More than a week passed by in a blink and all of Felicity's hard work started to pay back.
Translation of 'Vagabond of downtown neighborhood' was published in Chinese and other languages such as Japanese, Hindi, German, Italian, French etc.
Her team did an excellent job in promoting the novel and thus when the novel wasn't even released, there were more than a million pre-orders in country itself and as soon as it was published, it was broadly accepted and appreciated by the general public.
The genre was mystery thriller and it was appropriate for audience of every age group, her book signing events as well as book reading events were packed and crowded.
It could be said that, 'Vagabond of downtown neighborhood' was her best and most successful work by far, she was also nominated for golden leaf award, which was highly anticipated.
She was getting calls after calls of congratulations and bouquets after bouquets of flowers including from Lu's and Jones.
The song was also about to release and its promotions were going exceptionally well, there was already a big hype.
So everything was going well.
Felicity on this warm and sunny day returned to college to take her classes, with the amount of days she has bunked, she actually felt as if she wasn't college student.
She was just a normal human with too much on her plate, even if she was good at studies, she wasn't some god.
She felt sabotaging her college so she decided to to take classes regularly as much as she can.
However in the middle of her English lecture, she saw the person sitting beside her fidgeting on his place.
"What's up?" Felicity couldn't help but turn towards the boy and ask.
The male had fluffy black hair on his head and a blass rimmed glasses on top of his nose. He was dressed in casual white T-shirt with a small Saturn drawing on the right side of the chest area and and the dark blue jeans. Normal college guy.
"You're Felicity Lin, right?" The guy adjusted his glasses and wiped his right hand on his thighs as if it was a little sweaty.
"Yes," Felicity replied.
The guy picked up his phone that was lying decide his notebook and turned it towards Felicity making sure that she was able to see what to us on the display.
It was a post on school forum by a user name 'willowbird', and the stated that it was about selecting the campus belle. There were five names of girls on the person along with their pictures, Zoey Han, Gina Chen, Mimi D'Souza, Anna Cui an Felicity Lin.
The votes on Felicity were about 2908 and on Gina were 2037. The rest of the girls were way behind and the voting was still on.
"You are very famous in campus, there are posts about you every now and then on the forum, they even keep giving updates about your work. Your new novel was so good! I read it after I saw someone doing their review on it in the forum, you are kind of like the celebrity here." The guy blabbered pulling out a copy of her novel from his bag that was lying on the floor.
"Can I please have an autograph?" The boy looked at her with sheepish and excited eyes.
Meeting his gaze, Felicity couldn't help but soften her eyes and pick up her pen, signing the first page of the novel.
"Thank you," the man said.
"Mr. Yongje Gilbert is there anything important you would like to share with the class?" The voice of professor rang throughout the class.
Both Felicity and Yongje looked at the professor sheepishly before burying in their head in their notebooks as if they were studying intently.
"Miss Felicity please report at the dean's office after this lecture," the professor dismissively said worked towards the podium.
"But I wasn't even doing anything," Felicity couldn't help but complain when she heard the professor. She didn't even do anything, why was she being punished? Is this a fate of the canon fodder?
"It wasn't her fault professor," Yongje who had his face buried in his notebook, raised his head and looked at the professor.
"I appreciate the deep friendship bond you two have but it is for some other reason," the English professor said when he raised the podium and casually rested both of his arms on top of it.
"What did I do this time?" Felicity mumbled with a worried look making Yongje look at her.
"It's alright! You're rich," Yongje comforted being rich obviously had its on perks.
"Ohh...yeah," Felicity who was deeply worried a second ago, straightened her back confidently and started listening to the lecture.
What is there to be scared of when her older brother can clean up after her? Hehehe.
After the lecture ended, Felicity made her way to the dean's office and entered it after knocking, only to find that there were four other students already there. One was Alexander who was lazy leaning against the back of his chair, Gina who was in a white dress and Benedict Lian who was a student of chemistry, he was well lnown in the whole campus for his research projects and it was also rumoured that he had the major contribution in the research of E acid that was a recent project.
He was also a young master from a prominent family in C city.
"Eh?" Felicity muttered in confusion when the Dean gestured her to sit beside Alexander.
Her eyes met Alexander's which were dark and were looking at her making her feel scalded by his gaze.
"As I was about to say, in every three years, are convention is held in any one state and a few students are sent from the colleges that are connected to Pereneva convention are sent to represent the college on the national platform. From our college we have decided to send you four bright students, excellent in their own field for this convention." The dean said, finally making Felicity have some grasp on what was going on.
Atleast she wasn't in trouble.
"Ohh wow, this is a big opportunity to represent our college?" Gina exclaimed in excited and a bright smile appeared on her face, her eyes also darted at a certain someone.
"I don't...have opinions," Benedict said with an 'I don't care' face.
"Is this necessary?" Felicity who immediately thought about all the work she had, asked.
"I don't exactly think that I have time," a cold voice came from Felicity's side and everyone looked at Alexander who was still sitting in an lazy yet elegant posture.
"We can't force you of course but this time it is being held in capital and sense Capital college is not too much of a hussle," the dean said but there was an a obvious regret, he really wanted these students to represent the school, one was a big boss at such a young age, managing the company as a CEO. One was a successful writer at 20, one was an upcoming big shot chemist with already successful contribution in his field and the last one was a rising actress with a few roles in big screen.
"Coincidentally I have to be in capital in a week," Alexander said, he had some work in the branch of his company in capital and he also had to visit his uncle wo lived in the capital.
The S city was known to be the hub of companies and business, it was leading and developing at a fast pace. That was why major influencial families of the country were in S City. However, his maternal grandparents and uncle was in capital.
"It's perfect then, the convention is in a week." The dean cheered up and said.
Felicity glanced around the room and heard the series of sounds of agreement, she couldn't bear to awkwardly stick out like a sore thumb and said anything.
After everything was said and done, everyone started to exit the office, Felicity being the first one to leave with a scorching gaze of Alexander on her back.
After their last meeting, he didn't dare to casually approach her even if he wanted to.
After hearing those words from her, he couldn't sleep the entire night, he thought and thought.
He came to a conclusion that he was indeed giving mixed signals, he wanted her back in his life as a friend. As what they were before everything went downhill but he was reckless with his actions.
However, with her? She always got the best of his emotions, he could help the recklessness.
So reckless.
He was a great prince of Li Dynasty, he went to the war at the mere age of 9.
He faught, he won.
He led the army of thousands, came back victorious with justice and righteousness in his veins but he lost to the devious backhanded plotting.
Now reborn, he will wear the skin human and play like a demon.
To protect those who he loves, Li Cheng Jing will go any lengths.
With her, for her.