Chapter 175: Senior Zheng

After Zheng Qian's passionate and inspiring speech, he bowed to the audience to express his gratitude.

Seeing that Zheng Qian had finished his speech, Song Qingli stepped forward to take control of the stage.

"Senior Zheng, you are from the class of 2016, and I am from the class of 2017. By that logic, I am your junior."

Next, it was time for the donation segment.

"Today, as your senior and a fellow alumnus, I am deeply honored to be invited by my alma mater to attend this alumni gathering as an outstanding alumnus."

"I have decided to take the lead in donating to our alma mater, doing my small part to help build it up. What do you all think?!"

"Great!" the audience responded in unison.

Ever since her freshman year, Song Qingli had been hosting various school events, large and small. In terms of experience, she was no less capable than Zheng Qian.

She was unyielding and still wanted to spar with Zheng Qian.

"Then, Senior Zheng, how much are you planning to donate to our alma mater to express your affection and gratitude for its cultivation of you?"

"Hahahaha."

Many people in the audience could tell that Song Qingli was setting a trap for Zheng Qian.

This was the moment for Zheng Qian to 'humble-brag'.

"I, for one, have limited ability. Today is not an individual donation, but a joint donation from two people."

"Ten million! This amount isn't much, and I feel ashamed of how little it repays my alma mater for its cultivation."

A joint donation of ten million!!!

A gasp of surprise rippled through the audience.

You have to realize, outstanding alumni from previous years would donate a hundred thousand or so at most, which was considered quite a lot. Even the vice president of that mobile phone manufacturer, who donated five hundred thousand, was considered the ceiling for previous years.

Zheng Qian was donating ten million directly?

"Senior... Senior Zheng, you aren't joking, are you? You're donating ten million?"

"It's not just me donating; it's a joint donation with a friend. She's covering the bulk of it, and I'm covering a small portion."

"Is this friend of yours also an alumna of ours?" Song Qingli asked.

"Yes, she is also present today."

"Then could we invite her up to say a few words? After all, with such a large donation to our alma mater, we definitely need to thank her."

"Sure." Zheng Qian cleared his throat. "I would like to invite Ms. Lu Shanshan to come up to the stage."

Zheng Qian repeated this several times while holding the microphone.

Lu Shanshan: ???

Tang Xingyu: ???

Cui Jinghui, Yu Nana: ???

Zheng Qian donating ten million was already beyond everyone's expectations and left them dumbfounded.

And he was actually doing it as a joint donation with Lu Shanshan?

What was going on?

Everyone turned their heads to look at Lu Shanshan all at once.

"You... don't look at me! I didn't know Zheng Qian was going to donate so much money!" Lu Shanshan explained.

Song Qingli on stage spoke again: "Senior Zheng, you seem to be humble-bragging a bit. It's been a few minutes since you mentioned the joint donation, and she still hasn't come up. Could it be that you're just making up a friend?"

"That's not it, I'll call her again." Zheng Qian smiled. "She's a bit shy and might not want to show her face."

"I can't donate that much money all by myself."

The crowd below laughed as well.

The school officials watching from backstage also laughed.

They didn't expect that inviting Zheng Qian would be so entertaining, and he even donated ten million!

Good heavens!

This was an amount the school didn't even dare to imagine!

What Zheng Qian said was actually true; if he had to take ten million out of his own pocket, he definitely wouldn't be willing.

He just wanted to use Lu Shanshan's name to farm some system cash-back.

"I invite Ms. Lu Shanshan to come to the stage. I invite Ms. Lu Shanshan to come to the stage."

Zheng Qian kept repeating this phrase.

Lu Shanshan, sitting below, was nervous to the extreme. She hadn't even been this nervous the first time she got her period.

In the end, Lu Shanshan stood up from her seat and slowly walked towards the stage.

"No need to search her, just let her come up," Zheng Qian said into the microphone as he saw Lu Shanshan approaching the stage.

The bodyguards hadn't intended to stop Lu Shanshan in the first place, but upon hearing Zheng Qian's words, one of them looked up slightly and glanced at him.

Hahaha, hahaha.

The audience burst into laughter.

Everyone thought they had arrived at Deyun She, watching Zheng Qian perform crosstalk here!

Song Qingli thought to herself: Whoa, good grief.

Zheng Qian was here as a guest, so why did it feel like he was the host?

"So, the person making the joint donation with Senior Zheng is none other than the Snow White of our Yebei University from back in the day!"

"Does everyone know Lu Shanshan?"

"Yes!" It was the juniors' turn to shout from below.

"Hello, Senior Lu!"

Lu Shanshan felt very shy after hearing the term 'Snow White'.

Although everyone knew it, no one had ever said it out loud in public.

"Hello, Teacher Song."

"Senior Lu, may I ask how much you contributed to the joint donation with Senior Zheng?"

"Uh..." Faced with the first question, Lu Shanshan didn't know how to answer and threw a pleading look at Zheng Qian. She didn't want to lose face in front of so many people.

"I can answer this question. Your Senior Lu contributed 9,999,999, and I contributed one yuan."

"Hahaha, Senior Zheng, you are truly humorous." Seeing that Zheng Qian and Lu Shanshan didn't want to answer the question, Song Qingli didn't press further.

Anyway, everyone knew that Zheng Qian must have donated the most; what was donating 1 yuan supposed to mean?

It wasn't that Lu Shanshan didn't want to answer, but she had no idea how to answer at all!

As for Zheng Qian, he was telling the truth. Although it was his money, it was indeed donated in Lu Shanshan's name for 9.99 million, and he only contributed one yuan himself.

If Song Qingli and the juniors below misunderstood, that wasn't his fault.