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"Why did I reject the national team offer again?!?!?!?!"
"Ye Xiu said that Happy would fall behind if you came as well."
"Its all Old Han's fault! If he hadn't stayed behind to focus on Tyranny then Ye Xiu wouldn't have worried about something like that!"
Su Mucheng could only laugh at her brother's despair.
She had given her brother a call after the Chinese national team finally arrived at their dorms after their long flight.
Though Su Muqiu was glad to hear that they had arrived safely, he wasn't amused after seeing a certain photo that was posted on Weibo a few hours ago.
"If I was there, none of this would've have happened! Who is he! How dare he kiss Ye Xiu! Does he have a death wish?"
A fan had taken a photo of a man kissing Ye Xiu's hand and posted it on Weibo.
Orange Blossoms: I got lucky and happened to be at the airport when the Chinese national team arrived and...Look! Look! Somebody is kissing God Ye! What is going on?! @Ye Xiu V
Shooting Star: Who is that! Who is that lucky man?
- Moonlight Sculptor: I'm not sure either but he looks awfully familiar for some reason...
- Chaotic Storm: Now that you mention it...You're right! I've seen his face before somewhere! I'm sure of it!
Su Muqiu V : @Ye Xiu V Why are you letting a stranger kiss you like that! @Su Mucheng V My dear sister! How could you let somebody do that to Ye Xiu! Who is that stranger! Call me right now one of you!
Han Wenqing V: @Ye Xiu V Explanation. Now.
Chaotic Storm: Ah! I remember who he is now!!! He's...
"Bruce Thomas. Captain of the French national team. We met him and his team at the airport by chance."
The Chinese team had just gotten off the plane. While they were waiting on some of their members to come back from the bathroom, the French team had also arrived.
Bruce Thomas had noticed the group of Asians that were wearing jerseys with the words "China Glory" on it and quickly came to the conclusion that they were part of the Chinese national team.
He decided to show good sportsmanship and walked up to greet them. He hadn't really thought about the possibility of a language barrier. After all, this was his first time in a foreign country. He just automatically assumed that they would know French. Or at least English.
"Bonjour!" Bruce Thomas shouted to the other team.
Most of the people in the Chinese national team gave him looks of confusion. They had no idea what the man had said. They didn't even know why this random European man was even coming up to them because unlike the Chinese team, none of the French team members were wearing their respective jerseys ("Fashion is important you know! Paris is the top fashion capital in the world. We can't not look fashionable when representing our team like that!" ). Most members just decided to ignore the man and continued whatever they had been doing before the interruption.
"Fang Rui. Did you do something shameless again? Trying to be so shameless even out of the country aren't you! What did you do this time? Did you do something to that man? Show some decency! We're here to represent our country! You're going to make us all look bad!" Huang Shaotian whispered to the boy next to him.
"If anybody was to make trouble it would be you, wouldn't it?" Fang Rui snapped back.
"Pft! As if! Fight me! I'll prove to you that you're trouble maker! PKPKPKPK!"
"Bring it!"
"How does fighting even prove something like that?" Chu Yunxiu asked incredulously.
"It doesn't. Huang Shaotian, Fang Rui. If you don't be quiet, expect an additional hour of practice once we get to the dorms."
"But he started it!" Fang Rui and Huang Shaotian pointed at each other.
"Keep at it and I can make it 3."
"Sorry captain..." The two quickly apologized.
While the two younger members were causing a scene, Ye Xiu had decided that as the leader of the team (and the only one who knew French) she would be the one to handle this new comer.
"And who might you be? You know, its not good to talk to strangers."
"Ah where are my manners. My name is Bruce Thomas. Captain of the French Glory team. Its nice to meet you captain of the Chinese team!" He greeted with a big smile.
"I am Ye Xiu from the Chinese Glory team. Why would you so easily assume that I am the captain of the Chinese national team?" Ye Xiu asked with an amused expression.
"You have the number one written on your jersey. I would say its a safe bet to assume that you're the captain. Was I wrong?" Bruce asked curiously.
"I'm afraid you're wrong." Ye Xiu chuckled then pointed behind her at the man who was still scolding two of his fellow team members. "Little Yu over there is the captain. I'm the leader."
"Hmm. Leader and captain aren't the same thing?"
"Nope. I don't have the energy to babysit these children. Little Yu can do that himself. I guess you could say I work more as a coach." Ye Xiu explained.
"That would make a bit more sense then. I didn't expect a beautiful girl such as yourself to be the captain to be honest." He said truthfully.
Ye Xiu gave him a small frown at that comment. "I can't tell if I should be flattered by that comment or not. It sounded like flattery but it was incredibly sexist at the same time."
"My apologies then Miss. I didn't come here to offend you or start anything with your team. Just to greet you is all." Bruce gave her an apologetic look.
"Hm...It seems like I'll need to teach you a lesson in game about underestimating female players." She muttered.
"Captain Bruce!" A voice called from a distance.
"I'll take up your challenge. But for now, it seems like my team needs me. It was nice seeing you before the competition officially started Miss Ye Xiu. I'll be seeing you again soon."
Bruce took her right hand and examined them for a second.
"Your hands are very pretty." He complimented.
Then gave it a quick peck.
Click.
The sound of a camera going off could be heard somewhere.
"Salut!"
And with that, Bruce and the French national team left.
"It was just his way of greeting. There's no harm in that." Su Mucheng tried to reason. However, she was secretly enjoying her brother's despair.
"That doesn't matter! You can't just forcefully greet somebody like that! That's against the law! I'll sue him!"
"Calm down brother. Sister Ye didn't mind it at all. She already knew that some countries greet each other using kisses." She explained.
"And no, it is not against the law. You can't sue him." She quickly added afterwards.
"Where were the others when this was all happening! Why wasn't Yu Wenzhou keeping an eye out for her! He's the team captain! He should be taking care of his team members!"
"He was scolding Fang Rui and Huang Shaotian for trying to create a scene."
"Wang Jiexi? Xiao Shiqin? Zhang Xinjie? They're smart enough! They should've known to stop this from happening!"
"They were in the bathroom at the time along with Li Xuan."
"Zhou Zekai may be very quiet but I know the boy can get vocal when needed. Especially when it comes to Ye Xiu!"
"He was in the middle of a call regarding his upcoming commercial shoot."
"Zhang Jiale?"
"He was on his phone taking selfies. Probably to post something about arriving at Switzerland on his Weibo."
"Sun Xiang is hot tempered. There is no way he would've let this be!"
"He and Tang Hao were playing games on their phone."
"Chu Yunxiu...?"
"Enjoying the situation unfold before her eyes."
"And most importantly, you?!?!?!"
"I joined her and recorded the entire thing."
"Mucheng!"
"What? It was entertaining to watch. And I wanted to have something to tease the others with! Which speaking of...Their reactions were priceless! Yu Wenzhou kept smiling and gave Huang Shaotian and Fang Rui this...overly happy..? look. Fang Rui kept shouting at Huang Shaotian saying its his fault while Shaotian kept yelling that he would PK the French team captain back to France. Zhang Xinjie immediately called somebody with a grave expression on his face. It looked like he was calling Han Wenqing now that I think about it. Zhou Zekai kept pouting to himself and Zhang Jiale was crying about how he was never going to take another selfie again. Sun Xiang kept trying to kill Chu Yunxiu because she kept teasing him about it. Kept saying that he didn't care what she did. He said something about this not being forgivable though because it somehow brought disgrace to our country? I'm not sure how that works...I think I also saw Wang Jiexi hitting his head on the wall continuously. We should have that looked at tomorrow morning...Wouldn't want it to effect his ability to play. Oh and Xiao Shiqin quickly left saying that he would need to thoroughly research the French team. Such a hard worker he is even during a situation like this! Tang Hao kept declaring out loud on how he would massacre the French team single-handedly in the competition. Li Xuan just seemed to be...In denial honestly." Su Mucheng recalled what had happened the moment she had revealed to the team what had happened.
Truth be said, nobody had been really paying attention when everything happened at the airport. It wasn't until Su Mucheng showed them the video back at the dorms that they knew what happened.
Ye Xiu had returned to utter chaos in the room when she had come back from smoking. People were clinging onto her left and right demanding to know why she would let a stranger kiss her like that ("Why does it bother you guys anyways?" ).
After getting sick and tired of them whining, she had called them all noisy and went to go play Glory in her shared room with the other two female players.
"Hey look on the bright side though!" Su Mucheng told her brother happily.
"Is there even a bright side to this?!?!?!" Su Muqiu cried.
"At least he didn't do the cheek kiss greeting!"
"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"