After some discussion,
The group unanimously decided to hold the gathering the day after tomorrow at noon at an old restaurant opposite a high school.
Wu Yuxue did not call Zhou Chen again because the distance between them on the phone made her feel uncomfortable.
He then informed Zhou Chen via text message.
A short while later, Zhou Chen gave a reply.
With just two simple words, "Okay," Wu Yuxue lowered her head, lost in thought. Liu Lei, who was standing nearby, caught a glimpse of this and couldn't help but complain, "Three years have passed, and Zhou Chen's habits haven't changed at all. He's still as stingy as ever. If it were any other guy, he would have wanted to say a whole bunch of things and find topics to talk about when he received Yuxue's message."
Wang Qiang, Zhang Dong, and Lu Ye wholeheartedly agreed. They were in the same university as Wu Yuxue and knew what a popular figure she was. Countless boys pursued her, and she was extremely well-liked.
However, Wu Yuxue didn't choose any of them, which made the others suspect that in Wu Yuxue's heart, there might still be a place reserved for someone.
And that person was Zhou Chen.
However, they were not optimistic, because Wu Yuxue now has a bright future. Before even graduating from university, many companies have offered her high salaries, and she will definitely become a white-collar worker and a successful person in the future.
On the other hand, Zhou Chen,
He dropped out of high school and worked on construction sites, belonging to the lowest rung of society, doing hard manual labor. He and Wu Yuxue, who sat in an office, were from completely different worlds, like two parallel lines that would never intersect.
To put it simply, Zhou Chen is not a good match for Wu Yuxue now.
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Zhou Chen didn't take the gathering too seriously.
After all, three years have passed, and the relationship has become quite distant. Everyone has grown and changed, and it's impossible for things to be the same as before.
Some gatherings, to put it nicely, are class reunions where everyone reminisces about their youth.
But more often it's about showing off and being pretentious.
If Wu Yuxue hadn't taken the initiative to contact him and mentioned that his old classmate Lu Ye was there, he really wouldn't have been interested in participating.
In his previous life, when he was at his poorest, he accidentally met Lu Ye, who provided him with food and lodging, helping him through a difficult time.
Zhou Chen kept this matter in mind, and he wanted to meet this old classmate who had genuinely helped him.
Because he remembered something that had a great impact on Lu Ye.
Perhaps it can prevent that from happening, so that Lu Ye won't have to regret it for the rest of his life.
You know, when Lu Ye helped him, his financial situation was just average and he wasn't doing well, but he was willing to lend a hand when he was in his most difficult time. Zhou Chen will never forget that.
"In this mock exam, our questions are the same as the city's. Can we maintain our good results?"
After class,
When Zhou Chen was handing in the test papers, his homeroom teacher, Wu Yingjie, stopped him and asked if he could maintain his top ranking in the upcoming mock exam.
The city set the questions?
Zhou Chen was astonished. This was the first time. In the past, the schools would set their own exam questions, which were relatively easy. But the city setting the questions was different. The difficulty level was raised to a whole new level. It was like testing the learning of all the senior high school students in the city with one exam paper, which was no less than a mini college entrance examination.
Only after the tide recedes can you see clearly who is swimming naked and who is wearing clothes.
Zhou Chen didn't want to run naked; he wanted to be the one wearing clothes, and his grades were his best attire.
He had never taken the exam papers from Fengcheng before, but he was not lacking in confidence. After this period of time, he had remembered all kinds of question types he had done in his previous life, and he knew all the past exam papers from all provinces in the country by heart.
What does it matter if a mere city sets exam questions?
All the questions, though varied, follow the same underlying principles. Having mastered the core knowledge, he fears nothing.
Just do it!
Zhou Chen made a gesture to Wu Yingjie.
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"OK?"
Wu Yingjie was taken aback when he saw this.
Zhou Chen smiled slightly, "Teacher, this movement is called 'na ni' (拿捏).
Wu Yingjie pondered for a few seconds before understanding the meaning of 'handle'. He immediately burst into laughter: "You're not humble at all, kid. You don't even take the city's questions seriously. Well, I'll see if you can handle it. If you fall out of the top spot, I'll handle you!"
Zhou Chen: "..."
By the way, I was just bragging. Can I take back what I said?
The fact that the city set the exam questions sparked widespread attention and discussion throughout the senior year. Everyone was speculating about the difficulty level of the questions. One teacher even obtained a mock exam paper from a top high school in the city and had a class complete it.
As a result, after the scores were announced on the spot, all the high-achieving students were devastated and achieved their lowest scores in history.
This test paper was also passed on to Zhou Chen's class.
To avoid discouragement and loss of confidence, Wu Yingjie deliberately refrained from testing. Instead, he provided an on-site explanation, allowing everyone to experience the difficulty level of the city's questions. As a result, many students exclaimed that the questions were too difficult after reviewing them.
Zhou Chen understood that this was the difference between city-level high schools and county/township-level high schools.
There's no way around it; the educational resources in the city are just better. Smaller places can't learn from them, nor do they have the necessary conditions.
The only thing students can do is to bridge the gap and lower their level compared to students in the city.
It has to be said that the city's mock exam paper taught a harsh lesson to the senior students of a high school. The good students no longer dared to be arrogant, because their good grades were only relative; in terms of actual ability, they were just average.
If we're talking about the only exception, the only one in the entire school who wasn't affected, it's probably Zhou Chen.
Because Zhou Chen was already aware of the difficulty level of the questions set by the city.
He felt that the difficulty of the exam questions in Fengcheng was actually acceptable. If we were to talk about difficulty, we would have to go to those provinces with large numbers of college entrance exam takers, such as Jiangsu, northern and southern provinces, because there are so many candidates and the difficulty of getting into college can only be described as inhuman.
High school students should be glad they weren't born in those areas; otherwise, they would have to find ways to take the college entrance exam in another city.
"Brother Chen, I think I might not be last in this mock exam anymore!"
Li Kaile looked excited and full of confidence.
Zhou Chen glanced sideways. Goodness, those good students are getting a slap in the face. Where does your confidence come from?
Li Kaile chuckled and explained, "It's like this, Brother Chen, think about it, the harder the test, the more people won't be able to answer it, right?"
"But it's different for me. No matter how difficult the test is, I can't answer it. So, my score is basically the same. But since more people get it wrong, my score is naturally not so bad anymore, because everyone's scores are about the same."
Ha... Goodness, you can think like that?
Zhou Chen was left speechless by Li Kaile's peculiar thought process, but she had to admit that what Li Kaile said made some sense.
The difficult questions were essentially the same for those half-baked students and for someone like Li Kaile who had completely given up—they couldn't answer them at all.
As a result, everyone's scores were about the same.
Old Li, you know how to comfort yourself.
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