"Buzz—"
At eight in the evening, Gu Yu had just finished washing up and was about to open his computer to watch a movie.
His phone on the table suddenly vibrated.
He thought it was a message from Lin Xinyue, but when he picked it up, it was a message from the college group chat.
"Damn! The voting has started!"
Before he could even open it, Qin Shan, who was already in bed playing with his phone, suddenly sat up and shouted. Sёarᴄh the Novёlƒire.n(e)t website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.
Gu Yu, puzzled, opened the group chat and saw that it was a voting link for the campus popularity contest initiated by the dean.
(Dean) Li Qian: @All members: As decided by the Student Affairs Office, the campus popularity contest has come to a successful end. Please vote for the contestants to decide the winner. [Voting Link]
(Student Affairs Office) Han Wei: The prizes for this contest are: a Certificate of Excellence for campus promotion, 8888 yuan in scholarship funds, and a spot as the 2020 Haidong University image ambassador. Please carefully choose the contestant you think fits the criteria!
...
Gu Yu clicked on the link and saw that the voting interface was divided into male and female groups, each with fourteen participants, but Shu Yinyin and Bi Jian were conspicuously absent.
It seems the school had already found out about their misdeeds and kicked them out of this contest.
Thinking about it was actually quite amusing; Shu Yinyin and Bi Jian had started competing in this contest to fight over the image ambassador spot with him, and now they didn't even qualify for the evaluation!
It really proved the saying "Heaven's misdeeds may be forgiving, but human misdeeds are deadly!"
Gu Yu guessed that Shu Yinyin must have already been taken away by Officer Xiao Hu, right?
While thinking this, he cast a vote for himself and his girlfriend, Lin Xinyue.
"Whoa whoa whoa! Get up, get up!"
All of a sudden, Qin Shan, like a monkey, swung down from the bed. He swiftly put on a jacket, slipped into his perpetually unwashed flip-flops, and dragged Boss Pu and Yu Laoer out of the dormitory.
"It's so late, where are you guys going?"
Gu Yu looked at the three of them, puzzled.
Boss Pu grinned and waved his phone at him.
"We're going to canvass votes for you! Let's go, let's go!"
"Let's go, let's go!"
As soon as the words were out, the three jostled and ran out.
Gu Yu smirked. Although their actions weren't really necessary, he was genuinely touched.
He used his jacket to cover his hands as he walked to the dorm room door, watching them knock on each dorm room door to canvass votes for him.
"Wang! Wang, vote now! Two votes for a bucket of instant noodles!"
Yu Shutong knocked on the door of the neighboring dorm room. Wang, who was wearing headphones, looked at him with a chuckle, then pulled out his phone to show him his voting results.
"Already voted! Of course, I voted for Yu and the school beauty!"
Saying so, he turned back to his dorm and shouted:
"Guys who haven't voted yet, hurry up! Make sure to vote for Yu and his school beauty girlfriend!"
With that maneuver, all four votes from Wang's dorm room were secured.
Yu Shutong then knocked on another dorm room door.
After making the rounds, they had run through the entire floor.
The three realized that trading instant noodles for votes was genuinely unnecessary, as everyone they asked had basically voted for Gu Yu and Lin Xinyue.
After all, their performance the day before had completely won over the entire school.
The votes were truly well-deserved, no need to even think about it.
"Sheesh, I thought pulling votes for Laosi would involve a huge loss! Turns out only three boxes of instant noodles were given away."
Arm in arm, the three walked back, and when they saw Gu Yu standing at the doorway, they quickly pulled him back into the dormitory.
"Oh, my dear Gu, you better sit tight and don't run around! If you catch a cold, we three would really be guilty~"
Qin Shan jokingly mimicked Lin Daiyu's tone from Dream of the Red Chamber to tease Gu Yu.
Gu Yu couldn't help but roll his eyes at him.
He sincerely said, "Okay, okay, thanks, bros."
"Ay, wow~ Laosi, with that statement, you really treat us like outsiders when watching movies with the curtains drawn~"
Yu Laoer also copied Qin Shan's tone, imitating him so perfectly it was as if Daiyu was split in two.
"Go on, go play," Gu Yu replied, rolling his eyes again as he nudged the three away with his foot.
The three dodged with laughter.
Gu Yu continued to check his phone messages.
Students in the college group who had voted were engaged in a heated discussion about the candidates.
The most discussed, indeed, were him and why Shu Yinyin and Bi Jian weren't on the blocked list.
After all, despite their questionable character, they were still public figures in the school.
Some in the group were definitely their fans, and the others were just onlookers enjoying the spectacle.
"Why aren't Shu Yinyin and Bi Jian on the list?"
"Right, didn't the school accidentally overlook them?"
"Yeah, I want to vote for our Yinyin but can't!"
"Strongly suggest that the voting system restarts!"
"Could it be rigged? Did the school already decide on Gu Yu and Lin Xinyue, purposely leaving out Shu Yinyin and Bi Jian?"
The discussion in the group was initially harmonious, but someone mentioned rigging, which immediately caused an uproar.
"Ah right, right, right! Laughed, laughed my ass off!"
"Some people actually think our GL duo needs to rig, what kind of thought process is that?"
"No way! No way!? Shu Yinyin and Bi Jian actually have delusional fans?"
"..."
Suddenly, tempers flared within the group, and students from both factions started attacking each other.
The messages were refreshing at lightning speed, ten per second wouldn't be an exaggeration.
Shu Yinyin's supporters in the Software College were already few, and now that they had shown themselves, they were immediately overwhelmed by the indignant majority.
Even the Dean, Li Qian, sent several messages urging everyone to calm down, but these were quickly buried under the flurry of new messages.
Seeing things heading in this direction, they had no choice but to close the group and impose a ban on speaking.
Suddenly, a message like a stabilizing anchor was thrust into the tumultuous wave of messages.
(Software College Class 1) Gu Yu: "I'm delighted to have everyone's support, regardless of the outcome of the competition, I hope everyone can live in harmony and communicate kindly. /heart"
The group suddenly cleared, and nobody expected Gu Yu to be watching.
At that moment, a student suddenly sent a message.
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(Computer Application Class 3) Hu Neng: "Who the hell are you?"
[(Computer Application Class 3) Hu Neng was muted by the admin for 1 hour!]
"Dying of laughter..."
"Big name Hu Neng made a scene!"
"You sure did a number!"
"Gu Yu is right, let's not fight anymore, even the main character himself hasn't mentioned it!"
"..."
With a student muted, the group's messages suddenly became harmonious.
Everyone then realized this was an official college group, not a place to run wild.
Gu Yu watched the screen silently, just after Counselor Teacher Zhou had urgently contacted him to speak up and control the situation.
As soon as he spoke, someone got made an example of.
The pace of the chat in the group slowed down, and Han Wei, the teacher responsible for the competition, finally got a chance to speak normally.
(Student Affairs Office) Han Wei: "Dear students, please calm down, I am here to answer your inquiries."
(Student Affairs Office) Han Wei: "Because Shu Yinyin and Bi Jian used extremely unethical competitive practices in this competition, after unanimous discussion among us, the teachers in charge, it was decided to disqualify them."
Mr. Han finished speaking and said no more, and the group fell into intense debate again.
Those who had been defending Shu Yinyin and Bi Jian were now silent, and though others seemed to restrain themselves, their words still carried traces of mocking and derision.
"Support Shu and Bi ("
"The person above didn't finish deleting the bracket, that's a fine."
"Bro, take me along in making money!"
"..."
"Take me along +10010"
The atmosphere in the college group lightened again, and it wasn't long before people started posting videos of last night's celebration highlights.
Gu Yu briefly looked at the videos and noticed that most were leaked from a LiBiLiBi UP owner named Xiao Chuan Talks to Amateurs.
They were mainly Shu Yinyin's bizarre dance spoofs and his singing compilation.
He didn't pay much attention and directly exited the chat.