Age of Legends

Chapter 128 Good Times

Time passed like this. The preparations for the Rongcheng Digital Culture Festival took shape step by step. After Zhang Chen sent official invitation emails in English to each of the Fortune 500 companies one by one and pushed things on track, the follow-up had little to do with him. It was all Wang Bowen's team working around the clock. Jiang Rong completely became a running errand. It was said that she had to supervise the decoration of the exhibition, and when she came back, she had to work with Lightning Sloth Song Xiu to record the expenses.

This girl, who had helped him to cosplay at various universities to attract attention not long ago, turned around and threw herself into the busy exhibition work. Really, Zhang Chen felt a little reluctant, but fortunately Wang Bowen had promised to give her more overtime pay. After thinking about it, it was true that Jiang Rong would become a small wealthy woman just by the money she gave and Wang Bowen gave.

Zhang Chen could hear Jiang Rong's enthusiasm over the phone, which made him admire her.

Those who are capable should work harder.

After no longer having to keep an eye on things at the exhibition, Class 2-5 went out to hold up signs during the last two classes in the afternoon. Zhang Chen, Wang Shuowei and their zombie cosplay team had a lot more free time at first. Zhang Chen and Wang Shuowei often went out of the school to look for food, or simply did some exercises in the empty classroom, while Wang Shuowei read novels and comic books.

However, Feng Rui came up and said that the Yude cosplay team should organize together and rehearse the performance content. Since they have entered the competition, they should represent the Yude Animation Club to get a place.

There are no strict requirements for the performance in the Cosplay competition, just that it should not exceed five minutes. You just have to go on stage and walk around, or make some gestures, and it is enough to recreate the cos character.

It is possible that some people sing and dance, it is all fine, it is more casual. But this kind of lively performance will definitely get a higher score.

But from Zhang Chen's experience, cosplayers these days don't have much talent, and most of them are passers-by. But the prize money this time is attractive, and it is not ruled out that there will be cosplayers who can sing and dance and come on stage to participate in the competition for the prize money. As the saying goes, money can move people's hearts.

So Feng Rui designed it, and it turned out to be quite remarkable, funny and dramatic at the same time.

But this wasn't a formal performance. It was just planning how to appear on stage, everyone's position on the stage, the choreography, and the background music. Everyone was very casual during the rehearsal, and there was no need to wear any clothes even for the final rehearsal.

We just rehearsed for a short while every day and finished it in four days.

At the end, Zhuang Yanyue went to the store and picked up a big bag of water, which she distributed to everyone, and immediately earned a lot of goodwill.

"Here." Zhuang Yanyue handed Zhang Chen a bottle of mineral water.

"Thank you." Zhang Chen took it, and Zhuang Yanyue passed water to other people.

In the past few days, I saw that Zhuang Yanyue and Zhang Chen both signed up for cosplay at the performance. Everyone cast a lot of eyes on them and were quite concerned about the relationship between the two. But after spending these few days together, it seemed that there was no particularly close relationship between the two. There was nothing special about them. They were just like ordinary classmates.

This made people sigh again. Sure enough, Zhuang Yanyue was still Zhuang Yanyue. She was extremely strong and acted as if nothing had happened. Moreover, they had become familiar with each other after spending the past few days together. Sometimes they could talk about a lot of things. After getting Zhuang Yanyue's water, they drank it and chatted for a while, and then turned the topic to the two of them.

Someone laughed, "Zhuang Yanyue, are you no longer interested in Zhang Chen?"

Zhuang Yanyue did not shy away and walked towards the man and said, "That's right."

"Then what did you like about Zhang Chen before?" The girl who was always curious couldn't help but speak loudly, deliberately letting Zhang Chen know in her voice, and frequently looking at his reaction.

"Maybe he's been blinded by greed." Zhuang Yanyue laughed.

This caused a burst of laughter and everyone looked at Zhang Chen.

"Then do you have anyone else you like? I heard that Wu Chao from Class 6 wrote you a love letter a few days ago. Did you agree?"

"No... I don't have any feelings for him." Zhuang Yanyue said lightly.

Zhuang Yanyue was so frank that others had no more topics to talk about, so they just started talking about recent TV series and movies.

When everyone was getting ready to go back for evening self-study and were walking out of the multimedia classroom, down the stairs one after another because there were so many people, Zhang Chen fell behind. He heard footsteps beside him and saw Zhuang Yanyue coming up from behind and walking parallel to him. Zhang Chen subconsciously moved to the side because she was walking fast and he made way for her.

"Thank you." Zhuang Yanyue whispered as she passed by him, and Zhang Chen saw her winking at him as she said this, "Just now... I lied to them."

Then he stepped past Zhang Chen and went downstairs first.

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During the evening study period of Class 5, Grade 2, the whole class returned home, and after school, the same group of people went home as usual.

Every time at this time, Zheng Xue, Qin Zhu and others would envy, hate and be jealous of the freedom that Zhang Chen and Wang Shuowei had during this period.

In the middle, some interesting things that happened when holding the sign were mentioned.

You say you are tired, but actually you are not tired, everyone has endless energy at this time. But everyone has gone through training after all, and they are a little tired. As for Shen Nuoyi, sometimes her hair is a little messy, but this is not a demerit, but it makes her more down-to-earth and lazy.

In this case, Zhang Chen actually felt a little regretful. If he had held up the sign with them, it would have been a common memory many years later.

No wonder every time Zheng Xue criticized Zhang Chen and Wang Shuowei for hiding in the classroom and being lazy, Shen Nuoyi would add fuel to the fire and make a few sarcastic remarks at them out of the blue.

For example, one day she came back from holding a sign, her hair all stuck together by sweat. She turned on the kettle and drank water in big gulps. She listened to Zheng Xue complaining to the two of them, and said to them, "Of course it's fun! Idle away all day! But no one cares..."

She drew out the last syllable of the last part of her sentence, "No one cares." Her rosy lips, which had just drunk water, were like two dewy petals. When they were slightly open, her soft and pink tongue could be seen through her white teeth. Combined with her sidelong glance in her phoenix eyes, it was very vivid.

Sometimes Zhang Chen felt that he was guilty of running away from holding the sign. He could have accompanied this girl.

But Zhang Chen reminded himself not to be blinded by love. Laziness is the most important thing. After all, as the saying goes, if love lasts for a long time, it doesn't matter if you are together day and night. So Shen Nuoyi, just be patient. I will accompany you next time.

But Zhang Chen didn't know what Shen Nuoyi was thinking. She was really angry every time she teased him. They knew each other's feelings. Since she didn't dare to sign up for cosplay, she actually hoped to be with Zhang Chen when holding the sign.

However, she couldn't express it after all, so it could only be left like this.

After evening self-study that day, they returned to Zhengheng Street at the fork in the road. Zheng Xue said, "In fact, we don't have to follow them. Wang Shuowei and Shen Nuo are going the same way. They can go home by themselves!"

Holding the sign has been a bit tiring lately, and Zheng Xue is very reluctant to take a detour.

Shen Nuo said, "Yes, you guys should go home soon! Wang Shuowei and I will go back."

Zhang Chen walked straight forward and said, "Zheng Xue and Qin Zhu, you two go back first. I'll take them there for a while."

"Tsk, now that you've said that! Then it's not easy for us to leave! Go, go, it's really your turn! Sirs!"

Wang Shuowei was touched and said, "You are so loyal!"

Zhang Chen said, "Yes, things are not peaceful recently. Let's send you two off first, and then we can go back. Safety first."

As he said this, he looked at Shen Nuoyi.

In fact, Shen Nuoyi also knew that Zhang Chen was mainly talking to her.

It's hard to describe. Originally, I didn't see Zhang Chen's indifference when he was holding the sign, but now it's inexplicably offset.

There was a slight sense of pleasure in the way my heartbeat accelerated.

"After this period of time, my dad will ask Chen Xuran to come home to eat the dumplings he made himself, and then we will celebrate." When they reached the door, Wang Shuowei whispered to Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen nodded. They both knew what they were talking about. To Wang Shuowei, what Wang Bowen and Zhang Chen did was a big deal. There was no need to publicize this big deal in school. It was a man's career.

Arriving at the gate of the TV station, Shen Nuoyi said, "Okay, thank you, go back quickly. Be careful on the road."

"There are so many of us! Don't worry!" Zheng Xue waved to her best friend.

The glance between Shen Nuoyi and Zhang Chen before he entered was actually the unspoken little ambiguity that the two of them looked forward to every day.

Zhang Chen wanted to send Shen Nuoyi and Wang Shuowei away not only because he was concerned about their safety, but also because he wanted to accompany Shen Nuoyi for a while longer.

Instead, he would always stop by to make sure that the street lights on that dark path were still shining brightly.

Zhao Tao and his team got into trouble, and the undercurrents in Rongcheng were turbulent. But Wang Bowen's work continued to progress, and he was about to create a city business card that would be very eye-catching in the future. As a golden signboard, it would bring more possibilities in the future. Wang Shuowei also said that when the dust of the exhibition was settled, they could eat dumplings together to celebrate it all.

The outside world is full of ups and downs, but in my little world, there is still such peaceful time that I can look forward to.

On such days, the Rongcheng International Digital Culture Festival is here.

(End of this chapter)