Ruan Chen stood on the podium and saw that almost every student below had a mobile phone in their hand, typing rapidly. Many of them had knowing smiles on their faces, and Ruan Chen understood what was going on.

But she walked nonchalantly to the table that had been prepared in advance, in the corner of the first row.

Ruan Chen stood in front of the table for a moment, her eyes filled with a hint of nostalgia.

She never imagined she would be able to return to campus one day.

Ruan Chen chose the Department of Basic Physics. Since she was a transfer student, there were no vacant dorm rooms available in her major, so she was assigned to a dorm room in the Department of Art, which happened to be close to the teaching building.

Anyway, Ruan Chen is lazy by nature, so she's happy to walk less.

Although seven years had passed, Ruan Chen quickly adapted to the pace of university life. Specifically, just over half a month after returning to campus, Ruan Chen had learned to skip classes without any instruction.

She genuinely found it boring. She had already thoroughly studied basic physics and even overturned several previous theories. The only thing missing was some empirical analysis, which she wasn't particularly interested in. However, the experts from the research institutes who had taken her manuscripts kept asking Ruan Chen data-related questions every few days.

During the long break, half of the students in the theoretical mechanics class had disappeared. The teacher looked at the empty classroom with a bit of helplessness, cleared his throat, and said, "Let's take attendance first."

As soon as roll call was mentioned, the class immediately became restless. Many students took out their phones to send messages or make phone calls in hushed tones, all of them notifying their friends to come back quickly because roll call was about to start.

Although attendance at the college is not very strict, missing more than three times without a valid reason in a semester will still result in failing the course.

During the break between roll call, many students who had skipped class ran back, exchanging glances and complaining that the teacher had ruined their plans.

Ruan Chen was naturally not among those who returned. No one told her; it seemed everyone tacitly wanted to see this transfer student, who had connections, fail her exams.

Although theoretical mechanics is a bit boring, the academic atmosphere in the First Academy is quite strict. There aren't many people who skip class without a reason. The reason why most of the students left the large lecture today is because the newly crowned Best Actor, Ruan Luo, was going to film on location at the First Academy. After filming, he would also be doing a roadshow in the First Academy's auditorium, which attracted quite a few people.

Ruan Chen bought a tiger-skin cake roll from a roadside food cart, sat on a roadside flower bed and ate it in small bites. About seven or eight meters away from the dividing line, she looked at the film crew filming and occasionally raised her phone to take a couple of pictures.

Upon seeing this, a member of the crew frowned and approached Ruan Chen to speak with him. "I'm sorry, but filming is prohibited according to the crew's rules. If you would like to have further interaction with Mr. Ruan, you can go to the auditorium later. Mr. Ruan will be holding a fan meeting there."

Ruan Chen thought to herself, "The attitude is alright."

Although the film crew strictly prohibited filming, there were still quite a few people secretly taking pictures in the nearby classroom. The scene of the crew members communicating with Ruan Chen was also filmed and posted on the school forum with the title: "Which class is this sasaeng fan from? Come out and claim her. How dare you take pictures of her so blatantly?"

During the conversation, Ruan Luo's assistant came running over, eagerly communicating with the two of them.

Due to the blind spot of the flower bed, these people did not see the assistant's respectful attitude towards Ruan Chen. They simply took another photo and posted it with a caption based on their imagination: "They've chased me away twice and I still haven't left. These stalker fans are really audacious and shameless."

The assistant came to deliver coffee to Ruan Chen.

He first stopped Ruan Chen, who was about to leave after talking with the staff, then brought her the hot coffee that Ruan Luo had ordered, and said, "Mr. Ruan said that if you are interested, please come into the photography studio to take a look."

"No need," Ruan Chen said, explaining that the photo studio was a bit far away and he was too lazy to walk those extra steps. "My mom and sister were asking about it; they both wanted to see my look today. I just took a few pictures and sent them to them. I'm sorry for interrupting your shoot."

She spoke casually, but to her assistant it was like a thunderclap, and he couldn't help but glance at Ruan Chen a few more times.

So this was the other younger sister Ruan Luo had mentioned, the one who went abroad for further studies, a sister who was exceptionally talented and had a stunningly beautiful appearance.

It turns out she went back to China.

Previously, the assistant did not believe Ruan Luo's words "stunningly beautiful", thinking that there were many women with outstanding looks in the entertainment industry, and Ruan Luo probably just had a bias against her younger sister. But after seeing her today, the assistant realized that Ruan Luo was not lying.

Judging from her good looks, which have been recognized by the Best Actor, she truly is very good-looking.

Her demeanor is just a little cold and aloof.

Ruan Chen smiled and said, "You guys go ahead with your work, I won't bother you any longer."

Her smile was like a bright peach blossom in full bloom. Only then did the assistant come to his senses and hand over another stack of admission tickets. "Ms. Ruan, Mr. Ruan asked us to send these over as well. He said he wanted to invite you and your friends to come and see."

Ruan Chen awkwardly drew a card, scratched his head sheepishly, and said, "Please tell my brother that I don't have any friends at this school."

The assistant wanted to say something, but after thinking about it, he nodded instead.

It seems I need to talk to Mr. Ruan; his sister may be being ostracized.

“Hey, wait a minute,” Ruan Chen suddenly remembered a few people, and reached out to take three more tickets. “Let me ask my roommates if they’re going.”

Perhaps because of their different majors, Ruan Chen had a fairly good relationship with her roommates. They never thought of deliberately investigating Ruan Chen's past and were unaware of the rumors about her being a "connected person" or an "illegitimate child."

In fact, the art students themselves have a rather awkward position at the First Military Academy.

In the college's hierarchy of disdain, the Rising Star Class is at the top, followed by science and engineering students, then business and humanities students who look down on each other, and at the bottom, art students are universally acknowledged as someone anyone can step on.

So when Ruan Chen's roommates found out that Ruan Chen was majoring in basic physics, they subconsciously tried to please her for a few days. After that, they found that although Ruan Chen seemed aloof, she was very approachable, and they returned to normal communication.

Ruan Chen has always adhered to the principle of "treating others with respect when they treat me with respect," and she doesn't mind using her brother as a favor.

Sure enough, the group of girls screamed excitedly after learning that Ruan Chen had front-row tickets to the roadshow, "Ahhh Ruan Chen, tell me the truth, isn't the newly crowned Best Actor your brother? How did you manage to get tickets right in the middle?"

The girl who's hugging Ruan Chen's shoulder and giggling is Huan Shiqing, a pipa major who's currently researching how to combine the pipa with rock music.

“It’s obvious,” Ruan Chen said matter-of-factly, without any need to hide it. “Look at how good-looking our whole family is.”