Chapter 70: Applying for Startup Support

The website’s popularity skyrocketed quickly and the campus belle battle between departments also intensified. Although the campus belle selection contest hadn’t been announced yet, quite a few people were already urging the administrators in the background to hurry up and hold a competition.

Because just posting threads to argue was completely meaningless.

You say the girls in your department are pretty, I say the girls in our department are pretty. In the end, no one will convince anyone.

The only way is to let the data speak.

Let the goddesses from each department all stand on the same starting line and be evaluated by all the students together. Whoever has the highest data is the campus belle. How fair is that?

Actually, the campus belle selection contest was Jiang Qin’s plan all along. But he didn’t expect the topic of “who is the campus belle” to get so popular so quickly, causing the forum users to be even more eager than him.

Jiang Qin took out his phone and called Su Nai.

“Su Nai, how’s the progress on your side?”

“We’re already rushing it boss, but there’s currently a fatal problem. Right now our office location is in the public classrooms of the Computer Science department, but those classrooms all have students taking turns having classes. We often have to change locations with our equipment. Some members of the team can’t find people after finishing class. Ask and they’ve changed classrooms again. It’s really dragging down efficiency.”

Jiang Qin nodded, not finding it unexpected. This was already the second time he heard this, because Dong Wenhao’s side had the same situation.

Ever since Yao Yanling turned against them midway, Dong Wenhao had found people to set up his own faction. But after leaving the Literature Club, they couldn’t use the Literature Club’s activity room anymore. He was also leading his team in guerrilla warfare, always having no choice but to move here and there. As soon as their train of thought was interrupted, the posts they wrote became trashy.

It seemed finding an office location had become a pressing matter.

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Qin left the dorm and after some twists and turns, arrived at the university student entrepreneurship base located on Academy Road 4.

According to policy, university student entrepreneurship projects would receive support from the school. If they could pass the approval process, then applying for an activity room as a headquarters shouldn’t be an issue.

Jiang Qin pondered as he walked down the empty corridor. Finally, he found the general office.

According to novels, this office would usually have a respected old professor who was proficient in finance and business. After learning his purpose, the professor would immediately have a detailed chat with him and fully affirm his business ideas, even clicking his tongue in amazement and opening the door wide for him.

But reality proved that was just in damn novels. The actual situation was the entrepreneurship base office didn’t have a single teacher, only two students on duty.

One was folding origami stars, the other was watching a TV drama.

This familiar feeling reminded Jiang Qin of his past life. Sure enough, there were slackers everywhere.

“Entrepreneurship application? Fill out a form first. Someone will contact you after the initial review is passed.” The origami star senior sister succinctly explained the process.

Jiang Qin took the form and filled out the header, “About how long does the review process take?”

“Around a month. Hm? You’re a newly enrolled freshman?” Star senior sister glanced at the header information, looking surprised.

“If the review time for freshmen can be shorter, then yes, I am.”

Star senior sister folded another star in the blink of an eye, “Junior schoolmate, entrepreneurship as a freshman is too unrealistic.”

Jiang Qin didn’t respond to her words and asked back, “Are there many people starting businesses in Linchuan University?”

“Many, but they’re generally graduate students doing projects with old professors or doctoral students forming their own teams. Undergraduate entrepreneurship isn’t common and you’re the only freshman.”

“Sounds awesome. I like being the first to try new things.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the male student watching TV suddenly laughed, “Junior schoolmate, you’d better not fill it out.”

Jiang Qin’s pen in his hand paused slightly, “Why?”

“Freshmen who come to apply for entrepreneurship projects in the first year are basically just doing it for credits. They submit a project proposal and don’t continue after that. We’ve seen it too much. Let alone Teacher Yan, even I definitely won’t let you pass.”

Jiang Qin walked over and glanced at his computer, “Magic Cellphone? The female lead is a silly girl, right? Quite pretty.”

The male student watching TV raised his head, “You’ve also watched it? Let me tell you, I love silly girls the most!”

“Have you seen the ending?”

“No, the dorm doesn’t have a computer. I can only watch two episodes here every day.”

“In the end, the silly girl does a forced illegal operation one last time and then runs out of energy and directly dies. Lu Xiaoqian cries until he’s unrecognizable. I don’t dare watch it a second time even now. Simply traumatic.”

“…”

Jiang Qin went back to star senior sister’s side and pointed at the empty line in the middle, “What do I write for this note?”

Star senior sister continued folding stars, “Junior schoolmate, a freshman applying for entrepreneurship support definitely won’t pass the review. If you don’t believe me, just write whatever.”

“Anything is fine?”

“Mm.”

Jiang Qin glanced at the glass jar on the table. A card was tied to it – Cao Xinyue loves Chen Anhua.

Sigh, a perfectly good female university student, but she’s a lovestruck idiot.

“Okay, I’m done writing.”

Star senior sister took the form and glanced at it. The basic information was very ordinary, just a freshman. The rest was also average. But the sentence in the notes column nearly made her spit blood.

[Love-obsessed idiots can get lost]

Star senior sister looked at the star jar that was almost full and thought, is this mocking me for only knowing how to engage in relationships?

But university life is so wonderful, it would be a pity not to date. As for entrepreneurship? Only these silly freshmen would have such unrealistic dreams. Finding a job later and working 9 to 5, isn’t that great?

After Jiang Qin left, the door to the entrepreneurship office was pushed open again. An old man wearing a Zhongshan suit walked in, instantly frightening the two students on duty.

The male student hurriedly unplugged his earphones and turned off the TV drama. The female student hugged her star jar and put it on her lap, pretending she wasn’t doing anything.

The old professor glanced at star senior sister, frowning slightly, then reached out and picked up the application form on the table, “Someone submitted an application form again?”

“Yeah, it’s a freshman. I told him even if he submits it, it’s useless. But he didn’t believe me.”

“Don’t do this stuff in the office next time. You’re wasting your good youth!”

“I know, Teacher Yan.”

Old Man Yan picked up the application form and glanced at it, thinking what bullshit is this written here, a university student forum? There’s already one of these things, what’s the point of making another one? But that last sentence was well-written. Love-obsessed idiots can get lost. Young people these days rarely understand this principle, that’s why so many people waste their youth in school.

For the sake of that sentence, the old professor put on his reading glasses, returned to his desk and entered the website address.

Hm?

Seems like there’s something here.

Not sure, let me take another look.

At the same time, Jiang Qin left the entrepreneurship base, found a chair to sit on, and furrowed his brows slightly.

The review time for the entrepreneurship project is one month?

By then, let alone the campus belles, even the day lilies will have wilted. It seems he really can’t rely too much on the school’s entrepreneurship support. He has to think of a more reliable solution himself. Of course, the quickest way is naturally to rent a venue. But on-campus venues can’t be rented just by saying so and off-campus ones are too far away, which would waste even more time.

Beep beep beep beep–

Jiang Qin took out his phone and glanced at QQ. A silly-looking tabby cat was jumping.

“Good evening, Jiang Qin.”

“It’s only 5pm now.”

“Oh.”

“I originally had plans with someone tonight. How about this, wait for me downstairs. I’ll allow you to freeload a meal.”

Jiang Qin finished replying to Feng Nanshu’s QQ message, then stood up and walked towards the female dorms.

At this time, the little rich girl had been waiting downstairs for a long time. She was wearing a black dress today with a red belt, revealing her slender legs. Her silky long hair cascaded over her shoulders. She had lost a bit of her childishness but gained a few traces of cold elegance.