Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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4. Is basketball a compulsory skill for school idols?
Those carefree days always passed by very quickly. In the blink of an eye, only a small part of Tang Ran’s four years of college was left.
As June arrived, the rapidly rising temperature forced everyone on campus to take off their coats and put on the coolest and thinnest summer clothes.
The number of people in various sports fields was gradually increasing, especially in the basketball court of K University, where boys could be seen everywhere playing basketball, sweating profusely and showing off their muscles with their bare chests.
Compared with men who loved to feel their charm through sweating, most girls would rather choose an air-conditioned room with a comfortable temperature under such a scorching summer sun – such as the dormitory building of K University.
“Ahhh, we will be leaving school in less than a month! I can’t bear to leave, wuwuwu…”
In the 716 girls’ dormitory, Xu Xuanqing, lying on her back on the bed, stretched out her arms and wailed:
“I haven’t even started dating, haven’t studied hard, haven’t visited all the places I wanted to go, how come college has just passed me by like this!”
The girl on the opposite bed smiled and said, “There’s only one month left, don’t think too much. The more you think, the more regretful you will be. But you’re not bad, at least you’re doing well in student affairs. Didn’t I see your juniors from the student union saying hello to you this morning?”
Xu Xuanqing turned over and lay on the bed complainingly: “What’s the use of that? It can’t be eaten as a meal.”
“Haha, there’s your junior from the sports department. He’s a beauty to behold, so why can’t he be eaten as a meal?”
“Go to hell! Can’t you keep your thoughts pure?” Xu Xuanqing was so angry that she threw a pillow at her.
“Ha ha ha ha……”
The two sides soon started to quarrel with each other.
Tang Ran sat at the table under the bed next to her. She was already used to this kind of scene, so she just smiled helplessly and shook her head.
Until there was a knock on the dormitory door.
The two people who were fighting on the bed stopped.
Tang Ran, who was sitting under the window, also took off her headphones and looked up blankly: “Looking for you guys?”
“I don’t know. I didn’t make an appointment with anyone.”
“Neither have I.”
“Well, I’ll go take a look.” As the only one on the ground, Tang Ran stood up and went to open the door.
There was a girl with an unfamiliar face standing outside the door.
Tang Ran held the door open, revealing a hint of doubt: “Hello?”
“Ah, hello, senior Tang Ran!” The girl seemed to have not expected that it would be Tang Ran who would open the door. She looked surprised and greeted her with a blushing face.
Tang Ran was stunned for two seconds, then her eyes slightly curved: “Hello. Are you here to look for someone?”
“Yes, yes, I am from the Sports Department of the Student Union. I am here to see Senior Sister Xu Xuanqing. She is in this dormitory, right?”
“Yeah.” Tang Ran looked back, “Xuanqing, someone is looking for you.”
After she finished speaking, Tang Ran turned back and smiled faintly at the embarrassed girl: “It’s hot outside, come in and talk.”
In the hot summer air that could not be escaped in the corridor, the sound was light and soft, like a cool and moist breeze blowing through the heart, shocking the junior school girl outside the door for several seconds before she came to her senses.
“Okay, okay!” She agreed quickly, then followed Tang Ran into dormitory 716 in a panic.
While the two of them came in, Xu Xuanqing was curiously poking her head out from the bed: “Ah? Looking for me?”
“A junior sister from the Sports Department,” Tang Ran stopped under her bed and lowered her voice, “Pay attention to your image as a senior sister.”
“Oh, you’re right.” Xu Xuanqing quickly straightened her posture, “What’s the matter, junior sister?”
“Hello, senior sister. I am a freshman in the Sports Department. Our Sports Department wants to hold a friendly basketball match during the graduation season and invite undergraduate and graduate students to participate. However, there is a problem with the participating members. The Graduate Department cannot organize the team. The director asked me to ask you, senior sister. He said that you have experience and connections in this area, and wanted me to ask if you have any ideas…”
This freshman girl was obviously a bit introverted, and she spoke a long string of words a bit haltingly, but she finally managed to convey the main point.
Xu Xuanqing frowned after hearing this: “We have held friendly matches in previous years, but they didn’t cross the undergraduate and graduate departments. These two have nothing to do with each other. What is Xu Qingfang thinking?”
“…”
Xu Qingfang was the current Secretary of Sports, and he was also the junior of Xu Xuanqing, the former Secretary of Sports. So it was natural that she called him by his name without any ambiguity at this time.
The schoolgirl was trembling with fear when she heard this. She explained in a low voice, “The Secretary said that he has already made a promise in front of the presidium. He asks you to help him this time.”
Xu Xuanqing’s expression became even worse: “I’m already a retired ‘old man’ who is about to graduate. He still has to ask me to run errands for him when he organizes an event?”
The junior school girl’s face turned pale.
“Okay, I’ll call him and tell him, you go back first.”
“Okay, okay, thank you, Senior…”
The junior school girl felt as if she had been pardoned and quickly turned around and walked out.
When she was almost at the door, she slowed down her pace. At a certain moment, she seemed to have gathered up her courage, turned back to Tang Ran who was standing in front of her desk, and said with a blushing face: “Tang, Senior Sister Tang Ran.”
“Hmm?” Tang Ran raised her eyes unexpectedly.
“I…I’ve heard about your story with Senior Luo Zhan. I wish you both happiness!”
Tang Ran was stunned.
Before she could react, the junior sister turned around and ran out with a red face.
On the bed, Xu Xuanqing, who had been stern-faced, broke down and teased Tang Ran with a smile: “You two are doing well in developing your CP fan base? You’ve even harmed a freshman girl – tell me, which fan girl of yours is this?”
Tang Ran was helpless, and raised her head to look at the bed above her: “When did I ever have fans?”
“Hey, don’t be too modest, my Miss Tang Ran. You’ve been in the Automation Department for four years. With your grades and resume, plus your pretty face and temperament, how many fans have you accumulated?”
Tang Ran never thought she could win over Xu Xuanqing in a verbal battle. At this moment, she could only gesture to Xu Xuanqing’s cell phone: “You should call your junior.”
“Oh yeah, business is more important.”
“…”
Xu Xuanqing was already good at talking, and she had practiced it a lot in the past four years in the student union. After a phone call, she ridiculed her junior on the other side for a long time.
When she hung up the phone with a sour face, her roommate on the other side couldn’t help laughing at her: “It’s only because Junior Xu Qingfang is famous for pampering you – if it were someone else, after hearing your ridicule, wouldn’t they come to your door and beat you up?”
“How dare he! I’ll give him three guts! Besides, how dare he be so shameless when he doesn’t do his job well? I told him a long time ago that I’m about to graduate and he shouldn’t bother me with student union matters anymore, but he just wouldn’t listen – he boasted and I still have to clean up the mess for him. Do you think this is a habitual problem of his?”
“Then did you agree?”
“…”
“Have you agreed, Secretary Xu?”
Xu Xuanqing snorted and turned away uncomfortably: “This is the last time, just help him since I can.”
“So, you’ve got yourself into trouble, what else are you talking about?” The roommate laughed at her mercilessly, then looked up. “But the graduate and undergraduate departments in our college have always kept to themselves. I remember you don’t have much contact with the graduate students, right? How are you going to solve this problem?”
“A solution?”
Xu Xuanqing’s gaze slowly fell down and then floated to Tang Ran.
Tang Ran paused and looked up.
Xu Xuanqing grinned brightly: “Ms. Tang Ran, you have been to INT quite a lot in the past two years. You must be familiar with many graduate students in the Automation Department, right?”
Tang Ran was helpless: “Your junior cheated you, so you come to cheat me?”
“Well, it’s between friends, how can it be called cheating, right?”
“Let me ask Qianhua and the others for you, but I can’t guarantee the results.”
“Okay! I feel relieved when you say that! With our little goddess Tang Ran taking action, there is nothing that cannot be solved!”
“Don’t give me that.” Tang Ran glanced at her with a smile, then stood up and went outside to make a phone call.
A few minutes later.
Tang Ran pushed the door open and returned to the dormitory: “There’s no problem with Lin Qianhua. I’ll ask him to contact Xu Qingfang from the Sports Department directly. Is that ok?”
“Sure, sure! No problem at all!”
Tang Ran came back: “Well, is everything okay?”
“Well, actually there is one little thing, a small thing.”
“?”
“That’s right. This friendly match was rather hastily arranged, and arranging spectators may not be enough to warm up the atmosphere. We need some publicity…”
Xu Xuanqing smiled flatteringly….
….
“Look, little sister, our school hunk Luo, can he please show his presence and join us when he has time?”
“No time. No.”
“You are too heartless, Brother Zhan. The juniors and seniors in the Sports Department have been begging you to show up, even if it’s just to show off a little bit—”
“Junior, are they yours? They are not mine anyway.”
“…Brother Zhan, are you really so cruel?”
“.”
The man who hadn’t even raised his eyelids in front of the computer desk snorted coldly, “Is this considered cruel? It seems that INT has been too idle recently.”
Lin Qianhua choked: “I take it back, I take it back.”
Luo Zhan glanced back at him.
“But Brother Zhan, you really don’t want to go? This is a rare interaction between our graduate school and undergraduate students—”
“Do you need me to remind you?”
“Ah?”
“I have obtained my doctorate degree since last year and am now in the postdoctoral training stage at school – it has nothing to do with your graduate school.”
Lin Qianhua: “…”
Lin Qianhua: “You cold-blooded man, what if Tang Ran goes to watch the game? Then you won’t go to participate! There is no shortage of young bodies of junior students on the outdoor basketball court!”
Luo Zhan didn’t care: “Ran Ran won’t go.”
“What if, what if!”
“What if?” Luo Zhan smiled coldly, “What’s so good about the bodies of those kids? Besides, am I the kind of person who would even be jealous of something like this?”
“…”
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