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Chapter 116 0113 [Who is the most beautiful girl at Peking University is no surprise]

"Good evening, viewers. Welcome to this episode of 'Peking University News.' Based on the campus of Peking University, we deliver the voice of the times; with the pen as our vessel, we stir the river of thought. This episode's main content includes—"

“School X Committee…”

"The Peking University team has achieved a breakthrough in xx by publishing xx..."

"An original drama was staged at the Centennial Hall..."

"Chen Guiliang, a student from the 04 Yuanpei Class, has received seed funding for a Peking University Science Park incubation project..."

"That's all for today's Peking University News. We document growth through news and witness glory through the lens. Thank you for watching..."

The programs broadcast by Peking University Television are transmitted via a closed-circuit network, and television terminals are available in various public areas on campus.

Many dormitory buildings also have televisions, but it depends on the specific situation; Chen Guiliang's dormitory on the 36th floor did not have one.

"Whoo~~~"

Only after the camera was turned off did Li Shishi finally breathe a sigh of relief, and her tense muscles relaxed.

The male anchor, a sophomore, comforted him, saying, "Everyone feels this way when they first start hosting the news. It's normal to be a little nervous; you'll get used to it eventually."

"Thank you for your encouragement, senior brother," Li Shishi said with a smile.

Her senior colleague then invited her to dinner, but Li Shishi politely declined.

She went to the cafeteria alone for a meal and strolled back to her dormitory. As soon as she entered the room, her roommate said, "Shishi, come and see!"

"What are you looking at?" Li Shishi asked.

"It's the campus beauty pageant! You're currently second in the School of Journalism and Communication!"

The three-round voting system was too complicated, so when we actually held the event, we switched to a two-level voting system.

Let's start by evaluating the "department beauty"—more accurately, the "college beauty," but everyone's used to calling her the "department beauty."

The top three vote-getters from each department will be displayed on the campus beauty page after a delay.

Each user can cast two votes per day. One vote is for their own department, and the other vote is for the main event page.

Li Shishi was completely confused: "What school beauty pageant?"

My roommate said, "It was initiated on the school's intranet and they even posted about it on the BBS. Now a lot of students are asking for registration invitation codes on the BBS just to vote for the girls in their department."

Li Shishi leaned closer to the computer and saw that she was indeed the second-ranked student in her department.

Moreover, the number of votes is quite far from that of the first place.

The first place is Liu Xuan, an Olympic champion, retired athlete, and film and television star.

Li Shishi was both amused and exasperated: "Why even bother voting? Nobody can compare to her. Liu Xuan is definitely number one."

My roommate said, "That's not fair, Liu Xuan is too famous."

……

ByteDance, company office.

Chen Guiliang and his friends looked at each other, collectively ignoring Liu Xuan.

This Olympic champion and film star has kept a very low profile since entering the university. She was often mentioned in her first year, but by the second year, people had gotten used to it, and now many freshmen don't even know she's at Peking University.

"No doubt about it," Guo Feng said.

“The vote count is in a precipitous lead,” Ao Yanzhen said. “The following posts can only focus on promoting the most beautiful girls in each department.”

Chen Guiliang said, "As long as it works."

The Peking University beauty pageant ended almost as soon as it began.

Liu Xuan is 100% number one!

There may be women prettier than her, but she can attract countless votes simply by virtue of her fame.

Dong Qianqiu suddenly said, "I think this event was a great success."

"The number of users is indeed growing rapidly, and their activity level is increasing; they're using all sorts of features," Guo Feng agreed.

Dong Qianqiu, with a sly grin, dragged the mouse, admiring the photos of the various beauties: "Don't you guys think this is like an emperor choosing his concubines? Every user is an emperor, and clicking the mouse is like the emperor flipping through the palace gates. The chosen school beauty is the empress, and the chosen department beauty is the concubine."

Guo Feng scoffed, "Vulgar!"

Ao Yanchen said, "Disgusting!"

They all turned to look at Chen Guiliang.

Chen Guiliang said in a serious tone, "Please continue. I am selecting concubines, so please do not disturb me."

Chen Guiliang was indeed having a great time flipping through the cards. He didn't expect that besides Liu Xuan, there would also be a familiar face like Li Shishi.

The Spring Festival Gala.

Just as Chen Guiliang was browsing photos of beautiful women, Ao Yanchen, who was temporarily acting as customer service, burst into laughter in front of the computer.

"what happened?"

“Someone complained to customer service, saying that we discriminated against Sister Furong and didn’t give her a voting spot.”

……

On Peking University's Weiming BBS, a post received a lot of upvotes.

Who is the real beauty queen of Peking University?

The title alone can attract countless clicks.

"Not long ago, I saw a report. Li Ying, an alumna from the class of '88, earned 1000 million yuan in three years. This year, she stood out from more than 2000 dealers and became the first to obtain the BMW dealership rights. She was selected as one of the most fashionable and charming women in Asia in 2004 and was called 'Peking University's Campus Belle' by many media outlets..."

"Admittedly, Senior Sister Li Ying is very outstanding, but she graduated twelve years ago. Who should be our campus beauty now? With this question in mind, all of us at ByteDance have decided to launch a campus beauty poll on Renren.com. The rules for the event are as follows..."

This post received almost instant replies.

"sofa."

"Bench".

"I'm not convinced? Why can't we nominate Sister Furong?"

"That's right, Sister Furong is the real campus belle of Peking University!"

"Aren't those two upstairs disgusting?"

"..."

After the 100th floor. "Oh my god, visitors can't vote, and you need an invitation code to register an account."

"High reward offered for an invitation code; corruption reports outside the South Gate."

"Could someone please send me an invitation code? I want to vote for Bai Yufei from our class."

"Stop voting, it's pointless. The first place has more than three times the votes of the second place. It's a contest with no suspense whatsoever."

"Haha, I also voted for Liu Xuan."

"The event page has been updated. The top three candidates from each department are now listed on the event homepage as candidates for the most beautiful girl in their department."

"Oh my god. How come Zhou Tong is the top student in our department? Yan Shuqi is clearly prettier than her. This photo from the event just doesn't look good. Can anyone give me an invitation code? I want to vote for Yan Shuqi!"

This year's Peking University beauty pageant has completely gone astray.

Everyone thought it was no surprise who the school beauty was, so they turned their attention to the department beauty.

A large number of new posts have appeared on Peking University's BBS, more than half of which are asking for invitation codes.

This resulted in students who were unaware of the campus beauty pageant being passively exposed to related information and becoming aware of a website called Renren.com, which doesn't allow users to register accounts casually.

The number of registered users has skyrocketed!

While voting, they also explored other features and discovered that in addition to uploading photos and logs, they could also create and join various groups.

Someone was writing a blog post on the log page when they suddenly received an in-site message notification. It was a group leader inviting them to join a group.

Some people were browsing their school's group list and, while scrolling through, discovered groups like "Postgraduate Entrance Exam Preparation Group," "Lakeside Reading Club," and "Three Kingdoms Kill Card Players," and were immediately overjoyed to apply to join those that interested them.

Chen Guiliang received many group invitations, such as "Class of 04 Yuanpei Class" and "Ancient Poetry and Lyrics Enthusiasts Association".

……

At night, Chen Guiliang rode his bicycle back to the dormitory and found that his senior, Min, and Jiang Junlai were already there.

They were huddled in front of the computer, craning their necks and staring intently at the screen.

“You guys are back pretty early today,” Chen Guiliang said. “Watching porn?”

You're the one who watches porn!

Jiang Junlai, unwilling to bear the stigma, explained, "We were looking at the school beauty and the department beauty."

Chen Guiliang was very pleased.

This activity was indeed attractive, as it actually made two hardworking roommates shorten their study time and run back to the dormitory early.

Min Wenyu said, "The quality of the beauties in the School of Journalism and Communication is so high. Not to mention Liu Xuan, who ranked first, and Li Shishi, who ranked second, even Tang Menglan, who ranked third, could be the most beautiful girl in any other department."

"I think Li Shishi is prettier than Liu Xuan; she looks especially pure and innocent," Jiang Junlai said.

"Liu Xuan is much prettier."

"Li Shishi is more beautiful!"

Are you blind?

"What's it to you who I like!"

"..."

The two commoner emperors argued over the selection of a cyber emperor's concubine, marking the first time they had ever had a serious disagreement.

Chen Guiliang was dozing off in bed, and the arguing noise served as a lullaby to help him fall asleep.

Jiang Junlai suddenly stood up: "Chen Guiliang, you be the judge, who is prettier?"

Chen Guiliang recited a poem: "Ah, the most beautiful woman in the world is... the mother of each and every one of us!"

"Depend on!"

Jiang Junlai was too lazy to pay him any more attention.

While admiring the photos of the concubines, Min Wenyu said in an envious tone, "Chen Guiliang, you are very famous now."

"Isn't that obvious?" Jiang Junlai was angry and deliberately argued with Senior Brother Min.

Min Wenyu said, "Tonight I had a class at Guanghua College, and a few girls asked me about you. The girls at Guanghua College are usually so proud and arrogant; this is the first time I've seen them take the initiative to ask about boys from other departments."

Jiang Junlai was proud: "This proves that the boys in our Yuanpei Class are awesome!"

"Wow, you really haven't heard that rhyme?" Min Wenyu asked.

Jiang Junlai asked, puzzled, "What rhyme?"

Min Wenyu sighed, "I won't marry a Guanghua woman, nor a Yuanpei man. The first part is because we can't afford to marry a Guanghua woman. They're always going abroad and earning high salaries; most men simply can't handle them. As for the second part, well, it's because they look down on us."

Jiang Junlai said unhappily, "Why should we be the ones to do this? There are over 100 people in our class, including 10 provincial champions, a bunch of city champions, and so many first-prize winners in academic competitions!"

Chen Guiliang reminded him: "You forgot to mention the first prize in the New Concept Writing Competition."

“Yes, and there’s also someone who writes an essay,” Jiang Junlai said.

“A true hero doesn’t dwell on past glories, so don’t bring up things from before college,” Min Wenyu said. “Anyway, the boys in the Yuanpei Class used to be looked down upon by girls from other departments. Chen Guiliang can probably break that curse and let us benefit from it too. Putting aside everything else, at least it’ll be easier to find girlfriends!”

Chen Guiliang thought to himself: I've become the hope of the whole village again?

Min Wenyu said, "This campus beauty pageant has really boosted the school's reputation. Students from Guanghua College are very sensitive to these kinds of things, and I expect some of them will actively seek employment. You should keep an eye on them; those students are quite shrewd."

Chen Guiliang said, "I welcome anyone who comes. In my lousy company, even Zhuge Liang would have to do odd jobs first."

The odd-job guy called.

"Hey, Senior Sister Ao."

"Tsinghua University users saw Peking University's 'Campus Belle' pageant and want to do the same; they've already started voting. Should we help promote it on the homepage?"

"Let's promote it, that's a good thing."

The fact that Tsinghua and Peking Universities have launched campus beauty pageants one after another is bound to attract the attention of many media outlets.

Ten years later, this thing will be outdated, and any Tom, Dick, or Harry will dare to call themselves the school beauty.

But it was very new in 2004.

In the past, school beauty pageants were usually just a few guys chatting and bragging about it in their dorm rooms. I've never seen anyone hold a public, high-profile vote for one.

This is the first time ever.

And this is the first time for both of these prestigious universities!
(End of this chapter)