Higher Education Press Cup, Undergraduate Division: Lu Zhou, Wang Xiaodong, Lin Yuxiang (Jinling University)!
Whether the rest of the campus had erupted or not, Dorm Room 201 certainly had.
"Holy crap, Zhou, you're awesome!"
"Didn't I say it was in the bag? And why are you still calling him Zhou? From now on, call him Brother Lu!"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah..."
Watching Huang Guangming and Shi Shang, Liu Rui quietly turned off his phone, slipped it into his pocket, pretended not to notice anything, and continued working on his physics homework.
The Higher Education Press Cup!
Standing out from more than seventy thousand college students!
Ah...
That height was already too far beyond him to even look up at.
Just then, the dorm room door was violently pushed open. Class monitor Tian Jun rushed in first, followed closely by academic representative Li Tao and the class's second-best student, Luo Rundong.
"Holy crap, did you guys see it? Our school got a Higher Education Press Cup!" Tian Jun shouted the moment he entered, looking around for Lu Zhou, only to find that he was nowhere to be seen.
Luo Rundong immediately asked, "Where's Zhou from your dorm?"
Shi Shang grinned brightly, as though he had won the award himself. "He's still in Shangjing. His train is tomorrow."
Li Tao sighed. "Brother Lu is still awesome. I wonder if he'll compete again next year. It'd be great if I could ride his coattails."
He had spent last semester gaming too hard and bombed his Advanced Mathematics final. If he had known to latch onto Lu Zhou earlier, he might even have had a shot at graduate school recommendation by now.
That was the Higher Education Press Cup!
Jinling University had won plenty of National First Prizes over the years, but this was their