Travel Grouping, Inviting Jiang Qiuran

In the front row of the classroom, Chen Yusheng held her phone, looking a bit conflicted.

The gentle ripples of water in her cold, alluring eyes, however, proved that her mood was actually joyful.

Su Bai's analogy of the Sanya companion trip had sparked a strong and vivid imagination in Chen Yusheng's mind.

She didn't dislike it; on the contrary, she was looking forward to something ambiguous happening between her and Su Bai during this trip.

Looking at the fifteen thousand yuan that had just arrived in her account, her mother's medical expenses for next month were covered.

This meant Chen Yusheng could skip a few lab sessions and rest more.

Working in the lab was quite exploitative, as anyone who understood would know.

Professors charged high fees for corporate projects but gave very little to the students.

They took advantage of the fact that undergraduates had no other means of earning money and arbitrarily lowered prices.

There were even students so consumed by internal competition that they were willing to work for professors even at a loss.

Under the sycophantic behavior of these "good students," Professor Luo's lab required students to clock in a certain number of hours each week before receiving their subsidies.

It was pretty much like having a regular job.

Chen Yusheng was truly speechless about these people.

Of course, while she was speechless, Chen Yusheng had no bargaining power with the professor. She was a genius girl, true, but she was only a freshman, still in the developmental stage of her genius, and restricted everywhere.

Compared to that, working for Su Bai was incredibly cost-effective.

This cost-effectiveness clearly included Su Bai's ulterior motives towards her.

However, Chen Yusheng also had ulterior motives towards Su Bai.

She made up her mind!

She wouldn't work in Professor Luo's lab next month.

She'd rather serve Su Bai with that free time and use the saved hours to code her own personal projects.

It was both easy and fun.

Therefore, Chen Yusheng secretly decided to express some feelings to Su Bai on this companion trip. It was difficult for her, being socially anxious, but... after all, they would be going out for two to three days. If she gathered her courage, she could always find the right opportunity.

At worst, she would just hug him, kiss him, hmm...

And her long, black stockings – men would like them, right?

Chen Yusheng fell into strange, chaotic fantasies, clutching her phone, the slender, fair skin of her neck flushing a pretty pink.

Xia Lin, on the podium, saw all of this.

Her beautiful eyes blinked, and a spark of gossip ignited in her heart.

She had recently heard gossip about Su Bai and Chen Yusheng in the student group.

From Xia Lin's perspective, these two students were quite a good match.

However, when she thought about the short videos Su Bai had sent her, and then looked at Chen Yusheng's expression, like a young girl falling in love, Xia Lin felt a surge of jealousy.

She suddenly startled herself, followed by a deep sense of shame.

Su Bai was just reporting his safety according to protocol; how could she, as their advisor, think otherwise?!

Feeling ashamed, Xia Lin finally spoke, "Students, feel free to discuss amongst yourselves. If there's nothing else, I'll be leaving now."

"Thank you for your hard work, Director Xia!" "Goodbye, Director Xia!"

Seeing the advisor leave the classroom, Chen Yusheng's senses cleared a bit. She glanced around and noticed that there weren't many people left in the classroom. She then hurried to the back of the classroom and walked up to Su Bai.

Chen Yusheng reached out and tugged Su Bai's clothes, saying softly, "Let's go register!"

Chu Mingzhe: ???

Chu Mingzhe's expression changed rapidly, a kaleidoscope of colors.

His trembling hand reached for his chest.

Wang Haoran, who was engrossed in a mobile game, sensed something and quickly looked up at Chu Mingzhe.

Damn, this kid is going to kick the bucket again!

Just as Wang Haoran thought they'd have to send Chu Mingzhe to the infirmary again, Su Bai asked confusedly, "Register for what?"

"Register with Director Xia for the list, so we can be in the same group for the trip."

"Oh, I can just tell her about that, you don't need to worry about it."

"Mhm, mhm."

Chen Yusheng paused, then said with difficulty, "The trip... being with you, I'm really looking forward to it."

After saying that, she covered her face and ran away shyly.

The people around, especially the guys, shot murderous glares.

Damn it!

If only we had left the classroom at the same time as Director Xia.

Look at this, just look at this! Is this acceptable?

It's barely been a few days since school started, and Su Bai has actually gotten together with Chen Yusheng.

I thought it was just a rumor, but it looks like the goddess Chen is the one making the first move.

Why?

This Su Bai kid, apart from being good-looking, is completely ordinary in every other way. Plain and unremarkable.

There are several guys chasing Chen Yusheng who are even better-looking than Su Bai.

Those are genuine rich, handsome, and talented guys.

Why did they lose to Su Bai?

What Chen Yusheng just said to Su Bai is bound to spread among their classmates, causing a huge stir.

At this moment, Chu Mingzhe clutched his chest.

At least he could breathe normally now.

When he first heard Chen Yusheng mention "registering," he thought she meant registering to get married to Su Bai.

So it was for a travel activity, haha.

"Brother Su Bai, I think we roommates should maintain solidarity and friendship. How about our dorm, 510, goes together? We can include Chen Yusheng and find a few more people from the art academy." Chu Mingzhe said.

"I don't have a problem with it, but are you really okay?" Su Bai was a bit suspicious. If Chu Mingzhe saw any ambiguous behavior between him and Chen Yusheng, this guy would probably drop dead on the spot.

"No problem!" Chu Mingzhe said with a look of utter determination. "Let me witness your sweet moments with Chen Yusheng firsthand, and that will also help me give up. Sigh, actually, I've almost accepted reality. Now I think Jiang Qiuran is more my type. After all, she bought Sennheiser; she has musical taste!"

"Hey, Hu Ye, can you have some backbone?" Xue Tao was displeased.

"What do you mean backbone? I call this adapting to circumstances and seizing opportunities. Besides, Chen Yusheng already has Su Bai, and Jiang Qiuran is still single, without even a potential love interest. Of course, I'm going to pursue a pure girl like her."

As expected of Hu Ye, so full of pure love.

Su Bai sighed. Actually, this is a good thing. If young people don't have some pure love ideals, they can't all be morally corrupt, right?

"Oh, right. Chen Yusheng and Jiang Qiuran are roommates. We can ask Chen Yusheng to invite Jiang Qiuran to join our group."

Chu Mingzhe looked at Su Bai with burning eyes. "Brother Su Bai, you'll help me, right?"

"Ummm... that depends on Shengsheng's wishes."

"Holy crap! You're calling her that affectionately already, just how far have you two progressed now, ahhhhh!"

Chu Mingzhe clutched his head and went crazy.

Xue Tao, however, had a dark expression, thinking of another angle.

Damn it, are you really going to let this brat Chu Mingzhe try to hook up with Jiang Qiuran?

What if it actually works out? It's not impossible. I heard Jiang Qiuran comes from some poor place in the province, so maybe she'd really long for a Shanghai hukou. Plus, Chu Mingzhe is a bit artistic and pretentious, so maybe he'll actually get lucky.

Suddenly, Xue Tao felt a strong sense of crisis.

So Xue Tao also decided to join this trip.

Seeing this, Wang Haoran thought, "Well, if they're going, then I'll go too."