Chapter 154: Tao Zi
Lin Luoran emerged from the university's European-style teaching building, with its white walls and red roof. She had attended Professor Zhang's advanced English writing class that day, and several friends walked out beside her. They might not all have been beautiful, but they certainly did not lack poise.
In fact, although the university was widely acknowledged to be full of beautiful women, that was only a relative proportion. It was not particularly large by Songjiang University Town standards, and its student population was limited. Under those circumstances, with its imbalanced gender ratio and the likelihood of encountering pretty girls everywhere, it naturally enjoyed a "distinguished reputation" in the grapevine of high school classrooms and university backstreets.
"British literature really is harder than American literature. Just looking at the Irish literary works that professor assigned this semester gives me a headache. I'm not like you, Lin Luoran. I heard your dad speaks seven languages, right? What a genius. No wonder he had a daughter with such a gift for languages. You really do come from a family of diplomats. These all-English textbooks give me a headache, and apparently this semester's exam for the course is open-ended. If I don't know the whole book, I can just wait to fail. What a tragedy..."
One girl said this, and Lin Luoran waved a hand. "My dad doesn't speak seven languages. Of course, if you count being able to ask 'Excuse me, where's the toilet?' in Hindi... then I suppose he does."
The girls laughed at the sight of Lin Luoran teasing her father with such a serious expression.
Lin Luoran's rapid rise to prominence at the university, becoming something of a leader among the girls, was naturally inseparable from her forceful personality and refusal to lose.
Although Lin Luoran