The Most Random System

Chapter 997 - 457: Nicknames Are the True Highlight of a Person

"Hello, beautiful, I’m a talent scout. I think you have a great potential. May I ask if you’re interested in taking part in a small show? The performance is really simple, no skills required, you just need to go along with the event and say ’I do’ at the end."At the school gate, Lin Li parked his bicycle steadily and walked towards Chen Yu Ying, who was waiting for him, striking up the conversation with a serious air.

"I do."

Chen Yu Ying smiled, nodded, and extended her hand to Lin Li.

Originally, she intended to hold hands, but considering it’s a campus, interlocking fingers seemed too flashy and excessive. In the end, she just lightly tugged at Lin Li’s sleeve.

"You gave me a scare, I thought you were directly asking me for a ring." Lin Li looked straight at her hand, and when he realized it was just a sleeve tug, he laughed.

Chen Yu Ying turned her face slightly at his words, paused for a moment, then a light-hearted smile appeared on her face. She gently nodded and extended her hand:

"That scare wasn’t for nothing, I already said ’I do’, where’s the ring?"

"Did you really think I didn’t have one ready?"

Lin Li snorted, and under the girl’s surprised and slightly panicked gaze, he took out a soda can pull tab from his pocket and slipped it onto Chen Yu Ying’s ring finger.

It wasn’t really disappointing; she actually felt relieved. After all, it would be too strange to suddenly give a ring in this setting and location. After all, a ring carries a slightly different significance for Chen Yu Ying.

However, if Chen Yu Ying really asked Lin Li, "What’s the meaning of this ring?", there was a tiny chance she might get a response like, "Ring, a ring, means from now on you can quit using your fingers."

The reason it’s a tiny chance isn’t because Lin Li wouldn’t think along these lines; it’s just that he probably wouldn’t say it out loud, although he’d certainly think it.

Actually, Lin Li was always curious:

If the girls were having a party, were they filming either "Lord of the Fingers" or "The Incredible Boring Hole"?

Chen Yu Ying looked closely at the pull tab on her finger and noticed it wasn’t an ordinary pull tab: it had "Win another can" written on it.

No wonder Lin Li kept this in his pocket instead of throwing it away.

"Congratulations, you’ve won a prize. You can exchange this pull tab with the organizer, which is me, for a ring, of course, the final interpretation of this event rests with me alone, everything is subject to me."

As Chen Yu Ying noticed this, Lin Li immediately spoke with a somewhat nonchalant tone.

Chen Yu Ying’s ’’request’’ for a ring was something Lin Li didn’t anticipate, and apart from the Qiankun Ring he actually didn’t have any other rings on him, but finding a substitute was simple, like this pull tab.

If he really intended to give a ring, even Bai Bufan knew it had to be in a more romantic setting.

Regarding this, Bai Bufan once shared a genius idea with Lin Li, saying he planned to use it in his future proposal—

Hiding the ring in his own nostril, and during a date, asking his future girlfriend to help him pick his nose.

Wow, just imagine that scenario: as she picks, the ring slips out and goes onto her finger! Just thinking about it feels unbearably romantic. No girl would expect such a surprise from this angle!

Of course, if the girlfriend didn’t want to help pick the nose, it wouldn’t matter. Bai Bufan’s plans aren’t limited to just plan A. As long as he practices sneezing, the initiative would always rest with him.

In the spirit of brotherhood, Bai Bufan generously implied that he would allow Lin Li to "borrow" his idea.

Others would make him angry if they borrowed, but Lin Li borrowing just brought him blessings.

That’s Bai Bufan’s sense of brotherhood.

But Lin Li thought it over and politely declined.

"Then I must be really lucky. I’ll take it; when I exchange it, the organizer better not refuse."

Chen Yu Ying nodded, took off the pull tab, and said seriously yet warmly with a smile.

"Before you put it in your pocket, wrap it in a tissue; don’t accidentally cut yourself on the edge later."

As Chen Yu Ying was about to put the pull tab away just like that, Lin Li immediately took out a small pack of tissues from his pocket and handed her a piece.

"Okay~"

Chen Yu Ying nodded, her eyes filled with an even deeper smile.

She really appreciated Lin Li’s thoughtful care and attention.

Soon after, the two of them arrived at the lecture hall.

With not much time left before the class began, the seats to the left and right, due to poor visibility, were untouched, but the front rows in the middle were already full.

As expected of the competition class students, their enthusiasm in this aspect is undoubtable.

But neither of them cared about this.

There’s no need to strive for the front row anymore. After all, the results from the semifinals weren’t important to Chen Yu Ying at all; she was participating just to accompany Lin Li.

Chen Tianming felt the same way: if it weren’t for Yao Qiaoqiao still wanting to be in the front row, he’d also prefer to sit at the back.

As time passed, students gradually filled the classroom.

The girls in the competition class, to be honest, although fewer in number, seemed on average to have a higher quality than in parallel classes; the stereotypical image of female science competition nerds was actually quite rare.

"Knock knock knock."

Just as Lin Li claimed to be massaging Chen Yu Ying but was actually blatantly touching her leg, an elderly teacher, appearing around fifty or sixty, walked to the podium holding a USB drive and some teaching materials.

He wasn’t Hua Ming.