Considering the events of the past few nights, Jiang Ran didn’t feel the slightest bit sad about leaving.
On his way back, Jiang Ran browsed the campus forum, but most of the posts were just random, miscellaneous news designed to lure people in.
It was quite rare for a student to be scrolling the campus forum.
The reason Jiang Ran was doing it was because Croissant had told him that there had been a lot of confession posts on the forum lately.
Jiang Ran clicked to look, and the more he read the descriptions, the more familiar they seemed.
He took another look.
‘Holy shit.’
‘Those are confessions to me.’
And what’s more, quite a few of them were from girls.
This world had truly gone mad.
Jiang Ran thought he was already pretty abnormal, but it turned out reality held many who were even bolder than him.
Fortunately, there hadn’t been many people at the rehearsal site to begin with.
Most people couldn’t understand the adjectives used in the posts, and some even thought they’d run into some female otaku.
Jiang Ran didn’t want to explain too much and simply let them be.
Taking advantage of the rain stopping, Jiang Ran returned to the Su family residence.
Well, it was actually the apartment Su Nian had arranged for him last time.
He called Su Nian.
After a while, Su Nian drove over.
Today, she didn’t bring a driver; she was driving herself.
That elongated car parked right at the entrance.
Su Nian stepped out of the car wearing a small, stylish hat.
The moment she saw Jiang Ran, she walked around him.
“You’re finally here. Good, good. I haven’t seen you in so long, I’m really happy.”
Su Nian said these nonsensical words.
Jiang Ran snapped out of his daze and spoke.
“I’m fine. Can we move into the new place now?”
“It’s almost ready. I’ll clean it up a bit, and then it should be livable.”
Jiang Ran walked closer, half-doubting, and saw that Su Nian was seriously answering the question.
He simply nodded.
“Alright, then I’ll prepare to move soon. I don’t have much stuff, just clothes and some food.”
Jiang Ran remembered he had paid the landlord quite a bit of money before, so he might as well get that back too.
Su Nian drove Jiang Ran back to his original residence.
Jiang Ran also took out his phone to discuss moving out with the landlord.
He had originally thought keeping the place might be useful, but now it seemed unnecessary.
On the day Jiang Ran moved out, Gu Ge didn’t come.
Jiang Ran called a new moving company to load his things into the car.
Of course, there wasn’t much, mostly just some junk.
After packing everything, Jiang Ran got into the passenger seat.
The new home was even bigger than Jiang Ran had imagined.
He walked around inside the house and found it was truly huge.
After putting his furniture in place, he tried to get familiar with the neighbors around.
Supposedly, there were people living nearby, but most of the doors were locked.
There were only a few scattered people, and when Jiang Ran knocked, he found no one home.
He simply skipped that step.
With no residents nearby, Jiang Ran didn’t bother with it.
Opening his phone, Jiang Ran chatted with Su Nian about the upcoming exhibition.
Su Nian said she had express-delivered some clothes for Jiang Ran.
After waiting at home for a while, he indeed received the so-called clothes.
However, the size was much larger than he had imagined.
The design was also extremely lavish, completely unlike any ordinary formal dress one could get their hands on.
‘Just how much money did this cost?’
Jiang Ran couldn’t understand it.
Su Nian was truly wealthy.
Just looking at the material, it wasn’t an ordinary piece.
Jiang Ran stopped worrying about how they had chosen clothes for him.
After changing, he looked at himself in the mirror.
It was a loose-fitting dress with a slit at the thigh.
Unfortunately, Jiang Ran wasn’t very tall, so this design didn’t showcase itself very well.
Wearing it, he felt a bit of a cool breeze.
His phone also received the location for the party.
“Sweetie, remember to come. You don’t need to bring anything. I basically know everyone here; they’re not bad people. If you want to meet anyone, just tell me.”
Jiang Ran nodded, then got into the driver’s car that had come downstairs.
Sitting in the car window, Jiang Ran watched the city recede.
The place they were going to was a massive manor, even bigger than any of the luxury stores Jiang Ran had seen before.
Going inside felt like entering a hotel.
It turned out to be privately owned.
Jiang Ran spotted Su Nian in the northeast corner of the ballroom.
“Sweetie, you’re here! Look, this is Auntie Yun. She sells jewelry and accessories.”
Seeing Jiang Ran, Auntie Yun spoke up.
“I’ve heard Su Nian talk about you. Seeing you today, your appearance really gives off a different feeling. You look so spirited, Jiang Ran. Don’t feel restrained here. This banquet is to celebrate a jewelry merchant’s birthday.”
‘So that’s how it is.’
Jiang Ran didn’t say much.
He didn’t know how to speak in this kind of setting.
After walking around with Su Nian for a bit and greeting everyone, he simply found a place to prepare to eat.
It was like a kid going to a banquet; the focus wasn’t on meeting people, but on the feast.
There was a lot of food here, many things he hadn’t seen before were brought out.
“It looks really delicious.”
Jiang Ran looked at the things on his plate; there was much more than he had expected.
There was seafood, pastries, and even desserts Jiang Ran had never seen before.
‘It’s really sweet.’
“Sweetie, why does it look like you haven’t eaten properly lately?”
Su Nian looked at Jiang Ran’s somewhat malnourished profile with a bit of heartache.
The doctor had said Jiang Ran’s condition could also lead to this kind of malnutrition.
“I’m fine. It’s just that it rained heavily the past few days, so I didn’t eat much.”
“Well then, it’s perfect. Eat whatever you want. I have to go handle some things now.”
Jiang Ran picked up a rice dumpling and started eating.
While eating, he noticed that an older-looking businesswoman had arrived at the banquet hall.
The reason he thought she was a businesswoman was because when she appeared, he could sense an aura surrounding her that was different from everyone else’s.
Jiang Ran put down the food in his hand and quietly watched her.
The businesswoman walked to the microphone, cleared her throat lightly, and said,
“Welcome, everyone, to my evening banquet. If not for everyone’s trust, Blue Sky Jewelry might not have grown this big. Thank you all once again.”
Unlike the impression of someone who would talk for half a day once they started speaking, she spoke very concisely this time.
By the time Jiang Ran snapped back to attention, she had already finished speaking.
The others began to step forward to present gifts, while Jiang Ran, over here, continued to eat with his head down.
Few people paid attention to what was happening over there.
“Jiang Ran, you come too. It’s a good chance for you to meet these people.”
Jiang Ran nodded and followed Su Nian forward, meeting the person who had just given the speech.
Su Nian introduced,
“This is Madam Wu. She is the designer for Blue Sky Jewelry and also the owner of the entire company.”
“Hello, Madam Wu!”
Jiang Ran smiled sweetly.
Madam Wu smiled back,
“Good, good. The young people of this generation are truly very polite!”
Su Nian also chimed in,
“She really is quite well-mannered. The reason I brought her today is because of what you mentioned last time about the model. I was thinking of having Xiao Ran serve as the next promotional model for the Blue Sky company.”