Senior, will you still send your senior to America?

"Senior, will you still send your senior to America?"

14.

After a lively meal, Wen Chu and Nie Mumu took charge of cleaning up. Lan Jian also helped drain the water stains and complained, "It would be great if the break room had a dishwasher too!"

Wen Chu innocently asked Lan Jian, "Would that mean we could cook and eat together more often in the lab?"

"It's possible, but only if that 'enlightened monk' inside agrees!"

The younger female students, knowing that Lan Jian was referring to Chongming, assumed that the senior was really intimidated by the senior and immediately changed the subject, saying, "Senior, you look so handsome today!"

"Really? I only said those things from my personal perspective. I just said them without considering the consequences..."

The younger female students immediately shook their heads. Nie Mumu excitedly grabbed Lan Jian's hand, "No, senior, especially when you called them cowards, it was so satisfying!"

"It sounds like you have some old grudge against them?"

"Wen Chu and I were student council members in the previous term. When the student council was handed over to the next term, it was the vice president, Ou Jianbin, and that guy who was always grabbing dirt with one hand. There were so many things to do! And..."

"And the boy who grabbed the dirt is named Lai Yi, and he even sent Mu Mu flirtatious messages."

"What a piece of trash!" Lan Jian scoffed. "What is that?!"

When Chongming and the other students returned from washing dishes, they noticed that the two female students majoring in special projects were looking at Lanjian with bright, admiring eyes. Everyone else had left, and Ma Yuehe, feeling it was too cold, had hitched a ride back with Guan Shaoxiao.

Chongming asked the two female students where they lived. Upon hearing that it was their dormitory at the foot of the mountain, he picked up his car keys and said, "Let's go, I'll take you back."

When I went to Chongming to pick up my car, the younger female students asked Lanjian, "Senior, which dormitory do you live in?"

Meng Lanjian was too embarrassed to tell him directly that she lived in a single dormitory in the back mountain area, so she made up an excuse, saying that she was going to go to karaoke with her friends tonight.

"Wow, which karaoke bar is this? Can you organize a group karaoke session for everyone in the lab next time?"

Meng Lanjian doesn't like karaoke at all. She says she goes to karaoke because she lacks experience with nighttime activities and can't come up with an excuse to "leave the hotel" so late.

"Uh, the one on Beigu Road."

Lan Jian made up a shop that Guan Shaoxiao had mentioned before, and because she felt guilty, she didn't dare to make eye contact with her junior classmates. Only after seeing them off did she tell Chongming that she had just told a "huge lie".

“It’s quite big,” Chongming laughed so hard his eyes almost disappeared. “Didn’t you see the news about the shop burning down a few days ago?”

"I don't usually watch the news." Lan Jian was so angry that she couldn't even fool people properly. Without thinking, she blurted out, "The last time I saw the news, it was someone impersonating me talking about a political marriage with you!"

Political marriage.

Chongming was momentarily dazed.

The two had just left the lab, away from the people around them who viewed them as "senior and junior students".

"You're so close to Guan Shaoxiao and Zhuang Huiting, would you consider finding an opportunity to tell them about our marriage?"

After Lan Jian was admitted to the Institute of Nuclear Energy Technology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, the first friend she made was Guan Shaoxiao.

Lan Jian lives on campus, and since her dormitory is in the back mountain and she doesn't have any transportation, it's a hassle for her to even leave the school. But after meeting Guan Shaoxiao, he's happy to drive her wherever she wants to eat, and if she's feeling playful and wants to try some games from variety shows, Guan Shaoxiao can immediately gather enough people to start a game.

Without much effort, within two months of arriving at Nanjing University, Meng Lanjian and Guan Shaoxiao, a thoughtful and righteous man, went from being ordinary classmates to dining buddies.

The reason Lan Jian became close to him was because when she first arrived, everyone ordered pizza to welcome her. Lan Jian found that Guan Shaoxiao was too selfless, taking the initiative to arrange a meal for everyone, but he only ate half a pizza himself, which was left to him by Senior Sister Hui.

Later Lanjian

I often hear Guan Shaoxiao complain that he's been accused of having a "saintly complex." Lan Jian always firmly opposes his fragile ego caused by this term. Lan Jian tells him, "You are born with the wonderful quality of being more considerate of others than most people, and there's nothing wrong with having empathy. But if it causes you pain, don't reflect on yourself. Using terms like 'saintly heart' or 'saintly complex' to belittle someone is a semantic error. To put it more seriously, it's even a regression in human civilization. Excessive giving is never the fault of the giver. What causes you pain is not the person who properly receives the goodwill, but the greedy takers and the jealous bystanders who didn't receive it. In that case, bravely resisting the decaying modern mindset and maintaining your original, steadfast kindness is what someone like you should be doing."

Finally, Meng Lanjian said, "Even if you are bullied, don't be afraid. You still have someone like me who will stand up for you."

Guan Shaoxiao asked Lan Jian, "What kind of person are you?"

"A wicked woman like me." Meng Lanjian always remembered herself back then, how evil and arrogant her smile was. "My dream is to change the world."

...

Now, before she could even "change the world," she has become known as "the culprit behind the dissolution of the nuclear research institute" in other people's eyes.

Lan Jian couldn't help but chuckle when she thought of Guan Shaoxiao standing in front of the stunning floor-to-ceiling windows of his laboratory, watching those brats' protests through binoculars, and how he turned even redder than she was.

“I’ll tell him slowly later.” She deliberately ignored Zhuang Huiting, the human megaphone on the twelfth floor, and slyly asked Chongming, “Then is there anyone you need to tell?”

“Not for now.” Chongming thought for a moment. “Most of my childhood friends are abroad. I’ve already told a few of my close friends, and my elders at home probably won’t hide the fact that I’m married. My sister already knows about it.”

"Does your sister know that you haven't had much of a reaction since you got married?"

Why isn't it responding?

I heard it's caused a huge uproar overseas.

The first to suffer was none other than his father. His mother said that the imposing Southern Army Major General received a call from his beloved daughter across the ocean during a meeting. He thought something terrible had happened and interrupted the meeting. His subordinates saw that his ears were burning and red from listening to the phone call, so they didn't dare to hang up.

Chongming received the same call. But with his father "leading by example," he cleverly blocked Meimei. Then he heard that this young lady was cursing him, her older brother, to his childhood friend for not consulting her on such an important matter as getting married.

—You must understand, in the Chongming family, women hold an absolutely exalted status. His Meimei has been unruly since childhood, everyone treats her like a princess, and no one dares to cross her. Except for him and her mother, she doesn't listen to anyone else.

Thinking of his younger sister, Chongming felt a little helpless. "My sister has a bad temper. It's better for you two to meet later."

Why does the eldest daughter of the Lu family sound even "fierce" than Meng Lanjian?

"Looks like she's unhappy." Lan Jian found it amusing and started to ask, "How old is she? Is she younger than me?"

She's twenty-four. Half a year younger than you.

Lan Jian did the math, "Her birthday is in the fall?"

"Yes, a few days after the Mid-Autumn Festival."

Mid-Autumn Festival.

The moment those three words came out of Chongming's mouth, the relaxed atmosphere of conversation in the carriage instantly plummeted to freezing point.

Many things happened during and around the Mid-Autumn Festival that year.

For example, not long before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chongming's grandmother passed away.

For example, the day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, Meng Lanjian and Han Li started dating.

For example, a few days after the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chongming broke up with Zheng Xuerou.

For example, on the Mid-Autumn Festival, Lan Jian was asked by Xue Xiangzhi to deliver documents to Chongming. The ginkgo leaves were golden and the osmanthus blossoms were fragrant. Meng Lan Jian stood among the withered branches in Wuyue Mountain Forest, looked up and asked him, "Senior, will you still send your senior sister to America?"

-As everyone knows, Lan Jian never calls out "senior" unless there's a reason.