I Am A Prodigy

Everyone became deathly silent!

They were all dumbfounded when they looked at the tree that Ye Lingchen left a hole in.

Many were even left momentarily entranced, believing that they were in the midst of a movie being filmed. After all, only movies would dare to shoot such a scene.

[AWESOME! AWESOME! AWESOME! Important stuff must be uttered three times.]

[I finally know why God Ye can beat the sh*t out of the Stick Nation. He plays basketball but knows martial arts. Who can stop him?]

[Chinese Kungfu is too motherf*cking awesome!]

[I finally saw what real Kungfu looks like and I’ve recorded the video. I’m ready to follow along and practice.]

[My mother asked me why I knelt and watched the live broadcast. I said I was watching God Ye defy heaven.]

[I never even knew that God Ye had the same high level of skill as Actor Y. I’m not trying to instigate disharmony here, I’m just curious. They’re both my idols!]

[This is unbelievably powerful. Do you think that’s the production crew’s plan all along? Is this tree actually made out of bubbles?]

…

Phew—

Ye Lingchen let out a long sigh of relief and immediately felt very comfortable. His entire body felt refreshed.

However, he was dumbfounded when he removed his fist from the tree. He had…left a hole in the tree…

He looked up and around just to confirm that it was the only tree planted in his yard. It was likely a fruit tree, and it had to endure being punched by him.

Everyone recovered from the brief shock, but they soon felt stunned too.

Ye Lingchen retracted his hand in embarrassment, touched his nose, then looked at the program crew. “This tree has a strong life force. It could still…live, right?”

The director gave Ye Lingchen an extremely friendly smile. “What do you think?”

“PFFTTT!”

The crew beside him laughed suddenly and it took them a lot of effort to hold it back.

Zhao Liangying and Hu Yue’er also burst out in uncontrollable soft giggling. Huang Lei and the three laughed maniacally without a care in the world.

The contrast between how it ended and how it was expected to end was far too big. It was very dramatic and really funny.

By right, Ye Lingchen should be greeted with exclamation and applause after Ye having shown such immense power, but it was all destroyed because of the tree.

Most importantly, Ye Lingchen seemed to have just returned to his senses only then. He looked at his masterpiece with a dazed expression. It was absolutely comical and utterly adorable since he appeared to be a different person entirely from the one who did those punches earlier.

[BWAHAHAHA, I’ll laugh myself to death. I’d wonder how gloomy God Ye’s heart is feeling at this time.]

[As expected, it was fun to act cool, but at the end of everything, he looked like he was struck by lightning!]

[God Ye, I’d like to ask whether you’d still dare to act cool again?]

[God Ye: Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing? There’s a hole in the tree right in front of me?]

[God Ye, you destroyed the environment. I will condemn you strongly.]

…

Ye Lingchen glanced at the tree in front of him again and his eyes lit up slightly. He immediately bent over to pick up the part that had been hollowed out and stuffed it into the hole little by little. He made sure to cover the entire hole before stopping.

“Brother Tree, I’m sorry. I’ve returned your lost parts to you. Whether you can survive is up to you now. Please don’t blame me…” Ye Lingchen remarked sadly to Brother Tree. After he finished his words, he turned back to the house as if nothing happened at all.

“God Ye, it is said that people who engage in sports are freaks. You’re so good at basketball and you are a freak amongst freaks,” Huang Lei said impassionedly as he went downstairs with the others.

“God Ye, are your hands okay?” He Jia asked kindly and was even holding band-aids.

For every action, there was an equal and opposite reaction—having punched the tree, the force would definitely cause harm to Ye Lingchen’s fist, and most people would be unable to withstand it.

“It’s fine.” Ye Lingchen shook his head.

“Is it really fine?” Hu Yue’er and Zhao Liangying expressed suspicion, but when they saw the back of Ye Lingchen’s palm, they could not help but cursed him silently for being inhuman. There were no red marks at all, let alone wounds.

Their breakfast was steamed corn and milkshakes sponsored by advertisers. After that simple meal, everyone sat at the table and chatted.

At this moment, the staff of the program group came over. “Everyone, we have something to announce.”

This sentence caused everyone to focus their attention curiously.

“What’s the matter?” Huang Lei asked.

“The tree in the yard has been ruthlessly destroyed. Everyone can see it,” the director said.

“Hahaha, I saw it.” When it came to the tree, everyone laughed.

However, there were some noticeable signs that something was up, prompting He Jia to ask, “Director, God Ye didn’t deliberately vandalize it. You’re not going to do something about this, right?”

“That’s right, Director. God Ye didn’t intend to break the tree.” Zhang Liangying pouted.

The director shook his head. “This won’t do. If you destroy it, then you destroy it. God Ye must be held responsible for this.”

“Well then, I’ll take responsibility for what I’ve done.” Ye Lingchen stood up. “Tell me, what do I need to do to be responsible? I don’t have money. I can’t even give you my life… I don’t have anything anyway, so you have to figure this out.”

“Pfft, hahaha…” Everyone laughed suddenly.

The director laughed as well. “I don’t want money, nor do I want life. However, distinguished guests on each episode of Life’s Struggles will be given a two-hundred-yuan payment. Since God Ye just destroyed the fruit trees in the yard, we’ll deduct this two-hundred yuan and use it as compensation.”

“Deducted? Director, don’t tell me that we wouldn’t have any money for this episode?” Everyone was stunned and they shot ugly looks at the director.

“That’s precisely the case.” The director nodded.

“No! What will we eat if we don’t have even a penny? It’s okay for us to be hungry, but it’s crossing the line to let our special guest go hungry, especially with the two girls,” He Jia said.

The director shrugged helplessly. “This will require you to find a way. The show’s title is Life’s Struggles, so naturally, you need to survive by your own hands. No matter how bad things seem, our corn and sweet potatoes are still in the fields. You can harvest them by yourself and you won’t die from starvation.”

“Corn? Sweet potatoes? How are we supposed to eat those for every meal?” Wei Daxun was nearly in tears. “Director, you can give us a hundred and it’ll be fine. At the very least we’ll reduce our meat intake for every meal.”

“You want money and our lives too!”

“Didn’t you eat well yesterday? What’s going on?” Ye Lingchen asked.

He Jia smiled bitterly. “That was only the first day. It’s a benefit that’s provided to welcome our three special guests. We’ll have to rely on ourselves for the next few days. The two-hundred yuan was originally a guaranteed payment for each episode’s special guests.”

Ye Lingchen nodded. No wonder that variety show was called Life’s Struggles. It was all because of those conditions.

“Two-hundred yuan isn’t good for anything, right?” Ye Lingchen could not help but ask. “There’s so many of us. It’ll be gone in just one meal.”

“It’s better than nothing. We could get by in the previous episodes with two-hundred yuan plus the crops in the field. Without that two-hundred yuan, you’re saying goodbye to meat!” Huang Lei said in distress.

“Ah, what should we do then? God Ye, you even said that you’ll make fish soup for us today.” Zhao Liangying and Hu Yue’er pouted…