The [Real] top student excelled in every aspect: morality, intellect, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor.
An Olympic Math champion in the making.
Stewing white mice in formalin.
Taking apart and reassembling a utility pole with bare hands.
A master of active glycosides.
With poetry soaring and talent brimming.
Fluent in eight languages.
Highly enlightened, winning others over with virtue.
Loving labor, beautiful of heart.
At ease with music, chess, calligraphy, and painting.
Strong and healthy, with sinews of steel.
This was the standard for a [Real] top student.
How many of these did you meet?
Shen Qi considered himself some distance from being a perfect [Real] top student. He kept improving himself and strengthening his qualities in every area.
Strong and healthy, with sinews of steel. Shen Qi was working toward that. If he ever lost in the cruel world of academic rivalry, at least he could run away if he couldn't beat them. As long as the green hills remained, there'd be no shortage of firewood.
Physical fitness was also one of the ten metrics the system had unlocked. Shen Qi had already raised it to level 2.
As a high school student and a future pillar of the motherland, how could his physical education grades be bad?
There had been PE classes in elementary school, PE classes in middle school, and PE classes in college.
As a top student, he shouldn't be looked down on in any subject that was taught.
In fact, Shen Qi had only ever raised his physical fitness by one level. Its default rating was level 1, and he'd raised it to level 2.
Upgrading physical fitness was unusual. The system didn't improve Shen Qi's soft skills, such as his ability to derive, memory, logic, or language perception. Instead, it boosted the activity of