“Classmate Bai Yurou, I can finally spend some time alone with you. I’ve been waiting for you to come find me, but you seem to have no problems at all and never contacted me.”
Du Yuxuan said with a smile.
Bai Yurou was a little surprised and said, “Senior sister knows me? But I only met you yesterday. This morning I had to come here early to participate in the opening ceremony, so I really didn’t have any time to find you.”
“Of course I know Junior Bai Yurou. After all, you’re the newly risen campus belle of our school. In just these few days you’ve already become number one on the campus belle ranking.”
Du Yuxuan didn’t dwell on the matter of not being contacted and instead answered the question of whether she knew her.
“Campus belle ranking?”
Bai Yurou was very confident in her own looks and felt that entering the top ten wasn’t a problem. She hadn’t expected she was actually number one.
“That’s right. If you don’t believe me, look.”
As Du Yuxuan spoke, she took out her phone, opened the school forum, and opened the campus belle ranking for Bai Yurou to see.
Number one was prominently Bai Yurou, and the photo was one that had been secretly taken at who-knows-when. Bai Yurou herself had no impression of it.
So this petite and frail type of hers is this popular?
Then Bai Yurou glanced further down.
Number two was Ye Hui.
This cool and aloof onee-san type of hers did have quite a few fans, and her looks were indeed capable, so ranking second wasn’t strange.
Number three was a senior sister from the music department in her fourth year named Tang Ruoxi.
She was quite famous at their school and had high popularity.
She was the previous campus belle.
She was even on this season’s Voice of Dreams and had joined her older sister Bai Mo’s team.
Looking at it now, entering the entertainment industry in the future was a done deal.
Number four was her good friend, the white-haired red-eyed little loli Cai Xiaotong.
After all, Chinese people were all white-hair cons.
Someone like Cai Xiaotong who was practically a beautiful girl walking out of the 2D world only ranking fourth and not entering the top three could even be said to be low.
Numbers five and six were also senior sisters from previous higher grades.
And Ning Mu had ranked seventh.
Her Mu Mu didn’t particularly like makeup and always went out bare-faced.
She could enter purely because her foundation was good.
If Ning Mu put on makeup, she wouldn’t be worse than the ones in front.
If Bai Yurou herself were to vote, Mu Mu would definitely rank number one.
“So Junior Bai is now a celebrity of the school. Of course I wanted to get to know you.”
Du Yuxuan continued, “Unfortunately this senior sister of mine is only outside the top ten or so. Many of the votes were cast because of my identity as vice president of the student council.”
After speaking she exaggeratedly sighed and pretended to be disappointed.
“Senior sister is already very pretty. There’s no need to be troubled by this ranking.”
Bai Yurou comforted with a serious face.
“Mm-mm. Junior Bai Yurou is truly kind. But speaking seriously, who uploaded this photo of yours? The angle is so strange. Want this senior sister to help you take a few photos and re-upload them to the campus belle ranking?”
Bai Yurou spoke the truth.
“I don’t know when someone secretly took it… But senior sister doesn’t need to trouble yourself.”
Anyway she was already ranked number one. Changing the photo again didn’t have much meaning.
She had originally only wanted to quietly fish at school.
As a result with this current situation, she had already become a celebrity of the entire school.
She estimated that her identity as the young miss of the Bai family would also quickly be dug out by people and made known throughout the entire school.
After that the two of them also chatted intermittently.
Bai Yurou discovered that Du Yuxuan should be considered the relatively normie type.
The topics she chatted with her about were all recent variety shows and cosmetics and such. Games and anime she basically didn’t touch.
However because of her older sister, Young Miss Bai wasn’t unfamiliar with these two things either.
Before long she had chatted until Du Yuxuan looked as if she had met a kindred spirit.
“Junior Yu Rou, how about you join our student council?”
Du Yuxuan leaned closer, her eyes sparkling.
“With your super high popularity at school, plus my intentional cultivation, maybe by junior year you’ll be the student council president.”
She hadn’t met such a junior sister who suited her taste in a long time and wanted to recruit the person into the student council.
Bai Yurou hurriedly shook her head. She had already decided yesterday not to join the student council. It would affect her fishing.
Du Yuxuan advised a few more sentences.
Finding that the other party’s attitude was firm, she could only lightly sigh and give up on this idea.
However when the topic shifted to the student council, Bai Yurou took the opportunity to gossip.
“By the way, senior sister, what kind of person is Senior Zheng Zeyu?”
Du Yuxuan blinked and lowered her voice to ask, “What, taken a liking to him?”
Bai Yurou hurriedly shook her head. “No. I’m just purely gossiping a bit.”
She was simply finding a topic to pass the time and chat about the popular figures of the school. Besides, she still knew this person.
Du Yuxuan stared at her for two seconds. After confirming she truly had no such intention, she put away the teasing expression and said seriously, “This person has been number one on the campus heartthrob ranking with crushing advantage since enrollment, for three consecutive years. Moreover he’s witty and humorous, likes playing basketball, and has quite a few fangirls at school. I entered the student council in the same batch as him. In the second semester of sophomore year when competing for president I lost to him. As a result he turned around and invited me to be vice president. His work ability is indeed capable. Many of the things he promised he delivered on.”
“By the way, senior sister will tell you another secret. Don’t tell others.”
Du Yuxuan suddenly mysteriously lowered her voice.
“What secret?” Eating melons was human nature. Bai Yurou curiously leaned closer.
Du Yuxuan leaned to Bai Yurou’s ear and said softly, “This man Zheng Zeyu might like boys?”
“Likes boys?” Bai Yurou was a little surprised.
“I’m guessing.”
Du Yuxuan blinked.
“One time I went to his office and saw him flipping through the list of freshman boys one by one, and staring at the photos, flipping especially fast. I estimate that he’s looking for whether there’s a junior brother who suits his taste.”
After speaking she smiled again. “Of course, I’m just randomly guessing. Maybe he was just looking for someone. In short, junior sister, don’t randomly speak of it outside.”
After Bai Yurou finished listening, she also only treated it as gossip and didn’t take it seriously. As for speaking of it, she definitely wouldn’t either. After all it was a secret Senior Du had told her because she trusted her. If she spoke of it and it spread until the entire school knew, it would also affect Senior Du.
“By the way, junior sister, in a bit I’m going to the equipment room to move water for our class classmates. Do you want to come help me?”
Du Yuxuan asked with a smile and added another sentence. “You don’t need to exert any force. There’s a cart. You just help push it a bit.”
Bai Yurou thought for a moment. Anyway she already wasn’t doing military training because of her frailty.
Then helping move a bit of water could also count as making a contribution. She nodded.
Thus the two young girls stood up from under the big tree, patted off the grass clippings on their bodies, and walked toward the equipment room.
The auntie in the equipment room still remembered Bai Yurou.
Seeing them enter, she smiled and asked Bai Yurou what she wanted to borrow this time.
“Auntie, this time we’re here to move water. It’s for military training.”
Bai Yurou explained. The auntie nodded and pointed inside the equipment room. Several cases of mineral water were stacked there.
Bai Yurou and Du Yuxuan each pushed a small cart and each moved one case of water onto it.
With the help of the small carts, Young Miss Bai also didn’t expend much strength and together with Du Yuxuan transported the water back under that big tree.
Du Yuxuan took out a small knife from her small bag and cut a large opening on each of the two boxes to make it convenient to take water later.