Chapter 14 (2/2)

[Recruiting mobile carrier agents on campus.]

Chen Hansheng shook his head, passing that ad.

[Looking for an English tutor who has passed at least CET 8.]

Pass again.

“Recruiting someone to hand out flyers for Yiwu’s small enterprises, thirty yuan a day, meals included.”

Chen Hansheng shook his head again.

After rejecting several flyers in a row, he finally saw a thin flyer next to the big blackboard.

“Shentong Delivery Express Company is recruiting a campus agent. We would like to invite you to contact us at 159XXXXXXX.”

Chen Hansheng looked at it for a long time before he finally tore off the piece of paper and folded it as he putt it into his pocket.

…

After receiving the quilt and mattress from the dormitory management office, Chen Hansheng walked up to Room 602 by himself.

The male dormitory of the school had six-person rooms. Chen Hansheng pushed the door open and saw that the other five roommates had already arrived. The moment Chen Hansheng walked in, they stopped minding their business and looked up at him.

“Seems like I’m the last to arrive.” Chen Hansheng walked in with a smile.

Each of his roommates reacted differently. Some stood up to help carry his luggage in, some just shyly said hello, and some only took a glance indifferently.

Dorms in high schools and universities were different. High school dorms usually consisted of people who speak the same dialect and ate the same kinds of food. Their parents might even know each other. If there were conflicts, they would usually be easy to resolve.

University dorms, on the other hand, house students from all over. People from different cultures who spoke different languages could be roommates. Rather than a community, it’s almost like an every-man-for-himself situation in a university dorm.

Simply put, living in a university dorm was a person’s first step to being independent of their parents and the comforts of their previous lives. It was their first step into the real world.

Chen Hansheng put down his luggage and one of his roommates curiously asked, “Why didn’t your parents come with you?”

“I didn’t want them to. I could just do it myself,” said Chen Hansheng with a laugh.

It was a different response to the one he had given earlier to the girls at Donghai University.

And as expected, his response got his roommates to look at him differently. How brave of a high school graduate to travel with a few thousand yuan to register for university.

They carefully looked at Chen Hansheng again. He was quite tall and strong. Although he spoke very amiably, he had a wild and unruly smile. People would usually get this kind of impression from students with the lowest scores, so his roommates didn’t know how Chen Hansheng got into the school.

While his roommates were observing him, Chen Hansheng was also doing the same to them. These were people with whom he would need to get along day in and day out.

But in fact, Chen Hansheng already knew them. After all, it was his thirty-five-year-old mind in his eighteen-year-old body. He had been roommates with them before. He knew their personalities and even their future. But that was all in the ‘past’.

A butterfly flapping its wings could set off huge waves. After Chen Hansheng was reborn, he would not only change his fate but also that of the people around him. Chen Hansheng didn’t want to look at his roommates through his old lens.

‘Let those impressions stay in the past. There’s no point in learning from them now.’ Chen Hansheng reminded himself.

If there were conflicts in the past, he would try his best to avoid them. He did not want to make enemies now.

Wouldn’t it be better to be friends with everyone?

This should be how one tackles a second chance. If he lingered on the negatives of his past, wouldn’t he just be letting a great opportunity slide past?