Starting from a Fake University
Chapter 420 - 266: Randomly Selecting a Lucky Student (Leader adding 3/10)_1

Chapter 420: Chapter 266: Randomly Selecting a Lucky Student (Leader adding 3/10)_1

The military training career of the freshmen ended after the Military Training Closing Ceremony.

In the next two or three days, the school would give the freshmen some time to acclimate because it would soon be the National Day long holiday.

During these two to three days, the students could continue to stay at school to familiarize themselves with the campus environment, or they could go home early for the National Day long holiday.

Obviously, the National Day long holiday lasted for a total of seven days, plus these two to three days, the freshmen would have about ten days off.

Therefore, a large number of students would choose to go home or travel somewhere after the military training ended.

Ding Yue instructed the academic affairs office to properly manage the arrival and departure of freshmen students.

Qi Chunsheng, the director of the academic affairs office, was responsible for specific matters, while Ding Yue had more important things to deal with.

That was the launch of the first animated film "Super Combat Team" from Mist City Arts and Science University.

However, before "Super Combat Team" was released, "Our Youth Time", one of the three popular movies to be released during the National Holiday Period, had already started its screening.

Ding Yue stumbled upon the information that "Our Youth Time" was screening from somewhere, and found out about it.

So he searched online for the audience feedback on this film.

"Apparently it’s pretty good?"

Seeing some netizens’ comments that the youth romance movie was quite good, Ding Yue was very puzzled.

How good could a youth romance film really be?

However, out of respect for his competitors, Ding Yue pondered for a moment and decided to go see it. Only after seeing it could he evaluate whether it had a chance to compete for the box office championship during the National Holiday Period.

"Principal Ding, you’re going to watch this movie too? I heard its box office revenue from the screening has already surpassed one hundred million."

As Ding Yue was browsing the page on Cat Eye Movie, the voice of his secretary, Wen Ruohan, sounded next to him.

"What? You want to watch it?"

Ding Yue raised his head and looked at Wen Ruohan before asking.

Wen Ruohan nodded immediately: "Yes, want to watch..."

Young, beautiful girls would certainly like movie screenings of youth romance like "Our Youth Time", after all, girls always yearn for sweet youth romance.

Girls at Wen Ruohan’s age were experiencing their prime youth, so it’s no wonder this movie appealed to her. The target audience must be girls like her and their boyfriends or male friends, or perhaps brownnosers?

All in all, the movie "Our Youth Time" was really released at the perfect time - during the National Holiday Period, when college freshmen had just entered campus and campus love might be budding. Many college students, even high school students, and recent college graduates would probably love this movie.

The condition was that it had to be of decent quality. However, looking at the current opinion on the movie, this one had potential. At least it didn’t appear to be on the level of "Tiny Times" from a previous era on Earth.

Ding Yue hadn’t seen it yet, but his best guess was that it might be on par with "To Our Eventually Lost Youth"?

Guessing here was boring, Ding Yue decided to go watch it.

"Alright, I will treat you to a movie as the principal."

Ding Yue looked at the time. There was nothing significant happening today, so he booked a seating at the best cinema in University Town on Cat Eye Movie. There was a screening at 5:30 in the afternoon.

"Ah! Principal Ding, you’re treating me to a movie!" Wen Ruohan was excited when she heard this.

Last time when they went to the Feiyue Animation studio to watch the "Super Combat Team" sample movie, Wen Ruohan thought Principal Ding was going to treat her to a movie. Little did she know that it would become a reality today.

"Book tickets, make payment."

Ding Yue’s fingers danced lightly on the screen of his phone, successfully buying three movie tickets.

Huh?

Why did he buy three movie tickets?

Seeing the three movie tickets on his phone screen after the payment, Ding Yue was slightly confused.

"Ah, I accidentally bought an extra ticket." Ding Yue muttered to himself.

"Ah, then... How about calling your sister, Principal Ding?" Wen Ruohan suggested after hearing this.

"That works. I’ve bought them already. We can’t waste a movie ticket." Ding Yue thought Wen Ruohan’s suggestion made sense. Why not invite his younger sister, Ding Xiaoyou, to join them?

So Ding Yue directly made a WhatsApp voice call to his sister Ding Xiaoyou.

"Hello, Ding Yue, what do you want? What do you want with me?" As soon as the call was connected, the lackadaisical voice of Ding Yue’s sister sounded.

Wen Ruohan sighed when she heard this, guessing that in the entire Mist City Arts and Science University, probably only Ding Xiaoyou dared to talk to Principal Ding this way?

"I feel like I’ve somehow disturbed you. I bought a ticket for a movie. Will you go see it with us? ’Our Youth Time’. I heard it’s highly praised. And I plan to see how good it is and whether it can pose a threat to our ’Super Combat Team’."

Ding Yue spoke very directly.

"I won’t go, I’m busy!" Ding Xiaoyou rejected without hesitation.

"What are you busy with?" Ding Yue couldn’t help but be curious.

"I am in the laboratory!"

"I understand, sorry to disturb you, bye!"

Ding Yue hung up the call in the next second, then looked at the three movie tickets on his phone screen, muttering: "I don’t believe it, I can’t get rid of a movie ticket?"

"Principal Ding, if Xiao You doesn’t go, why not invite Director Huang or Director Xu?" Wen Ruohan suggested again.

"Them? Forget it!"

Ding Yue thought for a moment, calling over Huang or Bin would result in two men plus Wen Ruohan. That wouldn’t be very suitable.

It would be better to have two females and himself.

After considering this, Ding Yue thought of an interesting method: "I’ve decided, I’ll randomly draw a lucky student to go watch the movie with me."

Having said that, Ding Yue opened Twitter, and posted a lucky draw tweet with his own account—

[Principal Ding of Mist City Arts and Science University]v: Accidentally bought an extra ticket for ’Our Youth Time’. In the spirit of not wasting, I’ve decided to randomly draw a lucky student to watch the movie with me. Students of Mist City Arts and Science University, like this tweet to enter the lottery~ [movie_ticket.jpg]

Retweets (1793) | Comments (2478) | Likes (4.7K)

It hadn’t been an hour after Ding Yue’s tweet was posted and there were already many retweets and comments. The key thing is, there were a lot of likes!

There are actually 4.7k of likes!

Ding Yue was gobsmacked. There are only just over 30,000 students in Mist City Arts and Science University, and not all of them follow his Twitter.

Obviously, among these 4.7k likes, many must be from random netizens causing trouble.

It was only then that Ding Yue realized, he shouldn’t have used Twitter for the draw. Wouldn’t it have been better to do it in the school’s student group?

Having a Twitter lottery might result in choosing a stranger. Even if he drew this lucky stranger, Ding Yue couldn’t give the movie ticket to them.

"What should I do, I’m not a student of Mist City Arts and Science University, but I liked the tweet!"

"Hahaha, I’m also not a student of Mist City Arts and Science University, but I thought it was funny, so I liked the tweet too!"

"You guys are having too much fun, you’ve decreased my odds of winning o(╥﹏╥)o"

"Here it comes, Principal Ding inviting to watch a movie, I’m super excited!"

"Pick me! Principal Ding! Pick me! Hit me hard!"

"Liked it, hope to win!"

"Wow, Principal Ding is also going to see ’Our Youth Time’?"

"I heard that this movie has very good reputation in preliminary screenings, there’s a good chance it might be the box office champion of the National Holiday Period."

"Discussing here, in Principal Ding’s tweet, about other movies becoming the box office champion of the National Holiday Period, how do you think Principal Ding feels about his ’Super Combat Team’?"

"Excuse me, Principal Ding, will there be another lottery on Twitter to send out a Big White medical health robot when ’Super Combat Team’ comes out?"

Ding Yue glanced through the comment section.

Just as he expected, there were certainly going to be some funny netizens clicking likes for the crowd, causing the use of Twitter for the lottery to make it hard to draw his own university’s students right?

Ugh~

It was an operational mistake.

However, Ding Yue quickly thought of a solution, and it was by using "black tech" to solve this problem.

Ding Yue switched his phone screen to the contact list and made a call to his buddy, Xu Bin.

For this kind of things, getting Bin, this hacker, involved definitely shouldn’t be a problem.

"Hello, Bin?"

"Hey, Yue, what’s up?"

"So, I posted a lottery tweet on Twitter, but the draw has to come from our school. But a lot of netizens have the chance to win because they liked it. How do we solve it? Can you do anything?"

Ding Yue explained the situation, then asked.

"That’s easy! Just locate the phone ip, then filter out the users who liked with phone ip used in our school to enter the draw. I can even hack into Twitter’s lottery platform. Yue, you tell me, who’d you like to win? You can control everything!"

Xu Bin said proudly.

"Ugh, no, you just make it so the lottery could draw a student from our school."

Ding Yue couldn’t imagine Xu Bin being so capable to easily hack into Twitter’s lottery system.

But Ding Yue felt it was unnecessary, he just needed to make sure his lottery would definitely draw a student from his school.

"Okay, wait for ten minutes, I’ll write the program." Xu Bin said and hung up.

Ten minutes later, Xu Bin sent Ding Yue an OK gesture on Whatsapp.

"Bin is really awesome!"

Ding Yue muttered, over the past year or so, Bin’s hacking skills had really dramatically improved, not only in hacking but also in other areas of computer technology. Bin was really good.

This was due to Bin’s own love for computers, as well as the personal learning buff that Ding Yue had given Bin.

Seeing the number of likes increasing, Ding Yue prepared to draw the lottery.

I wonder which lucky student can get this extra movie ticket?