Since he had put it that way, Liu Qian and Sun Rui knew
that refusing the two tickets again would seem far too affected.
So, after thanking him sincerely, they accepted the two all-access passes.
As the Director of Admissions Office at Magic City Superpower University, Zhang Chaoyang had plenty of experience with university applications.
Along the way, he offered Liu Qian and Sun Rui quite a few suggestions about filling out their choices.
For instance, which schools in Magic City might expand their intake that year, and which might lower their admission cutoffs.
Ordinary people had no access to insider information like this.
Besides being delighted, Liu Qian and Sun Rui felt incredibly lucky to have run into Xu Jingming on the way.
Otherwise, they would never have learned such confidential information.
The SUV sped along and soon entered Modu University City.
Finally, it stopped in front of the gates of Magic City Superpower University.
"I'll go park first. Wait here for me."
After dropping off Xu Jingming and the two girls, Zhang Chaoyang went to park the car alone.
Xu Jingming took the opportunity to look over the nationally renowned university before him.
Back in Jiangcheng, he had looked up information about Magic City Superpower University online.
He knew its campus was grand.
But only when the university actually stood before him did he truly feel its overwhelming grandeur.
The entrance alone was over a hundred meters wide!
The flat concrete roadway beneath it could accommodate dozens of cars passing side by side!
It was also more than ten meters tall!
Across the enormous gateway, the name "Magic City Superpower University" was written in bold, flowing calligraphy.
It gleamed beneath the midday sun.
"Wow. If even the entrance is this magnificent, what must the campus itself look like?"
Xu Jingming finally understood why so many applicants yearned to attend Elite Universities.
Aside from their rich academic traditions, simply passing through such an imposing entrance every day would be a visual treat.
At the same time, he could not help looking forward to the next four years of campus life.
Beside him, Liu Qian and Sun Rui were equally awed by the grandeur of Magic City Superpower University.
They stared at the entrance without even blinking.
"Well? Impressive, isn't it?"
Zhang Chaoyang appeared beside them with a smile, having parked the car.
He loved seeing new students overwhelmed by the university.
That was one of the reasons he had chosen to pick up Xu Jingming himself.
"Magic City Superpower University covers forty thousand mu, or twenty-six square kilometers. An entrance like this suits it perfectly."
Zhang Chaoyang's next remark made Liu Qian's mouth fall open and her eyes widen:
"Twenty-six square kilometers?! I remember Magic City Superpower University only admits a thousand new students each year.
Even with all four years combined, that's only a little over four thousand students, right? So few people get to live in such a huge place?!"
Liu Qian had known Magic City Superpower University was big, but she had never imagined it covered twenty-six square kilometers!
That was almost half the size of a county town!
Yet this vast area housed barely more than four thousand people!
And this was Magic City, where every inch of land cost a fortune!
For a university to occupy so much land was practically unbelievable!
"There aren't quite that few people. Including all the faculty and staff, we have a little over ten thousand people. That's only about twenty-six hundred square meters per person."
Zhang Chaoyang's use of "only" made Liu Qian and Sun Rui's eyes burn with envy.
Over twenty-six hundred square meters per person—what an astonishing figure!
An ordinary university would be doing well to offer even one hundredth of that!
Still reeling from one shock after another, Liu Qian and Sun Rui followed them into Magic City Superpower University.
By the time they came back to their senses, Xu Jingming was already waving goodbye:
"I've spoken to Mr. Zhang. You're free to look around the campus.
But once you leave, you won't be able to get back in. Well, ladies, this is where we part ways.
I hope you both get into the universities you want."
With Xu Jingming's height and looks matching her tastes perfectly, Liu Qian could hardly deny that she felt attracted to him.
Yet as she watched him leave with Zhang Chaoyang,
even after mustering all her courage, she could not bring herself to call him back and ask for his contact information.
"In the end... we belong to different worlds."
Liu Qian shook her head.
She came from an ordinary family. To someone like Xu Jingming, whom Magic City Superpower University had personally sent someone to pick up, she was no more than a passerby.
Even meeting him once was fortunate enough. Hoping for a closer relationship was nothing but a pipe dream...
"Qian, I know who Xu Jingming is!"
Beside her, Sun Rui suddenly exclaimed and held her phone in front of Liu Qian:
"I knew he looked familiar! He's our Jiangnan Province's Provincial Top Scorer!"
"So it was him!"
Looking at the news stories about Xu Jingming and the accompanying photos on Sun Rui's phone,
Liu Qian finally connected him to the Provincial Top Scorer who had caused such a stir throughout Jiangnan Province a while back.
"So he chose Magic City Superpower University in the end. No wonder a teacher came to pick him up personally."
Even when someone caused a huge sensation online, people might not recognize them upon meeting them in person.
That was a natural reaction for most people, and Liu Qian was no exception.
There had never been any definite news online about which university Xu Jingming would ultimately choose.
She had never expected that he had already chosen Magic City Superpower University and was even here to register.
"Sure enough, we belong to different worlds."
After learning who he really was, Liu Qian actually felt more at ease. Smiling, she took her best friend Sun Rui's hand:
"Come on. It's not every day we get to come here. Let's have a proper look around!"
With the Director of Admissions Office guiding him, Xu Jingming encountered no obstacles during registration.
In just over half an hour, he completed all the paperwork.
He received his student ID and the key to his dorm.
The entrance to Magic City Superpower University had already stunned Xu Jingming when he arrived.
But when he saw his dorm, he was stunned all over again.
Having completed a doctorate in his previous life, he had seen plenty of dorms.
He had even attended three different universities himself and lived in three or four different dorms.
There had been four-person rooms, single rooms, and even three-bedroom apartments with a living room reserved for doctoral students!
But he had truly never seen a university use villas as dorms the way Magic City Superpower University did!
The villa before him even looked far more luxurious than the one he owned in Jiangcheng!
Now Xu Jingming finally understood why Magic City Superpower University occupied so much land.
The villas provided for students alone probably took up nearly half the campus!
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