Just as things were getting awkward, Li Lechen's phone rang.

"Huh? The class monitor is looking for me?" Li Lechen muttered to himself as he continued the conversation.

Zhou Mi suddenly thought of something and immediately perked up her ears.

"What?" "Why?" "Do they all get tested?" "This isn't fair! Class monitor, it's not fair!" "Hey..."

After a series of sobs, Li Lechen, who had just hung up the phone, instantly went from being smug to looking utterly dejected.

"What's the matter?" Zhou Mi asked.

"Old Zheng asked me to go to his office and cook for me," Li Lechen replied dejectedly.

Zhou Mi was pleasantly surprised to hear this: "Are you going to come to the top class?"

"No, let me take the test again."

"That means they're planning to put you in the top class! If your previous grades were outside the top 30, but you did exceptionally well on the mock exam, you'll need to be retested."

"The problem is that I didn't do well on the mock exam either, only a little over 400 points."

"The problem is you only got 197 points on your combined science score!"

"Didn't you say it wasn't a perfect score? I thought it would be..."

"......"

Zhou Mi was instantly defeated by Li Lechen. She had only scored 191 points in the science section, while he had only scored 197 and was complaining about not getting a perfect score.

However, being able to catch Lao Zheng's eye despite missing only one subject, Chinese, and barely passing English, is quite a feat, considering Li Lechen's talent.

Zhou Mi was secretly pleased that she would have more opportunities to study with Li Lechen in the coming year.

"But I really don't want to go to the top class. I'll stay in the regular class; it's easy and comfortable there." Li Lechen suddenly started making plans. "I'll take the exams seriously, but I just won't go to the top class. They can't carry me there every time, can they?"

What's so good about regular classes?

"Regular classes are more relaxed; you don't have to be watched by so many teachers."

“But the kind of guaranteed admission only happens to the top classes,” Zhou Mi said leisurely.

"Recommended admission?!" Li Lechen immediately perked up. "Does that mean I don't need to take the college entrance exam? I can go straight to university?"

"Um!"

"How does this work? Is it enough to just be able to solve very difficult problems? How far in advance will we know if we've been recommended for admission? After being recommended, can we just attend classes or not at all without the teachers caring?"

Overjoyed that he had never imagined he was so close to being admitted to university through the guaranteed admission program, Li Lechen bombarded the audience with a barrage of questions.

Behind each question lies a complex issue that cannot be clarified in just a few words. Getting a guaranteed admission to university is no easy feat.

He ranked first in the city's mock exams three times in a row, which is quite impressive.

But it's still early.

Winning gold medals in various subject Olympiad competitions is also acceptable.

But it's too late for senior year.

Having a special invention that is patented, or winning an award in a national innovation and technology competition, also presents an opportunity.

However, the chances are slim.

After all, most of the innovative ideas they could come up with have already been created by others. Coupled with a lower starting line and limited resources, they simply cannot compare with students from Shanghai and Beijing.

Yes, and there are also those rich kids, who have think tanks behind them.

In short, the matter of being recommended for admission did exist, but it didn't have much to do with Li Lechen.

However, Li Lechen was already quite pleased. Compared to the long period of torment and being restricted, simply going to the top class would give him the opportunity to be recommended for university admission, so of course he would choose the latter.

Moreover, with a smart assistant, I shouldn't have to worry about doing exercises.

"Oh, right!" Li Lechen suddenly realized, "Did you really make that water purifier yourself?"

"What? You have doubts?" Zhou Mi rolled her eyes.

"No, no, I just think this water purifier is pretty good and I want to know how it works. Does it contain coal?"

"Coal?" Zhou Mi instantly collapsed. "I even put lime in there! It's activated charcoal, bro!"

"......"

Li Lechen immediately felt embarrassed. As a poor student, he really found it difficult to say the correct words.

This made Zhou Mi even more depressed: she was clearly a top student, but she pretended to be a poor student, which was absolutely infuriating!

So he teased, "Are you interested in that high school girl? And want to join our Fun Physics Research Club? Or we can make you the club president?"

"No, no, no!" Li Lechen shook his head repeatedly. "I'm really just curious about that water purifier. Your water purifier is so amazing. If I pour Master Liu's chemical juice into it, will it come out pure?"

Li Lechen was just casually bringing up a topic and making a joke, but Zhou Mi was stunned.

After a long pause, he finally spoke, "This might require the addition of some chemical reagents, and..."

"And what?"

"Moreover, this could be a completely new topic..."

Upon hearing this, Li Lechen was also stunned, subconsciously looking down at his hands. He had just handled a bottle of Class 5 water worth 500 coins—a luxury drink in the future—yet it was still fraught with problems. What about the water supplied to the common people?

While reflecting on humanity two thousand years in the future, Li Lechen suddenly felt that his own era was also somewhat tragic.

What exactly are all those fruit juice drinks that we've been drinking for over a decade?

Are all those additives really harmless? If they are, why do these juice producers never drink the juice drinks they produce themselves?

If they are harmful, why are major companies still able to produce them on a large scale, why does the government still set standards to allow the addition of this and that, and why are various "experts" coming out to debunk the myth that all additives are harmless?

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