Rebirth begins with studying hard

Chapter 54 Still the Same Ding Yiming

After parting ways with Sun Bo, Lu Jie saw that it was still quite early, so he went to Huaihe Road Pedestrian Street.

Just before the college entrance exam, a new Kafka store opened, but he had been too busy to go.

He was also looking forward to talking to Xie Bai again about future developments.

Kafka currently has five stores, and the company still operates on a studio-style model with unclear division of labor.

To continue developing in the future, we need to establish a company headquarters and set up various departments; otherwise, efficiency will be very low.

But when he arrived at Kafka on the pedestrian street, he didn't see Shepard, but he met someone else.

Ding Yiming.

"Lu Jie!" Ding Yiming, who was queuing to buy milk tea at Kafka, looked surprised.

During his three years of high school, Lu Jie did not hang out with Song Qian and Ding Yiming as often as he did in his previous life, and his relationship with the two of them became much less close than in his previous life.

Especially Victoria Song, who is proud of her looks and has no shortage of male admirers, he deliberately distanced himself from her and they basically had no contact anymore.

But Ding Yiming kept sending him messages. At first, she asked him to hang out, but after he refused many times and then rarely replied, she started asking him for help with his studies.

When he wasn't busy, he would occasionally reply, but he never accepted any of Ding Yiming's invitations.

The most recent invitation was after the college entrance examination, when Ding Yiming asked him if he had any plans and wanted to invite him and Song Qian to sing together.

After the college entrance examination, he was already so busy that he couldn't stop working, so he naturally declined.

Of course, even if he wasn't busy, he wouldn't accept Ding Yiming's invitation.

Although he wouldn't deliberately give Ding Yiming a hard time or embarrass her because of his past life, he definitely didn't want to have any further interaction with her.

"Mr. Lu, is this your friend?" The shop assistant recognized Lu Jie and, seeing Ding Yiming and Lu Jie's warm greeting, took the initiative to speak:

"That......"

Since they had run into each other, and Ding Yiming took the initiative to greet him, Lu Jie naturally smiled and nodded. Hearing the shop assistant's words, he said:

"This drink is on me, no charge."

"Okay, Mr. Lu." The clerk said, and then said to Ding Yiming warmly, "Student, your full set meal is good. You can stir it before drinking so that the toppings are more evenly distributed and the taste is better."

"Ah..." Ding Yiming, who was about to invite Lu Jie to have a drink, was stunned. She did not expect that the shop assistant would know Lu Jie and even call him President Lu.

As a student, she was a little confused.

She didn't even know how to bring it up and offer to buy Lu Jie milk tea.

After a moment of stunned silence, she stammered, "Have you eaten?"

"Shall I treat you to KFC?"

"I have something I'd like to ask you."

Lu Jie naturally refused, saying, "I have something to do, so I won't go eat now."

"Okay, okay." Ding Yiming nodded silently, picked up the milk tea the clerk handed her, and said, "Thank you for this."

Lu Jie smiled and said, "You're welcome."

After saying that, he went into the back of the Kafka store and chatted with the store manager about the business situation.

I called Xie Bai again, wanting to arrange a meeting to talk.

Upon learning that he had returned to Nanjing in the past two days, I gave up on the idea.

After hanging up the phone, he heard the shop assistant say, "Mr. Lu, your friend hasn't left; she's been waiting for you outside. Is she waiting for you?"

Lu Jie glanced outside the shop and saw Ding Yiming standing in the shade, glancing into the shop from time to time.

"Probably not, I didn't make an appointment with her." He glanced at it and didn't think much of it.

But half an hour later, the shop assistant said to him, "It seems like they really were waiting for you; they've been watching our shop the whole time."

He ignored them, and after looking around the entire production area in the store and making sure everything was in order, he glanced at the time and realized it was almost one o'clock. Feeling a bit hungry, he decided to go out and grab something to eat.

As soon as he stepped outside, Ding Yiming immediately came over.

"Lu Jie, are you done with your work?"

"I want to talk to you."

Is she really waiting for him?

Lu Jie glanced at the time; she had been waiting for an hour and a half.

Considering how long the other person had waited and how they had blocked his way, he nodded.

"Let's go to that KFC up ahead."

After he asked Ding Yiming to find a seat, he went to queue up and ordered a set meal for two.

He carried the food to his seat without saying a word.

After a slightly awkward silence, Ding Yiming spoke first, asking curiously:

"Do you own that Kafka family business?"

Lu Jie shook his head and didn't say much: "I invested some money in my friend's shop, so I'm a small shareholder."

Ding Yiming responded with an "oh." She knew that Lu Jie had written a novel, was quite famous, and had earned a lot of royalties, so it wasn't surprising that he had money to invest.

"That's amazing." She praised him, then paused for a moment before saying:

Have you checked your scores yet?

Lu Jie nodded: "611 points."

"Wow, that's amazing!" Ding Yiming exclaimed, then said somewhat dejectedly, "I only scored 510, which isn't even close to the undergraduate cutoff."

Lu Jie was somewhat surprised. In his memory, Ding Yiming had only scored a little over 400 points in her previous life, but in this life, she scored nearly 100 points higher than in her previous life.

"Is the cutoff score for liberal arts majors really that high? It's not even 500 points yet?"

He vaguely remembered the cutoff score for liberal arts, but couldn't recall the exact number.

"Yeah, the cutoff score for third-tier universities is 516. I was only 6 points away from getting into a third-tier university," Ding Yiming sighed. "If only I were as smart as you."

Lu Jie smiled and said, "510 and 516 are only 6 points apart. You should be able to get into an undergraduate program through the supplementary admission process."

"Really?" Ding Yiming was stunned for a moment, then her eyes lit up with anticipation.

Lu Jie nodded: "If you have the chance, keep an eye out for the supplementary enrollment information."

He knew that Ding Yiming cared a lot about her education. In her previous life, she had only attended a junior college and had always been resentful about it, wanting to pursue a bachelor's degree. Despite her family's objections, she took the entrance exam to upgrade her junior college degree to a bachelor's degree.

In this life, one can go straight to undergraduate studies.

I just don't know if her family agrees to her going to a more expensive third-tier university, but that's none of his business.

After Ding Yiming responded, she changed the subject:

"Have you been in touch with Victoria Song lately? I was with her yesterday, and we talked about you. She said you're doing really well in your studies..."

Lu Jie shook his head again: "No contact."

Ding Yiming, who had been interrupted, paused for a moment, then thought for a moment and said:

"You used to like Victoria Song, right? Actually, she's always had a good feeling about you. Now that you're doing so well on your exams and are so talented, you'll definitely be able to win her over."

"I can help you pursue her."

Lu Jie was taken aback; the scene seemed somewhat familiar to him.

After a moment of confusion, he remembered.

In her previous life, Ding Yiming also said, "I can help you pursue her," but not after graduating from high school, but during the summer between her junior and senior years.

At that time, he was quite grateful to Ding Yiming, thinking that this girl was really a good person.

He hadn't paid much attention to Ding Yiming in this life, but unexpectedly, she still came to him and said something similar.

Ding Yiming is still the same Ding Yiming from her previous life; she is exactly the same.

He stared at Ding Yiming quietly for a while, until she became increasingly uncomfortable, before finally speaking:

"No need, I don't like Victoria Song."