What to do if you become the female lead's best friend?

Chapter 9

This graduation ceremony was indeed grand and extraordinary, as people had expected. Many school leaders and social celebrities attended the ceremony.

Even the students participating in the ceremony were different from usual - no one was playing with their phones privately, and all their gazes were fixed on the podium.

To be precise, it was the man sitting in the middle of the podium, who seemed to be glowing without any special effects, just like a character in a comic book.

Most of these gazes came from the female students.

On the podium, the school leaders unusually skipped the lengthy opening remarks and simply said a few words before letting the host continue.

Gu Jin stood with her hands clasped in front of her abdomen, wearing a graceful smile.

She secretly pricked up her ears to listen to the female students discussing the man on the stage in hushed, excited tones.

"He's so handsome and stylish! The ascetic aura of the bespectacled gentleman is so charming!"

"His physique is amazing! I wonder how many abdominal muscles he has?"

"Tsk, no need to guess! He's surely slim when dressed, but ripped when undressed!"

Gu Jin inwardly nodded, remembering the hard, steel-like chest she had once collided with.

Soon after, she heard their discussion taking an indescribable turn.

Ah, the girls with blossoming springtime emotions, Gu Jin smiled wryly.

She shifted her gaze back to the stage.

No wonder, amid the sea of Mediterranean builds and beer bellies, this man with an upright posture and bearing, like a lone poplar tree in the desert, was so easily the center of attention.

Not to mention, this man was exceptionally good-looking and wealthy - the crème de la crème among men.

Alas, he was not someone she could handle.

"Hey, don't you agree?"

Gu Jingzheng was deep in thought when someone discreetly bumped into her arm.

"Huh? What?" Gu Jingzheng turned back, looking confused.

The one who bumped into her was another etiquette lady. Her eyes were shining, and her face flushed with excitement as she stared at the stage and exclaimed, "Mu Mingcheng!"

"Mu Mingcheng?" Gu Jingzheng repeated the name instinctively. The moment she heard this name, she felt a sense of familiarity, as if she had heard it somewhere before.

"The man sitting in the middle." The girl explained, then turned her head to look at Gu Jingzheng with disbelief, "You don't even know him? He's the legendary CEO of the Mu Corporation."

If she hadn't looked, she wouldn't have noticed. But now that she did, she realized Gu Jingzheng looked a bit unfamiliar. The girl looked Gu Jingzheng up and down, eyeing her suspiciously, "Are you a new member of the etiquette team? I've never seen you before."

It was strange. Since when did the etiquette team recruit women under 1.68 meters? But her face was quite pretty, even more outstanding than their team leader.

"Yes," Gu Jingzheng's reply was a bit stiff, as the girl's words had left her mind in a mess. She didn't want to waste time explaining further, so she just smiled and said, "I just joined a few days ago, so it's normal that you haven't seen me before."

But her smile was rather forced.

The girl didn't think much of it, just patting Gu Jingzheng's arm and instructing, "Don't be nervous. Just follow my lead for now, and you'll get used to it after participating in a few more events."