CHAPTER 40 MAKES SENSE
“Your sister has a strong presence…” Guang Yu unceremoniously plopped down on a seat in the bleachers.
No one could see her, so she was completely brazen about it!
Her boldness starkly contrasted with the cautious actions of Ye Zhibai and the head maid.
Looking up, she blinked her big, watery eyes at Ye Zhibai.
The voice she transmitted into Ye Zhibai’s mind carried a hint of lingering fear.
“It feels like… those old sticklers in the celestial realm when they lecture! Uh… no, it’s still different? If the old sticklers saw us daydreaming, they’d send down divine punishment, but to be fair, your sister wouldn’t.”
Of course not!
Yun’er isn’t some thunder god; she’s just a high school student!
But this high school student… is far from ordinary.
Normal high school students don’t deliver speeches without notes so flawlessly on the fly!
And the school leaders are all standing respectfully beside the podium. Even if Yun’er is the student council president, this level of respect is extraordinary.
Is she an investor in the school? Oh, then never mind.
Ye Zhibai was amazed, even from this distance, Ye Zhijun hadn’t looked down once to check her notes.
In fact, it seemed there weren’t any notes on her desk at all.
Yun’er, like me, also improvises when handling things, huh?
Good habit!
Ye Zhibai sat down in the bleachers.
Following the head maid’s advice, she pressed down her baseball cap, lowered her head, and tried to keep her face hidden.
The gymnasium’s first floor was filled with over a thousand people listening to the speech. Occasionally, a few students looked up curiously at the second-floor bleachers.
After all, it was rare to see someone sitting in the empty second floor.
But with Ye Zhibai pressing her cap down, lowering her profile, and the head maid not in her distinctive uniform, they couldn’t see anything notable from such a distance.
So they paid no further attention, focusing on the speech again.
The college entrance exams were just days away…
They didn’t have the time to be curious.
Perhaps they thought it was a school leader or teacher secretly observing the effectiveness of their attention, much like how your homeroom teacher occasionally peers through the back door window, giving you a deep, thoughtful look.
If they caught you, they’d come in and give you a good slap.
The head maid glanced at her watch, speaking lightly to Ye Zhibai about the situation.
“It’s now 10:45 AM. According to the schedule, the speech started at 10 and is expected to end at 11. If there are no unexpected situations, the second miss should be done in 15 minutes. You can then have her show you around the school.”
No more touring! If we keep going, I’m going to die from the heat!
Ye Zhibai rested her hands on the railing in front of her, only revealing her calm, light purple eyes under the baseball cap, continuously observing Yun’er’s speech.
The head maid was right; it seemed the speech was indeed nearing its end.
This could also be inferred from Yun’er’s speech content.
The voice coming from the loudspeaker was calm and resonant, filled with substantial advice, no wonder everyone was listening so intently.
“Students of the third year, at this final stage, study methods are not as important. Adjusting your methods now, with only a few days left, is meaningless and might even backfire. Rather than trying to find shortcuts at the last minute, it’s better to calm your mind, step out of the classroom, look at the sky, take a deep breath, or talk to the person you trust the most. Relaxing like this might be more effective.”
Oh, that makes sense.
Ye Zhibai, observing stealthily, was quite engaged in listening.
She had been too nervous during her own college entrance exams!
Otherwise… otherwise, she could have scored a point or two more!
Limited ability, please bear with me.
Guang Yu, like Ye Zhibai, leaned against the railing, but she revealed not just her eyes, but also her fox ears.
Even a troublesome fox can listen to a speech.
She twitched her ears and mischievously nudged Ye Zhibai with her elbow.
“Hey… Ye Zhibai, did you hear your sister say ‘talk to the person you trust the most’?”
“I heard, so what?”
“I just used all my divine power to sense it! When she said that, she was thinking about you~”
“Can’t you use your divine power for something more meaningful…”
Gathering a bit of divine power and then wasting it like that. Do you even understand the value of conserving resources?
A thousand years of divine life and all you learned was to watch the fun and be an onlooker, right?
…
Giving a speech is a piece of cake for Ye Zhijun, not worth mentioning.
Preparation isn’t necessary.
Anyway, the points to talk about, the experiences to share, are just those key ones, and improvising is fine.
Sitting upright at the podium, she didn’t need to think much, and yet every word was a golden quote.
“The greatest inner demon comes from your own fear. Many things, as long as you don’t give up and keep waiting, will eventually yield results. The college entrance exams are scary, but ultimately, they are just paper tigers. If you’re fierce, they will retreat.”
Retreat!
May the illness entangling my sister retreat!
Hehe… the exams are trivial.
When I say paper tigers, I mainly mean the illness. I just knew my sister would wake up.
I kept waiting and waiting, and my dream came true.
The students below could never have imagined that their revered student council president, while sharing exam experiences, was actually thinking nothing about the exams at all.
Guang Yu might have thought she accurately sensed Ye Zhijun thinking about Ye Zhibai.
But in reality…
She never stopped thinking about her!
Ye Zhijun’s motivation for this speech was merely to meet her sister’s expectations and be praised when she got home.
Ah, speeches are so annoying… why is there still fifteen minutes left? Hurry up and finish, I want to go home, take a nap with my sister, eat together, bathe together, and then kiss…
Ahem, getting carried away.
Let’s save the last one for later. If my sister doesn’t agree, it’s just a unilateral night raid~
Speaking of which…
Ye Zhijun’s keen observation noticed that the students below had started occasionally looking up or back toward the second floor.
These students… aren’t they usually very focused? Why are they so easily distracted today?
“The way you’re going about this, your college entrance exam scores are likely to warm you all summer long.
——And the summer of retaking the exam next year.
Or… is there something on the second floor?
Taking a moment out of her busy schedule, Ye Zhijun sneaked a glance at the second floor.
But from her angle… all she could see was a baseball cap bobbing up and down.
How strange.
………………………..
Clearly, she was just listening to Yun’er talk about the college entrance exams, but why did every word make Ye Zhibai feel a bit of an inexplicable chill?
She glanced at the head maid’s watch, confirming that there were only five minutes left in the speech.
Phew… thank goodness, with so many people down there, Ye Zhibai felt quite nervous even though she was upstairs.
It was the same kind of nervous excitement as a student sneaking out of a meeting, afraid of being caught by the teacher at any moment.
Finally, the speech was about to end without incident.
But suddenly…
She seemed to hear the sound of wind.
Wind?
Isn’t this gymnasium fully enclosed?
Ye Zhibai turned around in surprise, only to see the ventilation duct at the far end of the bleachers… slowly starting up!
Oh, she had read about this.
In these high-end gymnasiums, the ventilation ducts are set to activate periodically, utilizing the Venturi effect to concentrate the airflow and accelerate air circulation to freshen the venue’s air.
Impressive! No wonder Qihai No. 1 High School is so advanced and trendy with their equipment!
“Trouble!” The head maid suddenly realized something! “Miss! Hold down your hat!”
“Hmm?!”
Unfortunately, it was too late.
The fan at the ventilation duct had already started.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh————
The head maid’s reaction was also too slow.
Human actions can never keep up with the speed of the wind.
The wind outside the gymnasium instantly rushed through the narrow ventilation duct, flooding into the second-floor bleachers.”
A natural breeze, much healthier than air conditioning, swept through the gymnasium, bringing comfort to all…
But this breeze was not kind to Ye Zhibai!
“Ugh…!”
The baseball cap on her head was suddenly lifted off by the wind!
“My hat…!”
It was strange.
But Ye Zhibai’s first reaction was to reach out and try to grab the flying hat!
It was a reflex, a response ingrained in her DNA.
Don’t underestimate that baseball cap!
It was a last-minute purchase by the maids, and they hadn’t even had time to remove the price tag.
On closer inspection, that hat cost a whole eighty yuan!!
There was no way she’d let it be blown away!!
“Miss! That’s dangerous!”
The head maid was startled, not expecting the young lady to lean out and grab a cheap hat!
The well-trained head maid reacted quickly, grabbing Ye Zhibai’s arm to prevent her from falling down the stairs between the seating areas!
Guang Yu also reacted swiftly; the fox quickly wrapped her arms around Ye Zhibai’s slender waist.
Stable!
Phew…
In the end, everything was fine.
The head maid, Ye Zhibai, Guang Yu, and the hat—all had a bright future ahead.
The head maid and Guang Yu managed to catch Ye Zhibai.
And Ye Zhibai grabbed the edge of the hat.
But the only downside was…
Guang Yu, sweating coldly, blinked her starry blue upgraded eyes.
She scanned the gymnasium below and bitterly explained something obvious to Ye Zhibai.
“Ahaha… Ye Zhibai, this is exciting; everyone is staring at you now!”
“……”
Not just a few.
Over a thousand people simultaneously looked up, all eyes on her as if it were a synchronized salute.
That alone was enough to make her want to cry.
And then there was Yun’er on the podium…
Her expression remained calm and composed.
But the microphone in her hand…
Clattered to the floor with a resounding crash.
——————Screech, screech, screech!
This was the harsh feedback noise from the fallen microphone.
But to Ye Zhibai, the noise in her heart was even more piercing.
Ye Zhibai silently retreated behind the railing, put her baseball cap back on, and tried to escape from reality.
She had only one thing to say.
“Guang Yu, do you know what I’m thinking right now?”
“What?”
“If the hat flies away again, don’t grab it. We can earn money again if we lose it, but if we lose our lives, we’re truly gone.”
“That makes sense.”
