Chapter 11

Act II: Hairspray (4)

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There were only twenty minutes left before the bedroom lights went out.

Xiang Cai was lying on his bed and tiredly took out his mobile phone from under the pillow.

The chat was quiet, and his friends had always been few. He had zero missed calls. His family did not care about his life nor death at all. He turned over in bed, and then opened Weibo to start his daily bedtime work ——viewing the Weibo of Great God Qingyun.

Unfortunately, the Great God had not spoken a word for a full five days.

Xiang Cai sighed, both rubbing his feet against his socks. Just as he was getting bored, a banner message pushed by the system suddenly jumped to his screen.

[You have a new mail from [Voice of Jiuxiao Radio Drama Troupe], please check it carefully]

Xiang Cai got up from the bed, and his action was so big that the iron-framed bed under his body shook.

He couldn't hold back the trembling of his hand as he opened the email.

The next second after he read the email, he suddenly jumped off the bed, pulled on his slippers, stood up, and ran out of the room.

"Xiang Cai ...?" Exclaimed the roommate. "It's almost lights-out, where are you going?"

But Xiang Cai didn't stop to answer. He was like a gust of wind, running vigorously, rushing from the third floor to the first floor in one breath. The teacher who was preparing to lock the door thought he imagined a figure, only to see a thin and tall person suddenly rush out of the door of the male dorm.

He ran and ran, the organs in his chest seeming to be pulled to the largest bellows, and every breath he exhaled was hot.

He rushed to the female dormitory a hundred meters away, looking through the windows for a familiar chubby figure.

It was unfruitful.

He simply folded his hands into a horn, stuck it to his mouth, took a deep breath, and shouted, "Qi Ji ——Jin Qi Ji —— !!!"

"Qi Ji ——Jin Qi Ji —— !!!!!!"

"Come down!—I'm Xiang Cai !!!"

A loud call passed out and instantly awakened the drowsy female dorm.

Xiang Cai underestimated his popularity in the school. In Huawu High School, no one did not know Xiang Cai, and no one hadn’t heard of the legendary former ballet prince.

They all knew who he was - but not everyone knew who Jin Qi Ji was. Who was this someone, special enough for the ballet prince himself to not only ignore the school rules but rush to the girl's dorm and scream out her name? Who?

Bedrooms lit up and windows were pushed open. In front of each window were crowded heads watching the liveliness.

Under the gaze of countless pairs of eyes, the chubby Jin Qi Ji ran out of the dorm.

She was wearing a nightgown with small cakes and donuts, and her hair was kept behind her ears with a furry bow-tie headband. There was also a wet white mask on her face. This was very different from the goddess that the crowd imagined.

Stepping on fries-decorated slippers, she rushed to stand in front of Xiang Cai.

She was about to speak but Xiang Cai rushed to hug her first.

The girls in all the windows screamed straight into the sky.

However, this hug was short-lived, stopped after just a touch. Xiang Cai held Qi Ji’s wrist, and like a child playing a game and started jumping around in circles.

Qi Ji almost fainted because of him: "Xiang ... Xiang Cai." If it wasn't for the face mask, Xiang Cai would definitely see her red cheeks. She asked nervously, "What's the matter with you calling me out in the middle of the night?"

Xiang Cai stopped, pulled out his cell phone to show her his exciting news.

"I'm accepted!" Xiang Cai laughed, his beautiful eyes bent into two thin crescents, and his thin lips raised to the sides, exposing two rows of white pearl-like teeth.

At this moment, there seemed to be countless stars gathering on the boy.

Qi Ji looked dumbfoundedly, and only a moment later, she recovered from her daze and forced her eyes to fall on the screen.

—— [Hello, classmate Cai, congratulations on your admission to [Voice of Jiuxiao Radio Drama Troupe] [Cover Group]! Please join the work group as soon as possible, group number 4454xxxx]

Qi Ji: "!!!"

She exclaimed: "The cover group! It's actually the cover group!!"

Xiang Cai said, "I came to you just to ask you: what is the cover group? Shouldn't it be the CV group?"

Qi Ji replied quickly: " You know the theme songs that play before and after the radio drama? Well, popular dramas will also release special plot songs! Some CVs are good at dubbing, but they don’t have good voices for singing. So the small theater troupe would find singers in the cover circle to help record it; whilst large theater companies such as Voice of Jiuxiao, they simply set up a cover group for themselves, as a reserve of personnel!"

After explaining, Qi Ji said dumbfoundedly: "You could have just asked me on QQ for this kind of thing, or ask me tomorrow during the day!"

Xiang Cai let out an “ah” sound, and then realized just how impulsive his behavior was. "I'm so happy, I just wanted to share this good news with you, and then ... "

Before his words were finished, an outstretched hand suddenly came from behind Xiang Cai. One hand pressed his shoulder and one hand grabbed his arm, pulling him back several steps.

He stared back blankly at the building management teacher of the boy's dorm standing there panting, with two security uncles behind him.

"Okay ... Okay!" Teacher Guan furiously said, "Xiang Cai, are you so brave?? You rushed out of the dormitory to call out under the female dormitory in the middle of the night. Now these kids, who don’t even know how to sneak around, think they are acting in idol dramas?!!”

Xiang Cai: "... ????"

...

Xiang Cai was inexplicably escorted back to the dormitory by the building management teacher. At six o'clock the next morning, when other students got up to study early, he was inexplicably escorted to the dorm teacher's office.

In the office, the grade director, Teacher Feng Ji, and class teacher Chu Ping interrogated him one after the other. Xiang Cai and Qi Ji stood in front of the teachers, like two pitiful cabbages.

For these adolescent boys and girls, this was the time when their secondary sexual characteristics developed, and spring sprouted in their hearts. Huawu High School was an art school. Everyone there was handsome and beautiful. In this environment, naturally, some students would be attracted to each other, and they would develop more than feelings of friendship.

It was just that early love was strictly forbidden in the school regulations of Huawu High School. Even if some students fell in love, they kept it hidden, for fear of being discovered by the teachers.

In this context, the scene of Xiang Cai running to the girl's dormitory to scream out her name late at night was quite intriguing. After a night of fermentation, this fascinating story was passed on to everyone. Everyone knew that the most conspicuous school god in their school had found a girlfriend who looked modest, and he even blatantly violated the school rules to embrace her in front of an audience!

As soon as the teachers heard it, they couldn’t sit still and hence summoned the two children early in the morning.

The grade director once again put down the thermos from his hand and took the lead: "Xiang Cai, and Jin ... Student Jin. Please explain what happened last night."

Qi Ji was so frightened that she was afraid to speak.

Xiang Cai knew that it was his fault so he hurriedly explained, "Teacher, you have misunderstood. Qi Ji and I really have no early love. She is my desk mate was the first classmate I met after I transferred to the Musical Theatre Department. We both ... we both have just an ordinary brotherhood!"

As soon as his voice fell, the faces of the three teachers were ‘spectacular’.

Even Qi Ji, who was next to him, turned her head to stare at him with wide eyes and repeat inconceivably: "... Brotherhood, brotherhood?"

"Uh-" Xiang Cai found that he said something wrong, and carefully revised the wording, "-Sister?"

Qi Ji: "..."

Teacher: "……"

This seemed to be more wrong.

It was the class teacher Chu Ping who could no longer stand it, rubbing her forehead with a headache, and excusing the two troublemakers: "Leader, there must be a misunderstanding in this matter. Xiang Cai and his desk mate are just good friends. I believe that between them, the relationship is nothing more than innocent friendship." She paused, her eyes softly looking at Qi Ji, "Am I right, Jin Qi Ji?"

Qi Ji seemed to be scared. She was silent for a while, before nodding: "... Yes, Xiang Cai and I are good classmates and friends."

This storm ended in such a vague way.

Although he heard the two children’s guarantees, the grade director was still a little uneasy. He said, “Xiang Cai, that matter has been a long time passed. All teachers have high hopes for you. In the beginning, the principal ignored all opinions and transferred you to the Musical Theatre Department. I hope you can find new life goals there. You can't waste your limited time elsewhere, do you understand? "

Xiang Cai looked at the balding, elderly director who was talking about those cliches one by one, and he didn't know where the difference was.

He thought, wasn't it also a waste of my limited time to call me into the office early in the morning?

He didn't want to be reminded of his past because this would shatter the courage and pride that he finally managed to gather together again.

However, everybody, from classmates to teachers, was telling him: He should cherish opportunities, he should cherish his time, he should not forget, he should turn grief and anger into strength ...

But now he wanted to be lazy, couldn’t he lead an ordinary high school student's life?

Just as he was wandering around and answering casually in his mouth, the grade director suddenly inserted a word of God.

"By the way, Teacher Guan said that you ran very fast yesterday and none of the three manager and security uncles could catch up with you. It seems that your feet have fully recovered, right? Then from next week, you will resume dance class with everyone. "

"Oh okay ...-ah ????"

...

Xiang Cai went back to his class. When he stepped into the classroom, the room was quiet first, and then the discussion became louder again.

Xiang Cai was too lazy to take care of them, and returned to his own seat, worried about Qi Ji who was asked to stay behind with Chu Ping.

After a few more minutes, Qi Ji finally stepped in as the bell rang for class, and walked to the back of the classroom in distress.

Chu Ping was a very reasonable class teacher. If this happened in other classes, the boy and girl must be separated. But Chu Ping didn't ask them to move from their seats, and let them sit next to each other.

Xiang Cai gave her a small note and asked her what had happened, and if she was scolded by Teacher Chu.

"No." Qi Ji wrote on the paper. "But Teacher Chu has confiscated my lipstick." She was very distressed. "I have bought it after a long time and have been reluctant to use it. I have only used it a few times recently."

"You actually use lipstick!!!" Xiang Cai added several exclamation marks on the paper, "Makeup is against school rules!!!"

Qi Ji drew a small expression with rolled eyes: "It's not lipstick, it's lip tint, just a little bit of color."

But the little pink that was barely noticeable was still seen by Chu Ping.

Qi Ji wanted to say something more, but in the end, she just turned the note over and wrote a new line in the blank space.

"How about the QQ group of Jiuxiao, is it lively or not?"

"I haven't added it yet."

"You haven't added yet???? Are you a wooden head! Why aren’t you taking the initiative at all! You have been admitted, can't you hurry up and get close with the predecessors???? Do you not want to be friends with Great God Wang Qingyun? "

"Okay orz, I'll add it when I go back."

"Add it now! Add it now!"
 

 Xiang Cai could only sneak out his tattered cell phone from the schoolbag and hide it in the palm of his hand, covering it with sleeve.

He logged in to the QQ mailbox again, opened the admission notice, and copied the group number.

Suddenly, the English teacher standing in front of the blackboard came down from the podium and began to inspect the class.

Xiang Cai hurriedly threw the phone back into his sleeve, only to feel his heart thump. The corner of his eyes followed the footsteps of the teacher, for fear he would stop in front of himself.

However, he preferred the ineffective spirit. The English teacher actually stood by his and Qi Ji’s table, and began to randomly select lucky children to read English texts aloud.

Then, the teacher clicked on Xiang Cai’s name.

Xiang Cai: "..."

How would he know which page the teacher was on now? He stood up in a panic, and with the help of his front row classmates, turned to the page they were reading. He held the textbook and read it like a robot, blablabla.

His speaking level was not bad, so he wouldn’t stumble over even an article. He also specifically sped up his speech and wanted to finish reading so he could sit down quickly. 

But at this exact moment-a sudden buzzing sounded from the phone in Xiang Cai’s sleeve, someone sent a message to him at such a critical time!!!

Xiang Cai: "..."

The English teacher walked over.

Xiang Cai: "..."

The English teacher rolled up the textbook in his hand, supported it on the table, and said with a smile, "Give it up."

Xiang Cai: "..."

He smiled stiffly, unable to speak.

"Teacher ..." Qi Ji, who was sitting next to Xiang Cai, raised her hand weakly and grievously pulled out a small cell phone from her pocket, "... It was my cell phone ringing. I was wrong, now you can confiscate it. Can you not tell the class teacher about this?"

Xiang Cai: ! !! !!

The English teacher looked suspiciously at Qi Ji, then Xiang Cai, and then at the cell phone on the desk.

After a long while, he picked up the phone and said solemnly, "Jin Qi Ji, come to my office to write a reflection after class."

Qi Ji agreed quickly.

Xiang Cai put his shaking legs back on his seat, only to find that there was cold sweat on his back.

Under the teacher's urgent stare, he didn’t dare to pull out his mobile phone to play again. He just endured until the bell rang at the end of the class, and he fell into a chair as if he was released.

He apologized to Qi Ji: "I'm sorry to trouble you."

"It's a trivial matter." Qi Ji smiled and didn't care.

"But you are on your third confiscated mobile phone, or should I pay you?"

"It's okay!" He saw that Qi Ji could do magic, and she actually brought out a smaller cell phone from the mezzanine of the school bag ...

Qi JI said, "I still have one here."

Xiang Cai:??? Did his friend open a mobile phone shop at home?

Qi Ji didn’t know what was running around in his brain, urging him by pulling the corner of his clothes: "Don't worry about me, hurry up and see who sent you a message just now. Is it because you haven't joined the group yet so Voice of Jiuxiao directly came to chase you?"

He was reminded of this and hurriedly took out the hot mobile phone smothered by his body temperature from his sleeve.

On the screen, a friend request popped up from the quiet QQ.

Xiang Cai was stunned.

"Who is it? Who is it?" Qi Ji asked in a gossiping tone, "Is it the Voice of Jiuxiao group?”

Xiang Cai shook his head first, then nodded quickly, then shook his head again.

"No ..." He sounded like a dream, "Yes-it's God Wang Qingyun, he actually took the initiative to add me as a friend!!!!!!" 

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The author has something to say:

The story is a bit slow, don’t worry too much, ah~

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