Chapter 112

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Chapter 112- Back to the real world (2)

“Senpai*, who are they…” Gu Anran turned her head back to the upperclassman sitting at the table. However, the girl was no longer sitting in the chair and was now standing up with a look of respect on her face towards the group of good-looking students. (T/N: Accurate translation would be: ‘Xuejie’, but I believe most people recognize Senpai more so I’m just going to use the japanese version)

“Ah? Oh, they are members of our student union. They are the core of University A as all the planning, funding, etc. goes through them. Among them, Mu Qingli is the president, Duan Hongwu is the vice president, Chi Mengyan is the treasurer, and Song Wenyan is in charge of public relations. Although they are only juniors, under their leadership, we’ve gotten so many sponsors and investors. Many of the school’s equipment and professors were paid for by these investors. And with these investors, networking is a lot easier and most students’ future careers are guaranteed. As long as you have good grades, it isn’t a problem to directly enter a large company after graduation.” The upperclassman rambled as she spoke, and her words caused Gu Anran and Hong Qingyi to stare at her dumbfounded.

“It is said that they are childhood friends and young masters or young misses of big families who own big companies. Not only do they all have excellent grades, they have also set up their own company at a rather young age. I heard they are involved in a lot of industries and although the company is still in its initial stage, they estimate that after five years their company will squeeze into the Top 100 Businesses in China.” Huang Lai added.

“Yes, that’s correct!” The girl nodded, her eyes revealing a hint of excitement, “If you have enough talent, you can join their company. I’ve heard they treat their employees quite well and allow their employees to work in any field they are passionate about. They’ve recently released a line of food products and some pastries, but someone told me that they’re about to switch their focus to the game market and release a new game! Many people have been paying attention to their new product! Oh, here are your badges and some of their pastries you can take with you!” The girl bent down and took out two badges with the symbol of University A on it while also handing them some packaged pastries.

“Gaming in your sleep.” Su Chen suddenly spat out these four words.

“Yes, it is said that they are creating a game that you can play in your sleep! Super interesting stuff!” Huang Lai rubbed his chin, his heart full of desire to play some video games.

“Ah…is that so….” Gu Anran said dryly as she held the pastry given to her.

“Anran, is something the matter?” Huang Lai looked suspiciously at Gu Anran.

“No…it’s nothing.” Gu Anran shook her head and stuffed the pastry into her bag.

“Is there something wrong over here?” A gentle voice said, and that familiar-sounding voice made Gu Anran shake uncontrollably as she quickly turned her head around.

Mu Qingli was suddenly standing behind her and it was not just her, in fact the other student union members also came over.

“President Mu!” The upperclassman exclaimed, then realizing that she was acting too excited, she quickly coughed and regained her composure, “We were just giving these two freshmen an introduction of University A.”

Mu Qingli and the others had originally come to school today to oversee the rehearsal of tomorrow’s opening programs and to discuss any final issues. Then she noticed that there was a slight commission at the registration area and so she came over for a look.

If she was being honest, she really didn’t care what the commotion was about. After all, she had long grown used to people causing a commotion wherever the student union walked by. However, for some reason, she had this strange feeling that if she did not see what this commission was about, she would regret it for a lifetime. So, based on this one strange feeling, she had come over to see what was going on.

“Is that so? Then, I hope you two will enjoy your time here at University A.” Mu Qingli smiled and glanced at the two young women in front of her. Although their facial features were quite beautiful and could be considered little beauties, what drew her attention was not their looks but the sense of familiarity they gave her. A feeling that made people regret if they missed it. She had only felt this feeling before with that person. She wonders where she is now.

Thinking of this, Mu Qingli felt despair. She had desperately wanted to save and keep any and all data on Anran, but strangely, as if the woman never existed before, no records of the woman could be found. It was as if everything was really just a dream. Yet, the memories were real as she couldn’t suppress the longing in her heart.

Even faced with the harsh truth, she didn’t give up. She entered the virtual realities simulated by the game over and over again, and she continued to search, but it was all fruitless in the end. It was as if the two really had disappeared into thin air without a single trace. If Duan Hongwu and Song Wenyan hadn’t stopped them, the two of them would probably still be searching in the game and wouldn’t be wasting time standing here right now.

“Qingli, we need to go. We still have a meeting to go to.” Duan Hongwu stepped forward and urgently whispered.

Go, go, hurry up and go already. Gu Anran prayed silently in her heart. She doesn’t know why, but she had a feeling that Mu Qingli’s gaze just now was rather strange. Could she have really seen through them? But they had different faces in every world, so how could she recognize her? She must be thinking too much, but seeing Chi Mengyan’s similarly intense staring at Hong Qingyi, Gu Anran’s heart trembled at the searching look in their eyes.

“I know….” Mu Qingli nodded and turned around to leave.

Gu Anran started to breathe a sigh of relief as Mu Qingli began to leave when the upperclassman suddenly said,

“Your name is Gu Anran, right? Here is the key to your dorm, and…you’ll be sharing a room with the Hong Qingyi next to you.”

Gu Anran didn’t reach out to accept the key and whipped her head around to watch Mu Qingli. The student union president stopped in her tracks and promptly turned around to look at her again.

“T-Thank you…senpai.” Gu Anran quickly avoided Mu Qingli’s questioning gaze and grabbed her key before she moved to pass Mu Qingli. However, before she could walk away…her wrist was suddenly grabbed.

“Duanwu, you take them to the meeting first.” Mu Qingli smiled and motioned for Duan Hongwu to take away the people behind her. Duan Hongwu didn’t say anything, but Song Wenyan, who was beside her, glanced at her and then glanced at Gu Anran and Hong Qingyi before leaving.

“Senpai….can you let go please?” Gu Anran smiled mirthlessly. Then she glanced over at Chi Mengyan, who was previously acting like a typical iceberg goddess, and had actually moved forward directly to hug Hong Qingyi into her arms. If it was anyone else, they would have regarded her as a crazy lunatic. Straight from the campus goddess to a crazy lunatic, can’t they see that the mouths of the people around them have almost fallen off from shock!

“Hey….let me go..let go!” Hong Qingyi struggled as hard as she could, but Chi Mengyan refused to budge and kept hugging her tightly.

“Anran.” Gu Anran’s attention shifted when she heard someone call out her name and she turned her head to look into a pair of smiling eyes.

“Hey….what are you guys doing?” It was Huang Lai who had come over with their luggage. There was a frown on his face. Although the person in front of him is the student president, he will not let them bully his little (orphan) sister like this!

“You are…?” Mu Qingli narrowed her eyes at the young man carrying an armful of luggage. Mu Qingli couldn’t tolerate anyone approaching her lover so casually and even Chi Mengyan beside her showed a sense of strong hostility.

Meanwhile, Huang Lai and Su Chen couldn’t figure out what was going on. It was clearly the other party who had acted wrongly first, so why are they angry at them? Even if they are members of the student union, they can not act like this!

“Anran, Qingyi, do you know them?” Huang Lai asked.

“I don’t know them.” x2

The two replied quickly and then quickly turned their gazes to their respective captors. THeir eyes were clearly sending a message of, ‘You are a stranger, so please let go!’

Mu Qingli raised her eyebrows slightly at the two people who strongly denied their relationship and reluctantly let go.

Gu Anran swayed a couple steps backward from the sudden release and quickly stood beside the two young men.

Although Mu Qingli felt a little sour at Gu Anran’s alienation, she couldn’t act rashly as she still had to maintain her image as a student union president in front of this crowd of people.

“Let us take you to the dormitories. After all, boys cannot enter the girls’ dorms.” Mu Qingli said as she glanced at Huang Lai and Su Chen.

Huang Lai & Su Chen: “…” Why does it feel like the president is trying to pick a fight with us? Must be our mistake, it’s impossible for the legendarily gentle and pleasant president to collapse her image like this!

“N-No need, you should go to your meeting, we’re leaving first!” Gu Anran grabbed Hong Qingyi’s arm and quickly ran away.

“Hey, hey, wait for us!” Huang Lai chased after the two with the luggage in his arms and Su Chen followed behind him but not before taking another look at Mu Qingli and Chi Mengyan.

Mu Qingli watched the four leave as she rubbed her chin in thought.

“Mengyan, I’ll leave the investigation of these two to you.”

“Understood.” Chi Mengyan nodded, then picked up the phone and began calling the relevant people.

Huuuuu…..

Gu Anran and Hong Qingyi finally stopped running once they were out of sight.

“I’m exhausted.” Hong Qingyi said as she caught her breath.

“Um…we seem to have abandoned Huang-ge and Su-ge?” Gu Anran smiled bitterly at the unfamiliar road in front of them, “Ai….let’s find our way to the dorms first. Just send a text to Huang-ge and tell him to meet us directly at the girls’ dormitory.”

“Ok…..but this school is really big….” Hong Qingyi said as she looked around their surroundings.

“Yes, so it will be very convenient for us to avoid people in the future.” Gu Anran rubbed her chin in thought.

“Avoid?” Hong Qingyi raised her eyebrows.

“ Do you think those two will give up that easily? Ahh, why do I have a feeling that our future college life is going to be quite miserable?” Gu Anran rubbed her temples and sighed.

“It’s not that bad….look on the bright side…..as long as we don’t get caught by them, we won’t have to worry about them. Plus, they have a big dining hall here and there are a lot of food stalls nearby too! Lots of late night snacks!” Hong Qingyi also laughed bitterly at first but then her smile turned into one of excitement.

“You’ve really…done your homework, huh….” Gu Anran said helplessly.

“Come on, other than eating and playing on our computers, what else can we do? We are nerds through and through!” Hong Qingyi said as if she was proclaiming she was a wealthy heiress or something. Gu Anran decided to ignore her bragging and instead focus on finding a map on her phone.

After walking for about twenty minutes, the two of them approached a white building with a vine woven fence on the outside and a nicely trimmed lawn with carefully organized trees on the inside. It looked quite fancy from a distance.

“Anran, Qingyi, over here!” Huang Lai waved his arms at them not too far away, “Really, you two, why did you run earlier? The West Campus has construction going on, so what would you have done if you’ve gotten lost?”

“We’re fine….”

Although they already got lost the moment they ran off.

“Can you two carry this up yourself? We can’t enter the girls’ dormitory after all, but if you can’t, I can ask some friends of mine who live here to come down and help.” After he finished speaking, Huang Lai took out a phone and shook it.

“No, we’re good here. You two can go back first.” Gu Anran said and held up her own suitcase.

“Then we’re leaving first, call us if you have any questions.”

“Ok.”

After saying goodbye to Huang Lai and Su Chen, Gu Anran and Hong Qingyi started looking for their room. 10 minutes later, they finally found it and opened it easily with their key to reveal a dorm that was at least 40 square meters big!

Since University A is so big, its dorms were much better than the surrounding schools. Pre-furnished and clean, in addition to the two-person bedroom, there were two desks, a bathroom, a small kitchen and even a living room with a sofa and TV. The school also cleans the dorms every month, so one could even say that it was better than some apartments.

It was no wonder that except for some really rich people, most students were willing to stay in the dorms all four years. The accommodations here are much cheaper and better than the facilities one could find outside. Most would not want to move out at all until they graduate.

“Hah…I’m exhausted…” After packing up the luggage, Hong Qingyi sprawled onto her bed.

“Then you can rest first, I’m going to play a game!” Gu Anran took out a laptop and plugged it in before starting to play her game. Her ranking in the game has fallen after two months and she really needs to climb back up, otherwise who would want to buy this account of hers? Ah, how troublesome!

The two people who were leisurely enjoying their time didn’t know just how eventful their college life was about to become.

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