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  Chapter 131: A Bit Dazzling

  TL: Etude

  The m, with autumn in full swing, the maple woods were steeped in rich colors.

  Jiang Qirepreneurial story ublished in the Lin Youth Daily and delivered early in the m to the distributioer.

  Uy students generally don’t read neers, not even the campus ones, let alohose from outside the school. However, if the neer features someohey know, it bees an exception.

  For instance, Jiang Tian, who returo the dorm early in the m with a stack of neers, then distributed them one by one.

  “He, an ordinary college student. He, an unremarkable entrepreneur on campus. He, full of dreams and ideals, passionate and kied…”

  Song Qingqing was the most excited upon seeing the neer. It felt like star-chasing in real life, so she picked up the neer and read a few lines, looking very pleased.

  Jian inally didn’t want to read it, but the lines read by Song Qingqing piqued her curiosity. Eventually, she couldn’t resist opening the paper aiculously read Jiang Qin’s news article three times. Her expression unsciously drifted into a dreamy state, and her eyes shimmered with a touch ht mencholy.

  In the eyes of uy students, the terms ‘i’ and ‘honor’ are often seen as separate.

  I is just that, and honor is ahiirely; they should not be fted.

  Moreover, most students feel that honor is more important than i, as their educational upbringing rgely focuses on selfless dedication and the pursuit of honor.

  Therefore, although Jiang Qirepreneurial success and financial gain are impressive, in the minds of uy students, he was just slightly more capable, on par with the owner of a restaurant on South Street.

  But Jiang Qin beiured in the neer, officially reized and being a role model, that ges everything.

  His image instantly bees grander, his prestige instantly elevated.

  Jian and Song Qingqing have fually different personalities. Song Qingqing values money, so the moment Jiang Qin appeared in a Bentley, he became her idol.

  Jian , ing from a well-off family, doesn’t worship money and has no cept of it, seeking higher spiritual aspirations.

  At first, she thought Jiang Qin was frivolous. After the South Street i, she saw him as a mature, stable, and reliable man. Now, havihis neer, Jiang Qin shone brilliantly in her eyes.

  Usually, beiured in the campus neer is already a big deal, but Jiang Qin was in a bona fide city-level neer, which is inparable.

  “What does the ‘Work-Study Program’ mean?”

  Jian snapped out of her thoughts and expio Pan Xiu, “It’s about providing part-time positions for impoverished students on campus.”

  “Jiang Qio help the needy at the Uy of Sd Teology?” Pan Xiu was incredulous.

  Jiang Tian couldn’t help but interject, “He’s been absent a lot retly. Probably he’s been going to the Uy of Sd Teology. This is a colboration at the school level, which ordinary students ’t even participate in. But Jiang Qin not only participated but also initiated the project.”

  “No wonder even the Lin Youth Daily came to interview him. Look at the photo, he’s arm in arm with the Youth League Secretary of the Uy of Sd Teology. It’s surreal.”

  “It feels like Jiang Qin isn’t even living in the same world as us.”

  “Looking baow, it’s unbelievable that he single-handedly started that sensational campus beauty test.”

  Listening to their versation, Jian ’s gaze became distant agaihoughts drifting back to the i on South Street, feeling a sense of loss.

  How did she, at the beginning of the semester, mistake such a dazzling man for a frivolous one?

  It’s all Cao Guangyu’s fault for not signing that note!

  Of course, it’s possible that he did sign it, and she simply didn’t notice.

  Misuandings like these are on during student days and usually don’t bee a source of lingering s. However, as Jiang Qin’s brilliancreasingly shohe light he cast grew ever more intense. Uhese circumstances, Jian found it increasingly difficult to unravel her emotional knots.

  Meanwhile, in boys’ dormitory 302, Cao Guangyu was also holding a neer, grinding his teeth in irritation.

  The neer featured three photos: one of the entrepreneurial office, one of Jiang Qin with the head of the Uy of Sd Teology, and a solo shot of Jiang Qin himself, which seemed more imposing the more one looked at it.

  As someone who prided himself on his swagger, Cao Guangyu was envious.

  “Why does Jia su awesome ptform to show off?”

  “He’s been so low-key in css tely because he’s been busy showing off in the neers, and he didn’t even include me!”

  Zhou Chao, too, was staring at a copy of the neer, “Jiang’s photo, his posture and demeanor, are more mature than my dad.”

  “I thought pying games and dating made my uy life meaningful, but pared to Jiang, it’s nothing!” Ren Ziqiang couldn’t help feeliional.

  After hearing this, Cao Guangyu looked up in disbelief, “We know you py games every day, but dating every day? Since when?”

  Ren Ziqiang’s face ged: “…”

  Zhou Chao ughed, “Isn’t it just your ‘dry sister’?”

  “Mind your own business!”

  inally, the dorm had four single guys, and Ren Ziqiang didn’t feel too out of pce. But ever since Cao Guangyu started dating and showing up with love bites, he always teased Ren Ziqiang, with Zhou Chao joining in, which was infuriating.

  Ign them, Ren Ziqiang y down and covered himself with a b, like an ostrich burying its head in the sand.

  Avoidance might be shameful, but it works!

  However, while some pyed the ostrich, others were busy w about others doing so, like Wang Huiru.

  Now a Student Union member in the Law Department, she rushed to a meeting early in the m. By ce, she saw a neer in the hands of a senior.

  The headline read: “Young Uy Representative Jiang Qiablishes a Website, Leading Over Thirty Students irepreneurship, Promoting Work-Study at the Uy of Sd Teology.”

  Wang Huiru’s mind buzzed in shock upon reading this, but after a moment, she quickly accepted this new reality.

  She had known about Jiang Qin’s brilliance since summer break.

  Just after the college entrance exams, while everyone was rexing, Jiang Qin was busy with business, being a legendary figure by the time school started.

  So, even though the neer’s story seemed fantastical, Wang Huiru found it believable, sidering Jiang Qin’s performance over the summer. It would have been more surprising if he had remained unknown in uy.

  But then…

  Wang Huiru suddenly thought of Chu Siqi and her expression ged. She thought, ‘I mustn’t let Siqi see this.’

  Her fh school cssmate was extremely talented, and Wang Huiru felt proud, but for Chu Siqi, the idea that someone she once liked aed had bee so successful ainful thought.

  Did she have to pretend to be unaware again?

  Wang Huiru felt like g.

  She had kept Jiang Qin and Feng Nanshu’s retionship a secret for three months, nearly driving herself mad. And now, it seemed, it was starting all ain. It was unbearable.

  After the meeting, Wang Huiru returo her dorm as if nothing had happened, only to be startled by the se before her.

  Chu Siqi was sitting on her bed, holding a copy of the Lin Youth Daily, staring at it ily, motionless for a long time.

  Wang Huiru approached and saw a plex, indescribable expression on her friend’s faot the defeat or mencholy she had expected.

  “Siqi, you’re… reading the neer?”

  “Yes.”

  “Let’s not read it anymore. How about we go to the cafeteria for a meal?”

  Chu Siqi turo look at her, “Huiru, your ag is a bit unving. I know there’s news about Jiang Qin in there.”

  Caught off guard, Wang Huiru then rexed, “So you knew already.”

  “I’m w as a journalist in the broad education field. I was in charge of hosting the reporter from Lin Youth Daily during their visit. I followed the whole interview process with Jiang Qin, eveo his office.”

  Listening to her friend’s calm, emotionless voice, Wang Huiru felt a chill. She couldn’t even begin to imagine such a se.

  Chu Siqi’s gaze drifted out the window, “Jiang Qin is so outstanding now. The more he shihe more I feel unworthy of him. If only he weren’t so exceptional, if only he were just an ordinary uy student, I wouldn’t have tret so much.”

  “It’s wrong to think like that. Jiang Qin’s excellence is due to his own efforts.”

  “I uand that, but the more he shihe worse it refley judgment and taste.”

  Wang Huiru didn’t know how to respond and just sat down on the bed, sinking into sileh her friend.

  During this silence, she couldn’t help but recall a versation she had with Yu Shasha during a graduation gathering. Yu Shasha had said it was unfortuhey attehe same uy as Jiang Qin because his brilliance made all other men seem insignifit, making it hard to find someohey liked.

  Wang Huiru hadn’t taken those words seriously then, but now they seemed to be ing true.

  “Huiru.”

  “Yes?”

  “I also saw Feng Nanshu.”

  Chu Siqi ched her fists unsciously, “At first, I couldn’t accept it, but thinking about it, someone as outstanding as Jiang Qin really does deserve her.”

  Wang Huiru looked up, “Siqi, what you’re saying isn’t right.”

  “What’s wrong about it?”

  “Jiang Qin and Feng Nanshu didn’t bee a couple because he’s outstanding. She has been with him through thid thin, not attracted by his brilliance. You o uand this sequence of events.”

  Chu Siqi’s face paled, and she bit her lip in silence, her emotions plex.

  “Let’s not think about it anymore. Let’s go eat.”

  “Okay.”

  Meanwhile, on the uy forum, people were also discussing this news.

  Those who knew Jiang Qin were aced to his achievements, so they weren’t too shocked. However, those unfamiliar with him were mitated upon hearing the news.

  Lin Uy had been encirepreneurship among students for years with little success. Hoping to inspire entrepreneurial spirit, the uy uploaded the eleic version of the neer to its official website and course sele system.

  This was how Jiang Qin’s previously unknown name suddenly came into everyone’s view.

  “What’s Jiang Qin’s background?”

  “Must be a rich sed-geion, who else would dare to burn money on a website?”

  “It’s unbelievable, not even November yet, and he’s made so much money?”

  “Some of it might be exaggerated, but Lin Youth Daily is known for its seriousness, so it’s probably mostly true.”

  “Creating a website makes this much money? Had I known, I’d have do too. It doesn’t look that hard.”

  “It’s indeed not hard. A puter sce student do it in a week. Our school probably exaggerated to set an example.”

  A freshman in uy, two and a half months irepreneurship, anizing a campus beauty test, promoting work-study.

  These keywords seemed too sensational, leading to numerous envious ents.

  This was a normal phenomenon.

  After all, since when was there su extraordinary freshman?

  Everyone’s life seemed simir to Ren Ziqiang’s description – apart from attending csses, they pyed games or dated. Now, suddenly, a freshman had made headlines for his entrepreneurial success and colboration with another uy, intensifying the sense of disparity.

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