However, a look of almost worshipful and tender longing appeared on Liu Rumeng's face, a look that no outsider had ever seen before.
"Him..."
"He's back where he belongs..."
As she spoke, Liu Rumeng slowly raised her head and looked out the window, her gaze sweeping across Victoria Harbour and towards...
That distant place...
north.
...
At the same time.
Northeast China.
Jilin Province, Spring City.
Late December.
Another winter has arrived.
It was freezing cold, and heavy snow was falling.
The snow was already above knee-deep, and the entire county was now covered in a new silver-white coat.
In the county town, a crowd gathered outside a middle school building that had been temporarily requisitioned as an "examination site".
But this "crowding" also carries a very solemn and dignified feeling.
The announcement of the resumption of the college entrance examination in 1977 was like a thunderclap that resounded across the land of China.
Originally, the first college entrance examination was scheduled to be held in June or July.
However, due to a series of unforeseen circumstances, including the excessively short timeframe and the joint appeals from a large number of educated youth and ordinary people in grassroots and border areas, it was clear that there was simply no time to review.
The government ultimately decided to postpone the first-ever college entrance examination, which carries the fate of millions of people, to the end of the year.
It was late December...
World lines...
again……
It's over.
...
Outside the examination hall.
The room was packed with high school seniors, all wearing bulky cotton-padded coats, their faces red from the cold, stamping their feet and breathing out warm air to ward off the chill, but their eyes burning with determination.
Among them were recent graduates in their teens, but most were older educated youth in their twenties or even thirties with weathered faces.
According to later accounts, they were "a generation whose lives were wasted."
Today is the long-awaited opportunity they've finally gotten to "defy fate."
"Ring ring—!!"
When that piercing preparatory bell rang.
The crowd began to surge, and the candidates started to line up. Everyone was shivering in the cold wind as they took out their admission tickets and entered the examination room with a mix of excitement and nervousness.
And among this group of simple, even somewhat "rustic" people.
There was a figure that seemed so out of place, yet so harmonious.
yes!
This is contradictory!
He was Lim Huowang, who had just flown directly from the UK to Hong Kong Island and then, without even leaving the airport, took a private plane directly from Hong Kong Island to Chung Cheng in Jilin Province.
At that moment, he was wearing an old cotton-padded jacket that had been washed until it was faded.
Inside was a thick sweater sewn by his mother. Although it wasn't very pretty, it was warm enough, and it made him look a bit bulky.
He just finished the "Silver War," which generated a total profit of $15 billion.
He just used "miracle drugs" and "money power" in the UK to make those arrogant British rednecks lower their proud heads and completely secure the acquisition of the three major British car brands.
He is now a global financial legend, a genius at making money, and an idol worshipped and pursued by countless people.
But... he flew back to Northeast China.
The moment he landed, he transformed back into that person...
A simple, naive eighteen-year-old boy from Linjiagou.
He is Lin Huowang.
At this moment, he is not the "Mr. Kobayashi" who commands respect in London.
He is not the mysterious capital that is revered as a "myth" on Wall Street and Hong Kong Island.
He took a deep breath of the uniquely cold, bone-chilling air of Northeast China, which made his lungs ache, yet he felt an overwhelming sense of longing and clarity.
Under the stern and almost inhuman urging of the proctor:
"Hurry up! The bell's ringing soon! Find your location!"
Lin Huowang, standing amidst the vast crowd, felt the unique atmosphere of the college entrance examination that belonged to this era. With his head down, he walked into that room...
After the resumption of the college entrance examination...
The first...
In the examination hall for the National College Entrance Examination (Gaokao).
Although he made billions abroad, he was still just an eighteen-year-old boy rushing to take the college entrance examination when he returned home.
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