Key Points

June 24th, high school entrance examination.

The hot summer is rolling in. The temperature has been exceptionally high in the past two years. Nanshi is like a huge furnace, baking everyone outdoors.

A colorful and cool electric car rode into the school parking lot.

Lu Xiye got out of the car with his schoolbag. When he walked out of the parking lot, he saw Jiang Zhizhi entering the school gate with her schoolbag on her back.

They had graduated from junior high school and no longer wore the bulky school uniforms. Jiang Zhizhi wore a pair of washed-out jeans and a white T-shirt with a slightly waisted design, which made her look thin and tall.

The last time I measured her height, she seemed to be 1.63 meters tall, right?

Lu Xiye was guessing in his mind.

"Zhizhi!"

Li Rongrong suddenly appeared out of nowhere and pounced on Jiang Zhizhi, hugging her. "Haha, you're here really early. Which exam room are you in?"

"Examination Room 24, what about you?"

"I'm 18."

Jiang Zhizhi estimated in her mind and said, "Then we should be in the same building."

"By the way, Zhizhi, you don't even need to take the high school entrance exam. Weren't you specially recruited by a high school?" Li Rongrong smirked and nudged Jiang Zhizhi's shoulder. "Are you studying with Xu Qingbo? He was the same last year."

Jiang Zhizhi smiled faintly, "I just want to get a score."

Seeing the two of them arguing with each other, Lu Xiye snorted coldly and walked away on his own.

Li Rongrong felt he was baffled and made a face, retorting, "What are you humming? Be careful not to perform poorly or you might not even get into the first-class high school."

However, despite this, with Lu Xiye's current grades, it should be no problem for him to get into a high school.

The question is whether I can get into the key class of a high school.

Hmm...that's not right. Lu Xiye definitely can't get into the key class of No. 1 High School. Even she is a little worried.

Although she has been consistently in the top ten in the grade in the two mock exams, the key class in the first grade only accepts fifty students. If she performs consistently, she may be able to get in at the last minute, but if she performs poorly, she may only be able to get into the second-rate key class.

She still wanted to be in the same class with Jiang Zhizhi, but this would put a lot of pressure on her.

*

After the high school entrance examination, the class held a graduation party.

In the months before the exam, the atmosphere in the top class was very depressing. Everyone was studying hard, fearing that they would not get good grades in the high school entrance examination. Now that the exam is over, everyone's tense nerves have relaxed.

It was rare for Jiang Zhizhi to see so many classmates smiling.

Especially Li Rongrong, her face flushed with joy.

After the high school entrance exam, her father promised her to go abroad on a cruise, and she is looking forward to it very much.

"Zhizhi, do you want to come with us?"

"I……"

Jiang Zhizhi sat down at her seat and was about to speak when she suddenly saw a pile of colorful envelopes in her drawer.

She was stunned for a moment and took out a letter from inside.

TO: Jiang Zhizhi.

Is this really a letter written to her?

"Wow! Zhizhi, is this a love letter? I heard that it is easiest to receive love letters when you graduate. Let me see who wrote it." Li Rongrong said as she was about to take the letter from Jiang Zhizhi's hand.

"Don't." Jiang Zhizhi put the letter back into the drawer, neatly stacked it with the dozen or so envelopes in the drawer, and put it into her schoolbag.

Li Rongrong looked resentful. "No way, Zhizhi, don't be so stingy. Let me see it. I've never received a love letter before."

"No, I won't look at it, and you are not allowed to look at it secretly." Jiang Zhizhi glanced at Li Rongrong warningly.

Just then, Lu Xiye came over from outside. Li Rongrong called him over and asked curiously, "Lu Xiye, Zhizhi has a drawer full of love letters. Did you write them?"

Lu Xiye was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized what was happening and his face flushed red, his eyes widened with anger, and he kicked Li Rongrong's stool in anger, "Are you sick? Why would I write her a love letter?"

Li Rongrong cried out "ouch" after being kicked, and fell on Jiang Zhizhi with a delicate look, rolling her eyes. "No, no, why are you so angry?"

"Psycho." Lu Xiye cursed and returned to the back seat with a gloomy face.

"Tsk, you're the psychopath." Li Rongrong didn't dare to show weakness and cursed back in a low voice.

After the graduation party, Jiang Zhizhi returned to her residence, took out the love letters from her schoolbag, put them in a box, climbed up a ladder and placed it on the top of the bookshelf that lined the wall of her study.

"Don't you want to open it and take a look?" Lu Xiye followed as usual.

"No." She said lightly.

"If you don't want to read it, why don't you throw it away? Why keep it like a treasure?" Lu Xiye's tone was sour, and he showed his dissatisfaction without restraint.

Jiang Zhizhi paused for a moment, then stood on the ladder, looked down at Lu Xiye, and said seriously, "Because the most precious thing in this world is true emotion, I will not trample on other people's feelings."

She put the boxes in order. "Actually, the people who wrote these letters didn't need my response. They just expressed their precious emotions. The courage to express themselves and the sincerity of their hearts are the best gifts that youth can give to themselves."

Lu Xiye didn't quite understand what Jiang Zhizhi meant by these words.

Just like now, Jiang Zhizhi was standing on a high place and could see him clearly, but he had no idea what she was thinking.

*

Two weeks after the high school entrance examination, the results came out. Jiang Zhizhi was unsurprisingly ranked first in the city. Pu Yu was second, only seven points behind her.

If it weren't for Jiang Zhizhi, Pu Yu would definitely be that brilliant genius, but unfortunately, she was in the same grade as Jiang Zhizhi, and her sun-like brilliance was mostly obscured.

But she didn't care. After the results came out, she specially asked Jiang Zhizhi to go to the chess club to play chess and compete with each other.

Li Rongrong's high school entrance examination results were also good, and she had received a special notice to be admitted to a key class in a high school.

As for Lu Xiye, he was originally assigned to a second-key school, but with his father's little help, he was admitted to the key class of a high school.

The key class started a week earlier than the second-key and ordinary classes. On the day of enrollment, Jiang Zhizhi, Li Rongrong and Lu Xiye met at the gate of a high school.

After getting off the bus, passing the affiliated primary school and junior high school, and arriving at the entrance of the high school, all the memories of the past came to my mind, as if it were a lifetime ago.

She thought of her childish appearance standing at the primary school gate three and a half years ago. At that time, her heart was full of hatred and determination. She wanted to change her destiny in this life and get rid of everything in the past.

And now, she has done it.

Everything is moving in a good direction.

"Zhizhi!"

The girl's clear voice reached her ears, and Jiang Zhizhi turned to look over.

Across the street, Li Rongrong was standing in front of a stationery store, jumping and waving at her. She smiled, crossed the street and walked to her.

"Zhizhi, it's Xu Teng's poster, so handsome!" Li Rongrong's eyes lit up with excitement, and she bought a stack of them without hesitation.

Jiang Zhizhi knew this star. Li Rongrong had liked him since elementary school. He had been very popular in recent years, with posters of him everywhere in the streets. However, after more than a decade, he was no longer popular, and it seemed that a lot of negative news had been exposed about him.

But seeing Li Rongrong so excited, Jiang Zhizhi would not pour cold water on her. After all, every person and thing that you like is just self-emotional satisfaction. As long as you feel happy at the moment, it is enough.

She bought some new pens and draft paper at the stationery store, and also bought a few novels that looked good on the shelf.

"Haha, I heard that high school teachers are very strict about extracurricular books, so you'd better be careful." Li Rongrong knew that Jiang Zhizhi was a fan of extracurricular books, so she reminded her with a mischievous smile.

"Yeah, I know."

Jiang Zhizhi also had a headache about this.

That’s the bad thing about being in school: you can’t read extracurricular books as you please.

Even if she can maintain her grades, she still has to consider the impact on other students.

However, she also likes the atmosphere in the school. Everyone strives for their ideals and goals, just like a utopia in reality.

When I came out of the stationery store, Lu Xiye also arrived. He was still riding his unique electric motorcycle and wearing a burgundy short-sleeved shirt. The sun made his face sweat a little, and his wheat-colored skin looked energetic.

"Lu Xiye, come here and help us get some things." Li Rongrong called him over.

Lu Xiye got off the electric scooter and walked over impatiently, "What are you doing?"

Li Rongrong stuffed the book Jiang Zhizhi had just bought into his arms, and then placed her own notebook on top of it. "Hold it for us. We'll give you a chance to be a gentleman."

"What is this? Don't let the teacher think I bought it later..." Lu Xiye flipped through the books in his arms with disgust. Most of them were novels and biographies. He would definitely be criticized by the teacher if he brought such books to school.

"It's okay. You were the last one anyway." Li Rongrong laughed and patted Lu Xiye's shoulder like a big sister.

Lu Xiye rolled his eyes at her and was so angry that he didn't even want to refute.

When he was in the key class of No. 1 Middle School, he had been ranked last in the class for a long time. It was not until the third year of junior high school that his ranking finally improved. By the time he graduated from junior high school, he was already in the top 30 in the class.

Now that I am in high school, I feel like I’m back to the time before liberation and am the last in the class again.

"Li Rongrong, just wait, I will definitely surpass you in high school."

He was fed up with Li Rongrong's sarcasm and made up his mind with gritted teeth.

…

The three of them entered the classroom together. They were relatively early, so the room was mostly empty. Just as they were deciding where to sit, a girl by the window stood up excitedly, "Zhizhi, over here!"

Jiang Zhizhi also saw her and was surprised for a moment.

When she called earlier, Pu Yu had said she wasn't planning to go to No. 1 High School, but rather to Jinwai Language High School. Jinwai Language High School had a strong foreign language faculty, and most of the students from Nanshi who went abroad to study were graduates of Jinwai Language High School.

Pu Yu wanted to go to MN University in Country D, and she had mentioned this a long time ago.

Jiang Zhizhi never expected that she would go to No. 1 High School to attend high school.

"What's wrong? Are you surprised to see me?" Pu Yu saw Jiang Zhizhi standing there in a daze, so he took the initiative to come over and gave her a big hug. "I was originally planning to go to Jinwai Foreign Language High School, but after thinking about it, I would definitely feel regretful if I couldn't spend three years of high school with you, so I came here! Judging from your expression... are you feeling pressured? Afraid that my grades will surpass yours?"

"Of course not. I'm also very happy to go to the same high school with you. Let's work hard together." Jiang Zhizhi also gave her a big hug in return.

Lu Xiye and Li Rongrong behind looked at each other.

Uh...who is this woman?