Chapter 61#

The Storyteller (13)#

The Student Union exploded with chatter because of this news.

[I wonder if this genius junior is handsome?]

[I bet a pack of spicy strips, he’s definitely handsome! Otherwise, it would be a disservice to his awesome academic background and family background. A genius noble son must be good-looking, I said so.]

[Then will he be as handsome as Junior Ye Sheng?]

[…Good question.]

This question stumped the group of active seniors in the Student Union for a moment.

But soon everyone came to a conclusion.

[Junior Ye Sheng is someone who got on the hot search three times just with his face, it should be hard to surpass, right?]

[I don’t think he’ll be as good-looking as Junior Ye Sheng. I’ve seen Junior Ye Sheng’s features up close. Absolutely amazing, he must be Nuwa’s own son, a peerless treasure that Nuwa spent forty-nine days painstakingly molding! At that time, my brain couldn’t think of anything other than ‘holy crap, awesome’!]

Some boys saw this sentence and remained silent. Things reverse when they reach an extreme; they were mentally tired of the overwhelming praise for Ye Sheng’s looks all over the internet and couldn’t be bothered to join the chat.

The rest continued to joke around.

[One chaebol son, one top-tier handsome guy, this year’s freshmen are really fierce.]

[Damn, tonight is another day of cursing Nuwa in my dreams.]

[What are you cursing for? God took away your wealth and handsomeness, but he will always make it up to you with things that those people will never experience—like troubles, like what it feels like to be single for four years of college.]

[…??? I f**k your @#&""]

[You two are really bad luck, always telling some unlucky truths! Group owner, kick them out quickly! Repeat after me: The wise do not fall in love, the lonely king goes all the way to a master’s and doctorate.]

[Actually, being handsome doesn’t necessarily mean you can get a girlfriend in college. Do you think Junior Ye Sheng looks like he likes humans? [shrug]]

[Hahahaha yeah, Junior is no longer a flower on a high peak, he is a sword stuck on a snow mountain without a handle or sheath. But he’s really cool, I love him so much [covering mouth crying]]

[Oh, then let me tell you a ghost story, Junior Ye Sheng likes men] ????

[???? Junior Ye Sheng likes men??? [Sitting up in shock while dying.jpg]]

[???? Junior likes men?]

[Fake. I was there at the time, it was obviously a polite excuse to reject a pickup line.]

[Tch, wasted my feelings.]

[You guys still aren’t sleeping? We have to welcome new students tomorrow, cheer up.]

[Can’t sleep, I’m researching what makeup to wear tomorrow morning to stun that young master. Also researching what to miswrite his name as to make me, this senior sister, seem interesting.]

[Whatever you miswrite it as, you’re interesting. Not only interesting but also sick.]

[Stupid straight man, get lost.]

[Can’t sleep, I got out of bed and took out my CET-6 paper that has been sealed for years. Boohoo, I didn’t work this hard when I took the CET-6 last semester. I really have a phobia of big shots boohoo.]

Ye Sheng: “…”

Really not necessary.

Approaching the start of school, the only four groups in Ye Sheng’s WeChat were very busy tonight.

The Student Union was discussing the recruitment tomorrow.

The freshman group was discussing the promotional video.

After Huang Qiqi and the others decided on the theme, they had a rough idea of how to shoot the promotional video, the location, and the participants. Apart from the male and female leads, there were passersby in various shots, totaling more than twenty people. Chen Can, who had been active in the freshman group before, canvassing for votes everywhere, finally caught the last train and was selected.

The moment the selection results came out, Chen Can was elated and sent several red envelopes in the group.

[Chen Can: Thank you for the support of all the folks. If I become famous, I will definitely not forget you [cool][sunglasses][side glance smile]]

Other water friends in the freshman group immediately followed him to jeer.

[Brother Can, everyone smashed pots and sold iron to send you to debut, shouldn’t you treat us to a drink when school starts?]

[Yeah, if you get a girlfriend, don’t forget your brothers and sisters.]

Chen Can was very generous.

[Easy to say, easy to say. After we meet up when school starts, you can fleece me as you wish.]

After the jeering and noise, the group started chatting about other people.

[I see the one with the most votes is Xie Wenci. He should be the undisputed protagonist, right? Last year’s theme was ‘Twin Lives, Twin Paths’, I wonder what it will be this year.]

[Is the protagonist Xie Wenci? Not necessarily, did you guys forget that handsome guy who was on the hot search repeatedly?]

[Oh right, a word wakes the dreamer. Compared to Xie Wenci’s looks, I prefer that handsome guy.]

Chen Can felt all kinds of unhappy inside.

One Xie Wenci was enough, why did an unknown hot search person come along, all coming to steal his limelight.

He said sarcastically.

[Hahahahahahahahaha do you guys really believe he is from Huaian University [dog head]]

The freshman group was full of questions.

[Ah, isn’t he from Huaida?]

[That streamer said he is a freshman at Huaian University, in the same year as us.]

Chen Can looked like everyone was drunk and he alone was sober.

[I don’t think he is. Think about it, who benefited after these three hot searches?]

[Who?]

[Chen Can: The owner of the haunted house! I think it’s all marketing tactics, packaging his own employee as a student of a prestigious university to attract a wave of popularity for the haunted house. A high school dropout working in a haunted house trying to leech off us, I don’t know what there is to discuss. Weibo indeed has an undergraduate rate of less than four percent, to believe even this.]

[emmmmmm]

[Makes sense. That haunted house owner really likes to leech off popularity.]

[Right?] Chen Can was in high spirits and started all kinds of conspiracy theories.

After he successfully brainwashed everyone in the group with the “those who understand, understand” know-it-all mindset, he retreated to the dormitory group feeling refreshed.

[Chen Can: It’s inconvenient for me to say in the freshman group, but I’m really disgusted by those people who pretend to be Huaian University students. I reckon my total score even with the last two exams abandoned is higher than his. Do they have no shame?]

[Wang Zixiu: Are you talking about the hot search thing?]

[Chen Can: Yeah. It’s obviously bought, and there’s a bunch of people following the trend. Even the freshman group is jeering, sure enough, not everyone has a brain.]

[Wang Zixiu: Everyone might just be joking… After all, that brother does look okay.]

Chen Can could say Xie Wenci’s looks were weak, but he had absolutely nothing to say about Ye Sheng’s looks. After being choked for words, he could only pick on the education point to complain.

[Chen Can: No matter how handsome, he’s just a high school dropout [shrug]]

Seeing that he was about to start a long speech with a superior attitude again, Kang Xiaoxiao immediately changed the subject and talked about things to buy for the dormitory when school starts.

[Kang Xiaoxiao: Let’s clean up the dormitory on the first day. Then buy some things we need, like clothes drying rods, brooms, mops, etc.]

Chen Can didn’t think much of it.

[Chen Can: Hasn’t Little Four been living there for two months? These things should be there already.]

[Kang Xiaoxiao: Oh yeah.]

[Chen Can: Then we don’t need to buy them.]

Wang Zixiu was the most steady among the crowd. Considering that Ye Sheng was a poor student, he took the initiative to speak.

[Wang Zixiu: @Ye Sheng, Little Four, how much did you spend on the dormitory public supplies? Let’s split it together.]

[Chen Can: ??? Ah?? It’s not worth it for this little money, right?]

Ye Sheng returned to the dormitory, took a shower, and the first thing he saw when he took out his phone was the @ in the dormitory group. Someone who had been poor since childhood would calculate every cent clearly.

But after Ye Sheng came to Huaian University, he received a lot of care from the counselor, besides tuition and miscellaneous fees. The school reimbursed him for the money he spent on buying things, fixing light bulbs, and fixing windows.

[Ye Sheng: No need.]

Chen Can, who was typing question marks earlier, started typing question marks again.

[Chen Can: ??? Ah, really no need, Little Four? Although it’s just a matter of tens of yuan, I heard that in your Yinshan, five yuan can last a day. Don’t slap your face to look fat (pretend to be rich). [side glance smile]]

Ye Sheng lowered his eyes and repeated the reply above concisely.

[Ye Sheng: No need.]

He was already getting a headache from the Student Union group messages. Now seeing 99+ group messages, he only looked at @s. After replying, he switched out and asked Ning Weichen.

“When are you coming to school to report tomorrow?”

Ning Weichen seemed stunned over there, his tone a bit inexplicable, repeating the word.

“Report?”

Ye Sheng: “Yes.”

He wanted to stagger the time he met Ning Weichen at school.

Ning Weichen moved the phone away and asked Butler Li something, then chuckled low: “Not sure yet for now. Originally I didn’t plan to go report, but since you asked, baby, I will definitely go tomorrow.”

Ye Sheng: “…”

Ye Sheng: “…………”

He was really worrying for nothing. It turned out the young master really didn’t plan to come to school in person.

The osmanthus flowers on the campus in September were all blooming.

When Ye Sheng used to walk on the tree-lined path, there were usually not many people, but now there were new faces dragging suitcases everywhere, and students riding bicycles passing by with ringing bells.

The midsummer sun was scorching. Huaian University had four campuses, so the Student Union also divided people by college and set up several red tents. Ye Sheng didn’t sweat at all in summer and wasn’t afraid of the heat, so the seniors simply let him sit in the big red tent to work. The electric fan here was broken, and a group of people hid to the side to cool off.

Ye Sheng registered alone without any extra thoughts. Since he promised the counselor to help, he would help purely.

Ye Sheng could handle the welcome alone, and was even more willing to.

Quite a few people were secretly looking at him.

Although everyone would joke and play in the group, not everyone was as big-hearted as Huang Qiqi and Xia Wenshi. After all, those who could get into Huaian University were top students in their high school classes, and those who joined the Student Union were the best among them.

Arrogant people often had more sensitive minds than ordinary people, always feeling that giving a little more enthusiasm would make them lose dignity in others’ eyes. So no one liked to press their hot face against a cold butt.

Some people in the Student Union were kind and enthusiastic, thinking that the hardworking and good-looking junior was truly a godsend, a labor benefit; but there were also people with dark minds, negatively influenced by the three hot searches, who had very strange emotions towards Ye Sheng.

“He really isn’t afraid of the heat.”

“So capable of enduring hardship. If I sat there for a while, I would definitely get heatstroke. I have a skin disease and can’t be exposed to the sun.”

“I heard Ye Sheng came out of Yinshan, no wonder he is so hardworking and enduring.”

“Hahaha, Yinshan, to be honest, I was quite surprised. Looking at Junior Ye’s temper of never saying a wasted word, I thought he was a rich second generation who would inherit a company and manage ten thousand things a day in the future.”