Just as Wang Yue and Han Chunming were leading their friends in making money, Su Meng and Cheng Jianjun took the college entrance exam for the second time.
Once again, neither Cheng Jianjun nor Su Meng passed.
The main reason was that the educated youths who had been able to focus on their studies and had good academic aptitude had mostly passed the previous make-up exam.
The rest had to work or find ways to support themselves. Besides, the two exams had been only six months apart, and most of their competitors were recent high school graduates.
Su Meng and Cheng Jianjun were up against students who had studied more diligently than they had.
Of course, there was one more important reason: Su Meng had still been waiting for Han Chunming to explain himself. But after he went to college, she found that he had become even harder to pin down, which made her feel worse.
Whenever Su Meng tried to find Han Chunming, he was either with his classmates and friends or with Cai Xiaoli.
Han Chunming still cared deeply for Su Meng, and the time limit Wang Yue had given him had passed, so he had a chance to clear things up with her.
But Cai Xiaoli had failed the exam too, and Han Chunming just couldn't bring himself to break up with her. That was why he had gone to the countryside separately from Wang Yue, bringing Li Chengtao and Cai Xiaoli along to make some money.
In just six months, Han Chunming had mainly been responsible for buying goods. Cai Xiaoli and Li Chengtao sometimes went with him, and they had earned quite a lot—more than they made at their regular jobs.
Of course, Cai Xiaoli and Li Chengtao had a simple way of making money: