The Archaeology department began their classes on the next day, and compared to the other departments, the Archaeology department's teaching was very unconventional. It required one to have vast amounts of knowledge. Archaeology had originated from excavating historical remains, but Jiang Xiu was neither obsessed nor interested in those. He only wished to seek remnants of divinities.
Qiu Yinru was also in the classroom today and was accompanied by two girls. She single-mindedly listened to the teacher's words. She had made a lot of effort for this project as she was going to personally participate in it and her knowledge of the project was even more detailed than the teacher.
"Little Qiu, come up and explain this porcelain article's history to your classmates…" The teacher talked about the relevant region then let Qiu Yinru come up. She had already begun to play the role of a teaching assistant some time ago.
She wore a white short-sleeved shirt which was a tight fit to her waist and thus emphasized its slenderness. She was also gifted with a model-like figure with a height of 1.7 m. She wore a pair of pink sports shoes and had beautiful, slender legs. Youthfulness seemed to sparkle around her as she walked over towards the platform, her pretty black hair slightly floating due to the breeze. Her face shone with a jade-like luster yet her aura extremely cold, making it so that none dared to have profane thoughts.
She stood on the platform with ease then began teaching. Her face was pretty and voice sweet-sounding, jus the view of her teaching on the platform was very visually attractive.
Her sight coincidently swept past Jiang Xiu and discovered that he was looking at his own material while bowing his head down and wasn't listening to her at all. She recalled the accidental kiss with Jiang Xiu on the elevator, which caused her cheeks to blush and filled her heart with resentment, "Classmate Jiang Xiu, what are you doing? Are you listening to my lesson?"
"No!" Jiang Xiu replied without even raising his head then continued to look at his material.
He wasn't giving her any face at all.
Qiu Yinru furrowed her pretty brows, "Since you aren't listening to the lesson, why are you sitting here?" She gazed towards Jiang Xiu fiercely.
Jiang Xiu acted as if she hadn't come over at all and continued to look at the material.
Beauty Qiu had never been neglected like this ever.
"What are you looking at?"
"It's none of your business. I have the freedom to choose whether to listen to the lessons or not and it's not like I'm disturbing the class, so don't disturb my reading."
Qiu Yinru became angrier. No one had ever talked so discourteously with her till now. She wanted to scold him but couldn't find anything to vent her anger. She glanced at the material he was reading and found it was about the Sahagan Ancient City, which caused her to wrinkle her brows, "Didn't I tell you that you won't be coming to the ancient desert city this time. Why are you still researching this?"
"That's not necessarily true. You're just a student and ultimately don't have the power to decide who goes or not."
"What do you mean?"
Jiang Xiu raised his head to glance at her and gave her a smile full of disdain. He then continued to study the material and ignored her.
Qiu Yinru glared at him, "You aren't planning to go by yourself, right?"
"What if I am?"
Sahagan Ancient City wasn't her home or anything. Since they were going there, others could go as well.
Qiu Yinru bit her lips. Jiang Xiu was clearly arguing with her for the sake of arguing. "You can't do that. This is a historical relic of the country and needs authorization from the related departments. It isn't something you can search for privately. What will you do if you act recklessly and damage the relic? That will be classified as illegal, you understand?"
"Hehe…"
He still didn't give a damn about her words.
All the students in the class were watching her. Qiu Yinru wished she could flip out yet couldn't. She stamped her feet in anger then returned to the platform and continued teaching.
After the class ended, Qiu Yinru was about to find Jiang Xiu to vent her anger when Professor Xu came over to her, "Little Qiu, the university administration has a request regarding the ancient desert city exploration team list."
"Hmm?"
The department had the final say in this, and they had already reported this.
Professor Xu continued, "The administration has requested to add another person."
Qiu Yinru was conflicted after hearing this. The project was decided by the department, and she had pulled the support for the project, so she didn't understand why the administration wanted to add a person, "That's not possible. We have already decided on the members."
Professor Xu nudged his spectacles helplessly, "If we don't, the administration won't approve the project."
Qiu Yinru bit her lips. This seemed to be her habit. She would bite her lips whenever she was angry, but this looked quite sexy on the contrary and caused the boys on the side to eye her. Her face went red due to the shame, "How can the administration act so rampantly? Who do they want to add? It's not some rich young master who wants to have fun, right?"
This had happened before too and was quite troublesome. It hindered the archaeology work very much. Those young masters thought it was a novel experience and acted as if it was an adventure.
Professor Xu explained to her, "It isn't a young master this time, it's the new student in our department, Jiang Xiu!"
"What?"
Qiu Yinru's eyes opened wide. She felt anger rush into her head after learning that the administration wanted to add Jiang Xiu to the exploration team. She turned back immediately and chased towards the direction Jiang Xiu had disappeared to, "Stop right there for me."
This time, Jiang Xiu unusually did as he was told and stopped.
The students all looked at him with sympathy after seeing this. It was no wonder that this happened as he had quarreled with her in the classroom openly.
You are really courageous. Brother, we will pray that you find peace in Heaven. Those brutes threw away their brotherhood and abandoned him, even making it sound as if they were doing him a favor, "We'll go to the dining hall first to save a seat for you."
Qiu Yinru raged at him, "Why does the university want to add you to the exploration team?"
"Didn't I say it? You are just a student and can't decide who goes or not."
"This was decided by our department. You are destroying our unity."
"So what if I am?"
Qiu Yinru had never seen someone as arrogant as him, "Tell me. What kind of despicable method did you use to coax the administration."
Jiang Xiu smiled, "I donated 50,000 bucks to the university, that's all…"
When Jiang Xiu had told Wang Xintong to arrange an exploration team, she created this plan after hearing all the details from him. This problem was so simply settled by that genius girl.
Qiu Yinru pointed her finger at him indignantly, "Jiang Xiu, you're the most despicable and shameless person I have ever met."
"Most despicable?"
Jiang Xiu grabbed her arm with a cold glint in his eyes, "The project is being funded by the Golden Brocade Group's Young Master Jin. I hear he's trying to pursue you and decided to fund this project because you are going in it. Don't make it sound as if you're someone upright when you too are just taking advantage of your charm. What's the difference between what you have done and what I have done?"
Qiu Yinru's arm began to hurt from his grip. She tried to break free from it while holding back her tears, "Y-You…"
"I also heard that young master will be accompanying us. Does he understand Archaeology or does he have any interest in it? Nope. He just wants to go with you and have fun." After saying this, he released her arm and turned around to leave.
"You scoundrel…"
Qiu Yinru cursed at him after a long time, holding back all her tears. She felt quite wronged. She believed she wasn't like how Jiang Xiu had said but wasn't able to refute his words.
Jiang Xiu didn't go to the dining hall to have a meal and instead left for a company called the Amidst Heaven Group in the Imperial Capital. This was a new company which Wang Xintong had established a month ago. Since Jiang Xiu had come to the Imperial Capital, she too followed after this gentleman.
"Mr. Jiang, the person you mentioned, has arrived…"
Jiang Xiu looked at a graceful girl walk into the premises on the monitor. The girl wore a dark gray suit which appeared very elegant and dazzling. All the staff members here were women, but they all seemed bland along with the entry of this girl. Pain flashed through Jiang Xiu's eyes as he looked at her, "Don't let her know I arranged all this. Give her a simple job and don't make her wages too unrealistic…"
This girl was none other than Cheng Lingran. The outfit she wore today was especially formal and different from her gentle, charming style from before. She appeared quite nervous and took several deep breaths before entering the room. Jiang Xiu couldn't help but reveal a smile on his face as he looked at this.
Wang Xintong had taken noticed of this and used her keen womanly intuition to judge that this woman was important to Jiang Xiu as she had never seen him care about a person so much.
Wang Xintong naturally knew about the grudges between Jiang Xiu and the Cheng family. She also knew that Jiang Xiu has a fiancée called Cheng Lingsu, and this woman called Cheng Lingran was Cheng Lingsu's elder sister. She felt she had glimpsed into the biggest secret of this man who ruled over her fate. She knew she shouldn't ask it, but she couldn't help but do so, "Do you… like her?"
Panic flashed through his eyes, after which he grabbed Wang Xintong's neck suddenly as if he wanted to choke her to death.