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Chapter 561: Why Should I Forgive You!

Translator: Legge Editor: Legge

Bai Yi stopped his speech midway.

The other people also turned to where the voice sounded from.

The person who had interrupted the speech was a head of the school. Seemingly having just gotten off a phone call, he hurriedly yelled out and interrupted the speech, "Wait a moment, there are some important guests arriving!"

Important guests?

Who could they be?

So important that they even had to interrupt the speech?

Upstairs, the university delegation group stood up and faced the main entrance upstairs respectfully. A few leaders of the group went outside the hall themselves to receive the guests with a different attitude from what they had been giving to the Chinese earlier. A few escorts from the Peking University side also went along to receive the guests. This phone call was quite unexpected as there was no advanced notice to inform them. Then, it turned out that the guests were actually high-ranking officials from the Japanese political delegation. As there was a change in their afternoon schedule, and possibly hearing of the Sino-Japanese University Exchange that was taking place today, the team had chosen to come and make a visit here!

"Who's here?"

"I don't know."

"Aiyo, I think it's one of the Japanese political delegations!"

"They're here at Peking University too?"

"Oh, why are there so many reporters here as well!"

The first thing they saw upstairs when the doors opened were not people but camera flashes going off continuously. About 20 Chinese and Japanese reporters came along with the group, and they were busy photographing and recording the delegation on the way here. A Central TV reporter who tripped and fell got up quickly to continue photographing without even dusting off his shirt.

It was a delegation of around a dozen people or so.

The group was led by a Japanese official named Matsumoto. "Hello."

The Peking University group immediately welcomed them, "Welcome, welcome."

Matsumoto smiled and said, "#$%^&!"

The translator said, "We heard about this Sino-Japanese University Exchange event today and were very interested in attending as we are very pleased to see such a cooperation taking place. Please go on with the ceremony and ignore our presence."

With the arrival of important guests, they were naturally invited to take a seat in the front row upstairs. The Japanese university delegation immediately stood up to let the newly arrived guests take the front row, while they themselves settled down behind them. As for the rest of the seats, they were taken up by the Peking University's escort staff as well as the Chinese government officials who were accompanying the Japanese political delegation. A few familiar faces were spotted in the crowd, consisting of some officials from the Chinese education world. They were here to accompany the Japanese political delegation today.

A Chinese government official said to a Peking University staff member, "Go on, don't further interrupt the event because of us."

The Peking University staff nodded. "Yes sir, Teacher Bai was just in the middle of giving a speech just now. We will continue from there." He then gave a signal to the stage for them to restart the ceremony.