"Pei Ling, I suggest that you take the lead in doing things and stay behind in the limelight. Even the host of this event doesn't approve of you taking the position. Do you have any thoughts on this?" Cheng Maixiang asked with a smile.

In previous years, there would be an announcer at the welcome party. The announcer would simply introduce the name and performers of the next program to the audience. Apart from that, the announcer had no other use.

But this time, Cheng Maixiang suggested setting up two hosts, one male and one female. In addition to being responsible for announcing the show, they also had to connect the entire evening party and interspersed several small games to interact with students. The hosts had to adjust the atmosphere on the scene to prevent the participants from feeling uncomfortable or playing too much.

Tao Zhiyun accepted all these suggestions and even took the initiative to suggest that Ruan Peiling be the host, but she declined.

"You're right. I've just joined the student union, and my foundation is still unstable. And yet, I attracted so much attention at the election meeting. If I continue to rush for the spotlight, it will definitely cause dissatisfaction among the student union members. So, I have to take steady steps first, make achievements, and support Senior Brother Tao. With him as my support, I will be able to thrive in the student union."

What Maizi said did make sense. She had worked hard for the welcome party this time, and the limelight was either given to Tao Zhiyun or other people, which made the people in the school particularly satisfied with her. She knew that people were praising her both in front of her and behind her back.

Cheng Maixiang nodded with satisfaction. Ruan Peiling seemed careless on weekdays, but she was more sensitive than many people in interpersonal relationships. Perhaps this was related to her experience in a government agency like a daily newspaper.

"Cheng Cheng, perform well. Your show is scheduled for the finale. I even tampered with the program and put Zhao Linlin and Le Yueli's shows ahead of yours. I wanted them to serve as stepping stones."

Ruan Peiling smiled maliciously. Cheng Maixiang pointed at her and paused before saying, "You are so shamelessly frank."

Ruan Peiling snorted, "Of course. They're allowed to gang up on Cheng Cheng, but I'm not allowed to put any obstacles in their way. Are we supposed to let ourselves be bullied without fighting back?"

Originally, Zhao Linlin and Le Yueli were sworn enemies, but as Lu Chengcheng became more and more famous in the school, the two became more and more unwilling to accept this, and actually joined hands to start excluding Lu Chengcheng in the dormitory.

Fortunately, Lu Chengcheng rarely spends time in the dormitory and doesn't like to argue with others, so there was no trouble.

Lu Chengcheng had almost finished practicing. He carefully put away the sand table and whispered, "I don't know if my dad will come."

"Don't worry, my brother-in-law is here." Cheng Maixiang patted her shoulder. "By the way, Peiling, I'll go out and take a look. I think my brother-in-law and his family are here. Chengcheng, I'll check to see if your father is here."

When Cheng Maixiang arrived at the playground, the welcome party had already officially begun, and Principal Sun's loud voice was heard on the stage.

In fact, when Principal Sun accepted the invitation this time, he modestly declined to give a speech, but Cheng Maixiang still suggested to Ruan Peiling that she prepare a speech manuscript for Principal Sun in private.

It seems that Tao Zhiyun finally persuaded Principal Sun to give a speech at the welcome party.

Cheng Maixiang walked around the edge of the playground and came to the northwest where there were fewer people. She was looking around looking for someone when suddenly a childish voice called out, "Aunt, here!"

Looking in the direction of the sound, she saw Wei Lingcheng and his family of three sitting on the small stools at the back, looking at her with smiles, and Yingying was waving at her desperately.

Cheng Maixiang quickly ran over and said with a smile, "Sister, brother-in-law, why are you sitting here? Otherwise, I will find you a place closer to the stage."

Lin Qingwan quickly waved her hands, "No, no, we're fine here, don't bother others."

"That's right," Wei Lingcheng also said with a smile, "Your stage is set so high that I can see it clearly even without sitting in the front."

Cheng Maixiang saw Lu Chengyi sitting next to her with an awkward smile on his face. She had long since forgotten what happened that day, so she politely greeted him, "Director Lu is here too. You've made the right choice today. The performance Cheng Cheng prepared amazed many people, and the student union president decided to have it as the closing performance."

Cheng Maixiang deliberately praised Lu Chengcheng in front of Wei Lingcheng, which made him quite happy. After all, those two children were useless and embarrassed themselves in front of their boss and offended his brother's sister-in-law. Now that he had such a promising child, he felt proud.

"Hey, Cheng Cheng said that it was thanks to your help that she made such great progress. Classmate Cheng, you have to help Cheng Cheng more in the future." Lu Chengyi said deliberately humbly.

Yingying didn't understand the interactions between adults. When she heard that someone else was the center of attention, she hurriedly asked, "Aunt, what about you? What's your performance?"

"Auntie isn't as talented as Yingying, who can perform a play in public so well, so she didn't sign up for the show." Cheng Maixiang saw Yingying pouting and deliberately pulled her little face, shaking it gently. "Why, are you planning to leave because you heard that Auntie doesn't have a show? Auntie will be angry."

"Of course not. Since I promised my aunt to come and watch the show, I will definitely not leave. I won't be so disloyal." Yingying couldn't help but clarify.

Wei Lingcheng and Lin Qingwan both laughed.

This time, Cheng Maixiang invited Wei Lingcheng and secretly told him her intention. Since she was so sincere about taking care of Yingying, he was naturally happy to help her.

Today, he saw Lu Chengyi being harassed by his wife, so he asked casually. Lu Chengyi was eager to spend more time with his boss, and he also wanted to watch his daughter's show, so he took the opportunity to get rid of his wife and came here with Wei Lingcheng.

In previous years’ welcome parties, the programs were mostly set up by the student union itself, and students were invited to perform. This made the entire program too conservative and old-fashioned, without any novelty.

This year, the student union adopted the approach of having students prepare their own programs, sign up for the programs, and then conduct a preliminary review to eliminate relatively unexciting programs. The ones that remain are naturally those with good results.

At the end of the evening show, there was only applause and cheers from the audience. Even Yingying clapped her hands excitedly, "Aunt, your classmates' performance was much more exciting than ours."

In particular, Cheng Maixiang absorbed the interaction between the host and the audience in later evening parties and set up various interesting games for people in the audience to participate. Many students volunteered to go on stage to participate, and they made countless jokes, which made the audience laugh.

Finally it was Zhao Linlin and Le Yueli's turn. This time they worked together to choreograph a dance called "Under the Moon Before Flowers".

I don’t know where Zhao Linlin borrowed the cheongsam from. She and Le Yueli were wearing light green cheongsams, holding ancient oil-paper umbrellas, and dancing to the soothing music.