Chapter 201
Early in the morning of October 15th, Jingcheng University was already shrouded in a lively atmosphere, with loud drums and gongs, waving red flags, and huge crowds of people.
The class monitor and the sports committee member came to the classroom early in the morning with the number tags to be pinned on the chest and distributed the number tags to everyone. Then everyone helped each other one by one or pinned them on their own chests.
"Xiang Yu! Is Xiang Yu here?"
"Zhou Jianhui, Zhou Jianhui, your number plate!"
"Where is Cui Yujie? Why hasn't Cui Yujie come yet? She is in charge of the girls' side!" The class monitor looked around the class anxiously to see if Cui Yujie had arrived.
Cui Yujie happened to be going downstairs with Liu Yan to have breakfast in the cafeteria.
The two of them were class leaders and came down early. When they arrived at the cafeteria, they didn't see Jiang Ning. Cui Yujie's heart skipped a beat and she felt something was wrong. She thought, Jiang Ning wouldn't go to class... right?
Seeing her looking around for something, Liu Yan asked her, "What are you looking for?"
Cui Yujie retracted her gaze and said, "I'm looking for Jiang Ning. Why isn't she in the cafeteria?"
"If he's not in the cafeteria, then he must have gone to class, or he must have gone to the May Fourth Stadium first. Where else can he go?" Liu Yan said while eating a steamed bun.
Cui Yujie took the buns and ate them while saying to Liu Yan, "I'll go check on the class first."
The reason why she had a bad feeling was because Jiang Ning seldom went to their class. She basically moved between the dormitory, the cafeteria, and the classrooms in a very regular manner.
At this moment, she regretted not telling Jiang Ning about the sports event she had signed up for. It felt great at the time, but it was such a pain in the ass afterwards.
If Jiang Ning was Yu Qianqian, she would have said it, but Jiang Ning was different. Although she was a native of Beijing, logically, she should have felt superior in front of Jiang Ning. In fact, she was very arrogant and domineering behind his back. In the dormitory, except Liu Yan and Yu Qianqian, no one paid attention to her and she couldn't command others at all. Jiang Ning had an inexplicable aura that made people afraid. She didn't even dare to speak loudly in front of Jiang Ning, let alone boss him around.
This resulted in the fact that even though she had signed up for Jiang Ning without his consent, and all of them were the most difficult long-distance running events, every time she wanted to talk to Jiang Ning about it, she was too timid and didn't dare to say anything. The longer she put it off, the more guilty and scared she felt. She just thought that since her name had been registered, would Jiang Ning dare not go?
She was chewing on a bun when she ran to the classroom. As expected, Jiang Ning was not there. She quickly pulled one of her classmates and asked, "Xiang Yu, have you seen Jiang Ning?"
Xiang Yu was stunned for a moment when he suddenly heard Jiang Ning's name. Then he thought of her as a non-classmate whom he had only met a few times in his class. He shook his head and said, "No."
At this time, the monitor saw her and handed her a number plate with numbers written on it. "These are for girls. Please distribute them to the girls when the time comes. I have already distributed them to many boys. Ji Shengkang has already gone to the stadium. If there are still those who haven't come to get their number plates, please hurry up. I will ask some boys to fetch water. Those who haven't got their number plates can go to the stadium and put them on."
Cui Yujie hurriedly asked the monitor: "Have you seen Jiang Ning?"
The monitor shook his head and said to the student who spent most of his time in sophomore and junior classes and was never seen, "Aren't you responsible for the girl? Oh, I remember she seemed to be your roommate? Aren't you together in the morning?"
Cui Yujie stamped her feet anxiously: "She runs every morning, and then disappears after running."
"Then she probably went to the stadium, right? Don't worry, Ji Shengkang is at the stadium. I will inform her when I see her." The squad leader was very calm in his actions. He gave people an appearance of being calm and composed, as if he was not in a hurry.
He had no idea that Cui Yujie had secretly registered Jiang Ning but didn't have the courage to tell him. As a result, Jiang Ning still didn't know that she was registered. Everyone else assumed that Jiang Ning had registered herself.
Cui Yujie wiped the sweat from her forehead and couldn't help complaining, "I don't know where you went so early in the morning!"
Now she just looked forward to seeing Jiang Ning on the playground.
When most of the classmates had arrived, she had given out most of the number plates in her hand. She kept notifying her classmates to gather at the May Fourth Playground and ran to the May Fourth Playground herself.
The playground was huge, with red flags and banners representing departments all around it, and people everywhere.
Cui Yujie and the others had come early to confirm the location of their own departments and classes. When they arrived at the playground, they hurried to their classes and asked the sports committee member: "Ji Shengkang, have you seen Jiang Ning?"
Today is the busiest day for the sports committee member, because many competitions are held simultaneously in different venues. He has been confirming and coordinating this matter to ensure that every student can find his or her position in time and go to the competition.
Hearing Cui Yujie's question, he looked up and said, "I didn't see it. What's wrong?"
Cui Yujie said anxiously: "Jiang Ning has two competitions today. The first one in the morning is a 3,000-meter long-distance race. I haven't seen her yet. She's not in the cafeteria or in the classroom!"
The sports committee member would never have thought that Jiang Ning was registered without his knowledge, so he said, "She must be at school. Go to the rostrum and shout twice with the loud speaker, and she will come over."
In their normal thinking, the school sports meet is such a big event that everyone should participate. They are either in the stadium or on the way to the stadium. Even the most studious students are athletes today.
Cui Yujie hurried to the broadcasting station next to the rostrum and said to the announcer sitting in front of the microphone: "Can I borrow your microphone?" Without waiting for the announcer's consent, she walked over, put the small microphone to her lips, and shouted: "Jiang Ning, Jiang Ning from the School of Mathematics, please come to the rostrum of the May Fourth Stadium. There is a project for you this morning, please come to the rostrum immediately!"
At this moment, she finally had nothing she was afraid to say. Afraid that Jiang Ning couldn't hear her, she repeated it three times in a row. Then she sat on the podium with her arms folded, waiting for Jiang Ning, her face as gloomy as water.
Her skin was slightly yellowish, her lips were dark, and her appearance was rather plain. At that time, few students wore makeup, so when she was angry, her face looked very dark and heavy, and there was an aura of "I'm very angry, don't mess with me" around her.
Now, anger has replaced her fear of Jiang Ning signing her up without her consent, and she even feels that it's her right. The sports meet is a collective activity, an event that brings glory to the class and the department. What's wrong with her signing her up? Now that you have signed up, you must participate!
She was about 165cm tall and extremely thin, similar to Jiang Ning in her previous life, with long arms and legs. To be fair, she signed herself up for a 200-meter sprint.
She waited at the rostrum for half an hour, but Jiang Ning didn't show up. She was originally still angry, but now she became anxious again. She borrowed the announcer's microphone and shouted three times, fearing that Jiang Ning had gone to the department gathering place and not come to the rostrum. She said to the announcer next to the rostrum: "I'll go to our class to see. If Jiang Ning comes to the rostrum, tell her not to leave and wait for me here." Without waiting for the announcer to agree, she assumed that she agreed and ran away.
He ran to where his class was, and the class monitor brought the boys in the class to bring water, as well as a first aid medicine kit, which contained some commonly used Band-Aids, iodine, gauze, white medicine and the like.
Seeing the squad leader, Cui Yujie asked again: "Squad leader, have you seen Jiang Ning?"
The monitor had just heard Cui Yujie's voice on the radio. Hearing this, he frowned and said, "Isn't she here yet?"
"No, I looked everywhere, but where is she? The sports meet is such a big event, and she is not in the stadium. Why is she running around?" Cui Yujie was so anxious that she was about to cry.
Jiang Ning, who was running around because of Cui Yujie's instructions, was taken to a clothing store by the producer of the "White Snake" crew and asked to choose and try on suits and dresses.
Because of the arrival of the Wanhua Film Festival, the styling studios have been very busy these days, with customers coming here to rent dresses and do costume styling. The styling studio that the producer of "White Snake" brought them to is considered a very fashionable studio in this era. The studio owner has returned from studying abroad. The shop is filled with rows of luxury dresses from major foreign brands, both for men and women, and there is also a dedicated styling team to do styling for actors in need.
This is a new industry that has only been around for a few years in the mainland.
The owner of the studio is a woman in her thirties, but the stylist who designs the clothes for Jiang Ning and the others is not her. Instead, he is a young man in his twenties who dresses very fashionably and seductively.
The moment they entered the room, the stylist, who was dressed very fashionably and charmingly, saw Jiang Bai at a glance, hurriedly walked up to Jiang Bai, looked him up and down, clapped her hands, and said with a sweet smile: "Ming Yue~~"
Jiang Bai laughed so hard that he started laughing. His hand was held stiffly, with nowhere to hide, by the young stylist. The stylist's gaze turned to Tong Jingang and Jiang Ning, and his eyes were immediately locked on Jiang Ning: "You are..." He thought it was the female lead at first glance, but suddenly he remembered that the female lead had already decided on her dress and style here, and had also tried on the clothes.
But it didn't matter. He quickly let go of Jiang Bai's hand, walked over and looked at Jiang Ning, then took Jiang Ning to the rows of clothes and took out pieces of clothing one by one and tried them on her.
Because Jiang Ning was too young, he first took out a shiny pink halter dress. The upper part of the dress was tightly wrapped around her body, pinching the waistline, and the lower part was a fluffy and shiny floor-length skirt.
After gesturing for a while, the stylist clapped her hands and said in surprise, "It looks good, really good!" Then she urged Jiang Ning to go into the fitting room to change clothes, "Go in and try them on!" She then said to a young girl standing by, "Go in and help."
In her previous life, Jiang Ning lived a very simple life before she started working. It was not that she wanted to live a simple life, but she had no money. Even if she had royalties from writing, the sales were not in the hundreds of millions like in this life. At that time, her book had 200,000 words, and the royalty fee was 7%. If the first print run was 20,000 copies, it would only be more than 20,000 yuan. After deducting tuition, living expenses, and the money she sent to Grandpa Jiang, she did not have much left.
After work, they have requirements for their daily dress and accessories, and various jewelry can only be worn after get off work. During work, they should be dignified and elegant.
Therefore, Jiang Ning had never worn such gorgeous and exquisite clothes in her past and present lives. She had never tried it before, so she couldn't help but try it with great interest.
As soon as Jiang Ning entered, the stylist's eyes fell on Jiang Bai again, looking him up and down, from his face, hairstyle, temperament, to his height and figure.
For nearly three years, he has insisted on walking and doing things with his head held high, chest out, shoulders open, and a straight posture. Now, he has formed the habit of keeping his body upright at all times and in all places. He does not need to open his shoulders deliberately to maintain a straight posture like a poplar. In addition, he has always paid attention to the management and exercise of his body, and his muscles are tight. He is truly a clothes rack that looks thin when dressed and has muscles when undressed.
The stylist also reached out and pinched the muscles on Jiang Bai's arms, and touched his abdominal muscles twice, which made Jiang Bai's face turn red all of a sudden, and he quickly took a step back.
The stylist took him to rows of suits covered in transparent plastic bags, took out a white suit and a dark suit, tried them on Jiang Bai, and then went to find an ironed white shirt without a single wrinkle and asked Jiang Bai to put it on.
The white shirt was obviously new. This place looked very high-end and the clothes were very expensive. Jiang Bai was afraid that he would not be able to afford the compensation if he got his clothes dirty, so he did not want to change them.
The producer smiled and said, "Go change it. You can't afford to pay for the suit, but you can still afford the shirt. Just be careful."
Tong Jingang was also visiting such a place for the first time. He was really amazed and asked curiously, "Is it expensive?"
The producer smiled and said, "If you add up all your publicity expenses, it would barely be enough to compensate him for a suit."
Jiang Bai almost threw away the suit in his hand after hearing this. He would never wear such expensive clothes.
Seeing that he was not pretending but really didn't want to wear it, the stylist reluctantly took Jiang Bai to a smaller room at the back, where there were also suits hung in transparent plastic bags, carefully wrapped in good condition. He said, "These are old styles from a few years ago. Some have been rented out, but they are all well maintained."
He found two sets and handed them to Jiang Bai, "Little brother, wear them with confidence."
For some reason, Jiang Bai felt like he was being teased and felt uncomfortable all over.
Tong Jingang also shuddered and went over to ask him what he wanted to wear.
The stylist took one look at his tall and muscular figure and the muscular body and said, "Wear whichever suit you can fit into!"
The producer, director Yu, and main actor Fahai and others came early during the National Day holiday to finalize the costumes and styling, and had already taken the rented costumes away. This time they came mainly to help Jiang Bai, Tong Jingang, and Jiang Ning with their styling.
The main one is Tong Jingang.
But Ningmeng has its own traffic after all, and this time "White Snake" made a lot of money, but Ningmeng, the original author, didn't make much. Although she gave Jiang Ning a red envelope of 50,000 yuan before, as far as they know, the producer of "Party A and Party B" gave the author of the original novel a red envelope of 100,000 yuan after the box office exceeded 30 million, but was blocked by the original author and has never had any contact with each other again.
If they want to work with Teacher Ning Meng in the future, they will naturally have to support her and not care about the money for renting the dress and styling.
Jiang Ning didn't care about walking the red carpet or not. She thought it was a good experience to participate in it. If she wrote about similar plots in her works in the future, it would not be groundless. Writing about what she had experienced and writing about what she had not experienced would feel completely different.
Soon, Jiang Ning changed her clothes. She did not take off her pants, but wore them under her skirt. She only took off her top.
But this dress was too tight. Even though Jiang Ning was already thin enough, she had gained some weight over the past two years. The most obvious part was her chest. In her previous life, she had a pair of A cups, but in this life, because she had taken in enough nutrition during her growth and development period, her breasts had grown full and tight. This made it so that after she put on this dress, after the zipper at the back was pulled up, she could not zip it up to the corresponding part in front of her chest.
The young girl who had come with her before stood at the door of the fitting room. Seeing that she hadn't come out, she asked her softly, "Is there anything I can help you with?"
Jiang Ning said: "The clothes are too small and the zipper can't be zipped up. Can you change them to a bigger one for me?"
The young girl's voice was very gentle and pleasant: "Can I come in and take a look?"
The fitting room had a door curtain. After Jiang Ning nodded in agreement, he lifted the curtain and went in. He walked behind Jiang Ning, pulled the two sides of the zipper on her back towards the middle, and with his other hand, he pulled the small zipper head upwards, and the zipper was pulled up.
The girl smiled softly and said, "Look, it fits perfectly!"
She stood beside Jiang Ning and looked at the person in the mirror with Jiang Ning.
Jiang Ning had been out doing disaster relief work for the entire six, seven and eight months. During the hottest part of the summer, even though she wore a hat, her face was inevitably sunburned. Even after more than a month of rest, her skin condition had recovered, but compared to the skin on her body, the skin below her neck was still as white and shiny as pearls.
The three siblings in their family are all born with fair skin. Even Jiang's father and mother, who work outside on construction sites all year round, still do not look dark when they come back, but have a normal skin color. With a little dressing up, Jiang's mother looks much better than her peers.
Jiang Ning had no makeup on at this time. Apart from basic moisturizing skin care, she only applied sunscreen on her face. However, she still did not look overwhelmed by the gorgeous clothes. On the contrary, it seemed that the pink dress could not suppress her aura.
The stylist originally thought that she looked only about 17 or 18 years old, very young, so he chose a girlish pink color for her.
The two thin pink straps, hanging on both ends of her snow-white and slender collarbones, inexplicably added a bit of girlish cuteness, purity and charm to her.
If you don't look at Jiang Ning's calm and indifferent eyes, she is indeed very sweet and beautiful.
The girl next to her looked at Jiang Ning in the mirror, who was wearing a sparkling dress. She couldn't help but stare at the mirror with admiration, unable to take her eyes off: "Too beautiful!"
She couldn't help but move her gaze from the mirror to Jiang Ning's face, wanting to see if the real person was as beautiful as in the mirror. Unexpectedly, seeing her face to face at such a close distance was even more shocking.
Unlike Jiang Bai's cheeks which still had some light freckles, Jiang Ning's face was smooth, white and flawless, with even a tiny mole barely visible. She had a pair of bright and clear eyes with long, thick eyelashes covering her slightly sharp eyelids, casting a fan-shaped shadow under her eyes.
Her nose was high and straight, her lips were a light pink without any makeup on, somewhat like spring roses, and her chin was small and delicate, without the slightest flaw to be found.
She just stared in shock until Jiang Ning looked at her with a puzzled look. Her heart skipped a beat and she said hurriedly, "Let's go out and let ALEX take a look!"
ALEX is the English name of the stylist who selected dresses for Jiang Ning and the others. It is very popular nowadays to give yourself an English name. This stylist also studied abroad and majored in fashion styling. After returning, he asked everyone to call him by his English name.
As soon as Jiang Ning came out of the fitting room, the eyes of the people waiting on the sofa lit up. ALEX even exclaimed exaggeratedly: "Oh my God! Is this a fairy from somewhere? How can she be so beautiful? This dress suits you so well, right? It turns out that I have the best taste!"
As he spoke, he walked straight towards Jiang Ning and stopped more than a meter in front of Jiang Ning, with his hands clenched into small fists and placed under his chin as if in amazement.
Everyone in the styling room in the studio was looking at Jiang Ning in amazement. Song Peifeng had always known that Jiang Ning was extremely beautiful, but he had never expected that she would look so radiant after being dressed up, completely different from her usual self.
Jiang Ning was wearing a skirt that seemed a little cool in that era, but she didn't look shy at all. Instead, she held the hem of her gauze skirt openly. The young girl behind her was also helping her hold the hem of her skirt. Standing in front of the oversized mirror, Jiang Ning admired the girl in the mirror.
Indeed, it is beautiful.
She is so beautiful, but in her previous life as a teenager, she never appreciated herself.
The few people who were originally sitting on the sofa, waiting for them to change into dresses and style, all stood up and surrounded Jiang Ning, admiring her beauty.
Director Yu said: "It's a waste if this face doesn't enter the film industry to make movies. She is really a natural movie face. How many people want such a face, but can't get it. I have invited this little girl to play the White Snake many times, but she didn't come." He said to Jiang Ning: "I heard that Lao Zhang also invited you to play the female lead in your drama "Jin Yiwei", but you didn't go either."
Jiang Ning looked at Director Yu with a smile and said, "This is not my future. Director Yu, you don't need to persuade me anymore." She then said to the stylist, "It looks good, but it's still too cool to wear this in Beijing in October. In order to avoid catching a cold, I'll do the same as them..." She pointed at Tong Jingang and Jiang Bai who had just walked out and said, "Pick a suit for me."
The stylist couldn't believe it. Jiang Ning didn't choose this dress but a suit instead?
"NO~~~!" The stylist Alex refused and asked her to look in the mirror: "How suitable, how perfect!"
“Perfect, but cold!”
Rather than being beautiful, she chose to keep warm, "Besides, I'm not an actor in "White Snake." There's no need to steal the spotlight.
Although she didn't finish her words, the people present understood the implication of her words.
Indeed, when Jiang Ning wore this outfit, she immediately overshadowed the female lead of their "White Snake" crew. They even nominated her for the "Best Actress" award.
The stylist was at a loss, so he picked out a new suit for Jiang Ning. Unexpectedly, Jiang Ning still managed to pull off the new style very well. It was like the stylist had picked up a perfect dress-up doll, and he wished he could give Jiang Ning all the dresses he thought were suitable.
Unfortunately, she will only be a supporting role tomorrow, not the protagonist.
After Cui Yujie called Jiang Ning many times and asked people to look for her in the classroom and dormitory but couldn't find her, she finally realized that things had gotten out of hand.
Who could have thought that for such a big event as the Peking University Sports Meet, Jiang Ning would not be at school? As long as Jiang Ning was in school, even if she didn't want to run, there were counselors and so many classmates there. Even for the honor of the department, she had to run whether she wanted to or not. But Jiang Ning was not there!
Her first reaction was that Jiang Ning knew about this and deliberately wasn't in school today. She was so furious that she wanted to cry.
The 3,000-meter long-distance race was held at 9:30 this morning. Other competition events had already started, but Jiang Ning was not there yet.
Even the class monitor and the sports committee member noticed something was wrong and came over to ask Cui Yujie: "Have you found Jiang Ning? The 3,000-meter race is about to start, why hasn't she arrived yet?"
Cui Yujie said angrily with a dark face: "How should I know? Her legs are not attached to my body, how can I know where she went?"
The squad leader frowned and said, "Although Jiang Ning and I haven't had much contact, she doesn't seem to be such an irresponsible person. What's going on?"
Cui Yujie stammered and was speechless for a moment.
Those who are able to be admitted to the University of Tokyo may lack in emotional intelligence, but they are not lacking in IQ.
The monitor saw Cui Yujie's reaction and immediately realized that there might be something wrong. He did not get to the bottom of it at this time, but tried to find a way to remedy the situation. He said, "It's too late to talk about this now. The competition will start soon. Let's think about what to do first." The monitor took two steps anxiously and said, "The skylight must not be opened. Now we can only find someone to replace Jiang Ning to run the 3,000 meters that is about to start."
Cui Yujie asked anxiously, "Who are you looking for?" Her eyes suddenly caught sight of Yu Qianqian not far away, and she shouted, "Qianqian! Come here!"
As soon as Yu Qianqian saw her expression, she knew it was not a good thing, and she covered her stomach and said, "Ouch, I have to go to the toilet, Zhang Min, do you have paper?"
Zhang Min was very smart. Upon hearing this, she immediately said, "Go quickly. I'll bring you some paper."
As they spoke, the two little girls ran to the toilet very quickly.
Cui Yujie's face turned black.
Ji Shengkang, the sports committee member, also saw something fishy going on. He frowned and said impatiently, "Okay, Yu Qianqian still has a 1,500-meter race to run. It's not appropriate for her to run it." He looked up and down at Cui Yujie, who was 165cm tall, with long arms and legs and a skinny body, and said, "I remember you only have one 200-meter sprint tomorrow. Jiang Ning is not here, so you can take over her 3,000-meter race first."
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