Transmigrating Into A Sadistic Novel And Becoming A Master Of Painting Rosy Pictures - Chapter 120

“We graduated!”

The moment she received her diploma from the dean, touching the thin but weighty booklet, Ji Xiaoxue’s nose tingled, and she almost cried.

But looking at the sea of people below, under the watchful eyes of the crowd, she had to hold back her tears.

She couldn’t quite explain her feelings, didn’t know why she wanted to cry, but she couldn’t control the urge.

Sixteen or seventeen years of studying, occupying the best years of her life, she had gone from ignorant to now having to stand on her own two feet. Looking back, she only felt that time had flown by.

Just as she sat back down with her diploma, she heard the teacher on stage say with a warm smile:

“Next, let’s give a round of applause to this year’s outstanding finance graduate and member of the National Dance Team, Shang Qinghui, who will come to the stage and share some graduation thoughts with us!”

Ji Xiaoxue placed her diploma and other items on her lap, freeing her hands to applaud with everyone else.

She turned her head to look for Shang Qinghui.

She saw a girl wearing an academic cap and gown, like many others around her, stand up. Her back was straight, her curly hair cascaded over her shoulders, and she walked onto the stage with a measured pace, as if she had a spotlight on her.

“That’s Shang Qinghui.”

“So amazing.”

“She’s very cute.”

“Cute? It’s all a facade… I heard she’s actually quite mean.”

People around her were whispering, but Ji Xiaoxue didn’t look around, only focusing on the person on stage.

She saw her adjust the microphone, and without any notes, she simply introduced herself and began to speak.

She spoke freely, as if saying whatever came to mind, like chatting with family, but it made the people around her quiet down and listen to her share some of her experiences and thoughts on life.

“…After graduation, we will definitely face many problems, and we will feel lost and directionless. What I want to say is that life is only a few decades long, so we might as well be bolder, even bolder.

Perhaps, we are braver and more powerful than we think…”

Listening, Ji Xiaoxue unconsciously started to drift off while looking at Shang Qinghui on stage.

Some long-sealed memories, at some point, secretly and unrestrainedly emerge.

It felt as though her memories had been altered, certain things now resurfacing

When she first came to this University, who hadn’t heard some gossip about Shang Qinghui? At that time, she also thought she was a… not kind enough girl.

She suddenly remembered the scene when she first met Shang Qinghui.

It was a hot summer, and she met a gentle person and a confident, arrogant, and flamboyant Shang Qinghui.

It was also the first time she came to this city, and it was then that she met Bian Yingning.

She just didn’t expect that, at that moment, the two people with completely different personalities but connected to this city and this school would eventually be together.

She and Shang Qinghui were in the same class, so she saw her more often.

She was the center of attention, like a star surrounded by moons.

Who wouldn’t I envy her?

She didn’t deny it.

She had secretly stared at her in a corner, lost in thought.

She possessed everything I never dared to imagine: a privileged family, a smart brain, a perfect face… and her personality.

It was the confident flamboyance that I couldn’t achieve.

She admitted that she was inferior.

She was just a dim little star, squeezed among many stars, envying the light of the moon.

The moon had once told her, when she was harboring all sorts of fantasies, “If you can’t change your background, change yourself.”

Many people said that Shang Qinghui was bad, and later she understood that that kind of bad was the conclusion they reached because they couldn’t accept her light.

Envy to the extreme was perhaps jealousy.

She saw things too clearly, and she spoke too bluntly.

Ji Xiaoxue thought, it’s no wonder Bian Yingning likes her.

She took a deep breath. Graduation was behind her, and an uncertain future stretched ahead.

Ji Xiaoxue knew that it hadn’t been easy for her to get here, but when she looked back, she realized that she had actually forgotten a lot of the hardships she had faced along the way. Her focus was more on the future.

She and them were never on the same path from beginning to end.

Suddenly, thunderous applause brought Ji Xiaoxue back to her senses.

She looked up, and Shang Qinghui had finished speaking and was walking down the stage.

She heard the teacher say again, “Thank you, Shang Qinghui, for your wonderful speech. Next, let’s invite Ji Xiaoxue, a student from Finance Class One who has already received an offer from DBD Trust Investment Company, to share her success story with us!”

Success story? Where could I be considered successful?

My life had only just begun.

Ji Xiaoxue stood up, clutching her hands, and as she walked onto the stage, she mentally reviewed her speech, hoping that she could have a fraction of Shang Qinghui’s composure and calmness when she spoke.

Just as Shang Qinghui was coming down, the two brushed past each other, and she heard the other person say, “Pretty impressive.”

The string that had been taut in her heart suddenly loosened.

“Thank you,” Ji Xiaoxue said in her heart.

The tutor the classmate introduced to her, the classmate who originally said she would be responsible for more of the work but suddenly took on the bulk of the task the next day, the part-time job at E-Home, the final vote in the scholarship competition…

Perhaps I had always known that Shang Qinghui had secretly done something, but I didn’t want to admit it.

It was just self-deception.

After the graduation ceremony, everyone gathered in groups of three or five to take pictures.

Ji Xiaoxue quickly left the auditorium with her diploma.

Not far away under a tree, her mother and younger brother, who was already taller than her, were standing there, waiting for her.

She smiled and walked over, reaching up on tiptoe to touch her brother’s head, “Have you been waiting long? Should we go get something to eat first?”

Her brother suddenly took out a bouquet of sunflowers from behind him and handed it to her, “Happy graduation, Sister.”

The sunflowers were full of life, and the golden color was full of the power of life.

Ji Xiaoxue was stunned, and the tears that she had been holding back for a long time could no longer be suppressed.

“…You, you actually, actually bought flowers.”

Ji Xiaoxue frantically wiped away her tears and took the flowers, holding them in her arms like a treasure.

Her brother, who had successfully undergone a bone marrow transplant and had just finished the middle school entrance exam after taking a year off from school, scratched his head and took out a box, and her mother handed her a gift bag.

“Actually, we didn’t buy these flowers. These are our graduation gifts to you.”

Her brother gave her a watch, and her mother bought her a lipstick.

“These flowers were given to me by a sister when we came in just now. She said they were for the graduates.”

“Hey, that’s the sister, that’s the sister.”

Ji Xiaoxue looked in the direction they were pointing.

Not far away on the side of the road, the sunlight was bright, and under the green trees, Bian Yingning, wearing a long blue-purple dress with layers of tulle, was leaning against a pink convertible Porsche, waiting for someone.

She recognized it as Shang Qinghui’s car.

Before she could look any longer, a woman wearing a white dress and a beige blazer suddenly appeared in front of her, occupying all of her vision.

Her smooth long hair was tied up behind her head, and the pearl earrings on her ears were clearly so gentle, but her face was slightly cold.

Ji Xiaoxue’s eyes unconsciously fell on her.

A noble and somewhat unsmiling sister.

This label slowly appeared in Ji Xiaoxue’s heart.

She was also looking at her, her light-colored pupils like amber, drawing her to look again and again.

The woman spoke softly, her voice clear and cool, reminding Ji Xiaoxue of the mountain streams where ice and snow melt when all things recover.

“Hello, excuse me, do you know how to get to Classroom 3?”

Ji Xiaoxue stared at her blankly.

Later, her brother nudged her shoulder, and Ji Xiaoxue came back to her senses, “Ah? What?”

“How do I get to Classroom 3?”

The woman repeated patiently.

“Oh, Classroom 3… go straight this way and you’ll see…”

Even after the woman left with a black umbrella with a silver lining, Ji Xiaoxue was still staring at her back.

Her dress was just below her knees, and the silver high heels on her feet made her ankles look slender and delicate.

A very elegant sister.

Ji Xiaoxue silently added a note.

Later, when she went to report to the company, she followed someone from the human resources department and was taken to an office.

She pushed the door open, and the person sitting behind the desk looked up, her light-colored pupils hidden behind gold-rimmed glasses, like a calm pool of water, but stirring up a storm in her heart.

The person from the human resources department said to her, “Minister Wen, this is Xiaoxue. I’ll leave her in your care.”

Ji Xiaoxue was so nervous that her body was trembling, and she clasped her hands in front of her, bowing deeply, “Hello, Minister Wen! My name is Ji Xiaoxue, and I look forward to working with you!”

When she straightened up, she saw that the person was holding a cup of coffee on the table, and her slender and fair hand was gently holding the edge of the cup.

She took a sip and said softly in a voice that she couldn’t get enough of, “Hello.”

This was the beginning of the story.

Five years later, Ji Xiaoxue solemnly sent a bank card and a thank you note, and then threw herself into the arms of the person sitting on the sofa reading a financial book in a foreign language, crying and saying, “I’m poor again.”

The person put an arm around her, and a gentle kiss fell on her forehead, and her clear voice was calm, “Give me a dollar, and I’ll give you three zeros back tomorrow.”

This was the end of the story.

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Ji Xiaoxue would never know that her life had taken a turn for the better at a certain moment and embarked on a path full of flowers.