Sunny Joy - CHAPTER 28

Everyone seems to be quite busy; Song Ciyue and Meng Ran have had much less online contact, and they don’t meet as often either.

What Challenge Cup, what Internet Plus, what competitions—everyone is busy with their own things.

Meng Ran always says he misses his girlfriend because she’s not around, with all sorts of sweet words. Even now, they are still in the honeymoon phase. Although they are busy, they both have each other in their hearts.

She hasn’t talked to Chu Xi for quite a while.

Song Ciyue: “How have you been lately?”

“Pretty good, busy with competitions and stuff. How about you?”

“Me too, I’ve been thinking about participating in the college English competition recently, but I’m worried I won’t place and it will be a waste of the registration fee.”

Chu Xi: “You want to participate in that competition? I’ve heard about it, it shouldn’t be too difficult. It’s said to be at the same level as the CET-4 and CET-6. You might as well give it a try, just consider it a mock exam for the CET-6.”

Song Ciyue smiled and said, “Ah, indeed, the only thing that university students spend money on without batting an eye is the registration fees for various competitions and exams.”

“Your words are quite insightful. I mentioned to you before that I spent a lot of money enrolling in an online programming course, but honestly, I didn’t have much time. I wasn’t very good at installing the software either, so I just gave up and didn’t learn anything. I wasted several thousand dollars.”

“Ah? I see there are still many online courses, like painting and such. Are they all a scam?”

“Maybe, I feel like the tactics are all pretty much the same. They give you a free class, then tell you that if you want to continue, you need to pay the registration fee. You can’t get the materials immediately; they say it’s on an installment plan, paying two or three hundred a month. And if you order now, there’s some discount or something. The marketing tactics are all the same.”

“I’ve also seen that there are often voiceover jobs looking for people to read things, just regular reading material, and you can get paid for it.”

Chu Xi sighed, “Actually, this is also used for marketing and selling courses. They say they want to train you, but it’s just a live online course. They ask questions in between, stir up emotions, and get you all fired up to dive in headfirst. I don’t know what others think, but I feel like it’s all a scam.”

“It seems that I can’t easily trust these things anymore in the future…”

Yang Liu returned to her dormitory, ready to shout, “Family, I’m back!” but was stopped by Shang Nuan, who gestured for her to be quiet.

Yang Liu finally saw that Song Ciyue was already asleep, so she lightened her movements, not wanting to disturb her friend’s sleep.

Song Ciyue woke up, and everyone said they were preparing to go see the opening ceremony of this year’s sports meet. There would be many performances on the field at that time. However, whether she could get up by then was another matter.

During the sports meet, many colleges don’t hold classes. As for those that do, you can only silently sympathize with them. And the thing Xu Qiaoqiao mentioned is the flower team of the sports meet.

Today is a rehearsal. She needs to fill in for someone else, just to take a position. It will be over quickly. She sends the arranged positions to Xu Qiaoqiao and then goes on a date with her boyfriend.

The boy hadn’t seen her for a long time either. They walked side by side, very quietly, their fingers interlocked, feeling each other’s warmth.

She walked slowly with her head down, her attention solely on the boy holding her hand. It was dry and warm, but now it might not be dry anymore; her palm was sweating, either from nervousness or heat.

She thought about not holding hands anymore and wanted to let go, but the boy held on tighter, not letting her leave.

Walking along, she was suddenly pulled back by the owner of the hand, stumbling sideways into someone’s arms.

Song Ciyue was a bit slow to react, dazed, and only then realized that she had almost bumped into another boy, but Meng Ran had pulled her, and she ended up in his arms.

The girl’s face turned red.

I almost bumped into someone, and it was in front of Meng Ran. I’m really embarrassed. Why do I keep looking at her? She’s so nervous…

The boy quickened his pace, and Song Ciyue jogged to catch up. In a secluded corner with no one around, the boy turned around, locked eyes with her, and then kissed her.

At the sports meet, Song Ciyue still went with her roommates to watch. There were many people in the stands, but since they arrived early, she could see the boys from their college’s team carrying flags below

She really, really likes this person, she really likes Meng Ran.

The performances on stage were also very exciting. The youthful and vibrant men and women, the beautiful sisters in short skirts full of energy, and the sexy and beautiful sisters in red dresses.

Some are dancing ballroom, some folk dances, and others street dance…

At this time last year, she and the other roommates seemed to still be asleep, truly missing out on a lot.

Until noon, the opening ceremony finally ended. The boy sent her a message, asking her to walk with him. In the crowd, he spotted the obedient girl waiting there and walked towards her.

“Have you been waiting long?”

Song Ciyue shook her head and said, “It’s only been a little while, not long.”

Actually, she had already been waiting for quite a while. Her roommates left not long after watching the show and didn’t stay for the later group exercises. So, in total, she had been waiting for over half an hour.

Just as he was about to leave, someone called out to him from behind. The person rushed over and grabbed his shoulder. She remembered this person; he was the boy’s roommate; someone they had gone out with together before.

That person complained, “I was just speechless. A girl came up to me and asked for my WeChat. I thought someone finally noticed my charm, but it turned out she wanted your WeChat…”

Then he noticed Song Ciyue next to the boy and said somewhat awkwardly, “Oh, so you’re with your girlfriend?”

“My partner and I are going on a date. You should go do whatever you need to do.”

Song Ciyue kept staring at the boy on the road.

Meng Ran asked her, “Why do you keep staring at me?”

“I think that girl has good taste; my boyfriend looks really handsome today.”

“No matter how handsome he is, he’s still your boyfriend, not someone else’s.”

Song Ciyue received another message.

Xu Qiaoqiao: Ci Yue, I’ve been quite busy these past few days and haven’t had the time. I might have to hand over the presentation PPT to you

Song Ciyue: Is it the PPT for the group project?

Xu Qiaoqiao: Yes, I’m not very familiar with the others, so I can only trouble you. I’m really sorry for always bothering you.

Song Ciyue: It’s fine, I have all the materials, and it’s not very troublesome.

Meng Ran and the others waited for Song Ciyue to finish replying before asking, “What’s wrong?”

“It’s okay, it’s a group project. Let’s go eat, we’ve been standing for so long, I’m so hungry.”

“How about I take you to try some chicken pot today? I’ve been there before, it’s really delicious. I thought it would be nice to take you along to give it a try. What do you think?”

“Then let’s go, I’ll leave everything to you.”

The boy smiled and said, “Hmm, just leave everything to me. You just focus on eating. Hurry up and go, don’t let our Yueyue go hungry.”