(Nine)
Seeing several senior students vying to show off in front of her, their noisy chatter giving her a headache, Ye Wenyu had no choice but to point at the chubby girl and say to them, "Thank you, but I only need one person to help me. You can help the others. I think she really needs help."
The senior students didn't move. Two of the bolder ones had already grabbed her suitcase. Ye Wenyu, with her hands empty, had no choice but to walk over to the chubby girl and pull one of her suitcases for her. The other senior students, seeing Ye Wenyu's actions, blushed with embarrassment and could only offer to help carry the chubby girl's other luggage, leading the two of them to the freshman registration area.
The group was large and impressive, with the senior students leading the way and Ye Wenyu and the chubby girl following behind.
The chubby girl said gratefully in a soft voice, "Thank you for earlier."
Ye Wenyu smiled at her.
The chubby girl lowered her voice and said, "If it weren't for you, senior definitely wouldn't have helped me. I—" Her voice was barely audible, but Ye Wenyu could sense her intense inferiority complex. The chubby girl continued sadly, "This is a world that judges by appearance!"
Seeing that the chubby girl looked like she was about to cry, Ye Wenyu immediately comforted her, saying, "No, they just didn't see you."
"No way!" the chubby girl immediately denied, her voice filled with indignation. She glanced at Ye Wenyu with envy and said to her, "If you were like me, without a devilish figure, without big breasts, a slim waist, snow-white skin that seems to glow, without waterfall-like black hair, without big, grape-like eyes, if you were like me, only 1.5 meters tall but weighing 150 pounds, without Han Hong's life but with Han Hong's illness, and with small eyes, a flat nose, a cleft lip and crooked teeth, and a face full of pockmarks, do you think they would still see you? This is a world where appearance is productivity!"
As the chubby girl spoke, she became cynical and gritted her teeth.
Ye Wenyu found it amusing and comforted her, "Don't talk nonsense. I'm wearing a mask, how can they tell the difference between beauty and ugliness?" She thought to herself, "When I take off my mask, they'll probably scatter like birds when they see the hairy birthmark on my face."
The chubby girl glanced at Ye Wenyu with envy, silently took out a pink mask and put it on, asking her, "Look, don't I look less ugly than before?"
Ye Wenyu glanced at it and nodded. She had to admit that the mask made the chubby girl look less unattractive.
The chubby girl took off her mask again, her mood improved, and she whispered with a hint of pride, "A study in Japan showed that if a girl wears a mask, it only makes her look more beautiful, because men will beautify the parts they can't see. If it weren't so hot today, I would wear a mask like you all the time."
I see!
Ye Wenyu seemed to have gained some knowledge. She smiled at the chubby girl and comforted her, saying, "Actually, the most important thing for a woman is inner beauty. Too much beauty will only bring her disaster. That's why there's an old saying, 'Beauty is a curse.' People have always thought that a beautiful woman will bring disaster to the men around her. But I think that a beautiful woman will bring immense disaster upon herself, leading to her destruction."
She thought of her past life. If she hadn't been so beautiful, if she hadn't been so poor that she was desperate, she probably wouldn't have caught Lin Tingfeng's eye, and she probably wouldn't have accepted his pursuit and been with him. If they hadn't been together, then none of the subsequent tragedies would have happened. It's just a pity that life doesn't offer "what ifs".
This is also why she disguised herself as ugly in this life.
At this moment, the group had arrived at the freshman registration area. A senior student called out enthusiastically to Ye Wenyu, "Junior, come over here, fill out the forms, and pay your tuition."
Upon hearing the words "pay tuition," Ye Wenyu was startled and immediately snapped out of her reverie. The reality of the problem loomed large before her.
The chubby girl said to Ye Wenyu, "I'm going to pay my tuition. You should come quickly too, otherwise if you're any later, there will be a long queue and I don't know how long it will take. In this hot weather, I think I'll get heatstroke and faint if I stand in the sun for too long."
The chubby girl, muttering to herself, had already set off to pay her tuition fees on her short legs.
Ye Wenyu remained rooted to the spot, unmoving.
Paying tuition? Where would she get the money for tuition? She hadn't expected that paying tuition would be such an urgent matter for university freshmen. She had originally planned to try to find the school leaders and explain her family situation to see if they could waive her tuition.
Another senior student, seeing Ye Wenyu standing still, immediately walked over to her and asked with concern, "Junior, are you feeling unwell?" He considerately held up a large black umbrella with a silver-coated surface to protect her from the sun. The chubby girl was already scorching hot from the sun, and comparing the two, she glared resentfully at the senior student beside her. The senior student seemed not to notice, smiling as he looked in Ye Wenyu's direction.
The fact that she received care from strange men because of her beauty did not make Ye Wenyu happy. She was anxious and distressed, wondering what she would do about her tuition fees.
The senior student waiting at the payment counter, holding a blank form, was still calling out to Ye Wenyu: "Junior, come on! There will be a lot of people paying later, and you'll have to wait in line for at least two or three hours. If you fill out the form and pay now, it will only take five minutes. After you're done, I'll treat you to some ice cream at the ice cream parlor."
This senior was indeed very impatient. He wasn't in a hurry to pay Ye Wenyu's tuition; he was eager to introduce himself to the beautiful women in the ice room.
Ye Wenyu felt somewhat embarrassed. Seeing the puzzled looks from everyone, she had no choice but to move her feet with difficulty to the payment counter. The staff in charge of collecting the fees were like people who had eaten ice cream on a hot summer day when they saw a beautiful young girl. They immediately perked up and said to Ye Wenyu with a smile, "Student, the total is 13,400. Of that, 8,000 is tuition, 2,000 is dormitory fee, 1,000 is meal card fee, and 400 is for your military training uniform."
What? So much? Besides tuition, there's also dormitory fee, meal card fee, and military training uniform fee?
These sums of money hit Ye Wenyu like punches, leaving her seeing stars and her head buzzing. What to do? What to do? She only had less than two thousand yuan in her Alipay account. Her father hadn't given her any money in years, and her mother had just gotten married. How could she possibly ask him for money?
What to do? What to do? Ye Wenyu was on the verge of tears. She even felt a little sorry for her past self. Perhaps she really had no other choice but to choose Lin Tingfeng back then.
In her previous life, after learning that her mother was going to abandon her and remarry, Lin Tingyue called to invite her to the Lin family's banquet. Having lost her home overnight and having no money to go to university, she thought this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and agreed without hesitation. She dressed up carefully and met Lin Tingfeng at the banquet.
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