“Wait.”
People’s joys and sorrows are not always shared. While Mo Qingqiu was happy, Tong Ya was certainly not. “Senior Mo Qingqiu.”
“It’s not… that…”
“Doesn’t joining the Literary and Art Union Department require talent?”
“Yichen, didn’t you say you wanted to get a scholarship? Do you really have the time to study art?”
*Pfft…*
Mo Qingqiu felt like laughing as she listened.
She really hadn’t been wrong about this eldest miss of the Tong Clan… she really was not quite normal.
However, given Mo Qingqiu’s sophistication, even if she saw through Tong Ya’s little scheme, she would not expose it. Even if exposing it would lead to a small farce.
But she wasn’t here to see such a petty spat. What the girl wanted to see was a grand performance with immense artistic impact.
“If you’re aiming for a scholarship, it really might not be suitable to join the Literary and Art Union Department.”
Mo Qingqiu seemed to take Tong Ya’s side this time, saying, “Junior Su Yichen, I can use some of my authority to let you join directly, and I can even help you with the assessment. However, if you want to make some money, it will take up your time.”
“Take instruments, for example. None of them are easy to learn.”
“Qingyue University’s scholarship requirements for student grades are very high. If you want both, you might end up with nothing.”
Hmm?
From Mo Qingqiu’s actions and words this time, Su Yichen suddenly caught a different scent.
He had been focusing on this new capture target. It wasn’t that there was anything wrong with what Mo Qingqiu said, but…
Her behavior was a bit strange, in a way most people would find hard to detect.
Mo Qingqiu’s words had a taste of the carrot and the stick. How should he put it? It was like she was helping one side for a moment, then the other.
She acted like a saint.
But could Mo Qingqiu, who managed to become the President of the Qingyue University School Literary and Art Union Department, really be a saint?
How was that possible?
An indecisive saint could never sit in such a position.
In that case… besides a saint, there was another type of person who would act this way.
So…
Su Yichen’s eyes suddenly darkened. ‘This is a bad woman; she’s fanning the flames.’
Right then, Luo Yueli’s voice came from the side. “Senior, you don’t need to worry about that.”
“Yichen also knows some instruments.”
“He does? The piano too?” Mo Qingqiu was slightly surprised; this was something she hadn’t considered.
“Yes.”
Luo Yueli nodded gently, pursing her lips into a silent smile.
“Yichen, you know how to play the piano?”
Before Mo Qingqiu could speak, Tong Ya immediately became restless. “How come I didn’t know…”
“And you…”
‘And why didn’t you tell me?’
Before that last sentence could leave her mouth, Tong Ya wisely shut her lips.
She couldn’t ask that yet.
Su Yichen didn’t belong to her yet.
His last name wasn’t Tong yet.
Watching Tong Ya’s expression, the muscles in Mo Qingqiu’s cheeks twitched violently as she nearly burst out laughing.
Although this Eldest Miss of the Tong Clan didn’t show her face often and stayed well-hidden—to the point that few people knew her true personality—Mo Qingqiu knew.
Even though Tong Ya was small, looked obedient, sweet, and appeared to be the type to lean on others, her nature was still that of an Eldest Miss. Not only that, her desire for control was extremely strong.
She was the most beloved little princess of the Tong Clan. Having grown up without restraints, she was practically free to do as she pleased.
How could she not be a little arrogant?
Mo Qingqiu, who was also born into a prestigious family, knew that a person’s arrogance was nurtured by being favored.
Tong Ya was the person who gathered all the favor of the Tong Clan into one.
“I know a little, but not much,” Su Yichen said with a smile, looking at Luo Yueli’s slightly lowered head.
His character setting of knowing a bit of piano was indeed inseparable from Luo Yueli.
This was the goddess’s hobby, after all. As the goddess’s former pursuer, how could he not know it?
Of course, he knew more than just “a little.”
Tong Ya felt awkward.
She felt like she was being isolated. Luo Yueli was leading Su Yichen away and wasn’t letting her play along.
What should she do?
The girl was so anxious she started scratching her head, but she couldn’t think of a good solution.
“Junior students, actually… I still want to invite you all to join together.”
Mo Qingqiu glanced at Tong Ya discreetly and said, “In truth, because the Presidents of the Literary and Art Union Department have been students from the Art Academy for the past few years, the entire art field isn’t weak, whether it’s music or fine arts.”
“But there’s a bit of a shortcoming in the literature section. We do have students from the College of Liberal Arts, and there are students from other colleges interested in literature.”
“But they aren’t many, especially those from the College of Liberal Arts.”
“So, I still hope some students from the College of Liberal Arts can join. This is also the reason I’ve been so persistent in inviting you.”
Her words were sincere and her pronunciation clear, causing the faces of several girls to show varying degrees of emotion.
Su Yichen thought about it and followed the crowd by making a slight facial expression.
However…
If one looked at Mo Qingqiu’s series of maneuvers just now, her words this time were giving Tong Ya a way to back down gracefully.
Would Tong Ya take it?
Su Yichen glanced at her out of the corner of his eye.
The young girl was falling for it completely.
But then again…
It seemed she had no reason not to take the out, right?
After all, it was ninety percent certain that he would join.
And Luo Yueli was there too.
Tong Ya probably wouldn’t feel safe leaving him and Luo Yueli alone.
She would be afraid of old flames rekindling.
He could understand the logic, but as he looked at things again today, Su Yichen vaguely felt that he, Tong Ya, and Luo Yueli had formed a strange circle.
If this were a simpler void realm or a typical Galgame, this would be nothing more than a shura field of a childhood friend and a current girlfriend getting jealous…
That would be easy to handle.
He was highly experienced in dealing with ordinary shura fields, having been tempered through a thousand trials.
Of course, that was provided there weren’t too many people; otherwise, it would still be a bit troublesome.
But the circle he had formed with these two girls didn’t seem like a shura field circle.
It was strange.
He just didn’t know what was strange about it.
“Xiaoya, why don’t you just join and try it out? Since Yichen, Shen Ran, and I are all here, we can help each other out~”
After Luo Yueli finished speaking, Shen Ran, who had been slacking off, eating, and playing with her phone, suddenly looked up.
She let out an “Ah?”
The sound caught Su Yichen’s attention for a moment.
This side character Shen Ran…
Well, she was better than a background extra; he could consider her a supporting female character for now.
She seemed very similar to his initial character persona upon entering the void realm.
A township test-taker, but the beautiful girl version.
Even though Shen Ran was like a transparent person, Su Yichen still noticed her.
Collecting information about the people around him with the lowest possible cost was a habit he had developed through his many experiences in void realms.
His classmate Shen Ran was a beautiful township test-taker. To put it bluntly…
She was a direct girl with zero romantic experience who just happened to be good-looking.