The only light in the room was from a desk lamp.

Lin Chaoxi sat cross-legged in the dean's office, feeling that he had been tricked. This trick was called "doing something wrong but not getting scolded, so you feel that you have committed a serious sin."

She felt that she did not belong to this world, so she did not need to be responsible for anyone here. But just now, the disappointed look of the dean's mother was still deeply imprinted in her mind.

What on earth is there in a rebellious person like Xiaolin Chaoxi that is worthy of your high expectations...

She scratched her head, wondering where she had gone wrong. She hadn't eaten lunch or dinner, and her stomach was growling. So she thought she would just not skip school tomorrow and go find Lao Lin after class.

Thinking of this, Lin Chaoxi happened to see a little kid outside the office. He was holding a basin in his hand and was looking around, wanting to come in but not daring to.

Seeing that face, she stopped the movement of standing up. She changed her hand to the other side, supported her head with one hand, rested her elbow on her knee, and said in a long tone, coldly: "Mr. Lin Aimin, what can I do for you?"

"Xi, Brother Xi!" The little boy ran in and squatted in front of her flatteringly.

Only then did Lin Chaoxi notice that the bowl the little boy brought contained two steamed buns and a salted duck egg.

"The director's mother asked me to bring it to you," said little Lin Aimin.

As they got closer, with the help of the weak light from the desk lamp, Lin Chaoxi discovered that Lin Aimin had a cleft lip. Because the repair surgery was not done well, his flattering smile was a bit sly. But in Lin Chaoxi's eyes, it was really adorable. She reached out and pinched the little boy's ear and said, "Thank you."

Lin Aimin was flattered and shouted, "Brother Xi, have you traveled through time?"

Lin Chaoxi had just stuffed the steamed bun into his mouth and almost spit it out: "What are you talking about!"

"In the recent movie 'Love Across Time and Space', people become strange and that means they have traveled through time."

"Watch soap operas if you have nothing to do!"

"Okay." Lin Aimin muttered softly, "Obviously you like watching it the most," and stopped talking.

Lin Chaoxi ate his steamed bun seriously, and sometimes secretly glanced at little Lin Aimin. The Red Star Welfare Home is a family-based institution. They were brought up by a mother named Lin. They all lived on the third floor of Building 2, so they all had the surname Lin.

Lin Aimin is 7 years old and will be in the first grade of elementary school soon. Lin Chaoxi recently heard that a kind family liked him very much and wanted to adopt him, but Lin Aimin himself was not very happy about it.

She held the steamed bun in her mouth and rubbed the little boy's head. Lin Aimin held out his palm, which contained five nicely wrapped pine nut candies, and said generously, "Brother Xi, I'll share with you."

Lin Zhaoxi thought that this was the reward for arresting her: "Wow, you betray me and you still want to show me the evidence?"

"I...I didn't betray you!"

"Who was holding my thigh just now to prevent me from sneaking away?" She pinched the little boy's cheek, "Brother Mai Qiu Rong, I'm talking about you."

Lin Aimin had probably never heard such a ridiculous sentence before and was stunned.

"I thought you were going to hit someone this time too, so you didn't dare to come back."

Beating people too...

"Hmm..." Lin Chaoxi broke open another steamed bun, cracked open the salted duck egg, scooped out the egg yolk inside with chopsticks, spread it evenly on the bun, and then handed it to Lin Aimin, "Go on."

"What are you talking about?" Lin Aimin swallowed his saliva, quickly took the steamed bun and started to eat it.

"You think I hit someone, but what did the dean's mother actually say?"

"But the dean's mother said that you stayed late to study for the exam today. She was worried about you walking alone in the alley, so she asked us to wait for you at the entrance of the alley."

This reason was strong enough, but Lin Aimin firmly believed it. In order to protect Lin Chaoxi's dignity, the dean was very thoughtful and meticulous.

"Brother Xi! You must pass the exam!" Lin Aimin stuffed his mouth with steamed buns and made a cheering gesture.

Lin Chaoxi glanced at the ceiling and pretended not to hear. She was about to graduate from college, so she could just take the elementary school exam casually. It would be really bullying if she tried harder.

But, what did you get into?

Lin Chaoxi felt a headache and suddenly remembered why she had beaten the head teacher's son to the ground. Because the other party cursed her that she would definitely not pass the selection competition.

The full name of the selection competition is - Jinjiang Cup Primary School Students Olympic Mathematics Competition Anning Division Summer Camp Selection Competition.

The name is very long, and the key words are "Mathematical Olympiad" and "summer camp".

The dean's mother had always hoped that she could be admitted to the Mathematical Olympiad Summer Camp, because only by being admitted to the summer camp would she be eligible to participate in the official Jinjiang Cup Mathematical Olympiad competition.

A good ranking in the competition would allow her to be admitted to a good junior high school. This also meant that her life would be completely different from that of other orphans.

So what was wrong with her? She thought about it and realized that it was probably because she was supposed to be a role model for all the children, but she did something disappointing.

Lin Chaoxi felt that the dean's mother was thinking too far ahead and that the burden on Lin Chaoxi's shoulders was too heavy.

But in the admiring eyes of little Lin Aimin when he looked at her, there were many longings, which the 22-year-old Lin Chaoxi had not seen for a long time.

The meaning is probably that life is so long and there are infinite possibilities.

And in this office environment, she could even add another adjective to her life.

——Even if life has an extremely bad start, there are still infinite possibilities.

After eating two steamed buns, Lin Chaoxi held Lin Aimin's hand and left the dean's office. When she turned off the lights, she took another look at the award certificates on the wall.

It was a pitch-black night outside the window.

She thought, why am I here?

…

In the morning.

Lin Chaoxi hasn't figured out this problem yet.

Of course, she didn't really think about it.

After returning to the dormitory, she read two stories to Lin Aimin and two other children, then took a shower and went to bed.

Half asleep in the morning, she was still thinking about the two pages of internship report that were left to write. She hadn't replied to Xiao Liu's WeChat message when she was woken up by the alarm clock.

She was startled in a daze, and her first reaction was why she could hear the school bell at home.

Then I realized that she was no longer at home.

The room in the orphanage was not very big. She originally lived with a younger girl, but recently the girl was adopted and she was left alone.

Getting up from the small wooden bed, Lin Chaoxi opened the pink Dacron curtains. The children's playground equipment in the yard was bathed in sunlight, and the flowers and plants were lush, but they were old.

She looked for a while before coming to her senses.

After becoming an orphan, what to do every day, these routines have been engraved in his bones, which belong to Xiaolin's daily routine. After getting up, he folded the quilt, went to the next door to help the younger children get dressed, watched them wash up, and then led them to the cafeteria to eat, one by one.

In the welfare home's canteen, she met Mother Lin, who was busy serving meals to the children. She was the strong and powerful aunt who had taken her to see the director at the alley entrance yesterday.

Mother Lin didn't have time to educate her anymore. She just rubbed her head and told her to finish her meal quickly and go to the Olympiad class.

Lin Chaoxi was still thinking that today was not Saturday, and then he suddenly remembered that it was not the day after the school banned cram schools. At this time, every school had interest classes on weekends.

However, the Mathematical Olympiad class is not an interest class, but an advanced class organized by the school. The biggest difference from the interest class is that it does not require payment. Hongxing Primary School still wants to focus on training a group of students, hoping that someone in the school can be selected for the summer camp to bring honor to the school.

Lin Chaoxi sat at the window seat.

When I think of Mathematical Olympiad, I can't help but think of Lao Lin and Pei Zhi.

Lao Lin was the one who sent her to the Olympiad class, and Pei Zhi was the person she could never reach in the class.

Now...

Does she want to dominate Red Star Primary School alone? !

The author has something to say:

In fact, it is just a parallel world with different plot lines in life. It is very simple, clean, green and environmentally friendly. Is it difficult to understand? I am also confused.