Chapter 58: 058 Han Yixuan’s Unexpected Gain
At two in the afternoon, Sun Ruimin walked into a small classroom and began her career planning lecture—with an indescribable sense of shame in her heart.
This lecture was really too amateurish; she hadn’t made any application to the school, not even mentioned a word to her colleagues in the Student Union. Moreover, university career planning is an elective course that second year university students start taking, so forcing it on first year junior male and junior female students really didn’t make much sense. But there was no way around it; giving this lecture was still much better than having her go on stage to talk about nonsense like “Senior Female Student’s View on Romance.”
Sun Ruimin still remembered the memory of herself getting drunk, and that was the most awkward part. In her drunken state, she hadn’t completely blacked out; she had just lost the rational yardstick to evaluate the consequences of her own behavior. So when she woke up and recalled those things, it was pure Awkwardness with a capital A.
Walking up to the lectern, she cleared her throat, and Sun Ruimin began: “For anything we do, we need to plan ahead. Going through what we want to achieve in our mind first is the greatest advantage humans have over other species. For example, in ancient times, our ancestors foresaw the result before drilling wood for fire, prepared dry firewood, prepared all the things needed, and then succeeded, making full use of the advantage of fire. It’s the same in modern society; we need to plan ahead…”
Talking about this content was actually not too difficult for Sun Ruimin. Once she overcame that emotional barrier, she spoke very fluently. After all, the 《university career planning》 textbook she had gotten just a couple of days ago contained exactly what she was talking about.
“…All of you here are the fresh blood of our school’s Student Union, very precious. The Student Union values you highly and needs you to value yourselves. To value yourselves, first you need to analyze your own psychology, figure out your demand clearly, and then do career planning. That is, you should start thinking now: during this period of work in the Student Union, what kind of help will it be for your future work after entering society…”
Sun Ruimin spoke eloquently from the lectern.
Since what she was mainly talking about was inspirational in nature, she hadn’t prepared too many lines for herself. In less than twenty minutes, she finished, and then came the Q&A session.
The new junior male and junior female students were obviously a bit stage-frightened too, with only a few raising their hands to ask questions. After resolving those few issues with all-purpose responses, no one else raised their hands.
So Sun Ruimin announced: “Then today’s impromptu course ends here. Everyone, go back and think carefully about what you really want to do in the future. That’s it for today; you can disperse.”
After saying that, Sun Ruimin stepped down from the lectern and saw her cousin brother running towards her.
During the lecture, she had already spotted Sun Xing Si sitting in the corner of the back row, so she wasn’t surprised at this moment.
Sun Ruimin smiled and asked: “Are you skipping class?”
Sun Xing Si instead mocked her: “Big sis, did you forget? Today is Sunday; who would have class on Sunday except someone like you pursuing dual degrees?”
Sun Ruimin patted his head, which served as her response.
Sun Xing Si continued: “By the way, big sis, you don’t know, after you left yesterday, Wang Heng and I still…”
“Don’t mention that guy to me!” Sun Ruimin’s face turned cold as she interrupted.
Sun Xing Si scratched the back of his head: “Oh, oh, okay, I won’t mention him then!”
“Mm, let’s go.” With that, Sun Ruimin walked towards the classroom door, and Sun Xing Si hurriedly followed behind.
However, the siblings didn’t notice that a girl was standing in front of the lectern, staring intently at their backs.
That was Han Yixuan.
Just now, she had heard a certain name and was very sure she hadn’t misheard. Was it a coincidence of same name? Or some bigger, more meaningful coincidence?
The surrounding classmates dispersed one after another, and Han Yixuan suddenly called out to a second year university senior female student, first expressing apology for the interruption, and politely asked: “The one who left with Senior Female Student Sun just now, is that her younger brother?”
“I think it’s her cousin brother or something; anyway, he’s not from our school. Sun Ruimin’s younger brother is from the Telecommunications Technology University; he’s probably here to see her about something today…”
Han Yixuan: “Oh, I see, thank you, senior female student.”
“Hey, you wouldn’t have taken a liking to her younger brother, would you?”
Han Yixuan smiled slightly, her face full of innocence: “Hehe, how could that be? I was just asking casually.”
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Unlike other classmates in the Finance Department, Sun Ruimin had a compulsory course today, and it was a Law compulsory course. Because she had also enrolled in the school’s Law bachelor’s course, and if she could graduate smoothly, she could get a minor degree in Law.
And this course was held in the morning, which was why she had to postpone the lecture she said would be in the morning last night to the afternoon—because of this, the junior male and junior female students hadn’t held back on complaining about her.
What she talked about was just generalities, and she even said in the group chat something like “imparting life experience”; wasn’t that just putting sheep’s head on dog meat? And disturbing everyone at two in the morning, then changing it to the next morning—this was a slot full to overflowing.
So, when she saw this junior female student who claimed to come express gratitude, Sun Ruimin was quite surprised.
She looked over this junior female student who could be called pure and pretty, and asked: “What’s your name?”
The junior female student smiled mildly yet politely: “Hello, senior female student, my name is Han Yixuan.”
Sun Ruimin: “Oh, you said in the private chat earlier that you wanted to thank me… why?”
Han Yixuan said in a seemingly sincere manner: “Because the career planning you talked about was very meaningful and enlightening to me. Before you spoke about those things, I really hadn’t thought much about it. I only went to the Student Union interview because my roommate dragged me along, and after joining, what to do and what to do after graduation, I hadn’t thought much about either… Pretty laughable, right? I’ve always just listened to the teacher and my parents since I was little; I really haven’t thought much for myself.”
Sun Ruimin shook her head: “Not just you; I was the same in my first year. No laughing at me, but I dated a scumbag, got disgusted, and then suddenly decided to buck up.”
Han Yixuan: “Senior female student, haven’t you thought about dating again?”
Sun Ruimin gave a self-mocking smile: “I’ve thought about it, of course. Just a couple of days ago I was thinking about dating, but… tsk, anyway, it’s still not quite suitable for me, boys and all.”
Han Yixuan asked thoughtfully: “Senior female student is so pretty; how could romance not suit you?”
“Yeah, some boys are just ridiculous; who knows what’s in their minds.”
Sun Ruimin didn’t think too much of it and didn’t realize this pure junior female student was probing her possibility; she casually complained. She didn’t notice that Han Yixuan’s gaze became deeper and deeper, as if she had thought of many, many things…
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