Chapter 399 What a coincidence!

A baby-faced handsome guy looked at Ah Zhong: "Is there any staple food? I've been on the yacht for five days, eating red wine and beef every day, and I'm so tired of it! I'm starving and need some staple food to fill my stomach!"

The others nodded in agreement: "Yes, yes, do you have steamed buns, noodles, rice, or anything like that?"

Ah Zhong glanced at the menu: "We have beef brisket noodles, do you want some?"

"Yes, yes, yes! Twelve servings, please! Is that enough?"

Ah Zhong smiled and nodded, "That's enough, please wait a moment!" Then he went to get busy.

Seeing that there was food, the others finally relaxed and found places to sit down.

Then they saw Gu Yin sitting by the window drinking coconut juice.

The group of people who were about to come over paused for a moment upon seeing this, and then casually walked to the empty seat in the aisle next to Gu Yin and sat down.

"Ah Yong, you're so single-minded! A candlelight dinner needs red wine and steak, but why did you prepare only those two things? We've been eating steak for five days straight! Three meals a day, every single one! I get a headache just looking at steak now!"

"Exactly! If you could at least have prepared some bread or something! But there was nothing! Not even fruit! Ha! It's only slightly better than fleeing a famine!"

The boy named A Yong raised his Coke and said, "Sorry, brothers! It was my first time proposing, I was so nervous that I only remembered my girlfriend and forgot about you guys! I'm sorry! I'll punish myself with this can!" He then gulped down the entire can of Coke.

Others: "Damn it, we've only been eating dog food for five days, and now we have to eat it again after we get off the ship? Zhang Xianyong! You're not human!"

"Get him!"

Then Gu Yin saw several boys holding down A Yong's head and making a scene.

Everyone else burst into laughter, and Gu Yin couldn't help but laugh too.

Hearing Gu Yin's laughter, the boys coughed lightly, then touched their noses and awkwardly sat back down in their seats.

Seeing this, Gu Yin had no choice but to turn her head to look outside the boat. After all, she didn't know them, and it seemed inappropriate to laugh out loud.

A baby-faced boy next to him nudged the man with the buzz cut and gestured for him to look to the side.

The man with the buzz cut glanced at him, ignored him, and continued drinking his cola.

Seeing this, the baby-faced man looked at the others, but they all turned their heads or lowered their heads, pretending not to see his gaze.

The baby-faced man sighed in disappointment, then took a deep breath and turned to look at Gu Yin.

"Hey beautiful, are you alone?"

Gu Yin turned around and saw him looking at her, so she nodded: "No, I'm waiting for someone."

Seeing that she didn't seem offended, the baby-faced man happily asked, "Are you from Hong Kong? We're here from the mainland for fun, and we don't know what places are worth visiting! Could you recommend some?"

Gu Yin smiled regretfully, "I'm half a Hong Konger, I grew up on the mainland, so I'm not really familiar with this place. Sorry."

Her household registration wasn't transferred here, so she's not considered a Hong Kong resident, but the Zhou family lives here, so saying she's half a resident should be correct, right?

Hearing her say that, people at the surrounding tables looked over, clearly very interested.

"What a coincidence! Which city are you from? My name is Lian Xin! They are all my friends! We are all from Beijing! If we live nearby, we can hang out together during our holidays!" the baby-faced man exclaimed happily.

Gu Yin noticed their curious stares and then looked at Lian Xin, saying, "I'm from Z province, but I'll be attending university in Beijing."

Lian Xin immediately asked, "Which university?"

"Qingda".

"Holy crap! What a coincidence! We're from Qingdao University too!"

The man with the buzz cut looked at Gu Yin in surprise, and everyone else was also amazed!

"She's actually my future junior!"

"What a coincidence! I initially thought this junior was still in junior high school; she doesn't look that old!"

"No wonder she's so beautiful! There's no one ugly at Qingda University!"

"Get lost! When are you going to stop being so narcissistic? Aren't you afraid of scaring the younger female students?!"

Seeing their silly antics, Gu Yin couldn't help but laugh again.

Lian Xin sat down directly in front of Gu Yin and said enthusiastically, "We're all third-year students, we're already seasoned veterans! What's your name, junior? What's your major? Come find us when school starts! We'll show you around Qingdao University!"

"My name is Gu Yin, and I'm a biology major."

The crowd fell silent, all looking at Gu Yin with incredulous expressions.

Gu Yin asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

A woman asked worriedly, "Junior, did you choose your major yourself?"

Gu Yin nodded: "Yes, what's wrong?"

The girl sighed, "That's our school's flagship program. The word 'flagship' alone sounds impressive, right? It also has another name: the 'devil's program! You probably don't know how ruthless the people in this program are! The professors are all from top academies of sciences, and they're extremely strict with students. There's a quiz every three days, a major exam every week, and if you fail the final exam, there's no retake—you're expelled! Students are expected to write a complete, publishable paper per semester and conduct a useful and feasible experiment independently per year! Not only are the professors ruthless, but the students are too. You can see biology students everywhere—in the library, study rooms, and labs—but you won't see them in the dorms! Du Kai, who's over here, is from the biology department. To save time washing his hair, he shaved his head! He only had time to shave it again because he went out to sea this week!"

Du Kai, the man with the buzz cut, looked at Gu Yin upon hearing this and said, "It's not as serious as she described, but it's close. Biology is very interesting."

He paused for a moment, then asked in confusion, "Are you Gu Yin, the one who won three gold medals in the International Mathematical Olympiad and was taken in as a close disciple by Academician Cheng Dong ahead of time?"

Gu Yin raised her eyebrows: "Does the whole department already know my name?"

Du Kai chuckled: "It really is you! Well, the whole department knows now. After all, many people are eyeing the spot as Academician Cheng's closed-door disciple, but you unexpectedly snatched it up. Congratulations!"

Gu Yin smiled and said, "Thank you!"

"Holy crap! Three gold medals! And Academician Cheng accepted them! Junior! You're absolutely incredible!"

"That's amazing! So beautiful and so smart! I want to ask God, which window did God close for you?!"

"This junior is so amazing, this major is definitely a devilish one!"

Ah Zhong then brought out the noodles. Seeing that he was carrying them slowly, the others went over to get them on their own.

"Junior, do you want some? If you do, I'll ask him to get another serving!" Lian Xin said apologetically when he saw that everyone else had some except Gu Yin.

Gu Yin shook her head: "You guys eat, I'm not hungry."

Seeing that she wasn't embarrassed and was genuinely not hungry, Lian Xin didn't stand on ceremony anymore and quickly started eating.

Gu Yin noticed that they ate quickly but not rudely. Remembering what Ah Zhong had said—that they were all rich young masters—she clapped and smiled. The richer people are, the harder they tend to work; this was something she discovered after entering the so-called elite circles.

Ten minutes later, everyone finished their noodles.

"I'm finally alive!"

"There's finally something in my stomach!"

Ah Yong rubbed his belly and called over Ah Zhong: "You calculate how much it costs!"

Ah Zhong took the bill: "The noodles plus your drinks will cost three hundred yuan in total."

A-Yong pointed at Gu Yin: "Including the junior students, how much is it?"

Ah Zhong was taken aback and looked at Gu Yin: "Do you know her?"

Gu Yin was also stunned. She had assumed everything was free, even for clients. It turned out that outsiders needed to pay.

Lian Xin added, "We know each other. You calculate how much it is, and we'll pay together!"