After reaching a cooperation agreement with Ouyang Jia, the other party smoothly shared the control of the campus forum with You Xinghai, clothing her in a moderator identity.
Students who frequently used the campus forum suddenly discovered that, starting from some unknown day, their moderator had undergone a process of mitosis. The original “Moderator: Ghost” had split into “Moderator A: Ghost” and “Moderator B: Osmanthus.”
When choosing her forum ID, she happened to be in class. You Xinghai had randomly raised her head and spotted an osmanthus petal resting on the head of Wen Xiaoyue in the front row. Perhaps because it was right on top of her head, no one else had noticed it.
Seeing this sight, she had looked down and immediately set her ID to “Osmanthus.”
Now that she had become prosperous, the value of “Osmanthus” rose along with her fortune, becoming a glamorous moderator ID.
The students did not know who this suddenly appearing Moderator B was. Before they could investigate the matter in detail, the forum was shut down once again, and a notice reading “Under maintenance, please look forward to it” popped up on the webpage.
Compared to the sudden crash last time, the maintenance time was much longer on this occasion.
Living a life without the forum to play on felt as if society had regressed by ten years, returning to an era when gossip was only spread by word of mouth. The students were all incredibly resentful, wailing every day about when the maintenance would finally be finished and why it was not fixed yet.
Finally, the newly maintained forum quietly went online, breaking an ultra-high visitor count on that very day.
Facts proved that this maintenance period was not a waste of time. The user interface of the entire forum had undergone a major transformation. The design was obviously much more mature and exquisite, and the various buttons were more rounded.
The forum added many new functions, such as “Principal’s Mailbox,” “Second-hand Trading,” “Event Notifications,” and “Forward and Like.” These changes directly transformed the original forum, which only allowed posting and replying, into a commercially operable website in one fell swoop.
Of course, while it was called a commercial operation, it amounted to nothing more than collecting some advertising fees from slots placed in relatively unobtrusive positions. This revenue was strictly used to pay for daily maintenance expenses. You Xinghai and Ouyang Jia believed that they had a grand enterprise to run, so they had no need to care about such small change.
After the forum was updated, the students became even more enthusiastic about posting, eagerly trying out the new functions.
Driven by this wave of traffic, a certain post quietly went viral after a few days.
[HOT] Choose the Candidate You Think Is Most Suitable to Be the Host of the September Ball!
Original Poster: The list of hosts for the September Ball has not been released yet. I believe everyone has their own ideal candidate in mind, right? Come and participate in the vote!
Candidates:
1 Wen Xiaoyue (234 votes)
2 Gu Yingyu (221 votes)
3 Fu Dongxue (189 votes)
(The voting is still ongoing.)
By the time You Xinghai noticed this post, the number of votes for Wen Xiaoyue and Gu Yingyu had already far exceeded the others, sitting high up at the very top.
She felt a wave of confusion. Although the list had indeed not been announced yet, the choice of who would be selected was basically set in stone.
What were they trying to pull? Did they want to squeeze Guan Yinqi out?
She scrolled down and saw a few familiar names. Du Na and Ouyang Jia were both there, and there was even Chen Shiru, who had been completely ruined and disgraced a while ago.
Meanwhile, Guan Yinqi, the host actually designated by the school, was pitifully ranked below fiftieth place, with a miserably small number of votes.
You Xinghai even saw herself in the top twenty.
The photo on the webpage was taken secretly by someone unknown. It was extremely blurry, only showing her profile as she stared blankly out the window.
She enlarged the image and could actually see a tiny bit of Wen Xiaoyue sitting in the front row, which had not been cropped out.
From what angle was this taken? Did they dare to give her the full picture?
You Xinghai admired her own blurry half-face for a moment, then very happily logged into her moderator account. Through technological means, she completely erased herself from the voting interface.
How amusing. Did they want her to go up on stage and perform? Had they given her enough money?
However, this plotline had never happened in the novel. It was the newly updated voting function of the forum that gave this group of people an opportunity.
Could it be that some school beauty pageant would pop up after a while? Was it really going to be that cliché?
You Xinghai smoothly added a few hundred votes for Guan Yinqi, directly lifting her into the top five.
In any case, the Great God of Plot would definitely make Guan Yinqi the host. Otherwise, how could the sweet interactions between the host and the courtesan queen, Gu Yingyu, be completed later on?
She would give it a little push to avoid altering the original story line and causing unexpected complications.
She scrolled back to the top, glancing at the image of Wen Xiaoyue and Gu Yingyu tied for first and second place.
You Xinghai remained silent for a moment, then doubled the votes of the other candidates in the top five, excluding Gu Yingyu.
Watching Gu Yingyu drop straight down the rankings, she snorted in her heart.
She did this solely to prevent Gu Yingyu from actually being selected. It was definitely not because she found the sight of those two standing side by side an eyesore.
Ouyang Jia noticed You Xinghai’s operations and sent her a private message, asking, “Whose votes did you alter?”
You Xinghai typed back a reply, “Do not misunderstand. I just wanted them to attract the heat so that no one would notice that I deleted myself.”
But Ouyang Jia obviously did not believe her nonsense and quickly replied, “Stop pretending. I heard that you were pursuing a certain someone before. You even trampled on your love rival. You really are something.”
You Xinghai was left speechless.
Her impression as a little rogue, scum Alpha was almost fading from the minds of her classmates. Why did the matter of her pursuing Guan Yinqi still have lingering warmth?
She only hoped that Guan Yinqi and Gu Yingyu had already forgotten her completely.
The hype on the forum was carried out grandly. However, in reality, what arrived even earlier than the September Ball was the monthly examination.
As the examination time approached, even the noble academy, which usually neglected its proper duties, gained a bit of a learning atmosphere. The normally noisy classroom saw several more people quietly reading books.
However, You Xinghai still went her own way, playing games or sleeping heavily during class every day, completely disregarding the looks from the people around her.
The teachers also seemed to regard her as a nouveau riche who was just idling away her time to get a diploma. As long as she did not affect others, they left her alone.
Regarding this situation, Wen Xiaoyue was rather dissatisfied.
“You just eat and sleep all day long. Have you ever thought about what you will do in the future?”
You Xinghai really wanted to say that the total time she had spent in school across two lifetimes was three times that of hers, and she was truly fed up with going to school.
Unfortunately, she could not say that. Helpless, she could only reply, “I plan to inherit my family fortune and then continue to eat and sleep.”
This typical, slacker response left Wen Xiaoyue choked up. She said with an air of wishing iron could turn into steel, “No matter how much family fortune you have, most of it is not cash flow. Life may not always be smooth sailing either.”
You Xinghai thought to herself that she had already anticipated this, which was why she had anxiously set up a company with the computer girl a while ago.
But before the business was up and running, she did not intend to make this matter public. She could only say vaguely, “I have my own plans.”
Wen Xiaoyue only took it as her being stubborn and stared at her fixedly.
Since words had already reached this point, she should give up on continuing to educate me, right?
As a result, to You Xinghai’s surprise, Wen Xiaoyue suddenly blurted out, “Do you want me to treat you to another meal? This time, we will not invite anyone else. I will just invite you alone!”
You Xinghai was bewildered. What kind of play was this?
“Letting the eldest young lady treat every time is too expensive,” she answered cautiously. “I can go eat by myself, or I can treat you instead, to return the favor.”
“Hmph, there is no need for you to please me.”
Wen Xiaoyue pushed away the snacks, mobile phone, magazines, and novels on You Xinghai’s desk, finally pulling out a clean test paper and slapping it in front of her.
“You,” Wen Xiaoyue said solemnly, “if you finish this set of questions within today, I will continue to treat you to dinner this week.”
What?
You Xinghai subconsciously wanted to laugh, but looking at Wen Xiaoyue’s slightly puffed-up face, she worried that she would be beaten if she laughed out loud.
Is she trying to roundaboutly motivate me to study through rewards? How can she be this cute?
You Xinghai tried her best to suppress the smile in her eyes and slowly took the paper handed to her. “Although Miss Wen’s proposal makes my heart flutter, one should not accept rewards without merit. If I finish the paper and you treat me to dinner, what do you get out of it?”
It was strange. Why did she care so much about whether she studied hard or not? She was not Sun Quan, and You Xinghai was not Lü Meng.
Wen Xiaoyue could not state a reason either. She just felt that she could not stand You Xinghai’s lazy, depraved, and slacker appearance.
“Mind your own business. I have money, and I am willing to spend it.” After saying that, she thought of another reason and quickly added, “You play games behind me every day, which affects my studies.”
You Xinghai was puzzled. You do not have eyes on your back, so how could it affect your studies?
This time, she could finally no longer hold it back and laughed lightly, an indescribable pleasure rising on her face.
“All right, so that Miss Wen can devote herself entirely to her studies, I will definitely work hard.”
Wen Xiaoyue was just about to say, “It is good that you know,” when You Xinghai’s next sentence drifted over leisurely.
“It is definitely not because Miss Wen treats me as a good friend and cares too much about me that she is doing this, right?”
Wen Xiaoyue was momentarily furious. “How could that be possible!”
Wen Xiaoyue was so angry that she turned right around and sat down with a thud. However, there was still a faint rosy blush on the contours of her ears.
Oh dear, she was angry again.
You Xinghai lowered her head and glanced at the questions on the exam paper. The corners of her lips curled upward. She bent down to rummage through her desk and finally found a pen deep inside the drawer, which looked as if it had been collecting dust for a very long time.
Doing questions was simple. Finishing a set of test papers allowed her to get a free meal for nothing. Where else could she find such a good deal?
She put on her headphones and buried her head in the questions to the accompaniment of soft music.
Hearing the rustling sound of a pen hitting paper from behind her, Wen Xiaoyue was slightly surprised. You Xinghai actually started writing? She thought the other party would slack off for a while longer. Could it be that she really wanted to eat this meal that much? She was practically a glutton.
After You Xinghai entered her study mode, Wen Xiaoyue felt her heart grow much quieter for some reason. She thought for a moment, found the same set of questions she had just thrown to You Xinghai based on her memory, and began to do them as well.
She should finish them faster than You Xinghai. By then, she could check the answers in advance, and if there was anything You Xinghai did not understand, she could directly explain it to her.
Sigh, she really was a good classmate who loved to help others. You Xinghai should just be secretly happy to have a front row classmate like her.
The two most prominent people in the elite class began to furiously solve questions, which immediately attracted the attention of the others.
“Oh my god, even You Xinghai is studying hard. What reason do I have to keep playing?”
“Xiaoyue is also writing test papers. As expected, outstanding people will only think about becoming even more outstanding.”
“I cannot do this anymore. I do not even want to scroll through my phone. I want to do questions too!”
Immersed in the sea of questions, the two of them had absolutely no idea that they had set off a learning craze in the elite class.
Just as Wen Xiaoyue was contemplating the second-to-last big question, the crisp sound of a pen cap closing suddenly came from behind her.
“Eldest young lady, I have finished.”