With that thought in mind, President Pei called everyone out, and they brought all the competitors to the hall centre.
As for Rong Yue, she was still sleeping soundly and only when Wang Lei saw that they were being called for did he call her number.
Seeing the contact name, Qin Yichen could already guess that something was happening inside the hall.
Instead of answering the call, he gently tapped Rong Yue awake.
In his mind, he didn't really feel that the Art Association deserved him waking her up from her sleep.
But he also knew that Rong Yue was doing this because of her master. Since she respected her master so much, he couldn't allow her to miss out on anything that she considered important.
"I think the results have been finalised,"
Rong Yue was still sleepy and rubbed her eyes for a minute more before she became partially awake.
Her face was a little flushed, and she was every bit adorable with her lips in a small pout.
Unable to resist, Qin Yichen closed the gap between them and locked her in his embrace.
Rong Yue's reflexes were still slow, and by the time she tried to push, his lips had already covered her small red ones.
At first, she tried to struggle, but seeing that he was determined to have his way, she stopped resisting and let her body relax in his embrace.
Only when he saw that she was starting to struggle for air did Qin Yichen pull back.
"Hmm, you taste really sweet," Qin Yichen teased her with a shameless smile on his face.
"Humph!" Rong Yue turned her face away from him, but a sharp redness crept up from her neck to her face.
Her phone started to vibrate again, and Rong Yue saw Wang Lei's name.
"You said the results are ready?" It could be said that it was the kiss had woken her up as the other time, she had thought she was in a dream.
"Hmm, he called some moment ago. It must be that your attention is needed inside," Qin Yichen passed her a bottle of water that he had unscrewed before letting her leave the car.
Like Qin Yichen, she didn't bother to pick up the call and only increased her pace to enter the hall.
When she entered, everyone was already seated. Also, one or two reporters were now inside the hall, and she spotted Wang An standing and anxiously looking around.
The moment he saw her, his face lit up and he waved in her direction.
Rong Yue walked hastily and got to where they were. Just like she guessed, they had saved a seat for her.
"Sister, where did you go?" Wang An asked innocently. However, Wang Lei's hands trembled slightly as he remembered Qin Yichen pulling Rong Yue into his embrace.
From how intense the doting expression on his face was, he could already imagine the kind of relationship they shared.
"A close friend of mine came around, and I used the opportunity to sleep in his car."
To Wang Lei, she was denying her relationship with Qin Yichen, but to Rong Yue, even though that was how things were, she had already decided not to say they were in a relationship until he asked her properly.
"Fellow art enthusiasts, we have gone through the work from the younger generation and we have only one word..." the host paused, creating suspense first before continuing.
His expression was completely complacent.
"For the third best-ranked work, we have exhibit 13!"
On hearing this number, Ning Li glanced in the direction of Rong Yue, expecting the number to be hers.
However, instead of Rong Yue, a boy with a hoodie and glasses stepped forward to claim the artwork.
On seeing this, his mouth lifted up with a smirk.
"It seems like Junior sister had been extremely lucky the first time around."
"It's only a pity that because of her, Master Wang would lose face this time around." Ning Li said.
As for Luo Yanxi, he didn't think that it was that easy to conclude.
"There are still two positions left, you can't be too certain."
"Are you thinking that she is capable of beating me? This time around, I had really put my all into this painting, okay?"
"Hehe, we will see eventually."
After the third person identified his work and registered his real name, there were only two paintings left.
Not only were the people in the hall excited, even the people at the high table were very excited. .net
After all, the second and first works stood out really well. They all wanted to see the artist.
President Pei was also as curious.
Since he felt that the first work was done by his student, and he knew that Ning Li hadn't gotten to that level of skill yet, he had been waiting to see who it was that did this painting.
"For the second-ranked position, Exhibit 98!"
"What?" Du Yating yelled out uncontrollably.
He hadn't expected that his number would be called for the second position.
Instead of standing up, he checked his exhibit plate card one more time to be sure that it was his number.
"Ah, senior brother, you are the person?" Not only was Ning Li shocked, even the other two were shocked at the turn of events.
Ning Li, however, was the one that had fallen the hardest.
He knew what skill level his senior brother had, and he believed that if he was the second best, it was impossible for him to rank better than him.
This meant that this time, he had not made it into the top five!
"I guess there might be some mistake, but that is indeed my number." After consoling himself, Du Yating stood up.
On seeing his disciple stand up, President Pei was equally shocked.
"Yating, how come it's you?"