The opening ceremony of the welcome party arrived as scheduled.

When the time came, He Jinxing and Gou An left the leader's office side by side.

On the way, they met leaders from other colleges, an old man from the School of Environmental Engineering next door. He knew He Jinxing, but not Gou An. He greeted He Jinxing first and then looked at Gou An, as if he was wondering why this little girl was walking side by side with the elusive Mr. He.

I haven't heard that Mr. He has a daughter this old.

"This is——"

Gou An smiled at the leader he had never dealt with before and said, "Hello, teacher. I am a sophomore student at the College of Oceanography. This year, our college is responsible for the welcome speech. I am here to review the draft with Mr. He..."

Too much explanation.

Instead it looks lame.

The old man in environmental engineering obviously thought this statement was a bit inexplicable. What kind of speech should be given when outstanding student representatives meet with investors? This is not crosstalk.

At this time, He Jinxing curled up the corners of his lips slightly. He stood behind Gou An, playing with a black lighter with his slender fingers. He listened to Gou An's explanation, which was as eager as he could to distance himself from the matter, without making any comment.

The old man was confused for a while, then he casually lifted his eyelids and said to the girl in front of him, "Mr. He?"

“…”

"What did you yell just now?"

"..." Gou An gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, uncle."

He Jinxing then glanced at the old man with a look of "Do you understand?" and said, "Younger generation in the family."

The old man was obviously confused for a moment, and then he said "Oh", puzzled. It is said that the He family is a monk's temple, where did He Jinxing's little niece appear? After the two sides exchanged greetings and said goodbye, He Jinxing followed Gou An to the auditorium. The department leaders and some investors sat in the front row of the audience. He Jinxing's seat was next to the department director, and on the right was the president.

There was a bottle of mineral water in front, and a simple pink nameplate with the simple words "Heji Group Hejinxing" and not even any extra job title.

He Jinxing sat down and Gou An prepared to go backstage.

Before leaving, she respectfully said to the man who was already seated: "I'm going."

The man looked up at her.

"...Uncle?"

He Jinxing leaned back in his chair, as if he was very satisfied that she had finally grown her brain and remembered this name. He nodded tolerantly and said, "Go ahead."

The elders are very well behaved and nothing can go wrong.

The opening ceremony of the welcome party begins.

In the original storyline, Mr. He, who was originally destined to meet the heroine on this day, had no limited plot today and seemed to be quite lazy throughout the whole process——

Even when the school beauty's opening peacock dance clearly amazed the whole audience, he just lowered his head and looked at his phone without even raising his head.

Other than that, the party went pretty smoothly.

At about eight o'clock, Gou An's name was called. As a representative of the outstanding sophomores, she went on stage to give a welcome speech. At this time, the atmosphere of joy and harmony finally changed. Standing under the searchlight, she could hear a buzz of discussion from the audience.

In fact, this matter is just fermenting within the school. It is not like the usual melodramatic and domineering CEO novels that become a hot topic at every turn.

But this actually happened in Gou An's circle. Looking down from the stage, she couldn't see the expressions on anyone's faces at all because of the darkness below.

She swallowed silently and read the first sentence from the prepared script.

The person standing on the stage was a little nervous and stiff, but her back was straight, and her face was just made up to look fair and well-behaved. Her long curly hair was tied into a princess bun, half of her hair was softly draped over her shoulders, and the other half was tied into a small bun with a cherry leather string, and two disobedient hairs flew out from the top of her head...

Going to that station, she was pretty and really very likable.

It was going smoothly at first, until I read halfway through Gou An's manuscript and came to the part about "ten years of hard study"...

Whether it was that He Jinxing was a prophet or something else (a bad mouth), someone in the crowd suddenly stood up and said, "I wonder what you think of 'ten years of hard study, how can it compare to three generations of rich people doing business'? If class can never be crossed, then our hard work in studying and living is a complete joke in the eyes of you rich people, right?"

The person who spoke was a tall and thin boy who was still wearing military training camouflage uniform. He wore thick glasses and looked a little dull.

Gou An could only see him through the big screen behind him. At this time, the school party director gave him a close-up.

There was an uproar in the audience.

Some people laughed, some applauded, and more people ridiculed, "Aren't you asking for trouble by asking her this question?" The contempt in their words was obvious.

Gou An saw the man sitting in the middle of the audience. At this moment, he had raised his head from his mobile phone, and his pair of dark and deep black eyes were also looking at her, with a smile at the corner of his lips.

As their eyes met, he even folded his legs lazily.

His attitude of watching the fun was obvious.

Gou An's heart was beating fast, like a drum beating the sky. After a few seconds, she heard her own stiff voice: "My classmate, is it possible that you studied hard for ten years just to become the first of the so-called three generations to go into business?"

The laughter at the scene became quieter.

"When I was a kid, I always dreamed of becoming a scientist, a navigator, an astronomer or a doctor who saved the world. At that time, teachers would never say: But kid, your parents are not great people, so you are destined to be mediocre." Gou An put his hands on the speech manuscript, "Teachers would say: kid, your dream is really great, so remember, from today on, you must study hard."

Class crossing is never impossible.

“You are a student, you study.

If you are a cleaner, you just wipe the glass in front of you.

If you are tightening a screw, tighten this one so it will stay tight for a hundred years."

“If you don’t have earth-shattering luck, then do what you should do now and rely on quantitative changes to produce qualitative changes.”

Gou An couldn't explain the profound truth, but when faced with the question, this was really just her understanding.

It was as if one day she realized that she was just a cannon fodder female supporting role in a melodramatic novel about a domineering boss. She didn’t know what to do and no one told her what to do.

But she is also trying hard, hoping to take every step carefully and stay away from the inevitable tragic ending that may still happen.

"Just like I'm answering your questions politely instead of throwing the microphone in your face, it's because I just want to do a good job of giving this freshman speech."

At this moment, as her words fell, the impetuous atmosphere at the scene paused for a few seconds.

From under the light in the center of the stage, slow and loud applause sounded alone.

Then quickly, as if coming to their senses, the applause became a sea.

Gou An heard the system prompt sound pop up in his mind, and He Jinxing's friendship level rose to [25].

In the audience.

Lu Wan and He Ran sat side by side. There was a huge crowd in front of them, and amid the deafening applause, she saw Gou An's lips slightly raised. The amplitude was very small, and if you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't notice it at all.

Carefully tugging at He Ran's sleeve, Lu Wan whispered, "Shall we go?"

The freshman welcome party was not supposed to be a place for their seniors, but because her roommate accidentally mentioned, "There's a freshman speech tonight, will Gou An make a fool of himself? I want to see it," she was led by some unknown reason to come and take a look.

Unexpectedly, Gou An handled it very well.

At least within this minute, no one will think of the fact that "Gou An snatched the first place from Lu Wan".

It wasn't anyone else's fault that she got sick, and her poor performance on the exam was entirely because she didn't take care of her body. But Lu Wan also felt regretful. She didn't want to be so gloomy, but she didn't want to continue watching the current situation.

He Ran tilted his head slightly to look at the people around him. He didn't seem to have much feeling for his fiancée who was shining brightly on the stage. His expression was numb from beginning to end, and no one knew what he was thinking.

fine.

He didn't applaud.

He secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and Lu Wan pulled his sleeve, and he stood up.

The two of them bent down slightly and walked out of the auditorium. At this time, they suddenly heard a scream. Lu Wan saw a school girl in the front row covering her lips and pointing at the stage -

She reflexively looked towards the stage, but saw her own face on the big screen behind Gou An.

To be precise, it was her half a month ago.

On the big screen, everyone around her was dressed in gorgeous clothes, bright and beautiful, except Lu Wan, who was wearing the uniform black and white work clothes of a waiter. She stood surrounded by people of her own age, her face full of confusion and fear, her hands twisted together out of nervousness...

The picture was taken because the photographer's hand was slightly shaking.

In the center of the screen, a waitress-dressed girl lowered her head humbly and said to the person standing opposite her: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't know! I just forgot which room I put it in, and I didn't know cats were allergic to lilies!"

There was a tearful tone in her apology.

But the person standing opposite her remained indifferent.

Her peer, who was wearing a black miniskirt and a small dress, had long curly hair that fluttered slightly in the sea breeze. She held her head high, with her delicate chin and slender neck forming an arrogant arc, and she lowered her eyes in contempt.

Then, with an expressionless face, she reached out and took a glass of red wine from the tray in the hands of another waiter beside her, and held it high above the head of Lu Wan who was bending over.

Someone in the auditorium exclaimed.

Amid the exclamation, in the picture, the glass in Gou An's hand tilted at the same time, and under the dazzling and gorgeous lights of the cruise ship deck, red wine poured down from the top of Lu Wan's head without a drop missing, soaking her soft black hair into several strands.

The red wine dyed the waiter's white shirt red, and in the high-definition video on the mobile phone, Lu Wan's eyes gradually turned red.

Her delicate hands were tightly grasping the dirty waitress's overalls, her fingertips were white, and she lowered her head without saying a word, looking so pitiful.

There was a brief silence in the auditorium.

Suddenly someone sneered, "Sure enough, it's just nice talk. What dreams and hard work are these rich girls talking about? They have been at our end point since birth. How can they really empathize with ordinary people? Cold-bloodedness has long been ingrained in their bones."

Lu Wan looked at his embarrassed self on the big screen, and his humble and fearful trembling voice echoed in his mind over and over again when he apologized...

For a moment, it was as if I was back to the night when I was humiliated in public.

Her eyes quickly turned red again.

When tears welled up in her eyes, the camera on the big screen at the scene was playing tricks. I don’t know when the lens was pointed at her face again, so at this moment, her tears were once again shown on the big screen——

Pale cheeks and trembling lips, the moment she looked up and saw her own embarrassment, she screamed and covered her eyes, and reflexively turned around and threw herself into He Ran's arms behind her! "Pa——!"

During the riot, an opened bottle of drink was thrown from below the stands onto the stage!

Gou An, who had been standing on the stage with an expressionless face, was caught off guard and raised his hand to block it reflexively! The arm that blocked the drink was hit hard, and his fair skin quickly turned red due to congestion and swelling. The brown drink splashed and stained Gou An's white sweatshirt!

The scene was in chaos, and before she could even react to what was happening, more people were shouting at the person on the stage to end his hypocritical speech;

Under the stage, Lu Wan's eyes were blurred with tears. She buried herself tightly in the boy's arms. Shame and embarrassment turned into fear and took over her. She trembled wildly and only felt the person she was hugging moved slightly.

With tears in her eyes, she looked back reflexively, only to see a tall figure leap up from the stage, and the suit jacket in his hand covered the panicked Miss Gou.

The loose suit fell down, covering her pale face.

The man's long arm reached over her shoulders.

At the moment when she was well protected, she seemed to suddenly wake up, and from under her suit jacket, a pale arm struggled to reach out and grab the dropped microphone——

The next second, an angry voice echoed throughout the auditorium.

"Don't you find it funny? That night she killed my cat due to negligence at work. Do you want me to say thank you to her with a smile? A glass of red wine is not sulfuric acid. She didn't even lose a hair. In the end, she even cried! How shameless of you to bring my cat back to life and punish me by soaking me in a red wine bottle as an inducer for medicinal wine! Come! Where are all the holy and helpful righteous clergy? You can cast a resurrection spell on my cat! And then soak me - um!"

The sound soon stopped because the microphone was taken away, and the man who was blocking her threw the microphone back to the podium with a "pop".

The vague conversation came through the microphone amplification function that was thrown aside -

"That last addition is unnecessary."

"There's no need for me to say take your hands away. I haven't finished yet--"

"Hush."

(End of this chapter)