The next day, at the site of the selection competition.
"Good afternoon, teachers and students! This is..."
"Now let's invite the first contestant..."
...
"Removing the highest and lowest scores, Song Daiyao's final score is 8.2."
"Yay! Daiyao, you did great." The moment the scores were out, Qiu Xi finally loosened her clenched fists.
Song Daiyao was the last to go up. The rankings of those before her had already been released. The three of them were essentially guaranteed, and if Song Daiyao performed well, she would also be fine.
Shen Yan also clapped happily, "Great! We finally didn't waste our training."
Liang Yunfei looked at Song Daiyao, who had just come off stage and was walking towards them, and said, "Alright, we can really relax after waiting for the list to come out."
They wouldn't relax until it was a sure thing.
After a short wait, the host returned to the stage.
"Our score rankings have all been released. Finally, congratulations to Jia Yan, Zhen Ren, Qiu Xi... Liang Yunfei, Shen Yan, Song Daiyao, and others for passing this selection competition and entering the preliminary round of the National University Student English Speech Competition. Let's give them a round of applause."
"Now you can rest easy, right?" After intently listening to the list announced by the host, Qiu Xi smiled and patted Liang Yunfei.
Liang Yunfei understood Qiu Xi's implication. She put on a serious face and then said, "I'm just being cautious."
Song Daiyao was watching the fun. She couldn't hold back any longer and said, "Hahaha~ Little Fei Fei, you're still so cute!"
"...I'm not!!"
As they were joking around, Qiu Xi heard the system's announcement.
"Beep!"
"Congratulations to the host for successfully participating. The rewards have been issued. Please check."
Upon hearing the announcement and seeing the credited amount, Qiu Xi thought to herself that she had finally secured her ticket.
It was a perfect opportunity to celebrate with a good meal. So, she put away her phone and called her roommates, "The prize has been collected, and the photos have been taken. Should we go now?"
"Let's go, let's go, let's go eat something delicious."
"Ding dong!"
As soon as she walked out, Qiu Xi felt her phone vibrate with a text message.
She took it out and saw two courier notifications.
She was puzzled, as she hadn't bought anything recently. Where did the packages come from?
"Xiao Xi, what's wrong?" Seeing Qiu Xi standing there looking at her messages, her three roommates stopped and asked her.
"It's nothing, just two courier messages, but I haven't bought anything recently." Qiu Xi explained.
"Maybe someone sent them? We'll know once we go pick them up," the optimistic Song Daiyao blurted out.
Qiu Xi nodded, "That's true. We can go pick them up after eating and see."
With that, the four of them went to eat.
After they finished eating, Liang Yunfei and Shen Yan said they had things to do and needed to go back first. They asked Song Daiyao to accompany Qiu Xi to the courier point to see what those two packages were.
"They're this big? What are they?" Song Daiyao was a bit surprised looking at the two oversized express boxes Qiu Xi was holding.
"I don't know either. Let's just take them back first." Qiu Xi was also unsure. The boxes were quite large, but not very heavy.
Looking at the addresses, one was sent from Jinhai City, and Qiu Xi suspected it was from home. However, she looked at the other one for a long time but couldn't guess.
"Then let's take them back first." She said, taking one of them and walking forward.
"Mm-hmm."