・・・☆・Sixteen・・・☆・

That morning YingYue felt herself tugging at the long sleeves of the black t-shirt she was wearing as she followed her bumbling band of baboons around the university. Apparently the group of three boys had met back up again the night beforehand and come up with yet another ingenious plan.  Daoming Si had never been one of the smartest people when it come to the act of getting another person to like you. Especially if that other person was a girl. He didn't have the best of luck and never knew when enough evolved into too much. 

Let's be real non of the boys in the famous F4 group had much luck with girls. She wouldn't even count her fiancé as lucky, after all she wasn't sure if he would have made a move had the arranged marriage not been a thing. Okay that might have been luck but he wasn't the best in planning anything else out.

Why on earth the three remaining F4 boys decided they knew everything about love and how to make Shancai fall in love with Daoming is another story. But it had lead her to this moment. 

The moment when she watches the boys come up with the best way to play 'hard to get' and how that just had to be through calling out Shancai and Qinghi? YingYue had many questions and many way she could make it so much easier and smoother. But honestly, she was kinda enjoying how dumb the three looked as they finished the post on the schools bulletin board. Also it would be kinda funny to see how it played out. And how she could work it so that she was able to bet with someone at which point they would turn to her for help. Who else than Si's older sister?? 

Yeah the bet was so going to happen. 

Come afternoon YingYue found herself downstairs in the bridge room just relaxing. Well they were really waiting to see if Qinghe and Shancai would actually turn up. She knew they had very little choice in the matter as not turning up was just as disgraceful as turning up and losing. It would probably do more damage to their social image than losing would. But it would be funny if they didn't. Like a big 'Screw you Daoming Si'. 

"Considering its one girl and one guy competing, I'd like to be Ah Si's second." She spoke waiting for the response of the other three in the room. 

"Are you sure? You haven't played a match in a while?" MeiZou questioned back though it was not meant to be rude it hurt YingYue's pride a little. 

"Won't that even out the field a little bit then? Plus I'm a strategist let them try any cheating." Came her confident response. 

After a nodded agreement from the other three it was decided that she would play. Therefore, she perched herself on the playing table sending a quick wink Ximen's way as she pulled out a pair of glasses. It was all for the look, you could quite easily poke a finger straight through where the lens was supposed to be. 

An easy atmosphere took over the group of four, they were mainly making jokes about what they assumed Jing and Lei were up to in France. Though when the sound of the doors being opened traveled down the four soon became more serious. It would be a horror for them to be seen as jokesters in a moment like this. 

And as the two who were called upon came down the stairs, YingYue found herself staring at the two trying to see any indicators of what they were feeling. The nervous energy seemed to bounce off them both heavily and YingYue found it difficult to not say anything about the situation and therefore muttered a 'cute' before turning completely serious again. Though her muttering was not missed by everyone. A very sour look made it's way onto her fiancé's face which resulted in him glaring the new comers down with even more scrutiny than previously. 

As the group decided on what they were going to play, after the she could audibly hear the cogs turning in the F3's heads about the lack of bridge playing skills the newcomers had, YingYue slowly began to get off the table. Ximen had rushed to her side to help her get down as the settled on the rather childlike game of comparing hands. His arm hooked around her waist quickly as he lent down to whisper in her ear.

"Good luck beautiful, I love you." 

"I love you too" She replied looking into his eyes as she spoke. They separated soon after as Shancai took her seat. YingYue's eyes casted to Ah Si as she followed every shuffle he did and the probabilities began to correlate in her head. She was working out the most likely order the cards were going to spread in. Therefore, the best card to pick in order to win. 

She kept a blank face as Shancai picked two cards, one of which she had worked out to be an ace the other a 7. When Shancai settled on the ace she quickly checked her maths before settling on where the next one would be. Upon sharing a look with Ah Si she lent forward and picked up the card with the highest probability. Though not letting Shancai know she was not 100% confident in her maths she turned it over in her hand and placed it next to Shancai's pick.

As she calculated it was the Ace of Clubs. 

This did not seem to go down very well with either of the new comers. Neither had seen the older girl participate in anything to do with F4 nor had they heard the rumours about her playing. Therefore, when Qinghe called out that they had purposefully cheated and wanted to reshuffle and prove that it was all fake she couldn't help but laugh. 

Yingyue's eyes were focused on Qinghe's hands as he tried to shuffle the cards. Her brain already working to organise the cards in a probability order, though she didn't miss the young mans attempt to hide a card in his back pocket. It was as subtle as a five year old attempting to cheat. Soon enough the cards were back in Ah Si's hands and she was responsible for calling out her predictions. She was backed up with a smile form the x-ray like eyes of Meizuo. 

And as she called her predictions, they sure enough matched the cards being turned over. 

"You haven't got the ace of spades, therefore you have not won." Boasted Qinghe before he was interrupted by Meizuo.

"It's in your back pocket." Meizuo declared and this was proven correct very quickly afterwards. 

"But how?" Shancai questioned.

"Our YingYue is an incredible mathematician. Her probability to determine a card has been correct without failure since we were 13." Ah Si commented before returning to stare Shancai down. 

'We lost, what do you want?" Shancai spoke up afterwards and the three boys smiled knowingly at one another. It didn't take a genius to know what they had planned after all. If this is what they considered playing hard to get, someone needed to pass them a dictionary. 

As Meizuo and Ximen physically hoisted Qinghe out and away YingYue quickly kissed Ah SI on the cheek. Whispering a small 'good luck' before turning to leave. 

She blew a quick kiss to Shancai on her way out and quickly left the room allowing the two some privacy.