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    Having not attended proper classes for a long time, Jiang Qin was full of spirit and had adjusted his mind and body to a mode suitable for studying, planning to listen attentively to this class. However, within less than three minutes, he smoothly reverted back to his normal state of skimming through.

    And within those barely three minutes of concentration, one minute was the teacher dragging on and another minute was roll call before class.

    Jiang Qin felt a bit of lingering fear.

    Fortunately, he had started trying to do business as soon as he was reborn.

    Otherwise, with his current learning ability and degree of focus, he would be in trouble sooner or later.

    Turning to look at Feng Nanshu again, she was sucking and biting her white, delicate little hand with her cherry red lips. After a while, she removed her hand, leaving some glistening saliva on the back of it but no very obvious marks.

    She blankly observed for a while, a trace of confusion flashing in her eyes.

    “What are you doing?” Jiang Qin was a bit dazed.

    Feng Nanshu raised her head to glance at him, “Jiang Qin, what will we eat after class?”

    “We can eat whatever you want, I’ll listen to you.”

    “Then let’s eat beef brisket noodles, its name sounds nice.”

    After speaking, Feng Nanshu wiped the saliva on the back of her hand and started listening attentively to the lecture.

    Jiang Qin propped his chin in his hand and started watching her, discovering that if he forgot his previous memories or the story of accidentally kicking her calf in the library, he definitely wouldn’t think the little rich girl was a silly, adorable cutie, but would see her as an absolutely stunning, aloof goddess.

    She was tall and slender with fair skin, delicate features, and a shapely figure, possessing all the traits of a fair, rich beauty, but was also clingy, the contrast making her irresistibly adorable.

    After two classes, the teacher announced class was over and left the classroom.

    “Old Zhou, help me take my books back to the dorm!”

    Cao Guangyu handed his books to Zhou Chao and hurriedly left the classroom. Without needing to ask, it was clear he was rushing off to a date.

    A pure-hearted boy who had just fallen in love was like this, feeling that every second not spent on the relationship was a serious waste of life, simply put, love-brained. Especially for someone like Old Cao who dreamed of having a girlfriend, the condition was particularly severe.

    Jiang Qin looked down on Cao Guangyu a bit, feeling that using time to strengthen friendship was the most worthwhile.

    Therefore, he planned to spend the afternoon and evening walking Feng Nanshu.

    Take her to eat dinner, walk around campus with her, and finally sit by the lake.

    However, plans always fail to keep up with changes. Just as he exited the classroom door, Lü Guangrong personally came to find him, inviting him to chat in the office.

    “You head back to the dorm first and wait for me, I’ll come get you when I’m done being busy.”

    After saying this, Jiang Qin walked in the direction of the office.

    “No good, I want to follow you, the obedient kind.”

    Feng Nanshu followed out from the classroom, looking like she would stick to him. Her dress shoes had a slight heel, making an especially clear clicking sound on the floor.

    Jiang Qin felt he couldn’t refuse.

    With such a big, beautiful, cute, best friend who was obedient and not noisy, what reason did you have not to bring her along.

    “Don’t worry, I won’t run away.”

    “I won’t talk, just follow along.”

    Feng Nanshu said seriously, then followed Jiang Qin all the way to the office.

    Lü Guangrong wasn’t looking for Jiang Qin for any other reason, just the matter Zhang Mingan had mentioned before about Linchuan Youth Daily interviewing entrepreneurial college students and participants in work-study programs.

    Looking at these two titles separately, neither had enough qualifications to be published in Linchuan Youth Daily. But put together, it was rather interesting.

    A freshman who had just enrolled and started a business while also providing positions to help impoverished students with work-study – besides study-related labels, Jiang Qin’s buffs were practically maxed out.

    Youth Daily was currently doing a feature on youth in the new era and Jiang Qin who had suddenly appeared was exactly what they wanted.

    Some slogans can’t just be shouted as that would be too abstract. Setting up a model figure makes it seem very real.

    Old Lü had heard a bit about Jiang Qin opening a website but it was really just a bit.

    He was like most university counselors. Unless there was an urgent matter, he didn’t easily show up. After all, he had countless meetings to attend, reports to write, surveys to do, usually busy until his head spun.

    So when the director of the school publicity department found him and said Linchuan Youth Daily wanted to interview his student, he was still in a state of confusion.

    In two and a half months, this kid had made such a big name for himself?

    “I had thought I would hear your name in school gossip, but I didn’t expect to hear your name from the mouth of Director Gu of the publicity department. It gave me a scare at first.”

    Lü Guangrong didn’t have many impressions of Jiang Qin. The deepest was that evening on the first day of school when he was in the dorm holding his laptop, chatting loudly with five or six girls.

    “I just fell asleep in class, it shouldn’t have reached the publicity department, right? Teacher, you’re planning to promote me?”

    Jiang Qin had heard of making model students and model entrepreneurs, but not model sleepers. If this got out, it would be a bit embarrassing.

    “Nothing like that. This time we’re looking for you because Linchuan Youth Daily wants to do a special interview with you. It’s a good thing, others want it but can’t get it.”

    Lü Guangrong took out a printed A4 paper and handed it over, “These are the interview questions they sent over. Go back and prepare well, it’s best to have a draft ready.”

    Interviews of good people and good deeds all have the questions and answers prepared in advance. Only interviews of bad people and bad deeds are answered on the spot. Proper media and paparazzi are not the same. The interview is not the goal, the goal is publicity.

    “When does the interview start?”

    “Tomorrow afternoon at 1 o’clock in A302 on the third floor of the General Education Center. You can go there yourself.”

    Jiang Qin took the A4 paper and glanced at it.

    Just as Lü Guangrong said, being interviewed was indeed a good thing because having official media like Youth Daily provide credit endorsement would also help Jiang Qin’s future business image.

    He indeed didn’t really want to become famous, but no one likes cooperating with a nameless person, so getting used to this kind of occasion early on would also benefit the development of subsequent work.

    “Teacher Lü, this is my first time being interviewed. I’m a bit nervous and afraid of saying the wrong thing. Can you teach me how I should answer?”

    Student council president Zhu Feng, who was working in the office, couldn’t help interjecting after hearing this, “What’s so hard about this? If they ask about your ideals, just say you want to be a youth of the new era, striving to move forward and realize your dreams, contributing to society. If they ask about development, say you want to help more impoverished students complete their studies and become useful talents for the country.”

    After listening, Jiang Qin gave a thumbs up, “Senior Sister is indeed worthy of being student council president. The past few years of student work haven’t been for nothing.”

    Zhu Feng was a bit smug, unable to resist straightening her back a few degrees, but still maintaining a serious and solemn expression.

    “Jiang Qin, whether it’s dating or starting a business, don’t fail your classes, otherwise it’ll be embarrassing.”

    Lü Guangrong couldn’t help adding, glancing meaningfully at the obediently sitting Feng Nanshu.

    Business going well, a girlfriend as beautiful as a fairy, and going to be in the paper, this Jiang Qin kid really had some impressive skills.

    After a while, Jiang Qin left with Feng Nanshu. Zhu Feng couldn’t help muttering, “How did this guy get his business going? Even the questions he asks are silly.”

    Lü Guangrong took a sip of tea and said calmly, “Since he was able to get an introduction letter through Professor Yan’s connections and have University of Science and Technology agree to let him conduct business there, his gift of gab must be quite good. You really think he doesn’t know what he should say?”

    “Ah? Then why did he ask?”

    “He asks, you answer, he thanks you, aren’t you very happy right now?”

    Zhu Feng froze for a moment, taking five seconds to react.

    Jiang Qin’s question wasn’t important. What was important was that final sentence of praise, making himself seem humble while making the other person very happy, establishing good feelings with one sentence. And she indeed felt very pleased with herself in that instant, even a bit smug, not wanting to hold his refusal to join the student council against him anymore.

    “It can’t be that devious, right?” Zhu Feng found it a bit hard to believe.

    “Not devious. People skilled at social manipulation are all like this, always appearing silly, with an ‘I’m dumb and have money, I don’t know anything, hurry and cooperate with me’ look, but actually very shrewd.”

    As he spoke, Lü Guangrong couldn’t help recalling a new teacher who had come before. At that time, the School of Finance had organized a team building activity to eat seafood. He had picked up a crab and asked the old dean, “How do you eat this thing? Can you give me a hammer?” making the old dean laugh to no end and personally demonstrate for him how to crack open a crab shell.

    Later everyone found out his family had been fishermen living off the sea for three generations.

    But so what?

    Later, every time the old dean ate seafood, he would think of him first. In less than two years, he had left that office.

    But Lü Guangrong was very curious. At Jiang Qin’s age when one should be arrogant and unruly, how could he grasp even this detail?

    If not for the previous crab incident, perhaps even Lü Guangrong wouldn’t necessarily have been able to see through his earlier act of playing dumb.

    Could there really be such a thing as innate talent in this world?

    At the same time, in the cafeteria.

    Jiang Qin and Feng Nanshu were already eating hot, oily beef brisket noodles.

    The little rich girl originally couldn’t eat spicy food but liked eating it, making her little mouth red and beads of sweat appear on the tip of her nose.

    “What did you do these past few days I wasn’t here?”

    Jiang Qin picked up a piece of beef brisket with his chopsticks and brought it to Feng Nanshu’s mouth.

    “Eat, sleep, go to class, sometimes go shopping at the supermarket with Gao Wenhui.”

    The little rich girl opened her red, moist little mouth and obediently ate that piece of beef brisket, her eyes rippling.

    “Besides eating, sleeping and going to class?”

    “Lie on the bed and look at photos.”

    Jiang Qin paused, “Oh, the team building photos, right? Lu Xuemei’s photography skills are pretty good.”

    He had left in a hurry that day and hadn’t carefully flipped through that photo album at all. His memory was still stuck on the photo of him and Feng Nanshu together. He had no idea there was also a picture inside of a bear climbing a tree to steal honey, let alone that the little rich girl had already imagined everything.

    The two had been apart for as long as a week, only seeing each other a few times in between. The little rich girl had only been able to bear it by looking at the photos.

    Chapter Summary

    Jiang Qin attends class but quickly loses focus. Feng Nanshu sucks on her hand, confusing him. They plan to eat beef brisket noodles after class. Jiang Qin is called to the office regarding an interview with Linchuan Youth Daily about his entrepreneurship and work-study program. Jiang Qin charms the teachers with his humble act. He has lunch with Feng Nanshu, reflecting on their week apart as she looked at their photos.

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