Chapter 117 Nobles 15
After the winter hunt, various small activities came to an end one after another, and before you knew it, it was the end of the semester.
After all courses conclude, Silver Oak will give students a week to review before arranging final exams.
The results of this assessment are of paramount importance. Even the most dissolute young men who spend their days indulging in pleasure and debauchery will sober up at this moment, wash away their sleepiness with cold water, put on a thick coat, and bury themselves in their studies.
The anonymous section no longer discusses gossip; instead, resentment towards finals week and assessments fills every confessional. Clicking into any random one reveals wailing and suicidal thoughts updated in real time.
In this respect, Silver Oak students are just like students in other ordinary schools. There are no lucky ones who can avoid the pain of exams because of their family background. Such good-for-nothings can't even get past Silver Oak's threshold. In fact, because of Silver Oak's high requirements, the assessment is even more difficult.
While I'm still studying, writhing and screaming, my younger cousin is already enjoying a wonderful vacation at the beach. I hate it! I hate this unfair world! Who stole away my carefree, rich kid life—the life of studying whenever I want, playing whenever I want, without having to take exams?!
[Hilarious! You wouldn't want to switch places with your cousin if you were actually asked.]
Is it not obvious which to choose: temporary hardship followed by long-term enjoyment, or temporary enjoyment followed by being subservient to others for the long term?
Stop showing off. Do you think anyone will pay attention to you if you keep showing off here? Let me teach you a trick: post it on your WeChat Moments, and your cousin will definitely hate you for it. [hehe]
There are still more good people than bad in this world.
[Is this all there is to being a mad dog? This is it? This is the so-called lesson? Pei Wei, who's always been so energetic and lively during his special admissions period, are you dead?]
[After calling out in the tree hole for so long, I thought Pei the Mad Dog was some big shot, but it turned out to be a simple combo that silenced him completely. It made me laugh.]
At least Pei Wei dared to take action, unlike some people who just shout and yell in the anonymous forum but don't dare to lay a finger on the special admissions student. They're just a laughingstock!
[…Dude, I really have to speak up for Pei Wei, okay? It's mainly because the guild leader protected him! If it weren't for the guild leader intervening and taking Shen Gou away on the first day of the winter hunt, his legs would have been broken and he would have been buried in the snow long ago. Maybe we could even be holding a funeral for Shen Gou right now.]
[Speak more, it's wonderful to think about.]
I feel like crying... Why does Jinbao like this loser?
So Pei Wei's been locked up again? I haven't seen him for days.
[Reliable sources indicate he was beaten and hospitalized.]
Who's so powerful?!
[No way, buddy, you're in the hospital. Who's going to take care of Chen Gou now? Finals week is such a good opportunity, we have to cram him in like crazy and make sure he flops on his exams.]
【Uh, to be honest, no need. We don't even need to lift a finger; Shen Gou can stump himself with the test.】
【？】
Those who take the same class as Shen Gou should understand; his quiz scores... well, to say they're at the bottom is an understatement. How could our Silver Oak have someone who scores in the teens or twenties?!
[Wait, wasn't he admitted through a special admissions program? How come his grades are so bad?]
[I seriously suspect there's something fishy about this year's special recruitment plan; how did they manage to get a student named Zhang Yu admitted?]
[I can't take it anymore. Apparently, the first thing he did when he got to school was buy glasses. So he was using them to hide his dull, childish eyes! Silence wins!]
[Is anyone willing to start a betting pool to see if Chen Gou's total exam scores can exceed 100?]
[The comment upstairs is a bit too sarcastic, but I like it, yay!]
[I don't know what they're so happy about. So what if they're raised by their husbands? They still get Jinbao's tutoring services.]
【？？？】
[I saw it too, in the coffee shop. The two of them were all lovey-dovey, laughing and gazing at each other tenderly. I went to buy a life-saving coffee early in the morning, with dark circles under my eyes, unsteady steps, and a weak voice, and I was blinded by their love. I went back to my dorm and cried my eyes out TT]
[No way! Why?! Why does this dog get to eat so well?!]
[Bro continues to break through defenses.]
"What are your thoughts on this problem?"
In the coffee shop, Lu Xuejin pointed to the questions on the tablet and asked with a smile.
He silently lowered his head, looked at the question again and again, and then slowly raised his eyes, smiling, and rambled on.
The ideas aren't exactly unrelated, but they're completely unrelated.
Dong Yao: [……]
Lu Xuejin: "Okay. Although it's not perfect, it's organized."
Dong Yao: 【…………】
He remained silent for a moment, then said slowly, "It's all thanks to Teacher Lu's excellent teaching."
Dong Yao remained silent.
Are you two putting on a skit here?
What appears to be a tutoring session between upperclassmen and underclassmen concealing a romantic relationship is actually a case of a less literate person causing trouble for an older, less literate person.
Lu Xuejin knows how to have fun.
When the tutoring session first started, it kindly offered to help Lu Xuejin tutor her husband, hoping to improve his grades and save him face.
Lu Xuejin ignored it completely.
He's blatantly lying to the questioner. For humanities subjective questions, he's forced to silently memorize and recite formulas. For science questions, he's asked to write long analyses of the question setter's psychology. He's not even going to bother acting anymore.
It's good enough if you can smoothly put together an analysis; you have no obligation to understand the question!
To outsiders, the two seemed very serious, but in their secret world, they were jealous that Lu Xuejin favored Momo so much, and they were also afraid that after tutoring, the special admission students would make rapid progress and surpass them in grades, so they cried and howled and worked overtime to review.
Little did they know there was nothing to fear, because no matter how much tutoring two illiterate people received, they would not be able to learn anything.
Dong Yao almost laughed.
The final week flew by while others were on high alert, but Lu Xuejin was holding a meeting with the silent illiterate man. In the blink of an eye, she was sitting silently in the exam room.
After the bell rang, the exam papers and answer sheets were passed down from the first row in order.
Silently received the test paper and immediately read from the first question to the last.
There weren't many questions, only six in total, but the answer sheet had a lot of blank space left. The invigilator even reminded students to leave blank spaces.
"Raise your hand if you don't have enough answer sheets."
Clearly, each question is not easy.
However, silence would prevent one from seeing the difficulties involved.
He carefully unfolded the answer sheet, making sure there were no wrinkles or stains, then flipped the test paper to the first page. Holding his pen, he read the questions and carefully marked them, occasionally adjusting his glasses, looking extremely focused.
Only he himself knew that although he recognized most of the words in the material (although there were a few obscure ones he had never seen before), they were difficult to understand when put together. In addition, his knowledge reserves in this course were insufficient, so after reading the entire material, the knowledge seemed to glide through his smooth brain like ice skates, leisurely retreating without leaving anything behind.
A vast emptiness.
The people around him were already engrossed in answering the questions, silently and leisurely adjusting the positions of their test papers and answer sheets, seemingly in no hurry at all. The proctor gave him a meaningful look.
Finally, he began to write.
Silently and neatly write down an "Answer," then go and read the material for the second question.
"You're really something." Dong Yao was so angry he laughed.
A mechanical voice suddenly popped into his head, but he remained silent as if he hadn't heard anything, his face still showing composure and calmness. To an outsider, he would truly look like a top student with victory in his grasp.
There was no sense of collective honor among the test subjects, but Dong Yao now felt ashamed.
"Fine. I'll read the answers aloud; you can at least recite them, right?" it said coldly. "You can't possibly be someone who can't even write."
After saying that, it mechanically recited the standard answer.
He remained silent, yet continued reading the question.
"Since Lu Xuejin didn't stop me, that means she tacitly approves. Stop pretending." Dong Yao said irritably.
He remained silent or ignored it. He didn't intend to cheat. After reading all the materials, he slowly began to write on the answer sheet.
Could he actually write something?
Upon closer inspection: [Since meeting my wife, my life has been like the sun breaking through the clouds, filled with sunshine. All the gloom has been swept away by her love and understanding. Unlike my clumsy self, my wife is wise and intelligent, emotionally stable, elegant, optimistic, kind, friendly, very attentive to her family, very…*]
Dong Yao: [……]
The second exam was math, the test paper densely covered with numbers and calculations. Dong Yao watched coldly, wanting to see what Chen Mo would do this time.
As a result, this person calmly guessed B for all the multiple-choice questions, wrote "wife" in every blank for the fill-in-the-blank questions, and after writing the solution to the word problems as usual, filled every blank with a long essay praising his wife.
Dong Yao: 【…………】
That's enough! I said that's enough!
The bell rang, signaling the end of the last exam. Many students immediately slumped onto their desks, expressions of relief on their faces. Silently, I walked outside the classroom, the wind and snow hitting me like a blast of cold, sharp snow.
"Holy crap, a blizzard!"
"If they go out like that, they'll be buried alive."
Students who had finished their exams crowded in the corridor, checking the weather. Suddenly, someone glanced downstairs:
"Someone's gone. Who was that brave warrior?"
"Isn't that so-and-so?"
"A special admission student, huh? He must have gone crazy from the exam, daring to go out in this heavy snow."
Silence left the clamor behind and they moved slowly forward amidst the swirling snow and howling wind.
Lu Xuejin did not tell him where she was, but her silence indicated that she was heading in a clear direction.
Gradually, the world became quiet, and even the wind and snow fell silent.
The silent snow is just like their past.
Dong Yao said coldly, "Do you think Lu Xuejin is waiting for you?"
"Was I waiting for you?" Feng Xue adjusted his glasses, then silently took them off, revealing handsome features and a pair of ambitious eyes.
As the snow fell, a school building came into view.
Unlike the Silver Oak's architectural style, this building features a soaring spire and stained-glass windows depicting biblical stories.
The moment the silence fell, the snowstorm ceased, and the warm sun shone brightly.
Sunlight slowly spilled through the corridor, climbed the red walls and glass, and rushed toward the boy sitting quietly in the center of the studio.
With his long, flowing hair and clear, bright eyes, bathed in the purest light, he casually smeared bright red paint onto the canvas.
On the canvas is a tall, thin adult with silky black hair and a flowing black dress. Beside him is a blond child with a wicked smile, and behind the child is a shorter, smaller, and even uglier doll.
Silence knocks on the window.
Author's Note:
*Adapted from the internet
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