After bidding farewell to Hua Linglong, Qiu Xi took a taxi back to school.
She finally made it back to her dorm and announced weakly as she entered, "I'm back."
Song Daiyao, who had been lying on her bed playing with her phone, sat up upon hearing the tone of her voice and asked, "How was it, the shoot today?"
"Don't even mention it, just one word: tired!"
As soon as she finished speaking, she dropped her things and collapsed onto the bed.
Liang Yunfei turned her head from her chair and saw Qiu Xi already lying on the bed. "You're that exhausted? How were the photos?"
"The final versions will take some time to come out. I'll show you guys when they're ready."
"Okay, then you should rest."
"Mhm, I'll just nap for a bit."
Before long, she had fallen asleep on her stomach.
When she woke up, two hours had already passed.
After waking up and checking the time, everyone else had also finished their tasks. Qiu Xi decided to take a shower to clear her head.
As she stepped out of the bathroom, she saw a message from her teacher.
It was about the speech competition starting at the end of the month, urging her to prepare well and to find time to practice with the other classmates who had qualified for the preliminary round.
"Hey, besides the four of us, who else from our class made it to the preliminary round of the speech competition?" She racked her brain, but couldn't recall anyone else.
"I really didn't pay attention. I'll have to check the list." Liang Yunfei looked up and thought for a moment, but still couldn't recall any names.
"Mhm, I'll go find it."
"What's up?"
"Nothing much, it's just that the teacher just told me about the competition, so I'm sharing it with you guys."
As she spoke, Qiu Xi sent a screenshot of the chat to the group.
After clicking and reading the message, Liang Yunfei said, "Oh, I see. Then you just need to find a time, right?"
"Mhm, I'll tell the other two."
"Are there only six people in our class?"
"Yeah, that's already quite a few!"
"Alright."
After clarifying, Qiu Xi and the others made plans to find several times over the next two weeks to practice more.
With that settled, it was getting late. Thinking that she still had unfinished tasks for the day, Qiu Xi decided to get into bed and work on her quests.
"Beep! Today's system vocabulary task is complete. Reward has been issued."
After finishing her speaking and presentation tasks, her day's assignments were arguably complete.
The next day at noon, as they were preparing to rest, room 310 became lively again.
The reason was that the final confirmation list for the second round of interviews for their clubs had been released, and all three of them had made the cut.
"Thank goodness we passed. I finally didn't waste that meticulously crafted proposal."
Although Shen Yan had joined the Music Association, she had actually applied to the Project Department. Qiu Xi hadn't been involved in the second round, but she remembered Shen Yan constantly talking about the proposal during those two days, making it hard to forget.
"That's great, I'm envious! I wanted to go to the Project Department, but I was transferred to the External Relations Department." Song Daiyao said enviously. The senior had told her that she was too good at talking and thus suitable for the External Relations Department, even calling to inquire about it earlier.
"Yours is great too. At least the senior appreciated you." Shen Yan also remembered Song Daiyao being transferred.
Seeing them chat for a while, Liang Yunfei chimed in, "Isn't this something to be happy about! We all passed."
At this moment, Qiu Xi's stomach rumbled uncooperatively. "Uh... it's lunchtime. How about we break our routine today and eat something good?"
"Okay!" Song Daiyao, who had vowed to control her diet because the school food was too good, immediately agreed.
As soon as food was mentioned, she forgot everything else.
After a brief discussion, the four of them headed out.
On the way—
"What should we eat?"
"Spicy stir-fry!"
"Alright, let's go!"
It was another day of feasting!