By the time Qin Siyang got up, washed, and reached the Grand Auditorium just in time, it was already packed.
The entire Grand Auditorium was a sea of students, two or three thousand by a rough estimate.
But when Qin Siyang took a closer look at the scene in the Grand Auditorium, he was dumbfounded.
"Bad move! I should've come earlier!"
The freshmen attending the ceremony had no assigned seats. It was first come, first served, so the early arrivals got their pick.
Anyone who had been to school knew that at mandatory gatherings with unassigned seating, people usually avoided the first row or two-nobody particularly wanted close, pointless contact with the school leadership.
Even freshmen brimming with anticipation for university life were no exception.
As a result, the only empty seats in the Grand Auditorium were beside the guest seating in the first row and the professors' seating in the second.
Qin Siyang sighed and had no choice but to keep walking toward the front.
Very few of the freshmen recognized him. Most merely glanced at him before returning to their conversations.
It was hardly surprising that few people knew what Qin Siyang looked like.
After all, everyone who made it into Nanrong University was an unrivaled genius in their own world, and no genius paid excessive attention to other geniuses.
He glanced at the nameplates behind the guest seats in the first row and found few familiar names. Since the first row was also far too conspicuous, he decided to sit in the second.
The moment he sat down and turned his head, he discovered that everyone beside him was familiar.
Chu Baxing, Hu Chan, Gu Yunpeng, and Zhao Sifang sat in a row, in that order.
Qin Siyang couldn't help asking curiously, "Crown Prince Chu, why are