Chapter 224: Chapter 150: 650 Points, You Just Need Hands
Monday arrived, just as Shen Yuan had predicted.
The teachers for each subject spent their classes endlessly analyzing the solutions to every question on the monthly exam paper.
Shen Yuan listened with unusual focus.
Even in his Eldest Female Cousin’s class, Shen Yuan was, for once, actually paying attention.
Seeing Shen Yuan look so studious, Li Zhi felt a little flustered.
Her claim from last night about not being nervous had, by now, proven to be nothing but tough talk.
The way Shen Yuan was acting now was a bit *too* serious.
Li Zhi propped her head up with one hand, constantly mulling over the possibility of Shen Yuan scoring 650 points.
’Logically speaking, getting a high score should be a good thing.’
’After all, it means we might be able to get into the same university later on.’
’But...’
’Isn’t this happening a little too fast?’
Evolving from a wild dog scoring under 600 to a fully-functional brain scoring 650 in just over two months... that was way too fast.
’Can’t he just slow down a little?’
’He’s not giving me any time to mentally prepare at all!’
Just as Li Zhi was lost in thought, Shen Yuan’s voice reached her ears.
"I got all the non-essay questions right in English."
Li Bao met Shen Yuan’s gaze, and her heart trembled slightly.
’This boy is frighteningly good, damn it!’
"Go ahead and show off. It’s just English! What’s so amazing about that? Come brag to me when you do well in a subject you’re not good at."
Li Zhi huffed and decided to ignore Shen Yuan.
Shen Yuan was in a great mood, so he had no intention of arguing with Li Bao.
And when you’re in a good mood, the natural thing to do is to make it even better.
Shen Yuan sidled up to Ah Jie and said, "Well, well, well, let’s see which little dummy couldn’t even get an 80 on the English exam."
"Hey, hey, hey! Who are you calling a dummy?!"
Ah Jie’s previously dejected expression from hearing the English answers vanished, replaced by a look of pure fighting spirit.
A corner of Ah Jie’s mouth curled up as he spoke to Shen Yuan with disdain, "Yuan, even though you helped me a lot on my path to improving my English, and you even surpassed my score, I have to say..."
"Your Brother Jie’s English has risen! I got 72 points on just the listening and multiple-choice sections today! I finished the essay too, so the teacher has to give me at least 8 points!"
With that, a cocky expression appeared on Ah Jie’s face. "80! I did what I said I would! Your Brother Jie’s English score is definitely clearing 80 this time!"
Seeing Ah Jie’s arrogant expression, Shen Yuan chuckled.
"80 points? I could step on the answer sheet and get a higher score than you."
"You bastard! For math, I’d just have to step on..."
Ah Jie suddenly trailed off.
Seeing Shen Yuan’s mocking half-smile, Ah Jie cracked.
"Dammit, why can’t I make that badass ’step on the answer sheet’ boast for math!"
In the following classes, estimating the Chinese score proved difficult, so they could only analyze it based on typical results.
Math was easier to estimate. Shen Yuan’s final guess was about the same as when he first checked the answers.
points—not too high, a moderate estimate.
Shen Yuan’s highest possible estimate was 125, but on second thought, that seemed a bit unlikely.
When Ah Jie heard Shen Yuan’s math estimate, he broke again.
"Why is your math improving so fast! Dammit, why is my English improving so slowly!"
Shen Yuan patted Ah Jie’s shoulder and said with a smile, "It’s probably just the result of a long, steady accumulation of knowledge!"
"You dick."
"Get lost!"
By the afternoon, they had also finished estimating their scores for the entire comprehensive science paper.
Chemistry was a bit of a disaster, but luckily, physics and biology pulled his score up quite a bit.
Shen Yuan estimated it would be around 265, give or take.
After estimating all the subjects, Shen Yuan’s highest possible total score could exceed 650, but his lowest would just barely touch the 640-point threshold.
The margin of error was pretty large.
Li Zhi was quite happy to hear this conclusion.
’After all, it’s not like I have zero chance of winning!’
But with things like this, no one could say for sure they had it in the bag until the very last moment.
’What if he gets 649? Wouldn’t Shen Yuan just explode?’
was practically his limit right now.
They still had dinner in the cafeteria, but Shen Yuan didn’t eat with Li Zhi today.
Li Zhi had gone out with He Zhiyu to buy sushi.
Shen Yuan was prejudiced against sushi, thinking it was basically just a smaller version of mixed rice.
’You can just mix some meat and vegetables yourself, add a spritz of soy sauce-flavored tanning spray on top, and it tastes just as good!’
’At the very least, just mix some sauce into the rice.’
’Is there a problem with that?’
’No problem at all!’
That’s why Shen Yuan didn’t really like sushi. It was expensive and not filling.
Beef bowls were still the best.
Shen Yuan shoveled rice into his mouth, looking at the unfamiliar face sitting across from him, and suddenly felt a little disappointed.
’Why isn’t it Li Zhi?’
The very instant that thought appeared, Shen Yuan was startled by it himself.
’What the hell! What is going on?’
Shen Yuan cursed inwardly, ’Why would I suddenly think about eating with Li Zhi while I’m having dinner?’
He found the idea strange, completely out of line with his usual way of thinking.
Just then, Zhou Shaojie, who was sitting opposite Shen Yuan, suddenly looked up at him with a resentful expression and said slowly, "Are you thinking about your Li Bao?"
"Pah!" As if his tail had been stepped on, Shen Yuan spat sharply and snapped viciously at Zhou Shaojie, "What kind of nonsense are you spouting!"
However, Zhou Shaojie seemed to have anticipated Shen Yuan’s reaction, and his expression didn’t change in the slightest.
But Shen Yuan’s very next sentence gave him away.
"Is ’Li Bao’ a name you’re allowed to use?"
Zhou Shaojie rolled his eyes at Shen Yuan. "This dumbass kid is a lost cause!"
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