Chapter 10: The Only One Holding Us Back?

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Before they knew it, several more days slipped by in the blink of an eye.

The date had already arrived: July 23.

Early that morning, Huang Feiyang received a call from the icy beauty, Chen Xiruo.

“Huang Feiyang!”

“Remember to check your scores today. The results are being released today!”

The moment the call connected, Chen Xiruo got straight to the point.

“And don’t forget what you said at the class reunion!”

She added that reminder immediately afterward.

“All right!”

After a brief pause, Huang Feiyang broke into a grin.

So the results of the National College Entrance Examination were being released today?

To be honest, he was rather curious himself. Just how many points had he ultimately scored?

At the same time, he thought with a hint of mischievous amusement:

Once his results were made public, surely they would leave countless people utterly stunned.

After all, he was famously the king of skipping class.

In the eyes of countless people, he was also a hopeless student—

a spoiled rich heir who knew nothing but eating, drinking, and having fun.

The two chatted for quite a while before finally ending the call.

As soon as he hung up, Huang Feiyang decisively went back to sleep.

Meanwhile, quite a few final-year students had already returned to Yang City No. 1 High School.

Many of them had chosen to come back to school to check their scores.

Chen Xiruo was among them.

Class 8 of the senior year.

When she saw that the only empty seat in the classroom was the one beside her—the seat belonging to her deskmate—Chen Xiruo could not help feeling both amused and exasperated.

“That guy…”

She shook her head lightly, an exasperated smile appearing on her beautiful, icy face.

She had known this would happen.

Yet unlike everyone else, she understood that Huang Feiyang’s examination results would probably leave countless people dumbfounded.

That fellow was no poor student at all.

Who knew how terrifying his score would be?

After all, he possessed a photographic memory.

And he himself was exceptionally intelligent.

Once the scores became available, students at Yang City No. 1 High School and other schools alike began checking their results.

Whether they were final-year students still at school or elsewhere, everyone started looking up their scores.

Take Class 8 of the senior year at Yang City No. 1 High School, for example.

The classroom was already buzzing with excitement.

Everyone was making calls to check their results.

Had Huang Feiyang been there, he would certainly have been filled with emotion.

In this era, people still relied on bulky mobile phones, small handheld phones, and landlines.

They were worlds apart from the future.

Indeed, those were precisely the three methods everyone was using to check their scores.

“Zhang Fang, 611!”

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“Chen Ting, 589!”

“Cheng Du, 636!”

“…”

As one student after another announced their scores, the homeroom teacher sitting at the podium could not stop smiling.

They had all cleared the first-tier cutoff.

Every one of them.

Not bad at all.

However, when he glanced at the empty seat beside Chen Xiruo, a bitter expression unconsciously appeared on the middle-aged teacher’s face.

Huang Feiyang.

That fellow was the only person in the entire class holding everyone back.

Who knew whether his score this time would have two digits or only one?

What a headache.

The homeroom teacher was not the only one who thought so. Nearly every student in the classroom shared his opinion.

In their eyes, Huang Feiyang’s examination results were bound to be terrible.

He had barely come to school at all during the entire year.

There was no way his grades could be any good.

What was more, according to the rumors, he had hardly attended school even throughout his three years of high school.

Thinking about it, many people found the whole thing unbelievable.

Was that fellow even still a student?

Before long, everyone turned their unwavering attention toward Chen Xiruo.

She was the top student who had occupied first place in the entire grade for as long as anyone could remember.

How many points had she scored on the examination?

Everyone was intensely curious.

They were looking forward to finding out as well.

“Xiruo, how many points did you get?”

The homeroom teacher looked at Chen Xiruo and asked with a broad smile.

“Seven hundred and eleven.”

Chen Xiruo smiled as she answered.

“Excellent!”

Upon hearing her reply, the homeroom teacher’s face instantly flushed with triumph.

Thunderous applause erupted throughout the classroom.

Seven hundred and eleven?

Without a doubt, that was an exceptionally high score across the entire province.

“What was your ranking?”

The homeroom teacher took a deep breath before asking expectantly.

“Fourth in the province among science students.”

Chen Xiruo blinked and answered with a smile.

Her beautiful, icy face was filled with unconcealed delight.

Clearly, she was extremely satisfied with her result.

When the class heard what she had said, the applause grew even louder.

The homeroom teacher was practically grinning from ear to ear.

The rest of the class erupted in wave after wave of exclamations.

There were also all kinds of praise, envy, jealousy, and resentment.

Seven hundred and eleven.

That was simply too impressive.

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Once everyone present had finished checking their results, the smile on the homeroom teacher’s face grew even brighter.

Every one of them had cleared the first-tier cutoff.

Hahaha!

At that moment, he could barely keep himself from bursting into wild laughter.

“What about Huang Feiyang?”

“Does anyone know his national identification number and examination admission number?”

At last, the homeroom teacher asked with a complicated expression.

Everyone shook their heads.

As the sole poor student in the class—and a rich second-generation heir at that—they were not particularly familiar with him.

At the same time, quite a few people began whispering among themselves.

“His family is so rich that his score doesn’t matter anyway!”

“Exactly! Being born into the right family is a skill in itself!”

“How many points do you think he got on the entrance examination?”

“I’d guess his total score didn’t even break a hundred.”

“Hahaha! Makes sense! How many points could the king of skipping class possibly get?”

“Exactly!”

“…”

Hearing the discussions around her, Chen Xiruo could not help frowning.

She felt uncomfortable listening to everyone speak about Huang Feiyang that way.

“I’ll give him a call.”

She looked toward the homeroom teacher and spoke.

“All right.”

The homeroom teacher nodded.

In truth, his thoughts differed little from those of the others.

In his eyes, Huang Feiyang was the only hopeless student dragging the entire class down.

The only question was how ugly his score would be.

Under everyone’s watchful gaze, Chen Xiruo dialed Huang Feiyang’s number.

“Hello!”

“Have you checked your scores yet?”

“You haven’t? Come on, what time do you think it is?”

“Then tell me your national identification number and examination admission number.”

“…”

As she spoke on the phone, Chen Xiruo picked up a pen and paper and began writing.

After ending the call, she immediately and efficiently checked Huang Feiyang’s score for him.

Before long, a look of utter astonishment appeared on Chen Xiruo’s face.

Seeing her expression, everyone in the classroom secretly shook their heads.

Just as they had expected.

Had Huang Feiyang really done that badly?

He truly was the only person dragging the class down.

Even so, they remained extremely curious.

Exactly how many points had Huang Feiyang scored on the entrance examination?

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