"Students, this afternoon we'll have a mock humanities exam. Quickly get into your seats and get ready," Teacher Li announced as she entered the classroom. Some students groaned, while others were eager to try. Xingcheng No. 1 High School has always been strong in humanities, and to ensure this strength, the school holds countless mock exams like this. Xu Chen was also eagerly awaiting the exam. Xiao Bai remarked, "Looks like you've really settled in." Xu Chen replied inwardly, "Of course, I'll make the best of it." Several tens of minutes later, the classroom transformed into an exam room. School assignments were random. Xu Chen, upon learning his exam room, quickly grabbed his pen and left the classroom. After sitting down, he suddenly noticed the girl in front of him looked familiar. Wang Li was extremely nervous; she had just said she wouldn't dare approach Xu Chen, but now she was sitting right in front of him. "Hello, Wang Li," Xu Chen patted her shoulder. It wasn't surprising that he was so outgoing; after over two hundred years of secluded cultivation, his first experience in the mortal world meant he wasn't particularly uncomfortable in unfamiliar surroundings. However, he always greeted those who approached him with the utmost kindness. Wang Li's body stiffened, and she blushed as she turned around. "Hello, Xu Chen, good luck on the exam!" she said, quickly turning away, her face pressed against the cool desk as if trying to cool down. Xu Chen thought the girl in front of him was a really nice person. "Okay, let's do our best together." The exam papers were handed out. Xu Chen glanced at the paper and began writing. He wasn't a transmigrator or a reincarnated person; there was no need for him to play dumb. He would give his all in every exam.
After the exam, he walked out of the exam hall with everyone else, only to hear his classmates talking about it. "These questions were too hard! Looks like I have no hope of getting 200 points." "Yeah, yeah, I think it was hard too." Xu Chen was about to return to the classroom when Wang Li caught up with him and said softly, "Xu Chen, how did you do on the exam?" Xu Chen recalled his smooth and successful answering process. "It was alright." "Don't put pressure on yourself. You can ask me if you don't understand anything." Wang Li looked at Xu Chen seriously and said. Xu Chen smiled. "Okay, I'll ask you more questions." At this moment, Wang Li thought to herself, "He smiled again. Oh my god, what should we name our child? Should we name the boy Xu Changqing, and the girl Xu Zixuan?" Wang Li quickened her pace to escape Xu Chen's magnetic field. These past few days, she had been thinking about Xu Chen all the time. He was handsome and approachable, very peaceful, and his smile could steal her soul. She admitted that she had fallen for him. If it weren't for the pressure of senior year keeping her rational, she would have confessed her feelings very proactively. "This girl probably likes me, right?" Xu Chen watched Wang Li walk away. "Never mind, I'll just slowly adapt to my new life first."
The next day, Teacher Li entered the classroom with a list of scores. She glanced at Xu Chen and said, "Quiet down. Next, let's talk about our class's performance in the recent humanities mock exam." Xu Chen put down his math book and looked at Teacher Li. This was the last subject he needed to conquer. "Wang Liang, 201."... "Zhang Weiwei, 239." Hearing this, the students exclaimed in surprise, "Zhang Weiwei is amazing! Even with such difficult questions, she maintained a high level!" "Looks like she'll definitely get into a top university." "If she's so good, why didn't the advanced class accept her?" Some students scoffed, "You know she's weak in math, right?" Teacher Li patted the podium and then called out Xu Chen's name, "Xu Chen, 268. Congratulations, Xu Chen, you ranked [number missing] in the grade for humanities." "Second place." The whole class instantly erupted into a boiling pot of noise. "Has he been homeschooling for the past two years?" "Homeschooling my foot! Don't you know what he was like in his first year of high school? A complete academic failure who didn't like studying." "Do you think he might... cheat?" "I think it's possible." At this moment, Zhang Weiwei also looked at Xu Chen with surprise. "No... he might...?" Xu Chen, at the center of the discussion, was surprised by his score. "Why isn't it a perfect score?" He had clearly memorized the entire humanities textbook. "Humanities exams in China are very subjective. Whether you answer well or not is one thing, whether the teacher thinks the answer is good or not is another. Your score is enough to be on par with the top scorer." Xiao Bai comforted him at this moment, and Xu Chen finally stopped "reflecting". Teacher Li looked at Xu Chen and found him standing there blankly, not saying a word. She didn't want to question him publicly, so she suggested, "Talk to him after school." Throughout the day, news of Xu Chen's second-highest score in the humanities subject spread throughout the school. Everyone found it strange that the "bad boy" who fought, gambled, smoked, drank, ignored school rules, and openly confessed his feelings to girls in his first year of high school had really turned his life around.
After school, Xu Chen recalled the test paper the teacher had reviewed, compared it with his own answers, and slowly digested the differences. Just as he stood up to leave, Teacher Li walked into the classroom, leaving him alone. "Xu Chen, your grades have improved very quickly," Teacher Li said, looking at Xu Chen with a slightly questioning gaze. Xu Chen recalled what Xu Chen No. 1 had done and immediately had an idea. "Teacher, do you suspect me of cheating?" Xu Chen looked at Teacher Li with a serious expression. Teacher Li waved her hand. "If I suspected you of cheating, I would have told you in class today." She didn't dare to say anything more, after all, Xu Chen was looking at her with a "dissatisfied" expression. Of course, the most important reason was that they were already in their senior year of high school, and she didn't need to interfere anymore. She had come to talk to him, but he was already "dissatisfied" at the beginning of the conversation, so she simply gave up on the idea of reprimanding Xu Chen. "Keep up the good work, and create miracles in the college entrance examination." After saying that, she left the classroom. Xu Chen also noticed her suspicion, but he didn't care. At this moment, Wang Li and Tao Jia were having a heated discussion on their way home. "Jiajia, Xu Chen's grades have improved so fast, it's like he's skyrocketed!" Tao Jia was stunned, seemingly lost in thought, before saying, "He... he couldn't have cheated, could he?" Wang Li recalled the exam that day; everything in the exam room was normal, two teachers patrolled the entire room one after the other, and nothing seemed amiss until the exam was over. "No, I sat in front of him during the exam, I know he didn't cheat." Upon hearing this, Tao Jia's expression became complicated. She stopped listening to Wang Li's explanation and went straight home.
"Chen'er, come here quickly, Mom will reward you with a mobile phone." Wang Rong knew that her son had done well in the recent mock exam for humanities subjects, and excitedly bought Xu Chen a mobile phone as a reward. Xu Chen opened the smartphone and learned how to operate it with the help of Xiaobai. Wang Rong looked at Xu Chen with a look of satisfaction, "Son, how did you do so well on this exam?" Wang Rong became more rational. She felt that Xu Chen's grades had improved too quickly, but she couldn't directly and sternly question him. She could only ask Xu Chen softly. Xu Chen understood that this was not a good explanation, but it was in his nature to give his all when doing something, so he didn't want to hide his talents. Otherwise, he wouldn't have become a Nascent Soul cultivator, close to the Divine Transformation stage, in just over two hundred years. He thought for a moment, then said to Wang Rong, "When I was homeless, some good friends took me in. They are highly educated and knowledgeable. After hearing about my situation, they tutored me and persuaded me to come home." As he spoke, he used a hypnotic technique to make Wang Rong completely believe his story. Wang Rong excitedly hugged her son, "Okay, okay, invite those friends over sometime. Mom wants to thank them properly." Xu Chen understood that 'persuading' Wang Rong meant persuading the whole family. He then took his phone, slung his backpack over his shoulder, and went into the bedroom.
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