The next morning, Sophia arrived early at university to make preparations. She had even ironed her school uniform the night before. These foreign guests were held in high regard by the university leaders and as soon as Sophia arrived, she was led into the office by the leader for their final training.
The students were expected to be in their best state for the reception. As student representatives of Bayside University, they had to be extraordinary. As such, eight student representatives were selected to accompany the guests.
All eight had remarkable backgrounds, not to mention they were very talented and skillful. Among them were top students of Bayside University and also the winners of the Misty Pageant.
After the leader’s pep talk, everyone waited in the office for the guests who would be arriving shortly. While waiting, Sophia asked in the game group chat, ‘What’s for dinner?’
‘Barbeque,” Sean and Imported Young Man both replied in the group chat.
Sophia was thrilled that Linus was joining them. After all, he was knowledgeable so she might be able to gain some knowledge from him after dinner and a couple of drinks.
Suddenly, Linus continued, ‘Good news is, I have decided to study at Bayside University in Cethos so we’ll be university mates soon.’
While the group chat was filled with celebratory comments, Sean grimaced at the news and thought, Linus is going to attend Bayside University?
In fact, Linus had graduated with a PhD in Economics and Management at the age of fourteen and currently had a double PhD. Now that he was going to attend Bayside University, Sean wondered if Linus was just seeking the thrill of beating rookies.
Just then, Stanley said, ‘I have a match against School of Athletics this afternoon, so you have to come watch our game. By the way, Sophia, I think I saw Mrs. Murray at the complex building just now. She was playing the piano in the hall.’
Mrs. Murray? It took a while before Sophia understood. She laughed and typed in the group chat, ‘Ha!’
Just then, it also dawned on Sean and Sarah, and the group chat was filled with laughter. Linus was the only exception as he did not understand the joke. ‘Who’s Mrs. Murray?’
Patiently, Stanley explained to Linus, ‘Nat, the one we met in our game the other day. She’s always harassing Taylor. Her name is Natasha Mitchell. A while ago, she claimed to be Taylor Murray’s wife during a press conference.
Since then, we nicknamed her “Mrs. Murray”.’ The Mitchell Family tried to cover up for Natasha, but the public would not forget about this “celebrity marriage” meme. Secretly, they all addressed Natasha as “Mrs. Murray”.
As soon as Linus was in on the joke, he laughed along with everyone else. The group chat was filled with emojis and it was a joyous atmosphere. There were a total of seven people in the game group chat. Sophia, Linus, Stanley, Sean, and Sarah were all youngsters, who had a lot of common topics to talk about.
Not only that, they were all in the same industry so they usually would have over a hundred messages in a blink of an eye.
Meanwhile, the other two older guys barely spoke in the group as they did not want to startle the youths and stop them from chatting in the group. Not only that, they barely had anything to chat about with the youngsters.
However, Michael always read through the messages every day, even right now.
“Everyone, please prepare to greet the guests.” Being one of the teachers that were responsible for the guests’ reception today, Quinton had come in to remind everyone to get ready. All at once, the student representatives put away their phones and left the office one by one to greet the guests.
“Don’t be nervous, guys,” he reassured.
Oh—let’s leave it to fate, Sophia thought before she started to zone out. It was only when her classmate nudged her with their elbow that she came back to her senses. At that moment, she saw the guests approaching.
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