Before Xie Ying'an said he wouldn't participate, Qingran truly hadn't considered the possibility of not participating at all.
If she had known not participating was an option, she certainly wouldn't have participated either.
The trope of a 'school celebration' is almost clichéd in youth campus literature, but it doesn't feel out of place in real life.
The focus of the school's twentieth anniversary celebration was more on the speeches to be prepared by the school administration and a few outstanding teachers than on the performances the students were concerned with.
After signing up for the choir, Qingran put it out of her mind, since everyone would rehearse together and no one would be left out.
For now, her plan was to make sure that Xie Ying'an memorized classical Chinese poetry and prose.
Before the summer vacation, there would be another exam, and she didn't want to spend the whole holiday copying ancient poetry at home.