The Arts Performance went very smoothly. By 9:10, all the acts had finished.
Next came the most exciting part: the awards.
"Let's welcome the performers who gave us such wonderful performances tonight to the stage!" As the host's voice fell, the groups of performers, who had long been waiting eagerly backstage, came out and lined up at center stage.
Wen Zhixia, Xiao Yan, and the others were both nervous and excited, huddling together as they giggled and whispered. Once they were back onstage, they obediently formed a row.
Lin Meng Qiu was nervous and excited too. With her cold little hands behind her back, she twisted her fingers where the audience couldn't see. Applause and cheers filled the venue, yet all she could hear was her own heartbeat.
Chen Shi'an was quite calm. He casually picked a spot to stand in, and Xu Zihan, nervous and the only other guy competing alongside him, hurried over to stand beside him.
"Zhizhi! Stand here!"
Xiao Yan and the other girls shrewdly made room for Wen Zhixia to stand beside Chen Shi'an.
"Xu Zihan, how about switching places with the class monitor?" Qiu Yufu whispered to Zihan too.
Only then did Zihan catch on. No wonder he was still just the sports representative after all these years as a class officer. He had nothing on the deputy class monitor-
"Class Monitor, Class Monitor! Stand on the Daoist Master's left. I saved you a spot!" Zihan hurriedly said.
Lin Meng Qiu: "..."
Could you not announce in public who I'm supposed to stand next to?!
Even so, the Class Monitor very honestly took her place on Chen Shi'an's left.
Facing the audience, their lineup was Han, Fu, Lin, Chen, Wen, Yan, Ye, and Tong.
This way, all eight of them who had performed in