Surrounded by the Billionaire's Deep Doting-Chapter 577 - 450: Two Wasted Slots

As they say, some are happy and some are sad.

After the misunderstanding between Su Xiaomeng and Yin Shixiu was resolved, the couple cherished each other even more and were very much in love.

However, the issue between Eric and Qin Hui caused by Chu Jiao didn’t end so well.

Privately, Xiao Meng also tried to contact Qin Hui, but there was no response, even when she went to school, she didn’t have the chance to bump into him.

When the two met again, it was after quite some days.

It wasn’t by accident; Qin Hui approached her proactively, acting as if nothing had happened, inviting her for lunch.

They went to the cafeteria together, and Xiao Meng intentionally chose a quieter corner.

Qin Hui still appeared carefree and was very warm with Xiao Meng, as if he wasn’t affected by the breakup at all.

"I haven’t seen you these days. Weren’t you at school? I called and texted you, but no reply. You’re not on Twitter or Weibo either."

"I went traveling! I went to Venice! Hehe, I’ll show you the photos I took later!"

"..."

Xiao Meng was momentarily stunned.

"I broke up, you know that. I had to go out to clear my mind!"

Qin Hui spoke as if it was obvious, looking full of energy, easing some of Xiao Meng’s worries.

Maybe she was overthinking it; a breakup isn’t such a big deal after all.

Moreover, Qin Hui and Eric hadn’t been together for long, so while it was impossible for Qin Hui not to feel sad, traveling to clear one’s mind helps to adjust one’s mindset.

"It’s good to see you’re okay, I was worried you might be too sad over the whole Eric thing."

"Compared to me, you should worry about yourself. Honestly, when Eric and I were together, I didn’t feel he was very sincere, after all... he’s been known for a long time as quite the player."

Qin Hui shrugged his shoulders, looking rather rational.

"With things developing to this point, it just proves he’s indeed a heartless playboy. I’m young and excellent, why fear not finding someone better than him in the future?"

Su Xiaomeng increasingly felt she worried about this little girl for nothing in recent days.

Qin Hui was much more open-minded and cheerful than she was.

"But I do feel a bit unreconciled and angry!"

Qin Hui said with an indignantly righteous look on his face,

"Cherry turned out to be that kind of woman, actually thinking of breaking up families! If your husband wasn’t so devoted to you, if he were like Eric, unable to maintain boundaries... oh my, such a good home would be torn apart by a viper woman like that."

Su Xiaomeng pursed her lips,

"I can only be thankful."

Qin Hui rested his face on his hands, looking at Su Xiaomeng with an envious gaze,

"That fireworks display at the London Eye, Mr. Yin arranged that, right?"

Su Xiaomeng’s face turned red, her eyes could not hide the sweet happiness, she nodded modestly.

"That’s wonderful, a man like that... is there a second one in this world?"

Xiao Meng hurriedly replied,

"There definitely is! In the future, you will also meet an especially wonderful man, trust me!"

Qin Hui nodded, "Yeah, I also think I will meet one."

Anyone can have such a beautiful expectation, but not everyone can realize such expectations in the end, Qin Hui knew clearly.

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After lunch, Xiao Meng received a call from Dick, asking her to go to the office.

After saying goodbye to Qin Hui, she went to Dick’s office.

Currently, there were ten classmates in the office.

Xiao Meng looked around the room and finally found an acquaintance, she quietly went over,

"David..."

"You’re here?"

"What’s this about?"

Shen Dawei shrugged, "I’m not sure either, Dick will probably explain later, it seems not everyone is here yet."

Su Xiaomeng responded and sat on the chair beside David. Looking around again, she spotted another acquaintance, the man standing in the most inconspicuous corner—Han Tan.

Xiao Meng’s eyes lit up, she exaggeratedly blinked, Han Tan sensed a gaze and looked up calmly meeting Su Xiaomeng’s eyes... really, extremely calm.

Xiao Meng felt it was pointless and quickly withdrew her gaze.

After her, two more students entered one after another.

Dick walked in behind those two students, he raised his eyes, glanced around the room, and Xiao Meng quickly sat up straight.

"I called you here for the interpretation competition jointly held by UK universities during the spring break."

"..."

"In previous years, each school only had five slots for the interpretation competition, but since last year, it increased to seven. Bath has always excelled in the interpretation competition, with our students consistently taking first place every year. Therefore, Bath has two more slots than other schools."

"..."

Su Xiaomeng felt somewhat lost listening, she naturally knew about the interpretation competition, as the walls of the Modern Language College displayed various competition certificates.

What made her feel lost was why she was here?

And for that matter, why was Shen Dawei here?

Well... it wasn’t that she looked down on Shen Dawei, she just thought neither of them were top ranked in their class, even when only comparing within Class D.

Was Dick senile?

Xiao Meng thought and looked at Dick with an incredulous face.

Coincidentally, Dick looked right back at her, his clear eyes devoid of warmth and humor,

"If you don’t want to participate, you can leave."

"..."

Su Xiaomeng hurriedly collected her incredulous expression, straightened her back, and shook her head,

"I-I’ll stay here."

Dick shifted his gaze and continued,

"There are a total of eleven people here, with nine from the international class for interpretation and simultaneous interpreting, and three from modern language studies."

"Here is the sign-up form, fill it out and hand it in to me, those who don’t want to participate, don’t take one, as there aren’t enough anyway."

"..."

Su Xiaomeng widened her eyes—

7+2=9 less than 11

There were suddenly two extra people here, leaving nine sign-up forms, what did Dick mean...

Xiao Meng hadn’t thoroughly figured out Dick’s intentions when the sign-up form was being passed one by one from Han Tan... 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Suddenly, Shen Dawei darted to the middle, quickly grabbed two forms, and handed one to Su Xiaomeng.

"..."

Xiao Meng blinked and looked at Shen Dawei.

Shen Dawei acted as if nothing happened. When looking at the two people standing next to him, he watched them see the form snatched right in front of them—

At this moment, they also looked bewildered.

"Teacher..."

The two students in the middle were from Class B.

"Those who didn’t get the forms can leave, tell your class tutor that you didn’t get one yourself."

"..."

Those two students walked out in confusion under Dick’s clear gaze.

Xiao Meng quickly clutched her chest, unable to resist giving Shen Dawei a thumbs up in private,

"You’re really smart."

Shen Dawei raised an eyebrow, also feeling his reaction was quick, but didn’t dare let the proud feeling last too long, given Dick was still watching them.

Dick merely said one sentence,

"This is competition."

The students left in the office could be said to have varied skill levels.

But all in their hearts had an admiration, Professor Dick’s way of handling things really was random and without any predictable pattern!

"Sue, David, you two are currently the weakest among these students."

"..."

"..."

Blunt and unyielding, yet hitting every corner, this was Dick’s speaking style.

"You won’t be able to go back during spring break, the competition is in mid-May. Submit your filled forms to me, then you can leave."

The forms were handed over one by one, and no one asked more questions. They preferred to bother their class tutor later rather than engage with Dick for anything else.

Xiao Meng handed in her form but didn’t leave, David also stayed behind.

Dick looked up at them,

"Not leaving?"

"Teacher, did you see my potential?"

Su Xiaomeng showed hope.

Dick suddenly snorted... the snort chilled Xiao Meng’s heart, as it did Shen Dawei’s heart sharing the same idea, though he didn’t dare to speak out.

"I just can’t think of any other way to force you both to quickly improve your scores."

With that snort, Xiao Meng’s heart sank. Even Shen Dawei shared a clueless thought, but he wisely chose not to voice it out.

After closing the door, the two exchanged a glance and couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

"You really have potential."

"You’re no different! Haha!"

They were laughing heartily when suddenly, it dawned on Xiao Meng—