Translator: Dragon Boat Translation
Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
The girl confessing her love was the same person that Gui Zixiao tried to suggest to Xia Yu before, as well as one of the two girls who followed him to the coffee shop.
At first, the girl was hesitating on saying anything, however, after Xia Yu showed off his piano and violin skills, and seeing how all the girls in class looked at him, she felt very threatened. She then decided to confess today.
She didn’t expect another girl, who looked like a middle-schooler, jumping out and hugging Xia Yu.
Hearing the younger girl’s way of addressing Xia Yu with familiarity, the girl felt disappointed.
Was Xia Yu into younger girls? Should I have told him when I was in middle school? Would I have won him then?
Then, she saw Xia Yu pushing away the younger girl.
“Stop messing around!” Xia Yu pinched Youxue’s cheek. “This is my younger sister, Xia Youxue.”
Before the girl could rejoice, he said, “I don’t want to date while in high school. I’m sorry.”
The girl, having been through an emotional roller-coaster, was already numb.
“Sorry to bother you.” After bowing to Xia Yu, the girl ran off.
Watching the girl retreat, Xia Yu sighed.
So polite.
She wasn’t at all like those young people in his previous life.
He glanced at Youxue. “What are you doing here?”
“I just wanted to say hi to my brother,” Youxue said.
“Then, why did you call out my name instead of saying ‘brother’?” Xia Yu pinched his sister’s cheek.
“I was trying to help you out!” Youxue’s voice sounded funny with her cheek pressed.
“It was no big deal. But what you did, if people found out, would have been a lie.” He let go of Youxue’s cheek and looked around.
He knew Youxue wouldn’t dare to go out by herself at night. She must have come with someone.
“Where is your friend?” Xia Yu forced Youxue to reveal her friend.
It was a girl shorter than Youxue. She wore dark-rimmed glasses and was adorable, looking a little goth.
Taking out 200 yuan, Xia Yu told Youxue and her friend to get something to eat at a fast-food place or to kill time at the supermarket, and they could go home together later.
Youxue took the money and left with her friend.
Xia Yu returned to dinner. He realized that he didn’t ask why Youxue was following him.
He didn’t even notice since her following techniques were quite good.
Did she follow him since he rarely went out at night? Was she hoping to catch him doing something?
If only phones were more fun, she’d not have the time for this kind of thing.
When he invented some addictive cell phone games and brought over some of the popular websites from his previous life, everyone in this world would be slaves to their phones. No one would have so much free time.
Xia Yu set his goal.
He kept thinking while the dinner continued.
He needed more people to realize this goal. He needed helpers.
These helpers had to be elites of various industries.
Where could he get these helpers?
He looked toward the class leader. The guy had some family money and was a good leader. Maybe he should ask him?
After a while, he mocked himself. With the leftover salary from his part-time job, he only had a total of 2000 yuan in savings. It was too early thinking of these things.
He stopped thinking and focused on eating.
For the eight hours of game time on Sunday, he logged onto An Siyao and spent some time with the Feng sisters who came for a visit.
Monday, morning exercises.
The principal said something official about the cultural festival and awarded the Best Project award to Xia Yu’s class. The class leader was elated.
Xia Yu was even awarded the Best Individual Performance Award. He, the class leader, and other award-winners all went on stage to accept the awards.
While giving him the award, the principal whispered, “Come to my office around noon.”
Then, the principal patted his shoulder and went on to give the next award.
Back in his seat, Xia Yu tried to think why the principal needed to see him.
He couldn’t figure out the reason by the time it was noon.
After having lunch at the cafeteria, he went to the principal’s office.
In addition to the principal, Xia Yu’s Chinese teacher was also there.
“Sit. Just wait a while.” The principal was looking at some materials. He had Xia Yu sit and looked toward the Chinese teacher.
“Old Yu, your report is a little rough.”
“Principal, didn’t we always do it like this?”
The Chinese teacher tried to justify himself. Of course, he could spend more than an hour on a perfect report, but why bother if he could save time on the work.
“It’s different now. Go and fix this.” Giving the report back to the Chinese teacher, the principal ended the conversation.
The principal shifted his gaze to Xia Yu.
Feeling curious, the Chinese teacher didn’t leave and stood watching.
“I asked you to come here today so that you could enter a music competition for the school,” the principal said.
“Music competition? Shouldn’t those woodwind ensemble students do it?” Xia Yu was doubtful.
“The woodwind ensemble kids aren’t good enough. I know them, they won’t win!” The principal expressed his disdain.
“What competition? When?” Xia Yu asked.
If it was convenient, he could do the competition as a favor for the principal.
“Music Competition for District 1 High Schoolers,” the principal said with a smile. “The actual time hasn’t been decided yet due to some factors. The finals would be around December. The schools were notified around March.”
“District-wide?” Xia Yu felt a little intimidated. He knew his own level.
He was pretty good among the cafe pianists in Zilang City, but the die-hard piano students were all from rich families. Very few of them played piano for money. They were all at home.
Even though this competition only had high schoolers, there were some amazing pianists among them, especially those kids from piano-playing dynasties.
“Our school’s rival, Second High School, is also going to the competition. Their music ensemble had always been very good. If you go, you can make sure we don’t look too bad.”
The principal added, “I learned piano too. I know what the Second High School is like music-wise. You don’t have to beat them. Of course, if you performed as usual, you could maybe beat their star player.”
In this world, in addition to grades, extracurriculars were also important. Many schools attracted students not with their college admission rates but their excellent clubs.
For example, Huada University’s chess club cultivated half of the famous chess players in recent years.
Xia Yu’s school never had its music clubs as a selling point, however, maybe the principal’s plan had more to do with his personal ambition.
Xia Yu heard that, last year, the principal was trying to recruit a student who ranked 10th in a provincial-level piano competition, but the student turned the school down.
To be honest, Xia Yu didn’t want to be part of this venture. But if he did do it, he’d give it his all. As a time-traveler, if he was only so-so in the competition, it’d be too embarrassing.
If he used all of his time practicing piano, he could win the competition. However, going forward, he wanted to learn all of Xu Youxiang’s programming skills.
Seeing Xia Yu’s reluctance, the principal added, “If you earned a good ranking for the school, I’d recommend you for admission to Huada University. I have some connections in the field. If you did well, I could get you this quota.”
Recommendation for Huada University!
Xia Yu was surprised that the principal could offer this as an incentive.
Huada University was the best university in District 1, especially for majors in the internet industry.
If he wanted to grow his internet career, he’d need help from students at Huada University.
If he went to Huada University, he’d have it easy, as in, he could get help from students in all grades in starting his company. He could survive the hard beginning of being an entrepreneur.
If he could find some amazing talent, he wouldn’t even need to learn programming himself. He’d just make those guys work for him.
Although, there was a major problem if he participated in this music competition.