Around four o'clock in the afternoon, the grand auditorium of Building 8 at Normal University was filled with students of both good character and scholarship.
While the beautiful hostess, dressed in a luxurious evening gown, delivered an enthusiastic speech on the stage, most of the students below, though facing forward, had their minds drifting to the clouds.
These types of speeches were pretty standard, and Normal University students would hear them a few times each year: the host's chatter, mid-speech leadership remarks, guests reminiscing about their significant years followed by reviewing the school's development, and finally a look towards the future to wrap up — utterly unoriginal and useless.
Of course, for some of the younger female students, seeing the handsome and dashing Senior Chu on the stage was the only gain.
