"Checking your answers wouldn't improve your score? How could that be?" The reporter decided to set the headline aside for now. Digging up more juicy material was what mattered.
"There's really no need. I know exactly what I'm capable of." Yan Xiao shook his head and tried to leave.
But the reporter had no intention of letting such a big story slip away.
"What if you don't do well? Won't your family have something to say about it?" She paused, realizing her wording was inappropriate, then added, "I mean, what if handing your paper in early affects your score?"
"I don't have any family," Yan Xiao said calmly.
Displaying a complete lack of tact, the reporter asked, "Is that because you had a fight with them?"
"Why are you so annoying?" Yan Xiao simply stopped bothering with her.
"Wait, don't go!" the reporter called out hastily.
She already had another headline in mind: Gaokao student retaliates against family after dispute by handing in papers early.
This time, Yan Xiao was genuinely annoyed.
He looked at the reporter without speaking. She carried on, "I'm a reporter from Ji City Television Station. This interview will be broadcast on satellite TV."
In her mind, that should have sealed the deal.
Being on television.
What a tempting prospect.
Yan Xiao curled his lip and looked her in the eyes. As she waited expectantly, he said, "You really are living in a fantasy. That's why, at your age, you still have to use your employer as leverage to prove your own worth."
With that, he ignored the reporter, who stood frozen in place, and turned to leave.
The reporter stood stunned for a moment, then gritted her teeth and decided to fight back.
Whatever else happened, she had to drag this student's name through the