On the day of the freshman orientation, Jiang Sui Sui changed into the shirt and long skirt that she had kept at the bottom of her closet. After changing, she turned around, and the hem of her skirt fluttered, causing Zhao Qianyun to exclaim, "Sui Sui! Where did you buy this dress? It's so beautiful!"
Zhao Qianyun looked down at the costumes she had prepared. In order to suit the rural setting, they were all grey cloth shirts and trousers. She immediately began to envy Jiang Suisui.
Although Li Chunjiao didn't want to admit it, she also thought Jiang Suunsui's clothes were good-looking. The top was fashionable, and paired with a waist-cinching pleated long skirt, it made her look slender and elegant. She was wearing baggy and tacky cotton pants a few days ago, how come she suddenly looked so fresh?
Li Chunjiao couldn't help but prick up her ears out of curiosity, wanting to hear where Jiang Suinsui bought the clothes from.
Jiang Suisui smiled and said, "I made it myself."
Zhao Qianyun circled around her in amazement and praised, "You made it yourself? You have great skills! My grandmother can also make clothes, but she can only make cheongsams and other clothes. She doesn't even like the new styles of clothes worn by young people like us."
Jiang Sui Sui: "Then your grandma is amazing. I don't even know how to make a cheongsam. I can only make some simple ones."
Zhao Qianyun: "But I like you like this. Nowadays, who among the young people out there still wears cheongsam? Next time I go shopping in a department store, I'll see if there's anything similar to yours, so I can buy one."
Li Chunjiao was so depressed listening to this that she picked up the clothes she was going to change and started throwing them around.
Zhang Xiu urged her, "Li Chunjiao, hurry up. The freshman orientation is about to start. Change your clothes and let's go there quickly."
Li Chunjiao's role is a village girl from the village where the male protagonist went to work, and she cannot wear anything too bright. When she thought about herself standing on the stage in a gray dress while Jiang Sui Sui was dressed beautifully, Li Chunjiao regretted her actions that day even more.
If she had known this, she would have raised her hand to play the leading female role. Who knew that Wei would play the affectionate second male role!
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Behind the scenes of the freshman meeting, Zhao Jiabao was lazily taking a resting seat and watching others busying around. He said to Wei Zhenhua who was reviewing the script, "Hey, you're just too idle to do anything. You have to host the freshman meeting and participate in that nonsense play for freshmen. I've never seen anyone who loves to show off more than you."
Wei Zhenhua frowned, but still said in a good-natured manner: "It's just a small favor. But you haven't been attending classes recently, you haven't been seen at the literature club meetings, and you didn't go to the last freshman welcome party held in the department. If you are really busy and can't spare the time, you don't have to force yourself to join the literature club."
"Oh, don't." Zhao Jiabao said with a playful smile, "My grandparents have said that the literature club in our department is very famous and only talented people can join it. I can't just quit the club casually."
Wei Zhenhua frowned, thinking of Zhao Jiabao's family background, and stopped talking about this topic.
He said helplessly, "Then go out and take a seat. The freshman orientation will start soon. The backstage will be busy and chaotic. You won't be able to see anything from here."
"Why can't I see anything?" Zhao Jiabao looked around with his sly eyes. "Is there a female student who wants to change clothes? I'll go over and help her pull the curtains."
Wei Zhenhua took a deep breath, feeling helpless.
This Zhao Jiabao was idle all day long and unlearned, but he had a wealthy and powerful background that no one could afford to offend, so Wei Zhenhua could only turn a blind eye and endure it.
He shook his head, retracted his attention, and concentrated on reading the script.
The female classmate that Zhao Jiabao saw was none other than Li Chunjiao, who had been dragging her feet and refusing to change her clothes, and was surrounded by Zhang Xiu, Wang Xiaotian and others.
Li Chunjiao stood at the backstage door holding her clothes, watching the people coming and going and the mess of things inside, and complained: "How can I change clothes here? You guys accompany me to the women's restroom."
Zhang Xiu was speechless and said, "If you hadn't been so reluctant to get dressed, we would have changed our clothes in the dormitory. Now you're the only one who hasn't prepared. Senior Sister said that she will have to put powder and lip balm on us later. The toilet is in another building, and it will be too late for us to run over there. Go change by yourself and come back as soon as you're done."
Li Chunjiao said unhappily, "You're saying it's all my fault! You guys were already dressed in rustic clothes, so you didn't need to change clothes, but I had to change. How can you take advantage of me and blame me?"
Zhang Xiu was so angry that she laughed: "Shunshun and Qianyun also want to change, right? They have packed up long ago and are putting on makeup now, but you are being pretentious. It's up to you to change or not. It's none of my business if you can't make it on stage."
After Zhang Xiu finished speaking, he angrily pulled the others away, leaving Li Chunjiao standing there alone with a sullen face.
At this time, Zhao Jiabao came over and asked with a smile: "Classmate, freshman sister? What difficulties have you encountered? Tell me."
Li Chunjiao looked up and saw a boy with a pointed face and a lewd look in his eyes. Without thinking, she rolled her eyes and said impatiently, "It's none of your business!"
Li Chunjiao pushed Zhao Jiabao away and said viciously, "Stay away from me!"
After saying that, she left the backstage angrily, holding her clothes. As she walked, she thought, there are all kinds of people!
Behind her, Zhao Jiabao's face changed color, he spat, and said disdainfully: "What the hell?!"
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On the other side, Jiang Suinsui, Zhao Qianyun and others changed their clothes early and waited in the corner of the backstage. Jiang Suinsui would look around from time to time, trying to find Song Weizheng.
The senior sisters from the Chinese Department walked in and saw the junior sisters waiting obediently, and immediately surrounded them out of curiosity.
Senior Sister Chen Hongying, who I had met on the day of registration, looked at them for a while and said, "The girls in our department are really pretty. I looked around and ours is the prettiest."
Zhao Qianyun smiled happily, and Jiang Suinshun blushed and pursed her lips embarrassedly.
"No, you have to put on some makeup." Chen Hongying said to the people around her, "Do you remember? In the past, at our New Year's Eve party, we went up without any makeup, and the big lights above shone down, and everyone's face was terribly pale!"
"Yes, yes, yes. I remember that you should put on some lip balm, otherwise you will look bad."
Chen Hongying asked around, "Who among you has perfume and lip balm?"
Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads.
"No... I don't usually use those things."
"Who would carry these with them..."
"I do have some at home, but it's too late now."
After hearing this, Chen Hongying sighed and thought, forget it, it’s too late to think about this now.
At this time, Zhao Qianyun weakly raised her hand and said, "I have it, I carry it with me..."
After saying that, she took out a box of perfume powder and a box of lip balm from her pocket.
Chen Hongying was surprised: "So you are ready!"
Jiang Suinsui also looked at her in surprise. She didn't notice when she changed clothes before that Zhao Qianyun had these things in her pocket.
“Hehe…” Zhao Qianyun smiled sheepishly, “My mom prepared this for me when she heard that I was going to perform on stage. But since no one else mentioned it, I didn’t dare to bring it out.”
Chen Hongying smiled and said, "What's there to be embarrassed about? We girls just want to be beautiful!"
Zhao Qianyun: "Then I'll share my powder and lip balm with everyone, and let's go on stage beautifully together."
Chen Hongying nodded, called everyone over, and prepared to put makeup on them one by one.
Just as she opened the lipstick cover, Chen Hongying paused again, a little hesitant to do it: "Hey, I've never put on makeup before, I'm not familiar with the technique, does anyone among you know how to do it?"
Who knew that everyone would shake their heads and step back, waving their hands and saying, "We have never done makeup for anyone else..."
Zhao Qianyun raised her hand and said enthusiastically: "I'll do it, I'll do it, I can do it!"
She put some lip balm on her hands and gently smeared it on her lips: "It's very simple, let me do it for you!"
Chen Hongying smiled and said, "Okay, I'll find you a mirror."
Zhao Qianyun turned to look at Jiang Suisui beside her and said, "Suisui, let me put on your makeup first."
Jiang Suisui shook her head and said with a smile, "I'm not in a hurry. You can do the makeup for others first, and I'll do it myself later."
Zhao Qianyun was not surprised to hear that Jiang Suinsui wanted to do her own makeup. After all, in her eyes, Jiang Suinsui could cut hair and make beautiful clothes, so what was so strange about putting on makeup?
She applied powder and lip balm to each of the students who were about to go on stage. Everyone gathered together, feeling shy yet excited, and looked at each other's facial makeup with curiosity.
Finally it was Jiang Sui Sui's turn. She picked up the mirror and used her powder puff to lightly press the skin on her face without applying too much makeup. Then she pointed her finger at the mirror and gently spread the red lip balm on her lips. Finally she pursed her lips, and her lips turned cherry red.
She nodded with satisfaction, rubbed the last bit of lip balm on her hands, gently rubbed it on her cheeks, and spread a little natural blush, and then she was done.
Zhao Qianyun, who was watching from the side, couldn't help but lean over to hold her cheek and sighed, "Sui Sui, you are so beautiful! Today you are the flower of our department, no! The flower of our school!"
Jiang Suisui raised the corners of her lips and said with a smile: "No, today we are a bouquet of flowers, a cluster of flowers, a yard full of flowers!"
In the backstage corner, the girls were laughing and making noises. Not far away, Zhao Jiabao looked at this side foolishly, nudged Wei Zhenhua with his elbow, and said, "Hey, that girl is our junior sister, right? What's her name?"
Wei Zhenhua had been fascinated by the show without realizing it, and only came to his senses after being scolded. He said with an uneasy expression, "Those girls are all junior sisters from our department. Which one are you asking about?"
Zhao Jiabao grinned: "Which one are you talking about? The most beautiful one!"
Wei Zhenhua looked at Jiang Suisui, paused, then moved his gaze to Zhao Qianyun's direction and said, "Her name is Zhao Qianyun."
Unexpectedly, Zhao Jiabao snorted after hearing this and said, "I know Zhao Qianyun. She is a bitch and has a bad personality. How can she be considered the prettiest? I'm talking about the one next to her!"
Wei Zhenhua's eyes flickered, but he did not answer. Instead, he asked, "From what you said, you and Zhao Qianyun knew each other before?"