Chapter 1889 — Campaigning for Class Monitor
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"Enough, stop staring!" Bai Weituo clapped Song Xiaodao on the back as the other man craned his neck every which way. "Don't bother hoping. Our whole major has exactly one girl in it..."
"Pfft... you can't be serious?" Song Xiaodao withdrew his gaze, thoroughly dejected. "Don't tell me it's the one with Lin Laoda?"
"The very same!" Bai Weituo shrugged. "Nothing to be done. My elder brother told me yesterday—of everyone registering, our major has just the one girl!"
"Good heavens, you're joking," Zhao Shengji said, equally glum.
"Word is there are still some transfer students coming in, but I doubt any of them are girls either," Bai Weituo said.
"Forget it. I'd better set my sights a little further afield and go look at the other majors," Song Xiaodao said, rather helplessly.
When they reached Room 1109, the situation inside was plain at a glance: only a dozen-odd people in all, and the first two rows weren't even full!
And in the third row, Wang Xinyan sat all alone, quietly reading the book in her hands, saying nothing—just as she had looked the first time Wei Zhao set eyes on her: demure, composed.
The boys in the first two rows kept sneaking glances back at Wang Xinyan, but not one of them could bring himself to go over and strike up a conversation.
"Lin Laoda, shall we head over?" Song Xiaodao grinned and pointed at Wang Xinyan's seat.
Wei Zhao had had no intention of going over, but seeing the three creatures from his dorm all wearing expressions that said this was the only natural course, he gave a bitter smile. If he didn't sit there, they'd probably think something was wrong with him!
Better to be open about it than to make a show of hiding it. In any case, without Bai Weituo and the others, Wei Zhao might well have chosen to sit beside Wang Xinyan himself. After all, she was the only person here he knew.
The four of them walked over and took seats in the third row. Wei Zhao sat next to Wang Xinyan, while the others took the row beside Wei Zhao.
It was a small classroom, with three rows of desks running front to back, three desks to a row—nine desks in all.
Wang Xinyan was on the window side, though she had taken the middle seat rather than the innermost one. That left just one seat on the outside; once Wei Zhao sat down, the others had no choice but to sit off to the side.
Someone suddenly sitting down beside her made Wang Xinyan start slightly, and she knit her brows. Looking up, she was startled to find it was Wei Zhao, and her cheeks flushed faintly. "It's you?"
"Yeah. Seems you're the only girl here?" Wei Zhao asked.
"That's right..." Wang Xinyan smiled bitterly. "That's why my dorm is all students from other majors. He Meiyue and the others are in the biology department too, but she and Chai Xiaoling are studying botany. Lan Xiaoru is in biochemistry."
"Oh? The three of them aren't in the same major either?" Wei Zhao was a little surprised.
"My dorm is really just a patchwork one. The number of students in each specialty of each department doesn't always divide evenly into dorms, so in the end there are always a few left over, and those leftovers get assigned to a dorm together. Our major has only me, so I ended up with them," Wang Xinyan explained.
"So that's how it is." Wei Zhao nodded. The two of them were talking when suddenly the low buzz of whispers in the classroom cut off altogether! After all, everyone here was meeting for the first time. They might know their own roommates by now, but with everyone else they'd only just met and were busy introducing themselves—so a sudden silence could only mean something had happened!