42: Chapter 42 Gu Qing

Hearing a voice, Zhao Yang instinctively looked up.

A girl with a stunningly sweet appearance, long hair, and wearing a dress stood prettily in the aisle.

Her pair of bright eyes looked at Zhao Yang with an inquiring gaze.

"It's fine, you can sit here; it's just me."

Zhao Yang glanced at the seat next to him.

Sure enough, the surrounding seats were basically all filled with students.

No wonder this beautiful girl would choose to sit next to him.

"Thank you."

The girl gave Zhao Yang a sweet smile, revealing dimples on both cheeks.

Zhao Yang nodded without speaking.

He continued to look out the window, his mind still contemplating his future development after arriving at university.

Actually, in his past life, Zhao Yang hadn't really entered the scientific research field, even though he had been admitted as a graduate student at a 985 university.

However, limited by his talent, he had always been a 'transparent person' in the research circle, basically belonging to that kind of marginal person.

Even in the laboratory... he was the type who was scolded by his advisor every day; he just lacked talent!

In the end, he only managed to graduate; after all, most schools wouldn't hold up a master's graduate's completion, though Doctoral Student graduation was often held up, and there were plenty of people who studied for six or seven years for a doctorate.

Therefore, Zhao Yang had never even thought about trying to get a doctorate; he felt he definitely wouldn't be able to graduate as a Doctoral Student.

Zhao Yang definitely didn't want to walk that path from his past life again.

How should he walk this life?

Zhao Yang's mind raced, his brows slightly furrowed as he began to think of a feasible path.

The girl sitting next to Zhao Yang looked at him with curiosity.

Gu Qing was very clear about her own attractiveness, and she also knew very well how to utilize this attractiveness during her high school days.

Not only was she very popular among her classmates, but she was also a pet among her high school teachers.

Regardless of gender, whenever people gathered around her, she was almost like a collective favorite.

Because she was not only very beautiful, but also had a very good personality—gentle, kind, capable of socializing, and very smart.

She knew very well what her advantages were, and she was also very good at utilizing them.

Her emotional intelligence could be said to be very high.

She had never encountered a special boy like the one in front of her.

This boy was considered somewhat handsome, but he was not the handsomest boy Gu Qing had ever seen.

The glance he gave her just now should have allowed him to see her appearance clearly.

Gu Qing was very sure of this.

But after this boy looked at her, there wasn't a hint of unusual expression in his eyes, just as if he were looking at a very ordinary female classmate.

Very indifferent, very calm.

There was a very composed and calm temperament about him...

Gu Qing rarely saw such boys, except occasionally seeing this kind of temperament in some experienced people.

But for this kind of temperament to appear on a boy who was clearly just an adult... it made Gu Qing very curious.

With curiosity, Gu Qing couldn't help but ask Zhao Yang.

"Hello classmate, my name is Gu Qing, and I'm a biological sciences major."

Gu Qing asked, looking at Zhao Yang with curiosity.

Zhao Yang, who was contemplating his university development path, glanced at Gu Qing.

"My name is Zhao Yang."

Zhao Yang answered casually.

"I'm also a biological sciences major."

As he spoke, the way Zhao Yang looked at Gu Qing was somewhat unusual.

He hadn't expected that the beautiful girl in front of him was actually also a biological sciences major; she was in the same major as him.

"Wow! What a coincidence! I didn't expect us to be in the same major!"

Gu Qing looked at Zhao Yang in surprise.

"Mm."

Zhao Yang didn't pick up on Gu Qing's conversation.

For some reason, although this girl, Gu Qing, spoke very gently and was very bright.

However, Zhao Yang could always feel that she had a 'green tea' vibe...

Of course, in this day and age, there was no such term as 'green tea bitch,' and memes like 'green tea bitch' or 'white lotus' were products of a later period when the internet was highly developed.

In this day and age, it was still a sunny season, and everything was so simple.

Suddenly, Zhao Yang felt a bit sentimental.

Since his rebirth, he had been almost frantically grinding system experience and had never thought about these things.

He hadn't truly enjoyed life.

Gu Qing's proactive attempt to strike up a conversation made Zhao Yang feel slightly dazed.

He had almost forgotten that this was a very simple era.

Yet he was still looking at this era from the perspective of more than a decade later.

He was still looking at it with the perspective of an adult; his mindset was too old!

Thinking of this, Zhao Yang tried to level out his mindset.

"Which province are you from?"

Zhao Yang smiled slightly and asked Gu Qing.

He decided to do what a boy at this stage would do.

Gu Qing was slightly stunned when she heard Zhao Yang's question and saw the smile on his face.

She had originally thought that Zhao Yang wouldn't pay attention to her, but she hadn't expected that Zhao Yang would suddenly ask her a question?

What happened?

Although confused, given Gu Qing's personality.

She still answered with a smile.

"I'm from Su Province, what about you, Student Zhao Yang?"

"I'm from Gan Province."

Zhao Yang smiled slightly.

"Wow! Gan Province! Lushan in your province is really beautiful! I went to Lushan for a trip during last year's winter break and saw the rime ice; it was really beautiful!"

Gu Qing was a girl who was very good at finding topics.

Zhao Yang had to admit that.

However, Zhao Yang himself, as a sales manager, was very familiar with social techniques; Gu Qing's methods were very clever, combined with her advantages as a beautiful girl.

It was indeed very good, but in Zhao Yang's view, it was still slightly immature.

Zhao Yang easily and skillfully guided the topic.

Within a few sentences, Zhao Yang had basically grasped most of Gu Qing's basic information.

Gu Qing was from Su Province, her family situation was very good, her family ran a company, and she was a proper rich girl; he didn't know the specific assets.

But Gu Qing's parents had always raised her to be independent, so Gu Qing came to register by herself.

Zhao Yang and Gu Qing chatted very happily.

This little girl was actually quite interesting.

"Come to think of it, you're just a high school student who just arrived at university, why do you talk like an old man?"

Having become a bit more familiar, Gu Qing's speech became a bit bolder.

She looked at Zhao Yang with a sly glint in her eyes.

"Listening to you talk to me just now, it was like an uncle trying to lure a young girl."

Zhao Yang laughed in spite of himself.

"Do I sound that old?"

"You do, Uncle~"

Gu Qing dragged out the end of her sentence, looking at Zhao Yang with a sly gaze.

Zhao Yang spread his hands, his face full of helplessness.

"Whatever you say."

"Hee hee."

Gu Qing looked at Zhao Yang and smiled.

"From now on, I'll call you Uncle!"

Zhao Yang shrugged.

Just when Gu Qing wanted to say something more.

The bus suddenly stopped.

"We've arrived at the school, let's get off!"

Zhao Yang said to Gu Qing.

"Uncle, leave me your number! We're classmates, and you're an uncle, so you have to take good care of this little girl!"