The next day, in the dormitory.
Jiang Ning packed her things and turned to look at the room next door.
Her gaze fell on the glass bottle on Shi Miao's table, and she asked curiously, "Sister Miao, is that sunscreen you're applying?"
Because Jiang Ning kept hearing Ji Sinian call her "Sister Miao" yesterday, she has now subconsciously gotten used to calling her that too.
Shi Miao had just finished wiping her arms when she turned to look at Jiang Ning. "Yes, do you want some?"
Seeing that the glass bottle was quite small, and considering that she would be undergoing military training for a month, Jiang Ning waved her hand and said, "It's okay, I bought several kinds of sunscreen myself, so I'm fully armed."
Shi Miao put the cap back on the bottle. "Okay."
Hearing their conversation from behind, Xia Zhixu glanced at the sunscreen on Shi Miao's table and a hint of disdain flashed in her eyes.
There were no labels on it, and I have no idea where it was bought from. It's an unregistered product.
Xia Zhixu is now even more convinced that Shi Miao's family must be very poor, but she doesn't know how Ye Yu got involved to prove her in the process.
Are the two related?
Could it be that Shi Miao secretly used Ye Yu's account to post something claiming it was hers?
Xia Zhixu's eyes flickered slightly, and she couldn't help but curl her lips into a smile, as if she had touched upon the truth.
......
At 7:30 a.m., all freshmen gathered on the school's main sports field.
The teams are divided according to departments, and each department has a chief instructor.
The Department of Computing and the Department of Physics had the fewest freshmen at Tsinghua University, so the two departments were merged.
When the two arrived at the playground, the departments had already been divided up.
Jiang Ning had arrived at school a few days early, so she knew a few people in her class. She scanned the freshmen on the playground and quickly found the meeting place for Class A. She then took Shi Miao's arm and walked towards it.
A few minutes later, several instructors in camouflage uniforms came over and directed the freshmen from the two departments to line up in an orderly manner. The solemn aura they exuded was clearly that of soldiers from the military.
Boys and girls are trained separately.
There were few girls in both departments, so the number of girls was just enough to make up a team.
Because of her height, Shi Miao was placed in the last row of the line.
She glanced at the girl standing in front of her, her delicate eyebrows slightly raised in surprise.
It's pretty unlucky, to put it simply.
Jiang Ning really wanted to stand with Shi Miao, but unfortunately she was too petite and was assigned to the first row.
Especially when facing the instructor's expressionless face, Jiang Ning felt utterly hopeless and almost always obediently lowered her eyelashes.
After everyone stood in line for a few minutes, a tall man, also dressed in camouflage, appeared in their sight.
Everyone looked up and their gazes fell on the man's face, causing them to involuntarily hold their breath.
Ji Yanchen's deep eyes casually swept across the girls' line, pausing for a few seconds when his gaze landed on a certain spot in the last row.
Then, as if nothing had happened, he looked away.
Qin Mingyue's eyes widened when she saw Ji Yanchen; she never expected that their head instructor would be him.
Just thinking that Ji Yanchen was definitely after Shi Miao made her feel a lump in her throat, unable to breathe.
What she found most unacceptable was that Shi Miao was standing behind her. Qin Mingyue felt extremely uncomfortable and annoyed.
......
A short while later, the school leaders walked in from the entrance of the playground and headed towards the podium.
The counselor quickly located Shi Miao in the line, strode over to her, and whispered, "Shi Miao, you'll be giving a speech in twenty minutes. Take your speech and come with me now."
Shi Miao hummed in agreement, took out the folded speech manuscript from her pocket, and followed the counselor to the right side of the stage.
First came the flag-raising ceremony, followed by introductions of school leaders and instructors.
Following this was Principal Li's speech, which recounted the school's significant achievements in recent years and its future direction.
Finally, the vice principal gave a speech, which consisted of nothing more than words of encouragement.
The counselor glanced at her watch and, seeing that it was almost time, said to the girl next to her, "Shi Miao, it'll be your turn soon, don't be nervous."
Shi Miao nodded, unfolded the folded speech manuscript in her hand, and found that there were no words on it, just a blank sheet of paper.
Her brow furrowed, her eyes half-closed, her dark pupils cold and agitated.
The counselor noticed that the girl's expression was a bit off and was about to ask what was wrong when he caught a glimpse of the white paper in her hand.
She paused for a moment, then asked, "Did you take the wrong one?"
Shi Miao concealed the coldness in her eyes and said succinctly, "They were switched."
Last night she folded up her speech and put it on the table, but hasn't looked at it since.
I just stuffed it into my pocket when I left home in the morning.
Now it has become a blank sheet of paper.
It's obvious that someone targeted her and deliberately changed her speech.
The counselor panicked completely upon seeing this, clearly not expecting such an unexpected turn of events.
It was almost Shi Miao's turn to give her speech, but now her speech has been switched. And the original speech was quite long, not written by Shi Miao, so she probably doesn't remember much of it.
Ji Yanchen kept glancing at Shi Miao out of the corner of his eye. Seeing the anxious look on the counselor's face, he frowned and strode towards the podium.
Ji Yanchen stopped in front of the two of them and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"
Shi Miao's delicate brows furrowed with annoyance. She pursed her lips and said in a deep voice, "The speech has been switched."
Li Wenlin noticed the situation below the stage and hurriedly came down.
He immediately noticed the white paper in Shi Miao's hand and instantly understood what was going on.
Just then, the vice principal's voice came from the podium behind them: "Finally, I wish this military training a complete success."
The counselor's face stiffened, and he asked somewhat helplessly, "Principal, what should we do? It's time for Shi Miao."
After the vice principal finished his speech, we waited for more than ten seconds, but Shi Miao still didn't come up.
The students below gradually became restless upon seeing this.
Qin Mingyue was also curious about what had happened, so she craned her neck to look towards the podium.
Suddenly, someone nearby whispered, "It seems there's a problem with Shi Miao's speech."
Qin Mingyue couldn't help but laugh out loud when she heard this, and almost clapped her hands in delight. She was finally going to see Shi Miao make a fool of herself.
Xia Zhixu, who was in the group, naturally heard the whispers around her. Her eyes flickered slightly, and a faint, mocking smile appeared on her lips.
Jiang Ning was almost frantic with worry; she remembered that Shi Miao had looked at it once last night.
Moreover, the speech manuscript had quite a lot of words, and it wasn't even written by Shi Miao herself, so Shi Miao probably didn't remember much of it.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Li Wenlin thought for a few seconds and then said, "How about we cancel the freshman representative's speech?"
"No need, I'll go up." Shi Miao crumpled the white paper in her hand into a ball and stuffed it into her pocket, then walked towards the podium.
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