Chapter Eleven: An Indifferent Encounter
The sunset slowly fell on the distant mountains, and the night curtain covered the Golden Ivy Academy, which was just lit up. Everything was ready, and the literary competition was about to begin. The seats under the stage were already filled with students and teachers who came to watch, and in the surging crowd, the atmosphere was high, and the air was filled with excitement and anticipation.
Just as the game was about to start, the main judges of this competition finally appeared. This is a competition organized by the Student Union, and teachers give students more space for development, entrusting the Student Union with full responsibility, and the judges are all high-level personnel of the Student Union.
The first to arrive was surprisingly Liu Xinyi, the national dance champion of the previous session, which made everyone present surprised. Looking at Liu Xinyi's elegant entrance and nodding to them, the audience, who had just calmed down, burst into cheers again. Lin Yuchen sat quietly in the middle of the third row, when she saw clearly the first person to enter, it was as if she heard her brain go "boom" and become chaotic.
Good heavens, isn't she the girl she saw under the camphor tree that day? She's actually Liu Xinyi, the national dance champion! Knowing that from head to toe, she exudes extraordinary nobility, she should have thought that she is absolutely not a simple person. How could she not think of her? It's really stupid!
The high-ranking members of the student union have all taken their seats, especially when the president of the student union, Zhang Lvqian, takes his seat, the screams of the girls in the audience erupt, and he glances at the crowd with a cold expression before turning around to sit down in his own seat, his cool and handsome expression causing a stir throughout the auditorium.
Just as the Secretary-General was about to sit down, he suddenly found that the chairman's seat was empty, and turned his head around in the crowd, but still couldn't see his shadow.
"Law, have you seen Yan?" Xu Xiuxiu asked quietly to Zhang Lüqian sitting next to her.
"Didn't he say he's almost here?" He turned his head to look at Xu Xiuxiu, who was getting a bit anxious, then looked again at Liu Xinyi, the senior sitting next to him, as if he had understood something.
"What's going on?" Seeing the two of them whispering to each other, Liu Xinyi felt a bit puzzled.
"No, nothing." Zhang Lüqian smiled indifferently at her, trying to change the subject, his eyes constantly hinting at Xu Xiaoxiao with a cute yet infuriating expression. To Liu Xinyi's eyes, she just found it amusing. She didn't see the disgust and indifference in Zhang Lüqian's eyes.
When the murmuring crowd gradually calmed down, the door of the entrance was suddenly opened. Hearing the heavy sound of opening the door, everyone cast their eyes on the entrance. A familiar figure appeared at the door, and when they saw who it was, the quiet crowd burst into a commotion again.
"Wow! It's Prince Yan!"
"He's really handsome today!"
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Yan Ziyu had one hand in his pocket, and with a cool and aloof demeanor, he walked directly to the chairman's seat. As he passed by Liu Xinyi's desk, he slowed down slightly, without turning his head to look at her, and said indifferently, "Welcome back." After that, he continued walking to his own seat.
Liu Xinyu looked at Yan Ziyue with a mix of nervousness and excitement, but the words she wanted to say were forced back by his coldness and unfamiliarity.
The students in the front row looked at the high-level personnel with a silent gaze, slightly withdrawing their minds to watch the show, waiting for the start of the competition.
When the game started, the host invited the student union chairman to give a speech. Yan Zi Yi, with a cold expression, looked at the many students below the stage and inadvertently caught sight of a familiar smiling face in the crowd. It was her! Because he wasn't too far away, he could see her pure smile, accompanied by a shallow happiness and warmth. He didn't know why either, but seeing her smile made him feel very at ease.
Her smile seemed to infect him, causing him to also slightly curve the corners of his mouth. Zhang Luojin and Liu Xinyi looked at the people on stage with a hint of surprise, following his gaze, they saw that a girl in the third row from the back was quietly smiling as she watched the person on stage, making everything around her seem dull in comparison, while she shone with a warm glow.
"That idiot!" Zhang Lüqian saw her foolishly smiling at Yan Ziyu on the stage, and he inexplicably felt annoyed. How did she end up here? Hadn't he told her not to let him see her again?!
"Law, do you know her?" Liu Xinyi was a little surprised when she saw her, she seemed to be the dancing girl she saw on the empty ground that day.
But she didn't deny it, her smile was as if it had magic.
"She's a new transfer student at Jin Yi, Lin Yuchen." It's really inexplicable, why does he get angry as soon as he sees her? Looking at her silly appearance, she's really stupid enough. Hmm, wait, didn't she also participate in the art competition? Why is she still sitting there not preparing?
"Didn't she participate in this literary and artistic competition?" Judging from her dancing on the empty ground that day, she's a talented person.
"I heard she participated, but as for why she appeared here, I don't know." Lowering his head, Zhang Lüqian didn't want to say anything more. Although he knew she was slow to react, seeing her foolishly smile at Yan Ziyu, he felt a strange sensation in his heart that he couldn't explain.
"Vivian, did the one called Lin Yuchen participate in this competition?" Liu Xinyi turned her head to ask Wen Yu Department Head Xia Weiya, who was really looking forward to her performance.
"Oh, she's injured her foot, so she can't participate in the competition anymore." Xia Weiya replied coldly to her, remembering Lin Yuchen's injury and feeling heartache. If Lin Yuchen could have participated in this competition, her strength would have been recognized by her senior sister, and then not so many people would have bullied her. Heaven killing, if she finds out who put the glass shards, she will definitely make him die a terrible death!
"Is your foot injured?" Hearing her say that, Zhang Luqian looked at Xia Weiya with a slightly exaggerated expression. When he saw her nodding seriously, he couldn't help but turn his head to look at the person behind him who was smiling.
"But then again, someone as clumsy as her would find it hard not to get hurt." He seemed to have never missed an opportunity to kick someone while they were down.
"Law, how dare you speak like that!" Xia Weiya glared at Zhang Lüqian, who looked unperturbed, as she spoke up for her friend.
"Alright, you two, fighting in front of the senior sister, isn't that embarrassing!" Secretary General Xu Xiaoxiao stepped in to mediate, she didn't want to let the cold and stern Yan Wangzi see them like this, he was already annoying enough.
Tears dyed the corner of the memory map, where the phoenix flowers once bloomed, now swaying in the dazzling silver light with iridescent fragments at the end of this scorching summer.
