Changing Life

Lop Nur University, Grand Auditorium.

A group of university leaders sat on the stage, idly waiting.

Even President Shen Meiyu had come. To everyone's surprise, she had abandoned her usual flashy, youthful attire and wore a pitch-black formal suit instead, her makeup dignified, with the solemn air of someone attending the highest-level meeting. There were not many meetings the president took this seriously. The last time she had been so grave was when two Lop Nur University students had failed to summit Mount Everest and died at the peak, and the school held a memorial service for them.

Several thousand students filled the seats below, chattering impatiently. They had already waited for half an hour, yet the meeting still had not begun. The university leaders onstage acted as though nothing was wrong, leaving everyone restless and anxious.

Nearly every student at Lop Nur University was present. The school's notice had said: "An important meeting will be held in the Grand Auditorium at ten o'clock Saturday morning. The content of the meeting is temporarily confidential. Attendance is voluntary. This meeting is highly likely to change your life."

Words like "highly likely to change your life" usually appeared in poisonous motivational seminars and pyramid scheme advertisements.

They also occasionally appeared on the promotional bands of trashy self-help books, meant to catch the eyes of passing readers.

If students saw words like that anywhere else, they would definitely sneer and walk away.

But this was an official notice from Lop Nur University, delivered to every student through email, text messages, QQ, and WeChat. That sentence suddenly carried real weight!

A meeting that could truly change someone's life!

A huge number of Lop Nur University students had come with excited hearts.

What kind of meeting could change a person's life?

Could it be that