Chapter 96: Seeking Justice for You

Jiang Mengyuan and Chang Lingling had very limited strength; they would move a case of mineral water and two dozen Sprites for a few dozen meters before needing to rest for a while.

Standing in the shade, Chang Lingling complained, "That woman from the Student Union is bullying us like this, and not a single person has come out to speak up for us. It's so disappointing. Let's quit the Student Union as soon as the Welcome Gala is over."

Jiang Mengyuan asked, "But what about our credits? Organizing the Welcome Gala can earn us over ten points. Are we just going to give those up?"

"Are you stupid? Obviously, we wait until the points are added before we quit! If we can't get any benefits, they still expect us to help them move water? I'd smash the water right in their faces on the spot!" Chang Lingling said angrily.

"Oh." Jiang Mengyuan didn't say anything to this, but she always felt a bit uneasy about it.

She was a typical case of someone who hadn't yet transitioned from a high schooler's mindset to a college student's; she felt that if she had to suffer a little, she would just suffer, and that helping the collective was the right thing to do—after all, modern society emphasizes a sense of collective honor.

Chang Lingling, however, was more mature than her and could see through people by observing such trivial matters.

Those upperclassmen officials in the Student Union were purely treating them as manual labor, but this wasn't a construction site. Did they join the Student Union just to do manual labor for the upperclassmen?

"Sigh, let's move the water back first. Damn it, I've never suffered like this in all my life."

"You were the one who insisted on joining the Student Union and had to drag me along."

"Who the hell knew it would be like this," Chang Lingling grumbled.

She realized the Student Union was not what she had imagined, and she immediately lost interest in it.

"By comparison, I feel like Senior Xu's Esports Club is much better. Although there are fewer people and the format isn't very formal, at least the activities are relaxed, and they don't treat us like servants."

Jiang Mengyuan nodded silently, expressing her agreement with this statement.

"I heard Senior Xu is even going to perform on stage at the Welcome Gala today. You knew about this, right?" Chang Lingling asked.

"Perform?" Jiang Mengyuan was stunned. "You never mentioned that to me."

"Oh my god, how are you so out of the loop? If I didn't say it in the dorm, couldn't you have checked the class group chat yourself? This news has gone crazy in our class group."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Mengyuan opened her phone and scrolled through the class group, finding only some notices from the counselor.

She looked up and said, "The class group is in all-member mute mode."

"I'm talking about the class group without the counselor. By the way, did you not join it?"

Chang Lingling took her phone—which was covered in stickers of strange anime characters—and discovered that she indeed hadn't joined. Even though she hadn't joined, not a single classmate had pulled her into the group.

How low must her presence be? You have to realize that when everyone creates a new class group, they just pull everyone from the old group over with one click. Even this could miss Jiang Mengyuan...

Chang Lingling speechlessly helped her join the class group that didn't have the counselor and told her that she could post whatever she wanted in this group.

"Got it." Jiang Mengyuan nodded slightly.

Chang Lingling knew that while she understood it in her mouth, she wouldn't actually post a single word in the class group. After spending over a month together, she had figured out Jiang Mengyuan's personality thoroughly.

"Senior Xu is that 'cover brother' who sang 'Clockwise' before. It seems the school specifically arranged an extra program for the Welcome Gala just so he could perform. That means we actually should have been able to see him at the rehearsal site just now, but the auditorium is too big, and I don't know which area he was rehearsing in."

Speaking of this, Chang Lingling poked Jiang Mengyuan's cheek: "By the way, how far has your relationship with Senior Xu progressed?"

Jiang Mengyuan, who was in a daze, was caught off guard by such a sudden question and didn't react immediately.

"Ah? Relationship? No... no relationship."

"I don't believe it. I saw you with my own eyes the other night, your bed glowing deep into the night. You don't know anyone else at school, so tell the truth: were you having a heart-to-heart with Senior Xu all night long!"

"No... it's not that, I was reading a novel." Jiang Mengyuan hurriedly explained, though the color on her face had already betrayed her true inner thoughts.

That night, she had indeed been chatting with Xu Heng.

Or rather, she had been chatting with Xu Heng very frequently lately.

Xu Heng would come to find her every few days to exchange "experience."

She discovered that as a Two-dimensional otaku, Xu Heng knew no less than she did, and the two of them could talk for a long time about any topic.

For example, how many endings there are for EVA, who is the strongest in Naruto, or whether Whitebeard could beat Ichigo Kurosaki, and so on...

This made her feel like she had found a kindred spirit, and naturally, she was very willing to communicate with Xu Heng from afar.

Listening to Jiang Mengyuan's forced explanation, Chang Lingling looked at her playfully: "Yuanyuan, I'm not some big villain. If you tell me your true thoughts about Senior Xu, maybe I can even help you with this~"

Thoughts? Jiang Mengyuan was stunned for two seconds.

Honestly, she didn't even know if she had any thoughts about Xu Heng herself.

Although chatting with Xu Heng was truly relaxing—even more relaxing than chatting with her roommates—she had never thought in that direction. As an otaku girl, she hadn't even considered the matter of dating, let alone finding a boyfriend.

However, now that Chang Lingling had brought it up to her face, it still stirred her heart a little.

Perhaps finding a handsome senior with similar interests like Xu Heng and having a romance like cherry blossoms would be a nice choice.

"I..."

"What are the two beauties chatting about?"

Suddenly, a male voice interrupted Jiang Mengyuan's train of thought. She turned her head and discovered that the boy she and Chang Lingling were discussing was standing behind them, looking at them with a smile.

"Senior?" Unlike Jiang Mengyuan's daze, Chang Lingling was exceptionally surprised. "Why are you here?"

"I went to the small shop to buy water and just happened to see you two, so I followed," Xu Heng pointed to the Jianlibao in his hand and then said with a smile, "I seemed to hear two junior sisters mention my name just now. I wonder which of my merits you were discussing?"

"Wow, Senior, you are so shameless. What if we were talking about your shortcomings behind your back!"

"The more beautiful the person, the kinder the heart. I don't believe you would slander me behind my back," Xu Heng smiled, glanced at the mineral water and Sprite on the ground, and asked a question he already knew the answer to: "Are you two hamsters, preparing to store food for the winter?"

Hearing this, Chang Lingling's expression immediately turned bitter, and she sighed, "Don't mention it. It's all that bunch of people in the Student Union. They are black-hearted; they made two weak girls like Yuanyuan and me move all this water from a shop hundreds of meters away to the auditorium for the rehearsal. How could we two girls have that much strength? We've been moving this little bit of water for ages."

"No way?" Xu Heng frowned and said with "surprise": "I saw quite a few people from the Student Union in the auditorium. Can't they even spare one boy to help move water?"

"Who knows." Chang Lingling spread her hands helplessly.

"How about this: I happen to know some people in the Student Union. Tell me the specific situation, and I'll go help you seek justice," Xu Heng said.