RWW Chapter 2

“Hello, Senior Wen Lan. I’m Chen Mo from the Mechanical Engineering Department. Senior Zhou Yang from the English Department gave me your number. I would like to ask if Senior is free tomorrow? A foreign professor is coming to give a lecture in our department and we’d like to ask you to translate for us.”

“If Senior has time in the afternoon, I would also like to invite you for a meal…”

The person on the other end of the call said a lot of things in a polite manner. His cautious attitude made Wen Lan’s irritability from being awakened from his nap dissipate a bit.

He lazily responded with an “mhm” sound. “Yang-jie has already informed me about it. 9 a.m tomorrow morning, right? In Academic Lecture Building 201?”

“Yes.” Chen Mo breathed out a sigh of relief upon hearing Wen Lan agreed.

The school regularly had foreign professors come for exchanges. If there were people in their major who were good at spoken English, then the issue was settled. If there weren’t any, they could only borrow someone from the English Department… In the past, their major would ask Zhou Yang to help with translating, and after a while, everyone became familiar with each other. However, Zhou Yang had a speech competition tomorrow and didn’t have time to come, so she introduced Wen Lan to him.

Chen Mo had heard of Wen Lan’s name before—after all, there were only a handful of people who won national awards all year round… He was glad that he was able to invite Wen Lan to be their translator, but he was also worried that Wen Lan would be difficult to get along with. It was only when he heard Wen Lan personally agree that he finally felt relieved.

“I’ll arrange for a junior to meet you at the entrance in advance.”

Wen Lan’s tone was indifferent, “Remember to find a good-looking one.”

Chen Mo went silent for a moment, then agreed without much principle, “…Okay.”

There was a light rain the next morning; the sky was bleak and the air was humid.

Wen Lan had set an alarm for 8:30 a.m. He got up and took a shower, then unhurriedly walked over to the academic lecture building. There were still ten minutes before the lecture started.

He had always been on time.

The young man standing at the entrance of the academic lecture building had a tall and upright posture..

He saw the young man looking surprised. Then, he seemed to have thought of something, and his originally expressionless face was forced into a smile. “…Senior Wen Lan?”

Wne Lan hooked the corner of his lips in a good mood. “How do you pronounce air con in English, Junior?”

Jiang Chaosheng, “…Air…air…”

“Air conditioner.” Wen Lan walked toward the academic lecture building while gently chuckling. “This is the second time already.”

The young man’s white shirt was tucked into his suit pants with neat folds, and his hair was combed neatly; he was dressed very formally.

However, Jiang Chaosheng remembered the first time they met—he stammered for a long time in lousy English, as well as the young man in pajamas who said nonchalantly that the English word for air con was air conditioner…

Jiang Chaosheng’s ears turned red, and he followed Wen Lan in big strides.