"How can you be so stingy? You're so selfish! Are you afraid that we'll get into university, but you won't?"
Liu Fang raised her voice in displeasure.
Amidst the crackling and popping of sparks from the stove, Ji Yanchen suddenly grabbed the top book, ripped off the cover, and tossed it into the stove in the room amidst gasps of surprise.
"These are all ours, we won't lend them to you even if we burn them!"
He pressed the book to his chest, his eyes bloodshot, and glared fiercely at the educated youth.
The room was deathly silent.
Seeing that Ji Yanchen was emotional, Zi Xi pushed the educated youth away.
"Lin Zhiqing, look at your spouse, they're so petty! Lin Zhiqing, if you're going to study with such a burden, there's no way you'll pass the exam!!"
"If you ask me... Lin Zhiqing, once you go to university with us, what kind of men won't you see..."
The educated youth had no choice but to gradually retreat towards the gate. Before leaving, Liu Fang stood at the gate, sneering and pointing at them in a sarcastic tone.
Before he could finish speaking, Ji Yanchen burst out like a cannonball!
Zi Xi clung desperately to his waist, but he dragged her several steps. He held a wood-chopping knife, and his cold gaze made Liu Fang run away as fast as she could.
"Yan Chen! Look at me."
Zi Xi suddenly turned Ji Yanchen's face, pressing her forehead against his cold brow, his rapid breaths spraying onto her eyelashes.
"Did you hear the announcement? We're going to college together."
She softly hummed a folk tune he was familiar with.
Ji Yanchen's mania gradually subsided. Zi Xi pried open his tightly clenched fist, revealing a half-broken fingernail mixed with bloodstains in his palm.
"Fool." She laughed and scolded through her tears, wrapping the severed nail in her handkerchief.
Late at night, under the oil lamp.
Zi Xi wrote down some inspirational quotes in her notebook, intending for Ji Yanchen to carry them with him. However, Ji Yanchen snatched the pen and carved a line of small characters at the bottom of the page: "If we don't pass the exam, we'll go home together and roast sweet potatoes."
Zi Xi couldn't help but laugh out loud.
*
In the late summer, the sound of cicadas chirping broke the tranquility of the village entrance with the ringing of the postman's bicycle bell.
"Ji Yanchen! Lin Zixi! We have received your letter!"
"It's postman Zhang!" he shouted, waving two brown paper envelopes in his hand.
Ji Yanchen, who was chopping wood in the yard, paused, the axe hanging in mid-air.
He turned to look inside the house, where Zi Xi had already excitedly run out.
Is it an acceptance letter?
Zi Xi looked at Ji Yanchen with full confidence.
Ji Yanchen put down the axe, strode over, and took the envelope.
His fingers trembled slightly, and the gold-embossed university emblem on the envelope gleamed in the sunlight.
One letter was for Zixi, from the Chinese Department of a Normal University in City B; the other was for him, from the Mechanical Engineering Department of a Polytechnic University in City B.
"I knew we could do it! We...we both passed!!"
Zi Xi breathed a sigh of relief. Although she knew that the male protagonists of each small world were all outstanding, she was still a little worried in this era of scarce resources.
Ji Yanchen nodded, his throat tightening. He confirmed the fact once again: they had indeed been admitted, and to a university in City B at that.
Ji Yanchen hugged her tightly, but felt an indescribable heaviness pressing down on his heart.
Tuition and living expenses are not a problem for them now that they have sold the gold. The important thing is that although both universities are in City B, they are separated by most of the city.
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