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Somewhere in the unseen, it seemed as though a pair of giant hands had arranged everything. Shu Chen, Senior Sister, Master Zeng—we were merely a few pieces on the chessboard.
I couldn't figure it out, nor could I grasp its meaning, so I simply stopped thinking about it.
On the way back, I received a call from my adoptive parents.
They told me to hurry home, saying there was something urgent.
When I got home, I immediately sensed that something was off.
There was a guest in the house. He looked scholarly, wore glasses, and was dressed in a suit and leather shoes.
He took out some documents, compared them, then smiled at me. "Hello, Shu Chen."
I felt that he had come with ill intent. I politely shook his hand and asked, "And you are?"
Before the stranger could speak, my adoptive father said first, "Chen, after the college entrance exams, didn't you not go to university?"
The moment I heard that, my heart sank. It's over. I've been exposed. Qing Province University was actually a university that didn't exist. No one else knew that, and even if they did, the university had been destroyed in a fire twenty years ago. How could I possibly have attended it?
Just as I was at a loss, the stranger spoke. "I'm an admissions officer from Jinnan Affiliated Normal School. You never came to register, so I came personally to check. From what your parents say, have you already found another suitable university to attend?"
Jinnan Normal University?
I carefully recalled the day I filled out my applications. I didn't seem to have applied to this school.
Seeing my confused expression, the man with glasses explained, "You didn't apply to our school, but you checked the unified placement option