"Huh? You said you picked a random date?? You?"
Hearing this answer, Lu Qingxuan was shocked at first.
She was not shocked by the bet itself, but by——
There are actually people rushing to submit their work just to date Miao Aoxue?
Are you blind?
What's more, how could Chen Ya possibly write more than a hundred manuscripts and submit them to magazines just for Miao Aoxue?
Was it because he was young and naive and had never seen a woman? Or was it because he was bewitched and fell for Miao Aoxue's pua?
It's just a date, why are you rushing forward like you're afraid of missing the opportunity?
If you had just told me you wanted to date a girl earlier, there wouldn't have been so much trouble. If you had just begged me nicely, I would have definitely agreed, right?!
Lu Qingxuan's first reaction completely disregarded Miao Aoxue's feelings. This undisguised contempt deeply hurt the other party.
"Me? What's wrong with me? You don't believe that the dispute over the title is because of me, right?" Miao Aoxue said in a shrill voice, "After all, I was the campus belle of Peking University back then!"
Xia Yingji and the others turned their attention to Liu Ruying—now, she was the one who inherited the title of school beauty. It was unknown what she would think after hearing Miao Aoxue's words.
"At that time, many boys competed to write articles for Weiming for me. Boys have always been like this. When they are competitive, they lose their minds." Miao Aoxue said with a smile, as if recalling the glorious past, and her face was a little radiant.
Lu Qingxuan considered her words and said, "So, Miss Miao, you made this announcement just to stir up jealousy among the boys?"
She hadn't said anything yet - "There's a bit of a green tea flavor in this."
Miao Aoxue understood her implication and immediately said:
"Of course not! I wasn't the only one who did that back then... Well, there's a reason for that, and it's a long story."
"What's the reason? Tell me in detail?"
"Actually, our Beijing University's magazine, 'Unclear,' had very little influence in the beginning... well, it's not huge now either," Miao Aoxue said. "The school's printing plant is pitifully small, so the president of the school publication complains constantly about insufficient funding. This is something everyone in the school knows."
After listening to this, Wu Zun nodded thoughtfully.
Due to historical reasons, the early Weiming was one of the flagships of the school, with great historical significance, far exceeding the influence of a school journal. Later, with the changing times, Weiming gradually returned to its original role as a school journal and no longer had such a strong influence.
The print run of "Weiming" magazine has always been very small, less than a thousand copies. It is said that it was indeed difficult to sell in the past. For every thousand copies produced, perhaps five hundred would be donated to the library.
I don’t know why the school magazine is selling very well now, and the school magazine publisher has achieved a balance between income and expenditure, so it has sufficient funds.
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Sometimes Wu Zun would wonder, in this day and age when print media is declining, so many newspapers and periodicals rely on distribution. How come so many people are willing to pay for a small magazine like "Weiming" which is filled with contributions from students on campus?
Miao Aoxue continued, "In my class, the president of the school magazine was Ishikawa Dong. You should know that he later became the founder of Beichen."
Lu Qingxuan said: "He is also a legendary figure." Wu Zun and the others in Eagle's Nest nodded frantically behind him.
Miao Aoxue said: "Ishikawa Dong is very cute. He kowtowed everywhere to beg people to submit their works to him. I don't know which girl took pity on him and joked that when the school magazine published the 520th issue, she would randomly pick an author from it for a date."
"Which girl is not you?"
"It wasn't me. It was someone else. I don't know who it was, because later many people claimed to be the first one," said Miao Aoxue.
At this point, Lu Qingxuan suddenly understood.
She asked, "So, you're just following the trend, right?"
"If you're talking about following the trend, everyone was following it. It's actually become a meme. I feel like at least half of the girls at Kyoto University participated in this bet. Half of them said they wanted to pick someone to date on the 520th issue of 'Unclear'."
After hearing this, Lu Qingxuan turned around and looked at Liu Ruying, Wu Zun and others in surprise.
Could it be that Chen Ya actually wants to monopolize half of the girls in Peking University?
"That means Chen Ya didn't submit the article for you. He did it because he promised to randomly pick a girl from the boys to date, and that's the one he cared about. Is that right?" Lu Qingxuan asked.
"I'm so scared." Lu Qingxuan patted her chest. She almost got fooled. She almost thought Chen Ya submitted the article out of anger just for Miao Aoxue.
"Maybe, who knows," Miao Aoxue said. "Everyone treated it as a joke at the time, because when this meme appeared, Weiming was still a long way from issue 520. When issue 520 came out, this meme became popular again, and everyone started to panic."
Lu Qingxuan asked, "I'm a little curious now. Chen Ya dominated the entire 520th issue. Did all the girls who promised to randomly pick a boy to go out with actually go out with Chen Ya?"
"How is that possible? There were thousands of girls at the time, how could they all date him?" Miao Aoxue said, "However, after the 520th issue of 'Unclear' came out, Chen Ya was indeed very busy at that time, busy dealing with those girls.
"That issue of 'Unclear' was fantastic. Many of the poems and quotes in it became popular on campus. Everyone was talking about Bai Yujing, but few knew that Bai Yujing's true identity was actually an administrator working in the library.
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