I met my whole family through Baidu Tieba.

So after considering that possibility, Wang Pan immediately researched a lot of information and asked many people.

According to the information Wang Pan found, the situation he had predicted might actually happen!

In several universities across the country, there have been instances where major sponsors and title sponsors sat on the podium and gave speeches at the opening ceremony of the school's sports meet.

However, the situation varies from school to school. In many schools, sponsors are not given the opportunity to speak at the opening ceremony of the sports meet, and the seats given to sponsors are not good either.

There are even schools that prioritize academic excellence, refusing to give major sponsors any special treatment at the sports meet opening ceremony, not even a seat on the dais. They simply provide the sponsors with a regular seat according to the contract.

Fortunately, Yangko University of Science and Technology is such a school!

When Wang Pan learned from the student union that Yangko University of Science and Technology had never reserved good seats for sponsors on the podium in its past sports meets, he was moved to tears.

Yang-Tsing University is a good university!

In a university like this, he wouldn't have to worry about that bastard Lao Shen sitting on the stage or even speaking because of his status as a major sponsor.

What's the point of Old Shen sponsoring so much money? He'll still end up like me, standing obediently on the playground. ...

When Wang Pan inquired about these things, he felt much better.

Unexpectedly, Lao Shen now says he's going to sit on the dais?

"real."

Hearing Wang Pan's denial, Shen Kang was also a little confused. "I know what you're saying, and I've heard that our school doesn't reserve seats for major sponsors on the stage. But this time, the student council notified me and told me to go directly to the stage and take a seat when I arrived."

Both sides were puzzled after exchanging information.

Wang Pan also raised a hypothesis: "Could someone be playing a prank on you?"

Shen Kang said, "I don't think so. Shang Anzhi informed me."

Wang Pan remained silent.

Jin Chao and Feng Moquan had never heard of this name before and asked, "Who is Shang Anzhi?"

"Vice President of the Student Union," Wang Pan replied to the two in a muffled voice.

Seeing that they had nothing more to say, Shen Kang left, saying, "I'll go check out what's going on over there. If there's anything wrong, I'll come back to you."

Wang Pan tried to stop Shen Kang—Old Shen, you can't sit on the platform! It hurts me to stand here and watch you sitting so high up on the platform!

But he couldn't bring himself to say it. He could only watch Shen Kang's departing figure with a mixture of embarrassment and disbelief, his hand reaching out and then retracting, then reaching out again.

Jin Chao, watching from the side, found it amusing. He reached out and pressed Wang Pan's outstretched hand down, saying, "Alright, Brother Pan, let's hurry up and go."

"……well!"

Wang Pan sighed deeply and walked silently toward the stands.

Jin Chao was somewhat surprised. "Brother Pan, you're going to the podium too?"

"I need to use the restroom!"...

After arriving at the stands, Shen Kang walked along the aisle towards the main stage area. When he got close, he saw a familiar face.

It was Song Qingru. The head of the student life department was currently on the front lines, busy with some student union colleagues on the stage, arranging seats for the leaders and teachers present.

The so-called dais is not actually just one row, but rather a small area.

At the very front, there was a row of seats, each with a name tag, bottled water, and a microphone. The school's party officials were seated in the very center, with their importance decreasing towards the sides.

There are three more rows behind them, but they don't have name tags, bottled water, microphones, or anything like that, but they still belong to the dais.

The student union members, led by Song Qingru, along with members of the Youth League Committee, were arranging for some of the attending leaders and teachers to sit in these unnamed seats.

Shen Kang stood there and waited for a while.

After seeing Song Qingru lead a leader to a suitable seat, he walked over to her, greeted her, and said, "Senior Sister Song."

"You're here."

Song Qingru smiled at him, looked around, and led him to a seat on the left side of the third row. "You can sit here."

Shen Kang followed and said "Okay," but there was one thing he still wanted to clarify: "Senior Song, I heard that our school's previous sponsors only received the corresponding positions in the contract, but they didn't prepare seats for them on the stage. So why was I arranged to sit here this time?"

Song Qingru clearly already had an answer to this question. "Oh, it's like this. In the past, when our school sports meets sought sponsorships, we would approach small businesses, each contributing a little, and eventually, we would accumulate enough to reach our sponsorship goal. But this time is a little different."

"This time, you've contributed the lion's share. So after some discussion, we've decided to reserve a seat for you on the stage. On one hand, it's to thank you for your strong support this time, and on the other hand, it's to show our school's emphasis on sponsors and encourage more businesses to sponsor our school's activities. Who knows, with you sitting here today, it might be much easier to get sponsorships for our autumn sports meet next year."

This explanation seems reasonable, but Shen Kangjue must have another reason.

The main reason is that this happened too suddenly. If it were for the reasons Song Qingru mentioned, it shouldn't have happened so suddenly.

However, since Song Qingru didn't say anything, he didn't ask any further. He smiled and said, "I see. Okay."

Song Qingru had a lot to do. After settling Shen Kang in, she left to continue her work.

Shen Kang sat down calmly and looked down at the playground.

Hey, you know what, the view from here is actually pretty good. Shen Kang's gaze swept across the area below and easily spotted the e-commerce class 2 line directly in front of him.

Wang Pan and his group had already joined the e-commerce class 2 team.

The students in Class 2 of E-commerce were all discussing the Beiming Community. After all, everyone around them was a member of the Beiming Community, and everyone in the class knew that the Beiming Community was founded by Shen Kang, so naturally they were very enthusiastic about talking about it.

As we chatted, the conversation naturally drifted to the "If You Are the One" dating show.

Just then, Wang Pan and his group arrived, so everyone pulled them aside and asked them what exactly this "If You Are the One" event was all about.

Feng Moquan then shared everything he knew, and the students in E-commerce Class 2 were all intrigued: it sounded quite interesting. Even if they didn't have the courage to sign up, they could still go and watch the excitement.

Because Shen Kang is not here, another guy directly exposed the true nature of this dating show.

"Shen Kang has basically set up a matchmaking event on the campus forum."

Indeed, this "If You Are the One" event, ostensibly a second-hand goods transaction, is actually, as Feng Moquan explained, a matchmaking event.

Speaking of Shen Kang, one of the girls looked around and asked, "Wang Pan, didn't Shen Kang come with you? He even skipped the opening ceremony of the sports meet?"

Everyone was used to Shen Kang skipping classes every day, but skipping the opening ceremony of the sports meet was still unexpected.

Before Wang Pan could say anything, a boy suddenly shouted, "Isn't that Shen Kang sitting on the platform?"

The boy was looking around for pretty girls when his gaze drifted to the stage, where he spotted a familiar face sitting in the third row.

Upon hearing his shout, everyone followed his surprised gaze and looked towards the platform, where they indeed saw a familiar face sitting there.

"It really is Shen Kang!" "I knew it! He wouldn't skip the opening ceremony of the sports meet, would he? Turns out he didn't skip it; he just sat on the stage." "Haha, it looks weird to see a college student like him sitting next to so many leaders and teachers."...

Everyone started whispering among themselves, and they were all very surprised.

Another well-informed person pointed out a suspicious point: "I heard that none of the previous sponsors of our school's sports meet had ever sat on the podium, so how come Shen Kang did?"

However, no one could answer this question, and everyone could only make various guesses, which made the E-commerce Class 2 even more lively.

Wang Pan looked up at Shen Kang, who was sitting on the platform above.

Shen Kang also saw him and grinned at him, which made Wang Pan even more depressed. He felt that Old Shen was showing off to him, as if to say, "Look, I'm sitting here, and you can only stand below!"

There's another person in E-commerce Class 2 who's feeling down: their counselor, Wu Jie.

The baby-faced counselor was standing in front of the class line of E-commerce Class 2, next to Ji Feiyan, who was holding up a sign—the most beautiful and tallest girl in the class was chosen to hold up the sign.

When the students in E-commerce Class 2 suddenly became restless, Wu Jie was chatting casually with Ji Feiyan.

Hearing the commotion, Wu Jie was puzzled, wondering what had happened. She looked around but saw nothing. Finally, she followed her classmates' gaze and saw the source of the disturbance: the boy sitting on the platform.

"He's...a boy in our class, right?"

Wu Jie looked at the boy sitting on the platform and asked Ji Feiyan, "I remember, his surname is Shen, and his name is..."

Like many university counselors, Wu Jie actually had very little contact with the students in E-commerce Class 2. She only held two class meetings at the beginning of the semester, and then basically didn't appear in the past two months.

"Shen Kang," Ji Feiyan added, saying Shen Kang's name.

Wu Jie nodded. "Yes, that's his name." Then, looking puzzled, she asked, "Why is he sitting over there?"

Ji Feiyan wasn't sure about Wu Jie's situation either, but she knew more than Wu Jie, the counselor. "I don't know, maybe it's because he's a major sponsor of this autumn sports meet?"

Upon hearing this, Wu Jie was taken aback. "A sponsor? Isn't he a student in our class?"

Seeing that Wu Jie, the counselor, knew nothing, Ji Feiyan explained to her, "Shen Kang himself did a lot of things..."

She briefly described all the projects Shen Kang had worked on.

After hearing this, Wu Jie's expression turned strange, and she was inwardly shocked. Her hand involuntarily reached out and pointed at the various guys from the Beiming community around her, "So, he was the one who beat up all these guys too?"

"Um."

Wu Jie was completely speechless. She turned around and looked back silently at the boy on the podium.

Wu Jie is not a seasoned veteran; she has just graduated with a master's degree and has never entered the workforce. This counselor position is her first job, so she is relatively naive and is now on the verge of tears.

The difference between people is just too great! It's even greater than the difference between a person and a dog!

While I, as a student counselor, am still debating whether to take the civil service exam or continue down the academic or administrative path, one of my students has already made a name for himself in business.

And now he's sitting on the stage, while I, the counselor, am stuck standing below leading the group... Waaaaah...

Shen Kang, unaware of Wu Jie's inner thoughts, had already withdrawn his gaze and was scanning the playground again. After a final scan, he found his target at a relatively distant angle.

That's the computer team.

The opening ceremony hasn't started yet, and the teams haven't lined up. You can see people standing scattered over there, so you can also see He Qiuzhu and her dormmates.

She stood there quietly, lost in thought. Nearby, Fu Rong, Du Nanxin, and Xia Meng were chattering away.

As if by telepathy, just two seconds after Shen Kang looked over, He Qiuzhu, who had been in a daze, suddenly turned her head and looked over in their direction.

After her gaze swept around for a moment, it immediately locked onto Shen Kang over there.

Shen Kang grinned, somewhat smugly, and mouthed to her from afar, "Do I look cool to you?"

He Qiuzhu seemed to understand as well. Mengmeng nodded, her eyes shining, and mouthed back from afar, "I want to go up too."

Shen Kang understood and mouthed back, "What are you going to do? You can barely even get onto the kang (heated brick bed)."

He Qiuzhu understood again, and then got a little angry. She puffed up her little face and wanted to use her Iron Head Kung Fu again, but unfortunately, the two of them were too far apart, and her Iron Head Kung Fu couldn't reach her.

The interaction between the two was quickly noticed by Fu Rong and the others nearby. Following He Qiuzhu's gaze, they also saw Shen Kang sitting on the dais.

"Holy crap, Qiuzhu, your man's sitting on the dais?" Fu Rong exclaimed in surprise.

Du Nanxin glanced at the guys from the Beiming Community on the surrounding field and said, "I guess he sponsored too much, so the school invited him up."

The commotion they were making attracted the attention of the other students in the computer class, who then saw Shen Kang sitting on the platform.

Among the middle-aged and elderly people, some bald, some with receding hairlines, and their faces etched with the marks of time, Shen Kang's youthful face was truly striking. Everyone was at a loss for words, only able to sigh with a mixture of admiration and relief: perhaps only a student like him, paired with He Qiuzhu, would make them feel somewhat accepting...

On the podium

After exchanging glances for a while, Shen Kang and He Qiuzhu finally looked away and began to stare blankly.

Just then, Song Qingru brought over a middle-aged man and arranged for him to sit down next to Shen Kang.

Shen Kang also glanced at the man subconsciously: the man was probably in his forties, not very tall, and although he wasn't as handsome as Xiao Bonian, his features were still quite good. You could tell that he was a fairly handsome young man when he was younger.

However, the middle-aged man's expression was not good—Shen Kang felt that there was a sense of wariness in his gaze.

So, do we know each other?

Shen Kang really wanted to ask the other person that question, but before he could speak, he was interrupted by a voice.

"Shen Kang?"

Shen Kang turned his head and looked in the direction of the voice. He saw a familiar face: Vice Principal Liu Yuankai.

Liu Yuankai looked like he was about to walk towards the front of the stage.

But now she turned to the side, looking at him with a surprised expression, as if wondering why he was sitting there. Then, Liu Yuankai indeed asked, "Why are you sitting here?"

"I don't know either, Principal Liu. The student council arranged for me to sit here..."

Shen Kang recounted everything he knew.

After listening, Liu Yuankai was also somewhat confused, but after thinking about it, he didn't delve any further. "Maybe they want to set an example so they can make things easier later..."

As he spoke, Liu Yuankai glanced at the middle-aged man who had just sat down next to Shen Kang, then thought for a moment and said to Shen Kang, "Come here for a moment, I have something to tell you."

"OK."

Shen Kang then stood up from his seat and followed Liu Yuankai over.

The two did not walk too far, but stopped in the aisle after being a little distance from the area of ​​the podium.

Liu Yuankai also spoke in a low voice: "The outsourcing reform of our school's cleaning services has been progressing quite well, and more smoothly than I expected. It's anticipated that the bidding process will be completed before the end of this year, perhaps within six months. How is Anjia Household Services doing? Are your staff able to handle the workload at our school?"

Shen Kang also gave him some information: "Principal Liu, you don't need to worry about the school's cleaning work. Anjia Housekeeping is currently preparing to expand to other cities and is in the stage of recruiting and training a large number of people. In addition, we also have a group of several hundred experienced and mature employees, so you don't need to worry about personnel..."

While the two were whispering and chattering to each other.

Song Qingru was still standing next to the middle-aged man who had just sat down next to Shen Kang; she hadn't left.

"Who is that person?" The middle-aged man looked at Liu Yuankai and asked softly.

Song Qingru also answered, "Our school's executive vice principal, Liu Yuankai."

The middle-aged man nodded, said nothing more, and just looked over there, lost in thought.

This middle-aged man was Song Qingru's father, Song Zhengping.

Because he suspected his daughter might have taken a liking to this brat, Song Zhengping's attitude towards the boy wasn't exactly friendly when he first sat down.

Now, seeing Shen Kang and the executive vice president of Yang University of Science and Technology whispering to each other, Song Zhengping temporarily abandoned his subconscious resistance to that kid and began to think.

After thinking for a while, Song Zhengping came to his senses and realized that his daughter hadn't left yet and was still standing next to him.

This prompted Song Zhengping to casually remark, "As the head of the Student Union's Life Department, isn't this your busiest time? You've been sitting here with me the whole time; don't you need to do your work?"

Upon hearing this, Song Qingru had no choice but to glance in Shen Kang's direction before reluctantly leaving.

Today's event was naturally something she came up with and arranged yesterday.

But when the two men actually sat together, she felt inexplicably frightened and very nervous, not knowing what she was worried about. That's why she had stood there for so long, afraid that something would happen between them if she left.

But now that her father had spoken, she had no choice but to leave.

Meanwhile, Shen Kang and Liu Yuankai whispered to each other for a while before quickly ending their conversation.

Liu Yuankai straightened his clothes and walked towards the first row of the podium.

Shen Kang then sat down next to Song Zhengping again.

Song Zhengping arrived quite late. After he sat down next to Shen Kang, the opening ceremony of today's sports meet began shortly afterward, accompanied by the athletes' march.

The freshmen from each class below finally straightened up and stood in line.

What followed was a series of unremarkable steps: speeches by school leaders, one after another.

The students below were swaying and staggering as they listened, while those in the stands and on the platform were also dozing off.

Shen Kang felt the same way, a little drowsy. He thought to himself that sitting on the platform was no good; it was too conspicuous, and he couldn't even sleep if he wanted to. If he were standing in the line below, or sitting in the stands next to him, he could have slept openly long ago—of course, the more likely outcome would have been to leave and go back to his dormitory to sleep.

Just as I was drifting off to sleep, a deep male voice came from beside me, tinged with amusement, "Are you very sleepy? Want to sleep?"

Shen Kang glanced at him and saw the middle-aged man next to him. The man smiled at him and said, "A little."

Song Zhengping looked at him with interest. "We're all older people here. It's quite conspicuous for a young man like you to be sitting here."

Shen Kang chuckled but didn't say anything.

Song Zhengping continued, "So why are you sitting here? I'm perfectly fine."

Shen Kang countered, "Then why are you sitting here, brother?"

Song Zhengping said, "I was invited here."

"I was also invited."

"..." Song Zhengping could tell that this kid wasn't the kind of college student who could be easily coaxed into revealing everything just by chatting for a few minutes.

So he had no choice but to reveal some of his background: "I work for Yangcheng Bank, and we have some business dealings with your school, which is why I was invited to attend the ceremony today."