Reborn to prepare for the college entrance exam, you're letting me retire and make a comeback?

Snapped!

A perfect high clear shot hurtles straight into Lin Shuyue's backcourt!

Shen Xinyi made her move.

This was the final ball, and it would decide the ultimate outcome for both players.

"..."

Lin Shuyue's eyes narrowed, she quickly retreated, and swung her racket back with all her might.

The ball arced towards Shen Xinyi's frontcourt.

Shen Xinyi reacted extremely quickly, rushing to the net in one stride, flicking her wrist to hit a light, net-hugging drop shot.

Lin Shuyue seemed to have anticipated Shen Xinyi's move, and instantly pounced in front of the net, flicking the racket upwards!

Snapped!

The ball, spinning intensely, flew high into Shen Xinyi's backcourt.

Shen Xinyi was surprised that Lin Shuyue could save the ball. She quickly retreated and jumped up with all her might. She stretched her body in the air and swung the racket hard with all her strength. The shuttlecock shot out like an arrow, with a whooshing sound, straight towards the back baseline of Lin Shuyue's court!

This is a ball in the backfield!

"Oh no, I probably won't be able to catch that ball..."

Lin Shuyue had just saved a shot at the net and hadn't fully regained her balance when she saw the ball flying quickly and urgently towards the backcourt. She knew something was wrong.

She gritted her teeth and struggled backward, stretching her arm as far as she could, the racket slicing through the air...

But in the end, he was just a little short and failed to touch the ball.

With a soft "plop," the shuttlecock landed near the baseline.

Lin Shuyue staggered a bit to regain her balance, and looked at the ball that had landed, a hint of disappointment flashing across her face.

However, just as she was feeling dejected, a noisy discussion broke out on the sidelines.

"Huh? This ball... seems to be out of bounds?"

"It looks like it's over the line? No, it seems like it's just a tiny bit over the line?"

"No way! It looks like it's inside the penalty area to me!"

"It's definitely out of bounds! Look at where it landed, it's clearly beyond the line!"

"It must have bounced off the floor after it hit the ground..."

"..."

An argument broke out immediately.

Shen Xinyi's classmates shouted, "Inbound! It must be inbound!"

The boys in Class 8 retorted excitedly, "It's out of bounds! It's clearly out of bounds! Even touching the line counts as being out of bounds!"

Both sides stuck to their own versions of events and argued fiercely.

After all, everyone hopes that the class's most attractive person will win; whoever wins will be proud of themselves.

High school students are generally concerned about saving face, which is understandable.

Ultimately, everyone's attention, unable to resolve the dispute any longer, focused on Lu Qian, who was standing in front of the net.

Referee, what do you say?

In situations where neither side can definitively say who has won or lost, the arbitrator often has the final say.

Therefore, the pressure fell on Lu Qian.

Seeing this, Zhang Liu simply smiled nonchalantly: "Alas, it's all a curse!"

Xiao Liuzi experienced the joy of being single once again.

I told you you had such good luck with women, now you've come back to haunt me!

As for what to do, that's up to fate, brother.

Ah, it's just a little bit of hardship.

Noticing everyone's gaze, Lu Qian felt like his scalp was about to explode.

"Wait, is it impossible to avoid a chaotic situation? Why is it always a choice between death and survival..."

"I thought it would be a close final, but the last point pulled off a huge upset!"

He couldn't see it clearly from his angle just now. The ball's landing point was too tricky, seemingly right at the edge of the baseline, but he didn't know whether it actually landed or not.

Sweat beaded on his forehead as he looked at the girls eyeing him menacingly and the excited classmates on either side, and swallowed hard.

"Uh... well..." his voice was hoarse, "I didn't see it very clearly either, how about you guys play another ball?"

He tried to smooth things over.

"No!"

Shen Xinyi and Lin Shuyue spoke almost simultaneously, refusing decisively.

Both players pushed themselves to the limit in that match, giving their all on the last point. Neither wanted to start over, nor did they want to accept an ambiguous result.

In other words, the decision for the final ball rests with Lu Qian, and they all want to know who Lu Qian will choose.

Ultimately, she still wanted him to choose between the two of them.

The ball was kicked around and around, but in the end it still landed at the feet of our scumbag boyfriend.

"That……"

Looking at their resolute eyes, Lu Qian felt a headache coming on. "How about a draw? A draw is fine, right?"

"A draw?" Shen Xinyi and Lin Shuyue exchanged a glance, then simultaneously turned their gazes to Lu Qian, their eyes filled with the same question.

draw?

So what are you planning to do next?

"..."

Lu Qian felt uneasy under their gazes.

That scumbag deserves to die a horrible death.

My brain raced, and in a flash, a brilliant (and foolish) idea popped into my head.

"That's settled then!"

He said, forcing himself to speak, "Since it's a tie, I'll take the loss and fight both of you by myself, while you two come at me together."

"If I win, we'll call it a day. If I lose, I'll teach you two to play ball in PE class from now on, how about that?"

Anyway, even if I win, they'll probably keep coming to play with me, so this bet is a win-win situation.

It means choosing "or" in the yes or no situation.

PERFECT!

"..."

The air froze for a second.

Shen Xinyi and Lin Shuyue were both stunned for a moment, seemingly not understanding what he meant.

The two looked at each other, their eyes filled with doubt, yet also with a strange sense of anticipation...

"Okay." Shen Xinyi nodded first.

"Hmph, let's fight then!" Lin Shuyue snorted, raising her chin as if to accept the challenge.

……

……

Half an hour later.

As the whistle blew to signal the end of physical education class, the students walked towards the assembly point in twos and threes.

To everyone's surprise, Shen Xinyi and Lin Shuyue, who were just fiercely competing on the court, were now walking side by side, chatting and laughing.

The atmosphere was harmonious, as if the two had been best friends for many years, and the tense scene just now had never happened.

"Xinyi, you play ball really well! We can practice together sometime!"

"Shuyue, you're amazing! Your progress is incredible! Now I understand, there really are such things as geniuses in this world!"

"Haha, chatting with you is so relaxing! How about we add each other on QQ?"

"OK!"

Amidst laughter and conversation, they took out their phones and happily exchanged contact information.

Officially align with the united front!

After all, they were sisters who had fought alongside the same man, and they quickly forged a revolutionary friendship.

We'll be playing with Lu Qian together more often in the future, sisters, it's always good to get to know each other better!

"..."

On the other side, Lu Qian walked silently behind Zhang Liu.

"Hehe, Brother Qian~"

Zhang Liu, with a smug look on his face, nudged Lu Qian with his elbow: "You're such a loser, aren't you? You can't even walk past a pretty girl, can you?"

"Tsk tsk, you lost terribly when you fought both of them by yourself, but I didn't expect you to be suppressed by their combined strength. Looks like you're not so great after all!"

He couldn't help but laugh when he thought of how Lu Qian had been so humiliated by the two girls working together to suppress him.

"Tch, what do you know?"

Lu Qian curled his lip: "I was only letting them have their way. If I hadn't, they would be the two of them collapsed on the ground exhausted right now... Humph!"

But we can't refuse...

If we don't give way, it won't just be the badminton shuttlecock that gets torn to shreds; it could be him!

I can only deliberately lose to those two to let those two pretty girls vent their anger.

However, seeing the two girls in front of him suddenly become intimate, he felt relieved and even a little secretly pleased.

"If these two girls can get along well, even if there's a dramatic conflict in the future, the firepower should be spread out a bit..."

At least they're both fairly accepting of each other...

It's better than a direct confrontation.

And if the relationship gets too good, maybe they can even accept having sex together...

In his previous life, he wasn't without bulldozers and stacking machines; in fact, such situations usually only occurred between close female friends or same-sex friends with familial ties...

What if?

"Lu Qian, wait a minute!"

Just then, Shen Xinyi suddenly walked towards him.

"Um?"

Lu Qian turned around, looking at her with a hint of doubt: "Is there anything else?"

"Of course, I'll treat you to milk tea!"

As she spoke, Shen Xinyi took out a beautifully packaged drink from her backpack and handed it to Lu Qian, her cheeks slightly flushed: "Here, this is your mango pomelo sago dessert. Thank you for playing ball with me earlier!"

Lu Qian felt a chill run down his spine when he saw the drink.

Almost instinctively, he quickly scanned his surroundings.

Then I breathed a sigh of relief.

Thank goodness.

Lin Shuyue was talking to a few girls by the playground, with her back to us.

He gave all the milk tea that Shen Xinyi had given him to his own Qingmei. If Lin Shuyue saw him giving her milk tea now, wouldn't a second chaotic scene erupt on the spot?!

Thank goodness, I'm really a cockroach-like man.

He quickly grabbed the drink and stuffed it into the side pocket of his backpack without even looking at it.

Only after doing all this did I finally breathe a long sigh of relief.

"Th-thank you," he said dryly.

Shen Xinyi saw his flustered appearance, but I didn't think much of it.

She deliberately looked down at her shoes, then exclaimed "Oops!" and whispered, "Lu Qian, my shoelaces seem to be loose."

She lifted one foot and wiggled it; the laces of her white sneakers had indeed come undone.