An hour later, at school. "The exam begins! Some of you, please don't cheat! Even if you get a high score now by cheating, it will bring you back to reality in the college entrance exam, you know?" The proctor was sternly watching the students. Xu Chen received his paper and began answering questions fluently. In the monitoring room, several senior high school teachers were watching Xu Chen's exam, observing his answers. "This kid, writing so fast?" Teacher Wang looked surprised. The Chinese teacher, Teacher Zhao, was puzzled. "Does he only know how to do humanities questions and not Chinese? But he did quite well when I asked him to answer questions," Teacher Zhao thought, then a little disappointed. She assumed Xu Chen was just fooling himself in class and was just writing carelessly during the exam. However, as the exam progressed, Teacher Zhao wasn't the only one surprised. All the teachers observed Xu Chen and noticed he finished very quickly, then sat upright, waiting to hand in his paper with everyone else. Some teachers secretly decided to grade Xu Chen's paper first. When asked why they were paying so much attention to Xu Chen... Teacher Li and the others would say, "Just kidding, with such a high score in the humanities section, it's hard for us not to pay attention." The teachers had already stopped thinking about Xu Chen cheating. In the exam administration office, the teachers received Xu Chen's paper, and the more they graded it, the more shocked and excited they became. "Genius! He got a perfect score in math!" the math teacher exclaimed. The head teacher of the advanced class looked rather grim. However, when Xu Chen's scores of 146 in Chinese, 145 in English, and 275 in the humanities section came out, the exam administration office went crazy. The head teacher of the advanced class stormed out in anger. "Teacher Li, your old rival has been driven away by your student." Everyone looked at the departing head teacher of the advanced class with amusement. Teacher Li secretly wondered if the incense she burned last night had worked, and if the Bodhisattva had protected her. She had already forgotten that when Xu Chen first returned, she had thought that Xu Chen's grades were beyond saving.

The next morning, in the homeroom teacher's office, Ms. Li called Xu Chen in. Not only was she very friendly, but she also bent down to pour Xu Chen a cup of Tieguanyin tea and brought it to his coffee table, practically becoming his "maid." Xu Chen was very puzzled, "Ms. Li, what are you doing?" Ms. Li rubbed her hands together, somewhat excitedly saying, "Xu Chen, do you know how many points you got on your final exam? 716 points!" Xu Chen's face lit up with joy, "This is all thanks to you and all the other teachers for teaching so well." Ms. Li was delighted to hear this, "Good, good. Have a good New Year when you go home."

At this moment, in the elite class, homeroom teacher Mr. Wan was arranging matters related to the winter break. Seeing that the excitement about yesterday's exam hadn't subsided and the class was still buzzing with discussion about the questions, he slapped the podium and said loudly, "Quiet down, let me finish." After finishing his instructions, he turned to Mu Wan and said, "Mu Wan, don't relax when you go home this time, you must study hard!" Mu Wan's face paled upon hearing this. Could it be that she didn't do well on the exam? I felt that I did quite well. The other students looked at Mu Wan and also started whispering among themselves. What Mu Wan didn't know was that Mr. Wan was resentful because someone had taken his student's top spot, which was why he said those words.

Xu Chen returned home to find his family excitedly opening the door. Wang Rong rushed over and hugged her son. Xu Nan, who had already started winter break, had rushed home from her friend's house after receiving a call from her mother. Xu Jianguo, under the pretense of returning to pick up some documents, avoided the bosses waiting for him outside the city government building. Hearing the good news from his son's homeroom teacher on the phone, and seeing his son just back, he exclaimed, "Son, you've worked hard these past few days! Tomorrow is your 18th birthday, double celebration! Let's have a drink tonight!" Xu Chen then remembered that tomorrow was Xu Chen's birthday. He turned to his family... Grinning broadly, Xu Nan said, "Great, Dad, now you should bring out that Maotai liquor from your study, right?" Xu Jianguo waved his hand dismissively, "Of course! Our family is about to produce a top scholar, Maotai football player 1573 or something. That's a piece of cake." Xu Nan also smiled, "Mom and Dad, you both have work tomorrow, why don't you go out and celebrate tonight?" Wang Rong and Xu Jianguo discussed it and agreed. One of them had a 6 a.m. business flight tomorrow, and the other had a site coordination meeting for the old city renovation project. Time was tight and the tasks were heavy, so going out for a meal and getting some rest was the best option. Xu Jianguo checked his watch, "Okay, Nan Nan, you and your mom book a private room, and take Chen'er with you. I'll be there after my meeting." He then picked up a file bag and said to Wang Rong, "Wife, remember to take that bottle of Maotai liquor from the safe when you leave." Thinking he would call his secretary later to have him pick him up in his private car, he hurriedly left. The reason the wine was kept in the safe was to prevent Xu Chen, that rascal, from taking it out to drink with his cronies. Xu Chen returned to his room with a happy expression, picked up his phone, and started browsing social media. His phone had become another important way for him to understand the world. Xiao Bai then said, "You're becoming more and more like an Earthling." Xu Chen smiled, "I want to be an Earthling, not just like one."