Cheng Ran was still shocked by the information he got from the meeting with Li Jingping. No wonder Jiang Hongshao hinted at his classes at the end of the month. Was he looking for time to come to HKUST
In fact, the time is almost the same. Cheng Ran was puzzled that Lao Jiang never mentioned his return date when they were chatting. At that time, he thought it was because they felt that the time and space were so long apart, so they didn't mention some unpleasant topics if they could, just like the two of them were in high school and No. 10 middle school, and they couldn't ask if you brought an umbrella when it rained.
However, their hearts were still warm, just like the sunshine that was still warm on their bodies on the evening when they last left No. 10 Middle School that year, and just like the year when they climbed Mount Emei for most of the night and had no time to see the ten scenic spots along the way, but were still intoxicated by the sunrise and the sea of clouds, yet their bodies were frozen like idiots.
From the moment we parted, I knew that separation and reunion would be the state of our lives for a long time to come.
But in the end, there is nothing to complain about. This is how life is. You should fight when you should fight, and you should travel when you should travel. If you know what you should do and do it, it is the luckiest thing. In reality, most people may not find a way, and even if they do, they may not have the courage to choose.
Cheng Ran is an experienced person, so of course he would not interfere with Jiang Hongshao's choice, nor did he want to influence her. He never thought that Lao Jiang would help him in return and join his business empire.
She is an experienced person, she has her own goals and pursuits, even if her ideal is just to open a flower shop, Cheng Ran will not buy all the flowers. Of course, she can help shout and pack, but the concept and content are independent of her.
For Cheng Ran, this was a bit of a small fortune. But once you have experienced two lives, those parallel lines have now intersected, and you will understand what you are not satisfied with.
We are about to say goodbye, but why do the days seem so hard to bear? Of course, what is even more hard to bear is that I can only do my best to perform in cooperation with you.
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After discussing and revising her fourth written application with her Polish mentor, Jiang Hongshao passed the school's admissions examination and will be enrolled in the spring semester of next year, which will start in January. This means that her intensive preparatory studies for the year have been successfully completed.
This is her advantage in studying science, especially in mathematics and academic English, which she can handle with ease. But if she had chosen liberal arts, it would have been a big problem. The workload would have increased by an order of magnitude, and the difficult and obscure readings, such as modern European culture and classical civilization, would have consumed most of her energy, and she would never be as relaxed as she is now.
But no matter what, it was already a difficult challenge to complete the further studies in one year and three semesters while working as a part-time assistant teacher. When she reached the famous stepped building of the college, she looked back at the buildings and lawns below and in the distance, with her nose slightly raised. Lao Jiang was qualified to feel a little proud. It was a pity that this was no longer No. 10 Middle School or Shanhai, and there was no young man who was confronting her head head-on. She still felt a little lonely.
Jenny, the fat black girl next door, expressed her sincere congratulations and admiration when they returned to the dormitory, and held a simple celebration with snacks in Jiang Hongshao's room. They looked back at several activities they had participated in in the past year, all organized by the college's Student Union, at the seaside and the castle, and took a lot of photos. There was a photo of Jiang Hongshao sitting on the beach in a strong wind, and there was a photo of several girls of different skin colors gathered under the castle. Looking at the photos, one can feel the unfamiliarity, curiosity, and some timidity at that time towards the new environment and exotic things.
Some of the photos were sent back to China, some are in the hands of my parents, and some are in HKUST.
Jiang Hongshao had a recent photo in her hand, which was taken on top of an ancient tower in the academy, overlooking the entire scene. She stood with one foot on a parapet made of rock bricks, and it looked like she was stepping on the entire academy under her feet. If this photo was sent to Cheng Ran, he would definitely be familiar with it, and would immediately be able to put Cheng Ran into the perspective of overlooking the city-state in "Assassin's Creed".
Some of the photos were taken by Jenny. She was a good photographer. It was said that she had found a part-time job as a photographer in London after school. No wonder the photos were so good. In Jiang Hongshao's opinion, she looked artistic in those photos. She was very good at using light and shadow. After all, some of the actions Jenny asked her to do, such as looking back at the tree-lined path, stretching in the morning, reflecting in the window under the light, the queen-like hips, and the goddess-like bun, contained a kind of charming temperament that was not usually revealed by her. Jiang Hongshao kept all of them and did not send them back along with the photo of her overlooking the college from the castle.
Because when the photo was released, Jenny held the photo with an exaggerated expression, "Aren't you the best-looking person in this college?... Especially charming and cute. If I were your boyfriend, I would definitely treat you like a treasure."
What a weird description.
Thinking of Cheng Ran's expression when he got the photos, Jiang Hongshao couldn't help but blush. So he couldn't send them back. But whether Cheng Ran could get them or not still depended on his performance and his mood! When thinking about this, Jiang Hongshao bit her lower lip again. If Jenny was there, she would definitely take another photo. It is estimated that this time she would exaggerate and shout out like last time, "Oh my God, you have me obsessed!"
Looking through these photos on the plane to Nanzhou, Jiang Hongshao began to feel homesick facing the thirteen-hour flight across the ocean.
I didn't send back the photos, and of course I didn't tell Cheng Ran about his return. What was the reason? Maybe it was because since the two of them would meet in Nanzhou, they would meet unexpectedly. Such a small prank might cause a ripple in their originally peaceful and monotonous lives.
haven't seen you for a long time.
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I had been feeling this way originally, and after the plane landed, this feeling suddenly reached its maximum. Looking at the black sky over Nanzhou, even Jiang Hongshao, who was known as "Old Ginger", felt his heartbeat quickening.
It's raining under the same sky.
Fortunately, they had to go home first that day to see the new house and organize various things. However, the flight arrived at night that day, so Li Jingping drove to pick them up. It was already late at night when they returned to Nanzhou's residence. The father and daughter had a brief and enthusiastic chat, which was full of the sweetness of family love. Mainly, Li Jingping was busy receiving small gifts such as clothes and ties bought by his girl for him. He looked calm on the outside but was very excited on the inside.
Seeing that it was getting late, I let my daughter catch up on her sleep after a long flight. After all, "I've lost weight and am not as pretty as before. I need to catch up on my beauty sleep!"
This was quite effective. Jiang Hongshao fell asleep obediently. The next morning, she had a rare hearty breakfast made by her father, which was actually just boiled eggs with milk and a lot of bread bought the day before. Seeing the guilt on Li Jingping's face, Jiang Hongshao ate very seriously and diligently.
After dinner, Li Jingping went to work, mainly because he had a meeting to attend, and expressed his sadness. Jiang Hongshao was very natural and independent and waved to her father. Li Jingping left with relief and guilt.
Lao Jiang dressed up, picked out a nice dress, put on sparkling imitation diamond earrings, went out and headed for HKUST.
Last night, she got home and turned on her computer to check her emails. Of course, there were a lot of group chats on her computer. She especially looked at the movements of the group of people from USTC in the No. 10 Middle School alumni group. During this period, some situations of USTC have also been reflected in the alumni group. The overall situation is the various situations of Cheng Ran's association. When the discussion started at the beginning, even many lurkers in the group came out to inquire about the situation, and kept an eye on the development of the incident from time to time. In the end, the former alumni were helpful and posted the news they had found out. It is said that they got through it safely. What is even more incredible is that the Internet company CQ chose to cooperate with the work team of the society to build a laboratory. A large group of people in the group chat lamented that USTC is awesome, and also said that Cheng Ran is really a man who can make things happen wherever he goes.
So after Jiang Hongshao passed the paperwork and got the confirmation of further studies, she returned to China. In fact, she came to see Cheng Ran with the mentality that she also had achievements and was not willing to be outdone.
But I guess I can’t express to Cheng Ran my little interest and superiority that you can catch up with me if you work hard.
Yeah, they're not high school anymore.
And it seemed that Cheng Ran began to burst out with another level of energy after he entered USTC as the provincial top scholar.
It was a relatively cold day in Nanzhou, and the university town was in sight.
Standing at the gate of USTC, Jiang Hongshao looked at the full name of the school.
There are the sycamore trees that Cheng Ran described, the paths that he depicted, the pleasant sweet grass smell in the air that he depicted, his roommates, the warm lights in the dormitory campus store and the fruit shop at night, as well as the gentle breeze on his face and the bright moon in the sky.
It's either climbing over mountains or crossing oceans.
I came to your school.
But... suddenly I didn't dare to move forward.
But Old Jiang is Old Jiang after all. This emotion only lasted for a brief moment. Who is afraid of who? She took a deep breath and straightened her chest.
On this day, with this girl entering USTC, there were a lot of amazing mutual inquiries and inquiries on the BBS and in the dormitory buildings.
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Shortly after the Nanzhou city leaders and the Internet company conducted research at USTC, USTC struck while the iron was hot and issued a press release after intensive negotiations, stating that CQ and USTC reached a letter of intent to jointly build a joint laboratory with USTC's Tianxing Society.
This piece of news appeared on the USTC official website and was released as an official announcement, which made everyone at USTC exclaim in amazement at how awesome the Tianxing Society was.
The heated discussion and profound meaning of the news made people want to expand their interpretation. Of course, in the eyes of everyone in dormitory 409, it was just a drizzle. In the words of Lao Guo, "We are just a little better at organization and management."
Not only is counselor Shi Jiaxun about to be promoted to deputy director of the laboratory management committee of the School of Computer Science, the three people in Class 409 also have much higher invisible authority. Of course, no matter how high this is, they still cannot fall behind in the courses they should learn.
Today is the class in the eighth teaching building. After class, Cheng Ran was called by the building management office. It was mainly to arrange the use of the multimedia room. Everyone in 409 went downstairs to wait for him. Although not many people can figure out Cheng Ran's layout of Tianxing Society and the co-construction method of the laboratory with CQ, it also involves the college and the upper level. It is all high-level dialogue, and it has nothing to do with them, but it still does not prevent a few people from looking forward to Cheng Ran's development prospects and their prospects.
My university life is going smoothly. If everything goes well, this will be an opportunity and may even solve my future career problems.
The three of them were chatting about the club's policy lines, and about the rumored confrontation between Cheng Ran and Vice President Huang at the research meeting, and finally they focused on Cheng Ran's evaluation.
He is truly a person who takes an unconventional approach. Not only have they never seen him before, but probably HKUST has never seen such a person in all these years.
After Cheng Ran became famous for building a laboratory together with Tianxing Society, naturally many people began to inquire about him. Most of them were girls, and everyone knew what he was thinking.
The three of them still sighed, and Wang Xinbo said, "Do you think Cheng Ran has a problem... A while ago, a girl from Tsinghua University came to see him, and the two of them sent someone to the expert building, but in the end, he came back without doing anything..."
"Let's not talk about Tsinghua girls, what about Zhang Jing? Senior Zhang Jing is so pretty, if I had called her earlier and eaten her... But Cheng Ran didn't seem to have any idea..."
"You said he really has a girlfriend who is a genius student far away? The kind who is even better than him? I don't think so. I can't produce her photo, and I haven't seen him mention her before... You told me there is such a person? Is she a cover for him?"
"Doesn't Levi often like to jump over to his place to chat? Have you ever seen the way he looks at you?"
"Last time Xie Feibai came to school to repair the computer, he saw you and felt resentful..."
"Fuck, is this true? Don't scare me..." Li Wei was horrified. "If this is the case, I will definitely not be able to escape the clutches of the devil!"
Lao Guo and Wang Xinbo both had a serious expression that said "It's very likely!"
As a result, Sandu, who was joking, was stunned for a moment. There was a girl who was unforgettable at first sight standing downstairs of the octagonal building in front of him. And right opposite her, Cheng Ran, who had just come out of the building after they had waited for a long time, suddenly stopped and stood there, looking at the beautiful girl.
It seemed that there was no need for too much words. Just this scene made the three of them feel like they were being plowed by Van Fleet's ruthless ammunition.
Li Wei suddenly felt a little lonely, "Female... academic god...!"
Wang Xinbo uttered angrily, "Damn Cheng Ran! He deceived us so much!"
Lao Guo sighed, "How can people live..."
When Jiang Hongshao noticed the strangeness in Cheng Ran's eyes, she turned around.
When they were swept by his gaze, the three members of 409 here suddenly felt like they were being inspected by a general and their backs straightened. However, they could not say hello to the commander, so they all stiffly stretched out their right hands and waved, greeting him politely and ingratiatingly.
Jiang Hongshao also smiled at them, and then turned back. The three of them were not surprised at the dazzling scene. They all knew what was going on. This was a surprise from the boss! In this situation, how could they be so ineffective as light bulbs
As a result, as the get out of class was about to end, a large group of people came over there, from the same school, classmates, or other classes, all of whom were acquaintances.
But in an instant, the tall Cheng Ran standing here and the woman who made people feel clear-minded and bright at first glance, instantly expanded into everyone's field of vision. The world was shallow, and only the tree was the most real.
As a result, they also discovered three people who were at the inappropriate end at this time. They were greeting everyone and directing traffic with various gestures, but they still couldn't stop the large group of people from rushing across the road.
So Levi quickly lip-synced, staggered his feet, stepped back and lowered his body to make a court salute.
The group of people were suddenly enlightened, and they immediately stood up straight. Cheng Ran and others all held the book and bowed their heads, collectively shouting, "Your Majesty!"
One sound after another, thousands and thousands of sounds arise.
People passing by, both boys and girls, were so frightened that they quickly made way to the side.
Cheng Ran didn't know whether to laugh or cry, yet he was helpless against these guys. He turned around and looked around, finally looking at Lao Jiang, whose gaze was already touching.
He raised his hand and said, "This is the kingdom I built for you."