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Chapter 96 0093 [Intermittent Mental Emptiness] (Bonus chapter for Alliance Leader Ai Ai Feng Zhong Yu Fan)
Before we knew it, we had reached the final stage of course selection.

Li Hang, a senior member of Yuanhuo Studio, has also started drawing original artwork for the game "Three Kingdoms Kill".

"Chen Guiliang, have you made your choice?" Jiang Junlai asked.

Chen Guiliang said, "We've almost made our selections."

"Let me see." Jiang Junlai had no clue what to do. He had chosen many science courses, but he also found the humanities courses interesting.

Chen Guiliang's class schedule is as follows:

Required courses exclusive to the Yuanpei Class: History of Chinese Civilization, Western Civilization in a Global Perspective, Scientific Methodology, and Critical Writing and Academic Norms.

The following are compulsory general education courses for all students: College English, Physical Education, Political Theory, and Military Theory (online courses).

General elective courses: Ancient Chinese Literature, Introduction to Logic, Principles of Economics, Introduction to Sociology, Basic Physics Experiments, and Introduction to Astronomy.

This year, for the new students in the Yuanpei Class, "Advanced Mathematics" is not a required course, but has become a general elective course.

Chen Guiliang chose 14 very standard courses.

If you choose more than 18 courses, you're considered extremely ambitious, and you'll have an excess of credits.

If you choose fewer than 10 courses, it will be difficult to meet the credit requirements, and your advisor will generally not approve it.

Courses like "Introduction to Astronomy" are purely for earning credits; you can go stargazing at night, and there's no final exam. Of course, they award very few credits.

After reviewing Chen Guiliang's schedule, Jiang Jun hesitated for a while before gritting his teeth and deciding on his own course.

Chen Guiliang counted them and felt that the child had gone mad.

Twenty courses, covering both arts and sciences!
"Are you planning to learn from Guo Feng?" Chen Guiliang was overjoyed.

Jiang Junlai said, "I want to learn everything. Anyway, there's a two-week trial period. If I really don't have enough energy, I can just cancel the extra courses."

“That’s true.” Chen Guiliang nodded.

Jiang Junlai said mysteriously, "Do you remember Zeng Changgao, the guy who came to our dorm to play cards last time?"

"I remember, you're the science class monitor," Chen Guiliang said.

Jiang Junlai said, "Zeng Changgao's memory is super abnormal. A couple of days ago, a few of us were chatting, and he was sitting next to us flipping through a book, turning a page every minute or so. By the time we finished chatting, he had finished reading the whole book. I thought he was just flipping through the book out of boredom, but he could tell us the general content of the book! He didn't just give a general overview; he could point out the important details in the book."

"That's pretty impressive." Chen Guiliang said with genuine admiration.

Jiang Junlai said, "I can't let him outdo me. I heard he also signed up for 20 courses!"

……

The two ran to the south gate and each spent several tens of yuan to buy a second-hand bicycle.

Then they rushed to their tutor to get the course approved.

Chen Guiliang's mentor was Lai Liangcai, a sociology professor.

The counselor was confirmed to be Long Xiang, a third-year student. This is quite strange, as Senior Long is clearly a science major, yet he's assigned to lead a group of humanities students.

Jiang Junlai, a freshman majoring in science, had his counselor changed to a third-year social science student.

After selecting his courses, Chen Guiliang carried his backpack to the main library.

By using the "Ming Shilu" (Veritable Records of the Ming Dynasty) as a reference book, I found the "Ming Shilu" I needed and took out paper and pen to selectively excerpt interesting content.

There were too many words in this document, so Chen Guiliang just glanced through it to find what he needed.

Time passed by unnoticed, and Chen Guiliang felt hungry. He looked at the time and it was already 7:30 pm.

After eating a bowl of noodles, Chen Guiliang rode his bike back to his dormitory.

Guo Feng was the only one in room 404, and this amazing guy was reading "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber".

"Old Guo, how many courses did you sign up for when you entered university?" Chen Guiliang asked.

Guo Feng stared at the computer screen: "22 doors."

Chen Guiliang: “…”

Guo Feng continued, "I didn't think it through at the time and even failed one subject, so I reduced it to 20 subjects later."

"How are things now?" Chen Guiliang asked.

Guo Feng said, "It's very painful. I majored in biology, but I don't really like it."

“You can change your major,” Chen Guiliang said.

Guo Feng said, "I'm too lazy to change jobs, and I don't even know what to change to. I'll just drift through my senior year and graduate, then find any job I can find."

"You should be able to complete your credits by your junior year, right?" Chen Guiliang said.

Guo Feng said, "My family is financially well-off. My parents are both civil servants, so I don't need to earn money to support them. I'll take every extra year in college. It's no fun graduating in my third year."

You call signing up for 20 courses a sham?
Guo Feng paused the video: "Do you have a girlfriend?"

"What's wrong?" Chen Guiliang asked.

Guo Feng hesitated to speak: "I'm quite normal and confident when talking to guys. But when I talk to girls, I'm a bit... well, insecure. No, that's not right. I only become insecure when I meet a girl I like. Can you teach me how to pursue girls? Especially when facing a girl I like, how can I boost my confidence?"

Chen Guiliang thought for a moment: "Demystify."

"Huh?" Guo Feng asked, puzzled.

Chen Guiliang said, "Don't imagine that girl to be too perfect. She also poops and farts, and she also wants to find a boyfriend. And you are also very outstanding, so you are a perfect match for her."

Guo Feng understood, but disagreed: "If I can demystify the girl I like, then why would I like her? Why would I pursue her? She must be sacred and perfect for me to like and pursue her."

Chen Guiliang said, "Old Guo, I'm telling you how to pursue girls, but you're discussing the philosophy of love with me. It seems like we're not going to reach any conclusions if we keep talking like this."

“That’s true,” Guo Feng nodded. Chen Guiliang asked, “Do you think there really are sacred and perfect women in this world?”

Thinking of the girl he had a crush on, Guo Feng said with certainty, "She definitely exists. We have one at Peking University."

"Which department is she in?" Chen Guiliang asked curiously.

Guo Feng said, "She's a senior in the biology department and has already been accepted into a master's program. I chose biology because of her. She looks incredibly beautiful when she does experiments—quiet, focused, like a black hole that can absorb all the light in the world."

Chen Guiliang thought to himself: This man is beyond saving.

"How about I write you a love poem?" Chen Guiliang asked.

Guo Feng shook his head repeatedly: "If anyone is going to write it, it'll be me. Hiring someone else to write it would be deception. How could I deceive her? That would be a desecration of love."

Chen Guiliang started to deceive her: "If you want her to like you, you must have something special about you, right? Otherwise, why would she even glance at you?"

“Yes,” Guo Feng agreed.

Chen Guiliang asked, "What are your strengths?"

Guo Feng racked his brains: "It seems not. I deliberately chose random courses, and even courses that had nothing to do with each other, just to attract her attention. But she didn't pay attention to me; instead, she earned the nickname 'Crazy Guo.'"

"You have to achieve something in some area!" Chen Guiliang continued to deceive him.

Guo Feng said, "Besides being okay at studying, I don't have any other skills. But there are too many people at Peking University who are good at studying, so I can't stand out at all."

Chen Guiliang asked, "How good are you at computers?"

"It's alright, I've been studying since my freshman year." As long as he doesn't talk about love, Guo Feng is quite confident in himself.

Chen Guiliang said, "Let's build a website together. Once you've built up the business, you'll be a successful person. Wouldn't she look up to you then?"

Guo Feng said, "She's not that vulgar."

Chen Guiliang is about to be defeated.

This psycho!
“What if she likes successful people? How will you know if you don’t try?” Chen Guiliang said.

Guo Feng said, "If she likes someone because they are rich, it will only lower my opinion of her. She will no longer be perfect and will not be worthy of my liking."

Damn it, we've come full circle again.

Chen Guiliang couldn't help but complain, "Senior, I think you're better suited to delve into philosophy."

Guo Feng said, "I also took philosophy classes, but I didn't really like them. I only took a few credits before giving up. Oh well, it seems you don't understand either. I'll just continue reading 'The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber'."

Chen Guiliang asked, "Was Zhao Min ruthless in pursuing Zhang Wuji, using any means necessary?"

Guo Feng retorted, "I can still distinguish between TV dramas and reality. Don't use fictional characters as an analogy."

You're trying to talk to me about reality?

The kind of love you imagine is practically impossible in reality!
Classes officially start tomorrow, and Chen Guiliang was too lazy to argue with this charlatan, so he grabbed his bucket and went outside to find a public bathhouse to take a shower.

After taking a shower, I ran into Min Wenyu and Jiang Junlai downstairs in dormitory building number 36.

They both wanted to take a shower too.

Min Wenyu said, "Chen Guiliang, Senior Brother Guo is acting strange tonight. He keeps staring blankly at the computer and doesn't change the program even after an episode of a TV series has finished airing."

“He’s pondering philosophical questions,” Chen Guiliang said.

Jiang Junlai asked, "What philosophical question?"

Chen Guiliang said, "What is love anyway?"

Jiang Junlai's thought process is quite unique: "Is love an illusion produced by hormone secretion?"

"You're all right." Chen Guiliang didn't want to say anything more.

When he returned to his dormitory, Guo Feng seemed to have returned to normal.

"What kind of website are you going to create?" Guo Feng asked.

Chen Guiliang said, "Didn't you just say you didn't want to attract your goddess through this?"

Guo Feng said, "Life isn't just about love; I also have my own life."

“That makes a lot of sense,” Chen Guiliang said.

"You don't think I'm crazy, do you? I've always been perfectly normal," Guo Feng said, cracking his neck. "I've been so bored lately, so bored that all I can do is watch TV dramas. I'm planning to find something to do. It's kind of an intermittent feeling of emptiness. Last time I was bored, I went to the electronics mall to work and pass the time."

It seems, perhaps, maybe, it has indeed suddenly returned to normal.

Their psychological self-regulation ability is pretty impressive.

Chen Guiliang said, "I want to create a campus social platform that leverages the networks among alumni to form communities of all sizes. Once the platform gains more influence, I'll also bring in external social networks."

Guo Feng took out paper and pen and quickly got into the zone: "Explain in more detail."

Chen Guiliang said, "Currently, social software mainly falls into three categories. One is general social networking like QQ, another is content creation platforms like blogs, and the third is interest communities like BBS forums. A dedicated social space for high school and university students is still largely untapped in the internet field. We can precisely target the student group and capture this market by focusing on real-world relationship networks..."

After listening, Guo Feng looked at the keywords he had written down: "I feel like I'm about to become a millionaire."

It would be unwise to directly launch Renren.com.

The name "Xiaonei.com" itself was a powerful weapon for initial expansion.

Chen Guiliang predicts that it will take at least three to six months for Xiaonei.com to go from being launched to attracting investment.

You can start building your website structure now.

(Please give me a monthly ticket.)
(End of this chapter)