"Have we walked more than ten thousand steps today?" Ding Yue nodded, "Indeed, it’s a bit tiring."
He spent the afternoon traveling across the campus with Director Xiao Wenxing from the Education Office beginning at the Administration Building. They toured around the construction sites of the campus under construction and briefed Director Xiao on the situation. They then visited the Central Sports Ground under construction and walked a bit towards the north side.
After the drone completed the survey of the northern area, Ding Yue and Director Xiao returned to the Administration Building.
Though it didn’t seem to be a long walk, due to the vast stretch of 7500 acres relatively covered by the Mist City Arts and Science University, it was indeed quite tiring to complete a tour.
"Hehehe, Principal Ding, I recently taught a massage technique," said Wen Ruohan with a smile.
"No, not me. I taught Big White a massage technique. I observed that you seemed tired after long hours of work, so I had Big White learn a massage technique. You’ll feel relaxed for sure."
Wen Ruohan said happily.
Having dealt with teaching Big White to massage, she finally found it handy.
Ding Yue initially thought Wen Ruohan had learned massage and was about to give him one. But it appeared that he was supposed to get a massage from Big White.
Ding Yue nodded and called out to Big White, "Big White."
"Principal, I’m here."
"Have you learned a massage technique from Xiao Wen?"
Ding Yue asked Big White.
"Principal, I recently learned a massage technique. Would you like to try it?" Big White analyzed the key information from Ding Yue’s question using artificial intelligence and responded.
"Big White, come over here and give Principal Ding a massage," Wen Ruohan hurriedly approached and brought Big White over.
As Wen Ruohan was a secondary voice command user for Big White, Big White didn’t resist Wen Ruohan’s maneuvers. However, if a stranger were to pull Big White and start running, Big White would intelligently activate certain functions to avoid being taken away easily.
Ding Yue relaxed his body, leaned back in his office chair, and closed his eyes.
The next second, he felt a palm land on his shoulder – it was soft, with just the right amount of pressure.
The massage began unobtrusively, marking Ding Yue’s first experience of a robot massage.
Turns out, Big White’s strength in masseuse was precisely adequate. Each time it kneaded, it seemed to alleviate the fatigue from Ding Yue’s body and relax him.
So, amid Big White’s relaxing massage, Ding Yue fell asleep unknowingly.
He only woke up when he heard Wen Ruohan calling out to him.
"Principal Ding, Principal Ding? Principal Ding? Have you fallen asleep?" Wen Ruohan kept calling Principal Ding.
"Hmm... hmm? Yawn~" Waking up, Ding Yue gave a big yawn and felt his entire body soften. "Oh boy, I fell asleep."
"Principal Ding, massages tend to be very soporific," Wen Ruohan held her mouth and laughed. After a moment, she became serious again. "Principal Ding, I didn’t want to wake you up, but... I just received a call from Miss An."
The moment he heard this, Ding Yue frowned slightly, "What’s the matter?"
"Miss An mentioned her junior schoolmate from the Wharton School of Business, what was her name again...?"
"Yes, Chen Yilin has arrived. Miss An asked me to check with you, Principal Ding. If you have time, would you like to join them for dinner?" Wen Ruohan relayed the message to Principal Ding.
Upon hearing this, Ding Yue lifted his head and looked out of the floor-to-ceiling window. It was already dark outside. After a brief consideration, he nodded, "Alright, let’s go."
Ding Yue stood up and walked towards the office door. Suddenly, he remembered something and asked, "Where is it?"
"It’s at the Campus Hot Pot Restaurant on the third floor of the second cafeteria," answered Wen Ruohan.
"Oh, right. A girl who has returned from abroad and is visiting Mist City for the first time would surely want to try out the Mist City hotpot."
Ding Yue nodded in a thoughtful manner and then exited the office.
"Big White, you can rest," Wen Ruohan called out to Big White, quickly following Principal Ding.
In the office, upon hearing Wen Ruohan’s command, Big White automatically returned to his red metal box and entered a standby state.
The third floor of the Second Cafeteria at Mist City Arts and Science University was as bustling as ever.
The university’s students with their student IDs could enjoy hotpot here at a discounted price.
Despite it being a regular school day, the Campus Theme Hotpot Restaurant at the second cafeteria still had a good number of visitors, though fewer compared to weekends or vacations.
In one of the private rooms...
"Yu Jia, I looked up information online about your university’s principal. My goodness, he’s so young!" A lively, ponytail girl sitting next to An Yujia started up a conversation about Ding Yue.
"Yes, our Principal Ding is indeed young and much younger than you," An Yujia said with a laugh.
"He’s young, handsome, and looks quite charismatic in pictures," Chen Yilin commented energetically.