Chapter 255: A Collaboration of Epic Proportions
The lingering warmth of summer had barely faded when October arrived, bringing the onset of autumn. Just a week before the annual Autumn Arts Festival, Mei Fang and Lin Youxi faced the preliminary selection exam for the NOIP. Support the translator by reading @ gemnovel.com
The NOIP preliminaries are in the form of a written test, focusing on basic computer knowledge and programming skills. Support the translator by reading @ gemnovel.com
For ten-year coding veterans like Mei Fang and Lin Youxi, these types of questions were child’s play. They breezed through the exam without spending much time on it, and as they walked out of the exam hall, they jokingly complained to each other:
“To be honest, do you think we might have over-prepared for this?” Support the translator by reading @ gemnovel.com
“It’s fine. It’ll probably come in handy during the finals…” Despite Nido’s insistence that it was better not to force them to rest when they wanted to work, I still made them promise to absolutely not overdo it, keep an eye on those around them, and forcibly make anyone looking unwell take a break. But their enthusiasm was immense.
Between the preliminary and final rounds of NOIP was the Autumn Arts Festival. This year, Xia Yuan and Mei Fang went public with their relationship, and at the opening ceremony Xia Yuan dropped a bombshell—she performed and released her latest single, A Little Sweet, at the same time.
A Little Sweet is one of the signature songs of Wang Sulong[1], one of the “Big Three” of QQ Music in Mei Fang’s previous life. Like Bare Face, it is also a duet love song, a sweet tune filled with affection, perfectly capturing the current romantic vibe between Xia Yuan and Mei Fang. Although Mei Fang didn’t have much preparation, it wasn’t a difficult task for him. To attend the entrance ceremony, both Yukino and I were dressed in the uniforms that had arrived a few days ago. The designs were different for boys and girls, but the blazers were predominantly maroon and white, with a shiny new silver badge on the left lapel.
Releasing a single at the Autumn Arts Festival was essentially Xia Yuan revealing her true identity as Yuanbao to the public. Instead of letting someone else spill the beans, Xia Yuan decided to do it herself to gain popularity.
With the help of newly inducted core members Wan Chaoxiong and Xiang Bingbing, the latest edited video of the festival was uploaded and featured on the homepage of C Site for promotion. The single, coupled with the live performance at the Autumn Arts Festival of Jiangcheng NOHS, where both Yuanbao and Fangbao appeared on stage together, was a huge surprise for Yuanbao’s fans. The steady traffic on C Site, which Lin Youxi was proud of, was overwhelmed to the point of crashing, forcing Lin Youxi and Mei Fang to work overnight to maintain the website.