Chapter 38 Iron Triangle
The military training parade made Qi Lang and Yan Yi become the most popular male idols in the two schools.
The official campus Weibo accounts of Kitasato University and Kitasato Medical University seemed to be deliberately competing with each other. They added many close-up shots of Qi Lang and Yan Yi to the video clips of the military parade they released, and many shots were also cut into the campus recruitment video.
The two team leaders held up the standard, and their looks were quite different, with different styles.
One smiles as bright as the sun, proud and arrogant; the other is elegant and refined, like the bright moon.
The video mashup of the two even became a hot search on the video website. The term #campusnewmanmalegodaward# stayed on the hot search list of the video website for three days. Clicking on it, you can see Qi Lang and Yan Yi wearing camouflage military uniforms and looking handsome and heroic.
Someone on the campus forum edited and put together photos of the two and started a voting campaign, asking people to vote for the best male idol in their minds.
Everyone has their own preferences.
In terms of looks alone, Qi Lang's superior bone structure, which creates deep facial features, might be superior; but Yan Yi has a very unique and clear temperament...
At the beginning, Qi Lang's votes soared, but later many netizens, especially the more mature sisters, joined the voting, and Yan Yi's votes actually showed a trend of overtaking.
Young girls like Qi Lang, but mature sisters all choose Yan Yi without exception.
Qi Lang even received a WeChat message from his sister Jian Ni. Jian Ni used four accounts to vote for Yan Yi. After voting, she sent him a screenshot and mocked him harshly.
"Compared to him, you are unworthy!"
Qi Lang put down his phone speechlessly, thinking that she was really his biological sister.
After the military training, Baihe’s freshman year courses began.
Not too many. I heard from my senior that there will be a lot of classes in the sophomore and junior years. So if you want to join any club or travel somewhere, it’s best to do it in your freshman year. You may not have time later.
The freshman course includes social media and new media, and the teacher will ask students to shoot some video materials.
Bai He was wondering whether he should save money to buy a camera.
The teacher does not require every student to have a camera. If you need it for homework, you can ask the college to borrow it.
If your financial situation allows, it is best to buy a camera for yourself, as you will need it for many of your future course assignments.
And there will be special camera photography courses after the sophomore year.
Bai He plans to save money this semester, add the New Year's money, and do some part-time work during the winter vacation. Buying a camera next semester should not be a problem.
At dusk, Yan Yi asked her to go to his cousin's Northeastern Dumpling Restaurant for dinner. The dumpling restaurant was doing a booming business. His cousin was a generous person, and the dishes were cheap and the portions were extra large, so it attracted many repeat customers.
Su Xiaojing was also there, and Bai He talked to her about the camera.
Su Xiaojing went to ask her eldest cousin for sponsorship. Bai He envied her for having a boss relative around her, and her eyes intentionally or unintentionally slid towards Yan Yi who was eating dumplings quietly.
"Dear relative, are you willing to sponsor me a little bit?" Bai He made a little bit gesture with his little finger.
"Statement: I am not your relative."
Bai He said cheerfully, "Whatever you say is fine, as long as you're willing to donate generously."
Yan Yi thought for a moment and said, "Husband, is that okay?"
The eldest cousin and Su Xiaojing looked over at the same time.
This fox doesn’t even hide its tail!
"Ah, you're itching again, aren't you?" Bai He reached out and pulled his ear, "You're having fun teasing your sister, aren't you?"
"Don't be like that. I'm a bit of an idol now."
"With just a crappy vote, you became an idol."
Yan Yi pushed her hand away and said modestly, "Borrow a little bit. How much is it?"
"About 30,000 or 50,000? If you have enough money, 70,000 or 80,000 wouldn't be too much. There's no upper limit anyway. If you're willing to give 100,000 or 200,000, I'll gladly accept it."
Yan Yi: "Excuse me, my husband doesn't have the ability to do this at the moment."
"Just kidding, but I really want to buy a good camera and a good lens, because I will use this thing for many years. I don't want to buy a second-hand one and replace it in the future, which is not cost-effective."
"You should save money first, and if it's not enough, ask me for a loan," he said.
"May I ask this husband, is there a limit on the loan amount?"
"The limit is 100 yuan."
"Stingy!"
Yan Yi stared at her, a smile curling up the corners of his narrow eyes. "The loan amount is positively correlated with your favorability with your husband. Do you want to come over and increase your favorability?"
Before she finished her words, a disdainful and cold voice rang out: "Hey, you've even called your husband, are you planning to continue this illicit affair?"
Bai He turned around and saw Qi Lang walked in and sat down opposite them. He leaned lazily on the chair, his hand on the table playing with the empty teacup.
The movements are neat and clean, and the smile is unrestrained.
"Why are you here?"
"I just happened to be passing by." Qi Lang looked over meaningfully. "So, are you two dating?"
Bai He quickly explained, "He's been talking nonsense and becoming more and more unruly. He must have learned this from you, flirting with girls."
"Why are you blaming me?" Qi Lang turned the teacup upside down. "Why don't you say that it was this little pervert who influenced me over the years and corrupted me?"
"Just talk, but don't call me a pervert all the time." Bai He doesn't like anyone saying that Yan Yi is bad, not even Qi Lang.
Qi Lang asked his cousin to order food and took out his cell phone while waiting for the food.
"I have more votes than you." He said to Yan Yi.
Yan Yi: "Because you reposted it using a video account with millions of followers, a lot of fan votes poured in."
"It seems you're quite concerned."
"Since you want to compete with me, I have no reason not to care about the outcome." Yan Yi said lightly.
"I thought you were a free and easy person."
"Occasionally, but most of the time I live in the world and have many desires."
"Your desire is quite strong. I can feel that deeply." Qi Lang said in an ambiguous tone, "Especially towards someone."
Yan Yi looked at him, and he looked straight into his eyes.
There was an undercurrent between the two.
Bai He didn't understand their verbal exchange, but she understood the last sentence. She looked pleased again and raised her eyebrows in satisfaction.
Qi Lang slapped her on the forehead to stop her from adding unnecessary details.
At this time, the eldest cousin came over with a plate of dumplings and saw the vote on Qi Lang's phone: "This photo of you two looks great, so energetic!"
Su Xiaojing handed Qi Lang chopsticks and explained, "They're competing! Last night at midnight, I saw Yan Yi surpass Qi Lang in votes for the first time, and this morning they tied again."
"Pk what?"
"Looks, figure, temperament...all aspects, competing for netizens' favorability." Su Xiaojing smiled and winked at Yan Yi, whispering, "Brother, I pick you. Introduce me a handsome boyfriend from the medical school in the future."
"Thank you, of course."
Qi Lang rolled his eyes: "Aren't there any handsome guys in our business school?"
"Hehehe, doing business is risky. I prefer being a doctor. It's stable and has a regular job."
"As we all know, there are always some secrets between doctors and nurses that cannot be told..."
Bai He kicked him and said, "It's common knowledge where you came from. Stop talking nonsense. Be careful not to lower your popularity among netizens."
"Okay, just protect him." Qi Lang tore open the disposable chopsticks unhappily.
Seeing that business was not busy at the moment, the eldest cousin simply sat down at their table and took out his phone to ask Su Xiaojing: "Where can I vote?"
"There is voting in the super topic of our school." Su Xiaojing pointed out the voting interface to her cousin, but saw that he chose Qi Lang without hesitation and clicked to vote.
"You voted?" Su Xiaojing was surprised.
"Is it not possible?"
"Without any hesitation, you have such a good relationship with him?" Su Xiaojing squinted and glanced at Qi Lang.
Hearing this, Qi Lang smiled and said, "Thank you, Brother Pang Yi. Next time I will bring more people to patronize your business."
"It's a small matter." The cousin smiled innocently.
"You just look at how many friends he has, right?" Su Xiaojing muttered, "You didn't even choose our Xiao Yanyi. Humph, we can't be relatives anymore!"
"If you don't do it, then don't do it."
"Ah, you would rather abandon such a lovely sister and choose Qi Lang! Tell me honestly, what benefits did he give you!"
Bai He knew clearly that his cousin definitely did not choose Qi Lang because he had many friends and could take care of the business. He chose Qi Lang simply because Qi Lang had carefully protected his face many times on Shark Island.
Just like how he used a basketball to make the whole class remember that disabled teenager who had no sense of existence.
Although my cousin looks carefree, he is not unaware of it. He is silently grateful in his heart, so he supports him in this simplest and most plain way.
Just when Bai He was daydreaming, his eldest cousin suddenly made trouble and asked, "Bai He, who are you voting for?"
"ah."
"Of the two of them, who do you vote for?" asked the eldest cousin with pure eyes.
In an instant, Qi Lang and Yan Yi looked at her at the same time.
"Uh..." Bai He felt intimidated by the two men's gazes.
"Of course Sayuri voted for me." Qi Lang said confidently.
Yan Yi: "Don't be too confident, she is my sister."
"Why can't you be confident? I've known her longer than you."
"But I spend more time with her."
The two men fought fiercely, and Bai He was pushed to the forefront. No matter which one he chose, the other would lose face.
"Uh uh uh."
Bai He broke out in a cold sweat on his back, feeling extremely stressed.
"Um... Yan Yi's birthday is coming soon, what do you want to eat? Sister will treat you."
Yan Yi: "Don't change the subject."
“…” Bai He glared at him.
Qi Lang reached out to touch Bai He's phone, but Bai He slapped his hand away with a crisp sound, which was quite painful.
“I didn’t vote!”
Qi Lang: "Guess whether I believe it or not."
"Believe it or not."
At this moment, Su Xiaojing quickly snatched the phone and swiped the screen with a Z-shaped gesture.
"Xiao Jing!" Bai He chased after him.
Su Xiaojing retreated repeatedly, hiding behind her cousin. She opened her Weibo account and took a look at the voting results. Then she said "emmm" meaningfully, "This answer is beyond my expectation."
Qi Lang and Yan Yi were both very curious and looked at Su Xiaojing.
However, Su Xiaojing didn't seem to have any intention of revealing the answer and returned the phone to Bai He: "Don't worry, I won't betray you."
Bai He breathed a sigh of relief.
Qi Lang stood up and put his arm around Su Xiaojing's shoulders: "Can you please talk for a moment?"
Su Xiaojing quickly said, "No, no, please don't try to corrupt me. Sayuri and I have a bond stronger than gold."
"I heard you wanted a camera."
"Come on, come on, let me talk for a moment!"
Bai He quickly called out, "Su Xiaojing!"
Su Xiaojing quickly pushed Qi Lang away: "Forget it, forget it, I can't bear the favor of the Seventh Master."
Seeing that everyone was looking at her, Bai He simply confessed, "Oh, there's nothing to hide. I applied for Yanyi, okay?"
Qi Lang was originally smiling, but after hearing these words, his smile faded slightly, not completely, but he couldn't hide his embarrassment.
The corners of Yan Yi's lips raised inadvertently, but if you didn't look closely, you couldn't see it.
Bai He sat back down next to him, and he reached out his hand from under the table and held hers.
Qi Lang had nothing to say, so he sat down and looked at her coldly: "Bai He, you choose him?"
"Of course, he's closer to me than my own brother. If not him, who should I choose? You."
Bai He tried to ease the awkward atmosphere with a joking tone.
Qi Lang sneered: "It would be better if they were siblings."
Su Xiaojing quickly changed the subject: "By the way, Yan Yi, how did you celebrate your birthday?"
Yan Yi said, "I'm living with Bai He."
"You two? How are you going to get through this?" Su Xiaojing asked meaningfully.
He didn't say anything, but Bai He didn't think it was something that needed to be concealed, so she said, "I've made an appointment with Yi to go to a horror room, and then we'll go bungee jumping in Happy Valley later."
"Did I hear you wrong? You mean disco?"
"Bungee jumping"
"Oh my god! Are you so brave?"
Bai He smiled and said, "You wouldn't have thought of that."
Qi Lang looked at Yan Yi with complicated eyes: "Just the two of you?"
"For now."
"Take me with you." Qi Lang said, "I don't have any plans for that day."
Bai He was about to say yes when Yan Yi suddenly said, "There's still a month left. How do you know you don't have plans for that day?"
"What do you mean? You don't want us to celebrate your birthday, or do you only want to celebrate your coming-of-age ceremony with your two sisters?" Qi Lang said in an ambiguous tone, "Yan Yi, what are you planning?"
Bai He blinked: "It would be more fun if there were more people."
She suggested, "You need a group of people to enter the secret room anyway. If it's just me and Hajime, we'll be teaming up with strangers. It's better to celebrate your birthday with people you know."
After that, she looked at Yan Yi and asked, "What do you think?"
Yan Yi and Qi Lang looked at each other, and he saw ill intention in his eyes.
And Qi Lang... even read from Yan Yi's eyes that he was planning to cause trouble on his birthday.
No matter what he wanted to do to Bai He, Qi Lang's intuition told him that he must not let him succeed.
"It doesn't matter." Yan Yi finally said, "Then let's all play together."
"Wow, that's great." Su Xiaojing said, "Then I want to join in too. Brother, are you going to open your shop that day? Let's go together to celebrate Yanyi's birthday."
My eldest cousin said, "I'm going to find a small job, so taking a day off is no problem."
Qi Lang received a call, and a moment later, Xu Li came over. She took out a piece of paper and pen from her schoolbag and said to Qi Lang, "I've applied for a grant for impoverished students from an enterprise. My aunt is not here and can't sign. Could you please sign on my behalf to prove that I'm a funded impoverished student?"
Qi Lang did not refuse, but did not sign immediately. He took the application and read it carefully.
The school has some corporate funding programs that provide financial assistance to students in need to offset tuition and living expenses. However, places are extremely scarce, and you can't get one just by having good grades or being from a poor family. It also depends on luck and the preferences of the company. But if you can apply, the amount will be quite substantial.
In the dormitory, Zhu Lianqiao was also paying attention to this funding project, so Bai He knew something about it.
Zhu Lianqiao told me that last semester a senior student applied for corporate funding, and the company even paid all her tuition and living expenses for four years of college.
Therefore, this program is particularly competitive, exceeding scholarships and national grants.
Qi Langman said nonchalantly, "Order what you want to eat."
Xu Li: "Thank you, brother. No thanks. I've already eaten."
Qi Lang looked over the application form and found no major problems, so he picked up a pen and was about to sign.
Suddenly, Yan Yi put down his pen: "Wait."
Qi Lang frowned: "What are you going to do now?"
Yan Yi looked at Xu Li and said, "I don't know you yet."
"Oh, my name is Xu Li, I major in foreign languages. You are Brother Qi Lang's good friend, right? I've heard him talk about you." Xu Li smiled gently.
Yan Yi didn't say any more nonsense and just asked, "What's your relationship with Qi Lang?"
"We are very good friends."
"How come I didn't know he had a friend like you?" Yan Yi looked at the certificate in Qi Lang's hand, "Does your friend need to sign this for you?"
He is not afraid of offending people at all.
Xu Li looked at Qi Lang with a wronged look and bit her lower lip: "Qi Lang's mother is my sponsor."
Yan Yi looked at the Apple computer in her hand, the latest model 15pro max, pure white: "Is this phone also funded by his mother?"
He smiled, turned his head and said to Bai He, "Sister, I also want to change to an iPhone."
Everyone present could hear the sarcastic tone in Yan Yi's voice, and Bai He also understood that Yan Yi didn't want Qi Lang to sign the document that would require him to bear legal responsibility.
He is protecting him.
Qi Lang said with a little dissatisfaction: "Yan Yi, why do you need to ask your sister if you want to change your phone? Just tell me and I will buy it for you."
"Of course, brother." Yan Yi said sarcastically, "You're spreading love everywhere, but be careful not to drown yourself in it.
"I'm happy for you calling me brother."
The two of them exchanged undercurrents and words, and a group of people around them were digging their toes into the ground. The eldest cousin hurried to ease the atmosphere: "You two are the sister, the brother, and the grandfather. The relationship is quite complicated, isn't it?"
Bai He pulled Yan Yi's sleeve, but did not stop him. She just asked him not to point his anger at Qi Lang.
Xu Li's eyes were red, but her tone was stubborn. "This is a gift from my aunt to celebrate my success in the college entrance examination. I said no, but she insisted. If I use it, I won't be able to apply for the corporate poverty alleviation fund. I think... this is unfair. Who said that poor students can't accept kindness from others and can't use good phones?"
Qi Lang also said, "Yan Yi, you're meddling too much. Xu Li is a student my mother has sponsored for many years. We know her family situation very well. It's not easy for her to get through the exams from a poor mountainous area. Stop meddling in her business."
Yan Yi didn't say anything, so Bai He couldn't help but say, "Anyone can apply for corporate poverty assistance as long as the conditions are met. Yan Yi didn't mean that she shouldn't apply. He meant that he didn't want you to sign that document."
"Is it his business?" Qi Lang didn't say anything harsh to Bai He, but he was suppressing his anger towards Yan Yi.
"Two reasons," Bai He said forcefully. "First, you're responsible for this document once you've signed it. Now is the internet age, and I'm going to say something unpleasant. If she gets selected, some of her classmates who didn't make the cut might feel resentful and post photos of her using her iPhone online. If they bring the case to justice, Qi Lang, you're the witness, and that could affect your reputation. The second reason..."
Bai He hesitated for a few seconds, wondering whether he should say this.
Xu Li must have been humiliated but... Qi Lang was the friend she had grown up with for so many years.
"The second reason is that the application materials for corporate grants must be approved by the company's executives. Your name, Qi Lang, is clearly on the supporting documents. Do you think those entrepreneurs would risk offending the Qi family by rejecting her scholarship? So, this raises the question of fairness. She can ask anyone to sign the document, but not you. That's why Yan Yi asked you to reconsider."
With these words, he directly attacked Xu Li in the face.
The cousin was stunned on the spot. He never expected that Bai He, who was usually silent, had such a clear mind. Moreover, she and Yan Yi had an amazing tacit understanding and could think of the same thing without even communicating with each other.
And there is Yan Yi, who seems to be at odds with Qi Lang, but at critical moments... he still cares about him.
Are these three people on good terms or bad? My cousin couldn't understand.
Su Xiaojing was not surprised by all this.
Bai He is just like this, gentle on the outside but strong on the inside, and is actually a very principled person.
As for the three of them, they have many internal conflicts, but when they need to unite to face the outside world, they are like an iron wall.
Qi Lang was suppressing his anger towards Yan Yi, but he listened to Bai He's words.
Whether he has a good reputation or not is not that important, but if it involves the issue of fairness, Qi Lang must consider it carefully.
He handed the document to Xu Li: "Ask the counselor who else can sign the document. It doesn't have to be me. Also, my mother is not suitable to sign for you. Don't ask her, okay?"
The tone was quite gentle.
Xu Li choked up and burst into tears: "Brother Qi Lang, I really don't want to embarrass you. I didn't think too much about it. I asked you... asked you to help sign because I didn't know who else to ask. You are the closest person to me here. I'm sorry, I'm really sorry..."
Yan Yi looked at Bai He calmly. She lowered her eyes and had no expression.
"I don't mean to blame you." Qi Lang said softly, "Don't cry, my friends are not targeting you, they are just worried about me, I hope you don't get angry with them."
Xu Li wiped her tears with her sleeve and nodded, but she still couldn't help sobbing due to grievance, looking weak like a pear blossom in the rain.
Qi Lang handed her a tissue.
Yan Yi stood up and said, "I have a lab class later, so I'll be leaving first."
Bai He quickly said, "I'll go with you."
Yan Yi went to the front desk to pay the bill, but his cousin said no, no, Qi Lang had already paid.
Yan Yi looked back at Qi Lang and said, "Let's go. See you next time."
It seemed that he had forgotten the unpleasantness that had just occurred between them.
Qi Lang didn't hold any grudges and nodded: "Okay."
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