The Reborn Sidekick Rejected The Male Lead
Chapter 143 - 141: Back-to-School Routine

Chapter 143: Chapter 141: Back-to-School Routine

The two didn’t know that their absence from the usual lunch gathering would lead to gossip; they hurried to catch the bus and managed to get on the number three bus at 12:05 PM, arriving at the publishing house at 12:40 PM.

Zhang Miao and her group had just finished lunch when Sister Qin and Zhao Youcai saw them and teased, "Look, the university students have arrived."

"Sister Qin, Editor Zhao, long time no see."

"How’s college life?"

"Pretty good."

Yang Bo came over at that time with a smile on his face. When they had worked together before, he was always very careful around the two female comrades, afraid of inadvertently offending them. Now that he was alone, he still felt out of place.

"It was better when you were here, more lively. Now that I’m on my own, all I do every day is draw and draw."

Lu Jingqiu couldn’t help but laugh, teasing, "Alone in your office, you must be secretly happy."

Luo Xinyue snorted, "Weren’t you just wishing we weren’t in the office? What, having regrets now?"

"On my conscience, I really don’t have any regrets. I miss you both terribly."

This time, Lu Jingqiu didn’t see Wang Meilian around. Only after asking Zhang Miao did she find out that Wang Meilian was getting married soon and had taken leave.

Ban Dalin reviewed Luo Xinyue’s compositions and color additions. Not requiring too many changes this time, he approved them right away.

The same went for Lu Jingqiu; they discussed the number of her illustrations.

Luo Xinyue had fifteen, including the cover. Lu Jingqiu had twelve large ones.

Luo Xinyue’s payment was thirty yuan, Lu Jingqiu’s was thirty-six yuan.

Knowing that they hadn’t had lunch, Sister Qin went to the canteen to see if there was any food left. She brought back some dishes for them.

After eating, the two hurriedly left.

By the time they got back to school, it was almost time for class.

During the afternoon break, Mi Qiaomai asked what they had been up to at noon, why the rush.

This time, Luo Xinyue was more discreet and vaguely said they had errands to run.

After school, they didn’t go to the canteen with her for dinner; instead, the two of them started to feel that Mi Qiaomai was too nosy.

That night, on her way to the library, Lu Jingqiu took the time to write letters to Yun Yuzhi and Li Yinger, telling them that she was now at university. She also wrote to Meng Xintian, inviting her to correspond when she had time, as well as to Gao Qing, inquiring about her university life.

In her previous life, she hadn’t had many friends; in this life, getting to know interesting people and making friends seemed like a good idea.

Compared to Lu Jingqiu’s focus on letter writing, Luo Xinyue was busy drawing seriously.

Last week He Yu and Chen Qingru found out about their work but didn’t interrupt; they were serious about their drawing too.

After finishing the last letter, Lu Jingqiu suddenly remembered about the desk and quickly instructed, "We spent a total of five yuan, and I’ve paid a one yuan deposit. It’s all set—the Carpenter Uncle will deliver it to us at five o’clock on Friday. We’ll both go to the entrance to meet him; we’ll wait right outside the dorm."

He Yu said, "The dorm auntie has been settled with two sponge cakes; she was actually quite happy about it, after all, it’s our own desk, and we can leave it to the school when we graduate."

Chen Qingru added, "On that day, I’ll clear our old desk out from upstairs. How about He Yu waits at the entrance with you two?"

Luo Xinyue replied, "No problem."

While walking back to the dorm together, Luo Xinyue mentioned, "I heard our school is going to hold an autumn sports event, but not here on our campus."

Lu Jingqiu explained, "It’s at the Agricultural University. Politics and Law University’s event is at our campus; Agricultural University’s is at Normal University; Normal University’s is at West City University; and West City University’s is at Politics and Law University."

He Yu inquired, "Why like this? It’s almost time for the National Day holidays next week."

Luo Xinyue’s mother works for the Education Bureau. She mentioned this, saying, "It seems like it’s to let students from various schools understand more about our West City University. It’s just during the first year of school. Not after that. It was proposed by the Education Bureau, to have each school identify their own shortcomings and the strengths of other schools, to improve upon each other and develop their own special features."

Chen Qingru, puzzled, asked, "There are only a few good universities in our West City, and how come the Military Science Academy is not participating?"

Luo Xinyue replied, "The Military Science Academy is a stringent and closed school; it doesn’t participate in these things."

Lu Jingqiu didn’t show interest in the sports day; although she had grown up in a large compound, her running skills were truly abysmal.

After hearing what Luo Xinyue had said, the next day, Professor Shi brought up the sports day matters, as the class leader had yet to be elected.

Professor Shi looked around the class and appointed the tallest student, Liu Guodong, as the physical education representative to organize the event.

Each event required at least one student to participate.

After Professor Shi left, Liu Guodong, with the list of events in hand, asked for the students’ opinions.

A few students signed up, but not too many.

Over the next two days, Liu Guodong began to persuade each student individually.

It turned out that Liu Guodong was quite talkative, able to dung someone to the point that you’d feel guilty if you didn’t sign up for an event.

When it came to Lu Jingqiu and Luo Xinyue, Liu Guodong, upon hearing that they didn’t want to sign up, hurried over with his water bottle, looking determined to talk them into it until he was hoarse.

Lu Jingqiu didn’t want to listen to his spiel and directly asked, "Classmate Liu, our class has signed up for quite a few events, right? I really don’t want to participate."

"Classmate Lu, this is the first time our class is participating in a group event. This is about competing for group honor. Even if you don’t participate in individual events, joining a group event is also fine—like tug of war, relay races, anything."

Luo Xinyue said, "There’s a tug of war, too? Alright then, I’ll participate in the tug of war."

Liu Guodong glanced at the number of participants for the tug of war and said, "We have just one spot left. Classmate Luo, I’ll put you down for it. What about you, Jingqiu?"

Lu Jingqiu said, "Ah, there’s none left?"

"Yep, each class can have ten girls and ten boys. Looking at your slight build, you don’t seem strong enough for tug of war, which is good. Are you fast at running? How about the 100-meter relay?"

"Running?" Lu Jingqiu frowned, looked down at the list and the events, which were almost full, then at the long jump, which had few sign-ups, and after considering said, "I’ll sign up for the long jump."

"Okay, I’ve signed you up. You all have a PE class in the afternoons these days, so whatever event you’ve signed up for, start practicing."

Professor Shi noticed that because of the sports day, the class had become quite excited and discipline had somewhat deteriorated.

It was high time the class monitor and the discipline committee got involved.

The next afternoon, taking advantage of the time, the class held elections for class monitor, discipline committee, study committee, propaganda committee, labor committee. No election was needed for the physical education representative as everyone agreed that Liu Guodong should continue.

To Lu Jingqiu’s surprise, she was voted by everyone to be part of the study committee, and she had to cobble together a few sentences for a speech on the spot.

Luo Xinyue was the same, being elected as the propaganda committee member, the labor committee member was Xu Yu, discipline committee member Zhang Guomin, and class monitor Yang Xincheng.

Mi Qiaomai wanted to run for the study committee but fell short by three votes; she felt somewhat uncomfortable, yet didn’t show it outwardly. Congratulating a few people nearby, she said, "Congratulations to you all, especially Classmate Lu. Who would have thought that in just two weeks, you would become so familiar to our classmates. If you ask me, it’s definitely because of your work that day. It attracted the students, and they feel your professional skills are exceptional."

Lu Jingqiu gave an awkward smile and thought privately, Thank you, indeed.

Luo Xinyue, not one to indulge such a person, had come to a conclusion after two weeks of interacting, that Mi Qiaomai was just like those fake friends she had before, "It’s been two weeks; with only a few dozen people in the class, how could anyone not be familiar with each other? These past few days, Classmate Liu has been talking to everyone constantly. We’ve all been discussing the sports meeting; how could anyone not know each other? As for Jingqiu becoming the study committee member, it’s not just because of her art. In Professor Shi’s classes, why does he like to ask Jingqiu questions? Because Jingqiu always gives the right answers. She deserves this role."

Mi Qiaomai’s face stiffened a bit, but she still wore a smile and said, "That’s true, that’s what I meant, Classmate Luo. Professor Shi often asks you questions too."

"Hmph, I know my own abilities."

The more interaction she had with Mi Qiaomai, the more bothersome she found her.

Xu Yu, who was beside them, stayed silent. She knew Mi Qiaomai had a competitive spirit; since the three people around her had been elected and she hadn’t, she was surely not feeling good about it, and Xu Yu had no intention of making it worse at that moment.