The film and television city starts from the courtyard

Gu Senxiang stood at the school gate, looking around curiously, with her parents and Gu Senxi beside her.

Although she was still in a familiar city, everything here was unfamiliar to her. Starting today, she would begin living at school, facing an unfamiliar environment and unfamiliar classmates all by herself.

Of course, Gu Senxiang also had a little hope in her heart, that is, her boyfriend was in the same school as her, so that she would have someone she knew and wouldn't be completely in an unfamiliar environment.

But after her parents helped her complete the enrollment procedures and made her bed, Gu Senxiang could only sit alone and process the emotions of parting from her parents as she watched them leave.

Zhao Shucheng also arrived at the school to register. Unlike Gu Senxiang, he wasn't sentimental, having been to university alone before. Although he had asked his parents to accompany him to school out of concern, he sent them home after completing the registration process.

Knowing that this was the first time Gu Senxiang had been away from her parents for such a long time, Zhao Shucheng quickly called Gu Senxiang after settling her in, inviting her to have dinner together and stroll around the campus.

Gu Senxiang hesitated for a moment, glanced at the classmates who hadn't all arrived in the dormitory, and said, "Qi Ming, not all my roommates are here yet. I'm supposed to get along well with my classmates, so maybe I should wait a bit?"

Zhao Shucheng said with a smile, "No need. There are two or three days for new students to register. You can't wait until all your classmates arrive before eating. Let's eat at the school cafeteria first today to get familiar with the environment. You can have a group meal after your dorm is full."

Gu Senxiang hesitated for a moment, then told her roommates before arriving at the dormitory building, where she saw Zhao Shucheng already waiting there.

"Qi Ming!"

Zhao Shucheng smiled and waved. After Gu Senxiang arrived, he took her hand and said, "Let's go. I checked beforehand; there are three school cafeterias. Let's go to the first cafeteria first and see how the food is. We'll be eating at the school cafeterias for the next while, so we need to find the best one."

Looking at Zhao Shucheng holding her hand, Gu Senxiang said shyly, "Everyone else is watching!"

"Let them look. We're in a perfectly legitimate relationship. It's not like high school anymore, where dating isn't allowed. Dating in college is normal. As long as it doesn't affect your studies or other people, nobody will interfere."

Gu Senxiang knew this was the case, but she was still a little embarrassed, so she kept her head down and followed Zhao Shucheng's footsteps the whole time.

As the two walked along the tree-lined path on campus, Zhao Shucheng was about to lead Gu Senxiang through a side path when he saw a girl standing on the library stairs not far away, gazing longingly at a couple in the distance.

Zhao Shucheng recognized the girl on the stairs at a glance. She looked very familiar, and she even looked a lot like Lin Na, whom he had a relationship with in "Where the Wind Blows".

This surprised Zhao Shucheng somewhat, since his own world was a place where sadness flowed backwards, and he shouldn't have any memory of the other person playing a role.

Just then, they heard the girl from the couple in the distance call out, "Huainan, only you know what I like. Come on, let's go to your dorm and take a look."

Seeing Zhao Shucheng stop, Gu Senxiang asked curiously, "Qi Ming, what are you looking at?"

Zhao Shucheng said, "It's a story about a girl who has a crush on a guy, but unexpectedly finds out that the guy she likes already has a girlfriend."

"Where? Where?"

Gu Senxiang looked around curiously; nothing seemed to match what Zhao Shucheng had described.

Zhao Shucheng pointed in the direction of the girl and said, "That girl should be a freshman like us, who just registered and was about to confess to the boy she had a crush on in high school, but she found that she was a step too late."

As he spoke, Zhao Shucheng pointed to the couple who were leaving and said, "Look, that's the boy she has a crush on, but it seems he already has a girlfriend, and they should have been together since high school, so her crush can only remain a crush for now."

Then they heard a girl say from afar, "Look at you, you have no choice but to move into the school dormitory instead of living in your own house. So I'm really curious to see what's so attractive about your boys' dormitory that draws you in."

"I finally got to leave home and live here, so I definitely want to experience university life properly. Living in a dormitory is what makes it fun. So I need to help you choose your roommates and see what kind of people they are, so you don't get led astray."

When the girl saw them about to walk over, she quickly moved aside, but unexpectedly she saw Zhao Shucheng and Gu Senxiang watching the show, and they looked at each other awkwardly.

Originally, Luo Zhi might have had the courage to pursue the boy and confess her feelings, but once her actions were seen by others, that courage vanished instantly.

Zhao Shucheng broke the silence first, smiling and saying, "Hello, classmate. You're a freshman too, right? We're also freshmen. My name is Qi Ming, and this is my high school classmate and girlfriend, Gu Senxiang."

Gu Senxiang extended her hand and said, "Gu Senxiang, hello, we didn't mean to be watching the show."

Luo Zhi smiled and said, "It's okay, my name is Luo Zhi. You can only meet the right person at the right time. Sometimes it's love at first sight, and sometimes it's gone in the blink of an eye."

Hearing Luo Zhi say this, Gu Senxiang smiled and said, "Actually, I don't think you need to be discouraged. After all, as long as they're not married yet, there's still a chance. Like Qi Ming and me, we only officially got together after the college entrance exam. Before that, we were classmates, but that was all."

Luo Zhi smiled after hearing this and said, "Yes, there's still a chance."

Zhao Shucheng was momentarily stunned after hearing Luo Zhi's self-introduction, as the name was all too familiar. The Zhenhua Trilogy—"The Best of Us," "My Huckleberry Friends," and "Unrequited Love"—are well-known campus romance stories, all adapted for the screen. The trilogy features three female leads: the academically challenged Geng Geng, the academically gifted Yu Zhouzhou, and the super-achiever Luo Zhi.

If you only thought Luo Zhi was a coincidence when you heard her name before, then with the addition of Huai Nan that the girl just called out, it's easy to tell that this is the protagonist Sheng Huai Nan and Luo Zhi.

However, Zhao Shucheng was curious why Sheng Huainan and Luo Zhi were both at the local university in Shanghai, which he had applied to. Shouldn't they have been studying in Beijing in the original story? Zhao Shucheng remembered that in the "Orange Born in Huainan" storyline, Luo Zhi had a fifteen-year unrequited love for Sheng Huainan after meeting him as a child. Although Luo Zhi suffered family misfortunes, she still studied hard. She reunited with Sheng Huainan, a transfer student, in high school, but they weren't familiar with each other. Later, they were admitted to the same university. By chance, they ended up together in Red Leaf Valley, which led to their meeting at the Oak Tree. Later, due to the intervention of Ye Zhanyan and Ding Shuijing, as well as conflicts between their two families, Luo Zhi and Sheng Huainan experienced various misunderstandings before finally starting a business together.

Zhao Shucheng naturally had nothing to say about this. He still admired Luo Zhi. Just to get closer to Sheng Huainan and give a speech under the same national flag, she maintained her top score in humanities throughout, and even wrote her essay as a love letter. People with such resilience and perseverance will succeed no matter what they do.

If Yi Yao could have such perseverance and resilience, and worked hard to change her life, perhaps her life would be completely different, and she wouldn't have gone down the wrong path because of a little setback.

Perhaps because they were both top students, or perhaps because they were both beautiful, Gu Senxiang and Luo Zhi hit it off immediately and quickly became close friends who could talk about anything. They even made plans to eat together in the cafeteria.

Luo Zhi glanced at Zhao Shucheng, who remained silent, and hesitated before saying, "Isn't this inappropriate? Won't it disturb your date?"

Gu Senxiang said, "Of course not, Qi Ming won't mind, right?"

What else could Zhao Shucheng say? He had pursued his girlfriend, so naturally he had to pamper her.

"Of course, I sincerely invite Luo Zhi to have lunch with us. Although Xiang Xiang has good grades, she doesn't have many friends. It's rare for her to be able to chat with you, so this meal is on me. I hope you can take care of Xiang Xiang in the future."

Upon hearing this, Gu Senxiang rolled her eyes at Zhao Shucheng and said, "What are you talking about? Luo Zhi and I are friends now. We can get along on our own. Don't interfere."

"I know, I know!"

Zhao Shucheng didn't really want to get involved in the girls' interactions, since they had a peculiar way of getting along, and if he interfered, he might become the target of criticism.

During the meal, Luo Zhi talked a lot with Gu Senxiang and learned the whole story of how Zhao Shucheng got together with her. If her feelings for Sheng Huainan stemmed from the friendship they shared playing together at a wedding in their childhood, then Gu Senxiang's feelings for Zhao Shucheng might have been based on initial mutual appreciation, or perhaps on Qi Ming's heroic rescue of her.

However, when he heard that Gu Senxiang was almost bullied by thugs, especially since it was at the behest of her classmates, he couldn't help but feel a little scared.

"Your school is so chaotic! How could something like this happen? Doesn't anyone care about school violence?"

“At first, no one cared, but after we called the police, the school did pay more attention to this matter. In a way, Yi Yao was unlucky. If she had encountered strict management from the school earlier, she might not have been influenced by the rumors and might not have done such crazy things later.”

Luo Zhi nodded, then suddenly asked curiously, "But speaking of which, why is Yi Yao targeting you?"

After hearing this, Gu Senxiang glanced at Zhao Shucheng and said, "What else could it be? It's obviously because of a handsome man. You don't know, Qi Ming was the school heartthrob in our high school. Countless girls liked him. However, most girls didn't dare to confess, but Yi Yao and he were childhood sweethearts. Perhaps she already considered him her own, so naturally she didn't want me to get close to him."

Luo Zhi asked curiously, "Then what about Tang Xiaomi? Why does she listen to Yi Yao? I remember you said that Yi Yao was isolated and spread rumors by Tang Xiaomi?"

Gu Senxiang shook her head and said, "I don't know the specifics, but Yi Yao and Tang Xiaomi went to find someone to teach me a lesson. It just so happened that Qi Ming was with me, so we escaped unharmed."

Seeing the two of them looking at him with curious eyes, Zhao Shucheng said helplessly, "What you want to know, I happen to know a little bit about. Tang Xiaomi has something on Yi Yao, so she has no choice but to do what Yi Yao says, hoping that Yi Yao can keep the secret."

"What leverage do you have over me?"

Gu Senxiang was also very curious, since after her accident, her family was worried and went in and out with Gu Senxi every day, so they couldn't find out any news.

"Tang Xiaomi transferred to our school not because it was close to home, but because she was bullied at No. 1 High School. She didn't want the school to know about the bullying, which is why Yi Yao was able to control Tang Xiaomi."

Luo Zhi and Gu Senxiang were both somewhat disappointed. Gu Senxiang even said, "Since Tang Xiaomi is a victim of school bullying, why did she target Yi Yao and become a perpetrator?"

"This is perhaps a common human flaw: bullying the weak and fearing the strong. Since Tang Xiaomi has been caught in the rain, she naturally wants to tear up other people's umbrellas too. She doesn't want to be the weakest one, while Yi Yao is the easiest to bully at Heping Middle School. She's the only student without a new school uniform, her family consists only of her mother, and her job is not respectable. Naturally, she's weaker than her."

"Sigh, I never expected it to turn out like this," Luo Zhi said with some emotion.

Zhao Shucheng said, "Actually, everyone has to be responsible for their own choices. Yi Yao wasn't without opportunities to escape all of this, but ultimately she couldn't control her inner desires, turning from a victim into a perpetrator—just a continuation of Tang Xiaomi's story."

It's important to know that Zhao Shucheng once hoped to save Yi Yao, so when others spread rumors, he cited legal provisions and even took the initiative to help Yi Yao fight against others, setting an example of using legal weapons to protect oneself when facing bullying.

Unfortunately, Yi Yao didn't learn it, or rather, she learned it halfway but went astray. She learned how to use others to do her dirty work, but she didn't learn to be kind to others, or that the law is just a bottom line, not an upper limit.

After the three finished eating, since Luo Zhi and Gu Senxiang lived in the same dormitory building, Zhao Shucheng took them back together.

On the way, Luo Zhi would unconsciously compare her crush, Sheng Huainan, with Zhao Shucheng. Both of them were top students and campus heartthrobs.

However, upon closer examination, the two are actually quite different. Sheng Huainan was a prominent figure at high school and even had Ye Zhanyan as his girlfriend, but they later broke up due to his mother's influence.

Although Zhao Shucheng had suitors, he never accepted any of them. Even Gu Senxiang, who was also academically excellent, only confessed her feelings and got together with him after the college entrance examination.

One is self-centered, the other is responsible, knowledgeable, and has principles. If she hadn't harbored a secret crush on Sheng Huainan for so long, perhaps she would have fallen for someone like Zhao Shucheng. (End of Chapter)