Ruan Jiaojiao and her friends sat at a window-side table in the restaurant. After ordering, Chen Momo said happily, "Jiaojiao, you’ve passed the preliminaries for the Campus Belle pageant. You have to work hard for the advancement round in two days!"
At the mention of the pageant, Ruan Jiaojiao offered a helpless smile. She hadn’t wanted to participate, but Chen Momo and the others had signed her up in secret. Once her photos went viral on the school forum, they had proactively taken it upon themselves to promote her. When Ruan Jiaojiao had tried to quit to focus on her studies, she was informed that there was prize money involved: twenty thousand yuan for first place, fifteen thousand for second, ten thousand for third, and five thousand for each of the remaining top ten. Even though she wasn't keen, the prize money changed her mind. After all, she couldn't keep relying on the four-thousand-yuan allowance from her Second Uncle forever; she needed to save up for her future studies abroad.
"Jiaojiao, Fu Jiaru is ranked right behind you—you're first, she's second. But we haven't seen her lately. Who knows what kind of trouble that rich heiress is brewing now," Xu Hailu said while munching on a cookie.
Chapter 76