Chapter 143

For the first time, someone turned the passionate atmosphere of a karaoke venue into a red-eyed bawling convention.

Truly.

Looking back on that scene, instructor Zhang Tianwei felt a little embarrassed.

He didn't even want to admit that he had cried.

But Enhua University's equipment was so amazing that it clearly recorded every person's expression. Not only were his eyes red,

his nose was so stuffed up from crying that he couldn't breathe.

When Xiao Qi sang, she unconsciously imbued the song with her own emotions.

She chose this song because she felt the lyrics were great and quite meaningful.

While singing, she unconsciously started missing her parents.

But she didn't know it would cause so many people at the scene to cry while singing along.

Needless to say, their class won.

In the end, no other song could drown out this one rendition of "Green Flower in the Army."

Wu Xinyue, who was on the other side recording a TikTok video, was also dumbfounded. What the hell? She had thought that with her participating, victory was guaranteed.

When she came to the school, she had already noticed that there were no particularly outstanding female students in their cohort this year.

Her grades weren't that good, they were mediocre. She hadn't been transferred here, she had applied to Enhua herself.

For many people, university was a place to study, but for some, it was also a place to change their destiny.

Students of this age were naive and passionate, perfect for making connections.

Wu Xinyue had been more mature than her kindergarten classmates since she was young, able to charm more than half of the students in her class into giving her candy and chocolate.

She was very good at utilizing her appearance to her advantage, giving off a sweet, pretty little girl vibe. This continued through middle and high school.

She was used to using her looks to easily obtain many things, which of course led to being negligent about her studies. But it didn't matter, wasn't the purpose of going to university to get a good job afterwards, and getting a good job was for the purpose of living a good life?

If she could connect with an excellent male university student, she would instantly have a good life.

Her goals were clear and straightforward.

She had looked around at the boys in her class and didn't see any particularly outstanding ones. The boys majoring in English seemed delicate and effeminate. She needed to appear even more impressive and eye-catching.

From the moment she first appeared at the school, she had carefully and meticulously dressed herself up.

Sure enough, she quickly gained a reputation.

Wherever she went, she was almost always the focal point of attention.

But now, everyone's attention was not actually on her, but rather on a girl from the Computer Science department instead.

The two classes were not very close together, so you couldn't make out her face. She was just a girl with short, scruffy hair. She looked quite tall with a slender build, but you couldn't see her face clearly from afar. However, the camerawork was amazing!

In this moment, the big screen was filled with images of that girl, even with close-ups of her face.

Extremely close-up.

But with such a close view, the screen didn't have any beauty filters or special effects. It was just a raw, close-up image. Seeing herself on the big screen, even she felt that she looked short and chubby. The concealer she had applied still revealed some acne scars. Because of the heat from walking over, her makeup had faded a bit, and her eyelashes looked like fly legs.

But the girl on the big screen right now surprisingly didn't even seem to have pores, she was fair and smooth. Her eyelashes looked very long and natural, you could even see teardrops hanging from them.

Her voice also resonated powerfully through the speakers, mysteriously touching people's emotions and making Wu Xinyue feel even more unhappy. Wu Xinyue turned off her own video, because when she suddenly looked down, she noticed the camera was aimed up at her chin, making her face look very fat.

After the karaoke concluded, the afternoon military training was over as well.

Military training truly was the best way to train teamwork.

Classes that were previously unfamiliar with each other, coming from all over the country without any prior connections, but because of the military training somehow formed bonds of mutual support like battle companions. Suffering punishments and training together, they developed an inexplicable sense of collective honor.

Information Management Class 1 winning the karaoke competition was an honor that wouldn’t have meant anything worth mentioning in any other setting. A karaoke competition, what was that? Nothing to be arrogant about. But this group of students was especially proud and happy about it.

People who hadn't talked much to each other at the start now inexplicably seemed familiar with one another.

Chen Daen sidled up to Xiao Qi. He was dark and skinny, a bit like Zhang Yishan's Liu Xing character in the TV drama My Family Has Children. Loud voice, laughed like an idiot.

"Xiao Qi, you're awesome! You sing so beautifully. Thanks to you, you turned the tide at the last moment, otherwise our class wouldn't have been able to beat those little ladies from the other side."

"A married woman is also a lady."

Before Xiao Qi could even speak, Chen Mier immediately retorted.

Chen Daen scratched his head, somewhat embarrassed, but kept his fiery gaze fixed on Xiao Qi.

Cai Yu, who was the first lead singer, also came over. His voice was much more pleasant to listen to, and he was quite thoughtful. Standing next to Chen Daen, one fair and one dark, both wearing military training camo uniforms, Cai Yu was like the young master of a landowning family, while Chen Daen seemed more like the son of a long-term worker in the landowning family's house. The contrast between them was obvious.

However, Chen Daen's smile was very genuine, giving off a very affable feeling.

"It was nothing, just doing my part." Xiao Qi also wasn't very good at conversation. Facing the eager praise from her classmates, she didn't know what to say. She pulled Chen Mier and the others to hurry off. On the way back, they didn't need to go in a big group. Chen Mier suggested going to the new district. The indoor gymnasium was close to the new district, so they could go eat and walk around the new district before taking the bus back to the old district.

Xiao Qi really wanted to walk back, but seeing that Gu Yunshu and Wei Cheng were interested, and since they weren't in a hurry, it was fine to just eat first and then walk back later if they had to. Xiao Qi agreed.

The four girls headed towards the new district together. On the way they ran into classmates who greeted them.

Xiao Qi didn't recognize them, they were probably from their class and knew her companions.

From the teaching buildings, the new and old districts didn't seem very different, both primarily red.

The new district was flatter, with a cluster of teaching buildings. From afar, it looked like a palace, surrounded on four sides, with a garden in the middle.

But the lake in the new district wasn't next to Luoxi Town, it seemed to flow into the sea instead. So it looked boundless, especially at dusk when the scenery was particularly beautiful.

Separated out in a single area along the lakeshore were four especially tall high-rise buildings without any obstruction in front of them, all ocean-view rooms.

These were said to be for teacher's residences. Teachers could purchase them if they wished, or rent them.

As Xiao Qi's group walked past the high-rises, many foreign teachers were coming in and out downstairs.

"I heard the rent here is a bit higher. Foreign teachers prefer living here, but the best homes in the school aren't actually here, they're in the old district." Chen Mier gossiped.

Xiao Qi didn't know any of this. She always felt they spent most of their time together, how did her deskmate happen to know so much more news than her?

In any case, Chen Mier couldn't restrain herself from continuing even without anyone chiming in: "Did you guys notice when we entered the school gates? That big bridge, on one side there is a dance floor, and on the other side there is a thick grove. In that grove there is a villa. Our school's boss is said to live there, although some say it's on the mountain behind the Vocal Music building. They say the boss likes music."

Xiao Qi imagined it in her mind. She felt the idea of a villa on the mountain behind the Vocal Music building was less plausible, because the music coming from the Vocal Music building really couldn't be considered good listening. It was all new students practicing, various chaotic sounds mashed together that were truly noisy.

She hadn't noticed that grove when they entered the school gates.

Gossiping all the way, they finally circled the entire new district campus, arriving at the student street.

The planning of the new district's student street was much better, with several orderly straight streets intersecting.

Last time when Gu Yunshu's parents treated them to a meal, it was at the Antaili Restaurant in the old district. Xiao Qi didn't expect there would also be a branch in the new district.

She remembered the rice there was very tasty. She ate four bowls. There was a black pepper beef dish with very tender beef and the perfect level of black pepper flavor that went great with rice. There was also a grilled corn cake that was sweet. You could taste the corn kernels, with white sugar sprinkled on top, crispy when you bit into it and very delicious.

"Let's go to this one." She suggested.

The others didn't object.

The restaurant was busy inside, and there was only one small table left for the few of them.

The server came over with menus. Seeing the server was around their age, probably a student working part-time. Xiao Qi took the menus first and said, "Let me treat today, to celebrate becoming roommates."

Chen Mier smiled and nodded, "Sounds good!"

Gu Yunshu also didn't object.

Wei Cheng could only nod along. In her heart she was calculating whether she would have enough money when it was her turn to treat.