Chapter 204 : AWSL
"Junior Su Mo, do you know? The biggest challenge to overcome when speaking in front of people for the first time is shame."
"Because you're afraid of being watched by others, your tongue gets tied and your body trembles. But these can all be trained—just reading aloud to a mirror daily can help you gradually adapt!"
In the small room filled with Chu Tianlan's reassuring lavender fragrance, at midday, a gentle voice with educational warmth from a neighborly big sister slowly emerged.
That voice alone carried a reassuring and professional quality that made people unconsciously fall into it.
Su Mo, the student who had just been brought to the room for special tutoring, was very moved by teacher Chu Tianlan's teaching and found it very reliable.
But this reliable feeling didn't last more than a few seconds before Chu Tianlan's next words changed the flavor somewhat.
"Junior Su Mo, if you had plenty of time, 'step-by-step' practice like this would definitely be fine. But now, with insufficient time before tonight's welcome party, I think you need some special 'quick' methods to practice."
"Special methods!?"
Hearing serious Senior Chu's words, Su Mo's little head tilted slightly left, and her cute two-dimensional girl image sprouted a big question mark above her head.
She looked not very smart but was super cute.
Seeing Su Mo like this, Chu Tianlan placed the 3-page confession speech that 'Lu Mingyuan' had sent, printed it out and put it in front of Su Mo, then said softly:
"Little Mo, ultimately the core of public speaking is fighting against shame. So this afternoon, I plan to use some methods to train your shame tolerance! Come, stand on this stool now and try simulating that this is the welcome party!"
Taking the script from serious-faced Senior Chu, although Su Mo had no clue about Chu Tianlan's subsequent methods, out of trust in Chu Tianlan's expression and in her, Su Mo obediently stood on the stool afterward.
With the change brought by elevated perspective, Su Mo felt somewhat nervous.
But thinking that there was only the very familiar Senior Chu Tianlan in the room and no one else, perhaps due to over-familiarity, Su Mo's nervous emotions began to diminish.
Just as Su Mo was curious about how Student Council President Chu Tianlan would train her to overcome shame and began trying to read the speech:
"Respected Su University..."
But after just reading a few words, Su Mo couldn't continue due to shame.
Why couldn't she continue?
Because Su Mo never expected that shame training would be done this way!!!
Facing herself standing on a chair, Senior Chu as Student Council President actually... actually was 'seriously' peek... observing pant...
Noticing this discord, Su Mo couldn't help but very girlishly cover her skirt hem, and her two cherry-pink little knees also very girlishly pressed together. Combined with her posture standing on the stool, she displayed girlish shyness to perfection.
Su Mo's shy movements looked good, and under the 'emoji pack' buff enhancement, the Q-version little person directly transformed into a red-faced steamy girl holding a little book of gentleman literature, asking incredulously:
"Senior Chu, what... what are you doing??"
To Su Mo's cute little facial expression art, Chu Tianlan responded seriously:
"Junior Su Mo, to overcome shame when speaking on stage, I'm doing this now to simulate the audience."
"According to scientific statistics, the tension a girl feels when her panties are being watched is, in a sense, equivalent to being watched by 100 audience members! And we're both girls—what is there to be afraid of? Come on, continue reading!"
Hearing Chu Tianlan's scientific explanation, Su Mo felt something wasn't quite right.
After all, these were panties—how could you just look at them!
And this training method, although they were both girls, was very embarrassing no matter how you thought about it!
Although Su Mo wanted to stop this, Chu Tianlan had already seriously lifted her skirt hem, giving Su Mo no chance to refuse, covering it over her head while urging:
"Junior Su Mo, hurry up and start. I'm the host of the welcome party and need to be at Su University at 4 PM. We're pressed for time with heavy tasks—hurry up. You don't want to get stuck when reading your confession on stage, standing in the center, do you!"
With Chu Tianlan's 'serious' statement emerging, although Su Mo still felt very ashamed, thinking about the embarrassing scenario of actually going 'aba aba' and being unable to speak, she finally gritted her little white teeth and agreed to 'serious' Teacher Chu's shame training.
"Respected Su University..."
But as Su Mo read the confession lines, what surprised her more was that the difficulty kept increasing...
Wuu wuu wuu...
"Senior Chu, why is your face pressed against my leg?"
"Senior Chu, you can't... breathe out."
"Senior Chu, you... can't stick your face in there ahhhhh!!!"
...
Facts proved that Chu Tianlan's training method was, in a sense, very useful.
After three hours of special training, Su Mo's speaking ability had improved unprecedentedly. As for what improved?
Su Mo indicated that her speaking speed had greatly improved, and her mentality was really much stronger than before training.
Because Su Mo discovered she really had no face left to lose. Wuu wuu wuu, it was really too shameful.
...
Near 4 PM in the afternoon,
After experiencing 'intensive training,' Su Mo finally followed Student Council President and host Chu Tianlan, arriving at Su University's arts hall an hour early.
As a sophomore at Su University, since Su University always held activities, Su Mo had visited the arts hall many times.
But unlike previous times as an audience member, thinking that today she had a confession meeting to review new school rules, compared to the previous relaxed spectator experience, today Su Mo's mood, although somewhat trained, was still heavy.
Since she had already memorized the 'speech script' by heart, and Chu Tianlan as Student Council President had many things to coordinate, Su Mo, arriving backstage early, simply began touring around, wanting to see the layout inside and distract her nervous attention.
Su University, as Su City's key university, and now just after college entrance exams with scores not yet released, was the best time for enrollment.
Therefore, this welcome party was not only watched by people within Su University but also broadcast online externally—a grand-scale feast.
Just entering backstage, Su Mo saw schoolmates preparing various programs.
There were those putting on dance costumes and makeup, those rehearsing comedy acts, those practicing dance... The program types were rich and colorful, with props dazzling to behold. Just looking at them made Su Mo feel much more at ease.
After all, with so many exciting programs, surely not many people would anticipate her confession meeting!
Just as Su Mo, hiding behind curtains observing, breathed a sigh of relief at this discovery, she heard two schoolmates who had just been rehearsing comedy begin talking.
"Holy shit, I just went out and couldn't believe it—the arts hall is packed, and the welcome party doesn't start for another half hour."
"Ah... usually arts events only have about 300 viewers. Why are there so many people today?"
"Hey, you haven't seen the forum. How hot 'Su Mo's' matter has been spreading these past two days! These people are probably all here to see her confession meeting. And not just the people in the auditorium—the livestream will probably flood with people later!"
"Hiss... so many people? Won't Junior Su Mo be nervous?"
"Hey, being nervous is even better. Don't you like beautiful girls standing helplessly on stage with tearful eyes looking piti..."
The male senior acting as straight man hadn't finished saying "pitiful."
At his companion's guidance, he saw Su Mo's puffed cheeks, two small fists clenched, deep peach blossom eyes with a hint of dissatisfaction and anger staring at him.
Seeing Su Mo's cute appearance, although the male senior had seen Su Mo's photos on the forum and knew she was good-looking, in his eyes now, Su Mo gradually transformed into a cute two-dimensional girl raising her two little hands with resentful furrowed brows and anger above her head.
Seeing Su Mo so cute it was criminal, the male senior who had never been in love felt his heart begin beating rapidly from this cuteness.
A feeling called heartfelt attraction began emerging in his heart.
Thump thump thump~
Thump thump thump thump~
Hearing the increasingly violent drumbeat-like heartbeats in his chest cavity, looking at Su Mo's girl emoji pack, those soft cheeks puffing up like a pufferfish, getting bigger and more adorable, the next second, this senior overwhelmed by Su Mo's cuteness felt his heart beating uncontrollably. In his daze, lying on his companion's body, he was left with only one thought:
AWSL...