Yu Simin and Kong Wei had never met Ming Dongheng before. However, Yu Simin handled the situation better than Kong Wei at that moment. She thanked Ming Dongheng politely.
Ming Dongheng gave them a slight nod before heading to the laboratory building. He came to Jiang University not just to deliver milk tea, but also to help Jiang Fuli deliver some documents.
But first, he helped deliver the milk tea to Bai Lian’s roommates.
The black car drove away.
Kong Wei finally dared to speak to Yu Simin, clutching the plastic bag in her hand, “Yu Simin, that person just now looked like someone from a gang in TV dramas.”
Having been behind Jiang Fuli and Ming Dongheng for so long, and having gone through special training, Ming Dongheng had seen real blood.
His aura was very distinct.
It set him apart from the university students around him.
Yu Simin stood next to Kong Wei, watching the car leave, staring at the license plate for a while, lost in thought.
There was still work waiting for them at the auditorium.
Ye Jingxian had just moved out a chair when she saw the two of them, “What milk tea did Bai Lian bring you?”
The words “Bai Lian” made everyone look over.
“Her aunt made it,” Kong Wei smiled and took out the milk tea. It was in a plain paper cup without any markings, sealed with tape, with a biodegradable straw on the side.
She was still thinking about the strange man from earlier as she inserted the straw and took a sip.
There was a unique tea fragrance that Kong Wei had never tasted in other milk tea shops before.
Kong Wei immediately messaged Bai Lian to tell her how delicious the milk tea was.
“What’s this?” Lv Jing picked up a registration form. He had finished his tasks for the day and was planning to have dinner with his dormmates when he spotted the postcards in the bag beside it.
“They came with the milk tea,” Yu Simin took out two postcards, thinking they were some kind of labels. “Bai Lian’s aunt’s milk tea is really…”
She stopped mid-sentence when she saw the postcard’s cover.
It showed a woman with misty blue short hair, wearing a white camisole under a leather jacket, facing sideways to the camera. Her blue hair was tucked behind her ears.
It was an autographed photo, with “Yan Lu” written in flowing golden marker next to the blue hair.
“Holy—” Lv Jing stared at the autographed photo and exclaimed, “Yan Lu’s autograph?!”
Everyone knew the influence of a phenomenal hit drama, especially since Yan Lu was personally chosen for the role. Now “Yan Lu” was synonymous with Bai Xiangjun’s character – whenever anyone mentioned this historical figure, Yan Lu was the first person they thought of.
The mention of “Yan Lu’s autograph” immediately drew everyone’s attention.
Student council members gathered around.
Yu Simin and Kong Wei quickly hugged their postcards to their chests.
“You two are so stingy!” A female student squeezed through, “Let me see my wife’s autograph!”
“Is it real? It’s actually real?!”
“Where did you get these?”
“…”
After the crowd’s commotion…
Ye Jingxian had watched Yu Simin take out the autographed photos from the bag. This milk tea was delivered by Bai Lian.
“So, our junior gave you both autographed photos?” Ye Jingxian clutched her chest.
Kong Wei made a sound of agreement, “Yes, when we first met we were competing for albums. She knows we’re both Sister Lu’s fans.”
Ye Jingxian forced herself to look away and got up to go backstage, “My corpse feels unwell, I’m leaving.”
Yu Simin and Kong Wei: “…”
Senior, you mean “body”, not “corpse”!
But the milk tea was truly delicious, and they both took another sip.
—
At Shanhai Apartments, when Ming Dongheng returned to report, he watched expressionlessly as Shen Qing used expensive old Banzhang tea as the base for milk tea.
“Xiao Ming, would you like some?” Shen Qing held out the last cup of milk tea to Ming Dongheng.
Ming Dongheng accepted it, “Thank you.”
Shen Qing couldn’t tell the quality of tea, so she didn’t know that the place where Bai Lian lived regularly used particularly expensive old Banzhang tea from the past year.
In the past year, old Banzhang tea had become twice as expensive as before, with Jiang Fuli being largely responsible.
Ming Dongheng thought it was better not to let Shen Qing know how much good tea she had actually used up.
Upstairs.
Jiang Fuli was sitting in Bai Lian’s study. He wore comfortable loungewear and leaned slightly against the chair back. The study’s light carved his features particularly cold and sharp.
He wore Bluetooth earphones and unhurriedly tapped a light drawing pencil, using its end to push up his glasses on his nose bridge. He spoke to his team members, “So, none have been confirmed?”
Jiang University online meeting.
In the most hardworking research group, all twelve people online, including He Wen, didn’t dare speak.
His long eyelashes lowered, and through the screen, the group members could feel the piercing cold emanating from those light-colored eyes behind the young master’s glasses.
When Bai Lian came in, Jiang Fuli was in the middle of verbally destroying the laboratory. Seeing her shadow at the door, he paused.
He pressed the mute button and rested his hand on the desk, slowly looking up, “What’s this?”
Bai Lian put the milk tea Shen Qing made for him on the side, seeing he had muted himself, “Aunt made milk tea, try it.”
“Alright,” the coldness on his face softened slightly. Jiang Fuli’s fingers touched the milk tea cup, “Are there any problems with Ning Xiao and the others?”
“No,” Bai Lian shook her head, “Continue your meeting.”
She closed the study door and left.
Jiang Fuli unhurriedly unmuted himself, his long fingers lifting the white porcelain cup. His eyelashes slightly raised as he spoke calmly to his team members: “For this diagram, the sensitivity per ton at 10GeV increases from 10^-40 to 10^-50, which basically determines the mass of WIWP and its interaction cross-section with ordinary particles…”
On the other side of the computer, He Wen’s expression remained unchanged while his hands quickly sent a message to Bai Lian—
?[Thank you flowers].jpg?
In Room 303’s living room.
Bai Lian sent He Wen a “1” and continued scrolling.
It was Dean Huang’s message.
Dean Huang: ?This is the list we just discussed?
Dean Huang: ?Congratulations, this is the Tongfeng class schedule.?
Dean Huang: ?Tongfeng class is in Room 307 of the Physics Building, the last lecture hall?
Dean Huang: ?Classes officially start tomorrow?
The Tongfeng classroom was exclusive, and Tongfeng major courses didn’t have large classes. This kind of thing should have been announced by the Tongfeng class monitor or counselor, but Dean Huang had personally notified Bai Lian in advance.
Bai Lian opened the two pictures Dean Huang sent.
One was the class schedule, the other was the Tongfeng class admission list.
—
These past two days, the Jiang University forum had been speculating about this year’s Tongfeng class admissions.
At the joint social between the Finance and Physics departments.
Bai Shiming was drinking with the Finance department’s president when he heard others talking about this. He couldn’t help but raise his head, “If they admit two people, it should be those two, there’s basically no suspense.”
The Finance department’s student council president sighed upon hearing this, “Your department’s really lucky this year, having the national first, second, and third places all in your department.”
“Your Finance department’s not bad either, having Student Song and Student Bai,” At the booth, Bai Shiming politely raised his glass to Song Min and the others opposite him, “Will Student Bai perform at the new student show?”
Beside them, Gu Xiaoge was scrolling through the forum on his phone, “Hey, the forum’s numbers are out, and they seem a bit different from what we imagined…”
As soon as the eight spots were announced at 8 o’clock, inside information was leaked.
As Gu Xiaoge spoke, many people took out their phones to refresh the forum.
Song Min didn’t move, but beside her, Bai Shaoqi lowered her head to take out her phone, her voice dropping, “Sister should have gotten into the Tongfeng class…”
Song Min didn’t speak, just swirled her wine glass.
Bai Shaoqi had already entered the forum, where the first post on the homepage was tagged with “hot”.
?All I can say is, after these Tongfeng class spots were announced, the Physics department professors were shocked. Without further ado, here’s the picture [screenshot]?
Bai Shaoqi didn’t want Bai Lian to pass the exam. If Bai Lian could enter the Tongfeng class, it would make the path ahead harder for her and her brother. While thinking this, she clicked on the post.
As soon as she opened it, she saw a neat list.
?Bai Lian Ning Xiao Liang Wuyu Tang Ming Xu Zhiyue?
Five people.
Bai Lian, Liang Wuyu, Xu Zhiyue – these were all names the netizens had anticipated, and no one was surprised, but—
?Ning Xiao????
?Forget Ning Xiao, I could find him in the top ten, but where did Tang Ming come from?!?
?Oh my god, oh my goodness!?
?Good good good, seeing you all like this puts me at ease. We in North City went through the same thing?
?Who understands? I was comfortably sitting at second place in North City, my family had already prepared the celebration for provincial runner-up, then after the college entrance exam, guess what? Overnight I dropped to sixth!?
?At least that Yang person isn’t there?
?It’s terrifying, folks, has anyone noticed they’re all three from Xiangcheng?!?
?Damn, Xiangcheng, speaking of which I haven’t bought my high-speed rail ticket yet! Haven’t seen Wutong Street and the martial arts school!?
?…?
“What’s wrong?” Song Min saw Bai Shaoqi hadn’t reacted for a while and looked down.
She immediately saw the list.
Ning Xiao, Tang Ming.
Her former teammates from the Boyuan base, and also Bai Lian’s friends.
In this week, Bai Lian had become viral in Jiang University City because of those two banner images.
And after this Tongfeng class exam, Ning Xiao and Tang Ming had also forcefully entered everyone’s sight at Jiang University in an unimaginable way.
—
The next day, Monday.
Bai Lian put on a white cross-collar shirt and a black and gold horse-face brooch, carefully arranging her hair.
Finally, she picked up the blue Jiang University school badge from beside her and pinned it to her left chest.
In this moment, the identity of being a Jiang University student was engraved in her heart.
At the bottom of Building 11.
Zhang Shize was memorizing from a book while waiting with Ning Xiao and others for Yang Lin and Bai Lian.
After the two came down, he stood straight, “Sister Lian, I need to report to the affiliated middle school, I probably won’t be back until the weekend.”
“Okay.” Bai Lian carried her laptop and walked out of the apartment with them.
It was just past six, the sun hadn’t fully risen.
Zhang Shize took the bus to the affiliated school, while Bai Lian and others went to Jiang University for class.
Outside the ancient Jiang University gates.
Bai Lian slightly raised her head, looking at the powerful strokes of the characters “Jiang University,” and she smiled softly, “Let’s go.”
The sun was quietly peeking out.
Over a thousand years ago, the last person of the Bai family took over from their elder brother and rushed to Xiangcheng, finally being buried under the city with the people of Xiangcheng. As a border city, Xiangcheng had almost no development.
Today, this descendant of the Bai family led students from Xiangcheng to break through and return to Jiang University.
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