Chapter 140
The on-campus mobile phone repair shop was located at the end of ‘One Street’.
Early in the morning on Lidong, as soon as Chen Song, the owner of the repair shop, opened for the day, the people from the student union came.
“Song Ge.”
Two classmates from the student union’s purchasing department quickly walked to the store and handed Chen Song a ‘Supplies Requisition Form’.
Chen Song set his cleaning aside and said, “Wait a minute.”
“Sure, no problem.”
Chen Song turned on the computer and pulled out this month’s list of items for restock.
There weren’t many students who come to have their mobile phones repaired. There were also no parts and accessories that needed to be replenished in the mobile phone repair shop. Most of what he needed were screen protector films, mobile phone cases or new phones.
Their school environment was dangerous and depressing and there were a lot of students who can’t hold themselves back and smash their cell phones to vent their emotions.
“Please note it down for me,” Chen Song said.
“Oh, okay.” The junior classmate from the purchasing department nodded.
“We need 70 sheets of iPhone X tempered film.”
“120 sheets of Hua X tempered film.”
“30 sheets for XX tempered film.”
…
Once Chen Song was done reading out the list, he said, “I’ll leave the choice of mobile phones to you. Whatever’s hot on the market would be best. You can also buy a couple of the newest model.”
Saying so, Chen Song smiled and said, “We’re isolated from the world but we still have to keep up with the latest phones on the market.”
The two classmates laughed and Chen Song said, “That’s all.”
The two little classmates gave an affirmative and prepared to leave.
The two had gone a long way already when Chen Song hurriedly chased after them.
Hold on.
He’d almost forgotten Qin Zhou’s request.
It was the weekend and weekends were no different for students of the Unnatural Engineering University than it was for other normal students. Students either reviewed in the dormitories or in the library.
It was already November and in one month, in January, the final exams of this semester will be held. Compared to the midterm exams, the final exams will be much more difficult. One senior student on the forum took stock of the Rule Monsters that may be active after the final exam based on previous years’ experience.
The most discussed one was Rule 1-3.
Rule 1-3 comes actives every three years. After the period for Rule 1-3, is the time for the student union to vote for a new student union president.
This was because Rule 1-3 is usually personally handled by the student council president. At worst, the patrol team captain would go.
Three years ago, Qin Zhou, who was still a freshman, was appointed president under a critical situation. He was promoted from captain of the patrol team to president of the student union. Now Qin Zhou was a senior and was about to undertake the mission of every student union president – to explore Rule 1-3.
Due to the influence of countless posts on the forum, Lin Yi’s confession had been put on hold.
Cheng Yang didn’t quite understand the logical relationship between the two but Lin Yi had thought more about it and confessing before a big event was like setting a flag before a life-or-death situation; very unlucky.
In the dorm room —
Lin Yi, who was reviewing with Cheng Yang, put down his textbook. He couldn’t study.
At hand was the new mobile phone Qin Zhou bought for him. Lin Yi thought about it and couldn’t help picking it up and logging into the forum to continue reading those posts.
[President Qin is the hope of the whole school. If he falls in Rule 1-3, I feel like I won’t be able to see tomorrow]
——Main Post:
Here’s some data.
[When Lu Jin was in office (12th President of the Student Union)]
Campus code exploration rate: 50%
Campus Code Completion Rate: 20%
Patrol mortality: 62%
School-wide mortality rate: 58.4%
[When Zhang Yinyuan was in office (13th President of the Student Union)]
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
Campus code exploration rate: 31.6%
Jjwqer Jbvf Jbwqifalbc Ejaf: 38%
Ujagbi wbgajilas: 69.7%
Vmtbbi-klvf wbgajilas gjaf: 48.7%)]
[When Qin Zhou was in office (14th President of the Student Union)]
Jjwqer mbvf fzqibgjalbc gjaf: 63%
Jjwqer Jbvf Jbwqifalbc Ejaf: 51%
Ujagbi wbgajilas: 49%
Vmtbbi-klvf wbgajilas gjaf: 27%]
–1ra Jbwwfca:
Ktfgf lr wbgf vjaj, yea P vbc’a atlcx la lr cfmfrrjgs ab qbra la. Ktf qegqbrf bo qbralcu atfrf vjaj lr ab ifa wbgf qfbqif rff jcv ecvfgrajcv Ugfrlvfca Hlc’r jylilalfr.
The mortality rate of the patrol team remained high but President Qin kept it below 50%.
Judging from these data, there is no doubt that President Qin is the best student union president among all previous presidents. Maybe there will be a better student union president than President Qin in the future, but to be honest, do we dare to bet?
–2nd Comment:
The data is very clear, but the purpose of the original poster is not very clear.
Let me guess, the poster most likely hopes that the student union will let someone else handle Rule 1-3? President Qin will stay on campus?
–3rd Comment:
I agree with the 2nd commenter.
Rule 1-3 rule is indeed difficult. Previous student union presidents have fallen to this Rule. If President Qin doesn’t do it, wouldn’t anyone else they sent be walking to their grave?
There’s a possibility President Qin might come out of the 1-3 Rule World but that’s not necessarily the case for others, is it?
I’m not trying to bring bad luck to anyone. I’m just stating facts. Don’t bully me.
–4th Comment:
I’m the one who made the post.
I also know that it would be more risky to enter the 1-3 Rule World for anyone else. I’m not trying to say anything. I just hope that President Qin makes it out safe.
I’m not petitioning for someone else to go, although President Qin is not the only student union elite. What I mean is that if President Qin fails to leave the 1-3 Rule World, I see no hope.
I really don’t know what’s the point of living like this?
–5th Comment:
The Student Union doesn’t allow data to be released externally.
The poster must be an upperclassman, right? Junior or senior year? My guess is senior.
Now that the poster is a senior, there’s only the last semester left. After finishing the last semester, won’t you be able to leave here?
Let me tell you the truth, I’m a sophomore and I’ve got two more years left before graduation. I’ve thought about what I would after leaving school if I’ve already been forgotten by the world. But what does it matter? If we’re forgotten, we’ll just get our relatives and friends to remember us again.
It’s not that difficult.
–6th Comment:
The poster is spreading anxiety. I’ve reported you already.
–7th Comment:
Do you really think you can graduate successfully?
(Reply time: 1s ago)
…
Lin Yi was stunned for a moment when he saw this. In order to avoid instability, the fact that one would still be unable to leave the school after graduation was not allowed to be disclosed to the students. His account had the right to ban accounts and delete posts so he quickly made to delete the last comment.
While he was waiting for the deletion to happen, a system prompt popped up:
[This post has been deleted by [qinzhou]]
Lin Yi looked at this system prompt. He knew this account. He wasn’t the only one. Everyone knew this account.
It was Qin Zhou’s.
The [Delete] and [Restore] keys after this post were now grayed out.
Qin Zhou’s forum account has the highest authority and other people do not have the authority to restore posts he’d deleted.
Lin Yi pursed his lips.
In other words, Qin Zhou had also seen these posts.
He quickly returned to the forum home page.
This post wasn’t the only one of its kind. Almost the entire homepage was still filled with related posts.
But when Lin Yi returned to the home page, the forum was already blank.
He tried clicking it and a system prompt popped up:
[Posting has been disabled.]
Lin Yi was innocent and his account was also innocent. Qin Zhou must have made it so that no one was allowed to post.
But Lin Yi still wanted to verify so he sheepishly called Cheng Yang, who was next to him, “Cheng Yang Xiong.”
Cheng Yang was studying so intensely he felt like he was about to throw up. He was wishing that someone would disturb him so that he could give himself a perfect reason to rest.
“Hey!” Cheng Yang put down the book. “What is it?”
Lin Yi said, “Can you check if your account can still post on the forum?”
Cheng Yang quickly took out his mobile phone and logged in to the forum. “I can’t post.”
Lin Yi felt relieved. “Oh.”
He then went on staring at the blank forum.
Cheng Yang saw the way Lin Yi was acting and suddenly asked, “Lin Yi Xiong, could it that you’re concerned about President Qin but feel that you don't have the right to be?”
Lin Yi raised his head and nodded twice.
It was basically as Cheng Yang said. He wanted to ask Qin Zhou how he was but he didn’t know what to ask or how to ask. The forum made it very clear that there will be a one-month winter vacation after the final exam. After the winter vacation was when the 1-3 Rule Monster would be active.
Lin Yi had asked Wang Feihang indirectly how one could be assigned to the Rule 1-3 mission. Wang Feihang told him that getting assigned to the high-level Rules would require for the entire student union to meet and deliberate. Rule 1-3 rules was the highest level Rule in the campus rulebook. Even if a patrol team member were to volunteer for it, the student union would evaluate the candidate according to due process and no one could pass the evaluation.
No one on the patrol team could take on this mission.
So what the forum said was right. This was a mission for the student union president.
Cheng Yang said, “Then confess!”
Cheng Yang encouraged, “If you confess then you’d have every right to show concern.”
Lin Yi was about to say that a flag like this would be ominous but Cheng Yang pulled the stool from under him and was already a few steps ahead. “Lin Yi Xiong, do you know what a confession means?”
Lin Yi didn’t know why Cheng Yang would suddenly be asking this. He cautiously answered, “Telling the other party your feelings?”
Cheng Yang nodded. “It’s just letting the other party know your feelings. But you don’t have to do it with words. You can use body language and concrete actions to convey this message. Isn’t this also a confession? Then the things you’re worrying about can be avoided.”
Lin Yi paused for a moment and looked at Cheng Yang in disbelief. “So you are really the little Love Prince of Rong Province!”
Cheng Yang said proudly, “You bet.”
Lin Yi became excited, “And so, what then?”
Cheng Yang said, “If you’re asking for specifics, then…of course, there’s a way.”
Cheng Yang crooked his finger at him and Lin Yi scooted closer to him.
The two were discussed in hushed tones. Cheng Yang said, “Today is Lidong!”
Lin Yi was nervous. “So what if it’s Lidong?”
Cheng Yang: “You have a legitimate reason to ask President Qin out to dinner.”
Cheng Yang: “Lidong means mutton.”
Lin Yi said, “Isn’t mutton for the winter solstice?”
Cheng Yang said, “What’s the difference? Don’t both signal the coming of winter? This is the same logic as confessions.”
Lin Yi’s eyes lit up and he asked, “And then? And then?”
Cheng Yang said, “President Qin is a famous figure on campus and with the recent forum incident, appearing in public wouldn’t be the best idea. So, the cafeteria out of the question.”
Lin Yi: “Then where will we eat?”
Cheng Yang said, “Invite President Qin here.”
Cheng Yang pointed his fingers down and tapped the floor a few times. “Cook here. It’ll be just the two of you.”
Lin Yi was shocked. This was something he never could have come up with.
Cheng Yang hid his fame and merit. Glancing at the time, he urged Lin Yi, “Contact President Qin and set the date with him now.”
Lin Yi’s heart jumped with excitement. He held his mobile phone in both hands and opened Qin Zhou’s contact information.
After a pause, he looked at Cheng Yang, “Do I send a text message or call?”
Cheng Yang said, “Send a text message first. If President Qin doesn’t reply, call him.”
Lin Yi nodded like a chicken pecking at rice. “Okay, okay.”
He started writing a text message: “…Cheng Yang Xiong, what should I say?”
Cheng Yang said, “You have to come up with the message yourself. It has be in your voice. This way, this text message will be the most original text message that’s yours. This is what will move President Qin’s heart.”
Lin Yi: “Okay!”
He racked his brains thinking of what to write, typing it carefully word by word.
Because he’d made typos in previous text messages, this time, Lin Yi checked every word.
[Senior, winter is here, do you want to cook mutton together?]
Lin Yi looked at the text message. Although the content was very simple, he checked it over and over again, still hesitant to send it.
Cheng Yang next to him sighed with emotion.
A newbie in love.
Cheng Yang didn’t rush Lin Yi. Lin Yi would be having dinner with Qin Zhou tonight so he would be alone.
For dinner during Lidong, it’s better to have another person to eat with.
Cheng Yang thought of Ren Li. He should treat Ren Li to a meal and apologize.
Because he had promised to apologize to Ren Li during the review meeting, Ou Ying granted him the permission to contact Ren Li as soon as the 8-4 Rule World review meeting ended.
Cheng Yang typed.
He send it to Ren Li.
[Ren Li Ge, are you free to eat mutton together tonight?]
Just as he sent his text message, Lin Yi also sent his.
Lin Yi couldn’t sit still anymore. He stood up and paced back and forth in the room, checking his phone from time to time, obviously waiting for Qin Zhou’s reply.
“Lin Yi Xiong,” Cheng Yang comforted, “If there is no reply after five minutes, you can call.”
Lin Yi nodded and counted down the time.
After exactly five minutes, just as Lin Yi opened Qin Zhou’s contact information, Qin Zhou’s call came.
Lin Yi pointed to the phone excitedly, “Cheng Yang Xiong, Cheng Yang Xiong, he’s calling, he’s calling.”
Cheng Yang was afraid his presence would make Lin Yi unable to relax. He said quickly, “Go to the balcony and answer the call!”
Lin Yi ran to the balcony of his dorm room. ‘Thud thud thud.’
Cheng Yang looked down at his own phone but Ren Li still hadn’t replied.
Five minutes had already passed. Cheng Yang called Ren Li.
The call connected but before Cheng Yang could speak, Ren Li on the other end of the phone said, “I don’t have time. I won’t eat. Don’t bother me.”
Cheng Yang: “…”
Cheng Yang sighed, looking down at the disconnected call. He then looked up at Lin Yi on the balcony.
Lin Yi poked his finger against the wall. “Senior…the text message…”
“I saw it.” Qin Zhou on the other end of the phone said, “But I can’t eat mutton.”
Lin Yi was immediately disappointed and pressed against the wall. “Oh, then…”
Qin Zhou asked him, “You don’t have anything else to serve?…The forum will be closed for three days.”
The second half of the sentence, Qin Zhou had directed to someone else with him. Lin Yi said glumly, “I…”
Qin Zhou didn’t seem to hear his obviously sinking tone and said, “I still have something to do. I’ll be done before 6 in the evening. You remember the way to my dorm, right?”
Lin Yi could still hear the busy voices on the other end. He was being dismissed and he felt even more disappointed. “…I remember.”
Qin Zhou: “En, that’s good. See you at six.”
For a moment, Lin Yi didn’t understand. “Huh?”
Qin Zhou chuckled lowly and said, “Since you’ve got nothing else to serve me, I’ll have to be the one to serve you instead.”
“Little genius.”
Wow, president is so forward 😳
The Cheng Yang/Ren Li side pair seems to be cooking 👀 (but not cooking mutton 😔)
… That is smooth. Good job Qin Zhou!
Poor Cheng yang he was rejected right away
You can do it, Cheng Yang! I believe in your ship, don’t give up!
One ship sailed.. Another ship sank..
Ren Liiiiiii one chance in love you have!!!! Don’t let it go to waste!!!!
I honestly did not expect the other ship at all hahahaha love it so much! Such an unexpected but cute pairing I can’t wait to see how Cheng Yang woos Ren Li 🙂