Chapter 43: Not a Love Letter? (1/2)

After twelve years of arduous study, the university entrance examination is the most crucial test, determining whether one can leap over the dragon gate.

Before the official university entrance exam, three mock exams are indispensable.

Not only to familiarize students with the pace of the university entrance examination but also to build their confidence and help them face the exam calmly.

After Teacher Yan announced the start of the second mock exam, the test papers were distributed one by one.

The first subject in the morning was Chinese.

Language application was worth 20 points, classical Chinese reading 35 points, modern text reading 35 points, and composition 60 points.

In his previous life,

Chinese was Zhao Qingfeng’s weakest subject.

Back then, he recognized every character on the paper but couldn’t grasp their true meaning.

Especially in composition.

Writing at least 800 words seemed more challenging than finishing a novel of over a million words.

He remembered Shen Lingyao mentioning in her letters sent over the years, always teasing him for being a ‘Chinese dummy’ and recalling how Zhao Qingfeng often lagged behind in Chinese and received ‘severe punishment’ from Teacher Yan.

“Now I’m not a dummy anymore…”

Zhao Qingfeng glanced at Shen Lingyao, who was seriously answering her paper, and muttered to himself.

She seemed to have dark circles under her eyes today, as if she hadn’t slept well last night.

Shen Lingyao noticed his gaze.

She picked up her compass, gestured a couple of times, bared her little tiger teeth, and made a biting motion, signaling Zhao Qingfeng to focus on his paper.

Zhao Qingfeng nodded.

His gaze returned to the test paper.

He lightly picked up his pen and wrote down the full score answer for a difficult classical Chinese text question, then drifted into thought.

“If I say I’m well-versed in the Four Books and Five Classics, Zizhi tongjian, and Ancient Text Reading, Yaoyao definitely won’t believe me.”

“Yi Zhongtian and Yu Dan aren’t famous yet, right?”

“Thinking back to when I studied the School of Mind, I also analyzed Internet economics as Master Yangming did with bamboo sticks.”

“If Yaoyao knew I was the first practitioner of blockchain theory, would she be scared to death?”

“No, she probably wouldn’t understand these things.”

“And no one in the world knows ‘me,’ they only know Satoshi Nakamoto, not Zhao Qingfeng. This secret was even unknown to Liu Ruoxin, and thankfully I never told her…”

His thoughts wandered.

Suddenly pulling Zhao Qingfeng back to the winter of 2008 that changed the entire internet and world economic system…

Teacher Yan was observing Zhao Qingfeng’s behavior and seeing him daydreaming, immediately threw a piece of chalk at him.

Zhao Qingfeng immediately snapped back to reality, bowed to Teacher Yan, and quickly resumed writing on his Chinese paper.

But as he wrote,

He suddenly thought of an important issue.

Last time in the first mock exam, he scored 400 points, ranking among the lower performers.

If he answered too well this time, directly jumping to 600 points or higher, it would certainly bring a lot of unnecessary trouble.

Let alone the shock of his classmates and the doubts of the teachers,

The most troublesome would be his three aunts.

If they discovered his potential to rank in the top three in the county, wouldn’t they make a huge fuss?

Zhao Qingfeng himself didn’t care, being indifferent and viewing them as insignificant.

But he was concerned about his mother.

His mother worked hard day and night; he couldn’t let her worry further.

Thinking of this, Zhao Qingfeng suddenly stopped writing, biting his pen cap, and made a decision.

In that case,

He might as well play it by ear and test his ability to control his scores.

Last time in the first mock exam, he got 400; this time in the second mock exam, 500 points shouldn’t be too excessive, right?

After all, he had been in the provincial city for a month, a slight improvement was normal, and being 10 points short of the tier one university line, his aunts shouldn’t react too much.

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