Yu Jiuyuan took it, the warmth from her fingertips dispelling some of the chill. Looking at the rapidly receding birch forest outside the window, she casually remarked, "I'm thinking about what research topic I should bring here next time."
"Oh?" Rong Shenghan raised an eyebrow. "The president is already planning the next trip?"
“It’s not a trip,” she corrected, a meaningful smile playing on her lips. “It’s an expedition. After all, the St. Sakura Academy’s astronomy club can’t just be content with observing stars, can it?”
Xie Zhecheng paused in his page-turning motion. Although he didn't turn around, Yu Jiuyuan could feel his gaze.
She knew that these words had precisely struck at the perfectionist's ambition; the Astronomy Society needed more specialized research projects, and Changbai Mountain was undoubtedly the best sample database.
On the system panel, Xie Zhecheng's positive emotional fluctuations were fully charged, stopping at 100.
The fog outside the car window gradually dissipated, and sunlight pierced through the clouds, casting dappled light on the snow. Yu Jiuyuan took a sip of hot cocoa, the sweet warmth sliding down her throat, but her eyes remained cold.
The Changbai Mountain episode has come to an end, but this game called "Strategy" has only just entered its next phase.
Beneath Xie Zhecheng's cold exterior lies a yearning for the ultimate; behind Rong Shenghan's gentle mask lies a bottomless scheming; Yuan Xu's purity hides an obsession with academia; and beneath Lin Yanran's arrogance may lie a rebellious spirit bound by her family.
She looked at Xie Zhecheng's focused profile in the front row, the incubator that Yuan Xu was carefully protecting in the back seat, and Rong Shenghan's thoughtful gaze beside her. Finally, her gaze fell on the rearview mirror, where Lin Yanran was leaning against the car window with her eyes closed, resting, but her brows were still furrowed.
Yu Jiuyuan gently turned the silver ring on her little finger; it was the "trophy" she had chosen for herself on the first day after being bound to the system.
very good.
A new footnote has been added to her "taming manual".
The convoy drove away from the mountains and forests, speeding back the way it had come.
The sound of tires rolling over the snow was monotonous and rhythmic, like the second hand of a countdown timer, striking the heartbeat of everyone.
The red-brick clock tower of Saint Sakura Academy awaits them on the distant horizon, where even more chess games await her moves.
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