Chapter 92: Am I the Only Outsider?

Returning to Jizhou, the weather was sunny.

Jiang Qin dragged his luggage out of the station without any hesitation, making Sun Yanbin puzzled.

With such a beautiful girl in front of him, how could this guy not even spare a glance and leave in such a hurry as if fleeing a disaster?

Jiang Qin just didn’t know his thoughts. If he did, he would definitely laugh. You’re still jumping into such a big pit, you’re really fucking iron-legged and invincible.

Seeing Jiang Qin’s decisive departing figure, Chu Siqi felt greatly hurt. She wanted to lose her temper but didn’t know who to vent to. Everything just looked unpleasant to her. In the end, she fiercely glared at Sun Yanbin.

She looked at me? Sun Yanbin was a little stunned.

Half an hour later, Jiang Qin returned home. The wandering student studying away from home finally came back, naturally receiving a warm welcome from his parents. Yuan Youqin even took a day off to stay home and cook a big table of food for Jiang Qin.

However, this warmth and intimacy was often short-lived.

October 1st, Mom was so happy. Son, you’re back?

October 2nd, Mother was still a bit happy. Sleep more, studying is tiring.

October 3rd, Madam Yuan started drooping her face. Can you tidy up your dog den?

October 4th, Madam Yuan Youqin frowned. When are you going back to school, you rascal?

Jiang Qin knew this flesh and blood reunion affection had probably run out. So from the fifth day on, he got up early every day and ran out, not giving his mom a chance to despise him.

“Uncle, you’re here?”

“Yeah, I’m here. Shu’an, you seem to have grown taller, almost as tall as me now. Really good.”

“…”

At Yang’s Mutton Soup Restaurant, Yang Shu’an looked at his old classmate and dry uncle walking into the store with a complex expression. Seeing him hug shoulders with his own dad, calling each other old bro, he always felt his cheeks burning with embarrassment.

Jiang Qin’s investment in this mutton soup restaurant was just playing around to begin with. So when Yang Jianguo was ready to calculate dividends for him, he waved it off, telling him to take the money and open a third branch.

Also, he made a suggestion for Yang Jianguo to not just make a single product but have more variety.

Some things were okay as signature specialties but being too singular could never go very far. After all, just making mutton soup and wanting to expand nationwide was too difficult.

Besides, Yang Jianguo hadn’t studied much and knew nothing about operations. With lacking abilities, taking the easiest path was the best strategy.

Actually, Yang Jianguo had always had the idea of opening a third restaurant. Hearing Jiang Qin bring it up on his own, he was so happy he patted Yang Shu’an’s shoulder, “Look at your uncle, a high school classmate. How come you’re not as mature?”

“Hehe.” The corner of Yang Shu’an’s mouth twitched and he felt a bit regretful.

That day when the two of them got drunk and insisted on becoming sworn brothers, even if it meant risking his life, he should have stopped them. Now he wouldn’t have to pathetically call him uncle.

A while later, Jiang Qin was about to leave. Yang Shu’an was ordered by his dad to send his uncle out the door.

“Uncle, let me discuss something with you.”

Jiang Qin turned his head, smiling brightly, “Big nephew, what do you want to discuss?”

“Can we each go our own way from now on? You call me big nephew and I’ll call you bro.”

“In your dreams. Wouldn’t that mess up the seniority?”

Jiang Qin left swaying, leaving behind the uncomfortable Yang Shu’an. Having an overly dazzling classmate made even recalling student days a hair-raising matter.

Returning home from the mutton soup restaurant, Jiang Qin opened his computer and checked the website traffic. Sure enough, with students leaving the school, the campus belle contest’s popularity began to naturally decline without the atmosphere.

However, this decline was not sustained because starting from the 4th, the website traffic data began rising again. Probably everyone was tired from playing, and after going home, they started going online again.

Quite a few posts were added to the confession wall, even people from other schools registered accounts to confess to girls from Linchuan University. The post titles all started with “encountered a goddess” and such.

Also, there was a batch of new venting posts on the anonymous tree hole, mostly complaining about roommates and classmates. Saying so-and-so was inconsiderate, never bought shampoo from freshman to junior year, always freeloading. Or saying so-and-so dressed fancy every day but actually had body odor.

Then there was the campus belle ranking. Chu Siqi was now firmly in first place.

Actually, Hong Yan was originally first, but because of her department transfer, she suddenly lost the law department’s support and fell behind overnight. Chu Siqi and Liu Yiyi were thus pushed up, competing neck and neck for three days without a clear winner.

But a few days before the holiday, for some unknown reason, Liu Yiyi’s fans suddenly lost steam. Fewer and fewer flowers were thrown to her and she was steadily suppressed by Chu Siqi.

Jiang Qin had no particular thoughts about this result.

He single-handedly started the flower-throwing campaign but didn’t want to overly interfere with where the flowers fell. He wanted the economic benefits behind it and had no interest in the people.

Next, Jiang Qin entered the user background and checked the pageviews.

Shi Miaomiao’s account followers had exceeded 10,000, indicating her novel “You Are the Color of Fireworks on Earth” was indeed well-written. But what surprised Jiang Qin was that Old Cao’s account actually also had 6,000 followers, closely following Shi Miaomiao.

However, Shi Miaomiao’s were all real fans while Old Cao’s were all haters. The comments all said his bragging was over the top and some wanted to deflate him.

Black and red makes popular too. Old Cao’s current achievement was indeed all thanks to his own hard work.

“There are still two days of break. When are you going to Linchuan? Shall we go together?”

Suddenly, a message notification from an unfamiliar group popped up in the lower left corner of the computer. Jiang Qin felt puzzled, so he clicked it open and found that he had somehow joined a five-person group. The person sending the message had the note name Sun Yanbin and used a non-mainstream avatar with sunglasses.

Guo Zihang: “How about leaving on the 6th?”

Jiang Qin casually replied, “You don’t have a partner, what’s the point of going so early?”

“Then when should we leave?”

“The 7th. The next time back will be for the New Year.”

“Classmate Chu, when do you plan to leave?” Sun Yanbin directly ignored their decision and asked Chu Siqi. After all, this was his purpose for creating the group.

Chu Siqi: “Then I’ll also leave on the 7th. Let’s buy tickets together in the afternoon?”

Sun Yanbin: “Okay, then I’ll also leave on the 7th.”

Jiang Qin: “…”

Jiang Qin: “I just remembered I have something to do. I’ll leave on the 8th.”

Seeing this message, Sun Yanbin inwardly exclaimed how great. Because Jiang Qin’s appearance was better than his, if he wanted to pursue Chu Siqi, he’d rather have Jiang Qin stay far away. “Then you go on your own. We’ll still leave on the 7th. Classmate Chu, what time are you going to the station? I’ll go with you.”

Chu Siqi: “Forget it, I’ll also leave on the 8th.”

Jiang Qin was speechless, “Then I won’t go. I plan to rot at home.”

Sun Yanbin looked at the chat record in confusion. But before he could figure it out, he found the group was missing a person. Then he received a notification that Jiang Qin had directly quit the group after saying his last sentence.

In a group of five, losing one person was too obvious. So the others discovered Jiang Qin’s departure at the same time.

Chu Siqi: “Since he quit, I’ll also quit.”

Sun Yanbin: “?????”

Wang Huiru: “If Siqi quit, I should also quit.”

Sun Yanbin: “…”

Guo Zihang: “Goodbye.”

Sun Yanbin was silent for a long time, unable to react for a while. He wondered what the hell happened.

After pondering for a long time into the night, he suddenly understood a little. Could it be that he was the only outsider in that group?

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