NOVPUBChapter 1232: Chapter 1232: Being Single Can Hurt, Part 1 Chapter 1232 -1232: Being Single Can Hurt, Part 1 Lyke Zhekova simply bought every flavor of milk there was.
Fruit-flavored, chocolate-flavored.
Anything that Peggy Lewis liked to drink was fine.
“Sounds good.” Peggy said with a smile.
Who’d have thought that on their first day of marriage, it would still be Lyke preparing breakfast.
Lyke brought over the breakfast before asking, “I didn’t have the chance to ask you just now!”
Peggy, who was eating a fried egg, looked at Lyke, “What is it?”
Lyke rubbed his nose, asking, “Are you okay?
Feeling any discomfort anywhere?”
Peggy didn’t feel anything at first, but being asked by Lyke made her suddenly conscious of it.
...
She felt uncomfortable all over.
“I’m fine,” afraid Lyke would ask more, Peggy stopped him, “No more questions.”
Lyke: “…”
Lyke immediately behaved himself and didn’t dare question her further on the subject.
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The Hearth Nation Team Selection for the International Culinary Competition, which takes place at Pingla Academy, began.
The auditions have been completed previously.
Now, the final team would be chosen.
Pingla Academy specially emptied its sports stadium, dividing it into six areas: A, B, C, D, E, F.
100 participants who passed the auditions draw lots to decide which group from ABCDE they would compete in.
There won’t be any repeated rotation of groups anymore.
If you are unlucky and draw a group with many strong contestants, then you can only blame your bad luck.
Cindy Clarke and others who participated and reached the top ten in the cooking competition, could directly secure team spots with Parker Honi, the first-place winner.
The remaining nine participants, although they didn’t have direct access spots.
They could bypass the group selections and directly enter the finals.
In the end, there were five competition areas, with twenty contestants each.
The top three from each area would be determined.
Ultimately leaving 15 competitors.
These 15, along with the 9 contestants who placed 2nd to 10th in the Pingla Competition from Cindy’s group.
A total of 24 people – this will theoretically be the representative team of the Hearth Nation.
However, 4 individuals amongst these 24, need to be selected as reserves for the expedition team.
In case someone from the expedition team gets injured, and there is a need for a substitute participant.
A suitable substitute can be chosen from the reserves anytime.
Even though there will be some loss in terms of ability level, at least the damage can be reduced to a minimum.
Then from the remaining 20 individuals, 9 will be selected to join the expedition team along with Parker Honi, to officially form the international competition team.
The leftover 11 contestants will remain at Pingla Academy and form the defensive team.
Pingla Academy is one of the Hearth Nation’s competition locations in the International Culinary Competition.
Contestants from various countries coming over would directly challenge at Pingla Academy.
These 11 individuals will naturally not all compete.
But since the defensive team doesn’t face as much pressure as the expedition team, this provides these 11 with more opportunities to hone their skills.
They could even take turns and face different challenges they haven’t encountered before.
Compared to the expedition team, the defensive team seems more like a learning-oriented team.
All of these 24 individuals would naturally have to compete to rank.
This allows the teachers to have a clear understanding of these 24 individuals’ abilities.
And they can then allocate them into the defensive, expedition, or reserve teams in an informed way.
Since Cindy and others don’t have to go through the selection process, they were pretty relaxed.
Pingla Academy has also started its vacation, specifically leaving the field for the selection.
However, the students didn’t go home.
Such a rare opportunity wouldn’t be missed, even if they failed to progress, they still stayed to watch the competition.
Because the competition was divided into five areas, each with different criteria, so they couldn’t watch directly from the bleachers.
It’s simply too far, and they couldn’t see anything clearly.
Consequently, Pingla Academy allowed the students on campus to watch directly from the perimeter of the competition grounds.
Anyway, there weren’t that many students.
The large stadium was enough for them to hover about.
Cindy was wandering around the perimeter of the competition grounds with Gladys Joy and others at this moment.
The areas for competition were divided and were cordoned off.
So, although they could watch at close distance, they didn’t interrupt the contestants’ competition.
“Have you thought it through?
Do you want to stay in the defensive team?” Leon Hernandez asked Cindy.
They had the same thought as Adrian Zhekova, with Cindy’s cooking skills, she would definitely secure a spot in the expedition team if she wanted to.
“Yeah, I think the defensive team is quite good as well.” Cindy said, “Just right, I can stay here.
If I had to follow the team and compete in various places across the country, Adrian Zhekova and Morgan surely cannot follow me.
It would be too hectic.
And when I compete, I wouldn’t be able to care about them.”
“And to be apart for so long, I won’t be comfortable,” Cindy said.
She hadn’t told Adrian that one of the reasons she didn’t want to travel with the team to compete is because she didn’t want to leave Adrian and Morgan.
“Do you actually fear about your husband misbehaving behind your back?” Bartholomew Bailey joked.
Cindy was really over-thinking things.
Adrian Zhekova, the henpecked husband, would most likely fly to be by her side if Cindy really had to follow the team to compete abroad.
“Of course not, how can I mistrust him?” Cindy said, “It’s just that I can’t bear to be apart.
I’ll miss them when we’re separated.”
Seeing that everyone else couldn’t empathize.
Even the men like Parker Honi were rubbing their arms indicating that they felt goosebumps, Cindy laughed, “You singletons, you can’t understand my feelings.”
Yannick O’Brian: “We were having a good conversation, why did it suddenly turn to personal attacks?”
Cindy said with a laugh: “Anyway, when you all have someone you like, you will know this feeling.
Not wanting to be apart from the other person.”
“If I were to compete, it is also possible. 𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙥𝒖𝒃.𝒄𝒐𝒎
Adrian would definitely follow wherever I go.
But he’s so busy with work, and yet he needs to spend time following me flying around,” Cindy shook her head, “I can’t bear to see him so worn out.
Apart from Cindy, everyone else collectively decided to end the topic.
Singletons couldn’t stand it!
People always said that marriage is a besieged city, it’s a tomb.
Especially just after getting married, there would be a lot of friction.
The reason for sticking around isn’t because they adapted well, but because they couldn’t be bothered dealing with these frictions anymore.
They decide to keep to themselves.
But why is it so different for Cindy?
She just got married, and it felt like she had walked into a romantic drama.
Even Cynthia Florine and others envied her.
They don’t require their future husbands to have the same high attractiveness as Adrian.
Nor do they need to be extremely rich.
As long as he treats them well, that’s enough.
That’s all they ask for.
As long as they can find a person like this, they will be satisfied.
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Since the competition was being held simultaneously in five areas, 15 contestants were determined by the end of the day.
Pingla Academy didn’t specifically arrange a stage for these 15 contestants to appear.
