Things more important

As the boy turned around to throw the flower down the roof, Yu Chen hurriedly said, "No no. Don't throw it."

The boy smiled and placed the flower in Chen's hand. Chen, feeling very awkward, turned around and left, hastily stuffing the flower into her jeans.

As she reached down, she saw Xi Hua and Huo Zenghai coming in from outside. They both looked really happy and Hua had some chocolates in her hand. She waved at them and said, "Where had you guys gone?"

Seeing Chen suddenly seemed to fill Hua with shock. She muttered, "Oh shit!! The charger!!"

Yu Chen looked puzzled. "Charger?" she asked. Huo Zenghai interjected and said that it was nothing. Then he lead both Hua and Chen into the hall and towards Kio.

As they reached him, Xi Hua handed out the chocolates she had bought. "For all the hard work we did." she exclaimed as she opened her's. Kio told Chen about Milan's call and Chen put the packed chocolate in her pocket and called Mian.

As she returned after talking to Mian, Zenghai said, pointing towards the computers, "They're almost done. It won't be long now."

Yu Chen looked and saw that only two people were left reading. "It took them so much time, I wonder how many errors they found." Xi Hua wondered aloud.

After some time, the last teams were also done. The foreigner judge stood up and said, "Our team of judges have already compiled most of your scores. It will mostly take 10 more minutes, please be patient."

After 10 minutes, finally the results were done.

Mr. Zhen stood up and said, "So now for the results. The second runner-up of the '99 open software competition' is..." he gave a dramatic pause and said, "GBSD."

A team of four boys and two girls stood up from the corner, and went up to the stage. The leader was congratulated and they were given their cash prize of 1,000 Yuan each.

Then Lu Jim stood up, "Now the first runner-up. I must say that even I was impressed by this team and even I expected, and could I say, wanted them to win. Well, still they're the first runner-ups. The team is Little Yu. Come up you four."

Yu Chen looked around at the other three and smiled in encouragement. They all also smiled, nodded and they stood up and went to the stage. The four climbed the stage and then stood on the stage, holding each other's hands and smiling broadly. Lu Jim siad, "Seems like Little Yu is not sad that they lost."

Yu Chen replied, "I admit that we wanted to win. But during the competition, we all realised that....." Yu Chen looked beside her and they all said in unison, "There are things more important than winning."

The whole hall clapped loudly at their response, and the lady with the bob cut ruffled Huo Zenghai's hair, who was the closest to her, and said, "And understanding that is more important than winning."

She turned to the hall and announced, "And I want to add that I am offering the members of Little Yu a training program in my own company."

The whe hall was silent. Yu Chen thought that she had heard wrong...