Rebirth: At the beginning, the cool school beauty was caught stealing in the supermarket

Chapter 522 The Shedding of the Golden Hair Shell

Lu Yuanqiu did not intend to plagiarize. Having been reborn, he did not want to cause any trouble and trigger any butterfly effect. He was just an ordinary person who wanted to live a normal and peaceful life.

Thinking of this, Lu Yuanqiu slowly nodded: "I'll try it these few days and look for inspiration."

Zheng Yifeng: "Well, we don't necessarily have to win first place in the city arts competition. As long as we can win an award, our mission is accomplished. Good luck."

Lu Yuanqiu gave a dry laugh, "You make it sound so easy."

He looked down and saw that someone had replied to a message in the lead singer's group chat.

『Feather Fall Band - Lead Vocalist』: Congratulations! Looks like we still don't have a chance this year. We're perennial runners-up... If all else fails, we'll just get married. I heard that marriage certificates can add innovation credits? Does anyone know about that?

Lead singer of the band "Wind and Fire Wheels": Senior, marry me.

Lead singer of the band "Feather Fall": Get out.

Jingwei Band - Lead Vocalist: @Yanggu String Band - Lead Vocalist, congratulations junior!
Lu Yuanqiu looked at the messages below and saw that many people had come out to congratulate him. The scene was much more harmonious than he had imagined.

There were no questions, no rebuttals, and no clowns jumping up and down. Come to think of it... After all, being able to perform alongside celebrities and even be the headliner, even the emotionally clueless Blue Sky Band probably came to terms with reality.

Moreover, the show was indeed quite good; otherwise, the online video wouldn't have gained such popularity for so long. They do have that much judgment.

Lu Yuanqiu smiled and responded to each of the thank-you messages in the lead singer group.

He had imagined several possible scenarios in the group chat, but he never expected everyone's reaction to be so normal, peaceful, and ordinary.

Two bowls of noodles were then brought over shakily. Upon seeing this, Lu Yuanqiu quickly reached out to take them, but Bai Qingxia immediately let go, as if she had been burned, and quickly rubbed her fingers on both sides of her body.

Just as she was about to turn around and go back, Lu Yuanqiu grabbed her wrist, brought her hand up to his eyes and looked at it. Bai Qingxia lowered her head, and her hand was held by Lu Yuanqiu. She did not resist. After looking at her hand, Lu Yuanqiu looked up at her downcast expression and then let go of her hand. Bai Qingxia put her hands together in front of her, lowered her head and turned to walk towards the counter.

"I'm actually a little uncomfortable with you two not talking." Zheng Yifeng snapped the disposable chopsticks in two with a "crack".

Lu Yuanqiu also picked up his chopsticks and said, "I'm not used to it either..."

"Oh right, isn't there a PE class this afternoon? I'll pretend to be injured then, so don't help me up."

Zheng Yifeng was taken aback for a moment upon hearing this, then suddenly couldn't help but laugh: "Okay."

Lu Yuanqiu looked at Zhong Jincheng, who was hugging Luo Wei in the corner, and said, "Remember to tell Zhong Jincheng too."

Zheng Yifeng: "Their relationship is progressing quite quickly." "Quickly?" Lu Yuanqiu looked up again and said, "I think it's slow."

The two started eating noodles when a tall, slender woman opened the glass door of the restaurant and walked in. Lu Yuanqiu glanced at her casually, not paying much attention, but out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that the woman went straight to Xia Yi's bowl of noodles. He turned around and looked again, and only then did Lu Yuanqiu realize that the woman was actually Shi Ling…

Wait, why does Senior Shi Ling have a full head of black hair now?
He picked up a napkin to wipe his mouth, staring blankly at the other person.

It has to be said that Shi Ling, the senior with black hair, seems to have become much more ordinary all of a sudden. It's as if her halo has shattered. She used to be as beautiful as an elf or an angel with her long, golden hair, but now she just looks like an ordinary pretty mixed-race person, only with fairer skin and more defined features. She can no longer compare to Bai Qingxia's brilliance.

Is it because she lost her first place? Is that why she dyed her hair black because she was in a bad mood?
Shi Ling walked to the counter of Xia Yiwan Noodles, glanced at the signboard, and said, "I want a spicy and sour one, Bai Qingxia."

Bai Qingxia looked up at the sound and stared at the other person in surprise: "Senior Shi Ling..."

Senior Shi Ling looked down and met Bai Qingxia's gaze. To Bai Qingxia's surprise, the next second, this usually aloof senior actually laughed self-deprecatingly, and then reached out and picked up a strand of her black hair: "Surprised, aren't you? My hair."

Bai Qingxia nodded gently as she held the noodles. The Shi Ling she used to be so dazzling that she dared not look directly at her, but now the Shi Ling was smiling at her instead. Bai Qingxia found it hard to believe, but for some reason, she felt more comfortable looking at the Shi Ling now... Was it because she wasn't as dazzling as before?
Shi Ling lowered her head, took a deep breath, and said, as if talking to herself, or perhaps unable to hold back her emotions, "Actually, my hair was originally black..."

She looked up with a bitter smile after she finished speaking. She didn't intend to continue talking about her embarrassing past, but seeing Bai Qingxia listening attentively without even cooking the noodles, she hesitated for a moment and then continued.

After all, she made up her mind to dye her hair back to black because of the girl in front of her, and now she can be considered free.

“I dyed my hair blonde from the first day of high school because my junior high classmates thought that a mixed-race person like me should have beautiful blonde hair, like a cartoon character. They even felt sorry for me, saying things like... Lingling, you should have blonde hair, it would be so cool.”

"Sure enough, I was more popular in high school because of my blonde hair. More and more people thought I was a blonde mixed-race person, and later I just couldn't get rid of my blonde hair, even in college..."

She suddenly laughed self-deprecatingly and shrugged, saying, "Dyeing my hair is a bit tiring. To be honest, sometimes I even worry that if people get close, they'll notice that the color has faded from my hair roots. So I'm becoming more and more resistant to socializing. Actually, I'm not aloof at all."

As Shi Ling spoke, Bai Qingxia smiled.

Bai Qingxia listened quietly, and suddenly remembered that when Shi Ling took a break from dance practice, she always sat alone in a spot, with no one talking to her. It turned out that her aloofness was just... because of her hair.

"Then why did you dye it back?"

"I've wanted to dye it back for a long time, it's too tiring, but because my dance popularity is number one, I was afraid of the impact, so I didn't have the guts. Now I can't compete with you no matter what, so I'm completely free of pressure." Shi Ling smiled as she said this, paused for a moment, and then continued:
"I've thought about it for a long time. Rather than getting innovation credits, I seem to prefer to live a more authentic and ordinary college life, like a normal college student... I'm about to graduate. If I haven't made any friends in college and haven't experienced any of the youth that a normal student should have, then my student life will have no meaning at all. Do you understand how I feel, Bai Xuemei?"

Bai Qingxia did not respond.

She glanced at Lu Yuanqiu and saw that he was also biting his chopsticks and looking at her.

(End of this chapter)