Chapter 138
——It’s actually 0!
Jiang Yunu looked over her candidate information page again and again. She took a deep breath and sighed deeply, "Oh!"
She was not surprised by the result of the first phase of extracting the files.
If the white-haired girl had held onto a brief moment of hope during the first three days of the first phase of the application process, she'd briefly imagined that perhaps she'd wake up and receive a push notification on her personal device, then click on it and find her target schools rushing to take her file and examine it carefully.
This fantasy was shattered three days later. After 72 hours, the only two notifications Jiang Yunu received about the file transfer were that two high schools in the fifth district had checked her candidate file.
"...Honestly," the white-haired girl said sincerely to Jodaith and Joyson after checking the push notifications, "I've started researching the customs and culture of the Fifth District. I think it's pretty good."
Qiao Daisi believed that whatever the child achieved was good. She continued, "The Fifth District is two ranks higher than our Seventh District. Its prosperity and regional development are both very good."
Joyson thinks Jiang Yunu should not stop here, and he is full of hope for the subsequent second and third stages of advancement.
"It's still early," the red-haired boy said. "This is only the first stage. Those schools in the upper three districts will definitely give priority to students from the top star districts in the first stage. We have to wait until the second or third round before they will look at the files of students from our star district."
Joyson's words make sense.
Under the premise of the established rule that "a large number of places should be reserved for students from the front star zones", colleges and universities in the top three zones will definitely give priority to checking the candidates from the front large zones. After almost all the "front row high-quality students" have been absorbed and each school has only a few places left, they will check the files of candidates from the lagging star zones and come to the back row to "pan for gold".
"You haven't even reached the final 'gold rush' yet, why are you already losing heart?" Joyce encouraged Jiang Yunu, "That's not like you. Show some confidence!"
Jiang Yunu said, "Well, okay."
It cannot be said that Jiang Yunu has no confidence in herself. You know, when she participated in the school competition and the inter-school competition, Reis Daniel almost felt that she was a little blindly confident, and Lu Xixi was worried that the girl was too ignorant and would hurt herself in the practical competition.
Jiang Yunu is confident, but she also respects objective reality - she can feel that she is no worse than anyone else and can believe in her own abilities, but at the same time, when it comes to things like "getting opportunities" and "waiting to be selected and chosen", she is unwilling to put her confidence in the idea that "I will definitely be noticed".
For Jiang Yunu, placing confidence in things that others can judge subjectively is something that she subconsciously feels is very dangerous.
Two schools in the fifth district have already extended olive branches to Jiang Yunu, and she now has a real backup school. She is quite calm.
When the second phase of file retrieval began, Jiang Yunu received file retrieval notices from two high schools in the fourth district.
"The fourth district is also very good." The little girl shared the new push notification with her teachers - her dearest teacher Lei, and teacher Sasha who was monitoring her admission status in real time.
Because many teachers cared about her, she directly created a small group chat among teachers and students.
Mudisa congratulated her first: "The fourth district means you have officially entered the 'Middle Star District'."
Jiang Yunu said: "I feel like I have finally escaped from the bottom of society and entered a moderately prosperous society, and now I have the hope of moving towards the middle class."
Teacher Sasha was puzzled: "What are you talking about?"
Teacher Lei spoke softly, "Have you finally faced reality and feel that our Seventh District is 'at the bottom'?"
Jiang Yunu keenly noticed that she seemed to have accidentally triggered Teacher Lei's "sarcastic button" again. She immediately said, "No, I was just talking nonsense. Don't worry about it."
The fourth district is one district level higher than the original fifth district.
From the seventh district to the fourth district, it can be said that the school has achieved "jumping three levels in a row" through academic advancement.
Jiang Yunu was also quite satisfied with the result.
But Resdaniel reminded her: "There is still a final third round of file review."
Mutisha also said: "Yes, Lei is right, don't be impatient, wait a little longer."
The third stage of extracting files is the "gold rush period" mentioned by Joyson before. Teachers and relatives and friends seem to be waiting for a miracle to appear during the "gold rush period" to help Jiang Yunu fulfill his wish.
When the third stage officially began, there was no movement in the background of Jiang Yunu's candidate interface for the first two days.
But by chance that night, she received a strange call.
The communication interface showed an unfamiliar private signal calling. Jiang Yunu was a little suspicious, but she still answered the call smoothly: "Hello?"
"Happy summer vacation!" A lively voice came from the phone.
Jiang Yunu only needed to hear the first greeting to immediately understand who this "unknown communicator" was - Xue Zhanxing.
"Happy summer vacation." Jiang Yunu first replied to Master Xue's greetings, then expressed confusion about the unfamiliar number. "Why did you send me a message from this number? When I first saw the notification screen, I thought I had received a strange harassing call."
"Are you sure you think it's a strange harassing call, not a call from the admissions office?" Young Master Xue smiled brightly on the other end of the phone.
Obviously, although Xue Zhanxing is not going to college this year, he, like everyone else, is paying close attention to Jiang Yunu's academic progress.
"Sorry." After confirming that it was someone she knew calling, Jiang Yunu's response became more relaxed. She leaned lazily against the cabinet and said, "I miscalculated. Since senior schools started checking the candidate files, I've only received one call from the admissions office."
The only call from the admissions office came from one of the two schools in the fourth district that took away Jiang Yunuo's file.
The other party was very interested in the fact that she had applied for a subject that was not taught in the school.
Jiang Yunu guessed that she answered well, because after that, she saw on the candidate information page that the school's status of her had changed to "proposed admission."
"—No way?" Xue Zhanxing exaggerated his surprise, his tone fluctuating like a dramatic performance. "I thought your communication system would have been overwhelmed by the calls."
Jiang Yunu smiled and said, "If our seventh district can also establish a senior school, I think this scene is possible."
Young Master Xue and Jiang Yunu were having a normal voice call, but for some reason, Jiang Yunu felt that he could hear the other party shaking his head.
"One day, these schools will regret not calling you in time." Xue Zhanxing said very seriously.
Jiang Yunu wasn't sure whether the other person would regret it, and she didn't want to think about something so distant and vague.
She simply said, very practically, "If none of the schools I originally applied for are willing to accept me in the final few days of the third phase of the application process, then, if nothing unexpected happens, I'll be going to the fourth district next semester."
Xue Zhanxing was a young master after all, and when talking about the fourth district, he could talk about the central city and landmarks there in detail. He said that he had traveled to those places and introduced Jiang Yunu to a basket of "must-see places" and "must-eat foods".
Jiang Yunu listened patiently and prepared to organize the useful information provided by Master Xue. If she really got admitted to the school in the fourth district, she would take Joyson and Aunt Daisy on a short trip near her school as introduced before school started.
Then Xue Zhanxing suddenly changed the subject: "--But what I said above is more suitable for your future holiday travel information."
Jiang Yunu paused: "Hmm?"
Xue Zhanxing said mysteriously, "I have a feeling you won't stop at the fourth district."
Jiang Yunu felt that this sounded familiar. When she remembered where she had heard something similar before, she couldn't help laughing again.
“Why are you saying the same thing as my brother?” she said. “He said the same thing before.”
Xue Zhanxing still had an impression of Qiao Yisen, so he immediately followed up, saying, "It just shows that we're so connected. Soulmates don't need to constantly communicate; they can still maintain a tacit understanding and a shared perspective on things."
Fortunately, Joyson was away at the moment, having gone out to run errands for Aunt Daisy. Otherwise, it would be hard to say how he would have felt when he heard someone claim to be his "soul friend."
Jiang Yunu felt that her friends seemed to have too much confidence in her. She herself was not sure about the things she said were 100% certain, but they all firmly believed that good things would happen.
It is quite a coincidence that Xue Zhanxing always seems to appear just before good news is about to come, like a bird of good news.
Not long after Jiang Yunu finished the phone call with Young Master Xue, his personal terminal made a "buzzing" sound and vibrated slightly the next day.
She looked down and saw a new push from the candidate information background -
【Michelle College has extracted your candidate file. 】
[Golden Uriel Academy has retrieved your candidate file.]
Jiang Yunu was stunned for a moment. She rubbed her eyes, put down her personal terminal, and went to the bathroom to wash her face.
When tiny water droplets still hung on her eyelashes, she looked at her personal terminal screen again and found that the two new push notifications were still displayed on it.
"I think Xue Zhanxing has some metaphysics in him."
Jiang Yunu walked down the stairs of the Qiao family's small building and said this to the Qiao family mother and son who were on the first floor in a dreamy tone.
Joyce raised his face, full of confusion: "Huh?"
Qiao Daisi had rarely heard the two children mention this name. She was unfamiliar with the name "Xue Zhanxing": "Who is this?"
"He's a young master who studies in Songnan. He met Qiao Yisen and me by chance." Jiang Yunu first briefly explained to Aunt Dai Si who Xue Zhanxing was. Then she turned on the terminal and enlarged the screen. "—Look!"
The red-haired mother and son turned their gazes to the screen simultaneously.
Then there was a "bang".
It was the sound of Joyson trying to jump up at the dining table and hitting his knee on the bottom of the table.
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