The Administrative Aptitude Test was over.
In the corridor outside the exam room, Dong Xuebin ran into Xiao Dong.
Xiao Dong glanced at him mockingly. "This one was even harder than the National Civil Service Exam. You didn't have any problems, did you?"
Dong Xuebin met his gaze without backing down. "Don't tell me you messed it up?"
"Me? Mess it up?" Xiao Dong laughed in disbelief, brimming with confidence. "Don't compare me to you. Aside from two logic questions I probably got wrong, and a few particularly difficult general knowledge questions, there's basically no way I got the rest wrong. I calculated it before handing in the paper. Unless something unexpected happened, my error rate won't exceed seven percent. Heh, what about you? With a paper this difficult, you must have missed at least forty or fifty questions, right?"
Dong Xuebin smiled. "Don't worry about me. If you're fine, then I'm fine."
"Don't just put on a brave front." Xiao Dong clearly had no idea what Dong Xuebin meant.
Having gotten through one exam, Dong Xuebin felt much more relaxed. But when he thought of the essay exam that afternoon, his head started aching again.
He did not even feel like eating.
Qu Yunxuan and Aunt Xu, who had been waiting for them outside, might have been afraid of putting pressure on them. When they saw the two come out, neither asked how they had done. They ate at a dumpling restaurant by the west gate of Fifteenth Middle School, and before they knew it, it was time for the afternoon exam.
Back at the Fifteenth Middle School test site, Xiao Dong looked very calm, as if he had everything under control. "Good luck. Don't fail."
Although Dong Xuebin had no confidence at all, he still stubbornly replied, "Same