Chapter 294: Locust Tree Hotel 12
“It’s not that you teach badly; it’s this classroom that’s deadly!”
Chu Yian walked straight to the door, “Coach, let’s just go outside and look.”
“No.”
“You must listen to me.”
“I’m the coach. If I tell you to warm up, you must warm up. Bend over, stretch your ligaments…”
Chu Yian’s words seemed to touch a fragile nerve in the coach, and his voice became increasingly eerie. At this moment, the room’s door suddenly jammed, and the outside appeared to be shrouded in darkness. The muscular men who were exercising turned into indistinct shadows, and then the temperature in the room dropped lower and lower, the shadows slowly approaching the glass… Chu Yian’s wrist felt slightly hot; that was where the Buddhist beads were.
She suddenly realized that if she didn’t get out, something bad would happen.
To save herself, Chu Yian grabbed the only stool in the classroom. She used the stool to knock down the coach, and just as she was about to break through the window, the classroom door opened without warning.
Lu Qingyuan stood at the doorway, completely unguarded. He looked surprised when he saw Chu Yian holding the stool.
“What are you doing?”
The coach returned to normal the moment Lu Qingyuan entered, his face still showing displeasure at his class being interrupted, “Training. Private lessons, outsiders please leave.”
Chu Yian expected Lu Qingyuan to question this, but he merely glanced at them expressionlessly.
“I’m getting a bottle of electrolyte water. You two carry on.”
He walked to the corner of the room, picked up two bottles of water from the floor, and really just walked out.
Seeing this, Chu Yian pounced on him, “Teacher Lu, let’s train together.”
When others sought her out, she was indifferent, but when others ignored her, she eagerly went to them.
She was truly shameless.
Chu Yian mentally scorned herself for a second, then hugged Lu Qingyuan’s thigh.
However, Lu Qingyuan remained unmoved at this moment, “I don’t know you.”
Chu Yian: “It’s fine; we’ll get to know each other with more interaction, won’t we?”
Lu Qingyuan, however, brought up old matters, “But I remember at dinner last night, you seemed very afraid of me?”
“At the time… I was just a bit shy, sorry about that.”
To add an extra layer of insurance to her life, Chu Yian shamelessly replied, “We girls are just prone to shyness. Since we’re already here, let’s train together.”
Lu Qingyuan, of course, knew this person’s poor excuse; her behavior yesterday clearly showed she was afraid of him.
Why was she so eager to keep him now?
Presumably, she had encountered something even more frightening.
Lu Qingyuan glanced at the only two coaches in the room, then nodded, “Alright.”
The coach was actually unwilling, but he had no choice. Not only that, what was originally the coach guiding the exercises gradually became Lu Qingyuan taking over the teaching authority.
“I know little about Pilates, but your core training is quite good.”
Lu Qingyuan reached out and gently pressed her lower abdomen.
Although the location was sensitive, Chu Yian felt that the other person was genuinely guiding her. The upright and rigorous Teacher Lu seemed to be back, and Chu Yian’s initial worries dissipated considerably.
“Let’s try something else. Do you want to try the equipment outside?”
“Yes!”
Chu Yian nodded seriously upon hearing this.
People are always curious about things they haven’t seen. She was actually very curious about the equipment displayed outside the moment she entered the gym, but the fitness coach led her into the room and insisted on doing Pilates.
As soon as she entered the room, she encountered something strange. She wanted to leave, but the coach got upset with her.
For the next two hours, Lu Qingyuan took her to experience most of the fitness equipment.
Lifting weights wasn’t much fun, but it was novel and made Chu Yian break a sweat. Two hours later, she showered and went out, just as Lu Qingyuan, also preparing to leave, happened to be there.
The two met unexpectedly.
He had just enthusiastically taught her about many fitness items and helped her out, so leaving immediately after using him seemed a bit unethical.
Chu Yian paused, walked over, and greeted him, “Teacher Lu, it’s lunchtime. Would you like to go eat together?”
Lu Qingyuan’s gaze shifted from elsewhere upon hearing this, “Hmm, alright.”
In just one morning, the distance between them had closed considerably. When the two appeared in the restaurant at the same time, Li Mingzhu, who was already waiting in the restaurant, was stunned to see them both.
She was silent for a moment, then still went over.
She patted Chu Yian’s shoulder again, with a reproaching expression, “Oh, Da Ni, I’ve been looking for you all morning. I can’t believe you’re secretly meeting a man behind my back. Didn’t you say you weren’t interested in this handsome guy?”
Lu Qingyuan turned his head to look at Chu Yian upon hearing this.
Chu Yian was more concerned about her patting her shoulder again, “Didn’t I tell you not to pat my shoulder?”
It’s unlucky.
“Hey, hey, hey, don’t be so petty.”
Li Mingzhu acted very carefree, squeezing between the two to separate Chu Yian and Lu Qingyuan with her body, her hand once again about to rest on Chu Yian’s shoulder.
Chu Yian was prepared this time and dodged in advance.
Li Mingzhu didn’t care, pointing to the restaurant, “Today’s braised prawns in oil are especially delicious. If you go late, there won’t be any left.”
“Oh, it’s fine. I’m not very particular about food.”
Chu Yian had her hands in her pockets, looking like a cool girl.
And while they were eating, Li Mingzhu had already started asking, “Da Ni, what are you planning to do this afternoon? No, there’s still so much time at noon, are you going straight to do the task, or go back to your room to rest first? I guess you didn’t sleep well last night either, right? Last night was really… it scared me to death. If you hadn’t reminded me to put all the mirrors in the bathroom last night, you might not even see me now.”
Li Mingzhu looked like she had survived a disaster, gratefully reaching out her hand, but to her surprise, Chu Yian was already prepared and dodged to the side.
Li Mingzhu’s hand, extended into the air, met nothing, and then she looked at Chu Yian with a somewhat speechless expression, “You’re exaggerating too much, Da Ni. My hands are clean; there’s no oil.”
“Even if you don’t have oil, don’t put your hand on my shoulder.”
Chu Yian was even more speechless than her.
She looked at Li Mingzhu speechlessly and expressed, “If I catch you trying to put your hand on my shoulder again, I’ll beat you up. Besides, where I go this afternoon is none of your business.”
She originally had some care for this Li Mingzhu, but starting this morning, Li Mingzhu had made her feel a bit uncomfortable.
It might be this person’s incorrigible actions, or it might be some of her subtle behaviors today.
Chu Yian was unwilling to spend too much time and energy on unimportant people. With this time, she might as well think about how to write the fitness assessment and what two leisure activities to experience next.
She leaned back in her seat, frowning slightly, truly not wanting to encounter the strange things appearing in the corner again.
