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Chapter 20 - Episode 20: Picked One in Ten Thousand and Got Trash 7

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"Hey, with my fiery temper! Resolving this privately? What's the point of him being the team leader if he can't even handle this? Is he too scared to offend Mi Lu or what? Always picking on our Shanbao! I'm calling him right now!" Zhou Xueyin said furiously as she grabbed her phone.

"Yinyin, it's tomorrow already! It's almost 1 a.m., if you don't sleep, the others still need to," Li Jiniang said as she took the phone away from Zhou Xueyin's grasp, right from the bed.

"I'm already fuming with wakefulness..." Zhou Xueyin climbed onto the bed, took back her phone from Li Jiniang, and placed it beside her pillow, "All these annoying issues every day... Tomorrow, I'll call the operator first, then I'll call Guo Zi..."

No sooner had she said she was too angry to sleep than her head touched the pillow, and before she could finish her sentence, she fell asleep.

Her ability to fall asleep so carelessly and quickly was unmatched.

"If I could have even half of Yinyin's sleep quality, I'd be so grateful!" Kang Siyin was the one who felt wide awake after taking a shower.

She was always the one who slept the latest and woke up the earliest.

Now, without worrying about classes or exams, Kang Siyin's sleep anxiety had eased quite a bit, and her sleep quality was much better than during her school days.

This time was no exception, although she fell asleep past 3 a.m., at 7 o'clock the next morning, her biological clock faithfully woke her from her dreams.

"Only 7 o'clock..." Thinking of not needing to go to class or cram for exams, Kang Siyin's mood instantly relaxed, and she lay back down in bed.

"おはよう,お姫様,起きた時間ですよ~" The wake-up ringtone of Japanese voice actor Kamiya Hiroshi, which Li Jiniang recorded on her phone, started to play.

"Okay... okay... I know..." Li Jiniang replied as if answering back and then turned off the phone alarm. "Wake up, comrades!"

"Up! A whole day of phone calls today!" Zhou Xueyin sat up and rubbed her hair, which was as voluminous as a wig.

After they took turns washing up and finished breakfast,

Zhou Xueyin dialed the 400 customer service number of the Yinghaiwei Company, but what came through the earpiece was either a busy signal or a message that the call could not be connected, making her wonder if her phone, which she had just topped up, was out of credit and suspended again.

"KK, I can't get through to Yinghaiwei..." Zhou Xueyin looked dejectedly at Kang Siyin.

"Let me try..." Kang Siyin also dialed the 400 number, but the result was the same as Zhou Xueyin's: either busy signals or no one answering.

"Let's see if there's another way to communicate..." Zhou Xueyin opened the Yinghaiwei website.

"Huh? 404? Damn it!" She checked the URL she had entered carefully and found she had made a typo in one letter.

"Phew... it opened... You scared me! I thought they had run off," Zhou Xueyin patted her chest to ease the tension from a moment ago.

"Ah! I found it, there's a non-400 collaborative phone number! I'll try this one," Zhou Xueyin said, as she picked up the phone to dial the number provided on the website.

"I'm sorry, the number you have dialed is not in service..." came the response she least wanted to hear from the other end of the line.

"Not in service?" Kang Siyin looked at Zhou Xueyin with surprise, "Are you sure you didn't dial the wrong number?"

Zhou Xueyin looked dazed as she dialed again, and when she pressed the call button, the display showed the same number as the previous call.

"I'm sorry, the number you are calling is not in service..." The recorded message had changed, but it still indicated the number was not in service.

"Could it be that they set their ringback tone to sound like the number is not in service?" speculated Kang Siyin, suddenly struck by a whimsical thought.

"Unless they don't want to make money by setting their ringback tone to that..." Zhou Xueyin, disbelieving, continued to call the number persistently.

Of course, since it was indicated as not in service, it was impossible for anyone to suddenly pick up.

"Sigh... I'll try the 400 number again..." Zhou Xueyin sighed.

The call went through, but she still couldn't connect successfully.

It seemed they weren't the only ones needing to contact Yinghaiwei Company; a massive number of users were trying to call the company as well, so nobody could get through...

Zhou Xueyin and Kang Siyin looked at each other, clueless on what to do next.

"What if... I call Xiaojing? Ask him how his brother solved it?" Zhou Xueyin suddenly remembered Wei Jingzhu as a potential lifesaver.

"That might work, I'm out of ideas... Can't back up data, and I don't dare to add content recklessly in case Yinghaiwei does a runner... That'd be disastrous," Kang Siyin involuntarily thought of the worst-case scenario.

"Ptui ptui ptui! We've only been using it for less than a week! Don't even think they'd do a runner!" Zhou Xueyin herself had entertained the thought moments before.

"Hello? Xiaojing? Got a question for you..." Zhou Xueyin explained the forum issue to Wei Jingzhu.

"Well, how about I help you out remotely?" Wei Jingzhu thought it was hard to explain over the phone.

"Huh? Remotely? Are you kidding me? You're on a campus network, we're on residential broadband... How are we supposed to do this remotely?" Zhou Xueyin asked in disbelief.

"The thing is, it's not clear over the phone, and you haven't clearly explained what exactly you can't download. Why don't you hand the phone to KK, I'll ask her," Wei Jingzhu suggested, wanting to speak with Kang Siyin.

"Fine... KK, Xiaojing wants to ask you directly..." Zhou Xueyin said, handing the phone to Kang Siyin.

"No... don't... you might as well invite him over to fix it..." Kang Siyin got nervous at the thought of speaking to Wei Jingzhu, as she had never spoken to him before.

"That works too..." Zhou Xueyin also knew she shouldn't force Kang Siyin to talk to a stranger, so she told Wei Jingzhu their address, asking him to come over and help.

Just then, from the bedroom came Yao Shanshan's angry sobbing, "In this dance group, you're the leader, so who is performing? Do you even have a clue? Is this how you do things?"

Right! They were supposed to call Guo Zi about Yao Shanshan's matter this morning but got caught up arguing with the operator.

"Hello? Guo Zi? It's me!" Zhou Xueyin hurried into the bedroom, taking the phone from Yao Shanshan's hand, "It's me! Can't you recognize my voice? Zhou Xueyin!"

"Haven't seen you in ages, you big-headed ghost! Didn't we just talk a couple of days ago?" Zhou Xueyin said in a bad mood, and she hit the speakerphone button, "Daring to bully our Shanbao? Don't want to mix anymore?"

"Yinyin, it's not that I'm deliberately making things difficult for her..." Guo Zi's voice came through the phone, "The main issue is that it's already this late and she still hasn't memorized the dance. If Yuna needs to do a solo dance on stage later, what if she can't finish it?"

"You're being unreasonable now! You're the one who wanted me to design the costumes, and now you expect me to do a solo dance too! Why didn't you say so earlier?" Yao Shanshan cried and complained.

"Because in a Final Fantasy X performance, it wouldn't count without Yuna's dance!" A female voice came through the phone, and it wasn't just anyone—it was Mi Lu.

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