A Young Woman's Heart

The students and judges watching from below the stage couldn't help but laugh.

The judges looked at each other, gave him a score, then removed the highest and lowest scores and selected an average score.

There's no doubt that Gao Yuan has passed the preliminary round; the only question is what ranking he'll achieve in the final three days later.

There have been students who sang quite well before, and the preliminary rounds haven't ended yet, so it's still unknown whether there will be students who sing even better on stage.

"Come on, congratulations on passing! Let's go have lunch. The Mo sisters, Mo Xiaoxiao and Mo Zhuyou, are in charge of the stalls."

"Where are Xiaoxue and Duanmu Ji?"

"They just went to eat."

"Okay, okay, let's go get some food. I'm starving after singing a song."

"Come on, does singing really require that much energy?"

"You know what, singing is actually quite tiring."

"Tsk tsk," Zhou Yong said sourly, "If I could sing as well as you, I wouldn't have to worry about not having a girlfriend."

"Haha, practice on your own. How many people are born that way?"

"Oh no, I don't have that talent."

……

Chapter 196 Booths of Different Clubs

"Oh dear... I've been abandoned." Hua Yinyin lay on her stall, looking at Huang Yuxi, who was wearing a light yellow hoodie and black jeans. "They actually ran away, damn it! Only Xiaoxi is still with me. I've decided, I'll make you the vice president!"

Huang Yuxi gave an awkward laugh, looked up, and saw a robust young man with wheat-colored skin standing in front of the stall.

"!!" He was so startled that he suddenly sat up straight, then gave a very stiff smile.

"Well, do you need it? It's a really fun romance comic." Hua Yinyin muttered lazily. "Eh, Xiaoxi's brother, what brings you here?"

"I just finished delivering goods and was taking a break at noon. I happened to be near the school, so I came over to check it out," Huang Zhengyang said with a warm smile. "I thought it would take a long time to find you, but I found you right away."

"Why did you suddenly want to come in and take a look?"

"It's the school anniversary, so I came in to see how it's going. I didn't expect it to be so lively. There are quite a few elderly people who have nothing to do here." Huang Zhengyang turned to the side and pointed to several healthy elderly people who were standing in front of the stalls set up by the students with great interest.

"I see~" Hua Yinyin's lips curled up, as if she was looking forward to something interesting happening, and she turned to look at Huang Yuxi.

The latter had only just barely recovered from its stiff state.

"Is your club involved in drawing comics?" Huang Zhengyang placed his hand on the comics, causing Huang Yuxi to tremble slightly, like a startled little rabbit.

“It’s not just a comic book club, we have other things too.” Hua Yinyin pointed to the other items on the stall, “We also have novels and some small handicrafts related to comics.”

"Oh, not bad." Huang Zhengyang smiled and picked up a comic book. "Can I take a look?"

"Ugh!" Huang Yuxi hurriedly grabbed his hand, shaking her head excitedly.

"Well, of course you can, look at whatever you want," Hua Yinyin said with a mischievous smile. "The comics and novels in our club are all stories about homosexual love."

"Same-sex...relationship?" Huang Zhengyang looked at the comic book in his hand and pointed at the 'girl' sitting on the young man's lap. "Uh, is the one sitting on him a boy?"

"That's right."

Huang Yuxi couldn't help but cover her face, as if she had been caught red-handed by the police for selling junk.

"Uh...he looks a bit like Xiaoxi."

"His drawing served as a reference."

"You drew this?"

"Yes~"

"Oh..." Huang Zhengyang scratched his cheek awkwardly, but still curiously unfolded the comic.

The versions sold are all without the bad visuals, but the plot is still quite ambiguous.

It's quite impactful for someone seeing this kind of thing for the first time.

Although the boy in the picture looks a lot like a girl, it still feels strange to see him being held in another man's arms.

Upon closer inspection, both of them have a penis.

Huang Zhengyang grew up in the countryside and had never seen anything so 'modern' before. He couldn't imagine how these two men could do such 'fairy-like' things in bed.

"How is it? Does it look good?"

"It's...it's alright. Why do you insist on saying he's a man? He's clearly drawn like a girl."

"Oh~" Hua Yinyin immediately pulled out another comic book, "You want to read that kind, right? How about this one?"

The cover of this comic features two handsome young men embracing.

Huang Zhengyang licked his dry lips, feeling that he could still accept the previous book more.

Indeed, the Chinese are always inclined to compromise.

What Mr. Lu Xun said is still true decades later.

"Ahem, Xiao Xi?" Huang Zhengyang looked at Huang Yuxi with a strange expression, only to see the latter bury her head in Hua Yinyin's arms and hold up a whiteboard with writing on it for him to see.

"I don't like stories about boys dating boys at all!" Then, he put the whiteboard away, erased the words, and wrote in a swift motion, "I like stories about girls dating girls!"

"Ah, there are these?" Huang Zhengyang's spirits lifted, and for some reason, his mood improved considerably. "Can I take a look?"

“Yes, yes.” Hua Yinyin immediately pulled out a book from the pile of books. “Take a look at this one, the story of Qing Shui Bai He.”

"Oh...hiss, oh—!" Huang Zhengyang, who had been frowning just moments before, flipped through several pages in one go, seemingly unable to stop. "This one is good, girls with girls is nice too, I like this kind of thing."

"Okay, do you want to buy it? If you don't, you can't see it anymore. If you want to buy it, pay up. It's five yuan a book."

“Uh…” Huang Zhengyang looked at Huang Yuxi, “Okay, I’ll just support you. Do you have any similar ones? I’ll just buy two to make it ten yuan.”

"Of course." Hua Yinyin skillfully took out another book, then put it in a small paper bag, and also gave her a bookmark made of cardstock by their club.

Huang Zhengyang handed over a ten-yuan bill, then bent down and patted Huang Yuxi, who was nestled in Hua Yinyin's arms: "Haha, Xiaoxi, don't be shy. It's normal for men to have this kind of hobby. If the main character wasn't me, it would probably be more pleasing to the eye to see two girls together."

"Hmm."

Huang Yuxi looked embarrassed, but it wasn't because of that.

Rather, it's because... what he actually likes are stories about boys dating each other.

But at this moment, all we can do is play dumb.

Hua Yinyin, unusually, didn't play any pranks and told the truth; otherwise, the two brothers wouldn't know how to face each other.

Liking a story like this is one thing, liking it in real life is another.

Just like Lord Ye's love of dragons, these things need to be separated.

"Okay, I have to deliver goods this afternoon, so I'll be going now." Huang Zhengyang waved his hand. "Xiao Xi, I'll pick you up after school."

"Hmm." Huang Yuxi wrote a few words on the whiteboard, held it up, and said, "Be careful on the road."

"It feels like a wife seeing her husband off..." Hua Yinyin sighed softly.

Huang Zhengyang scratched his cheek awkwardly and turned to leave.

Huang Yuxi finally breathed a sigh of relief, sat down in the chair, put her bent legs together, and gently rocked them.

"Hehe, maybe your brother will like it in the future?" Hua Yinyin said with a mischievous smile.

Huang Yuxi stared blankly for a few seconds, seemingly imagining what it would be like if such a thing really happened.

Then, her face flushed red as she looked at her toes.

……

"I specialize in tarot card readings. If you want to do other readings, you'll have to wait until everyone else has finished eating and comes back," Wang Jiale said to an ordinary-looking girl sitting in front of his club's booth.

"Can I have my fortune told to see when I'll find a boyfriend?"

"Of course you can. If you believe in divination enough, it will be accurate." Wang Jiale pretended to be a charlatan. "As the saying goes, if you believe, it exists; if you don't believe, it doesn't."

"Okay, let's give it a try."

"One yuan per time." Wang Jiale didn't forget to charge the fee. After collecting the money, he took out a stack of tarot cards, shuffled them skillfully, and placed them on the table. "Okay, now, you need to silently think about what you want to divine, and then randomly draw four cards from the deck."

"it is good……"

After the girl closed her eyes and silently recited for a while, she slowly drew out four tarot cards.

"The first picture represents yourself, the second is the person you like, the third is your current relationship, and the fourth is your future. In other words, fate has already decided who your boyfriend will be, but that time just hasn't come yet..."

"Then, can I find him earlier?"

“Of course you can! Fate can be changed!” Wang Jiale turned over the cards one by one. “The first card is yourself, an upright Wand. This… well, it means you will have good luck recently. You can try to find your soulmate.”

"That's great!" the plain-looking girl said, sounding slightly excited.

"The second card is your partner... uh... the reversed sword. He's having a bad time right now, and he might need you to save him."

"The third card, Temperance, upright, indicates that your relationship is currently good, but you are maintaining a normal friendship without taking it any further, because you are worried that you might lose even the friendship."

"The fourth one is... an empress reversed, which means he may have just broken up with his girlfriend. Maybe you can take advantage of that."

"Wow! That's so accurate!" The girl looked at Wang Jiale in surprise. "It really seems to be true!"

Wang Jiale was startled, then chuckled and pinched the end of her hair: "Well, it must be because you're willing to believe it that it's accurate."

"Thank you, I know what to do now."

"It's okay." Wang Jiale waved his hand and watched the girl leave.

It feels pretty good to give people the impression of having a fortune told, especially when the fortune is 'accurate'.

Although she knew it was mostly a coincidence, or perhaps she was deliberately interpreting it that way, it still gave her a witch-like experience.

For Wang Jiale, this feeling was truly captivating.

……

"Oh my, isn't this the art club's booth?" A boy from another class stopped in front of the art club. "Holy crap, what is this? Is this art too?"