Chapter 33
This username is so artistic.
Before he even formally greeted the person, Jiang Yunuo already had a preconceived impression of him just by looking at his friend's nickname.
This friend request popped up at the right time. She was using her personal terminal, sitting cross-legged on the hard bed on the second floor of the abandoned garbage house, with a folding floating screen in front of her.
The next second after seeing the details of the message, Jiang Yunu decisively clicked the "Agree" button floating in the air.
It was also because she agreed very quickly. The other party had probably just submitted the application and was looking at the terminal. They didn't expect the application to be approved so quickly.
Jiang Yunu was still studying the basic information and nickname of the user [Zhu Ming Ying Xue]. The next moment, she saw a status icon representing "input" flashing next to the user nickname [Zhu Ming Ying Xue].
Jiang Yunu immediately straightened her sitting posture and waited for her guide to speak the first words to her.
As a result, the "input in progress" status indicator flashed for about ten seconds and then disappeared.
The chat window is empty, there are no new messages.
Jiang Yunu: “?”
Jiang Yunu was confused, not sure whether [Zhu Ming Ying Xue] really didn't send a message, or if the signal in her little garbage house was not good, resulting in a delay in receiving the message.
The next moment, the "input" sign flashed again next to the nickname [Zhu Ming Ying Xue].
Jiang Yunu waited again.
Half a minute later, "Input" disappeared again.
The chat window is still blank.
Jiang Yunu: "..."
When Jiang Yunu saw the "input in progress" status icon light up behind the name of [Daytime Reflecting Snow] for the third time, he felt as if he had seen through a secret.
——Her guidance student, whose username is [Zhu Ming Ying Xue], may be a relatively rare case of "Internet social anxiety".
Generally speaking, social anxiety in real life, like Joyson's, is more common. Joyson's social anxiety is directed at strangers he meets in real life. However, he is very comfortable interacting with family, friends, and even people he meets online. He easily becomes a chatterbox, and his online chats never stall.
This [Zhu Ming Ying Xue] even has to think over and over again about his opening remarks after adding a friend. The "typing" that appears back and forth and the persistent blank chat window indicate that the other party is probably... a little nervous.
Jiang Yunu is best at taking the initiative. Once she found that taking the initiative was a bit difficult for the person on the other side, she immediately stopped waiting and started typing on the keyboard.
User 24071523: Hello, did you see my message on the school platform? I'm Jiang Yunu, the freshman assigned to you. Please take care of me during my first year at Engel.
In order to make himself appear warm and friendly, Jiang Yunu ended his opening remarks with a tilde.
The "input" after [Zhu Ming Ying Xue]'s name lit up three times. As if it didn't expect Jiang Yunu to speak first, the small status icon went out again.
Inexplicably, Jiang Yunu imagined that the other party had already carefully considered his words for the third time and had even typed a sentence or two in the input box, but was suddenly interrupted by her and had to pause typing.
The "Input" button of [日明映雪] lit up for the fourth time, and this time, the other party's message was finally refreshed in the chat window.
[Zhu Ming Ying Xue]: Hello, I am Zhou Jin Xue, the guidance student paired with you. I will be in the third grade after school starts. Before school starts, if you have any questions about freshman preparation or the school itself, you can ask me at any time.
Jiang Yunu was really outgoing and friendly. She smelled a kind of conventional flavor from the words of [Daytime Reflecting the Snow] and guessed that the other party's character should also be rigorous and serious.
User 24071523: What about after school starts? If I still have a lot of questions about school and studying after school starts, can I still ask you questions?
[日明映雪] The typing speed is not fast, and the "typing" sign is flashing again.
But at least this time the process of "appearing and disappearing" was not repeated.
[Zhu Ming Ying Xue]: Of course, it is my responsibility to answer any questions you have about the school.
Jiang Yunu was thus convinced that her supervisor was truly rigorous and serious.
She looked at the other person's name again.
Zhou Jinxue.
After receiving the notification file sent by the school to the email address and logging into the campus official website to check the pairing results, the school's new students and guides cannot see much personal information of each other. They can only follow the matching results given by the school and connect directly to their pairs with one click.
With the addition of private contact information, they can see more information about each other.
As a traditional old school, Enge has also launched a campus activity model of "old and new" this year, and some of the rules and forms of the activities are also in line with tradition.
For example, the new and old students who are paired one-on-one are of the same gender.
When talking about this during the day, Joyson had already mentioned that the guidance student who added Joyson as a friend was a senior who seemed to have a warm and cheerful personality and could chat with Joyson quite well.
Jiang Yunu is a senior student, but Senior Zhou's personality is somewhat similar to her name. She is not aloof, but self-disciplined and serious.
[User 24071623]: Okay, thank you, I feel relieved when you say that.
[Zhu Ming Ying Xue]: Well, you’re welcome. The school arranged us together, and it’s my duty to guide you.
Zhou Jinxue is a senior student with a very formal speaking style. Fortunately, Jiang Yunu never worries about communicating with serious people, and she is never afraid of others' social passivity.
Jiang Yunu happened to have two questions related to student dormitories. She first asked Zhou Jinxue if he was free at the moment. After receiving a positive answer, she immediately asked him about the dormitory arrangements for freshmen and the general structure of the school dormitories.
She asked these questions to make sure she had bought everything right today, and also to know how many of the things she had put on the second floor of the small garbage room she could take to school when she saw them.
Zhou Jinxue explained that the dormitories at Enge Junior School for Special Abilities didn't have a mandatory number of people per room. Male and female dormitories were separated, and the dormitory area consisted of adjacent two-story buildings. Those assigned to the same building became roommates, and the number of people per building depended on the number of freshmen admitted that year.
It is impossible for one person to have a building all to himself. However, it is not uncommon for two or three people to live in the same small building, each with a room and other areas shared, and the probability of this happening is not low.
Jiang Yunu was shocked by the unprecedented dormitory conditions - she had never seen this information in Engel's recruitment advertisement before.
With such good dormitory conditions, isn’t this a recruitment promotion point of the school?
Zhou Jinxue also explained this.
Zhou Jinxue explained that due to well-known reasons, Engel has been able to enroll fewer and fewer students in recent years. However, Engel has a long history, and during its heyday, the school boasted a large student population, resulting in a vast campus and numerous teaching facilities. However, as its overall strength has gradually declined, the student population has dwindled, and many teaching areas and facilities have become vacant. Engel insisted on not selling the land, but quietly demolished the vacant and abandoned buildings and incorporated portions of the original teaching area into the student living area, resulting in a continuous improvement in the quality of Engel's student dormitories.
[Zhu Ming Ying Xue]: Although we never use "good dormitories" as a selling point in our recruitment publicity, to be fair, I think our Enge dormitories are no worse than Songnan, which is famous for its luxury.
Jiang Yunu still remembered the grand 3D projection promotion of Songnan Junior School for Special Abilities. She had no attachment to the luxurious school that did not even provide subsidies to poor students, but she felt very close to Eng, who had hidden a surprise.
Jiang Yunu thanked Zhou Jinxue for her detailed explanation. She glanced at the time and found that it was not early anymore. She didn't want to continue to occupy the senior student's rest time, so she took the initiative to suggest that tonight's "Q&A session" end here.
【日明映雪】The “inputting” after the user name flashed for a while after a long absence.
When Zhou Jinxue was talking to Jiang Yunu about school matters and answering Jiang Yunu's questions, Jiang Yunu felt that he was not nervous at all, and even his typing became smoother.
But when the topic turned more personal, especially involving the other person personally, Jiang Yunu felt that Senior Sister Zhou suddenly became nervous again.
After a long time, [Zhu Ming Ying Xue] sent a long string of messages.
[Zhu Ming Ying Xue]: I'm so sorry. Actually, I meant to say this a while ago. I should have seen your message this afternoon and replied to you promptly. But I had to make up for the missed classes during the holiday and had extra training on the weekends. So, it wasn't until I got home after class and finished washing up that I had time to log on to the campus network and see the message you sent me that day.
【日明映雪】: I’m sorry for my late reply.
Jiang Yunu: "..."
Only then did Jiang Yunu understand why Senior Sister Zhou had spent so much time revising a mere opening remark.
I'm afraid the other party is not editing the opening remarks at all, but is carefully editing an apology.
Jiang Yunu really didn't think that waiting for a reply for a while was a big deal. In Zhou Jinxue's eyes, this was obviously a big deal, which made the other party think about it for a long time. Until the two of them were about to say good night and goodbye to each other and go to rest, Zhou Jinxue hurriedly took out the apology and sent it to her.
This is really... a very serious senior.
Jiang Yunu sighed quietly in his heart for the umpteenth time tonight.
She really doesn't dislike serious people, on the contrary she has a good impression of them.
[User 24071523]: I didn't check the official website's news in time, otherwise, we could have added each other as friends when the senior sister first contacted me, and chatted directly when she was free.
[User 24071523]: So there is no need for you to apologize.
Jiang Yunu quickly typed her reply and felt that Zhou Jinxue was a very good person. She never hesitated to praise people she had a good impression of from the very first meeting.
In a room decorated in a low-key and exquisite style, the girl sitting at the desk had a serious expression as usual. She had just carefully read the message from the freshman whose username was a string of numbers. She breathed a sigh of relief when she found that the other party did not mind her delayed reply, and the seriousness in her brows relaxed a little.
Suddenly, the screen in front of me flashed again, and the chat window refreshed——
[User 24071523]: But it's so considerate of you to think of apologizing for something like this.
[User 24071523]: Although I just met my senior today, I have a hunch that she must be a very gentle person who is willing to take care of others.
The serious girl at the desk: "..." Is she gentle?
Jiang Yunu remembered that Qiao Yisen had mentioned during the day that the other party’s guidance student said that No. 9 would pick someone up at the school gate.
Jiang Yunu continued to ask Zhou Jinxue.
[User 24071523]: Will the senior student pick me up at the school gate on the 9th, the first day of school?
The serious girl at the desk: "..."
Zhou Jinxue carefully clicked on the freshman's personal profile and looked at the "female" in the gender column again and again.
Is this really her junior schoolmate? She thought silently.
【日明映雪】：All the guides will participate in the orientation on that day. I will join everyone in welcoming all the new students at the school gate.
Jiang Yunu was very satisfied with the result.
[User 24071523]: Okay, then we will be able to meet in person in a few days. I am looking forward to meeting my senior then!
[Daytime Reflections in the Snow]: ...Hmm.
After saying "hmm", Zhou Jinxue seemed to realize that his reply was too cold, and quickly added, "I'm looking forward to it too."
After sending the message, Senior Zhou couldn't help but look at Jiang Yunu's personal information again.
...This is indeed a junior schoolmate, right?
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