Book 3 She Becomes Glamorous After Her Engagement Annulment Short Story

Chapter 3

Chapter 1020: C, the God of Gaming pt.7

Cheryl picked up another potato chip, took a bite, and then looked at the head coach. “Oh, okay.”

Then, she saw the head coach pacing back and forth in front of her as he looked at her earnestly, looking like someone who wanted to ask her something yet didn’t dare to.

“Coach, is there something you want to ask me?” Cheryl asked.

The head coach coughed and said, “Um, I’m just asking about this casually. I am absolutely not insinuating anything, nor am I looking down on you! But, well, what kind of university do you think you can get into?”

After speaking, the head coach wanted to give himself a tight slap.

What was he even asking?

The teen obviously looked easily embarrassed. What if the young lady couldn’t even get into a university at all? How was she going to answer him?

The head coach immediately tried to repair the situation. “No, what I mean to say is, it’s okay even if it’s just a specialist school. Er, it doesn’t matter whether you go to university or not…”

“Yes, yes, that’s right! I also think that academic qualifications aren’t important in our industry!”

Lionel had also seen the posts and comments on f*******:. He came over immediately to comfort her and said, “Look at me, I only attended a lousy second-rate university while these guys here went to even worse ones!”

The rest of the team also hurried over and comforted her.

“Exactly, so it’s alright no matter how you score in the exams!”

“It’s okay even if you don’t attend university!”

“Haha, mutants like Captain Zac are a rarity in our industry. Nobody can ace their exams while being an expert gamer too, right?”

“We compete with our abilities, not academic qualifications."

While they were talking, Cheryl sensed that something was amiss.

The smart girl blinked a couple of times and then opened up f*******:, where she saw that someone had at-mentioned Club HS.

As she stared at her cell phone, her big eyes widened in disbelief.

Upon seeing this, the head coach next to her became even more distressed. “D-don’t cry, Cheryl… Everything will be fine, they are just jealous that you’re pretty!”

“Yeah, you’re so much prettier than that live-streamer lady, so she could only try to make up for the difference with her academics…”

“Ignore them. They’re just trying to embarrass you!”

“Their fans all seem to feel some kind of sense of superiority to others online. Ha, it’s not like having good grades will let them win the championship, right?”

As everyone comforted her, they saw her look up.

On her flawless little face, they didn’t see any sadness in her eyes but faint… excitement instead?

The head coach felt like his eyes must be playing tricks on him. He was about to speak when Cheryl said docilely, “Coach, can I reply to the message?”

The head coach: “?”

The teen spoke so innocently that he couldn’t even make himself say no!

The corners of his lips spasmed as he considered the proposal for a moment. Then, he replied, “Alright, go ahead, but don’t argue with them. People online are just being led on by others… Don’t cry, either, nor do you have to feel like you’ve let the fans down just because your grades are poor… Oh, and don’t use foul language. We’ll deduct $30 per swear word you use.”

“Okay!”

Cheryl opened up her f*******: settings and changed her name to Cherry HS.

She knew that the club didn’t want her to reveal her identity yet, so she didn’t change it to “C”. After the change, the head coach made a welcome post on the club’s official f*******: page: ‘Welcome to the club, @Cherry HS.’

With that, everyone now knew that Cherry HS was the new member of Club HS.

After that, Cheryl lowered her head and started typing a message.

The head coach watched her from a distance away and shook his head slightly.

Lionel was a little worried. “Coach, aren’t you concerned that she may use abusive language or argue with them?”

The head coach replied, “She has promised me that she wouldn’t. Besides, she’s so innocent. Do you think she would argue with them?”

Lionel nodded after hearing this. He certainly didn’t dare to even speak a little loudly to Cheryl. The girl looked so delicate that it was as if she would shatter like porcelain if he spoke even a little louder than usual.

The two of them thought that even if the girl panicked for real and argued a bit with the people online, she would probably just say something like “If you continue insulting me, I’ll beat you up with my little fists”.

There was no firepower whatsoever.

In fact, Lionel couldn’t help but suggest, “Coach, should I help her hurl a couple of insults?”

The head coach looked at him coldly at once. “Ha ha, that would be $30 deducted per word, then.”

Lionel shut up immediately.

He was the embodiment of a miser.

While the two were chatting, a staff member of the club suddenly approached them anxiously. When he saw the head coach, his expression immediately changed, and he looked as if he wanted to cry!

“Coach!!”

The head coach looked at him. “What’s wrong?”

He subconsciously looked at Cheryl and asked, “Did you use abusive language?”

Cheryl shook her head, the look in her eyes cute and innocent as she answered, “Nope!”

“Nope”…

She was just too cute!

The head coach completely believed her.

The staff member next to him was caught between laughter and tears, though. He said, “God C, it’s true that you didn’t use abusive language… but it might have been better if you had!”

The head coach was stunned when he heard this.

At last, he sensed something amiss belatedly and picked up his cell phone, where he saw that the welcome post for Cheryl had been pinned at the top.

In the post, someone had at-mentioned her and asked: ‘Jimy scored 1300 on her SAT. Do you know how she scored so high?’

At the sight of the question, the head coach’s heart suddenly sank.

He suddenly thought of Cheryl’s response when Lionel mentioned Zac’s near-perfect score in his mathematics paper during the college entrance examination.

He continued scrolling down, and sure enough, he saw Cheryl’s reply: ‘Did she miss out chunks of questions in one of the papers?’

The head coach: “??”

He felt his vision blacking out!

He was getting that vague feeling of someone showing off again!!

Nevertheless, he asked, “S-she must be joking, right?”

The staff member sighed. He felt as though the head coach, who was strict with everyone, had been blinded by Cheryl. He said, “Keep reading.”

The head coach continued scrolling down.

Then, he saw someone at-mention her again. They asked: ‘Oh wow, since you are so smart, which university do you think you can get into?’

Cheryl replied: ‘I am considering Harvard and MIT, but I haven’t decided which yet.’

As expected, the comments that followed were full of jeering. Everyone was guffawing.

The head coach: “!!!”

He looked up at Cheryl.

Still speaking in the same innocent tone, Cheryl said, “See? I didn’t use any abusive language.”

“It might have been better if you had!”

The head coach panicked.

If she had used abusive language, it would at least have been because the other party had provoked her first, so she couldn’t help but retaliate, which would have made her reaction justifiable. But what was she bragging so freaking much for?!

Harvard and MIT? She was considering them?

Were those two schools something one could joke so carelessly about?!!!

His voice shook as he said, “Um, if memory serves me right, the college entrance examination results will be out in ten days, right?”

Cheryl nodded. “Yup!”

She was giving him that same harmless and adorable feeling again…

The head coach felt like he had been completely bewitched by her. The corners of his lips spasmed and he found himself utterly at a loss for words.

Next to him, the staff member couldn’t help but ask, “What do we do, coach?”

The head coach replied, “What else can we do? Have the PR department ready! They’d better do a good job at handling this matter on the day the college entrance examination results are released!!!”

That girl was still so young and was even so pretty, but why must she be such a huge braggart?!!

Chapter 1021: College Entrance Examination Results Are Out!

What happened next was true to the head coach’s expectations—Club JQ’s fans went into full-out ridicule mode.

By the end of it, the situation had turned into “The presumptuous new member of Club HS is competing with Jimy over academic qualifications!"

This was despite the fact that they had started the argument first!

It was just a shame that Club HS couldn’t clear the air even if they wanted to because Cheryl had personally made those outrageous claims.

In the end, the head coach had no choice but to implement a new rule—uninstall f*******:!

All of them uninstalled f*******: for a period of time. Once the whole thing blew over, they would download it again… Their accounts were managed by club staff anyway.

Cheryl had no choice but to do the same. She had always been an obedient girl, so she also did as told and uninstalled f*******:.

“Starting from tomorrow, you and Zac will team up in ranked matches to build up a rapport with each other.”

The head coach said to Cheryl.

Zac, who happened to exit his room at this point, nodded when he heard him.

Zac was the jungler and ganker of the team. By having the two of them play together, the head coach wanted to let Zac have a look at Cheryl’s play style and habits so that he could work with her to take down opponents.

After all, the jungler was the one in control of the overall pace in a game.

“Okay. We’ll try a ranked match at eleven o’clock tomorrow morning.”

“Okie-Dokie!”

After bidding goodbye to the others, Cheryl entered her room.

Everything in the room had been tidied up, so she only needed to unpack her belongings.

Cheryl spent a bit of time unpacking and then washed up. Then, she lay on the bed and picked up her cell phone.

There were a lot of messages in the family group chat.

Her brothers and father were asking her how her new club was, whether she was lonely living in a villa all by herself, and whether she wanted them to find her a caretaker.

Cheryl glanced at the cramped room and then, with a guilty conscience, replied: ‘No, it’s fine! I like being by myself!’

As soon as she sent the reply, she received a video call from Justin.

Cheryl: “…”

She answered the call and pointed the camera at the ceiling.

The room layouts in the two villas were similar. After all, both had been renovated before they were handed over to their owners…

Justin’s voice was low, and the beauty mark at the corner of his eye was as alluring as ever. As Cheryl looked at him, she couldn’t help but wonder why her father seemed like he simply didn’t age at all.

People would believe him even if he stood next to her brothers and claimed that the three of them were brothers!

“Show me the room,” Justin said.

Cheryl’s guilty conscience immediately took over. “No, I just took a shower, so I can’t right now!”

The little girl was already fifteen years old, so Justin did have to watch himself.

He kept quiet for a while and then handed the phone to Nora. “Then show your mom the room.”

Cheryl: “!!!”

She stared at the sleepy Nora on the screen…

Her mom looked even younger than her dad. Even after so many years, she still looked like a 20-year-old… Of course, this was taking into consideration the fact that she was only 35 years old that year.

She yawned loudly and asked in a low voice, “Must you?”

She was talking to Justin.

Justin replied, “Check whether she is living in the villa next door. A girl mustn’t stay by herself in the same house as a group of boys.”

“…”

Cheryl felt even guiltier now.

Then, she saw Nora’s lazy eyes glance at the phone. It was as though she could see right through her through the screen.

Cheryl immediately gave her an ingratiating smile. “Mommy, you seem to have become even prettier after a few days of separation! It’s Hollywood’s loss that you didn’t become an actress! It’s humanity’s loss that they can’t see you on the big screen!”

Nora: “…”

The obvious flattery clearly indicated a guilty conscience.

She glanced sideways. When she saw Justin’s head leaning over, she immediately switched the video call to voice only. She sounded as lazy as ever, and she spoke like a big boss as she said, “What are you looking at? Cherry says it’s inappropriate.”

“Okay.”

Her arrogant and domineering CEO of a father was like a little kitten right now.

Cheryl secretly giggled.

Mommy was the only one in this world who could do something about Daddy!

After chatting with them a while more, Cheryl hung up.

Then, she saw a message from Mia: ‘Cherry, you’re so daring.’

Little Mia did not have an insanely high IQ like her, but she was very hardworking and diligent, so she had also skipped a grade. Thus, even though she was fifteen years old, she was already in her second year of high school.

Cheryl called her.

Mia picked up quickly. The gently speaking girl was no longer the pushover she used to be, but she had such a frail temperament that it made one want to protect her.

Her face was still pointed and oval-shaped like before, except that she was even prettier now after growing up. She had combined the best features of Joel and Tanya, so she was also well-known for her beauty in the New York circle.

On the other hand, Cheryl didn’t like appearing in public, so few people knew her.

Mia asked slowly, “Aren’t you afraid of not performing well?”

“How can that be?” Cheryl replied sweetly, “Even if I can’t get a perfect score like Pete, I’ll still score at least 1500!”

At the mention of Peter, Mia paused and changed the subject subtly. “How I wish half a month could pass when we wake up tomorrow! Then you could’ve slapped their faces with your score!”

“D’aw, time flies by anyway! By the way, what are you doing?”

“Studying,” Mia replied.

“You have good grades, so you definitely won’t have any problems in the college entrance exam. Why are you still working so hard this late at night?”

Mia was briefly taken aback. Then, she replied, “Mm, I want to do better on the exams.”

So that you can go to Pete?

However, Cheryl held herself back and didn’t say it out loud.

As Mia and Peter grew up, their relationship gradually became unfathomable. Mia was his younger cousin, yet Peter had gradually put distance between him and her.

This was the same for Mia. She stopped sticking to Peter whenever the two families got together and started sticking to Cherry instead.

Both their parents were busy with various things and didn’t notice this, but Cheryl had.

“Alright, I’m cheering for you,” said Cheryl.

—

After hanging up, Cheryl threw everything to the back of her mind.

The next morning, after waking up and playing a ranked match with Zac, Cheryl felt some long-lost pleasure!

She always had to carry her teammates in the past, but when she played in the ranked match with Zac, she felt the capabilities of a professional player. Zac seemed to know what she wanted to do all the time. Whenever she wanted to rush forward, he was already lying in ambush in the bushes at the side.

And whenever she wanted to retreat, Zac would retreat even faster than her…

This made Cheryl’s eyes light up more and more!

As expected, professional players were different!

Immersed in the training, Cheryl didn’t even realize that a whole week had passed.

A week later, when the head coach held a routine meeting with Zac, he asked, “How is C?”

The corners of Zac’s lips curled into a smile and he replied, “She’s great.”

He seldom had such high praise for anyone, especially a teammate.

Therefore, the head coach could tell that Zac was very satisfied.

He had also studied the recordings of Zac and Cheryl’s ranked matches.

Zac’s skills were at a much higher level than what he showed. However, Lionel and the other teammates couldn’t keep up with him, so he could only lower his level to cooperate with them.

After all, they played this game as a team, not as individuals.

As a result, this severely limited Zac’s performance.

However, the head coach found out that God C could keep up with him!

It was as though the two of them shared the same brain. No matter what Zac did, Cheryl could always react quickly and keep up with him. Sometimes, she even reacted earlier than him…

To be honest, before God C joined the team, he’d had a lot of doubts about the decision!

Not only was God C a girl, but she was also only fifteen years old. Could she really do it?

But after observing her for a week, he realized that she really could!

In fact, with her in Club HS, the team had become even stronger. The combination of God C and Zac had demonstrated exponential results!

The head coach felt as if the champion trophy of the new season was waving at Club HS right now!

He let out a delighted laugh.

However, the next moment, he frowned and said, “Sigh, God C’s gaming capabilities are undeniable, but so is her ability to stir up trouble!”

Upon hearing this, Zac’s expression darkened. “Is that incident still not over yet?”

“No, it’s not!”

At the mention, the head coach became even angrier. He said, “The situation had originally calmed down, and there weren’t many still mocking her. But during Jimy’s live-stream last night, she made insinuations about the situation again, bringing it back to people’s attention… I initially thought that after the incident died down, everyone would forget about it by the time the college entrance examination results came out. But she’s gone and reminded everyone that the results will be out in a week now, which revived the topic… Club JQ is so shameless when it comes to leeching off others’ popularity and hot topics!”

Zac stayed quiet for a while before he asked, “What did the boss say?”

He was referring to Chester.

Chester was very protective of the club members. A couple of years ago, when Lionel had a small accident, Chester had immediately paid to get the heat off him and suppressed the incident.

He was sure that the boss would step forward and defend her this time too…

But as soon as the thought formed, the head coach frowned and replied, “Come to think of it, the situation is rather strange this time. Usually, the boss would ask how things are whenever the club met with even a bit of trouble, but he hasn’t said even a word this time. In fact, when I approached the boss about this matter today—so that he could do something about the f*******: activity—he actually said… to let it be!”

Zac was taken aback. “Let it be?”

“Yeah.”

The head coach was so troubled that he was close to having insomnia. He said, “To be honest, being insulted or mocked a little is not a big deal. I’m mainly just concerned that the young lady won’t be able to take it, leading to her frame of mind being affected… That’s exactly what Club JQ is doing this time—toying with the young lady’s frame of mind. They are so insidious!”

Zac frowned and kept quiet.

He thought of the kid’s seemingly inexhaustible energy whenever she was gaming. Even if there were rumors flying about, surely it wouldn’t get her down, right? Besides, the boss had always been reliable…

With this in mind, he said, “Then let’s do as the boss says.”

The head coach nodded. “Maybe we should see this as a chance for the newcomer to train her mental resilience. If she can overcome it, nothing will get her down in the future. If she can’t, it won’t do her good if we are overprotective of her anyway.”

Amid the few people’s anxiety, at last, the college entrance examination results were released.