Chapter 44: Opening Ceremony

The sports field for the opening ceremony was precisely the same one where Ning Mu and Bai Yurou had played badminton yesterday.

At this moment, the court had been filled densely with chairs arranged into square formations.

The few of them quickly spotted their class’s sign—it was being held high and swaying above the crowd.

Following the direction to look for it, the one holding the sign was class monitor Chen Shu. She was sitting in the first row.

University hadn’t officially started yet. 

This opening ceremony was mainly aimed at the freshmen, and Du Yuxuan, as the class assistant, had naturally come as well.

Today she was wearing a pair of pants and sitting next to Chen Shu, chatting intermittently with this sign-holding class monitor.

Seeing the four little ones coming over, she smiled and greeted them.

Out of politeness, everyone also greeted this enthusiastic senior sister, then found a relatively back position and sat down.

“I brought sunscreen. You can apply it in advance. Otherwise during the opening ceremony later when they talk about a whole pile of things you’ll be under the sun, and after the opening ceremony finishes it’s military training.” 

As Cai Xiaotong spoke, she took out a small bottle from her bag. This sunscreen was something she had specially brought from home to deal with military training.

“Xiao Tong, give me some.” 

After watching her finish applying, Ning Mu also stretched out her hand.

Cai Xiaotong casually handed the sunscreen over.

After Ning Mu finished applying she returned the sunscreen to Cai Xiaotong. 

Cai Xiaotong turned her head to look at Ye Hui. “Ye Hui, do you want to use some too?”

“No need.” Ye Hui lightly replied with a sentence.

“Really no need? Your skin is so good. You have to take good care of it. It would be such a pity if military training tans you. Besides, this sunscreen isn’t expensive either.”

Cai Xiaotong didn’t give up and advised a couple more sentences.

Cai Xiaotong was actually a face-con. Ye Hui’s cool and clear face and that keep-strangers-away aura just happened to hit her aesthetic perfectly. More importantly, Ye Hui was an—onee-san.

This had made her, from the first time she saw Ye Hui yesterday, unable to resist wanting to draw her 2D image.

Previously telling Bai Yurou that her 2D preferences and 3D preferences didn’t interoperate was actually a lie. 

As a loli herself, she liked onee-sans whether in 2D or 3D.

Such good-looking skin—if it got tanned because of military training, just thinking about it she felt it was a pity.

Moreover yesterday she had seen Ye Hui working part-time and guessed she was rather short on money. 

In order to make Ye Hui accept it, she had specifically added that this sunscreen wasn’t expensive.

Ye Hui didn’t speak again and only lightly shook her head to express refusal.

Ye Hui’s refusal wasn’t entirely because of the money issue. 

She actually understood that interacting with roommates could close the distance a bit, and she herself didn’t oppose doing so. 

Under the premise of not crossing boundaries, using the other party’s things was fine too.

It was just that this sunscreen reminded her of some not-so-good memories.

Every time she met with her older sister, her sister would always hold her face with heartache, pitying her “why are you thin again” “why is your skin dry again,” then without any room for discussion smear all sorts of bottles and jars on her face. She didn’t like that feeling.

Over time, she had developed a psychological shadow toward these things and absolutely never let her sister touch her face again.

Her sister was obedient and stopped putting makeup on her, yet began secretly stuffing things into her bag. 

Every time the sisters ate together she would always take the opportunity while she went to the bathroom to stuff some cosmetics and such into her bag.

Ye Hui had later checked. 

Those cosmetics—any single bottle was equivalent to her one month’s part-time wages. 

She hadn’t used a single one either, and simply took them all back the next time they ate, still with a cold face warning her sister that if she stuffed any more they wouldn’t meet.

Her sister had been very sad, but was even more afraid of losing this opportunity of eating with her little sister once a week that she had finally begged for, so she could only give up.

“Fine. When you get tanned then you’ll be happy.” After being rejected twice, Cai Xiaotong grumbled a bit sulkily, then looked toward Bai Yurou.

“Yu Rou, are you using any?”

“I’ll use some.” Young Miss Bai nodded.

Although she didn’t need military training, the opening ceremony also lasted that long. 

What if she fell into a coma from the high temperature? 

Then their school’s forum would probably have an article like A Young Girl Heatstroke at Moon City University’s Opening Ceremony. 

In order to prevent herself from making the news, Young Miss Bai still decided to apply some sunscreen.

Before long, head teacher Li Fang also arrived and took a seat next to Chen Shu and Du Yuxuan. 

The opening ceremony also quickly officially began.

Sure enough, as Bai Yurou had thought earlier, the entire opening ceremony was boring to the extreme. 

The principal was a middle-aged man around fifty, standing on the stage with a protruding belly. 

The rhythm of his speech was like reading from a textbook, one word at a time, with rises and falls completely devoid of emotion. 

In less than five minutes, Bai Yurou began spacing out.

“Want to play a game for a bit?”

Cai Xiaotong beside her clearly also couldn’t take it. She leaned over and asked in a lowered voice.

Bai Yurou glanced around. No one was looking this way. 

Everyone was honestly listening to the principal speak.

The principal was still on the stage talking endlessly. “I hope the students treasure their university time, study hard, and not fail their youth…”

“Alright, log in.” 

Bai Yurou responded with a sentence. 

She was truly too lazy to listen to the principal talking nonsense over there. Better to play a game.

Then Young Miss Bai took out her phone from her bag and tapped open the Arthur icon. Her phone quickly flashed the TIMI logo.

The moment she logged in, Cai Xiaotong’s invitation interface popped up.

She tapped accept. The moment she entered the room Cai Xiaotong instantly tapped match. Before long the two of them loaded into the match.

“You pick Yao. I’ll carry you.”

The two of them had always been one support and one marksman duo queueuing together, and Bai Yurou had always played the support position, so the moment they entered Cai Xiaotong said this.

Bai Yurou nodded, selected Yao, and casually switched to a good-looking skin—Young Miss Bai had long since owned all skins.

On the other side Cai Xiaotong also selected her signature Gongsun Li.

Before long they loaded into the canyon. Under the two of them’s coordination, they gained an advantage in the early laning phase.

“The other side has no flash left. Go up quick!”

Bai Yurou successfully forced out the flash of the opposing low-HP marksman and hurriedly called out.

On the other side Cai Xiaotong also didn’t disappoint her. One skill dash plus a few basic attacks, and the First Blood! announcement appeared on the screen.

Before long, under the two of them’s operations, they gradually pulled open the economic gap with the opposing marksman and support.

The two of them played more and more fiercely relying on the economic advantage, but as a result got ambushed by the opposing jungler in the grass and were double-killed.

“What is this jungler doing? Has he come even once after this long?”

Cai Xiaotong looked at the blackened screen and cursed softly.

This jungler had been farming the jungle for four minutes and hadn’t come to the side lane even once.

Unfortunately right now they were secretly playing and couldn’t open the mic. 

Otherwise she would definitely thoroughly greet their own jungler.

The two of them were playing heatedly below, exchanging words back and forth, and before long attracted the attention of Ning Mu beside them.

“What are you two doing?” Ning Mu turned her head to the side and curiously glanced at the two of them staring intently at the screens.

“Playing a game. Want to join?” 

Just as their crystal exploded and two carrying three really couldn’t carry, Bai Yurou raised her head and waved her phone toward her.

Ning Mu glanced at the screen, then raised her head to look at the person speaking on the main stage, pondered for a moment. 

“Let’s play after returning to the dorm at night.”

She had clearly been tempted, but the self-discipline of an excellent student still made her too embarrassed to take out her phone during the opening ceremony.

Bai Yurou didn’t force her. She understood Ning Mu. Making her play games during the opening ceremony was still too difficult for a person.

“Then tonight it is.”

Just as the two of them finished settling and planned to start another match.

Bai Yurou heard a familiar name coming from the stage.

The host teacher’s voice rang out. 

“Next, please invite the school student council president Zheng Zeyu to the stage to speak.”