FIMA Ch15: School Anniversary

The north wind howled. Next week was New Year’s Day.

And the day before New Year’s Day happened to be Beichuan High School’s anniversary.

It had only been a short twenty years since Beichuan High School was established. There was no profound heritage to speak of, but precisely because of this, the school paid extra attention to these activities that supposedly enhanced heritage and gathered students’ sentiments.

With the two festivals celebrated together, even the high school seniors were able to get a rare adjusted holiday of three whole days.

However, before that, there was one problem to be solved.

On Monday morning, the class committee members rarely went to the student union for a meeting. Their high school’s student union only ever seemed to truly exist at this time every year.

At this moment, Zhou Jie, the Arts and Entertainment Committee member, stood on the podium and knocked on the desk to attract everyone’s attention: “Next Friday is the school’s twentieth-anniversary celebration…”

“Ah… that’s great! Does that mean we don’t have to go to class on Friday?”
“According to custom, yes.”
“Awesome, I’m going to buy a lot of snacks to eat that day.”
“We won’t have to wear uniforms that day either, right…”

Before Zhou Jie could finish speaking, a heated discussion erupted below.

Zhou Jie had no choice but to continue: “According to custom, there will be an arts and entertainment performance on the evening of the anniversary. The school said that city leaders and reporters from the city television station will be invited that day, so every class must perform at least one program.”

As soon as these words came out, the noise from just a moment ago seemed fake. In an instant, the entire room was dead silent.

Zhou Jie had long expected this result.

Her sharp gaze swept over the lovely faces below, but wherever her gaze passed, it seemed as if a thousand-pound weight was dropped, and everyone’s heads drooped heavily.

Everyone seemed to share the same mentality: they were the most active when looking for fun, but when it was their turn to perform, they wished they could bury themselves in the dirt on the spot.

Zhou Jie sighed: “We can’t escape it, we must have one. Everyone might as well think about what to perform.”

“Sigh…”

Waves of sighs sounded, even more than during the math test two periods ago.

“Sigh… what did we perform last year?” someone asked.

Someone knowingly suggested, “Why don’t we just let the people who went on stage last year do it again? I think our performance last year was very good, excellent.”

The intention of passing the buck was truly blatantly obvious.

“Last year we were sophomores, this year we are seniors! There isn’t even enough time to study, where is the time to rehearse and perform?” Someone immediately retorted, and it was none other than the performer from their class last year.

“Yeah, yeah, I still have test papers to write!”
“That’s right, who doesn’t? There are only a few months left until the college entrance exam, who has the mind to perform?”

Everyone spoke plausibly and at length, spouting nonsense with straight faces.

It was as if the people who secretly read novels and slept during class on normal days weren’t them, suddenly transforming into top-tier good students of the new era who passionately loved learning.

“Can we really not push it away? Doesn’t the school want us to win glory for them during the college entrance exam? Performing wastes so much time! Just let the freshmen and sophomores do a few more!”
“Yeah, yeah, the study pressure on us seniors is so huge!”

Zhou Jie listened woodenly to everyone’s nonsense. They definitely couldn’t push it away, otherwise, she would have done it long ago.

However, speaking of study pressure, someone suddenly had a stroke of inspiration.

“Speaking of which, there’s actually someone in our class who has absolutely no study pressure!”

“Eh… is there?”

Thus, Gu Siyuan—the man who was maneuvering the business world just yesterday, and who was happily reading Old Master Q with great interest a second ago—suddenly had a massive pot drop onto his head out of nowhere.

The Arts and Entertainment Committee member cast a gaze toward him as if looking at her savior.

His dear desk-mate Xie Qingxiao, without the slightest bit of classmate camaraderie, directly covered his mouth and laughed gleefully at his misfortune.

Gu Siyuan shot him a chilly glare, then turned his head to look at the Arts and Entertainment Committee member on the podium, whose eyes were burning brightly. He said lazily, “Is singing okay? I do know how to sing a little.”

Seeing the major crisis finally resolved, how could the Arts and Entertainment Committee member dare to make any demands? She immediately agreed, “Yes, of course it’s okay!”

The classroom also erupted into a round of enthusiastic applause for their narrow escape.

Xie Qingxiao looked at his desk-mate with extreme curiosity and whispered, “You actually know how to sing?”

Gu Siyuan glanced at him, his voice sharp and cold: “You were laughing very happily just now, huh?”

Xie Qingxiao pretended not to know, his eyes darting around: “Ah, what are you talking about? Did I laugh? You must have seen wrong.”

Huo Yi, who habitually came over to Xie Qingxiao’s desk to hang out between classes, heard their conversation and chimed in, giving a lot of face, “The Academic God truly deserves to be the Academic God. Hiding his true depth, a crafty rabbit with three burrows. Not only does he know how to play basketball, but he also knows how to sing. Undoubtedly the number one male god of Beichuan High School…”

“A crafty rabbit with three burrows, haha…” This time, Xie Qingxiao really laughed out loud. “This phrase really fits his temperament.”

“What did you say? Asking for a beating.”

Gu Siyuan had been leaning back lazily in his chair, a fair distance away from the two of them. Now, laughing out of anger, he relied on his innate advantage of long arms and long legs, grabbed Old Master Q, and directly knocked Xie Qingxiao on the head.

“Ow…”

Holding his head, Xie Qingxiao truly lived up to his reputation for having a deep and scheming mind. Under the threat of violence, he immediately and tactfully nodded, his face completely serious: “Then ‘a crafty rabbit with three burrows’ is wrong. ‘Beichuan’s number one male god’ is the correct one.”

After saying that, before the person involved could even react, he himself started laughing merrily again.

Gu Siyuan shook his head helplessly.

This guy had completely let his true nature fly; how did he look anything like the legendary so-called “Untouchable Flower” anymore?

Time in the senior year passed extremely quickly.

Yuanxing Technology finally finalized its partners and signed follow-up cooperation agreements with several major tech companies.

Although the early-stage negotiations were complex and lengthy, once it was finalized and truly began, with sufficient capital injection and a large number of professionals moving in, the small boat of Yuanxing instantly expanded into a massive warship, beginning to operate and sail at top speed.

In just over half a month, the app they developed had spread to nearly more than half of the universities nationwide. Next, it was set to expand to the white-collar class and an even broader demographic.

And at this time, the last day of the solar year arrived amidst fluttering fine snow.

Starting early this morning, the entire school was plunged into a different kind of enthusiasm and noise.

In the afternoon, Gu Siyuan wore his usual suit uniform and arrived at the grand auditorium on time. He immediately drew the attention of everyone backstage, truly standing out too much amidst a bunch of flashy outfits and monkey-butt makeup.

Their class monitor and the Arts and Entertainment Committee member had been waiting early on. Seeing him, they immediately went up and asked, “Academic God, are you going to wear your school uniform on stage later?”

Gu Siyuan nodded: “Mn, it matches the song.”

“Are you singing a campus song?” the Arts and Entertainment Committee member immediately realized.

Gu Siyuan: “Pretty much.”

The class monitor stared at him like a nagging mother: “Academic God, after you go on stage later, whatever you do, don’t be nervous. Everyone in our class will support you.”

Gu Siyuan leaned against the wall, holding his phone to adjust the pitch, and said, “I’m not nervous.”

The class monitor nodded: “Not nervous is good, not nervous is good. Just perform at your usual level.”

Gu Siyuan had always been the symbol of their class. Having such an Academic God go on stage to perform, the class monitor always felt like it was a desecration of him, and was also afraid that if his performance failed later, it would leave a psychological shadow.

Gu Siyuan raised his eyes, glanced at him, and said, “I don’t have a ‘usual level’. I have never performed a program on stage.”

The class monitor’s eyes widened slightly, feeling like his heart was about to jump out.

Gu Siyuan continued, “However, I have competed and given presentations in the Great Hall of the People.”

The class monitor and the Arts and Entertainment Committee member took a deep breath. Instantly, all their worries disappeared. Even though they had never seen Gu Siyuan rehearse from last Monday until today, they felt inexplicably reassured.

Academic God Gu wasn’t from the same realm as them at all; there really was no need for them to worry too much.

The two calmed down, stopped hovering around Gu Siyuan, and went to do their own things.

All the students of Beichuan High School knew Gu Siyuan’s name, but very few had actually seen him.

After all, Gu Siyuan basically didn’t participate in any campus activities. Every day it was just a three-point line between the classroom, dorm, and cafeteria. In a school of thousands, unless one actively tried, it was extremely difficult to run into him.

At this moment, Gu Siyuan was wearing a freshly ironed, fitted black suit school uniform. His long legs, visually measuring nearly 1.2 meters, stood tall and straight. His usually casually kept black hair was specifically styled today with hair wax into a sharp, slicked-back look, revealing extremely handsome and sharp facial features that made him unforgettable at a glance.

He held a cup of hot water in one hand, drinking slowly, and his phone in the other, singing along softly. Standing there, he seemed to form his own world, making even the air around him feel calm and clear.

“So tall! So handsome!”
“Is Academic God Gu actually this handsome?”
“Not only is his face handsome, the key is his aura! Just wearing a school uniform, it feels like he outshines everyone else!”
“Ah… I’m going to ask the Academic God for his WeChat later.”
“Me too! Such an excessively high-quality Alpha! Anyone who lets him go will definitely be struck by lightning!”

A group of Omegas and Betas, who had already finished putting on their stage makeup, gathered not far away and started a passionate discussion.

To avoid disturbing Gu Siyuan, their voices weren’t actually loud.

But because they were sitting near the door, every single word was clearly and distinctly heard by Xie Qingxiao, who had secretly slipped away from the audience and sneaked backstage wanting to check on Gu Siyuan’s condition.

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