Su Wanqing’s body gave a start, as if she were waking from a dream.
She yawned as she walked down from the podium, unable to resist stretching.
She had spent the whole night organizing those manuscripts and hadn’t slept well at all.
Her gaze landed on Jiang Ran, who was just as groggy and seemingly half-asleep.
She stepped forward and patted Jiang Ran’s shoulder.
“Partner, did you record it?”
“Ah… mm.”
Jiang Ran’s eyes snapped open.
She shook her head and pressed the pause button.
“I recorded it. I’ll send it to you now.”
Su Wanqing waved her hand.
“I’m too lazy to look. Just send it directly to the Group Auditor. You should have her VX, right?”
“I do. I remember her name is Tao Xixue. Let me see if I have her VX… found it.”
Jiang Ran scratched her head.
The name Tao Xixue sounded so familiar.
Was it another name from the APP?
Before Jiang Ran could figure it out, Su Wanqing had already leaned her head over.
“Jiang Ran, you have so many people on your friend list. Even I don’t have that many.”
“Is that so?”
“Here.”
Su Wanqing swiped open her phone and showed it to Jiang Ran.
“Look, mine has much fewer.”
Jiang Ran stared at the top of the message list.
“Why am I still a pinned message?”
“What pin?”
Su Wanqing took a glance and hurriedly hid the phone behind her back.
“You’re talking about the QQ pin… that’s… that’s obviously because you’re the only member of our Club. As the President, I can’t let my guard down. I have to reply to urgent messages in time. Don’t go getting any ideas.”
Su Wanqing gripped her phone, her eyes starting to dodge and flicker just as they had when she first arrived.
Jiang Ran scratched her head and gave a soft smile.
“Actually, I feel like you don’t need to work so hard, President. We’re just a club. We’ll probably be disbanded by the underclassmen by our junior year anyway.”
“Are you… planning to quit the club in your junior year?”
Su Wanqing gripped her wrist.
She thought about how upperclassmen indeed chose to leave clubs during their exam preparation period to focus on their senior year internships and various certifications.
“I don’t know. Maybe, maybe not.”
“That’s a non-answer. Then let me ask you a personal question. Do you have any complaints about me as your President?”
Su Wanqing walked slowly to the floor-to-ceiling window and rested her hand on the railing.
Her silver hair was lifted by the wind, looking like a dancing koinobori.
She turned her head, a hint of tenderness welling up in her eyes.
Jiang Ran thought back to the picture of feeding ducks she had seen on the President’s wallpaper and shook her head.
“No, I think you’re great, President.”
“Anything else?”
Su Wanqing approached Jiang Ran with her hands behind her back.
She curled her lips into a shallow, plain smile, looking like a child asking for candy.
Jiang Ran bit her lip, her snowy white teeth faintly visible between her lips.
For a moment, she didn’t know what to say.
She didn’t quite understand why Su Wanqing was suddenly asking so many questions…
Su Wanqing’s reaction had exceeded her initial expectations.
Jiang Ran had always felt that Su Wanqing was the type of person who was extremely confident in all aspects.
Whether it was the information described in the APP or the evaluations of others, the descriptions of Su Wanqing were quite outstanding.
When Jiang Ran started to target Su Wanqing, the other NPCs in the game almost overwhelmingly supported Su Wanqing.
It was clear the other girl should be quite brilliant and popular.
Why was there such a large discrepancy from what she had imagined?
“President, I’m just a minor member. You’ve already done very well…”
Jiang Ran lowered her head very low.
She remembered that when she left home, she had already decided how to deal with the female lead’s provocations.
‘Don’t let any inexplicable kindness well up.’
‘Don’t try to comfort a wounded girl.’
‘And don’t easily drop the disguise…’
The less one was noticed or focused on, the greater the chance of survival in a Yandere game.
Jiang Ran didn’t easily change her mind from when she left home just because of the contrast Su Wanqing showed.
Besides, she was someone who could barely protect herself and had even been sold out.
Thinking about the troubles of an Eldest Miss — wasn’t that just poking her nose into someone else’s business?
What Jiang Ran didn’t know was that from the moment she began to speak, Su Wanqing had been observing her movements.
Seeing her hesitant expression just now, Su Wanqing roughly guessed that this person was intentionally avoiding her.
“It’s fine. I was the one who forced this question on you. Let’s talk about something happy. I heard we’ll be placed at the opening slot for this Freshman Gala. That way, we don’t have to worry about there being no audience for our program.”
“The… opening slot?”
Jiang Ran remembered that in the original work, this Freshman Gala had fallen through.
Long before the gala began, she and Su Wanqing had already had a falling out.
Now, the butterfly effect had caused the originally broken storyline to reconnect.
Jiang Ran thought about the disadvantages and couldn’t help but ask, “I don’t have to go up for the performance this time, right?”
“If you want to go up, I can recommend you.”
Jiang Ran waved her hands.
“No… no need. I’ll just drag you down, President.”
Being on the same stage as the female lead was something that absolutely could not happen!
Su Wanqing covered her mouth.
“I knew you’d refuse without even having to ask. Fine, I’ll go up alone. I’ll mention you during the closing remarks. That should be okay, right? After all, you’ve been busy with me all day. Even if there’s no glory, there’s still the hard work. Besides, it’s just a thank you; nobody will pay attention to it.”
“Alright then.”
Jiang Ran nodded and walked onto the stage with the manuscript.
This time, it was her turn to give a speech.
Compared to Su Wanqing, Jiang Ran’s speech was far inferior.
Jiang Ran wasn’t upset by this; she didn’t want to be praised by Su Wanqing.
‘So your talent for public speaking isn’t bad after all.’
If that happened, she would only be pressured into giving more speeches in the future.
Jiang Ran spoke softly while holding the manuscript, her voice so low it could barely be heard.
Below the stage, Su Wanqing turned on the recording function.
However, she didn’t use Jiang Ran’s phone, but her own.
“Jiang Ran, you can be a bit louder. Also, stand more toward the center. I can barely see you in the video.”
Su Wanqing raised her hand to direct Jiang Ran’s movement.
Jiang Ran nodded like a chick pecking at grain and shifted her steps.
When told to move a little, she really only moved her body symbolically.
Helpless, Su Wanqing walked in the opposite direction to re-frame Jiang Ran’s figure in the phone’s camera.
She zoomed in on the screen with both hands.
She said she was filming Jiang Ran’s speech, but in reality, she was zoomed in on her facial details the entire time.
Su Wanqing captured every fleeting moment her mouth opened.
As for the content, no one cared.
Moreover, Su Wanqing really discovered that Jiang Ran was becoming more beautiful by the day, even to the naked eye.
After finishing her speech, Jiang Ran walked down from the stage.
“Did you finish filming?”
“Done.”
Su Wanqing shook the video interface in her hand.
“Eh? Why did you use your phone to film? How am I supposed to submit it later?”
Su Wanqing waved her hand.
“I’ll just submit it for you when the time comes. There’s no need for you to do such small things yourself.”
“I see…”
Jiang Ran nodded.
She hadn’t expected the President to be quite a nice person.
Looking at it this way, Su Wanqing wasn’t as scary as she had imagined.
Maybe as long as she continued to fly under the radar, she could survive just fine.
Jiang Ran was full of morale when her phone suddenly chimed with a series of notifications.
Su Wanqing gave a light cough and looked at Jiang Ran.
“You received the photos, right?”
“What photos?”
“The ones I just sent you.”
Jiang Ran opened her phone and found that they were all very exquisite photos.
However, they weren’t the scenes of her speech from just now, but artistic portraits of Su Wanqing.
Eh?
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