had been stuffed back into her pocket. The man flatly said: "It's
better if you just watch the interview."Tong Yao: "......"