Chapter 194

During the break, the boys who came to hand in their assignments were giggling at first, but when they saw the pretty yet stern, aloof face of the study committee member... they sheepishly handed in their assignments one by one.

Xiao Qi checked off the names of each person who turned in their assignment against the attendance sheet, changing the crosses next to their names to ticks.

Even Li Weijin and Wei Gaowen got this kind of treatment.

Xiao Qi didn't even glance at Li Weijin and Wei Gaowen once. If it was normal times, she might not have been able to resist appreciating them a little, after all it's not common to see good-looking boys who can wear shirts every day even in the hot summer. But right now she was in very motivated "inject chicken blood into herself" mode, she didn't have any spare effort to appreciate the scenery or good-looking boys at all. She felt like all these were illusionary, she preferred her English textbooks, Calculus, C language programming, information system development and design...

Under the stern, aloof gaze of the study committee member, the assignments were perfectly collected this time.

After class, Xiao Qi handed in the assignments to the English teacher, then asked the teacher for the course materials for the next few lessons. She just saw the teacher trying out a USB drive, the preparation materials were almost half a semester’s worth of content, no wonder the teacher was a little lackluster when teaching. She thought, having to prepare and present the same materials over and over, teaching as a career can be quite dull sometimes.

It’s not easy to always maintain passion.

Xiao Qi borrowed a USB drive from Yun Shu to copy all the content out, and also asked the teacher for her WeChat, planning to ask questions over WeChat if she doesn’t understand something.

Teacher Wei added her on WeChat, Xiao Qi set the remark with her own name and class.

While below, Chu Yu’s face flushed red and pale white... Teacher Wei actually rejected her request to add his WeChat during the first period... why did he add that Su Xiaoxiao?

Wei Gaowen didn’t think too much about it. This student’s eyes were only on assignments and course materials, she didn’t even look at him at all. And she was the study committee member, so if something suddenly comes up he can let her know.

Last time when Chu Yu came to him to borrow course materials, face blushing, wearing a skirt, looking at him admiringly, it gave Wei Gaowen a shock. He’s married with a child, the school highly forbids unclear student-teacher relationships. He only came to Enhua University as an adjunct to subsidize living expenses, last year he bought a new apartment, housing prices in Meng City were expensive, the mortgage pressure was big. His only thoughts were to teach properly and earn money, he didn’t have any other ideas at all, so he quickly rejected her.

Xiao Qi was also unaware that she was noted down by Chu Yu again for no reason.

The second period was Teacher Bai’s Management Information System class. As expected, the small lessons in the next two periods were mostly spent listening to his food stories. It was a tongue-top Management Information System journey getting to know all kinds of famous delicacies of the country. And then it was self-study again... Leaving aside the course content, if Teacher Bai opens a Douyin account, he would probably get popular. When talking about food he sounded so delicious, no matter what snacks he described, it made people crave endlessly. The teacher was a little off-track, he can go become a mukbang introducer or something. Coming to teach Management Information Systems was obviously a mismatch.

When she felt that Teacher Bai could become popular on Douyin, she didn’t know a video of her on Enhua University’s official Douyin account brought her a small burst of popularity.

The “Searching for Qingshui River” song she sang last time actually got over 800,000 likes.

It gave the young male teacher in charge of running the official account quite a shock and made him a little ecstatic.

In the information age, traffic is everything.

But random viral hits can’t be ruled out too, sometimes a video can suddenly get popular for inexplicable reasons.

Then the Calligraphy and Painting Association passed another video of that singing girl to the official Douyin.

This time it was her writing calligraphy of the Heart Sutra. Things in cultural circles like this are actually quite niche, can’t spread too widely. But unexpectedly, this Douyin video blew up again, getting over 100,000 likes again.

The person-in-charge of the official account was baffled, are people so bored nowadays? Do they like tapping on likes so much?

Back when he first started operating the account, he racked his brains but only got a few dozens or hundreds of likes, getting over a thousand was rare. What was happening now?

He curiously tapped into the comments to take a look. There were things like:

“My knees are broken from kneeling to finish watching this.”

“Miss, what else can’t you do?”

“Dare to reveal your name? I’ll come find you.”

“I, Wang Jianlin, will pay 1 million to buy this piece of calligraphy.”

“I, Jack Ma, will pay 2 million.”

“I suspect this is fake. Nowadays people can do anything to get popular. This is probably staged, getting a great master to write the Heart Sutra in the end.”

“I can’t tell if the calligraphy is good or bad. You guys praise randomly, am I the only one who feels the girl is pretty? I’m an appearance chaser, I only look at the face. I’m following this face, say what you want.”

“Showing off. I dare confirm it’s just showing off. There are too many Internet water army shills upstairs. Such an amazing student has no need to go to Enhua University, it’s just the rich playing tricks. ”

“Enhua University’s official Douyin has no bottom line, doing all sorts of hyping for popularity.”

“I was at the scene. I can prove the calligraphy was written by the girl. There was also an awkward situation. Our Calligraphy and Painting Association invited a guest that day, a famous calligrapher from the XXX Calligraphy Association. For confidentiality I won’t reveal the name. XXX wrote a Heart Sutra then randomly asked students to try too. We thought it would be some amateur, didn’t expect a king to be called up. Then... to be continued...”

“Following up the gossiper above, the girl finished writing calmly. Us commoners can’t tell any difference anyway. Then the climax came, our Association Chairman came. First, let me say our Chairman got 2nd place in the national secondary school calligraphy competition in middle school. There’s an awesome real-life bigshot grandfather at home... The Chairman came and kept praising the guest, saying the Heart Sutra was written so well. But he was holding the one the girl wrote... kept praising it, even asking XXX to sign and seal it to keep... The more awkward thing was, the girl’s work was put below to highlight the guest, but the Chairman’s sharp eyes still picked it out...how awkward...”

“Continuing, I won’t say who XXX is, not trying to disparage him. It was just awkward. XXX left first before the event ended. I’ve said so much because I just want to say, the girl is awesome. Also, I’m a member of the Calligraphy and Painting Association too. From now on I’m her brainless fan.”

“Those upstairs saying it’s hyped, can some technical expert come analyze?”

“There’s no beauty filter on this Douyin video. The girl’s looks are real. Not as styled up as during the singing performance, she looks younger with no makeup on, probably didn’t even put on any foundation. Skin really fair.”

“Stroke by stroke is real. You try writing me a piece of calligraphy in the end!”

“Go watch the video of her singing, then you’ll know why I’ve been kneeling for 2 days.”

“I was scrolling Douyin and my over 70 years old grandfather saw and insisted I help him find this girl’s information. He said he wanted to ask for a Heart Sutra. Anyone who can provide clues, I’m willing to contribute all my summer allowance money.”

“Upstairs I came across a Douyin that seems to be this girl, but she wasn’t writing, she was swimming.”

“I’m an appearance chaser, following.”

“A few floors up, weakly saying, I also came across it. The girl is this year’s 200m Women’s Freestyle champion in Jingnan Province. Don’t know if it’s the same person...”

“A few more floors up, I also came across, I want to ask how much is your summer allowance. I saw this girl again, not writing, not singing, also not swimming. She made a handbag herself using bamboo. Really, may I be struck by lightning and have no seasoning packets the next time I eat instant noodles if I’m lying.”

“Don’t hop on the clout-chasing train above. Wake up, it’s not the same person. Don’t sell your soul for money. Oh yes, I also want to ask, how much allowance? Enough to buy how many lipsticks?”

Seeing the messy discussion, the official account owner was also confused. What on earth was happening? Seeing people providing other Douyin IDs, whether to give a warning and delete them for advertising?

In the end, he still clicked in to take a look...

Damn, she really is the swimming champion...

Damn, there’s even an English song, his favorite “Say You Say Me”. He listened to it eight hundred times that year when he had heartbreak.

Damn, she really is making handbags... using bamboo. That’s the ugly grey dorm curtain of Enhua University, uniform standard.

Damn...

He silently closed Douyin. No more damn, time to quiet down. On the other side, Xiao Yu, who didn't use Douyin, happened to stay at home instead of going out to wander around randomly. He pretended to be a well-behaved young man in front of his family and played with his little niece Xiao Bao'er.

Xiao Bao’er was Xiao Shengzhou's younger sister. There was a big age difference between them. She was the late-born daughter of her brother and sister-in-law, and was brought up very delicate. She was a little bit fat, just a little bit especially fat... Moreover, she looked very much like her brother Xiao Shengzhou with a righteous face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, but one size fatter...

Xiao Yu was not a very patient person and did not understand why the little fat girl liked to play with him. However, the little fat girl looked lovely and especially adorable, but he was a little worried that with this face, the fat girl might not be able to get married when she grew up.

Usually he just threw his phone to her and that was it... Maybe this was the reason why. Because except for her uncle, no one else in the family would allow the little girl to play on the phone for so long. She had endless lessons to take every day - dancing, violin, calligraphy, fencing, English, piano... Her mother was also worried. For her daughter’s righteous fat face, in the future... it would be better to study more and enrich herself inwardly.

Xiao Yu wanted to use his phone, but the little fat girl who was addicted to Douyin did not give it to him.

"Give it to uncle for a moment and I'll give it back to you."

"No, I have a brother." The little fat girl grabbed the phone with sweaty palms.

He had no choice but to coax the little fat girl with all kinds of promises before finally snatching the phone away. Then he saw on the screen a young girl in a long robe holding a microphone and singing. There was a flash of Xiao Shengzhou with a fanatical look on his righteous face. What kind of weird expression was that?

Then he watched it again and listened again.

He made a phone call with the phone, went to the bathroom, then opened the video again and listened to the catchy old song over and over again. It seemed that he had heard it while listening to skits. The bald guy had sung it before with a greasy middle-aged man's feeling.

But the girl on stage sang it with a special flavor.

Especially when she sat there, her face was particularly delicate. Looking at it this way, he realized that none of the girls he was dating could compare.

It was just that she was too small... small everywhere.

Underage?

Thinking of the silly smile on her face when she saw her laughing on the bus before, his heart felt itchy, like there was a feather scraping inside.

He had listened to it dozens of times already, and the righteous little fat face of his niece looked like she was going to cry. So he had no choice but to play Douyin with his niece.

Then he opened another Douyin showing someone writing...

Xiao Yu took out all the girls he was dating and compared them again, and still found not a single one that could fight...

In the afternoon he decided to go to his nephew's horse farm and take a walk.

He pulled the little fat girl and asked, "Do you want to see your brother?"

The little fat girl with a high ponytail on her head thought for a moment. Going to see her brother meant she didn't have to go play the piano in the afternoon, so she nodded immediately, "Yes!"