Thursday morning, exam day.
Class 8—otherwise known as Examination Room 8.
With thirty examinees per room, the students in Examination Room 8 ranked between 210th and 240th in the grade.
They were considered slightly above average.
Yu Wen, Huang Yuzhu, Cao Kun, and Shang Caiwei were all in this room.
Before the exam began, Wu Xiaoqi was shooting hoops at the back of the classroom. Greatness was not achieved overnight; it had to be forged through every minute and every second. He dribbled the basketball with utmost seriousness.
Xu Chun Deng from the former Class 5 rushed into the classroom and headed straight for Shang Caiwei in the first row.
Xu Chun Deng's round, bespectacled face was brimming with excitement, and he spoke quickly. "Shang Caiwei, we meet again. What a coincidence!"
Shang Caiwei had buried her face in her hair. Hearing him, she raised her head and looked at the classmate who had once been so familiar.
Xu Chun Deng grew even more excited. Back then, he and Shang Caiwei had been in the same class and saw each other every day. He had naively believed that was simply part of life, that it would last forever.
Until that day, when Class 5 was scattered like sand slipping through their fingers and drifting away on the wind.
She had gone to Class 8, while he had gone to Class 11. From then on, they had never met again amid the sea of people.
It could not be helped. Shang Caiwei was introverted, poor at socializing, and rarely showed herself in public.
Xu Chun Deng stared at the girl he had a crush on. Her nose was delicate and high, her skin fair and tender, and her eyes were like those of a fawn in the forest.
Xu Chun Deng