The College Entrance Examination

After they got home, under his mother's insistence, Su You gave her a slightly abridged account of what had happened that day. Naturally, the Bun Beauty and the trip into the woods were left out.

After hearing him out, his mother sighed. "Honestly, you're just too innocent. What a great opportunity, and all you did was hold her hand?"

Su You smiled shyly. He'd successfully maintained his good-boy image. Oh yeah!

Over the next few days, Tang Yongqing was busy studying for the college entrance examination, so Su You found himself with a lot of free time.

In between his martial arts training, he also got in touch with Supervisor Wang's daughter. She was the same age as Su You and had decent, if unremarkable, looks. After their first conversation, Su You had never taken the initiative to contact her again.

Clearly, she wasn't qualified to enter Brother You's "pond" and couldn't make the cut as his leading lady.

On June 7, 2053, the first day of the college entrance examination, large crowds of examinees and parents gathered outside Lubei District No. 1 High School in Tianjin City. Gong Yanrong, Su You, and Tang Yongqing were among them.

According to the exam arrangements, Tang Yongqing had been assigned to take her exams at No. 1 High School, while Tang Yongyuan had been assigned to No. 3 High School.

Tang's parents had originally planned to each accompany one of the siblings, but Su You's mother, Gong Yanrong, had volunteered, taking Su You along to look after Tang Yongqing.

"Xiao Qing, stay calm. Just do as well as you usually do, and you'll be fine. There's no need to be nervous." Gong Yanrong beamed as she spoke, though to Su You, she seemed even more nervous than Tang Yongqing herself.

Su You looked at Tang Yongqing and suddenly said in a fierce voice, "Do well. If you don't, I'll break up with you!"

Tang Yongqing burst out laughing, but Gong Yanrong had already reached over and pinched Su You hard around the waist.

"Watch what you say! If Xiao Qing doesn't do well, I'll skin you alive, you little brat!"

After cultivating the Eight-Nine Profound Art, Su You had become even more thick-skinned. His mother put quite a bit of force into it, but to him, it was no different from a tickle.

Still, he put on an expression of unbearable pain so his mother would let go sooner.

"Oh, the gates are open! It's time to go in!" Su You called out, quick to spot the change. His mother immediately stopped and began checking Tang Yongqing's stationery and documents for the third time.

Once she'd finished, his mother hurriedly said, "Everything's in order. Xiao Qing, go on in!"

"Mm." Tang Yongqing replied and took a couple of steps forward, but then turned around and came back.

"Brother Su You, you haven't encouraged me yet!" Tang Yongqing looked at him hopefully.

His mother gave Su You a firm smack. "Exactly! You haven't encouraged Xiao Qing at all. Hurry up; don't hold up her exam."

Su You froze for a moment, then raised a fist and smiled. "Good luck, Xiao Qing!"

"That didn't sound sincere," Tang Yongqing said, puffing out her cheeks.

"Huh? What should I do, then?" Su You asked with a pained expression.

Tang Yongqing pointed to her flushed cheeks. Her gaze fell to the ground, and she didn't say a word.

"Ah, there are so many people here!"

Su You was a little taken aback. Seeing Tang Yongqing lower her head and fall silent, he couldn't help sighing.

"Fine, you're the boss today. You can tell me what to do." Su You reached out with both hands, cupped Xiao Qing's face, and kissed her.

"Happy now?"

Tang Yongqing gave the faintest nod. Not daring to look at Gong Yanrong, she turned and headed straight for the school gate.

After watching Tang Yongqing pass the inspection and enter the school, Gong Yanrong looked at Su You. "Well, you two seem to be making good progress!"

"Ahem." Su You kept a straight face. "Mom, your son's innocence is gone."

"Pah! Get lost!" His mother spat at him, then continued:

"Wait here for Xiao Qing to finish her exam. I'm going back to cook with Aunt Li. When Xiao Qing comes out, you two go straight to your Uncle Tang's house. Got it?"

Su You nodded. After the Grand Nirvana, the college entrance examination in Huaxia Country had undergone quite a few changes.

The exam lasted three days and had only three subjects, in this order: the science exam (physics, chemistry, and biology), the humanities exam (Chinese, history, politics, and geography), and the math exam.

Each subject was worth 250 points. Yes, math was truly one of a kind!

Since they only took one subject each day, the exams lasted just three hours in the morning. Once they were done, students could go straight home to prepare for the next day.

At noon, at the Tang family's dining table.

With the exception of Su You's father, both families were all there. Tang Yongqing and Tang Yongyuan were naturally the stars of the day. As for Su You, a dropout, he was still the low man on the totem pole.

The three days flew by, and when the bell rang across the grounds of Lubei District No. 1 High School, the 2053 college entrance examination officially came to an end.

Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, exams were graded extremely quickly in this world. A week later, on the evening of June 16 at eight o'clock, students could check their scores, and the cutoff for undergraduate programs would be announced at the same time.

With the college entrance examination over, Su You had far fewer restrictions. Starting the next day, aside from having to return home at night, he and Tang Yongqing were practically free to do as they pleased. The adults in both families were happy to see them together.

So for that entire week, the two spent every day glued to each other. They'd even turned the villa in Guanglan Residential Quarter into their private dating spot, no longer having to sneak off into the woods.

At ten to eight on the evening of the sixteenth, Tang Yongqing and Tang Yongyuan each sat in the Tang family living room with a laptop in front of them, waiting to check their scores.

The adults were all a little on edge. Their conversations were distracted, too.

The three teenagers, on the other hand, weren't nervous at all. Tang Yongyuan was typing rapidly on his phone, apparently chatting with someone, while Su You and Tang Yongqing chatted quietly.

"Hm? The results are out!" Tang Yongyuan shouted. He put down his phone and began working on his computer.

Tang Yongqing also refreshed the page for checking exam results. She had just entered her name, ID number, and exam admission number when Tang Yongyuan shouted:

"My total score is 686. I'm sure I can get into Kyoto University!"

The adults immediately crowded around, craning their necks toward the computer screen like a group of giraffes.

The college entrance examination in this world was actually much harder than the one Su You had taken in his previous life. Although English had been removed, the division between science and humanities was gone, making it much harder to earn a high score.

"What about Xiao Qing? How many points did she get?" Gong Yanrong asked hurriedly.

The laptop page flickered, and a table appeared.

Examinee: Tang Yongqing

Gender: Female

ID number:

Exam admission number:

Humanities: 223

Science: 246

Math: 242

Total score: 711

Undergraduate cutoff: 574

"Haha, Xiao Qing got 711!"

Gong Yanrong danced with joy, seemingly even happier than she'd been a few days earlier when Su You signed his S-Class Contract. Su You couldn't help feeling a little jealous.